182 Br Graliani''s Description of New or Rare Plants. 



Begonia radiata. 



B* radiata ; acaulis ; foliis palmatis, utrinque, cumque petiolis et scapo 

 elato, pilosis, lobis lanceolato-oblongis, undulatis, sinuatis ; floribus di- 

 petalis, filamentis basi solummodo cohserentihus, germine S^lato (alia 

 rotundatis ?) 



Description — Leaves (7 inches across") bright green above, paler below, 

 all radical, subpeltate, cordato-palmate, hairy above and below, with se- 

 ven strong radiating nerves, very prominent below, lobes lanceolate, ob- 

 long, undulate, sinuated, dentate, unequal, the central (4 inches from 

 the insertion of the petiol to its apex) being the longest, the others gra- 

 dually smaller to the sinus ; petiole rather shorter than the middle lobe, 

 densely covered with long coarse entangled crystalline hairs, which, in 



. fading, resemble yellow wool. Scape (2 feet high) tapering upwards, 

 straight, pretty closely covered with oblong red streaks, from which 

 spring long tortuous, acute, crystalline hairs. Bractece in opposite pairs 

 at each division of the flower-stalk, serrated, ovate, hairy, dentato-ci- 

 liate, nerved, smaller in every succeeding pair. Peduncles dicliotomo- 

 deliquescent, streaked like the scape, and somewhat hispid. Flowers 

 rose-coloured, dipetalous, petals rotund, entire; male flowers in the cleft 

 of the peduncles, expanding before the female. Stamens yellow, ascend- 

 ing ; filaments cohering only at the base ; anthers spathulate, connec- 

 tive extending beyond the loculaments. Germen 3-winged (wings 

 roimded ?) 



We received this plant at the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, from Berlin, 

 in 1832, having the name Begonia tanacetifolia attached to it ; but the 

 leaves are so very peculiar, and so unlike a species of Tanacetum^ that I 

 cannot help suspecting our plant may have been put up by mistake, in- 

 stead of another, and therefore I have ventured to apply to it another 

 specific designation. When in a very vigorous state, it unfortunately 

 damped off just before the flowers were fully expanded. The scape was 

 cut and stuck into damp sand, but a few of the male flowers only ex- 

 panded. The habit of the species is very singular. 



Calceolaria crenatiflora. 



C. crenatiflora ; herbacea ; foliis ovatis, suhlobatis, dentatis, inferioribus 

 prsecipue petiolatis, utrinque caulique pubescentibus, subobliquis, flo- 

 ribus corymbosis, labio superiore minimo, inferiore amplo maculato 

 crenalo, laciniis calycinis late ovatis nervosis. 

 Calceolaria crenatiflora, Cavanilles, Icones PI. 5. 28. t. 446. — Sprengel, 



Syst. Veg. 1. 44. 

 Calceolaria anomala, Pers. Synops. 1. 16. 

 Calceolaria pendula, Sweet, Brit. Fl. Garden, 155. 



Description Herbaceous. Stem {\\ foot high) erect, purple towards 



the base, abundantly covered with soft spreading hairs, some of which 

 are long and acute, a greater number half their length, and glandular. 

 Lower leaves ovate, petioled (with the petiole 7 inches long, 34 broad) 

 decurrent along the petioles, slightly undulate, sublobate, dentate, sub- 

 oblique, rugose, pubescent on both sides, dark green above, much paler 

 below, and there purple towards the lip. Stem-leaves ovate, subacute, 

 on much shorter petioles, smaller and more sessile upwards. Floivers co- 

 rymbose, primary division in two or three branches, branches dichotomous 

 with two flowers in the cleft. Peduncles (1^ inch long) as well as the 

 branches having the same pubescence as on the stem. Calyx segments 

 broadly ovate, subacute, spreading, densely covered with both kinds of 

 pubescence on the outside, with the glandular only on the inner, entire 

 nerved, nerves generally 5. Corolla with short glandular pubescence 

 over the whole of the outer surface, most conspicuous on the upper lip, 

 glabrous within, except at the insertion of the stamens, where there are 

 a few hairs, yellow, sprinkled with orange-brown spots on the upper part 



