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R,
Flower-Garden Difplayed
IN
WHICH
The mod Ornamental Foreign Plants,
Open Ground, the Green- Houfe, and
cultivated in the
the Stove,
are
accurately reprefented in their natural Colours.
TO WHICH ARE ADDED,
Their Names, Clafs, Order, Generic and
Specific Characters, according
Linn.eus their Places of Growth,
and Times of Flowering:
to the celebrated
;
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WORK
A
Intended for the Ufe of fuch Ladies,
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become
fcientifically
By
JOHN
Gentlemen,
and Gardeners, as
acquainted with the Plants they cultivate.
SIMS, M.
Fellow of the Royal and Linnean
VOL.
D.
Societies.
XLII.
The Flowers, which grace their nativebeds,
Awhile put forth their blufhing heads,
^
But, e'er the clofe of parting day,
They
wither, fhrink, and die
But these, which mimic
Nor fcorched by
funs,
away
(kill
:
hath made,
nor killed by fhade,
Shall blufh with lefs inconftant hue,
Which art
at plcafure
Lloyd.
can renew.
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Crataegus indica.
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Indian Hawthorn.
Oafs and Order,
ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA.
Generic Character.
Cal. 5-fidus.
Petala 5.
Bacca infera difperma.
Specific Characler
and Synonyms.
CRATAEGUS
indica; foliis ovatis acuminatis
CRATAEGUS
indica ; foliis
fempervirentibus, racemis terminalibus, pedunculis
calycibufque
tomentofis, bra&eis fubulatis.
corymbis fquamofis.
Descr. Stem
Sp.
fcrratis
lanceolatis ferratis, caule inermi.
PL
683.
IVilld. 2.
p. 1005.
upright,
fhrubby, with fmooth dark-brown
bark, branched upwards
Leaves evergreen, ovate, acuminate,
ferrate, narrowed downwards, pctiolated
:
upper furface mining
and dark-green, lower pale and reticulated.
Stipules two, Tub:
ulate, within the petiole, foon falling
off.
Flowers in terminal
racemes, white.
tomentofe : the
Brakes fubulate, ereQ. Peduncles and calyxes
latter fuperior, campanulate, with long
ereB
lubulate teeth; and, what is remarkable, after
the flower fades,
it eafily feparates from
the crown of the germen.
Petals five,
oblong-ovate, acuminate, nerved.
Filaments erea, inferted into
the tube of the calyx, at firft white,
changing to a bright red
:
Anthers yellow, didymous.
The germen, which is fmall and
nearly round, is covered with the fame kind
of tomentum as
that part of the calyx which feparates
from it ; but this does not
turn red as on the calyx.
have not feen the fruit, but the
germen is bilocular, and contains
We
at
cell.
Styles
two,
ered,
longer
leaft
than
capitate.
two ovula
the
ftamens
in
:
each
Jftmnas
6
From
the uncertainty in the number of the ftyles, and
of the
diviuonsof the fruit. Sir James
Smith, in his Flora
Edward
Britannica,
Britannica, has reduced the four Linnean genera of Crataegus,
Sorbus, Mespilus, and Pyrus into two ; omitting the
two Former names, and
The new
edition
retaining only
of the
Hortus
Mespilus and Pyrus.
Kewenfis
retains
the
four
and, as without feeing the fruit, we fhould be at a
lofs whether to arrange our plant under Mespilus or Pyrus,
we think it fafeft to leave it as we find it. In habit, our
plant has confiderable affinity with Pyrus Amelanchier and Bogenera
;
tryapium.
Native of the Eaft-Indies and China. Requires the proOur drawing was made from a
tection of the greenhoufe.
plant communicated by Mr. R. Sweet, from the Stockwell
received it alfo from Mr. James Dickson, of
Nurfery.
Acre-Lane. Flowers in April, May, and June.
We
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DlADELPHIA DECANDRIA.
Generic
Cal. Iongitudine
nofpermum,
Chamber.
Leguminis.
Stam. diadelpha.
fubroftratum, evalve.
Specific
PSORALEA
apbylla
Legumen mo-
Chamtler and Synonyms.
;
foliis
ftipulis lanceolatis
acutis
ternatis fimplicibufque deciduis,
flores verfus
fubimbricatis per-
fiftentibus.
PSORALEA
apbylla;
foliis caulinis
ramulorum
plicibus,
nullis,
rameifque ternatis ct fim-
ftipulis
fubimbricatis.
Jacq.
Hort. Scboenb. 2. p. 51. /. 223.
Willd. Sp. PL 3. ^.223.
Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 375.
apbylla; foliis nullis, ftipulis ovatis feffilibus adpreftis acutis. Aman. Acad. 6.
apbylla; foliis nullis, ftipulis mucronatis brevif-
PSORALEA
PSORALEA
Mant. 450.
fpartium caeruleum Cap. Bon. Spei.
fimis verfus flores fubimbricatis.
GENISTA
t.
Breyn, Cent.
25.
This fhrub, though named apbylla, or leaflefs, is by no means
without leaves ; but, when young, has both trifoliate and fimple
leaves, which fall off", and are feldom again renewed ; what
appear like fmall leaves upon the flowering branches, as reprefented in our figure, are not confidered as fuch, but z&jlipules^
or more properly, perhaps, as braftcs. The fiews ofPsoRALEA
apbylla are (lender, and the extremities of the branches bend
down with the weight of the flowers, in a graceful manner.
greenhoufe flirub.
Native of the Cape of Good-Kope.
Flowers with us from May to July. Cultivated in the royal
garden at Hampton-Court, fo long ago as 1690.
Our drawing
was taken from a fine fpecimen in the confervatory of Meffrs.
Lee and Kennedy, early in May.
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Azure-elowered
Salvia azurea.
Sage.
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Oafs and Order.
DlANDRIA MONOGYNIA,
Generic Character.
CaL fubcampanulatus, 2-labiatus
Cor. ringens.
labio fuperiore 3-dentato.
Filamenta tranfverfe pedicello affixa.
Specific Characler
SALVIA
fum
azurea j
foliis
:
and Synonyms,
lineari-lanceolatis
inferioribus extror-
cauleque glabris, calyce pubefcente brevifiime
trifido.
Purjb Fl. Amer. Sept. 19.
SALVIA azurea. Lam. in diar. Hift. Nat. i. p. 469. Encyc. 6.
Vahl Emm. 1. p. 253.
p. 625.
Hort. Kew. Epit. inter
ferratis
addenda.
SALVIA
SALVIA
SALVIA
amminatiffima.
anguftifolia.
mexicana.
Venten. Hort.
50.
Micbaux Flor. Bor.-Amer.
Walt. Fl. Carol, p. 65.
Celf.
50.
/.
1. p.
15.
Descr.
Stem quadrangular, fluted, with rounded angles.
Leaves lanceolate, narrowed at both extremities, diftantly and
unequally fawed, minutely ciliated at (he edge, dark green on
the upper furface, pale on the under.
Flowers in terminal
whorled fpikes, whorls about fix-flowered, looking one way.
Bracles linear.
Pedicles
very (hort.
upper-lip minutely three-toothed
Corolfo large
:
Calyx
ftriate,
under-lip bifid
:
two-lipped
:
teeth acute.
tube the length of the calyx
upper-lip (hort,
emarginate, pubefcent
under- lip three -lobed, dependent,
fmooth
middle lobe very large, crenulate.
Style bearded
:
:
:
:
quite
up
A
to the bifid fiigma.
two-lobed anther at one end
the tranfverfe filament^ and a blue fmooth gland at the other.
of
Native
Native of Georgia and South-Carolina, and faid to be a
great favourite as a greenhoufe plant in the Northern States,
where it grows to the height of feven or eight feet, and bears a
profufion of flowers.
It is inferted among the addenda at the end of the Epitome
of the Hortus Kewenfis, where it is faid to have been introduced in i8o6, to be hardy, and to bloflbm in July and
Auguft.
received the fpecimen from which our drawing was
We
made from Mr. Lambert's
flower, in November laft.
confervatory,
at
Boyton, in
full
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Honeysuckle
Cestrum fastigiatum.
Cestrum.
Clqfs
ft
and Order.
Pentandria Monogynia.
Generic Charafter.
Cal. inferus,
denticulatus.
Cor. infundibuliformis.
denticulo in medio, (edentulave).
Specific Charatler
CESTRUM fajligiatum ;
Stamina
Bacca l-locularis, polyfperma.
and Synonym.
filamentis edentulis, pedunculis axil-
laribus elongatis, floribus in capitulum aggregatis, corollae
limbo revoluto.
CESTRUM fajligiatum;
filamentis edentulis;
floribus in pe-
dunculis axillaribus et elongatis fuperne aggregatis.
Hort. Schoenh. 3. p. 44. /. 330.
C est'rum
Jacq.
from diurnum, chiefly in the
great length of the peduncle, which is equal to, or fometimes
longer than the leaf, and in the flowers being moflly collected
into a capitulum, fomewhat in the manner of the Honeyfuckle.
They are white and fweet-fcented both by night and day. The
number of ftamens and of the laciniae of the corolla is very
uncertain, varying from four to fix.
According to Jacquin's defcription, the berries are black,
with a violet-coloured pulp, but his figure reprefents them exfajligiatum
differs
ternally blue.
We have
Sir
feen fpecimens of this fpecies in the herbariums of
Joseph Banks and of Mr. Lambert
along with diurnum,
from which
it
;
and
in
both placed
appears to us fufnciently
diftina.
Native of the Weft-Indies. With us an inhabitant of the
ftove.
Our drawing was made from a flowering fpecimen communicated by Mr. George Graves, from Mrs. Wilson's
collection at Iflington in
;
November
laft.
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Ageratum
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Blue-flowered
Ageratum.
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and Order.
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Syngenesia Polygamia jEqualis.
Generic Character.
Receptaculum nudum.
obfoletifve.
4
Cor.
—
Cal.
P<z/>/>«j palcis 5, fubariftatis,
nunc
coalitis
oblongus, duplici foliolorum fubsequalium
ferie.
5-fidae.
Specific Character.
AGERATUM
hifpidulum,
ovato-acuminatis
triplinerviis dentato-ferratis integerrimifque, pappo monophyllo obtufe dentato.
coelejlinum g
foliis
According to the ufual generic cbarafter of Ageratum, the
pappus of the feed fhould confift of four or five fubulate paleae;
but in our plant the pappus is fmall and cup-like, with five
obtufe, nearly obfolete teeth,
the limb of the corolla
is
five-
and rolled back jligmas very long, club-fhaped, erett.
In habit, and in every other refpeft, it correfponds fo exaclly
with Ageratum, that we have thought it right to continue it
with that genus, notwithstanding the remarkable difference of
the pappus.
This part, indeed, appears to be liable to vary in
the different fpecies of this genus.
In the Bankfian Herbarium
we obferve there is one, in which the paleae of the pappus are
cleft
:
nearly obfolete, but not united as in
this.
The
native country of this lively herbaceous perennial is
unknown to us. It was firft obferved in a garden at Briftol,
but
Hitherto it has been preferved through the winter in the greenhoufe ; but when planted
out in the open ground, it feemed to thrive bell where it was
not much expofed to the fun.
its
origin could not be learnt.
It
It is a tall plant, rifing
to the height of about four feet.
Flowers fragrant, of that (pedes of fcent which relembles bitter
do not find that this plant has been before
almonds.
noticed by any author.
Communicated by A. B. Lambert, Efq. from his collection
We
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Boy ton.
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Jasminum revolutum. Curled-flowered
yellow Jasmine.
CA$/i
#W Order.
DlANDRIA MoNOCYNIA.
Generic Characler.
5— 8-fida.
Cor. hypocrateriformis,
Bacca dicocca.
Semina
folitaria aril lata.
Specific Characler.
JASMINUM
revolutum
1
omnibus
foliis
pinnatis,
paniculis
oppofitifoliis, laciniis corollas revolutis.
Descr. Branches flexuofe, fomewhat
ternate, on long channelled footflalks, all
Leaves alpinnate, having two
angular.
or three pair and an odd one of ovate leaflets, quite entire,
acute, a little oblique, paler and veined underneath, the two
upper pair clofe to the terminal
leaflet,
the
lower pair
diflant.
Flowers panicled, yellow,
very fweet-fcented, fubterminal, and
oppofed to the leaf. Calyx cup-fhaped, with five or fix very
fmall ereft. {harp-pointed teeth.
Tube of the 'corolla grooved,
fhorter than the limb, which is five or fix-cleft ; lacini<e obovate,
rolled back.
Anthers large, tongue- fhaped, erect-incumbent,
*. e.
affixed to the filament by the back, but (till {landing upright.
For
of
Jafmine, which
promifes to be a great acquifition to our gardens, we are beholden to the lady of the Right Hon. Charles Long, who
obligingly fent us fpecimens from her garden, at Bromley-Hill,
in Kent.
The plant was imported from China, and bloomed
this
hitherto
undefcribed
fpecies
At the prefent time (April)
time in the fpring of 1 814.
though only about a foot high, it has twelve bunches of very
fragrant flowers.
It has been hitherto kept in the confervatory,
in a fmall pot of light earth and loam,
the
firft
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Bromelia pyramidalis. Pyramidalflowered Bromelia.
Oafs and Order.
Hexandria Monogynia.
Generic Characler.
Cat. 3-fidus, fuperus.
petali.
Petala 3.
Pericarpium 3-loculare.
Specific
BROMELIA
ciliatis,
Squama neclarifera ad bafin
Characler and Synonyms*
pyramidalis
>
foliis
lanceolatis acuminatis fpinofo-
fcapo infra flores nudos bratteato
:
bra&eis lanceo
lato-ovatis intcgerrimis coloratis.
BROMELIA
BROMELIA
pyramidata aculeis
mdicaulis.
Plum. Gen. 46.
nigris.
Sp.Pl.409.?
Willd. 2. p.
Ic.
62 J
?
9
.
Descr.
Leaves all radical, lanceolate with a lengthened
point, edged with fmall brown fpines, involute, and embracing
one another at the bafe. A hmplefcape rifes from the bofom
of the leaves, clothed below the flowers with large, concave, ovatelanceolate, fpathe-like, entire, bratles, of a fine rofe-colour, which
turns brown with age.
Above the bra&es the flowers grow in a
thyrfe-like fpike,
naked
without any braftes intermixed).
Germen inferior, nearly cylindrical, trilocular, with many ovula
each cell, affixed in two rows to a central receptacle.
Style
(/. e.
m
the length
of the ftamens
:
jligma tripartite
;
the
laciniae bright
violet, twifted together, fo as to refemble a fcrew-like capitate
iugma.
Calyx tripartite ; fegments linear, connivent, erech
Both it and the germen are covered with a white, mealy powder.
Corolla three-petaled
:
petals ereft, with linear claws longer than
the calyx : limb (hort, ovate, acute, patent, the edges
foon
rolling inwards.
The colour a fine fcarlet, tinged on the infide
with violet, more intenfe at the tips.
Filaments fix, inferted into
the bafe of the calyx.
Anthers yellow, linear, incumbent.
This
;
of
figure
to
the
refemblance
great
has
plant
This
Plumier,
adopted
his
probably
Linnaus
which
from
quoted,
above
nudicaulis ; yet we dare not conlider them as certainly the fame
inapplicable
is
fo
very
nudicaulis
of
name
the
events,
all
at
and,
too
that
and
fcape
only,
but
a
ftalk,
has
no
that
plant
to a
clothed at the inferior part with large bra&es, that the original
one of Plumier feems every way preferable. In the Bankfian
Mufeum, there is a drawing of a nearly-related fpecies, to which
this
flowers
of
The
is
applied.
nudicaulis
of
name
Lin nius's
are much fmaller and white, and the leaves are truncated with
a fmall acumen.
In our fpecimen, the fcape did not rife fo as to elevate the
in
flowers above the bra&es, perhaps from a deficiency of heat
the
and
lax,
more
fpike
was
earlier,
the
flowered
which
one
:
flowers,
after
and ftamcns,
deflorefcence,
became patent
;
calyx, corolla,
perfiftent.
both in this genus and in
Tili.andsia, holds a quantity of water in the bottom of the
leaves ; which, it has been alferted, they are never found
without, even in the hotted weather, in a tropical country.
Communicated by the lady of the Right Hon. George Rose,
from Cuffnells, where it flowered two fucceflive years, in February
and March. The mother plant was received from Rio de Janeiro
fome years ago, and threw off feveral offsets before it flowered,
which have been treated the fame as the pine apple, till of a good
fize for flowering, when the pot was taken out of the bark and
This plant,
like
fome
others,
placed upon a fhelf in the ftove.
N.1J31.
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Beaufortia decussata.
Beaufortia.
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POLYADELPHIA IcOSANDRIA.
Generic Characler.
Staminium phalanges 5, petalis oppofitse.
apice bifidae
:
lobis deciduis
!
connata et inclufa calycis tubo
Anther*
Cap/. 3-locularis,
incrafi'ato
bafi
bafi infertae
monofperma,
adnato (ramo).
Brown.
Specific Character.
BEAUFORTIA
decufata
,
foliis
decuffatis
oppofitis
ovatis
longiffimis;
unguibus
phalangium
multinervibus,
ovalibufve
filamentis radiantibus.
p.
Brown
in Hort.
Kew.
ed. alt, v. 4.
418.
The Beaufortia
a very fplendid fhrub.
decufata,
As
in
when covered with bloflbms,
Melaleuca,
the flowers are
below the divifions of the branches.
produced a
entirely furround the ftem, and are not confined to one
little
in
Calothamnus,
No. 1506.
Calyx
is
inferior,
They
fide, as
top-fhaped,
of
length
the
awl-fhaped,
fegments
incurved
limb five-cleft :
the petals. Corolla five-petaled, green : petals concave, rounded,
fides overlapping one another, inferted into the margin of the
:
tube of the calyx.
Stamens polyadelphous. Filaments collected
into five bundles : the claws, or connected parts, much longer
than the corolla, the free parts divaricate or radiated, not half the
length of the claws.
But the principal charaQer on which the
afforded by the anthers : thefe are not incumbent, as in Melaleuca, but are inferted by the bafe, are
genus
is
founded,
is
two-lobed
lobes more or lefs divaricate at the point, and deciduous. When fallen off, they appear like little extinguifhers,
:
dilcharging
difcharging the pollen from the lower end.
very fmall
acute.
ments,
;
ftyle
Above
is
long and twilled
the
germen
in different directions
germen and below
a confiderable
The
is
hairy,
:
jiigma
the infertion of the
cavity filled with honey,
fila-
and clofed
above by a tufiuck of white hairs, growing from the bafe of
each bundle of filaments.
Mod of the flowers appeared to be
males, few of them having any obfervable ftyle.
The flowers
are axillary, and for the mod part grow in pairs j but only one
of them occupies the centre of the leaf, the other being as it
were fupernumerary and placed on one fide. Leaves ovate,
rigid,
acute, recurved, underneath pale, about five-nerved,
dotted with tranflucent glands.
Native of the fouth-weft coafl of New-Holland, where it was
difcovered by Robert Brown, Efq.
Flowers with us in
March, April, and May. Requires the protection of a gteenhoufe.
Propagated by cuttings.
The name was
given in honour of the Duchefs of Beaufort,
an early encourager of the fcience of Botany.
Her grace poffefTed a flourifhing botanic garden at her feat, at Badminton, in
Glouceflerfhire, in the time of Sir Hans Sloan e, Bart, to
the richnefs of which in rare exotics, the herbarium of that
celebrated naturalift, ftill preferved in theBritifh Mufeum, bears
frequent teftimony.
Communicated by Mr. James Dickson, Nurferyman, in
Acre-Lane, Clapham-Common, and late gardener to Robert
Thornton,
Efq.
The firft figure Jbows
fame, with the
andjlyle
;
the anther in its perfeft flate ; thefecond the
lobes Jeparating
and falling
off';
the third the germen
the fourth the tuJJUck of hairs at the bafe of the claw of the
bundle offilaments.
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Calea lobata.
Calea, or
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Yellow-flowered
Halberd-weed.
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Syngenesia Polygamia ./Equalis.
Generic Character.
Recept. paleaceum.
P^>/>«j pilofus.
Specific
CALEA
lobata;
CALEA
inferioribus
foliis alternis
fuperioribus
:
dentato-haftatis
Willd.Sp.PL^.p.x^^.
ratis.
Kew.
Charatler and. Synonyms.
corymbis congeftis,
ovato-lanceolatis,
Cal. imbricatus.
finuato-fer-
Swartz Prod. 113.
Hart.
ed. alt. 4. p.
516.
Sp. PI. 1207.
lobata.
Hort.
Cliff.
405.
Mart. Mill.
Diet. n. 4.
CONYZA
arborefcens lutea folio trifido.
SANTOLINA
ere&a fubhirfuta,
Plum.
foliis ferratis,
Ic.
96.
haftatis
f.
fim-
plicibus et utrinque porre£tis, floribus comofis [corymbofis ?].
Brown Jam. 315.
VIRGA AUREA
Jam. 125.
major,
Hijl. 1. p.
HALBERT-WEED.
The Calea
f.
Doria
260.
folio finuato hirfuto.
Shane
152. /. 4.
hinan Hort. Jam.
/.
a native of Jamaica, and requires the heat
of the ftove to bring it to perfection ; and being a large plant,
and poflefled of few attractions, will feldom be" thought defer ving the room that it mult neceffarily occupy there.
It is,
however, a plant of confiderable intereft, having been found to
afford a raoft valuable remedy againfl the fatal fevers of St. Nevis,
as our friend Mr. Lambert, from whofe collection at Boyton
it was communicated to us in November laft, was informed by
lobata is
James Tobin,
Efq.
who
fent
him
the feed
from which our
plant was raifed.
Brown,
Natural Hiftory of Jamaica, obferves, that
" it is an excellent bitter, and was in his time much ufed in
America, where a fpirituous infufion of the tops was generally
kept in moft plantations, and often adminiftered as an aclive warm
ftomachic."
it
in
his
Lunan,
in his
Hortus Jamaicenfis,
alfo fpeaks
of
noble vulnerary, and fays that it flops all fort of fluxes.
Introduced by Dr. William Houstoun, before 1733,
as a
and cultivated by Philip
difappeared.
Miller;
but moll probably foon
.
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Cardamine asarifolia.
Kidney-leaved
Ladies-smock.
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TETRADYNAMIA SlLiqUOSA.
Generic Character.
Siliqua linearis
marginibus truncatis
:
valvis
planis enervtbus
(elafticefaspiusdim^ientibus),diffepimentoanguftioribus.
in
Brown,
Hort. Kevo.
Specific Characler
CARDAMINE
Kezv. ed.
alt.
CARDAMINE
PL
913.
and Synonyms.
afarifolia; foliis fimplicibus
reniformibus. Hort.
4. p. 102.
fimplicibus fubcordatis.
foliis
afarifolia;
Willd. 3. p. 482.
Perfoon Syn. 2. p. 195.
Sp.
./f ///<?«/
948. Crantz Cruc. 128.
CARDAMINE montana, Afari folio.
Piedem.
n.
Tcurnef Inf. p. 225.
montanum, afari folio. 5wr. 5fc& 5. /. 3.
Herm. Parad. 203, cum I cone. /fo/. ////?. 816.
alpinum, paluftre rotundifolium, radice fer-
NASTURTIUM
NASTURTIUM
pente.
Morif
Hifi. 2.
/>.
224.
This rare alpine plant was communicated by Mr. Sweet,
late of the StockWell nurfery.
It is a native of the Italian Alps,
and occurs plentifully in the rocky beds of the torrents at the
foot of Mount Cenis.
A hardy perennial, flowers in May? June, and July. Said
in the former edition of Ai ton's Hortus Kewenfis to have
been introduced into this country in 1775? by Anthony
Chamier, Efq. but in the new edition, it is obferved to have
been cultivated in 1710; being one of the plants recorded to
have been delivered to the Royal Society from the garden belonging to the Apothecaries Company at Chelfea.
But it is the
of molt alpine plants, to be foon loft, unlefs particular care
be taken to preferve them.
All the Cardamines poffefs an antifcorbutic quality; and
this fpecies is faid by Allioni to be much ufed in the cure of
fate
fcurvy, in the diftricts where
abounds.
As this grows naturally in wet places, it {hould, in the fummer
time, have plenty of water ; or the pot in which it is planted
fliould conftantly ftand in a pan of water.
it
;
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]
Zanthorhiza apiifolia. Parsley-leaved
Zanthorhiza, or Yellow-root.
$ frft $ $ $ $
C/a/5
v
*HM*
aW Order.
Pentandria Polycynia.
Generic Characler.
Col. o.
Petala 5.
Neclaria 5,
pedicellata.
C*/>/!
plurimae,
monofperma;.
Specific
ZANTHORHIZA
apiifolia.
Nov. 79.
Bor.- Am. 1. p. 186.
LHerit.
Fl.
Name
Stirp.
/.
and Synonyms.
Kew.
Hort.
38.
P«^6
ed.
alt.
Perfoon Syn. 341.
R
ytf«z.
p. 199.
2.
Michaux
Sept. 222.
XANTHORHIZA a/>/j/o/w. Mar/. Mill. Dicl.
X ANTHORHIZA Jimplicifiima. Mar/hall Arbuft.
168.
The Zanthorhiza, of which
only one fpecies is known, is
an elegant little ihrub ; native of Carolina and Georgia ; and
confequently, though confidered as hardy, is liable to be killed
by fevere froft. As it takes up but little room, it may be admitted into the confervatory, where
it
appears to
more advantage,
being liable to be overlooked among fhrubs of larger ftature.
Its yellow root, from which it takes its name, has been fuppofed to offer a ufeful dye ; but we do not find that it has
Indeed, producls affording "a
hitherto been applied to ufe.
yellow colour are fo common, that, unlefs it mould be afcertained to poflefs fome fuperior advantages, it will molt probably
continue to be overlooked.
The flowers of this plant, though not fhewy, are curious
the neflarium confiding of five pedicled double glands, inferted
between the laciniae of the corolla; and which might be taken
many didymous anthers. Jussieu, who feldom admits
of Lin nous's neftaria, confiders thefe parts as the petals,
and what we have, with moft others, denominated corolla, he
calls calyx.
And in the fame way Jussieu interprets many
for fo
other genera, belonging to the family of ranunculace*, to which
order Zanthorhiza is referred.
Firft
difcovered
by
duced
into this country
Efq.
Flowers
in
John Bartram
in
Georgia.
Intro-
about the year 1766, by John Bush,
February, March, and April. Communicated
by Mr. George Graves.
to
Fig. 1, two of the ne&aries, magnified, Jhewing their pofition with refpecl
the petal.
Fig. 2, germens, natural fize.
Fig. 3, one
the
magnified.
of
Fig. 4, a neclarium, magnified.
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El^ocarpus cyaneus.
Blue-fruited
El^ocarpus.
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POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA.
Generic Characler.
Cat. 5-phyllus.
Drupa nucleo
Cor. 5-petala, lacera.
Anthera apice bivalvi.
crifpo.
.
Specific Cbaracler
EL./EOCARPUS
cyaneus
;
foliis
and Synonym*
fparfis lanceolatis ferratis re-
ticulato-venofis, racemis confertifloris.
ELiEOCARPUS
cyaneus.
Hort. Keiv. Epit. inter addenda.
Fine flowering fpecimens of this beautiful fhrub, in a living
ftate, were transmitted to our draughtfman from Fonthill, by
Mr. Milne, laft fummer. But as we had no opportunity of
feeing them, except in a dried ftate in the Herbariums of Sir
Joseph Banks and Mr. Lambert, we can only obferve, that
the leaves are much narrower, more reticulated, and more acutely
fawed, than mferratus ; in which they are rather crenate than
ferrate, in thofe fpecimens which we have feen. The flowers too
are not nearly fo diftant on the racemes. The fruit of this fpecies
is globular, the fize of a fmall floe, and, as the name denotes,
blue ; but we have not heard that any has been as yet produced
in this country.
Native of New-Holland.
Flowers from June to Auguft.
Introduced in 1 803. Requires the protection of a greenhoufe.
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Heynea
1738
3
Walnut-like
Heynea.
trijuga.
CAa/i a«df Order.
Dkcandria Monogynia,
Generic Characler.
Tetala 5.
Neclarium cylindricum, fauce
antheriferum.
Germ, biloculare, loculis difpermis, ovulorum
infertio interior.
Capf. fupera, 1-locularis, 2-valvis, 1-fperma.
Cal. 5-dentatus.
Sem, arillata.
Embryo inverfus, perifpermo
deftitutus.
Roxb.
Specific Characler.
HEYNEA
irijuga;
foliis
impari-pinnatis
trijngis,
paniculis
axillaribus longius pedunculatis. Roxb. Plant. Corom.
inedit.
This fine tree is a native of Napaul, from whence the feeds
were fent by Dr. Buchanan to the botanic garden at Calcutta.
Dr. Roxburgh remarks, that in feven years, a tree raifed from
feed was fifteen feet high, with much the habit of the walnut.
time of flowering at
ripened in October.
Its
Calcutta was
in
March, and the
fruit
Vande's
De
Comptefle
Our drawing was made
the
near
flowered,
it
where
fuperb colleaion at Bay es- Water,
window of the ftove, in September 1814.
Meha
of
order
;
natural
Heynea belongs to Jussieu's
and was named by Dr. Roxburgh in honour of our friend,
at
the
the
to
attention
great
paid
Heyne, who has for many years
the
in
returned,
lately
has
natural hiftory of India ; whither he
may
we
induftry
and
talents
Company's fervice. From his
Dr.
much ufeful information.
How much the fcience of Botany is indebted
Roxburgh, the fplendid work on the Plants of the
expeft
to
Dr.
Coaft ot
Coromandel,
Coromandel, publifhed under the care of Sir Joseph Banks,
Bart, by the Eaft-India Company, from drawings and defcriptions prefented by him, bear ample teftiraony.
Dr. Roxburgh has been long engaged upon a more extenfive work on the plants of India ; in order to attend to the
publication of which, he returned home laft year, but in fo
infirm a ftate of health, that death has unhappily prevented the
accomplifhment of his wifhes.
truft, however, that the
public will not be long deprived of the benefit of his labours ;
as we underftand his work is left in a ftate nearly ready for the
We
prefs.
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DlANTHUS LEPTOPETALUS. NARROWPETALLED PlNK.
* **
Cla/s
and Order,
Decandria Digynia.
Generic Character.
Cat. cylindricus,
guiculata.
l-phyllus,
bafi
fquamis 4.
Petala 5, un-
Cap/, cylindrica, 1-locularis.
Specific Charatler
**
and Synonyms.
Flores /olitarii, plures in eodem caule.
DlANTHUS
kptopetalus ; fquamis calycinis ovatis fubariftatis
breviffimis, petalis lanceolatis lateribus revolutis fubinte-
gerrimis, foliis fubulatis fcabriufculis.
DlANTHUS
floribus folitariis, fquamis calycinis
ovatis acutis breviffimis, caule paucifloro, foliis fubulatis,
kptopetalus
,•
petalis lanceolatis integerrimis.
Willd.
Enum. Hort.
Berol.
468.
DlANTHUS
pomeridianus.
Descr. Stem
Bieb. Fl. Taur. Cauc.
two
up.
329.
more, bearing only
two or three flowers. Leaves fubulate, channelled, rough at
the margin : lower ones longer than the fpaces between the
knots, upper ones fhorter.
Calycine /cales ovate, acuminate,
"with a fhort arilla or
mucro, membranaceous
inner pair
broadeft, four times fhorter than the calyx.
Calyx narrowed
upwards, minutely ftriate the whole length, covered with a
ftraight,
feet high or
:
powdery pubefcence, five-toothed. Petals nearly an inch long,
lanceolate, rolled back and fomewhat twifted, pointed, very
pightly
crenulate at
the extremity, but
not
fo evidently
as
in
our figure, white above, tinged with a yellowifh green underneath.
Stamens, in our plant, fhorter than gcrmen, anthers
imperfeft.
Cermen half an inch long, club-fhaped ; Jlyles ere&
jligmas
jlkmas long,
ereft, fpirally twitted, not revolute, villous.
The
flowers are very fweet-fcented in the morning.
We have
little
doubt but
that this
is
the leptopetahs defcribed
by Willdenow, (in his Enumeration of the Plants of the
Berlin Garden,) who obferves, that it differs from pomeridianus^
which has the calycine fcales broader ; the tube of the calyx
evidently ftnate at the upper part only ; a ftem bearing four or
five flowers, which in our plant has only two or three
petals
j
emarginate, not pointed as in this;
broader.
The
and,
laftly,
leaves
much
of Dianthus pomeridianus in the Paradifus
Londinenfis, though in fome refpe&s different, we fufped belongs to our prefent plant.
Perhaps it is the male of the fame
fpecies of which ours is the female ; for that has no appearance
of ftigma, as ours had no perfecl ftamens.
Native of Mount Caucafus.
Flowers in July. Communicated by Meffrs. Loddiges and Sons, who raifed it from
feeds which they received from Vienna.
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DlANTHUS VIRGINEUS.
Clqfs
VlRGIN PlNK.
and Order.
Decandria Digynia.
Generic Character*
Cal cylindricus, monophyllus
:
fquamis 4.
bafi
'
Petala 5,
unguiculata. Cap/, cylindrica, 1-locularis.
Characler and Synonyms,
Specific
**
DlANTHUS
fquamis
crenatis.
p.
Flores folitarii, plures in eodem caule.
virgineus ; floribus folitariis, caulibus paucifloris,
calycinis
breviffimis
obtufiffimis
Smith in Linn. Tranf. 2. p. 302.
petalis
binis,
Willd. Sp.
PL
2.
630.
DlANTHUS
virgineus
;
caule fubunifloro, corollis,
crenatis,
fquamis calycinis breviffimis, foliis fubulatis. Sp. PL 590.
Jacq. Aujtr. 5. p. 34. Tab. Append. 15.
rupejlris ; floribus folitariis, fquamis calycinis
DlANTHUS
obtufiffimis binis, petalis crenatis.
CARYOPHYLLUS
Linn. Suppl. 240.
fylveftris repens multiflorus.
Bauh. Pin.
209.
Descr.
Root creeping.
Radical leaves in tufts, linear, rigid,
fubpungent, channelled on the upper furface and keeled on the
lower
cauline leaves fimilar but wider, embracing the ftem,
ereft near the bafe, fpreading upwards ; about five pair below
:
the
Stem, in cultivation, from one to two feet
high.
Bracles or calycine fcales two, ovate, adpreffed to the
calyx, very obtufe, four times fliorter than the Calyx, which is
nearly cylindrical, a little pointed, five-toothed.
Petals five,
firft
branches.
Sometimes
entire at
broad-wedge-fhaped, toothed at the end, but quite
the fides, naked.
Stamens included : Jligmas long exfix,
ferted, revolute.
We
We
received this fpecies from Meffrs. Lodd ices and Sons,
in June 1814, who informed us that they raifed it from
feeds
from Vienna, under the name of DiaktUus
fylycftris.
It appears to us to be evidently the virgineus, as defcnbed
by
Sir James E. Smith, in the Tranfactions of the
Linnean
Society, and figured by Jacquin, in his Flora Auftriaca.
But the fpecies of this genus vary extremely, according to the
foil and fituation.
In our plant, we have always found the
calycine fcales to be only two ; but it is very probable,
that in
a (tony poor foil, when the peduncles are lefs lengthened,
the
fent
brades (of which, in the cultivated plants, there are one
or
two pair diftant from the calyx) may become clofely applied;
and thus the number of fcales may be increafed to four,
or even
to fix.
In
Willdenow's
defer iption of Dianthus w^ism, the
calycine fcales are defcribed in one part as acute,
and immediately afterwards as orbiculate.
A
cold.
hardy perennial, more likely to be injured by wet than
by
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LEAST ZaMIA.
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»
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#«i Order.
C/^/}
DlCECIA POLYANDRIA.
Generic Character.
Masc.
Amentum
ftrobiliforme.
fquama obovata. Cor.o.
fquama feffiles.
Gz/.
Anther* globofae, rima dehifcentes, in
Fem.
Anient, ftrobiliforme.
Germina 2.
Styli o.
Bacc*
2,
Cat.
fquamas
peltatae.
Cor. o.
i-fpermae.
Specific Character.
ZAMIA
pygmaa
glaberrima, foliolis fubdecemjugis ovatis obliquis imbricatis apice ferrulatis, ftipite tereti, amento ovato
g
nutante.
Descr.
long,
Male
on rounded
plant.
Fronds abruptly pinnate, about a fpan
footftalks
:
leaflets
not entirely oppofite, ovate,
with the upper margin ftraighter and ferrulate about one-third
down from the point : lower more curved and ferrulate half
way, thence to the bafe quite
rachis
by a
entire, {hining, attached
to the
cartilaginous articulation, about ten pair, fo clofe
together as fomewhat to overlap one another : rachis double
grooved on the upper, rounded on the under fide. Amentum
ovate,
on a fhort thick peduncle turned
obfoletely
anthers
flower
hexagonal,
bearing
on the under and lower
is
a
to
one
fide
:
fcales
number of globular white
fides,
fome of which, when
perfett, appear at the crevices
between the
fcales.
the
The
female plant we have not feen.
Linn^us,
Fragments of Natural Orders, inferted
both Zamia and Cycas with the Palm* ; but, in his Syftem,
he arranged them with the Filices ; in which family they were
retained by Jussieu.
Persoon and Brown make a diftinci
order of them, under the name of Cycade*.
Communicated by Meflrs. Loddiges and Sons, flowering
early in May.
An imported plant ; native of the Weft-Indies.
in
his
The
;
propagation of Palms in general is very difficult. Some
fpecies of Zamia and Cycas may indeed be increafed by divifion
but of forty-two fpecies of Palms, including cycadea, under cul-
The
tivation, at the prefent time, in the ftoves
of Meffrs. Lod dices
and Sons, not more than nine can be propagated in this way;
the reft muft all be raifed from feeds, which mould be fown as
foon as gathered, or imported alive from the tropical climes of
which they are natives.
are alfo informed by Mr. George
Loddiges, that the whole family likes a fandy light foil, which
We
will not retain the water, but fuffer
that their heads fhould
But every attempt
be kept
it
in a
to drain off freely
warm
and
humid atmofphere.
:
keep up the heat of the ftove to a ftated
degree, he confiders as abfurd, as even the hotteft climates vary
extremely ; and their (loves at Hackney not unfrequently have
a temperature of 120 and as low as 6o°, in the fame day; and
this change is fo far from injuring their inhabitants,
that thefe
to
are manifeftly benefited thereby.
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Seseli divaricatum.
]
Shining Seseli.
Oafs and Order.
Pentandria Digynia.
Generic Character.
Umbella globofae. Invohcrum nullum, vel foliolo uno alterove.
Fruclus ovatus ftriatus.
and Synonyms.
Specific CharacJer
SESELI
divaricatum
caule ramofiflimo divaricato, foliis bipmnatifidis
laciniis lanceolatis incifis, involucris nullis
mvolucellis linearibus. Purfb Ear. Am. Sept.
732. Suppl.
;
:
SESELI
lucidum.
Had we
Mr. Pursh
Frafer's Catal.
1813.
not feen a fpecimen
of
marked by
himfelf, in Mr. Lambert's Herbarium; the obfervationof this Botanift, that it " refembles
Seseli tortuofum
very much," would have led us to doubt if it
could poffibly be
his divaricatum, as
it
this
plant,
appears to us to referable nothing
lefs
than
In the fmall plants that we have feen cultivated in
pots, the ftem is not much branched, nor are
the few branches
very divaricate.
tortuofum.
We
mould have
preferred the
was offered to fale
we imagine was given
it
firft
introduced into
The
in
it
this
name of
under which
Mr. Fraser's Catalogue, and which
by Mr. Nuttall, by whom it was
lucidum,
country.
flowers have a fweet fcent, refembling that of the Starch
Hyacinth.
Perhaps a hardy Perennial.
Native of Upper Louifiana.
Communicated by Meflrs. J, and
J. Fraser, of Sloaneoquare,
M'iJ4-
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PULMONARIA DAVURICA.
Lung-wort.
DAURIAN
Oafs and Order,
Pentandria Monogynia.
Generic Character.
Cor. infundibuliformis,
fauce pervia.
Cal prifmatico-penta
gonus.
Specific Character.
PULMONARIA
davurica
,-
foliis
radicalibus ovatis petiolatis
fcabris, caulinis lineari-lanceolatis glabriufculis,
limbo co-
rolla? cyathiformi.
Descr.
Root perennial
or biennial.
Stem angular, with
rough angles, from a fpan to a foot high, ereft, branched towards the top.
Radical leaves ovate, on long footftalks, rough,
with two or three nerves going from each fide the midrib towards the point : Cauline leaves narrow-lanceolate, quite entire,
fcarcely rough,
and fometimes quite fmooth.
racemes, pale red, changing to bright blue.
pedicles
about the length of the calyx.
Flowers in nodding
Peduncles hairy
Calyx five-cleft, hairy,
three or four times fhorter than the tube of the corolla^ which is
cylindrical, fomewhat flattened into four fides : limb ereft, cup-
fhaped.
Neclary five hairy glands, firft yellow, then changing
to orange colour, in the faux of the corolla, but leaving it
pervious. Stamens on very {hort filaments inferted into the tube :
Anthers oblong, incumbent, within the tube.
Style filiform,
longer than the corolla
Stigma capitate, fmall.
:
The
glands in the faux of the corolla, and the exferted ftyle,
approximate this fpecies to the genus Symphytum.
Raifed from feeds fent from the Gorenki garden to Mr.
Lambert, by Dr. Fischer. Specimens of the fame fpecies
are preferved in Pallas's Herbarium, now in the poffeflion of
Mr. Lambert, with the name which we have adopted in the
Profefibr's own hand-writing ; though it appears from a fpecimen, fent by him to Sir Joseph Banks, that he once thought
it might be the fame with
angufiifolia, having that name, with a
note of interrogation, written to it.
Flowers in May.
Propagated by feeds.
Hardy.
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Halleria lucida. African FlyHoneysuckle.
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Clqfs
uMnfrfr*
j
and Order.
DlDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.
Generic Character.
Cal. 3-
f.
5-phyllus.
Cor. 4-fida.
Bacca fupera,
bilocularis,
polyfperma.
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Specific Cbaracler
HALLERIA
and Synonyms,
corollis
ferratis,
acuminatis
ovatis
lucida;
Sp.
Willd.
exfertis.
ftaminibus
triphyllo,
bilabiatis, calyce
foliis
Pi. 3. p. 310. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 37.
bilabiatis,
corollis
ovatis,
foliis
lucida;
HALLERIA
triphyllo.
HALLERIA.
HALLERIA
LONICERA
calyce
Tbunb. Nov. Acl. Up/. 6. p. 39.
Hort.
Fabric. Hort. Helm/. 389. ?
323.
Did.
Mill.
Mart.
PL
Sp.
872.
lucida.
rotundo.
fru&u
dentatis
acuminatis
foliis lucidis
Burin. Afric. 244.
Cliff.
89.
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2.
trichotomoufly
high,
feet
five
or
Descr. Stem fhrubby, four
ovaldependent,
petiolated,
branched.
Leaves oppofite,
on
depreffed
veins
netted-veined,
acuminate, ferrate, mining,
blooddull
a
of
Flowers
underneath.
the upper furface, pale
aggreon
leaves,
the
below
Items
colour, growing on the naked
perfiftent,
of
Calyx
peduncles.
gated, fubverticillate nodding
obtufe
lobes.
four
or
three
into
one leaflet irregularly divided
funnelcurved,
fomewhat
long,
Corolla irregular, tube an inch
lateral
emarginate,
lobe
upper
the
fhaped : limb bilabiate
underneath.
in
preffed
fhort,
ones very obtufe, lower lip very
the
fides
Be
incumbent.
anthers
Stamens four, equal-exferted :
four perfeQ flamens, there is the rudiment of a fifth filament
Germen fuperior, flefhy,
half the length of the tube, fterile.
:
conical.
:
conical, bilocular
:
Style afcendant, longer than the
Stigma acute.
have not feen the ripe
We
it is
a
foft
fruit
;
according to
ftamens
Fabricius
fucculent brown-black berry, crowned with the dried
remains of the calyx ; but it is very doubtful whether he
defcribes the fame plant, though his account of the corolla
The germen in our plant is evicorrefponds well enough.
dently fuperior, and could not therefore be crowned with the
calyx, unlefs it increafes at the bafe only and elevates the calyx
in
its
prOgrefs.
The rudiment of
the fifth filament, and the equal, exferted
ftamens approximate this plant to the genus Lonicera, as a
fpecies of which Burmann confidered it.
Communicated by John Walker, Efq. of Arno's-Grove,
Southgate ; flowering at the beginning of May.
greenhoufe
fhrub; propagated by cuttings. Cultivated by Philip Miller,
A
in 1752.
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Paradoxical
Acacia, decipiens.
Acacia.
» » » M»
*»
M
> » ft
ft*
»
POLVCAMIA MONCECIA.
Generic Character.
Hermaphrod.
4—100.
Masc. Gz/.
Stam.
Cal. 5-dentatus.
Cor.
5 -fida,
feu 5-petala.
Leguyi- 2-valve.
Pjtf. 1.
Cor. 5-fida,
5-dentatus.
f.
5-petala.
«<w».
4—
100.
Synonyms.
and
Characler
•$>?«#
ACACIA
decipiens; foliis
1:
trapezoideis
paffimque
triangularibus
interiore glandulifero,
ftipuhs
fohtanis
capitulis
glabris,
fetaceis caducis, ramulis
7—10-
angulo exteriore fpinofo;
Brown
floris.
MIMOSA
Konig
in Hort.
decipiens;
in
4^3triangulari-cuneiformibus Iparhs.
Kew.
foliis
ed. alt. 5. p.
Ann. of Bot. 1. p. 366.
tmncatum ; fronde fimphci,
•
1
•
pinnis
ADIANTHUM
'
1
atternis
Burnt, tl. lnd.
fpinulofis.
angulofis
fublunulatis
triangulari
66./. 4.
T
ex
Java.
mangulis
irregulanter
indicum, foliis
D. Kleinboff, ex Burmanno.
tolioiis
decompohtis,
tmncatum ; frondibus
p. 235.
/.
ADIANTHUM
ADIANTHUM
fubfalcatis
cuneatis
pinnatis: pinnis alternis
gerrimis.
Linn.
Syjl. Veg.
ed. 13.
p.
79°-
particularly
truncaus inteRetch'
S?' FL 4#
defcnbed
in the
This curious ftirub has been
Charles
friend
our
by
Annals of Botany, as above quoted,
which
given,
firft
was
name
Konig, Efq. by whom its fpeciHc
ferves to
The
firft
commemorate
in
circumftance
a remarkable
its
niltory.
L.
N.
Profeffor
by
was
notice taken of this plant
as
an
Kleinhoff,
from a Mr.
Burmann, who
received
it
ADIANTHUMji
ADiAWTHUM,underwhichiiaincbeouhliflicditin his Flora Indica.
From the ProfefTor it was adopted by Linn a us, and inferted
m the thirteenth edition of his Svftema Vegetabilium, by
Murray. The difcovery of the real genus of this plant was
made by the late Jonas Drvasder, Efq. who identified
Burm Ann's plant with a fpecimen brought from the fouth-weft
coaft of New-Holland, by Mr. Menzies, and
afcertained it to
be a true Mimosa, belonging to the divifion,
by
fince
Willdenow,
feparated
under the name of Acacia. This plant
is a native of the fouth-weft coaft
of New-Holland, not of
North-America, as at firft ftated in the Annals of
Botany, but
corrected
in
collected his
account,
is
the
errata.
Specimen
in
Whether Mr. Klexnhoff
Java, as
appears from
reallv
Burmann's
uncertain.
Communicated
to
us
by John
Walker,
highly interefting colle-dion, at
Arno's-Grove.
the Kew-Garden in 1803, by Mr.
Peter
trom March to June.
Efq.
from
his
Introduced to
Good. Flowers
Propagated by cutting.
14
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]
CORR^EA SPECIOSA,
RED-FLOWERED
CORR^A.
ft»** ft » j »»$ » j
CZ^/5-
ifc jj,fr
#»J Order.
OCTANDRIA
Generic
G*/.
MONOGYNIA.
Chamber.
campanulatus, 4-dentatus.
tione i-petala).
y j || n n^ ^ ^
O.
4-petala (vel adglutinaCap/. ^ocularis, 4-valvis, loculis
i-fpermis.
Specific
Characler and Synonyms.
CORR/EA
fpeciofa; foliis ovalibus petiolatis finuato-denticulatis
fubtus ferrugineis, floribus eredis, calycibus
edentulis.
CORR JE A fpeciofa.
653.
Botan.
CORR^EA
The whole
Epitome Hart. Kew. inter addenda. Bot. Rep.
Regijl. n. 26.
rubra.
Smith Exot. Bot. v.
2.
p. 26. fine icone.
plant, not excepting the corolla,
is
covered with
a ftellated pubefcence,
thicker and frequently ferrugineous on
the underfide of the leaf.
The tube of the' corolla has four
which may be fuppofed to mark out the adhefion of the
lour petals, but which we have
not found to be feparable
lines,
without tearing.
elliptical,
margm
to
The
leaves in different fpecimens vary from
oblong-cordate ; the apparent finuofities of the
from
than from any real
As
racters
arife
Sir
being unequally rolled back, rather
incifure or denticulation.
this part
James E. Smith had
given the diftinguifhing chafpecies, when defcribing Corr*:a virens in
the
of this
Exotic Botany, and had called it rubra, this
appropriate name
ought to have been retained; when the
three known fpecies
would have all derived their appellations
from the colour of
jneir flowers, alba,
virens, and rubra s but as the nurferymen's
favourite name of
fpeciofa feems now to be generally adopted,
we
;
we have
than run the rifk of making
any confufion, though, by fo doing, we give up both the right
rather fallen in with
it,
of priority and the preferable name.
The genus was firft eftablifhed by Sir James E. Smith, in
honour of that excellent Portuguefe Botanift, Mr. Joseph
CORREA DE SERRA.
Native of New South- Wales.
Firft
Joseph Banks and Dr. Solander.
difcovered
by
Introduced in
Sir
1804.
Propagated by cuttings. Requires to be protected from froft
but ought to have a free circulation of air. Thrives beft in
a mixture of light loam and peat-mould.
Flowers in March,
April, and May.
Communicated by Meflrs. Loddiges and
Sons.
N'
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Euphorbia variegata.
Spurge.
4
#-•
#•
£ sMWh*- *-4hMh^ *
Pye-balled
,
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#
C/g/S #»</ Order.
DoDECANDRIA TrIGYNIA*
Generic Character.
Cor. 4-
f.
5-petala, calyci infidcns.
Cal. l-phyllus ventricofus.
Cap/, tricocca.
Specific Character.
EUPHORBIA
variegata i (herbacea dichotoma) foliis ovalibus
integerrimis undulatis glabris, pedunculis axillaribus unifloris, petalis orbiculatis,
capfulis glabris, caule hirto.
All the parts of this hitherto unnoticed plant are fmooth,
except the item, which is hairy.
few of the lower leaves
are plain, but as foon as the {'lowers begin, though they preferve the fame form, take on an appearance of bractes, the
margins being furrounded with a band, which, like the petals,
is perfectly white, and becomes broader and broader towards
A
the extremity of the branch,
till
the uppermoft leaves are all
The ftyles are
white except a narrow line along the midrib.
united half-way up, then become bifid and revolute with obtufe
ftigmas.
The
filaments alfo are bifid.
This fpecies approaches to mdifiora, but differs efTentially in
having folitary flowers ; befides that, the petals and every part
of the fructification are larger, while the plant itlelf is much
fmaller.
an annual j propagated by feeds only. Native of Upper
Louifiana.
Introduced by Mr. Nuttal.
Our drawing was taken laft September, at Meflrs. Lee and
It is
Kennedy's, Hammcrfmith.
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RECURVED GOMESA.
GOMESA RECURVA.
C/tf/}
]
#«i Order.
Gynandria Monandria.
Div. IV.
demum
Anthera terminalis mobilis decidua.
Maff<e pollinis
cereaceae.
Generic Charatlcr.
Labellum ecalcaratum indivifum, bicriftatum,
columnae apterae
liberae
continuum.
feffile,
cum
bafi
Petala 2 antica exteriorum
connata, labello fuppofita. Maffa pollinis 2, hinc (ulco obliquo
bilobee, apice connexae proceffu communi fligmatis. Brown Mff.
Specific
GOMESA
recurva.
Name.
Brown Mff.
comprcfTcd with (harp margins.
Leaves lanceolate, widening upwards, in our fpecimen three
two
ifiue
which
bafe
of
the
from
bulb;
the
from the crown of
the
both
petioles,
compreffed
broad
their
in
others enfolding,
each,
on
one
Scape,
bulb.
the
of
and
fcape
lower part of the
Bracles, one
fide, about nine inches long, rounded, recurved.
at the bafe of each flower, ovate, concave, membranaceous.
Germen inferior, club-fhaped, terminating in a very fhort
peduncle.
Corolla ringent; three fuperior petals more or lefs ereft,
concave, with undulated edges, obtule, moftly connivent up-
Descr.
Stem-bulb ovate,
the two lexer ones united into one, nearly the whole
length, dependent, appearing like a fecond lip to the flower, fome-
ward
:
what longer than the others ; the two ribs (hew this to be really
two petals united. The true lip or labellum (ne&ary of Linn jl us)
is fhorter than the lower petal, oval, with a double ridge on
each fide towards the bafe, united with the column which
Anther a hood-fhaped
has no appendices or lateral filaments.
moveable lid. Pollen maffes two, round-oval, fmooth bodies
obliquely fulcated on the under fide, connected by an elaftic
pellucid
pellucid pedicle terminating on the edge of the ftigma.
circular
depreflion,
juft
below the anther.
Stigma a
Flowers
Iweet-
fcented, greenifh yellow.
curious plant has never, we believe, been before
defcribed.
are indebted to our friend, Robert Brown,
Efq. for generic character and name, given to it in honour of
This
We
Bernardinus Antonius Gomes,
Phyfician to the Portuguefe fleet, and author of Botanico-Medical Obfervations on the
Plants of Brazil, a very refpe&able work, written in the Latin
and Portuguefe languages.
Native of the Brazils. Communicated by Mr. William
Anderson, curator of the Botanic Garden belonging to the
Company of Apothecaries3 at Chelfea, the latter-end of May
lad.
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Mountain Arnica,
Arnica Montana.
or Leopard's-bane.
Syngenesia Polycamia. Superflua.
Generic
Recept.
Chamber.
Cj/. foliolis sequalibus,
Pappus fimplex.
faepius filamentis 5 abfque antheris.
nudum.
Corollula radii
Specific
ARNICA
montam
Chamber and
Synonyms.
PL
IVilld. 3. p.
Sp.
;
foliis ovatis integris
:
caulinis geminis op-
2106. i/or/. Kew. ed.
Svenjk
Flor. Dan. t. 63.
1245.
alt. 5. />. 83.
Mart. Mill. Dicl.
Alliotd
1.
Bot. 186.
Gartn. Frucl. 2. />. 451. /. 173.
Leers Herb. n.
Pedem. n. 743. Scop. Carniol. n. 1086.
£/tfcfor.
Dauph.
Villars
3.JP.207.
651. Krock. Silef. n. 1420.
raw
k,
10.
Botany,
1.
/>.
Medical
^««fo.
Germ. t. 595.
10.
Cent.
vfr//>:.
/£r&
228.
Stokes Bot. Mat. Med. 4. p.
Drc. 9. /. 9. Lam. et Decand. Flore Fra/y. 4. p. 175.
pofitis.
/
/W#
Pal.
n.
ARNICA.
ARNICA
809.
Obf. vol. 1. raw Zwtf.
Hall. Hifi.
foliis conjugates ovatis integerrimis.
Lam. Dicl. 2. p. 312.
oppofuifolinm.
£<?///»
DORONICUM
DORONICUM
DORONICUM
Auftriacum quartum.
5.
germanicum
ct
6.
Cluf.
ft.
90.
Pan. 522.
pannonicum.
C//^. Hj/?,
2. p. 18-
DORONICUM
CALTHA alpina.
Plantaginis folio alterum.
Baub. Pin. 185.
Taiern. 336. ed.Genn.p. 714Baub.
606.
Compend.
<f/«/&w
AfoMfc D/'o/?. 934.
2.
/.
8./
14.
//or/.
Eyft. Mfi.
Hift. 3. pars 1. />. 20.
68.
Gu//.
«/.
2.
Lugd.
p.
1169.
montana. Dalecb.
^.
Dalecb.
1057.
Matthioli.
f. Alifma
ALISMA.
PTARMICA
DAMASONIUM
Gallic. 1.
924.
CHRYSANTHEMUM
latifolium. Dod. 263.
Ger.Emac.742.
For
For^the clafs it belongs to, the Arnica montana is a fhewy
plant j but the prejudices we imbibe in the nurfery againft the
Dandelion, otherwife a plant of confiderable beauty, have an
influence upon our feelings with refpecl to the whole of the
fyngenefiae, or at lead of thofe that have yellow flowers
on
:
account, they are favourites with few.
Many of them,
however, poflefs very aBive medicinal powers ; amongft which,
this is one of the molt eminent ;
though it has never been received into the London Difpenfatory.
In the countries where it
this
grows fpontaneoufly,
it
has been feldom overlooked, and
lternutatory qualities have moftly acquired for
Mountain Snuff.
Dr.
Co l
it
the
its
name of
n, of Vienna, publifhed fuch extravagant encomiums
on the virtues of this plant, that, as has happened in many other
mftances, if they had the effeft of acquiring for it
a temporary
i
celebrity, finally occafioned
negled.
It is evident, however, from the teftimony of writers both prior
and pofterior to
Dr. Colin's publication, as well as from its very a£live fenfible
qualities, that it poffefles very valuable
properties, and, where it
can be obtained in perfeaion, may be fuccefsfully
had recourfe
to, as a remedy for many difeafes.
For a fhort account of the medicinal virtues
its
total
of the Arnica,
Dr. Woodville's Medical Botany may be
confulted; and for
a reference to all the writers on the fubjea,
Dr. Stokes's
Botanical Materia Medica.
A hardy perennial, loving a fliady and moift fituation. Cultivated by Philip Miller, in
1731.
Flowers in July and
Auguft.
Communicated by Mr. Salisbury, from
his Botanic
Garden
in Sloane-Street.
A'-
^^^
n5i
—
[
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]
Acacia discolor. Two-colouredleaved Acacia.
Ck/} £»i Order,
POLYGAMIA MoNCECIA,
•
Generic Character.
IIermaph.
4
— 100.
Gz/. 3-dentatus.
5-fida vel 5-petala.
Stain.
Legumen 2-valve.
Pi/I. 1.
Masc.
C<?r.
Cal. 5-dentatus.
Cor, 5-fida vel 5-petala.
Stam. 4
100.
Specific
ACACIA
CbaraBer and Synonyms.
inermis, foliis bipinnatis : partialibus quinpropriis fub decemjugis fubtus difcoloribus,
difcolor ;
quejugis
:
fpicis globolis
laribus.
pedunculatis racemofis terminalibus et axil-
Willd. Sp.
PL
4. p.
1068.
Hort.
Kew.
ed. alt. 5,
p. 467.
MIMOSA
A
difcolor.
Bot. Repof. 235.
handfome Jhrub with dark green fmooth
leaves,
underneath
fometimes reddifh brown. The young
branches are angular, clothed with a thick (hort pubefcence.
Flowers in globular heads, about twelve in a head, on racemes
pedicles alternate, diftant, growing nearly in right lines from the
common peduncle, which is clothed with alternate, fmall, acute,
more or
lefs
white,
:
fcaly bracles.
very many,
Calyx five-cleft.
in
little
Style generally longer
brufh-like
Petals five,
tufts.
whitifh.
Stamens
Germen oblong-ovate.
than the ftamens.
ProFlowers in all feafons.
Native of New South-Wales.
pagated by cuttings.
Introduced in 1788, by the Right Hon,
Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. K, B.
7
1751
C
3
Cymbidium ensifolium. Sword-leaved
Cymbidium.
and Order.
Clafs
Gynandkia Monandria.
Generic Character.
ecalcaratum,
Labellum
concavum, cum
nee
(Timplici
bafi
Petala patentia, diiiincla.
produ&a) columns articula'tum.
Majfa pollinis 2, pollice bilobae. Brown in Hurt. Kew.
Specific Character
CYMBIDIUM
foliis
enJifoUuni;
and Synonyms.
radicalibus enfiformibus ner-
fubrccurvato
ovato
labello
paucifloro,
vofis, fcapo tereti
IVilld. Sp. PL
6.
Up/.
Acl.
p.
Nov.
77.
maculate Swartz
4- p.
110.
EPIDENDRUM
p. 22.
Thanh.
/.
24.
Hort. Kew. ed.
Dec.
Icon.
LIMODORUM
RAN
Spec. Plant. 1352.
enjifolium.
alt. 5.
p. 213.
Smtto Spicdcg.
Bot. Rep. 344.
1. t. 8.
EPIDENDRUM >«#£.
t.
.
.
enfatunu
Redout e Liliac. 11 3.
Thunb. Jap. 29.
fl**k
Kampj.
Ic.
3. optima.
vulgo et
litteratis.
Tfewj^. Amcen. 863.
plant,
ftove
valuable
very
The Cymbidium f/#>to is a
roots,
us
parting
by
being more eafily preferved and propagated,
of
advantage
the
poffeffing
than moft of this natural order, and
being exceedingly fragrant.
(No.
888J;
It has confiderable affinity with
CymbidiumW
but
is
fpecifically diftina
from
that fpecies.
Monl.
has figured our plant, but has erroneoufly given
it
finenfe.
the latter
Native of China and Japan. Flowers
the
by
fummer.
1780,
before
Cultivated
FOTHERGILL.
late
Redoute
the
name
ot
.
.
c
end of the
Dr. John
Wnte
VS*
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]
Centaurea Rhapontica,
Swiss
Centaury.
$
a c
#
$$ $$
'
4»
jfc
Syngenesia Polygamia Frustranea.
Generic Charatler.
Recept. fetofum. Pappus fimplcx. Cor. radii infundibuliformes,
longiores, irregulares.
Specific Character
and Synonyms.
CENTAUREA
Rhapontica; calycibus fcariofis : fquamis ovatis
laceris, foliis ovato-oblongis denticulatis fubtus tomentofis.
Willd. Sp. PL 3. p. 2305. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 5. p. 153.
Rhapontica; calycibus fcariofis, foliis ovatotomentofis.
fubtus
petiolatis
integris
denticulatis
oblongis
CENTAUREA
:
Sp.
421. Villars Dauph. 3. p. 44.
Hall. Enum. p. 687. n. 1.
emarginapediculum
ad
lanceolatis
petiolatis
PL 1294.
Hort.
Cliff.
RHAPONTICUM.
CYNARA
tis.
foliis
Hall. Emend. 2. n. 64.
CENTAURIUM
emarginatis.
foliis
lanceolatis
petiolatis
ad
pediculum
Hall. Hijl. n. 160.
CENTAURIUM majus
CENTAURIUM majus.
RHAPONTICUM folio
folio Helenii incano. Tourn.
Cord. Hijl.
lib.
4.
Injl.
c.
sg.
Bank. Pin. 117.
Helenii incano.
Pempt.
Bod.
389.
Icon.
exiftimatur.
ut
five Rhei,
folio.
Enute
facie,
majoris
capitatum Centaurii
228.
lc.
118.
i^.—adverf.
Obf.
RHA
RHA
RHAPONTICUM
449.
Lob.
Park.
Lob.Ic.22S.
anguftifolium.
alterum
Theat. 157.
The Centaurea
Rhapontica
is
the
remarkable for the
artichoke,
among
fize
of
plants
its
of
yield only to
fupbeing
as
celebrity,
confiderable
this order.
It had once
it
though
(hops,
the
of
the Rhubarb
pofed to be the parent
of
r
flowers, which
does
does not appear to be pofleiTed of the fenfible qualities of that druq.
By fome, though acknowledged to be different from the rhubarb,
or Rha barbarum, it was fuppofed to be the Rheurn ponticum
of Dioscorides and Pliny. But neither is this very probable, nor is it worth while now to inquire about it: the
plant producing the rhubarb of the fhops being at prefent well
known, and of not uncommon occurrence in our gardens.
There is a variety with narrower leaves, but in other refpe&s
the plants feem to be the fame.
Native of the Alps of Switzerland and of Italy.
Except the figure of Dodonius, reprinted and copied fo many times, it does not feem to have
been ever before reprefented ; unlefs the figure above quoted
from Cord us be intended for it, which is very dubious.
It is a hardy perennial.
Cultivated in 1640, by Parkinson.
Our drawing was taken fome years ago from a fpecimen communicated by MefTrs. Loddiges and Sons, and we have been
lately favoured with the fame from
John Walker, Efq.
Arno's-Grove.
N' lyM
1753
[
]
lonicera sempervirens (,3.) minor.
Carolina Trumpet Honeysuckle.
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Pentandria Monogynia.
Generic Character.
Cor. l-petala,
polyfperma 3
Bacca
irregularis.
bilocularis,
infera.
Specific Character
LONICERA fcmpervirens ;
oblongis
bus
a.
j3.
fpicis
fubnudis terminalibus,
foliis
connato-perfoliatis, corollis fubasquali-
fummis
tubo fuperne ventricofo. Willd. Sp. PL l.p. 983. Hort.
:
Kew.
major ;
n.
:
and Synonyms.
ed. alt. 1. p.
377.
foliis Jubrotundis.
Hort.
Kew.
ed. alt. 1. p.
Supra
377.
781.
minor
;
Hort.
foliis oblongis.
Kew.
I.
c.
Heic
n.
1753.
PERICLYMENUM
floribus capitatis terminalibus, foliis lanconnato-perfoliatis
fummis
:
glaucis
fubtus
oppofitis
ceolatis
fempervirentibus.
Miller's Herbar.
apud Banks.
cultiwere
Honeyfuckle
Trumpet
Both the varieties of the
doubtful
was
who
Miller,
vated at Chelfea, by Mr. Philip
whether they ought
fpecics.
diftina
as
confidercd
be
to
not rather
way
every
is
and
Carolina,
of
Our prefent plant is a native
cannot
we
but
fort
larger
;
more delicate than the Virginian or
find any charaBers by which it can be marked as fpecifically
underneath,
glaucous
more
different.
The leaves are narrower,
colour,
delicate
more
a
of
and the flowers are (tenderer and
engraving.
black
a
over
inimitable by art, efpecially
of
our
inclemency
the
bear
This variety is too tender to
when
therefore,
and
fevere
;
winters, if they happen to be at all
treated as a
hardy fhrub,
it is
generally foon
loft.
It
is
a
good
it worthy
renders*
beauty
climber for the confervatory, and
gardens,
that
our
to
loft
long
of fuch a fituation.
fo
It has been
its
when
lately introduced
by Meffrs.
J.
and
J.
T. Fraser,
it
was
confidered as new.
Flowers moll part of the fummer.
or
more
certainly
by
layers.
Propagated by cuttings,
Communicated from Eraser's
American Nurfery, Sloane-Square.
T
A *<n54
1754
E
P.eonia Anomala.
3
Jagged-leaved
Siberian P^eony.
Clqfs
and Order.
POLYANDRIA DlGYNIA.
Generic Character.
Pelala 5.
Cal. 5-phyllus.
Styli o.
Specific Character
P/EONIA
nudis
Sp.
:
PL
anomala ;
foliis
Cap/, polyfpermae.
and Synonyms.
biternatis
:
foliolis
multipartita
laciniis lanceolatis, capfulis depreflis glabris.
2.
p. 1222.
Hort.
Kew.
3. p.
ed. alt.
316.
WML
Bot.
Repof. 514.
P^EONIA
anomala; calyce foliofo, capfulis glabris depreflii.
Linn. Mant. 247.
fruftibus quinque glabris patentibus.
PyEONIA
4. p. 184.
P^EONIA
/.
72.
laciniata; foliis
germinibus glabris.
P,£Onia
Gmel. Sibir,
biternatis, foliolis
Pall. Rojf. 2. p. 93.
anomala has for the
mod
t.
acute laciniatis,
85.
part five capfules,
which
native
foil,
its
in
root,
The
fpreading.
but
not upright,
is faid to grow very large, dividing into tuberous branches a
foot long, yellow on the outfide and white within, fmelling
There are two varieties, the one having
like Florentine Iris.
flowers of a pale, the other of a more intenfe purple colour.
as
a hardy
confidered
confequently
Native of Siberia,
are
it perifhes
that
obferved,
frequently
have
perennial.
Yet we
wetnefs,
to
the
not to
owing
probably
in the winter.
is
This
the cold of our climate ; though many plants which, in their
native foil, are covered with fnow, are liable to injury from the
this
want
of
natural
the
from
perhaps,
latter caufe
partly,
;
defence,
and
partly
from beginning to vegetate
too early,
and
We
and being then cut off by our fpring frofts.
do not knowthat it has yet been put in practice; but we mould recommend the roots to be taken up, as foon as the foliage is all
decayed, and preferved in dry fand, proteQed from the froft,
during the winter, planting them out early in the fpring.
Introduced in 1788, by John Bell, Efq. Communicated
by Meffrs. Chandler and Buckingham, from their Nurfery,
Flowers in May and June.
at Vauxhall.
17*
L
:
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]
Lasiopetalum purpureum.
Purple-
flowered Lasiopetalum.
hH^ *
*
Clqfs
and Order.
Pentandria Monogynia.
Generic Character.
rotatus,
Cal.
Anther* apice poris
valvis
medio
Stamina
quinquefidus.
2.
Capfula fupera,
LASIOPETALUM
Descr.
3-locularisj
munita.
trivalvis
feptiferis.
Specific Charatler
Hort.
fquama
bafi
Kew.
A
purpureum
ed. alt. 2. p.
j
and Synonym.
foliis
ovalibus integerrimis.
36.
\owJhrub, decumbent
unlefs fupported, covered
puftellated
a
with
flowers,
the
in every part, not excepting
alternate.
entire,
quite
Leaves oblong-elliptical,
befcence.
pairs
in
growing
lobed,
ibmetimes
StipuU heart-fhaped, oblique,
accompany
not
do
ftipules
Thefe
or fingly above the petiole.
It
leaf.
the
from
diftant
fometimes
all the leaves, and are
the
one
of
of
place
the
takes
often happens that the peduncle
on
ftipule
a
with
middle
the
ftipules, fo that the leaf Rands in
three
or
two
Stamens
other.
one fide and a peduncle on the
looking
flowers
fix-flowered
times longer than the leaf, about
purple-coloured
a
but
corolla,
one way. Flowers have no
:
bracle
conor
involucre
ternate
a
calyx, fupported underneath by
Stamens
five,
way.
one
all
fiding of three linear leaflets looking
points;
the
at
conniving
filaments very fhort ; anthers black,
than
longer
confiderably
germen fuperior, three-cornered ; fiyle
ftamens
;
jligma Ample.
long
very
remain
fcent
without
The lively purple flowers
flirub
grecnhoufe
this
little
expanded, and coming in fucceffion,
year.
the
half
nearly
continues in bloffom
Native
New
South-Wales.
Diicovered by Robert
Brown, Efq, Introduced in 1803, by Mr. Peter Good.
Thrives bell in a Tandy peat, with a {light admixture of loam.
Communicated by Meflrs. Loddiges and Sons, and by
MeflTrs, Coi..ville and Son.
Native of
& tjti
1756
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]
White-flowered
Pjeonia albiflora.
P^ony.
Qqfs and Order.
POLYANDRIA DlGYNIA.
Generic Charafter.
Petala 5.
Cal. 5-phyllus.
Styli.
Specific Character
P-EONIA
integris
2. p.
a.
albiflora ; foliis
P^EONIA
Hort.
foliolis ovato-lanceolatis
:
Kew.
ed. alt. 3.
ternis glabris.
Willd. Sp.
103.
{lore albo fimplici.
PL
p. 316.
:
foliolis lobatis nitentibus
Pall. Roff. 2. p. 90.
/.
84.
Amman.
lafteo fiore, foliis utrinque viridantibus.
Ruth. 77.
n.
bitematis
albiflora; foliis ternatis
germinibus
P^EONIA
and Synonyms,
nudis, capfulis recurvatis glabris.
1222.
P^EONIA
Cap/, polyfpermae.
o.
n.
Atl. Nat. Curiof. v. 3. p. 355,
20.
PjEONIA fruBibus tribus glabris. Gmel. Sib. 4. p. 184.
P^IONIA albiflora. Bot. Repof. 64.
Sali/b. Parad. Lond. 78.
0. P^EONIA edulis.
y. P^EONIA albiflora, flore pleno. Bot. Repof. 612.
2.
in
flore
pleno rubro.
The
flowers of the
P,eonia
evening
roots
the
;
the
albiflora
are fragrant, efpecially
are faid to be eaten
foups in
in
Siberia.
Several varieties of this fpecies are cultivated in the gardens,
differing from one another in the flze of the flowers and number,
form, and colour of the petals; fome being flefli-coloured,
fome pure white, fome jagged
entire.
at
the
The piftils, from which we hoped
margin, and fome quite
to derive
more
conftant
characters,
;
chara&ers, vary in colour, and in
number from
three to four.
In our plant, which had eight petals, both gcrmens and ftigmas
were quite white. Another variety, fent at the fame time, under
the name of tatarica, had fmaller flowers, calycine leaflets more
fimple, and leaves lefs confluent, the four germens and ftigmas
red.
In a third fpecimen, communicated by our friend, John
Walker, Efq. the flowers were larger; petals twelve, jagged
at the edge ; germens three, greenifh red j ftigmas flefh-coloured
branches coloured at the point only.
The double forts, of
which there are white, flefti-coloured, and bright red varieties,
fweet-fcented, are much larger plants,
that they are really of the fame fpecies.
all
Our
and we are not
certain
drawing was taken from a plant communicated by
MefTrs. Chandler
and Buckingham,
Nurferymen, at
Vauxhall. Native of Siberia, beyond the lake Baical.
Flowers
in May and June.
Introduced in 1784, by Chevalier Pallas.
Propagated by cuttings of the root. Hardy.
*757
[
]
Daviesia Latifolia. Broad-leaved
Daviesia.
» **
*•*$
Decandria Monogynia.
Generic
Cat. angulatus, ebrafteatus.
Chamber.
Cor. papilionacea
:
carina vexillo
Germen pedicellatum, difpermum.
Stylus ftri&us.
Stigma fimplex. Legumen compreffum, angulatum, elaftice de-
brevior.
hifcens.
Slropbiola feminis
poftice integra.
Brown
in Hort,
Kew.
Specific Characler
DAVIESIA
latifolia i
and Synonyms,
ramis inermibus,
foliis
ellipticis ovali-
bufye venofis bali fubattenuatis, racemis axillaribus multi-
Brown
floris.
DAVIESIA
in Hort.
latifolia.
Kew.
ed. alt. 3. p.
Bot. Repof.
20.
638.
A
Descr.
neat fhrub about two feet high.
Branches few,
erecl, long, angles obfolete when frefh, but when dry more
evident.
Leaves alternate, quite entire, oval, terminated with
a fmall mucro, netted veined, two or three inches long, in
width half as much.
Flowers in axillary racemes, ufually folitary,
now and then two together, with concave, reddifh, reflexed,
perfiflent bratlcs, longer than the pedicles.
Calyx campanulate,
with very fhort nearly equal teeth, bilabiately arranged : upper
lip truncate.
Vexillum orbiculate, emarginate : al<e linear, nearly
equal to the vexillum in length : carina very fhort, one-petaled.
Filaments diftincT:.
Germen oblong, compreffed, with two ovula.
forming a right angle with the germen Jligma acute.
The genus Daviesia was firft eftablifhed by the Prefident
of the Linnean Society, in the 4th volume of their Tranfa&ions,
in honour of the Reverend Hugh Davies, celebrated for his
knowledge of the Britifh Flora.
Native of Van Diemen's Ifland, where it was detected by
Style
:
Robert Brown,
at
Kew,
Meffrs.
A
hardy greenhoufe fhrub.
805.
Propagated by
Thrives bed in a fandy peat foil.
Communicated by
in
cuttings.
Efq. and introduced to the Royal Gardens
1
Loddiges and Sons,
M^ipfi
[
1758
Erica Hibbertiana.
]
Hibbert's Heath.
C/j/} tf#i Order,
OcTANDRIA MoNOGYNIA.
Generic Character.
Cal. 4-phyllus.
Cor. perfiflens
limbo
:
anthefin per foramina 2 lateralia connexae.
4
—
4-fido.
Cap/. 4
Anthers ante
—
8-locularisj
8-valvis.
Specific Character
II.
and Synonyms.
Longiflorae. F. Anthera muticae. iW/tf quaterna vel plura.
Flores axillares.
ERICA
Hibbertiana
tinofa.
ERICA
Bra5ie<£ duae calyci
i
tertia
remota.
germine cylindrico, corolla glabra glu>
Hort. Kezv. ed.
Hibbertia.
proximo,
alt. 2.
p. 378.
Andrews's Heaths,
vol. 3.
This is a very fine, flout growing Heath, which takes its
name from George Hibbert, Efq. of Clapham-Common,
once a zealous cultivator of rare plants from all quarters of the
from the Cape of Good-Hope, where this
fpecies was difcovered by his collector, Mr. James Nivfn,
and introduced in 1800.
The variety figured by Andrews has fix leaves in a whorl,
and the corolla tipped with green.
Flowers in the middle of fummer.
Drawn at Meflrs, Lef
and Kennedy's.
globe,
efpecially
^59
C
DURANTA
]
PRICKLY DuRANTA.
ELLISIA.
and Order,
Clafs
DlDYNAMIA AnGIOSPERMIA.
Generic Characler.
Cat. 5-fidus, fuperus.
Drupci 4-fperma.
888.
EUi/ia
Pip.92.
hew.
ed.
ELLISIA
acutis
ad apicem
179.
Hon.
Amer. 187.
/.
Vindob. 3. p. 51.
176.
/.
99.
PL
/
77.
Hort.
ferratis,
Brown Jam 262.
fpicis alaribus.
1.
JASMINUM
fruQu
/.
Jacq.
380.
Sp.
ah. 4. p. 59. Sivartz
Qbf. 247.
frutefcens quandoque fpinofa, foliis
ovatis utrinque
zg.f.
Three
calycibus fruaefcentibus ereais.
IVilld. 3. p.
Jacq.
t.
;
2-locularis.
and Synonyms.
Specific Characler
DURANTA
Nux
folio
flavo.
fpecies
integro obtufo, flore
SloaneCat.Jam. 169.
of
Duranta
c<eruleo
Hifl.
2.^.97.
are recorded in
edition
racemofo,
Willdenow's
of the Species Plantarum
but it is even doubtful
;
whether all or them are not mere
varieties of the fame.
The
branches in the fame fpecies are
defcribed as being fometimes
befet with thorns, but often not;
the leaves as Wtimes quite
entire, at other times fa wed at
the
edge
hat the calycine laciniae of
the fruit,
tinaion, are found to be both
erea
branch.
and
Swartz
remarks,
Jacquin's mark of dif,
and twifted on the fame
In our plant, which agrees
with Jacquin's figure of
Lhfia no fooner had the flower dropped,
than the teeth of the
calyx began to twill together.
Two kinds one with thorns and the other
conftantly without,
are however (till cultivated in our
colleens, and are probably
the lame fpecies as defcribed
by Philip Miller. The leaves
of tht fmootb are larger and
more coarfely ferrated and the
branches more rounded than in the
prickly Duranta
Native of South-America and the
Weft-Indies' and treated
with us as a ftove plant.
Miller, by whom it was cultivated
before the year
1739, remarks, however, that it docs ben when
expofed to the open air in mild
weather, and fays he has preicrved it through the winter
without artificial heat.
Propagated
by feeds; or by cuttings,
which llrike readily
Communicated by A. B. Lambert, Efq.
from his colleflioii
at iioyton, where it was
railed from feeds received
from Mexico.
?
iV ,y6.
1760
L
]
Mentzelia oligosperma. Few-seeded
Mentzelia.
$ &#
ft
and Order.
Clafs
PoLYANDRlA MoNOGYNIA.
Generic Character.
Cor. 5-petala.
Cal. 5-phyllus.
Cap/, infera, cylindrica, poly-
Specific Character
and Synonym.
fperma.
MENTZELIA
bus
oligofperma
folitariis,
MENTZELIA
Descr.
;
caule ramofo, pedunculis axillari-
petalis acuminatis, fruftibus reflexis.
oligofperma. Nuttall in Frafers Catal.
This plant
is
covered
in
every part,
corolla ex-
cepted, with {tiff hairs, armed their whole length with hooks, fo
The effecl of thefe
fmall as to be invihble to the naked eye.
is
to
part of the plant adhere to whatever comes in
and its different parts to one another, when
make every
comae! with it,
brought together by the wind or other caufe. Thefe hairs are
fo tranfparent, that, when viewed through a lens, they appear
as if made of glafs, and to the naked eye give the bark of the
One of them, highly
ftem and branches a filvery appearance.
magnified,
Leaves
is
reprefented in the plate.
alternate, ovate, unequally toothed
:
teeth mucronate.
Flowers bright orange, axillary, iolitary, on peduncles fhorter
Calycine lacini<e awl-fhaped,
than the germen, which is inferior.
fpreading.
Corolla of five fpreading, oval, acuminate petals.
CapStamens about twelve, inferted at the bafe of the corolla.
fule cylindrical, fomewhat curved, one-celled, containing only
two or three oblong angulated
Mentzelia
oligofperma
was found by Mr.
is
Nuttall
feeds.
a perennial with a tuberous root,
on the borders of the Miflouri, in
Upper Louiliana, growing among the rocks, and introduced by
him in 1812. Communicated by our friend, A. B. LamberTj
Efq. from his Hove at Bo) ton.
Tlowers in May and June.
I
"VjOi
1761
C
]
Metrosideros Speciosa.
Metrosideros.
*** * * ** **
Shewy
M »»»* **»
j«i Order.
C/tf/j
ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA.
Generic Cbarafier.
Cal.
5-fidus,
exlerta.
femifuperus.
Stigma fimplex.
C^
Petala 5.
67<zw///a longiffima*
3- vel 4-locularis.
Specific Charatler.
METROSIDEROS//^;
foliii
fparfis
lanceolatis venofis
glandulofo-mucronulatis, capfulis quadrilocularibus apice
tomentofis.
Descr.
Stem fhrubby, with long
flexile branches.
Leaves
icattered, vertical,
lanceolate, quite entire, rigid, veined, when
pubefcent, fraooth when adult, terminated with a red
Fl<fwers ver
numerous, crowded together in a bottle-
young
S
n!"
brufh
7
form, a
below the extremity of the branch. Calyx
5-toothed
teeth obtufe, very hairy on the inner fide.
Petals 5,
orbicular, green, inferted in the margin
of the calyx. Stamens
numerous, fifty and upwards filaments very long, deep fcarlet,
little
;
:
diftina to the bafe, inferted
into a glandular ring furrounding
the crown of the germen
:
anthers incumbent, oblong, finally
lunular : Pollen yellow.
Germen generally four-celled, now and
then three-celled. Ovula
very many, oblong, inferted into a central receptacle.
Style thicker than the filaments, about the fame
length : ftigma capitate lobular.
Capfule woody, edged with the
perfiitent teeth of the calyx,
and the hollow crown covered with
a thick tomentum, in
which the lines marking the number of cells
are vifible.
This
a very fplendid flower from the rich colour of the
"laments, though the quantity of yellow
pollen conceals part of
"s brilliancy.
It
is
differs
from
Metrosideros
lanceolate*
{citrinay
;
much
veined
Mag.)
Bot.
{citrine
In lanceolata the veins are
underneath, not fo lharp-pointed.
are
covered
leaves
the
with
and
viable,
all
at
-or
not
fcardly,
the
capfules
mucro
pungent
a
have
and
;
dots,
pellucid
minute
(vide
No.
plant
latter
the
of
260)
figure
Our
are three-celled.
ufually
are
feen
than
they
diftant
more
flowers
the
reprefents
are
crowded
tothey
growth,
of
mode
ordinary
more
in their
there
a
here
and
leaf
in
both,
plant
:
prefent
our
in
as
gether
in
having
longer
leaves,
occafionally appears from amongft the flowers.
Communicated laft May, by
South-Wales.
out
of
alone,
nurfery
in
whofe
Sons,
and
L'oddiges
Meffrs.
appears
as
if
It
rare
plant.
very
this
feen
yet
as
have
Kew, we
it mayeafily
cuttings,
and
by
which,
feed,
by
ripen
its
would
it
froit.
from
only
to
be
protected
Requires
propagated.
be
Native of
New
Wrj6i
1762
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]
Rosa Semperflorens
(y.)
minima.
Miss Lawrence's Rose.
MMM
Clqfs
and Order.
ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA.
Generic CbaraUer.
Petala 5. Cal. urceolatus, 5-fidus, carnofus, collo coarftatus.
Sem. plurima, hifpida, calycis interiori lateri affixa.
Specific Character.
ROSA femperflorens ;
fru&ibus oblongis pedunculifque hifpidis,
caule, petiolifque aculeato-hifpidis, foliis fubternatis acu-
WUld. Sp. PI.
leatis.
-p.
2. p.
1078.
Hort.
Kew.
ed. alt.
3.
266.
ROSA femperflorens. Smith Exot. Bot. 2. p. 63. 91.
ROSA diverfifolia. Venten. Celf 35.
ROS A femperflorens ; caule aculeato, foliis fubternis, peduna.
/.
/3.
culis fubunifloris aculeato-hifpidis, calycis
Curtis 's Bot.
7. frutex
laciniis integris.
Mag. 284.
nana, fparfim aculeata, petalis acuminatis.
Several varieties of the Rosa femperflorens, differing in fize,
colour, and fcent, have, within thefe few years, found their
way into the different collections about town, and have generally
been reprefented as frefh importations from China ; we believe,
however, that mod of them have been raifed from feed here.
Every experienced cultivator knows, that the varieties to be
obtained in
this
way
are endlefs.
Our prefent fubject is the moft dwarfifh Rofe that has ever fallen
under our notice, rarely producing any branches, fo large as
reprefented in our plate.
are inclined to confider it as a
mere feminal variety, perhaps of hybrid origin j yet we cannot
We
It is generally known
not a diflinct fpecies.
among colle&ors by the name of Miss Lawrence's Rose.
The plant from which our drawing was taken, was communicated by Mr. Hudson, of the war-office. Flowers moft
affert that.it
is
part of the fpring, and has an agreeable, though not powerful
fcent.
Vi 163
6
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[
BORONIA PINNATA.
]
HaWTHORN-SCENTED
%t
BORONIA.
t$ lfrfri %
jl
<|
l
j
Clafs
and Order.
OCTANDRIA MoNOQYNIA.
Generic Charatler.
Petala 4. Anther* infra apicem filamentorum
Stylus ex apice germinis breviflimus. Stigma ca-
Cal. 4-partitus.
pedicellatse.
pitatum.
Cap/. 4, coalitse.
Sem.
Specific Character
BORONIA
pinnata
arillata.
and Synonyms.
impari-pjnnatis integerrimis, pedunculis axillaribus dichotomis, filamentis apice obtufis glan-
dulofis.
349.
;
foliis
Smith's Trails, p. 290.
Bot. Repof. 58.
Hort.
Kew.
ed. alt. 2. p,
Venten. Malmaif. 38.
The genus Boron i a was
firft
eftablifhed
by
the Prefident
of the Linnean Society, in a volume of Traces relating to
Natural Hiftory, publifhed in 1798: and dedicated to the
memory of Francis Boron e, a native of Milan, who,
though of humble origin, had an aftive mind, zealous in the
acquirement of natural knowledge, in the purfuit of which he
loft his life at an early age, by an accidental fall at Athens,
during his attendance on the late ProfefTor Sibthorp, after
having accompanied ProfefTor Afz el i us upon a botanical expedition to Sierra-Leone.
Linnaeus has, in feveral inftances,
named plants to the memory of young Botanifts, who unfortunately perifhed in the purfuit of knowledge ; honouring them
with the title of martyrs to the fcience.
Among thefe, his
worthy preceptor does not hefitate to reckon Boron e, " whofe
indefatigable zeal and fmgular acutenefs," the Prefident observes, « would foon have procured him other claims to the
honour
honour of having a new genus named
mature fate been poflponed."
Sir
James Edward Smith
has
after
him, had
defcribed, in
his pre-
the above-
mentioned work, three other fpecies of this genus, none of which
appear to have been as yet introduced into this country, though
one of them, the femttata, kerns to be a very ornamental plant,
and is faid to poflefs the fcent of the rofe.
The Boron i a pinnata is a very elegant fhrub, which fpreads
wide and grows about two feet high, being covered with a profufion of fweet-fcented bloflbms during great part of the fprin<y
and fummer, which remain long in beauty. Upon the whole,
it appears to us to be one of the moft defirable plants that have
been as yet introduced from New South-Wales. The honour
of its introduction is attributed to Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy,
Communicated to us by Meffrs. Loddiges and Sons-
Wij(k
{
—
1764
C
]
Allium sph^erocephalon. Small
ROUND-HEADED GaRLICK.
•$$ $ $*$ -#- $-$- $-$• $- $ 9|HJb 4 !*$
Cfc/} #»</ Order.
Kexandria Monogynia.
Generic Characler.
Cor. 6-partita, patens.
Spatha mukiflora, umbella congefta.
Cap/, fupera.
Specific Characler
***
and Synonyms.
Folia caulina terelia.
Umbella capfulifera.
ALLIU M
fpbarocepbalon : caule teretifolio umbellifero, foliis
femiteretibus, ftaminibus tricufpidatis corolla longioribus.
Spec.
PL 428.
Veg. ed. Murray,
Syjl.
Pollicb pal. 1. p.
p. 70.
Allioni Fl. Pedemont.
Willich Obf. p. 16.
n.
n.
IVilld. 2.
327. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 2. p. 235.
Fillars Daupb. 2. p. 255.
1873.
33.
A.LLIU Mfpharocepbahtm.
Ztfwz.
266.
p.
Lam.
et
Dec. Fl. Franc. 3. p. 228.
Z)/#. 1, p. 66.
ALLIUM
radice
gemella,
foliis
ftaminibus alterne trifidis. Hall.Helv.
vix dubium etfi a Linnaeo exclufum,
ALLIUM
ftaminibus
fuave
rubente
Hall. All. ed.
ALLIUM
feu
1.
alterne
fphaerico,
trifidis,
n.
fphserico,
1220: fynonymon
foliis
capite
fiftulofis,
non bulbifero, radice
p. 22. n. 8.
MOLY
capite
fiftulofis,
laterali.
Opufcul. p. 353. n. 10.
montanum quintum.
Hijl.
Cluf.
1.
P- 195 f
ALLIUM
P-
fpheerocephalum, bifolium, italicum.
Hijl. 2.
563-
ALLIUM
pureo.
f.
MOLY
juncifolium, capite fphserico, flore pur-
Rudb. Ely/.
SCORODOPRASUM
160. cum icone.
montanum juncifolium, capite rotundo
2. p.
dilute Janthino floribus
t.
Bauh.
paucis.
Mich. Nov. Gen.
2.5. n. 2.
24. /. 2 I
SCORODOPRASUM
campeftre juncifolium, capite rotundo,
compa£lo, floribus faturate et eleganter purpureis cum
primis tribus petalis externe verrucofis. Mich. I. c. 25. n. 1 ?
exclufis fynonymis omnibus.
We
have found the fynonymy of this fpecies to be particularly puzzling, as is remarked by Haller, who is himfelf
very
very confufed
in this refpcct.
The
difficulty arifes in part
from
its great affinity with defcendens (Bot. Mag. No. 251.) to which it
mult be allowed to be too nearly allied, and of which probably
it ought to rank as a variety only.
Willich, and latterly
Haller, both confider fpbarocepbalon and defcendens as the fame
fpecies; and Villars feems inclined to this opinion.
The hiftory of Haller's change of fentiments is not a little
curious.
In his monograph on Allium, he had made two
fpecies of them (No. 8 and No. 9); which Linn a us, in his
Flora Suecica, united.
At this union, Haller exprefles his
furprize, in the fecond edition of his monograph on Allium,
publilhed in his opufcula.
Then Linn.eus, in the firft edition
of his Species Plantarum, made two fpecies of them, and, as it
appears that he had at that time no fpecimen of fphterocephahn in
his herbarium, this was probably done in compliance with
Haller's opinion; yeb, in his Hiftoria Plantarum Helvetia?,
the latter author has thought fit to unite them himfelf ; remarking,
that
Linnaeus, who was
had done wrong in feparating them.
Finally, Linn^us, in his Syftema Vegetabiliura, orders Haller's fynonym to be excluded altogether.
Haller was probably induced to change his opinion, and
unite what he had before confidered as two diftina fpecies into
one, by the obfcrvations of Willich, though he has not
quoted this author.
Willich had met with fpbarocepbalon
growing without culture in a garden, and mewed the plant to
Haller, who pronounced it to be No. 8 of his monograph on
Allium (No. 10 in his opufcula). Removing this plant into his own
garden,
Willich
at firft right,
obferves, that in the following year
became
in every refpeft the fame as defcendens
, Haller's Allium, No. 9,
(No. 11 in the opufcula). This obfervation, could we be Aire
there was no error, which, however, might eafily
happen in a
genus fo lmperfeaiy underftood, would be decifive. But re
are Hill inclined to believe, that the greater
length of the
ftamens in Jpksrocephakn may keep them diltina.
Lamarck
and Decandolle, in their Flore Fran coife, make defcendens a
variety of our plant ; as the former had
before done in the
Encyclopedic Methodique.
Native of Italy, South of France, and Switzerland.
Cultivated by Miller, in 1759.
Flowers in July. Communicated
by Mr. Hawortii.
it
JVhfjfy
—
C
17S5
]
Crassula centauroides. CentauryFLOWERED CrASSULA.
.*!*.- jj*. tfc. »is. »ls. «!» jle.
•v^ spr >,»• /jc jjr vjc-v,*"
Ms. >'«..>'js.
v,c SjC v,>r
>!«.
>,«-
Ms.
v,c
>'•
»,.
Jik
j!t
«yc -^
•>'»_
-«,*-
«Js.
.Jj-
>'t
?,<
CA2/} £/&/ Order.
PtN'TANDRIA PeNTAGYNIA.
Generic Character.
Cal. 5-phyllus.
Petala 5.
Squama 5 ne&ariferae ad
bafin ger-
Cap/. 5.
miiu's.
Specific Character
CRASSULA
and Synonyms.
herbaceo dichotomo, foliis feffilibus oblongo-ovatis cordatis planis, pedunculis axillaribus
uniflotis. Hort. Kezv. 1. p. 392.
ed.alt. 2. p. 194. IVilld.
centauroides ; caule
Sp. PI. 1. 1555.
CRASSULA
Haworth
centauroides ;
Succul. 57.
caule herbaceo
dichotomo,
foliis
cordatis feffilibus, pedunculis unifloris.
Sp. PI. 404. Am<en.
Mantijfa 361.) Sy/i. Feg.
Acad. 6. p. 8 5. (caule brachiato.
ed. 14. p. 305.
i&vV/j. £/>. P/. 1. 772.
africana annua centauroides. Herm.Parad.16g.
SEDOIDES
Descr.
ivW
annual or biennial.
to»j proftrate, fmooth,
of a pale red colour, pellucid on the furface, opake at the
centre, branched
lower branches going off at right angles, or
brachiate
upper ones dichotomous.
Leaves oppofite, ovate,
flat, Item-embracing, margin red, fomewhat denticulate, from a
row of excavated dots on the under fide. Peduncles axillary,
:
:
folitary,
one-flowered, ereel at firft, but reflected after the
flowering is over.
Calyx perfiftent, five-cleft Jegments acute.
:
Corolla
five-petal led,
when
of the leffer Centaury
at the point fhaded ofF to white
:
inferted
expanded
not unlike that
petals ovate-acuminate, bright crimfon
firft
at the
bafe.
Filaments green,
below the germen, not into the
with which they alternate. Anthers yellow.
into the receptacle
claws of the petals,
Gennens
Germens five, cohering
fcales were obfervable.
:
jlyles
divaricate.
No
nectariferous
There is confiderable affinity between this fpecies and pcllucida
and it is not improbable that they have been fometimes confounded.
But in the latter plant, as defcribed and figured by
Dillenius,
the
leaves
are
much
thicker,
colle&ed into
and do not ftand in diftant pairs, as in this.
That our plant is the Crassula centauroides of the Hortus
Kewenfis we are fure, having compared it with a fpecimen preferved in fpirits of wine in the Bankfian Mufeum.
know of no figure exifting of this fpecies which, from
the brilliancy and long duration of its flowers, fo well deferves
a place in every collection of fucculent plants.
It is confidcred
as an inhabitant of the dry ftove, but will do very well in the
greenhoufe, or even in the window of a light apartment.
Native of the Cape of Good-Hope.
Propagated by feeds,
which, in favourable feafons, are freely produced. Flowers from
May to July. Communicated by Meffrs. Loddiges and Sons.
rofules,
We
N'i /'"-
C
1766
]
Lasiopetalum ferrugineum.
Rusty
Lasiotetalum.
Oafs and Order.
Pextandria Monogynia.
Generic Charatler.
Col. rotatus, 5-fidus.
Stamina bafi fquama munita. Anther*
Cap/, fupera 3-locularis, 3-valvis: valvis
apice poris duobus.
medio
feptiferis.
Specific Charatler
and Synonyms.
LASIOPETALUM ferrugimum :
foliis
lineari-lanceolatis
ob
tufis finuatis integerrimifve.
LASIOPETALUM
Hort. Kezv.
ferrugineam
cd. alt. 2.
;
foliis lincaribus integerrimis.
p. 36.
LASIOPETALUM femtpneum.
Bot.
Rcpof.
208.
Jentcn.
Malmaif. 59.
Descr.
covered
A
low Jbrub with fpreading branches, when young
with a rufty tomentum.
Leaves alternate, on fhoit
petioles, re flexed, linear-lanceolate
or
lefs
m
this.
with a cordate bafe,
more
and unequally finuate, fmooth on the upper furfacc, and
clothed, on the under, with a thick whiiifh tomentum, interfperfed with minutely fafciculated rufty hairs.
The petioles,
pedicles, and outer fide of the calyx are hifpid, with a
fimilar pubefcence.
The jlipules, which form a remarkable
character in mod of the fpecies, appear to be entirely wanting
Calyx perfiflent, petal-like,
greenifh within, iupported
by a
bracle of three fubulate incurved leaves.
bafe
of each very
By fome botanifts
this part is confidered as the calyx, and what we have fo termed,
as the corolla; whence the name of Lasiopetalum, or
woolly-petal. Neclaries 5, fcale-likc, revolute, one at the
fliort filament.
Anthers large,
of a deep
orange
pollen
orange or bay colour ; pores at the apex very (mail
Gertnen woolly, three-grooved, obtufely three-cornered,
white.
three-celled: Jlyle (hoit ; Jligma fimple, marcefcent.
Native of New South-Wales.
hardy greenhoufe fhrub.
Flowers
Introduced in 17915 by Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy.
Propagated by cuttings. Thrives
moft part of the fummer.
:
A
beft in a fandy peat foil.
and Sons.
Communicated by
MefTrs.
Loddiges
lb
X'l /"/
^7
C
]
THORNY BuRSARIA.
BURSARIA SPINOSA.
+ $ 4 #### 4hMi ~W *
##
Pentandria Monogynia,
Generic Character.
Tetala 5, receptaculo inferta.
Cap/, comprefia,
2-partibiIis,
l-locularis, 2-fperma.
Specific
BURSARIA Jpinofa.
Name and
Cavan.
ic.
Synonyms.
4. p. 30.
/.
350.
Hort.
Kew,
ed. alt. 2. p. 36.
ITEA Jpinofa.
This pretty
ProfefTor
Boi. Repof.
314.
flowering
fhrub,
Cavanili.es,
Itea; but
differs
is,
well
by
defcribed
the
late
in feveral refpefts, nearly allied to
and
the receptacle below the germen, and a
from
that
genus
in
having
its
petals
flamens inferted into
flattened obcordate capfule, which, when ripe, feparates into
two parts, each of which is one-celled, two-valved, and contains
two
feeds.
It takes its
name from
the form of the capfule, which fome-
what refemblcs that of the Shepherd's Purfe.
hardy greenhoufe fhrub. Native of New South-Wales.
Flowers from Auguft to December. Propagated by cuttings.
Loves a fandy peat foil with a flight admixture of loam.
Introduced in 1793, by the Marchionefs of Rockingham.
Communicated by Meflrs. Loddiges and Sons.
In the Bankfian Herbarium, we find fpecimens from Van
Diemen's Ifland and Port Dalrymple, which have larger leaves
and fruit, and one of them is without fpines.
A
N°Y]SH.
17S8
C
p^onia
]
edulis, vm. sinensis.
Chinese eatable Peony.
POLYANDRIA DlGYNlA.
Generic Cbaracler.
Petala 5.
Cal. 5-phyllus.
Stylio. Cap/.
a/«/w
foliis
;
polyfperma?.
and Synonym.
Specific Character
P^EONIA
2— 12,
biternatis
:
foliolis
ovato-lanceolatis
integris bafi confluentibus nudis, capfulis recurvatis glabris.
P^EONIA
The
albiflora.
Bot.
Mag.
n.
1756,
cum fynonymis?
colour
the
from
plants
to
names
giving
of
inconvenience
has
often
vary,
to
liable
circumftances
other
of the flowers, or
been pointed out
;
fo perfectly abfurd,
We
and
that
in this inltance the
we have
felt
name of
albiflora
a neceflity of avoiding
is
it.
Salisbury,
Mr.
from
edulis
of
that
adopted
have therefore
were
we
but
fooner
done
have
;
to
perhaps
which we ought
nomenclature
the
from
poflible,
as
little
as
willing to deviate,
In the prefent inftance, we
ufed in the Hortus Kewenfis.
the more readily depart from that authority, becaufe we cannot
but entertain confiderable doubt, whether the Chinefe plants are
really varieties of the Siberian.
of
be
one
the
to
appear
may
plant
our
appearance
At firft
ftem,
the
herbaceous
the
but
Moutan,
P;eonia
varieties of
foliage,
different
and
roots,
tuberous
fmaller number of capfules,
keep it altogether diftinci from that fpecies.
introduced
late
of
been
have
fpecies
this
of
Several varieties
from China, of which this with large crimfon blofforas, apthem
are
more
of
All
beautiful.
moft
the
is
proaching to fcarlet,
Our drawing was made from a fpecimen
or lefs fweet-fcented.
very
interefting
HuME,fromhis
Abraham
Sir
communicated by
This gentleman imported
colleaion, at Wormley-Bury, Herts.
it
from Canton.
N°i-]6y
17%
[
]
Blood-flowered
Ipomcea sanguinea.
Ipomcea.
Order.
C/<3/j <2#i
Pentandria Monogynia.
Chamber.
Generic
CaL
5-partitus, nudus.
5-plicata.
Germen 2
—
campanulata
v. infundibuliformis,
3-loculare, loculis difpermis.
3-lobum.
Cap/. 2
capitatum, 2
Stigma
vifus.
Cor.
—
—
Brown.
;
tubo clavato
:
declinatis, foliis haftato-trilobis
:
corollae infundibuliformis
limbo involuto, ftaminibus
3-locularis.
and Synonyms.
Specific Character
IPOMCEA Janguinea
Stylus indi-
lobis lateralibus poftice finuatis.
IPOMCEA Janguinea
pedunculis fuperne cymofo-trichotomis,
:
limbo oblatoKit
ftaminibus afcendentibus, longe exfertis.
folia cordato-triloba v. haftata fuperantibus
ventricofo
in Bot.
;
Regift-
9.
IPOMCEA Janguinea;
foliis
cordatis trilobis, lobis lateralibus
poftice angulato-fublobatis,
glabris.
;
Vahl Symb.
3. p.
pedunculis
33.
JVilld.
trifloris,
Sp.
PL
calycibus
l.p. 885.
ornamental evergreen twining ihrub. Native of the
inhabitant
of
the
an
us
with
confcquently
Weft-Indies, and
producing
abunlength,
great
a
to
extend
will
ftove, where it
which
orange
are
to
inclining
;
bloflbms,
fcarlet
dance of fine
An
inwards,
being,
rolled
as
always
Angular in having
expanded.
time
at
no
obfervcd,
far as we have
fpecimcns
fent
dried
from
from
fpecics
this
defcribed
Vahl
direfts
it to be inferted
He
Croix.
Sainte
of
the Danifli ifland
tigridis
but
Pes
as both
and
iamnifdia
;
between
in the fyftem
their borders
the fe fpecies have
aggregate' flowers,
it
cannot properly be included
We
eluded in the fame divifion with them.
mould place it immediately after coccinea, to which it feems to us to be neareft
allied.
not mentioned in the Hortus Kewenfis, nor does it
appear that it has ever been feen in this country, before it was
raifed by Madame la ComtefTe de Vandes, in her garden at
Bayes- Water, from feeds communicated by R. A. Salisbury,
Efq. who received them from the Weft-Indies.
It is
It
bears
fucceffion
flowers
early
the middle of
in
the fpring,
which continue in
has not yet produced
fummer. It
feeds, but we are informed by the gardener, that it is ealily
propagated by cuttings, which ftrike freely.
Our drawing was taken at the above-mentioned colle&ion,
near the end of June 1814,
till
Cestrum Parqui
Willow-leaved
Cestrum.
Clafs and Order.
Pentandria Monogynia.
Generic Cbaracler.
Cor. infundibuliformis.
Stamina denticulo in medio.
Bacca
l-locularisj polyfperma.
Specific Characler
CESTRUM
trifloris
and Synonyms.
Parqui j foliis lanceolatis, pedunculis inferioribus
folio dimidio brevioribus, corollse laciniis lateralitcr
revolutis.
CESTRUM
Parqui ; filamentis denticulatis nudifve, caule florifero paniculato, ftipulis linearibus. LHeritier Stirp. Nov. 1.
p. 73. /. 36. Willi. Sp.
Hort. Berol. 1. p. 213.
Mill. DiH. n. 7.
PARQUI.
The
Feuill.
1055. Willd. Arb. 60. Enum.
Hort. Kew. ed. all. 2. p. 2. Mart.
PL
1.
Peruv. 3. p. 52.
/.
32. /. 1.
Cestrum
have been hitherto very indifferently
characterized ; in faft, a great addition having been made to the
genus by Jacquin in his Hortus Schoenbrunnenfis, it was not
to be expe&ed that characters framed only for a few fpecies,
although they might ferve to diftinguifh fuch as were then known
fpecies
of
from one another, mould apply to thofe fince difcovered. The
tooth-like appendage to the filaments is, in this fpecies at leaft,
too inconftant a character to be ufeful.
The
of the corolla in our plant are obtufe ; but as,
foon after expanding, the fides are rolled back, efpecially
towards the point, they appear in that flate more acute than
they really are.
In Cestru m fajligiatum, figured at No. 1729,
the laciniae are rolled back from the apex towards the bale,
which
laciniae
very different appearance.
This
character appears to be conftant, and occurs alfo in diurnum.
Cestrum Parqui is a native of Chili, in South-America, will
live in the open air and produce flowers, and, in fome feafons,
ripens its fruit; but in this fituation it is always killed down to
the ground in the winter ; and, if the weather prove fevere, the
which gives
the
flower
a
roots will perifh alfo.
Jacquin's Cfatidifjimum
is
very like our plant, but has
much
broader leaves in proportion to their length, and grows to a
Our plant, when bruifed, likefhrub feveral feet in height.
wife emits a naufeous fmell ; and perhaps the only difference
may arife from the other being kept conftantly in the ftove.
Native of the mountains of Chili, where it was firft difcovered by Father Feuillee, in 32 fouth latitude.
Neither
his figure nor defcription are fufificiently accurate to determine
the identity of our plant with his ; but fpecimens gathered at
Valparaifo in the fame country, by Mr. Archibald Menzies,
and preferved in the Bankfian Herbarium, in every refpeft
agree with our's.
Our drawing was
taken early in June, fome years fince, in
the garden of Lord Holland, at Kenfington.
Propagated by
cuttings or by feeds. Introduced in 1 787, by Monf. Williams.
INDEX.
In which the Latin Names of the
Plants contained in the Forty-Second
Volume are alphabetically arranged.
PL
1745
1750
1730
1764
1749
1733
1763
1732
1767
1734
1735
1752
1729
1770
1746
1765
1726
1751
1757
1739
1740
1 759
1737
748
1 738
1731
1769
1766
*755
t
*•
INDEX.
In which the Englifli
Names
of the
Plants contained in the Forty-Second
Volume are alphabetically arranged.
PL
%
Acacia decipiens.
a
difcolor.
Ageratum
caeleftinum.
•*
Allium fphaerocephalum.
Arnica montana.
ty
Beaufortia decuffata.
Boronia pinnata.
%
Bromelia pyramidalis.
4
Burfaria fpinofa.
Calea lobata.
a
Cardamine
4-
<>
afarifolia.
Centaurea Rhapontica.
Ceftrum faftigiatum
Parqui.
Corrsea fpeciofa.
Craffula centauroides.
Crataegus indica.
Cymbidium
7 6 5 Craffula,
ty
Dianthus leptopetalus.
a
virgineus.
Duranta
&
Ellifia.
A
X
A
Gomefa recurva.
Heynea trijuga.
Jafminum revolutum.
v
^
*
Ipomcea fanguinea.
Lafiopetalum ferrugineum.
purpureum.
;
1753 Lonicerafempervirens((3.) minor.
1 760 Mentzelia oligofperma.
1761 Metrofideros fpeciofa.
1756 Paeonia albiflora.
i
anomala.
724 «
edulis <var, finenfis.
1768
1727 Pforalea aphylla.
1743 Pulmonaria Davurica.
Rofa femperflorens.
1 762
1728 Salvia azurea.
1742 Sefeli divaricatum.
j 741 Zamia pygmsea.
J 736 Zanthoriza apiifolia.
Boronia, hawthorn-fcented.
73 2 Bromelia, pyramidal-flowered.
767 Burfaria, thorny.
734 Calea, yellow- flowered, or
^
*
Daviefia latifolia.
Beaufortia, fplendid.
4
Q
%
Y
enfifolium.
Acacia, paradoxical.
two-coloured-leaved.
Ageratum, blue-flowered.
Arnica, mountain.
745
75°
730
749
733
763
Halberd-weed.
75 2 Centaury, Swifs.
729 Ceftrum, Honeyfuckle.
willowileaved.
770
746 Corraea, red-flowered.
*£
Elaeocarpus cyaneus.
3 758 Erica Hibbertiana.
1747 Euphorbia variegata.
1 744
Halleria lucida.
1
$
A
a
*
§
^
$
Y
a
*
a
<$»
1
centaury-flowered.
75i Cymbidium, fword-leaved.
757 Daviefia, broad-leaved.
759 Duranta, prickly.
737
744
764
748
734
726
758
738
753
Elasocarpus, blue-fruited.
Fly-Honeyfuckle, African,
Garlick, round-headed.
Gomefa, recurved.
Halberd-weed, vide Calea.
Hawthorn, Indian.
Heath, Hibbert's.
Heynea, walnut-like.
Honeyfuckle, Carolina trumpet,
73i jafmine, revolute-flowered.
769 Ipomcea, bloody-flowered.
735 Ladies-fmock, kidney-leaved.
755 Lafiopetalum, purple-flowered.
rufty.
766
,
749 Leopard's-bane, vide Arnica.
743 Lungwort, Daurian.
760 Mentzelia, few-feeded.
761 Metrofideros, fhewy.
768 Peony, Chinefe eatable,
jagged- leaved.
754
white-flowered.
75 6
739
740
760
728
740
747
Pink, narrow-petalled.
Virgin.
Rofe, Mifs Lawrence's.
Sage, azure-flowered.
fhining-leaved.
Spurge, pyc-bald.
Sefeli,
74i Zamia, leaft.
736 Yellow-root, or Zanthoriza,
parfley-leaved.
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