The botanist's repository for new and rare plants; vol. 10 [of 10]

CLASS XVIII. ORDER III.

POLYADELPHIA ICOSANDRIA. Many Sets of Chives. Threads from the Calyx or Receptacle.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

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The drawing of this curious and valuable fruit was also taken at Wormleybury last May. Sir Abraham Hume informs us, that the plant was introduced in 1785, by Mrs. Evelyn, of St. Clare in Kent, who brought it with her from Nice. The name Bergamot is said by the Chevalier Lamarck (in the French Encyclopédie) to come from Bergame in Italy, where the principal cultivation of the plant lies. The valuable perfume called Essence of Bergamot is prepared in Italy from the fruit, but by what method they extract it we have not been able to learn: it is rather remarkable that England, so celebrated for her commerce, her collections of natural history, and spirit in gardening, and annually importing so much of this Essence, should have been so long without the plant that produced it.

In arranging the Bergamot for the present as a variety of the Lemon, we by no means subscribe to the opinion of those who, servilely following Linnæus, include all sorts of apples and pears under his Pyrus mala and communis; all grape-vines under Vitis vinifera; and limes, lemons, citrons, oranges and shaddocks of all kinds, under his Citrus Medica and Aurantium. Already the last-mentioned genus has been considerably illustrated by the works of Gmelin, Rumphius, Thunberg, and Loureiro; and Professor Willdenow now enumerates six species of Citrus, and the Chevalier Lamarck eleven species; and many more are probably yet latent in the unexplored regions of Asia. Indeed it is only to those who have an opportunity of observing them in their original situations, where the spade of the labourer has never disturbed their repose, that we must look for their complete illustration. The immense tracts on our northern hemisphere, over which apples are naturally scattered, as well as the vast and permanent differences observed in their fruits, give us also much to hope for; even Linnæus himself observes in his Flora Suecica, that the apple which he found growing naturally in Smoland was very different from that which he found in other parts of Sweden; the original Paradise-apple (Malus pumila of the old authors) has already been recovered by the Russian naturalist Pallas, forming large thickets on the banks of the Wolga and Tanais, (see his Flora Rossica, vol. i. p. 22.); and the same author informs us that the apples he found growing about the Terek were of a large size, and excellent even in their wild state; while those that he met with in other parts of Russia were quite worthless. Even in India our indefatigable countryman Dr. Buchanan has discovered five original species of this genus (one of them a quince) growing naturally on the elevated regions towards the snowy mountains. His descriptions of them, however, are yet unpublished, but we have seen his specimens in the collection of A. B. Lambert, esq.

CLASS XIV. ORDER II.

DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Two Chives longer. Seeds covered.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

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For this very elegant species we are indebted to Mr. Donn, Curator of the Botanic Garden at Cambridge, who informs us that it is a native of Brazil, and was introduced from Portugal in 1808 by sir Charles Cotton, bart. The plant in the Cambridge garden is now nearly four feet high, with many branches, and has continued flowering profusely since the beginning of May, and appears as if it would continue to blossom during the summer. It is propagated by cuttings, and has as yet been kept in the hothouse.

We have found no figure or description of the plant in any author, but have seen a very fine dried specimen of it brought from Portugal by sir Thomas Gage, bart. in the herbarium of A. B. Lambert, esq. with this note affixed: “I found this Ruellia growing, and ripening seeds abundantly, amongst the hothouse-plants in the Botanic-Garden at Lisbon.” So ornamental a plant we trust will soon be equally abundant in the hothouses of our own country.

CLASS X. ORDER I.

DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Ten Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

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This showy species is a native of New Holland, and was raised from seed by Mr. Gibbs, last year, in his nursery at Brompton, and is not as yet, we believe, in any other collection.

It may not be improper to observe, that the calyx of this species appears a little bilabiate, and the germen two-seeded, although one of the seeds in the fruits we have examined was always abortive.

CLASS XIII. ORDER II.—V.

POLYANDRIA DIGYNIA ad PENTAGYNIAM. Many Chives. Two to Five Pointals.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

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The single-flowered Pæonia albiflora we have already figured in our first volume (Plate 64.), but never heard of the double variety until we found it in the nursery of Mr. Whitley, who informs us that he raised the plant from seeds received from Mr. Livingstone, surgeon, (in 1808,) who brought them from China under the title of the yellow Pæony. It bloomed last year with only three flowers, but has this year produced five elegant blossoms. Its great beauty certainly entitles it to a place in every flower-garden and curious collection. We shall only add to our former account of this fine species of Pæony above referred to, that Professor Pallas mentions in his Flora Rossica that the roots are used as food in Mongolia, where the plant grows naturally wild, being boiled and eaten by the Tartars, who also powder the seeds to mix with their tea.

CLASS V. ORDER I.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Stamens. One Style.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

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This very ornamental species of Ipomœa is a native of the north and east coasts of New Holland, according to Mr. Brown’s Prodromus of the plants of that country above quoted. We have seen wild specimens of it gathered by Dr. White near Port Jackson. The species is so decidedly volubilous as not only to twine round other plants that may come in its way, but twists also its own shoots round each other; and this both in its wild and cultivated state. Towards the root it appears to be woody, and is certainly perennial. The drawing was taken about the middle of July, in the curious collection of the Countess de Vandes at Bayswater, from a plant about five feet high, which was probably the first time the species blossomed in this country. The introducer we have not been able to discover.

CLASS XVI. ORDER II.

DIADELPHIA HEXANDRIA. Two Brotherhoods. Six Stamens.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

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The Fumaria nobilis is a native of the Altaian mountains in Siberia, and was introduced to this country in the year 1783 by Mr. John Græffer, but appears to have been since lost, as we never saw living specimens until the beginning of last May, when that from which our drawing was taken was communicated by Mr. Donn from the Botanic garden at Cambridge. The plant appears well calculated for ornamenting rock-work or curious borders, the finely cut foliage and flowers being both very graceful. It is said to have been a great favourite with Linnæus.

CLASS I. ORDER I.

MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. One Stamen. One Style.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

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No genus of plants has more puzzled botanists than the Globba of Linnæus, no plant having yet been discovered that agrees with his generic character; but as the possessor of his herbarium has decided that the Globba marantina, the only species of this genus Linnæus professes to have seen, was the same plant with that called by Dr. Roxburgh, and also by Mr. Donn in his Catalogue of the Cambridge Botanic Garden, Colebrookia bulbifera; (see Smith’s Exotic Botany, page 85, where he has corrected the generic character;) this plant, also sent from India by Dr. Roxburgh to Sir Abraham Hume, bart. in 1809, now also changes its name to Globba. The inflorescence, which is directly from the root, whilst in all the species described by Dr. Smith it is placed above the leaves on a common stem, together with the three-lobed corolla, might doubtless be quite sufficient characters to distinguish it as a separate genus; but another having already been published in honour of Mr. Colebrook, we prefer leaving it with the congeners amongst which it was originally placed by its discoverer Dr. Roxburgh.

The delicacy and elegance of the whole plant, the rich tint of the floral leaves, and the curious construction of the blossoms, (where the long projecting filament drawn back by the style which is held by its summit protruded beyond the anthers, at one period of the inflorescence nearly resembles a half-bent bow,) have been admired by all who have seen it. The leaves only appear as the flowers decay.

The plant blossomed in the middle of last May, for the first time in this country, in the collection of Sir Abraham Hume, bart. where our drawing was taken. From a very useful manuscript catalogue of Indian plants by Dr. Roxburgh in the collection of A. B. Lambert, esq. we learn that it is a native of India, and has been found growing wild about Chittagong.

The ripe fruit we have not seen; but the germ is nearly oval, with three blunt angles and of one cell with many seeds affixed to three lateral receptacles. The plant is perennial, and may be propagated by the roots like other scitamineous plants.

CLASS XI. ORDER III.

DODECANDRIA TRIGYNIA. Twelve to Nineteen Stamens. Three Styles.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

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This ornamental species is a native of Austria, and was introduced, according to Donn’s Catalogue, in the year 1805. Professor Jacquin has given an excellent figure and description of it in its wild state in his Flora Austriaca, vol. iv. p. 23, tab. 344: but it varies very considerably when cultivated, as may be seen by comparing the figures. The figure cited to the species by Linnæus, from Columna, and from which it also derives its name, as already remarked by Jacquin, (who was certain of the identity of his species with the Linnean,) has very little resemblance to the plant; but the name of epithymoides, however apt to mislead, is now sanctioned by so long use, that were the plant of Columna discovered, and proved to be different, one would hardly venture now to restore to it its original appellation. The specimen was communicated by Mr. Donn last May from the Botanic Garden at Cambridge.

CLASS XI. ORDER III.

DODECANDRIA TRIGYNIA. Twelve to Nineteen Stamens. Three Styles.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Euphorbia subglobosa multangularis.

Euphorbia nearly round with many angles.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

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Those who are unacquainted with the versatility of this extraordinary Genus will be a little surprised at seeing a plant with so little resemblance to that on our last plate under the same generic appellation. Even the variations of Protea itself appear trifling, when compared with those of Euphorbia, which includes species with leaves opposite, alternate, scattered, whorled, and imbricated, and others leafless, like the present; plants round, oval, square, triangular and oblong; annual, herbaceous, succulent, thorny, woody, and even arboreous; and natives of all climates, from Siberia to Dusky Bay. Almost all the species agree in being replete with a milky juice which flows from them freely when wounded, and is generally of an acrid corrosive quality. An excellent description of the Euphorbia meloformis was given in the second volume of the Hortus Kewensis, and has been since copied into the Species Plantarum. An engraving and description of it by Mons. Desfontaines, one of the professors in the Museum of Natural History at Paris, also ornaments the first volume of their Annales. The species is dioicous; and, except in the Royal Gardens at Kew, male flowers only have as yet been produced by the plants cultivated in this country, and their progeny at Paris. The stamens come to maturity at different times, those of the centre being the earliest, the woolly filaments of which persisting after the antheræ are fallen off give to the flowers a singular appearance. The species is a native of Africa towards the Cape of Good Hope, and was introduced by Mr. Masson in 1774, but is still very scarce, and requires to be kept in the dry stove or on a shelf in the hot-house, much moisture being always inimical to it. The propagation is by separating the young bulbs from their parent stock, and planting them in pots of earth nearly dry, as they retain their vegetative powers for months without either earth or water.

CLASS XIII. ORDER VII.

POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Many Stamens with many Styles or Stigmas.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

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Seeds of this wonderful water plant, originally a native of China, were sent preserved in sugar from Calcutta by Dr. Roxburgh, in 1809, to the Most Honourable the Marquis of Blandford, in whose magnificent Aquarium at White Knights it now raises its numerous heads bristling with spines, unrolls its immense leaves, and flourishes in all its grandeur.

In vain we review the plants of its natural order for any analogy to its thorny exterior; the Nymphs and Naiads, Nymphæeæ and Naiades, are not more conspicuous for their elegance and beauty than for their mildness; Anneslea, like the panther, seems to unite the extremes of ferocity and beauty. The leaves are nearly orbicular, but sometimes a little extended upon one side with a corresponding notch on the side opposite, the largest being from six to eight feet in circumference; green on their upper surface, and reticulated with purplish branching veins, with a sharp curved thorn at each of their principal ramifications; their under side purple, thinly scattered over with a very fine brown pubescence, and reticulated with high raised, cellular, transparent, brown, branched veins, bearing innoxious thorns of the same form as those of the upper surface at their principal divisions. The compartments between the veins are irregular hexagons, pentagons, and rhomboids, which are again intersected by other minute veins nearly in the same manner. The leaf-stalks are centrally affixed, nearly round, very porous, and bristled with soft spines almost to where they rise from the root. The spines are hollow, of the most simple structure, and appear to be formed by a continuance of the cellular tissue of the plant protruded. See Mirbel’s Anatomie Vegetale, fig. 24. It is only where they stand out of water, as upon the fruit and upper surface of the leaves, that they become indurated and really formidable. Very different is the nature and structure of the thorns in the genus Rosa, where they are proper secreting vessels or abortions of such, indurated; and may be gradually traced in the R. damascena, muscosa, ferox, rubiginosa, and many others, from the almost imperceptible hair supporting viscous matter, down to the horny lacerating thorn. In the Geranium echinatum, on the contrary, and some Monsoniæ, the spines are mere indurated persistent stipules, and in the Astragali indurated petioles; while in Prunus, Cratægus, Ononis and Genista, the ends of the branches indurate into thorns, and a plant of Ononis spinosa deprived of its verdure and dried, would appear to be only one branched thorn. Thorns are also formed from indurated bracts, abortions of roots, leaves, branches, peduncles, flowers, petioles and supernumerary stipules as in the terrible Gleditschia, horrid with huge bunches of three-forked thorns from the very trunk of the tree. All these and other similar parts of plants, their real nature and use often overlooked, are in their aged and indurated state thrown together by Linnæus under the denomination of “Arma, (or Armour,) to prevent animals from injuring the plants.” Camels, however, and asses and goats, are observed to be particularly fond of thorny plants; and even quicks only escape being browsed by the cattle, by becoming woody or growing out of their reach.

The story of the Anneslea’s flowering under water may have probably arisen from the very short time the blossoms remain above; as, like those of the Nymphæa, they only rise to expand, and again gradually sink to ripen their seeds after the globules of fertilizing pollen have burst from their parent cells, phœnix like, to perish in renovating their race; and by adding circle to circle served to prolong the immoveable and immeasurable chain. That it certainly flowers above water, we can assert from our own observation; but we were informed at White Knights (where our drawing was taken last September) that it had flowered there below; which might have been owing to its artificial treatment, (We have seen the Nymphæa rubra flowering at the very bottom of the water in the same Aquarium.) and cannot be its natural state, unless we can bring ourselves to believe that nature has endowed it with the power of propagating itself in both elements.

We hope yet to see its magnificent foliage mantling our ponds. Have we not already taught the Thea—the Camillia—the Ta kio—the Moutan—the Yu lan, to resist our winters! Our water is not less temperate than our sky. The name Anneslea was given by Dr. Roxburgh, in honour of the Right Hon. George Annesley, Viscount of Valentia, who discovered the plant growing in the Gagra River in Oude, and also about Chittagong, when on his travels in India. The fruit abundantly distinguishes the genus from the Euryale of Mr. Salisbury.

CLASS XII. ORDER I.

ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Stamens from the Cup. One Style.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Eugenia zeylanica. Willd. Sp. Pl. vol. 2. p. 963.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

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The Ceylon Eugenia is a low bushy wide-spreading shrub, with both the leaves and branches extending nearly horizontally. The flowers grow from the axils of the leaves and sides of the branches upon simple downy footstalks, which have two small bracts a little above their middle; and open in succession from the lower axils upwards. Professor Willdenow is not quite correct in stating the leaves to be impunctate, a minute dotting being visible on both surfaces with the naked eye, and very distinctly with the aid of a common eye-glass. The fruit is of the size of a large pea, rough with minute warts, and crowned with the persistent calyx.

We have seldom seen a more striking example of the astonishing resources provided by nature for the continuation of species than this plant, whose little germen when blossoming contains sixteen infant seeds (clustering round a common centre), while the fruit admits of one only coming to maturity! Above eighty stamens are also provided for the fertilization of a solitary stigma. We have often admired the common chesnut, each germen of which when blossoming contains twelve seeds in embryo, but this yet surpasses it.

We were favoured with fresh specimens last July by A. B. Lambert, esq. from his seat at Boyton, and a foreign specimen in his collection has also enabled us to add the fruit, which has not yet ripened in this country. The plant is stated in Donn’s Catalogue to have been introduced in 1798, most probably by Sir Abraham Hume, as the only plants of it that we have seen came originally from his collection.

CLASS XXII. ORDER IX.

DIOECIA s. POLYGAMIA DECANDRIA. Shafts and Chives separate on different Plants, or both on the same. Ten Chives.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

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Specimens of this curious Schinus were communicated in May by the Right Honourable the Marquis of Blandford, from his gardens at White Knights. Its native country, as we are informed, is Owhyhee, an island long to be remembered in English history for the loss of the illustrious Cook;

At what time the Schinus dentata was brought to England, or by whom, we have not been able to learn. It thrives very well in sheltered situations here in the open ground, and even ripens fruit in good seasons when trained against a wall. The berries are black, nearly of the size of small currants, with a sweet fleshy pulp, each berry containing a single nut which is bluntly angled, and a flattened two-leaved crooked embryo enclosed in a farinaceous perisperm of unequal thickness, having outwardly the same form as the nut.

Another species agreeing exactly in habit with the present, the toothed leaves excepted, S. dependens, (the Amyris polygama of Cavanilles and Willdenow,) has before been added to the genus by Ortega: and we cannot help noticing how remarkable it is that three plants, two of which differ so widely in habit, should yet agree so closely in their fructification. The insertion of the stamens, nectary, germen, stigmas and fruit is exactly similar; and the fruit of Schinus Molle figured by Gærtner (as far as his figure and description go) coincides exactly with the fruit of S. dentata. For the ripe fruit and some observations on the genus we are indebted to A. B. Lambert, esq.

CLASS VIII or X. ORDER I.

OCTANDRIA seu DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Eight or Ten Stamens.

One Style.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

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Linnæus could scarcely have selected a happier genus in honour of the great French botanist; by whose arrangement plants agreeing in general habit and character are not liable to be thrown to various classes for a slight difference in their number of stamens, as in the Linnæan; where octandrous and decandrous plants can only be brought together by special license.

Of the twelve species of Jussieua enumerated by Willdenow, and the two additional species since described by Humboldt and Bonpland, our plant, communicated from Boyton in September, most resembles the octovalvis, of which the Professors Swartz and Jacquin appear to have described very different varieties. Ours, however, appears to be specifically distinct from either.

Mr. Lambert informs us that the plant is a native of the East Indies, from whence the seeds were sent to him by Dr. Roxburgh, with a reference to the Cattu Carambu of the Hortus Malabaricus, (tom. ii. p. 97, fig. 50,) which is a very fair representation of it.

The name exaltata, bestowed upon it by Dr. Roxburgh, may have been suggested by comparing it with the two other Indian species, the repens and suffruticosa; but the peruviana must be a much taller plant, from the account given of it by Father Feuillée.

CLASS XII. ORDER I.

ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Stamens from the Calyx. One Style.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

The Leptospermum scoparium grows naturally in New Zealand, where it was found in Cook’s first voyage of discovery in the year 1769, and was first published with an engraving of the fructification in 1776, by the two Forsters, in their Characteres Generum Plantarum, or Account of the Plants they collected in that expedition. The following description of the plant, and accounts of the benefits his people derived from it, are extracted from Captain Cook’s Account of his Second Voyage, vol. i. p. 99 to 101.

“The Tea plant is a small tree or shrub, with five white petals or flower-leaves, shaped like those of a rose, having smaller ones of the same figure in the intermediate spaces, and twenty or more filaments or threads. The tree sometimes grows to a moderate height, and is generally bare on the lower part, with a number of small branches growing close together towards the top. The leaves are small and pointed like those of the myrtle; it bears a dry roundish seed-case, and grows commonly in dry places near the shores. The leaves, as I have already observed, were used by many of us as tea, which has a very agreeable bitter and flavour when they are recent, but loses some of both when they are dried. When the infusion was made strong, it proved emetic to some, in the same manner as green tea.

“The beer certainly contributed not a little to the healthiness of our people. As I have already observed, we at first made it of a decoction of the spruce leaves (Dacrydium cupressinum); but finding that this alone made the beer too astringent, we afterwards mixed it with an equal quantity of the Tea plant, (a name it obtained in my former voyage from our using it as tea then, as we also did now,) which partly destroyed the astringency of the other, and made the beer exceedingly palatable, and esteemed by every one on board.”

In the younger Forster’s account of the same expedition, vol. i, p. 128 and 129, a similar account of its utility and beauty is given, with the additional information, that, in a fine soil, in thick forests, it was found from 30 to 40 feet high, and above a foot in diameter; while on a hilly arid situation he found it bearing flowers and seed when only 6 inches high.

The plant was introduced to the Royal Gardens at Kew so early as 1772, and several varieties of it are now in cultivation. It is increased both by seeds and cuttings, and requires to be kept in the Greenhouse or Conservatory.

Specimens were communicated by Mr. Donn from the botanic garden at Cambridge last May, and others in June by Mr. Milne from Fonthill.

CLASS V. ORDER I.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Stamens. One Style.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

This beautiful species grows naturally in moist situations and by the sides of rivulets in Pulo-Pinang, where it was discovered by the collector sent out by T. Evans, Esq., and brought to England with him on his return in 1809; and our drawing was taken from a plant of it nearly five feet high, which has been flowering beautifully this year in the collection at Stepney, from August to the end of November. The common height of the plant in Pinang, as the collector informs us, is from eight to about twelve feet.

CLASS XVII. ORDER IV.

DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Stamens in Two Sets, Ten.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

New Holland, so rich in new families of plants, sometimes (though rarely) also furnishes us with a few species belonging to genera common to our northern regions, as in Convolvulus, Chenopodium, Campanula, and our present subject, of which the specimen was communicated from Fonthill last July by Mr. Milne. By whom the species was introduced we have not been able to learn; but we have seen dried specimens of it, brought over by the late Governor King, in the herbarium of A. B. Lambert, Esq.

The plant is of humble growth, and rather conspicuous when in blossom from its fine heads of flowers, but has not yet produced seeds in this country; and our account of the fruit is from the foreign specimens above mentioned. Like most other New Holland plants, Lotus australis requires to be kept in the Greenhouse, or at least sheltered in winter.

In our account of Euphorbia meloformis we omitted to add that the figure was taken from a fine plant in the collection of J. Vere, Esq. Kensington Gore, in August last.

CLASS XIV. ORDER II.

DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Four Stamens in unequal Pairs. Seeds covered.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

Linnæus’s excellent description of this species in the first edition of the Species Plantarum is rather at variance with his character of the genus; nor can the plant certainly be a congener of either of the two original species of Plumier, one of which indeed the late Professor Vahl found it necessary to remove to Ruellia. To the curious little sheath within the corolla, which encloses the germen about two-thirds of its length, in Barleria cristata, and one side of which is shorter than the other, we do not recollect having ever before met with any thing analogous.

We are indebted for fine specimens in blossom to T. Evans, esq., in whose collection it has continued flowering during the autumn, and by whom it was introduced to this country in 1808. The plant seems to grow freely, and is propagated by cuttings. It requires to be kept in the hot-house.

CLASS XX. ORDER I.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Style bearing the Stamens. Stamen One.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

Little more than sixty years ago, Mr. Miller, the best informed gardener of his time, and emphatically styled by foreigners, to whom he was known by his writings, ‘Hortulanorum Princeps;’ after forty years experience in gardening, in the last edition of his Dictionary which he published, when treating of Epidendrums, says: “It would be to little purpose to enumerate them here, as the plants cannot by any art yet known be cultivated in the ground; though, could the plants be brought to thrive by culture, many of them produce very fine flowers of uncommon forms.”—Genius and perseverance, however, have completely vanquished this prejudice, and we now cultivate more species of Epidendrum in England, or what in Mr. Miller’s time would have been considered as such, than he supposed to exist: indeed few plants are at present in greater favour with cultivators than those of the beautiful order of Orchideæ; and our present subject, discovered in Pulo-Pinang, or Prince of Wales’s Island, at the same time with the Ardisia elegans, is certainly not one of the least elegant. Both its peculiar habit and character easily prevent its being confounded with any natural genus yet described, although some species have been enumerated amongst the Limodorums by Dr. Roxburgh, and transposed with no more felicity from thence to Malaxis by Professor Willdenow.—The genus, however, is more allied to Cymbidium in character than either of the above; and, as far as our knowledge of the order at present extends, ought to be placed near to that in the arrangement. The other species of the genus before alluded to are the Malaxis nutans and cernua of Willdenow, Limodorum nutans of the Plants of Coromandel, and the L. recurvum of the same; all of which agree in having the same remarkable flaccidity of foliage, and recurved inflorescence.

The drawing was taken at Stepney last October, and the plant was still in blossom in the end of November.

Some idea of the prodigious extent of this family of plants may be inferred from Dr. Buchanan’s having gathered more than fifty new species in his late journey through Napaul, and Mr. Brown above a hundred, (all now described in his Prodromus,) during his botanical expedition to New Holland and Van Diemen’s Land; and from the statement of the Spanish botanists, Messrs. Ruiz and Pavon, who spent eight years botanizing in South America, that more than a thousand distinct species grow there upon the sides of the Cordilleras!

CLASS XXI. ORDER VII.

MONŒCIA POLYANDRIA. Stamens and Styles separate upon the same Plant. Stamens more than Seven.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

For this very ornamental species we are also indebted to T. Evans, esq., whose collector discovered it growing about the sides and clefts of rocks near a waterfall in the interior of the Island of Pulo-Pinang in 1808. As yet it has only produced male flowers at Stepney; but the bulbs in the axils of the leaves always supply abundant means of propagating it, and its beauty and liveliness of colouring well entitle it to a place in every curious collection.

The drawing was taken at Stepney, last October, from a plant about two feet four inches in height.

CLASS XIV. ORDER II.

DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Two Chives longer. Seeds covered.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

This before unnoticed species of Clerodendrum was introduced from the Island of Pinang, where it grows naturally wild, by T. Evans, Esq. of Stepney, in 1809. The leaves are very large, a little hispid on their upper surface: the height of the plants, in the specimens which we have seen, is from three to five feet. The plant appears to grow freely, and may be propagated by cuttings, but requires to be kept in the hot-house. The drawing was taken at Stepney last October.

CLASS XXIII. ORDER I.

POLYGAMIA MONŒCIA. Various Dispositions upon one Plant.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

This little delicate aquatic, growing naturally in pools and lakes of fresh water in India and Cochinchina, and quivering at every breeze, its roots having no attachment to the soil, and the foliage yielding but little to that of the Mimosa pudica in sensibility, forms a most striking contrast to the Anneslea spinosa of our 128th number. Father Loureiro, who calls it Neptunia oleracea, informs us that in China and Cochinchina, where they cultivate it as a salad herb in pools and slow-flowing streams, they are accustomed to tie the plants to stakes, to prevent their floating to a distance.

A description of the plant, accompanied by an elegant figure, will be found in the 2d volume of Dr. Roxburgh’s Plants of the Coast of Coromandel, under the name of Mimosa natans; but from the total dissimilarity between the fruit and that of the genus Mimosa, we have preferred following the arrangement of Professor Willdenow. The specimens from which the drawing was taken were obligingly communicated by Mr. Milne last September from Fonthill. The plant is annual, and according to Mr. Donn’s Catalogue (where see Mimosa natans) was introduced to this country in 1802.

CLASS V. ORDER I.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Stamens. One Style.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

This species was discovered growing wild on the shores of Pinang, and introduced at the same time with the Ardisia elegans; and flowered in the Stepney collection this year in October and November. The plant from which the drawing was taken is about three feet high; and we are informed by the collector, that the species is considerably dwarfer in Pinang than the A. elegans, and also much more bushy and compact.

CLASS X. ORDER I.

DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Ten Stamens. One Style.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

The Storax tree is a native of the Levant, of Italy, and of the southern parts of Provence in France. The tree is very ornamental, but requires the shelter of a wall in this climate, and while young either to be kept in the green-house or covered during severe frosts. The time of flowering is June and July, but ripe fruits are rarely produced in this country. The principal importation of Storax is said to be from Turkey, where it is obtained both by gathering that which naturally exudes from the trees, and also by making artificial incisions, to which hollow reeds are affixed to receive it. From the accounts of some travellers published by Du Hamel, we learn that they generally adulterate it by mixing it with wax. The Storax-tree is by no means a new acquisition in this country. Gerard in his Herball, published in 1597, informs us that he had two small trees of it in his garden. It is however still a very scarce plant, and only to be found in a few of the principal collections, which, we are informed, is occasioned by the great difficulty of propagating it either by cuttings or layers.

The specimen was communicated, in the beginning of last June, from the well known garden of the Company of Apothecaries at Chelsea.

CLASS XVII. ORDER IV.

DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Two Brotherhoods. Ten Stamens.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

This ornamental species of Cytisus was discovered by Francis Count Waldstein and Dr. Kitaibel, in the county of Bereghi and the Banatian forests in the eastern parts of Hungary, during their botanical excursions in that before nearly uninvestigated region, and published in their Figures and Descriptions of the rare Plants of Hungary, above quoted, at Vienna in 1802. The plant was introduced to this country by Mr. Donn of Cambridge in 1808, and from fine flowering specimens which he communicated last May the present drawing was taken. The common height of the plant is said to be from three to five feet, and the thickness of the stem about an inch. It is perfectly hardy, and has not as yet been enumerated in any catalogue of plants cultivated in this country.

CLASS XIX. ORDER I.

SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA ÆQUALIS. Tips United. Equal Polygamy.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

We received the specimen from which our figure is taken from A. B. Lambert, esq., in whose stove it has flowered for the first time in this country. It was brought to England last year by Mr. Fraser from South Carolina. Many attempts have been before made to introduce it, but without success, as the plants either perished on the voyage, or very soon after their arrival. It is, we think, a great acquisition to our collections, on account of the great fragrance of its leaves when dried, which very much resembles the fine perfume of the Tonquin Bean, (Dipterix odorata Linn. Willd.) but more powerful, and which they will retain for many years, as Mr. Lambert has shown us some which have been kept in a box above ten years, and are as highly scented as ever. It seems at present too tender to flower without the assistance of the stove.

CLASS VI. ORDER I.

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Stamens. One Style.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

This is one of the species referred to in our description No. 605, and flowered last November in the collection of T. Evans, Esq. at Stepney; where we were informed, that it grows naturally in shady woods in Pinang, or Prince of Wales’s Island, and was introduced to this country in 1808. Its beauty is certainly far inferior to the Bengal species, with which however it agrees very well in essential characters; but the nectary here nearly resembles a little cup, and is not contracted above, as in that species. The height of the plant above ground is only about two inches.

CLASS V. ORDER I.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Stamens. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

This elegant little annual was raised from seed last year (1810) in the collection of Sir A. Hume, Bart. who communicated a fine specimen of it, from which our drawing was begun, and finished from another plant of equal beauty sent to us by A. B. Lambert, esq. last month. It is a brilliant addition to the stove. Native of the Raja Mahl hills, and not mentioned by any one but Dr. Roxburgh in his Plants of the Coast of Coromandel.

CLASS V. ORDER I.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Stamens. One Style.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

This remarkable species of Ipomœa was brought from Mrs. Benyon’s hothouse at Englefield, Berkshire, last August, where the plant, after rising to the top of the trellis, extends both right and left to a length of about 30 feet, branching in various directions with hundreds of bunches of flowers. The foliage is singular as to texture, varieties of form, and colour; the lower leaves being of a strong purple on their under side, and dark green above. The plant is perennial, and continues flowering during the greatest part of the summer, but does not ripen its seed—most probably owing to the extreme luxuriance of its inflorescence. All our attempts to discover its native soil, or time of introduction, have proved abortive; neither have we been able to find that any account of it has before been published, or any specimens of it in herbariums.

The propagation is by cuttings; and we are informed that Mr. Lambert, who favoured us with the specimens, is already in possession of some very fine plants of it.

CLASS X. ORDER I.

DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Ten Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

The genus Trichilia is certainly at present in a confused state, from the latitude annexed to it of 4 to 5 petals, and 8 to 10 stamens. It appears to contain at least two genera. This fine species is said to have been sent over to England from the botanic garden in the Island of St. Vincent’s by Doctor A. Anderson about the year 1801, and is not we believe (at present) in any other collection but that of Sir Abraham Hume, who favoured us with the specimen here delineated in fine bloom last summer (1810). It possesses the same fragrance that is attributed to the Trichilia moschata, of which we have never seen specimens.

CLASS X. ORDER I.

DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Ten Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

This little shrub from New Holland is both new and beautiful, well adapted to grace any collection, being of easy culture, small in size, with abundance of brilliant little flowers growing from the axils of every leaf. The specimen we have delineated was communicated to us by Mr. J. Milne, from the Font Hill gardens, in fine bloom, in the month of April 1811.

CLASS XXI. ORDER III.

MONŒCIA TRIANDRIA. One House. Three Stamens.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

Masculi flores.

Feminei flores.

Male flowers.

Female flowers.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

For this curious little plant we are indebted to the late Mr. Fraser, nurseryman, Sloane Square, Chelsea; whose ardour in the pursuit of plants carried him thrice over to America in search of botanic novelty. Mr. J. Fraser informs us, that his father and himself discovered this singular species of Carex, in the autumn of 1808, near the Table Mountain, and upon the banks of the Catawba River in the neighbourhood of Morgan Town, North Carolina.

CLASS V. ORDER I.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

This fine species of Heliconia is known by the common appellation of the Wild Plantain Tree, and grows in mountainous boggy places in South America, and also in most of the West India Islands. It is not generally cultivated with us, on account of the room it occupies, its elegant large foliage being but ill adapted to the confinement of the stove. Our figure was made about the middle of April, from a plant in the collection of the Countess de Vandes.

CLASS XIV. ORDER I.

DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. Two Chives longer. Seeds naked.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

This fine plant is perfectly new to the British gardens, and the only species of a genus named and figured by Labillardiere in his Nova Hollandia, or Description of New South Wales.

It was raised from seed in the summer of 1807, in the collection of the Right Hon. Lord Grenville, at Dropmore, who favoured us with specimens in full bloom, last June, 1811, being the first time of its flowering in this country. His Lordship’s botanic gardener informs us that the plant is about eight feet high, and the stem one inch and a quarter in diameter; that during the first year it had the appearance of being herbaceous, but afterwards became woody; its growth is very luxuriant, flowering at the termination of every branch, and seems as if it would thrive in any sort of earth, and was nearly if not quite hardy, as the roots remained in the ground one year at Dropmore, and shot up strong again in the summer. It may be increased by cuttings, and will be found not only an acquisition in point of novelty, but ornamental from its numerous light graceful blossoms, which possess an agreeable fragrance.

CLASS X. ORDER I.

DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Ten Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

This nondescript species of Gompholobium is, when in flower, the most elegant of the genus, but when out of bloom few plants have less attraction.

It was first raised in the Royal gardens at Kew, about the year 1809, and is as yet in very few collections. Our figure represents an entire plant from the conservatory of the Countess de Vandes, which flowered in the month of June 1811, and perfected its seed about the middle of September, at which period its slender branches had grown nearly six inches longer (than they were when in bloom), and, twining round a small stick placed for their support, had every appearance of becoming a graceful climbing plant.

CLASS II. ORDER I.

DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Two Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

This ornamental stove plant was raised from West India seed, by Mr. J. Milne, nurseryman at Fonthill, about the year 1807; and from a fine specimen communicated by him in June 1811 our figure was delineated.

It is a perfectly new species, and has not hitherto, we believe, been either figured or described.

CLASS XIX. ORDER VI.

SYNGENESIA MONOGAMIA. Tips united. Flowers simple.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

Of this perfectly new species of Lobelia we do not find either figure or description in any author ancient or modern. The resemblance it bears to the Campanula Speculum, or Bell-flowered Venus’s Looking-glass, induced us to give it the same specific title. It is a delicate slender little annual, with an abundant succession of dark purple flowers, which appear to great advantage when the sun shines. In the regularity of its corolla it differs essentially from the genus Lobelia, and in a manuscript of the late Dr. Solander we find an intention to separate it by the generic title of Speculare.

CLASS XX. ORDER I.

GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA. Chives on the Pointal. Two Chives.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

This species of Epidendrum is an old inhabitant of the hot-house, and much esteemed for the fragrance of its flowers, and the only one at present known to us (the angustifolium excepted) with a single leaf. It is enumerated in the Species Plantarum of Willdenow, as described by Swartz; but we do not find that any figure of it has before been published.

CLASS IV. ORDER I.

TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

This Protea is nearest allied to the P. coronata published in the Seventh Volume of this Work, Pl. 469, but differs essentially from it (and also from every other species of Protea at present known to us) in having so few flowers, that the centre looks like an empty cup, the flowers being spread out towards the imbricated scales of the empalement in a circular manner; whence its specific title of radiata. In the bud state it does not promise that splendid appearance which it exhibits when expanded. Our figure represents a plant from the nursery of Mr. Knight, of the King’s Road, Chelsea. At the base we have added the head of flowers of a green variety, communicated to us from the Hammersmith Nursery, raised from Cape seed, at the same time as the red, about the year 1809, and which flowered for the first time in this country last autumn (1811).

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In our last Number we forgot to mention that the figure of the Lobelia Speculum was taken from a plant in the nursery of Messrs. Colville, and the Epidendrum fragrans from the collection of J. Vere, esq.

CLASS V. ORDER I.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Stamens. One Style.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

Our drawing of this elegant little plant was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Malcolm and Co., at Kensington, July 1811. No figure or description of the species has before been published; but we have seen wild specimens of it in the herbarium of A. B. Lambert, esq., gathered by the Swedish naturalist Laxman, near the Lake Baical in Siberia, and marked Androsace angustifolia. The height of the plants in cultivation with us varies from three to ten inches, the number of rays in the central umbel are from twelve to twenty, and in the lateral ones from six to fourteen; the plant is annual, and generally sows itself upon the borders where it grows. We are informed it was introduced about 1806, by Mr. Bell, of Sion Gate near Brentford, who received seeds of it from Siberia, under the name of Androsace lactea.

CLASS XVII. ORDER IV.

DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Two Brotherhoods. Ten Chives.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

This nondescript species of Crotolaria was introduced by Mr. Salt last April (1811) from the distant region of Abyssinia. We have therefore named it after him, in compliment to that ardour, which in the pursuit of natural history has twice impelled him to undertake a journey to so remote a country. Our figure represents a fine specimen communicated to us by A. B. Lambert, esq., who raised it from seed in his hot-stove at Boyton, and where it flowered last summer (1811) for the first time in this country.

CLASS VI. ORDER I.

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

This elegant plant was introduced to this country by T. Evans, Esq., who received it in 1801 from the late Dr. Anderson, of the Botanic Garden in the Island of St. Vincent, and which flowered for the first time in the hot-house of the Countess de Vandes at Bayswater last autumn (1811).

The only figure of it extant is a good coloured one recently published in the Flore des Antilles, by F. R. Tussac, a colonist of Saint Domingo; who describes it as being eagerly sought after by the Negroes, not for the beauty of its flowers, but for the sake of the roots, which not only serve them for food, but for an article of commerce, which they take with them when they travel to the Cape of Good Hope, and sell under the title of white Jerusalem artichokes.

This species very much resembles the A. Salsilla. The principal and almost only distinction is, that the roots of the Salsilla are long and ligneous, while those of the edulis are round and succulent, about the size of young potatoes, and when boiled are said to be a light and delicate food. A farinaceous or mealy substance is also made of them, from which cream is made, wholesome and very agreeable to the taste.—All the species which compose this fine genus are to be found in the superb gardens of the Incas of Peru, where it is indigenous.

CLASS XIX. ORDER II.

SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. Tips united. Superfluous Pointals.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

See Xeranthemum speciosissimum, Pl. LI. Vol. I.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

This Xeranthemum was raised from seed brought over from the Cape of Good Hope by Mr. Niven in 1809, and resembles in its habit and foliage the X. fasciculata figured in the Fourth Volume of this Work, Plates 242 and 279, but is much more esteemed than either of them for the brilliance of its fine red flowers. It requires no other treatment than what is common to most of the genus, and continues in flower from May till October.

CLASS XX. ORDER I.

GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA. Chives on the Pointals. Two Chives.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

Our figure represents a nondescript species of Cymbidium communicated to us by T. Evans, Esq., in whose collection at Stepney it flowered last summer (1811) for the first time in this country. We have given it the specific title of Andersonii, as a tribute of respect to the late Dr. Anderson, by whom it was introduced in 1804, with many other fine new plants, from the botanic garden in the island of St. Vincent, and may be considered as a valuable addition to the hot stove, from its great height and numerous large yellow blossoms.

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⁂ In the description of the Alstromeria edulis of our last Number, Cape of Good Hope is inserted instead of Cape François, a mistake occasioned by our writing it off in a hurry along with some pages of the Erica, a tribe of plants (with few exceptions) all natives of the Cape of Good Hope. We detected the error as soon as printed, but did not think it of sufficient consequence to cancel the page and prolong its publication, as it had already been too long delayed; and should have only noticed it in the Errata at the end of the Volume, (which is nearly terminated,) were it not for the partial criticism in the Monthly Magazine given by an interested friend to the Botanical Magazine, who probably imagines the sale of our work is detrimental to that publication, and reminds us of the story of the man with a very short nose, who was always railing at the long nose of another person; which led to the conclusion that he thought it was made at the expense of his short one. But as our readers may think these observations long enough, they will doubtless think those of the botanical report still more so, as in the comments on the Protea radiata, fifteen lines are nearly filled with technical phrases, in an ineffectual attempt to explain the meaning of two botanical terms which he allows to be differently accepted by different authors, and at last leaves off just where he began. But meeting with a better opportunity in Alstromeria edulis, he has not only made the most of that, but rather more than enough of it, verifying the old adage, that those who can make something of nothing will make a little go a great way.

CLASS XIX. ORDER II.

SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. Tips united. Superfluous Pointals.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

See Xeranthemum speciosissimum, Pl. LI. Vol. I.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

This fine dwarf species of Xeranthemum was introduced from the Cape of Good Hope at the same time with the X. fasciculatum rubrum by Mr. Niven. It is a hardy robust green-house shrub, of humble growth, and appears as if it would always retain that character. It requires an airy situation, and when watered (which should not be often) to be thoroughly wetted, as partial watering is a general destroyer of plants, by suffering the atmosphere to exhale the humidity before it has half penetrated to the bottom; which by repeated wetting rots the upper part, and leaves the roots below to starve for want of moisture.

CLASS VIII. ORDER I.

OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Eight Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

This elegant species of Corræa, a native of New Holland, is enumerated in Donn’s catalogue by the specific title of speciosa, but has been overlooked in the new edition of the Hortus Kewensis. It is a hardy green-house plant with brilliant flowers in great succession, and may be propagated by cuttings. It requires an airy situation, and must not be too often watered. Our figure represents one half of a fine plant in the collection of Messrs. Colvilles.

CLASS XIX. ORDER II.

SYNGENESIS POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. Tips united. Superfluous Pointals.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

This magnificent species of Gnaphalium was introduced to the British gardens from the Cape of Good Hope by Capt. W. Paterson in 1704, and is said to be found in a wild state on the borders of the Caffre country 50O miles from the Cape. It flowers in perfection during the months of July and August, and when in the bud state much resembles a rich ripe fruit, with leaves like flannel. The only figure we have seen of it is a small one given in the Botanical Magazine many years ago, before it was well naturalized, and on that account better adapted to the scale of their work. Our figure was taken from the Clapham collection when in its greatest splendour, and where several fine plants of it flowered with a luxuriance fully equal to what we have represented. It should be kept in an airy part of the greenhouse; and when watered, care should be taken not to wet the leaves, as that frequently destroys the plant.

CLASS V. ORDER I.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Stamens. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

Our drawing represents a new species of Cerbera introduced from Pulo-Pinang in 1809, and which flowered late in the autumn of 1812, for the first time in this country, in the hot stove of T. Evans, Esq. whose collector informs us that it grows in abundance by the sea-side, and is a handsome shrub about three feet high. By the natives it is called Devil’s flower, a title they apply indiscriminately to all noxious plants. But although it is considered as poisonous (as are all the Cerberas at present known) the natives of Amboyna are said by Rumphius to use it medicinally as a purgative, but that it is too powerful to be taken with safety by strangers. In Macassar an oil is expressed from the fruit, which is burnt in lamps, and emits a disagreeable smell. It bears a variety of names. By the Dutch it is called Mükhout; in Portugal and Malay, Manga Brava; at Amboyna, Wabba; in Macassar, Lambuto Baleyice, Bintaro and Sassura Utan, and by some Caju Mattu, Buta or Blinthout. There are three uncoloured figures of it; one in Burmann’s Zeylanica, page 150, tab. 70. figure 1; another in Rumphius’s Amboynensis, vol. ii. page 243, figure 81; and in Rheede’s Hortus Malabancus, page 71, tab. 3. there is a representation of it by the title of Odallam; and, although a rough draft, it is certainly not the worst figure of the plant.

CLASS V. ORDER V.

PENTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. Five Chives. Five Pointals.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

Of this species of Crassula we know of no other figure extant, but a very small uncoloured one in the Hortus Elthamensis of Dillenius. Our specimen was taken from the hot stove of the Countess de Vandes, where it flowered for the first time in this country in 1809—in size and grandeur like the C. obliqua, with an equal profusion of blossoms, and bending down as if the weight of the terminal mass of flowers was too much for the stem to support; which we do not consider as the positive character of it, but only arising from the situation in which it stood; being too near the glass, which most likely drew too much of its strength out in length of stalk, and in all probability occasioned the loss of the plant, as it damped off very soon after flowering.

CLASS XX. ORDER V.

GYNANDRIA PENTANDRIA. Chives on the Pointals. Five Chives.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

This Passiflora is (like every one of the genus) a graceful meandering plant, and calculated to make an ugly wall look beautiful. It bears an abundant succession of delicate small flowers, which are fragrant, and open early in the day, and during the summer and autumnal months is a great ornament to the hot stove. Our drawing was made from the collection of the Countess de Vandes at Bayswater.

CLASS XX. ORDER II.

GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA. Chives on the Pointals. Two Chives.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

This curious genus, in its style of action, displays an appearance of locomotive power superior to the Mimosas; for, whilst they shrink from the touch, this boldly comes forward with singular elasticity; and although it may not exceed in beauty, it certainly possesses a more moving power than the utmost grace and beauty of other plants can boast. Like most of the productions of New Holland, it bears a strict appearance, and is seen to most advantage in a plant about three years old, such as our figure represents, as it flowered for the first time in this country at the Hammersmith nursery.

CLASS XIX. ORDER VI.

SYNGENESIA MONOGAMIA. Tips united. Flowers simple.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

Amongst the Lobelias, this elegant species claims altogether precedence; superior in colour even to the L. cardinalis, large in its flowers, tall in growth, and so easily cultivated that their abundance and beauty will ensure them admission into every collection. Our figure was made from a plant in the collection of J. Vere, Esq. in the summer of 1810. It was raised from Botany Bay seed at the Hammersmith Nursery in 1809.

CLASS XVI. ORDER VI.

MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. Threads united. Many Chives.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

CAMELLIA JAPONICA. Var. flore pleno incarnato.

Flesh-coloured Camellia.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

So high in estimation is every variation of the Camellia Japonica, that even a new and rare plant is not considered more interesting, nor of so much value as one of these beautiful varieties; the number of which is now extended to sixteen, at least so enumerated by cultivators, and all considered as perfectly distinct. The rose-coloured variety was introduced to the royal gardens at Kew about 1808, and the pale variety was first cultivated in the conservatory of the late Lady Amelia Hume, we believe, in 1806. It is nearly allied to the white, and in severe winters so little colour is visible, that Mrs. Beaumont (with whom this flowered last December at Bretton Hall) informed me it was only by comparing it with the white that it could positively be said to possess any colour; but, upon comparison, a blush was evident. So delicate a test is only requisite in rigid seasons from the want of sun. Both these varieties flower from December till March.

CLASS XIV. ORDER II.

DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Two Chives longer. Seeds covered.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

The Mimulus luteus flowers the same year it is sown, like an annual; but from its habit and manner of throwing out round the base of the flowering stem prostrate branches, which take root, and from the extremities of some of them other flowering stems shooting up, we are inclined to think it biennial. It was long ago described and figured by Father Feuillée in his Flora Peruviana, and quoted from him by Linnæus, who inserted it in his Species Plantarum under the specific title of luteus. It flowers in the autumnal months, and enlivens the borders with its successively numerous bright yellow blossoms; is easily propagated by seeds; and, according to Donn’s Catalogue, was introduced in the year 1812.

CLASS XVI. ORDER VI.

MONADELPHIA MONOGYNIA. Threads united. Many Chives.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

The flowers of this Camellia very much resemble those of the genus Anemone, and it is certainly the most distinct variety at present known. By cultivators it is denominated the Warratta Camellia, from the brilliance of its flowers resembling the Embothrium speciosum, or Warratta. Our drawing was made from a plant in the conservatory of Mr. Alnutt of Clapham Common, where it flowered in February 1813 in great perfection. It also blossomed again last winter, but, from the severity of the season, inferior in colour, and much reduced in size.

CLASS VI. ORDER I.

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

The Lilium concolor was first raised in the conservatory of the late Sir Charles Greville at Paddington in 1806, and still continues to be one of the rarest of this showy genus. Our figure was made from a plant in the nursery of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, late in the autumn of 1813. Of what country it is a native is not positively known, but it is supposed to be of Chinese origin.

CLASS X. ORDER I.

DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Ten Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

Our drawing of the Arbutus longifolia was made from a fine specimen, obligingly communicated by Mrs. Beaumont, from the superb collection of Colonel Beaumont at Bretton Hall, in March 1814, whose gardener, Mr. Benning, informs us that it is kept in the conservatory, is eleven feet high, bears eight heads of flowers like the one figured, and sheds the old bark annually. It was first raised at the Hammersmith nursery from seeds received from the Island of Madeira. It is also said to be found in the Canary Isles, where the berries are made into a sweetmeat. Although sixteen years in cultivation with us, it has very rarely flowered. May be increased by cuttings or layers.

	Pl.	vol
Aizoon canariense	201	3
Aletris fragrans	306	5
farmentosa	54	1
Allium gracile	107	2
Amaryllis Brasilienis	358	5
Fothergillia	163	3
radiata	95	2
reticulata	179	3
Anchusa capensis	336	5
Anemone palmata	172	3
Anthericum costatum	298	5
Anthillis erinacea	15	1
Antholyza Æthiopica	210	3
fulgens	192	3
ringens	32	1
spicata	56	1
tubulosa	174	3
Aponogeton distachyon	290	5
Arctotis paradoxa	357	5
Arethusa plicata	321	5
Aristea cyanea	10	1
major	160	3
Arum orixensis	356	5
Asclepias gigantea	271	4
Aspalathus crassifolius	353	5
Aster dentatus	61	1
reflexus	93	2
Atragene Austriaca	80	3
capensis	9	1
Azalea Pontica	16	1
Banksia ericafolia	156	3
præmorsa	258	4
serrata	82	2
Baurea rubioides	198	3
Bignonia Leucoxylon	43	1
pandorana	86	2
Blandfordia cordata	343	5
Borbonia cordata	31	1
Boronia pinnata	58	1
Brunsfelsia undulata	167	3
Buchnera fœtida	80	2
pedunculata	84	2
Camellia japonica, alb. pl.	25	1
japonica, pl. vg. to.	91	2
japonica, rub. pl.	199	3
Cameraria latifolia	201	4
Casuarina stricta	346	5
Cerbera Ahouai	231	4
undulata	130	2
Chelone campanuloides	40	1
Ruelloides	34	1
Chiococca racemosa	284	4
Chrysanthemum tricolor	109	2
Cineraria aurita	24	1
Clematis viorna	71	1
Clusia flava	223	4
Cobbea scandens	342	5
Codon Royeni	325	5
Cordia sebestena	157	3
Cortusa Mathioli	1	1
Corræa alba	17	1
Crassula odoratissima	26	1
Crateva Capparoides	176	3
Crinum giganteum	169	3
spirale	92	2
Crowea saligna	79	2
Crotolaria verrucosa	308	5
Cyanella capensis	141	2
Cyrtanthus obliquus	265	4
Cytisus tomentosus	237	4
Daphne Pontica	73	2
Daviesia ulicifolia	304	5
Diosma latifolia	33	1
Dodonæa triquetra	230	4
Dracena borealis	206	3
Echites suberecta	187	3
Echium argenteum	154	3
ferocissimum	39	1
glaucophyllum	165	3
grandiflorum	20	1
Embothrium buxifolium	218	4
lineare	272	4
salignum	215	3
sericeum	100	2
Epidendrum cochleatum	13	1
ensifolium	344	5
sinense	216	3
Epigæa repens	102	2
Eranthemum pulchellum	88	2
Falkia repens	257	4
Ferraria pavonia	178	3
viridiflora	285	4
Fuchsia lycioides	120	2
Galaxia grandiflora	164	3
ovata	94	2
Gardenia tubiflora	183	3
Gaultheria procumbens	116	2
Gentiana purpurea	117	2
Geranium astragalifolium	190	3
barbatum	303	5
barbatum minor	323	5
bubonifolium	328	5
ciliatum	247	4
coronillæfolium	305	5
coronopifolium	338	5
cortusæfolium	121	2
crassifolium	136	2
echinatum	158	3
elegans	28	1
fragile	37	1
grandiflorum	12	1
incisum	67	1
incrassatum	246	4
laciniatum	131	2
flo. purp.	204	3
bicolor	269	4
lineare	193	3
melananthum	209	3
oxalidifolium	300	5
pictum	168	3
pilosum	259	4
pinnatum	311	5
præmorsum	150	3
procumbens	254	4
punctatum	60	1
quinquevulnerum	114	2
radiatum	222	4
reflexum	224	4
reniforme	108	2
revolutum	354	5
roseum	173	3
selinum	239	4
spathulatum	152	3
curviflo.	282	4
tomentosum	115	2
undulatum	292	5
minor	317	5
Gladiolus alatus	8	1
abreviatus	166	3
blandas	99	2
campanulatus	188	3
carneus	240	4
crispus	142	2
cuspidatus	147	3
pet. crisp.	219	4
galeatus	122	2
gramineus	62	1
grandiflorus	118	2
longiflorus	5	1
nanus	137	2
orchidiflorus	241	4
plicatus	268	4
polystachius	66	4
præcox flo. rub.	38	1
pyramidatus	335	5
ringens cin. odor.	27	1
multiflo.	227	4
undul.	275	4
roseus	11	1
striatus	111	2
versicolor	19	1
Gloriosa superba	129	2
Gnidia lævigata	89	2
opposætifolia	225	4
pinifolia	52	1
simplex	70	1
Goodenia calendulacea	22	1
ovata	68	1
Hæmanthus multiflorus	318	5
Hebenstreitia aurea	252	4
Heliconia psittacorum	124	2
Helonias bullata	352	5
Hemerocallis alba	194	3
cærulea	6	1
graminea	244	4
Hermannia pulverata	161	3
Hibbertia volubilis	126	2
Hibiscus mutabilis fl. pl.	228	4
Patersonius	286	4
Hillia longiflora	145	3
Houstonia coccinea	106	2
Hyacinthus corymbosus	345	5
Hypoxis linearis	171	3
obliqua	195	3
stellata	101	2
fl. alb.	236	4
Iris longifolia	45	1
Itea spinosa	314	5
Ixia aristata	87	2
bulbifera	48	1
bulbocodium	170	3
capitata ovat.	68	1
fl. aur.	50	1
fl. al. fun. nig.	159	3
stellata	232	4
cinnamonea	44	1
columnaris	203	3
versic.	211	3
latifol.	213	3
grandiflo.	250	4
crispifolia fl. cærul.	35	1
crocata nig. mac.	134	2
fistulosa	59	1
maculata	196	3
min. fl. pur.	256	4
polystachia	155	3
incar.	128	2
punctata	177	3
pusilla	245	4
reflexa	14	1
speciosa	186	3
spicata	29	1
Ixora Pavetta virid. nig.	76	2
Jasminum gracile	127	2
Jatropha panduræfolia	267	4
Justicea lucida	313	5
Lachenalia fragrans	302	5
pendula	41	1
purpureo cærul.	257	4
pustulata	350	5
quadricolor	148	3
reflexa	299	5
rosea	296	5
Lachnæa eriocephala	104	2
purpurea	293	5
Lambertia formosa longi flor.	69	1
Laseopetalum ferrugineum	208	3
Leea pinnata	355	5
Limonia trifoliata	143	2
Lobelia coronopifolia	339	5
gracilis	340	5
pinifolia	273	4
Magnolia fuscata	229	4
pumila	226	4
purpurea	324	5
Mahernia odorata	85	2
Malpighia crassifolia	49	1
Malva divaricata	182	3
reflexa	135	2
Massonia scabra	220	4
violacea	46	1
Melaleuca coronata	278	4
ericæfolia	175	3
hypericifolia	200	3
Melanthium viride	233	4
Mesembryanthemum glabrum	57	1
Metrosidera hirsuta	281	4
Mimosa discolor	235	4
longifolia	207	3
stricta	53	1
Monsonia filia	276	4
Moræa Northiana	255	4
tricolor	83	2
Musa coccinea	47	1
Neotia speciosa	3	1
Nymphæa cærulea	197	3
ordorata	297	5
stellata	330	5
Olea apetala	316	5
Ophyrs lilifolia	65	1
Orchis bicornis	315	5
ciliaris	42	1
Ornithogalum lacteum	274	4
odoratum	260	4
Pæonia albiflora	64	1
Passiflora aurantia	295	5
maliformis	217	4
Pergularia minor	184	3
odoratissima	185	3
Persoonia lanceolata	74	2
Persoonia latifolia	280	4
linearis	77	2
Pharnaceum lineare	326	5
fl. alb.	329	5
Phaseolus Caracalla	341	5
Physalis prostrata	75	2
Pitcairnia latifolia	322	5
sulphurea	249	4
Pittosporum coriaceum	151	3
Platylobium lanceolatum	205	3
ovatum	266	4
scolopendrum	191	3
Pogonia debilis	212	3
glabra	283	4
Primula Cortusoides	7	1
Protea anemonifolia	332	5
candicans	294	5
cordata	289	5
cynaroides	288	4
decumbens	349	5
formosa	17	1
globosa	307	5
glomerata	264	4
grandiflora fol. und.	301	5
lagopus	243	4
longifolia nigra	132	2
ferr. purp.	133	2
cono turb.	144	2
pinifolia	76	2
pulchella	270	4
speciosa latifolia	110	2
nigra	103	2
fol. glab.	277	4
spicata	234	4
triternata	337	5
umbellata	248	4
Psoralea aculeata	146	3
Pultenæa dapnoides	98	2
ilcifolia	320	5
rubiæfolia	331	5
villosa	309	5
Punica granatum fl. alb.	96	2
Renealmia nutans	360	5
Rhododendron Dauricum	4	1
punctatum	36	1
Roëlla decurrens	238	4
Sagittaria lancifolia	333	5
Samyda serrulata	202	3
Senecio pseudo China	291	5
Septas capensis	90	2
Schotia speciosa	348	5
Sophora capensis	347	5
Sowerbia juncea	81	2
Sprengelia incarnata	2	1
Stachys coccinea	310	5
Struthiola ciliata	149	3
fl. rub.	139	2
imbricata	133	2
ovata	119	2
tomentosa	334	5
Styphelia parviflora	287	4
triflora	72	1
viridis	312	5
Tagetas lucida	359	5
Talinum patens	253	4
Thunbergia fragrans	123	2
Usteria scandens	63	1
Vaccinium amænum	138	2
arctostaphyllus	30	1
crassifolium	105	2
dumosum	112	2
formosum	97	2
frondosum	140	2
parviflorum	125	2
staminium	263	4
virgatum	181	3
Verbascum ferrugineum	162	3
Vereia crenata	21	1
Vicia galegifolia	319	5
Viola pedata	153	3
Westeringia rosmarinacea	214	3
Wurmbea capensis β	221	4
Xeranthemum argenteum	327	5
fasciculatum	242	4
fl. alb.	279	4
speciocissimum	51	1
spirale	262	4
Xylophylla falcata	331	5
Zinnia verticillata	189	3
violacea	55	1

	Pl.	vol
Achania mollis	452	7
Achyranthes porrigens	380	6
Ægiphila diffusa	578	9
Agave Americana	433	7
Albuca fastigiata	450	7
Allium Chamæ-Moly	377	6
Aloe arborescens	468	7
Alstromeria edulis	649	10
Amaryllis spectabilis	390	6
Anagallis grandiflora	367	6
Androsace coronopifolia	647	10
Anneslea spinosa	618	10
Anthericum paniculatum	396	6
pugioniforme	386	6
Aponogeton monostachyon	406	6
Arbutus longifolia	665	10
Ardisia elegans	623	10
littoralis	630	10
Aspalathus globosus	510	8
Astragalus villosus	516	8
Bæckia virgata	598	9
Banksia spinulosa	457	7
Barleria cristata	625	10
Begonia Evansiana	627	10
Bignonia grandiflora	493	8
uncata	530	8
Broussonetia papyrifera	488	7
Cactus coccinellifer	533	8
grandiflorus	508	8
hexagonus	513	8
Cæsulea axillaris	429	6
Calendula viscosa	412	6
Calycanthus fertilis	539	8
Camellia Japonica, semi-duplex	559	9
Japonica, pleno Vars.	660	10
Japonica, Var., pe. pli.-s.	663	10
Campanula laciniata	385	6
versicolor	396	6
Cantua Coronopifolia	415	6
Calendula dentata	407	6
Callicoma serratifolia	566	9
Carex Fraseri	639	10
Ceanothus laniger	569	9
Celosia cernua	635	10
Ceratonia siliqua	567	9
Cerbera manghas	655	10
Chamærops humilis	599	9
Cinchona caribæa	481	7
Citrus medica, odoratissima	609	10
nobilis	608	9
Clematis florida	402	6
Clerodendrum pyramidale	628	10
tomentosum	607	9
Commelina tuberosa	399	6
Commersonia echinata	519	8
dasyphylla	603	9
Corchorus Japonicus, flore pleno	587	9
Corræa speciosa	653	10
viridiflora	436	7
Crassula obliqua	414	6
perfoliata	656	10
Cratægus Azarolus	579	9
Crinum latifolium	478	7
Crocus biflorus	362	6
Crotolaria juncea	422	6
pulchella	417	6
pulchra	601	9
Saltiana	648	10
tetragona	593	9
Cucumis Dudaim	548	8
Cymbidium Andersonii	651	10
Cynanchum bicolor	562	9
mucronatum	515	8
undatum	410	6
Cytisus elongatus	632	10
Dahlia pinnata	408	6
nana	483	7
Daviesia corymbosa	611	10
Daviesia latifolia	638	10
Desmanthus natans	629	10
Dianthus alpinus	482	7
Diosma ericæfolia	451	7
ovata	464	7
Dolichos hirsutus	446	7
Dombeya Erythroxylon	389	6
Elychrisum Stæhelina	428	6
Epidendrum fuscatum	441	7
fragrans	645	10
lineare	445	7
Eriospermum folioliferum	521	8
Erythina speciosa	443	7
Eucalyptus resinifera	400	6
Eucomis purpureocaulis	369	6
Eugenia malaccensis	458	7
Zeylanica	619	10
Euosma albiflora	520	8
Euphorbio epithymoides	616	10
meloformis	617	10
Fragaria indica	479	7
Ferula Persica	558	9
Fumaria formosa	393	6
nobilis	614	10
Gærtnera racemosa	600	9
Gardenia radicans	491	7
Genista lusitanica	419	6
Gentiana Catesbæi	418	6
fimbriata	509	8
Geodorum citrinum	626	10
Geranium barbatum. Var. undulatum	366	6
fissifolium	378	6
floribundum	420	6
hymenodes	413	6
luteum	423	6
Gladiolus angustus, minor	589	9
Globba purpurea	615	10
Glycine Comptoniane	602	9
Gnaphalium eximium	654	10
grandiflorum	489	7
Gompholobium grandiflorum	642	10
maculatum	427	6
Goodenia tenella	466	7
Gorteria pavonia	528	8
Heliconia bihai	640	10
Hellenia Allugas	501	8
Hermannia flammea	550	8
Hibbertia crenata	472	7
Hibiscus pruriens	498	8
Hypericum Virginicum	552	8
Ipomæa coccinea	499	8
grandiflora	403	6
insignis	636	10
pendula	613	10
Iris pavonia	364	6
Ixia columnaris. Var. angustifolia	392	6
curta	564	9
Jasminum multiflorum	496	8
sambac, Var. flore pleno	497	8
Juniperus Daurica	534	8
Jussieua exaltata	621	10
Justicia bicolor	643	10
nitida	570	9
Lachenalia flava	456	7
sessiliflora	460	7
Lachnæa Buxifolia	524	8
Lasiopetalum ferrugineum	459	7
Laurus Cinnamomum	596	9
Leptospermum scoparium	622	10
Liatris odoratissima	633	10
Lilium concolor	662	10
speciosum	586	9
Limodorum Tankervilliæ	426	6
Linum trigynum	449	7
venustum	477	7
Liparia sphærica	568	9
villosa	382	6
Lithospermum Tinctorium	576	9
Lobelia assurgens	553	9
fulgens	659	10
hirsuta	444	7
speculum	644	10
surinamensis, Var. flore rubro	502	8
Lonicera Japonica	583	9
Lopezia coronata	551	8
Lotus australis	624	10
Lythrum fructicosum	467	7
Magnolia auriculata	573	9
grandiflora	518	8
Malpighia polystachia	604	9
Malus Japonica	462	7
Magnifera indica	425	6
Martynia diandra	575	9
Melaleuca diosmæfolia	476	7
salicifolia	485	7
Melanthium Massoniæfolium	368	6
Mesembyanthemum acinaciforme	580	9
inclaudens	388	6
heterophyllum	540	8
Mespilus odoratissima	590	9
tanacetifolia	591	9
Mimosa elegans	563	9
grandiflora	592	9
Linifolia	394	6
pudica	544	8
purpurea	372	6
Mimulus luteus	661	10
Monarda punctata	546	8
Morea miniata	404	6
Neottia minor	376	6
Nicotiana glutinosa	484	7
Nitraria Schoberi	529	8
Nymphæa Lotus	391	6
rubra	503	8
Ophrys arachnoides	470	7
myodes	471	7
Ornithogalum elatum	528	8
flavissimum	505	8
Origanum Tournefortii	537	8
Oxylobium cordifolium	492	7
Pæonia albiflora, flore pleno	612	10
anomala	514	8
Daurica	486	7
papavaracea	463	7
suffruticosa	373	6
Var. flore purpureo	448	7
Panax fruticosum	595	9
Pancratium amœnum	556	9
Pascalia glauca	549	8
Passiflora lunata	657	10
perfoliata	547	8
Peliosanthes humilis	634	10
Teta	605	9
Periploca Africana	557	9
Phlomis Samia	584	9
Pittosporum undulatum	583	6
Plectranthus barbatus	594	9
Podalyria hirsuta	525	8
Polygala alopercuroides	371	6
micrantha	424	6
mixta	455	7
stipulacea	363	6
teretifolia	370	6
Pontederia dilatata	490	7
Primula dentiflora	405	6
Prostranthera lasianthos	641	10
Protea abrotanifolia	507	8
hirta	522	8
minor	536	8
ordorata	545	8
Protea argentifolia	447	7
canaliculata	437	7
cespitosa	526	8
conifera	541	8
coronata	469	7
corymbosa	495	8
divaricata	465	7
humiflora	532	8
imbricata	517	8
incurva	431	6
mellifera albiflora	582	9
mucronifolia	500	8
pinnata	512	8
pulchella. Var. speciosa	442	7
radiata	646	10
repens	453	7
Scolymus	409	6
saligna	572	9
speciosa	438	7
speciosa patens	543	8
teretifolia	461	7
virgata	577	9
Psoralea pinnata	474	7
spicata	411	6
Pultenæa nana	434	7
obcordata	574	9
Renealmia calcarata	421	6
Ricinus armatus	430	6
Rhododendron ponticum. Var. deciduum	379	6
Ruellia cristata	506	8
formosa	610	10
fulgida	527	8
infundibuliformis	542	8
Ruta linifolia	565	9
Sanseviera carnea	361	6
Salix violacea	581	9
Salvia Chamædrifolia	416	6
Sarracenia flava	381	6
Schinus dentata	620	10
Scilla siberica	365	6
Scutellaria serrata	494	8
Serapias cordigera	475	7
Serratula spicata	401	6
Sida patens	571	9
hastata	588	9
Solanum betaceum	511	8
Seaforthianum	504	8
Sophora Japonica	585	9
sericea	440	7
Stapelia orbicularis	439	7
Stewartia marilandica	397	6
Strelitzia Reginæ	432	6
Styledium graminifolium	658	10
Styrax officinale	631	10
Trichilia odorata	637	10
Tropæolum peregrinum	597	9
pinnatum	535	8
Urtica baccifera	454	7
Vaccinium nitidum	480	7
Vanilla planifolia	538	8
Verbena mutabilis	535	7
Veronica Derwentia	531	8
Verea acutiflora	560	9
Volkameria angustifolia	554	9
Wachendorfia villosa	398	6
Xeranthemum bracteatum	375	6
fasciculatum, Var. flore rubro	650	10
fragrans	561	10
herbaceam	487	7
humile	652	10
proliferum	374	6
variegatum	384	6
rigidum	387	6
Yucca gloriosa	473	7
Zieria Smithii	606	9
Zingiber Cliffordiæ	555	9

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