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List of Rare Plants which have Flowered in the Royal Botanic 

 Garden, Edinburgh, during the last three months; with 

 Descriptions of several New Plants. Communicated by 

 Professor G hah am. 



June 10. 1826. 



Arum triphyllum (a) zebrinum. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 950. 



Baptisia nepalensis. 

 Hook, Exot. Fl. 1. 131. 



Caprifolium pubescens. 



Conospermum tenuifolium. 



Never having seen the C. tenuifolium 

 of Brown, I have referred our plant 

 to that species with some hesita- 

 tion, as it seems to agree with the 

 essential character. 



Conospermum acinacifolium. 



Spec. Char. — C. acinacifolium ; laci- 

 niis perianthii acutis, tubum vix se- 

 quantibus; foliis aveniis, lineari-aci- 

 nacifbrmibus, mucronatis, basi at- 

 tenuatis ; corymbis laxis. 



Description — Shrub erect. Leaves 

 scattered, narrow, long (2-3 inches), 

 harsh, slightly hollowed on one side, 

 rounded on the other, bent towards 

 one edge, occasionally tortile, es- 

 pecially in the upper part of the 

 branches, mucronate, veinless, mid- 

 dle rib indistinct. Corymbs axil- 

 lary, collected near the top of the 

 branches, subdivided in their up- 

 per half. Flowers white, sessile in 

 the axil of a pointed, blue, pubes- 

 cent bractea ; perianth pubescent 

 on the outer side, especially of the 

 tube, segments of the lower lip 

 somewhat spreading, the central 

 rather the smallest ; stigma applied 

 to the upper lip of the perianth, 

 above the stamens ; style club- 

 shaped, passing in front of the cen- 

 tral stamens, bent at the base of 

 the lower lip ; germen silky ; pappus 

 silky, unequal. 



When the upper and lower lips of 

 the perianth are drawn asunder, or 

 when the style is touched at the 

 joint, it starts forward, and lies 

 along the lower lip of the perianth, 

 the lateral stamens at the same 

 time separating, and exposing those 

 in the centre. This elasticity of 

 the style, attended with the same 



separation of the anthers, I have 

 also observed in the C. tenuifolium. 

 The flowers of both are perfumed 

 like hawthorn blossom, but those of 

 the C. acinacifolium by much the 

 most powerfully. The seeds both 

 of this species and the last were 

 received from Mr Fraser from New 

 Holland under the name of C. erec- 

 tum^ a name which I have thought 

 could scarcely be retained in this 

 genus. The plants have been kept 

 in the greenhouse. 



Dryandra formosa. 



Epidendrum ellipticum. 



Hook. Exot. Flor. t. 207. 



Spec. Char — E. ellipticum; foliis al- 

 ternis, subellipticis, succulentis ; 

 pedunculis terminalibus, elongatis ; 

 labello perianthio sequali, tripar- 

 tito, fimbriato, lobo intermedio mi- 

 nore, lineari. 



Description — Roots long, round, 

 fleshy, many pushed downwards 

 from the origin of the branch, green 

 above, yellow below the soil. Stem 

 jointed, branched. Branches simple, 

 round, slightly flexuose, green, 

 spotted with dull brown. Leaves 

 alternate, distichous, spreading, va- 

 rying on different branches from 

 ovato-elliptical and slightly concave 

 above to elliptico-linear and near- 

 ly flat, occasionally slightly notch- 

 ed at the apex, fleshy, very ob- 

 scurely marked with numerous mi- 

 nute parallel nerves, green, occa- 

 sionally faintly spotted like the 

 stem, arising from the joints by 

 very thin sheaths, which enclose 

 the stem, and are in some branches 

 as long as its joints, in others much 

 shorter ; for about a foot at the up- 

 per part of the branch, and gene- 

 rally for a little way at the bottom, 

 there are sheaths only, which are 

 there pointed, persisting, whitish, 

 and withered, brown and striated 

 in their upper part. Inflorescence 

 a crowded, short, terminal spike. 

 Rachis toothed, and gradually elon- 



