172 Dr Graham's List of Bare Plants, 



as the voxillum, elliptico-obovate, yellow streaked with red, claws very 

 slender ; keel as long as the alse, boat-shaped, blunt, dark red, its pe- 

 tals only connected with each other in the middle, and there slightly, 

 claws slender and colourless. Stamens monadelphous, included within 

 the keel ; tube slit along its upper part, pale red ; anthers ovate, yel- 

 low ; pollen pale orange-coloured. Pistil as long as the stamens, sti- 

 pitate, glabrous ; germen compressed laterally ; ovules about three. 

 This plant was raised at the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, from Van Die- 

 men's Land seeds sent by|Mr Cooper, Went worth House, in April 1836, 

 and flowered for the first time in the greenhouse in March 1840. It 

 seems to flower abundantly. 



Cystanthe. 



Generic CifARACTER. — Calyx foliaceous. Corollse clausa, calyptrae- 



formis, transversim dehiscens, basi truncata persistenti. Stamina 



hypogyna, persistentia. Squamulse nullse hypo^yna?. Capsula pla- 



centis ab apice columnse centralis pendulis, salutis. 



Frutex habitu Springelise, Ponceletim, et Cosmelice, nisi quod rami dum 



denudati annulati sunt. — Broun, Prodr. i. 555. 

 Cystanthe sprengelioides, Br. 1. c. 

 Description. — Shrub and its branches erect, glabrous, rigid. Leaves scat- 

 tered, crowded, sessile, stem clasping, ovate, acuminate, rigid, mucro- 

 nate, reflected, serrulate, shining, persisting, many-nerved, nerves dia- 

 phanous. Flowers solitary, axillary, but crowded into capitula at the 

 extremities of the branches. Braciece several, erect, distichous, in 

 oiher respects resembling the leaves but smaller, and gradually passing 

 into the submembranous sepals, which are still smaller. Corolla longer 

 thaa the calyx, pale greenish-yellow, opening by circumcision about 

 the middle, the upper portion crispid at its lower margin, and rising 

 like a calyptra upon the summit of the elongated style, the lower part 

 marcescent, marked by brown nerves. Stamens 5, hypogynous ; filaments 

 as long as the corolla, approaching below, somewhat spreading above, 

 flattened, subspathulate, but pinched laterally at the apex, crystalline up- 

 wards ; anthers erect, attached by their back near the base, ovate, yellow, 

 bisaccate at the base, cleft at the apex, and opening within the cleft ; 

 pollen yellow, granules minute, spherical. Pistil longer than the sta- 

 mens ; stigma with five minute points ; style colourless, tapering up- 

 wards ; germen green, 5-lobular, 5-locular, loculaments tumid and ragged 

 at the top, surrounding the base of the style ; placentae suspended from 

 the column at the apex of the loculaments, green, and naked on their 

 outer-side, but covered Avith suspended ovules on their inner. 

 This very curious shrub was discovered in Van Diemen's Laud by Mr 

 Brown. The specimen described (now 34 feet high, and growing freely), 

 Avas raised in 1836 at the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, from seeds 

 obligingly communicated in the autumn by N. B. Ward, Esq. London. 

 As Mr Brown notices only one species of this genus, and gives no de- 

 scription excepting what is contained in the excellent generic character, 

 I cannot be certain that this is the species which he saAv ; nor, if it be, 

 have I any means of ascertaining to which of the varieties mentioned 

 by him it belongs. 



Janipha Loeflingii. 



J. Lcejlinfjii ; foliis cordatis, 5-partitis, laciniis acuminatis integerrimis 



intermedia panduncformi, floribus racemosis. 

 Janipha Loeflingii, Humboldt, Nov. Gen. 2. 85. — Spr. Syst. Veget. 3. 77. 

 Janipha frutescens Loeflingii, It. 309. 

 Jatropha Janipha, Linn. Mant, \26.— Willd. Sp. PI. 4. 563.— Pm. 



Synops. 2. 587- 

 Jatropha Cailhagenensis, Jaeq. 256. 1. 162. f. 1. 

 $ muftifida, foliis 5 IS-partitis, circumscriptione suborbiculatis. 



