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



Menziesia empctriformis, Smiih^ in Linn. Soc. Trans. 10. 380. — Pursh, 

 Flor. Americ. Septent. 1. 264 — NuttaU, Genera, 1. 252 — Sprengel, 

 Syst. Veget. ii. 202. 

 Desceiption. — A small erect shruh. Leaves (6 lines long, 1 line broad) 

 linear, on short adpressed petioles, crowded, suberect towards the extre- 

 mities of the branches, below spreading, when young glanduloso-ciliated, 

 afterwards glabrous, with a few cartilaginous small teeth especially to- 

 wards the apices, slightly channelled above, fleshy in their sides, midrib 

 somewhat depressed, flattened and wrinkled. Peduncles (4 inch long) 

 erect, glandular, axillary, single and single-flowered, collected near the 

 extremities of the branches, bibracteate at the base. BractecB ovate, con- 

 cave, crenate, opposite. Calyx 5-i)hyllous, red without, green within, 

 except on the edges where it is red, glabrous, ciliated with minute white 

 hairs, leaflets blunt, wrinkled and gibbous at the base. Corolla (3 lines 

 long, 2 broad) reddish-purple, campanulate, erect, glabrous, about three 

 times as long as the calyx, 5.toothed, teeth reflected. Stamens 10, of 

 rather unequal length alternately, about the length of the germen ; fila- 

 ments rose-coloured, flat, linear ; anthers purple, oblong, narrower at 

 the upper end, as long as the filaments, connivent, grooved along their 

 sides, bursting by two terminal pores, attached by their backs to the 

 filaments. Pistil exserted ; stigma of 5 connivent, triangular teeth ; 

 style slightly curved, cylindrical, red ; germen globular, green, glandu- 

 lar, quinquelocular ; ovules very numerous, attached to a large central 

 placenta. 



This very distinct species of Menziesia was raised at the Botanic Garden, 

 Edinburgh, from seeds communicated by Mr Drummond on his return 

 from the last expedition to North America under the command of Cap- 

 tain Franklin, and, I believe, collected by him (Mr Drummond) on the 

 Rocky Mountains. It first flowered in November 1831, but much more 

 abundantly in May 1832. 



If Sir James Smith had seen the living plant, I think he would have given 

 a different specific character. The leaves, in the recent state, are de- 

 cidedly tumid, both above and below, being depressed only along the 

 middle rib on either side. 



Pimelea sylvestris. 



P. sylvestris ; foliis oppositis utrinque glabris, lanceolatis, acutis ; florali- 

 bus 4-5, rameis subsimilibus, capitulo terminali multifloro breviori- 

 bus ; perianthiis glabris, tubo infundibuliformi — Br. 

 Pimelea sylvestris, Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holland. 361— /?a?m. et Schultes, 

 Syst. Veget. 1. 274 — Spreng. Syst. Veget. 1. 92. 

 Description. — Stem erect, shrubby, twig-like, bark covered with minute 

 warts. Leaves (above 1 inch long, ^th of an inch broad) opposite, in five 

 rows, on short adpressed petioles, spreading, glabrous on both sides, 

 lanceolate, acute, quite entire, flat above, or slightly turned back at the 

 edges, very obscurely veined, middle rib channelled below ; ^ral leaves 

 similar to those of the branches. Capitulvm terminal, many -flowered, 

 flowers expanding from without towards the centre, much longer than 

 the floral leaves. Perianth (above half an inch long) glabrous, funnel- 

 shaped, pale rose-coloured, becoming white after expansion, throat naked ; 

 limb 4-parted, segments erect, ovate, their edges folded outwards at their 

 base, the two outer segments in the bud subacuminate, and keeled at the 

 apex, the two inner blunt; tube much attenuated downwards, but dilated 

 at its base where it covers the germen, and is persistent, all above being 

 deciduous. Filaments adhering to the throat, above this free, longer than 

 the perianth, reflected. Anthers orange-yellow, linear. Stigma capitate, 

 small. Style erect, filiform, exserted, glabrous, colourless. Germen ovate, 

 compressed, glabrous. Ovule single, pendulous. 

 The seeds of this species were collected on the south coast of New Holland 



