MJ \M nbok C Ad*.™*- ! a PLATE DLIII. LOBELIA ASSURGENS ssurgent Lobelia. CLASS V. ORDER I. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx quinquefidus, Corolla monopetala, ir- regularis. Anther ae infera, 2- seu 3-locularis. Capsula Empalement five-cleft. Blossom of one petal. irregular. Anthers cohering, below, with 2 or 3 partitions. Seed-vessel SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Lobelia foliis lanceolatis serratis, inferne den- ticulatis decurrentibus, racemis compositis terminalibus. Lobelia with leaves lance-shaped, serrate, toothed towards the base, and running down the stem ; the racemes compound and ter- minal. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1 . A blossom spread open . 2. The chives spread open. 3. The seed-bud and pointal. curious species of Lobel grows to the he.ght of 5 or 6 feet. The plant is at present so scarce as not to be enumerated in the lished. Specimens were communicated by A B Lambert e« f "r™*"' ° een betore pub- us ma, the plant i, now abon, five feet htehlh "' T? f" *" * B ° 7 '° n - " to " '* lon 8i .hat i, beganm biossom i. J* «,ti 1 " ^ * *" "* * "**' or five raceme, flowenn, a, ^^jTl^L^^T^ l ° the «* of November, four noddin soras gradually opening more than a foot long. be perennial. Xb. fiowe, ha, wbhereaT^ J^^T £^ > '?/,*&*&&*%& PLATE DLIV. VOLKAMERIA AN GUSTIFOLIA. Narrow-leaved Volkameria, CLASS XIV. ORDER II. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Two Chives longer. Seeds covered. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx quinquefidus : Corollae laciniis secundis. Drupa 2-locularis. Semina 4, seu abortu tantum 2. Empalembnt five-cleft. Blossom with the di- visions pointing one way. Berry 2-celled. Seeds 4, or from abortion only 2. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Volkameria fruticosa glaberrima, foliis ob- longo-lanceolatis integerrimis, pedunculis trichotomis axillaribus et terminalibus. Volkameria shrubby and very smooth, with oblong-lanced very entire leaves, and pe- duncles divided by threes i both axillary and terminal. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The empalement. 2. A blossom spread open, one tip detached and magnified.. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 4. The seed-bud magnified. Volkameria angustifolia is a dwarf branchy shrub flowering in great profusion about the middle of August. The blossoms are white and remarkably sweet-scented. It was communicated by Mr. Donn, Curator of the Cambridge Botanic garden, and is to be enumerated in the new edition of his Cata- logue now in the press. It requires to be kept in the bark-bed in the hot-house, and is supposed to be a native of the Isle of France. We believe no other figure of it has been given. > L nr v * J m 2 4r > PLATE DLV. ZINGIBER CLIFFORD!^. Cliffbrdian Zingiber. \ CLASS I. ORDER I. MONJNORIA MONOGYNIJ. One Chive* One Pointal GENERIC CHARACTER. altx monophyllus. Corolla 4 — 5-fida. An- therae 2. Filamentum simplex ultra an- theras productum. Empalement of one leaf. Blossom either 4- or 5-cleft. Anthers two. Filament simple,, extended beyond the anthers. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Zingiber scapo simplicissimo, crasso, breri, capitulo subovato, bracteis inferioribus lato- ovatis obtusis ; corolla 4-fida, laciniis tri- bus exterioribus oblongis marginibus invo- lutis j alteris sub-cordatis duplo majoribus, mox convolutis. Ginger with an unbranched, thick, short flower- stalk, the lower flower-scales broadly- oval and blunt: the blossom, 4-cleft, the three outer divisions oblong with their margins turned inwards, the inner inversely nearly heart-shaped and doubly larger, soon folding together.. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1 . Sheath at the base of the calyx. 2. A detached flower. 3. Seed- bud, anthers, and pointal, summit magnified 4- The plant in miniature. This fine species of Ginger, we are informed, is a native of Guinea, and in the gardens has lon^ been pposed to be the plant which produced naeus 3 but it certainly by no means accords with the character of that plant, either as given in the Hortus Kewensis or by Linnaeus himself. From the other species of Zingiber enumerated in the eighth volume of the Linnzean Society's Transactions it is easily distinguished Having as yet only blossomed in England in the collection of Lady de Clifford at Paddington, in honour of that patroness and lover of botany we have given its specific designation. The culture is the same as for other plants of the Ginger family. Our •drawing \ taken in 1801. / PLATE DLVI. PANCRATIUM AMCENUM Uroad-leaved Pancratium. CLASS VI. ORDER I HEXANDR1A MONOGYNU. - Six Chives One Pointal ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Petala 6. Nectarium 12-fidum. Stamina nec- tario imposita. Petals 6. Honey-cup 12-cleft. Stamens seated on the nectary. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Pancratium spatha multiflora, fragrantis- sima : foliis longo-lanceolatis, corollae laci- niis tubum excedentibus : nectario 6-lo- bato, sinubus sub-denticulatis. mild. Sp. Pancratium with the sheath many-flowered, and very sweet-scented : the leaves long- lanced, the divisions of the blossom longer than its tube: and the nectary 6-lobed, mostly with little teeth between. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE 1 . A flower spread open. 1 Several species of the genus Pancratium approach so very near to each other, that it is a difficult task to discriminate them with accuracy. We have little doubt that the Pancratium foliis amp lis ovatis of Ehret beion little teeth between the lobes of the nectary. Indeed, that character appears so variable in the syno- nyms commonly given to this species, that we are rather inclined to doubt of its constancy. Neither are the painters of those days always safely to be trusted in such minutiae. Mr., Lambert, who favoured us with the specimen in March 1S08, informs us that he received the bulbs from Lord Seaforth, on his West lection. It is certainly distinct j the blossoms are extremely fragrant, and we are not yet certain whe- ther the amtenum and fragrans of botanists may not be the same species. > / ■ ■ _ r^' +i m &&&&*&<&. PLATE DLVII. PERIPLOCA FR African Periploca. CAN A CLASS V. ORDER IL PENTANDRIA D1GYNIA. Five Chives. Two Pointals. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Contorta. Nectarium ambiens genitalia, fi- lamenta 5, exserentia. Contorted. Honey-cup surrounding the sta* mens. Threads SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Periploca foliis ovato-acutis, pilosis: flori- bus corymbosis: caule volubili, hirsuto. mild. Sp . PI. Periploca with ovate-pointed hairy leaves:, flowers corymbose : stem twining and hairy. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE em 2. The outer part of the blossom. 3. The tubular part of the same detached. 4. The same spread open. 5. One of the lobes of the nectary surrounding the parts of fructification, 6. Seed-buds, chives, and pointals, magnified. Africana introduced There are several figures of , * • * — »-,.<-*—> "j iji-uiiciiuu green-nouse i wb.ch ,1 nn *\< ■#. 40&0& j&w atzAtiv* / PLATE VEREA ACUTIFLORA. Point ed^flowered Verea. CLASS VIII. ORDER IV OCT ANURIA TETRAGYNIA. Eight Chives. Four Pointals. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx 4-phyllus. Corolla hypocrateriformis, 4-fida : tubo ventricoso. Nectaria 4j ad basin germinum. Capsulae 4, super ae loculares, pqlyspermae. ]- Empalement 4-leaved. Blossom funnel -shaped., 4-sided: tube bellied. Nectaries 4, at the base of the seed-buds. Capsules 4, above, one-celled, many- seeded. i SPECIFIC CHARACTER. « Verea foliis lato-lanceolatis, oppositis, crena- tis, crassis : floribus paniculatis, terminali- bus : corollis albentibus: laciniis oris acu- tissimis. Verea with leaves broadly lance-shaped, oppo- site, scolloped, and thick. Flowers pani- culated and terminal. Blossom whitish: segments of the border very pointed. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The empalement. 2. A blossom spread open * Seed-buds and pointals 4. The same magnified. This new species of Verea flowered (we believe, for the first time in this countiy) in the coUection our drawing was taken. The foliage is compact, and hence rather handsome. means its rivals are but few. This considered, with the addition of it novelty, renders it a valuable acquisi- tion to the hot-stove. V^W ■ J " / / ■s& c s>Yff ■ ^ - PLATE DLXI. XERANTHEMUM FRAGRANS / Fragrant Xeranthemum. CLASS XIX ORDER II SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIC SUPERFLUA. Tips united Superfluous. t ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Receptasulum paleareum aut nudum. Pap- pus setaceus. Calyx imbricatus, radiatus : radio colorato. Receptacle chaffy, or naked. Feather bristly Empalement tiled, rayed loured. the ray co- SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Xeranthemum fbliis undulatis, lanatis, apice reflexis: floribus parvis, odoratis, termi- nalibus : radiis calycis exterioribus rubris : radio interiore albo. Habitat ad Caput Bona: Spei. Xeranthemum with waved woolly leaves re- flexed at the point : flowers small, sweet- scented and terminal : the outer rays of the empalement red, the inner one white. Good REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1 . A scale from the outer ray of the empalement 2. A scale from the inner ray. 3. A flower of the disk. As fra- T HIS link Xeranthemum U . native of eh. Cape, perfectly new, and very sweet-scented As fr„. : ance ,s very unusual ,„ thls fine tribe of plants, we have c„ tha, acconn, considered Ha g o^ spe • tctule I, was mtroduced to the Clapham gardens about the year 18 03 ; and as we ha el. sin it s.nce that penod, we are inclined to think i. is not at present in this country n A 7, f A B r,amhprf ocn w <* M M SA ELEGAN Elegant Mimosa. CLASS XXIII. ORDER I. POL YGAMIA MONCECIA. Various Dispositions upon one Plant ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Hermaph. Calyx 5-dentatus. Corolla 5-fida. Stamina 5, sive plura. Pistillum 1, legumen. Mascul. Calyx 5-dentatus. Corolla 5-fida. Stamina 5— 10, sive plura. Hermaph. toothed Blossom Male 5-cleft. Chives 5 or more. Pointal 1, apod. Empalement 5-toothed. Blossom 5- cleft. Chives 5—10, or more. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. irrucosis foliis bipinnatis, pinnis propriis 8- ad 9- jugis, partial i bus 20- ad 24-jugis, cum im- parl ad imum minorej spicis axillaribus oblongis divaricatis. Mimo leaves doubly winged, the first of 8 or 9 pairs, the second of 20 to 24 with a odd flowers axillary, oblong , and divaricate. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1 . A flower. 2. The same spread open. 4 Thl B T ^7" , fr ° m ^ inner SMe > ° De «P "unified 4. The S eed-buJ and pointa], summit ifi( £ elegi bein Lambe being abou, te „ ^^^!Z!L~ " . "J " .«T » * "— '" *» ed, with profusion of flowers. It is , ., ., , . w — "'3" d »u very much brand hardly possible to express the extreme delicacv of th. w„ phous) towards the h*«. ™A Z Z_~f ° f ^ blossoms - phous) towards the base pregnation of a single stigma ! The stamens are united (monadel- frer. What an apparatus for the im- country, cultivators will do well to give them a m h W, k eaUWul and interesting plants of this afford j as well for the health of the plant as to di 1 ° f POt ^ branch room as their houses wiU the circunucnbed scale of our work would only J] t0 advanta £ e the ■*» of its fine foliage, of which * (jo, %, V/^JfA, & *& aw PLATE DLXIV. XIA RTA. Short Ixia. CLASS III. # TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA ORDER I \ Three Chives One Pointal ; ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Corolla 6-petala, patens, aequalis. Stigmata tria, erectiuscula, patula. petals Sum mits three, nearly upright, and spreading. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Ixia foliis falcatis : floribus alternis, tri-colori- bus : caule humili. Habitat ad Caput Bonae Spei. Ixia with scimitar- shaped leaves : flowers alter nate, and three-coloured. Stem low. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1 . The two sheaths of the empalement. 2. A blossom spread open. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified This new species of Ixia was delineated from a plant in the collection of J. Vere, esq. the summer be- fore last, and although low in stature is certainly high in beauty, and surpassed by very growth. It flowers about the middle of April, and requires the same treatment as few of loftier most other Cape species / I ;S£4 -.- / ) J 9. •xx>& cttrAi PLATE DLXV. RUTA LI LIA / Flax-leaved Ruta. CLASS X. ORDER I. DEC AND RI A MONOGYNIA, Ten Chives. One Pointal ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx 5-partitus. Petala concava. Recepta- culum punctis melliferis decern cinctum. Petals Capsula lobata tacle beset with ten honey-bearing points Capsule lobed. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Rut a foliis simplicibus, lanceolatis, glabris: filamentis ciliatis : caule simplici, herbaceo. ispani Rue with simple leaves, lance-shaped and smooth : threads ciliated. Stem simple and herbaceous. Native of Spain. linifol mud REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A petal. 2. Empalement, chives, and pointal. 3. A chive. 4. The empalement, seed-bud, and pointal. The Ruta linifolia is a new plant to the gardens, and we believe is not at present in any other collection but that of Cambridge, where it was raised from seed by Mr. Donn. It is a handsome little herba- ceous shrub, and requires the protection of the green-house to preserve it in this climate. Flowers in September and October, n_ I / f ',%?&$ *, ■ f J/bti 6* uwfeL L 1 1 PLATE DLXVI. CALLICOMA SERRATIFOLIA Sawed-leaved Calticoma. CLASS XI. ORDER II. DODECANDRIA DIGYNIA. Stamens 11 to 19. Styles 2. \ GENERIC CHARACTER. Flokes in capitulis subrotundis, pedunculatis -, involucro sub 4-phyllo. Calyx 4 — 5-phyl- lus, foliolis lanceolatis. Corolla 0. Sta- mina 11 — 19, calyce triplo longiora, cre- ceptaculo. Styli 2, filiformes : stigmate simplici : germen superum, monoloculare, polyspermum. Flowers in little round heads, upon footstalks ; with an involucre of about 4 leaves. Calyx of 4 or 5 leaves, the leaflets lanced. Blos- som none. Stamens from 11 to 19, thrice as long as the calyx, growing from the re- oeptacle. Styles 2, thread-shaped. Stigma simple. Germen above, 1 -celled, and many-seeded. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1 . A flowef . 2. The same spread open, one tip magnified 3. The seed- bud and pointals. 4. The same magnified. Call 1 co ma serraiifolia is a native of New South Wales, and has now for several years in some choice collections adorned the green-house and conservatory in early spring with its line heads of flowers; but to whom we are indebted for its first introduction we are uncertain. Some botanists have considered it as a congener of Forster's Codia, to which it has certainly a considerable affinity ; but as we cannot ex- actly sec the propriety of coupling an apetalous flower having so many stamens with one that is penta- petalous and octandrous, and of which we have no description of the germen or fruit ; and there being great probability that more plants of this family may be discovered in the vast tracts of New Holland yet unexplored, we have rather chose to describe it as distinct, than to excuse ourselves by leaving it to be separated at some future period and create more changes of names, a circumstance always to be de- precated and avoided as much as possible by Naturalists. Callicoma is a middle-sized shrub with the leaves finely cottony and whitish on the under side, and has considerable beauty even when out of blos- som. Jt is propagated by layers. > &. PLATE DLXVIL t CERATONIA SI LI QUA. Pod-bearing Ceratonia. CLASS XXIII ORDER II POLYGAMIA DICE CIA. Many Nuptials on separate Plants GENERIC CHARACTER. Hermaph. Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla 0. Sta- mina 5—8. Stylus filiformis. Stigma ca- pitatum. Legumen coriaceum, pulpa pie- aum, polyspermum. Hermaph. Empalement 5-parted. Blossom none. Chives 5 to 8. Shaft thread-shapedr Summit headed. Pod leathery, full of pulp, and many- seeded. I REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1 . A flower shown from the outside. 2. A dry pod a little opened, one seed detached I n stead of a new plant, we here submit to our readers one that according to the Kew Catalogue has been an inhabitant of our gardens 239 years: but neither Mr. Aiton nor Mr. Miller had ever seen it blossom, nor during all this long period have we any account of its flowering in this country. Its male flowers however appeared in the Cambridge Botanic Garden the beginning of last February, and from a specimen communicated by Mr. Donn to A. B. Lambert, esq. the present drawing was taken. Mr. Bonn's plant was between 4 and 5 feet high, moderately branched, and had the same treatment as his other green-house shrubs. We are uncertain whether the hermaphrodite or female plant be yet in this country; but as the propagation is principally from seed, w& think it is very probable. The sta- mens in our specimen vary in number, being commonly 5, sometimes 6, and more rarely 8. The fruit is added from a dried legume m the Lambertian collection, which was sent from Spain by the late Abbe Cavanilles, who in his lames Plantarum, vol. 2. p. 8. and tab. 113. (in addition to what was formerly known of the Ceratonia) informs us, that it grow r s spontaneously on little hills and dry fields in Valen- cia, and is yet more impatient of cold and moisture than the olive, vast numbers being sometimes killed there by the frost in severe winters. It is in this province also, that the principal cultivation of this useful plant in Spain is situated. The propagation is from seeds, and the dioecious plants are always selected in preference to the hermaphrodites, being better bearers. Some of the more skilful cultivators engraft a male bough upon their female plants for their impregnation, and by this means have no sterile plants in their collections. They flower twice a year, first in February, and again more plentifully in August and September j which is also the time of the fruit's ripening, and the trees are seen at the same time adorned with blossoms, and laden with ripe fruit. Eighty pounds of legumes are sometimes col- lected from a single tree. They are known to be mature by their putting on a chesnut colour, and are then beaten from the trees by canes of the Arundo Donax from 1 6 to 20 feet long, with part of their crooked roots left, which serve as hooks. Rain is said to be beneficial to the ripe fruits, and even to improve them after they are laid in heaps on the ground. They are finally dried and stored up in barns for use. The cultivators enumerate three varieties, which they call Melars, Llandars, and Costelluts. The last they distinguish by having larger leaves and of a deeper green, with legumes often a foot long, but with little solidity or sweetness; the second has shorter legumes, but more solid and very sweet; the leaves also are shorter. The first are called Melars {quasi Mel/eas) from Mel honey, of which the fruit contains small drops, and sometimes in such abundance that it distils upon the ground, and is fed upon by the bees. The fruits are the principal food of the cattle in the province of Valencia, and also >rm part of the sustenance of the poor people. The leaves are used in the preparation of leather. Monsieur Olivier also intorms us in his 7 ravels in the Ottoman Empire, that the Carob-tree grows over the Island of Crete, and delights most in stony grounds and the clefts of rocks; that the fruits are conveyed thence to Constantinople, to Syria and Egypt, and serve for food to the poor and to children, They an also an ingredient in the sherbets of which the Mussulmans make daily use. I - J ; «■ LI PLATE DLXVIII. X IA HiERI Round-headed Liparia. A. CLASS XVII. ORDER IV. i DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Two Brotherhoods. Ten Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx quinquefidus, lacinia infima elongata. Corollas alae inferius bilobae. Filamenta al- ternatim breviora. Legumen polysper- mum. Calyx 5-cleft, the lower segment very long. Wins; lower side. Chives alternately shorter. Pod many-seeded. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. JLiparia floribus capitatis; foliis lanceolatis, nervosis,. glabris* JVilld. Sp. PL vol. iii. Liparia with flowers in heads; the leaves lance- shaped, nerved, and smooth. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A bract. 2. The empalement. 3. A flower spread open. 4. The chives. 5. The same spread open. 6. Seed-bud and pointal. 7. A back view- of the head of flowers. Africa has long been celebrated as the land of wonders and novelties, and its vegetable as well as ani- The beauty and astonishing variety of ever- varying well Geraniums, delicate Ixias, elegant Ericas, superb Amaryllises, and magnificent Proteas, received from the Cape of Good Hope alone within- these few years, and many of them totally unknown before, have the world. What still more enhances the pleasure is, that the mine is yet unexhausted, as our present charming subject, not before enumerated in any of our catalogues of cultivated plants, will testify. Mr. Milne. £rardener at FnnthiU. wpII l-nr,™-™ &» u:„ „»„i ...j i -n • .• ... ~ , . forwarded obligingly communicated the specimens. Having _ __ the singular beauty, and not knowing the habits of the plant, a fortnight after - £*finvwded * $&* specimen fully expanded, from which the figure is taken. informs Cape som. The plant is branchy, and between four and five feet in height. He thinks he possess two same y fBI — . m sum " '. i EC* ;.-.:■. '" : - ■ ■■•■' * : ■>■ • :, .9 ',' / I i 1 •Jft/pe PLATE DLXIX. EANOTHUS LANIGER. Woolly Ceanothus. CLASS V. ORDER I. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Petala 5, saccala. Bacca sicca, 3-locularis, 3- One Pointal sperma •Petals 5, bagged. Berry dry, three-celled, three-seeded. SPECIFIC CHARACTER, Ceanothus foliis oblongo-lanceolatis, integer- rimis, subtus lanuginosis j ramulis, pedun- culis, petiolis, calycibusque hirsutis. Ceanothus with the leaves oblong-lanced, en- tire, and woolly beneath 5 the branches, footstalks, flowerstalks, and calyxes hairy. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE, 1. A flower. 2. A segment of the calyx, with a petal and stamen attached. 3. Seed- bud and pointal. To New Holland we export criminal* for onr convenience and safety, and from thence import furs for our covenng and flower, for our amusement. So far the balance of trade ia in our favour. But by whose hands, or at what time, our present snhWt «*>» £«.*. u t_. w„ tk« 5 present subject was first brought over, we have not been able to Jearn. 1 he specimen was communicated bv A ft t o^u^ <. • .1 , . . colleen a , lL«„ ■* - i™ . 1 y A ' B ; Lambert ' CS * in the be S innin S of April from his Mr. Wh Brompton. Its woolly leaves and branches, contrasted with the Mimosas and other' hard-leaved plant! from the same coantry, make an agreeable variety, and the early blossoms are very ornamental. The plants we have seen are moderate-sized branchy shrubs are k«,t in «,„ u ,-• i tvt tj „ , . . , . y 3U1UUS » a 'e Kept in the green-honse like other New - Holknd plants, and reomre no parbcu.ar treatment. We have seen more species from the same country m herbanums, and some are now alive in this country, although they havo not yet blossomed. f u PLATE DLXX. TI I A ITID Shining-leaved Justicia CLASS II. ORDER I. DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Two Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx, simplex seu duplex. Corolla I-petala, irregularis. Capsula ungue elastico dissi- liens : dissepimentum contrarium j adna- tum. Empalement simple or double. Blossom one- petalled, irregular. Capsule splitting with an elastic claw: partition contrary to the valve ; affixed. * SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Justicia fruticosa: foliis ellipticis, acuminatis : racemis spieaeformibus, verticillatis : brae- teis minutis : pedicellis calycibusque gla- bris. Swariz. Flora Indice occidentalism Habitat in insulis Jamaicae, S. Christophori, Martinique, S. Cruris, et Guadalupae. » Justicia with a shrubby stem: leaves elliptic and pointed : raceme in the form of a spike, whorled : floral leaves small : footstalks and calyx smooth. Native of Jamaica, St. Christopher, Martinique, St. Croix, and Guadaloupe* REFERENCE TO THE PLATE 1. A flower spread open. 2. Seed-bud and pointal. 3. The capsule. 4. The same split open. Of this species of Justicia the only figure extant that we know of is a very indifferent representation of , evidently from a dried specimen. The fine glossy character of the foliage fimiished it with a specific title. The flowers are abundant in succession, but, like most of this genus, of a deciduous or short-lived character. It was introduced to the British gardens, according to Donns Catalogue, in 1793. Our drawing was made from a plant brought from the West Indies by Lord Sea- forth, which tlowered in August 1808 in the hot-stove of A. B. Lambert, esq. / ■ J- ■■■ I I I v' *»> WSV& mm PLATE DLXXI PATEN Spreading Si da. CLASS XVI. ORDER VIII. MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. Threads united. Many Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx simplex. Stylus multipartitus. Cap- sulae plures, mono- seu tri-spermae. Calyx simple. Pointal many-parted. Seed- vessels many, one- or three-seeded. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Sida foliis cordatis, dentatis, longe acuminatis, leviter pubescentibus 5 pedunculis solitariis / petiol corollis patentibus j stylis quinquepartitis ; capsulis quinque, birostratis. shaped and slightly woolly leaves ; solitary flower- stalks longer than the footstalks j spreading corollas, five-parted styles, and five two- beaked capsules. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1 . The empalement. 2. The chives spread open, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and pointal. Another African novelty introduced by Viscount Valentia in 1806 from Abyssinia 5 and from speci- mens obligingly communicated by him from his gardens at Arly the drawing is taken. From the seeds already introduced by his Lordship from that yet unexplored, and hitherto almost inaccessible Mr his Lordship's suite, being now dispatched on an embass) __ „. may soon hope to have a few more specimens of its vegetable productions ; at present as imperfectly known m the sources of the Nile, which have eluded the researches of philosophers above two thou- sand years. \ and efl / \ \ ' >& ^ M » <* ..f \ PLATE DLXXII. PROTEA SALIGNA Willow-leaved Pro tea. CLASS IV. ORDER I TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointaf. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Corolla 4-fida, seu 4-petala. Antherx li- Deares, petalis infra apices insertae. Calyx proprius, nullus. Semina solitaria. Blossom four-cleft, or of four petals. Tips li- near, inserted into the petals below the points. Cup proper, none. Seeds solitary. SPECIFIC CHARACTER, Pkotea foliis obliquis, lanceolatis, pubescenti- bus: capitulis oblongis, involucratis, ter- minalibus. magnitud cumdato. terminant cum cono ovat< i, involucro bicolori cir Habitat ad Caput Bonse Spei. Protea with oblique, lance-shaped, hairy leaves : heads of flowers oblong, involucrated, and terminal. Female flowers terminate the branches with an ovate cone about the size of a pea, sur- rounded by a two-coloured involucrum. ■ Native of the Cape of Good Hope. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1 . A flower, one tip magnified. 2. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 3. Section of a head of flowers from the female plant. 4. Seed-bud and pointal, magnified. igna, in the Species Plantarum ^r wTiT' 7 T ifiC! "! y diStiDCt iD " S f ° liage ' h0WeVer resembli "8 in °">" Particular! Finding, soon Lmel, 2 , ma , 7 !' a fema ' e P ' ant '" fi " e b,oom < we ■■»• »»»ed a branch of it on .he describes the female specimen Willdenow. we have no troduced pea The t» ade from plants i (1 -2. 3 rVfr* PLATE DLXXIII. MAGNOLIA AURICULATA Ear-leaved Magnolia. CLASS XIIL ORDER VII. POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Many Chives. Many Pointals. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx 3-phyIIus. Petala 6—12. Capsulae 2- valves, itnbricatse. Semina baccata, pen- dula. Cup 3-leaved. Petals 6—12. Capsules 2-valved, tiled. Seeds berried, pendulous. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Magnolia foliis obovato-lanceolatis, basi atte- nuatis, auritis, glabris, subtus glaucis. Habitat ia America boreali. Magnolia with obovate lance-shaped leaves, at- tenuated towards the base, eared, smooth, and glaucous beneath. Native of North America. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE 1. A chive. 2. Seed-bud and pointals. Amongst the finest hardy exotics that ornament the gardens, the Magnolias are eminent y c0 .',... - . ----- i... lt seven feet^ sent to them from cuous in the nursery-ground of Messrs. Whitley and Brames, who inform me that it was Maryland It does not seed with us, as very few of the genus do 3 and when any of them appear to have ripened their seed perfectly, v . . *.,^_.,n*r raised stand they have very rarely if ever vegetated. species with difficulty ra. by layers; which accounts for its being (after a period of sixteen years since its first intro to this country) not so generally known as it deserves to be. May ' J '/ml Willow iifiWyiiiii PLATE DLXXIV. PULTENiEA RD ATA 9 Inversely Heart-leaved Pultencea. CLASS X. ORDER L DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Ten Chives. One Pointal ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx quinque-dentatus, utrinque appendicu- lar. Corolla papilionacea, alis vexillo i Legu mum. Cup five-toothed, with an appendage on each side. Blossorfi butterfly-shaped, with the wings shorter than the standard. Pod of one cell, with two seeds. See Pultenaea Daphnoides, PI. XCVJII. Vol IT- SPECIFIC , CHARACTER. Pultenjea foliis obcordatis, mucronatis, niti- dis. Pultenjea with inversely heart-shaped leaves, mucronated, and shining. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The empalement. 2. The vexillum. 3. One of the wings. 4. The two petals of the keel. 5. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified 6. Seed-bud and pointal. i Tim „„nd„c,ip, species of Poltensa is a native of New Holland, and was discovered on Van Diemen', yc low flowers, and smgnlarly obcordate leave, and is a handsome addition ,o the genua Pultensa, of W ^1 ' W ^f T" T ■"' haVi " S " ,eUV ° K * -Pondages on the enp, the principal (a.thongh nan "^frt 3t Ch °" a *"™ "* !»«• Oo, drawing wa, made from a specimen commu- nrcated by A. li. Lambert, esq. with whom i, has flowered for the firs, time in this country. ' <9 '1 hi »£* PLATE DLXXV. M ARTYNIA Diandrous IA uma. RA CLASS XIV ORDER II DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Two Chives longer. Seeds covered. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx 5-fidus. Corolla ringens. Capsula IW. nosa, corticata, rostro hamata, 4-locularis> 4-valvis. I Calyx five-cleft. Corolla gaping. Capsule woody, covered, with a hooked beak.; 4 divisions, and 4 openings. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Martynia caule ramoso, foliis oppositis, corda- tis, dentatis, floribus diandris. mild. Sp PL Maktynia with the stem branching, leaves oppo- site, heart-shaped, and toothed, and flowers diandrous. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The empalement. 2. The chives. 3. Peed-bud and pointaL 4. The capsule. V/s are glad to have an opportunity with in our collections. Martvnia , kept in the hothouse, or a glass frarn€ . with . ^ £ ^ ~»' *« <*«. »d quires to be «he Martynia proboscidea. Of the feores t |,a, hZ h f k mU ' the Sam ° ddica * e '"""" ° Hortus Schoenbrunnensis, vol. iii pS , T f t" J"" PUb " SlKd ° f '"' ** ° f J ^ Ui " " * A. R T,, m h„. ... :_ C, • P ' a ' e 289 ' ,s *>y far the best. A specimen was communicated bjr Lambert winter, and f rom which the present figure is taken. annuals. Mai ■^ * o/^5 -7 s ^*w I £ 3 9 ' '^pfiTzta-, \ PLATE DLXXVI. LITHOSPERMUM TINCTOR1UM Dy iters JB u gloss CLASS V. ORDER I. PENTANDRIA MQNOGYNIA. Five Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER One Pointal. Corolla infundibuliformis, fauce perforata, nu- da. Calyx 5-f artitus. i Blossom funnel-shaped, with the mouth opea and naked. Cup 5-cleft. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Lithospermum villosum caulibus procumben- tibus. Sp. PL editio prima. Lithospehmum hairy. Stem procumbent REFERENCE TO THE PLATE 1 . The empalement. " 2. A blossom spread open. 3. Seed- bud and pointal. Ihis rare plant, enumerated In fh^ W *■ v the Plants in the Physic Garden «t MS^SSSt l&Stt ° f ?*""i Catalogue of collecnons. It grows naturally in dry sandy placet utUnnt?' ?°f n ,on S a d ^ratum in our o the Rus-, an empire, from whence we C seen W "/ ' ^ ^° in tbe southern Princes Mr. La ^bert\s Herbarium, vvhich novv contain?thTwholT,T, menS C ? HeCted ** Professor *•«" « Government, during the space of 30 years bvVhJ? Zl f C " llec , t,on raad e at the expense of the Russian calculated for ornamenting rock-work, or'li.L ea / t , mitUral,St and his assistants. The plant is wel trade, and used to give a rid colour to oils wax Zl ™* ^^ b ° rders The ™<** are Ertfctorf perlyarrang I ,hi, plant as a UtlJ^ZtZZTr' "^ LtoD '"* after having v^ry pro- removed ,t to the genus Anchusa, 35K1S<£ W L£S 0t , his S P fcC,es ^ntarum^afte^wards The character, however, is decidedly that of f f ihn ' *" ad ° pted b ? eve,v editor of his works. ^ZTl'^Ti 1 n0t f ° r a ra ^-andum of U^ "S P M T H ! £ ft *™ wollId be di «™lt to. a tng that he had seen another plant under tha name YnLt™ ™ ^ u ublished in the Flore France),, that Li.,n«us, after .having described the true plan f'Jr Unn * m her harium. It therefore appears wards nnstaken ne sp cies of Anchusa fo. it The Tarn ' £ P ° SSeSSmg 3 S P edme " of if h * d atar- by Gerard in h Flora Gallico-Provincialis and h/fc P • * bowever > Wa * retained in its proper genus E2ES Wp 3,e aW3 ' e ° f P 'ofes.or h] and Wil 1 d e S now?h beeU f ° ll0Wed b ' D -andolle inThe Flo" name of twtonna j but if the genus Arnebb nf Rn VUlef firiven r ° :,n " ,,, ' :, - T '^ " ~ KfT^A ' U ^ Lamar ' k ma ^ b " Stored plant figured «nder £?ni£ £ZS£X£ S*"*** and the wooden"'out cma is. Specimens were comnutat Toy A T ESS^' - Medical ' of a ^ <>™g thTifiK <£ of « now . blossom (May 2 ; t h) in ££* £**-£ J^ is aL a L sptdinTptt 5 "> m Lvir. Harrison s nursery at JBrompton. W e speci Bauhin : the ♦ l&w 1 2 3 ■ir irnin PLATE DLXXVII. PROTEA VIRGATA. Pro tea. CLASS IV. ORDER I. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four One Po ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Corolla 4-fida, seu 4-petaIa. Antherae li- neares, petalis infra apices insertae. Calyx proprius, nulltis. Semina solitaria. Blossom four-cleft, or of four petals. Tips li- near, inserted into the petals below the points. Cup proper, none. Seeds solitary. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Pkotea foliis linearibus acutis, supra concavis, subtus convexis : floribus confertis, pro- cumbentibus. Habitat ad Caput Bonae Spei. I Protea with linear pointed leaves, concave above, and convex beneath. Flowers crowd- ed, and lying on the ground. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A flower complete, summit magnified. The application of specific titles to this wide-spreading family of plants is now become an arduous task 5 and considering how many of the best are already occupied, an exclusive reference cannot be ex- pected. This species of Protea is altogether new, but bears a powerful resemblance in the flowers to the P. humiflora : but the distinct character of its foliage gives to the tout ensemble a perfect air of novelty ; nor is there any figure or description of it extant, that we know of. Om drawing was made from a fine plant at the nursery of Mr. Knight in the King's Road, Chelsea. '"/ V / ft . X 1 1 I I Si \ m 1 1 I / \ I I I ■ ; A ft« kV X W ^ L I w A ' 1 \. £\ *■; V . ,' % ■ ■ fcl '■*.. I / / \ z&n ya£z «■ PLATE DLXXVIII. M LA D FU Fig. Spreading JEgiphila. CLASS IV. ORDER I. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx 4-dentatus. Corolla 4-fida. mibifidus. Bacca bilocularis, sperm is. Stylus se- loculis di \ Cup four-toothed. Blossom four-cleft. Shaft cleft half-way down, cells two-seeded. Berry two- celled, SPECIFIC CHARACTER, ,/Egiphjla foliis ovato-lanceolatis, longe acu- minatis, utrinque glabris ; paniculis diffusis axillaribus et terminalibus ; staminibus tu- bo vix excedentibus, stylo longissimo. jEgiphila with oval-lanced, long pointed leaves, smooth on both sides; panicles spreading, axillary, and terminal -, stamens scarcely longer than the tube, and shaft very long. ,EGIP JLi XX % VATA. Inversely Oval-leaved JEgiphila SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Fig. 2 JEgiphila foliis obovatis acuminatis, utrinque glabris ; paniculis axillaribus et terminali- bus ; pedicellis calycibusque minute pubes- centibus. jEgiphila with leaves inversely oval, pointed and smooth ; panicles axillary and terminal 5 flower-stalks and calyxes minutely pubes- cent. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE, 1. The empalement. 2. A blossom spread open. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, as it appears in the opening buds. 4. The same when fully expanded. This very natural genus was established by Jacquin from the Bois Cabril of the Creoles in Martinico, a shrub, the young shoots of which are greedily sought for and eaten by their cattle, particularly goats, whence the name (in English) Goatwood ; and which Jacquin, following the botanical canon, ele- gantly turned into iEgiphila. With this species the celebrated Swartz has conjoined the Knoxia of Browne's Jamaica and Manabea laevis of Aublefs Guiana, and added two more species, M. foetida and M. tnfida, discovered by himself; and Willdenow has yet further augmented it with the Manabea vil- losa and arborescens of Aublet, and the Nuxia of Lamarck : the last, however, we consider as a very doubtful species That fine collection of plants from the West Indies, introduced in 1S07 by lord beaforth, and by him presented to A. B. Lambert, esq. and which we have already so often quoted, has brought to our knowledge two more species, which we have denominated diffusa and obovata, from what appeared to us to be their most prominent features. Both shrubs are natives of the West Indies, and were sentto us in flower in August 1808. They are propagated by cuttings, and have not yet ripened seeds m England, but produce flowers annually in abundance durir~ ^~ u " " f T "'" and August. V ^ • Ml PLATE DLXX1X. CRATiEGUS AZAROLU TIte Azarole. CLASS II. ICOSANDRIA DIGYNIJ, ORDER XII. Twenty Chives. Two Pointa ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx quinquefidus. Petala quinque. Bacca Cup five-cleft. infera, 1 — 5-sperma Blossom five petals. below, with from 1 to 5 seeds. Berry SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Crataegus foliis obtusis, subtrifidis, dentatis, pubescentibus. Crataegus with blunt, pubescent, toothed leaves generally 3 -cleft. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE, 1. A flower spread open. 2. The same shown from the outer side. The Azarole grow, naturally in Italy, in the Sooth of France, in Carniola, and on the banta of Oe lZTlT aa 77' Wh T ' WS f °" nd " y G " bCT fa »*"• » ?™s to be a tree of rather Z wh ch , „ ' s , ™ T Z " aly - in ,he Sou,h of France ' -* !n Ski] y- *" ** '*» <*<* tot,! g K, aS fl "^ * fi " e red COl ° Ur WHh "»*- " *W °f ye«ow, and i. aaid to have a very ag eeable flavour At pre s en, the Azarole i, very scarce in L country, and we have „e eraeen, ,„ blossom but at Burcbalfa nursery a, F„,ha„,, in May 1808 , wh e„ our draw, „g wna A role ?nd add' ' , " "^^ "° b,KS ° mS - T ° *"* "» are fc iroua of cultivating the *Zl or 1 h g ,arK,> ' t0 " heir *"** ^ W °"' d reC<>n ™" d P'-""S « - "CI she tered b s Z ter F C P H a :;" g ^T? W3 "' " Pn,CtiSed fM '' MCh " - «'- «-,e fruits. wou!d !Lt^r« ,h n D rr; si^^r* ^ in His Maj ^ s Gard - s *• ■-* one in Mr S,,in« • ,? iN ° rth " land at Slon House ; and we have lately seen the remains of one in Mr. bwamson s co lection at Twi^k^harr. k.,# Fncrbnd Tfe« r f p, u , w '<*enham J but we are not aware that any ettrt at present in Jingland. lhat of Plenck exrepted, in his Medical Plants PI ion u ,• , . a figure of it baa before been published. ' 9 ' We bdieVe n ° ° ther C ° l0Ured / fc^ • 2 PLATE DLXXX. MESEMBRYANTHEMUM ACINACIFORMK Scimitar-leaved Mesembry anthemum . CLASS XII. ORDER IV. ICOSANDRU PENTAGYN1J. Twenty Chives ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Five Pointals valde nuraerosa, linearia, bast cohae- reutia the base. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Mesfmbktanthemum folds acinaciformibus floribus araplissirais, laete purpureis. Dilienii Hortus Ellhamensis, tab. CCXI. Fig-marvgold with scimitar-shaped leaves: flowers very large, and of a bright purple colour. I REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. . The empalement, seed-bud, and pointals TH.OUOHOUT this extensive tribe of plants, this is the most splendid species of Mesembryanthemum we are at present acquainted with j and althongh an old plant in the gardens, it is quite a rarity to meet with it in flower. Our specimen is from the collection of Mr. Trimmer, of Kew Bridge, whose method of forcing it into bloom may be worth the attention of cultivators. It is by training it up against the glas* and watering it very sparingly > indeed, so little water is requisite for many of the succulent plants, that we have seen them thrive very well without any, except what they absorb from- the humidity of the atmosphere in the descending dews. SS£ ^M PLATE DLXXXI. LIX VI LA Violet-coloured Willow. £A CLASS XXII. ORDER II. DICECIJ DIANDRIA. Chives and Pointals on different Plants. Two Chives ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Masculi Jlores. Amentum cylindraceum. Calyx squamosus Corolla O. Glandule baseos nectariferae. •* Feminei Jlores. Amentum cylindraceum. Calyx squamosus. Corolla 0. Stylus 2- fidus. Capsula 1-locu- laris, 2-valvis. Semina papposa. * Male flowers. Catkin cylindrical. Empalement squamous. Blossom none. Glands at the base, bearing honey. Female Jlow Catkin cylindrical Empalement squamous. Blossom none. Shaft 2-cleft. Capsule l-lo- cular, 2-valved. Seeds downy. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Sax ix foliis lanceolatis, acuminatis, serrulatis, Will glabris, subtus glaucis tiolaceo tectis. ramis pulvere smooth, beneath : branches iolet-coloured pow- der. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A male flower. 2. A bit of the lower part of the stem with some of the powder rubbed off. ipecies tough than the common Osier ; and that found upon the Orleans plum) v of it has been accidentally rubbed of] superior It is said to be a native of Russia the vear 1 7Q&. Whe- or Siberia, and to have been introduced by Mr. John Eell of Sion Gate about the year 179 ther it may or may not be the same species as Salix acutifolia of Willdenow, which he publi; out having seen the fructification, we leave to those who have seen his specimen to determine Our specimens are from the collection of A. B. Lambert, esq. who informs us that it pi April male flowers annually at Boyton, and besides its great utility is a very ornamental plant &A V >*f ■ $1 ■ tf 2 PROTEA PLATE DLXXXII. MELLIFERA ALBIFLORA White-flowered Honey-bearing Protect CLASS IV, ORDER I. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointed. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Corolla 4-fida, seu 4-petala. Antherae li- neares, petalis infra apices insert®. Calyx proprius, nullus. Semina solitaria. Blossom four-cleft, or of four petals. Tips li- near, inserted into the petals below the points. Cup proper, none. Seeds solitary. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. ids : capituloqi magno, albo Caput Bonae i Protea. with elliptic lance-shaped leaves : head of flowers terminal, large, and white. Native of the Cape of Good Hone. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE I, Seed-bud, chives, and pointal. species figu thumbed equivocal cific title of mellifera we unawares experienced, as, in bending the plant a little forward to view the interior of its flowers, (the plant being near seven feet high,) it literally poured out a stream of necta- reous juice, the cup being filled with honey as high as the imbrications could possibly contain it. i. I ■ PLATE DLXXXIII. LO ERA AP N C A Japanese Woodbine. \ CLASS V. ORDER I. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. \ Chives. One Pointal ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Corolla 1-petala, irregularis. Bacca polysper- my bilocularis, infera. Blossom of one petals irregular. Berry many- seeded, 2- celled, below. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Lonicera foliis perennantibus petiolatis villo- sis : caule volubili. ionicera japonica. JFilld, Sp, PL Lonicera with ever-green downy leaves upott footstalks* and a twining stem, REFERENCE TO* THE PLATE 1. A flower spread open. 2. The seed-bud and oointaL This far-fetched and yet rare species of « the luscious woodbine" is the Kin-gin-qua, or Gold and Silver Flower, of the Japanese, as we learn from Kaempfer and Thunberg. The same name is also affixed to a Chinese drawing of the plant, a copy of which we have seen in the collection of A. B . Lamberts tsa.m From the same being kept here in the gn honey-suckles, the species specimen Minorca It was introduced, we are informed, from China about the year 1805, and our drawing was taken in July I8O9, in the garden of the at Bayswater. PLATE DLXXX1V. PH M SAMI'A Samian Phlomis. . CLASS XIV. ORDER I. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Two Chives longer. Seeds covered. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx angulatus. Corollae labium superius in- cumbens, compressum, villosum. Cup angled : upper lip of the corolla incumbent compressed and downy. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Phlomis caule hirsuto, foliis cordatis, crenatis, subtus tomentosis, bracteis tripartitis su- bulatis mucronatis calycem aequantibus. mild. Sp. PL 3. p. 120. ■ dmis with a hairy stalk: leaves heart-shaped, scolloped, and cottony underneath : bract* 3 -parted, awl -shaped, as long as the cup. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE, 1 . The empalement. 2. A flower spread open. 3. Seed-bud and pointaL This curious species appears to have been introduced by Mr. Miller j but, not being enumerated in the Hortus Kewensis, nor the Catalogue of the Cambridge Botanic Garden, must have been since lost. Indeed Mr. Miller informs us, that the severe winter of 1740 destroyed all the plants of it then in England. A. B. Lambert, esq. who communicated the specimens in July last from his garden at Boy- ton, informs us that Dr. Williams, regius professor of botany at Oxford, favoured him with the plant ; and his predecessor Dr. Sibthorpe, who made two journeys into Greece to enrich us with the natural history of that interesting country, was probably the re-introducer. The name Samia is derived from the island of Samos ; but Monsieur Desfontaines informs us (in his Flora Atlantica) that the original Samian plant of Tournefort and the Phlomis Samia of Linnaeus (which he found wild about Mount Atlas) are different species. Both may possibly be natives of Samos : the posthumous Flora Graeca of Dr. Sibthorpe, now publishing by his friend Dr. Smith, will, we trust, decide it. There is no prior figure of the plant. f y v I / /> ■ ^HUBp"* V///^/ 3 \ PLATE DLXXXV. RA JAPON Japanese Sophora. CLASS X. ORDER I. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Ten Chives. One Pointal ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx 5-dentatus, superne gibbus. Corolla pa- pilionacea: alls longitudine vexilli. Lo- mentum moniliforme. Cup five-toothed, swelling above. Blossom bat- terfly-shaped, with wings the length of the keel. Pod necklace-shaped. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. ophora foliis pinnatis: foliolis pluribus ova- tis glabris : caule arboreo. IVilld. Sp. PL Sophora with winged leaves: the leaflets nu- and smooth : stem- arbo- rescent. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE 1 . The empalement. 2. Thevexillum. 3. One of the alae. ' 4. The carina. 5. The chives. 6. The seed-bud and pointal.. that genus at present known. The from a tree more than 40 feet high, in the collection of John Ord, esq. at Purser's Cross, Fulham, which fifty years ago. Our attachment to even the inanimate companions of about poets (Cowley " A wood coeval with himself he sees j And loves his old cotemporary trees." Mr. Ord obtained his plants of Mr. Gordon, nurseryman at Mile End, who introduced from China in the year 1753. The first time of its flowering in this country, we learn, Grace the Duke of Northumberland's collection at Sion, in August 1797. The only fi™ seen n ^^ HUluuucUMSj vol iiu uurmann, in his Flora lndica, and after him Linnaeus, describe the flowers as white. In Mr. Ord's garden they are of a faint yellow, as in the with purple. have maxim **..•... Nimium ne crede colori." ^— E ////v vy & W^/ /-' ' ^ PLATE DLXXXVL LI LI M SP£ UM. Showy Lily. CLASS VI. ORDER I. HEX AND RI A MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. Pointal ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Corolla 6-petaIa, campanulata : nectarium li- nea longitudinalis : capsulse valvulis pilo cancellato connexis. Blossom 6-leaved, bell-shaped. Nectary a lon- gitudinal line. Valves of the seed-pod con- nected with a lattice-work of hairs. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Lilium foliis sparsis, ovato-oblongis : floribus cernuis mox revolutis : caule raraoso. Lilium speciosum. Willd. Sp. PI. Lily with scattered oval-oblong leaves : the flowers nodding, soon rolled back, and the stem branching. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1 . Seed-bud and pointal. 1H ■ can but seldom have the pleasure of recording so valuable an acquisition to our collections as this truly magn.ficent species introduced from China by the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks about the year 180/, and a figure of it also pubhshed by him in 1 7 Q,, being plate 4 7 of the Icones Select,, from draw incrs marie in Janan hv k»mnf^ ~~A j. .. , . ^ vtw, uum uidw deposited in the British Museum The woolliness and , i, 4 t A . . * v ^tiusu iriuueum. ine woolliness and bulbs on the stem ,„ our speamen, and the want of constriction a, ,he base of the lea™ « " such ever exists in nature., HitT^r onn B ;«u«M„ (. .. , e leavts » ( Jt a »> resemblance, ana a consideration of U» ma „ y varialions ZSSZZgZZ geTa^ ject, induce us to regard it as a variety from th* «.m* ~>~^ _,. J . . fcenus ^ SUD The stem rises to between three i r c t • i • i , > x »cBiciu rises to oetween ree and four feet ,n he,gb< and sometimes even higher , and produces from three to nine or more flowers accordtng o «. strength and s.tuation. The bulb which i, produce, from the base of every 1 af form a future plant, and thu, tounrivalled beauty adds abundance, fts time of flowering en ce 7*Z lue be,ng to Angus,, when al, o.her lilies Itave deserted the parterre. M, W.nian, ', Le man at Turnham Green, favoured us with the specimen. "imams, nurser>raan PLATE DLXXXV1I CORCHORUS ? JAPONICUS fore plena Japanese Corchorus with double fowers. CLASS XIII. ORDER I. POLYJNDRIA MONOGYNU. Many Chives. One Pointal ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Corolia 5-petala. Calyx 5-phyllus, deciduus. Capsula plurivalvis, loculamentosa. Blossom of 5 petals. Cup 5-leaved, falling off. Fruit with many valves, subdivided. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Corchorus capsulis rotundis glabris, foliis du- plicato-serratis.— Flora Japonica, p. 217 . Corchorus with round smooth capsules, and the leaves doubly sawed. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1 . The pointals. This elegant shrub is amply described in the Flora Japonica of Professor Thunberg, who found it about Nagasaki. Miaco figured he particularly specifies totally adorning the country about Miaco. In Houttuyns Pflanrensystem, vol. vii. plate 54, there is also an engraving of it. The single-flowered has not yet been introduced to this country. The of blossoming is in early spring : but it does not appear to confine itself to that season, as we have been favoured with fresh specimens at various seasons from April to October j and we may therefore safely predict its being long a favourite with cultivators. The flexile twigs statred with blossoms look at a 1 • j. 1 f • . l»f « t - All the flowers that we suppo have seen are from 5- to 8-gynous j which, with the singular form of the capsule, makes us consider it as a very doubtful species of Corchorus. The Japanese name is Jamma Buki. Our figure is taken from specimens communicated by Mr. Milne of Fonthill, who informs us that his plant now growing in the conservatory is ten feet high. We first observed it in bloom early last spring at Messrs. Colville's, and in several other collections during the summer, but smaller both in flowers and leaves. *?* 7K t PLAT1:'. DLXXXVIII. D H S T A T A. Halberd-leaved Sida. CLASS XVI. ORDER VIII. MONAD E L PHI A POL Y ANURIA. One Brotherhood. Many Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx simplex, angulatus. Stylus multi-parti- tus. Capsulae plures, 1- seu 3-spermae. Cup simple-angled. Shafts many-parted. Seed- pods many, one- to three-seeded, - SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Sida foliis inferioribus cordatis angulatis, supe- j rioribus elongato-hastati- ; peduneulis axil- laribus, unifloris, longissimis. Sida hastata, mild. Sp. PL Sida with the lower leaves somewhat heart- shaped and angled, the upper ones long- halberd-shaped ; flower-stalks very long, one-flowered, and axillary. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE 1 . The chives spread open. 2. The pointals. species was first properly distinguished and described by the Spanish Dissertat upon founded botanists and both Professor Martyn in his Dictionary and Willdenow now number Most of the species have been destined by nature hastata was found hv thft Frcnrh hnranict Dnmhfiv growing naturally in Peru and Lima in moist places 3 and A. B. Lambert the specimen last September, received the seeds from the East Indies. T enumerated bv Cavanillps and Willdenow we have not seen. been tie two other varieties of thi§ lant is annual, and has yet % ; «£*V ■ I -'<£. A. M ife X \ \ ^B -> 'ii '-.. T * I ■■W PLATE DLXXXIX. GLADIOLUS ANGUSTUS, minor. Small Narrow-leaved Coriijftag. CLASS III. ORDER I. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Three Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Corolla sexpartita, ringens. Stamina adscen- dentia. Blossom six divisions, gaping. Chives ascending. SPECIFIC CHARACTER* Cladiodus foliis linearibus, longis, costatisj corollis flavescentibus ; petalis tribus in- ferioribus rubro notatis. Gladiolus angustus. Jacquin. Icones, tab. 252, vol. ii. Cornflag with linear leaves long and ribbed: blossom yellowish ; the three lower petals marked with red. ■ REFERENCE TO THE PLATE 1 . The outer sheath of the empalement. 2. The inner sheath. 3 . A blossom spread open . 4. Seed- bud and pointal. 5. Flower of a larger variety; Will regard as a distinct species from the Gladiolus angustus of Jacquin : but meeting soon after with a Wh regular variation, the smallest link of which is (at present) the one now figured. Both plants are of easy culture, requiring no other treatment than what is common to bulbs of this class. ■■ f PLATE DXC. MESPILUS ODORATISSIMA. Sweet-scented Mespilus. CLASS XII. ORDER V. ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. Twenty Chives. Five Pointals. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx 5-fklus. Petala 5. Bacca infera, 5- sperma Calyx 5-cleft. Petals 5. Berry below, 5- seeded. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Mespilus foliis utrinque pubescentibus, pinna- I Mespilus with leaves downy on both sides, and tifidis - 7 laciniis incisis. wing-cleft 5 with the segments slit. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE 1. The empalement and pointals. 2. A branch of ripe fruit. Mespil Mesp Lord pointed out the specific differences to Mr. Lambert in I8O7. The accuracy of his and handsome dwarf trees, from 6 to 12 feet high in the specimens we have seen. The M ted the boughs are loaded in autumn. The tree called by Professor Pallas Crataegus translation of his Travels in the Crimea vnl \\ « ita ™a ion ««^ *.!. fruit have ascertained from his Herbarium : and th« little red Medlar found in Anatol see Exotic Botany, is probably the same thing. We were favoured with the specimens both o M. tanacetifolia (our next plate) by the Right Hon. the Marchioness of Bath, from Longleat j* w I *»/ t&nk'sjkejxa. PLATE DXCI. MESPILUS TANACETIFOLIA Tansy-leaved Medlar. CLASS XII. ORDER V. ICOSJNDRIA PENTAGYNM. Twenty Chives. Five Pointals ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx 5-fidus. Petala 5. Bacca infera, 5- sperma. Calyx 5-cleft. Petals 5. Berry below, 5- seeded. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Mespilus floribus bracteatis ; foliis pinnatifi- dis ; laciniis argute serratis, pubescentibus. Mesftlus with bracts to the flowers; the leaves wing-cleft, with the divisions sawed and downy. \ REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The empalemenfc and pointals. 2. A branch with ripe fruit. Neither is this species enumerated in the works of Linnaeus. The great French botanist Tournefort, who discovered it on the mountains of Anatolia in 1701, thus describes it : "These mountains produce a fine sort of Azarolier or Medlar- tree \ there are some as big as oaks. Their trunk is covered with a cleft grayish bark ; the branches are bushy, and spreading out on the sides ; the leaves are in bunches two inches and a half long, fifteen lines broad, shining, a little hairy on both sides, commonly divided into three parts even to the rib, and these parts indented very neatly on the edges, pretty much like the leaves oi' tansy ; the part at the end of the leaf is again divided into three parts. The fruit grow two or three together at the end of the young shoots, and resemble small apples of an inch diameter with five roundings like the ribs of a melon, a little hairy, pale green inclining to a yellow, with a navel raised of five leaves. We sometimes find one or two of these leaves growing out of the flesh of the fruit, or Medlar, but I believe it would be excel its stalk. The lent if it were cultivated. The Armenians not only eat as much of this as they can, but like- wise fill their bags. The short period the tree has been introduced (not above 20 y ~ . . v — ^.vw.vu.'s, aswe are in- formed) will not allow any in England, as yet, to have reached the size above mentioned 5 and we much doubt whether it may be thought worthy of cultivation here for the fruit : but the beauty of the tree and agreeable fragrance of the blossoms sufficiently recommend it to a place in the pleasure-garden. This and the last described species with the artificial characters of the genu* Mespilus have all the na- tural habits of Crataegus, and show how ill even our most admired systems are calculated to trace and mark these fine gradations, which, while they yet distinguish, closely connect all nature. Too often the hue and cry of " Heretics ! Innovators !" thundered out by the schools against all who will not implicitly follow th r dogmas, drive the calm and unprejudiced students of nature out of the field. Yet he that discovers one new truth is surely a benefactor to society; but he that defends and inculcates error is a tyrant m the kingdom of Nature. ■ — f 10 >* t +*&c£/toa PLATE DXC1I. MIMOSA GRANDIFLORA Greatfowered Mimosa. CLASS XXIII. ORDER I. POLYGAMIC MONOECIA. Flowers Male the same Plant. and Hermaphrodit ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Hbrmaphroditi. Calyx 5-dentatus. Corolla 5-fida vel 5-petnla. tillum 1 . Leguoien bivalve. 4—200. Pis- Hermaphhodites. ,Cup 5-toothed. Blossom - Masculi. Calyx 5-dentatus. Corolla 5-fida 5-cleft or 5-petalled. Shaft l. Pod two-valved. 200. Male petala. Stamina 4 — 200 cleft, or of 5 petals. Cup 5-toothed. Blossom 5- 200 Mimosa inermis, foliis bipinnatis, multijugis, ciliatis j racemo composito terminali. Acacia grandiflora. mild. Sp. PI. 4. p. io;4. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. unarmed many and ciliated, and flowers in a compound terminating bunch. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE 1. The empalement. 2. The chives spread open. 3. Thepoiutal. This species, conspicuous by i(s »-" ■»-■ :.... , of quick grovv,h, and blossoms freely but has 2 ZL ' ^ 7 ™ 17 <*>- Jt is a P la « •r i- we have seen is ,ha, by BehZ^h D T ,! ', , ""' »* '" '^ T" T1 * «*J «U plate however , M finished for L'He° ier » h fc! ^T*" * ,hC f *"™ ° f Li "— A The s,a„,e„s (as in aany other Mir^A^' ' f f *l ^ ** t"*™** its P*******. from ,he ho„on, of tll e bunch *ZT£Z£Z . ' ^ blWSWKS " 1>C " * noons. The S peci me „ -. „JL"* L,™. fT"" *"* Pa " ° f " ,e •»»»• The leaves are deci- The spoken „ -m^i^ZER 7 £ ™' ^ "■ ' " by A * B - Lambert, c jq . in August. I PLATE DXCIII. CROTALARIA TETRAGONA. IP* « Four-sided Cro talari a. CLASS XVII. ORDER IV. D1ADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Two Brotherhoods. Ten Stamens. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Lbgumen pedicellatum, turgidum. Stamina omnia connexa. Pod on a stalk, swollen. Stamens all nected. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. CaoTALARiA caule tetragono, strigosoj pe- tiolis brevibus, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis, acumlnatis; stipulis caulera amnlexantibus. Crotalaria with the stem 4-sided, with flat pressed hairs : short footstalks : leaves oblong-lanced, and pointed : stipules em- bracing the stem. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. I. The keel. d pointal point al. % This new and very ornamental species is remarkable for having the under lip of the calyx often undi- vided, and every part of the plant up to the blossom covered with shining close-pressed hairs : nor are .1 _»•!.•. « a a m downwards like part styl and shaped runs also along the upper and of must perhaps be considered as bracteae. We were favoured with the specimens in November from Lord Valentia's gardens at Arley, along wtth the Plectranthus barbata. His Lordship received the seeds last year from Dr. Roxburgh in India, by the name of Crotalaria tetragona. The plant appears to be shrubby. No account of the species before ol ume near \ / \ m ■ 1 t PLATE DXCIV. PLECTRANTHUS BARBATUS Bearded Plectranthus. \ CLASS XIV. ORDER I. DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIJ. Four unequal Stamens. Naked Seeds. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx lacinii summS majore. Corolla resupi- nata, ringens 5 tubo sursilm gibbo vel cal- carato. Cup with tlie upper division largest. Blossom lying on its back, gaping j tube with a spur above or swelled out. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Plbctbanthus racemis bracteatis, bracteis de- ciduis; foliis ovatis, crenatis, pubescenti- bus, rugosis, per petiolos decurrentibus : corollae labio superiore emarginato brevissi- mo 5 inferiore subovato, concavo, hirsuto. Plectranthus with bracts to the bunches, bracts falling off: the leaves oval, scolloped, downy and wrinkled, running down the footstalks; the upper lip of the blossom short, and slightly notched; the lower nearly ovate, compressed and hairy. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1 . The empalement. 2. 3. blossom with the segments summit The stem of Plectranthus is four-sided with blunt corners, and woolly. The leaves are fleshy, mi- nutely dotted on both sides, and border their footstalks down to the stem. The flower- stalks, the tiff The tube of the blossom is without a spur, and swelled on the upper side. Every part of the plant has a powerful fragrance. The specimens were communicated in November by Mr. Giddings, gardener to Lord Va- lentia at Arley ; with a letter stating, that he raised the plants from Abyssinian seeds sent home by his Lordship about four years ago, and that they grow at Arley to about two feet in height, and thrive with the common treatment of stove plants. The first species known of this genus, Plectranthus punctatus, the Ocymum punctatum of Linnaeus, was also brought from Abyssinia by the celebrated Bruce. 1 I ** l *&&%*&, PLATE DXCV. PANAX FRUTI M Shrubby Panax. % CLASS XXIII ORDER II POLYGAMIA DICECIA. Flowers Male, Female, and Hermaphrodite on different Plants* ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Hermaphroditus. Umbella. Calyx 5-den- tatus, superus. Corolla 5-petala. Stamina 5. Styli 2 vol 3, saepe cohaerentes. Bacca 2- vel 3-sperma, infera. . The male or female Hermaphrodite. An umbel. Cup 5-toothed, above. ' Blossom 5-petalled. Stamens 5. Shafts 2 or3, sometimes cohering. Berry 2- or 5-seeded, below. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Panax foliis supradecompositis, dentato-ciliatis ; caule fruticoso, Willd. Sp. PL Panax with leaves more than doubly compound, ciliated with little teeth ; the stem shrubby. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. Empalement, chives, and pointals. 2. The pointals. 3. The plant in miniature. On examining the flowers of this curious and rare species of Panax, we were a little startled to find bow widely they differed from the character of the genus -, being trigynous, and the berry three-seeded. Professor Jacquin has alio observed the same variation in the flowers of P. aculeatum (see his Icones, tab. 63 4); and fifty years ago Trew observed and delineated the same number of styles in Panax tri fo- lium, one of the original species upon which the genus was established. Nor had this escaped the scrutinizing eye of that profound observer of nature Bernard Jussieu. From these authorities, there- fore, in consonance with our own observations, we have enlarged the character of the genus to include the species. Panax fruticosum, as we learn from Rumphius's Herbarium Amboinense, vol. iv. p. 78 and 7g, rises to between five and six feet in height, with a stem as thick- as a man's arm, and grows naturally in the Island of Ternate, where it is also much cultivated by the natives for food, medicine, and ceconomy ; being planted to separate the areas of their gardens and mark the boundaries of their fields. The boiled leaves are eaten as greens, and a decoction both of the leaves and root is used suc- cessfully in nephritic diseases, for which they also sometimes prescribe the roots to be eaten raw. The fame of the plant as a powerful diuretic is also great in Amboyna $ where, as well as in Ternate, it is commonly planted both for ornament and use. Labillardiere, the French botanist, who accom- panied the expedition that sailed in quest of the unfortunate Lapeyrouse, informs us (in his accouni of the voyage) that when at Araboyna he found this plant encircling the tomb of the venerable Rum- phius, its first describer. Nature he loved ; with her he spent his hours : The grateful goddess wreathes his tomb with flc The famous Ginseng, to which the Chinese attribute such extraordinary virtues, and which, as Os- beck informs us, was commonly sold in their shops in 1751 (see his Travels, English edit p 222) for from 30 to 40 times its weight in silver, and which one of their Emperors, 40 years before that, sent 10,000 1 artars in quest of at once, is said by that author to be a species of Panax ; but the plant is yet unknown in Europe. Panax fruticosum, we are informed, was introduced to this country about they ir 1800, and requires to be kept in the hot- house. ~* Boy ton by A. B. Lambert, esq. The specimen was communicated from * f mm m£m$mg&fflm PLATE DXCVI. LAURUS CINNAMOMUM Cinnamon Tree, CLASS IX. ORDER I. or CLASS XXII. ORDER VII. ENNZANDRIA MONOGYNTA. or DICECIA POLYANDRIA. Nine Stamens. One Style, or Male and Female Flowers on different Plants. Stamens more than Seven ESSENTIAL GENERI CHARACTER. Caltx nullus. Corolla 6-partita, glandulis tribus gernien cingentibus. Filaraenta in- teriora glandulifera. Drupa ]-sperma. Cup none. Blossom 6-parted. Glands three, surrounding the germen. Inner filaments bearing glands. Berry dry, one-seeded. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Laurus folus trinemis ovato-oblongis, nervis || Leaves three nerved, oval-oblong nerves vanish- versus apicem evanescentibus. IVUldenow, ing towards the point of tbe leaf. Sp. PI. vol. 2. p. 477 REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A flower spread open, shown from the outer side, 2. The same shown from the inner side* 3. The pointal. For the first tolerable figure of the Cinnamon tree we are indebted to Dr. Hermann, Professor of Bo* tany at Leyden wh d also the honour of introducing it to Europe, having brought living plants with h-m. on his it ru from Ceylon, which vegetated in the Leyden Academy's garden, and in the gardens of Mynheers Benting and Beverning between two and three years, until a severe winter de- stroyed them. See his Catalogue of the Plants in the Leyden Garden (Horti Academici Lugduno-Ba- lavi Gitalogus), page 130, plates 665 and 606. This fact is the more curious, as Linnaeus, describing the Cinnamon from dried specimens in his noble patron Clifford's collection, fifty years after, speaks of it as a plant forbidden to our shores ; which Europe bad never seen alive, and could hardly hope to see, or to retain even if it could be procured. The Cinnamon was first cultivated in England by Mr. Miller in the Apothecaries* garden at Chelsea about the year J 768 ; who probably received it from Holland, the Spice plantations at that time being entirely in the hands of the Dutch. No figure of it has before been published in this country, nor any account of its flowering. It grows naturally in the Island of Ceylon, from whence the vast quantity annually imported into Europe is supplied. The following method of procuring and preparing the bark is abridged from Thunberg's Travels. Proper trees being selected, that is, those that are neither too young nor too old, the branches of three years growth are cut off with a pruning-knife, and their green outer bark scraped off with a crooked knife. The remaining bark is then ripped up lengthwise and eled off ; and the smaller pieces being drawn into the larger, they are laid in the sun^to dry. After ing sufficiently dried, they are tied up in bundles of about 30 pounds weight each, and brought to the Company's storehouses, where inspectors appointed for that purpose examine every bundle by tasting of it 5 and on its being approved of, it is tied in bundles of about 85 pounds weight each, which are then sewed into double woollen sacks, over which black pepper is strewed to attract any remaining moisture, and in this state shipped for Europe. From the dust and fragments remaining in the ware- houses the extremely valuable and rare oil of Cinnamon is distilled. An oil is also distilled from the leaves, another from the fruit, and a fourth from the bark of the root. Ginnamon is also found wild in the woods of Martinico, according to Professor Jacquin 5 but the Ceylon Cinnamon is always considered the best. We are informed by our friend Mr. Anderson, that a Cinnamon tree in the garden of the Bishop of Winchester at Farnham Castle (perhaps the finest in England) has for many years blossomed and ripened its fruit annually, and that great numbers of young trees have been raised from the fruit, which have- far surpassed for healthiness and hardiness the plants commonly obtained from layers, or those imported j and which leads us to hope that the Cinnamon trees may soon become more common and less difficult ©f cultivation : and his lordship s great success with it will, we hope, serve to stimulate others. We have also seen a drawing in Mr. Lambert's collection, taken in the Bishop of Durham's garden at Mongewell, where it flowered, as we are informed by his lordship, in February 1796. The Cinnamon tree requires to be kept in the bark-bed in the stove, and is propagated by cuttings and layers. Our drawing was made in the month of February at J. Knight's nursery, King's Road, from a fine plant upwards of three feet high. S? f> I \ I > / ■ hm 4 j- \ PLATE DCXV1I. TROPiEOLUM PEREGRINUM. Hie Little Bird Plant. class viii. Order l OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Eight Stamens. One Style. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx monophyllus, calcaratus, quinquefidus. Petala duo ad quinque. Stigma trifidum, •en stigmata tria. Drupae tres, siccae, et monospermy. Cuf of one leaf with a spur five-cleft. Petals two to five. Summits three, or summit three-cleft. Berries three, dry, and one- seeded. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Tiopjrolum petalis serrato-incisis,duobus maxi- petals mis, tribus minimis. Jacq, Hort. Schcenb. II much larger than the rest) three very 1. p. 51. tat. 98. II small. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. I. Chives and pointal. 2. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. . / 1 hi 1 ropaeoium peregnnum grows naturally m Peru, and was gathered wild by the French naturalist Feuillee near the town of Lima. The native name, according to that author, is Malla j the Spaniards call it Paxanto, which signifies a little bird ; from the resemblance the expanded blossoms have to little humming-birds Hying. Attaching itself by the long footstalks of the leaves to the branches, the plant often ascends to the very summits of trees in its native soil ; and Professor Jacquin, director of the Emperor of Germany's gardens at Schoenbrunn, informs us (in the work above quoted) that it grew open )Ut produced vated he grf en-house. A. B. Lambert, esq. November, informs us that he culti- ducing almost innumerable blossoms. The seeds but rarely ripen in this country, and are generally im- ported from Spain or Portugal. The plant, however, may be propagated by cuttings. Besides the five species of Tropspoluno enumerated in the edition of the Species Plantarum by Wflldeoow, and the new species in our last voume (1. pennatum), three more species are described and figured in the Flora Pe- ruviana of Kuiz and Pavon , .some of which, and others of the many beautiful flowers of that country, he great intercourse now carried on with South America gives us to hope that we may soon see. One of he spec.es m the Flora Peruviana having only two petals, has obliged us to make a little alteration in the generic character. ° PLATE DXCVIII. B.ECKIA VIRGATA. Twiggy Bceckia. CLASS VIII. ORDER I. OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Eight Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx 5-dentatus. Corolla 5-petala. Capsula 3- seu 4-locularis, polysperraa, calyce tecta. Cup 5-toothed. Blossom of 5 petals. Fruit 3- or 4-celled, many-seeded, covered by the cup. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. B jeckia. foliis lineari-lanceolatis pellucido-punc- * * tatis, pedunculis axillaribus umbelliferis. Leptospermura virgatum. Forster. Bjeckia with linear-lanced leaves with transpa- rent dots } the flowerstalks axillary, and bearing umbels. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. I . A petal. , 2* The chives and pointal. 3. The same shown from the under side. I Island of New Caledonia, celebrated f, and honest disposition of the men, j see somethi this plant with many others was discovered by the two Forsters, who accompanied him as naturalists, and is published in their Genera of Plants gathered in the Islands of the South Seas as a species of Leptospermum. Dr. Smith, however, justly observes, that neither the number of stamens, the fruit, nor the opposite leaves, agree at all with that genus, but most naturally with the Linnean genus Baeckia, of which several species have lately been found in New Holland. The stamens vary from eight to ten; the germen three-celled, with about sixteen seeds in each \ but how many of these ripen we have had no opportunity of observing. The leaves are not absolutely without nerves, as described by Forster; specimen become drj Mr. Milne In the specimens with which we have been favoured by may be occasioned by this plant's being yet so young, being raised only three years ago in the collection Marqi The time of flowering is October. Will denow we cannot quote, his descriptions being from two plants of very different genera jumbled together species Tn the 27*7th Number of The Botanical Magazine the writer, endeavouring to destroy the authority of the figure of Yucca gloriosa in The Botanist's Repository, vol. vii., and establish that of his own as the first, says that our figure canuot be- long to that plant, in which Xi the trunk reaches only from six inches to two feet (Miller faya in his Dictionary, from two feet and a half to three feet !) in height, and *here the leaves are quite entire ; but to Y.'aloifelia, whose trunk reaches from 6 to 10 feet in height, and the leaves have a finely crenulate edging." Our drawing was taken at Lord Boston's from a plant only ten feet high, the stem little more than three, and the leaves not in the least crenated ! The panicle m our hgure i* a!so said to be much closer than in that, with its branches likewise more lax and drooping. Wirh all these contradictory qualities, however, it very much resembles Barreliere's figure of the same, which the writer himself has quoted, and m which the curvature of the buds, which be holds to be so extraordinary, is also conspicuous. No less curious is h.s objection to the tinge of purple on the flowers. Could it be possible that he had not seen either the plant that he was describing or the drawing of it } (Sec the figure in The Botanical Magazine.) But we leave the Yuccas to soeati for themselves. The filamentosa he has also complimented with five feet of a stem (Botanical Magaz quoted Michaux's authority for it, although that author expressly savs that it is stemtaul m » /* y \ • ■ *#Cx ta t&ra&tifr ■ PLATE DXCIX. CHAM^ROPS HUM1LIS Dwarf Fan-Palm. CLASS XXIII. ORDER II POLYGAMIA DICECIA. Stamens and Pointals on different Plants, with perfect Flowers occasionally GENERIC CHARACTER. Masc. Calyx 3-partitus. Corolla 3 -petala. Sta- mina 6. Hermaph. Calyx, corolla et stamina ut in masculis. Styli 3. Drupae 3, monospermy ! Males. Cur 3-parted. Blossom 3-petalled. Sta- mens 6. Hermaphrodites. Cup, blossom and stamens as in the males. Styles 3. Berries 3, dry, one- seeded. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Cham-krops frondibus palmatis, stipitibus spi- nosis, spathA simplici. p. 1154. mud. sp. pi. 4. ' v * ~ ww ivu pcuiixiatC uuu stalks, and simple sheaths. foot- REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1 . Empalement and blossom. 2. The same shown from the outer side. 3. The chives. the coast of Etrud m .1 e Island JTsfci 1 £? Tn «f° ?™S ' ^ * gr ° WS natUra11 ? in ^ on informed by Cavanilles, in hi loots pt £um (vol H nV'JZT? °' ^T^ Where ™ are *nd in that tract called Desierto de las PaZas o rtheDesert J %T T™' 7 f ° Und S,emless > ing two feet in heigh, . J n the district of XabeT howe er onThe coalt oTtheMed t? 3 ^ ^2 many with stems fourteen feet hijrh and nnp a - k£h *'u ? r L? e Medlte rranean, he found the lower part of the stem wlS enters the ir h g ai d t7 ?'' f ^ "3* aUthor bforms us that from the sheath, are eaten by ,he Spanhrd to « hnm . th f, heads of 3™ n S blossoms before they burst • ng them with mats, ropes, Com ^an ba keT. T 1° T^ ^ °/ th , e S reatest utility, finish- employed, and women during thH enings in wint'e tllnTnf °T ° f WhlCh ^ are f****** their evenings less usefully. Professor Pon ed^r ^ in J 1 ^, ^ ^ tair countrywomen, we fear, spend given three good plates of the Ctom^™ -^'fiwfi " hoIog , ,af PUbh,hed at Padua in '720, has was twelve feet h U, growing i ^ the nub ic Irtr ™f cat '™> taken rrom a plant, the stem of which Shoot, or suckers flomlhe botU of f^J^XtZ're iTv^T^ ^J"? ?* *■ *"»* Chamsrops also grows spontaneously unn?™, n , ^ u n cefa g lloni > *"» ea ten by the Italians. The part of the • ounfstems ami the 3 are also e?t,n h 1 xi " the C ° 3St ° f Balbar >'> where thc Iower in water, made into mats, rope! basket? tr I I ** M c° rS l a " d the leaves ' after bein S macerated p. 473.) Willdenow taksSeofS S&SfJfF^ 8 * Desf ontaines» Flora Atlanta, vol. iii. and the other twenty feet in hei "ht and the for'lf J he , Chama *°PS one of which is nearly stemless, we have never met with any of a lame size ST f ^f ,s P robabl y ^ cultivated in England, as Wh while that in the JarSfn de Plante at Par , Z w^™ fe l J een in ° Ur S ardens since ^ X«r Lamarck in the Encyclop ll^Z^l^t^l^ ^>1 m ^ionedby the Chevalier male pi Our drawing was taken about two feet in height I 1»*l ^fs^I^ >*?w ;■ ■.. WV.ft JTffi 15-JVB Etffi,', ■*• ; .- . ' ™ ■ -. ■ f ^0-- PLATE DC. GjERTNERA racemosa. I Hacemed Gcertnera, \ CLASS X. ORDERI DECANDRIA MONO-DI-TRIGYNIA. Ten Chives. One to Three Pointals GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx 5-partitus. Petala 5 lacero-ciliata, in- aequalia. Stamina decern, unicum reliquis longius. Stylus incurvus. Stigma simplex. Germen triloculare, 3-spermum. Samara inaequaliter quadrialata, monosperrua. Cup five-parted. Petals five, cut-fringed, un- equal. Stamens ten, one longer than the rest. Style incurved. Summit simple. Seed-bud of three cells with three seeds. Fruit with four unequal wings, one-seeded. ; * REFERENCE TO THE PLATE 1 . The empalement. 2. The same shown from the outer side. 3. The chives and pointals. 4. The seed-bud and pointals. 5. The capsule. — This curious and interesting plant, originally considered as a species of Banisteria by Linnaeus, was very properly separated and named in honour of the celebrated Gaertner by Schreber in his Genera Planta- about of Mol na, in honour of the author of the Natural History of Chili. Gaertnera however has the right of priority, and has been continued by Dr. Roxburgh in his Plants of the Coast of Coromandel where Spec Willdenow On exammmg the fructification, we have found the plant more closely allied to Banisteria than has hitherto been suspected, the styles being commonly two with a rudiment of a third, and the germen three-locular with a young seed in each cell , but the inequality of the petals and stamens, the solitary gland on the calyx, and the abortion of- the lateral seeds, furnish abundant distinctions From the Coromandel plants above quoted we learn that it is a large climbing shrub, growing naturally on the Crcar mountains in India, and is commonly cultivated all over that coast on account of the beauty and fragrance of its flowers, which open there during the rainy season. According to Linn*us , ,s also a natwe of the Island of Ceylon. No other species of the genus has yet been described. The plant „ certamly a great acquisition to our collections, and was introduced from India by the late Lady Ameha Hume about the year 1805. Our specimen was communicated from the collection at Wormlev liurv the rnd nf Ua M^L ■' -■ I ^ m ftlllP '; PLATE DCI. CROTALARIA PULCHRA Fair Crotalaria. i CLASS XVII ORDER IV DUDELPHU DECJNDRU. Two Brotherhoods Ten Stamens GENERIC CHARACTER. cellatum Filamenta figura dorsal i. Pod on a footstalk, swollen. united into a tube, which is cleft at the back. Crotalari SPECIFIC CHARACTER. legu integerrim hairy que inversely oval, entire, silky, shining leaves : the pods, the calyx which covers them, and the bracts, all shining with silky hairs. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE 1 . The empalemenL 2. The standard. 3. One of the wings, 4. The keel. 5. Chives and pointal. 6. The seed-bud and pointal. f£"!"£5 •rf .***-■■ «™. - Wonnl^, Hwts , which ^ magn Crotalaria, seeds of which were received hv h.r Ca I \ f P ^ US *" new ***" C under the name of C n„ll if \ * P ' about the ^^ 80 7 , from the East Indies under the name ot C. puichernma, wh,ch we have abridged to pulchra, as we can hardly presume to sa wh.ch spec.es „ most beautiful before we have seen the whole genus which fiJ 1 i ! of Indian species by Dr. Roxburgh in his unpublished Indian Zs\ lov oV whTc T ^ iK» o^ii^,: c a « » . r u riora > a copy or which we have seen n Crotalaria soon likely to happe species already published by Willdeuow) - —« *«• /, nut uave we neard or its fore.gn specimens which we have seen with the Catalogue above same collection have very large spreading bunches of flowers, and there can be ofll 'l^r^ " h ? I 11 " 16 8tr ° n ^ Wil1 bloSS ™ with .qua! profit «f the Mysore country in the East The We received the specimen in the middle of March last a' / £/&*^s / / wmammm PLATE DC1I. GLYCINE COMPTONIANA Comptonian Glycine. CLASS XVII. ORDER IV. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Two Brotherhoods. Ten Chives GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx bilablatus. Corollae carina apice vexil- reflectens. two-lipped. Keel of the blossom turning back the standard at the end. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Glycine volubilis, foliis ternatis e!ongato-ova«* tifi utrinque glabris, petiolis partialibus supra pubescentibus, racemis axillaribus multi- Horis. Glycine twining; the leaves by threes of a long egg-shape, smooth on both sides j the par- tial footstalks hairy above 5 the bunches la- teral and many- flowered. \ REFERENCE TO THE PLATE- 1. The empalement. 2. The standard. 3. One of the wings. 4. The keel. 5. Chives and pointal. & The seed-bud and pointal. peciei is a native of New Holland, and belongs to that division of the genus with many. seeded pods without any partitions. We find but the npe have named ApriL But found troduced we are uncertain. ** \ *4 2 ^ to ^s / & #/?& PLATE DClll. C0MMERS0N1A DASYPHYLLA. Hairy-leaved Commersonia. CLASS V. ORDER V. PENTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. Five Chives. Five Pointals. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx monophyllus 5-partitus. Petala 5 line- aria basi sublobata, apice inflexa. Necta- rium 5-partitum. Filamenta ad basin peta- lorum, brevissima. Germen subglobosum. Styli erecti. Stigmata capitata. Capsula dura, setosa, 5-locularis, 5-valvis, loculis 2~4-sperniis, Empalement of one leaf 5-parted. Petals 5, linear, commonly lobed at the base, turned in at the point. Nectary 5-parted. Threads at the base of the petals, very short. Seed- bud nearly round, summits headed. Styles erect with their Capsule hard, bristly, with 5 cells and 5 valves, the cells from 2- to 4-seeded. SPECIFIC CHARACTER Commfrsonia foliis eloogato-cordatis inaequa- liter serratis supra subtusque iiirsutis. Commersonia with long heart-shaped unequally- toothed leaves hairy on both sides. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. Empalement, chives and pointals, magnified Commersonia dasyphylla is a low branching shrub, a native of New Holland or Van Diemen's Land,, and is remarkable for a powerful odour of cucumbers which it emits when in blossom, and even retains for some time after it is dried. Being a plant which blossoms freely in early spring, and of very easy culture, it well deserves a place in the green-house or conservatory, Only one species of Com- mersonia has before flowered in England, the C. echinata of our last volume (Plate 519), but which has since been discovered to be a different species from the original C. echinata of Forster; which error we take the present opportunity of correcting, and beg of our readers to erase the name echinata in our 5igth plate and description, and substitute platyphylla, with the following specific description : Broad-leaved Commersonia with toothed leaves of a long heart-shape, a little rough with star-like bristles on the upper side; hairy and soft below. Commersonia platyphylla, foliis elongato-cor- datis dentatis, supra stellato-hispidulis, sub- tus hirsutis, mollibus. Another nondescript Commersonia from Van Diemen's Land is now in our gardens, but has not yet the late blossomed ; and we have seen dried specimens of a fifth species brought from New Holland by Governor King, in the collection of A. B. Lambert, esq. We were favoured with the specimen of C. dasyphylla by Mr. Milne, from Fonthill, last April. The plant is at present in very few collections, and has not, we believe, yet blossomed any where else ia Engla * Y&, t I * Vev&a' 4&> % # PLATE DCIV. MALPIGHIA POLYSTACHIA. Branching Malpighia. \ CLASS X ORDER I. Ill DECANDRIA MONO-DITRIGYNIA. Ten Chives. One to Three Pointals. GENERIC CHARACTER. Caltx 5-ph>llus basi extus poris binis mellife- ris. Petala 5 subrotunda, unguiculata.* Fi- Jamenta basi cohaerentia. Drupa 1-locularis tripyrena, nueibus monospcrmis. Cup 5-leaved with two honey-bearing pores on the outside at the base. Petals five, nearly round with claws. Threads cohering at the base. Berry fleshy of one cell with three large bony seeds. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Malpighia foliis lanceolato-ovatis integerrimis glabris nitidis, subtus prope basin biglandu- losis ; racemis axillaribus et terminalibus ; pedicellis uniglandulosis j floribus monogy- fcis } stigmate capitate Malfig "a with lance^ovate, entire smooth shining leaves, with two glands on their un- derside near the base; bunches both from the sides and tops of the branches ; flower. stalks with one gland; style one; stigma headed. V^ REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1 . The empalement. 3. The chives spread open. 3. Seed-bud and pointals. This splendid Malpighia is one of that fine collection of WW T.wlL. j a before mentioned) made by Lord Seaforth when Governo, of R a S£f ^T™? p,a ° ts < we have on his return to England. From the catalogue f of "the rnLff ° CS ' 3 ? d brou S ht home with hi ™ Trinidad, and his Lordship tafom^W^ ^^2^1^^ ^ ^ » * native of from species last circumstance, however, it agrees with the M ! indulo^ If V T^ d ! stin S uish Jt - In the but is totally different both in the fk^s^U^^ThL^^ £? t IC °°f ' ^ 4 ° 9) Boyton we were favoured with the specimen informs nf ,W : > • t b f Uj , eSq " from whose stov 'e at out long slender twigs on all sides a^d SnniVllTf 3t " 1S 3 , shrub of ver y free 8«>wth, throwing The bunches of flowers fir aJ^tnXeS^ SSff ** ° f ,he *"* t0 ***'* in due bou " d ° leaf-stalks are thinly covered^! "uky bSS 1^rf^T™ a ^ be ^* rfA ^- The younger leaves. 7 ' orae ot wnich aJs0 appear towards the base of the f M.G* I 9 I *• 'jfaafaa ■MiHHBMHMI I PLATE DCV. PELIOSANTHES TETA ■* Bengal Peliosanthes, or Teta. CLASS VI. ORDER I. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNTA. Six Chives- One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx nullus. Corolla 6-partita, subrotata, la- ciniis lato-ovatis obtusis. Nectarium co- roll a triplb breviore incumbente, ore an- gustato integro. Stamina sub ore nectarii affixa. Filamenta subnulla. Stylus eras- sus, brevis, obtuse trigonus, trisulcatus. Stigma sulculus tripartitus in apice styli. Germen inferum, 3-loculare loculis disper- mis. Semina (immature) obovata, erecta, fundo loculamenti affixa. Fructus bacca ? •ubovata, carnosa. I Cu p none. Blossom 6-parted, nearly wheel-shaped, the divisions broadly egg-shaped, blunt. Nectary three times shorter than the bios- som, leaning inwards, the mouth narrowed and entire. Stamens affixed under the lip of the nectary. Filaments scarcely any. Pointal fleshy, short, bluntly three-sided, with three furrows. Stigma a little three- branched channel on the top of the pointal. Germ below, of three cells which are two- seeded. Seeds (while young) inversely eo-g- shaped, erect, and affixed to the bottom of the cells. Fruit a berry ? nearly oval, fleshy. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A segment of the flower magnified. 2. Seed-bud and pointal magnified, with the seeds exposed 3. Seed-bud cut transversely, magnified. ESL*!? r/ iOU$ ^ S ° ? t , inct / rom ever ? S enus hitherto described, was introduced from the East Ind.es, at the same tune w,th the Gaertnera hgured incur last number, by the late Lady Amel a Hume The roots are fibrous and perenmal, as are also the leaves, which rise from {£ -root upon footstalks embracing one another nr th« Ksca anA am ~f „ 1™„ i^TZ _i .7 " lll r rooc u P on ri 8 ing to from one ,o two tcet in heigh,, with membranaceous &S£^SZS£££"3 were four ,n number m the yeomen which we have figured. The blooms grow „ a kind of ra- ceme formed ot htlle bundle, or tufa of two to four flowers each- the fsLr,ll,. , c , .ength, wiih a joint near the top, and are a„ended by incurved bra*"; ,'he , £? he fewer!*. Sac bc,ay wi,h the Jd, in paira a, ,„ I germ. Bo* S, Z^JT^Z^V^Z known in India by .bat name, we have retained it for Z'^rT' "" • "' be ', ™ k a ^ !lrs to be in conformity to tie Jannean UalTtfwX. I^StcJZVTL' ifiX P f* g T S ' [gon£ in the East possession or T; .a., «, at iroar swifts-: * -^-=s which they are natives. from Prince of Wales's Island, of informs us, that he found five or six species growing mta allv mXTT^ " ' "f T'T he had not the good fortune to bring them alfve to EnXS F* ment.oned, although Linnaeus was of opinion, that there were not above ten thnn«nil r,Ur, t . •„ ♦, i j u . , n and-twenty thousand have already been described Ja \ tho " sand P ants t in , , the W0lld i but above five- to the number ! 7 described, and ten thousand probably yet remain to be added J53 v*£ PLATE DCVI ZIERI A MITHII. Smithian Zieria. CLASS IV. ORDER L TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx quadripartitus. Petala quatuor. Sta- mina glabra, glandulis insidentia. Stylus simplex. Stigma subquadrilobum. Cap- sule quatuor coalitae. Seraina arillata. Cup four-parted. Petals four. Chives smooth, sitting on glands. Pointal simple. Sum- mit generally four-lobed. Fruit of four co- hering capsules. Seeds covered with an arillus. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE* 1 . Empalement magnified. 2. Chives and pointal. 3. A chive magnified. 4. The same shown from the outer side. 5. Empalement, seed-bud, and pointal magnified The Zieria Smithii is a dwarf warty shrub with opposite branches, and leaves which are composed of three lanceolate leaflets, rough with transparent dots, which probably secrete an oil, as the bruised leaves are very fragrant A few small scattered hairs are just visible on their upper surface. The panU cles of flowers rise from the axils of the leaves, which they often excel in length, and branch in the same opposite manner as the stem, with linear bracts at the divisions. The cups are very short, finely haired and dotted as the leaves. The petals are broad-lanced, pointed, and slightly tinged with purple on the outside. The genus was established by Dr. Smith in the fourth volume of the Linnean Society's Transactions, and named in memory of his friend Mr. Zier, whom he calls f ' an indefatigable botanist, but whose labours generally gained celebrity under another name than his own." Were cele- brity only to be gained by real merit, many of the high-sounding names that now swell the trump of fame would, we fear, have far less pretensions than Zier. The Zieria Smithii was communicated last April by A. B. Lambert, esq. from his collection, and we have seen dried specimens of four other species preserved in his Herbarium, all (like the present) natives of New Holland, and agreeing in their shrubby nature, opposite branches, ternate leavei, and axillary bunches of flowers. None of the species have before been published. y . *>• ■ PLATE DCVII. CLERODENDRUM TOMENTOSUM. Downy Clerodendrum. CLASS XII. ORDER II. DWYNJMJA ANGIOSPERMIA. Two Chives longer. Seeds covered. * ♦ GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx campanulatus, quinquefidus. Corolla tubo elongate, limbo quinquepartito, ae- quali. Stamina exserta. Germen quadri- loculare, loculis monospermis. Drupa te- trapyrena. « Cup bell-shaped, five-cleft. Tube of the blos- som elongated, with the limb equally five- parted. i- tamens longer than the tube. Seed-bud four-celled, the cells one-seeded. Fruit a dry berry including four nuts. * «* SPECIFIC CHARACTER. * » Cibbodbndrum tomentosum, foliis ellipticis acutis inugris calvcibusque tomentosisj corymbis congestis. Broun. Prodromus Flora Nova Hollandice et Insula: Van Dicmen, vol 1. p. 510. * Downy Clerodendrum with elliptic acute entire leaves downy as well as the cups ; corymbs crowded. ** #*> ft * REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. K 1. Erapalement. * <• 2. A blossom spread open. 3. Seed-bud and pointal. 4. A ripe fruit. m *w #* The Clerodendrum tomentosum is found naturally growing about Port Jackson and some other parts of the eastern and northern coasts of New Holland, according to Mr. Brown's Prodromus of the Flora of that country, just published. This long expected and interesting work contains descriptions of about two thousand plants, (of which, scarcely a third part have before been published) in the first * • volume, and the second is now in the press. Although the Clerodendrum tomentosum has been in England above ten years, no figure of it has before been given in this country. All the plants which we have seen of it form erect shrubs from We have been favoured with four to six feet in height. The time of blossoming is March and April, specimens in blossom from the botanic garden of the Company of Apothecaries at Chelsea, and with the ripe fruit from Sir Abraham Hume's collection at Wormley-bury, but are uncertain who first in- troduced it. F # * ■ / It > *v I • I * 3 t^^TTt^^^nt^t A tZpms/iS&tJteM I V v PLATE DCVIII. CITRUS LI * Mandarin range CLASS XVIII. ORDER III. rOLYADELVIUA ICOSANDRIA. Many Sets of Chives. Threads from -fa the Caly GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx 5-dendatus. Corolla 20 in cylindrum passii Stamina Stylus 1. Bacca 9 — 12-locularis, pulpS vesicu- Jari. Cup five-toothed. Petals five. Stamens about twenty, generally united at the base. Shaft 1. Fruit Q- to 12-celled, the pulp variously divided. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Citrus petiolis sublinearibus, fructu lateseente depresso. Citrus with nearly linear leafstalks -, the fruit broad depressed. Citeus nobilis, inermis, ramis adscendentibus : petiolis strictis, fructu tuberculoso subcouipresso. W* Lour. Flor. Cochinchin. 2. p. 56g} ,., • ,-■■■". REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The empalement. 2. pointa tgnified m 4. Seed-bud and pointal. 5, A horizontal section of the fruit The drawing of this remarkable Orange, which has so long been a desideratum in this country, was taken at Wormley-bury in the beginning of last May. The plant is a native of China, and Mr.' Ear- row informs us, that he found the fruit very common when on his travels in that country, and in much higher estimation than the common Orange by the Chinese, who call it Mandarin Orange (an- wermg nearly to the English epithet of noble) by way of pre-eminence. The same gentleman also informs fore the more singular that it has been so long in reaching this country. Loure Mandarin he inform, us, grows to a moderately sized tree, and particularly notices the superior excellence and the depression of the fruit, whose common size is about five inches across. The plant at Sir Abraham Hume • » as yet only about five feet in height, and was imported from Canton in 1805. stmguished from the common Orange between effort. r •* K'r I N D E X TO THE PLANTS CONTAINED IN VOL. IX Plate 553 Lobelia assurgens « 554 Volkameria angustifolia • . . . 555 Zingiber CliiFordise ••..'« 556 Pancratium amcenum • • ! • 557 Periploca Africana *•..«, 558 Ferula Persica . . . . . 559 Camellia Japonica, semi-duplex . • 560 Verea acutiflora . . . . . . . 56 1 Xeranthemum fragrans 562 Cynanchum bi color ...... 563 Mimosa el egans ....••• 564 Ixia curta • . . . • 565 Ruta linifolia -...,.., 566 Callicoma serratifolia • 567 Ceratonia siliqua . . - • 568 Liparia sphaerica ..•.-•. 569 Ceanothus laniger .<•••,. 570 Justicia nitida . . ■. . . . . . 571 Sida patens - ... . , . . . 572 Protea saligna 573 Magnolia auriculata 574 'Pulteiuea obcordata ...... 575 Martynia diandra ...... 576 Lithospermum Tinctorium . . • 577 Protea virgata 578 jflEgiphila diffusa 579 Crataegus Azarolus ...... 580 Mesembyan them um acinaciforme 581 Salix violacea 582 Protea mellifera albiflora • • . . 533 Lonicera Japonica - . . . . . 584 Phlomis Samia . . «. • . • 585 Sophora Japonica 586 Lilium speciosum ..... 587 Corchorus Japonicus, Jlore plena . - 588 Sida hastata 589 Gladiolus angustus, minor . . . • 590 N>espilu6 odoratissima . . . . . 591 Mespiius tanacetifolia ..... 592 Mimosa grandiilora ...... 593 Crotalaria tetragona 594 Piectranthus barbatus 595 Panax fruticosum 596 Laurus Cinnamomum • • • ♦ • 597 Tropazolum peregrinum . « • . 598 Bieckia virgata 599 Chamserops humilis ..*... 600 Gxrtnera racemosa 601 Crotalaria pulchra * 602 Glycine Comptoniana . . . . . 603 Commersonia dasyphylla .... 604 Malpighia polystachia ( 5 Peliosanthes Teta fi06 Zieria Smithii . • 607 Cierodendruni tomentosum • • • 608 Citrus nobilis • * ~ Assurgent Lobelia H . H. Shnib. Karrow-leaved Volkameria H. H. Shrub. Culfc rd.an Zingiber H . H. Shrub. Broad-leaved Pancratium H. H. Bulb African Knnloca G . II. shruh. benn-double-rlowered Camellia . . . J G. H. Shrub Pointed-flowered Verea ...... H. H. Shrub. Fragrant Xeranthemum G. H. Shrub. Two-coloured Cynanchum H. H. Shrub Elegant Mknosa • H. H. Shrub! iJKMtlxia G . H. Bulb. Flax-leaved Ruta Har. Herb. Sawed-leaved Callicoma ...... G. H. rub. Pod-bearing Ceratonia G. H. Shrub. Round-headed Liparia G. H. Shrub. Woolly Ceanothus . . . G. H. Shrub. Shining-leaved Justicia H. H. Shrub. Spreading Sida H. H. Ann. Willow-leaved Protea G H. Shrub. Ear-leaved Magnolia Har. Shrub. Inversely Heart-leaved Pultenxa . . . G. H. Shrub. Diandrous Martynia . .- H. H. Ann. Dyers' Bugloss Har. Herb. Twiggy Protea . . . G. H. Shrub. Spreading jEgiphila . . . . , . . H. H. Shrub. TheAzarole Har. Tree. Scimitar-leaved Mesembryanthemuni . . G. H. Shrub. Violet-coloured Willow . . • ... Har. Tree. White-flowered Honey-bearing Protea . G. H. Shrub. Japanese Woodbine G. H. Shrub, Samian Phlomis Har. Herb. Japanese Sophora Har. Tree. Showy Lily Har. Buib. Japanese Corchorus with double Flowers G. H. Shrub. Halberd-leaved Sida H. H. Ann. Small Narrow-leaved Cornflag . . „ , G. H. Herb. Sweet-scented Mespiius . , . . . . Har. Tree. Tansy-leaved Medlar Har. Tree. Great-flowered Mimosa ...... H. H. Shrub. Four-sided Crotalaria * G. H. Shrub. Bearded Piectranthus H. H. Ann. Shrubby Panax ......... H. H. Shrub. Cinnamon Tree . . » • H. H. Tree. The Little Bird Plant H. H. Ann. Twiggy Baeckia G. H. Shrub. Dwarf Fan Palm H. H. Shrub. Racemed Gaertnera H. H. Shrub. Fair Crotalaria , • . . G. H. Shrub. Comptonian Glycine ....... G. H. Shrub. Hairy-leaved Commersonia H. H. Shrub. Branching Malpighia H. H. Shrub. Bengal Peliosanthes or Teta H. H. Shrub. Smithian Zieria G. H. Shrub. Downy Clerodendrum ....... G. H. Shrub. Mandarin Orange . H. H. Shrub. July. A' ust. September* March. Sum. & autumn. October. February. December. -August. August. March* April. Sep. & October. March. Kbruary. August. April. August. September. August. May. -March. November. May. August. August. Alay. August. April. August. July. July. Autumn. All Summer. Spring& summer. September.^ August. September, September. July & August* November. November. January, February. November. October. March. March. March April. April. April. May. May. March & April. May. E R ft. A T A. 5S6 for Lilium spectosum, read Lilium tigrinum, a perfectly new tpecies, distin description. , . 587 In reference to the plate, instead of pointals, read empalement and pomtals.