Dr Graham's List of Rare Plants. 375 



style filiform, glabrous ; stigma spathulate ; germen densely muricated, 

 seated on a 5-lobed, white, glabrous disk. Fruit pendulous. 

 This species grows abundantly in moist places on the shores of the Pacific 

 near Guayaquil, where it blossoms in February and March. It was 

 raised by Dr Neill in his garden at Canonmills, near Edinburgh, from 

 Peruvian seeds sent by Mr Tweedie, and flowered in his stove in Octo- 

 ber 1836. 



Lopezia hirsuta. 



L. hirsute; caule fruticoso, piloso, subtereti; foliis ovatis, sparsim den- 



tato-serratis, pilosiusculis. 

 Lopezia hirsuta, Jacg. Coll. 5. p. 5. t. 15. f. 4 Vahl, Enumer. 1. 3. 



Willd. Enumer. 7 Roem. et Sch. 1. 34 Sprang. Syst. Veget. 1. 16 



DC. Prodr. 3. 62. 



Lopezia Mexicana hirsuta, Willd. Spec. PI. 1.18. 

 Lopezia racemosa ft hirsuta, Pers. Synops. 1. 4. 

 Lopezia pubescens ? Kunth. Synops. 3. 390. 



DESCRIPTION. Stem erect, shrubby, hairy; bark brown, green on the 

 twigs. Branches numerous, spreading at right angles to the stem, de- 

 cussated. Leaves petiolate, ovate or ovato-lanceolate, of lively green, with 

 slight pubescence, chiefly on the veins below, distantly tooth-serrated, 

 towards the flowers rather more entire. Flowers solitary, axillary, in 

 pseudo-spikes towards the extremities of the branches. Peduncles longer 

 than the petioles, spreading, filiform, pubescent. Calyx segments linear, 

 reflected, reddish-brown, greenish on the outside and at the apex. Pe- 

 tals pale, orange-red, brighter and darker towards the middle, spathulate, 

 the outer broader, and somewhat falcate, the inner geniculate. Fertile 

 stamen projecting from the centre of the flower, shorter than the petals ; 

 filament dilated in the lower half, and concave ; anther oblong, cleft be- 

 low ; barren stamen petal-like, reflected, emarginate, its sides folded for- 

 wards, more orange-coloured than the petals. Pistil shorter than the fer- 

 tile stamen ; germen green, globular, style clavate ; stigma terminal. 



We received this plant from Berlin in 1836, under the name of Lopezia 

 frutescens, from which, however, it differs in its very hairy stem. Fear- 

 ful of adding unnecessarily to specific names, I have considered it the 

 same as the L. hirsuta of Jacquin ; though its decidedly shrubby stem, 

 certainly not annual root, its spathulate, not linear, central petals, and 

 its much less hairy leaves than those represented in Jacquin's figure, 

 leave me in some doubt as to its identity. It possesses little beauty, and 

 will probably require protection in the greenhouse, where it flowered with 

 us in February 1837. 



The L. hirsuta is said to have been introduced into cultivation in Britain, 

 in 1796, and is called in our catalogues biennial I have not observed it 

 in any collection. 



Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 



1836, December 5. Sir THOMAS M. BRISBANE, Bart, Pre- 

 sident, in the Chair. The following Communications were 

 read : 



1 . On an Arrangement of the Planets and Satellites, accord- 

 ing to their Distances and Masses. By John Paterson, 

 Esq. Schoolmaster of Douglas. 

 The author has suggested an empirical law, which seems to him 



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