Wli'^'- Dr Gralianvs Description bfNew or Itare Plants. 



placed between the pairs of flowers, or geminate and rounded, and placed 

 above or below them. Calyx 4-parted, covered with adpressed pubes- 

 cence; claws linear, yellow, the spoon-shaped segments of the limb red- 

 dish, nodding. Anthers elliptical, subsessile in the cavities of the calyx. 

 Style twice as long as the calyx, shining, of deep purple colour exce[)t 

 at the base and apex, where it is yellow, deciduous, rigid, apex nodding. 

 Stigma an abrupt glandular scarcely swollen termination to the style, re- 

 tained for some time within the calyx, and, when liberated, covered with 

 the yellow granular pollen, which gives it a capitate form. 

 This species flowered in the greenhouse of the Botanic Garden in Novem- 

 ber 1830, immediately after B. speciosa, and remained in flower, forming 

 a good contrast with this in its colours and manner of flowering. It 

 seems quite dift'erent from Banksia microstachya of Cavan, and B, atte- 

 ^^^ nuata of Brown, with both of which Sprengel unites his B. litioralis. 

 "^f have assigned the specific name to this plant doubtfully, and have quoted 

 all the authorities cited above with hesitation, except the Botanical Re- 

 gister, because I have some reason to doubt its identity with the plant 

 sent from New Holland by Mr Brown, and cultivated at Kew under 

 the name of B. littoralis. The specimen which flowered with us we re- 

 ceived from Mr Mackay at Clapton in 1828, without any name; and in 

 1829, we received from him a seedling, which has proved to be the 

 same, under the name of B. collina, from which, however, it differs, in 

 being destitute of veins on the back of the leaf I have a specimen 

 from Mr Fraser of a species which must stand very near to it, and is 

 '"' diiefly distinguished by the leaves being longer, narrower and quite en- 

 V tire, except near the apex, where there are four small teeth, and by 

 f^Jf^the branches being much less hairy ; in colour and manner of flowering 

 •"^' it perfectly agrees. It must also in many respects agree with B. margi- 

 . riataj but differs from this in the bracteae being tomentous. 4 



liferia nutans, DC. 



L. nutans ; scapo unifloro, laterali ; flore nutante ; foliis runcinato-ly- 

 ratis, medio contractis, undulatis, dentatis, subtus tomentoso.niveis, 

 lobo terminali cordato-oblongis. 

 Leria nutans, Spreng. Syst. Veget. 3. 502. 

 ^(; Tussilago nutans, ivilld. Spec. Plant. 3. 1965. 



o? Dens Leonis folio subtus incano, flore purpureo, Sloan^ Jamaica, 1. 255. 

 t. 150. fig. 2. : 



Tussilago scapo unifloro, foliis lyrato-ovatis, Plum. Plant. Amer. fasc 2. * 

 t. 41. fig. 1. 



Description. — Root perennial. Leaves (3 inches long, 1| broad) all radi- 

 cal, spreading, recurved, runcinato-lyrate, undulate, veined, toothed, 

 green and nearly naked above, densely covered with snowy tomentum 

 below, contracted in the middle, below which they are very narrow and 

 much sinuated ; above the middle they are cordato-oblong, and more en- 

 tire. Scape (6 inches high) lateral, erect, single-flowered, covered with 

 snowy tomentum, especially above, destitute of scales. Floiver nodding, 

 white, or with a slight shade of purple. Anthodmm imbricated, subc}'- 

 lindrical, scales subulate-linear, with a strong green middle rib, and to- 

 mentous membranous edges. Receptacle naked. Florets of the ray slen- 

 der, female, ligulate, trifid, longer than the styles, which are bifid, having 

 the stigmatic surface along the inside of the segments. Florets of the disk 

 shorter than the ray, slender, 5-toothed, sub-bilabiate, the throat being 

 slightly gibbous, and the division of the limb less deep on one side ; sta^ 

 mem as long as the corolla. Style and stigma exserted, their structure 

 as in the ray. Germen pubescent. Pappus stipitate, slightly rough. 



This plant was raised at the Botanic Garden from seeds obtained by Cap - 

 tain Bennet, R. N. from the West Indies in 1827. It has flowered in 

 the stove in March last year and this. It has no beauty, nor can it be 



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