394 Celestial Pkewynienafrom April \. to JvHij 1. 1828. 



Description — Koot supporting several scapes. Leaves suberect, rhom- 

 boideo-spathulate, decurrent along petioles longer than themselves, in- 

 cised, and divisions serrated, convex above, soft, much veined from the 

 middle rib, and somewhat buUate. Scape erect, round. Flowers verti- 

 celled, live in each whorl, bracteate. BractecB^ one to each pedicel, ses- 

 sile, lanceolate, doubly serrated, but less so than the leaves, nerved and 

 veined. Pedicels nearly as long as the bracteae. Calyx .5.cleft, segments 

 erect, or somewhat spreading, pointed and serrated. Corolla yellow, scarce- 

 ly perfumed ; tube {|ths of an inch long) twice as long as the calyx, round 

 and slightly swollen where it covers the gerraen, and, in the situation of 

 the stamens, distinctly 5-sided between these two points, and in some 

 degree above the last ; throat naked ; limb spreading at a right angle, 

 small (less than half an inch across), segments obcordato-rotund, crenate 

 (or entire ?). Anthers oblong, nearly sessile in the upper third of the 

 tube. Stigma cup-shaped, included, but carried above the stamens ; style 

 filiform ; germen globular, green ; ovules extremely numerous, ranged 

 round the central receptacle, a slender process from which is continued 

 with the style, and may be easily unsheathed from the lower part of this. 



The outer side of the corolla, both sides of the calyx, the pedicels and scaps, 

 the bracteae and leaves, particularly on their lower sides, are powdery. 



"VVe received in 1826 a plant of this species from M. Otto at Berlin, un- 

 der the name of P. involucrata, marked " Egypt," but it suffered so much 

 on the way that it could not be preserved. The subject of the present 

 article was raised from seed, communicated from the same liberal quar- 

 ter in 182G, and flowered in the beginning of the present month. The 

 divided edge of the corolla seems the only deviation from the essential 

 character of' P. verticillata of Forskaol, and the analogy of other species, 

 as P. prcenitens^ shows that this cannot be relied upon as a specific dis- 

 tinction. 



Celestial Phenomena from April 1. to July 1. 1828, calcu- 

 kUed Jbr the Meridian of Edinburgh, Mean Time. By 

 Mr George Innes, Aberdeen. 



The times are inserted according to the Civil reckoning, the day beginning at midnight. 

 — The Conjunctions of the Moon with the Star* are given in Right Ascension. 



APRIL. 



