Dr Graham's Description of New or Rare Plants. 179 



ceolatis, utrinque sericeis, integerrimis, subcarinatis, pctiolo duplo bre- 

 vioribus ; racemo elongate, pedicellis aequaliter sparsis, patulis ; calyci- 

 bu8 basi nudis, labio superiore bi-,inferiore tridentato; vexilloalis bre- 

 viore, einarginato ; leguminibus immaturis erectis, sericeo lanalis, api- 

 cibus approximatis. 

 Description. — ^Whole plant silky, excepting only the corolla, stamens 

 and style. Stem suffruticose, erect, branclied. Leaves (about G inches 

 across) digitate, leafets about 9, linear-lanceolate, silky on both sides, ca- 

 rinate below, entire, very acute. Petiole nearly twice the length of the 

 leafets, compressed vertically. Stipiilce (IJ inch long) adhering for about 

 half their length, subulate. Raceme (1^ foot long) terminal, elongated. 

 Pedicels scattered equally over the rachis to within a little way of its 

 base, which is naked, spreading when in flower, when in fruit erect, spring- 

 ing from the axil of a subulate, caducous bractea. Calt/x bilabiate, the up- 

 per lip 2- the lower 3-toothed, bibracteate towards the base, bractea small, 

 subulate, adpressed, inconspicuous. Corolla pale lilac ; vexillura reflectecl 

 upwards, and at the sides, subrotund, emarginate, cordate at the base, 

 orange, and slightly spotted in the middle, keeled behind, claw short and 

 rigid ; alae rather longer than the vexillum, straight in the upper edge, 

 curved in the lower, and there cohering towards the apex, slightly turned 

 up at the point, claws short ; keel halt the length of the aloe, more rigid 

 and shining than the other parts of the flower, and of deeper purple co- 

 lour at its point, which is raised above the upper edge of the alae, dipeta- 

 lous, petals cohering only near their apices. Stamens monadelphous, in- 

 cluded, the five with rounded anthers only a little longer than the others; 

 anthers orange-coloured, pollen granules very small and nearly spherical. 

 Pistil longer than the stamens ; stigma very' small, capitate ; style subu- 

 late, glabrous, shining ; germen silky ; ovules severaL Unripe Ijcgume 

 erect, silky-woolly, subcylindrical, tapering and connivent at their 

 apices. 

 Thjs siiecies was raised by Mr Neill from seed sent by Mr Tweedie of 

 Buenos Ayres, and flowered freely in the greenhouse at Canonmills in 

 June 1833. It approaches very near to Lupinus mulliflorus of Encyclop. 

 Methodique, vol. iii. p. 624, and, had it not been for the very conspicuous 

 pedicels in Mr Neill's plant, I should scarcely have separated them. 



Nuttallia Papaver. 



N. Papaver; foliis radicalibus lobatis palmatisve, caulinis inferioribus 

 palmatis, superioribus simplicibus digitatisve ; calycibus pilosis, invo- 

 lucratis ; involucro triphyllo, foliolis lanceolatis pilosis. 

 Nuttallia Papaver, Bot. Mag. 3287» 



Malva Papaver, Cavan. Diss. ii. p. 64. t. 15. f. 3 Pers. Svnops. 2. 251. 



De Cand. Prodr. i. 431 — Sprenffj Syst. Veget. 3. 92. • * 

 Desceiptiok. — Stems numerous from the crown of the root, ascending, 

 slender, slightly hairy, hairs adpressed. Root-leaves on very Ipng petioles, 

 lobed or pedate, thinly sprinkled on both sides and on the edges with 

 harsh hairs. Lower stem-leaves palmato-pedate, upjier digitate or simple, 

 nerved, all slightly hairy, lobes linear lanceolate; lobes of the root and 

 lower stem-leaves more or less inciso-pinnatifid. Stipulce ovate, acute, 

 ciliated. Pedtincles very long, axillary, single-flowered. Involucrum 3- 

 leaved, closely surrounding the calyx, leafets lanceolate, hairy. Cali/x 

 5-cleH, segments ovate, acute, 3.ribbed, hairy ; hairs spreading, acute, 

 rising singlv from tubercles placed on the ribs or edges of the segments. 

 Corcila of five petals, campanulate, large, red-purple; petals obovato- 

 cuneate, truncated, and unequally crenato-dentate at their extremity, 

 edges at their base woolly. Stamens very numerous ; filaments united 

 into a somewhat hairy conical tube for about two-thirds of their length; 

 anthers kidney-shapetl, reddish. yellow, single-celle'd, opening along the 

 vertex. Pistil at first shorter than the stamens ; stigmas linear, reddish, 



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