390 Dr Graham's Description of New or Rare Plants, 



This plant was raised last year from seeds received in 1826 by Captain 

 Graham of his Majesty's Packet Service from Mr Harris at Rio de Ja- 

 neiro. It has been kept in the stove, and has flowered in February and 

 March. 



I cannot but doubt the propriety of uniting, under one generic name, plants 

 so very different from each other as jEginetia l<mgiflora of Cavanilles, 

 and Bouvardia triphylla ; and I would be disposed to place greater reliance 

 than I do on the intervening teeth of the calyx, as characterizing Bau- 

 vanUa, and distinguishing it from jEginetia^ were it not that this would 

 separate two plants very intimately allied, Bouvardia triphylla and B. ver- 

 sicolor, carrying the last to JEginetia, which also it resembles more than 

 the other does in the form of corolla. Whatever may be made of these, 

 the subject of the present article must, I think, belong to the same ge- 

 nus with MgvneUa, long'iflora, the parts of the flower differing only in the 

 comparatively short tube of the corolla. 



Artocarpus integrifolia ; Entire-leaved Bread-fruit tree. 



A. integrifoUa ; foliis obovato-oblongis, acuminatis, spathae valvis inte- 

 gerrimis, amentis masculis patentibus. 



Description — Tree of great size in its native country (East Indies>; our 

 specimen about seven feet high, with brown bark, green on the young 

 shoots, annular, a slight linear furrow passing quite round the stem from 

 the base of each leaf; and being distinct years after the leaf has fallen. 

 Leaves scattered, petioled, crowded at the extremities of the branches, ob- 

 ovato-oblong, acuminate, thick, hard, smooth, shining, undulated (6 inches 

 long), middle rib strong, and with the oblique veins prominent behind, 

 veins united by conspicuous arches near the margin, and by transverse 

 less distinct reticulations ; margin quite entire. Male spadiw stipitate, 

 naked, but inclosed, previous to evolution, within the same pointed, 

 smooth, deciduous stipulae as the terminal bud, club-shaped, round, 

 above two inches long by three-fourths of an inch broad, projected near- 

 ly in a straight line from the extremity of the footstalk, covered with 

 innumerable flowers, dull green, its substance soft and spongy, the foot- 

 stalk passing through its axis, but lost about the middle in the spongy 

 structure around. Peduncle about half the length of the spadix>, axil- 

 lary, spreading, stout, green and shining, the leaf from the axil of which 

 it springs deciduous. Flowers monandrous, very small, green. Perianth 

 sessile, club-shaped, slightly compressed, somewhat succulent, 2-cleft, 

 gaping slightly, segments blunt. Corolla awanting. Filament arising 

 from the Iwttom of the perianth, and exserted. Anther erect, bilobular, 

 short, yellow. 



A plant is known in collections under the name of Artocarpus integrifolia, 

 with rough leaves occasionally lobed ; but in ours the leaves are all en- 

 tire, and smooth on both sides. It was received from Kew in 1814, and 

 in January and March this season has for the first time produced seve- 

 ral male spadices, but none with female flowers. 



Dodonaea atteniiata. 



Cunningham, in Field's Account of N. S. Wales, p. 353. 



D. aitenuata ; foliis lanceolato-spathulatis, apice mucronulatis basi atte- 



nuatis, rigidis, verrucosis, denticulatis ; floribus dioicis, racemosis, axil- 



laribus terrainalibusque, calycibus reflexis, pubescentibus, sub-viscidis. 



Description — Shrub erect, stem round; bark brown and cracked; branches 



scattered, slightly compressed, twiggy. Leaves scattered, sessile,'(34 inches 



long, i of an inch broad,) spreadmg, lanceolato-spathulate, with a small 



■ mucro at the apex not always distinct, much attenuated at the base, 



' rigid, rough, with warty elevations on the upper side, middle rib strong, 



and projecting both above and below, veins few and obscure, margins 



slightly reflected, toothed. Racemes terminal or axillary, rarely compound, 



bracteate, rachis, pedicels, and calyx, slightly hairy and viscid. BractecB 



subulate, solitary at the base of each pedicel, and shorter than this. Male 



flowers nodding. Calyx segments acute, reflected, concave, light green, 



falling along with the other parts of the flower by a division of the top 



