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List qf Rare Plants which have Flowered in the Royal Botanic 

 Garden, Edinburgh, during the last three months; with 

 Descriptions qf several New Plants, Communicated by 

 Dr Graham. 



Asclepias tuberosa. 

 Flowered in the open border in front 

 of one of the stoves. 



Banksia aemula. 



This plant is at present flowering 

 very freely in the greenhouse. The 

 young branches and leaves are co- 

 vered with a rusty pubescence. 



Callicarpa cana. 



The yellow anthers, and the decur- 

 rent leaves with branching veins, 

 of the plant figured in Bot. Mag. 

 t. 2107., make it doubtful whether 

 our plant is the same ; but I think 

 it safest at present to consider them 

 so, as in other respects they seem 

 extremely alike. I add, however, 

 the character and description of 

 our specimen. 



C. cana ; foliis petiolatis, lanceolatis 

 acuminatis, dentatis, basi cuneatis, 

 integerrimis, prsecipue supra ner- 

 vos, subtus, ramisque tomentosis ; 

 cymis axillaribus, petiolos exce- 

 dentibus. 



Descript — Shrvh erect, stem round, 

 grey. Branches decussating, sub- 

 erect, young shoots covered with a 

 dense, short, soft tomentum. Bvds 

 small, pointed, tomentose. Leaves 

 opposite, petioled, spreading, deci- 

 duous, about three pairs near the 

 extremity of the branch remain 

 longer than the rest, lanceolate, 

 acuminate, 4-5 inches long, 2-2^ 

 broad, bluntly toothed, entire, and 

 somewhat wedgeshaped at the base, 

 in no degree decurrent on the pe- 

 tiole, wrinkled, tomentose, espe- 

 cially on the back, green above, 

 white on the back ; primary veins 

 little branched, and, as well as the 

 middle rib, woolly on both sides, 

 and prominent behind. Petiole \ 

 inch long, stout, flat above, densely 

 tomentose. Cymes axillary, situ- 

 ated near the extremities of the 

 shoots, on peduncles equal in length 

 to the petiole, dichotomous, diva- 



JULY — OCTOBER 1826. 



\Oth September 1826. 



ricated. Bracteas small, awl-shaped. 

 Calyx 4-toothed, tomentose, green, 

 persisting, teeth pointed. Corolla 

 deciduous, twice the length of the 

 calyx, 4-cleft, segments rounded. 

 Stamens 4 ; filaments twice the 

 length of the corolla, inserted into 

 the back of the roundish, flat, bi- 

 locular anther ; pollen whitish. Pis- 

 til single ; germen globular, green ; 

 style filiform, swelling under the 

 stigma, longer than the filaments ; 

 stigmu flat, obscurely bilobular. 



All the parts of the flower, except 

 the germen and pollen, lilac. To- 

 mentum every where upon the plant 

 cream-coloured, except on the back 

 of the leaf, where it is nearly white : 

 on the cyme it becomes lighter up- 

 wards to the flowers. 



The plant was raised from seed sent 

 by DrWallich from India in 1823, 

 and marked " Nepaul." It has 

 been kept in the stove. 



Campanula dichotoma. 



grandiflora. 



Capparis spinosa, Caper hush. 

 In the open border, in front of one of 

 the stoves. 



Commelina cyanea. 



Draba alpina /3, siliculae pilosae. 



Br. Supplement to Appendix of Cap- 

 tain Parry's First Voyage. The 

 seeds of this and several other arc- 

 tic plants were given to me by Mr 

 Fisher, after Captain Parry's Se- 

 cond Voyage. Some of the plants 

 could not be preserved after they 

 had germinated ; but this is fully 

 established. 



Glycine mollis. 



Iris verna. 



Sweet's Brit. Fl. Garden, t. 68. 

 Ixora incarnata. 



Lobelia corymbosa. 

 L. corymbosa ; caule fruticuloso ; fo- 

 Bb 



