Dr Graham's Descriptimi of New or Hare Plants. 273 



Calceolaria tliyrsiflora. 



C. thyrsiflora; fruticosa, raniosa, foliia oppositia, linearibus, basi attenu- 

 atis, lineatis, serrato-dentatis, clabris, viscosia, aeaailibus, thyrais ter- 

 minalibus, confertls, pedicellis aecompositis, umbellatis. 



DE8CRIPT10N Shrub^ erect ; stem round, bark brown, cracked ; branchet 



spreading at their origin, afterwards erect, when young somewhat rough 

 and obscurely glandular. Leaves (2 inches long, 2 lines broad), oppo- 

 site, sessile, spreading, linear, subacute, becoming narrower towards 

 their base, channelled, lineate, keeled behind, rather distantly serrato- 

 dentate, whole edge but particularly the teeth reflected, without hairs, 

 as well as the peouncles and pedicels shining on both surfaces from a 

 viscid exudation. Common peduncles terminal, elongated, nearly naked 

 below, the upper leaves passing into bractecB^ and becoming entire : pedu 

 eels rise from the axils of these, and are once, twice, or oftener divided 

 in form of little umbels, having at each subdivision a pair of bracteae, 

 similar, but successively smaller ; ultimate division of the pedicels 

 longer than the flowers. Flowers yellow, crowded in form of a hand- 

 some thyrsus at the extremity of each branch. Calyx yellowish-green 

 4-parted, segments (^th of an inch long) ovato-lanceolate, glandular, 

 on both surfaces, unequal, slightly divaricated, but after the corolla 

 falls closing over the germen, obscurely nerved. Corolla subglobular, 

 nearly twice as long as the calyx, glabrous on the outside, except a 

 slight pubescence wnere the closed lips touch, pubescent within, espe- 

 ciSly towards the base, obscurely striated, depressed at its base, closed, 

 lower lip larger than the upper ; stamens projecting into a depression in 

 the lower lip ; filaments rising from the base of the lower lip, hairy, 

 stout, slightly curved upwards, pitted on their lower side near to the 

 anthers. Anthers pale yellow, placed transversely on the filaments, bi- 

 lobular, lobes connected to each other longitudinally, and furrowed along 

 their anterior surface, where they burst and discharge white pollen. 

 Germen conical, furrowed on two sides, bilocular, green, viscid. Style fi- 

 liform, straight, longer than the stamens ; stiyma small ; ovtiUe very nu- 

 merous, attached to a large central receptacle, the transverse section of 

 which is kidney-shaped and entire in each loculament. 

 This very handsome and nondescript species was raised both at the Botanic 

 Garden and in the collection of P. Neill, Esq. Canonmills, Edinburgh, in 

 1827, from seeds received from Dr Gillies, Mendoza ; but our only plant 

 was lost during winter. With Mr Neill, several specimens have flower- 

 ed freely in July 1828. The flowers have a slight fragrance, not unlike 

 the scent of the' blossoms of laburnum. 



Collomia grandiflora. 



C. grandiflora ; foliis sessilibiis, lanceolatis, ciliatis, integerriniis scrratis- 

 ve, patuUs, nitidis, superioribus utrinque pubescentibus ; floribus ca- 



Sitatis terminalibus. 

 lomia grandiflora, Douylas, Journ. ined — Lindley, in Bot. Reg. foL 1 166. 

 note *. 

 Description — Root tapering, with many lateral branching fibres, annual. 

 Stem (18 inches high) erect, somewhat woody, very slightly flexuose, fur- 

 rowed, red, pubescent, especially towards the top, branched ; branches 

 axillary. I^eaves (above 2 inches long, 4 inch broad,) scattered, spreading, 

 lanceolate, undulate, reflected and entire on the edges, or with a few 

 large, sharp serratures, glabrous and shining, except the upj)er ones, 

 which are ovtrte and pubescent on both sides ; middle rib strong and 

 prominent behind, veins few and inconsiderable. Flowers in terminal, 

 very viscid capitula, sessile am<»ng the upper leaves ; that at the term!- 

 nation of the stem large, <lense, and hemispherical. Calyx 6-cleft to be- 

 low the middle, segments united below by a transparent membrane, 

 lanceolate, blunt, green, 3-nerved, pubescent within and without. Co- 



* Since this sheet was in types, I have received the number of the Botanical Register for this 

 month, with an excellent figure of this plant, t. 1174. 



