‘ CURTIS &

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OR,

FLOWER-GARDEN DISPLAYED:

IN WHICH

The most Ornamental Foreien Puants, cultivated in the Open

Ground, the Green-House, and the Stove, are accurately

represented in their natural Colours.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED,

Their Nawies, Class, Order, Generic and Specific Characters, according

to the celebrated Linnzvus; their Places of Growth,

and Times of Flowering ;

Together with the most approved Methods of Cutrure.

A WORK

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to become scientifically acquainted with the Plants they cultivate.

By JOHN SIMS, M.D.

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VOL XLIV.

Being the Second of the New Series.

The FLowers, which grace their native beds,

Awhile put forth their blushing heads,

But, e’er the close of parting day,

They wither, shrink, and die away :

But THEse, which mimic skill hath made,

Nor scorched by suns, nor killed by shade,

Shall blush with less inconstant hue,

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Pub. by. Curtis. Walworth. Vor" 2816.

WeGadl.Se,

( 1860 )

STACHYTARPHETA JAMAICENSIS: JAMAICA

| ‘Basrarp-VERVAIN.

JH eee dee

Class and Order.

Dranpria Monoeynts.

‘ Generic Character.

Cal. tubulosis, 4-dentatus. Cor. hypocrateriformis, inw-

qualis, 5-fida, curva. Stam. 4: 2 sterilia. Sem. 2.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

STACHYTARPHETA jamaicensis ; foliis oblongo-ovatis sursum

dentato-serratis basi elongato-integerrimis, bracteis ovatis

calyce brevioribus. :

STACHYTARPHETA jamaicensis ; foliis oblongo-ovatis dentato-

serratis glabris, ramis hirtis, bracteis ovatis calyce bre-

vioribus. Vahl Enum. 1. p. 206. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 1.

p. 46. excluso synonymo Salisburii.

VERBENA jamaicensis ; diandra, spicis longissimis carnosis

nudis, foliis spathulato-ovatis serratis, caule hirto. Jacq.

Obs. 4. p. 6. t. 85. Syst. Veg. 66. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1.

p. 115. Mart. Mil. Dict. n. 3. |

Versena folio subrotundo serrato, flore ceruleo. Sloane

Hist. t. U7. f. 1.

Vatertanettowes. Boerh. Lugd. alt. 2. p. 270.

A “ " Pee nite

Pe al hate,

This plant is altogether more robust and of lower growth

than SracHyTaRPHETA urticifolia, No. 1848, its leaves are

more fleshy, more coarsely and bluntly sawed, and quite en-

tire from a little below the middle, with their base gradually

elongated into a footstalk. The stems and branches, we

observe, vary with respect to hairiness; the pubescence in

the plant from which our drawing was taken was hardly visible

to the naked eye. We have not seen any cilie at the base Pe

the leaf, a character first added in’ the 13th edition of the

Systema Vegetabilium, by Gmexin, and continued both in

Reicuary’s and WittpENow’s editions of the Species Plan-

tarum. 4

That our plant is the same as that described and figured

by Jacquin, in his Observations, above quoted, we see no

reason to doubt; at the same time, the figure.of SracuytarR-

puETA dichotoma, in the Flora Peruviana, hardly differs in

any other respect than the greater hairiness of the stem and

branches. 3 | a

This plant, though shrubby, seldom lives more than two

or three years. Is propagated by cuttings. Being a native

of the West-Indies, it requires to be kept in the the stove,

during the winter at least. Communicated by Messrs. Lop-

pices and Sons. Flowers most part of the summer.

N1861.

Pub.by.S.Geras Walworth .Wav1386 A

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( 1861)

STEVIA HYSSOPIFOLIA. JH yssop-LEAVED

STEVIA.

JHE Hsebbiebeke ek

Class and Order.

Synepnesia Potyeamia ALQuatis.

Generic Character.

Recept. nudum. Pappus paleaceus. Calyx cylindraceus,

ex simplici foliorum serie. '

Specific Character and Synonyms.

STEVIA hyssopifolia ; foliis oblongo-ovatis integerrimis, co-

rymbis patentibus, pappo aristato corollam equante.

Srevia hyssopifolia. Herbar. Banks.

This species of Srevia is different from any that has been

noticed by Professor Cavanitues. It was brought from

Spain by Lady Hotzanp, some years ago, and our drawing

was taken at Holland-House. A specimen of the same plant

was sent to Sir Josepu Banks, and is preserved in his Her-

barium, under the title which we have adopted.

We suppose it to be a native of Mexico, and, as well as

Stevia Eupatoria, may be considered as a hardy herbaceous

- perennial. Flowers in August and September. |

2x. by. §. Gurtis. Walworth, Nou? 1.28: £

(1862 )

PHYLLANTHUS TURBINATUS. SHINING-LEAVED

0% PHYLLANTHUS.

eH uenioeedenee

Class and Order.

Monarcta Monapenrnia.

| Generic Character.

Mase. Cal. 6-partitus. Cor.0, Filam. columnare. Anth. 3.

Fem. Cal. 6-partitus. Cor. 0. Nect. margo 12-angulatus.

Styli 3. Caps. 3-cocca.

Specific Character.

Puyiiantuus turbinatus ; foliis simplicibus orbiculato-ovatis

lucidis, floribus axillaribus; masculis turbinatis nutan-

tibus,

Descr. Stem shrubby. Branches angular, alternate,

zig-zag. Leaves simple, alternate, on very short petioles,

round-oval, smooth and shining bright green on the upper

surface ; minutely tomentose, and pale, on the under. Stepules

two, small, acute. Peduneles axillary, both aggregate and

solitary, nodding. Maze riowsr. Calyx top-shaped ; limb-

six-cleft, inflected. Filament columnar, capitate ; anthers

three, oblong, affixed to the side of the column. Fermatg.

Calyx rotate ; limb six-cleft ; segments rounded, spreading.

Germen globular, obscurely three-cornered. Styles three,

spreading, with bifid extremities, pee

Our drawing was taken some years ago, at the collectién

of the right honourable Cuartes Grevitte, at Paddington.

But, as at that time we had not an opportunity of seeing

the original, our description was taken from a recent speci-

ES . men,

men, sent us in July last, by Roserr Barcuay, Esq. of

Berry-Hill, who raised it from seeds received from China.

‘The leaves in the specimen were not near so large as in

Mr. Grevitxe’s plant, from which our drawing was taken.

The male flowers, for the most part, grew two, or three,

from the same axil, and the female flowers solitary, contrary

io what is seen in the drawing ; but sometimes both a male

and female flower grew from the same axil.

In Dr. Ka@nie’s manuscripts, in the possession of Sir

Joseph Banks, we find the description of a species of

Phyllanthus, with the name of turbinatus affixed to it. It

is a native of the East-Indies, and if not the same species as

the one now treating of, is very nearly allied to it.

_ Fig. 1. Represents a perpendicular section of the male flower, shewing the

inflection of the segments of the calyx and the situation of the anthers.

Fig. 2. ‘The columnar filament with two of the three anthers.

Fig. 3. A front view of a female flower, shewing the spreading segments

of the calyx, the three styles, and bifid stigmas.

N1663. *

Pub. by. §.Cwréig. Walworth. Nov? 2.1816. Weddell. Se.

( 1863")

ANEMONE PRATENSIS (@.) OBSOLETA. Pa.r-

FLOWERED MEapow PAsQuE-FLOWER.

Class and Order.

PoLyANDRIA POoLYGYNIA.

Generic Character.

Cal. 0. Petala 6—9. Sem. plura.

Specific Character and Synonyms. |

** Pulsatille, pedunculo involucrato, seminibus caudatis.

Anemone pratensis ; petalis apice reflexis, foliis bipinnatis.

Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. p. 1274. Hort. Kew. ed, alt. 3. p. 337.

(«.) flore nigricante, foliis tenuiter dissectis. :

Anemone pratensis. Flor. Dan. t. 611.

Pusatitxa flore minore nigricante. Bauh. Pin. 177. Helw.

Pulsat. p. 66. t. 17. |

(G.) flore majore pallido, pinnularum lobis latioribus aristatis.

Putsatiita flore clauso obsoleto, petalis reflexis. Helwing

Pulsat. p. 65. t. 11. : ;

Anemone Pulsatilla, the Common Pulsatilla, or Pasque-

flower, varies considerably in size and in colour. ANEMONE

pratensis is distinguished by having smaller flowers, of a veg

deep purple colour approaching to black, the petals of whi

never fully expand, but are reflected at the tips only, The

leaves of the latter kind are described as a more finely

cut. There isa figure of this in Hetwine’s Monograph on

the Pulsatilla, which appears to us to be better than that in

the Flora Danica.

_ Our plant resembles the above in the form but not in the

colour of the flower, which is likewise larger. The segment,

of the leaflets are considerably wider, and are terminated with

a bristle or arista. We do not find that it is mentioned in

any modern author; nor by any of the older!Botanists, except

by Hetwine, whose figure, above quoted, we think, is

undoubtedly ‘intended for thé same. He received it from

Breynivs, who represents it as being very common, though

not noticed by any preceding author; and says, it differs

from the black-flowered species, more especially, in the

larger size and paler colour of the flower, and its larger and

broader leaves. OES ar '

From the more compounded as well as wider leaves,

composing the involucre, perhaps we might, with propriety,

have considered this a distinct species from pratensis ; but

recollecting how very much Anemone Pulsatilla varies in

regard to the size of the flowers and leaves, especially in

cultivation, we thought it safer to rank it as a variety only

of pratensis. StU] SSIS a Ba Sa

hardy perennial. Flowers in May. Communicated by

Mr. Biees, Curatorof the Botanic Garden at Cambridge ;

who informed us, that it has been several years in the

den, but that it never opened its blossoms more than as

represented in our figure.

wi Rpt pita ly: a

2.1836.

Fuh. by. S.CurtieWalworth.Wov!

( 1864 )

CHELONE MAJor. Lyons’s CHELONE.

LEEEEEELE EERE EER

Class and Order.

Dinynamia ANGIOSPERMIA.

_ Generic Character.

Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. ringens, ventricosa. Rudimentum

filamenti quinti inter suprema stamina, glabrum. Caps. 2-

locularis. | : :

Specific Character.

CuEtone major; foliis petiolatis patentibus cordato-acumi-

natis subtus tomentosis, spicis axillaribus terminalibusque

sepius aggregatis. ="

This undescribed species of Cuetone was introduced by

the late Mr. Lyons, from Carolina. It differs from CHELonE

obliqua in its greater size, longer horizontal petioles, broader

and more cordate leaves, tomentose underneath, and peach-

blossom coloured flowers ; but more especially in the number |

of spikes, which grow from the axils of the leaves as well

as at the extremities of the branches, and are frequently

crowded several together. The rudiment of the fifth filament

is not half the length of the others, and perfectly smooth ;

in obligua we have sometimes found them hairy at the base. — #. :

-. It is considered as a hardy perennial, and may-be

Pagated by dividing its roots. Flowers in August and Se |

tember. Communicated by Mr. Lamesrt, from Boyton, and

Mr Wiuiam Kent, of Clapton. — ge.

lon

7" =

N1865.

Weddell. Sc.

i i

Pub. by. 5. Curtis, Walworth . Now.1.2926.

( 1865»)

NERIUM CORONARIUM BRoAD-LEAVED

RosEBAy.

sHeHEEEESEHREEHEES

Class and Order.

Pentanpaia Monoo rman:

Generic Character. c4

Contorta. Folliculi Q, erecti. "Sem. ig a tubus

terminatus corona lacers.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Nerium coronarium ; foliis ellipticis, pedunculis ex dichoto-

mia ramorum geminis bifloris. ‘Hort. Kew. ed. 1" 1,

p. 297. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. p. 1236. Mart. Mill. Dict.

n, 8. Pers. Syn. 1. p. 269.

Nerium coronarium ; foliis lanceolatis, caule dichotomo,

pedunculis unifloris, ex ramorum dichotomia geminis.

Jacq. Collect. 1. p. 138. Ie. Rar. 1. t. 52.

TABERNEMONTANA coronaria ; foliis ellipticis, pedunculis ex

dichotomia ramorum geminis. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 2.

p: 12. -

Sassmaiea zeylanicum, folio oblongo, flore albo — odora-

—_tissimo. Burm. Seyl. p. 129. t. 59.

Fros Manituanus. Rumph. Amb. 4. p. 87. t. 39.

Nanpi-Ervatam major. Hort. Malab. 2. p. 105. t. bs. |

Nerrum divaricatum. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. p. 1236. ex aucto-

ritate Dryandri in Horto Kewensi.

Apocynum zeylanicum indicum frutescens Nerii flore candi-

dissimo. Herm. Parad. p. 40.

~< the first edition of Arron’s Hortus Kewensis, Dr. So-

LANDER associated this plant with nis genus Nerium ; ~

not

noted in his manuscript account of it preserved in the Bank-

sian library, that he was led to do this from its habit and

sweet-scented flowers, though he could not-detect any crown

at the end of the tube, and was consequently uncertain whe-

ther it properly belonged to this genus or not.

Since the publication of the Hortus Kewensis, this fine

shrub has been universally arranged with Nerrom, till the

publication of the last edition of this work; where we find it

removed to Tapenzmontana. ‘This appears to have been

done upon the information of Dr. Bucuanan, that it was

really a species of that genus. The authority is certainly

good ; but as at present all the genera of the natural family

- of Contorte are not satisfactorily settled ; we are jealous that

in a revision of the order it will come to be again removed

from TapernzmontAna. We think it best therefore, for

the present, to retain the name by which it is already known

to botanists in general. [ee

_ Native of the East-Indies. Requires the protection of the

stove. Cultivated in 1770 by Mr. James Gorpon. Com-

municated by Joun Waxker, Esq. of Arno’s Grove.

N 1866.

2826.

Pub.by- S.turtis Walweeth Mev. x.

( 1866 )

MESEMBRYANTHEMUM DEPRESSUM. DepreEssEp

Tonaure Fic-MARIGoLp.

Class and Order.

IcosANDRIA PENTAGYNIA.

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-fidus. Petala numerosa, linearia, basi coherentia.

Caps. carnosa infera, polysperma. — ,

Specific Character and Synonyms. —

MESEMBRYANTHEMUM depressum ; subacaule, foliis lingue-

formibus obtusis humi valde adpressis pallide viridibus.

Haworth Misc. Nat. p. 34. ejusd. Succul. p. 221. Hort.

Kew. ed. alt. 3. p. 219. j

MrsEMBRYANTHEMUM folio linguiformi angustiore. Hort.

Eltham, 237. t. 184. f. 226. |

_Mr. Haworrn has for many years paid great attention to

this extensive genus, and his names and characters have been

almost entirely adopted in the new editions of the Hortus

Kewensis. We cannot but suspect, however, that this

gentleman has made species of what, in many cases, had

been better considered as varieties only. But as culti-

vators can alone determine, by careful observation, what are

permanently distinct species, and as Mr. Haworrn has him-

self been a considerable cultivator of these plants, we cannot

do better, perhaps, at present, than to adhere to his names.

We find, however, a great difficulty, in the present instance,

in determining to which our present plant belongs. Mr.

Grorce Graves, to whom we are indebted for the com-

munication of this plant, and who possesses a large epee

of the species, is persuaded. that it was propagated from an

individual, named longum, by Mr. Haworrs himself; but if

it be really. his longum, then the length of the peduncle can

afford no character: for he expressly says, the peduncle is

longer than the:calyx); and in.the figures which he, doubtingly

indeed, quotes, they are represented as much longer. We

consider the figure of Dittentus, quoted as a synonym of

depressum, as pretty certainly belonging to our plant, though

the flower is not quite sessile, as in our figure, and we have

been thence induced to determine its name.

- We have, however, strong suspicions, that nearly the

whole section will be found, if propagated by seed, to run

into one another, which will bring us back to rank them

all as varieties of linguiforme, as Linnaus has done.

We are informed by Mr. Geores Graves, that it is not

ery shy of flowering in the summer time, and that the

‘blossoms expand m the forenoon, if the sun shine; but in

cloudy weather, not at all. The leaves are remarkably brittle,

and, when viewed through a lens, are observed to be covered

with minute pellucid dots. Flowers in July and August.

Pub.bv.S. Curtis .Welworth. Deez.2816.

( 1867 )

Hypericum OLYMPICUM (6.) LATIFOLIUM,

BROAD-LEAVED Onympt1ANn St. Jonn’s

Wort.

SRR ek eke hak ee

Class and Order.

Poryapetpuia Poryanpria.

Generic Character. ©

Cal. 5-partitus. Petala 5. Filamenta multa, in quinque

phalanges basi connata.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Hypericum olympicum ; trigynum, calycinis foliolis ineequa-

libus ovato-acuminatis integerrimis, staminibus corolla

brevioribus, foliis elliptico-lanceolatis sessilibus pellucido-

punctatis. Smith Exot. Bot. 2. p.71. t. 96. j

Hypericum olympicum ; floribus trigynis, calicibus acutis,

staminibus corolla brevioribus, caule fruticoso. Sp. Pl.

1102. Reich. 3. p.592. Hort. Cliff. 380. Mill. Icon.

t. 151. f. 1. Mart. Mill. Dict. n. 14. ,

Hypericum olympicum. Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p. 1446. Hort.

: Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 422.

Hyrericum Montis Olympi. Wheeler Itin. 222. Dillen.

Ellth. 182. ¢. 151. fig. 183. Raj. Hist. 1017.

Hypericum orientale flore magno. Tournef. Cor. 19.

(a.) folits angustioribus, floribus paucis subcongestis.

(B.) — latioribus floribus plurimis subdichotome corym-

sis. 3

This is a very handsome species of Hypericum ; it more

usually bears fewer flowers, and, except one or two, on very

short footstalks, and leaves, sometimes, considerably smaller

than those of the common St, John’s Wort. But we have

: seen

seen specimens with leaves of every intermediate size; so

that the difference is probably the mere effect of cultivation,

Native of the Leyant. Sufficiently hardy, in a warm

sheltered situation, to survive our winters out of doors ; but,

as it is liable to be destroyed by severe cold, it is proper to

preserve some plants under a frame. Propagated by parting

the roots in the autumn ; or, if raised from seed, which are

rarely ripened with us, Mixxer directs that they should be

sown in light earth soon after they are ripe, and placed under

a frame during the winter. In the spring the plants will

appear, and, when fit to remove, may be planted in a warm

border. a cae

Flowers in July till September. Cultivated in Chelsea-

Garden, in 1706. Communicated by Messrs. Wurrtey,

Brame, and Mine.

Nis868.

( 1868 )

MELALEUCA THYMIFOLIA, 'THYME-LEAVED

MELALEUCA.

Hee eee ee REE

Class and Order.

PoLyADELPHIA IcosANDRIA.

Generic Character.

Staminum phalanges 5, petalis opposite, elongate. Anth.

incumbentes. Caps. 3-locularis, polysperma, congata et in-

clusa calycis tubo incrassato basi adnato (ramo). Brown.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Metarevuca thymifolia ; foliis oppositis lanceolatis enervibus,

spicis paucifloris, phalangibus polyandris : unguibus intus

i usque ramosis. Br. in Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4.

p. AlA.

Mexateuca thymifolia ; foliis oppositis elliptico-lanceolatis

enerviis, ramulis floriferis lateralibus brevissimis pauci-

floris, filamentis medium usque ramosis. Smith in Linn.

Trans. 3. p. 278. Exotic Bot. 1. p. 69. t. 36. Willd.

Sp. Pl. 3. p. 1432.

Metateuca gnidiefolia. Venten. Malmais. 4.

MELatevca coronata. Bot. Repos. 278.

MerrosipEros calycina ; foliis oppositis enerviis punctatis

lanceolatis, calycibus persistentibus. Cav. Ic. 4. p. 20.

t. 336. f. 2. in fructu.

The Metarzuca thymifolia was first recorded by our

friend Sir James Epwarp Smrru, in the third volume of the

ransactions of the Linnean Society. It is an elegant little

shrub, with delicate branches, which take an elegant form.

he flowers are not produced in great abundance, but are

| | Scattered

scattered here and there in small spikes over the whole plant,

and from their singular form and fine purple colour, varying

much in intensity in different specimens, make a very pleasing

appearance. The leaves, which also vary considerably in

width, are studded all over with minute pellucid glands, con-

taining an aromatic essential oil.

A greenhouse shrub. Native of New South- Wales, where

it was first collected by the Right Hon. Sir Joseru Banks,

Bart. K.B. Flowers all the summer. Propagated by cut-

tings. Introduced in 1792, by Mr. Jonn Farrparryn. Com-

municated by Mr. Josrrn Kyicut, of the Exotic Nursery,

King’s-Road,

Te | -

CINERARIA SIBIRICA. SIBERIAN CINERARIA.

Tee ee Heslesk se ese se se a ae ake ate

Class and Order.

SyncenesiA PotyeamiA SUPERFLUA.

Generic Character.

Recept. nudum. Pappus simplex. Calyx simplex, poly-

phyllus, zqualis. -

Specific Character and Synonyms.

CinerArtA sibirica ; racemo simplici, foliis cordatis obtusis

denticulatis levibus, caule simplicissimo monophyllo.

Spec. Pl. 1242. Willd. 3. p. 2079. Waldst. et Kitaib.

Alumg. 1. p. 15. t. 16. Hort. Kew. alt. 5. p. 73.

Cineraria sibirica. Picot-Lapeyrouse Flor. Pyren. 1. p. 5.

S17,

Oruonna foliis cordatis, caule subnudo simplicissimo. Hort.

Upsal. 273. |

Jacopzastrum cacalie folio Gmelini. Amm. Ruth. n. 221,

t. 2A.

Soxipaco foliis cordatis, subrotundis, dentatis, petiolatis.

~Gmel. Sib. 2. p. 169. | |

JacoB#A orientalis cacalie folio. Tourn. Cor. 37.

Jacog#oipes Ari crenato folio. Vaill. Act. 1730. p. 30.

A hardy perennial, usually growing from a foot to three

feet high, in one simple undivided stem, fluted and smooth. —

In cultivation sometimes reaches the height ofa man, The

~Aetig grow at the extremity of the stem in a compact

thyrse.

The plant figured by M. Picor Lareyrovse, in his Flora

of the Pyrenees, under this name, is probably a different —

species, having leaves much more glaucous, not sharply

: crenate,

crenate, but merely repand, and the florets of the Radius

quite entire.

Native of Siberia and Hungary. Requires no particular

management. Flowers from June to August. Introduced

in 1784, by Joun Betz, Esq. Communicated ay Messrs.

LoppigeEs and Sons. :

(1870)

Justicia PIcTA (Z.) LURIDO-SANGUINEA.

BLoopy-vEINED JUSTICIA.

JHE HE eg ebb

Class and Order.

Dianprisa Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Cal. simplex vel duplex. Corolla irregularis vel subregularis.

Caps. 2-valvis 2-locularis : dissepimentum valvis contrarium :

retinaculis seminum uncinulatis. |

Specific Character and Synonyms.

*** calyce simplict, corollis bilabiatis: labits divisis.

Justicia picta ; racemis axillaribus terminalibusque, floribus

verticillatis, foliis ellipticis pictis. Vahl Knum. 1. p. 128.

Symb. Bot. 2. p. 14. Hort. Kew. alt. 1. p. 37.

Justicia picta. Sp. Pl. 21. Willd. 1. p. 86. Lour. Cochin.

p. 24? Mart. Mill. Dict. n. 28.

Tssupe-marAM. Rheede Malab. 6. p. 111. t. 60.

Fotium practeatom. Rumph. Amb. 4. p. 73. t. 30.

PerictymMenuM indicum foliis maculatis latioribus laurinis.

Burm. Seyl. p. 186? 3 ) |

(a.) alba; humalior, foliis macula alba sinuata pictis.

(8.) lurido-sanguinea ; excelsior, foliis lurido-sanguineis

venosissimis. !

(y.) ignea ; foltts macula suaverubente et quastignea pictis. —

At first sight the present plant will hardly be acknowledged

as a variety of Justicia picta, which has been so long known

in our stoves, but whoever will take the trouble to examine

the figure in the Hortus Malabaricus, and the description of

Rumpuuvs, compared with that of Vant, will perceive the

difficulty of fixing upon any true specific characters, which

: . 3 may

may serve to distinguish them. The marking in the leaf, it

is evident, is not at all constant. Rumpntus describes two

sorts ; the first he calls white, from the white marking along’

- the midrib ; the other the red, taller, with larger leaves five

or six inches long and three broad, of a lively brown (lete

jfusea) on the under surface mixed with green on the upper ;

the flowers of both are alike, except that those of the red sort

are larger. Of this last kind, he says, there is still a variety,

which some consider as a third species, with leaves in shape

and size like those of the red, but marked in the middle with

a broad spot of a bright red, or, as it were, fiery colour.

The specimen of Justicia picta, preserved in the Banksian

Herbarium, is very similar to our present plant, but has a

broad spot near the middle of the leaf, which does not appear

to us to have been white ; and Dr. Sotanper’s description

makes no mention of the white marking, which, we suppose,

is too subject to vary to afford any specific distinction.

Whether Lowrziro’s plant be really the picta, is rendered

doubiful, by his describing the upper lip of the corolla as

quite entire andthe lower lip as bifid.

The native country of Justicia picta is somewhat un- —

certain ; for, although said to be a native of the East-Indies,

both Rumpuivs and Rurepe speak of it as cultivated in the ©

gardens, but not indigenous, either on the Malabar coast or

In Amboyna ;. and the circumstance of its never perfecting

seeds there, renders it probable that it has been brought from

a different climate. Ruzeps expressly says, that it was im-

ported from China or the Manillas. —

The common variety was cultivated before the year 1780,

by the late Dr. Joun Foruereitt, in his garden at Upton.

Our plant was kindly communicated by the Right Hon. the

Marchioness of Baru, from Long-Leet garden, in May last ;

and may certainly be considered as a very great rarity.

eae

(0h)

SERRATULA QUINQUEFOLIA. FIVE-LEAVED

Saw-wort.

aia tee ae ah Ses eae aE Ee as RE

Class and Order..

SyncEneEsIA Potyeamia ALQUALIS.

Generic Character.

Recept. paleaceum s. villosum. Cal. imbricatus, eylindra-

ceus, inermis. Pappus plumosus s. dentatus.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

SerratTuLa guinguefolia ; foliis serratis impari-pinnatis sub-

bijugis: pinnis confluentibus, pedunculis unifloris, squa-

mis calycinis interioribus elongatis coloratis. Wélld. Sp.

Pl. 3. p. 1639. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p.472. Marsch.

a Bieb. Flor. Taur.-Cauc. 2. p. 264.

suites

The Serratuta quinquefolia, in habit and general ap-

pearance, resembles very much Sgrratuta tinetoria ; but is

of considerably larger growth ; the leaves are pinnate, con-

sisting generally of two pair of leaflets and an odd one, —

which is much larger than the others; the flowers are not

only larger, but are more conspicuous from the great length

of the styles ; but it differs more especially in the elongation —

of the internal scales of the calyx, which make an imperfect —

scarious radius to the capitulum. a

_ We believe, no figure has ever been published of this —

"species ; which, we are told by Mr. Arron, was introduced —

a are Busu, Esq. from the North of Persia, in 1804. —

: author of the Flora Taurico-Caucasica says, it is fre- —

quent in the woods of Caucasus, from which country seeds

of it were received by Messrs. LoppieEs and Sons, by whom

the plant from which our drawing was taken was communl-

cated Some years ago. : :

A hardy perennial. Flowers in August,

seeds or by parting its roots,

Propagated by ;

Weddell Sc.

Pub by. 8 Curtis. Walworth Dee.1.186.

LV 1872.

Pub. by. 8.Curtis. Walworth. Dec, 1.21416.

(1872. )

KUGENIA ELLIPTICA. RovUND-FRUITED

EUGENIA.

SRR ee eee eee eae ae ee

Class and Order.

IcosANDRIA Monoeynaa.

| Generic Character. vi

Cal. 4-partitus, -superus. Petala 4. _ Bacca i-locularis,

1-sperma. és inet A 2

Specific Character and Synonyms, es

Event elliptica ; foliis .ellipticis acuminatis, flotibus pani-

culatis, calyce repando, bacca’ globosa. Smith in Act

Soc. Linn. 3. p. 281. %

Evernia elliptica ; foliis integerrimis ellipticis acuminatis,

pedunculis paniculatis axillaribus et terminalibus, calyce

repando, fructibus globosis. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. p. 966.

Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 3. p. 188. est

Merrosiperos floribunda. Vent. Malmais. 75.

Eveenta elliptica has a fruit, in some respect, different

from the rest of the genus; the seed is surrounded by a

softish pulp, which rises so high as to conceal the persistent

calyx within its hollow crown. The style and stamens are

also persistent. ;

The flowers are small, white, and not at all shewy ; but,

when the fruit is ripe, the shrub makes a lively appearance.

The berries, which are nearly round, are, upon their first

ripening, perfectly white, but they soon acquire a delicate

tinge of carmine, especially at the parts most exposed to the

light. The taste of the Chetbeie acid without aroma ; but

the leaves are aromatic. — :

Native of New South-Wales, from whence it was intro-

duced into the Kew Garden, by the Right Hon. Sir Josep

Banks, Bart. about the year 1790. ;

= a. 2 Requires

Requires the protection of the greenhouse, and as. the

flowers are produced in May, June, and July, and the fruit.

does not ripen till the following spring, it.is, perhaps, neces-

sary to keep it in a temperature raised by artificial heat,

through the winter, to bring its berries to maturity.

Propagated by cuttings. Communicated by Messrs. Wurr-

Ley, Brame, and Ming, from their very extensive collection

at Fulham, with ripe fruit in March 1815, and in flower in

August 1816.

Fig. 1. Represents a perpendicular section of the berry.

Fig. 2. A front view of the crown of the fruit, shewing the persistent

calyx and stamens.

Fig. 3. Sstamens separated from the ripe fruit.

Fig. 4. A portion of the panicle of flowers.

Pub by.5. Curtis Walworth . Dec.2.31&6é.

( 1873 }

- AMSONIA SALICIFOLIA. WILLOW-LEAVED

AMSONIA.

}

Class and Order.

PenrANpRIA Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Contorta. Folliculi2, erecti. Sem.nuda. Cor. infundi-

buliformis. =

Specific Character and Synonym.

msonr salicifolia ; caule glabro stricto, panicula terminali.

multifloro, foliis lineari-lanceolatis glabris.

AmsoniA salicifolia ; caule levigato, foliis lineari-lanceolatis. —

utrinque acutis glaberrimis. Pursh Fl. Am. Sept. p. 184..

The broad-leaved species of AmsoniA was first discovered

_ in Virginia, by Cuayron, who gave it its present name. But

Linn£vs united it to Tasernamonrtana ; from which genus.

it a in having seed-vessels and seeds not immersed in.

pulp. |

Watrer and Micuavx restored AMsoniA as a genus, and

this has been since adopted by all Botanists. Only one

species appears to have been known to Lixnaus, a second —

was added by Waxrer, and our present plant makes a third,

which was first brought to this country by the late Mr.

Lyons, and was inserted by Pursn in iis Flora of North-

America, above quoted. =~ te oe

It is considered as a hardy perennial, but being a native

of South-Carolina and Georgia, should have a warm situa-

tion and some protection from very severe frost. All the

Amsonias like a light soil, but in dry weather require frequent

watering. They seldom produce seeds with us, and are

therefore propagated by offsets, which are but sparingly

Produced. Flowers in June and July. Communicated by ~

| Mr. Wituiam Kenz, of Clapton. :

Pub.by.S.trertis Walworth . Jan.a. 1817.

( 1874 )

SoLANDRA GRANDIFLORA. GREAT-FLOWERED |

SoLaANDRA.

Se RE ae EE ER

Class and Order.

PentAnpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Cal. rumpens. Cor. clavato-infundibuliformis, maxinta,

Bacca 4-locularis, polysperma. : ;

Specific Name and Synonyms.

- Soxanpra grandiflora. Swart? Act. Holm. 1787. p. 300.

t. 11. Flor. Ind. Occid. 1. p: 387. t. 9. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1.

p. 936. Hort. Kew. alt. 1. p.388. Jacq. Hort. Schenbr.

1. p. 21. t. 45. Salish. in Act. Soc. Lin. 99. t. 6. Mart.

Mill. Dict. Meen Exot. Bot. t. 6. :

Datura sarmentosa. Lamarck Ill. n. 2295.

Srramonium scandens flore luteo. Plum. Ic. ined.

- tne

ie ‘ ¥

Sotanpra grandiflora with us is a fine climbing stove

shrub, with large shining laurel-like leaves, and magnificent

flower, of a cream-colour and agreeable scent. In Jamaica,

where it is indigenous, the flowers are of a pale flesh-colour,

and the shrub is called the Peach-blossomed Trumpet-flower :

cultivated in the stove at Vienna, according to Jacquin ; the

inside of the tube is tinged with purple, but the flower is

otherwise white ; from whence it would appear, that it re-

quires a greater intensity of light to bring out the red colour.

So the fruit, which is a conical white berry the size of a hen’s

egg, is filled with a red pulp in the West-Indies, which was

white at Vienna; with us we have not heard that it has ever

produced any ripe fruit, except perhaps in Mr. Saxisgury’s

garden at Mill-HilJ, who describes the pulp as green,

The name of Soranpra was given to this plant by Prof.

Swarrz, in honour of the late Dr. Souanver, pupil of Linnavs,

the intimate friend and fellow-traveller of Sir Joseru Banks, in

his voyage to the South-Seas. Although the author of very few

publications, Dr. SoLanper was celebrated for his knowledge

_ of natural history throughout Europe, and every Botanist, who

has had the inestimable privilege of using the library of his

right honourable friend and patron, has beet indebted to his

labours: a source from whence was even derived almost the

whole of the information respecting this plant, given by

Swarrz, in the Swedish Transactions above referred to. He

was born at Abo, in Finland, and died in London, at the age |

of forty six, in the year 1782.

There seems to have been difficulty in deciding on the

natural affinities of this plant; Swartz thought it nearly

allied to Portlandia, SonanpeEr to Besleria ; Jussteu and

Lamarck make it a species of Datura; and SauisbuRy,

contrary to Swarrz, allows it to-have the fruit of Datura,

not granting any weight to the circumstance of its being

a succulent berry instead of a dry capsule. At the same

time he asserts, thiat the leaves being constantly alternate,

never becoming opposite. in the flowering. branches, the

nature of the mflorescence, the irregularity of the corolla,

with the zstivation of the limb, are points by which, it recedes

so far from. the Solance, that he proposes to erect it into a

distinct order, together with Brunsf lsia and Crescentia;

In Jamaica, it grows from out of old trees and the fissures

of rocks. Is propagated by cuttings. Flowers at uncertain

—. of the year. Mr. Sarissury fixes on January and

chruary ithe Hortus Kewensis on March. Our specimen,

was kindly communicated by Mr. Arron, in July last, from

the Royal Gardens at Kew. | = —

FudbyS. lartis Walworth .Janasé2.

( 48735 )

Dapune ALTaica. Attaic DapuHne.

Bap ae a a Se ea ee

Class and Order.

Ocranpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Cal.0. Cor. 4-fida, marcescens, stamina includens. Drzpa

i-sperma. Th Oe | ~

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Darune aliaica ; floribus terminalibus sessilibus subquinis,

foliis ovato-lanceolatis glabris.

Darune aliaica ; floribus fasciculatis terminalibus sessilibus,

foliis oblongo-ovatis glabris. Pall. Ross. 1. p. 53. t. 35.

Dapune altaica; floribus terminalibus subsessilibus, foliis

oppositis oblongo-lanceolatis obtusis basi angustatis

giabris. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. p. 422. :

diate

A pretty shrub, of low stature, with reddiai-tadwn bark ;

leaves alternate, oblong, broader towards the upper ex-—

tremity and narrowed downwards, of a somewhat glaucous

and yellowish-green, the latter colour prevailing most while

they are young. Flowers in a sessile umbeli, generally five

_ together, white, with the lacinie revolute; we did not

observe that they had any scent. Anthers in two rows upon

very short filaments within the tube of the corolla. Germenr

oval: stigma sessile, shining, flattened-orbicular.

Native of the Altaic Alps, where it was discovered by

M. Parrin, a friend of Pattas, to whom he communicated

dried specimens, from which the figure and description in the

Flora Rossica were apparently taken. Wii.ipenow, who

acknowledges to have seen the plant only in a dry state, has

erroneously added to the character that it has opposite leaves,

though not only in Paxas’s figure are they represented

alternate, but in his description are said to be always so.

_ Flowers in May and June. Communicated by Mr. Biges,

curator of the Botanic Garden at Cambridge, and the

Worthy successor of Donn.

ed ait af

= =

Bibby. § Custis Walworth. Jani1%7.

( 1876 )

~ Diantuvus Campesrris (y.) Freup Pins.

Jee Heed iee

Class and Order. |

DeEcANDRIA Dieynia.

Generic Character.

Cal. cylindricus, 1-phyllus : basi squamis 4acutus. Petala

5, unguiculata. Caps. cylindrica, 1-locularis.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Diantuvs campestris ; floribus solitariis, squamis calycinis

ovatis acutis brevibus (subsenis) foliis subulatis cauleque

_paniculato subhirsutis. Marschall a Bieb. Fl. Taur.

Cauc. 1. p. 326.

(a.) caule basi simplict pubescenti-scabro, squamis calycinis

subaristatis. aa

(8.) caule basi ramoso subdichotomo minus pubescente.

(y) caule basi ramoso flaccido foliisque hirsutis.

‘ 2 ;

In our plant, the four scales at the base of the calyx were

short, but the two accessory ones were longer, so as nearly

to conceal the internal ones. The external or accessory

scales are described in the Flora Taurico-Caucasica, as being

the last pair of leaves, become smaller and sometimes ap-

plied so close to the calyx, as to resemble a third pair of

scales : in our specimen they were not only shorter, but were

dilated at the base and 7 red like the calyx.

We are not certain wl {

proper variety. The most remarkable features of the species,

are the creeping stolones with hairy leaves ; the intensity of

colour in the petals, and their singular indentation, not

_ towards the tip only, as in many species of Dianthus, but

along the margins of the whole limb.- :

A hardy perennial, propagated by offsets. Native of _

Tauria. Flowers in July and August. Communicated by —

vhether we have fixed upon the ~ |

Ni87%.

Bbdy. SE Curtis. Walworth. Tan2.2829.

( 1877 )

PELARGONIUM RAPACEUM, var. 8. LUTEUM,

YELLow Fumrrory-FLOWERED |

-Crane’s-Bitt. |

Sessa seaeskeak siete sea.

Class and Order: Aish

MOonADELPHIA PENTANDRIA.

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-partitus: lacinia suprema desinente in tubulum

eapillarem, nectariferum, secus pedunculum decurrentem.

Cor. 5-petala, irregularis. Filamenta 10, ineequalia, quorum

3—6 sterilia. Arilli 5, monospermi, aristati, ad basin re-

ceptaculi rostrati: aristis spiralibus introrsum barbatis.

Specific Character and Synonyms,

PELARGONIUM Trapaceum; acaule, umbella composita, foliis

bipinnatis villosis, petalis superioribus refractis : inferi-

___ oribus conniventibus. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 164.

_ PELARGONIUM rapaceum ; acaule, umbella composita, foliis

_— decomposite laciniatis villosis. Hort. Kew. ed. 1™™ 2.

p. 418. Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p. 649. -

Geranium rapaceum. Syst. Nat. ed. Gmel. p. 1141.

Geranium prolificum, «. Sp. Pl.949.

(#.) incarnatum ; corollis purpurascentibus. eee

PeLaRconium rapaceum; acaule, radice rapacea multicipite,

foliis bipinnatis villosis incisis, filamentis decem, quin-

que fertilibus. Jacq. Ic. Rar. 3, t. 510. Collect.4. |

«pe E90. Y :s £4

Geranium selinum. Bot. Repos. 239. TE Na ee an

Geranium africanum myrrhidis a i albicante, radice

| rapacea. Commel. Hort. p. 125, t. 63. _ ee

(B.) ingetins ; corollis flavescentibus, petalis superioribus

: minus refractis impunctatis. |

In this species the three lowermost petals are connivent,

and the twa upper ones more or less bent back, which

gives the flower somewhat the appearance of that of some

species of Fumitory. This variety differs from the one

4 in the. Botanist’s Repository and by Jacquin, not

only in the colour of the corolla, which is altogether of a

pale yellow, but in the upper petals being but slightly re-

flected and having no spotting at their base. Perhaps it

may be a distinct species, but it is not the flavum of Hortus

Kewensis, under which name we received it.

Ali the tuberous-rooted species are rather tender, and are

best preserved in the dry stove.

Native of the Cape of Good-Hope. Communicated by

Tsomas Epwarns, Esq. F.L.S, Paradise-Row, Stockwell,

Pubby.S Curtis Walvrorth Jan 1182

¢. didia?

PENTSTEMON CAMPANULATA. BELL-FLOWERED —

-PENTSTEMON. — apt

HRT eee aE EE

Class and Order.”

Dipynamia ANGIOSPERMIA.

Generic Character.

ee I

ere 2

Cal. 5-partitus, Cor. bilabiata, ventricosa. Rudimentum

filamenti quinti superne barbatum. Caps. bilocularis.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Pentstemon campanulata ; caule glabro, filamento sterili

superne barbato, foliis lanceolatis acuminatis omnibus

argute serratis, calycis laciniis lineari-lanceolatis. Hort.

Kew. alt. 4. p. 8. : :

Pentstemon campanulata ; caule glabro, filamento sterili

superne barbato, foliis lanceolatis acuminatis omnibus

argute serratis. Wilid. Sp. Pl. 3. p.228. Jacq. Hort.

Schaenbr 8. € S924. 36443

CuELone campanuloides ; foliis oppositis sessilibus acuminatis:

profunde serratis, corollis campanulatis purpureis. Bot.

Repos. 40. Z

Descr. Stem upright, very obtusely angular. Leaves

smooth, opposite, sharply serrate ; lower ones linear-lanceo-

_ late: upper ones broader at the base, half-stem-embracing,

acuminate. Bractes opposite, leaf-like, pubescent. Flowers

in a verticillate raceme looking one way. Peduncles oppo-

_ Site, generally bearing two flowers on pedicles longer than

the peduncles. Calycine lacinia lanceolate, acute. Corolla

zs , with bilabiate limb: wpper lip two-lobed -

lower lip three-lobed. Stamens four, with curved filaments :

sterile rudiment straight, reflected at the apex, bearded ies :

long white hairs towards the top. Anthers two-lobed, purple.

Germen ovate, acute, bilocular: style the length of the:

stamens: stigma truncated.

A hardy perennial. Native of Mexico. Flowers through-

out the summer. Introduced in 1794, by the Right Hon.

Sir Josern Banks, Bart. K. B.

ADDENDUM.

No. 1864. Curtone major. Add the following Synonym.

Cuetone Lyoni; glabra, ramosa, foliis petiolatis cordato-

ovatis, spicis terminalibus dentifloris. Pursh Fl. dm. ©

Sept. Suppl.. p. 737,

Pub by. S.Cuercis Welwerth Jananey

Oi.)

‘4 ( 1879)

PANCRATIUM DISTICHUM. | ‘FAN-LEAVED

PANcRATIUM. |

Seek

Class and Order.

Hexanpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Petala 6: nectario 12-fido. Stam. nectario imposita.

Specific Character. :

Pancratium distichum ; spatha subsexflora, nectarii infundi-.

buliformis dentibus interstamineis irregularibus laciniis

revolutis tubum zequantibus, foliis lanceolato-loratis stri-

atis distichis.

Our drawing of this plant was taken in August 1814, at

Messrs. Lez and Kennepy’s, where it went by the name of

mexicanum, with which species it in no respect corresponds,

if the figure quoted from Dii.entus is a representation of the

one intended. i:

In September last, the Hon. Wittiam Herserr kindly

transmitted to us a specimen and particular description of

the same species, which he considers to be hitherto unde-

scribed. The bulb came from Rio de Janeiro, but, perhaps,

vi hic ne

may not be a native of that country. Mr. Herserr considers

it as most nearly allied to caribeum and rotatum. Bi

‘The leaves grow exactly distichwise, spreading out like a —

fan, in which character it differs from all the known species -

of Pancratium ; for even in rotatum, the leaves are not so

regularly distich as in this, on which account we have given

it the name distichum. The lower leaves are seventeen —

inches long, the upper ones gradually diminish; they are —

linear-lanceolate or thong-like, of a tough consistence, from

an inch to an inch and half wide at the broadest part, which

is rather nearer the point than the base, where it is some- —

what contrasted. They differ from the leaves of littorale,

says Mr. Hersert, in being much narrower, of a more uni-

form width, regular fan-shaped arrangement, paler colour,

and less fleshy substance : from those of rotatum, in a’ :

3 : eS is : ra)

of a much harder texture, less flesliy, paler coloured, more

strongly nerved, sharper and not at all spathula-shaped at the

point, more. regularly distich, and much less erect. From

those of caribeum they differ in being harder, thicker, longer,

and narrower, in having their greatest breadth nearer the

point, and in being arranged regularly distichwise, instead of

clustering irregularly. ‘The tube of the corolla is the same

length as the lacinie of the limb, each from four to four

and a half inches long. The nectarium or crown is more

funnel-shaped than in rotatum, and of smaller’ dimensions ;

itis unequally toothed, and is not extended along the fila-

ments, which are twice its length, considering them as be-—

ginning from the bottom of the nectarium, though connate

with it; or equal in length, if considered as beginning from

its margin.

Pancratrium distichum is much hardier than rotatum, and

not nearly so liable to suffer from. wet on the leaves, which

is so fatal to the latter ; but otherwise, Mr. Herserr informs >

us, that the bulb of rotatum is not apt to perish after flower-

ing (see No. 827) nor does it produce abundance of offsets,

a plant in his possession having produced but one in four

years, in which space it has blossomed several times ; but

when the mother bulb by accident perishes, it may, as often

pe di in similar circumstances, throw out a numerous

spring.

The honourable WiittAm Hergert having long been a

careful observer of these plants under cultivation, we pay the

highest respect to his opinion; and, for the foregoing ob-

ret Mates we acknowledge ourselves entirely indebted to

‘im.

Whether the comparative length of the tube with the

limb of the corolla be a character altogether to be depended —

upon, our figure even may lead to some doubt, for though

in the perfect blossom these are equal in length, yet in the ©

faded flower, the tube appears to have shot out to a greater

length ; in which state it may have approached too er ar

perhaps, to Pancratium littorale, «. a variety not published

in the Botanical Magazine. : eee

Nisso

£3 Darts Walworth, Jere.2 281

Fut.b,

_ acuminate, coloured at the

(18807)

- PHLOx ACUMINATA. ‘Onose-rtiviy’ Paox, or

fopgateene F et

Class and Order.

Pentanpria Monoeynta.

- Generic Character.

Cor. hypocrateriformis. Filam. ineequalia. Stigma 3-

fidum. Cal. prismaticus. Caps. 3-locularis 1-sperma.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Puiox acuminata ; caule obtusangulo pubescente, foliis lan-

ceolato-ovatis acuminatis subtus villosis decussatis co-

rymbis paniculatis, calycibus aristatis.

Puiox acuminata ; erecta, pubescens; caule angulato, |

foliis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis inferne angustatis sub- —

petiolatis subtus pubescentibus, floralibus subcordatis,

corymbis paniculatis, corolle laciniis rotundatis, tubo

pubescente, calycibus aristatis. _ Pursh Fl. Am. a |

Suppl. p. 730.

Putox decussata. - Tyons's C Catal. Isi2. ms

Descr. Stem erent, shcees feet high, square with rounded

angles, pubescent, spotted. Leaves in distant pairs, exactly

decussate, lanceolate-oval, acuminate, villous on the under

surface and. roughish on the upper = ral leaves subcordate,

gin. Fle ers in a panicled

corymb, growing several together on <ay, short pedicles.

Calyx coloured, villous ; teeth subulate. ‘Tube of Corolla

‘hearly straight, twice the length of the limb, villous: lacinize ©

“smooth, obcordate, variegated with different pypdee of purple, :

lilac-coloured underagatit 5 = ae

The leaves of this species growing in distant pairs re-

gularly crosswise, we think the name of decussata was more

characteristic than that of acuminata. It is nearly related

to Putox Carolina.

Native of Georgia, and South-Carolina. Rather more

tender than-many other species. Flowers in August and

September. Introduced by the late Mr. Lyons, in 1812.

Communicated by Mr. Wittaam Kent, of Clapton, in Sep-

tember 1815,

Pib.by.S. Gotis. Walworth Fb. 1617.

. 7 Poms

guage oe Pore ies,

THUNBERGIA FRAGRAN |

. _ Twinine

JERR

Claey and Order. —

~ Dipy NAMIA Axcrospenwta.

tise Character

Cal. duplex: exterior diphyllus: interior 12-dentatus.

* Specific Character and Synonyms.

Tuuneercta fragrans ; foliis cordatis aguminatis basi sub-

. angulato-dentatis, caule scaudente. Willd. Sp. Pl. 3.

Se > P- 388. fier: Ken; ed. alt. A p. 66. Mart. Mill.

- he 2,

Perseteesis fragrans. Roxb. Corom, i p. at. 4 a” , i:

=? 63, * js

THUNBERGIA iar has a climbing

in the Bast Tadiee reaches thi

Ear] foe we have never — it exceed that of a few feet

The aes are cp fern g nor have we observed any oe

ce in any part of the plant ; but Dr. Roxeurem in his

nts of the Coast of Coromandel,” states positively, ‘that.

= the plant possesses a pect liar and agreeable fragrance, and. _

the beauty of its flowers, although no , entitle it toa

place in the flower-s n;” so tha i absurd notion, pre-

vailing among the I Fen ed sage a perhaps in

the Botanist’s Repo ository, the hat Dr. Roxguren gave it the

1e of ans, e where it grew was sweet

pana not so, seems to be entirely void —

> heat of a tropical sun see we.

ty in this pis oh }

Mr. Prrer Goon, in the

——

Luts Walworth, bib 2.2617 ;

dy.

( 1882 )

PIPER ACUMINATUM. Dwarr PoInTED-

LEAVED Pepper.

TEER EE EEE KEE

Class and Order.

Diane Pedic *

Generic Character.

Cal.0. Cor. 0. Bacca \-sperma.

Specific Character and Sponge.

Piper acuminatum ; Sitintouw: foliis Mjeriis ovatis acumi-

natis carnosis pellucidis quinquenerviis, Yamis semicy- —

lindricis. A oon ae

Piper acuminatum ; ‘herbaceum, ‘foliis

nervosis caule erectiusculo va

i. Pl. 43. Soot te "A. ae

epee alius - is folio

— caulis prodeunte

. ‘iY a

- - “Aires ani the West-Indies, growing nt 2

ently on the re trunks of trees. Net 2

: edition of Arron’s Hortus Kewensis.

0 ~ the Flora Peruviana appears to be

ated "Be Jee Watker, Esq. Amo's-Grove, | £

ose are ereeret in copes

ae ( 1883)

PrarNacevM iNcANUM. Hoary _

# 7 PHARNACEUM. “ay

Se ea

Class and Order.

PENTANDRIA T'RIGYNIA.

Generic Character. hart

Cal, 5phyilus. Cor. 0. f Caps. 3-loc cularis, pélyapeiiia, -

P Specific Character and Synonyms.

PHARNACEUM incanum ; pedunculis proliferis, foliis subulatis

aristatis in nodulos congestis, stipulis setaceis, stigma-

tibus petaliformibus. =

PHARNACEUM incanum; pedunculis communibus longissimis,

foliis linearibus, stipulis pilosis. Linn. Suppl. 186.

Willd. Sp. Pl.1.1510. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 2. p. 174.

Puarnaceum pedunculis communibus longissimis. Hort.

Cliff. 492. foliis linearibus. Mant. 358.

Puarnaceum incanum; foliis teretibus mucronatis stipulis

setaceis, umbellis terminalibus. Thunb. Prodr. 54.

Atsine forte, seu Lycunis africana, foliis lariceis tenuissime _

divisis, floribus fere umbellatis. Pluk. Alm. p. 23.

Phyt. t. 304. f. 4. ‘he ;

fag #

Descr. Stem shrubby, dwarf; branches white, by the

remains of the hair-like stipules. Leaves at first scattered,

but these soon fall off and leave the stems bare, except ‘at the

ends and about the divisions of the branches, where they are

awl-shaped, smooth, terminated with a bristle or awn, and —

collected into round nodules with hair-like stipules intermixed.) _

From these nodules proceed the long filiform peduncles,

dividing into proliferous umbels. Calyx 5-leaved, green

externally with a membranaceous margin, and white Ate

/ Corolla

Corolla none, or connate with the calyx. Stamens 5: fila-

ments somewhat shorter than the calyx, alternating’ with its

leaflets, inserted into the receptacle : _anthers yellow, bifid

at the base. Germen conical: style none: stigmas 3, con-

cave, obtuse, undulated, petal-like, of a fine crimson colour.

Surrounding the base of the germen there are 5 small yellow

glands.

The flowers expand in the afternoon, if the weather is fine,

and close again before sun-set. Their principal beauty con-

sists in the singular large crimson stigmas, of which we find

no mention made by any author. Can they be an accidental

monstrosity? In Scureger’s edition of the Genera plantarum —

the pistil is described as having 3 filiform styles, the length

of the stamens, with obtuse stigmas.

Perhaps the Cape species of Pharmaceum form a genus

distinct from those of the East-Indies.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers most part of

the summer. Introduced in 1782, by Groner Wrncn, Esq. —

Communicated by Messrs. Wuirtey, Brame, and Minne,

of the Fulham Nursery. |

¥-

> WY OCFREUS “L70/0 Vets

Putty. ¥. Curtis. Walworth. Feb.2.1827 .

(1884. )

CACTUS TRIANGULARIS. TRIANGULAR CREEPING

Cereus, or SrRAWBERRY Pear.

| Class and Order.

IcosanpRia Monoeyata.

_ Generic Pidmacier,

Cal. 1-phiftas, superus, imbricatus, Cor. multiplex. Bacca

}-locularis, “polysperma. ifs

Specific BF sae | Synonyms.

Cactus triangularis ; repens triangularis, Willd. Sp. P12

__p. 942. Jacq. Amer. 152, Risler in Act. Helv. 5. p. 268.

t. 2. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 3. p. 178. Mart. Mill. Dicé.

n. 16..

Cactus triangularis scandens articulatus. Hort. Cliff. 182.

Cactus debilis brachiatus equalis triquetrus scandens s. re-

pens, spinis brevissimis confertis.” Brown Jam. 238.

Cereus americanus triangularis— us. Bradl. Suec. 1.

p. 4. t. 3. Trew in Act. Nat. Cur... 9. App. 199. t. 10.

vars et v.10. App. 349. t. 3.

Cereus scandens minor. The Prickly Pear-Mine ifaghes

__ Barbad. p. 186.? :

Jamacaru 1. om Ind. Has. p 188. cum figura pessima. —

Mexocacrus trigenus,. i aculeis munitus, flore albo,

fructu coccineo. itt nat p. 198. t. 200. ais Plam.

Catal. Pl. p. Vie at

We are in eb ae ‘Mr. Broun, of Storrer-Park, near

ap names, for the opportunity of giving our

readers a of thi

: ‘is plant, which is so rarely known to

blossom out of the tropical countries, of which it is a native,

that in most places it has been cultivated above twenty years |

before it shewed the least disposition to produce flowers.

As this flower is so very transitory, lasting during one

night only, ‘there is no chance of any opportunity of taking a

drawing, ‘unless the artist is at hand. T'o afford us this

Se | Mr. SToRRER very = cut off the joint, a few —

days —

days before the bud was expected to open, and sent it to us;

which being set in water, the flowers began to open in the

evenitig, and by midnight was fully expanded. .

The first account we have of one of these plants flowering

in Europe, is by Dr. Trew, in the ninth volume of the Acta

Nature Curiosorum ; where there is an incorrect figure of

one which flowered in the garden of the university of Altorf,

in the Canton of Uri, in the year 1747; but it had flowered ~

many years before in Germany, and about the same time

at Vienna, in the garden of Prince Everne. A better

figure is given in the tenth volume of the same work. But

the best representation of the flower, is by Dr. Rister,

froma plant which had been many years in his father’s stove,

but at the time of its blossoming, was in the possession of

the Syndic Horer, of Muhlhausen.

In this country it first flowered at Hampton-Court, and at

the Marquis of Rocxineuam’s: in the former place it appears

to have been cultivated seventy years, before it produced any

flowers, being in the collection there in 1690, and not having

blossomed in England, according to’ Minter, in 1759.

Perhaps the reason of its having been more shy of flowering

here than on the Continent is, that the wetness of our sum-

mers have hardly admitted of the plant’s being entirely ex-

posed to the open air during the summer months; which

Dr. Rister recommends, and so all the flowering plants,

above mentioned, appear to have been treated. ;

As most or all of this family grownaturally in a poor arid soil,

they should be planted in a mixture of lime, rubbish, and sand,

with a small proportion of loam, and the bottom of the pot to

one-third of its whole depth should be covered with breken

potsherds in layers, gradually finer towards the top. They

are propagated by cuttings, which should be kept in’a dry ~

place for a month before they are planted: In the winter, —

the dry stove is recommended, and, if in the bark-stove,

_ they should be not watered at all. When the weather is dry

and warm, it is far better that they should be entirely ,

to the open air. Flowers in July, August, or September.

N18853.

Pub by. §. Curtis Walwer the. Feb. 22817.

-2827.

. Walweeth Feb.2

Fb. by SS. Gartis

( 1885 A:&B. )

‘Dauwia superriua. Fertive-rayep Dantra,

JHB Hobe

A. Crimson-rtowerep. B. Dousie PURPLE-FLOWERED.

Gamia SUPERFLUA.

cy ag a

yet e sath

2 Smaaiene “Frakes . “pag

_- Generic Character.

Recept. paleaceum. -Pappus nullus. Cal. dup

polyphyllus: interior 1-phyllus, 8-partitus.

Specific Character and Synonyms. -

Danita superflua; caule non pruinoso, ligulis foomineis.

Hort. Kea. ed alt. 8; p. 81> 2h 5 GF 9 Ee

Groreina superflua, Decandolle in Annales du: Muséum,

15. gr S10, ie dees sen

Gxorerna variabilis, Willd. Enum. 899.

are 2 od se eo > eee

5 ie

This species varies so much, not only in the colour of the

has shewn that the semi

In the last edition of Arron’s “Hortus Kewensis, three

varieties are considered as deserving to be distinguished by

names, viz. the purple (purpurea) the rose, or lilac-coloured

(lilacina) and the dwarf (nana). Our friend, M. Decanvotte,

in the Annales du Muséum, above quoted, reckons five va-

rieties, all from the colour of the flower —1. The red-flowered.

2. The purple. 3. The lilac. 4. The pale. 5. The yellowish.

the two varieties we have here given, and which are cer-

tainly among the handsomest as yet recorded, A. will rank

with the Ist. and B, with the 2d.

The

The variety with yellowish flowers gives M. Decanpnotiy

an opportunity of making a very curious observation, viz. that _

it may be inferred with a degree of probability approaching to

certainty, that no blue variety of Danuia superjlua will ever

be found; because blue and yellow being the two primitive

colours of flowers, and always exclusive of each other, no

blue flower ever changes to yellow nor yellow to blue. Agree-

able to this observation, we believe, no China Aster was ever _

seen to vary to,yellow. If other similar laws respecting the

interchange of colours should be discovered, this character

in flowers may come. to be as truly distinctive, in certain

cases, as any other, although hitherto, by modern Botanists,

generally considered of so little value.

Only two species of the genus Dania are at present |

acknowledged, viz. Daniia superflua and frustranea (coc- —

cinea of Bot. Mag. No. 762).

They have all large tuberous roots, not unlike those of -

Hexiantuus tuberosus} which should be taken up after the .

stem perishes, and preserved in sand or dry mould, protected

from frost during the winter; and in the spring be planted

out in the open border: or, in a warm situation and dry soil,

they may be left, without removal, only covering the border

with dead leaves to defend them from severe frost: Plants

ratsed from seeds in a hot-bed early in the spring, will some-

times flower the following autunm ; but not so fine nor so

_ early as the second year ; when the flowers will begin to-open

early in September, and continue in succession till overtaken

by frost. wl

Native of Mexico. Introduced in 1789, by the Marchiones&

of Bure. | i:

cated by the Comte de Vanxpes, who in

several other varieties from France, where these plants have -

been cultivated for some years with great assiduity,

cularly by M. Leuieur, at Séyre, near Paris. =

Both our drawings were made from specimens: communi:

{

\ et ‘

‘a _

. =

; : J —

N ~

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‘be a

wana

Put.é 'y- S Curtis Walwerty Meorch.12824 :

(| 1886)

“Roma Caraéana (6,) ARENARIA, Sanp

~Ronma, ¢ or v Pearner,

Class and Order

Diaveventa Decanpria, iy

aN el

Generie Chébactér,

Cal. Afidus; lncinia <rpecone® parti ae gibbum,

. elongatum. ~ ——

Sips Character and Synonyms,

Periniit Gaebler ; pedunculis _simplicibus, rear sub-

spinescentibus, foliis ab: abet pt bers? petiolis inermibus.

(a.)- ae foliis subqu Sri Pica casio Zoe

is aggregatis re lon. ;

Roginsa Coden fore op. £ 3 109. ATU. &

~~ Herit. sie ion °K tiph. Cent, Be "4 6 el.

A. p. 17. n. 22. Hort. Kew.'ed. alt. 4.324% |

Roginia Altagana. Pall. Ross, 68, t. 42. SS nediz

Mog. Lugdb. B8T SL NON, a ee Sage

CaRAGANA sibirica. Fabr. Helmst 42). J

—S peng et pris foliorum exer, ob- ae

—

Rosrnta arenaria. Donn ie Cant. ee

(y.) Altagana ; Soltis uboc edu

Rosinia Al

ae 3D 1135.

Desc. Stem shrubby : rutile smooth and not villous,

abruptly Pinal growing several together from a

projected —

projected tubercle armed at the base with a pair of spinescent

stipules: leaflets four or sometimes five pair, obcordate or

obovate, with a minute mucro, covered with a silky pubeseence

on both sides. Peduncles growing from the same tubercle

as the leaves, sometimes singly, more generally two, and

now and then three together, shorter than the flower, villous,

jointed, and having a pair of small bractes. Calyx subcy-

inline, gibbous at the base: limb five-toothed, the two upper —

teeth very small and approximate. Corolla papilionaceous :

vexillum cordate with the sides reflected, closed at the base :

ale of the same length, lanceolate : carina somewhat shorter, —

boat-shaped, with its petals united towards the tip. Stamens

diadelphous, 1—9. Germen flattened-cylindric, very smooth :

style ascendent: stigma simple. .

If Rosinia Caragana and Aliagana are to be held as

distinct species, then this must be considered as different

from both, and may retain the name of arenaria. But we

are inclined to regard them all three as varieties of the same

species ; as Pauas asserts that the low shrubby kind, in a

richer soil, will become arborescent ; the number and form ©

of the leaflets seem very subject to vary ; in PAuias’s figures,

referred to by L’Herrrier, they are obcordate ;_ in his own,

oval ; but in his description, said to be sometimes obovate or

wedge-shaped. — . Slee

A hardy shrub, native of Siberia. Flowers in June and —

July. Communicated from the Cambridge-Garden, by the —

worthy curator, Mr. Bices. . ee oo

( 1887 )

PoLemMoniUM REPTANS. Carkrine GREEK-

VALERIAN.

Rebbe beast

“Clase and Order. |

Pctthinasts Moxedvina.

Generic Character.

Cor. 5-partita, fundo clauso valvis staminiferis, Stigma 3-

fidum. Caps. 3- locularis, supera,

Specific Character and Settee.

Potemonrum reptans ; foliis pinnatis septenis; floribus ter-

minalibus nutantibus. Syst. Veg. 172. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1.

_p. 886. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. lL. p . 342. Michaux FI.

Am. Bor. 1. p. 142. Pursh FL Am. Sept. 1. p. 151.

~ Mill. Ic. 2. t. 209. Mart. Mill. Dict. n. 2.

‘Poremoxrum: foliis pinnatis, iat reptatricibus. Clayton

ww Gron. ia 22, 29.

a ee ae : ial re

Poxdaiaten reptans, is a riative of North: -America, anti

was taken by Gronovius, who was the publisher of. Cray-

oR Hethariun to be the same species as. the com

_ Greek-Valerian, from which it differs by its creeping roots,

- its more. diffuse. panicle, the flowers Ps on long Z

‘peduncles, being somewhat nodding, and by the smaller.

number of its leaflets. In our specimen, these were of a

_ wider: oval shape than we have generally seen, | ;

It is a native of North- —— a, growing on thie’ sides of

“hills, where the soil is rich, from “Pensylvania to Carolina.

With us, it is cultivated in the open ground, and is easily

increased by its creeping roots. Flowers in April, May, @

June. Commntinicatet by N. S. Hopson, Esq. of the War-

_ pe “ ‘ | 7

“ERRATUM.

In No. 1884, for “ we are indebted to Mr. Storner, of Storrer-Park,”

read “ to Tuomas Stonor, Se of Stonor-Park,”

Wed IB, is

Mareh.12827.

Fubiy 3. Curtic Wha rth

Pd he A fecrbic Milman Teh Bin Waddell Be

( 1888 ).

RHoDODENDRON DAHURICUM (@.)SEMPERVIRENS,

‘vanchaus Duara RHODODENDRON.

coenenesnnettaeney,

"Phase and Order.

- Decanpria Monoeynia,

Generic Character. —

Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. infundibuliformis. Stam. declinata,

Caps. 5-locularis. .

Specific Character and Sing, :

Ruopopenpron dahuricum ; foliis glabris punctatis nudis, —

corollis rotatis. Sp. Pl. 562. Willd. 2. Dp. ‘604 Hort.

Kew. ed. alt. 3. p. 49. es

{a.) foliis deciduis, supra N* 636.

(G.) foliis sepersosren ans, %

ss 4

This variety ek: Ruopopexnr on da : -

desirable plant ‘ie the one formerly figu _ this work ;

having been found to be much less liable to be injured by os

our late. aa: It is. s also. much handsomer, growing more

as iti ise sais 5 at the time of

wria (properly Daiiria) when

: * ar syllables, not in three.

(ej) vale

JASMINUM AzoRICcUM. AZORIAN JASMINE. |

TEE RE aE RE ae ee Ras aE

Class and Order.

Dranpria Monoeynia.

-_ -

ic Character.

Cor. hypocrateriformis, 5—8- B03. Bacca dicocca.’ Semina

solitaria, arillata. | 3

Specific Character ‘ank Synonyms f

JASMINUM azoricum ; taltis oppositis ternatis : foliolis ovatis

subcordatisque ‘undulatis, ramulis glabris teretibus,

corolle laciniis tubo aequalibus.. ‘Hort. Kew. ed. 1. v. 1.

——p.9. ed. alt..1, p. 17. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1: p. 39. -excluso

synonymo Plukenetii,. a

_ JAsMINUM azoricum ; foliis barkatie: foliolis covatis subcor-

- datisque, calycibus a nulatis eS 2 go lacing. 4}

~ tubo equalibus. hi fovaien. 1:5 gist. 89. 7

Scammer trifoliatuin, i fr, “odomtssino ed

Commel. Hort. 1. p. 159. t. 82.

Jasminum azoricum flore albo. -Grisl. Vir. Baistt ig

Jasminum catalonicum. Weinm. Phyt.t.602. quoadfiguram:

que folia ternata, non pinnata, representat.- |

Jasminum ‘sylvestre tri phyllum ‘igri Tubellis, umbellatis.. “t

‘Burm. Zeyh p12 158. £1? a :

— ase —— . — Sie. i cement ag

The ae Jasmine is a a native od te nd stil

in hi esteem, both for its fine shining ole --green fo “8

and the charming fragrance of its flowers, which, 1 iy a

favourable circumstances, it will continue to produce n +.

through the whole year. ‘It is seen to best advant 233

planted in the border of the conservatory, and its brane Wi

properly trained to a trellis. Propagated by cuttings. ee: ee

Communicated by Messrs. oe sears and Sons. ae

Sige ee as a

Pub. ty. 8. Gertis.Wabwerth Mot Guis Bin,

N i890

Weddell. p>

32. Palworth. March12&7.

pt AST ve,

Ct 7 8

Ra. by.

( 1890 )

STAPELIA DEFLEXA. BENT-FLOWERED

STAPELIA.

Tesesecese eae eee eke ak se

Class and Order.

_ PentTANDRIA Dieynta.

Asclepiadea. Nectar. duplici stellula tegente genitalia,

- Specific Character and Synonym.

. Srapensa deflexa ; ; corollis ru osis ciliatis centro pubescenti-

bus, laciniis margine reyolutis totis recta deflexis ; rostris

subulatis, alis vix ullis. Jacq. Stap.

STAPELaA deflexa. Donn Hort. Cant.

toa Pt ideas ery is ge

Streaks ; —, it is

reddish streaks he corolla pave

half-way down, and as the bases of

ly wider than the entire’ fa at 4 the orolla 11

ve ow. , this occasions them to on yeria ) ¢ ign:

pk: Mt nicinicatea by

1815; and we were favoured _

rs. Wurrter, Brame, and —

22 82/9.

Fut.by.S.Lurtis Walworth Mare

( 1891 )

Puiomis samta. Sam1an Putomis.

JHA nerd bikie

| Class and Order.

Dipynamia GymnosperMia.

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-gonus, 5-dentatus. Cor. galea incumbens, carinato-

compressa, barbata, emarginata vel incisa: labium inferius

proportionatum : lobo medio majore. Stigmatis labium su-

perius brevius. |

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Putomis samia ; foliis cordatis crenatis subtus tomentosis,

bracteis tripartitis subulatis mucronatis hig eequan-

tibus. Desf. Atl. 2. p. 25, Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p. 120.

Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 3. p. 408. Venten. Choix des Pl. 4.

Putomis samia : foliis ovatis subtus tomentosis inyolucris -

subulatis strictis tripartitis. Sp. Pl. 819.

Putomis involucri radiis subulatis strictis. Hort. Cliff. 315.

Putomis samia. Flor. Grec. t. 580. Prodrom. p. 44.

Puuomis gigantea. Donn Hort. Cant. ed. Pursh 191,

a ee Moe Fe

ty Rae ce

2 ee pa

There apipeais to be some doubt, whether this be really

the Putomis samia of Linnaus ar not; we are, however,

quite satisfied, that it is the same species as the one described

by Desrowrarnzs, in his Flora Atlantica, and consequently

it is WiLtpENow’s plant. It is also the Putomis sazmia of

Ventenat, of the Hortus Kewensis, and of the Flora Greca.

We do not hesitate, therefore, to retain the name of sama,

though the Patomis samia herbacea folio lunarie of Tour-

NEFORT is said by DesronTAINEs to belong to another and —

tb a case species. oe

he Samian Phlomis is a hardy herbaceous perennial, with —

erect strong stems, from two to four feet high, with —

ne : cordate,

_ cordate, obtuse, crenate, radical’ leaves, cottony on the

under surface, as are the cauline leaves also. ;

Native of the North of Africa. Cultivated in the Chelsea

Garden, in 1714, and was many years in the Botanic Garden,

at Oxford; from whence it was distributed to several other

collections ¢ but is in some danger of being again lost, being, —

we have reason to believe, at present no where to be met with

in this country, but in the collection of our friend, Mr.

Lamsert, at Boyton, by whom it was communicated to us.

Flowers in June and July. :

lee

FubbySlurtis. Walworth .March.1.4 824.

( 1s92)- resid

CLEMATIS crisPa. Cunuep-rLowerED

Vines’ S-BOWER. |

a; 1% fi ie tr < 4% 20,

4 “Povranoat F Peienis

: a if

Generic Character. ,

Cal. 0. ‘Petala 4, rarius 5. Sem. caudat.

reoeys c Character and Synonyms.

Ciemaris erispa ; folio’ ovatis acutis integerrimis, pedun-

culis petiolis fere brevioribus cernuis, laciniis apice —

revolutis crispatis, aristis seminum subnudis. |

3 gees crispa; foliis pinnatis ternatisque : foliolis ovato- —

lanceolatis trilobisve integerrimis, corollis campanulatis

: acuminatis margine apfidietic: aristis seminum subulatis ©

~ nudis. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. p. 1289. Hort. Kew. ed. alt.

' | 3. p. 844. Pursh Flor. Am. Sept. 384.

< Chemaris hone foliis pig as i : Palais “o

integris : 2 Bb. 765. * ae eee

CLem ais “at 7

7 Though the slat hiie a te . Saal pelievell to be

the Cremaris crispa of Linnazus, we are not quite satisfied

that it isso. There is a considerable ¢ differ between the

Pa ets, is more “or less common in aln lost every ‘species of

: this genus gs

‘Our present | plant has considerable affinity with the one

figured at “at No, 1816, under the name of ae a nar

which, we did not observe at the time, had been applied by

Mr. Pursu to a very different species. Our present plant dif:

‘fers from cordata, No. 1816, in its leaflets being not at all

cordate, and footstalks less divaricate; peduncles much shorter

and less strict ; corolla more crisped at the margin, and of a

less leathery consistence. The ariste of the seeds are not

‘naked, but clothed with short adpressed silky hairs ; as

WILupenow remarks of crispa. |

We received what we take to be a variety of this, with

smaller, very pale bluish purple flowers, from Mr. Wuittey,

some years ago.

Native of Carolina. Flowers from July to September.

Communicated by N.S. Hopson, Esq. of the War-Office.

ERRATUM.

No. 1816, 1. 11, and 1, 16, for Cremaris cordata, read Crematts reticulata.

Ra bys. Curtie Walworth .March.12 827.

(1893)

Zizyenus Paiurus. Curist’ s Tuorn.

a 3 ug Di eo SEE

‘Class and Cte:

Generic Character,

° bay tubulosus, Cor. squamee dianttiia, “initilentes calyci

inserte. Drupa nuce smono- vel disperma.

Specific Ciibacter and Synonyms.

Zizyeuus Paliurus ; foliis ovatis -denticulatis venosissimis,

floribus trigynis, aculeis geminis, drupa coriacea margine

alata.

Zizyeuus Paliurus ; aculeis geminis, inferiore reflexo, flori-

bus trigynis, drupa coriacea margine alato. Willd. Sp.

Pl.1. p. 1103. Arb. 415. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 2. p. 18.

Ruamsvs Paliurus ; aculeis geminatis: inferiore reflexo.

- floribus trigynis. Sp. Pl. 291. Hort, Cliff. 69. Hort. _

Ups. 47. Pall. Ross. part 2. ?p- 97. t. 64. Mart. Mill. _

ney ee Villars Dauph. 2. Ne (639. Scop. Comm ah”

Mee 1B, Z

Ruamnus - Pauunvs folio. jujubi

Rucamxos folio subrotundo, ructu con Se

Ruamnvs ter tfike-. Camer. Epit. * 80. fig. sentioa ee Z

Pauiwrus. Hort. Eyst. Autumn. Ord. 3. t. 9. f. Cae.

_ e€mac, | 336. Dod. Pempt. q 56.” Park. “Theatr. 1006,

= + <a Sa een

Pixivevs aculeatus, Desf. : All. x 1.199. Lan. Ilustr. 1.

20. oe ee

Pautorvus Spina Christi, Mill. Dict)

Pazrurus australis. Gaertn. Sem. Ip 28. 48 fo

Riniieeks Sh chus, Paliurus, and Alaternus, were con-

sidered by "Tournerorr as distinct genera, but united by

* Linsavs

Lixnzus under Rhamnus.. More modern Botanists have

been inclined again to separate them; Lamarcx has restored

all four genera; WiLipENow, whose footsteps are followed

in the oral Kewensis, unites Paliurus and Zizyphus ;

though, to us, they appear to differ as materially as any two

of the above genera. |

Zizypuus Paliurus, Lotus, and vulgaris, have all three

double thorns; and we have, in most specimens that we

have seen, found the smaller one to be recurved in Paliurus,

as well as in the other two species.

This plant is said to be very common in all Judea, and

the crown of thorns, in which our Saviour was crucified, is

supposed to haye been made of it, from whence the name of

Clirist’s Thorn.

Native of Spain, South of France, Italy, Carniolia, and of

Taurian Caucasus. s

Propagated by seeds or cuttings. Flowers in June and

July. Communicated by Joun Waxxer, Esq. of Arno’s-

rage od pu | :

Pub. 9. Curtis Walworth. Warchashhy .

( 1894)

HIAMELIA VENTRICOSA. LARGE-FLOWERED

HAmiiaes

sideline

Class and Order.

Penvanpnt Monoeynta,

| “Generic ‘Character. :

Cor. 5- fda fae Slocularis, infer polysp : er

Specific Character eg Synonyms.

Hamensa veniricosa; racemis terminalibus axillaribusque,

corollis campanulatis ventricosis, foliis ternis. bs

Prodr. 46, Fl. Ind. Occid. 1. p. 446. Willd. Ci Pl. 1

p. 446. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 1. p. 375.

Hameta grandiflora ; foliis levigatis, tubo corolle ventri-

coso. L’Herit. Sert. Angl. Ae t.7. Hort. Keo. ed. er

1, 229. Parad. Lond. 55. Mart. Mill. Dict. n. 2. % *

Dounamewia ventricosa. Persoon Syn. 1. p. 203. z

Campanuta arborescens foliis ovato-acuminatis verticillat

_ ternatis, stipulis acuminatis interpositis, capsulis qu

“quelocularibus. Brown Jam. 166.

NERIo affinis arbor versicolora materie, lauri folio lucido,

_ pentapetaloide sulphureo re Sloane Hist. 2.

P 63. t.183. 7.2.2 4 ;

e» as

Dies Laeves mostly Uirce, chanced four, in a whorl,

lanceolate, very smooth, veined underneath, quite entire,

but a little undulate at the margin. In the axil of each leaf

is a truncate gland or bud, and between each a warted

identate stipule. Flowers in a terminal, few-flowered

panicle, Calyx very small. Corolla tuk ula: ; ne

cleft border, Filaments spatula-shaped, extended beyond

of the filament. Germen wmferior, globular, five-celled,

many-seeded : style simple.

The name of Hamexia; of which there are several species,

was given in honour of M. Henry Louis* Du Hamet Du

Monceav, Inspector-General of the French Marine, and

author of several esteemed works on Trees, by Professor

JACQUIN. |

Brown, in his History of Jamaica, assigns an altitude of

eight or ten feet to this tree; but if the synonym of Stoang, |

generally quoted, but which, we very much suspect, belongs

to some other species, be correct, it becomes a very large and

stately tree, affording broad planks, of which there were

formerly exported great quantities for the use of cabinet-

makers, under the names of Spanish Elm and Princes Wood.

With us, it must be cultivated in the bark-stove, where it

forms a flowering shrub, producing its yellow blossoms from

September to November. Propagated by cuttings. Intro-

duced in 1778, by Dr. Toomas Crarx. Communicated by

the Comtesse de Vannes, from her extensive collection at

Bays- Water. a |

i Begs rk Sy ®

sah aa a

. — " ‘

ro a — —

: . ——

* Joun Bartist Du Hamer, was not Inspector of the Marine, nor &

botanical writer ; and, therefore, was not the person to whose memory

Jacquin intended to dedicate the genus Hametta, corrupted by LinnZus’

to HamELia, and more properly changed by Persoon to DuHAMELIA. —

1895.

Wead. dl.&e

2.2.28;

Aubby.5.Lurtis Walworth Apri

( 1895 )

GALINSOGEA TRILOBATA. THREE-LOBED

GALINSOGEA. |

Class and Order.

Syneenesta Potycamia Surerriva.

Receptaculum paleaceum. Pappus polyphyllus, paleaceus.

Cal. imbricatus. Ruiz et Pavon Prodr. =

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Gautnsocea trilobata ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis dentatis

triplinerviis : inferioribus hastato-tzilobis. Willd. Sp.

Pl. 3. p. 2228. Hort. Kew. ed. alt..v. 5. p.122.°0

Gainsoca trilobata; caule herbaceo, foliis trilobis, lobo

medio productiore, floribus subcorymbosis, Cav. Icon. 3.

p. 42, t. 282. Persoon Syn. 2. p. 421.

Pub. by 5.Cunti Walworth. April.2.2619

Tiagh

=, gE:

( 1896 )

LoBexra inictrou1a. HoLiy-Leavep

: : - Lopeia. |

JERE HHH eri ibe

fi Class and Order,

/ Pewranpria Monocynta.

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-fidus. Cor. 1-petala, irregularie, Anth. coherentes,

Caps. infera, 2—3-locularis,

Specific Character, -

Loxexa ilicifolia; (glabra) caulibus simplicibus decum-

bentibus, foliis ovatis undulato-dentatis rigidiusculis,

pedunculis solitariis subterminalibus recurvis unifloris

longissimis, | Es

Desc. Root creeping. Stems nearly simple, or some-

times divided near the base, decumbent, smooth. Leaves —

alternate, ovate, undulated and toothed in the manner of |

holly, inclined to rigid, but not spinous, on short foot-stalks,

smooth. Peduncle usually one, near the extremity, some-

times two, or even three: on the same stem, axillary, solitary, a

three times the length of the leaf, naked, recurved, one-

flowered. Calyx 5-cleft : segments toothed, spreading, equal.

Corolla irre 4 vesdllagic: the two upper lacinize (lower-

most by the resupination of the corolla) narrow, acute, and

very divaricate, the lateral ones obtuse, broad, the lower one

(by resupination the uppermost) broader than the two upper.

Unripe capsule globular, fleshy, two-celled.

, erbaceous, greenhouse plant, and one of the smallest

and least shewy in this too extensive genus, of which we do

_ not find any notice has been hitherto taken. Propagated by

Communicated by Joun Watxer, Esq. of Arno’s-Grove. —

: ee a. oe

dividing its roots. Native of the Cape of Good Hope,

M1894.

dhe a,

oe Peper, 4.3 B17.

Walyiere

Pusb.b5-5.Curics 3

( 1897 )

ANCHUSA ANGUSTIFOLIA(6,) PURPLE-FLOWERED

NARROW-LEAVED Buctoss.

So anima ie

Class caf Order.

: Pewtanprra Wie oo

Cor. infundibuliformis, fave clawsa forneibus Som. basi

insculpta.

Specific Character and Symonyms.

Ancnusa angustifolia ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis et 8 Ta-

cemis naustif bipartitis basi: giphytes,; ss

quefidis : fructiferis erectis. —

_ Aycnusa angustifolia; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis integris,

' floribus spicatis, calycibus quinquefidis. Hort. Kew. ed.

1™ 1. p. 178. ed. alt. 1. p. 289. "Willd. ‘Sp. Pl. 1. p. 757,

he Grec. ». 2.p. 5D. ‘t 164. Smith Prodr. eyusdem

p. Jid: —-

Ancnusa angustifolia ; racel i aiid conjugatis. Sp. Pl.

191. Pollich Pal. n. 187. =

Buexossum sylvestre majus nig m, " Sanoni Rar. Stirp. Hist.-

ed. 2. p. 57, t. 39. 3 :

Buetossum angustifolium minus. — Besck. Pin. 256. Moris,

3. p. 438. §. 11. t. 26. f. 4.2

—— facie Bueiossum minimum, flore rubente. Lob. “=

| 76.

_ Descr. Stem erect, hispid. Lbces oblong-lanceolate or —

rather ligulate, hispid when young, when old much more

harsh, Branches. alternate, axillary, the 1

minating in a double raceme » with a solitary fi

division, and two ovate inate, opposi :

the base ; the lower branches generally terminate in a sit

raceme. Pedicles shorter than the calyx. Calyx five-cleft, _

erect, turgid when in fruit. Corolla funnel-shaped : tbe cae

oe the

the length of the calyx, red: limb equal: lacinie rounded,

quite entire, violet-purple, more or less mixed with red: faux

closed with arched villous scales. Anthers sessile, erect,

alternating with the scales. Germens four, but one or two,

sometimes three of them, abortive: style shorter than the

tube: stigma capitate. |

Ancuusa ttalica, officinalis, and angustifolia, seem to be

much confused in their synonymy. From the first our plant ©

is distinguished, by its smaller size, and more especially by

the scales of the faux being only villous and not bearded with

pencils of hairs ; from officinalis, by the doubie less-crowded

racemes, in which Rerzivus remarks, that both ¢éalica and

angustifolia agree, and by the fruit-bearing calyx being

upright.

np e figure of Zanont, referred to as a synonym of an-

gustifolia in the Hortus Kewensis, corresponds well with

our plant upon the whole, though the calyx is represented

as not nearly so deeply divided, and the racemes are entirely

without leaves or bractes, except the two at their base: and

the excellent one in the Flora Greca evidently represents the .

present species. .

Native of the South of Europe. Flowers in May and

June. Propagated by seeds, being only biennial. Com-

municated by Mr. Josrpu Knicur, of the Exotic Nursery,

King’s-Road, Chelsea.

: Weddeli.3e

Pubby.5 Curtis -Watworth..AAprih2.1824. :

{ 1898)

_ Ruscus ANDROGYNUs. Champs Burcusr’s¢

seenecaennes ei *

ee oa oda

drew Moxaneurua,

Masc. Cal. ret Gor. Oo. “Neetarium centrale,

evatum, apice perforatum.

Fem. Cal. Cor. a maris, Stylus 1. Bacca

trilocularis. Sem.2.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Ruscus androgynus ; foliis. margine floriferis. Wélid. Sp.

Pl. 4. p. 875. Hort. Kew. ed. 1m. 3. p. 429. ed. alt. 5.

p. 421. Mart. Mill. Dict. n. 4. Persoon Syn. 2. p. 636.

Afort. Cliff. A66. 4.

(a.) foliis subco dato acuminatis, floribus subsessilibus in

capit : 2 congestis.

Ruscus atifolus e foliorum _sinu florifer et baccifer. Dill.

is in cap ula pauciflora “congestas. Herb. pen

_ (y.) foliis obnsee: blongis > Paesoeteaive, floribus solitariis,

= pedicelli: 3 florem cequaantibus. ‘Heic depicta.

(3.) foliis crassioribus a 8 sinuatis, _capitulis paucifloris.

Herb. Banks. e x Hi to. R. Collins

(«.) ? foliis rotun oval

flore. Loss

ull ear Herb. Banks. sine

Whether some of the v

vari bove enumerated, may

not be more properly consider

as distinct species, we —

E will

will not take upon us to determine. The first variety (c.)

which is marked in the Banksian Herbarium, as agreeing

with the one in the Linnean, and was originally in that of

Miter, exactly corresponds with Dittenius’s figure, and has

a great number of nearly sessile flawers, crowded together into

one capitulum, and seldom more than one of these heads of

flowers on one leaf. In our plant (y.) the flowers were

solitary, growing along the margin, several on the same

leaf, which is much larger. This appears sufficiently distinct

from Ditienius’s plant, but @ and ¢ making intermediate

links, we think it safer to unite them under one. Of the last

variety (*) we know nothing but from the specimen above

quoted, the species of which, from the defect of flowers,

cannot be certainly ascertained.

A climbing plant, which, if planted in the border of the

conservatory, will extend many feet. Flowers most part of

the summer. Native of the Canary-Islands. Communicated

by Jonn Wacker. Esq. of Arno’s-Groye. — :

11899.

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(, 18 : 1899 hae

SPIELMANNIA APRICANA, | Itex-.eavep

SPLELMANNIA.

_ steneenssonnagenes

aes

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tui A Hil esas:

_Ternanoesa Mowocysia Person.

2, (eee age As Sik aD

|, Generic Character :

- Cal. 5-fidus. * Corolle limbus, 5-fidus : faux villis clausa,

Stigma uncinatum. ‘pa nuce 2loculari, been,

Specific Name and Synonyms

ES ge Willd. Sp. PI. 3. p.321. Hort. Kem,

ed. alt. 4. Persoon Syn. 1. peAAL. Lam. Mi. 1

p. 336. t. eh “Ma artyn Mill. Dict.

Sprecmannra Jasminum ; foliis alternis sessilibus decurrenti-

on pgoribue sessilibus. Medic. ig Paltat. v3. Phys. y

Lanrana? africana ; foliis alternis sessilibus, |

tariis. “Sp. Pl. 875. Reich. 13. p. 167 Hort. Cliff: p.

320. Hort. Kew. ed. 1™* 2. p. 353.

‘Jasminum africanum ilicis folio flore ae, ex alis foliorum

proveniente. Commel. Rar. P 6. # ig

Descr. Stem shrubby.) Ee oie es ane opposite,

rounded, with four jagged w wings from the decurrent leaves,

aves ovate, acute, rigid, unequally sawed: serratures sub-

pungent, lower ones opposite, upper ones alternate. Flowers

White, solitary, axillary ; according to Commetin, fragrant,

like common Jasmine: but Mitzer takes no notice of this

scent, nor do we remember to have observed it. Calyx five-

‘Partite : leaflets subulate. Cortile salver-shaped: tube ares

at the base, longer than the calyx, hairy: limb deeply five-

cleft, lacinie flat, rounded at the end, somewhat undulate-

toothed at the margin, marked with a blue streak at their

base : faux closed with villi, not quite equal, and_bilabiately

arranged. Stamens four within the tube: filaments equal.

Germen ovate, smooth: style shorter than tube: stigma

hooked. see

Linnzus himself expressed a doubt, whether this plant

belonged to the genus Lantana, and left it uncertain, till the

fruit should be examined; this has been since done by

Mepicus ; who. in consequence, established it as a distinct

nus, which he named Sprenmanyia, in honour of Dr.

AMES Retnpoup Spiexmany, Professor of Botany, at

Strasburgh. | menOv oUF tin

On account of the equality of the stamens, Lamarck and

Prrsoon have removed $ ielmannia to the Class Tetrandria ;

but by so doing, they have separated it from the plants to

which it is nearly allied. It may be observed too, that

although the stamens are not didynamous, the . bilabiate

arrangement of the lacinie of the corolla and its whole habit

shew its approach to that class; and many others of the

Verbenacee, to which natural family both Lantana and it~

belong, have their stamens equal. a

Native of the Cape of Good-Hope. A hardy greenhouse

shrub, requiring only to be protected from frost ; and easily

propagated by cuttings. It appears to have been cultivated, —

in England in 1710.” Flowers from’ February to November.

Communicated by Jonn Watxer, Esq. of Arno’s-Grove. —

Pub. by. 5 Curtis. Walworth. Apwril..2,1617.

“(1900)”

Arprie’ cernuA. Droopine enue “a

Ae eee bet ee eee

Class and Order. |

Monanpria Monoeynia, |

Generic Character.

Anthera duplex. . Filam. extra antheram non elonatiint:

Stylus longitudine filamenti, in -sulco: cen at te toh

Stigma obsolete trigonum. Caps. carnosa.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Auprnia cernua ; racemo terminali cernuo, nectario apice

bifido, foliis ‘lanceolatis acuminatis spinuloso- -denticulatis,

» ©. germine villoso.

Arpinia calcarata. Bot. ‘Regist. 4Y.?

Grozpa erecta. Redouté Lilie. 174. ? 2

én

Axpinia cernua is smaller in all its parts than nutans, to —

which it is very closely allied, but is considerably stonter Bate

_ Lamperr’s calcarata, fizured in the Botanist’s

Leaves lanceolate, smooth, with oblique : |

margin irregularly toothed with small. spinescent. ‘teeth, apex |

elongated, linear : petiole sheathing with a dark~

stipular process or ligula of Curtis. _ Inflore

minal compound raceme ; commo uncle

_ articulate ;_ partial pedun very short, vill

or three-flowered. — Bractes | boat-shaped, ei BB oat

subdiaphanous, smaller an the flower, deciduous... Calyx

(outer perianthium of Brown) tubular, three-toothed, mouth

oblique. Corolla (imer perianthium of Brown). haying the

three outer lacinie equal, shining ivory white, connected at

the base into a curved tube : inner lacinie unequal, consist-

ing chiefly of one large (nectarium of Linnaus, Labellum of

some authors) and. two very small spur- -like processes at its

base (lateral lacinie of Brown): nectarium oblong, some-

what boat-shaped, be beautifully streaked with red and orange ;

apex purple, curled, bifid. Filaments nearly the length of

the nectarium. -Germen villous, style the Gagth of the fila-

-* in the dorsal groove of which it is concealed: stigma

canelianse fringed with hair.

Upon

Upon consulting Mr- Lamperr’s\herbarium, we find the

very specimen after which the drawing of Reneaumia cal-

carata in the Botanist’s Repository was made, from which

we aré satisfied tliat oar plant is very different from it; the

leaves of calearata being narrower, more linear, smooth at —

the edge, and without any subulate elongation of the point.

At the same time we must acknowledge that Atpiia calcarata

of the Botanical Register, the GLoppa erecta of Repouts, may

be a mere variety of our plant with an upright instead of a

drooping peduncle. We believe too that the calcarata of

Roxsuren, though not’ the ‘one figured in the Botanist’s

Repository, may be.only a variety of our plant ; for although

he describes it. as having an erect racenie, yet we find in

Mr. Lamserr’s herbariuma specimen from Roxsuren himself

of calearata, which has a drooping raceme,. and appears to be

in no respect different from our plant. That this bending of

the peduncle is not, however, an accidental circumstance,

We are satisfied from the number of specimens we have seen —

im the same condition. In the Banksian herbarium. is a

specimen, sent from the East-Indies by Dr. Roxsuren, under

the name of AMomum. racemosum, which, though imperfect,

appears to be evidently the same species as our plant. To

this is affixed a note by Mr. Saxispury, signifying that it is a

congener of Atprnia nutans, than which it has been a longer

fime in our gardens, having been introduced by’ the. late

Mr: Starer,'when he first began to collect. This must have

been ‘before the year 1790.9 = ae

The spur-like processes at the base of the nectarium,

supposed by Brown to be the rudiments of the lateral lacinie,

are not peculiar to calcarata, but common to most, if not

all of the species of the genus ; and are indeed found, more

of less, in most of the natural order, where the two lateral —

lacinia are defective. In Aupinta mutica, however, to which

species we were at one time inclined to refer our plant, and

_ from which, ‘perhaps, it may not be specifically distinct ;

Lo are said by Roxguren to be entirely want- —

ng. It also differs from the present subject, in having a larger”

ree nectartum and an erect raceme. = =

We have, on the authority of Mr. ‘Sanispury, already

stated, that this plant was introduced by the late G. SuaTER,.

Esq. before the year 1790. Propagated by suckers. Flowers:

in June. Native of the East-Indies. Communicated. by

Joux Warken, Esq. of Amo’sGrove.

Nigo7.

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—( 1901 +)

Corr#a VirENS. GREEN-FLOWERED

| Corres.

GSB e die

Class and Order. =

Octranpria Monoeynta.

Generic Character.

Cal. campanulatus, 4- sntatus. Cor. 4-petala, petalis apice

reflexis. Caps. 4-locularis, 4-valvis, loculis mon # 0 is. ,

5 He)

Specific Character and Synonyms. ;

Corr2za virens ; foliis oblongis basi cordatis, floribus pen=

dulis, dentibus calycinis elongatis. Smith Exot. Bot. 2.

p. 25. t. 72. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 2. p. 349. a:

Corr2#za virens ; foliis oblongo-cordatis ; corolla cylindrica,

pendula: petalis coherentibus ; acuminibus discretis,

patulisque. Bot. Regist. 3.

Corrza viridiflora. Bot. Repos. 436.

Correa reflexa. Vent. Malm. 13. Pers. Syn. 1. p. 419.

- Mazeutoxeron reflexum. Labillard. Voyage a la Recherche

de la Peyrouse, 2. p. 11. t. 19. —

Though the flowers of ; this

than those of Corrma speciosa

Being a )

South. Wales, it is tolerably hardy, :

our milder winters at least without shelter; but at present it

#$ cultivated as a greenhouse shrub, Thrives best in peat

mould. Flowers at yery different seasons of the year.

_ Our drawing was made at Messrs. Wurttey and Co.’s

in April. Introduced about the year 1800, by Gzorcz

Hippert, Esq. |

Nigo2.

Weddell Sc.

Bub. by: 5.Gartig . Wabsorth. May. 22614.

torky ADDR 5Yo

Gaupia OPPOSITIFOLIA. Ovrosire-tzavep

33. 68 if

in DES 5 a

Class and Order, -

Ocranpria. Monoeynia,

“Generic ta

Cal. 0. Die: A-fida : Squ

Nux subdrupacea. | a SE

Cale 4 vel 8 supra faucem.

Specifie Character ‘ha Synonyms.

Guin oppositifolia ; folie oppositis lanceolatis ovatisve

acutis glabris, ple » agus’ Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 2.

p. 413. -

Gnivia oppositifolia ; foliis positis lanceolatis. Linn.

Mant. a5! Syst. Veget. od 13. p. 302.

Gini oppositifolia. Bot. Regist. 2.

Gnipia laevigata. Thunb. Prodr. 67. Bot. Repos.89. Wendl.

Obs. 17. t. 2. f 14g ;

Tuymeua@a africana Sanam priori Clusii facie. Pluk.

Alm. 367. t. 323. f. 7.

6. Passerina levigata ; -foliis ¢ Batis glabris acutis, coma et

floribus purpureis. Sp. Pl. 513. ;

Tayme.aa foliis planis acutis, coma et floribus purpureis.

~ Burm. Afr. 137. t. 49. f.3.

Necranpra levigata ; foliis oppositis ovitis acutis glabris,

summitatibus coloratis, floribus aggregatis terminalibus,

nectariis quaternis.. Berg. € Jap: 134,

Gites

When much exposed to “awa air iad a Loverhil sun, the

Gnipia oppositifolia shews a good. deal ny purple colour at

the extremities of the branches, which edbids, at least in

the dried plant, to the flowers. it we ‘have such various

8radations of this colour, that we ons

being an accidental change arising purely from exposure to a

ter intensity of light. :

There is a good deal of confusion in the synonymy of this

cies, which has been happily elucidated by Mr. BELLENDEN

Ken, in the first number of the Botanical Register.

Young Botanists are liable to be exceedingly puzzled by

the far bode so nearly resembling anthers inserted in the

margin of the corolla (calyx of Jussieu) and alternating with

its laciniw. These bodies are called nectaria by Bereivs,

upon Linnean principles, though designated as petals by

Lixnzvus, who has, in this instance, deviated from his usual

age, in terming that part a calyx, which, throughout

the whole natural order, he had elsewhere termed a corolla.

The real anthers in this genus are concealed within the tube

of the flower,

_Ahandsome greenhouse shrub. Native of the Cape of

Good-Hope. Propagated by cuttings, which strike readily.

Flowers from May to October. Introduced by Mr. Francis

Masson in 1783. Communicated by Messrs. Loppices and.

eel 5,

tis Walworth . May. 2282.

(1903)

ALpIniA NuTANS: Larce Droopine ALPINIA.

Le ete

Class and Order.

Monanpria Monoeyrnia .

_ Anthera duplex. Filam. extra antheram non elongatum.

Stylus longitudine filamenti, in sulco anthers: receptus.

Stigma obsolete trigonum. Caps. carnosa. eee ed

Specific Character and Synonyms.

ALPInia nutans; nectario obsolete trilobato margine invo- —

luto, foliis lanceolatis, capsula membranacea lanuginosa.

Roscoe in Linn. Soc. Trans. 8. p. 346. Smith Exot.

Bot. 2. p. 93. t. 106.

Groza nutans. Persoon Syn. 1. p. 3. Redouté Liliac. 60.

Willd. Sp. Pl. 1, 153. ?

om sylvestris. Rumph. Amboyn. v. 6. p. 140. t. 62. et

; :

Reveaumia nutans. Bot. Repos. 360. Single plate, by Syd.

Edwards. Wilid. Enum. p.3.— :

biti Manet 3. 4. 18.

Zerumpet speciosum. Wendl.

——

Linnzus having himself had very little opportunity of

examining living plants of very few of the natural order of

Scitaminez, left them established by such vague characters,

that no Botanist has been able to arrange the several species

since detected under his genera, which has induced the

Sreatest confusion in the synonymy. Rerzius attempted to

establish better defined genera from the descriptions of

Kenie, but from the insufficiency of his materials could not

be expected to be very successful. It was not till the publi-

cation of Roscor’s Dissertation 1 the Scitaminee, in the

Sth volume of the Transactions of the Linnean Society, oa

the different genera of this order were established upon any

thing like permanent characters. Since this publication, the

labours of Roxpures, of Dryanper, and Brown, have

vastly increased our knowledge of the species, and facilitated

our right understanding of the parts of fructification upon

which the generic distinctions must be founded.

The synonym of Grospa sylvestris of Rumpuius, above

referred to, though always quoted as belonging to our plant,

appears to us extremely dubious; neither the laboured de-

scription nor the figures. seeming to us to apply to it.

This species, as well as calcarata, has the spur-like

appendixes at the base of the nectarium or labellum ; indeed

Mr. Brown observes, that these are generally if not always

present in the one-lipped plants of this order, and-are’ con-

‘sidered by him as the rudiments of the two lateral lacinie of —

the internal limb of the corolla. In Arpinia mutica of

Roxgureu, however, they are said to be entirely wanting. ©

_ This very beautiful plant is a native of China, and

of the East-Indies.~ Is. usually. considered ‘as a stove —

‘plant, but should be allowed plenty of air; nor does it.”

-fequire much artificial heat, except to bring: it into. flower. —

Propagated by the tubers of the reots: Flowers in the |

spring and summer. Introduced about: the: year 1792, by —

the Right Hon. Sir Josrpu Banxs, Bart) =

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( 1904 )

’ GARDENIA AMazna. CRIMSON-TIPPED

é GARDENIA.

GEIS HHE HUE

elim. -sessiles |

fauce corolle. Stigma eo : ) eo

eo Character.

Ganpetha: amena ; “spinis axillaribus rectis folio ovali acuto”

glabro brevioribus, calyce campanulato denticylato, flori-

bus terminalibus Sey F-

This species ot _ desirab ‘fragran :

well as beauty of its flowers, does not pe have Been

described in any systematic work ; nor are we aware that it

has been hitherto noticed by any aut

It was communicated to-us some cars. age , by Messrs.

Loppices and Sons, in whose stove it flowered in June.

Being obtained from the collection of the D arquis of Bianp-

FoRD, at White-Knights, ‘its native countr ; unknown to

them, but supposed to be the East-Indies or China.

It is. pretty generally known in the principal nurseries, by

the name of G. spinosa, but is certainly totally distinct from

that species, which has spines longer than the ee,

( 1905 )-

BocconiA corpata. HEarT-LEAVED

Bocconta. _

Je HR HEainelabieseseae

Class and Order. :

Dopecanpria Monoeynia. |

~ Generic Character.

Cal. diphyllus. Cor.0. Stylus bifidus. Caps. 2-valvis,

1-4-sperma. | :

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Bocconra cordata; foliis cordatis sublobatis. Hort. Kew.

ed. alt, 3.p. 141. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. p. 841. Persoon. —

Syn. 2. p. 1. Jacq. fragm, 63. t. 93. f. 1.

The Bocconia cordata is a hardy herbaceous perennial,

which, for the singularity of its foliage and fine large feathery

panicles of flowers, is well deserving a place in every large

garden. It is, when viewed at a distance, that its peculiar

appearance is more especially striking. — =

_ ‘Phe stamens are very numerous, about 30, and the capsule.

according to Jacquin, contains four seeds inserted in the

margin ; in the germen we have observed sometimes four and

sometimes six ovula. The filaments are long and hair-like;

stigma sessile, 2-lobed. ia ae

In all these circumstances it differs from its supposed con-

gener, Bocconia frutescens, with which in other respects

_ it very much corresponds. But some of the above characters

- seem to us so important, as to render it doubtful how far

_ these plants should be considered as belonging to the same

- genus. 3 a

Native of China, from whence it was introduced into this

country by Sir Grorer Sraunron, Bart. in 1795. Is pro-

_ pagated by dividing its roots, and thrives best in a light loamy

soil. Flowers in August and September. Our drawing was.

___ taken some years ago in the Botanic Garden of Mr. WiLLIAM

Tih

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Pub, by .Courtig. Walworth Mag.21 &14.

N1gos.

Ni 1906

Weeldell. 8°.

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Tub. by. §. Curtis. Walworth. Mezy.n.28277.

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( 1906 )

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GRISLEA TOMENTOSA. Wooprorp’s GrisLEA.

EME IE eae ok aes see seaeale ate

Class and Order.

Dopecanpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Cal. 4-fidus. ‘Petala 4, ex incisuris calycis. Filamenta

8—12, longissima, adscendentia.. pe. oem supera,

1-locularis, polysperma.. J

Specific Character pie Synonyms.

Canis tomentosa ; foliis sessilibus subtus— tomentosis,

~ corymbis axillaribus patulis. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. P. 321. %

Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 2. p. 320. Bot. Regist. 30. tay

GrisLEA tomentosa. Roxb. Corom. 1. p. 29" t: 21"

Wooprorpia floribunda. Salish. in Parad. Lond. 42. ‘

Lyrurum fruticosum ; foliis oppositis subtus tomentosis,

floribus decandris, corollis calyce, calyceque FB ge

brevioribus. Sp. Pl. 641. Reich. 2. p. 427.

467,

hs aE

This beautiful shrub was. considered by Linas P ea

species of Lyrurum, to which genus it is certainly allied

Dryanper, in Roxauren’ s Coromandel Plants, _ made ji

species of ‘Canines, in which he has be n follo

Hortus Kewensis. Mr. rece tad in 1 the |

ae Joun ALexanper Wooprorp, i who was orahty

a great cultivator of rare plants at Vauxhall, and to whom

our gardens are still indebted for severa beautiful acquisitions

from the Brazils, If it be really a “species of GrisLEa, we

think that genus should be removed into the class of Do-

decandria, where it would stand in company with Lyrarum

and Cupnea, its nearest relatives.

Native of China and of the East-Indies ; eben in the

‘hilly country in the northern provinces. Propagated by

cuttings. res to be kept in the stove. Introduced in -

1804, by Me Witsaan Sauispury, of the Botanic Garden,

in Sloane-Street, Flowers in May and June.

(1907)

INULA GLANDULOSA. GLANDULOUs INuLA.

Syneenesta Potyeamia Superriva.

Generic Character. ge

Recept. nudum, Pappus pilosus. Anthere basi in setas

duas desinentes. ;

Specific Character and Synonyms.

-Ivuxa glandulosa ; foliis sessilibus oblongis obsolete serratis, .

serraturis glandulosis, caule hirsuto unifloro, calycinis

squamis lanceolatis villosis. Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. ». 2097.

Enum. 896. Marsch. a Bieb. Fl. Taur. Cauc. 2. p. 319.

Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 5. p. 78.

Inuia glandulosa ; hirta; foliis ovalibus sessilibus glandu-

losis, caule simplicissimo _unifloro, calycinis squamis

subulatis hirsutis nigricantibus.. Adam apud Weber et

Mohr Catal. 1. p. 68. n. 40. :

Invxa orientalis. Lam. Dict. 3. p. 255. n. 6.

@. Inuna grandiflora. Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p. 2096.

__ Aster orientalis conyzz folio, flore luteo maximo. Tourn.

: Carol. 36. ee ee oo.

The glands along the margin of the leaf, which afford the __

name to this plant, are in some specimens much less evident __

than in others ; and, in the radical leaves, for the most part,

entirely wanting. oe oe

In the specimen from which our drawing was made, com-

municated in July 1813, by Messrs. Loppices and Sons, the

black glands were extremely distinct along the margins of the

upper leaves ; but in one communicated in June, the follow-

ing year, they were very indistinct.

o us the leayes appeared to be quite entire, except

that the glands gave them a denticulate appearance, but

’ “7 ) WiLLpENow

Wittpenow observes, thaf, when closely inspected, they

may be observed to be obsoletely serrate, bearing the glands

on the points of the serratures. As, therefore, grandiflora is

distinguished from glandulosa, only by having serrated leaves

with the glands terminating the serratures ; the two may be

safely concluded to be — varieties of fhe same species.

A hardy perennial. Native of Georgia and the Caucasian

Alps. Flowers in June and July. Propagated by parting its

roots or by seeds. Cultivated in

Messrs. Lopniges and Sons,

‘1802. Communicated by

Fabby 3 Curtis. Walworth. Junesa oy

~ Ovrisus 5 PROLIFERUS. | Sinky Cyrisvs.

Class an Onder.

| Diapexenta Decanonsa.

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an gees Sa.

Cal. 2- labiatus: k

““Byecifie Characte# and I mor

Crrisus iipealiforns floribus: orabellaGis! tncoreib: colibus

erectis, foliis ellipticis acutis’ subtus ‘sericeis, bear,

lanatis. Hort. en. ed. [me 3p. 51. eu

teis filiformibus, Ling. Suppl. 328 ™

Cyrtisus proliferus; floribus in medio gemmarum verticllatis, a

foliolis ovali-lanceolatis sericeis, staminibus 0

Ventenat Hort. Cels. 13. :

Descr. Stem arborescent, wrth scene ron ,

Leaves ternate on short footstalks : leaflets o

silky adpressed hairs. Flowers white, pane y in | sess oy

umbels, on long slender pedicles of a reddish colour. — o

flowering, the bud in the centre of the umbel coed ¥

into a branch, whence the umbel is said to be prolif

Two small opposite bractes near the calyx are deciduc

early, and therefore frequently wanting. Calyx sreddis e

two-lipped : upper-lip shortest with two divaricate teeth :

lower-lip longer, acute, and apparenily quite entire ; but,

when closely ‘examined, found to be divided into three very

short teeth, lying close pepiher, and so concealed by the

— pubescence as to as ,detected. Corolla

E é Papilionaceous,

os ee ay

papilionaceous, snow-white: vexillum orbicular, emarginate,

clawed, folded back at the sides: ale projecting forward,

plain, the size of the vexillum: carina considerably shorter.

Stamens monadelphous, or having all the filaments connected:

anthers incumbent: germen oblong, villous: style longer

than the stamens: stigma capitate. The pedicles, calyxes,

and young shoots, are covered with a soft woolly pubescence.

The name of proliferus was given to this plant, from the

circumstance of young shoots springing from the centre of

the umbel.

In a roomy greenhouse, when grown into a small tree,

with its pendulous branches covered with a profusion of snow-

white blossoms, as it usually is early in the spring, there are

few more ornamental inmates. :

Propagated by cuttings. Our drawing was taken several

years ago, at Matcotm’s nursery, Stockwell-Common, where

the beautiful appearance of a fine old tree, accompanied by

one of equal size of Mimosa verticillata, both in full bloom

at the same time, still remains impressed on our memory. :

Our description was taken from a specimen communicated

lately by Messrs. Wuittey, Brame, and Mitne. Native of

the Canary Islands. Introduced in 1779.

Tigos,

Pub-by 2. Curtis Walwarth. Jume.12824:

( 1909 )

MENVANTHES OVATA. OvaAL-LEAVED CAPE

BucK-BEAN.

kesh abae sk ahhh aaa

“Class and Order.

~~ Penranpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Cor. hirsuta. Stigma bifidum, Caps. 1-loc k ee >

Specific Character and Synonyms.

MenyantueEs ovata ; foliis ovatis petiolatis, caule paniculato.

Hort. Kew. ed. 1" 1. p. 196. ed. alt. 1. p. 312. Linn.

Suppl. 133. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. p. 811. Persoon Syn. 1.

p. 171. Mart. Mill. Dict. 3.

Vittarsta ovata. Vent. Choix. 9.

MEnYANTHEs capensis; foliis ovatis, caule paniculato, Thunb,

ae Houtt. Hist. Nat. 8.p. 335. t. 47. f.1

Reneavmia capensis. Houtt, Hist. Nat. 8. p. 335, t.47. f. 1.

a ee

nt hh ei he protectin fh rene in the

in the cistern of the stove. Flowers in May an

municated Mr. Wiusson, of I ) a le ti v

. Good: Hope Introduced byME Fasscn Las

son, in 17

J “Pub. by. §.Curtis Wolwor th..Jimer251).

Rigo.

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MENISPERMUM CANADENSE. CANADIAN

Moon-seep, >

Clies and Gries

Phdsctn Dopecanpnta.

terioray cat i

Fem. C r ynatis. Stam. 8, sterilia.

Bacce bine, ‘Lsperme,

~ Specific Character and Synonyms. |

Mentspermum canadense ; foliis peltatis cordatis cteansdc.-

_ angulatis (racemis compositis). Sp. Pl. 1468. Hort.

Cliff. 140. Reich.4. p. 272. Willd. 4. p. 82. Persoon

Syn. 2. p. 627. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 5. p. 404. Willich

Obs. V4. Medicus in Obs. Soc. Gicon. Lutr. V77A4. p. 226.

Miller Ilustr. Gmel. Sib. 3. p. 107. n. 86. Gronov.

56. 8vo. p.153. Schleuhr Handb. 3. 7

8. .: Sept. 2. f fae

angulosis, “yacel

Menispermum entadel Fecaiitien, #0

Act. 1705. p. 237. tA A

Hepera monophyllos convolvuli folio virginiana, Pluk. oe

181. t.36.7-2.

CissamPEtos sive ¢ Melaccocissos. Pupp I FI. Jen. ed. 9. p.53.

Pe:

‘emia

Maieseton canadense is a u hardy cimbitie shrub, which

varies considerably i in the angles of its leaves being more or

less acute, and sometimes Ps or quite obsolete ; and this

ee ec ge circumstance

circumstance has probably been the cause of the great con-

fusion that occurs in the synonymy of the three supposed

species, canadense, virginianum, and carolinianum,

Mr. Pursu makes the second only a variety of the first,

excluding the synonym of Ditientws, which he refers to the

last, the WenpLanpiA populifolia of Wittpenow ; Micnavux

likewise omits virginianum altogether. If Ditienius had

not described the berries as black, which in carolinianum

are agreed to be red, there appears to us to be no objection

to this, Ditrentus’s description of the female flower agreeing

exactly with WenpLanp’s figure. But then Pursu has also

referred CissampEtos smilacina of Jacquin to the same,

which we cannot hesitate in pronouncing to be a good repre-

sentation of our plant, and totally different from the figures

of Ditienius, Wenpianp, and Caressy. Upon the whole,

we are inclined to believe that there are only two species,

and that probably CissampEtos smilacina should be expunged

altogether, and more certainly from the Hortus Kewensis,

The Canadian Moon-seed has been long cultivated in our

gardens, but we have never seen any but male plants;

Jacquin’s plant was also male; but the one examined by

Menicus at Lautern, was a female, and the male was un-

known to him.

These plants grow naturally in North-America, on the

banks of rivers and on the sides of fertile hills, climbing

among other shrubs. Propagated by layers. Communicated

by Joun Wanker, Esq. in July 1815, ea

Vv c

Pik by 5. Curtis Walworth, Famesz229

( 1911 )

Hisiscus rapiatus. Rayep Hraiscus.

JE HB ibe

Class and Order.

_Monapetpaia a

Generic Character.

Cal. duplex: exterior polyphyllus. Stigmata 5. Caps. 1-

locularis, polysperma.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Hisiscus radiatus; aculeatus, foliis palmato-digitatis quinque-

partitis serratis, stipulis lanceolatis, calycibus ciliatis

eglandulosis: externo decem-radiato, caule fruticoso.

Hisiscus radiatus; caule frutescente viridi aculeato, foliis

3 palmatis digitationibus lanceolatis dentatis, floribus bre-

viter pedunculatis. Cavan. Diss. 3. p. 150. t. 54. f. 2.

Hisiscus radiatus ; foliis serratis septem-s. quinque-partitis

paimatis, laciniis lanceolatis acuminatis, caule petiolis

pedunculis calycibusque aculeatis, calycibus exterioribus —

decaphyllis aristato-ciliatis. Willd. Sp, Pl. 3. 824.

air?

Hireiscus radiatus was raised in the garden, at Madrid, —

by Professor Cavaniiues, from seeds sent him by Sir Josepa

Banxs. It differs trom cannabinus, with which it has been

confounded, in being shrubby, not an annual ; in its leaves

being more deeply divided into five segments, and wanting

the gland at the base of the midrib ; in having the outer calyx

the length of the inner, ten-rayed, more spreading, and the

inner calyx without glands. It has the same acid taste as

cannabinus. Like surattensis (1356) each segment of the

Outer calyx is furnished with a little appendix near the tip,

but not nearly so remarkable as in that, and indeed some-

times scarcely yisible, and often not at all in the dried plant

FEE > ; ative

Native of the East-Indies. Requires to be kept in the

stove.

Flowers in September and October.

Communicated

by Joux Waker, Esq. of Arno’s-Grove: » igik:

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Hipiscus cANNABINUS. - Hemp-LEAvED

Hretscuvs. |

TET RIOR eee sek ease

Class and Order.

Monavetpnra Poryanpria.

ees Generic Character.

Cal. duplex : exterior polyphyllus. Stigmata 5. Caps.

5-locularis, polysperma.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Hisiscus cannabinus ; foliis serratis : superioribus palmatis

quinquepartitis subtus uniglandulosis, caule aculeato,

floribus sessilibus. Sp. Pl.979. Willd. 3. p. 822. Reich.

3. p. 362. Persoon Syn. 2. p. 256. n. 44. Martyn Mill.

~ Dict. n.26. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 228. Roxb. Corom,

2. p. 48. t.190. Burm. Ind. p. 152. :

Higiscus cannabinus : caule herbaceo glabro, foliis superi-

oribus palmatis serratis uniglandulosis, floribus sessilibus,

calycibus glandulosis. Cav. Diss. 3. p. 148. t. 52. | a

Hisiscus vitifolius. Mill. Dict. ed.8.n.18. |

Atcea benghalensis spinosissima, acetose sapore, flore luteo

pallido: umbone purpurascente. Commel. Hort. 1. p. 35.

t. 18. a

Kerra indica, foliis digitatis, flore magno sulphureo: umbone

atro-purpureo, petiolis spinosis. Khret. t. 6. f. 1.

Kermta indica vitis folio, magno flore. Tournef. Inst. 100. ?

Kermra indica cannabinis foliis, Bangue dicta. Burm. Zeyl.

135. Rejectis synonymis pluribus ; non est quidem

planta, ex qua Bangue Indorum paratur.

Gone-Kura of the Talingas.

This plant is cultivated in the East-Indies, both as a pot~

herb and for the manufacture of a coarse kind of hemp ; the

leaves having a pleasant acid taste, not unlike sorrel, and the

eee stalks

stalks containing a fibrous substance, capable of being made

into cordage, but which is neither so strong nor so durable

as that made ae

Z .

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It has been probably owing to the circumstance of its being

applied to the same purpose and of the similarity of its foliage

with that of the hemp, that it has by some authors been

mistaken for the plant producing the Bang, an intoxicating

substance made use of in the East, the principal ingredient

of which appears to be a species of hemp.

Our plant was very similar to the figure of Commenin,

above quoted ; but Roxsuren’s representation has a different

aspect, being taken from a very young plant, in which the

lower leaves are simple and heart-shaped, those on the middle

of the stem three-lobed, and only afew at the top deeply

divided into five segments. 1

It is a tender annual, requiring to be kept constantly in

the stove, where it will attain the height of five or six feet.

Flowers with us in September and October, and will ripen

its seeds by the end of the year.

rol

a A-ripe capsule. b. The interior calyx, shewing the large glands on the

Diner file. c. A Weed. ay ee ne ne Gg

Pub.by. 5. Curtis Walworth, Fine. iq.

( 1912 )

SyMPHYTUM ORIENTALE. Eastern ComFrey.

Se Eebe ee eedieg

Class and Order.

PENTANDRIA Monoevwta.

<iorelle limbus tubulato-ventricosus fauce clausa radiis

eee

: Specific Character and Synonyms.

Sympuytum orientale ; foliis lanceolato-ovatis undulatis in

petiolum decurrentibus: floralibus porrectis, limbo co-

rolle infundibuliformi acutiusculo.

Sympnytum orientale ; foliis ovatis subpetiolatis. Sp. Pl.

195. Willd. 1. p. T71. excluso synonymo Tournefortii.

Sympnytum constantinopolitanum, Boraginis folio et facie,

flore albo. Buxb. Cent..5. p. 36. t. 68. pessima. ~

We have given a figure of Sympnyrum tawricum (No. 1787)

by comparing which with the present, the difference will at —

once be seen. ‘This is a taller plant, ess branched, leaves

longer, more lance-shaped, and not at all cordate, as the

lower ones in taurica are; we have said there, that the

leaves of orientale were less undulated, but in that we were

deceived by examining dried specimens. The floral leaves

_ do. not spread horizontally as in tawricum, but stand upright

_ or pointed forward. The racemes grow on shorter peduncles

- and not in pairs as in that, and the flowers are more nume-

rous and more crowded together ; the limb of the corolla does

not widen suddenly from the tube in the form of a cup, with

the points of the lacinie rolled back, but gradually widen

from the tube upwards. The style in éauricum scarcely

equals the corolla, but is exserted considerably beyond it in

orientale. Flowers in the spring, but somewhat later than-

fauricum. Is quite hardy. Native of Turkey.

Communicated by Messrs. Wuirtey, Brame, and Mitye,

of the Fulham Nursery. |

[ido Candied : fe duafurart {94 2} |

; Sympuvrom ‘TAURICUM. “‘Paurian Comrrey.

ei ealasdesfeste se deledle ese dese de deak ae

_, Class and Order.

Penranpria Monoeynts.

oes Generic Character.

Corolle limbus tubulato-ventricosus: fauce clausa radiis

subulatis.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Sympuytum tauricum ; foliis cordato-ovatis hirtis: floralibus _

oppositis sessilibus, laciniis limbi corolle obtusis, caule

ramoso. Willd. Enum. p, 184. 3

Sympnyrum foliis cordatis crenulatis basi ineequalibus petio- a

latis. Willd. in. Nov. Act. Soc. Nat. Scrut. Berol.3. +

H.120. £6.54. ae 2

Sympnytum orientale ; caule foliisque cordato-ovatis petio-

latis hirsutis summis oppositis sessilibus, corolle limbo —

campanulato. Bieberst. Fl. Taur. Caucas.p.129.

Symruyrum constantinopolitanum, Boraginis folio et facie,

flore albo. Tournef. Cor.'7. Ejusd. Iter ed. Angl. v. 2. —

p- 207. cum tab. ; at

Sympnytum tauricum was first distinguished from the

orientale of Lannazus by Wit.pENnow, in the Memoirs of —

the Natural History Society of Berlin. In Marscwaun v.

Bieserstein’s Flora Taurico-Caucasica, this plant is, however,

again referred to the orientale of Linnaus. But in his Enu-

Meration of the Plants of the Berlin Garden, WittpEexow

still maintains that this plant differs from the orientale in the

laciniz of the limb of the corolla being obtuse, which in the

latter are acute. _Linnzvs, in the second edition of his Species

= Sg " Plantarum,

Plantarum, quotes two of Tournerorr’s plants.as synonyms

of his orientale, the first of which belongs to Sympuyrum

asperrimum of the Botanical Magazine, and the other,

according to WiLLDENow, to our present plant ; his defini-

tion is so short and so vague that it may apply to either.

A hardy biennial or perennial. Native of Southern Tauria,

growing in shady situations. Flowers in May; but our

drawing was taken in September, from a plant that flowered

the first year it was sown, and, perhaps, on this account the

margins of the leaves were more undulated than is usual.

Communicated by Mr. Joseru Kyieut, of the Exotic Garden,

King’s-Road. .

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CROTALARIA PURPUREA, CRIMSON-FLOWERED

CROTALARIA.

JRE HSHbInebeibbiok

Class and Order.

DIADELPHIA. Decanp RIA.

Generic Character. ye

Legumen, inflatum, pedicellatum. Filam. connata, cum

fissura dorsali.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Crorataris purpurea ; foliis ternatis: foliolis obovatis re-

tusis, racemis terminalibus, floribus saturate purpureis.

Ventenat Malmais. 66. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 273.

Persoon Syn. 2. p. 285. Bot. Regist. 128.

Crorararia elegans. Donn Hort. Cantab.

—

The Crorararia pu pure is a small shrub, gr wing very

erect, and generally producing but few branches, and a

terminal raceme of fine crimson flowers. |

Our drawing was taken, several years ago, at Mr. Warr-

wn in our gardens prior to the publication —

by Venrenar, and inserted in the earlier editions of Donn’s

Catalogue, under the name of Croraxaria elegans ; and, in

the last edition of that work, this name is still continued,

though it ought to have been expunged, as purpurea of

ENTENAT was admitted. — ee

Native of the Cape of Good-Hope, where it was found by

Mr. Francis Masson, and introduced intc this country in 1790.

Flowers early in the spring and during great part of the

summer. Propagated by cuttings. Requires the shelter: of

the greenhouse. _ ;

Pub. by. S. Gertin Walwortie. Fune2agay.

( 1914 )

Momorpica ELaTertuM. SQUIRTING .

CucUMBER. |

Feu. Cal. & fidus. —o S-partta. Silo 3a Peps

elastice dissiliens,

5 oe Se es

Specific, Character and Synonyms.

Pies. . ane

Momorpica Elaterium ; pomis ‘ellipticis hispidis, foliis cor-

datis hispidis obtusis dentatis, cirrhis nullis, Willd. Sp.

Pl. A. p. 605. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 5. p. 342. Persoon

Syn. 2. p. 593.

Momorpica Elaterium ; pomis hispidis, cirthis nullis. Sp.

Pl. 1434. Reich. 4. p.202. Woodv. Med. Bot. 121. t. 43.

: Regn. Bot. Martyn Mill. Dict. n.8._

_ Cucumis agrestis. Blackw. t. 108. as

Cucumis sylvestris. asininus dictus, Bauh. 1

Hist.647.

Cucumis sylvestris. Cam. Epit. 946.

Cucumis asininus. Ger. Emac. 912. Park. Theatr 161,

Ic. 162.

The Squirtine Copoutien has acquired this name i tin

the power it possesses, when the fruit is ripe, of ejecting its

seeds, together with a quantity of juice, with considerable

force, from a small orifice made by its _ separation: from the

TG, cease os

t is this si that alone can recommend this

plant to a pees in Le arden, except for its medicinal virtues,

see few

_ few plants having a viler aspect. Nature has provided the

capsules of many plants with a power of scattering their

contained seeds t6° a distance, which is mostly, effected by

some of the parts of which they are composed contracting ©

by their elasticity, and suddenly separating the moment

their continuity is imterrupted, of which a species of

Balsam, hence called. Touch me not, affords a notable in-.

stance; but the fruit of this cucumber, having a tough

leathery covering, keeps the same form, after it has com-_

pletely emptied itself of its contents, as it before possessed.

It affords young people amusement to set a person, igno-

. rant of its properties, to gather the fruit, which, when quite

ripe, will, upon the first attempt to pull it from its stalk,

discharge a volly of seeds and juice, perhaps, into the face

of the unsuspecting object of mirth. ae

From the liquor spontaneously discharged from the fruit,

a medicine is prepared of very ancient. celebrity, known

by the name of Elaterium, which is of so active.a nature,

that a single grain will often occasion violent effects ; but, in.

proper hands, is nevertheless considered as a powerful and

useful remedy, particularly in certain dropsies.°

_. Propagated by seeds, and. generally considered as an

annual, but if the soil is dry and the situation sheltered, the

root will survive two or three winters, and the plants will

flower earlier and spread farther than those of the same year.

_ Communicated by Joun Waker, Esq. of Arno’s-Grove.-

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Erica Monsonia. Lapy Ann Monson’s

- ‘Heath.

JHE eke eb et

> Character.

Cal. 4-phyllus. Cor. persistens : ‘lihbo quadrifido. Anthere

ante anthesin per foramina 2 lateralia connexee. Caps. 4—S- _

lJocularis, 4—8-valvis. a

ay 2 Specific Character and Synonyms.

Sect. If. Coniflore grandes A, Antheris aristatis.

Erica Monsonie ; bracteis oblongis calyci proximis, corollis

duplo longioribus calyce. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 2. p. 381.

Icon. Hort. Kew. "7. 4

Erica Monsoniana ; foliis ternis, stylo incluso, corolla ob-

longa inflata calyce calyculato, floribus terminalibus ra-

mulorum obtusorum. Linn. Suppl. 223. Hort. Kew.

Erica Monsoniana ; antheris aristatis inclusis, stylo incluso,

corollis oblongo-ovatis, calyce duplici colorato, floribus

Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. p. 358. =

Erica Monsoniana ; aristata, foliis ternis ovatis glabris, flori-

bus solitariis, caule erecto. Thunb. Prod. 72. Diss.

n. 52. t. 1. f. 2.

Erica Monsoniana ; foliis ternis, stylo incluso, corolla ob-

longa inflata, calyce calyculato, floribus terminalibus ra-

mulorum obtusorum. Linn. Suppl. 223.

Erica Monsoniana. Andrews’s Heaths, v. 2. Wendl. Eric.

10. p.9. cum Icone. - o

Erica variifolia ; foliorum laminis lineari-attenuatis ovatis-

que: calyce recurvo patente: corolla 7—9-lineari ;

pericarpio globoso, 4-angulo. Salish. in Lin. Soc. Trans. —

6. p. 353. “i,

Of the astonishing number of Exicx brought from the

Cape of Good-Hope, there are few species more beautiful

than the one here given, being of upright growth, and; in |

the season, generally covered with a profusion of blossoms.

It varies considerably in the breadth of the leaves, which in

some specimens are oval, in others nearly linear ; they grow

by threes, but so close together as to appear at first sight

more numerous. The leaflets of the calyx are large, oblong,

obtuse, and recurved at the upper extremity, in the full-

grown flower, only half the length of the tube of the corolla,

but as they are expanded before the corolla is fully grown,

they sometimes equal it in size, and, if examined in that state

only, this species might readily be ‘supposed to belong to the

division of calycine, in the late Mr. Dryanper’s excellent ar-

rangement of this extensive genus. At the base of the calyx |

are four bractes similar to the calycine leaflets, but only about

half the length, making what has been ealled a double calyx.

In the beautiful and accurate figure, by Mr. Baver, in his

« Delineations of Exotic Plants, cultivated in the Royal Gar-

den at Kew,” the anthers are entirely included within the tube

of the corolla, which in our specimen were exserted, and being

of a black-purple colour, add by the contrast to the beauty of

the flower, but at the same time tend to puzzle the arrange-

ment, by making the species appear to belong to the division

of Macrostemones. But in alt the plants of that division

the anthers are naked, which in our plant are awned, the

awns or spur-like appendages having serrulate margins. |

The species was named by Professor Tuunsere and the

younger Linnzus, in honour of Lady Ann Monson.

Inireduced in 1787, by Mr. Francis Masson. Flowers

most part of the spring and summer. Our drawing was taken

several years ago, at the late Mr. Grimwoop’s..

Nigib.

Pub.by. §. Cwrtia. Walworth. Fuly.13 817.

foal SAB, dai

Arima caripma. West-Inpian

HouLty-Hock.

REE RE EEE REE

Class and Order.

Monavetpuia Poryanpria.

Generic Character. :

Cal. duplex: exterior 6- s. 9-fidus.° Capsule plurime, —

monosperm2. o

Specific Character.

AttH#zA caribea ; caule stricto, foliis rotundato-lobatis

crenulato-serratis, floribus solitariis subsessilibus, ungui-

bus petalorum barbatis, stigmatibus diffusis.

Ozs. Althwe rosee nimis affinis.

This undescribed Hotzy-nocx was communicated by our

friend, Joan Wanker, Esq. of Arno’s-Grove, who raised it

from seeds received from the West-Indies. It required to be eS

kept in the stove, and seemed remarkably impatient of cold.

It grew with an upright hispid stem about three feet high.

Leaves bright green, paler underneath, cordate at the base,

and obsoletely five-lobed : lobes rounded, between crenulate

and serrate : petioles erect, longer than the membranous part

_ of the leaf, thickened towards the base, hairy. Stipules one

on each side the petiole, scariose, four-cleft: segments un-

equal, spreading out like fingers. Flowers solitary, alternate

on very short footstalks, pale rose-coloured. Hxternal Calyx

nine- sometimes eight-cleft : internal five-cleft. Petals five,

obcordate, somewhat undulate. Claws united at the base

and thickly bearded. Stamens very many, collected into a

globular form, surmounted by many long, capillary, diffuse

stigmas. Capsules about thirty-six.

In many respects this plant much resembles the Artnza

rosea, or common Holly-hock, but seems to differ, besides in

diminished stature, in the more uniform rounded lobes of the

leaf, more neatly sawed at the edge; in the flowers being

always solitary, which in the latter grow mostly two or more

from the same axil; in the bearded claws of the petals ; and,

perhaps, in the four-cleft palmate stipules.

Flowers in March and April. Propagated by seeds.

Pub. by. 5. Curtis. Walworth July 11427

(1917)

DAPHNE OLEOIDES. CRETAN DAPHNE.

Sec Seas oR desk ea does aa

Class and Order.

. Ocranpria Monoeynia.

oe 6 es Jo

Cal. 0. Cor. 4-fida, marcescens, stamina includens. Drup

I-sperma. |

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Dapune oleoides ; floribus terminalibus paucis _ sessilibus,

foliis obovato-lanceolatis utrinque glabris mucronulatis

circa flores congestis.

Darune olcoides ; floribus geminis terminalibus sessilibus,

foliis elliptico-lanceolatis glabris. Linn. Mant.66. Schreb.

Dec. 13.t.7. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. p.423. Reich. 2. p. 194.

Dapune salicifolia ; floribus aggregatis perpaucis sessilibus

terminalibus, foliis lineari-lanceolatis utrinque glabris.

Lam. Encycl. 3. p. 423. : Lae

Tuymenxa cretica olee folio utringue glabro. Tournef.

Cor. Al. : coal r :

Cuamapapunoipes cretica. Alpin. Exot. 44. t. 43.

Descr. A low shrub, not much branched. Stem and

branches villous, brown. Leaves narrowed at the base,

widening upwards beyond the middle, then tapering off to a

sharp point, terminated in a minute mucro, quite entire,

margin reflected, smooth on both sides, paler on the under,

Scattered, and crowded about the ends of the branches,

Serving as an involucrum. Flowers from two to five, terminal,

Sessile, purple, but covered with a white pubescence. Germen

inferior, ovate: sligma large, globular, hollowed at the apex,

Sessile.

This

This species approaches to collina; but, besides being

much smaller, differs in the form and colour of the leaves,

not villous underneath. )

A small piece of a leaf chewed with great caution, from

Prosper Atpinus’s account of its acrimony, at first excited

_very little sensation ; in a little time the throat began to tingle,

then gradually to burn more and more, till the heat became

almost intolerable, and lasted several hours, notwithstanding

the frequent swallowing of milk with a view of soothing it.

Our drawing was made from a plant communicated by

Messrs. Loppiees and Sons, in October 1815; and we

received a specimen of the same last March, from Messrs.

_ Warrtey and Co. which is probably the more natural time

of flowering. Native of Crete. |

sb.by Curtis Waberrfh. July. 22829.

( 1918.)

STYLIDIUM GRAMINIFOLIUM. GRASS-LEAVED

STYLIDIUM.

Se ee ee ee

| Class and Order.

Gynanpria Dianpris.

Generic Character,

Cal. 2- bain: 5-fidus : lacinia quinta (Labello) a dissimili

minore, deflexa (raro porrecta), reliquis patentibus (raro

geminatim coherentibus). Colwmna reclinata duplici flexura.

Antheris bilobis, lobis divaricatissimis : stigmate obtuso indi-

_viso. Capsula bilocularis, dissepimento superne quandoque

incompleto. Brown.

Specific Character and Synonyms. ;

Sect. I. Capsula ventricosa, subovata, nune spherica v.

oblonga. B. Folia radicalia conferta squamis nullis inter-—

stinctis. Calycis labia + dentata. Scapi aphylli. ~

Styuipium graminifolium ; foliis linearibus mange der

~ culatis, racemo subspicato simnlie 26s landuloso-

~ piloso, labello basi appendic das dr. ee Fi

Nov. Holl. 568. ; “Hort. Kew. Me alt. 5. p. 222.

Reg. we eS

StyLipium Phineas Swartz i in Nov. xe pes Nat.

Scrut. Berol. 1807. 49. t. 1. f, 1. Willd. ibid. 55,

den Se PI. A.. PAA. Labi lard. Nov. Holl. 2. p. 65.

t. 21

StyLipium serrulatum. 5. RE is 2. p. 210.

VENTENATIA major. “Smith Exot. at. 2. p. 13. t. 66.

Canpo.ea serrulata. La yellard Neasgee du Mus. 6. P. ADA.

t. TA. I es gy BX

ilies

¢Descr. "Root Spree bie 2 Leaves radical, erect,

linear-lanceolate, rigid, minutely denticulate, having a her- |

baceous somewhat acid taste. Scape a foot or more in nest :

without

without leaves or scales, clothed with glandular hairs. Inflo-

rescence a spiked raceme. Bractes three at the base of each

pedicle \onger than it: external lower one largest, oval-

acuminate, with a round gland at its base ; two internal ones

shorter, linear. Calyx persistent, superior, bilabiate : lips

divaricate, when the flower first opens apparently quite

entire, but, after the blossom is fallen, the one. evidently

two- the other three-toothed. Limb of Corolla five-cleft,

four of the lacinze ovate, spreading, two upper ones some-

what Jarger than the lower: the fifth (or labellum) smaller,

linear, recurved, having two small, subulate, upright ap-

pendices at its base : tube longer than calyx: faux beset with —

eight thread-like, glandular processes, erect, unequal. Column

flattened-cylindrical sigmoid, bearing at its extremity two

two-lobed anthers with lobes extremely divaricate; and. be-

tween them the green stigma, more evident after the anthers

have discharged their pollen; the margin of the receptacle

of the anthers is surrounded by lucid hairs, when magnified

resembling icicles. Germien after the fall of the corolla ovate,

_ inflated, two-celled, cells parted by a very thin dissepiment +

ovula many, attached to the centre of the dissepiment.

There are several species of Styztipium which possess a

singular irritability of the column, and, perhaps, this property

is in none more remarkable than in the present plant; in

which the column is, in its natural state, bent over. the re-

flected labellum, so as to bring the capitulum, containing the

anthers and stigma, nearly in contact with the germen; when

_ slightly touched near the base, the column suddenly springs up,

' carrying the capitulum with a sudden jirk over to the opposite

side of the flower. When left quiet, after a short time the

column gradually resumes its former position, ready to spring

again when exposed to any irritation, but probably with

diminished force every time. — 7 ee

~ That the real stigma is situate in the centre of the capi-

tulum, terminating the column, is; we believe, now generally

admitted, though for some time warmly disputed. "he ase of

the above mechanism is not very evident ; to us it appears most

probable, that it is intended to disperse the pollen, to insure

the fertilization of the ovary, which, notwithstanding the close

approximation of the anthers and stigma, is, perhaps, imp0s-

sible to be effected by its own individual anthers, from. the

stigma not being exposed till after the bursting of these.

Our drawing was made from a plant kindly communicated

by Mr. Lex, of the Hammersmith Nursery, in December last,

at which time they were generally in blossom, though not

forced by artificial heat, but merely protected from frost.

Wagig.

Publ 8 Curtig Walworth. Ju ly 11 Bay

¢ 1919)

EcHITES CARYOPHYLLATA. CLOVE-SCENTED

3 E\cui tes.

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Class and ; Order. z 2

| PenwranpriaA Monoeynia.

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Generic Character. —

Contorta.~ Folliculi 2, erecti. Sem. extremitate superiore

comosa. Cor. hypocrateriformis, faux nuda. <Anithere medio

cum stigmate cohzrentes. DRown. ws

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Ecuires caryophyllata ; panicula terminali, calycibus pa-

tentibus corollam equantibus, foliis ovatis mucronulatis.

Ecuires caryophyllata. Roxb. Icon. inedit.

T'sserta-pu-PAL-vALLI. Hort. Malabar. 7. p. 103. t. 59.

Descr. Leaves opposite, petioled, cordate-ovate, quite

entire, obtuse, with a small mucro, yellowish-green, shining,

nerve and large veins red, interstices reticulate-veined, paler

underneath. Flowers in a terminal, trichotomous panicle,

yellowish-pale-green. Bractes small, deciduous. Calyx five-

cleft : segments lanceolate, spreading, villous on the outside,

equalling the corolla, of which the tube is five-angled, con-

tracted towards the base, hairy within: lacinie of the limb

contorted. Anthers arrow-shaped, connivent, adhering to

the stigma. From Roxsuren’s manuscript we learn, that

the stem is woody, climbing, as thick as a man’s thigh, with

dark rust-coloured bark, rough with fissures and scabrous

specks ; and that the follecles are cylindrical, spreadimg, con-

taining a few large seeds crowned with down.

The flowers are very agreeably fragrant, somewhat aro-

matic; but, in our opinion, the scent does not resemble that

of cloves.

Ecuires

Ecnites belongs to the natural order of Apocinee of

Brown, who has separated the Asclepiadez from this order,

and is the first genus in his division having a coma at the

umbilical or superior extremity of the seed ; and the plant

which he has especially recommended to be re-examined.

_ Vide Memoirs of the Wernerian Society, v. 1. p. 60.

Native of the East-Indies. Requires to be kept in the

stove. For an opportunity of giving a drawing of this very ;

rare plant, we are indebted to Sir Apranam Hume, of

Woimly-Bury, Herts, in whose stove it flowered, in October

1815.

Pub by.S Gertis Walworth Seiya ry.

( 1920 )

SMILAX HERBACEA. HeErBaceous SMILAXx.

HIS abot deaeege

Class and Order.

Diecia Hexanpria.

Generic Character. sae

Mase. Cal. 6-phyllus. Cor. 0.

Fem. Cal. 6-phyllus. Cor.0. Styli 3. Bacca 3-locularis.

Sem. 2.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

SmiLax herbacea; caule inermi angulato, foliis ovatis acu-

minatis septemnerviis, pedunculo communi umbelle folio

longiore. Willd. Sp. Pl. 4. p. 782. Hort. Kew. ed. alt.

3. p. 390. Persoon Syn. 2. p. 619.

Smiiax herbacea; caule inermi angulato, foliis inermibus

ovatis septemnerviis. Sp. Pl. 1460, rejecto synonymo

_ Plukenetii. -

Sminax herbacea ; caule angulato erecto simplici, foliis longe

petiolatis ovalibus septemnervibus, umbellis longissime

pedunculatis, pedunculo compresso, baccis depresso glo-

bosis. Pursh Flor. Amer. Sept.1.251.

Smizax herbacea ; caule herbaceo, erecto, simplici; foliis

longe petiolatis, ovalibus, septemnerviis ; umbellulis lon-

gissime pedunculatis ; pedunculo compresso ;_baccis

depresso-globosis. Michaux Flor. Bor.-Am. 2. p. 238.

Smitax levis marilandica, foliis hedere nervosis prelongis

pediculis insidentibus, flosculis minimis in umbellam

parvam congestis. Raj. Suppl. 345 ?

The number of nerves in the leaves of this species is not

to be entirely depended upon, as affording a specific difference ;

we have observed seven and nine on the same plant; and

thence we are inclined to doubt, whether S. herbacea and

peduncularis

peduncularis be really distinct; or, if they be, to which of them

our plant ought to be referred. Both Pursu and Micuavux

describe herbacea as having an erect angular stem, and —

peduncularts a climbing rounded stem: our plant has a

climbing and an angular stem. Ray’s plant, in the specimen

he saw, had no tendrils, and a stem too straight and robust

to look like a climbing plant. Piuxener’s figure, quoted by

Linnzus, is rejected by Micuaux, but referred to by Pursu.

Neither it, nor the one quoted by Gronovius, can throw any

light upon the distinction of the species.

A hardy herbaceous plant. Native of North-America.

Propagated by dividing its roots. Communicated by Messrs.

Loppices and Sons.

WSS

Pub. by. &. Gurtig. Walworth tag ?s 2825,

(191)

SoLANUM GIGANTEUM. Tautt NiGHTSHADE.

gS sea atk oak dead

Class and Order.

~ Penranpria Monocynia. —

Generic Character.

Cor. rotata. Anthere subcoalite, apice poro gemino

dehiscentes. Bacca 2-locularis. mes

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Sotanum giganteum; caule aculeato fruticoso: aculeis

_tomentosis, foliis lanceolatis acutis mermibus supra

gilabris subtus tomentosis et incanis, racemis dichotomis

cymosis terminalibus. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. p. 1046. Hort.

Kew. ed, alt. 1. p. 404. Jacq. Collect. 4. p. 105. Icon.

Rar. 2. t. 328. Dunal Solan. p. 202. |

_Souanum nivewmn; caule fruticoso aculeato, foliis ellipticis

: integerrimis inermibus subtus tomentosis niveis. Vahl

Symb. 2. p. 41. |

Sotanum niveum ; caule aculeato fruticoso, foliis ovatis

subtus tomentoso-niveis integris, panicula decomposita.

Thunb. Prodr. 36. Persoon Syn. 1. p, 229. 3

Said to grow in its native country to the height of sixteen

feet, with a stem as thick as a man’s arm, furnished with

stout short prickles. ‘The plant from which our drawing was

taken was little more than four feet high, upright, little

branchedaculeate ; prickles thickset, conical, short, tomentose

towards their base, naked and yellow at the point : branches

covered with white hoary tomentum. Leaves oblong- —

elliptical, narrowed at both ends, unarmed, smooth on the

upper surface, tomentose, white underneath. Flowers pale-

violet, small, not unlike those of Dulcamara, growing in ~

a compound cyme, nearly terminal, but becoming lateral by

‘ghee

the branch shooting beyond it. Pedicles crowded, looking

one way, hoary, nodding when in flower, but in fruit erect.

Calyx small, hoary, five-cleft: segments unequal, one being

longer than the rest. Berries said by Jacquin to be about

the size of a pea, round, and, when ripe, red.

Native of the Cape of Good-Hope. With us properly an |

inhabitant of the conservatory. Flowers in June and July.

Propagated by cuttings. Communicated by Messrs. JENKINS

and Gwytuer, from their very extensive collection, at the

Portman Nursery, in the New-Road.

41922.

Pub.by. Artis Wado rth, tg 228a4,

( 1922 )

Primuta DECORA. ComeEty AURICULA.

Be TE TEE HEE HE SE ETE TE EE Se EE EOE

Class and Order.

PenranpriA Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Involucr, umbellule. Corolle tubus cylindricus ore patulo.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Primuta decora ; foliis planis grosse serratis acutis, calycibus

viscidulis, pedicellis scapo longioribus.

This plant is nearly allied to Primuza villosa, of which

we have already given two yery distinct varieties, and are

acquainted with a third, the helvetica of Donn’s Hortus

Cantabrigiensis ; but we think it is specifically different from

all of these, in which the leaves are rounded at the extremity,

and the serratures or crene are continued uniformly over the

end. In our plant, the serratures are larger and much

fewer, being usually about four on each side, and occupy the

sides of the leaf only, leaving the apex pointed and entire ; or,

in other words, the terminal tooth is larger and more acute

than the others.

In the late Mr. Zrer’s Herbarium, now in our possession,

is a specimen of our plant from the Kew Garden, where it

was then called decora, which name we have adopted ; being

convinced that, although frequently taken for glutinosa, it is

quite distinct from that species, which has nearly or altoge-

= sessile flowers, and narrow, minutely-sawed, and clammy

eaves, | :

We are not acquainted with the country from which it

came. It was communicated by N. S. Hopson, Esq. of the

War-Office. |

Flowers in April. Is as hardy as the common Auricula,

and requires the same treatment.

4 28g

O98. Curtin. Walworthe wug

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( 1993 )_

PoDALYRIA Sericea. - Siuxy Popatyria. —

ieee eee eee

Class and Order.

Decanpria Monoeynia, —

_ Generic Character. —

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Cal. 5-fidus, inwequalis, basi intrusa.. Cor.,papilionacea,

vexillo majore. Stamina persistentia, basi connata. Legumen

ventricosum, polyspermum. :

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Popatyria sericea ; foliis obovatis mucronatis utringue

sericeis, pedunculis axillaribus solitariis unifloris brevis-

simis. | 3

Popatyria sericea ; foliis oblongo-obovatis utrinque calyce-

que sericeis, pedunculo unifloro, aliquoties longioribus.

Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 3. p. 7.

Soruora sericea. Rot. Repos. 440.

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Descr. Stem shrubby, branched. Leaves simple, alternate,

subsessile, entire, ovate or oboyate, with a recurved mucro,

covered on both sides with closely-adpressed silky hairs, veined .

underneath. Stipules subulate, erect, fallmg. Peduncles

axillary, solitary, one-flowered, several times shorter than the

leaf. Bracte one on each peduncle. Calyx scarcely intruded

at the base, bilabiate 3: the two segments of the upper-lip

united to near the tips, three lower segments subulate ; the

middle one longer than the rest (vide fig. 6.) Corolla papi-

lionaceous, pale rose-coloured: Vexillum or Standard (f. 1.)

roundish, emarginate, with a short reflected claw: Ale or

Wings (f. 2. 2.) shorter than vexillum, with a claw nearly

the length of the limb of the petal. Carina or Keel (f. 3.)

shorter than the ale, of two petals similar to the ale, cohering

at the point, base and claws distinct. Stamens ten (f. 4.)

filaments

filaments distinct. Pestil (£5.) Germen oblong, silky ;

style the length of the stamens ; sizgma quite simple.

The figures, shewing the different parts of the flower,

will serve as an example of the decandrous papilionaceous

flowers in general, which differ but little from the diadelphous,

except that the filaments in the latter are united into a sheath

surrounding the germen, whereas in these they are distinct.

— The Popatyria sericea is not an uncommon shrub in our

greenhouses, and recommends itself by its fine silky foliage ;

but does not very often blossom: when it does so, it 1s

always, as far as we have seen, in the winter months, from

November to February. Native of the Cape of Good-Hope.

Propagated by cuttings. Communicated by our friends

Messrs. Lopgiees and Sons.

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Buerra Tankervituie. Lapy TANKERvVILLE’S

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SHAR ee ee Rae

Class and Order.

Gynanpria Monanpria. —

Generic Character.

» Labellum® sessile, cucullatum ; nunc. basi calcaratum.

Petala 5, distincta. Colwmna libera. Masse pollinis 8)

vel 4 biloba. - Brown. x

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Buetsa Tankervillig ; \abello calcarato indiviso: cornu ab-

breviato, foliis radicalibus ovato-lanceolatis. Brown in

Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 5. p. 205. Loddiges’s Cabinet of

Botany, N* 20.

Limoporum ankervillie ; floribus racemosis_ imberbibus.

Hort. Kew. ed. 1" v. 3. p. 302, tab. 12. L’ Herit, Sert.

Angl. 28. —

Limoporum Tankervillie ; foliis radicalibus ovato-lanceolatis

nervosis, scapo simplici multifloro, labello cucullato

integro, cornu abbreviato. Swartz: Nov. Act. Ups. 6.

p. 79. Willd. Sp. Pl. 4. p. 122. Redouté Lilac. 43.

Schneev. Ic. 5. Bot. Repos. 426.

Limoporum Incarvillei. Persoon Syn. 2. p. 520.

Puaivs grandifolius ; foliis lanceolatis plicato-sulcatis, scapo

nudo polyfloro. Loureiro Cochin. ed. Ulys. 2. p. 529.

_ed. Willd. 2. p: 647.

This very beautiful plant, a great ornament to our stoves,

was introduced from China, by our much respected friend,

‘the late Dr. Jonn Fornercitt, about the year 1778.

_. The scape grows quite erect, sometimes three feet high,

and the spike of flowers will extend to two feet. The singular

: chesnut-brown

chesnut-brown colour of the inside of the petals, contrasted

with the perfect white of their outsides, and the fine white

nectarium shaded and streaked with crimson, give the flower

a striking and beautiful appearance. -

The specific name was, we believe, first published by

M. L’Herirtier, in his Sertum Anglicum, from an engraving

in Sir Joserpn Banxs’s Museum, bearing this denomination,

and probably the same that was given to the public the follow-

ing year, in Arron’s Hortus Kewensis. It was proposed in

honour of Lady TankervittE, an encourager of Botany.

Weare at a loss, therefore, to account for the assertion in

Persoon’s Synopsis, that the name of Tankervillie was

improperly given to this plant, by Mr. Arron, and that it

should have been Incarvillez, being dedicated to the memory

of Father IncarviLLe*.

it is by no means a tender plant, and should be allowed a

good deal of air, but will not flower well out of the stove.

Propagated by separating its bulbs, by which it multiplies

pretty fast. Flowers .m March and April. Communicated

by Joun Watxer, Esq. of Arno’s-Grove.

*: Hee species minus recte Tankervillia@ fuit denominata a b. Aiton,

cum memorize Patris Incarville dedicata sit. Persoon Syn. 1. ¢.

Waddall.50-

Ba. by. 5. Curtis Walwerth.# ugi2a9 17.

( 1925 )

CALLISTACHYS OVATA. OVAL-LEAVED

CALLISTACHYS.

Class and Order.

Decanpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Cal. 2-labiatus: labium superius semibifidum. Cor. papi-

lionacea. Stam. distincta disco inserta. Stigma simplex.

Legumen stipitatum, lignosum, apice dehiscens, [ante ma-

turitatem multiloculare,] polyspermum. VenTENAT.

— Specific Character and Synonyms.

Cauuistacuys ovata; foliis ternatis obovatis mucronulatis

subtus sericeis. :

Catuistacuys elliptica ; foliis ellipticis obtusis. Ventenat

Malmais. 2. p. 115, 6? Smith Linn. Soc. Trans. 9. p. 266 ?

The genus Catuistacnys has been established by M.

VenreNAT, in the second volume of the Jardin de Malmaison,

where he has given a full description and figure of one

species, under the name of lanceolata, and has slightly

mentioned a second, which he presumed to belong to the

same genus; but, as it had not at that time flowered, its

place could not be positively ascertained. This last has been

since referred by Mr. Brown, in the Hortus Kewensis, to

OxyLopium, a genus to which Ca.uistacnys seems very

nearly allied; but our plant is doubtless a congener of

Ventenat’s Cauuistacnys lanceolata, and is totally different

from Gompnotosium ellipticum of LapitLarDIERE; it was

received from Paris, by Messrs. Loppigzs and Sons, at the

same time with the latter, under the name which we have

adopted. Ventenat’s account of his Caxuisracuys elliptica

is too imperfect to detérmine whether it may have been really —

our plant or OxyLosrium ellipticum of Hortus Kewensis.

Caxuistacuys ovata differs but very little from lanceolata,

except in the form of its leaves and their being more gene-

rally, though not constantly, ternate ; in Janceolata they grow

sometimes opposite, sometimes by fours or by threes, and

not unfrequently without any order. The calyx, and parti-

cularly the germen in both, are covered with long silky hairs. |

Perhaps the legumen was not far enough advanced to deter-

mine it accurately, but, in the early stage, it did not appear

to me to be properly multilocular ; but, being very fieshy,

and the seeds partly imbedded in it, the substance of the

pod runs some way between the seeds, but not so as to make

a complete septum. The ripe Jegumen is certainly unt

locular. eee

Our plant, as well as Canuistacnys lanceolata, was, we

believe, raised in the garden of the Jate Empress JosepnivE,

at Malmaison, from seeds brought from New-Holland by

Captain Baupin. 3

It is by no means tender, but requires to be protected

from frost in the winter season.. Propagated by cuttings.

Flowers in July and August.

Communicated Jast year by Messrs. Loppicgs and Sons,

and we have been favoured with flowering specimens of both

species at the present time, by the same liberal friends.

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MARANTA ZEBRINA, STRIPED-LEAVED

-Maranta.

JUMEH e ee

Class anil Order.

~ Monanprta Monoeyyra.

sc Generic Character. 2

Anthera simplex filamento adnata. Stylus petaliformis.

Stigma subtrigonum: : eg

Specific Character.

Maranta cebrina; acaulis, spica ovata compacta, spathis

obtusissimis imbricatis multifloris, foliis ellipticis acumi-

natis striatis.

continued for several weeks. disiis awed ob TS

Scape radical, short, involved in the sheathing petiole of a

young leaf. Flowering spike round-oval, compact ; outer bractes

very obtuse, with a short acumen, rigid, imbricate: within

each of these was a number of oblong purple-coloured,

delicate bractes, involving one another, from amongst which

the flowers came forth by pairs, proceeding from the bottom

of the spike gradually to the top; but as the flowers dropt

off, fresh pairs proceeded from the same bracte, so that the

bottom series continued to put forth blossoms long after the

top of the spike began to be in flower ; and the whole number

of blossoms produced must have been very great. Calyx

consists

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consists of three distinct, ovate, concave, petal-like segments,

of a pale violet colour* : tube of corolla filiform, the length of

the calyx, external lacinie of the limb nearly equal, deep

violet : internal laciniz unequal, whitish, tinged with purple.

Those parts put on such different appearances ‘at different

periods, that it is not easy to describe them: at the first

coming of the flower, the larger lacinia covers the column

like a hood, and has a thumb-like appendix with which it

embraces the filament~ this part is afterwards reflected. The

other two lacinia are very narrow, and if we understand

Mr. Brown, he is inclined to consider these as barren fila-

ments, and that the two lacinie of the internal series are

wanting. ‘The style is a thick column somewhat incurved,

has a two-lobed extremity, somewhat of the form of a hammer,

the upper end of which is obtuse and rounded, the lower

end concave, and, from its secreting surface, must be con-

sidered as the true stigma ; before the column escapes from

the hooded petal, the anther discharges its pollen mass, con-

sisting of a congeries of globules, which are uniformly lodged,

not on the secreting surface, turned with its cavity down-

wards, but in a slight depression in the face of the hammer.

After efflorescence, the column is lengthened and curled

inwards. =e

Being a native of Brazil, it requires to be kept constantly

in the bark stove.

* Inthe true Scitaminee, this part is ‘tubudlak, with an oblique, three-

lobed opening ; but in the Canna, as separated by Mr. BRowN, it is

divided into three distinct segments. te eS ;

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Antuyius Barza Jovis. Stnver-LeaveD

Anrnyiiis, or Juprrer’s-Brarp.

SEER RREEER ETERS

Class and Order.

Diapetpnia Decanpria. .

Generic Character.

Cal. ventricosus. Legumen subrotundum, tectum, mono-

s. tri-spermum. ;

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Antnytits Barba Jovis ; fruticosa, foliis pinnatis equalibus

sericeo-tomentosis, bracteis capitula globosa muitiflora

zequantibus. Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p. 1018. Hort. Kew. ed.

alt. 4. p. 283.

Antuyius Barba Jovis ; fruticosa, foliis pmnatis equalibus

tomentosis, floribus capitatis. Sp. Pl. 1013. Hoeré: Cliff:

371. Hori. Ups. 221. Mart. Mill. Dict.n. 10. Mull,

s 1.¢.41. 7. 2. Desf. Fl. Ath. 2. p. 149. Allion. Pedem.

l. p. 312. Gerin. uct. 2. p. 308. t. 145. f. 3.

Barza Jovis. Bauh. Pin. 397. Raj. Hist. 172i. Beis Tetr.

5. Weinm. Phyt. t. 230. a.

Jovis Barsa pulchre lucens. Bauh. Hist. 1. 6. p. 385.

Jovis Barga frutex. The Silver-Bush. Park. Theatr. 1459.

VuunerariA argentea. Lam. Fl. Franc. v. 2. p. 651.

Anrnytiis Barba Jovis. Lam. et Decand. Fl. Franc. v. 3.

p17.

This beautiful silvery-leaved shrub was known in our

gardens in the time of Parkinson ; but being impatient of

cold, and at the same time requiring a pure air, it is not so.

commonly met with in our greenhouses as it deserves.

It grows sometimes to the height of ten or twelve i

with.

with numerous branches. Mi.ier, with most authors, de-

scribes the flowers as being of a bright yellow colour ; but in

his Icones they are represented of a pale yellow, and we have

never seen them otherwise than nearly white.

Native of the South of Europe and the Levant. Flowers

in the spring. Propagated by seeds or by cuttings. Com-

municated by Messrs. LoppicEes and Co, — =

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SoLaNUM MARGINATUM. WHITE-MARGINED

NIGHTSHADE.

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Class and Order.

Pentanpris Monoeynta,

Generic Character.

Cal. 1-phyllus, persistens. Cor. l-petala, rotata. Anthere

oblonge, apice poris duobus dehiscentes, Bacca 2—3—4-

locularis. Duwnat.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

SoLanum marginatum ; (aculeatum) caule fruticoso, foliis

subcordatis sinuato-lobatis subtus tomentoso incanis

supra margine albis, baccis trilocularibus. Dunal Solan.

p. 215. cum figura fructis, t. 3. A. Hjusdem Synops.

Sol. p. 40. n. 245.

Sotanum marginatum ; aculeatum, foliis cordatis repandis

margine albis. Linn. Suppl. 147. Jacq. Collect. 1. p. 50.

Ejusdem Ic. Rar. 1. t. 43. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 1. p. 403.

Sotanum marginatum; aculeatum, foliis sinuato-angulatis

subtus omnino superne margine tomentosis, calycibus

tripartitis. Murray Comm. Gott. 1783. p. 11. t. 4.

The name of marginatum was given to this species, from

a broadish white irregular stripe along the margin on the

upper surface, which, however, is not always evident, either

in the younger leaves, which are at first covered all over

with a woolly powdery pubescence, or when they are grown

- old, but is most remarkable in the intermediate stage ; for

the white tomentum disappearing gradually from the upper

surface, remains longer near the edge than on the rest of the

leaf, and thus produces the white margin. =

his

This shrub grows three or four feet high, and bears ra-

cemes of large flowers, not unlike those of the Potatoe The

calyx is never reflexed, and has on the fruit the same kind of

yellowish straight prickles as grow on the stem and on both

sides of the leaves. The flower is white with a pale purple

star, the rays of which proceed from the centre along the

course of the lacinie of the pubescent corolla. The three

cells of the berry are not very accurately defined.

_ Native of Palestine. Requires the protection of a good

greenhouse. Introduced in 1775. Propagated by seeds,

which are ripened with us in favourable seasons. Flowers

most part of the summer. Communicated by Joun Watxer,

Esq. of Arno’s-Grove. ,

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( 1999 )

CYNANCHUM VIRIDIFLORUM.. GREEN-

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Class and Order.

-Pewranpris Dieynia.

Generic Character.

Asclepiadea. Masse pollinis leves, 10, pendule. Corona

staminea simplex, 5—20-loba. Cor. subrotata. Folliculi

leeves. a

Specific Character.

_ Cynancuum viridiflorum ; volubile, foliis cordato-ovatis

acuminatis, umbellis subsimplicibus solitariis, pedicellis,

pedunculo communi longioribus.

We have not been able to find a description of any species

of Cynanchum, that agrees with our plant, nor is there any

one in the very extensive Herbarium of Sir Joseru Banks,

that corresponds with it. We are therefore constrained to

take it up as an undescribed one.

It has a twining stem extending several feet, producing

umbels of green flowers with a flesh-coloured ring in centre,

which grow from the middle of the stem between the

petioles. The proper pedicles supporting the flower are

mostly simple, but sometimes divided, unequal, longer than

the petiole or common footstalk. Lacinie of the corolla re-

curved. Native country not quite certain, but believed to

be the East-Indies. Requires to be kept in the stove, where,

if it can find support, it will extend many feet. May be

propagated by cuttings. -

_We have not seen this plant any where but in the collection

of the Comtesse de Vannes, at Bays-Water, by whom it was

communicated in November 1815.

Pub 7-8 Curtig Wadwerch Seqes 3 Bay-

(1930)

Opnnys 1 TENTHREDINIFERA. SAW-FLY

OPHRYS.

seas ie aieshak deka eee

Class and Order.

GyNAanpRIA Monanpria.

Generic Character.

Corolla datponae, Labellum ecalcaratum. Glandulz

pollinis eucullis distinctis incluse. Brown.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

-Ornrys tenthredinifera ; caule folioso, labello villoso obovato

bilobo appendiculato, petalis patentibus: tribus exteriori-

bus oblongis obtusis: binis interioribus brevissimis.

Wilid. Sp. Pl. 4. p.67. Sm. Prodr. Fl. Grec. Sibth. 0. 2.

p. 217. nondum editus. Bot. Reg. 205.

Orurys insectifera. A. rosea; labello villoso oblongo-obovato, —

apice bilobo appendiculato. Desjont. Atl. 2. p. 320.

Opurys villosa. Meson. in Annales du Muséum 10. 229.

t. 14.

: Onsen orientalis” fucum referens, flore parvo, villosissimo, |

be Cor. 30. Vélins du Mus.

scuto azureo.

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It is very rematkahla how many forms of different insects

are more or Jess accurately represented by thé flowers of this

genus. Linnazus, who had no opportunity of examining

but a few of them, in a living state, was induced to consider —

most of them as mere varieties of the same species. Later

Botanists have, apparently with good reason, described them

_ as distinct, but have found it not a little difficult to find good

discriminative characters. —

‘That our present plant is distinct from Orurys aranifera

of the British er) is sufficiently evident ; it has indeed a

greater affinity with our Opnrys apzfera, but whether it can

properly be separated from the Opurys arachnites of Witt-

DENOW, is not so clear ; having, however, no opportunity of

comparing it with living specimens of the latter, we acquiesce

in the authority quoted.

The colour of the corolla varies considerably in different

individuals of this species. We have given in the upper

figure, a representation of one, in which the outer lacinie

were of a bright rose-colour, in others they were nearly

white: the blue mark at the base of the labellum also varies

in size; and the colour of the same flower changes by age.

Our plant was sent, with other Orchidew, from Sicily, by

W. Swainson, Esq. A. L.S. to the President of the Lin-

nean Society, by whom they were transmitted to the care of

Mr. Anperson, the worthy Curator of thé Apothecaries-—

Garden, at Chelsea, expressly for the use of the Botanical

Magazine. These roots were treated by Mr. Swainson, as

directed in Smirn’s Introduction to Botany (see Rad. tuberosa)

and came over in great perfection. .

Flowers in “April and May. Native of Barbary and

Sicily. Requires to be protected from frost in the winter.

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( 1931 )

CuPHEA PROCUMBENS. PROCUMBENT CUPHEA.

Tee Rei ak eee eae a

Class and Order.

Doprcanpria Monoeynia.

, Generic Character. a :

Cal. 6—12-dentatus ; basi hine gibbosa. Petala 6, calyci

inserta, Caps. |-locularis, hinc cum calyce longitudinaliter

dehiscens. é

Speerfie Character and Synonyms.

Curpnea procumbens ; floribus solitariis, foliis ovato-lanceo-

latis subhispidis, caule assurgente glanduloso-piloso, fila-

mentis duobus longioribus apice ultra antheram lanatis.

Cupnea procumbens ; caule herbaceo, ramis procumbentibus

viscosis, foliis ovato-lanceolatis subhispidis breviter petio-

latis. Cav. Ic. 4. p. 5d. t. 380. Persoon Syn. 2. p. 8.

Bot. Regist. 182.

Cupnea lanceolata ; floribus axillaribus solitariis, foliis lan-

ceolatis pilosiusculis, caule erecto hirto, stylo glabro,

filamentis duobus longioribus apice lana exserta antheras

superante. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 3. p. 150? |

— = — —-,

Descr. Root biennial or annual. Stem. rounded, covered

with reddish hairs, tipped with viscid glands, nearly erect :

lower branches procumbent. Leaves opposite, ovate-lanceo-

late, margin quite entire, somewhat undulate, clothed with

roughish hairs, which are longer on the younger ones.

Flowers solitary, growing on short nodding peduneles, not

from the axils of the leaves, but from the side of tlfe stem,

between the leaves. Calyx hairy, viscid, tubular, upper side

projected at the base into a kind of blunt spur, divided at the

top into six unequal teeth ; three upper ones larger than the

three lower. Petals 6, inserted into the calyx, ovate, clawed:

two upper ones twice as large as the rest. Stamens 12,

. inserted,

inserted in two rows into. the tube of the calyx, two in the

upper row longer than the rest, projecting beyond the anther

in a dense woolly termination. _Germen oblong. Style

smooth, or having only a few straggling hairs.

- This is probably the same species that is called lanceolata

in the Hortus Kewensis; at least it has two of the filaments

lengthened in the same manner beyond the rest, and ter-

minated in a woolly. tussock above the anthers. The main

stem is usually nearly erect, but the lower branches are

procumbent.

Native of Mexico. Propagated by seeds, and should be

treated as the tenderer annuals, raised under a frame in the

spring, and planted out in the open border by the latter end

of May. Introduced in 1796 by Mr. W. Anprrson, Curator

“to the Apothecaries-Garden at. Chelsea. | Communicated

by Messrs. Wuirtey, Brame, and Mine, of the Fulham

Nursery. 3 = :

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Orchis ACUMINATA, PotNTED-FLOWERED

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Class and Order.

Gynaxprta Monanprtia.

Generic Character.

Cor. ringens. Labellum basi subtus calearatum. Glandule

(1—2) pedicellorum pollinis incluse cucullo unico. Brown.

Spécific Character and Synonyms.

Orcuts acuminata ; (bulbis indivisis) labello trifido, corolle

laciniis omnibus erectis conniventibus : externis subulato-

* acuminatis confluentibus, cornu germine duplo breviari.

Orxcuis acuminata ; bulbis indivisis ; floribus dense spicatis ;

laciniis conniventibus ; tribus exterioribus apice subu-

latis; labello trilobo; Jobo intermedio latiore. Desf.

Atl. 2. p. 318. t. QAT.

Orcuis acuminata. Willd. Sp. Pl. 4. p. 17.

Descr. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, streaked, sometimes, but

not always, spotted. Stem scarcely a span high, with three

sheathing leaves. Inflorescence a dense oval spike. Bractes’

lanceolate; lower ones somewhat longer, the upper ones

shorter than the germen. Corolla pale flesh-coloured, outer

lacinie confluent at the base, terminated in a long subulate

point, two inner smaller, alternating with the outer, all erect,

connivent ; labellum or nectary spotted, three-lobed ; middle

lobe rounded, crenulate, sometimes emarginate; side lobes

narrow, obliquely truncate. Spur shorter by half than ger-

men, obtuse, incurved. Column helmet-shaped, glands of

the pollen masses united in one cell, which diverges into two

branches upwards, ;

This

This very rare plant eame from the same source as Opurys »

tenthredinifera, being sent by W. Swainson, Esq. to Sir

James Epwarp Smiru, from Sicily, and nurtured by Mr.

Anperson, of the Chelsea Garden. Native of the hills about

Algiers. It flowered in April. | .

lt appears to us to approach nearest to wstulata and fusca,

but is easily distinguished from both, by the subulately

elongated outer laciniee of the corolla.

( 1933 )

CROTALARIA FENESTRATA. WuINDOW-CALYXED

CROTALARIA.

HEARSE IESE EE SE EE Se EEE ae a

Class and Order.

Decanpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Legumen turgidum, inflatum, pedicellatum. Filamenta

connata cui fissura dorsali.

Specific Character.

Crorataria fenestrata ; foliis simplicibus ovato-lanceolatis

subtus sericeis ciliatis, vexillo suborbiculato acuminato,

foliolis calycinis inferioribus apice coherentibus.

A native of the East-Indies, and very nearly allied to

CroraLaria juncea, (No. 422) from which it differs, in

having leaves more acute, silky underneath, smooth above,

and ciliated. The vexillum is remarkably large, streaked,

margin slightly undulate and somewhat acuminate : it does not

seem disposed to roll back from the apex towards the base, in

the manner of Croranarta juncea. The three lower leaflets

of the calyx remain firmly united at the point, even till the

flower fades, and by contracting lengthwise open at the sides.

This effect has given occasion for the name. |

Communicated in flower, in September 1816, by the

Honourable Wituram Hersert, from his collection at

Spofforth in Yorkshire, who raised it from seeds received

from the East-Indies. oS ee foe

We suppose it is only of one year’s duration, and should be

treated like other tender annuals. is. -

(1984. )

‘Ecurum crericum. Creran Virer’s-

MERE EEE RE EE

Class and Order.

Penranpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Cor. irregularis, fauce nuda.

| Specific Character and Synonyms.

Ecuium creticum ; caule herbaceo echinato, foliis oblongo-

lanceolatis hispidis basi parum angustatis, staminibus

corollam subequantibus, calycibus fructiferis distantibus.

Willd. Enum. p. 187. 2

Eicuium creticum ; caule procumbente, calycibus frutescenti-

bus distantibus. Hort. Ups. 35. Sp. Pl. 200. ed. Willd.

1. p. 788. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 1. p. 202. Kniph. Cent.

10. n. 39. A

Ecuivm creticum latifolium et angustifolium rubrum. Bauh.

Pin. 254, . , ae,

Ecuium creticum | et 2. Clus. Hist.2.p.165.

paar ens

‘Descr. ‘Stem rounded, hispid, branched : lower branches

procumbent. Radical leaves petioled, oblong, elliptic, obtuse,

quite entire, veined and rugose underneath, hispid: cauline

leaves tongue-shaped, obtuse, hispid. Flowers secund in

spike-like racemes. Bractes like the leaves, gradually de-

creasing in size upwards. Peduncles several times shorter

than calyx, solitary. Calyx hairy: segments lanceolate,

longer than the tube and faux of the corolla, whose border

is more deeply divided and more bilabiate-like than in_ most

of the genus; of a bright red when first opened, but

changing to blue. Stamens scarcely the length of the corolla.

Style exserted : stigma bifid. w.

We have not been able to detect any representation of

this plant, but the one printed from a specimen by Kyipnor,

as above quoted, which appears to us to be the same species.

Native of Crete and the Levant. Flowers in July. Pro-

pagated by seeds, being annual, or at most biennial. Com-

municated by Messrs. Loppiexs and Sons.

smshnes atiind off oABGR Ys

MELALEUCA SQUARROSA. MyRTLE-LEAVED

MELALEUCA.

See eee etek

Class and Order. ~

Potyapetpnia Icosanpria.

Generic Character.

Staminum phalanges 5, petalis opposite elongate. Anthere

incumbentes. Caps. 3-locularis polysperma, connata et inclusa

calycis tubo incrassato basi adnato (ramo). Brown.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

MELALEvcA squarrosa ; foliis oppositis ovatis acutis 5—7- _

nerviis petiolatis, spicis oblongis ovalibusque, bracteis

foliaceis, calycis laciniis enervibus obtusis, phalangium

—— brevissimis. Br. in Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4.

p. 416.

‘MeLaevca squarrosa ; foliis sparsis oppositisve ovatis mu-

ticis quinquenervibus, floribus lateralibus dentibus caly-

cinis levibus. Srmith in Linn. Soc. Trans. 6. p. 300.

Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p. 1430. Persoon Syn. 2. p. 26. 8.

Labill. Nov. Holl. 2. p. 28. t. 169. |

Menatevuca myrtifolia. Venten. Malmais. 47.

The leaves of this plant are described by Mr. Brown, as

opposite ; by Sir James Smiru, as both opposite and scattered,

as they were in the one from which our drawing was made.

Tn most specimens, however, that we have seen, they were

entirely opposite and decussate ; they are usually obscurely

five-nerved, and the broader ones seven-nerved. Some leaves,

or bractes like leaves, grow among the flowers, which gene-

rally shew more or less a disposition to become verticillate ;

but the whorls are seldom so distinct as they were inthe plant

from which our drawing was taken. . a

ree

The filaments are collected into five bundles, connected at

the base only, and so slightly, that Smiru has observed that

it is not very easy to decide whether it belongs to Melaleuca,

or to the very nearly-related genus, Metrosideros ; between

which genera, the distinction, he remarks, is more artificial

than natural.

Our drawing was taken from a specimen communicated by

Joun Waxker, Esq. in May 1815, from a plant that had stood

_ two winters against a south wall, with no other protection

than a mat during frost. A very fine spreading shrub, nearly

three feet high, was sent us last summer, by Messrs. Barr

and Brooxezs, of the Northampton Nursery, Newington-

Green.

Native of New South-Wales and of Van Diemen’s-Island,

and is generally treated as a hardy greenhouse shrub. Flowers

most part of the summer. Introduced about the year 1794.

Propagated by cuttings. iene

The whole plant is aromatic and pungent, and the dried

flowers, when rubbed, have a particularly grateful aromatic

scent. . = :

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Pub by. Gurtia. Walworth

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VERONICA PERFOLIATA. PERFOLIATE

> SPEEDWELL. :

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| “Class and Order.

Dranpria Monoeynra,

‘Generic Character.

Cor. limbo A-partito: lacinia infima angustiore. - Caps. 2-

locularis. :

Specific Character and Synonym.

Veronica perfoliata ; racemis lateralibus pedunculatis multi-

floris, foliis integerrimis glaberrimis ovatis acuminatis

basi connatis, capsulis bipartilibus. Brown Prod. Flore

Nov. Holl. p. 434,

Descr. Stem about two feet high, with few branches,

simple, upright. Leaves ovate-acuminate, decussate, con-

nate at their base, of a glaucous green. Raceme lateral,

Jong, many-flowered ; flowers looking one way; pedicles

alternate ; scarcely the length of the calyx. Calyx four-

parted, unequal, one segment being considerably longer than-

the rest, persistent. Corolla violet-purple : upper lacinia

largest, streaked : faux villous. Stamens shorter than corolla,

spreading. Style declined. Capsule oblong-oval, two-celled,

many-seeded. .

Jussteu places the genus Veronica in his order of Pedi-

culares ; Brown in that of Scrophularing ; who observes,

* that the relation of the dissepiment, with respect tothe valves _

of the capsule, as being contrary to or parallel therewith, is a

character always esteemed by Jussizu, of great value in the

formation of natural orders; and he has, upon this ground,

separated his order of Rhododendra from his Erice, and

Pediculares from Scrophularig ; but, by so doing, he has

Bi frequently

frequently separated genera that are very closely allied; for

although this character is for the most part (not universally) of

unaccompanied by others, to separate them into distinct

orders, as is clearly proved hy several genera of this family,

and especially by the genus Veronica, in the various species

of which, almost every kind of dehiscence may be observed.”

This very rare plant, which did not occur to Mr. Browy, -

except in a dried state, was raised from seeds received from

New South-Wales, by Mr. Jenxins, at his Botanical Garden,

Gloucester-Place, New-Road.

Native of the country in the neighbourhood of Port-

Jackson, and will require the protection of the greenhouse in

the winter. Propagated by seeds, and perhaps by cuttings ;

though the stem appears to be rather herbaceous than fruti-

cose. Flowers in July and August. |

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— Guoxinia speciosa. Roven-LEAvep

GLOXINIA, ©

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Class and Order.

Dipynamia ANGIosPERMIA. ~

Generic Character. - 28g

Cal. superus, 5-phyllus. Cor. campanulata: limbo obliquo.

Filamenta cum rudimento quinti imo tubo corolla inserta.

Caps. |-locularis? recept. 2, biloba, lateribus inserta.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

GLoxiNniA speciosa ; subacaulis, foliis hispidis crenatis, pe-

dunculis erectis flore longioribus*.

Groxinia speciosa. Loddiges Bot. Cab. 98, Bot. Reg. |

No. 213. cS

Descr. Stemveryshort. Leaves opposite, oval, very hairy on

both sides, when falspeoirn seven ‘aches rai wide.

Peduncles axillary, villous, rounded, three or fourincheslong,

upright: from the shortness of the stem, concealed amid —

the leaves, and the very erect position of the long peduncles,

these latter appear, at first sight, like scapes rising imme- —

diately from the roots without intervening stem. Calyx ad~ _

herent to the germen: border five-cleft: segments ovate-

acuminate, nearly equal, sub-bilabiately arranged, five-nerved,

very hairy. Corolla ringent, tube refracted, faux open,

limb bilabiate 2: laciniz rounded. Stamens. four : filaments

incurved, inserted into the base of the tube of the corolla,

with which they fall off: anthers united together. There is”

a small rudiment of a fifth filament placed at the back of the

* The other species may be distinguished as under : - 2

Gioxinta maculata ; foliis glabriusculis, pedunculis horizontalibus flore

beeeioett )

style,

style, very little larger than the glands of the nectary, but

not, like them, persistent. Nectaries five glandular bodies

surrounding the style and alternating with the filaments, per-

sistent. Germen inferior, one-celled, with two lateral branched

receptacles : style longer than stamens, stigma capitate, com-

pressed, gaping. | |

This very valuable acquisition to our stoves, is a native of

Brazil, of late introduction, but already to be found in most

of the large collections about town. We received it first

from Messrs. Barr and Brookes, Newington-Green, but not

in a perfect state. Our drawing was taken from a plant

communicated by Messrs. Wuirtey, Brame, and Minne, of

the Fulham Nursery. It does not appear to be very tender,

and, perhaps, may hereafter be found to do in the green-

house.

Pad by.5. furtis Walworth. Octa2s7.

( 1988: )

-LATHYRUS GRANDIFLORUS. PERENNIAL

| SwEEtT-PEa.

EERE EAE EEE EEE EER BBE

: Class and Order.

Diape ew, Decanpria.

Generic Character.

Stylus planus, supra villosus superne latior. Cal. lacinize

superiores 2 breviores. fogs nits

Specific Character.

Latuyrus grandiflorus ; caulibus rigidis tetragonis pedun-

culis bifloris nudis, cirrhis diphyllis: foliolis obovatis

undulatis. ,

Descr. Root perennial. Stem branched, climbing: branches

square, with rounded angles, rigid, not at all winged, nor

hairy. Claspers generally twice ternate, with two oval leaves

rather broadest towards the point, veined, undulated at the

margin. Stipules very narrow, semisagittate, the part below

nearly as Jong as the part above their insertion. Peduncles

axillary, solitary, somewhat longer than the petioles, two-

flowered. Pedzcles nearly equal, united to the peduncle bya

joint. Calyx campanulate, sub-bilabiate : upper-lip consist-

ing of two subulate teeth : lower-lip of three, longer than the

upper, and of these the middle one is the longest. Corolla

like Lathyrus odoratus, but larger. Vezxillum orbicular, fully

expanded, emarginate, callous at the base, with a very short

channelled claw, veined, of a blueish crimson colour: ale

dark purple, oblong. Carina somewhat boat-shaped, nearly

semicircular, having its petals united, from the bottom of the

claw to the apex. Germen oblong, somewhat flattened,

and a little widest in the middle: style reflexed at right

angles ; stigma pubescent, compressed, minutely villous.

Legumen not seen; but as the germen is not clothed with

long hairs, as in Laruyrus odoratus, it will probably prove

far less hairy than in the latter species. _

This plant is in many respects very similar to Larnyrus

odoratus, but differs in having a perennial root; stalks not at

all winged nor flattened; leaves oval, not lanceolate-oval ;

peduncles shorter and flowers considerably larger.

Native country uncertain, probably Italy or Sicily. Messrs.

Cuanpter and Buckinecuam, by whom it was communicated

to us, believe that they raised it from seeds received from

Leghorn ; but, as it did not flower the first year, they paid

little attention to it, and are not quite certain of its origin.

We do not know that the plant is to be met with in any other

garden round the metropolis. They have. increased it by

parting its roots, but it has not as yet produced any seeds,

though it has flowered two summers, and bears our winters

in the open ground without protection. ,

F923.

Pub. by.5 Gertis Waleorth: Coty 1.1817. Weddell. Se~

( 1939)

CoNVOLVULUs PANDURATUS. FYDDLE-LEAVED—

BinpDWEED.

ME Ea eae eae ae seas eae

Class and Order. |

_ PEenTanpRIA eae

Generic Character.

Cor. campanulata, plicata. Stigmata 2, Caps. 2-locularis :

loculis dispermis. i 7

- Specific Character and Synonyms.

ConvotvuLus panduratus ; pubescens, foliis cordato-pan>_

durzeformibus acuminatis, calycibus levibus enerviis,

pedunculis axillaribus subunifloris petiolum equantibus. |

ConvotvuLws panduratus ; foliis cordatis integris panduri-

formibus, calycibus levibus. Sp. Pl: 219. Wélld. 1.

p. 850. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 1. p. 329.

ConvotvuLus panduratus ; radice crasse napacea ; caule

volubili puberulo: foliis pubescentibus, lato-cordatis ;

rarius subtrilobis repandisve : pedunculis longis fasciculi-

floris : calycibus glabris, submuticis : corolla tubulato-

campanulata. Michaux Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1. p. 138. ¢

oe Persoon Syn. 1. p. 178.7? aes ;

Convotvutus panduratus ; volubilis, pubescens; foliis lato-

cordatis integris lobatisve panduriformibus, pedunculis

_ Jongis, floribus fasciculatis, calycibus glabris muticis,

_..corollis tubulato-campanulatis. Pursh Fl. Am. Sept. 1.

p.144. 7? eee Las

Convotvutus megalorhizos flore amplo lacteo; fundo pur-

pureo. Dillen. Hlth. 101. t. 85. 7. 99.

8. Convotvuus major floridanus, folio incano Ari quodam-

modo referens, auriculis magnis subrotundis. Pluk,

Amalth. p. 63. t. 385. f. 3.

The Convoxvuius panduratus of Micuavx and of Pursx

more probably belong to Convoivotus candicans than to our

present species; so in our account of the former (vide No. 1603)

we have, with a mark of doubt, inserted Micnavx’s plant as

asynonym. We have cited both here, more with a view of

facilitating the comparison of their characters, than from con-

viction of their belonging to the panduraius of Linnaus.

In panduratus, the peduncles are scarcely longer than the

footstalk of the leaf, and rarely produce more than one flower, -

though there are vestiges of two opposite pedicles, which ge-

nerally, if not always, abort; the peduncles of candicans seldom

bear fewer than three and often more flowers, which are

much larger and more even at the border, and open wider.

The outer lacinie of the calyx in panduratus is smooth and_

even, having none of the wrinkled neryes, so conspicuous in

those of candicans ; and there is a remarkable difference in

their made of growth. Both have large tuberous roots, but

those of candicans have eyes like the potatoe, and if cut into

pieces, every eye will grow; but the root of panduratus

produces no eyes, nor could cuttings of it be made to shoot,

though kept in.the greatest heat of the bark bed for upwards

ofa year. The stems of candicans die quite down to the

root every year, and fresh stems are produced from the eyes ;-

but that of panduratus grows from the crown of the root,

and, though inclined to die back in the winter, remains:

woody towards the bottom, where fresh buds are formed,

from which the stems shoot again in the spring ; but,’ was the

stem to be cut down close to the root, fresh shoots could not

without great difficulty be produced, and most probably the —

plant would perish. :

- Native of South-Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, and is

too impatient of cold to be trusted out of the stove ; for want

of due attention to this, we believe this plant is generally lost,

and, perhaps, the only one now living in this country is at

the Honourable Wittiam Hersert’s, at Spofforth, near

Wetherby, in Yorkshire ; to whom we are indebted for the

specimen from which our drawing was taken, as well as for.

most of the above particulars respecting it.

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( 1940 )

CRASSULA CULTRATA. SHARP-LEAVED

CRASSULA.

SHITE eae aap eae

Class and Order.

PENTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA.

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-phyllus. Petala5, Squame 5, nectarifere ad basin

germinis. Capsule 5.

- Specific Character and Synonyms.

Crassuta eultrata ; foliis oppositis obovatis subcultratis ob-

liquis connatis integerrimis. Hort. Kew. ed. 1" 1.”.393.

ed. alt. 2. p. 192. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. p. 1552. Mart.

Mill. Dict.n. 11. Trew. Pl. Rar. 2. p. 3. t. 12.

Crassuta cultrata. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14. p. 305. Thunb.

Prod. 56. Sp. Pl. 405. :

—_ anacampserotis folio. Dill. Elth. 115, t. 97. f.

Grorvutes cultrata. Haworth Succul. p. 60..

The flowers of Crassuta culirata never expand, and the

petals bear a globular # peor at their apex: on account of

which character, Mr. Haworrn, in his Synopsis Plantarum

Succulentarum, has thought fit to separate this species with |

three others from Crassuna, under the name of Girogutea.

_ Crassuta cultrata comes under the division ae:

Native of the Cape of aoa Cultivated in Dr. SHerarp’s

den, at Eltham, in 1732. Is usually kept in the dry stove.

Propagated by cuttings. Flowers in August, September, and

October. Our drawing was taken some years ago from a

plant in the possession of Mr. Sypennam Epwarps.

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_ Yorkshire, has paid great attention to this genus ; a)

gentleman we are indebted, not only for the specimen from

-Fespecting: it, ‘which. we are able to

( 1941 )

PANCRATIUM EXPANSUM. EXPANDED-

-FLOWERED PANCRATIUM. 7

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Class and Order.

Hexanpria Monoeynia.

Generic Character.

Petala 6. Nectario 6—12-fido. Stam. nectario imposita.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

-Pancratium expansum ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis striatis ir-

regulariter circumpositis, laciniis patentissimis tubo lon-

“ gioribus, corone sinubus unidentatis.

Paycrartum: patens. Ker in Journal of Science and the Arts,

v. 3. p. 329. ? Redouté Liliac. 7. fol. 414. ?

Paycratium declinatum. Redouté Liliac. 6, t. 380. quoad

— tconem., ?

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‘Tt is extremely difficult. t to find ce distinguishing

characters beigenee some of the species of Pancratium; and,

_ perhaps, it is only from cultivation, or by having an opporsupity

of comparing the living specimens together, that any. cer

can be PR The Hon. Wituiam Herserr, of , fe tis

Which our drawing

s taken, iv. or gncgt ofthe aaationbre

adduce.

; ong anger affinity pith ase caribeum. Jn

int leaves grow irregularly, not. <

less acute, of a duller green, and more "atte il they, are

a foot and a half long, and about two inches and a quarter

wide at the broadest part ; they rise successively throughout

the year, and not ae ne: as in speciosum, The i

is between four and five and twenty inches high.- Flowers

sessile ; tube obsoletely three-cornered, pale-green, four inches

and a quarter long: lacinie linear, an inch and half longer _

than the tube, the whole length of the corolla being ten inches ;_

they expand wider than in any other species of Pancratium;

leaving the funnel-shaped nectary or crown quite exposed,

whence the name: erown rather more than an inch and

quarter long, regularly pointed between each stamen: style

rises nearly four inches above the crown. lowers in the

specimen ten, expanding by pairs, according to a regular and

remarkable arrangement, of which Mr. Hergerr sent. a

sketch, omitted by the draughtsman; but may be easily

understood, by placing the tips of the four fingers of both

hands together, to represent the eight flower-buds in the cir-

cumference, and bringing both thumbs in a line between the

fore or first, and hitle or fourth fingers, to represent the two

central flowers. ‘The expansion of the first pair will then be

marked by the second finger of the right-hand and the third

of the left; the second pair by the second finger of the left-

hand and the third of the right; the third pair by the first of

the left-hand and the fourth of the right ; the fourth pair by

the first of the right-hand and the fourth of the left ; and the

central pair, which open last, by the thumbs.

It is possible that this may be the patens of Repovre and

Ker, but we have not ventured to fix it as such; because

that is described as having leaves very much narrower than —

- those of caribeum, and flowers more powerfully. scented ;

whereas the former, in our plant, were nearly of the same

width as those of caribeum, and the scent was weaker than

in any other of the related species. > 2

Mr.-Ker, in his Monograph on Pancratium (Journal of

Science and Arts, v. 3. p. 326) has referred our distichwm,

No. 1879, to Pancratium littorale ; but, if so, there is little

or no dependence to be put upon the comparative length of

the tube and laciniz, the former being said to be twice the

length of the latter in littorale ; whereas in distichwm they

are of the same length; the tube in the one decayed flower,

in the figure, being inadvertently lengthened to get the upper

part within the prescribed limits of the plate. Lee ae

- Native country unknown. Flowers regularly in Novem-

ber. Produces few offsets, and is, therefore, not readily

Pr which the Latin Names of the Plants contaiped in the Rory:

Fourth Volume are alphabetically arranged.

Fi. 7 Fi.

1900 Alpinia cernua, 1938 Lathyrus grandiflorus,

1903 nutans. 1896 Lobelia ilicifolia.

1916 Althea caribea.

1873 Amsonia salicifolia.

1897 Anchusa angustifo!ia.

Na. wtlrta 863 Anemone pratensis,£. obsoleta.

927 Anthyllis Barba Jovis.

1924 Bletia Tankervilliz.

1905 Bocconia cordata.

1884 Cactus triangularis.

. 1925 Callistachys ovata.

Want hs 864 Chelone Lyoni.

1869 Cineraria sibirica.

; 1892 Clematis crispa.

1939 Convolvulus panduratus.

1901 Correa virens.

1940 Crassula cultrata.

1933 Crotalaria fenestrata.

. 1913 purpurea.

= 1931. Cuphea procumbens.

= ‘1929 um viridiflorum.

a 1908 Cytisus prolte ee

1885 A Dahlia abe nna.

tiplick.--

1875 Daphne altaica,

1917 oleoides,

1876 Dianthus campestris,y.

1919 Echites caryophyllata.

1934 Echium creticum.

1915 Erica monsoniz.

1872 Eugenia elliptica.

1895 Galinsogea trilobata.

1904 Gardenia ameena.

_ 1937 Gloxinia speciosa.

1902 Gnidia oppositifolia.

1906 Grislea tomentosa. —

1894 Hamelia ventricosa.

1911 Hibiscus radiatus.

ee eee age Slympicnm,e- lati-

folium.

1889 Jasminum azoricum.

1907 Inula glandulosa.

1870 Justicia picta,@. lwrido-san-

guinea,

1926 Maranta zebrina.

1935 Melaleuca squarrosa.

1868 — thy mifolia. want.

1910 Menispermum canadense. ¢

1909 Menyanthes ovata.

1866 Mesembryanthemum depres-

sum. NY ANT Tang?

1914 Momordica Elaterium,

1865 Nerium coronarium. \W 44/5 trey

1930 Ophrys tenthredinifera.

1932 Orchis acuminata.

1879 Pancratium distichum.

1941 expansum,

1877 Pelargonium rapaceum, 2. tue

teum.

1878 Penstemon campanulata,

1883 Pharnaceum i incanum,

1891 Phlomis samia.

1880 Phlox acuminata,

1862 Ph: age ue! fichinatan- SRE aei I

Piper acumin so

yri £

1887 Polemraiee + aban

1922 Primula decora.

1888 Rhododendron dabricamye.

sempervirens.

1886 Robinia caragana, v. arenaria.

1898 Ruscus androgynus,y,

1871 Serratula quinquefolia,

1920 Smilax herbacea. ra!

1874 Solandra grandiflora.

1921 Solanum giganteum.

1928 marginatum,

1899 Spielmannia africana.

1860 Stachytarpheta Jamaicensis, w/a.

1890 Stapelia deflexa. e

1861 Stevia hyssopifolia. Wrens ee

1918 Stylidium graminifolium. 3

1912 Symphytum tauricum.

1381 Thunbergia fragrans,

1936 Veronica perfoliata,

1893 Ziziphus Paliurus.

hes

IN DE X.

In which the English aiid of the Plants contained in the Forty

Fourth Volume are alphabetically arranged.

a eS

Pl.

1903 Alpinia, large drooping.

1900 small drooping.

1873 Amsonia, willow-leaved.

1927 Anthyllis, silver-leaved, or

Jupiter’s beard.

1922 Auricula, comely.

1860 Bastard-vervain, Jamaica. -

1939 Bindweed, fiddle-leaved.

1924. Bletia, Lady Tankerville’s.

1905 Bocconia, heart-leaved.

1909 Buck-bean, oval-leaved Cape:

1897 Bugloss, purple-flowered nar-

row-leaved.

1898 Butcher’s-Broom, climbing.

1925 Callistachys, oval-leaved.

1864 Chelone, Lyons’s. °

1893 Christ’s-Thorn.

1869 Cincraria, Siberian.

1912 Comfrey, ‘Taurian. .

- 1901 Correa, green-flowered.

1877 Crane’s-Bill, yellow, eoeap th

flowered.-

1940 Crassula, sharp-leaved.

1913 Crotalaria, Snieertiosored.

1933 window-calyxed.

1884 Creeping-Cereus, triangular, or

Strawberry-Pear.

1914 Cucumber, squirting.

1931 Cuphea, -procumbent.

1929 Cynanchum, green-flowered.

1908 Cytisus, silky.

1885-B. double-flowered, fer-

; tile-rayed.

1917 Cretan.

1919 Echites, clove-scented.

1872 Eugenia, round-fruited-

1866 a dphisesdpe

tongue.

1895 ‘Galinsogea,. three-lobed.

1904 Gardenia, crimson-tipped.

1937 Gloxinia, rough-leaved.

1902 Gnidia, opposite-leaved.

_ 1887 Greek-Valerian, creeping.

1906 Grislea, Woodford’s. —

1894 Hamelia, large-flowered, -

1941 —-——

1863 Pasque-Flower, pale-flowered,

Pi:

1915 Heath, Lady Ann Monsons

1911 Hibiscus, radiated. .

1916 Hollyhock, West-Indian.

1889 Jasmine, Azorian.;

1907 Inula, glandulous.~

1870 Justicia,’ bloody-veined.

1896 Lobelia, holly-leaved.

1926 Mardanta, striped-leaved.

1935 Melaleuca, myrtle-leaved.

1868 thyme-leaved.

1910 Moonseed, Canadian.

1921 Nightshade, tall.

1928 —— white-margined.

1980 Ophrys, Saw-Fly.

1932 Orchis, pointed-flowered.

1879 Pancratium, fan-leaved.

——~ spreading-flowered.

meadow.

1878 Penstemon, bell-flowered.

1883 Pharnaceum, hoary.

| 1891 Phlomis, Samian.

| 1880 Pleas, cross-leaved, or Lych-

“nidéa.

1862 Phyllanthus, shining-leaved.

1882 Pepper, dwarf, sities mimeo

oe Pink, field.” 3

923 Podalyria, silky. °°” :

1888 Rhododendron, SEED “

Daurian. = :

1886 Robinia, Sand, or Pea-Tree.

1865 Rosebay, broad-leaved.

1871 Saw-Wort, five-leaved.

| 1920 Smilax, herbaceous.

1874 Solandra, great-flowered.

1936 Speedwell, perfoliate.

1899 Spielmannia, ilex-leaved.

1890 Stapelia, bent-flowered.

1861 Stevia, hyssop-leaved.

1867 St. Jolni's- Wort, broad-leaved,

Olympian. -

1918 Stylidium, peanseaitea. | sie

1938: Sweet-Pea, perennial. ~

1881 Thunbergia, twining.

1934 Viper’s-Bugloss, Cretan.

ania Virgin’ Bowes; 2 curled~

“flowered. —

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