170 Dr Graham's Description of New or Rare Plants, 



rather than from our plant (we raised but one), which is still small, it 

 appears to flower very freely. With us it flowered in the greenhouse 

 during October and November, and even now (7th December) there are 

 buds which may possibly expand. 



Lophospermum erubescens. 



Hi. erubescens ; foliis triangulari-cordatis, grosse inaequaliterque serratis 

 (melius, iniequalit^r inciso-dentatis), pubescentibus, calycis segmentis 

 oblongis mucronulatis, filamentis sim}>Ucibus — D. Don. 

 Lophospermum erubescens, D. Don^ Sweefs Brit. Fl. Gard. N. S. fol. 75. 



(on Helianthus petiolaris), Note. 

 Lophospermum scandens, Bot. Mag. 3037-8. — SweeCs Brit. Fl. Gard. 

 N. S. t. G8. 

 Description — Plant herbaceous, scandent chiefly by the petioles. Stem 

 round, brownish-green, in a very luxuriant state pushing roots from 

 near the base, cuticle smooth, or somewhat cracked. Branches round, op- 

 posite, villous, purple at the base, young shoots green. Leaves (5^ inches 

 from the base to the apex, rather more across) numerous, opposite, pe- 

 tioled, deltoideo-cordate, acute, incise-toothed, villous on both sides, 

 bright green above, paler below, S-nerv^ed, the lateral nerves branched, 

 slightly reticulated chiefly at the margins, teeth mucronate. Petioles 

 purple, villous, as long as the leaf, stout, round, scarcely channelled 

 above, twisting. Peduncles axillary, solitary, single-flowered, ebrac- 

 teate, as long as the petioles, erect, straight, green, villous. Flowers 

 spreading horizontally. Calyx foliaceous, 5-parted, persisting, segments 

 (1 inch long, ^ inch broad) subequal, the upper rather the shortest and 

 broadest, ovate, acute, prominent at the edges, veined, pubescent within 

 and without, sometimes becoming purple, entire or rarely auricled at 

 the base. Corolla (nearly 3 inches long, 2 inches across) rose-coloured, pu- 

 bescent every where on the outside, campanulate, slightly turgid below ; 

 tube elongated, slightly curved downwards, dilated, nectariferous, and 

 nearly colourless at the base, darkest on the upper side, within freckled 

 with rose-colour, and having yellow pubescence towards the insertion of 

 the stamens ; limb spreading, 5-parted, segments rounded, subequal, the 

 lowest the smallest, the two upper the largest ; from the base of the 

 lower segment upon each side, a straight ridge, covered with erect yel- 

 lowish hairs, extends to the insertion of the tv/o longer stamens. Sta- 

 mens 4, didynamous, as long as the tube, from the base of which they 

 arise ; filaments compressed, and adhering for a little way to the corolla, 

 and there closing the tube, coarsely pubescent where they become free, 

 at this part purple on the back, beautifully sprinkled with rose-coloured 

 spots or streaks, from which springs glandular pubescence, especially on 

 the sides of their upper half, straight, diverging slightly, connivent to- 

 wards their extremities ; anthers large, bilobular, glabrous, lobes paral- 

 lel in the bud, afterwards divaricated, bursting along their sides ; pollen 

 white, granules small. There is a minute, abortive, fifth stamen, be- 

 tween the two shorter perfect ones at their origin. Pistil as long as the 

 stamens ; stigma simple, bent nearly at a right angle with the style, 

 colourless, pointed ; style straight, filiformj smooth above, sparingly 

 provided with glandular pubescence in its lower half, base persisting'; 

 germen seated upon a prominent white glabrous and shining receptacle, 

 densely covered with erect colourless glandular hairs, bilocular. Unripe 

 capsule crown-shaped, green, colourless at the base, somewhat compressed 

 and furrowed laterally, covered with glandular pubescence, undulate, 

 terminated with the persisting base of the style, included within the ca- 

 lyx. Ovules numerous, imbricated, tubercled, stipitate, erect on two 

 large central receptacles, winged all round ; wing radiated, emarginate, 

 somewhat ragged in its edge ; nucleus pendulous, pointed below, albu- 

 men large, embryo straight, central. 

 This beautiful creeper was raised by P. Neill, Esq. in his garden at Canon- 

 mills, from Mexican seed last spring. It flowered in his stove in the 



