176 Dr Graham's Description of New or Bare Plants. 



clavato-semicylindrical, attenuated at the base, scattered, ciliated, 

 somewhat tubercled, spreading wide, leaving elevated scars when they 

 fall off. Flowers (when expanded 10 lines across) terminal, solitary. 

 Calyx 6-parted, segments short and blunt, subglabrous. Petals 5 (4 lines 

 long) spreading wide and reflexed in their upper half, elliptical, chan- 

 nelled in front, unguiculate, lilac, estivation imbricated, their thickened 

 backs glandular, but without pubescence, whilst the sides are slightly 

 pubescent, but with few or no glands. Stamens 10, of unequal length al- 

 ternately, all shorter than the petals ; filaments glabrous and monadel- 

 phous for more than the lower half of their length, above this they are 

 densely woolly within and without, wool somewhat yellow, at the upper 

 part of the smooth portion there are on the outside a few pellucid glands ; 

 anthers all perfect, cream-coloured, oblong, connective projecting a 

 little above the cells. Pistil shorter than the stamens ; stigma green, 

 with 5 erect blunt lobes ; style stout, reddish-brown, hairy, glabrous to- 

 wards the stigma ; germen ovate, 5-lobed, dark green, longer than the 

 calyx, and nearly as long as the style, with a few hairs at the apex of each 

 lobe. Ovules ovate, two in each lobe. 

 This rather graceful little shrub was raised from seed imported from New 

 Holland by Mr Cunningham at Comely Bank Nursery, Edinburgh, and 

 has flowered freely during the last two years in a border within the 

 greenhouse. The whole has a resinous perfume, approaching some of 

 the Diosmas too nearly to be agreeable. 



Francoa sonchifolia. 



F. sonchifolia ; caulescens, foliis lyratis, decurrentibus, lobis distantibus 



ala sinuata sursum angustata conjunctis; racemo spicato, erecto; pe- 



dunculo pedicellisque pubescentibus. 

 Francoa sonchifolia, Ad. Jttss. Anw. des Sciences Nat. 3. 192. t. 12 — 



Spreng. Syst. Veget. 2. 262 D. Don in Ed. New Philosoph. Journ. 



1828. 

 Llaupanke amplissimo sonchi folio, FeuilL Journ. 1. 742. t. 31. 

 Panke sonchifolia, Willd. Spec. PI. 2. 487- 

 Description.— -<SVew erect {2\ feet high) suffruticose, succulent and slight- 

 ly pubescent above, round. Leaves lyrate, undulate, pubescent on both 

 sides, bright green, semiamplexicaule, decurrent for a little way, lobes 

 blunt, undulate, dentate. Peduncles axillary and terminal, greatly 

 elongated, round, pubescent, branched, the branches rising from the axil 

 of a diminished leaf. Raceme spicate, erect, very long and handsome. 

 Pedicels rising from the axils of lanceolate, entire bractecB, and rather 

 shorter than them, pubescent, spreading when in fruit. Flowers sub- 

 erect. Co/yjr 4-5-cleft, as long as the peduncle, pubescent, persistent. 

 Corolla of 4-5 petals, spreading, more than twice as long as the calyx f 

 petals spathulato-oblong, lilac, darker in the centre. Stamens 8-10, equal 

 in length to the calyx, alternating with an equal number of much shorter 

 sterile filaments. Stigma 4-5-lobed, sessile, peltate, spreading, attached 

 to the apex of a central column, lobes blunt. German oblong, 4-5.sided, 

 4-5-celled, deeply furrowed between the lobes, which project upwards 

 in acute angles around the stigma, ovules very numerous, receptacle cen- 

 tral. Capsule elongated, erect, septicidal. Seeds oblong, testa remark- 

 ably wrinkled. 

 This species is at once distinguished from Francoa appendicidata by its 

 stem — the flowers are very similar. In describing Francoa appendicit^ 

 lata (New Phil. Journ. June 1832, and Botanical Magazine, foh 3178.), 

 I made, though doubtfully, the same reference as here given to Ann. 

 des Sciences Nat. ; but I now believe the absence of stem in the single 

 specimen described by Jussieu to have arisen from its having flowered 

 when young. No. 826. of Cumming's Herbarium, which seems to me, 

 on several accounts, a very distinct species, has the leaves of F. appendix 



