196 Dr Graham's List of Rare Plants. 



the plate ; keel red-orange-coloured at the apex, monopetalous, the li- 

 near claws only being free, apex notched, teeth short and blunt, papilla on 

 each side distinct. Stamens included. Anthers elliptico-rotund, orange- 

 coloured. Pistil equal to the longest stamens. Germen silky. 

 This plant was raised at the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in 1832, from 

 seeds sent from Van Diemen's Land the year before, by Campbell Itid- 

 dell, Esq. It flowered very freely in the greenhouse in April 1835, and 

 is very ornamental, notwithstanding the lurid colour of its foliage and 

 branches. 



Sida inaequalis, Linlc. 



S. inaqualis ; fiuticosa; foliis cordatoovatis acuminatis, basi insequalibus, 

 crenulatis, utiinque hirtis ; pedunculis petiolos longe superantibus, 

 apice geniculatis ; calycibus basi productis ; corollis campanulatis ; cap- 

 sulis subinflatis. 



Sida inaequalis, Link, et Otto Icones Plantarum selectarum Hort. Berol. 



p. 75. t. 34 — Spreng. Spec. PI. 3. 117. 

 Description. — Shrub erect (in the specimen described slender and nearly 

 7 feet high). Bark light grey, on the young shoots green and covered 

 with short harsh glandular pubescence. Petioles (1-2 inches long) alter- 

 nate, spreading, round, having similar pubescence to the twigs, swollen 

 at their apex. Leaves (4-7 inches long, 2-3 inches broad) slightly un- 

 dulate, having on both sides a short harsh pubescence, bright green and 

 shining above, paler and without lustre below, where in the young state 

 it is at first white, then becoming somewhat rusty, an appearance of 

 which scarcely a trace remains in the adult leaves, cordato-ovate, un- 

 equal at the base, acuminate, crenulate, middle rib and veins prominent 

 on both sides, especially behind. Peduncles (about 2 inches long) lateral, 

 subtended by a lanceolate, nerved, pubescent, deciduous bractea, round, 

 geniculate near the apex, with pubescence similar to that on the pe- 

 tioles. Calpa^ 5-cleft ; segments ovate, acute, with ferruginous pubes- 

 cence, somewhat keeled and keel produced at the base. Corolla (1^ inch 

 long, and when fully expanded 2 inches across) white, campanulate, pe- 

 tals clawed, orbiculato-ovate, delicately glanduloso-pubescent on the out- 

 . side, glabrous within, shining only at the claws, many-nerved, nerves very 

 prominent on the outside, dichotomous towards their terminations, and 

 ■with smaller reticulating branches along their sides. Stamens and stales 

 equal to the length of the petals, glabrous. Anthers small, yellow ; pol- 

 len granules yellow, minute, globular. 

 We received this plant from Berlin Botanic Garden in 1829. It flowered 

 freely for the first time in the stove of the lloyal Botanic Garden, Edin- 

 burgh, in May 1835. It is said to be a native of Brazil. 



Tulipa tricolor. 



T. tricolor ; bulbo solitario, caule unifloro, subdiphyllo ; foliis oblongo- 



linearibus; petalis acutis, interioribus latioribus, basiciliatis; filamentis 



supra basin barbatis, alternis longioribus pistillo parum brevioribus ; 



capsula triquetra, mucronata — Ledebour. 



Tulipa tricolor, Ledeb. Ic. PI. Fl. Boss. alt. illustr. t. 135 — Ibid. Fl. 



Altaica, 2. 33. 

 Tulipa patens, Agardh. in Schult. Syst. Veget. 7- part. 1. p. 384. 



Description Bulb ovate, about the size of a filbert, covered with brown 



skins. Stalk glabrous, erect, green, (in the specimen described shorter 

 than the leaves, in the wild specimens longer than these). Leaves 2 (in 

 the plant described, and in all the specimens which I have, 5^ inches 

 long, 3 lines broad) the upper the narrower, glabrous, glaucous and slight- 

 ly channelled in front, green and somewhat keeled behind, subacute and 

 callous at the apex. Flower suberect. Petals lanceolate, acute ; outer 

 petals narrower and rather the shorter, greenish on the out:ide, within 



