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Description of several New or Rare Plants which have lately 

 Jlowered in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh^ and chiefly in 

 the Royal Botanic Garderi. By Dr Guaham, Professor 

 of Botany in the University of Edinburgh. 



March 10. 1832. 

 Dillwynia cinarescens. 



D. cinarescens ; corymbis terminalibus sessilibus, foliis filifonnibus erec- 

 tis (compressis paten tibus), mucrone innocuo brevissimo subrecurvo 

 (pungente recto), ramulis calycibusque sericeis. 

 Dillwynia cinarescens, Br. in Bot. Mag. fol. 2247. 



Description. — Shrub erect; branches slender, spreading, when young sub- 

 sericeous, when older purplish, and at length naked. Leaves linear, 

 spreading, subglabrous, compressed laterally, grooved along their upper 

 edge, terminated by a straight hard sharp mucro. Stipules very minute, 

 becoming black. Corymbs terminal, sessile, subcapitate (about 8-flower- 

 ed), Bractece^ one under the base of the pedicel, and two opposite above 

 its middle, small, ovate, serrated, adpressed. Calyx bilabiate, silky, 

 about as long as the pedicel, compressed laterally, and somewhat keeled 

 on the upper side, ujiper lip slightly notched, lower lip trifid, segments 

 ovate, acute, incurved. Corolla inserted near the base of the calyx, yel- 

 low, red-orange in the throat, with a yellow spot in the centre of the 

 vexillum ; vexillum twice as broad as long, reflected, notched, and show- 

 ing a tendency to division into four lobes ; alte about as long as the vex- 

 illum, linear-spathulate, horizontal, curved outwards, their upper edges 

 in contact, concave below, shortly and bluntly toothed ; keel monope- 

 talous, about half the length of the alae, truncate, teeth blunt. Stamens 

 included, free. Stigma capitate. Style hooked. Germen silky. Ovules 2. 



The leaves being spreading, and the mucro early becoming hard and pun- 

 gent, made me doubt whether this plant should be really considered the 

 Dilhoynia cinarescens of Brown ; but I think it right to consider it such 

 rather than run the risk of erroneously multiplying species. Perhaps 

 " foliis erectis" is a misprint for " foliis rectis," in contradistinction to 

 the species with twisted leaves. This will make the description agree 

 much better with the figure by which it is accompanied in Bot. Mag. 

 It is probable that the corolla might prove marcescent ; but the whole 

 flower, with the pedimcle, falls so early with us, that I cannot be cer- 

 tain. The fonn of calyx leans to Eutaxin. 



We received the plant from Mr Mackay of Clapton. It flowers most freely 

 in February and March, and i^ a great ornament to the greenhouse. 



This winter has been remarkably dry, and, excepting one severe and un- 

 usually early frost, and one or two transient frosts since, it has been remark- 

 ably mild. It is perhaps on this account that some plants which 1 have not 

 before seen blossom in the open air in Scotland, are now in flower. In par- 

 ticular, may be noticed the following varieties of Camellia Japonica. 



Single Red. Flavescent Hume's Blush. 



Middlemist's flesh-coloured. Double "White. 



Kew Blush Pompone. 

 The first four are trained upon a wall with an aspect a little east of south, 

 the last is on a standard five feet from the wall, in a sheltered situation. It is 

 later than the others, the flower-buds being very large, but not yet expanded. 

 We have at present also in flower, on the same wall with the Camellias, 

 Acacia mollissima. We find among the seedlings of this plant, great variety 

 as to the power of resisting cold. Several are much cut in by the frost, but 

 others, planted as standards in the open ground, scarcely have their upper 

 leaves injured. The plants which have flowered on the wall, had the lower 

 part of their stems covered with Broom twigs, but every other part has been 

 completely exposed, and the leaves even have escaped unhurt. 



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