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centibus, lobo terminali maximo cordato obtuse angulato; floribus 



spicatis. 

 Francoa appendiculata, Camn. Icon. vL ^^. t. 696. — Pers. Synops. 1. 445. 



^Sprengel, Sp. Plant. 2. 262- 

 Francoa sonchitolia ? Ad, Juss, Ann. des Sc. Nat. 3. 192. t. 12. 

 Description.— /2oo/ with several very leafy crowns. Stems short. Leaves 

 (8 inches long) petioled, lyrate, with soft, slightly glutinous pubescence 

 on both sides, bullate, undulate, strongly veined, denticulate, decurrent 

 along the petiole ; lobes blunt, the terminal one by much the largest 

 (in a vigorous plant 6 inches long, 4^ inches broad), bluntly angled, cor- 

 date at the base. Flower-stalk (2 feet high) terminal, scape-like, having 

 a few leaves at the base only, erect, straight, round, slightly tapering, 

 densely covered with pubescence similar to that on the leaves ; from the 

 axils of the stem-leaves, and from a bractea near the top, arise solitary 

 erect branches, in all respects similar to the primary shoot, but smaller. 

 Spike (6 inches long) racemose, flowers (4 inch long, a inch across when 

 fully epxanded) rather dense, springing from the axils of lanceolato-lnear, 

 green bractea. Calyx persisting, 4-5-parted, green, rather longer than 

 the pedicel, segments ovato-acute, 3.nerved, glanduloso-,pubescent with- 

 in and without. Petals 4-5, twice the length of the calyx, obovato- ellip- 

 tical, channelled in front towards the short claw, keeled behind, of a pale 

 rose-colour, with a darker spot in the centre, becoming lighter after ex- 

 pansion. Stamens 8-10, shorter than the calyx, alternating upon an ob- 

 scure but nectariferous disk, with short diverging scales (abortive sta- 

 mens) ; filaments subulate, glabrous ; anthers yellow, bilocular, oblong, 

 bifid at both extremities, and slightly diverging at the lower, bursting 

 along the sides, pollen yellow, granules small. Germen superior, oblong, 

 4-5-furrowed, 4-5-valved, and having as many loculaments, formed by 

 the inversion of the margins of the valves. Stigma sessile, 4-5-lobed, at 

 first involute, then spreading, peltate, fleshy, surface tubercled. Ovules 

 numerous, green, oblong. 

 This showy plant was introduced into the Clapton nursery from Chiloe 

 by Mr Anderson. From Clapton it was obtained by Mr Cunningham 

 at Comely-bank, near Edinburgh, and communicated to Mr Neill's gar- 

 den at Canonmills. In both these establishments it flowered in May 

 1832. I have no doubt of this being the species of Cavanilles, and very 

 little about its being that of Jussieu, though the petals are figured (not 

 described) by Cavanilles as acute, and though the flowers are said by 

 Jussieu to be without pedicels in his plant. The leaves correspond with 

 Cavanilles', and the station is the same. His figure represents the 

 flowers as secund, and a dried specimen brought home by Mr Anderson, 

 and given to Mr James Maciiab, has the same appearance. 



Kennedia Comptoniana. 



K. Comptoniana^ var quinquefolia. 

 This is a very handsome variety, but I can perceive no good character by 

 which it can be specifically distinguished. It is very robust, the .leaves 

 being much longer and narrower than in the usual form of the species, 

 and very often with 5 folioles, the terminal one only, as in the common 

 variety, being supported upon an elongated petiole. The flowers are in 

 a dense, raceme, and of a deep rich lilac, with two green striated spots 

 on the vexillum. It was raised from seeds sent to the Botanic Garden, 

 Edinburgh, from New Holland, by Mr Fraser in 1827, and flowered in 

 the greenhouse for the first time in April 1832. 



Mcnziesia empetriformis. 



M. empetriformis ; foliis linearibus serrulatis ; jiediuiculis aggregatis ; 

 floribus campanulatis, erectis, decandris; calycibus glabris, obtusis, 

 basi gibbosis ; antheris filamenla sequantibus. 



