178 Dr Graham's Descriptio7i of New or Rare Plants. 



sessilibus, cumque petalis pellucido-punctatis, integerrimis, glabris, sub- 



nervosis ; caule ramoso, ascendente, tereti, cost is duabus inconspicuis. 

 Hypericum hyssopifolium, WiM. Sp. PI. iii. 1470. — Pers, Synops. ii. 91. 



L-Bot. Mag. 3277- 

 Hypericum hyssopifolium, y, foliis latioribus planiusculis. — Bieherst. Fl. 



Taurico-Caucas, 2. 231. 

 Hypericum alpestre, Fischer, in litt. fide Hooker. 

 Description — Steins {\\ foot high) many from the crown of the root, as- 

 cending, much branched, pyramidal, panicled above, glabrous, round, 

 marked with two opposite obscure ridges alternating in the internodes. 

 Leaves (9 lines long, 3 lines broad) decussating, sessile, elliptico-linear, glau- 

 cous, glabrous, spreading wide, channelled in the middle, and having a few 

 faint lateral veins, entire and slightly revolute in the edge, dotted with mi- 

 nute pellucid points. Panicle lai^e, terminal; peduncles 3-flowered, the 

 lateral flowers opposite, and arising from the axils of diminished leaves. 

 Calyji' segments ovate, blunt, marked with pellucid streaks, fringed with 

 black glands. Corolla (an inch across when expanded) much contorted; pe- 

 tals spreading, clawed, obovate, unequal, nerved, pellucido-punctate, sub- 

 serrate, ciliated with black glands ; claws longer than the calyx. Stamens 

 erect ; filaments much shorter than the corolla, yellow, irregularly con- 

 nate at the base^; anthers incumbent, greenish-yellow. Stigmas small, 

 of many minute red points. Styles three, diverging, yellow. Germen 

 ovate, 3-lobed, reddish, striated, afterwards of deeper red, 3-locular. 

 Ovules oblong, very numerous, attached to the central receptacle. 

 This very pretty species was raised at the Botanic Garden from seed com- 

 municated by Dr Fischer of St Petersburgh without specific name. It 

 flowered freely in the open ground in June 1833. 

 It appears from Bieberstein that it is a native of the mountains of Tauria. 

 He conceives the leaves to be very variable in breadth, the extremes of 

 which are illustrated in his var. /3 and y. There is no difference among 

 our seedlings. 



Lobelia odorata. 



L. odorata ; caule herbaceo, procumbente, radicante, ramoso, glabro ; fo- 

 liis ellipticis, sparsim serrato-dentatis, planis, glaberrimis, petiolatis ; 

 floribus axillaribus, solitariis, erectis, pedunculo foliis breviore, postea 

 elongato ; calycibus superioribus, glabris, segmentis integerrimis. 



Description Stem procumbent, slightly channelled, glabrous, branched, 



rooting at every leaf, and forming a dense tuft. Leaves (4-6 lines long, 

 2-3 lines broad) distichous, elliptical, with few coarse serratures, gla- 

 brous, flat, veined, on short petioles. Flowers axillary, solitary, on pe- 

 tioles which are erect, at first shorter than the leaves, but longer when 

 passing into fruit. Calyx superior, erect, glabrous, segments entire. Co- 

 rolla perfumed like hawthorn, erect, white ; tube cleft to its base, thrice 

 as long as the calyx, covered with spreading haiis within; limb 5-parted, 

 segments equal, lanceolate, spreading. Filaments inserted into the base 

 of the corolla, white, purplish at the top, hairy especially in their lower 

 half, hairs reflexed. Tube of anthers leaden coloured, bi-aristate on 

 their lower side. Pistil longer than the stamens ; stigma bilabiate, purple, 

 fringed at its base, lobes reflected, blunt, mucronate ; style glabrous 

 above the anthers, everywhere else covered with spreading hairs; ger- 

 men top-shaped, inferior, glabrous or rarely finely pubescent, terminated 

 with a yellow glabrous disk. Ovules very numerous, placentae large. 

 Unripe seeds ovate, slightly compressed, pale brown, dotted. 

 Seeds of this plant were sent to Mr Neill, Canonmills, in 1832, from Mr 

 Tweedie, and flowered in the stove at Canonmills during the autumn. 

 It possesses but little beauty beyond that of a lively green turf. Its 

 perfume is remarkable in the genus. 



Lupinus incanus. 



"h-incanus; caule sufFruticoso, ramoso ; foliis digitalis, foliolis lineare Ian- 



