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de CURTIS'S

BOTANICAL MAGAZINE; OR

¿Flobttr Cïctrïrtn Stgplaytîr: In which the most Ornamental FOREIGN PLANTS cultivated in the Open Ground,

the Green-House, and the Stove, are accurately represented and coloured.

To which are added,

THEIR NAMES, CLASS, ORDER, GENERIC AND SPECIFIC CHARACTERS,

ACCORDING O HE YSTEM F INNAEUS

Their Places of Growth, Times of Flowering, and most approved

Methods of Culture.

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By AMUEL CURTIS, . L. S. THE DESCRIPTIONS

By WILLIAM ACKSON HOOKER, . L. D. F . R. A. and L. S. and Regius Professor of Botany in the University

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( 3039 )

HEDYCHIUM LAVUM. LARGE ELLOW-

FLOWERED HEDYCHIUM.

Class nd Order.

MoNANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

( Nat. Ord.• SCITAMINEíE. Br.

Generic Character.

Anthera uplex, tylum mplectens. ilamentum ongum, racile, ntheram n picem ustinens igamento flexili dorso ffixo. apsula -locularis. emina ume-

rosa, arillata. Rose.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

HEDYCHIUM flavum; oliis lato - lanceolatis, pica erminait imbricata, racteis ubquadrifloris, orollas, aciniis duabus interioribus linearibus, labello obcordato apice profunde retuso. Roxb.

HEDYCHIUM lavum*. oxb. Fl. Ind. v.l. p. S\. (cum nota Wallichii d alcem aginae 2). odd. Bot. ab. t. 604. preng. Syst. eg. v. I. p. . cur. post. p. 6. Rose. PI. Seit, cum ic.

DESCR.

oots exceedingly large and thick.

tems several, hick, our to five feet high, at the bottom fully an inch in iameter, lightly ompressed upwards, nd here, s well as on the rib of the leaves, urnished, though scantily, with long, appressed, deciduous hairs. eaves very large, elliptical, twelve o fourteen inches long, as broad as one's hand, nearly essile on heir heaths, sides bent down, up-

per

* ot of Suis n Botanical Magazine, , 2378, which s ED. flavescens. (Wall.)

VOL. V . .



per surface glabrous, pale eneath; he owermost eaves shorter. Sheaths ample, with a membranous margin, ele- gantly ineated, nd aving arge, obtuse, appressed ligule. Spike erminal, arge, shorter han he uppermost leaves, consisting of loosely mbricated, coriaceous, broad,

ovate, mooth, four-flowered bracteas, ach bout hree inches ong inner racteas thin and membranaceous, much maller han he outer nes. Flowers very arge orange-coloured, highly fragrant. Calyx two inches long, oblong t he upper end, ubventricose nd plit on ne side, mouth bearded, entire. Tube of the Corolla cylindrical, wo nches and half long, ouble he length of the

calyx limb preading exterior laciniae linear, acute, loosely patent, bout ourteen ines ong ; nner wo or lateral ones) cunéate, unguiculate, ather shorter han he outer ones, but their apex much broader than those, shortly clawed. Lip ery large, oundish, etuse, ateral margins ometimes notched, n nch nd half n diameter, furnished with a hort, road law. Filament ivaricate,

thick, semicylindrical, orange-coloured, equalling in length the inner petals, rather, hough very little, shorter than the lip. Anther oblong, thick, leshy, half an nch ong, with a sagittate, bilobate base, the lobes of which are slenderish. Ovary thick, ovate, obscurely triangular, hining, mooth Style filiform, pallid, with the usual two short, yellow bodies at its base (within the tube) tigma rather large, clávate,

compressed, transverse, obtuse and convex, greenish-yellow, villous. Wallich.

The present s one among any fine plants, or pecimens and drawings of which I have again o acknowledge myself indebted o W. T. AITON, sq. oot of HEDY-

CHIUM flavum was brought by Dr. WALLICH rom India, in August, 828, nd presented y the Hon. he East ndia

Company o ew Gardens, where it produced its magnificent blossoms in the same month of the present year.

The specimen was eceived hrough Dr. WALLICH, and that most enlightened and most iberal of Botanists, not- withstanding is umerous nd mportant ngagements, has been so kind as to draw up the above account of it for me, lthough here s already an accurate description n

Flora ndica artly, s e ays, ecause he ever aw the plant n uch erfection efore, s t as roduced at ew, nd artly, ecause t eems ossible, hat he roots ay have been erived rom he mountains n he

Irawaddi,



Irawaddij in he Burma country,, where he collected some; whereas, he pecimens escribed n lora ndica ame from Sylhet.

Dr. WALLICH'S note in the Flora Indica is as follows

In anuary, 816, eceived roots of this most charm- ing pecies rom Mr. MITH, t ylhet, hich roduced blossoms n he otanic arden, uring October of he following ear. t differs rom . coronarium, n egard to ts lowers, hich re about one-third maller, having the inner egments of the corolla linear-clavate, the fissure of he ip arrow, ith traight ides, nd ts ase on-

tracted

nto

inear

law.

hey

artake

ot

nly

f the ellow olour f hose f MICHELIA hampaca, ut possess ven he peculiar ragrance of the atter, nly in a ess powerful, and herefore, more grateful egree. n stature and leaves both pecies are alike."

Fig. . lower. 2. tyle and Stigma,•Nat. size.



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( 3040 ) ALSTRMERIA ALLIDA PALEFLOWERED

ALSTRGEMERIA.

Class nd Order.

HEXANDRIA ONOGYNIA.

( Nat. Ord.•MARVLLIDE^E.

Generic Character.

Perianthium corollaceum, ubcampanulaceum, sexparti- tum, rreguläre ; aciniis uabus vel-tribus) nterioribus basi ubuloso -conniventibus. tam. , aciniis nserta,

demum declinata. tigma rifidum. apsula rilocularis, loculis polyspermis.•Caulis erectus, scandens aut volubilis, foliatus. Plores umbeUati. Kunth.

Specific haracter nd Synonym.

ALSTR•MERIA pallida ; aule recto-flaccido, oliis anceo-

lato-linearibus enticulatis ubamplexicaulibus, petalis exterioribus obovatis lateralibus latioribus, nterioribus longioribus lanceolatis, pedunculis unifloris.

ALSTR•MERIA allida. raham n Edin. Phil. ourn. . 14. p. 345.

DESCR. tem simple, lender, laccid, round, s well as the eaves lauco-pruinose, everal ising rom he ame root. eaves cattered, essile, alf-stem-clasping, paringly enticulate, anceolato - linear, lat bove, eeled behind, and with several parallel ribs, of which one on each side is stronger than the others. lowers umbellate. erianth of six unequal egments, ttenuated, ucculent, and

channelled and nectariferous at he base ; our outer egments of an niform, very pale ose olour, much eticulated, early f qual ength, bovate, he owest, he narrowest and most pointed, and much the least attenuated

at



at the base, the two lateral ones the largest, denticulated, all slightly acuminated in the middle, the two nner segments longer than the others, lanceolate, having denticulate wings towards heir bases, f the ame olour s he outer eg-

ments at their apices, lower down being marked with eddish veins, bove he iddle n ellow, below t on a pink round, t he ower part f which here re a ew oblong range pots. tamens ix ; filaments s ong as the outer segments of the perianth, and of a similar colour, flattened, at the base triangular, and glanduloso-pubescent, twisted when decaying nthers erect, arge, cordate, lat-

tened, mucronulate pollen pale brown, discharged n he same way s n he ther plants f this Genus. tigmas three, revolute, pink : style three-cornered, tapering upwards from its greenish, persisting base ; colourless below, becoming pink towards the stigmas: Germen as in A. pelegrina.

This emarkably beautiful pecies, he colours of whose inflorescence armonize ogether more han n any other

cultivated LSTR•MERIA, lossomed irst n he collection of Mr. NEILL, at Canonmills, in July, 1829. Graham.

I m ndebted o r. REVILLE or he rawing ere figured.



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( 3041 )

GESNERIA ULBOSA BULBOUS-ROOTED

GESNERIA.

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Class nd Order.

DlDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

( Nat. Ord.•GESNERIE. Rich.

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-partitus (plerumque germini adnatus). or. tubu- loso - campanulata, imbo ilabiato ; abio uperiore i-, inferiore rífido. tigma ilobum. apsula ilocularis,

bivalvis, placentis parietalibus.

Specific haracter and ynonyms.

GESNERIA * bulbosa ; ubescenti-tomentosa, oliis oppositis cordato-ovatis erenato-serratis, panícula terminal^ o- rollas abio superiore longissimo bifido recto, nferiore

minuto eflexo. GESNERIA ulbosa. er n Bot. eg. . 43. preng.

Syst. eget. v. 2. p. 839.

DESCR. oot, or rather root-stalk, a rounded, large tuber. Stem erect, herbaceous, downy, simple, in our plant two to

three feet high. eaves opposite, shortly petioled, cordato- ovate, downy, especially beneath, glaucous-green. anicle terminal, f many arge nd plendidly - coloured carlet flowers. racte• ordate. alyx five-cleft, the segments short, linear, subulate. orolla three inches long, tubular, enlarged upward, contracted just below he base, the very base ive-lobed, nd emarkably nflated, range-yellow,

while

% * amed n honour of CON RAO GESNER, a celebrated Physician an d Botan-

»t, and a native of Switzerland.



while the rest of the orolla s f a bright scarlet, clothed with a ine down. tamens inserted ear the ase of the corolla ilaments arched upwards and eeting, o hat their nthers orm ross. ermen more han alf su-

perior, owny. tyle horter han he tamens. tigma obtuse.

This fine plant is a native of Brazil, and was, we believe, first introduced o the stoves of our gardens by Mr. CHAM-

BERLAYNE, our late Consul at Rio Janeiro, who also brought into otice he eautiful IGNONIA hat bears is ame.

It has since been mported through ther channels, and

is now, probably, not uncommon. he specimen here figur-

ed, bloomed in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, in he spring of 1830. . T. MACRAY, Esq. as also ately ent us ine flowering pecimens rom he ollege otanic arden, Dublin.

Fig. . alyx and Pistil, lightly magnified.



3042.



( 3042 ) SPHENOGYNE CRÏTHMIFOLIA. SAMPIRE-

LEAVED SPHENOGYNE.

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Class and Order.

SYNGENESIA OLYGAMIA RUSTRáNEA. ( Nat. Ord.•COMPOSITE.

Generic Character.

Receptaculum paleis distinctis. appus paleaceus, sim- plex. tigmata apice dilatato subtruncato. alyx imbri- catus quamis intimis (omnibusvej apice dilatato scarioso. Brown.


SPHENOGYNE* rithmifoUa; ruticosa, oliis ipinnatifidis pinnatifidisque aciniis ubulatis ucronatis arnosis verrucoso-glandulosis nitidis, pedunculis terminalibus longissimis unifloris, anthodio glabro, squamis interioribus obtusis scariosis, exterioribus subulatis.

SPHENOGYNE crithmifolia. rown n Hort. ern. d. 2. v. 5. jo. 142.

ARCTOTIS paleacea. inn. Sp. PL p. 1307. illd. Sp. PI. v. 3. p. 2359.

ARCTOTIS crithmoides. Berg. Cap. p. 326. URSINIA crithmifolia. Spreng. Syst. eget. v. 3. p. 609.

DESCR. tem woody, short, much branched ; branches red, erect. eaves erect, once, or rarely twice, pinnatifid, fleshy, channelled both above and below, as well as the branches glanduloso-verrucose, shining ; egments ascending, ubulate, each terminated by a slighly hooked muero. edun-

cles

# * rom <TQw,a wedge, andyvm, a female. Sir JAMES E. SMITH upposes m llusion to he wedge-shaped Stigma.



cíes erminal, rect, ery ong, ingle lowered, aving many lender grooves, and one or wo ubulate bracteas. Anthodium nearly globular, when in bud glabrous, coloured, inner cales blunt, cariose, lender, coloured at the apex, outer ones subulate, keeled, and eddish brown. lowers (above hree-fourths f an nch ong, ne nch cross) rather handsome, yellow. lorets f the ray euter, u- merous, rect, ubplicate, orange-red n he outside, and sprinkled with shining dots, yellow within, elliptical, attenuated at he base, and there distant ; ube short, ncluding the rudiments of a style, three-toothed at the apex. lorets

of the disk very short, yellow, erect, regular, terminating in five blunt teeth, and furnished with small, erect, crystalline, glandular ubescence n he utside. tamens ubex- serted, ellow. istil ather onger han he tamens; Style cleft, revolute ; ermen woolly at the base appus marginate, lobed. eceptacle covered with carinate, chaffy scales, which are shorter than the florets of the disk.

We eceived his plant rom Kew as pecies of ARC- TOTIS, ative of the Cape of Good Hope. t equires he protection f a reenhouse uring Winter, nd lowers freely in the open air during the month of July. GRAHAM.

Fig. . entral Floret with ts ccompanying cale. 2. Floret of he Ray.•Magnified.



( 3043 ) URENA OBATA. ANGULAR-LEAVED

URENA.

Class and Order.

MONADELPHIA PoLYANDRIA.

( Nat, Ord.•MALVACEJE.

Generic haracter.

Calyx cinctus involucello 5-fido, nempè foliolis 5 ad medium coalitis. nther• n apice ubi taminei. arpella capsularía , onniventia, -sperma, xtus culéis pice

radiatis aepissime echinata.•Folia subtus in nervis s•pius

glandulosa.

Specific haracter nd Synonyms.

URENA * lobata ; oliis ubrotundis obtusissime 3•5-lobis, subtus recipua olliter velutinis •5-nerviis ni- glandulosis, aciniis calycinis oblongo-lanceolatis.

URENA obata. Linn. p. PL p. 974. Willd. Sp . PI. v. 3. . 00. Cav. Diss. . p. 36. . 185./ . Ait. Hort. Kew. d. . v. . p. 22. De Cand. Prodr.v. 1. p. 41. Spreng. yst. Veget. . . p. 6. Saint Hit. PL s. Brasil, . 56.

URENA inica, anthii acie. DHL Hort. Elth. p. 40. . 319. /. 412.

DESCR. shrub, from two to four feet high, every where downy. eaves lternate, oundish, hree o ive-lobed, and about s many nerved, he upper nes ess ivided, green, elow very downy and almost white, having at he very base just above he nsertion of the petiole, a yellow-

ish-green

From Uren, its Malabar name, according to ADANSON.



ish-green gland. lowers solitary, axillary, on short peduncles. alyx five-cleft, glabrous, surrounded by a five-cleft, downy involucre. orolla of five, somewhat wedge-shaped petals, ombined t he ase, f a elicate ose-colour,

streaked, nd aving ark urple ing t heir ase. Staminiferous ube with any nthers. tigmas many. Fruit consisting of five carpels, which surround the base of the tyle, ach lothed with ong, oft papillae, tellato- pilose at heir extremity. eed single n each carpel, oblong, ixed to the inner angle of the cell. A native of China, whence the seeds were communicated

to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, by CHARLES MILLETT, Esq. It s nquestionably he . ohata f INNAEUS nd f DILLENIUS. UGUSTE T. ILAIRE onsiders t a ative of Brazil, nd eems isposed o ank he . eterophylla, Swartzii, scabriuscula, nd ricuspis, s mere arieties f U. lohata.

In ommon with he est f the Mallow tribe, but in an

inferior degree o many, his plant possesses emollient and mucilaginous ualities, hich ave btained t lace among the medicinal productions of Brazil. It lowered with s, n he tove, during he month of

July.

Fig. . Calyx nd nvolucre. 2 . ection f arpel. 3. apilla rom the Capsule.•Magnified.



( 3044 ) SCHIZANTHUS RAHAMII. DR. RAHAM'S

SCHIZANTHUS.

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Class and Order.

DlANDRIA MONOGVNIA.

( Nat. Ord.•SCROPHULARINE¿2.

Generic haracter.

Corolla irregularis, labio superiore quinquefido, nferiore tripartito. tamina 2 antherifera, 2 sterilia, filamentis villo- sis. Capsula bilocularis.

Specific haracter.

SCHIZANTHUS * rahamii ; orollas ubo alycem quante limbo duplo breviore, abii nferioris aciniis ateralibus eentralem aequantibus, centrali bifido, abii superioris lobo medio ovato-acuminato, pedicellis ructiferis erectis. Gillies MSS.

SCHIZANTHUS Grahamii. Gillies MSS.

In addition to the two SCHIZANTHI lready given in most of our botanical periodical publications, two pecies have lately been aised rom eeds rought rom hili y Dr.

GILLIES,

n he arden f Mrs. BOOG, at ortobello ; he subject f he resent late, ith hich e ave een favoured with a drawing by Dr. GREVILLE, nd one, the S. Hookeri of its discoverer, hereafter to be figured and if we are correct n onsidering he CHIZANTHUS epresented in the following plate as a distinct species, a third additional kind is now known to us.

In

From a-xfa, o cleave, and c t v ù o ç , a flower, in eference to the divisions of • /».nil.. the corolla.



In all, there exists onsiderable general imilarity in their mode of growth and oliage. he present] is distinguished from hose hitherto described y the tructure of its lowers: which both n olour and hape are very dif-

ferent from S. pinnatus and S. porrigens.

Fig. 1. Root-leaf.•Nat. size.



( 3045 )

SCHIZANTHUS RETUSUS. BLUNT-PETALED

SCHIZANTHUS.

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Class and Order.

DlANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

( Nat. Ord.•SCROPHULARIN«.

Generic haracter.

Corolla irregularis, abio superiore quinqrefido, inferiore tripartito. tamina 2 antherifera, 2 sterilia, filamentis vil- losis. Capsula bilocularis.

Specific haracter.

SCHIZANTHUS etusus ; orollas ubo brevi, abii nferiöris laciniis ateralibus intermedio bifido brevioribus, labii superioris obo edio ubrhomboideo obtusissimo - marginato.

This CHIZANTHUS was aised by Mr. ARCLAY t ury Hill, where t lowered n une of the present year, rom seeds sent by Dr. GILLIES rom Chili.

It s emarkable for the large and deep orange-coloured spot n he ntermediate obe of the notched upper lip of its orolla, hich s treaked with black, and for the uniform deep purple hue of the rest of the corolla. t is but fair o observe, hat Dr. GILLIES considers it only a var. of S. Grahamii: but, assuredly, its marks, whether constant or not, re s decided as those of almost any other species of this Genus, nd hink t exceeds them ll n the beauty of its blossoms.

Fiff. . Stamens.•Magnified. 2 . oot-leaf.•Natural size,



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( 3046 ) ADAMIA CYANEA. BLUE-BERRIED

ADAMIA.

Class nd Order.

DECANDRIA ENTAGYNIA.

(Nat. Ord.•ARALIACES. Wallich. AXIFRAGES. De Cand.)

Generic Character,

Calyx vario adnatus, imbo quinquedentatus. étala quinqué, dentibus alycinis alternantia, pigyna, verticem ovarii ambientia. tamina decem, uorum alterno petal is opposita. tyli uinqué. tigmata lavata, ub-biloba. Bacca nfera, oronata, ubquinquelocularis, olysperma.

Specific Name and Synonyms.

ADAMIA * yanea. ADAMIA yanea. Wallich, Tent. l. Nep. . 6. . 6.

De Cand. Prodr. v. 4. p. 16.

DESCR. much-branched, aniculated hrub, hree to four eet igh. tem from n nch to an nch and a half thick, with the bark spongy, whitish, glabrous wood pale- eoloured. ranches opposite, ounded or obscurely quadrangular glabrous, rather glaucous, bove purplish, and downy with appressed

hairs ; he younger

ones, as well as

the leaves, thickly hairy. eaves opposite, patent, approximated, somewhat leshy, etween blong and anceolate, acuminated, harp t oth nds, errated, he erratures

incurved,

So named by Dr. WALLICH, n memory of is ate riend, JOHN ADAM, *-sq., President of he Supreme Council t Calcutta, an ardent promoter and liberal ncourager f Botany, orticulture, nd Rural ffairs n he ast

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incurved, cuspidate, acute ; above dark green, rather rugose, glabrous ; eneath pale, downy towards the midrib as well as on the elevated, parallel, approximated, oblique nerves, transversely reticulated with eins. Petioles an inch long, rounded, plane above, lightly margínate by reason of the

acute, entire, decurrentbase ofthe leaf. tipules none, unless an elevated sometimes downy line, connecting the bases of the petioles be so called. Panicle large, terminal, broadly-ovate, naked or furnished at the base with a few lanceolate, entire, floral eaves, horter han he uppermost pair f eaves, densely-flowered ; ts branches opposite, downy, subtricho- tomous at he summit. Bracteas one. Flowers very

numerous, pale blue, or sometimes pink, externally whitish, scentless, n many fascicles, or ubumbellate, heir peduncles short, villous, lightly coloured. Calyx superior, that is, cohering with the ovary ; the limb small, free, five-toothed, the teeth minute, spreading, ovate, acute, distant, rather downy. Corolla leshy, glabrous, five-petaled, rior o expansion valvular nd vato-obtuse. Petals anceolate,

acute, marked with three lines, quite patent, finally recurved, inserted with its broad base upon he calyx within the limb of the latter and lternating with its teeth. Stamens ten, patent, rather horter han he petals and lternately opposite, early equal ; filaments subulate, bluish, fleshy, glabrous nthers ixed by heir base, arge, ovate, wo- celled, before bursting, those five which are opposite to the petals are deflexed, the rest erect. Ovary inferior, globose, as arge as a grain of black pepper, downy, pseudo-quin- quelocular, with the top a little elevated within the petals ; ovules minute, ixed o ive arietal, leshy eceptacles. Styles five, nearly erect, leshy, swelling at the top into s many lub-shaped, ompressed tigmas, which re omewhat umid at he argin, and somewhat wo-lobed. Berries very numerous, panicled, globose, glabrous, deep blue, s large as a black urrant, within leshy, pale and spongy, somewhat ive-celled, many-seeded, convex at the top, retuse at the centre, nd terminated by the persistent styles, rowned ith the umerous, minute, persistent, calycine teeth, which are united with a very narrow margin.

Seeds extremely numerous, inute, pear-shaped, lightly striated, inserted upon five parietal, fleshy, finally vanishing receptacles, and filling the whole cavity of the fruit. Inte- gument simple, dark brown, membranaceous. Perisperm

fleshy, of the same shape as the seed. Embryo cylindrical occupying nearly the whole of the centre of the perisperm.



Cotyledons ovate, obtuse., convex at the back, short. Radi- cle obtuse, directed towards the hilum.

This ew nd nteresting enus as ound y r. WALLICH, nhabiting barren, stony, and mountainous places near echiaco, n epal, and y im ntroduced o he

Royal ardens t ew; hence lowering pecimen, accompanied by a drawing from which he annexed figure of the atural ize was aken, were kindly communicated, by W. T. AITON, Esq. r. WALLICH characterises it as an elegant hrub, covered with large panicles of pale blue or pink lowers, hich re ucceeded by an lmost equally ornamental profusion of deep blue berries.

Fig. . tamen. . istil invested by the Calyx. . ection of the Ger- men. . ruit. . eed. . ection f ditto. - mbryo :•magnified. Fig. 4•6 are copied from Dr. WALLICH'S igure, in the Tent. Fl. Nepal.



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( 3047 ) COMMELINA GRACILIS. SLENDER OMMELINA.

Class nd Order.

TRIANDRIA ONOGYNIA.

( Nat. Ord.•COMMELINE^E.

Generic Character.

Cal. -sepalus. or. -petala, etalo no nt ltero saepe bortiente. tamina 3 puria glandulosa, ruciata. Capsula bi- trilocularis, patlia tecta. Spr.


COMMELTNA * racilis ; aule scendente amoso epente colorato piloso ilis eflexis, oliis essilibus àriceo- latis acuminatis plañís utrinqueglabris, patha cordata compressa, loribus entandris, etalis n•qualibus, staminibus inclusis ribus ertilibus. Graham.

COMMELINA gracilis. uiz et Pavón, Fl. Peruv. v. \.p. 44.

t. 72. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 173. COMMELINA ormosa. raham n Edin. Phil. Journ. Dec. 1830.

DESCR. tem ascending, ooting, branched, ed, specially bove he oints, airy, airs eflected. eaves lanceolate, cuminate, lat, labrous on oth ides nd shining, right green bove, whitish below, seven-nerved, the middle rib prominent behind, channelled above, heaths striated, iliated. eduncles two nches ong) traight, with a line f reflexed hairs along the inner side (the ciliae of the adhering sheath of the spatha). patha heart-shaped, folded, ompressed, everal-flowered, labrous. Pedicels

of

* amed in compliment to JOHN n d GASPAR COMMEMN, celebrated Duteh

Botanists.



of unequal length, slightly pubescent, erect, straight. alyx white, glabrous, triphyllous, leaflets unequal, the upper one the smallest and most acute, the two lower rounded, and cohering towards their base. orolla a beautiful, ather pale blue, f hree nequal etals, ach oncave, ounded, slightly and unequally crenate, the largest three-fourths of an inch long, and nearly as much broad,) the two upper ones particularly unguiculate. tamens five ?) nserted within the base of the orolla, nd ometimes ttached o t at their origin; filaments glabrous, pale lue, ess han half the ength f the petals. nthers, wo abortive, yellow,

lobed,

hree

ertile, white,

inear,

agittate at

heir base ; pollen white. ermen uperior, vato-acuminate, hite. Style eflected pon he ower etal, therwise ike he filaments, nd imilar o hem n ength. tigma small, three-lobed. Unripe capsule three-sided, hree-celled.

The seeds of this very pretty species of COMMELINA were gathered by Mr. RUCKSHANKS n he valley of Lima, and

communicated o e ast pring. he lants lowered freely in the greenhouse in uly. Graham. It appears, from a comparison of this plant with the figure

and «inscription of C. gracilis in Ruiz and PAVON, hat it is the same ; an opinion in which Dr. GRAHAM concurs.

Fig. . ertile tamen. 2. terile tamen, r Nectary. 3. alyx nd Pistil.•Magnified.



M y S ¿rlis alwcrth el>-



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LOASA INCANA. HoARY oASA. T

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Class and Order.

POLYADELPHIA PoLYANDRIA.

( Nat. Ord.•LOASEN.

Generic haracter.

Calycis tubus cylindraceus arete ovarium vestiens, sed forsan liber ; imbus 5-partitus, persistens. et. 10, unguicu- lata, alyce nserta. tamina numerosa 200•250), um petalis inserta, iis breviora, filamentis liberis, externis interdum terilibus, ntheris oblongis. tylus filiformis, triis

3•7-spiralibus notatus et inde stylis 5•7-omnino connexis et spiraliter tortis constans. aps, oblonga, 1-locul. 3•7- valvis, placentis totidem seminum series duobus gerentibus. Semina compressa, numerosa. D C.

Specific haracter and Synonym.

LOASA* ncanas suffruticosa uburens, aule uberecto a- moso oliisque sparsis petiolatis ovato-Ianceolatis n- ciso-serratis cabris, edunculis implicibus oppositi- foliis. Graham.

LOASA ncana. Graham in Ed. Phil. Journ. Dec. 1830.

DESCR. uffruticose. Whole plant, particularly the stem, densely covered with harsh, barbed, white hairs, and a ew stinging hairs nterspersed. tem round, much branched, branches cattered, preading. uticle ike aper, nd peeling ff n he ried pecimen. eaves cattered, petioled, preading, vate, cute, ispid n oth ides, veined, nciso-serrate, veins and idrib prominent below,

channelled bove. Flowers opposite he eaves, olitary, peduncletl.

* name given by ADANSON, of dubious rigin.



peduncled. eduncles spreading, about half the ength f the eaves, round. alyx green, widely spread, egments ovato-acuminate, three-ribbed, undulate, eflected n heir sides, ersisting. orolla white, en-parted, niseriate, alternate, egments like, he arger egments spreading,

cucullate, nerved nd veined, onger han he alyx ; he smaller segments nearly glabrous, slightly ciliated, concave, within ectariferous, ach having near ts ounded apex, three rect, orsal ilaments s ong s tself. tamens numerous, nearly s ong s he onger egments of the corolla, odged ithin he ollow arger petals ill he pollen is ripe, when hey become erect, ree, nconnected

with ach other, within he orolla, ostly perfect, ith simple olourless, lightly lattened, labrous ilaments, and reenish-yellow, blong, ilocular nthers, rect, bursting along the sides, ten barren, two within each of the shorter petals, preading, and lattened at he base, there ciliated, each having a reflected lip at the apex of the petal within which it is placed, and above this extended nto n erect filament, nearly as ong as the fertile stamens. tyle erect, imple, horter han he tamens, apering, early smooth owards he op. tigma apitate, mall, obed, smooth. ermen urbinate, nferior, reen, nilocular, with hree to our parietal eceptacles, alternate with he teeth, covered along their edge with numerous ovules. apsule opening by three to four

eeth

bove the

evel

of

he calyx. This plant was raised from seeds communicated in spring

last from Yazo, valley of Canta, in Peru. r. CRUCKSHANRS only bserved ne plant, hich was ow nd branching, with ts branches uch ntangled. rom his e lso most kindly presented me with a well-dried specimen, from

the ppearance of which, ather than rom our lant (we raised but one), which is still small, it would seem to blossom very freely. ith us it flowered in the greenhouse during October and November, nd ven ow 7th ecember) there are buds which may possibly expand. Graham.

*. g* uter PetaL - ermen and Calyx, one segment of the imb f the atter being emoved. . nner Petal, with wo bortive tamens. . Hie wo bortive Stamens. . Fertile Stamen. . Fruit. . Seed.•Mag- nified.



V$ UTAS ,-.[,_{ ítí>*m • ' ¡ ¿ J i n y ii qnj iPVST'A



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CLERODENDRON UTANS. DROOPING-

FLOWERED LERODENDRON.

Class and Order.


( Nat. Ord.•VERBENACE^E.

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-fidus nunc 5-dentatus). or. ubo ylindrico hmboö-partito, patente, laciniis subaequalibus. Stam. juxta faueem nserta, xserta, adscendentia ntherarum oculis parallelis. Bacca pyrenis 4, monospermis. Br.

Specific Character.

CLERODENDRUM nutans; fruticosa, erecta, glabra, ramis acute tetragonis, apice nutantibus ; oliis ternis vel oppositis, oblongis, onge acuminatis, ntegerrimis, asi attenuatis, brevissimè petiolatis, panícula oblonga, laxe pén- dula, edunculis is ichotomis, alyce entricoso tubo corolla? parùm breviore, limbo secundo. Wallich.

DESCR. branchy, rect shrub, wo o our eet high, Mem as hick s a humb, overed with brownish, ven, a

nd retty mooth ark. ranches preading, otted, acutely our-sided, s well as all he other parts perfectly smooth; heir outer ends nodding. eaves opposite or ter- rmte, rarely subaltérnate, preading, wice or thrice longer than heir interstices, hort-petioled, oblong, inely acuminate, entire, lightly waved, arrowing downwards nto sharp base, five to seven inches long, dark green and glossy

above, paque nd allid nderneath, ith levated ib and oblique nerves : he latter uniting within he margins "Y means of curved veins. he uppermost leaves as well as he loral nes uch maller han he est, arrow-

lanceolate,



lanceolate, ascending and gently recurved. Petiole scarcely half an nch ong, eeply urrowed above ; a eries of minute and evanescent ciliae is observable across the young branches, between he insertions of the petioles, eaving a line after t has isappeared. Panicle erminal, blong, slender, ubsessile, endulous, rom ix nches o oot long, ith ne or wo airs f emote loral eaves t the base, onsisting f opposite, ubdecussate, divaricate, short, nce or wice dichotomous ranches. Peduncles acutely four-sided, purplish ; ommon, as hick as crow- quill artial, alf an nch ong, upported nder each

division y pair of very mall, inear, iliate bractlets. Flowers white, nodorous, slightly adscending, ernate, n- serted on filiform pedicels, which are an inch long, and have a air f minute, inear bractlets at he iddle. Calyx ovate, nflated, lightly ive-cornered, of a purple olour, nearly half an inch long, subtruncate at the base, narrowing towards the mouth, which is divided into five equal, lanceo-

late, acute, obscurely ciliate, converging laciniae. Tube of the corolla slender, cylindrical, a little longer than the calyx ; limb spreading, unilateral, divided into five obovate, obtuse, almost equal, flat lobes, nearly as long as the tube ; hroat very narrow. tamina four, didynamous, adscending, longer than he orolla ; filaments filiform, white, nserted within the ube, mmediately elow the hroat f he orolla

anthers mall, ovate, qually ilocular, fleshy, nd i- nutely papillose on he ack. Pistil a ittle horter han the tamens, ike hese urved nd dscending; varium

small, vate, our-celled ; vula olitary, rect tyle filiform stigma imple, small, club-shaped. Berry ark purple, mooth, hining, ound, ost lightly wo-lobed, almost of the size of a small gooseberry, upported by the permanent, scarcely enlarged, open alyx, two-, rarely four-seeded. Wall.

This s one of the most beautiful nd desirable hrubs with which m acquainted. t s a native of Silhet, n the orth-east ide f Bengal, whence t was ntroduced into the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, by he late Mr. M. R SMITH. t is well furnished with branches and leaves. he panicles re ong nd lender, anging own racefully, and vibrating o he east breath of air. he flowers are very elegant, he corollas being of apure white colour, he calyces eddish urple. y ate uch-lamented riend Mr. ACK, has given a short character of a shrub, native of



described. See Malayan Miscellanies, vol. . part 1.; e- printed in HOOKER'S Botanical Miscellany, vol. . p. 384.) found this last plant on the said island in September, 1822 ; it was hen nearly out of flower, but afforded ufficient evi- dence f its being a different species rom ray C. nutans ;

have alled t C. Jackianum in he Hon. East India om- pany's Herbarium. No. 1794 f he Lithographic List.) I have a third species from Tavoy, on the coast of Tenas- serim, C. penduliflorum, No. 1795 of the List,) hich s likewise an xceedingly ovely hrub, with ong and endulous panicles, totally distinct from the two other species. Wall.

The igure ere given was aken rom plant, kindly communicated rom retton all, n ecember, 830, where it had been raised from seeds sent by Dr. WAXLICH.

Fig. . nther and part of the Filament. 2 . Pistil.•Magnified.



Cartit VUm0tk F''



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ALSTRMERIA CUTIFOLIA SHARP-POINTED-

LEAVED ALSTRMERIA

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Class nd Order.

HEXANDRIA ONOGYNIA.

( Nat. íd.•MARYLLIDE^E.

Generic haracter.

Perianthium corollaceum, ubcampanulaceiim, sexparti- tum, rreguläre aciniis uabus vel ribus) nterioribus basi ubuloso-conniventibus. tam. , aciniis nserta, demum declinata. tigma trifidum. apsula rilocularis, loculis polyspermis.•Caulis erectus, scandens aut volubilis, foliatus. Flores umbellati. Kunlh.

Specific Character and Synonym.

ALSTR•MERIA acutifolia ; aule subvolubili, oliis petiolatis

lanceolatis nguste acurninatis ubtus pubesccntibus, urn bella implici, edunculis ubescentibus, etalis longitudine equalibus, xt. blongis ubacutis, 3 int. pathulatis.

ALSTR•MERIA cutifolia. ink, t tto, Abd. ew. p. 57. t. 29.

DESCR. tem, ccording o M. . INK nd TTO,

attaining a height of five r ix eet, omewhat wining, rounded, glabrous. eaves emote, anceolate, much and narrowly cuminated, triated, ark reen nd labrous above, pale and downv, especially on he nerves beneath,

inserted n hort, wisted petiole. mbel erminal, f jnany flowers, surrounded at he base by n nvolucre of »eaves, esembling hose f he tem, but much maller. Peduncles rounded, lex nose, downy. orolla subcampa- n»late; he petals erect, and but lightly patent at he ex-

tremity,



tremity, all of them nearly equal in height, he three outer ones oblong, of a deep but not very bright red, acute ; he three nner ore elicate n exture, roadly-spathulate, orange-coloured; all of them with a deep red spot at the tip. Stamens shorter than he orolla : ilaments pale reddish -

purple : nthers oblong, luish-purple. ermen inferior, turbinâte, triangular, downy ; Style straight, filiform, greenish-white, thickened at the base, at the extremity terminated by rifid tigma. apsule remarkably depressed, urbinate, pening at he op y hree alves, ach f which bears a septum, and each septum has two seeds attached on either side of it, of a bright scarlet colour.

For this beautiful species of ALSTRCEMERIA our gardens are indebted to Mr. OTTO of Berlin, who transmitted plants to the Botanic Gardens, both of Edinburgh and Liverpool ; and from pecimens that have flowered in both hose establish- ments, he present figure and description have been made. It inhabits Mexico, where it was discovered by M. DEPPE,

who s now ost uccessfully xploring hat nteresting region, as a Botanist.

In our stoves it has flowered in the months of August and September.

Fig. . tamen. 2 . istil. 3. nner etal. 4. uter Petal ore r less magnified. 5. apsule, nat. size.



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CoDiiEUM PicTüM. PAINTED-LEAVED

CODIJEUM.

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Class and Order.

MON•CIA MONADELPHIA.

( Nat. Ord.•EUPHORBIACEJE.

Generic haracter.

Fl. Monoici. AS. al. -partitus. et. , quami- formia. tam. lurima. CEM. al. -fidus. étala . Styli et Stigmata S. ructus subcarnosus, tricoccus. Adr.

Juss.

Specific haracter and Synonyms.

CODLEUM* pictum ; oliis cordato-oblongis coriaceis itidis variegatis.

CROTóN pictum. " Noisette." Steudel.) Lodd. Bot. Cab.

t. 870. CROTóN variegatum, var. S} latifolium. Roxb. Hort. Beng. p.m.

This is, n our tove, low shrub, of slow growth, glabrous in every part, and having its foliage collected principally at the extremity of the branches. he leaves are very beautiful, four to six inches long, on short petioles, coriaceous, lossy, etween ordate and blong, ather btuse, entire, eined, of a eddish r ellow colour, mottled nd variegated with green, paler on the underside. lowers in Jong, edunculated acemes, rom he xtremity f he branches. I have only seen that which bears femaleflowers.

These

* So termed by RITMHUUS, from the Malayan name of the CROTóN variera- f«»i of LiNNjsus, Codebo.



These have a urbinated, ive-cleft calyx, he segments, or teeth, closely applied o he base of the germen. ermen ovate, surrounded by an annular disk or gland tyles three, tapering into reflexed and flexuose, ubulate stigmas.

If the

lowers of this plant be insignificant

nd obscure, this deficiency is amply compensated by the singularity and

beauty of ts oliage, hich enders t ost esirable inmate of the stove, and which has ecommended t o he inhabitants of the Molucca islands, where it is a native, and where hey ultivate t round heir houses, nd or he purpose of ences, ecorating their riumphal rches with

its eaves, nd trewing hem bout on ccasions f es- tivity. We are indebted o HARLES TELFAIR, sq., and to the

Professor of he oyal ollege, Mauritius, or he possession of this plant in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, where it flowered in August, 1830. t was sent under the name of CROTóN pictum, and t is said to be C. pictum of NOISETTE,

by STEUDEL; but I do not find it any where described under that ame, xcept y r. ODDIGES n is otanical Cabinet. t s, think, with justice separated from the C < variegatum, with which it has been confounded, and which has very narrow leaves, almost linear ndeed. t the same time, t must e acknowledged, hat RUMPHIUS as epresented ome intermediate tates, which make it difficult to draw the line of distinction. ll have peculiar Aucuba- like habit, which, in addition to the difference in the fructification, shows the judgment of ADR. DE JUSSIEU in separating them generically from CROTóN.

Fig.l. emale lower. 2 . land at the Base of the Germen.



Tat ry S sMt WnlvoHh Mardi JJU3I



( 3052 )

BANKSIA PECIOSA. HANDSOME ANKSIA.

Class and Order.

TETRANDRIA ONOGYNIA.

( Nat. Ord.•PROTEACE^E.

Generic Character.

Cal. quadripartite raro quadrifidus.) tamina apicibus concavis aciniarum mmersa. quamul• ypogyn• . Ovarium iloculare, oculis monospermis. olliculus i- locularis, igneus issepimento libero, bifido. mentum

flosculorum paribus tribracteatis. Br.


BANKSIA speciosa. BANKSIA speciosa; oliis inearibus pinnatifidis obis rian-

gulari-semiovatis ucronatis subtus niveis bsolete nervosis, calycis laminis lanatis, stylo pubescente, olliculis tomentosis. Brown.

BANKSIA peciosa. Br. Trans. Linn. oc. . 0. p. ¿1U. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v.l. p. 486. Graham n Minb. Phil. Journ. Dec. 1830.

DESCR. runk rect, ranched ; ranches preading, towards heir xtremities ensely overed with nowy o- mentum. eaves (a foot and a half long, an inch and a halt broad) cattered, inear, ttenuated at he base, and very slightly o at he pex, runcated, pinnatifid, nerved nd reticulated, covered on both sides when young, with short, dense, white omentum, which is beautifully snowy below,

when old, naked, bright green and shining above ; segments alternate, triangular, ovate along their upper edge, muero- nate, he uero rojecting orwards. pike (four nches and a half long, three inches and a half broad to the extre- t3

' ities



mities of the styles) terminal. lowers in pairs along he rachis, orming double ines, which are much rowded o- gether, expanding from below upwards, every where yellow, except the stigma,, which is red. alyx (an inch and a half

long) four-parted, woolly on the outside, the woolliness increasing upwards. nthers subsessile, in the oblong hollow extremities of he alyx, inear-lanceolate. tyle onger than the calyx, curved upwards, pubescent, filiform, tumid near he xtremity, ipped with he ed, ubacute, omewhat angled stigma.

This very handsome pecies roduced ine ead f

flowers in the greenhouse of the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, in October, 830, he lant eing bove ive eet igh. Graha?n.

Fig. . air of lowers. 2. hree Bracteas from their base.•Magnified.



a o s a



( 3053 )

HOVEA PANNOSA. RuSTY HoVEA.

-'V- 3', fr, •' i7! >V- A' t/-W- vI ri NI/- • 1 ' ' - . i >t/-"&• - ^ J 1*-^v^-v V I S Vf- V I S V IS V I S V I S V I S V IS V r * V I S V IS VV jS vV I S V I S VV I S

C/flss anrf Order.

DlADELPHIA DECANDRIA.

( Nat. Ord.•EGUMINOSA.

Generic Character.

Cal. bilabiatus, labio uper, emibifido, ato, retuso, nf. tripartito. arina btusa. tam. mnia onnexa, ut décimo uperne plus minus libero. egumen sessile, ub-

rotundum, ventricosum, disperrnum.

emina strophiolata. DC.


HOVEA* annosa ; oliis ineari-oblongis btusis labris nitidis ubtus amis eguminibusque errugineo - tomentosis.

HOVEA pannosa. Cunningham MSS. apud Hort. Reg. Kew.

DESCR. tem rect, igid, ranched, ranches lothed with a dense, ferruginous tomentum. eaves linear-oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, entire, glabrous, dark green and smooth above, with a depressed midrib, below clothed with a dense rusty-coloured down, and marked with a prominent midrib. At the base is a short, downy, petiole; at the point a small tuft of hairs. tipules inear, very downy. lowers produced n he axils of the leaves, wo or three from each of the upper eaves, n owny, hort talks, with mear- subulate ractea t heir base. alyx very downy, nd rusty-coloured, two-lipped; upper lip arched, obtuse, bifid,

lower f hree inear egments. tandard of the orolla broad, purple, with a broad, obcordate, pale spot just above

the



the unguis, urrounded y eep purple-coloured ing. Ala short, onvex, eep urple. arina minute, purple, included in, and concealed by the alae. tamens all ombined, he ube left bove. nther yellow. istil concealed by the tube of the stamens. ermen oblongo-ovate, hairy tyle about equal to it in length tigma capitate. Legumen blong, ventricose, very downy, ipped with he style, much longer than the calyx.

HOVEA annosa, hus amed y ts ndefatigable is- coverer, r. LLAN UNNINGHAM, s ative f Mount

Stirling, n

he ountry northward

rom athurst, n

he interior of New South Wales, and was raised at the Royal Gardens f Kew rom eeds, ent n 823. r. ITON

obligingly communicated pecimens and the drawing here figured, during the last summer 1830). t s a very le- gant nd rnamental pecies, ts lossoms eing beautifully coloured, he upper ides f the eaves glossy green,

sometimes slightly transversely wrinkled, the underside and the branches thickly covered with a ferruginous tomentum. It approaches o . inearis, ut hat pecies as uch narrower leaves and smaller and pale-coloured lowers.

Fig. . Calyx. 2 . Vexillum. 3. . Alae. 4. arina. 5. tamens, n-

cluding the Pistil. 6. istil. 7. Legumen :•Magnified.



( 3054 )

TUPISTRA NUTANS. DROOPING TUPISTRA.

Class nd Order.

HEXANDRIA ONOGYNIA.

( Nat. Ord.•AROIDEJS.

Generic Character.

Spadix nudus, multiflorus. erianthium campanulatum, 6-partitum, asi bracteatum. nther•sessiles, perianthio msert•, aciniis pposite. tylus olumnaris, ulcatus Stigma magnum, -lobum, eltatum. acca 3-locularis, loculis dispermis.


TUPISTRA* nutans; spica blongo-cylindracea btusa nu- tante, loribus densissime pproximatis revi-campa- nulatis unibracteatis.

TUPISTRA

nutans. Wallich n Bot. Reg. . 1223.

DESCR. erennial. tem bout wo nches ong, nd set ound at he base ith ew hort ut hick ibres: from he summit of he ootstock here rise many large, sheathing scales, which urround oth the base of the leaf

and of the scape. eaves few, between two and three eet long ; etiole semicylindrical, urrowed on he upper side, three to our nches ong, apering radually into an obovato-lanceolate, cuminated, triated, embranous eaf, from the united bases of the leaves arises the scape, which is emiterete, and urved ownwards, bearing hick, oblongo-cylindrical padix, of many sessile, unibracteated

flowers. Perianth shortly campanulate, its limb spreading, six-cleft,

Name ; w»?, a mallet, from the arge, mallet-like stigma.



six-cleft, thick and leshy, the segments obtuse, three inner and three outer, of a pale yellowish-brown colour, streaked with purple. nthers six, sessile, or nearly so, opposite to the segments of he perianth, and nserted at the mouth of the ubular ortion, ellow, wo-celled. istil: ermen small, roundish : Style thick, columnar, short : tigma very large, eltate, hree-lobed, orming ort f id o he mouth of he perianth, so s entirely to cover and conceal the tamens. he fruit ave not een ut he leshy germen, on a transverse section being made, exhibits three small cells, each with two collateral ovules.

For this interesting plant of the Natural Order AROIDEä, the second species known of the Genus TUPISTRA, our gardens re ndebted o r. ALLICH. y hat enerous Botanist a root was presented to Mrs. BEAUMONT of Bretton Hall, nd we are bliged o Mr. ARNOCK, who has he charge of he ardens there, or he noble specimen from which the accompanying drawing was taken. t blossomed

in October, 1830, or the second time, aving flowered the preceding year, soon after which, the plant threw up a new set of leaves.

Fig. . lower, with its Bractea at the Base he Stigma heing removed, to how he nsertion of the Stamens. . The Stigma een rom eneath. 3. ortion of the Perianth with a Stamen. . tamen. . istil. . ermen and Style, the Stigmas being removed. . ection of the Germen.•U more or less magnified.



( 3055 )

NoTHOCLiENA TEÑERA. THIN-LEAVED

NOTHOCLJENA.

Class and Order.

CRYPTOGAMIA ILICES.

( Nat. Ord.•FILICES.

Generic haracter.

Sort marginales, continui v. nterrupti. Involucrum nul- lum (nisi setae interstinctae v. quamulae lanave frondis.)


NoTHocLjENA*£enerfl; rondibus bi-tripinnatis, foliolis ellipticis ntegerrimis teneris glaucis glaberrimis, apsulis nigro-fuscescentibus nitidis.

NOTHOCL^NA eñera. Gillies MSS.

DESCR. ronds growing n a tufted manner, our to six inches n ength, vato-deltoid n heir ircumscription, each upported upon a glossy, purple-black tipes, ipin- nate, he base ripinnate, he pinnae with an odd, terminal

pinnule r eaflet. innules lliptical, btuse, essile (except he erminal ne, hich s ften petioled,) f a membranaceous, thin, and delicate texture, glaucous-green, especially beneath, innatedly nerved, he argin ntire, slightly ecurved t irst, fterwards lane. achis x- tremely slender, glossy purple-black. ort ninterrupted, Marginal. apsules at first green, and partially covered by

Jhe revolute margin, at ength of a deep, hining brown- black, nd quite xposed o view : ach s lobose, eticulated, having a nearly complete annulus.

For



For his raceful ittle ern, ur otanic arden f Glasgow is indebted o Dr. GILLIES, who sent seeds which were athered n he eighbourhood f Mendoza, nd which soon vegetated in our stove, bearing fructification in the same year that they were raised.

In point of Genus, his Fern eems o e intermediate between NOTHOCLJENA and CHEILANTHES. ut as, even in a young state, he lightly revolute margin f he innules never entirely covers the capsules, I have preferred placing it in the former Genus ; rom ll he other known pecies

of which t s istinguished y ts ender, laucous, nd quite glabrous fronds.

Fig. . Three ultimate Pinnules of a Frond, with perfect Sori. 2 . innule with Fructification in a younger state. 3. wo Capsules.•Magnified.



( 3056 )

LupiNus CRUCKSHANKSII. Mr. CRUCKSHANKS*

PERUVIAN LUPINE.

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Class and Order.


( Nat. Ord.•LEGUMINOSA.

Generic Character.

Cal. profunde bilabiatus. or. papilionacea; exillum lateribus eflexis, arina acuminata. tam. monadelpha,

vagina ntegra, antheris 5 parvis ubrotundioribus, preco- cioribus, 5 oblongis serioribus. tylus filiform is. tigma terminale, ubrotundum, barbatum. egumen coriaceum, oblongum, ompressum, oblique orulosum. otiledones crassae, per germin. n folia conversas. De Cand.

Specific Character.

LUPINUS ruchshanksii; ubarborescens, bique glaberri- mus, am is paten tibus, oliolis 7•9 oblongis obtusis basi n petiolum attenuatis, aceinis oblongis, loribus yerticillatis, alycis abio uperiore ifido nferiore integro, bracteis caducis.

DESCR. lthough this plant has not with s attained an elevation xceeding our o ive feet, yet it may rather be called rborescent han hrubby or he greater ength of the tem below is bare of branches and woody bove divided y numerous, preading branches, nto a ounded

head, glabrous, s s very part of the plant. eaves numerous, pale yellowish-green, divided nto even or more, usually nine, spreading, oblong or elliptical, obtuse leaflets, blunt at the point, and ometimes erminated by a muero, below attenuated nto a hort petiole, he hole upon common etiole our o ive inches ong, rounded nd



green. lowers in oblong, arge racemes, which terminate the umerous ranches. racte• inear-subulate, aducous. edicels mostly n rregular whorls, hort. alyx cut almost to he very base nto two, nearly equal, linear- oblong lips ; of which the upper one is bifid or bidentate at the point, the lower one quite entire. orollas large, very handsome. exillum ounded, etuse t he xtremity, with ts sides revolute after expansion, bluish purple, deep yellow in he iddle, ecoming paler towards he xtremity and almost white, the margin reddish, the back pale.

Al• uboval, onvex, eep purplish-blue, ith a eddish spot at he base. arina pale lesh-colour, with ong, orange-coloured acumen or beak.

I have named this truly magnificent species of Lupine in compliment to its estimable discoverer, ALEXANDER CRUCK-

SHANKS, Esq. especting whose botanical abours n South America, I have elsewhere had occasion o speak *. hat

gentleman discovered t growing upon the Andes of Peru, in great plenty, not ar rom Pasco, and near he verge of perpetual snow. ur fine plant was raised rom the seed at the Glasgow otanic arden, nd lanted n he pen border n he arly ummer f he resent ear 1830), when it was soon covered with a profusion of richly-coloured blossoms, which attracted the attention of all who saw it. Mr. MURRAY, with much judgment, would not run the risk of so rare a plant surviving the fickle winter of our climate, and emoved it to the greenhouse : ut it is very impatient of moisture, nd oes ot trike eadily rom uttings. No seeds were produced upon our plant.

See Botanical Miscellany, Part IV.

Fig. . alyx an d Vexillum ¡•Slightly magnified.



( 3057 )

LoASA SPIDA. HISPID OASA.

Class nd Order.


( Nat. Oíd.•OASEN.

Generic Character.

Calycis ubus ylindraceus arete varium estiens, ed forsan liber ; imbus 5-partitus, persistens. et. 10, ungui- culata, alyce nserta. tam. nnúmera 230•250) um petalis nserta, iis breviora, filamentis libera, externis interdum terilibus, ntheris oblongis. tylus iliformis, triis

3•7 spiralibus notatus et inde stylis 5•7 ornnino connexis et spiraliter tortis constans. apsula oblonga, 1-locularis, 3•-valvis, placentis totidem seminum series duobus geran- tibus. Semina compressa, numerosa. D C.


LOASA ispida; ispidissima, oliis ltérais ipinnatifidis, laciniis calycinis ateralibus eplicatis, corolla reflexa.

LOASA hispida. Linn. yst. Nat. d. 3. p. 364. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 2. p. 1176. Graham in Edin. Phil. Journ. Dec. 1830.

LOASA urens. Jacq. Obs. Bot. pars 2. p. 15. . 38. Lam. Encycl. v. 3. p. 758. Spreng. Syst. eget. v. 2. p. 601.

LOASA ambrosiaefolia. Juss. Ann. du Mus. v. 5. p. 26. . 4. /. . Pers. Syn. PI. v. 2. p. 71. Spreng. Syst. eget. V.2. p. 601.

DESCR. tem round, rooting at the base, flexuose, branch-

ed, densely

overed

ith

nnumerable

hort,

arsh hairs, which seem rough under the microscope, nd re carcely

stinging ; igher p, here re ew eep green oblong- spots on the stem, and the hairs are mixed with others which are wice r hrice s ong, nd tinging, mooth, ark

brown,



brown, arising from arger glandular bases hese increase in number upwards, nd re much rowded ear the top. Leaves five nches ong, hree and half broad, cattered, petioled, oblong, pinnatifid and ncised, r oftener bipin- natifid, or almost pinnated, and the pinnae pinnatifid, pubes-

cent on both sides, but especially the under, which is paler, with prominent, branching veins, which re a little reticulated nd hannelled bove. eduncles cattered, pposite, ut ever xactly o, ometimes at onsiderable distance from he leaves, ingle-flowered, onger han he upper, but shorter than the larger leaves. lowers nodding,

rather powerfully, and, as some think, pleasantly perfumed. Calyx reen, ive-parted, egments patent, cordato-ovate, acute, eflexed n heir sides, ubmarcescent. etals one inch ong, eflexed, navicular, atchet-shaped, ucullate, glandular-pubescent, but sparingly so, except at the claws, reticulated, ciliated along he keel, alternating with white, erect, runcated, bcordate cales, ollow, nd opening

longitudinally on their inner surface, flat at the apex, there transversely arked ith levated tripes, nd ach x- tended nto two short, ose-coloured points in the centre of the lower, the tripes eddish-brown on he utside, and more and more greenish-yellow towards he entre. tamens very numerous, about half as long again as the claws of the petals, and odged, as in all this Genus, within heir cavities, nd dvancing n uccession ilaments white, glabrous; nthers ellow, ecoming brown, hort, bilobular, bursting along the sides pollen granular, small, pale yellow. wo abortive, ubulate, ooked, ubescent ilaments, shorter and roader than he others, are placed n the nside of each of the hollow scales, and are at all times

erect. ermen unilocular, turbinate, inferior, covered with pungent hairs, ts upper surface flat, becoming conical, and rising above he alyx, ut here mpty, rifid vules numerous, ttached o hree inear, arietal lacentas. Styles three, cohering, their lower half, as well as the upper surface of the germen, overed with hairs. tigmas very small.

I cannot see the propriety of changing the Specific Name of LINNJSUS o he qually objectionable one of JACQUIN ; nor could I have thought the reason assigned by JUSSIEU or departing from this last sufficient, ven hough he had not taken a third, which in its turn may be considered inappro-



cause for altering a specific name, ndless confusion would arise n lmost very old enus wherein we have ately become acquainted with many new species. wish specific names, when once given, were deemed mere arbitrary and immutable terms. RATTINNICK, t appears, has considered

h.urens, JACQ. and L. ambrosi•folia, Juss. as distinct, and is followed by SPRENGEL ; ut s I am not acquainted with the reasons for this opinion, as JUSSIEU s perfectly explicit that they are the same, as his figure agrees sufficiently, and as the differences noticed in his description appear to me to be trifling, must follow his opinion, supported as it is by PERSOON and LAMARCK.

The seeds of this most beautiful species were received at the otanic Garden, n pring ast, rom y nvaluable correspondent Mr. RUCKSHANKS, whose dditions o ur stock f cultivated lants ake elight n ecording. They were gathered in the valley of Lima. he specimen described as aised n ot-bed, nd lowered n he greenhouse n he nd f July. t as lowered n he

Royal otanic arden t lasgow * nd nderstand also in the neighbourhood of London. Graham.

* Where it succeeds well in he open border.

Fig. I. uter Petal. . tamen. . nner Petal, with ts wo abortive Stamens. . An abortive Stamen from the inner Petal. . Capsule, scarcely mature, nat. size. 6. airs from the Stem.•Magnified.



( 3058 )

DELIMA ARMENTOSA. CLIMBING ELIMA.

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Class and Order.

POLYANDRIA MoNOGYNIA.

( Nat. Ord.•DILLENIACEJE.

Generic haracter.

Stam. plurima. Carpellum 1, capsulare, 1•2-spermum. Plores interdum abortu dioici.


DELIMA armentosa; oliis llipticis erratis ntegerri- misque cabris rigidis, loribus paniculatis hermaphro- ditis (?), germinibus capsulisque glabris.

DELIMA sarmentosa. inn. Sp. PI. p. 736. urm. Ind. p. 122 . . 37./. 1. e Cand. Prodr. v . I. p. 69. preng. Syst. eget. v. 2. p. 597.

TETRACERA armentosa. ahl, Symb. v. 3. p. 70. illd. Sp. PL v. 2. p. 1240.

ACTJSA áspera. Lam. FL ochin, v. I. p. 405 TRACHYTELLA spera. e and. yst. . p. 410, rodr.

\.p.70.

DESCR. lender, limbing, ranching hrub, ough, H s s every part of he plant, with hort, igid, closely-appressed hairs. eaves alternate, rom one to three or our

inches ong, enerally almost exactly elliptical, sometimes obovate, arely vate, igid, ntire, r ore r ess b- scurely oothed t he argin, particularly n he pper half, dark green above, paler beneath, marked with rather close nd arallel ransversely blique nerves, which re prominent eneath. anicles erminating he ranches, having a mall leaf at the primary divisions, and generally

a linear bractea t he rigin f the esser nes, and f the pedicels. lowers numerous, n a panicle. alyx of hye eaves, reen, he wo uter eaves or epals maller than he hree nner ones, labrous, he margins ciliated.

0 etals



Petals ive, val, oncave, hite. tamens umerous. Filaments flexuose, with a hickened or dilated extremity, at he op of which are he wo ransverse ells, pening above by a ongitudinal fissure. istil one ermen oblique, gibbous, subovate, gradually tapering upwards into

a iliform tyle, nd containing 9•11 bortive ?) vules at he base of the ell tigma ilated. ruit (in ried specimens rom ulo enang) n vato-acuminate labrous follicle, pening n ne ide, nd ontaining ne globose, dark-brown seed, surrounded by a beautiful, white, cup-shaped, fringed arillus.

For the introduction of this little-known plant to Britain, we are ndebted o r. ALLICH, who sent seeds of it to Bretton Hall, whence the specimen here figured was obligingly communicated n November, 1830. t is a native of China, whence ave eceived ried pecimens rom my valued friend CHARLES MILLETT, Esq., of Ceylon and Mala- bar, and possess the same species from the Horticultural

Society of London, athered in Prince of Wales's Island, differing only in he ruit being lightly pubescent. he DELIMA nitida of the New World, which I have received both from Mr. ARKER, athered n Demerara, nd rom Mr. LOCKHART, athered in Trinidad, very much resembles this, but its leaves are less rough, and he style s much shorter: or this latter may be the D. hebecarpa, which appears to me

to differ only in the downy fruit from the D. armentosa. Again he TETRACERA multißora, D C. is closely allied to our

plant, and at any rate should, I think, be placed in the same Genus ; for he pistil is solitary nd although the flowers were unknown to De CANDOLLE, hey are figured in De LESSERT'S cones; nd the hole epresentation has he ost perfect ccordance with the present ndividual.

BURMAN ells us, pon he authority of HERMANN, hat he plant s alled oroswel y he ingalese, hich ignifies o

polish, and hat he igid and cabrous eaves are used or that purpose. OUREIRO ays he same of his ACT A áspera, which grows about Canton, nor is his description of it much at variance with pecimens hich we have rom he ame ountry; o hat I m ather nclined o educe hat lant, s ynonym o D. sarmentosa. e CANDOLLE has of that (and the same author's

closely llied ALLIGONUM sperum) onstituted he enus TRACHYTELLA, n ccount f he erried, any-seeded ruit; but LOUREIRO xpressly ays, hat he had not noticed he form of the eeds. n our plant, n which are probably abortive germens, I find many ovules.



3050

Bancroft MB del* m h'S.CiuiuVatvtHk f'fbrJ.1S51 SmSt-



( 3059 )

MoNODORA YRISTICA. AMAICA

CALABASH-NUTMEG

Class nd Order.


( Nat. Ord.•ANONACE^E.

Generic Character.

Cal. 3-sepalus, epalis basi unitis. et. 6, basi unita 3 exteriora oblongo-lanceolata, imdulato-crispata, 3 interiora cordiformia, onniventia. nther• umerosas, essiles, basin erminis ingentes. ermen olitarium. tigma sessile. acca aevis, ubglobosa, -locularis. emina in pulpa nidulantia.

Specific haracter nd ynonyms.

MONODORA* Myristica ; accis subglobosis magnis. D C. MONODORA Myristica. Dunal, Monogr. Anon. p. 80. De

Cand. yst. eget. . . . 477, rodr. . P- 87. Spreng. Syst. eget. v. 2. p. 604.

ANONA Myristica. G•rtn. de Fruct. v. 2. . 125./. . AMERICAN UTMEG. " Long, Hist. am. . . p. 73J."

Bancroft in Lunan, Hort. Jam. v. 2. p. 10.

DESCR. This grows," according to Dr. ANCROFT, " to a arge, ranching ree, n abit esembling he ANONAS. Leaves onfined o he xtremities of the branches, distichous, alternate, oblong, r sometimes obovate, omewhat cordate at he base, uite entire, nerved, veined, mooth,

shining, f a bright, et pale reen above, paler still beneath, rom our o ive inches long, nd rom one o wo inr»ri AC inches

* rom pons, one, and imp», a gift, in allusion to its solitary fruit.



inches broad he petioles are hort, grooved above. The peduncles pposite o he eaves,, ingle-flowered, ound, smooth, reenish-white, endulous, our o even nches long, generally single on the young branches, or, sometimes two, when

one is at the

base and

the other

towards

the

top. Occasionally the peduncles spring up n he ateral twigs of those branches, t rom hree o eight nches from the terminal leaves hese wigs being ometimes but half an inch or an inch and half long, and bearing three o ive leaves. In uch cases, the peduncles shoot from the tips of the twigs. Near the summit of the peduncles is a bractea,

reflexed when he flower s ull lown, ubcordate, cute, about twelve-nerved, green, crispato-undulate at he margin, lightly variegated with ellowish-red. Flowers ra - grant ; hen eginning o xpand, white, arked ith purplish-brown pots afterwards yellow nd the pots brighter red. Calyx monophyllous, ube very hort, imb deeply cleft into three unequal, coloured epals, heir mar-

gins risped and waved he sepal opposite to the bractea being shorter and narrower han he other two, which are somewhat oriaceous nd vato-acute. Corolla nonope- talous, enerally wice s ong s he alyx tube also short and reflexed imb divided into six segments, arranged n ouble eries. Outer egments hree, blongo-

ovate, their margins crisped and waved ; f the ame color as the calycine segments, the ground bright yellow, marked with ows f irregular spots or interrupted stripes of reddish-brown, xtending rom he entre bliquely ut- wards, he maller alycine epal nly being ometimes variegated with greenish-yellow along the middle, and deep red t he argins. Inner egments hree, rom alf o

one-third shorter han he outer eries, pringing from the faux of the corolla by a short claw, cordate, convex, veined, yellowish-white externally, omewhat keeled on he back, downy nd ntire at he edges, which adhere lightly together, within oncave, mooth, hining, of a very pale yellow olour, ariegated with ale rimson pots. The number of both the calycine and corolline segments is liable to ccasional variation, or does heir igure lways pre- cisely accord with the above description. " Stamens closely set, in about eleven or twelve rows, on

the eceptacle filaments none ; nthers nearly pherical, bilocular, ellowish-white, pening n ach ide, ather



lowish-white, rowned ith essile, lattened tigma." Dr. BANCROFT, n dissecting the recent germen, ound it to be " thick and leshy, having mall cavity in the entre, with globular ovules arranged round he whole nternal surface, he seedstalk varying in ength."

The ruit s igured and escribed by GARTNER as, C a simple, early lobose, ne-celled, labrous, orticated Berry. eceptacle none, but the Seeds imbedded, without order*, n he ulp: hey re vato-oblong, ngled y mutual pressure, ferruginous. ntegument double. lbumen of the same form as he eed, leshy, hard, sculptured with deep, early arallel ines, nd ongitudinal urrow. Cotyledons foliaceous, cordato-lanceolate. adicle rounded, directed to the hilum."

We are much indebted to Dr. BANCROFT of Jamaica for a drawing, and specimens both dried and in spirits, and for an accurate escription f his are nd ittle-known lant. The fruit alone was described by GARTNER, under the name of NONA yristica, from Sir OSEPH ANRS'S useum. According o he Hortus Jamaicensis, he tree is eported to have been brought from the continent of South America f and lanted t he Retreat state, Clarendon, amaica, where it was described by LONG, but where it has since been destroyed. That author says of it, hat he eeds re all packed close with singular regularity, so that after displac- ing them, t is impossible to restore them to the same order and ompactness s efore :•that hey re mpregnated with an aromatic oil, resembling that of the Eastern Nutmeg, from which they differ o ittle in flavour and quality, that they may be used for similar purposes n food or medicine; the only perceptible difference o the aste being that they are ess ungent han he ast ndian Nutmeg nd he recommends it to general cultivation. DUNAL, who had the

use of Professor DECANDOLLE'S notes, made from dried specimens in Mr. LAMBERT'S Herbarium, determined it to be a Genus widely distinct from ANONA, iffering indeed n he structure of the petals and fruit, as Dr. ANCROFT correctly

remarks,

Dr. BANCROFT ustly observes, hat t s nly necessary to observe the disposition of the eeds, as represented in GARTNER'S own figure, to perceive that their position is he very reverse of being" absque ordinè", the hilum of each seed being regularly centrifugal, as might have been anticipated from the Kind of arrangement which is to be een in the ovules of the Germen.

T r. ROWN onsiders t ore probable, hat t was rought y he



remarks, rom all the other Genera of he rder. t his time, there is nly one ree n amaica, near Stoney Hill, whence our specimens were taken, unless the eport be correct, hat a second exists at St. Thomas in he East.

From he enus ONODORA s o e xcluded he . microcarpa, NONA icrocarpa f ACQUIN Fragm. ot. t. 44. . ), stablished y hat uthor rom he ruit f Mr. ROWN'S CARGILLIA australis, f the amily of EBENA-

NACE^E ; See ROWN'S ot. f Congo, . 56) o hat the MONODORA yristica s he nly nown pecies f he Genus.

A. Branch of MONODORA Myristica, in flower] nd B. Fruit (from GART-

NER) at. size.

Fig. 1. Portion of a Flower, the reflexed Limb of the Corolla being- removed. 2 . ne f the nner Petals or Segments een rom within. . tamen. . Section f he ermen. . 5. eeds. . lbumen. - ection f he Albumen, to show the Embryo. . mbryo. ig . 1•4. more or less magnified.



+ J¿ l'u/'. ;\..v.fiirli.v. H'alworlh, April L 1831



( 3060 )

BANKSIA ITTORALIS SHORE ANKSIA.

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Class and Order.


( Nat. rd. •PROTEACE^E. Generic Character.

Perianthium uadripartitum raro -fidum.) tamina apicibus oncavis aciniarum mmersa. quamulce hypogynae 4. varium biloculare, loculis monospermis. olliculus ligneus issepimento libero, bifido. mentum flosculorum paribus tribracteatis Br.


BANKSIA ittoralis? oliis longato-linearibus pinuloso- dentatis basi ttenuatis ubtus avenus, perianthiis de- ciduis, olliculis ompressis bracteisque strobili pice tomentosis, caule arbóreo, ramulis tomentosis. Br.

BANKSIA ittoralis ? r. in Linn. Soc. Trans, v. 10. p. 205 ? Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 392 ? •m. et Schuttes, Syst. Veg. . 3. p. 438 ? preng. yst. eg. v. 1. p. 485 / (excl. syn.J Bot. Reg. . 1363.

DESCR. hrub rect. ranches ascending, purple, villous. eaves scattered, pubescent when young, naked and dark green bove when ld, densely overed ith nowy tomentum eneath ; n hort, rect petioles, inear, runcated, pinuloso-serrated, veinless, lightly revolute at the e<%es. mentum (four inches ong, three inches broad to

the extremities of the styles) erminal, upon a short, eafy, Peduncle, he branches ising ar above t, from whorl at jts base. lowers n pairs, orming rather distant double bnes along he achis, with which, when ully expanded, they re early t ight ngles, xpanding rom bove downwards. Bracteas omentose, reen here xposed,



yellow where included, either solitary, rhomboid, subacute, with the apex turned up, when they are placed between the flowers, or eminate, ound, nd placed above r elow them. alyx four-parted, overed with ppressed ubes-

cence ; laws linear, yellow, he spoon-shaped egments of the limb reddish, nodding. nthers elliptical, subsessile in the cavities of the calyx. tyle twice as long as the calyx, shining, of a deep purple olour except at he ase and apex, where t s yellow, deciduous, igid, pex nodding. Stigma an abrupt, glandular, carcely-swollen termination to the style, etained or a time within he calyx, as in he

other species, and when liberated, covered with the yellow, granular pollen, which gives it a capitate form.

This species flowered in the greenhouse of the Edinburgh Botanic arden, n ovember, 830, mmediately fter B. peciosa, figured at . 3052 of this work, and ontinued also n blossom at he ame time with t ; he wo pecies forming ood ontrast n heir olours nd anner f flowering. he resent eems uite ifferent rom . microstachya of CAVANILLES nd . ttenuata f ROWN, with both of which SPRENGEL unites his B. littoralis.

I have assigned the specific name to this plant doubtfully, and have quoted all the authorities above cited, with hesitation ; xcepting he otanical Register ; ecause here seems ome eason o question its identity with he plant

sent rom ew Holland by Mr. BROWN, and ultivated at Kew, under he pecific appellation of B . ittoralis. he specimen hich lowered with s as eceived n 828 from Mr. MACKAY f Clapton, without a name gain n 1829, e indly ommunicated eedling, arked . collina, which has proved to be the same, differing only in being destitute of veins on he back of the leaf. have a specimen rom Mr. FRASER, of a plant that must rank very near this, nd is chiefly distinguishable by its leaves being longer, narrower, nd uite entire, xcept near the apex, where there are four small teeth, and by the branches being much less hairy. n colour and in the manner of flowering, it perfectly coincides. Graham.

Fig. 1. Two Flowers. 2 . tigma, with part of the Style.•Magnified.



3061



C 3061 )

HUNNEMANNIA FUM ARIJEFOLIA. FUMITORY-

LEAVED HUNNEMANNIA.

Class and Order.


( Nat. Ord.•PAPAVERACE^E.

Generic Character.

Cal. diphyllus, caducus. or. 4-petala. ntherce ine- ares. tigma ubsessile, peltatum, -lobum. aps, ili- miiformis, 1-locularis, ivalvis; emina valvarum margin-

ibus affixa.

Specific Name and Synonym.

HUNNEMANNIA * fumari•folia. HUNNEMANNIA umariaefolia. fib. Br. FI. Gard. . 276.

DESCR. tem rect, ounded, mooth, labrous, glaucous. eaves petioled, triternately divided, heir segments linear, rather obtuse, laucous-green petiole inear, ompressed. eduncle solitarv, erminal, ounded, labrous. Flower arge, andsome, 'of n niform eautiful lear

yellow.

alyx f two vate, oncave, glabrous, opposite leaves. orolla f our, t ength preading, oncave, waved, broadly obovate, r lmost oundish petals. ta- insnumerous, orange-coloured. Filaments short: Anthers

linear,

Named y Mr. WEET, n ompliment o OHN UNNEMAN, sq. f London, ho as evoted ong ife o urthering he ause f Botanical science, by facilitating the intercourse between Naturalists of this country and °/ the Continent, and by introducing many new seeds and plants to our collections. robably here s ot Botanist, ho as not derived dvantage rt» m he riendly ervices f Mr. UNNEMAN, nd o ne erhaps ore

than myself.



linear, two-celled, scarcely so long as the ilaments. istil solitary. ermen blong, apering pwards nto very short style. tigma peltate, our-lobed he obes spreading and velvety. apsule siliquiform, with en prominent ribs, one-celled, two-valved, many-seeded. eeds attached to the marginal sutures, oval, dotted, sessile.

This interesting plant s native f Mexico, nd was introduced to this country by the late Mr. BARCLAY, a name that will be long revered by the Botanist and Cultivator in this country, and to whom I am indebted for the specimens here igured. hey were produced n the open border t

Bury Hill. The Genus s llied, s Mr. SWEET bserves, o MECO- NOPSIS ut till more o, o he beautiful SCHSCHOLZIA, especially n he oliage, he eneral tructure f he flower, nd he iliquiform apsule ut t iffers n he peltate, our-lobed tigma, in the wo-leaved alyx, in he small eceptacle f he arts f he lower, nd n he sessile seeds.

Fig. . Bud. . Flower, from which the Calyx is fallen, hut with its Petals not ully xpanded. . tamen. . istil. . apsule mat. size). • Section f he Capsule. - eed scarcely mature) •more r ess magnified.



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( 3062 ) VERNONIA CUTIFOLIA. SHARP-LEAVED

VERNONIA.

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Class and Order.

SYNGENESIA OLYGAMIA EQUALIS.

( Nat. Ord.•COMPOSITE.

Generic haracter.

Involucrum mbricatum. losculi ubulosi. appus duplex xt. aleaceus nt. ilosus. eceptaculum u-

dum.


VERNONIA* cutifolia; oliis ineari-lanceolatis ttenuatis subdentatis labriusculis, loribus lternis ecundis sessilibus.

VERNONIA acutifolia. Hortul.

DESCR. tem elongated, lender, erete, mooth, or n the younger branches very lightly hairy. eaves four to six or even nches ong, lmost sessile, inear-lanceolate, gradually ut uch ttenuated, ubmembranaceous, he

margin lightly oothed, ark green nd glabrous bove, beneath paler, and very obscurely hairy ; nerves oblique. Flowers solitary, or wo ogether n the axils of the upper leaves nd ecund, essile. nvolucre ovate, mbricated the uter nd reater number f he cales re ovate- acuminated, green, he point acuminated, rather rigid, and more or less reflexed ; he innermost row, next the florets,

are linear-spathulate, he upper and broad part rose-coloured, he est reen. Florets numerous, ubular, purplish rose-

* amed fter WILLIAM ERNON, otanist nd merican raveller,



rose-colored, five-cleft, the segments linear, patent. tamens exserted, urplish. tigmas ecurved, urplish, owny. Germen bovate, ilky. appus, with he uter aleae very narrow, short ; he inner ones capillary and scabrous.

The present plant was ommunicated o he Glasgow Botanic Garden from that of Bayswater, under the hitherto, I believe, npublished ame f VERNONIA cutifolia, hut without any native country being mentioned ; as, however, I possess the same species, gathered by the late Mr. OOG, near Rio, n Brazil, our plant here figured, n all probabi- lity, s of Brazilian rigin lso. ts earest elative s,

doubtless, he . ericea, purpurascens, igured n he Botanical Register, t. 522: but that has the leaves considerably broader, and ilky on both ides. till, he present may possibly prove arrow nd early glabrous-leaved variety of it.

The present plant blossomed in our stove in the month of December a season when lowers less showy than the pre-

sent are always acceptable.

Fig. . loret. 2 . nner cale f he nvolucre. 3. 3. Outer cales f ditto. 4. ortion of the outer and inner Pappus.•Magnified.



( 3063 ) DRYANDRA ERVOSA. NERVED-LEAVED

DRYANDRA.

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Class and rder. TETRANDRIA ONOGYNIA.

( Nat. Ord.•PROTEACE^.

Generic Character. Perianthium quadripartitum el uadrifidum. tamina

apicibus oncavis aciniarum mmersa. quamul• hypogynae 4. varium biloculare, loculis monospermis. olliculus igneus: issepim ento ibero, ifido. eceptaculum commune planum, loribus indeterminatim confertis ; paleis angustis., aro nullis. nvolucrum ommune mbricatum. Br.

Specific haracter and Synonyms. DRYANDRA* ervosa; oliis profunde innatifidis ubtus

ferrugineo-tomentosis, lobis linearibus subfalcatis mu- cronatis nervosis basi dilatatis, nvolucri racteis oblongo-ovatis ferrugineo-tomentosis, erianthii aciniis linearibus fulvo-hirsutis apice barbatis.

DRYANDRA ervosa. M ackay, MSS . Catal." weet Fl. Australasica, t. 22.

DESCR. small shrub, about two feet high, with downy, stout, ortuose ranches. eaves nearly a oot ong, n- cluding he etiole, eeply innatifid, oriaceous, ark green bove, lothed with usty own beneath, he egments one to two inches long, broadly linear, dilated at the base, acute at the point, marked with three to four parallel

nerves :



nerves : petioles four o iv e inches ong, rounded, lothed with rusty down. he young eaves are covered all over with a ich velvety, ed omentum. ead of Flowers erminal, moderately large, handsome, surrounded at the base by an nvolucre of many imbricated, oblongo-ovate leaves or racteas hickly lothed ith usty-coloured own. Small, ubulate cales are mixed with the lowers. erianth tubular, cut nearly half-way down into four, narrow- linear, ull orange-coloured, erect acinias, hairy without, and bearded at the extremity. ithin each of these lacinias, lodged in a groove, is a linear anther. ermen linear- oblong. Style filiform. Stigma clávate.

The present is one of the many fine Australian PROTEACEä:

for which our collections are indebted to Mr. MACKAY of the Clapham Nursery ; nd by him plants were communicated to the Liverpool Botanic Garden, where the flowering specimen here igured was produced n September, 1830. t is a native of the South oast of New Holland, whence the seeds were procured by Mr. BAXTER. t is a plant of considerable beauty, and of much variety of colouring.

Fig. . lower. 2 . egment of the Perianth, with its Stamen. 3. istil. -Magnified.



30Ö4.

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( 3064 ) PORTULACA GlLLIESII. DR. GlLLIEs'

PURSLANE.

Class and Order.

ICOSANDRIA MoNOGYNIA.

( Nat. Ord.•PORTULACEJE.

Generic haracter.

Cal. aut liber aut imo ovario adhaerens, bipartitus, demum circumscissus t ecid uus. et. ^•6, equalia, nter e libera, aut ima, basi concreta, calyci nserta. tam. 8•5

(v. plura,) filamentis iberis nterdum ma corolla adnatis. Ovarium subrotundatum. tylus ], apice 5•6- (9-) fidus, aut stylus nullus et stigmata S•8elongata. apsula sub- globosa, -locularis, medio ircumscissa: emina plurima placentae (v. placentis tot stigmata) centrali affixa. D C.

Specific haracter.

PORTULACA illiesii ; aulibus uberectis asi amosis, foliis oblongo-cylindraceis subcompressis obtusis punctatis, pilis axillaribus fasciculatis erectis appressis, lo - ribus terminalibus, petalis calyce longioribus.

DESCR. erennial. tem nearly erect, our to five inches high, stout in proportion to its length, purplish with transverse whitish ines, ranched, he branches hort, principally at he base f the stem, sometimes at the extremity. Leaves cattered, emote nd eflex i-patent on he tem, dense and osulate on he branches, inear-oblong, tereti- compressed, obtuse, green, osy t the top, and punctated

with white, pellucid dots.

n heir axils is a tuft of white, erect, ppressed airs. alyx f wo ather nequal, broadly oval, membranaceous leaves, cariose and white at the margin. etals five, bright red-purple, patent, broadly obovato-rotund, waved. Filaments numerous, deep purple.

Anthers



Anthers roundish,, orange. tyle filiform. tigmas seven, subulate, reflexed, downy.

For his ew pecies f PORTULACA, s well s or he scarcely more eautiful ne., . grandiflora, t. 2885) we are indebted to Dr. GILLIES, who communicated eeds from the plains f Mendoza. ith s he lant lowered n the greenhouse in August. ike all other succulent plants from he ame ountry, hese wo pecies f ORTULACA should be kept dry, especially during winter.

The hort, otted, very obtuse eaves, he upright nd appressed xillary uft f hairs, ogether ith he arge size of the blossoms, fford abundant characters for distin-

guishing the present species.

Fig. . Stamen. 2 . tyle nd tigmas. 3. Portion of he tem nd Leaves.•Magnified.



306.5.



( 3 0 6 5 ) INDIGOFERA ATROPURPúREA. LOOD-

FLOWERED INDIGOFERA. *********************

Class and Order.



Generic Character.

Cal. 5-fidus, obis acutis. exillum rotundatum, mar- ginatum. arina utrinque calcare subulato notata, dem urn saepe elastice deflexa. tam. diadelpha. tylus filiformis, glaber. egumen eretiusculum, ut planum aut tetrago- num, polyspermum, bivalve, rarius oligospermum, ovatum, imo monospermum subglobosum. emina ovata, utrinque truncata, isthmis cellulosis saepe disjuncta. D C.


INDIGOFERA atropurpúrea; caule fruticoso erecto, oliis pin- natim -jugis, oliolis vato-ellipticis btusis u- cronatis argine ubundulatis, unioribus dpresse pubescentibus, dultis labris, acemis xillaribus gracilibus nferioribus ongitudine foliorum, eguminibus pendulis rectis compressis 8•10-spermis.

ÏNDIGOFERA tropurpúrea. Hamilt. n Hort. Hafn. add.

p. 152." on, Prodr. Fl. Nepaul, p. 244. e Cand. Prodr. . . p. 25. preng. yst. eg. ur. post, p. 285.

t DESCR. shrub three o five eet high, with a straight,

simple tem, nd ew ranches; he oung nd ender parts somewhat villous. eaves pinnate, from six to twelve inches long. eaflets opposite, ix o eight pairs, hortly Petioled, oval, entire, smooth on oth sides heir general size about n nch and half long y ne nch road.

Stipules



Stipules subulate ; hose f he etiole aducous, f the leaflets (each pair of which have two) permanent. acemes axillary; by the time the lowers have allen, considerably longer han he eaves, ometimes wice heir ength.

Flowers numerous,

cattered, before expansion imbricated, large, ark urple. racteas ne-flowered. egumen cylindrical, smooth, eflexed, six- to twelve-seeded. oxb. MSS.

To the preceding account may be added, that the shrub grows very large, and when in full blossom s highly ornamental n ccount of ts umerous ong pikes f ark

purple flowers. t is common in he forests of Nepal, and, according o r. OXBURGH, was ntroduced hence nto the alcutta Botanic Garden n 1802, by r. AMILTON.

Dr. ROXBURGH observes that, f the ame plant has been reared rom merican eeds, ent ithout ame rom Philadelphia, y Mr. ILLIAM AMILTON." t s ery possible hat he epal plant ay have een ntroduced

into Mr. AMILTON'S arden t hiladelphia, nd cci- dentally returned again to Calcutta ; or that Dr. ROXBURGH may have mistaken nearly allied pecies for his . tro- purpúrea; but the former assumption is the most probable. Wallich.

Fig. . Flower, magnified. 2 , . ruit, nat. size.



3066.



( 3066 )

PLADERA ECüSSATA. DECUSSATE LADERA.

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Class and Order.


( Nat. Ord.•GENTIANEJE.

Generic Character. Cal. elongatus, 4-dentatus. or. nfundibuliformis, Jim-

bo irregulari. tamen unicum reliquis minus. tigma bi- lobum. apsula upera., -locularis, -bivalvis. emina numerosa.


PLADERA* ecussata; nnua, aule recto -alato, amis decussatis, oliis vato-lanceolatis -nerviis, loribus terminalibus trichotome paniculatis. Roxb.

PLADERA decussata. oxb. in Fl. Ind. v.l. p. 478. preng. Syst. eget. v. \.p. 427.

DESCR. oot mall, nnual, ibrous. tem scarcely span igh, rect, labrous, our-sided, he ngles our- winged, ranched, he ranches ecussate, qually our- winged. eaves few, pposite he lowest roundish-oval, the rest ovato-lanceolate, ll hree-nerved, entire ; he uppermost mall, racteiform. lowers n richotomous

panicle ; peduncles and pedicels our-winged he lowers jointed on the pedicels. alyx elongated with four winged keels, our-toothed. orolla, with he ube as long as the calyx, infundibuliform ; he limb hree-lobed, lobes rounded, the ower one bifid, two united,) keeled at he back. Stamens our, f which three are lternate with he arge

lobes,

From ir\ct$ctfoç,full of moisture; perhaps rom rowing in moist situa- wons, certainly not from the nature of the plant itself.



lobes, and the fourth smaller and apparently abortive; ne is ituated ithin he eel f he ower lobe his has thickened, lávate ilament, nd mall., vate nther, whereas he thers ave iliform ilaments nd blong anthers. ermen ylindrical, ne-celled, any eeded

the eeds attached o he utures of the valves tyle filiform, horter than the germen tigma wo-lobed.

Two pecies of this Genus were eferred by LINN^US o EXACUM, hird onstituted he enus ANSCORA f LA-

MARCK but this was so imperfectly defined, that the MSS. name of PLADERA of SOLANDER has been preferred, established by ROXBURGH in the Fl. Indica, and adopted by CHAMISSO

and CHLECHTENDAL n the LINN^EA, and by SPRENGEL n his Systema Vegetabilium. ive species are described by Dr. ROXBURGH. he present one eems o accord with his P. decussata, an nhabitant, ndeed, of Bengal ; hereas, ur plants, which flowered in the stove of the Glasgow Botanic Garden, in July, 1830, were raised from seeds communicated by Dr. LINDSAY, rom Nepal.

Fig. . lower. . pper ortion f he Corolla, ut open o show the Stamens. , . tamens. . istil. . ection of the Germeu.•Magni- fied.



,llt t/tI' Pub by S Curtíí W'nlvcríh. May U31



( 3067 ) MlMULUS PERFOLIATCS. PERFOLIATE

MONKEY-FLOWER.

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Class and Order.


( Nat. Ord.•SCROPHULARINE^.

Generic Character.

Calyx tubulosus, angulatus, -dentatus. orolla perso- nata abio uperiore ilobo ateribus eflexo ; nferiore trífido, laciniis subaequalibus. tamina 4, didynama. n- therarum lobis divaricatis. tigma bilamellatum. apsula calyce nclusa, ilocularis, oculicido-bivalvis alvis n- tegris. Kunth.


MIMULUS * perfoliatus ; aule erecto alato, foliis lanceolatis

amplexicaulibus brevi-pubescentibus pedúnculo xil- lari solitario subcymoso multo longioribus. Graham. MIMULUS perfoliatus. umb. et Kunth, Nov. Gen. v. 2. p.

298. Spreng. Syst. eget. v. 2. p. 799. CONOBEA lata. raham, n Ed. New Phil. Journ. ct.

1830. p. 3.

DESCR. oot creeping. tem (two feet and a half high) erect, labrous, hining, our-sided, our-winged, ings undulate, nd paringly iliated. ranches ecussating, spreading widely imilar to the tem. eaves (ten nches long, two broad) opposite, preading horizontally, acutely serrulate, anceolate, ttenuated nd ntire owards he base, at their origin dilated and stem-clasping, much vein-

ed and eticulated, oft, overed on both ides with ery short

From ¡¿mu, an ape, winch he flowers are supposed to resemble. F



short pubescence, bright green above, omewhat laucous below, iddle-rib ery trong, nd with he eins rominent elow. eduncles axillary, pposite, our-sided, closely applied o the upper urface of he leaves, and (in-

cluding the pedicels) about a fifth of their length, ubescent, bracteate, rifid, he lateral branches again dividing in he ame way ; edicels ike he eduncles, ut ess distinctly angled. racteas anceolate, entire, cuminate. Calyx green, oblique, five-ribbed, ive-toothed, pubescent on he outside, persisting. orolla (eight lines ong, our and a half across) yellow, bilabiate; ube elongated, om-

pressed aterally n ts ower, vertically n ts upper alf, nearly thrice he ength of the alyx ; pper lip bifid, revolute, lower lip spreading forwards, plicate, trifid, revolute at the pices, ll he lobes ounded ; wo very prominent ridges, very hairy, and omewhat orange-coloured, extend backwards nto he orolla rom he entral obe of the lower lip. tamens didynamous, ncluded ; filaments gla-

brous, yellow, adhering o he corolla or about half their length, onnivent nthers ilobular, obes ivergent ; pollen white. istil as long as he stamens ; tigma bifid, white, obes road, evolute, pper urface ubescent; style straight, white, filiform, glabrous, marcescent; germen ovate, green, glabrous, four-valved, bilocular ; vules very numerous, attached o a large entral eceptacle, a rans-

verse ection of which presents a kidney-shaped urface in each loculament. This plant was aised n he garden of P. EILL, sq.

at Canonmills, rom Mexican seeds, ommunicated by Mr. D. DON, as probably, a species of CONOBEA, and flowered in the greenhouse, in September, 1830. Graham.

Since the above was written, Mr. DON has had an opportunity, n the garden of Messrs. WHITLEY & Co., of examin- ing pecimens of his plant, lowering reely n he pen air, and has determined it to be a MIMULUS, nearly allied to, if not the same as, M. perfoliatus of HUMBOLDT and KUNTH. Their description, ndeed, o well accords with our plant, that I have little hesitation n adopting the name.

Fig. . lower. . Back view of an Anther. . ront view of ditto. - Pistil. . Young Fruit nat. size. . mmature Capsule. . ection of a nearly ripe Germen.•U but fig. 5, more or less magnified.



3068.



( 3068 )

ERANTHEMUM TRICTUM. UPRIGHT

ERANTHEMUM.

Class nd Order.

DlANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

( Nat. Ord.•ACANTHACE^E.

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-partitus, equalis. or. hypocrateriformis, imbo 5-partito, equali v. parum inasquali. tam. 2 antherifera,

exserta. nthères oculis parallelis muticis. ilamenta %

sterilia. varii loculi dispermi. aps, valvul• naviculares, dissepimento adnato. Semina retinaculis subtensa. Br.


ERANTHEMUM * trictum ; ufFruticosum, rectum, ubescens, amis dscendentibus ecussatis implicibus, foliis lanceolatis obscure crenulatis, spicis terminalibus gracilibus valde elongatis, bracteis oppositis decussatis unifloris dem urn remotis. Wall.

ERANTHEMUM strictum. Colebr." all in Fl. Ind. v. 1. p. 114. Bot. Reg. v. 10. . 867.

DESCR. mall hrub, f bout our r ive eet n height, lightly overed ith hort airs. tem lmost found, jointed, sending out quadrangular, slender branches in emote pairs. eaves about our nches ong, acute at each end ; heir margins somewhat revolute and crenulate, smooth, hining, nd f a eculiar greyish reen olour above, very pale,and with prominent, hairy, and reticulated nerves and veins below. The uppermost or loral eaves,

at



at the base of the spikes, approach to the size and figure of the bracteas. etioles about an inch long, lattened above, and lightly marginated by the decurrent base of the leaf.

Spikes solitary, erect, one to two feet long.

achis sharply quadrangular, lmost our-winged. lowers arge, ark blue, opposite, n alternate pairs, which become remote as the spike lengthens. racteas appressed, imbricating, their extremities cuneato-lanceolate, dark green, acute, ciliated, about an inch long he owermost barren, and becoming floral leaves. nterior two very small, scarcely longer than

the five calycine segments, and like them linear, pubescent. Tube f the orolla slender, ubescent, lightly enlarged towards he mouth, bout wice he ength of he outer bractea. egments obovate, truncate, spreading, and lat, equal, very pale below. wo filiform, barren stamens are between he filaments. nthers n he mouth of the o- rolla, with parallel cells.

This s almost an equally desirable inmate of the tove with the well-known E. pulchellum, for although the flowers are not so numerous as in hat species, yet they are indivi- dually larger, and quite as beautiful in colour.

Our collections are indebted or ts ntroduction o Dr. WALLICH. he plant rom which our igure as aken, flowered in the hothouse of the Glasgow Botanic Garden ; but eing ative f Nepal, t ill probably ucceed equally well in the greenhouse.

Fig. 1. Calyx and Bracteas. 2. tamens. 3. Pistil.•Magnified.



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tr.j.EJ»i /if/ y S . Cur/lit H

ra.!»crlh May 1.1831.



( 3069 )

BROWALLIA RANDIFLORA LARGE

FLOWERED

ROWALLIA.

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Class and Order.

DIDY N AMI A NGIOSPERMIA.

( Nat. Ord.•SCROPHULARIPME.

Generic Character.

Cal. tubulosus, 5-tidus. or. tubo ápice subinflato, limbo hypocrateriformi, obis subaequalibus. tam. nclusa. n- therce inaequales. Caps. 2-locularis, 2-valvis. Spr.

Specific haracter and Synonyms. BROWALLIA* grandiflora; caule diffuso ramoso, oliis ovatis

acutis, pedunculis xillaribus unifloris vel n acemis terminalibus ispositis, amulis alycibusque dultis glabris.

BROWALLIA randiflora. ot. Reg. . 1384? raham in Edin. Phil. Journ. Dec. 1830.

DESCR. nnual. tem herbaceous, diffused, branched, smooth, green, purplish below; branches spreading, smooth and hining, cattered. eaves vate, cuminate, attenuated nto petiole, mooth nd hining, he middle ib and onverging eins rominent elow, nd hannelled above. eduncles straight, ingle-flowered, xillary, nd

longer than the diminished leaves near he ermination ot the ranches, r ollected nto ax, erminal acemes, when oung landuloso - pubescent. alyx ve-clett, smooth, or, when young, glanduloso-villous, many-nerved, nerves ranching; egments nequal, preading, inear, channelled. Corolla ypocrateriform ; tube onger han

. amed after JOHN BROWALL, Swede, Bishop of Abo n 743. he intimacy nd ubsequent upture etween ROWALL nd INN^US, ere commemorated by the latter in the specific appellations winch he bestowed on tue only three individuals of the Genus then known. . data expresses the degree of their union ; B . demissa, its cessation; while the ambiguous name ot



the calyx, slightly inflated towards the top, and compressed vertically, glanduloso-villous, greenish-yellow, arked, as well s he alyx, with ark treaks; imb plicate n he bud, when expanded lat, white, r very pale ilac, with a yellow hroat, ellow on he outside, bilabiate, the upper lip linear and emarginate, the ower much arger, emicir- cular, formed of four united, obcordato-cuneate lobes, each smaller than the upper lip. tamens didynamous, adhering to the inside of the ube, he wo onger ones losing the throat of the corolla with the upper part of their filaments,

which is bent down, flattened and hairy above, their anthers included, having one perfect and one abortive lobe, divaricated, ompressed, nd pening along heir upper edge ; filaments of the shorter stamens flexuose at the top, filiform and smooth, their anthers bilobular, both the lobes perfect, divaricated nd ompressed, ursting long heir upper edges ; pollen and anthers of all the stamens yellow. er-

men ovate, and lightly compressed, ubescent, bilocular, bivalvular, he dissepiment proceeding rom he entre í the valves across the shorter diameter of the germen emi- nal receptacle large, central, covered with numerous ovules. Style filiform, labrous, onger han he horter, horter than the longer stamens, tortuose at the top. tigma quadrangular, peltate, green, obscurely four-lobed, having two

depressions or cells in the upper margin, where the anthers of the longer tamens are lodged, and two obscure depressions on he ower ide, where he nthers of he shorter stamens appear to be placed. I m ndebted o Dr. HOOKER or he description of the style

and stigma, and or ome observations regarding the anthers, for the style was lost in the only flower which I reserved for dissection,

when the specimen was sent to him to be figured in the Botanical Magazine. he anthers n he onger and horter stamens appeared o him o be alike, eniform, nd ne-celled ; ut m quite certain that the above description of what I saw is accurate: the appearance probably varying from abortion.

We received his plant from the Botanic Garden, lasgow, » October last, having been raised there from seeds collected by Mr. CRUCKSHANKS, near Yazo, in the valley of Canta, in Peru. t j >

now December) lowering ery reely n he reenhouse, nd probably will be found to bear cultivation s very ornamental annual in the open border. Graham.

The plant igured in he Botanical Register above quoted, has the flowers considerably smaller and the leaves more cordate than in Dr. GRAHAM'S, and appears to be raised from seeds of another



3070.



( 3070 ) SCHIZANTHUS HoOKERI. AcUTE-PETALED

SCHIZANTHUS.

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Class and Order.

DlANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

( Nat. Ord.•SCROPHULARIN^E.

Generic haracter.

Corolla irregularis, labio superiore quinquefido, inferiore tripartito. tamina 2 antherifera, 2 sterilia, filamentis vil- losis. Capsula bilocularis.


SCHIZANTHUS Hookeri ; corolla tubo limbum arquante, abio inferiore onge icornuto, abii superioris obo edio longe acuminato.

SCHIZANTHUS ookeri. illies MSS. raham n din. Phil. Journ. 830.

DESCR. iennial tem herbaceous, tout, ranched. Branches iffuse, hole urface overed with landular pubescence. eaves ariable, nce r wice irmatifid, lacini• ncised. edicels three -fourths f an nch ong) secund, both n lower nd ruit, rect. lowers n arge branching, terminal, bracteated panicles. alyx persistent, five-parted, our of the segments suberect, he upper rather shorter han he next, hile he ongest, which s losely applied o the underside of the ube of the orolla, is considerably longer than any of the others, at least m the cultivated specimens. orolla an nch across in both directions,

slightly pubescent externally, two-lipped pper ip, as in the other species, hree-lobed, he entral obe much narrower than n . porrigens, r . pinnatus (the latter certainly distinct from . pinnatus of Ruiz and PAVON) entire, >vith prominent dges orming he hroat, ith ts ides ^volute owards he apex, nd drawn out o a long, erect



point, which, as well as ts base, nd he whole remainder of the corolla, s of an uniform pale rose lilac, rather darker and somewhat streaked on he outside, he entre orange- coloured, ith ew ark urple treaks ; ateral obes

bipartite, ach egment bifid ower-lip ripartite, ateral segments linear, very narrow, spreading, and half the length of he entral ne, which s notched, and each segment is drawn out into a long beak ; ube slightly curved, laterally compressed, and longer than the imb. Stamens four ¡filaments pubescent at the base, the two upper ones very short, abortive, nd rojecting orwards rom he dge f the central obe f he upper ip, at ts base, he wo thers rising from the base of the lower lip, nearly reaching to the fissure in ts central obe, nd as in he other species, e- tained within his ill he pollen s ipe, after which they advance, and pass orward n traight, parallel ines rom the entre f he lower nthers arge, reen, roadly

elliptical, notched

at

heir base,

bilobular,

bursting

long their nner urface pollen greenish-yellow. Stigma very minute, erminal. Style ather onger han he tamens, ascending at ts extremity, ilac. Germen small, onical, yellow, bilobular. Ovules numerous, attached to a central receptacle n ach loculament, apsule ovate, onger han the calyx, wo-val ved, valves bifid. Seeds brown, dotted,

somewhat scaly, reniform, or so much bent round that their extremities meet. This emarkably istinct pecies f CHIZANTHUS as

raised by JAMES OOG, sq. n is garden at ortobello, from eed brought o his ountry by my excellent friend, Dr. GILLIES, having been gathered by him in various places on he Chilian ide of the Cordillera of the Andes, at an

elevation of eight or nine thousand eet above he level of the sea. he seed was sown n he spring of 1829, in the open border, and the plants not having flowered, hey were taken into the house during winter, nd eplanted abroad in March. he flowers began to appear in June, and were abundantly roduced uring he whole ummer. hus treated, CHIZANTHUS Hookeri has roved itself of biennial

duration, t east; hether t ay e onger ived, r whether, f aised n reater egree f heat, he plant might not have blossomed n he first year and afterwards died, I am unable to say. r. GILLIES obligingly informed me when the flowers first appeared, xpressing his onvic-



r.McAv/ien.MD. * " . - /



( 3071 )

JANIPHA ANIHOT. EATABLE-ROOTED

PHYSIC-NUT,

ITTER

ASSADA,

ANIOC,

r TAPIOCA.

* ******************Class nd Order.

MONCECIA DECANDRIA.

( Nat. rd. •EUPHORBIACE^E.

Generic Character.

MASC. al. ullus. or. ampanulata, uinquefida.

Stam. 0, ibera. ectarium 0-radiatum. íEM. al. nullus. or. 5-partita. tigma mplum, arnosum, ris- tatum, multifidum. apsula ovata, apice acutiuscula, ri- cocca. Pohl, (sub Manihot.)


JANIPHA* anihot; oliis palinatis •7-partitis labris subtus glaucis, aciniis anceolatis ntegernmis, tori-

bus racemosis. QK JANIPHA Manihot. umb. et Kunth, Nov. Gen. v. ¿. p. ¿ > .

Spreng. Syst. eget. v. 3. p. 77. MANIHOT tilissima. ohl, L Brasil. con. . I. P- ó¿.

t 4

JATROPHA anihot. inn. p. PL p. 428 it. Hort. Kew. ed . 2. v. 5. p. 330. illd. Sp. PL v. 4. p. 56¿. Lunan, Hort. Jamaic. v. I. p. 161.

JATROPHA. n. 5. Brown, Jam. p. 350.

* ANIPHA s n ndian ame, applied o nother Pfcie%f, T

the JATROPHA Janipha of L.NN*US. MAMIIOT s equaUy an ndan appella «on, by which he various kinds are known n Brazil. he <^n^•f"being separated rom ATROPHA, he Generic name f MANIHOT wouldI ave

been ore roperly pplied o t, s as lready een one y •"J»£TOVRNEFORT, DANSOV, nd, ubsequently, y POHL" ANIPHA was um- ber, established by KUNTH, and has been anctioned by JUSSIEU, PRENGEI,,

and the majority of Botanists.



RiciNUs minor, c. Sloane, Jam. v. 1. p. 130, t. 85, et t. 141. /. root) et vol. 2. App. . 6. f. 1.

MANIHOT heveti, Yucca, t Cassavi. Bauh. Hist. v. %

p. 794.

DESCR. C This has an oblong, tuberous root, s big as one's fist, having some fibres drawing its nourishment, and being ull f a wheyish, venomous uice. he talks are white, rooked, rittle, aving ery arge ith, nd

several knobs ticking ut on every side like warts, being the emains of he ootstalks f he eaves, hich ave dropped ff. he lant usually ises ix o even eet high, and has a mooth, white bark ; he branches, which come ut on very side owards the top, are crooked, and have, n very ide, ear heir ops, eaves, rregularly placed" SLOANE), n long, terete petioles, broadly cordate

in heir utline, ivided early o heir ase nto ive spreading, lanceolate, entire segments, attenuated t oth extremities, dark green above, pale glaucous beneath ; he midrib strong, prominent below, nd there yellowish-red : from it there branch off several oblique veins, connected by lesser ransverse ones. tipules small, anceolate, cuminate, caducous. anicles or compound acemes, xillary

and terminal, our o ive nches long, earing ometimes all male or all female flowers, at other times these are mixed on he ame eduncle. edicels with mall, ubulate, bracteas t heir ase. ale lower maller han he female. erianth single, purplish on he outside, ulvous- brown within, cut about half-way down into five, spreading segments. n the centre of the flower is an orange-colour-

ed, leshy, ten-rayed nectary, and the ten stamens alternate with its lobes or rays. ilaments shorter than the perianth, white, filiform, ree. nthers linear-oblong, yellow. ollen globular, yellow. emale flower of the same colour as the male, deeply five-partite, he aciniae anceolato-ovate, spreading. ectary an annular, orange-coloured gland or ring, n which he purple, ovate, furrowed ermen s m-

bedded tyle hort tigmas hree, eflexed, urrowed, and plaited, white. apsule ovate, rigonous, ricoccous. Seeds elliptical, black, hining, with a hick, leshy., eed- stalk.

We learn from the Hortus Kewensis, that the CASSAVA has



where it is most extensively grown, on account of ¡ts useful and medicinal properties. ome have upposed ts native country o be Africa, ut POHL xpressly tates t o e indigenous o razil, here here xist any pparent varieties, differing chiefly in he breadth of the segments of their leaves, which that author has distinguished in his truly splendid " Icones et Descriptiones Plantarum Brasilia?/' as so many distinct pecies. ndeed, e ays himself, of his dwarf c

MANIHOT usilla, go uidem eam ANIHOT

pusillam rimitivam psius ANIHOT tilissim• lantam esse censeo/'

It s tated n he Hortus Kewensis, hat the ATROPHA Manihot blossoms in our ollections in the months of July and August. ut I have never been able to procure recent flowering specimens ; and have felt greatly obliged to my valued orrespondent, r. ICHOLSON f Antigua, or an excellent drawing, here given, ade from the recent plant in that island.

Two kinds are especially cultivated in the Colonies, the Sweet Cassada of BROWNE'S Jamaica p. 350) nd LUNAN'S Hort. Jam. v. 1. p. 163.) MANIHOT Aipis POHL; whose root is of a white colour, and free from deleterious qualities and the Bitter Cassada, whose root is yellowish, and abounds in a poisonous juice. e hall onfine ur observations o the latter kind, which is the one here figured and described.

They seem not to differ in botanical character. When it is considered, that the MANIOC belongs to a tribe of plants, he UPHORBIACE^:, hich s ssentially distinguished by ts acrid nd poisonous qualities, and that the root of the plant tself abounds n juice of this peculiar character, it cannot fail to excite astonishment in he minds of those who are not already aware of the fact, that it never-

theless yields an

abundant

lour,

endered innocent indeed »y the art of man, nd hus most extensively employed in lieu f bread, hroughout a very arge portion f South America : nd hat ven o our ountry t s argely imported, and served up at table, under the name of Tapioca.

Such is the poisonous nature of the expressed juice of the MANI0CJ hat it has been known o occasion death in a few minutes. y means of it, the ndians destroyed any f their Spanish ersecutors. . ERNIER, hysician t Surinam, administered a moderate dose o dogs nd ats, ^no died n a space of twenty-five minutes, passed in great torments. heir stomachs, on being opened, exhibited no symptoms of inflammation, nor affection of the viscera, nor

was



was he lood oagulated, hence t appeared, hat he poison acted on the nervous system n idea that was con- firmed, by hirty-six rops being fterwards dministered to a riminal. hese ad carcely eached he tomach, when the man writhed and screamed with the agonies under which he uffered, and ell nto onvulsions, n which e expired in ix minutes. hree hours afterwards, the body was opened, ut no alteration was ound, except hat he stomach was shrunk to less than half its natural size: o that it would appear that the fatal principle resides in a volatile

substance, which may be dissipated by heat; as, ndeed, s satisfactorily roved, y he mode f preparing he oot for food.

By various processes, by bruising etween tones, y a coarse rasp, or by a mill, the root of the MANIOC s broken into small pieces, hen put nto a sack, and ubjected to a heavy pressure, by which all the juice is expressed. hat

remains is Cassava or Cassada, which, f properly dried, is capable of being preserved for a great length of time. In French Guiana, according to AUBLET, assava flour is

made, y oasting he grated oot over the ire, n which state, f kept rom umidity, t ill ontinue ood or twenty years.

Cassava-cake or Cassava-root is he meal, or he grated, expressed, nd ried oot f the ANIOC, ounded n mortar, passed hrough oarse sieve, nd baked n flat circular iron plates fixed in a stove. he particles of meal are united by the heat, and when thoroughly baked in this manner, form cakes, which are sold at the markets, and universally steemed s holesome ind f read. he

Spaniards, when they first discovered the West Indies, found this in general use among the native Indians, who called ij Cazabbi, and by whom it was preferred to every other kind of bread, on account of its easy digestion, he facility with which it was cultivated, and its prodigious increase."- 0

^

in Lunan's Hort. Jamaic. Again, in Guiana, Cipipa s another preparation rom his plant, and is the name given toa

very fine and white écula, which, ccording to AUBLET , S

derived from the expressed juice of he roots, which s de- canted off, and uffered to rest some time, when t deposit8

an amylaceous substance, which requires repeated washing- I know not whether this is exactly analogous to our Tapioca - " The juice," ays SLOANE, " evaporated over the fire, §&&



in every respect imilar to that imported which is done by grating hem, ashing nd nfusing hem n water, nd evaporating he iquor o s o btain ediment ike starch, which must be well dried in he sun."

The root of the MANIOC s also the basis of several kinds of fermented iquors; nd n excellent ondiment for sea- soning meats, alled abion, or Capion, s prepared rom the uice, nd aid o harpen he ppetite. he eaves beaten nd oiled are eaten after the manner of Spinach and the fresh oot is employed in healing ulcers.

From what has been above stated, it will appear, that the

expression of the juice from the oot deprives he atter of all ts eleterious roperties ; and hat he pplication of heat o hese juices, enders heir residue also, wholesome and nourishing. nd whilst assava-bread s, s SLOANE says, n he most general demand of any provision all over the West Indies, and is employed to victual ships he use of Tapioca is still more extended, nd hroughout Europe

is argely employed, or he ame purposes s ago and Arrow-root. An acre f ground planted with MANIOC, yields nourish-

ment to a greater number of persons, han ix cres cultivated ith he est Wheat ut t s probable hat t greatly xhausts he oil. he state f Mandiocca n Brazil,the late residence of M. DE LANGSDORFF, s so called

on account

of the excellency of the Manioc,

or Mandiocca

roots, hich re ultivated n t. here, fter burning the felled trees, he lands are planted with cuttings, manu °as) of this plant. n eighteen or twenty months, uring which time the farmer endeavours above all things to check their upward growth by breaking out the buds, he oots have ttained heir ull ize. ach lantation sually yields hree rops, nd s hen bandoned. Spix nd Martius' ravels in Brazil.

, iff. . ranch of plant with emale lowers. . anicle, with n.^lv Male lowers. . istil. . tamens and Nectary. . nther. . eed. ~~3»4, 5, magnified.



( 3072 ) CHRYSOPHYLLUM AINITO. BROAD-LEAVED

STAR-APPLE.

Class and Order.

PENTANDRIA ONOGYNIA.

( Nat. Ord.•SAPOTEX.

Generic haracter.

Cal. - eu -partitus. or. ampanulata, •4-fida. Stamina ubo orolla nserta, aciniis pposita. tylus

brevis.

tigma subsessile, peltatum. acca 1•10-locularis, •10-sperma.


CHRYSOPHYLLUM* Cainito; foliis ellipticis upra itidis subtus aureo - serieeis parallelo-venosis, pedunculis sparsis axillaribus terminalibusque aggregatis unifloris.

CHRYSOPHYLLUM Cainito. Linn. Sp. PI. p. 278. Willd. Sp. PL . . p. 1083. Jacq. Am. p. 51. . 37. Lam. 1 1 1 .

t. 120. G•rtn. e Fruct. . 3. p. 120. . 201. Ad. Hort. Kew. d . 2. . . p. 2 . Spreng. yst. Veg. v.l. p. 666.

CHRYSOPHYLLUM 1-fructu majori globoso, foliis subtus ferrugineis. Browne, Jam. p. 171. . 14./. 2.

ANONA, oliis subtus ferrugineis, c. Sloane, Jam. v, 2 . p. 170. . 229.

(3.) ructu purpureo, C jamaicense. Jacq. Am. p. 52 . (y.) ructu c•ruleo, C. c•ruleum. Jacq. Am. p. 52.

DESCR. This ree s described n ts ative limate s rising o eight of hirty or orty feet, and having a

trunk

* rom overos, gold, and tpvtooi, a leaf, from the color f he nderside of



trunk oot n iameter, lothed ith eddish-brown bark, with branches and twigs spreading on every side, and reaching lmost o he ground."•Sloane. he oung branches re lothed with ilky, erruginous, ppressed hairs. he eaves re lternate, lliptical, our o ive inches ong, ntire, hortly cuminated, ark reen nd glabrous, or with only a few scattered hairs above, beneath glossy, with abundant, closely-pressed, golden-rust-coloured hairs, aureo-nitentia) which give a satiny ppearance, " in beauty and strangeness," says SLOANE,

e much beyond

any leaf I ever beheld." he nerves are numerous, parallel, and transverse. etioles short, carcely more han half an inch long. he flowers arise rom the axils of the leaves, or ometimes rom he extremity of the young branches they re n hort, ingle-flowered, ggregated talks, shorter than the petioles. alyx in five, n our specimens four, deep roundish lobes, rust-coloured, and satiny. orolla subcampanulate, yellowish-white, he imb cut nto ive or four oundish obes. tamens nserted at he base of the limb, and pposite he obes of it, very mall. ilaments short, scarcely longer than the rounded, two-lobed anthers. Germen ovate, hairy : Style shorter than the germen : Stigma obtuse. he fruit s arge, lobose, en-celled Berry,

m which, however, ome of he cells are usually abortive. Seed large, compressed, marked with an mbilical areola its albumen fleshy. he Embryo arge, erect, he otyle- dons fleshy, with a curved radicle.

The Star-apple is a well-known ruit of the West Indies, where, owever, t appears o be more steemed y he natives than it is by Europeans ; yet I am not aware that any good figure of it exists in the more recent Botanical publications. n ur toves, where t has been nown ince 1737, when t was ntroduced by PHILIP MILLER, t recommends itself by the beauty of its foliage, particularly on the underside or its lowers not only appear but seldom, but they are small in size, and by no means of a brilliant colour.

They were produced n the month of November, 830, n the stove of the Glasgow Botanic Carden. ith the view to render the figure more complete, he fruit and seeds are given, copied from GARTNER.

The wood s aid o be erviceable or ndoor work, f preserved from moisture.



( 3073 ) ARGEMONE GRANDIFLORA. LARGE-FLOWERED

MEXICAN OPPY.

Class and Order.


( Nat. Ord.•PAPAVERáCEAS.

Generic haracter.

Pet. 4•6. tamina plurima. tylus vix ullus tigmata 4•7, adiantia, oncava, ibera. apsula obovata,

1-locularis, alvulis pice ehiscens, placentis inearibus. Semina sphaerica, crobiculata.•Flores flavi aut albi. e- d un culi ante anthesin erecti. D C.


ARGEMONE * randiflora ; oliis pinnatifidis inuatis parce

spinoso-dentatis, caule calyceque laevibus, capsula oblonga tetragona nudiuscula. ARGEMONE grandiflora. weet, Br. FI. Gard. . 226. ot.

Reg. t. 1264. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 242.

DESCR. hardy perennial, throwing up a much branch-

ed, ounded tem, hree o our eet high, which, upwards especially, s of a pale ellowish-green colour, with a reddish tinge arising from numerous fine streaks of that colour, unarmed s ell s he eduncles. eaves umerous, mostly arge, lane, r lightly waved, green, whitish n the entre, innatifid, inuated nd eset ith oft nd remote pinous eeth, he ase mplexicaul, the pper

ones

* erived from argema, the cataract of the eye, and which again is thus named from ap70i, silver. he Greeks o called a plant, perhaps his, which they considered beneficial in the cure of that complaint.



ones small and scarcely pinnatifid. lowers large, in panicles. alyx caducous, f three oncave, glabrous leaves, each engthened nto a oft horn. etals six, early r- bicular, pure white, nd extremely delicate. tamens numerous, spreading, and ying over ach other with reat regularity, orange-yellow. istil obtusely our-angled, linear-oblong. tigma nearly sessile, ich purple, downy, with our impressed, bright blue spots. apsule (scarcely mature) oblong, with a few soft, spinous hairs, ne-celled, with our arietal eceptacles, o hich any eeds are attached.

Introduced by Mr. BARCLAY among many other rarities from Mexico ; nd ow, by hat gentleman's well-known liberality, t has become a not uncommon nmate of our gardens, producing freely its fine white blossoms with their orange tamens nd rilliant tigma, hrough he whole summer months. ts stem and peduncles are quite smooth, and the fruit has only a few soft pinous eeth, ossessing

none of those " sharpe and venomous prickles," described by ld GERARDE s haracteristic of the A. mexicana, of such a nature, * hat whosoever had one of them n his throte, oubtless t would send him either to heaven or to hell V

* ee the account of ARGEMONE mexicana n t. 43 of the Old Series f this Work.

Fig. . Stamen. 2 . ection of an unripe Capsule.



3 O 7 \

/'•/. .r.r r,trtiA- <:',,-,,••,...,/ .>;•,_» /••, / .



( 3074 ) DENDIIOBIUM SPECIOSüM. GREAT

DENDROBIUM.

Class and Order.

GYNANDRIA ONANDRIA.

( Nat. Ord.•ORCHIDEE.

Generic Character.

Labellum ecalcaratum, rticulatum um pice processus unguiformis, ujus ateribus étala ntica dnata, alcar

smulantia. Mass• pollinis 4, parallel. Br.

Specific haracter nd ynonyms. DENDROBIUM speciosum; caulibus erectis apice 2•3-phyllis,

foliis ovali-oblongis integerrimis racemo terminali rnul- tifloro brevioribus, perianthii foliolis angusto-oblongis, labello nfra divisuram arina única, obo ntermedio latiore quam ongo ecarinato. Br.

DENDROBIUM peciosum. m. Ex. Bot. p. 7. . 10. r. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 332. it. Hort. Kew. d . ¿. v. 5. p. 212. Spreng. Syst. eget. v. 3. p. 738.

DESCR. tem oot or ore high, omewhat wollen, bulbiform, triated, jointed, sheathed with pale membranaceous cales, erminated y hree arge, oriaceous, oval- oblong, btuse eaves, ark green bove, aler eneain, obscurely triated, ight o ine nches ong. rom rie centre f these, and rom the extremity of the tem, arises the pedunculated aceme, a foot and a half long: ts peduncle sheathed with arge scales or bractea. lowers resupi-

ste, numerous, of an uniform, pale yellow colour, except the ip,) eeper owards he extremity, enerally ecund *lien ost xpanded, hough he uds oint n arious directions, centless. etals narrow-oblong, nearly equal, except hat he wo pper ones hich over he ip re



somewhat alcate, and are swollen at he base where they receive the base of the lip, all of them erect, never spreading *. ip almost white, within potted with purple, ob-

long-,

rect,

he

ides incurved, and

ittle

waved,

hree- lobed, he middle or erminal obe the largest, broad and retuse. olumn hort, hite, lane n ront, nd hen spotted with purple below the stigma. nther white, hemi- sphaerical, attached o the back of the op of the column. Pollen-Masses yellow.

DENDROBIUM speciosum is a New Holland plant, hat has been ong cultivated n ur stoves ut which, as far as I am ware, as arely produced blossoms. n he present season, Jan. 1831,) a noble flowering pecimen was communicated o e, rom he iverpool otanic arden, by the Messrs. HEPHERDS. he plant was named by Sir JAMES . MITH, n is xotic otany, here igure likewise s given, but so unlike our present one, hat he two plants scarcely appear o be the ame. et I believe they re dentical, nd hat he difference arises from the artist of Sir JAMES . MITH'S igure which was done n New olland,) ot eing killed n otanical rawing. The lowers are greatly larger han n our plant, he gibbous or spur-like base, essential to the Genus DENDROBIUM, is mitted, and he petals are widely patent. he plant from which our igure s aken was ent by Mr. RASER

to he iverpool Garden. drawing has ikewise een obligingly ommunicated o e, y W. T. AITON, sq., from the Royal Gardens at Kew.

* n a fine specimen forwarded to me from the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, since the plate was ngraved, ne of he lossoms was onsiderably more

expanded than is here represented.

Fig. . Flower, slightly magnified. . olumn or ip, he atter forced back to show more of he ormer. . ront view of the Column. . nterior view of the Lip. 5. Pollen-Masses.•All more or less magnified.



307J.

Jam



( 3075 )

LOBELIA YPOCRATERIFORMIS. SALVER-

SHAPED OBELIA.

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Class and Order.


( Nat. Ord.•LOBELIACE^;.

Generic haracter.

Cor. ubo inc isso raro ntegro) imbo -partito. Antherce onnatae. tigma ilobum, nunc ndivisum.) Capsula ilocularis, raro -locularis,) pice upero i-

valvi. Br. Div. sotoma. r. or. hypocrateriformis, ubo integro, limbo arum ncequali. ntherce mberbes 2 nferiores

mucronatce.J Flores racemosi.


LOBELIA ypocrateriformis; nima labra, anle ubsim- plici, oliis linearibus integerrimis. Br.

LOBELIA hypocrateriformis. r. Prod. v. I. p. 565. pr. Syst. eg. v. 1. p. 719.

DESCR. lender,

carcely

ranched,

nnual

lant. Stems rect, labrous, s s very art, avy, ounded. Leaves scattered, emote, linear-filiform, rom halt to three quarters f an nch ong, preading, r ften ecurved, obtuse, entire, pale green, gradually becoming smal er upwards, and passing nto racteae. aceme erminal, ew- flowered. edicels slender, avy, uch onger han he linear bracte•. alyx uperior, f ive inear-subulate, closely-placed eeth. orolla ruly ypocratentorm he tube slender, wice or hrice as ong s he alyx, ntire, almost white he imb five-partite, omewhat two-lipped, the segments broadly obovato - cunéate, submucronate,



purple, with a mall ed pot at he" base, he wo upper ones ather he mallest, pproximate, s re he hree lower, of which he middle egment s he argest of all. Filaments white. nthers blong, luish-purple. ermen obovate, urrowed, glabrous tyle a ittle xceeding the

stamens : Stigma two-lobed. This interesting ittle plant s a native of the Southern

shores of New Holland, where t was iscovered y r. BROWN, and described by that learned author as the type of the division f OBELIA which e alls SOTOMA. eeds were ent o he lasgow otanic arden, y r. . FRASER,

and the plants blossomed in the greenhouse during the month of September, 1830. We possess native specimens, gathered at King George's

Sound, which are larger than the plant here figured.

Fig. . Flower. 2 . nthers nd Stigma :•magnified.



( 3076 ) BROUGHTONIA SANGUíNEA. CRIMSON-

FLOWERED ROUGHTONIA.

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Class nd Order.

GYNANDRIA ONANDRIA.


Generic Character.

Columna ibera, v. asi antum onnata labello ngui- culato (mine inferne producto in tubulum ovario adnatiim).

Massce Pollinis

4 parallel«, septis completis persistentibus

distinctae, basi filo granulato elástico auctae. Br.


BROUGHTONIA * anguínea ; oliis geminis blongis ulbo innatis, scapo diviso. Br.

BROUGHTONIA anguínea. Br. in Hort. Kew. ed . 2. v. 5. p. 217. Spreng. Syst. eget. v. 3. p. 734.

DENDROBIUM anguineum. Swartz, l. nd. ct. . 4. p. 1529. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 4. p. 132.

EPIDENDRUM sanguineum. Swartz, Prodr. p. 124. VISCUM adice bulbosa minus, c. Sloane, Jam. . I. p.

250. . 121./2. SATYRIUM arasiticum foliis paucioribus, &c. Browne,

Jam. p. 324.

DESCR. ulbs roundish or ovate, dark green, the younger ones depressed, slightly compressed, smooth, sheathed with a brownish, embranous oat, bearing one or as would

appear o be he orrect number) wo eaves rom he summit,

* Named by Mr. BROWN, n compliment to Mr. ARTHUR BROUGHTON, n English Botanist.



summit, whicli are aid bv SWARTZ o be adnate with the bulb, our o five inches long, oriaceous, rigid, obtuse r emarginate at the point, hannelled n he iddle n he upper side,

somewhat keeled below, nerveless. rom

the base f the eaves, ithin, ises ounded, nbranched, purplish-green scape, a foot or more high, jointed at ntervals, nd aving mall, ppressed cale t ach joint. Raceme terminal, lax, few- (seven to eight) flowered. edicels curved upwards, carcely two nches ong, including the dnate pur,) right ed, ach ith mall ractea

at the base.

erianth (except at the base of the labellum) of a ine ich crimson, nner egments a ittle paler, and more delicate in tructure. he hree outer segments are lanceolato-acuminate, carinated; he two inner and ateral ones bovato-cuneate, omewhat waved, veiny abellum

scarcely onger han he est f he egments, roadly obovate, waved and somewhat crenate at the margin, very

veiny, nd with deep ed ines pon n range-coloured ground t he carcely nguiculated ase, here t s decurrent, running down into a long spur, which is adnate with the slender germen. olumn rather short, emicylin- drical. tigma ransverse, ery iscid. nther hite, hemispherical, with four parallel cells, and four oval, compressed, white pollen-masses, each ith a ilament, which

lies upon the edge of the mass. BROWNE, n his atural History of amaica, ays hat

this s c one of he most beautiful species of his tribe of plants ;" and it s certain that there are few that can excel it n ichness of colour. t grows n ts native sland not far from the hore upon he old trunks of BOMBAX, RHIZO-

PHORA, ONOCARPUS, c, along with he CVMBIDIUM nodo-

sum. Swartz.) t was introduced o Kew, n 793, but is , probably, yet rare in collections. specimen has been obligingly ommunicated o e y HARLES ORSFALL, Esq. of Everton, near Liverpool, raised rom bulbs sent by Mr. WILES, rom Jamaica; nd accompanied y an xcellent drawing from he pencil of Mrs. HORSFALL.

Fig. . olumn nd art of the erianth. 2 . nner iew of n Anther- case. 3. nd 4. ollen-Masses :•more or less magnified.



( 3077 ) ORNITHOGALUM FIMBRIATUM. HAIRY-

LEAVED TAR F ETHLEHEM.

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Class nd Order.

HEXANDRIA ONOGYNIA.

( Nat. Ord.•ASPHODèLES.

Generic Character.

Perianthium inferum, petaloideurn, hexaphyllum. tam. alterna majora, eu basi ilatata. apsula -loba, obis

sulcatis, 3-locularis, polysperma. Semina biserialia.

Specific Character and ynonyms.

ORNITHOGALUM * fimbriatum ; foliis inearibus atentibus canaliculatis extus capoque perbrevi hirsutis, racemo subcorymboso, pedunculis elongatis patentibus fructi-

feris deflexis. ORNITHOGALUM imbriatum. " Willd. n Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. Berol. 3. p. 26." Bieb. Fl. Taur. Cauc. v.]. p. 216. Bot. Reg. . 55. Spreng. yst. Veget. . . P. 50.

ORNITHOGALO umbellato ffine, oliis ilosis. "Pall, n Nov. Act. Petrop. 10. 309."

ORNITHOGALUM samium villosum umbellatum album, ourn. Cor. p. 26. (Bieb.)

DESCR. ulb ovate, whitish. eaves all radical, spreading, six to eight inches ong, inear, channelled above and glabrous, semicylindrical beneath and very hairy, he apex obtuse. cape exceedingly hort, airy, earing a hort but broad raceme of flowers. eduncles at first erect, short,

J hen

. rom pK, p•6,{, bird, nd *** , milk: ut hy u amed s ery «oubtful.



then engthened nd ecoming atent hen he lower expands ; omewhat more elongated and deflexed in fruit. Bractece t irst qual n ength with he peduncle, hen longer, membranaceous, whitish, heathing. erianth of

six spreading, ovato-acuminate eaves, white, green in the centre : he three inner ones smaller and less green on the back. tamens pposite he egments f he erianth. Filaments white, ubulate, ery road t he ase, nd nearly equal n ize and hape. nthers oblong, ellow. Germen bovate, deeply hree-lobed, ach obe urrowed in the centre, so that there are three deep alternating with three shallow furrows hree-celled, ells with many seeds arranged n wo vertical ows n he nner angle. tyle short, straight. tigma small, riquetrous. ruit ( immature; of the same form and structure as the germen.

MARSHALL IEBERSTEIN and Mr. KER are urely not correct in considering this as so closely allied to O. umbellatum

that they can scarcely point out any distinction, except the hairiness of the eaves. he nflorescence eems o e very different, the raceme being almost radical, the peduncles much more preading, nd becoming deflexed s the fruit approaches to maturity. It is a native of the Crimea, and was introduced by the

Horticultural Society of London, in 1821. n he green-

house of our Botanic Garden it flowers in March, and con- tinues in blossom during many successive days.

Fig. . tamens. 2 . istil. 3. ection of the Germen.•agnified.



307 8.

Pal'br St'iir!.



( 3078 )

RHIPSALIS ESEMBRYANTHEMOIDES. FIG-

MARIGOLD-LIKE RHIPSALIS.

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Class and Order.

ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

( Nat. Ord.•CáCTEA.

Generic Character.

Cal. ubus ovario adhaerens, laevis limbus superus 3•6- partitus revis, dentibus acuminatis embranaceis. et. 6, oblonga, patula, alyci nserta. tam. \2•18, petalis affixa. tylus iliformis. tigmata 3•6, patula. acca pellucida, subrotunda, calyce marcescente coronata. Semina intra pulpam nidulantia, exalbuminosa, adicula embryonis crassa, cotyled. 2 brevibus obtusis.•Frútices pseudo-para- sitici uper rbores ns. Carib•arum rti, •pius penduli aphylli ramosi eretes nudi aut setas mínimas ubjalcatas

gerentes, fasciculis une rdine spirali quincunciali dispo- sais. lores aterales sessiles parvi lbi. accae fere Visci) lbce pellucida. D C.


RHIPSALIS * esembryanthemoides; lomerato-ramosa, a-

mis erectis teretibus trictis articuliferis, articulis ateralibus onfertis eretibus trinque attenuatis nebu- losis medio loriferis, asciculis etarum capillacearum albis pallidis emum ortuisve nigris, ionbus olitariis. DC.

RHIPSALIS esembryanthemoides. aw. evis, . 1. De Cand. Prodr. v. 4. p. 476.

RHIPSALIS salicornoides, . Haw. in Suppl PI. Succ. p. 83. DESCR.

* rom 4, willow-branch, n llusion o he ong flexible stems and branches.



DESCR. lant easily cultivated n earth, but evidently a parasite, like its congeners. tems woody, covered, as well as the branches, (which send out roots from different points,) with greyish ark, ough ith he cars f allen eaves and ith cattered black pines. ranches woody, lus- tered, ensely overed ith leshy, blong, early cylindrical oints leaves?), hich re prinkled with minute dots, and with ascicles of slender lack pines. lowers solitary, rom the middle of a joint, arge, white, inferior in size only to those of R. grandiflora. ruit a white Berry,

smaller thau that of R. Cassytka. Christy MSS.

A ative, s are ost f he ACTUS amily, of South America, and first described by A. H. HAWORTH, sq., who has or many years aid he most devoted attention to the study of succulent plants. hat gentleman, however, had not een he blossoms, which were produced n he tove of our valued riend, W. HRISTY, sq. lapham oad,

London, n the month of March, 831. For the drawing of this and the two following species, we are indebted to the accurate pencil of Mr. J. D. OWERBY.

Fig. . lower. 2 . tamen. 3. Pistil.•Magnified.



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It"* fUli

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( 3079 )

RHIPSALIS ASCICULATA. CLUSTER-BRANCHED

RHIPSALIS.

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Class and Order.



Generic haracter.

Cal. ubus ovario adhaerens, laevis ; imbus superus 3•6- partitus brevis, entibus acuminatis embranaceis. et.

6, oblonga, atula, alyci nserta. tam. 12•18, petalis affixa. tylus iliformis. tigmata 3•6, patula. acca pellucida, subrotunda, calyce marcescente coronata. Semina intra pulpam nidulantia, exalbuminosa, radícula embryonis crassa, cotyled. brevibus obtusis.•Frútices pseudo-para- sitici uper rbores ns. arib•arum rti, •pius penduli aphylli ramosi eretes nudi ut etas mínimas subfalcatas

gerentes, fasciculis une rdine spirali quincunciali dispo- sais. lores aterales essiles parvi albi. accae fere Visci) alb•pellucid•. D C.


RHIPSALIS fasciculata; péndula, ramis teretibus fasciculatis,

pilis cum asciculis ordine quincunciali pirahter er- vatis ecus amos uniores. e and. Prodr. . . p. 476.

RHIPSALIS asciculata. Haw. Suppl. PI. SuccuLp. 83. RHIPSALIS parasítica. Haw. Syn. PL Succ. p. 187. CACTUS asciculatus. Willd. Enum. Suppl p. 33. CACTUS parasiticus. am. Diet. . . p. 41. e Land.

PL Gras. . 59.

DESCR. Plant parasitical ; ut growing well in a pot of soil. Branches springing many together m a dense cluster,



and more abundantly from near he oot, ylindrical, pendulous, ather thicker than a goose-quill, with many ots or scars, especially on the younger branches, and these dots are placed beneath a light protuberance hey each

bear

a fascicle of ine hair-like spines. hen the branches are young these spines are white, and very soft but in a more advanced tate, hey are very conspicuous, and of a eep black olour. n he older branches, however, hey are less perceptible. he extremities of the branches are also furnished with a tuft of similar spines. lowers rarely pro-

duced,

and few on a plant,

confined

o the main

branches, greenish-white. etals bout ix. tigmas wo-lobed, the lobes spreading, hairy. ruit a Berry, similar to that of R. assytha. Christy MSS.

Mr. CHRISTY, o whom am indebted for the opportunity of figuring the present pecies of RHIPSALIS, bserves, hat he received the plant from Mr. HOOD along with the follow-

ing, and hat he elieves t to e a native of Brazil.

t flowered n March, 1831, for he irst time, and, may probably, another season, bear more copious blossoms.

The ruit-bearing plant s epresented y M. DE CAN-

DOLLE, n the " Plantes Grasses" above quoted.

Fig. . lower. 2. tamens. 3. art f he tyle ith ts wo-lobed Stigma :•magnified.



'!

.1 ) S«*erU . If Ai. y S Curtùt Glajtntrood Efttx. June 1183J



( 3080 )

RHIPSALIS ASSYTHA. NAKED HIPSALIS.

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Class nd Order.



Gen&t^ic Character.

Cal. tubus ovario adhaerens, l•vis imbus superus 3•6- partitus revis, entibus cuminatis membranaceis. et. 6, oblonga, patula, alyci nserta. tam. 2•18, petalis

affixa. tylus filiformis. tigmata 3•6, patula. Bacca pellucida, ubrotunda, alyce marcescente oronata. emina intra pulpam nidulantia, exalbuminosa, radicula embryonis crassa, cotyled. 2 brevibus obtusis.•Frútices pseudo-para- sitici uper arbores ns. arib•arum rti, •pius penduli uphylli amosi eretes nudi ut setas mínimas subfalcatas gerentes, fasciculis une ordine spirali quincunciali dispo-

sitis. lores aterales essiles arvi lbi. accae fere Visci) alb•pellucid•. D C.


RHIPSALIS Cassytha; éndula, ramis verticillatis nudis glabris, calyce 4•6-partito, petalis 4•6.

RHIPSALIS Cassytha. G•rtn. Fr. v. 2. p. 136. . 28. Haw.

Syn. Succ. PL p. 186. Hook. Ex. Fl. t. 2. (var. Hook- eriana. D C.) De and. Rev. des act. . 21. var. Mociniana.) Prodr. v. 3. p. 476.

CACTUS endulus. Sw. l. nd. cc. p. 876. Willd. Sp. PI . 2. p. 942. Ait. Hort. Kew. d. 2. v. 3. p. 178. Spreng. Syst. eg. v. 2. p. 496.

CACTUS parasiticus,

&c. Browne's Jam. p. 238.

DESCR. parasite, but lourishing n a pot of common s°d n he tove. tem more woody han n . randiflora, overed ith reyish bark. Branches mooth,



green, ylindrical, btuse at heir xtremities, he lder ones almost truncated. maller branches mostly alternate, sometimes opposite, he xtremities of the main ranches generally terminating n a ort of whorl f from hree to six smaller ones. he branches are tudded with rregularly placed dots or cars, whence he lowers, nd, cca- sionally, young shoots re produced. ach of these scars is urnished ith very inute nd ardly erceptible spinule, in other espects he ranches are entirely naked.

Flowers essile,

reenish -white,

ost

bundant

n

he alternate ramules. etals five. tamens numerous. tigmas generally three-, ometimes our-cleft. ruit a emi- transparent, white, pulpy Berry. eeds numerous, lack, apparently in three cells. Christy MSS.

This is an old inhabitant of our stoves, readily cultivated, flowering reely n ebruary nd arch, nd, s r.

CHRISTY bserves, from whose ollection ur igure was made,) when overed with ipe ruit n pril, t bears considerable esemblance o lant f Misseltoe. he number of divisions to the calyx, the number of petals and lobes to the stigma are evidently variable.

Fig. . ortion f lower, he etals eing emoved. 2 . lower. 3. Stigina,•Magnified.



h / CUttu ' • • ' < ' . ' • " *'"'/ t-

W 7H del!



( 3081 )

COLUMNEA HIRSUTA. HAIRY COLUMNEA.

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Class and Order.


( Nat. Ord.•GESNERIACE£¡.

Generic haracter.

Cal. rofunde -fidus. or. ubulosa, urvata, imbo bilabiato, abio uperiore fornicato, nferiore -fido, aciniis divaricatis. nther• connexae. apsula subbaccata,

unilocularis, polysperma, eceptaculis 2 parietalibus.


COLUMNEA * hirsuta ; oliis ovatis acutiusculis crenato-serratis uperne hirtis, laciniis alycinis denticulatis anceolatis corollisque hirsutis.

COLUMNEA irsuta. Swartz, Fl. nd. cc. . . . 080. fVilld. p. PI. . 3. p. 396. Ait. Hort. Kew. d. ¿. v. 4. p. 68. Spreng. Syst. eget. v. 2. p. 342.

ACHIMENES major, &c. Browne, Jam. p. 270 . . 30. f.3. HAPUNCULUS ruticosus, c. Sloane, Jam. v.l. p. ¿8. p. 100./

DESCR. tem suffrutescent and limbing, ccording o SWARTZ, branched, ranches thick, obtusely quadrangular, Pubescenti-scabrous, he xtremities oft and erbaceous. Leaves opposite, each pair generally unequal in size, hree to four inches long, borne on rather short, thick footstalks, fleshy, ovate, rather acute, with a strong midrib and several lateral veins, he margins renato-serrate, he pper side dark green nd airy, he ower pale green, ith ewer

J airs. airs,



hairs, and hose mostly confined o he midrib nd erve, and ppressed. lowers rom he xils f he uperior leaves, arge, handsome, solitary or two together. edun-

cles nearly an nch long, ed, hey are mostly declined, o that the flowers appear under the tem and eaves. alyx altogether nferior, very hairy, ften treaked with bout five red ines, he ube subglobose, he aciniae linear-lanceolate, aciniated r oothed at he margin, hree uter and wo nner, hese almost lose over he mouth of the tube when he orolla s emoved. orolla hree nches

long, tubular, curved,

he mouth oblique ibbous at

he base above, bright ed, treaked with yellow, nd ellow on the underside, velvety with numerous hairs, two-lipped, the ip (in his pecies being much the argest,) trifid, the two ateral egments entire, inear, ecurved, he middle one arge, onvex, ifid ; he ower ip f one eflexed, linear iece. tamens our, idynamous he tamens curved inwards, so as to bring the anthers close, when hey combine and form apparently one piece. ermen superior, ovate, ilky, with hick, bifid, leshy land at he ase above. tyle curved, filiform, white, pubescent, glandular upward, nearly s ong s he orolla tigma deflexed, with a small, transverse furrow. he fruit I have not seen but he more dvanced ermens carcely ndicate hat t will be a berry : hey re one-celled, with wo pposite,

parietal receptacles, covered with numerous obovate ovules, each upon a short stalk.

This COLUMNEA has been very coarsely figured by SLOANE, and a representation of the flower is given by BROWNE in his History of Jamaica. ut, although ntroduced nto ur stoves y he Marquis f Rockingham pwards f fifty years ago, according to the Hortus Kewensis, t has not yet appeared in any of our modern Botanical periodical publications. was, then, much gratified at receiving in March of the present year, a fine flowering pecimen rom Messrs. SHEPHERDS of Liverpool. he plant was sent from Jamaica by Mr. WILES, here, ccording o WARTZ, t nhabits rocks, and grows about the oots of trees, in hady moun- tain woods.

Fig. . Anthers nd pper ortion f he Filaments. 2 . ase \ o Corolla. 3. alyx ncluding the Pistil. 4. istil. 5. ection of the ue men :•more or less magnified*



5082.



( 3082 )

DROSERA INATA FORKEDLEAVED

SUN-DEW.

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Class and Order.

PENTANDRIA ENTAGYNIA.

( Nat. Ord.•DROSERACE^:.

Generic Character.'

Sépala etalaque , nappendiculata. tam. . tyli 3•5, bipartiti.•Herbae in uliginosis sphagnosis crescentes.

Folia ciliis glandulosis rubidis irritabilibus ornata.


DROSERA * binata ; caulis, oliis longe petiolatis profunde bipartitis lobis linearibus, stylis capillaceo-multifidis.

DROSERA inata. abill. Nov. Holl. . . . 05. p. 8.

De Cand. yst.

eget. . . p. 19.

preng. yst.

Veget. v. 1. p. 956.

DESCR. oot erennial, f a ew tout, escending, branched ibres. eaves all f them adical, ive o ix inches or more ong including he petiole) deeply bipar-

tite, with two spreading, linear-acuminate lobes, fringed at the margin, and clothed on he upper surface with copious hairs, ipped with ed, viscid lands. etioles very ong, terete, labrous. cape onger han he eaves, erete, reddish at he ase, labrous, earing a few-flowered co- rymb. edicels labrous. alyx our- o ive-partite. Petals four or five, large, obovate, waved, yellowish at the

base. tamens

four

or

ive.

ilaments subulate. nthers

cordate, deep range. Pistil Germen subglobose, our-

* rom P o ÍO?, ew, he lands f he eaves istilling iscid, ellucid



to ive-lobed. tyles our o ive, divided nto numerous capillary segments and obtuse stigmas. A native of Van Diemen's sle, ccording* o LABILLAR-

DIERE ut n 1823, t prung up among ome earth m- ported rom New Holland o he Royal Gardens at Kew, whence a drawing, taken rom he pecimen hat flowered there, was kindly communicated by W. T. AITON, Esq.

There can be no question, but that the other DROSERA of New South Wales, and he till more howy nes of the Cape f Good ope, ay e afely ntroduced o ur

gardens, f the eeds e ept n moist arth uring he voyage : nd they would prove a most valuable acquisition to our collections.

Fig. 1. Petal. 2 . tamen. 3. tamens and Pistil. 4. tyle and Stigmas magnified.



30 K



( 3083 )

FRITILLARIA EUCANTHA. WHITE-FLOWERED

FRITILLARY.

Class and Order.

HEXANDRIA ONOGYNIA.

( Nat. Ord.•TULIPACE^:.

Generic haracter.

Cor. 6-petala, basi nectarifera. Semina compressa mar- ginata. Spr.


FRITILLARIA * leucantha ; aule paucifloro, loribus axillaribus terminalibusque solitariis, foliis nfimis oppositis ovatis apice attenuatis obtasiusculis multinerviis, superioribus erticillatis ineari-IanceolatiVcarinatis apiee cirrhosis.

FRITILLARIA eucantha. Graham MSS.

IMPERIALIS eucantha. Fischer MSS.

DESCR. ulb round, obed, overed with a thick brown coat, which separates in arge fragments, splitting all along the urrows etween he obes. tem imple. eaves (three o our nches ong) bright green, or slightly glau-

cous,

omewhat

rowded

bout

he

iddle

f

he

tern, the lowest pair opposite, any-nerved, without a onspi- cuous middle rib, ovate, tapering towards the apex, which is rather blunt; he others more or ess perfectly whorled, linear-lanceolate, few- (three to five-) nerved, nearly flat in front, and with a strong middle-rib behind, extended at the apex nto imple irrhus. Flowers solitary, axillary or

terminal,

* rom fritillus, a dice-box, but which most uthors, ccording o Sir J- E. SMITH, onsider to mean a chess-board, to which the tessellated flowers "car a resemblance.



terminal, nodding, white, at the base externally green, and within t he ase, prinkled with mall purplish pots. Petals ipped ith green, allous, lightly ubescent apex, the three outer ones ovate, he three inner ones obo-

vate and broader, all gibbous on the outside near the base, and here, on he inside, each having a round, green, conspicuous pit, ontaining honey. tamens ncluded ; filaments straight, white, ollected ogether n he entre of the lower; nthers ellow, inear, rect, ery oosely attached. istil onger han he tamens tigma rifid, slightly diverging ; tyle straight, somewhat clávate, three-

sided, twice the length of the anthers, colourless ; ermen green, with six prominent, brownish, somewhat waved, longitudinal ngles. vules umerous, n wo ows within the three cells of the capsule, ovate, flattened, attached by their apices to the central receptacle.

This pecies, which onceive hould ollow P. pire- naica in he arrangement of the Genus, s a native of the

Altaic Mountains, nd was bligingly ommunicated n September, 830, from he Botanic Garden of Edinburgh, where t lowered n he open border in he beginning of May.

Fi£. . etal. 2 . tamen. 3. istil. 4. ection f he Germen.•Mag- nified.



»084.



( 3084 )

ANTHERICUM PLUMOSUM. BEARDED-FLOW-

ERED ANTHERICUM.

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Class and Order.

HEXANDRIA ONOGYNIA.

( Nat. Ord.•ASPHODèLES. Br.

Generic haracter.

Perianthium expartitum, atens, equale, eciduum. Stam. . ilamenta omnia vel nteriora) barbata. n- therce ersatiles. varium oculis olyspermis. tylus filiformis. tigma ubpapulosum. apsula ubglobosa, 3-loc., 3-valv., valvis medio eptiferis. emina pauca, an- gulata, umbilico nudo. Br.


ANTHERICUM ? plumosum ; scapo- bi- 4-floro subfolioso, pe-

talis nterioribus barbatis, apsulis elongafis rigonis, stylo brevi.

ANTHERICUM lumosum. uis et Pav. . . . 300. /. b. Seh. Syst. eget. v. 7 . p. 481.

DESCR. oot, according o Ruiz and AVON, composed of oblong, fasciculated tubers, attenuated at their base, and bearing fibres. eaves mostly radical, from our o six or ten inches long, linear-subulate, channelled, striated, glaucous-green, uite labrous, hose f the tem r cape remote, gradually horter upwards. cape mostly simple, short and naked, or bearing only one leaf, in our specimens * oot nd ore igh, earing hree r our eaves r

oracteae, nd ometimes orked. lowers, enerally wo a

* the extremity of the cape or branch, with a bractea at their base, pedicellated. erianth small, cut into six deep, hnear-oblong, patent divisions, ach white t ts margin ;

the



the hree uter ones aked, he hree nner eautifully fringed with numerous white, succulent hairs, which, when seen under a microscope, re, ach of them, tudded with pellucid raised points, directed forwards. tamens six, n-

serted at the base of the egments of the perianth, shorter than them. ilaments white, subulate, glabrous. nthers oblong, of a deep orange-colour. istil : Germen oblong, with three angles and three furrows. tyle short, columnar. Stigma of three, preading, dilated ays. apsule (immature) almost an inch long, urrounded at the base with the withered, persistent segments of the perianth. ells three ;

each ell containing many roundish seeds, arranged in one series, n he nner angle of the cell. he ripened fruit I have not seen.

Seeds f his were brought rom hili, y ur valued friend Mr. RUCKSHANRS, nd ogether with many thers from that country and Peru, liberally given o he Botanic Garden of Glasgow. he plants aised rom hem ere reared in the greenhouse, and produced flowers and nearly ripe apsules n pril, 831. he igure f Ruiz nd PAVON epresents a smaller plant han our's, with a simple and carcely eafy cape, bearing arger lowers. till, I believe he wo plants are dentical. ow far t may be right to retain this in the Genus ANTHERICUM scarcely feel

competent to decide. t differs from that Genus in its quite glabrous stamens, n its oblong capsule, hort style, three- rayed tigma, nd n he nner petals eing eautifully fringed, n this particular approaching the Genus THYSAN- OTUS f Mr. BROWN, ut departing rom t n he hort, straight style, and in the elongated, many-seeded fruit.

Fig. . Outer segment of he erianth. . nner do. . ortion of the Hair of he ringe. . istil. . nripe Fruit, cut hrough ransversely to show the Seeds.•Magnified.

NOTE.•We here ake the opportunity of remarking, hat the LADIOLUS psittacmus, published at Tab. 3032 f this work, should bear the name of i * - natalensis, (it being a native of the hores of the Natal River, Cape of Good Hope,) iven o t y Professor REINWARDT, of Leyden ; who ntroduced to Europe, and who, we know, has distributed this plendid plant with rea liberality.



308á.

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( 3085 )

PTEROSTYLIS üTANS. NODDING-FLOWERED

PTEROSTYLIS.

Class and Order.

GYNANDRIA ONANDRIA.


Generic Character.

Perianthium ringens, etraphyllum, oliólo nferiore bifido e uobus nfra ohaerentibus onflato). abellum

unguiculatum, ubinclusum. amina asi ppendiculata v. gibbosa. ngue infra labio inferiore connato. olumna basi galea onnata,, ápice alata. nthera erminalis, persistens, oculis approximatis. assa Pollinis n ingulo lóculo inas, ompressas, ulvereas. tigma medio o- lumnae adnatum. Br.


PTEROSTYLIS* utans ; oliis adicalibus tellatis, lore nu- tante, abiis ongitudine ubasqualibus, galea acuminata, abello apice attenuato truncato.

PTEROSTYLIS utans. r. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. . . p. 327. Spreng. Syst. eget, v. 3. p. 715.

DESCR. eaves radical, spreading in a stellated manner, oval, rather acute, membranous, striated, reticulated, tapering into a short petiole. cape erect, scarcely a span high, erect, glabrous, with about two foliaceous, sheathing brac- eas, nd erminated y olitary, odding flower : he

three upper segments of theflower are approximate so as to form

z » j ~enved from irrtw, a wing, and <rrvtor, a style, in allusion to the winjr- ed style or column.



form a elmet, very convex, gibbous at he ase, cuminated t he xtremity, reenish-white, triated. ower segment (of two ombined egments) mall n proportion to the rest ofthe flower, green, with two lanceolato-subulate

lacinias. abellum linear-attenuated, downy, rather thickened and obtuse at the extremity. olumn green, with two broad, white wings towards the extremity. ermen clávate, furrowed.

Introduced o he oyal ardens t ew rom ew Holland, n he year 826. he drawing was made from an excellent lowering pecimen, n September, 828, and

obligingly communicated by Mr. AITON.

In he direction of the lower, and n he shape of the labellum, his pecies s altogether different rom he . curta, figured in our next plate.

Fig. . Back iew f lower, nat. size. 2 . Labellum, with its enicel- lated appendage. 3. ront view of the Column :•all but fig. . magnified.



5086.

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( 3086 ) PTEROSTYLIS URTA. SHORT-LIPPED

PTEROSTYLIS.

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GYNANDRIA ONANDRIA.


Generic Character.

Perianthium ringens, etraphyllum, oliólo nferiore bifido, e uobus nfra ohaerentibus onflato.) abellum

unguiculatum,

ubinclusum.

amina asi

ppendiculata v. gibbosa. ngue infra labio inferiore connato. olumna basi alea connata, pice alata. nthera erminalis, persistens, oculis pproximatis. assa Pollinis n ingulo lóculo binae, compressa?, pulvereae. tigma medio column® adnatum. Br.

Specific haracter and ynonyms. PTEROSTYLIS urta ; oliis adicalibus tellatis, racteis

scapi r•ter loralem 2•3, lore rectiusculo, abio inferiore breviore, galea acutiuscula, labelli lamina in-

tegra. Br. PTEROSTYLIS curta. r. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. v . \.p. S¿b.

Spreng. Syst. eget. v . 3. p. 715.

DESCR. oot escending, omewhat iliform, lexuose, bearing ew fibres, nd, at he xtremity, wo ounded * > u l b s } about he ize of peas. tem a pan or more high, erect, earing wo o hree mall racteiform, heathing

kaoes.

he reater number of the eaves, however, re radical, val, triated and reticulated, tapering below into

a petiole. lower terminal, solitary, erect, large, he three uPper egments f he perianth are blong, tanding o dose as appearing to form but one piece, arched at the top,

whitish,



whitish, streaked with reen, he xtremity brown. wo lower egments ombined or half their ength, o s o form one rect, reen piece, about equal n ength to he rest of the lower, nd having two acuminated and rather

spreading segments. abellum anceolate, rect, reddish- green, aving at ts base a penicellate appendage pointing downwards. olumn erect, greenish, with wo broad, white wings occupying he upper half, nd tanding orward, projecting into a blunt obe at he base, and at the extremity nto ubulate obe. nther essile, nserted

between the two upper lobes of the wings, two-celled, each cell bearing two flattened pulverulent pollen-masses. The urious and beautiful New olland Genus PTERO-

STYLIS s nown o otanists y Mr. ROWN'S xcellent character, and y the splendid designs and analysis of one species (P. grandiflora,) executed y Mr. BAUER ut o where, perhaps, has any species been cultivated, except at

the Royal Gardens t ew, hence Mr. ITóN as most kindly communicated drawings of three species which had flowered in that rich collection. he present individual was marked . randiflora: ut t differs rom Mr. ROWN'S plant so named, in he presence of large adical eaves, n the ifferent hape f its abellum, and, especially, n the much shorter segments of the lower ip of the flower. o me it appears to agree better with the character of P. curta, as well as with a specimen n y possession of that plant, for which m ndebted o Mr. ROWN. n ur plant, however, he ower ip s early, f not quite, qual n length with he galea, while n Mr. BROWN'S . curta it is shorter.

The specimen here igured was sent by Mr. ALLAN CUN- NINGHAM, nd lowered t ew n ctober, 829. he species was discovered by Mr. BROWN in the neighbourhood of Port Jackson.

Fig. . ront view of lower. 2 . abellum. 3. olumn. 4. Anther. 5. ollen-Masses.•Magnified.



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( 3087 )

FARSETIA üNARIOIDES. LUNARIA-LIKE

FARSETIA.

Class and Order.

TETRADYNAMIA ILICULOSA.

( Nat. Ord.•CRUCIFERíE.

Generic haracter.

Silicula sessilis, ovalis aut orbiculata, valvis planis. Semina alata. Calyx basi bisaccatus. Pétala integra.


FARSETIA* unarioides; caulibus uffruticosis dscendentibus, oliis pathulatis etiolatis iliculisque omen- tosis incanis. Br.

FARSETIA unarioides. Br. n Hort. ern. d. . . 4. p. 96. De and. Prodr. . . . 57. Spreng. yst.

Veget. v. 2. p. 870. ALYSSUM unarioides. Willd. Sp . PL v . 3. p. 461. LUNARIA gr•ca. " Willd. Enum. v. 2. p. 675." LUNARIA fruticosa, perennis, incana, Leucoii folio. Tourne/.

It. ed. AngL v. I. p. 189. cum Ic.

DESCR. tems nearly a foot high, perennial, and throwing out many shoots from near the base where the plant is suffruticose and purplish he rest herbaceous, pubescenti- "irsute. eaves umerous t he ase nd pathulate, those f the tem blong-obtuse, aved, nd omewhat sinuate, hoary with tellated down on both sides. lowers m dense orymbs, moderately arge, xtending gradually as the fruit ripens into a lax raceme. Pedicels two to three

lines

Named in compliment to PHILIP FARSETI, a Venetian Botanist.



lines long, downy, without bracteas. alyx of four rect, elliptical, concave leaves, pale green, hirsute, scarcely sac- cate at the base. etals right yellow, blongo-obovate, retuse, with a claw nearly equal in ength with the border,

which latter is patent and even recurved. tamens: ilaments subulate, the shorter ones with an obtuse tooth in the inside near the middle nthers oblong, greenish. istil: Germen blongo-cylindrical, ensely lothed ith hite hairs tyle a quarter of the length of the germen tigma capitate, papillose, yellow. ouch elliptical, ompressed,

hoary.

eptum omplete.

ells wo- o our-seeded. Seeds large, lat, with a broad, membranous ring. otyle- dons accumbent.

This plant s native f he reek rchipelago, nd was introduced to our gardens, where (in England at least) it s reated s hardy perennial, by Mr. PH. MIIXER, n 1731. he pecimen ere igured s rom he lasgow

Botanic Garden, where, heltered by a rame n winter t produces ts bright coloured blossoms in March and April, and hose again are ucceeded by he numerous and large seed-vessels.

TOURNEFORT as figured his plant in his Voyage o the Levant, nd is ccount of its discovery s admirably de- scriptive of his wn otanical nthusiasm. The 22d of September," he says, " as we passed lose by Caloyero, an ugly ock welve miles rom Amorgos, he master of our vessel would needs limb ne of ts harp oints o ake some young alcons out of the nest. e did not dare to follow him. his man not only knew how o run up the shrouds, but would scale the steepest rocks with urprising

agility. We desired him o bring us all the plants he could light on, assuring him we would willingly resign to him our share f he alcons. e ccordingly rought s ome plants, which we could have preferred o all he Birds of Paradise in Arabia. he description of one of these beautiful plants take as follows. UNARIA fruticosa, &c." oy. ed.Angl.v. I. p. 188.

Fig. . Root-leaf: at. size. . lower. . tamens nd Pistil. . One of he horter Stamens. . ilicula nat. ize.) . eed. . mbryo •all but fig. nd magnified.



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( 3088 )

XANTHOCHYMUS DULCS SWEETFRUITED

XANTHOCHYMUS.

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Class and Order.


( Nat. Ord.•GUTTIFER^E.

Generic haracter.

Cal. -partitus n•qualis mbricatus. or. -petala ovato-rotunda. ectaria 5 petalis opposita. tam. 15•20 altissime -delpha etalis lterna nther• blonga?. Stylus revissimus. tigma -lobum, ongum, atulum.

Bacca maxima ericarpio úteo oriáceo. em . 3•4.•Arbor foliis ineari-lanceolatis acutis oppositis ntegris pe- Uolatis ; flores fasciculati laterales pedunculati. D C.


XANTHOCHYMUS * dulcís; olygama, oliis oblongis, floribus

lateralibus fasciculatis, corollis globosis, fructibus ovalibus obtusis. Roxb. XANTHOCHYMUS dulcis. oxb. L f Corom. . 3. p. 66.

t. 270.

, DESCR. mall ree with traight runk and oppo-

site, labrous ranches; reen nd ylindrical n he young hoots. eaves opposite, ix nches and more n length, oblong, more or less acuminated, coriaceous, entire, glabrous, right reen, lossy, ark bove nd enni- nerved, eneath paler, nd einy. etiole hort, hick. Flowers n ascicles, rom he oints of ormer year's shoot, nd where he eaves have allen away. eduncles scarcely longer han he lowers. Calyx of three or our,

rather

* rom {«fi»«, yellow, nd topt, juice, from the colour of the juice of the fruit. ^^^^^^^^



rather small, unequal, rounded, and somewhat imbricating leaves. orolla of five petals, erect and very oncave, o as to connive n a globular orm, ream-coloured, lmost white. undles of stamens five, erect, each of five filaments, free at the extremity, and each terminated by a two-celled,

rounded, mostly abortive, anther. Alternating with the five bundles of stamens, are five rounded, and somewhat tuber- cled lands. istil: Germen lobose, apering upwards into hort tyle, erminated y arge tigma f ive spreading, obtuse, stellated ays. he fruit s, according to Dr. ROXBURGH, a rounded or oval berry, of the size of an apple, smooth and bright yellow, with copious yellow pulp,

five-celled, nd ive-seeded, or ewer y abortion. hese seeds are large, oblong, acute, with a distinct broad yellow hilum. ntegument eticulated. arge ortion f he pulp, of a more agreeable taste than the rest of the fruit, is attached to the seed. Albumen hard, fleshy.

In he month of February, f the present year, 1831,) Mr. MARNOCK was so obliging as o send o me, rom Mrs. BEAUMONT'S oble ollection t retton all, he pecimen here igured f he ANTHOCHYMUS ulcis. Our plant," he says, " is now about ten eet high, and is loaded with ot less han wo hundred lowers nd oung ruit, which latter have every prospect of coming to perfection." The seeds had been transmitted to Mrs. EAUMONT by Dr. WALLICH, rom the Calcutta Botanic Garden, where it was introduced by Dr. OXBURGH, rom he Molucca slands, as a upposed pecies of Mangosteen. he ruit ppears to be palatable and good.

Dr. ROXBURGH'S plants, at the Calcutta Garden, at eight years old, were not larger than he one which flowered at Bretton Hall.

Fig. . lower. . etal, nat. size. . tamens and Gland. . ection of Pistil, magnified. . ruit 3 nd 6. Section of o. nat. size copied from Dr. ROXBURGH'S late).



Pub. by S.Curtis, Glnzfitr,td Essex Aiia'!-183l trJSdel



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( 3089 )

OLEA NDULATA WAVYLEAVED RAGRANTCAPE OLIVE.

Class nd Order.

DlANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

( Nat. Ord.•OLEINEíE.

Generic Character.

Cal. -dentatus. Cor. -fida raro nulla). Stylus 2- fidus. Drupa baccata, putamine osseo, 1-sperma. preng.


OLEA undulata ; oliis oblongis utrinque acuminatis n- dulatis subtus pallidioribus, paniculis terminalibus re- petition trichotomis, ramis verrucosis.

OLEA ndulata. acq. Hort. choenbr. . . . . . 2. Spreng. Syst. eget. v. \. p. 34. odd. Bot. Cab. . 379. OLEA aurifolia. Lam. III. v. I. p. 29.

OLEA capensis. |3.) it. n Hort. Kew. d. 2. v. \.p.2\. Roem. et Seh. Syst. eget. v . 1. p. 70.

DESCR. ith us, cultivated in the greenhouse, this rises

with a ree-like tem, o he height of eight or nine feet, with many spreading branches, which are rough, with scattered warts; he young hoots green, and all of them glabrous. eaves pposite, etiolate, hree r our nches long, oriaceous, blong, ttenuated at ach xtremity, wavy, ark reen bove, aler beneath, uite labrous. Petioles from half to three-fourths of an inch long, rounded,

flattish above. anicles erminal, omewhat thyrsoid, e- peatedly

. he SA«»« , of the Greeks, from A f » ° i , smooth, in allusion to the nature of the oil.



peatedly ivided n richotomous anner, ith he branches our-sided, glabrous, very pale reen. edicels with minute racteae at heir ase. lowers umerous, white, ery ragrant, mall. alyx inute, ellowish-

white, our-toothed. orolla otate, eeply our-lobed, the obes preading or ecurved. tamens wo, nserted opposite o each other n he sinus of the obes. nthers deep orange. istil pale green ; ermen globose. tyle shorter han he stamens. Stigma globose.

This s a native of the ape of Good ope, here t appears o orm a ree, yielding wood o hard, that he Dutch olonists, according o Mr. BURCHELL, all it Yzer- hout, or ron-wood,) hich hey esteem or making he poles of their waggons as but ittle nferior o he Hassa- gay-wood CvwnsiAfaginea). t is a very desirable greenhouse lant; or fter t as ttained ertain ge, t blossoms freely n he arly pring, he lowers ontinue

for a long period, and are exceedingly fragrant. Some Botanists are of opinion, that this is only a variety of OLEA apensis, figured in he Bot. Register, . 613.) but the leaves are ess rigid, onger, nd vastly more acuminated at both extremities, and the flowers are smaller.

Fig. 1 . Flowers.•Magnified.



( 3090 )

MELOCACTUS OMMUNIS. GREATER TURK'S

CAP ELON-THISTLE.

***********************Class and rder.

ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA.


Generic haracter.

Calycis tubus ovario adherens, obi 5•6-petaloidei fruc- tum juniorem oronantes. étala otidem um petalis n tubum cylindraceum onge concreta. tam. filiformia plu- riserialia. tylus iliformis. tigma -radiatum. acca l•vis alycis t orollas obis arcescentibus oronata. Semina nidulantia. otyledones minimae. lumula sub- globosa maxima.•Suffrutices carnosi reg. caudice aphyllo simplici rotundato, sulcis profundis et costis verticalibus al- ternantibus. ostae tuberculis confluentibus in apice fasci- culi aculeorum insignit•. padix seu Cephalium terminale cylindraceum uberculis mamm•formibus confertissimis o- mentosis et setiferis constans, flores in tomento subimmersos sub apice gerens. D C.


MELOCACTUS * communis ; vatus eu subrotundus tro- virens 2•20-angulatus, ostis ectis, pinis ascicu- latis fuscis subaequalibus.

(«.) ubrotundus. Link et Otto, Diss. de Cact. 1827. t. 11. De Cand. Diss. de Cact. 6. Prodr. v. 3. p. 460.

CACTUS melocactus. Linn. Sp. PL p. 666. De and. PL Grass, . 112. Willd. Sp. PL v. 2 . p. 938. Haw. Syn. PL Succ. p. 173. Diet, des Se. Nat., cum Ic. Spreng. Syst. eget. v. 2. p. 494.

W ovatus. (Tab. nostr. 3090.) DESCR.



DESCR. This curious plant forms a ucculent mass, welve or fifteen inches high, and ten inches n diameter ; n the generality of our specimens, of a ark and ather urid green colour, ovate in orm, ut nto rom welve o wenty deep urrows, nd s

many rather acute angles, which are armed with a egular series of stellated spines, about five in number (exclusive of lesser aculei or ristles) and f hese ive, he hree ower ones re he largest. They scarcely exceed hree ines n ength, and are of a usky rown colour. On he ummit f his arge, ovate, leafless tem, is a cylindrical crown, ot half he breadth of he stem, and from hree to five nches in height, composed externally of innumerable eddish-brown, ompact, igid, acicular bristles ;

and within, f a mass of a ale, hitish, otton-like ubstance. The upper half exhibits ome ransverse ines, which ppear o indicate a periodical growth. In the summit of these, he lowers are roduced, nd half imbedded. They re mall, ed, leshy, cylindrical, or ittle swollen below above, divided nto number of spreading and subreflexed narrow segments : he calyx and orolla being ombined nto ne perianth. Anthers umerous, essile, nserted pon he hroat of the perianth. Germen

inferior, oval. Style reaching to he mouth of the perianth, and there ividing nto ix or even iliform tyles. Fruit, mall oval, red berry, containing numerous mall, black, shining seeds.

The noble ACTUS here igured differs rom ELOCACTUS

of authors n ts ruly vate, not ounded nd omewhat e- pressed, orm ; and t ay erhaps be eemed worthy o onstitute a distinct species. It has any times been imported from the sland f St. itt's, o he lasgow otanic ardens y

Capt. AC RTHUR. It grows n very dry nd barren laces, often n are porous ocks, nto which ts ortuose oots pene- trate, f they o not derive nutriment rom t. Its ncrease n size s very slow. The nhabitants of St. Kitt's ave observed plants or a ong period of years o make o apparent progress, and radition estimates he age of some f hem t rom wo o three hundred years. When he head s by any accident broken off, cluster of new CACTUSES prings up rom he wound, nd

by emoving nd lanting hese, he plant ay e ncreased. Care must be taken that the pots be well drained, or this species is very impatient of moisture. DE C ANDOLLE mentions a var. " oblongus " of LINK and OTTO,

but that is described as being only six nches high, and three nd a half broad ; whereas our's reaches a gigantic size, and is always elongated. rom amaica, e ave ately eceived ELO-

CACTUS, ith omparatively mall, ounded, nd epressed

stem, which is probably the M. communis, ct, of DE CAND. and the "Turk's Caps " of SLOANE, and which in he Windward Islands, we are old n he Dictionnaire es Sciences Nat. have eceived the name of " Englishmen's Heads.'1



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( 3091 )

APHANOCHILUS LANDUS. MILD PHANO-

CHILUS.

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Class and Order.

DlDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA.

( Nat. Ord.•LABIATE.

Generic haracter.

Cal. sub•qualis, 5-dentatus. or. tubo calycem •quante,

breviter 4-fida, obo superior! suberecto subconcavo emar- ginato, nferioribus patentibus. tam. 4, aepius exserta, distantia. ntherarum oculi ivergentes el ivancati, demum confluentes. Benth.

Specific Character nd Synonyms.

APHANOCHILUS* blandus; canescens, foliis oblongis utrinque attenuatis, verticillastris ecundis axe picatis, picis paniculatis. Benth.

APHANOCHILUS blandus. enth. in Wall. PL Asiat. Bar. I. p 9

MENTHA blanda. Wall. MSS. ann. 1821. non D C. PERILLA

elata. Don, Prod. Fl. Nepal, p. 115.

DESCR. hole plant hoary, with hort, very oft and transparent hairs, nd yielding a lightly aromatic mell especially the spike, on account of he great abundance of glands on the calyces, corollas, and bractes. tem two to

three feet hiffh, erect as well as the branches, quadrangular, furrowed on each face, and slightly thickened at each division. Leaves about three inches ong, narrowed and acu

minate



minate t he pex, he argins urnished ith road serratures, ntermixed with others smaller, entire, and narrowed at the base nto a petiole about half an nch ong, nearly labrous n he pper urface, oary nd otted underneath, with prominent and hairy midrib and erves the upper eaves maller, narrower, and more entire, often bearing only one or wo deep ndentures, the floral leaves perfectly entire. pikes slender, hree to ix nches ong, semicylindrical. ascicles of flowers approximate, secund, containing each about twenty minute, blue flowers. racteas

subulate.

alyx early

ylindrical,

ubescent,

ith ive linear teeth. orolla twice as long as the calyx, pubescent,

with esinous dots nside. pper obe ernarginate, ateral ones slightly reflexed, lower one concave. tamens distant, scarcely projecting beyond the mouth of the corolla. all. MSS.

This plant was first introduced by Dr. WALLICH nto the

Botanic arden f Calcutta n he year 1819, rom seeds sent from Nepal under he name of NUTCHOO by the Hon. EDWARD ARDNER. rom hence Dr. WALLICH sent seeds to the Royal Gardens at Kew, which produced the specimen here figured. species closely allied o this, but differing in ts horter and roader eaves, ylindrical pikes, and strong mell, as been lso ent o his country y Dr.

WALLICH, nd described n he Transactions of the Horti- cultural ociety, nd igured y rofessor E CANDOLLE

(PI. Rar. Hort. Genev. p. 23. t. 8.) under the same name of MENTHA landa. s ar s an e scertained rom he figure tself, t ppears o have been aken rom he A. f•tens BENTH. n . .) or MENTHAf•tens (WALL. MSS.).

Fig. . lowers. 2 . ingle lower -.•More or less magnified.



( 3092 )

ARRACACIA SCULENTA. EATABLE

ARRACACHA.

**********************Class and Order.

PENTANDRIA IGYNIA.

( Nat. Ord.•UMBELLIFER^.

Generic Character.

ARACACIA. ancr. alycis margo obsoletus. et. lance-

olata ut vata ntegra, cumine nflexo upra ervum medium renatum. tyli rectiusculi " demum ivergentes " ) asi ilatati. ructus oblongus latere om- pressus. ericarpia ugis -•qualibus •vibus, ateralibus marginantibus. ittce nullae.•Involucrum ut - phyllum. nvolucella subunilateralia 2•8setacea. lores polygarni, radii hermaphroditic disci masculi aut imperfecti.


ARRACACIA* sculenta ; oliis pinnatis, innis innatifidis incisis serratis lobis acuminatis, fructus jugis obtusis.

ARRACACIA esculenta. De Cand. Prodr. v. 4. p. 244. ARRACACIA anthorhiza. ancroft n rans, f Agr.

Hort. Soc. Jam. CONIUM rracacha. ook. xot. l. . 52 . excl. yn.

CONII maculati, Humb. ?)

DESCR. oot nnual, leshy, tself a uber, f a arge s

'ize, yellow or white, and earing everal knobs or other tubers on he outside. hese atter are of two orts; he °ne ind, omparatively mall, roceeds rom he pper surface or crown of the oot, nclining upwards, ives ft

each



each several germs or shoots towards the top, and is marked about he base with horizontal ings, bearing there membranous heaths, hich radually ither way •the other or arger and dible sort, rows on he utside nd

below those just mentioned, to the number of eight to ten, besides small ones, and descend into the earth he largest measures eight or nine nches ong, y wo, or two nd a half inches n diameter, and is nearly of the ame circumference throughout, tapering off suddenly, and sending out a few small fibres at the extremity. heir surface is nearly smooth, nd overed with hin ellicle, arked cross

with transverse scars, like the roots of carrots. hese latter are called "Hijos," . . ons, in Bogota, and are he roots generally brought o able, eing more ender nd more delicate in flower than the main root or " Madre," mother. (Bancr.J tem rect, wo o our eet igh, labrous, branched, rounded and striated, green, often streaked with purple. eaves, hose rising rom he oot, ix o ine

inches long, independent f the petiole,) broadly ovate iu their ircumscription, innated with ive ovato-acuminate pinnae, which are deeply and irregularly pinnatifid, the lower pair almost gain pinnated, ncised and oarsely serrated, the egments cuminated. he olour s a dark reen, shining, aler beneath he serratures yellowish. etiole about as long, or longer than the leaf, sheathing and membranous at the base. he stem-leaves are gradually smaller and ess ompound upwards, alternate, with short petioles, the ppermost ones essile and opposite. mbels mostly terminal. artial umbels small, with mall inconspicuous flowers heir nvolucre, onsisting of from wo o ight small setaceous, imple bracteas, mostly on one side of the umbellule. lossoms of two kinds, those in the centre of the umbel are either altogether imperfect, or they bear stamens only, having a flat disk in he centre. ilaments at irst incurved, purplish. nthers pale green, at length white. lowers of the circumference on longer pedicels, bearing stamens and pistil. alyx none. etals five, as in the male fl°we^j erect, not spreading in our specimens, oval, with an incurved

point, and an elevated

ine,

or

raenum

within, of a brownish-purple colour. he ruit ave only een mperfect, but apparently fully ormed t s oblong, aterally ompressed, ach arpel (or mericarp of DECANDOLLE) aving five longitudinal, equal, ather obtuse ribs, which are even, not wrinkled as in CONIUM. The styles are nearly as ong



We have ere iven he epresentation f a plant e- longing to a Natural rder, the UMBELLIFERVE, ossessing, it must be onfessed, ery ew xternal ttractions nd, in general spect, he present ndividual may rank among

the

east

rnamental f ts ribe.

ut hat his lant wants n utward harms, s mply ompensated y he utility of its oots, which, n ertain parts of South Ame- rica, re o ess steemed han he otato s mong s. In his country, ublic attention was irst directed o he " RRACACHA," y n ccount f t ublished y . VARGA'S, a native of Santa Fè, n KöNIG and SIMS' " Annals

of Botany," bout he year 1805.•" The oot," e says, " yields a ood which s prepared n he ame anner as potatoes, s grateful to the palate, and so easy of digestion, that it frequently onstitutes he chief aliment of the ick. Starch and pastry are made rom ts écula nd he root, reduced o ulp, nters nto he omposition f certain fermented iquors, supposed to be efficacious as tonics. n

the city of Santa Fè, nd, ndeed, wherever it an be procured, he ARRACACHA s as universally used as he potato is in England. he cultivation of this plant requires deep black mould, hat ill asily yield o he descent f he large vertical oots. t s propagated y planting pieces of he oot, n ach f which s an ye or hoot hese acquire, n hree or our months, ize ufficient tor culi- nary purposes though, if permitted o continue six months in the ground, hey attain to mmense dimensions, without any njury o heir lavour. he olour of he oot s white, ellow, r urple ; ut ll he arieties ave he

same uality. ...

" Like the potato, he ARRACACHA does not thrive m the hotter

egions

of the

kingdom, or there the

roots

will not acquire any ize, ut hrow p a great number ot tems,

or at best, hey will be but small and indifferent n lavour. In he countries which re here called emperate, eing less ot han hose t he oot f he ordilleras, his vegetable ometimes ucceeds, but never o well as in me elevated e-ion f hose ountains, here he edium

heat s etween 8° and 60° of FAHRENHEIT ere t s that hese orts row ost uxuriantly, nd cquire he

most delicious taste." 4. M. VARGAS urther remarks, hat he was not aware of the

existence of his plant n ny ther part of America han the kingdom of Santa Fè nd also, that it is not mention-



in ew words, t the nd of his Diccionario Geographico- Historico de las Indias Occidentales ô America.

No urther mention appears o have been made of his plant n Britain, ill he year 824, hen Mr. SHEPHERD was so ortunate as o ring n ndividual nto lower n the Botanic Garden of Liverpool, rom which I published the igure and description given n he Exotic lora. few years previously, the late BARON DE SHACK, of Trinidad, had ent oots o the Glasgow Garden, and to hat of the Horticultural ociety of London, s well as o Liverpool. At he atter place, believe, lone, t produced lowers,

when it oon perished, s did ll the other plants that had been mported nd he xpectations f cultivators, hat this plant might, with due care, hold a similar rank in this country with the potato, were frustrated.

In Jamaica, however, my valued friend and correspondent, Dr. ANCROFT, directed he attention of the public o it, by an interesting memoir, which appeared in the Trans-

actions of the Agrie, and Hort. Soc. of Jamaica, and which was ead before that Society t Kingston, n uly, 82a. That gentleman, ver anxious o promote he nterests of Science and of humanity, was no sooner made aware of the value of this plant n domestic oeconomy, han, hrough the medium of Don FRANCISCO URQUINAONA, he introduced it o amaica. Despairing/' e ays, of ucceeding

with he ulture f these oots n he heart of he ity, (Kingston,) placed hem n charge of a very ntelligent planter in St. David's Mountains, Mr. HENRY BURGER, nd under his fostering care the remaining six throve perfectly; so that I was enabled in the following year o end young plants f the RRACACHA o he Horticultural ociety f London, nd o His Majesty's ardens t ew, c. s

well s o distribute others o various riends n ifferent parishes, through whose attention his vegetable may now, I rust, e considered s extensively nd well stablished in his sland. t s not or me o peak of the value oí the ARRACACHA as an esculent ; his will be best hown m the ourse of time. n lavor t ppears o me nearly to resemble ixture f he arsnep ith he otato, am ware hat not ew of hose who have asted it but once, ave ot iked t; et elieve hat hose ho have iked t even on the first trial, are quite as numerous. For my own part, m inclined o hink, hat he aste for t may ather e deemed n cquired ne havm0



subsequent rials. s he oot requires a onger applica- tion of heat han he vegetables n ommon use, part of the distaste which has been felt for it, may have been caused by insufficient dressing. t all events, a vegetable, which

has, for o many ages been he constant and favourite food of a considerable portion of the population of South Ame- rica, n preference even to he potato, which s here indigenous, ought not to be thought undeserving of a fair trial in the way of cultivation n Jamaica."

When he RRACACHA ad rrived t erfection, r. BANCROFT etermined t o elong o new enus, o

which he gave he native name of the plant, with a more euphonious ermination, RRACACIA, nd he pecies e designated anthorhiza, o istinguish t rom hite and purple-rooted ind, hich, owever, e fterwards, I believe, justly deemed o be only variety : ence Pro- fessor E ANDOLLE'S eason or hanging t. o r. BANCROFT m ndebted or rawings nd any details

of this plant, s our Garden s or the oots. ith hese valuable elps, ave een ble ere o ive ore correct igure han hat hich ppeared n he Exotic Flora. till he ruit s a desideratum ;•neither n Tri- nidad, nor n amaica, nor n ritain, have perfect eeds been ormed he ruit has nvariably allen way before

the seeds were ripe.

he

plants increase

onsiderably by the oots nd y emoving he nsets rom he parent

roots, and keeping hem hrough he winter, s he roots of Dahlias are kept, Mr. MURRAY has found them o vege- tate eadily n he pring, nd o ucceed n arm situation, even in the open air.

Dr. BANCROFT relates the following method of cultivating

this plant at Bogota hich s, after separating the upper tubers, or knobs, rom he oot, o detach from these he offsets, singly, each with its portion of the substance of the tuber, which is then to be pared smoothly all ound at the bottom, the outer leaves being tripped or cut off, so as to kave a sprout from half to two or three inches at the most. If any germs or eyes be seen at the base of the offsets, these

must be carefully cut out. hus prepared, the shoots are Planted in loose mould, in a slanting direction, at distances of fifteen or eighteen inches rom ach other, hether he ground e evel r loping. fterwards, t ntervals of about two months, the soil ought to be weeded nd when the plants have attained the height often or twelve inches,



ding ips hould be aken ff, s he process of flowering would hinder he oot rom oming o ts reatest ize, care being aken not o emove more han he budding extremities, lest the growth of the root should thereby also

suffer ith the ame view, ny luxuriance n he hoots ought o be prevented, ince t must e t he xpence of he oot. rom ime o ime, nd particularly fter weeding the ground, resh mould hould be laid round the foot f ach lant, o id ikewise n he nlargement of the oot. n avourable ituations, he RRACACHA, am old, attains ts ull ize n ix onths. t does ot

seem o equire a ich oil or much moisture ; ince here, on oose but poor oil, n he St. Andrew's Mountains, where ery ittle ain ell rom he ime t as lanted until t was full grown, t throve and eached maturity in eight months. he soil which suits Yams, appears equally adapted to the ARRACACHA.

In ogota nd opayan, hey btain uccession f

ARRACACHAS hrough he whole ear, y lanting hoots at every decrease of the moon.

The oot asped nd acerated n ater, eposits fécula, which s n very general use at Bogota, s a light nourishment for the sick, in he same manner as the fécula of the MARANTA arundinacea is in amaica.

In the Exotic Flora, nclined o an opinion, that the CONIUM moschatum, of HUMB. and KUNTH. NOV. Gen. v. 5. p. 14. t. 420, might be the same s our ARRACACHA ut the more ompound eaves f HUMBOLDT'S lant, heir more obtuse egments, ess deeply errated, potted hen ry , the much larger umbel, trifid nvolucre, arger fruit, which is broad at he base, and he divaricating tyles, together with the odour of musk, whereas our plant has the heavy smell of CONIUM maculatura,) have induced me to onsider it distinct. t is the ARRACACIA moschata of DE CANDOLLE.

It grows in cold places, in the province of Los Pastos, near Teindala, at an elevation of eight housand four undred feet above the evel of he ea, where t s alled by •

natives, Saccharacha ; name ot very dissimilar o ha

of our plant.

Fig. 1. Male Flower, young. 2 . tamen from the ame. 3. ale Flower, with tamens xserted. 4. emale lower, ith Bractea. 5. eta1' Fruit, immature, 7. artial Umbel.•All more or less magnified.



( 3093 )

ARBUTUS UCRONATA SHARP-POINTED

ARBUTUS.

Class and Order.

DECANDRIA ONOGVNIA.

( Nat. Ord.•ERICEN.

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-partitus inferus. or. urceolata, limbo 5-dentato, reflexo. nther• dorso biaristatae. acca 6-locularis, placentis aminas polyspermas sistentibus.


ARBUTUS * macronata ; aule ignoso iffuso, oliis vatis cuspidatis denticulato-serrulatis igidis utrinque nitidis, edunculis axillaribus olia ubaequantibus brae- teatis 1-floris cernuis.

ARBUTUS mucronata. inn. fil. Suppl. 239. orst. Com- ment. Goett. 9. p. 31. am. II. t. 366. f. 2 . üld. Sp. PL v. 2. p. 619. Spreng. Syst. Feget, v. 2 . p. 287.

DESCR. hrub much branched from the root ; ranches diffuse, round ark brown and cracked, younger branches eddish, paringly pubescent, he airs lexuose, ubulate, rising rom ed lands, t irst hite nd oon becoming ellow. eaves eight ines ong, our ines broad) on short petioles, scattered, turned towards the light, flat, naked nd hining, dark green in ront, pale behind, coriaceous, ith a distinct middle ib, but obscure veins, excepting on he old leaves, which are faintly eticulated, ovate or anceolato - ovate, denticulato-serrulate, nd er-

minated

* o named from ar, rough or austere, and boise, a bush, in Celtic.



minated by a long, rigid bristle. lowers axillary, solitary, white, nodding. eduncles pale green, nearly s ong as the leaves, sprinkled with eddish pubescence, nd having several cattered, ppressed, ovate bracteas n their lower half. alyx aked, hite, ive-parted egments cute. Corolla white, ampanulate, ather maller han hat f CONVALLARIA ajalis, omewhat ransparent etween he calyx-segments, ive-toothed, segments reflected. tamens ten ; filaments cordato-ovate, white, and under a moderately powerful lens appearing rough nthers attached by their backs to the apex of the filament, erect, brown, attenuated at heir oints, here hey open y wo ores, ristles very hort, erect. istil ncluded. tigma f five, rect points. tyle nearly half as long as the whole pistil, erect, cylindrical, pale ellowish-green ermen equalling he stamens in length, round, smooth, green.

We aised a single plant of this species from seed given

us by Mr. MACKAY n 828, which lowered n he Edin- burgh ot. arden, May 830, or he irst ime. t s stated by FORSTER, o be a native of the Streights of Ma- gellan. r. MACKAY'S eeds ere eceived rom Mr. N- DERSON, n ndefatigable and highly uccessful ultivator, who has been ent o xplore he outhern parts f he continent of America, y he stablishment t lapton

but I do not know the exact station where he met with the plant. Graham.

Fig. . eaf: at. size. 2 . lower. 3, . tamens. 5. pex of a Cell of the Anther. 6. Pistil.•Magnified.



( 3094 )

CALCEOLARIA NGUSTIFLORA. NARROW-

FLOWERED SLIPPER-WORT.

Class nd Order.

DlANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

( Nat. Ord.•SCROPHULARIN^E.

Generic haracter.

Cal. -partitus. Cor. bilabiata abium nferius calcei- forme, nflatum. Caps, semibivalvis alvulis ifidis.


CALCEOLARIA ngustiflora ; aule suffrutescente, amis dif- fusis purpureo-maculatis foliisque oppositis vel ternatis pedunculatis ovato-oblongis duplicato-serratis pubescentibus ubviscidis, pedunculis xillaribus umbellatis in paniculo terminali collectis.

CALCEOLARIA ngustiflora. uiz et Pavón, Fl. Peruv. v . 1. p. 17. t. 28. f. a. Spreng. Syst. eget. v. \.p 7.

DESCR. tem scarcely woody, lender, uch branched and diffused ranches reen, prinkled with oblong purple pots, pubescent, hairs preading. eaves nearly two inches ong and ne inch broad, petioled, opposite or ernate, ovato-oblong, doubly and unequally inciso-serrated, pubescent on both sides, as well as the branches subviscid, shining and bright green bove, aler below, veined nd wrinkled, veins prominent below, hannelled above. e- duncles axillary, mbellate, orming an oblong panicle at the extremity of he branches, he ower peduncles generally upporting our pedicels, two of which are occasionally branched, he upper peduncles with fewer pedicels, or simple wo bracteas of the tructure nd orm f mall leaves, re at he origin of the pedicels, hese, s well s the peduncles, pedicels, and alyx, are pubescent and ub-

viscid :



viscid: he whole scarcely exceeding the length of the leaf, in the axil of which they are placed. alyx four-parted ; segments nequal, anceolate, he pper he roadest. Corolla ellow, pper ip wanting, here eing nly scarcely prominent ing, passing ound he germen; ower lip xtremely lender, nd omewhat pubescent t ts origin, urgid below, nd losed by a prolongation of its upper edge, urned up and brought nto ontact with the stigma. tamens two, having heir origin rom he lower half of the ring which orms he faux f the orolla ; filaments erect. nthers large, yellow, as in the other species, bilocular with he obes ttached o ach ther y heir

ends, nd bursting along he ront. istil rather onger than the stamens ; tigma minute tyle somewhat hooked downwards. ermen ubescent, nd, s n he ther species, conical and furrowed on two sides.

The only plant of this species which we possess, was received rom the Botanic Garden of Glasgow, where it was raised from seed communicated from ima by Mr. RUCR-

SHANRS. n habit and appearance t s very distinct rom any of the pecies already n ultivation, and corresponds with ative pecimen hat r. RUCRSHANRS indly gave me, s well s with he igure f Ruiz nd AVON, sufficiently to induce me to consider it as illustrative of the form o hich hese uthors pplied he pecific ame that have adopted. till, continued experience of the tendency o produce hybrids which his enus ossesses, renders me more and more ceptical about the title which very appreciable varieties f orm ave o be onsidered specifically distinct. n a former number of the Edinburgh Philosophical ournal, noticed some mule plants, which had been raised by Mr. GARDNER, at Grantown, near Edin- burgh, by rtificially mpregnating some of he most is-

tinguishable inds of ALCEOLARIA ince hat ime, he same ultivator as btained ll orts f mixtures, nd blended different species into one another, hrough n n- finity of gradations.

In the figure of Ruiz and PAVON, he lip of the corolla is much ess turgid han t ppears either n he ultivated plant or n my native pecimens ; ut he epresentations

are ot lways orrect n hese etails, nd he tation, Canta, assigned by these authors or C. angustiflora, s the same s where Mr. RUCKSHANRS athered he ndividual plant that he gave me. Graham.

Fig. . eaf, at. size. 2 . orolla, with he ip orced ack; light



/'H/' bi ./ iirti.. l A mimJ êmm. Sff/F l.I#M.



( 3095 )

ANNONA SQUAMOSA. UNDULATED USTARD-

APPLE, UGAR-APPLE, WEET-SOP.

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Class and Order.

POLYANDRIA PoLYGYNIA.

( Nat. Ord.•ANNONACEíE.

Generic Character.

Sépala 3, asi coalita concava, ubcordata, cutiuscula.

Pétala 6, crassiuscula, interiora minora aut nulla ; anther• plurirnae ubsessiles pice ngulatse ilatatae orum obte- gentes. arpella plurima coalita in baccam unicam essi- lem cortice muricato squamoso aut reticulato, ntus pulpo- sam, ad ambitum multi-locularem, oculis -spermis. .


ANNONA squamosa ; oliis oblongis acutis glabris, ructibus rotundatis btuse quamosis, petalis exterioribus an- eeolatis, nterioribus minutis (quandoque nullis ?)

ANNONA squamosa. inn. p. PL p. 57. acq. Obs. . p. 13. . 6. /. wartz, Obs. p. 221. illd. Sp. PL v. 2. p. 1264. unal, Monogr. p. 69. it. Hort. Kew. ed . 2. v. 3. p. 334. e Cand. Syst. Veget. v. I. p. 472, Pro dr. v. 1. p. 85. Spreng. Syst. eget. v . 2. p. 640.

ATAMARAM. Rheed. Malab. v. 3. p. 21. t. 29. ANNONA uberosa. Rumph. Amb. v. I. p. 138. . 46. ANONA oliis doratis minoribus, c. loane, am. v. 2.

t. 227. ANONA

foliis oblongo-ovatis undulatis venosis, &c.

rowne,

Jam. p. 256.

DESCR. his orms a ree, r arge hrub, ourteen or



oblong, mostly cute, ntire, erved, laucous beneath the petioles hort, hickened elow. eduncles ateral, generally two-flowered. lowers pendent. alyx in three

triangular, cute egments, mall. etals hree xte- rior ones an nch long, anceolate, riquetrous, f a thick and leshy exture, glabrous, moderately spreading, green without, ale within, nd aving eep urple-coloured depression at the base of each; hree interior petals minute (according to authors, but neither SWARTZ mentions hem, nor does Mr. GUILDING igure r describe any). tamens

forming a very ompact, road ing or ircle round he pistils, btuse ilament very short. ells of the anther longitudinal, ccupying he ame lane s he ilament. Pistils collected nto ompact, one-shaped ody, ery small, ach ith apitate and omewhat acute tigma. Fruit compound, arge, oundish or oval, f a yellowish- green colour, embossed with prominent, oblong and some-

what imbricated, obtuse, dnate cales, which n maturity spread and re ore depressed; nternally illed with s many pulpy cells as there are united fruits, some being abortive, he est one-seeded hese all adiate rom a central, oblongo-acuminated receptacle, from which, when ipe, the pulp eadily eparates. eeds blong, eep rownish- black, ompressed, ith ale welling t he ilum.

Albumen illed with numerous ransverse, rown ines r clefts.

The Sweet-sop r Sugar-Apple has een entioned by some uthors s native xclusively f South merica, by others, s oth f Asiatic nd merican rigin. T.

HILAIRE *, however, has come to the conclusion, that it was imported from the East Indies to the New World. The

Brazilians," he ays, « designate ll heir ANNONAS which are truly indigenous, by the word Araticu, which belongs to the Guazani tongue. With regard, however, o the ANNONA squamosa, which ave always seen cultivated, and which VELLOZO, m his MSS. mentions as ot being ative of the ountry, t s known nder he ames f Pinha, r Ata. he first of these is evidently given, rom he resem-

blance of the fruit to that of the Pine-apple: yet it is never applied o hose ndigenous pecies which have he ame torm onsequently it was ntroduced o Brazil along with the plant. The second name Ata, s derived from Attoa and

Atis,



Atis, by which the plant s alled n Asia, and which s of Oriental origin.3' euce our author concludes hat Asia is the native ountry of the ugar-Apple. his opinion s

strengthened y what SLOANE ays, " that t was brought by he Chinese and Arabs rom he Manhilas and Philip- pine Islands o Malabar, nd fterwards o East ndia by the Portuguese/' e his s t ay, he plant s ow abundantly cultivated n he New s ell s n he ld World, and principally on account f the ruit. et, n regard to ts quality, there seems o be ome difference of

opinion. ROWNE ays hat, " it s pretty much esteemed by many of the fair sex, though seldom served up at table." In he French olonies, t s known under he ame f Pomme Canelle and C•ur de B•uf, and is highly esteemed for ts agreeable lavour. he unripe ruit, ccording o SLOANE, oiled with a little ginger n air water, ures the vertigo nd ( he eaves eaten, dding alt o hem,

make a poultess, which put on malignant umours powerfully ripens them."

ANNONA quamosa was ntroduced o he toves f his country in he year 1731, but it does not appear that it has ever produced fruit, nor even flowers in this country hence I have great pleasure n publishing, hough on educed scale, the beautiful drawings ent to me by my riend he

Rev. ANSDOWN UILDING, nd ade y im rom he living plant in the Island of St. Vincent.

Fiç. 1. mall lowering Branch at. ize. . ection of a ud, made near the middle. . xpanded Flower. , 5. tamens. . alyx, Stamens, and Pistils. . ingle Pistil magnified. . ipe Fruit. . Vertical ection of ditto. 10. eeds at. size. 11. ection of a Seed: agnified.



KJ.II.lrl! Puh h S CtuUt SU imwJ Esstx.Septl.lSil.



( 3096 )

TOURNEFORTIA HELIOTROPIOIDES. HELIO-

TROPE-LIKE TOURNEFORTIA.

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Class nd Order.


( Nat. Ord.•BORAGINE^E.

Generic Character.

Cal. -partitus. or. ypocrateriformis v. ubrotata) fauce nuda. tamina nclusa. tigma eltatum ubco-

nicum.

acca i-

rarius

etra-)

yrena,

ssiculis is- permis. Br.

Specific haracter.

TOURNEFORTIA * heliotropioides ; uffruticosa, amis herbaceis hirsutis, foliis ellipticjs obtusis utrinque pubescentibus margine undulatis, acemis bis terve dichotomis,

bacca tetrapyrena.

DESCR. tem, n ur plant, one and a half to wo feet high, rounded, branched, hairy, omewhat shrubby, perennial, he branches soft and erbaceous. eaves alternate, petioled, lliptical or vato-elliptical, btuse, ery veiny

and wrinkled, waved t he margins, ntire, oft n oth sides ith hort airs r ubescence. eduncle erete, hairy, ermiual, ften with a ingle eaf, wice r arely fnrice branched, he ultimate divisions evolute, and bear- lng a one-sided, two-ranked raceme oí manyflowers, almost exactly resembling those of HELIOTROPIUM peruvianum, but rather arger, nd nstead f yielding he delicious cent °f that universal avorite, mparting a disagreeable odour.

Calyx

_ So amed n onor f JOSEPH ITTOU E OURNEFORT, a Physician,



Calyx in five deep, broadly linear, obtuse, at length spreading egments, airy. orolla ypocrateriform ts ube deep yellow, hairy ithin ts limb ive-lobed, preading, somewhat plicate, pale ilac. tamens: Anther very small, nearly essile, nserted near he base of he ube. istil exceedingly hort. ermen lobose, labrous. tigma sessile, arge, onical, lightly landular, ellow. ruit (immature) nearly lobose, ut omewhat ompressed, four-celled, our-seeded berry, tipped with he black, withered tigma, and urrounded by the persistent calyx.

This plant has o ompletely the aspect of a HELIOTRO- PIUM, hat without an examination of the pistil or fruit, no one would suspect it to belong to the Genus TOURNEFORTIA.

As an ornamental plant, ts merits may be ranked with our well-known ELIOTROPIUM eruvianum nd orymbosum : but ts flowers are unfortunately devoid of fragrance.

Seeds were received at he Garden of Glasgow from he

Reverend Mr. ANSBURGH nd he plants lowered n he stove in the month of May, 1831. t is a native of Buenos Ay res.

Fig. . lower. . istil, ith he ower ortion f he ube f he Corolla bearing the Stamens. . alyx and nearly ripe Fruit. . ection of the Fruit: agnified.



l'nb t S.CtOtÜ fía U " »«/ ¿ "



( 3097 )

TRILLIUM ISCOLOR. GREEN-FLOWERED

TRILLIUM.

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Class nd Order.

HEXANDRIA RIGYNIA.

(

Nat. Ord.•

SMILACE^E.

Generic haracter.

Cal. 3-phyllus. or. 3-petala, patens. ilamenta labra. nther• ongitudiiialiter adnat•. tigmata inearia, sessilia, eflexa. Bacca rilocularis, polysperma.


TRILLIUM iscolor ; lore essili recto, etalis bovatis obtusis obtuse mucronulatis nferne attenuatis alyce dimidio ongioribus, oliis essilibus ato-ovalibus acutis.

TRILLIUM iscolor. Wray, in litt.

DESCR. tem nearly a span high, erect, lexuose, of the thickness of a goose-quill, glossy, dark purple, green above, where, at the very extremity, it bears a whorl of three large, broadly val, uite essile, cute, preading eaves, perfectly glabrous, dark green and obscurely blotched above,

paler beneath, with five wavy ribs, which are connected by oblique nerves. lower solitary, large, sessile in he centre of the three leaves, and at the summit of the tem. alyx of three large, green, spreading sepals, oval-oblong, acute. Petals hree, rect, alf as ong again s he alyx, bo- yate, ery btuse, ith hort lunt uero, f pale sulphur-yellow nclining o reen, apering below nto

broad and pale green law. tamens six, bout one-third the length of the petals, erect ilaments very hort, pur- pie. nthers linear, dull purple, acute, and a little incurved a* he xtremity, he ells ateral, ongitudinal, ellow.

Pistil :



Pistil: ermen vate, hree-lobed, ith wo rominent angles at the margin of each obe, purplish-green. tyles linear-obtuse, purple without, yellow within.

In the month of January of the present year, our Botanic

Garden of Glasgow was enriched with a box of rare plants, packed in Sphagnum, from Augusta, in Georgia, communicated by our valued correspondent, Dr. WRAY, f Augusta, the intimate friend of the late STEPHEN ELLIOTT, Esq. ith very ew xceptions, hese plants, n ccount f the x- cellent mode n which hey were packed, have ucceeded perfectly well, and among hem, he new TRILLIUM, ere

figured, lowered vigorously n May f the present year, 1831, having been treated s n inmate of the greenhouse. I have retained the name which was attached o the plant, and which was probably given o t by Dr. WRAY himself, in onsequence of the great difference n he olor of its flower from hat of TRILLIUM essile, with which t grees in he essile eaves nd essile nd rect lowers, ut

from which t is strikingly different, no less in he broadly ovate etals, han n heir peculiar, pale reenish-yellow hue, hich lso xhale a mell, esembling he American Allspice.

This species grows freely in a mixture of peat and loam, and ill probably prove s ardy erennial s ther species of this Genus have shown hemselves to be with us.

Fig-. . Petal, nat. size. 2 . ront view of a tamen. 3. ack view of ditto. 4. istil agnified.



( 3098 ) BRASSAVOLA LEGANS. ELEGANT

BRASSAVOLA.

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Class and Order.

GYNANDRIA ONANDRIA.


Generic Character.

Labellum ungue simplici; amina indivisa (raro riloba). Pétala distincta, patilla. Massa Pollinis 8 (vel plures !) r.


BRASSAVOLA legans ; capo racemoso, abello ampio basin columns mplexante rofunde rilobo, olumna u- perne lato-alato.

CYRTOPODIUM legans. amilt. Prod. PL Ind. Occ. p. 53. cum Ic.

DESCR. oot onsisting f everal ong, ylindrical, fibres, f a inereous olour. tem procumbent, ooting, jointed, nd overed ith reyish, ry, embranaceous sheaths. eaves inear-subulate, emi-cylindrical, hannelled above, oriaceous. cape two eet long, iliform at

the base, knotted and covered with grey, appressed, cariose sheaths, towards the apex and at the base of the flower- stalks, bearing minute racte•. lowers oosely piked Peduncles about an nch n length. erianth five-parted, the egments early qual, the hree uter nes vato- lanceolate, he wo nner narrower,) brownish-green, triated. abellum hree -lobed, ateral obes val, ose-

coloured, iddle lobe bovate, r omewhat rhomboidal, thickened nd allous owards he ase, where t s of a yellow olour, he amina s ose-coloured, nd arked with ive urple ines. olumn omewhat oat-shaped, expanded at the summit, where there is a small cavity with

a



a four-toothed margin for the insertion of the anther. he Stigma occupies a triangular depression on he upper nd anterior part of the olumn, mmediately below he nsertion of the anther. elow the stigma the Column becomes somewhat umid nteriorly, and has a mall channel lead- ing down o a hort ube ormed y he junction of this part f the column with he middle lobe of he abellum. The ateral obes are attached o he ides of the column so hat, xcept mall ortion osteriorly, pposite he superior segment of the perianth, he column s completely embraced y the abellum. he tube formed by he base

of the column does not lead to the germen, and ts throat is nearly closed by the calli of the middle lobe. he column is yellow anteriorly with rose-coloured wings. he anther is percular, eciduous, eart-shaped, ight-celled, one for ach mass f pollen, inear, oblong, arallel, and one for each of the pherical bodies which terminate the caudi- culaB or filamentous appendages of the masses,) divided by

their membranaceous epta,) f a purple olour. ollen- Masses four, pyriform, ompressed, arallel, ellow, ach having eparate audicula, eflected pon tself, nd terminated y a small yellow, viscid, spherical, or glandular body. I am ndebted o Dr. NICHOLSON f Antigua or he drawing

and description of the present interesting Orchideous plant, which

has, elieve, een itherto owhere oticed, xcept n he work above quoted, nd which appears o e xclusively an n- habitant f he sland f Antigua. t here rows, either n soil, or pon rees, ut, s r. AMILTON, ts riginal is- coverer, bserves, pon tones nd according o Dr. ICHOL-

SON, pon ofty ocks f he rap ormation, long ith EPIDENDRUM iliare, NCIDIUM ulchellum, PITCAIRNIA ro- rneh•folia, PILEA uscosa, EPEROMIJE, nd any pecies f Ferns. he ame entleman well bserves, hat t cannot properly be arranged with he CYRTOPODIA, s will lso appear by his wn ccurate nalyses: nd f hese be ompared ith he flowers of BRASS AVOLA, hink t will be evident hat he plant belongs o he same Genus. he structure of the oliage, oo, s alike oth. ur lant iffers rom Mr. ROWN'S haracter of BRASSAVOLA n ts deeply hree-lobed ip ut in B. ubercw

lata nd .

ucullata, he nly itherto nown pecies f he Genus, he two sides at he base are somewhat ilated, or imperfectly lobed, and, n all, he base f the ip almost surrounds the lower part of the column.

Tig lower. . lower, from which the Column is removed. . ront



( 3099 )

HoLSTONIA LONGIFOLIA. LONG-LEAVED

HoUSTONIA.

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Class and Order.


( Nat. Ord.•RUBIáCEAS.

Generic Character.

Cal. -fidus. or. nfundibuliformis, -fida. tigma bifidum. aps, biloeularis, placenta ungosa dissepiinento annexa.

Specific haracter nd ynonyms. HOUSTONIA * longifolia ; aule erecto amoso etrágono d geniculas raecipue pubescente, oliis ineari-oblongis

radicalibus inferne attenuatis pubescentibus basi cilia- tis, tipulis lato-ovatis integris vel bi- ridentatis membranaceis, staminibus nclusis.

HOUSTONIA ongifolia. G•rtn. e Fruct . . p. 226. . 49. f. . quoad ructum). Willd. p. PL . p. 583. Roem. et Seh. Syst. eget. v. S. p. 208. Spreng. Syst. Veget. . . . 27. Bigel. I. Bost. d. . . 3. Elliott, Carol, . 1. p. 92. Torrey, I. Am. . . p. 73.

HOUSTONIA angustifolia. Mich. FI. Am. v.l. p. 85. Pursh, Fl.Am.v. .p. 106.

DESCR.

erennial.

oot mall, of many ranching i- bres. tem rom our r ix nches o a pan r ven foot igh, ranched, t imes ery onsiderably o, our- sided, ometimes early glabrous, generally owny elow the joints. eaves inear-oblong, n our pecimens opposite, preading, he adical eaves he broadest and attenuated at the base, pubescent, especially near the margin on |he pper urface, and iliated t he ase ; he auline leaves only ciliated at the base. he upper sides of the foliage are of a rather dark green, and when een under ens

appear

In compliment to WILLIAM OUSTON, who ublished Memoir on the



appear o be overed with minute, elevated points elow paler, nd uite ven. Stipules pposite, roadly vate, almost otundate, white, embranous, ntire r wo- r three-toothed at the extremity, the margin often glandular. Flowers at he xtremity f he ranches n ather om-

pact and somewhat corymbose, eafy panicles. Calyx four- partite, with linear, oblong, preading segments, sometimes a little ciliated t the margin. Corolla omewhat infundibuliform, white, r very ale purple, ellow t he ase, the limb ut nto our preading, ather cute, vate egments :•inside, he corolla s lightly downy on he limb, and n he lower part of the ube. Stamens small, nserted

near the base of he tube, nd not attaining to the summit of t. Anthers inear, ellow. Pistil: Germen nferior, turbinate, arked ith levated ines, wo-celled, any- seeded, he ovules attached o a entral, ree column he upper part f the germen s convex. Style as ong as the tube of the corolla. Stigma bifid, glandular, white. Fruit

a half-inferior,

wo-celled

apsule, urrounded by he

persistent calyx nd pening at ts free, two-lobed extremity into wo valves. Seeds small, black.

This plant was received at the Botanic Garden, Glasgow, from Mr. UNNINGHAM, f Edinburgh, s a native f he Blue Mountains f N. America, whence elieve t was introduced by Mr. BLAIR. n referring t to he HOUSTONIA

angustifolia f MICHAUX which s now lmost niversally considered o e he ame s he . ongifolia f WILL-

DENOW), ave been nfluenced by a pecimen, evidently of the ame pecies, rom ake Champlain, in Dr. BOOTHS

collection, arked s he plant f hat ame n URSH'S

Herbarium. ther individuals which 1 possess rom North America ave arrower nd harper eaves o hat he

plant s probably iable o uch ariation n hat respect, as ell s n he olor f ts lowers. ut ur pecimens accord lmost s well with ICHAUX'S escription ot the narrow-leaved arieties f his . arions purpurea, WiLLD.) s ith is ngustifolia; nly e escribes he stamens as exserted, which s not he case in our plant. this plant proves, as have good eason o

suppose t

s, a true HOUSTONIA of LINN^US, do not see how it can possibly

be separated from the RUBIACE^E and referred to GENTIANE^J,

as as een one y E ANDOLLE. ndeed notis j DE AND. n he rd. UBIACEJS, eems o e déntica with the Genus of the present individual.



¡r.J.S.delï



( 3100 )

PALAVIA HOMBIFOLIA. RHOMB-LEAVED

PALAVIA.

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Class and Order.

MoNADELPHIA PoLYANDRIA.

( Nat. Ord.•MALVACEAE.

Generic haracter.

Cal. udus, -fidus. Carpella lurima onosperma n capitulum absque ordine aggregata. De Cand.


PALAVIA * hombifolia ; oliis homboideis obato-crenatis ad enas parsim teliato-pilosis edúnculo revioribus, stipulis ubulatis iliatis viridibus, etalis obovato - cuneatis blique marginatis, aule rostrato ramoso parce stellato-piloso.

PALAVIA hombifolia. raham, in Edin. Phil. Journ. Sept.

1830.

DESCR. nnual? tem rostrate, branched, prinkled very oosely with ather igid airs, hich re ingle r stellate. eaves n inch and three quarters long, one and a half broad, alternate, etioled, oft, bright green above,

paler elow, homboid, labrous, ublobate, r eeply and unequally crenate, nearly entire at the base, five-nerved, veined, he nerves and veins prominent below, channelled above, nd both bove and elow, ut specially on he latter surface, loosely sprinkled with hairs, similar to those on the tem. etioles one nch ong, ather horter han the eaves, aving hallow roove long heir pper

surface,

* amed n compliment o NTONIO ALAU VERDERA, rofessor f

Botany at Madrid.



surface, ciliated. tipules subulate, ciliated, green, spreading, connivent at the apices. eduncles hree nches long, solitary, xillary, onger han he eaves, oosely provided with hairs like those on the other parts of the plant, lightly tapering, ointed ear he alyx, ut ot wollen t he

joint. lowers arge, centless. alyx ersistent, ive- cleft, green, ore hairy both within and without than any other part of the plant ube somewhat fleshy and ighter- coloured han he cordato-ovate, cute, more membranous segments, he dges f which re ompressed nd rominent n he bud. orolla hrice s ong s he alyx, rose-colored, eined, lat, then wo nches cross,) nd

becoming paler when fully expanded; Petals five, obovato- cuneate, bliquely marginate, labrous, iliated t he base, ctivation wisted. tamens monadelphous, numerous; heath oï a . pale ose olour, earing at r near the top he partial filaments, which, as well s he anthers, are darker nd range-red; nthers idney-shaped, otted,

bursting

y

uture

long

he

ack ollen lobular, smooth, yellow. tyles numerous, cohering at heir ase, equal o he tamens n ength, purple, appearing ough under the microscope. tigmas flat, deep purple, villous Germens numerous, each ontaining a ingle ovule, green, dotted, glabrous, collected irregularly into a head, inclosed within he calyx.

This is a very pretty plant ; and f it will bear cultivation in he open order as an annual, promises soon o ecome common. he seeds were received rom Mr. CRUCKSHANRS m the spring of 1830, having been collected by that gentleman near Lima. t ears rofusion f blossoms n not-bed, at the Botanic Garden of Edinburgh.

This pecies has much affinity with PALAUA moschata of CAVANILLES' Dissert, . . . 41. . 1. . 5, PALAVIA moschata f ater writers,) ut hich s escribed s eing tomentose, ith n rect tem, ordate eaves, oloured stipules, nd oundish, ellow etals, hose ue asses into urple. he igure bove uoted, lso epresents a tumeiaction at he oint of he eduncle, hich s uite wanting

n

ur

resent peeies ; or an erceive

he existence of perfume in any part of the plant. Graham.

Fig. . Column of Stamens including the Styles : agnified.



' JET-



( 3101 )

ASPLENIUM IDUS. BIRD'S EST

SPLEENWORT.

Class and Order.

CRYPTOGAMIA ILICES.

( Nat. Ord.•FILICES.

Generic Character.

Sort lineares, sparsi, dorsales. Involucrum e vena lateraliter ortum ducens, margine superiore ibero. Br.

Specific haracter nd ynonyms. ASPLENIUM* Nidus; rondibus anceolatis ntegerrimis gla-

bris ubsessilibus, oris onfertis arallelis ostae p-

proximatis. ASPLENIUM idus. Linn. p. PL . 2. p. 1537. Swartz,

Syn. il. p. 4. mild. p. PL . 5. . 304. B r.

Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. . 50. Kaulf, num. il. . 164. Spreng. yst. eget, v. 4. p. 80. Wall. Cat. of PL n Mus. oj'È. Ind. Comp. n. 98.

" PHYLLITIS ndica maxima oliis latissimis lains usae

facie. Moris. Hist. 3. p. 558. . 4. . \.f. 5." " SCOLOPENDRIA ndi• Orientalis, VIus• facie. reyn. Cent.

129. . 99."

DESCR. his Fern, n ts native country, eems o be a parasite n he runks of rees. ts oots are ufted, and from heir summit rises n preading circle, a rown of nearly essile, anceolate, hortly cuminated fronds, wo feet and a half to three feet in ength, of a rich green colour

somewhat glossy, nd of a exture between coriaceous and membranaceous,

* rom » , not, and s*>m*, the spleen, ome pecies aving been steemed useful in emoving obstructions of the viscera.



membranaceous, aving trong idrib nd umerous very closely-placed, parallel, oblique, delicate nerves, he margin a ittle hickened, and quite entire. he lines of fructification are ery copious, ensely placed n arallel

lines

lmost

rom

he

ase to

he extremity

of

he

rond, and extending from near the midrib wo-thirds of he way towards he argin. nvolucres very long and xtremely slender. apsules lobose, dark rown, on ong, lender stalks, and surrounded by a rather broad ring.

The Bird's Nest Spleenwort is a native of the Peninsula of India and slands of the Indian Seas, extending o those

of the Pacific Ocean, where t has been ound n he La- drone Islands, and to Oahu f the andwich group. ur finest dried specimens are from the Mauritius, gathered y C. TELFAIR, sq., Professor BOJER, and M. OUTON.

Professor RADDI has given it has an inhabitant of Brazil, but neither his figure nor description agree with he rue plant, nd t does ot appear to e n nhabitant of the

New World at all. n he stoves of our country it has only been cultivated, according to LOUDON'S Hortus Britannicus, since 820 ut t s a highly ornamental plant, nd e- serving a place n very ollection. he mode of growth of his lant, ts ronds orming ircle, ollow n he middle, ould lone ustify he pecific ame iven y LINN^US; ut t eems o ave riginated rom nother

circumstance t

the oot," he ays, " fixes tself upon the lofty rees, whence the leaves rise erect, and arrange them- selves n circle, ike n umbel, n he hollow entre of which he birds re requently accustomed o uild their nests/'

Fig. . lant, greatly reduced in size. . ortion owards he Apex f a rond, with ts ines f ructification. . orus. . apsules :•magnified.



5102. \

fu èy S ouates. Glta*eJl*r>oci Essu 0elrJ2t93J S/rat > > <



( 3102 )

CORYANTIIES MACULATA. SPOTTED-LIPPED

CORYANTHES.

Class and Order.

GVNANDRIA MONANDRIA.


Generic Character.

CORYANTHES iov. en. étala xteriora aten- tissima reflexa, quorum lateralia maxima; 2 interiora multo minora, erecta. olumna cylindracea, basi bidentata, ápice truncata bialata, lis dorso utrinque productis. abellum

poculiforme stipitatum, appendicem maximam galeiformem tridentatam pedunculatam, olumnam n parte egentem, gerens. nthera terminalis, operculiformis. assce pollinis 2, ovata?, ompressa?, margine hinc ima ongitudinal], pedicello replicato.

Herbae arasítica merica meridionalis, ntertropical.

Bulbus longatus diphyllus. lores inter máximos hujusve ordinis3 racemosi}flavi.

Specific Character.

CORYANTHES* macúlala; ulbo longato, oliis ato-lanceolatis, racemis multifloris ñutantibus, labello ntus

purpureo-maculato. )

DESCR. ulbs clustered, five to six inches long, triated, about an nch broad near he base and tapering upwards, at he ase hrowing ut ortuouse, ibrous roots ; t he extremity earing wo roadly anceolate, triated, nd

somewhat membranaceous leaves. Scape a foot and a half in

* rom opç, elmet, and » 0 Oi, a flower ; rom he arge helmet-like appendage to the lip of the lower.



in length, arising from the base of the bulb, at first thrown out in a horizontal direction, at ength rom he weight of the lowers uite endulous. racteas membranaceous, ovato-lanceolate, arge, two or three upon he scape, where

they re heathing, nd ne t he ase f each of the flowers. he wo arger petals, s oon s he lowers expand, pread ut n n orizontal irection, and hen from heir ize and exture, hey resemble at's wings, soon becoming reflexed and withering. he colour of the petals is a pale ochraceous ellow, that of the ip nd its appendage more nclining o yellow, he atter inged t

the margin, nd potted nside with urple. he tructure of all he parts f the lower s o imilar to that of GONGORA Coryanthes) speciosa, figured at . 2755 of this work, that it is scarcely necessary to repeat the description.

Although n he vegetation f his plant, nd lso n some degree n ts lowers oo, here exists a considerable affinity with the Genus GONGORA of RUIZ and PAVON and

of Exotic Flora, . 178;) et here are ew ho will ot allow, hat t ight ell orm istinct enus, n ts labellum very unlike all other known Orchideae. ence I have een ed o istinguish t under he appellation of CORYANTHES; which m he ore isposed o o, now that I have seen three species belonging to the same Genus, all agreeing in general habit and essential character.

The first of these is the GONGORA speciosa above referred to; the second, GONGORA macrantha (Bot. Miscellany, t. 80,) remarkable for its plaited margin to the stalk of the galeate appendage ; nd our present plant s the third, which ertainly approaches very near to the irst of those now mentioned. t differs in the much greater breadth of its leaves, in ts ore numerous nd endulous acemes, and spe-

cially in the colour of its flowers, which are here of a pale and dingy yellow more or ess approaching to tawny, and in having the inside of the appendage to its labellum spotted and blotched with purple. t s a native of the trunks of trees in the forests of Demerara, where it was discovered by JAMES ANKERS, Esq. and communicated to C. S. PARKER,

Esq. of Liverpool, who presented it with many rarities from

the same fertile country, o the Liverpool Botanic Garden. It blossomed in the stove of that collection n the month

of June, 1831, and was ent o us by our often-mentioned friends, the Messrs. SHEPHERDS.



( 3103 )

LONICERA IRSUTA. HAIRY MERICAN

WOODBINE.

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Class and Order.


( Nat. Ord.•CAPRIFOLIáCEA.

Generic haracter.

Calycis ubus -dentatus. or. ubulosa, ampanulata aut infundibuliformis, imbo 5-fido saepe irreetllari. tam. 5.

tylus filiformis.

tigma capitatum.

acca 5-locul., loculis ligospermis. emina rustácea.•rútices nterdum scandentes. olia opposita nterdum connata, ntegra aut in iisdem speciebus subruncinata. lores axillares disposition varii. D C.


LONICERA* irsuta; olubilis, verticillis apitatis landuloso-pubescentibus, oliis ate vato-ellipticis breviter petioiatis pubesceutibus ciliatisque subtus glaucis, summis cormato-perfoliatis.

LONICERA irsuta. " Eaton, Man. f Bot. d . 3. p. 341." ed. 4. p. 3b2. Torrey Fl. ofMidd. St. ofN. Am. v. 1. p. 242.

LONICERA ubescens. Sw. Hort. Brit. p. 194. De Cand. Prodr.v.4.p.332.

CAPRIFOLIUM pubescens. Goldie in Ed. Phd. Journ. ( 182¿,) v. 6. p. 323. Hook. Ex. Fl. . 27.

DESCR. Stem limbing, ix o ight feet igh, ore or less downy, erete. Leaves arge, of a ull deep green,

ID

* n compliment to ADAM LONICBR, German Naturalist of the sixteenth century.



in opposite and rather remote pairs, ovato-elliptical, waved, rather acute, the ower ones almost obovate, and on hort petioles, the upper sessile, and the uppermost ones connato- perfoliate, downy n both ides, ut specially eneath, where hey re laucous, iliated t he argin. he floral eaves re uite labrous bove. lowers n erminal, capitate whorls ; he extreme ones generally in three heads, of a fine golden-yellow colour, externally, and partially ithin, landuloso-pubescent. alyx f ive ery minute teeth. orolla with the tube longer than the limb,

curved.

pper lip broadly cunéate, five-toothed, lower one linear, he argins ecurved. tamens xserted. ilaments hairy n heir ower alf. nthers blong. tyle nearly s ong s he tamens. tigma rbicular, e- pressed.

This beautiful nd hardy pecies f Honeysuckle was introduced o ur ardens y Mr. OLDIE f Ayr, rom

North America, n the year 1819, and published by him in the Edinb. hil. ournal, n April, 822, nder he name of CAPRIFOLIUM pubescens, by which appellation also it appeared hortly fter n he xotic lora. either r. GOLDIE or myself were hen ware hat he ame plant was known to Mr. EATON, an American Botanist, and published y him n he hird edition of his useful Manual of

Botany, as ONICERA hirsuta, n. p. hat edition, I have indeed not yet had the opportunity of seeing; ut judging from the date of the Preface o he ourth edition, 1823,) and rom he ircumstance f Dr. ORREY'S iving he preference to Mr. EATON'S ame, it must have he ight of priority.

I do not see any reason for suspecting, with Dr. TORREY,

that this is only a variety of LONICERA flava, CURT. CAPRI-

FOLIUM Fraseri of PURSH,) which has glabrous lowers and leaves, and cartilaginous margins to the latter, and appears to be a much more Southern species.

Our igure s aken rom ine plant, which blossomed in the Glasgow Bot. Garden, n June, 1831.

Fig. . lower. . tamen. . tigma and part of the Style : magnified. 4. ower Leaf, nat. size.



ylOf

I T . fKdtl* Tuó. iy S. Cuj-tis ëlazenmpûdSsses. trJ.7S'Jl



( 3104 )

ToRENIA SCABRA. ROUGH ToRENlA.

Class and Order.

DlDYNAMlA ANGIOSPERMIA.

( Nat. Ord.•SCROPHULARIN¿3.

Generic haracter.

Cal. ubulosus 5-dentatus, v. bilabiatus, labiis 2•-3-dentatis. or. ringens, labio superiore bilobo, inferiore trífido. Stamina didynama ntheris per paria coh•rentibus, lobis oppositis ilamentis ongioribus ente aterali uctis. Stigma bilamellatum. aps, bilocularis, bivalvis, valvis in-

tegris ; issepimento parallelo ibero.•Herbae. olia op* posita, entata. edunculi axillares et erminales, brac- teati, fructiferi erecti. Br.


ToRENiA * scabra ; foliis anceolato-ovatis erratis cabris,

caule erecto pubescentulo, calyce 5-dentato aequali. TORENIA scabra. raham, in Ed. Phil. Journ. r. Prod. Fl. Nov. Holland, p. 440. TITTMANNIA scabra. Spreng. Syst. eget. v. 2. p. 800.

DESCR. nnual oot slender, tapering, having many

branching, ateral ibres. tem rect, ith ery hort, harsh, lightly eflected pubescence t ts base, perfectly glabrous above, channelled on wo sides, alternating at the joints. eaves lanceolato-ovate, acutely serrated, entire at the apex nd base, ubciliated, veined, cabrous along the veins behind, oft nd ubglabrous n ront. nflorescence a ew-flowered erminal yme, eduncles rect, ithout

hracteas,

tout.

alyx smooth,

egular,

ive-parted, persistent,

* amed after OLOF TOREEN, a Swedish Naturalist, and pupil of LINNAEUS, M 'ho published n account of his voyage o China.



sistent, egments cute, ucronulate, preading n heir upper half, losely mbricated elow. orolla ne nch long, one inch across, ilac and white, violet-purple in my specimens. I.) striated, glanduloso-pubescent, ringent, its

limb dilated nd preading, renate, he pper ip wo- lobed, the ower hree-lobed, of which he central lobe s the largest nd emarginate ; ube ampanulate, dilated on its lowest ide, omewhat lattened bove, ontracted and having wo its ithout n ach ide owards ts ase, again ilated s t overs he ermen. tamens idynamous ; filaments distant, hairy near the base, adhering to the

corolla nearly as far as the hroat, here suddenly bent, the lonsrer at right angles, the shorter at an angle of about 45°. The longer filaments projecting from each lávate tooth at his ngle, ass orizontally ound he hroat of the corolla, and meet under the tigma he horter having a much smaller tooth at the angle, pass obliquely upwards to the style, and meet below he others. nthers bilobular, divaricating, lilac, at first free, afterwards cohering in pairs, and ursting long he ront. tigma xserted, f wo ovate, ubacute, iverging lates, he ower ather he largest. tyle glabrous, filiform, slightly flattened near the stigma, s ell s he ilaments olourless, arcescent. Germen green, onical, omewhat urrowed n he ides,

ovules very numerous, attached o arge, entral receptacle. apsule ovate, tumid, tipped by the persisting base of the style, bilocular, bivalvular, valves entire, dissepiment parallel to the valves, seeds very numerous, ovate, dotted.

Seeds f his very retty plant * ere ent rom New Holland y Mr. RASER ast year, nd ommunicated o the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, both directly from himself

and by Sir THOMAS RISBANE, n October and November. They were marked " Ruellia, p. nov. rom he banks of the Hiver Brisbane, Moretón Bay." Graham.

* hink t carcely ccords ufficiently with he ame r character of Mr. BROWN'S . scabra, o arrant ts being with ertainty united o hat

species. H.

Fig. . orolla laid open to how the tamens. 2 . Calyx nd istil. Germen nd Nectary. 4. ection of a Germen agnified.



3106.

C, /fa j f f i t o



( 3105 )

ALSTR•MERIA EILLII. Mr. EILL'S

ALSTR•MERIA.

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Class and Order.

HEXANDRIA ONOGYNIA.

( Nat. Oíd.•MARYLLIDEíE.

Generic haracter.

Perianthium orollaceum, ubcampanulaceum, expartitum, rreguläre; aciniis uabus v. ribus) nterioribus tubiiloso-conniventibus. tam. 6, aciniis inserta, em um declinata. tigma rifidum. aps, rilocularis oculis

polyspermis.•Caulis rectus, scandens aut volubilis, foliatus. Flores umbellati. Kunth.

Specific haracter nd Synonym.

ALSTR•MERIA Neillii ; aule recto laccido olioso, oliis spathulatis obtusis glauco-pruinosis apice lateribusque reflexis ntegerrimis, etalis ribus xterioribus obovatis emarginatisaequalibuscrenatis, interioribus paulo longioribus pathulatis ubintegerrimis, edunculis umbellatis bifloris. Graham.

ALSTR•MERIA Neillii. Gillies' MSS.

DESCR. tems simple,

many from

he ame oot,

erect, flaccid, ound, ery eafy, ubglauco-pruinose, specially towards the top, greener below. eaves spathulate, about seven-nerved, central ib hardly prominent behind, except in he ower and narrower half, eflected at he point and sides, waved, lauco-pruinose, uite entire, callous at he margin, and particularly so at he pex. eduncles hree or four, orming a erminal umbel, wo-flowered, dull purple, a little longer than the leaves, which are collected in the form of an involucre round their base. erianth: Segments six, nequal, uch ttenuated, ucculent, nvolute nd ciliated at he base, ach with hree primary nerves, prominent behind, and wo or four secondary nerves, scarcely reticulated; hree outer segments equal, of a nearly uniform



pale ose colour, rather darker n he middle of the outside, obovato-crenate, with a central, green, concave, callous point ; hree inner egments ather onger han he uter, pathulate with green callous apex, and oblong deep ose-coloured spots on heir upper half, he owest s rather he hortest f the hree, nearly

flat and arched backwards he two others project in the centre of the lower, nd re traight, xcept near he pex, where hey are bent back, and mmediately below his point are marked by a broad, ransverse, yellow and, nectariferous at he ase. ta* mens aid long he ower etal ill he pollen s mature, when they become traight, and early arallel with he wo central petals, which hey almost equal n ength : ßlaments rose-coloured, lightly apering, pubescent t he ase ; nthers greenish-

rose-coloured, lattened, nd, s n he ther pecies when he loculaments burst, becoming lattened n he pposite direction Pollen eddish, ranules very small and blong. tigma trifid, rose-coloured as well s he prismatic tyle, which s nly green at its persisting base. ermen rilocular, purple, obovato-turbinate, overed ith minute, hining ubercles, ibs trong nd prominent. vules numerons, attached n wo ows, within each loculament, o the central receptacle.

This xtremely handsome lant lowered, or he irst ime n this ountry, n Mr. P. NEILL'S reenhouse, t Canonmills *, near Edinburgh, une 831. r. NEILL s ncertain to whom he is indebted or he plant, but s eeds of ALSTRCEMERIA pal'

lida were sent in he same packet, and as we possess specimens of this, collected by Dr. GILLIES t Los Ojos de Agua, it is probable A.Neillii was rom him also. r. GILLIES nclines o he ame

opinion, and believes hat his pecies s he ne which at Men- doza is called Pelegrina, and of which he has various individuals in his Herbarium. t is possible hat hese are dentical, hough the egments of the perianth are in the native pecimens perfectly entire, he inner ones lanceolate, not spathulate, he outer acute, not emarginate, and the peduncles single-flowered. r. GILLIES found t on both ides of the Cordillera f the Andes, etween Chili and Mendoza. alluded to t in my description of ALSTRCE-

MERIA pallida, n he Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal for September, 1829, and conjectured, that when t lowered, t might prove o be a variety of it. he nflorescence, habit, and colouring give support o his conjecture nd our increasing acquaint- ance with outh American enera hrows ncreasing cepticism upon all enquiries as to he natural boundaries of species; but ill the period arrives when a evision of the whole Genus ALSTR•- MERIA shall warrant onsiderable eduction f ts pecies, he

characters bove oted may e eemed ufficient, s iving o this orm better itle o pecific ame han everal thers, which are now held to be sufficiently distinct. Graham.

This very interesting establishment has recently sustained a great loss in the removal f the gardener, ALEXANDER COTT, whose professional alen and atient ndustry ave een ransferred o situation f more extensive



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( 3106 )

RHODODENDRON APPONICUM. LAPLAND

RHODODENDRON.

Class and Order.


( Nat. Ord.•ERICEN.

Generic haracter.

Cal. 5-partitus. or. nfundibuliformis 5-lobus. tam. 5•10 declinata antheris ápice biporosis. apsula 5-locularis, 5-valvis, ab ápice dehiscens, valvarum marginibus in-

flexis issepimenta ormantibus eceptaculum entrale 5-angulare. Semina membrana in voluta.


RHODODENDRON * Lapponicum ; ruticosum, ramosum, pro- cumbens, am is ivaricatis, loribus mbellatis •8-

andris, orollis otato-infundibuliformibus, oliis b- longis obtusis rigidis foveolato-punctatis subtus disco- loribus epidotis marginibus reflexis.

RHODODENDRON apponicum. ahl. l. uec. . 49. Spreng. yst. eg. v. 2. p. 293. raham, in Ed. N. Phil. Journ. Oct. 1830.

AZALEA apponica. inn. FL Suec. p. 64. p. PI. v. I. p. 214.

L Lapp. (ed. Smith,) p. 59. . 6.f. I.

all. FL Ross. . 2. p. 2. . 70. /. . L Dan. . 6. . 906. Willd. Sp. PL v.l. p. 832. Pers. Syn. PL v. I. p. 212.

DESCR. n vergreen, rocumbent hrub, bout ix inches, long ; ranches at ength divaricated, ound, grey,

when oung ed, bscurely ubescent, arted. Leaves three

* rom foSot, a rose, and i v f y o » , a tree, from the usual colour of the flowers of these shrubby plants.



three ines ong, our ines road, etioled, ivaricated, elliptical, veinless, reflexed at the edges, dark green above, paler nd t ast yellowish eneath, hickly prinkled on both ides with ollow ots, hich are overed ith n umbilicated, ersisting, ellowish cale, bscurely han-

nelled along the middle rib, which s somewhat prominent behind. lowers terminal, umbellate, bout five or six n the umbel, f which hree expand t a ime, urrounded with arge, oncave, mbricated, rown, otted cales r bracteas. eduncles as long as the bracteas, round, dotted. Calyx small, ive-toothed, lunt, ciliated, hickly overed with yellow scales. orolla (three-fourths of an inch across,)

crimson, otato-funnel-shaped, ive-cleft, egments lunt, unequal, waved, the throat hairy and nectariferous, nectariferous pore very indistinct. tamens five to eight, equal in length to he corolla, scarcely declined ¡filaments adhering to the base of the germen, of the same colour as the corolla, hairy near their base anthers brown, attached by the back, bilocular, ach

cell depressed

in the middle as by

a longi-

tudinal uture, but ursting by pore at its upper extremity ollen ellow. tigma ed-brown, apitate, ive- lobed, lobes depressed. tyle round, ed, glabrous, longer than he tamens, nce r wice eniculated. ermen green, thickly covered with yellow cales, imilar o hose on he alyx, conical, obscurely ive-lobed, ciliated ound

the base of the style, ive-celled lacentae inear, extending to the parietes, overed with innumerable ovules. The enterprise of Mr. CUNNINGHAM has been rewarded by

having irst n ritain rought nto lower NDROMEDA hypnoides * and HODODENDRON apponicum. hese wo interesting lants may be een under the same hand-glass, in the nursery at Comely Bank, near Edinburgh : hey were

both rought rom Canada by Mr. BLAIR, n 825. he subject of he present escription lowered in July, 1830. Graham. RHODODENDRON Lapponicum inhabits the alpine ridges of

the low grounds n he extreme Arctic regions of Europe, Asia, and America. he bruised eaves are fragrant, yielding a smell, which PALLAS compares to hat of Turpentine. The flowers are exceedingly beautiful.

* igured at Tab. 2936 of this work.

Fife. . lower, ith ts racteas. . alyx, tamens, nd istil- .



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( 3107 )

EcHiNocACTUs OTTONIS. Mr. TTO'S

ECHINOCACTUS.

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Class nd Order.

IcOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

( Nat. Ord.•CACTEJE.

Generic Character.

Sépala numerosa mbricata basi ovarii adnata n tubum brevissimum oncreta, xteriora nvolucriformia, ntima

petaliformia.

tam. umerosa.

tylus iliformis pice multifidus. acca sepalorum eliquiis subsquamata. o- tiledones nullae ?•rútices implicissimi carnosi ovati aut globosi melocactoidei costati aphylli costis tuberculis confluentibus uasi ormatis, orso culeorum fascículos eren- tibus. ephalium eu padix ullus. lores fasciculis aculeorum ad apices costarurn orti, similes floribus Cerei sed

tubo vix ullo donati.


ECHINOCACTUS * ttonis ; aule ubcylindrico, ostis 2 obtusiusculis, pinis mediis 3•4-longioribus erectius- culis tenuibus fuscis, eliquis 10•14 tenuissimis paten-

tibus longe acuminatis

ubserrulatis cuspidatis. ECHINOCACTUS Ottonis. ink et Otto, Gew. Bot. Gart. Berl. t. 16. CACTUS Ottonis. ehm. Ind. Sem. Hort. Hamb. 1827, p. 16.

Ind. Schol. n Gymn. Hamb. 1828, p. 11.

DESCR. Stem, in our plant, three to four inches in height, orbiculari-cylindrical, contracted at the base, where it produces

* rom X»«í, hedgehog, and x a x - r o ç , cactus.



duces offsets, marked with about twelve vertical, deep furrows, the ridges between he furrows obtuse, tudded with rather losely et mall ufts of reddish wool, rom which arise three or four rather strong pines, of a deep purplish-

brown olour, hich tand orward, nd re ometimes curved, and several lesser pale-coloured spreading ones. The longest nd trongest pines are rom he ummit f he stem ut the largest of them rarely exceed half an inch in length, nd heir bases re he most woolly. rom he summit of the stem arise one to three or four sessile flowers,

large in

proportion

to the

size of the

plant, and

of a delicate

lemon colour. alyx tapering at the base, mbricated with scales, which are clothed with reddish or ferruginous wool, mixed with long, slender, dark red pines. etals numerous, recto-patent, inear-acute, bscurely and rregularly serrulated, ristate, of a ather hin and cariose exture. Stamens bout half as ong s he etals, yellow. tyle

equal to them in length, bearing a bright red stigma, with about twelve to fourteen rays. This ery eautiful pecies of CHINOCACTUS as irst

described by Dr. LEHMANN, (to whom our Glasgow Garden is indebted or he possession of the plant,) and afterwards was well epresented n LINK nd OTTO'S xcellent publi- cation on the plants of the Berlin Garden. t is a native of

Brazil and like all its tribe should be cultivated in a warm and dry stove, and he pots kept well drained rom moisture. It blossomed with us in July, 1831.

Our collections are now, by he zeal of he Botanists in the New World, eginning o e well tocked ith he species of this urious and highly nteresting amily. t

one time, the hotter parts of that vast continent were alone supposed o fford hem ut rom he at. f Mendoza, (33° South,) and at a considerable elevation above the level of the sea, Dr. GILLIES has supplied the Glasgow and other Botanic Gardens, with no less than twenty-two species ; ll gathered within he distance of a morning's ide from that city hile in North America, Messrs. DOUGLAS and DRUM-

MOND met with actuses between he parallels of 40° and 50°, n the Rocky Mountains hereas, Professor SCHOUW has carcely extended he egion of he ribe beyond he tropics.



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( 3103 )

NlEREMBERGIA GRACILIS. SLENDER

NlEREMBERGIA.

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Class and Order.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

( Nat. Ord.•SOLANACE^:.

Generic Character.

Cal. tubulosus, 5-fidus. or. subhypocrateriformis, tubo longissimo, enui; imbo -lobo, licato sub-) quali. Stam. , xserta. ilam. nferne onnata an emper ?)

Anther• ongitudinaliter dehiscentes. tigma subinfundi- buliforme, ilobum, nobis aterale ransverse blongum utrinque acuminatum ecurvum). apsula in undo calv- éis persistentis ilocularis, ivalvis ; dissepimentum valvu- jis arallelum, ernum iberum ; lacent• issepimento intimas dnatae.•Caules ignosi ut erbacei, filiformes, procumbentes t •pe epentes. olia parsa, olitaria,

interdum gemina, integra et integerrima.

lores extraaxil-

lares aut oppositifolii, solitarii, subsessiles, albi. Kunth.

Specific haracter.

NlEREMBERGIA* gracilis; aulibus herbaceis rectiusculis foliisque anguste lineari-subspathulatis pubescentibus,

capsula polysperma.

DESCR. tems several, as it appears, rom the same root, six o ight nches igh, erbaceous, ounded, owny, branching upwards, with the branches alternate, very slender. eaves small, carcely more than half an nch long, narrow-linear, pproaching o pathulate, ather obtuse,

pale

. * n compliment to JOHN EUSEBIUS NIEREMBERG, a Spanish Jesuit of the «xteenth century, who wrote a " History of Nature."



pale glaucous-green, obscurely costate, downy, all of them alternate and cattered, xcept he owermost, which appear lmost whorled, he ppermost nes n he oung branches ubsetaceous. Flowers erminal n he oung

branches. Calyx with ts ube ttenuated t the ase, white and membranaceous, with en green, prominent ribs, scarcely downy ; imb of ive inear, preading, reen and somewhat oliaceous, lightly downy egments. Corolla: tube much exserted, very long and exceedingly slender; he limb spreading, convex, unequally five-lobed, white, streaked with purple, having a yellow ye where t s nserted

on the ube he obes ounded, btuse. Stamens ive. Filaments rather short, nserted n the mouth of he ube, scarcely connate, two in ront of the style and three behind it, omewhat qual, wo onger han he est, and ne (the centre of hose behind he tyle,) maller, urved at the pices. Anthers roundish, eniform, wo-lobed, wo-

celled, the

ells pening aterally y ertical issure. Style as long s the stamens. Stigma transverse, anterior, oblong, acuminate at each extremity and recurved, green, viscid. Germen ovate, dotted, two-celled, cells with many ovules attached to the receptacles of the dissepiment.

The enus IEREMBERGIA, haracterized y he x- tremely slender tube of its corolla, nhabits exclusively the

New World, and appears to have an extensive range there; one pecies of hose hitherto described eing native of Peru (N. repens, R. and P.) another of Mexico, N. angustifolia, H. and K.) and a third of Monte Video, N. pubescens, SPRENG.). O hese, have the pleasure of adding a fourth, a native, like the last, of the vicinity of the Uraguay, but in botanical character nearly approaching the Mexican plant. rom hat t iffers n he ubescent tems nd leaves, as well as in the structure of the stamens and stigma; so much o, hat hould lmost e nclined to onsider them generically distinct only that the figure and description f N. angustifolia being made rom dried pecimens, the learned authors might be deceived in the appearance of

such minute parts, and thus the difference may be account- ed or. Our lants ere aised rom eeds ent rom uenos

Ayres, by Mr. TWEEDIE, nd promise o bear the open air in summer. They flowered n July, 1831.



3103

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( 3109 )

ONCIDIUM ICORNUTUM. TWO-HORNED

ONCIDIUM.

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Class and Order.

GYNANDRIA ONANDRIA.


Generic Character.

Labellum xplanatum, obatum, asi ituberculatum. Pétala patentia 2 antica nunc onnata). olumna alata.

Mass• Pollinis 2, postice bilobae edio ffixae rocessu communi stigmatis. Br.

Specific haracter.

ONCIDIUM icornutum ; ulbo longato iphyllo, capo radicali, panícula densa, perianthio tetraphyllo foliolis

obovatis ubaequalibus, abello ngulato-lobato ateribus piceque eflexis, isco uberculato, olumna pubescente, nthera ornubus uobus ollibus e-

flexis.

DESCR. he bulbs of this singular and beautiful species of ONCIDIUM re our o ive nches ong, ubcylindrical, furrowed, clustered and clothed at he base with lacerated, brown, heathing cales, t he xtremity earing are y one, ostly wo, inear-lanceolate, oriaceous, bscurely striated, cuminated eaves. cape radical, terete, jointed and bracteated, rising a little above the leaves, and bearing a comparatively large and dense panicle, which, apparently from he weight of the numerous flowers, curves gracefully like an ostrich-feather, he branches omewhat distichous, each amification and he base of each lower bracteated. Perianth deep yellow, with ransverse spots and bars ot dark-red purple-brown colour, almost wholly yellow at the

r

l ase,

!



base, n our pieces or eaflets, which re nearly qually obovato-cuneate, aved, he ateral nes specially, the lowermost one he mallest nd arrowest, et ormed of the wo ower eaflets f he uter eries, nd bscurely

two-nerved. Labellum rect, of a very singular orm, and difficult to e xplained y ords. It ppears maller than he rest of the pieces f the perianth, but hese arise from he argins nd extremity, which re aved and angled, eing ingularly eflexed hilst he pper ide presents many wrinkles and ubercles, yet ven hese re placed ith egularity, o hat every abellum s alike n

its angles and projections and depressions the olour s yellow, mottled and spotted ith purple-red. Column pale reddish-yellow, lmost white, downy, semicylindrical, shorter than the olumn, upwards expanding into two projecting wings eyond his he olumn ises into n orbicular receptacle for the hemispherical anther, which s also downy, nd hich ears n ts nterior dge, wo oft,

recurved awns or horns, uch s have never seen n any of his amily. When he anther-case s emoved, two obovate, wavy, yellow masses of pollen with a cleft at their posterior ide re een attached o n ttenuated, narrow, membrane r ilament, earing mall gland at ts base. Germen linear-clavate, carcely wisted.

This is another of the many highly interesting Orchideous

plants or he possession f which ur country s indebted to Mrs. RNOLD ARRISON f Aigburgh, ear iverpool, and o er brother ARRISON, sq. f Rio. It was discovered by that gentleman n woods, ixty miles inland from hat capital, and communicated to his sister, who is no less uccessful n ultivating, han e s n etecting he many novelties of the tribe which the forests of Brazil afford.

It was ent o England n 830, and n une, 831, produced the panicle of flowers here represented, done n part from he lant tself, and n part rom drawing sent by Mrs. HARRISON.

Fig. . lower. . lower, rom hich he ip has been emoved. , Exterior

iew

f

he

ower

f

he

our Segments

f the

erianth.

, . Anterior nd osterior iews f he ip. . olumn, ith ts nther

attached. . olumn, ith he nther-Case orced ack, o how he Pollen-Masses. . pper view of the Pollen-Masses. . osterior view of ditto.•Magn ified.



5110 .



( 3110 )

LANTANA IVEA, ar. mutabilis. WHITE-

FLOWERED ANTANA, Changeable

var.

Class and Order.


( Nat. Ord.•VERBENACE^E.

Generic Character.

Cal. brevissimus, obsolete dentatus. or. ubulosa, limbo nsequaliter ilobo. tam. nclusa. rupa accata, 1-pyrena, pyrene biloculari, 2-spermo, ima loculis interpo-

sita. Spr.

Specific Character nd ynonyms.

LANTANA nivea; oliis oppositis ovatis acuminatis scabris in petiolum attenuatis, apitulis emisphaericis, racteis linearibus tubo brevioribus, caule frutescente aculeato.

LANTANA nivea. illd. Enum. p. 631. ent. Malm. p. 8. t. 8. Bot. Mag. . 1946. (3.) loribus lavis demum roséis. (Tab. nostr. . 3110.)

DESCR. hrub, our or ive eet high, branched, he branches our-sided, glabrous, ut urnished ith trong, short, often urved aculei, set principally upon he angles. Leaves large, of a deep green colour, scabrous, ovate, acuminate, obtusely errated, uch erved, diffusing an un- pleasant odour, at the base gradually tapering into a rather long petiole. rom he xils f he pper eaves, he peduncles arise, equal in length with the leaves or sometimes longer, our-sided and lightly aculeated, arely branched,

bearing arge nd beautiful head of changeable flowers at he xtremity. hese lowers are ollected upon n oblong, leshy eceptacle, which as ometimes pair f opposite mall eaves at he base. Bracteas, one o acli

flower,



flower, shorter than the tube, linear, the outer ones broader, almost lanceolate. ube somewhat curved, slightly downy, limb preading, waved, nequally ive-lobed, he argins more r ess ecurved, at irst yellow with an orange eye,

then becoming ose-coloured with n orange ye, inally entirely rose-coloured. alyx small, obscurely four-lobed. Stamens our, nserted early t he iddle f he ube. Filaments short. nthers rounded, rown. istil: Ger- men ovate Style about half the length of the tube : Stigma capitate, oblique.

Our Glasgow Botanic arden is indebted or this hand-

some nd ost esirable nhabitant f the tove o Mr. MARNOCR, of Britton Hall, by whom it was communicated, under he ery ppropriate ame f . utabilis. he comparatively arge eads f lowers re t irst holly yellow, with deeper eye; he uter nes hen irst gradually become ose-coloured, he range ye or ime remaining, when hat hanges likewise, and at ength the

whole flowers are a delicate rose colour. f what ountry it is a native, am ignorant; ut it possesses all the essential haracter of L. nivea, and hence I ave onsidered it as variety of that species, although, erhaps, he white- flowered state should rather be considered a variation from this. . ivea s tated n ot. Mag. . 946, o e n East Indian plant;•a native of the West Indies according

to ir . MITH, n ees's ycl. rom . culeata t differs in its far more strongly aculeated and glabrous stems and branches. ts lowers appear n May and une, nd continue for a considerable length of time.

Fig. . Young Flower, 2 . More advanced ditto. 3. Stamens. 4. Calyx. 5. istil :•magnified.



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( 3111 3112 ;

ACHRAS APOTA. COMMON APOTA.

BULLY-TREE.

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Class nd Order.

HEXANDRIA ONOGYNIA.

( Nat. Ord.•SAPOTEA.

Generic Character. Cal. - raro 5-) partitus. or. 6-fida. tamina 6 ste-

rilia quamaeformia, um otidem ertilibus lternantia. Ovarium 2•6-loculare. omum 2•6-spermum. u- ces compressai osseae, ventre longitudmaliter deraso. emen albuminosum. Br.

Specific haracter and Synonyms. ACHRAS* Sapota; foliisoblongo-ellipticis acutis, pedunculis

calycibus petiolisque errugineo-pubescentibus,, ilamentis sterilibus oblongis obtusis., ovario pluri-loculari.

(«.) ructu elliptico seu ovato. ACHRAS apota. inn. Sp. PL p. 470. illd. Sp. PL .

2. p. 224. acq. Am. p. 57. . 41. it. Hort. Kern. ed . 2. v. 2. p. 312. Spreng. Syst. eget. v. 2. p. 132.

ACHRAS ructu lliptico cabro ajore. rown, am. . 200. . 19./. 3.

(ß.) ructu ubrotundo subdepresso. Sappadilla or Nase- berry tree.)

ACHRAS apota, 3 . Jacq. Am. I. c. . 41, 3 . ACHRAS Zapotilla. Browne, Jam. p. 200.

ANONA oliis laminis, &c. Sloane, Jam. v. 2. p. 171. . 230. ANONA maxima, &c. Sloane, Jam. v. 2. p. 172. . 169./ 2.

DESCR. his, according to SLOANE, s one of the argest trees in the mountainous woods of the island ofJamaica. ACQUIN says the height varies rom en o ifty eet Mr. GUILDING states t from hirty o orty eet. rom very art f t enacious, viscid, white juice is distilled. he wood is white, the bark brown. branches numerous, orming a spreading top. eaves numerous, almost all of them placed in clusters at the extremity of the younger tranches, three o four inches long, coriaceous, shining, elliptical- oblong, acute, glabrous, he midrib prominent behind, he ateral

nerves



nerves numerous but indistinct : the petioles are more or less downy. Peduncles from the axils of the erminal leaves, solitary, single- flowered, about an inch long, frequently drooping, rather thick and downy. alyx divided nearly o he base nto six, rather large, erect, ovate, oriaceous egments, f which he hree uter are

clothed with dense, ferruginous hairs, the three inner much paler coloured. orolla of one petal, ubular, ather onger than the calyx, white, cut one-third of the way down into ix oblong obtuse segments : within (alternating with these segments, and nearly equal o them in size and shape,) are six scales, abortive stamens, often notched at the point. erfect stamens six. ilaments short, curved upwards. nthers ovato-oblong, opening with ongitu-

dinal fissure at the sides of the cells.

istil: Germen subglobose, densely hairy. tyle exserted. tigma obtuse, obscurely lobed. Berry as large as a moderately-sized apple, often tipped with the persistent style, of a dirty brown colour, mottled and spotted with a deeper hue, n . elliptical, n more r ess ounded or ompressed having at he base he eflexed egments of the alyx, eight o en- (seven to thirteen, JACQ.) celled, many of the cells frequently abortive. n he inner angle of the cells is a solitary,

rather arge, aterally ompressed, lossy, blackish-brown eed, having at the inner angle a long, pale, linear scar ; the ower extremity is frequently recurved. lbumen white, leshy, with the flattened embryo n the centre the radicle pointing downwards.

Mr. GUILDING compares the appearance of the fruit of this tree to that of an old and decayed potato : yet he observes that, it is the most luscious of the West ndian fruits ; ut so abounding in an acrid milk, that it cannot be eaten ntil t s ompletely ipe, or

according to French authors, until t almost begins o be putrid. It is there served at all tables and generally esteemed.

The lowers re, ccording o ACQUIN, nodorous, but Mr. GUILDING emarks, hat hey yield mell esembling hat of brass r opper, and ar rom greeable. he general orm of these blossoms when in perfection is campanulate ut when fer- tilization s ffected, the top of the lower closes upon the style, and it becomes ovato-acuminate n its circumscription.

The timber yielded by this tree is considered of great service in the making of shingles o corn-houses. he bark s stringent, and commonly known by the name of CORTEX jamaicensis, according o ROWN, eing requently administered to he egroes in lieu of the Jesuit's Bark, and ound to answer all the purposes of that medicine. The seeds are aperient and diuretic. It s a native f the West ndies nd bundantly ultivated

throughout all the hot parts of South America or the sake of its fruit. n our stoves it was ultivated so long ago as 731, but it does not appear ever to have lowered with us. he figures here given are taken from beautiful drawings made by Mr. GUILDING

in St. Vincent. o he ame Naturalist I am indebted for many observations on the tree.



3113.

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( 3113 )

SALPIGLOSSIS INTEGRIFOLIA. ENTIRE-

LEAVED SALPIGLOSSIS.

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Class and Order.


( at. Ord.•SOLANE^E. Don.

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-fidus seu -partitus, ubinaequalis. or. infundibuliformis 5-loba. ilamentum quintum sterile (nunc an-

theriferuin). tylus pice ilatatus. tigma runcatum, transversum. apsula i-loeularis, issepimento alvis parallelo. Semina punctato-scabra.

Specific Character.

SALPIGLOSSIS ntegrifolia; oliis vato-lanceolatis n etio-

lum ttenuatis, loribus olitariis xillaribus, alyce profundo 5-partito, orollas lobis integris.

DESCR. tem herbaceous, ix to en inches high, somewhat procumbent at the base, then erect, slightly branched, rounded, every where clothed with glandular hairs. eaves alternate, rarely opposite, hose rom near he oot almost exactly ovate, the rest approaching to lanceolate or oblong, all, but specially the ounger ones, more or ess lothed with glandular and ather etid airs, ather obtuse at he point, quite entire at the margins, tapering gradually below into ootstalk, hich as ften, t ts base, purplish tinge. eduncles principally onfined o he ppermost

leaves, solitary, about an inch long, glandular, single-flowered. alyx three-fourths of the length of the tube of the corolla, deeply five-partite, he segments linear, ncreasing in size, after he orolla has allen away, and inclined upwards. Corolla more han an inch ong, broadly infundi-

buliform :



buliform the tube dark bluish-purple, hairy, and glandular, the limb nearly equal, oblique, five-lobed, the lobes rounded entire, obtuse, of a ich crimson purple. tamens ive, included, our idynamous, he entral ne ntheriferous. Filaments uite labrous, urplish. nthers lue, wo-

lobed, the lobes at first approximate, pening at he outer margins, at length spreading. ermen, small, ovate, green, imbedded in a fleshy yellow gland or ing, with wo eeth. Style slender, iliform, green, dilated upwards, and bearing an rbicular reen, eltate, lat tigma, marked ith transverse ine. apsule vate, mall, wo-celled, wo- valved, the valves ometimes ifid at heir points. eeds

numerous, attached to a eceptacle on each ide he dissepiment, oval, approaching to reniform, studded with numerous, raised points, arranged in lines.

This new and most distinct pecies of ALPIGLOSSIS was raised rom eeds ent n he utumn f 830, y Mr. TWEEDIE of Buenos Ayres, to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, where the young plants, placed n a warm exposure in the

open air produced heir ichly coloured blossoms n uly of the ollowing year 1831). t romises o e a ost valuable addition o ur emi-hardy lants: ut whether an nnual r otherwise, m not t present able to ay. I ave pecimens f the ame plant ent o e by Mr. JAMES AIRD f Buenos Ayres, who athered hem pon the Uraguay *, near the Rio Negro.

Mr. DON as justly referred he present Genus to SOLA-

NáCEAS. t has the same heavy and etid smell, though not in a very powerful degree, as many others of that family.

* rom he ame ource, nd from he ame ountry, possess nother species of SALPIGLOSSIS, which may he thus named and distinguished

S. inearis oliis parvis) inearibus ntegerrimis glandulosis, paniculis pau- cifloris terminalibus foliosis, alyce 5-fido, corolla; lohis integris. HAB.

Banks of the Uraguay, Mr. James Baird.

Fig. . oot Leaf, mat. size. . lower. . tamen. . nther burst. 5. istil. . ection f he ermen. . ummit of the Style and tigma.

8. apsule. . eed :•more or less magnified.



( 3114 )

CENTROCLINIUM EFLEXUM. REFLEXED-

SCALED CENTROCLINIUM.

Class nd Order.

SYNGENESIA UPERFLUA.

( Nat. Ord.•COMPOSITE. Div. LABIATIFLOR•.

Generic haracter.

Involucrum ubglobosum vel eylindraceum arete mbricatum. losculi disci ubulosi, 5-dentati, hinc profundius fissi; adii •12 ilabiate abio nteriore minutissimo

bipartito erecto dein evoluto ?) exteriore ongissimo rí- fido. nther• biaristat•. tigma ntegrum. appus n- aequalis, scaber. eceptaculum spinulis mollibus hispidum. •erbae ? . rútices Peruvianas. olia petiolata subtus albo-tomentosa. edunculi solitarii axillares vel terminales uniflori. lores ragrantés peciosi : adius urpureo- roseus.

Specific haracter.

CENTROCLINIUM* eflexum; erbaeeum oliis vato-lanceolatis rosse dentatis, pedunculis bracteato-setaceis, involucri squamis apice reflexis.

DESCR. his appears to be an annual plant from a foot and a half to wo eet in height, ranched, he ranches woolly. eaves spreading, two to three inches long, ovato- lanceolate, acute, coarsely toothed, gradually tapering into a petiole, woolly and white beneath, above cobwebby, but at ength early labrous. eduncles olitary, erminal, or rom he xils f the pper eaves, our o ive inches long, woolly, and bearing many ubulato-setaceous rac-

teas,

* rom i > T ( j o v , a harp point, and A i » / * , he receptacle, rom the hard, rigid spinules observed by the anther.



teas, ingle-flowered. lowers arge, handsome, ragrant. Involucre broadly ovate or oval, imbricated with numerous subulate scales, heir apices all remarkably reflexed. lorets of he isk eep yellow, ery rominent. orollas tubular, left ore deeply n he nterior ide, with he

five inear blong eeth omewhat nilateral. nthers deep ellow, xserted, iaristate. ermen ylindrical. Style yellow, omewhat lávate, ntire. appus of many unequal hairs, he uter being horter and lenderer, the inner longer, frequently darker-coloured ; ll of them cabrous. lorets of the ray nine to twelve, ose-purple, wo- lipped, the inner lip very minute, of two subulate segments,

erect, probably n more dvanced state eflexed ; uter one ery ong, inear, hree-toothed, xternally owny. Anthers small, abortive. ermen, style, stigma, and pappus as n he lorets f he isk. eceptacle plane, et with small, soft, erect spinules.

Among he any nteresting lants aised ast ear (1830) from the Peruvian eeds iberally communicated to

the lasgow otanic Garden y ur valued riend, Mr. CRUCKSHANKS, are wo pecies f the family of COMPOSITE,

and f he division ABIATIFLOR^E, greeing n o any points with Mr. DON'S Genus CENTROCLINIUM Linn. Trans, v. 6, p. 254,) hat annot uppose hey are other han the same: yet in the nature of the spinules of the receptacle there s a emarkable différence ; or whereas Mr. DON de- scribes hem s arsh nd igid culei whence e as derived the Generic Name) n our plant they are soft and inconspicuous.

Mr. ON suggests that he ONOCERIS salicifolia f HUM-

BOLDT and KUNTH may be a species of this Genus, an opinion in which I quite agree with him, though the little aculei of the receptacle have been overlooked in the description. n- deed, except in he narrow and more entire leaves, it seems to agree with he present pecies, ossessing, n fact, he peduncle and nvolucre of the present ndividual, and he foliage of the subject of our next plate.

Our plants of C. eflexum were ultivated n he tove, and produced their handsome, fragrant flowers, smelling like Hawthorn, late

in the Autumn, when they died, without pro-

ducing seed. Mr. MURRAY considers it to be truly annual.

Fig. . ection of an Involucre and Receptacle. . loret of the Disk. - Inner side of the xtremity f loret rom he Disk, howing he eeper cleft. . nner view of the Anthers. . loret of the Ray. . ortions i



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( 3115 )

CENTROCLINIUM PPRESSUM. CLOSE-PRESSED-

SCALED CENTROCLINIUM.

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Class and Order.

SYNGENESIA UPERFLUA.

( Nat. Ord.•COMPOSITE. Div. LABIATIFLORíE.

Generic haracter.

Involucrum subglobosum vel cylindraceum arete mbricatum. losculi disci ubulosi, 5-dentati, hinc profundius fissi adii 7•12 ilabiati, abio nteriore minutissimo bipartito erecto, dein evoluto ?) exteriore longissimo rí-

fido.

nther• biaristatae.

tigma ntegrum.

appus in- aequalis, scaber. eceptaculum spinulis mollibus hispidum. Herbae . rútices, eruviana. olia petiolata ubtus albo-tomentosa. edunculi solitarii axillares vel terminales uniflori. lores ragrantés peciosi: adius urpureo- roseus.

Specific Character.

CENTROCLINIUM ppressum; ruticosum, oliis anceolatis subintegerrimis, peduneulis udis, nvolucri quamis erectis appressis.

DESCR.

tem hrubby, ne o wo eet igh n ur stove, with white, oolly ranches, and numerous patent or eflexed eaves, hree nches r ore ong, anceolate, waved, nd early ntire, artially labrous nd reen above, pure white and cottony beneath. eduncle solitary, terminal, r, rom he prolongation of a hoot beneath it, axillary, oolly, aked, ingle-flowered. lower arge, fragrant. lorets f he isk nd f the ay, imilar o those described under C. reflexum. nvolucre cylindrical, imbricated with many lose-pressed, ubulate cales. e- ceptacle with soft, small aculei.

This



This species, or which we are ndebted o Mr. RUCK- SHANKS, who brought he eeds from Peru, is undoubtedly, a perennial and frutescent plant. t blossomed or the first time, imperfectly, in December 1830, and again, with larger flowers, n une, 1831.

It appears o differ rom Mr. DON'S ENTROCLINIUM lbi- cans n ts ntire eaves, and rom ONOSERIS ngustifolia (HUMB. nd UNTH,) principally in ts arger and roader foliage. t s ertainly ery esirable tove lant, o less on account of its beauty than ts fragrance,

Fig. . Floret rom he isk. 2 . loret rom he ay . 3. ortion f ditto, to show the inner Lip :•magnified.



If* Arnold . ' • .



( 3116 )

PERISTERIA LATA. LOFTY OVE-FLOWER.

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Class and Order.

GYNANDRIA ONANDRIA.


Generic Character.

Flores subglobosi. étala ubcarnosa, 3 xt. aequalia, valde oncava,. 2 nt. ato-obovata. abellum obovatum, carnosum,truncatum, cum basi columns articulatum, disco cristato rasso. olumna asi etalorum dnata, pice solummodo libero, inferne onge producta, nsigniter dila-

tata alata, alis erectis obtusis carnosis crassis intus uniden- tatis. nthera bilocularis. asses pollinis 2 clavatae, compressa^ hinc lateraliter fissae.

Specific Name.

PERISTERIA * lata.

DESCR. parasite. ulb, when t has attained its full size, s arge s a wan's gs;, broadly vate, green, obscurely striated and somewhat wrinkled, having at ts base the remains f old, embranous, heathing cales, t the summit bearing rom hree o ive eaves, which re rom

two feet to forty inches in length, and six

nches in

breadth at heir reatest iameter, anceolate, r lmost word- shaped, acute, with everal trong ibs, prominent at he back, nd aving many licae nd triae ; he uter nes sessile and heathing, he nner tapering at the base into a sort f petiole. rom he ase f the ulb rises he flower-stem or scape, four feet high, terete, glabrous, having

below

* rom wspo-Tipa, a dove, from the resemblance in he hape of the column to that bird.

VOL. .



below hree or four arge, heathing, membranous cales, and at he extremity a pike or raceme a foot in length, of large, yellowish-white, almost globose, fleshy flowers, yielding a peculiar ragrance, omewhat esembling hat of the NUPHAR utea. racteas much shorter han he ermen, ovato-acuminate, often arínate, igid, reen inged with purple. he three outer petals of he flowers are broadly ovate, almost otundate, very oncave, he two nner ones rather more delicate, broadly obovate, all of them ubcon- nivent. ip rect, broadly obovate, runcate, erect, thick and leshy, aving arge xcrescence r protuberance, somewhat wrinkled, on he disk, often sprinkled with deep purple dots, which each o the base, where the lip is jointed upon the prolonged base of the column. olumn adnate with and decurrent pon the bases of the petals, its upper part lone ree nd tanding orward nearly horizontally, the est s xtended ownwards, emarkably dilated nd thickened, bearing n ach ide wo arge, leshy wings, which are erect, and reach nearly to the top of the column, rounded at the apex, below the middle bearing a conspicuous tooth he whole s f the ame waxy white with he petals, but he upper or nner ide of the wings is beautifully sprinkled with deep purple dots. nther hemispherical, white, wo-celled. ollen-masses 2, clávate, flattened, with a fissure at the outer margin, deep yellow, waxy, firm,

fixed

upon an oblong-acuminate

membrane, with

ts margins recurved ; his projects beyond the anther-case, o as to resemble the beak of a bird. ermen cylindrico-clavate, furrowed and lightly twisted.

In he year 1826, HENRY ARNARD, sq. of Truxillo in Peru, communicated o RICHARD HARRISON, Esq. of Liver- pool, a bulb of a remarkable, parasitical, orchideous plant,

which he had ound in the neighbourhood of Panama, and ¿he flower of which is there looked upon with no ittle con- sideration, nd known o he nhabitants by the name of " el Spirito Santo." he eason or his appellation was quite obvious n he blossoming of he plant, which id not occur in Mr. HARRISON'S stove, until the summer of the present year, 1831, when the centre of the flower exhibited

a column which, with its summit or anther, and the projecting gland of he ollen-masses, ogether with he almost erect wings, bore triking esemblance o ove, he emblem f he hird erson n he rinity. l Spirito Santo was herefore applied y he ame people, nd n the ame eligious eeling as, dictated he aming of the



So soon s the curious flowers were fully expanded, Mr. HARRISON, with his usual kindness, orwarded me a pecimen ; ogether with an excellent drawing from he pencil of Mrs. ARNOLD HARRISON. his s, n part only, copied, o suit he plate of the Magazine nd herefore but imper-

fectly epresents he tately ppearance f he riginal. For this pecies s no ess emarkable among Orchideous plants for its stature, han for its large and copiously flowering spike.

Being unable o ind any Genus of the ORCHIDEE which corresponds ith t, ave ventured o give it a Generic name significant of the dove-like appearance of the column

of fructification. It is to be hoped, now that Mr. HARRISON has so success- fully cultivated this rarity from the tropical parts of America bordering on the Pacific, hat Mr. BARNARD will further the cause of Science by collecting and introducing to our stoves other plants f he ame amily, nd hich ear ong voyage better than many less interesting tribes.

Fig. . iew of the Column and Lip, he latter bent down. . ide view of the upper part f the Column nd Anther. . nther-case. . pper, and 5 , underside of the Pollen-masses agnified.



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( 3117 )

OROBUS ANESCENS. CANESCENT ITTER-

VETCH.

Class and Order.



Generic haracter,

Cal. campanulatus, 5-fidus, lobis 2 superioribus brevioribus. or. papilionacea. tam. diadelpha. tylus gracilis linearis pice villosus. egumen cylindraceum oblon-

gum 1-loc. ivalve polyspermum.

emina hilo ineari.• Herbae rect•. tipulai emisagittat•. ëtioli n etam

brevem simplicem desinentes. olia abrupte pinnata pauci- juga. Racemi axillares pedunculali. De Cand.


OROBUS anescens; aule tetrágono, foliis ubtrijugis, oli-

olis inearibus btusiusculis pubescentibus vel une- tato - rugosis, ervis arallelis, tipulis emisagittatis linearibus acutis petiolum alatum ubaequantibus, pedunculis 3•5-floris olio duplo ongioribus, dentibus calycinis atis ubo revioribus, eguminibus ectis compressis glabris ongitudinaliter reticulato-venosis.

OROBUS anescens. inn. il. uppl. p. 327. illd. Sp. PL v. 3. p. 075. enth. Cat. PL Pyr. p. 110. e Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p. 379.

OROBUS nsifolius. apeyr. Mem. du Mus. . . p. 303. t. 12 . excl. var. ß.J

OROBUS atro-purpureus. Lapeyr. Abr. (non Desf.) OROBUS iliformis. am. l. r. d. 2. p. 68. preng.

Syst. eg.v. 3. p. 258.

DESCR. Root perennial, hrowing up everal our-sided and triated, imple, labrous tcms} bout oot igh.

Leaves



Leaves remote, almost essile, pinnated with wo or three pairs f opposite, inear; word-shaped, losely-striated, scarcely pubescent eaflets he achis or common petiole short, ipped with a muero. tipules narrowly emisagit-

tate. eduncles ften ore han wice he ength of the leaves, bearing a rather close raceme of four to eight large and ery eautiful flowers. alyx labrous, wo pper teeth shorter than the rest. exillum ample, and, as well as the al•, rich purple, becoming more lue when ully x- panded. arina almost white, urple only at he dges. Style remarkably dilated upwards, more so than n most of

the Lathyri. Our Glasgow Botanic Garden is indebted to Mr. FISCHER

of Gottingen or he possession of this most desirable species of OROBUS, which produces its large and highly coloured blossoms in May and June. t is said o be a native of the South of Europe ut hiefly, as t would appear, f the yrenees. r. ENTHAM ives t s nhabiting he

central arts f hat reat hain. PRENGEL dopts he name f O.filiformis of LAMARCK or t; nd t must e confessed that the appellation given by LINNAEUS s far from appropriate.

The habit of this plant and he absence of tendrils pro- claims it to be an OROBUS; but the style, remarkably dilated upwards, s altogether that of a LATHYRUS.

Fig. . Calyx nd arina; at. size. 2 . ront iew f he tyle. 3. Back view of the same :•magnified.



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C 3118 3119 )

CEPHALOTUS FOLLICULARIS. FOLLICLED

CEPHALOTUS.

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Class nd Order.

DODECANDRIA HEXAGYNIA.

( Nat. Ord.•ROSACEVE.

Generic haracter.

Calyx oloratus -fidus, estivatione alvata. et. . Stam. 2 , perigyna ntherarum, dorso gland uloso. va- ría , istincta, onosperma, vulo recto. tyli ermi-

nales. Br.

Specific Name nd Synonyms.

CEPHALOTUS * ollicularis. abill. Fl. Nov. Holl. v. 2. p. 7. t. 145. r. Rem. n Bot. f Terra Austr. p. 68. . 4. De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p. 591.

DESCR. oot erennial, omewhat usiform, he upper part ividing, s t were, nto wo r hree hort tems, which ear luster f elliptical, anceolate, etiolated, entire, hickish, erveless, urplish eaves; nd mongst these, ut rincipally ccupying he ircumference, re

several beautiful and highly curious pitcher-shaped appendages r perculated scidia, ttached y ather tout petioles where the lid unites with the margin of the ascidium. Their orm s ovate or omewhat lipper-shaped, between foliaceous and membranaceous, green inged with purple, furnished with wo ateral oblique wings nd one entral one, he atter emarkably dilated at he margin, and ll

beautifully

* erived rom t ^ < x \ r ¡ , head, and vi, an car ; n account f th e glandular head of he nthers.



beautifully fringed with hairs. The nside, which contains a watery luid nd ntraps any nsects, specially nts, is louded ith ark purple. The outh s ontracted, horse-shoe-shaped, annulated and crested with several deep,

sharp, ertical nnuli, f ark urple olour, mallest near the base of the id, three of hem, which are opposite the wings, larger than the adjoining ones all of them forming a ickle-shaped point within he outh. Lid lano- convex, green without and ittle hairy, ithin louded with purple, marked with broad veins which are somewhat dichotomous, the margin calloped ;•at irst t loses he

mouth f he scidium, nd fterwards becomes early erect. Scape ne o early wo eet high, rect, erete, downy, earing a compound, picate aceme at the extremity, and ne or wo ubulate bracte• n ts ower half. Branches very short, downy. Calyx small, hairy, greenish- white, deeply five-cleft, the egments ovate, erecto-patent, obtuse, the points thickened he base or tube within has a

thickened green isk, overed ith mall apill•, t the margin f which he welve tamens, lternately horter, are nserted: ll horter han he alyx egments; hose opposite the calyx-segments the longest. Filaments subulate, purplish rose-coloured, glabrous. Anthers two-celled, didymous, subglobose, in part concealed by a large fungóse, globose excrescence (the connectivum) ; hose of the longer filaments rather he argest. Pollen globose. Pistils six, small, rranged n ircle around mall uft of hairs, purplish. Germen ovate, glabrous, apering nto somewhat recurved style : tigma obtuse. (e

Ovule erect, almost as large s he cell, and containing within he membranaceous testa a little, pendulous sack, of the ame size as the cavity of the testa." (Br.)

For our irst knowledge of his rare and highly curious plant, aving he scidia r ppendages f he amous NEPENTHES, but belonging o he Natural Order ROSACE^,

we are indebted to M. LABILLARDIERE, who discovered it in " euwin's and," nd igured nd escribed t n is te Specimen of the Plants ofNew Holland." r. BROWNE,

during is oyage ith apt. LINDERS

etected t n nearly the ame ine of coast, namely, " in the neighbourhood of King George's Sound, especially near the shores of Princess Royal Harbour, n 35° S. at. nd 18° E. ong.; beginning o lower about the end of December." rom specimens here gathered, he pecies has been illustrated



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by that rofound otanist, o s, ided y he pencil of Mr. BAUER, o eave nothing o e wished elative o ts structure, ave what ight be obtained from a knowledge of the seed, which s still a desideratum.

Capt. KING brought over iving plants of CEPHALOTUS o

the oyal ardens f Kew n 823, hich lowered n August, 827. rom hose ndividuals nd he drawing liberally ommunicated y Mr. ITON, nd ome oble dried pecimens rom ing George's ound, or hich am ndebted to Mr. FRASER, he accompanying figures and description have been made.

Recently, elieve, rowing plants have been brought home by Mr. BAXTER, which are lourishing at the Clapton Nursery.

TAB. 3118. lant nat. size. ig. . pper part of a Scape, the lowers yet unexpanded from Mr. BAUER'S igure.)

TAB. 3119. ig. . ront view of n Ascidium. . ide view of ditto.

3.

ertical

ection of the

ame, lightly magnified.

. utside

iew of

Flower. . ertical iew f itto. . ertical ection f itto. - shorter tamen, een rom ehind. . onger tamen, een n ront. . Pistil, aid pen o how he vule. 0. he vule from Mr. AUER'S

figure) ore or less magnified.



H'Jffdd' filé by S.Curtis útaxenmotul *M» ' . ' • • • •r

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( 3120 )

BANKSIA EDIA. INTERMEDIATE ANKSIA.

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Class and Order.


( Nat. Ord.•PROTEACE^;.

Generic Character.

Perianthium 4-partitum raro 4-fidum.) tamina apicibus concavis laciniarum immersa. quamulce hypogynae 4. Ovarium niloculare iovulatum. olliculus ignosus Dissepimenio (e estis ovulorum amborum ormato) libero bifido. Amentum flosculorum paribus tribracteatis. Br.


BANKSIA media ; oliis cuneato-linearibus truncatis dentato- serratis basi attenuatis ubter eticulatis venis venu- lisque glabratislaciniis tomentosis, perianthii unguibus serieeis; aminis glabris, folliculis glabriusculis immer-

sis,

loribus marcescentibus. Br.

BANKSIA media. Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. Suppl. p. 35.

DESCR. his ppears o onstitute arge hrub, r small tree, with rather thick, rounded branches, clothed with a hin pale tomentum. eaves scattered, our to six inches

long,

inear-cuneate,

oriaceous,

igid, often

runcated

t the extremity, the margins coarsely dentato-serrated, almost spinulose, he ase ttenuated nto very lender, ale yellow-green etiole he pper ide s labrous, ark green, nd lossy, very bscurely veiny, below paler, he veins and einlets labrous, he reolae r acunes illed with white down. lowers of an uniform, rather pale, and dull ellow, densely collected nto roadly-oblong, ter-

minal head. cales ery airy, eep range. erianth slender, ilky, ubular at he ase he acini• iliform, spathulate t he xtremity, nd here hollowed or he reception of the anther. Style as long as the perianth.

For



Por a ine pecimen of this., ikewise accompanied by a drawing-, m indebted to W. T. AITON, Esq. t was received at Kew from FRANCIS HENCHMAN, sq. n 1824 he seeds having a short time previously been gathered, on the South-Western hores f New olland., etween ape Arid and Lucky Bay, by Mr. BAXTER.

It s nearly allied o B . marcescens, already figured at Tab. 803 f he resent work) etween hich nd . attenuata it is placed by Mr. BROWN. t Kew Gardens its flowering season s August.

Fig. . Flowers ith heir ccompanying 1 racteas. 2 . art f eg-

ment of the Perianth with its Stamen agnified.



( 3121 )

BAPTISIA ERFOLIATA. PERFOLIATE

BAPTISIA.

Class and Order.

DECANDRIA ONOGYNIA.


Generic Character.

Cal. semi-5-fidus, bilabiatus. or. papilionacea, petalis longitudine subaequalibus : vexillum lateribus reflexis. tamina decidua. egumen ventricosum, pedicellatum, polyspermum. Br.


BAPTISIA* perfoliata; oliis perfoliatis ntegerrimis ubrotundis. Br.

BAPTISIA erfoliata. Br. n Hort. Kew. d. 2. . 3. p. 5. De Cand. Prodr. . 2. p. 100. Spreng. Syst. eg. .

2. p. 347. Elliott, Cav. v. I. p. 467. Lodd. Bot. Cab.

t. 1104. RAFNIA perfoliata. Willd. Sp. PL v. 3. p. 949. PODALYRIA perfoliata. Mich. Fl. Am. v. I. p. 263. Pursh,

Am. v.l. p. 307. SOPHORA perfoliata. Walt. PL ar. p. 135. CROTALARIA erfoliata. Linn. Sp. PL p. 1003. CROTALARIA erfoliata olio. Dill. Elth. p. 22. . 02 .

/. 1 2 2 . DESCR. Root erennial. Stems herbaceous, rect r

declined, slightly branched, mostly near the base, about a foot

* rom S a w T w , o dye, n ccount f he eculiar properties f ome species.



foot igh he ranches erete, laucous, glabrous, s s every part of the plant. eaves roadly oval, r almost orbicular, imple, ntire, pierced by the stem at some distance rom he margin, ence perfoliate and secund, arge in proportion o he ize of the plant, often emarginate at

the inferior edge, glaucous-green, veiny, the veins or nerves somewhat adiant. lowers solitary, xillary, erect. e- duncle hort, lender, rect. alyx n our omewhat equally-sized, rather spreading teeth, the upper tooth again bidentate. orolla ale ellow. etals early qual n length he exillum shortest, oundish, arinated, marginate, he ides omewhat eflexed nd oncave. l•

oblong-oval, losed pon he arina, hich s bovate. Stamens ten, equal Filaments free, standing close together. Anthers val, eep range. istil about s ong s he stamens. ermen linear-oblong, pedicellate, about as long as the subulate style, which is curved upwards. Legume inflated, arge. Seeds reniform, very small." Elliott.)

Roots of this singular plant were obligingly sent to our Glasgow Garden by the late STEPHEN ELLIOTT, Esq. and by Dr. WRAY, f Augusta, rom eorgia, where t rows n dry sandy hills. oming rom o outhern atitude, it might well be supposed to be a tender plant nd, ndeed, as uch t s onsidered y Mr. ODDIGES, equiring he protection of a greenhouse. ith s, n he peat border

of the

American ground,

t has

urvived

wo

inters, and flowers n reat perfection uring the months of July and August. he blossoms are neither arge nor howy, but the oliage, f o nusual haracter or eguminose plant, nd f a ender laucous-green olour, enders t eminently deserving a place in every garden.

Fig. . lower. 2 . exillum. 3. nner iew of Wing. 4. alyx and Carina. 5. alyx and Stamens. 6. istil :•magnified.



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( 3122 )

MONNINA OBTUSIFOLIA. BLUNT-LEAVED

MONNINA.

***»**#*«**»*«*.&

Class and Order.

DlADELPHIA OCTANDRIA.

( Nat. Old. oLYGALEiE. )

Generic Character.

Flores resupinati. al. 5-sepalus deciduus, sepalis 2 in- ternis laeformibus, xterioribus ovatis, uorum s•pe coalitis. étala asi onnata,, edio oncavo •pe - dentato. tam. , ilamentis ubdiadelphis ilosiusculis. Drupa 2-loc. -sperma aut bortu -loc. -sperma, nter-

dum margine embranáceo incta. emen ere x ápice loculi pendulum. Albumen null um. De Cand.


MoNNiNA * btusifolia ; ruticosa, ramulis oliisque glabris ( vel puberulis) oblongis obtusis basi cuneatis obsolete

venosis, spicis solitariis. Kunth. MONNINA obtusifolia. Humb. et Kunth, Nov. Gen. v. b.p.

411. De Cand. Prodr. v.l. p. 339. MONNINA nemorosa. Hook, in Bot. Misc. v. 2. p. 208. (vix

Humb. et Kunth.) HEBEANDRA hyllireioides. " Bonpl. n Mag de Gesellsch,

1808, p. 42."

DESCR. his orms mall, upright, omewhat frutescent, lender and dichotomously branched shrub ; ranches glabrous or very obscurely ubescent, slightly tinged with purple. Leaves bovate, btuse, attenuated nto a hort

petiole.

* According o he Flora Peruviana, his plant s amed from I O M M I K O , Count dc Flora Blanca, Spaniard, who was patron of Botany.



petiole, quite entire, scarcely more than one inch long, often glabrous, ut sometimes minutely and ndistinctly pubescent. t the base of the petiole, on each side, s a prominent, fleshy, oundish gland, depressed in he centre. a- cemes erminal, olitary, lender, ore or ess peduncled.

Bracteas ery eciduous. edicels hort, urved ownwards, o hat the flower s rooping. hree uter egments f he alyx mall, reenish-purple, blong, wo inner ones very large, petaloid, roundish, attenuated at the base, eep bluish-purple, preading. orolla of three, or rather, perhaps, of ive, eddish-purple petals, nited into one hollow keel, within which are he tamens, ombined

below into one body, the free part of the filaments slender, incurved, airy at heir base. nthers blong, pening by ore at he xtremity. istil : ermen blong style urved lmost ike he etter , ncrassated bove, with a tooth on each side. Stigma obtuse, yellow.

This retty lant, ith ts mall ut right-coloured flowers, lossomed n he tove f the lasgow otanic Garden, n une, 831 aving een aised rom eeds brought rom Lurin, near Lima, by our valued riend Mr. CRUCKSHANKS, during the preceding year.

I had in the Botanical Miscellany referred the dried specimens from he ame country, though not without hesitation, o he M. emorosa f HUMBOLDT nd UNTH ut

the living plant, seeming to accord

better with the M. obtu-

sifolia of the same authors, have, therefore, here adopted that name.

Fig. . iew f he upperside f lower. . nderside f itto. . Side view f lower. . orolla, aid open. . tamen. . istil. - Gland, from the base of the

Petiole :•all more or less magnified.



J D E X,

In which he Latin Names of he Plants ontained n he Fifth

Volume of the NEW SERIES or Fifty-Eighth of the Work)

are alphabetically arranged.

PL 3111 3112 3046 3050 3105 3040 3095 3084

30913093 3073 3092 3101 3060 3120 3052 3121 3098

3076 3069 3094 3115 3114 3118 3119 3072 3049 3051 3081 3047 3102 3058 3074 3063 3082 3107

3068 3087 3083 3041 3039 3099 3053

Achras Sapota. Ibid?" Adamia cyanea. Alstroemeria acutifolia.

eillii. aluda.

Annona squamosa. Authericum ? plumosum.

Aphanochilus blandus. Arbutus mucronata. Argemone grandiflora. Arracada esculenta. Asplenium Nidus. Banksia littoralis ?

edia. spcciosa.

Baptisia perfoliata. Brassavola

elegans. Broughtonia sanguínea. Browallia grandiflora. Calceolaria angustiflora. Centroclinium appressum.

eflex um. Ceplialotus ollicularis. Ibid. Chrysophyllum Cainito. Clerodendron nutans.

Codiaeum pictum. Columnea hirsuta. Commelina gracilis. Coryanthes maculata.Delima sarmentosa. Dendrobium speciosum. Dryandra nervosa.Drosera binata. Echinocactus Ottonis.

Eran them urn s trie tu m. Farsetia lunarioides. Fritillaria leucantha. Gesnería bulbosa. Hedychium flavum. Houstonia longifolia. Hovea pannosa.

PL 3061 3065 3071 3110 3057 3048 3075 3103

3056 3090 3067 3122 3059 3108 3055 3089 3109

3077 3117 3100 3116 3066 3064 3085 3086 3080 3079 3078

3106 3113 3044 3070 3045 3042 3104

3096 30973054 3043 30623088

Hunnemannia umariaefolia. Indigofera atropurpúrea. Janipha Manihot. Lantana nivea, ar. mutabilis. Loasa ispida.

ncana. Lobelia hypocrateriformis. Lonicera hirsuta.

Lupiniis Cruckshanksii. Melocactus communis. Miraulus erfoliatus. Monnina obtusifolia. Monodora Myristica. Nierembergia gracilis. Nothoclsena teñera. Olea undulata. Oncidium bicornutum. Ornithogalum

fimbriatum. Orobus canescens. Palavia rhombifolia. Peristeria elata. Pladera decussata. Portulaca Gilliesii. Pterostylis nutans.

curta. Rhipsalis Cassytha.

asciculata. mesembryanthemoi-

des. Rhododrendron Lapponicura. Salpiglossis integrifolia. Schizanthus Grahamii.

ooked. . etusus.

Sphenogyne crithmifolia. Torenia scabra.

Tournefortia heliotropioides. Trillium discolor. Tupistra nutans. Urena lobata. Vernonia acutifolia. Xanthochymus dulcís.



INDEX,

In hich he nglish ames f he lants ontained n he

Fifth Volume of the EW ERIES ox Fifty-Eighth f the

Work) re alphabetically arranged.

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