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longer than the filaments, declined, ascending at the apex. Germen free 

 above, adhering below, having a few hairs upon its apex, tetralocular. 

 Ovules numerous. 

 This plant was raised at Mr Neill's garden, Canonmills, from seeds sent 

 to him, in 1829, by Mr John Tweedie, formerly head-gardener at Eglin- 

 ton Castle, Ayrshire, and now of the Retire, Buenos Ayres. The pac- 

 ket was marked in Mr Tweedie's handwriting, " Herbaceous Melastoma, 

 from damp woods of the Banda Oriental." The plants came up freely in 

 the summer of 1830; but none shewed flower till July 1831, when se- 

 veral flowered equally well in the cold frame and in the greenhouse. 



Stylidium scandens. 



" I. Capsula ventricosa, subovata, nunc sphjerica vel oblonga. 

 " I. D. Folia scapi vel caulis verticillata. Calycis labia (§) partita. 

 « S. scandens; caule scandente, foliis linearibus apice spiral! drrhoso, 

 " fauce coronata, labello appendiculato, columna supeme pubescente.'* 

 — Brown, Prodr. 670. 



Description Root perennial. Stem (18 inches high) slender, shining, red, 



glabrous, branched. Leaves (3^ inches long) verticelled, crowded, linear, 

 channelled, mucronate, rolled back at the apex in form of a cirrhus, throw- 

 ing out long, filiform, single, unbranched, red and shining roots from 

 their axils. Braotece green, adpressed, one below each pedicel, and two 

 sub-opposite above its middle, the former small, ovato-acuminate, or* 

 larger and subulate, the latter very minute and scale-like. Corymbose ra- 

 cemes erect, clustered at the extremities of the branches. Pedicels (a-9 

 lines long) spreading, single-flowered, red, glabrous, filiform. Calyx su- 

 perior, bilabiate, |-partite, green, glabrous, adpressed, segments ellipti- 

 cal, with paler edges, ciliated. Corolla (about 10 lines across) mono- 

 petalous ; tube epigynous, nearly colourless, twice the length of the ca- 

 lyx; limb 5 -partite; labellum pale, reflected, ovate, acute, fringed with 

 glandular hairs, auricled, auricles spreading, very slender, subulato-filiform, 

 Tose-coloured, twice the length of the labellum, with a few glandular hairs 

 near their bases, under a high magnifying power appearing rough and 

 serrulate; other segments or the corolla lilac and imbricated in the bud, 

 afterwards rose-coloured, paler below, darker in the throat, spreading or 

 slightly reflected, obovate, sparingly ciliated, crenate at the apex, the 

 two next the labellum crowned with an erect, generally emarginate sub- 

 spathulate scale, the two others naked. Column terminal, reflected over 

 the labellum, and irritable, flat, white at its base, lilac in the middle, 

 yellow towards its extremity, and there especially, but slightly also 

 on its upper surface, glanduloso-pubescent. Anthers, after bursting, 

 brownish-yellow, surrounded by a tuft of shining, transparent, at length 

 yellow pubescence, bilobular, lobes divaricating, elliptical, pointed at 

 the lower extremity, bursting along the front. Stigma in the centre 

 between the anthers, green, at first hidden and small, but afterwards 

 much enlarged, capitate and raised upon a conical neck, pubescent. Ger- 

 men green, becoming reddish-brown when ripe, ovate, glabrous, unilocu- 

 lar ; ovules placed on a round central receptacle, having the mere rudi- 

 ments of a dissepiment at its base. 

 This very pretty species of a singular and interesting genus, was raised at 

 the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, from seeds communicated by the late 

 Lord Blantyre, a nobleman, wnose melancholy death, in a period of un- 

 distinguishing popular tumult, was deplored far beyond the wide-spread 

 circle which includes those who had a personal knowledge of his many 

 virtues. They had been received by his Lordship from Colonel liind- 

 say, to whom, and to Mr Fraser, I owe the possession of excellent spe- 

 cimens collected at King George's Sound. The flowers were slowly de- 

 veloped, each remained long expanded, and appeared on one raceme in 

 succession during the whole month of November. Other racemes are 

 now beginning to appear, so that I doubt not the plant will be a great 

 ornament to the greenhouse during the whole winter. 



