174 Dr Graham's List of Bare Plantt. 



rather than one entitled to rank as a species. It may be right, how- 

 ever, to put in contrast characters which Jacquin states to belong to 

 the plant which he describes, and those which belong to our plant. 



Janipha Loejlingii. 



«. /S multifida. 



Longer stamens equal to the co- — reaching nearly to the middle of 



rolla. the segments. 



Flor.fmn. filaments 10, shorter than — not a vestige of filament. 



the gernien. 



Geruicn with 6 blunt angles. — with 3 rounded lobes. 



Leaves perfumed like walnut. — less strongly and less agreeably. 



Leaflets five. — five to thirteen. 



Petiole 6 inches long. — of larger leaves above 13 inches. 



Stem scarcely br^mched. — many spreading branches. 



Juices watery. — milky. 



Pimelia nana. 



P. nana : foliis altemis, rarius suboppositis, spathulato-linearibus, utrin- 

 que pilosis, uninervibus, floralibus rameis similibus ; capitulis termi- 

 nalibus^multifloris; stylo staminibusque limbo perianthii sequantibus. 



DESCRIPTION. — Stem (8 inches high) woody, slender, erect, with alternate 

 ascending branches, its whole surface, excepting the inside of the corolla, 

 the stamens and style, covered with soft white and spreading simple 

 hairs, mixed with others which are much shorter and more dense. Leaves 

 (h inch long, about 1 line broad) scattered, spathulato-linear, glaucous, 

 rather paler and more hairy below than above, spreading, flat, with a 

 conspicuous middle rib, but no lateral nerves. Capitnlum terminal, 

 many-flowered ; involucre similar to the stem-leaves. Perianth white ; 

 tube green where it covers the germen, rather longer than the involucre, 

 slender, having long spreading hairs externally, and only short dense, 

 hairs within ; limb somewhat irregular, segments imbricated, the upper 

 and lower outermost, ovato-lanceolate, glabrous on their upper surface, 

 the two lateral ones deflected. Stamens as long as the perianth : fila- 

 ments glabrous, at first erect, afterwards spreading along the upper and 

 lower segments of the limb, white ; anthers broM n, rhomboideo-oblong, 

 attached by their back near the base, bursting along their sides : pollen 

 granules spherical, of the same colour with the anthers. Stigma blunt. 

 Style glabrous, subterminal, exserted, as long as the stamens. Germen 

 pale green, ovato-oblong, with a small tuft of erect hairs on its apex, 

 elsewhere glabrous. Ovule solitary pendulous, filling the germen. 



We received this plant at the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in 1839, from 

 Mr Low of Clapton. It is a native of the Swan Kiver settlement in 

 Australia, and flowered abundantly in the greenhouse in the end of 

 April, and in May and June. It is allied to P. longijlora, Hooker, Bot. 

 Mag. 3281, but is easily distinguished from this by its much more 

 humble grov^^th, its single-nerved leaves, and its exserted stamens and 

 style. It will probably be short-lived. 



Verbena tuberosa. 



Y.tvherom.; radice tuberifera ; caule suffiniticosa, erecta; foliis petio- 

 latis, ovato-ellipticis, utrinque obtusis, inciso-serratis ; spicis termi- 

 nalibus, solitariis, floribos verticillatis. 

 Description. — Root perennial, creeping, the fibres having many rounded 

 tubers about the size of filberts. Stem herbaceous, branched, erect, 

 square, green, slightly glutinous. Leaves opposite, decussating, petio- 

 late, concave in front, slightly rough, inciso-serrate, ovato-elliptical, of 

 bright green, paler below where the midrib and veins are very promi- 

 nent, channelled above. Petiole more than half the length of the leaf 

 below, shorter upwards. Flowers in terminal, verticellate, solitary 

 i^ikes ; pedicels very short, each with an ovate, undulate leafy ^ractee 



