376 Dr Graham's Description qf'Neiv or Rare Plants. 



starched, bad figure of Cavanilles, tlie angles are not sufficiently sharp, 

 and the stipulae are by much too narrow : in Rheede's figure, the edges 

 of the leaves are too much crisped, the stipulae not sufficiently lunated, 

 are waved instead of being flat, the angles of the branches are ill-de- 

 fined, and the legumes far too spreading. 



Rheede adds to many fancied medical properties of this plant,' that its root, 

 when bruised and applied to the eyes, has the power of restoring and 

 strengthening the memory. 



We received the seeds of this plant, with others from India, from Mr 

 Curtis, in July 1827. It has flowered in the stove of the Royal Bota- 

 nic Garden in' July and August. 



Eutoca Franklinii. 



E. Franklinii ; erecta, foliis pinnatifidis pilosis, petiolatis, laciniis lanceo- 

 lato-ellipticis, integris incisisve, spicis confertis, secundis, deflexis, 

 ovulis placentas singulae viginti pluribus. 

 Eutoca Franklinii, R. Brown, in Botanical Appendix to Captain Frank- 

 lin's Narrative of the First Journey to the Arctic Sea, with a figure. 

 Description — Root perennial ? Stem herbaceous, with us 7 inches high, 

 round, slightly flexuose, occasionally branched, green, pubescent, hairs 

 rather harsh and spreading. Root-leaves (nearly 2 inches long) numerous, 

 green on both sides, but paler below, suberect, lanceolate, pinnatifid, pe- 

 tioled, thick, covered with pubescence shorter and less harsh than that 

 on the stem, segments varying in shape, lanceolate or oblong, entire or 

 incised, especially on their lower edge, alternate or ojjposite, channelled 

 in front, and each with a central rib, prominent behind, but without veins; 

 petiole half the length of the leaf, channelled. Stem leaves scattered, si- 

 milar to the others, but on shorter petioles, half embracing the stem, 

 smaller, the segments more pointed, less frequently incised, and the lower 

 generally the longest. Spikes crowded towards the top of the stem, ter- 

 minal or axillary, many-flowered, recurved, flowers secund. Calyx 

 green, persisting, 5-parted, segments linear- awl-shaped, flat, obscurely 

 3-nerved, hairy, strongly ciliated, loosely applied to the corolla, and 

 subsequently to the capsule. Corolla inferior, longer than the calyx, 

 campanulate, 5-cletit, white for half its length, and above this of uniform 

 lilac, pubescent on the outside of the limb, every where else glabrous, 

 but slightly wrinkled, from the branching of obscure veins; segments of 

 the limb equal, rounded, spreading ; tube with ten longitudinal project- 

 ing membranes, connivent along their inner edges in pairs which alter- 

 nate with the stamens. Stamens 5 ; filaments arising from the base of 

 the corolla, and falling with it, alternating with the segments, scarcely 

 exserted, colourless, filiform, slightly flattened at the base, sparingly 

 covered with long lax hairs ; anthers incumbent, oblong, orange-yellow, 

 bilocular, loculaments bursting along their sides ; pollen whitish. Pistil 

 single, at first rather shorter than the stamens, afterwaixls longer than 

 them ; germen ovate, less than half the length of the calyx, green, co- 

 vered with long erect white hairs, surrounded by a white zig-zag disk ; 

 style filiform, slightly flattened, marcescent, divided to above a quarter 

 of its length, segments diverging ; stigmata small, rounded. Capsule 

 ovate, aciuninate, rather longer than the calyx, somewhat compressed, 

 uneven from elevations occasioned by the seeds, and distinctly marked 

 by a suture along each side, unilocular, bivalvular, bursting from the 

 apex, their pointed extremities diverging receptacle of the seeds along 

 the middle of each, and projecting into the loculament. Seeds numerous 

 upon each receptacle, dark drown, ovate, dotted, trigonous, acutely 

 angled on their belly, flat, or slightly convex on their sides. 

 This pretty plant has been raised in a cold frame in the Botanic Garden, 

 Edinburgh, from seeds presented b}^ Dr Richardson. The species grows 

 abundantly between lint, ^l" and Oi" N. among trees that have been de- 

 stroyed by fire. 



