on Ancient Monuments, 175 



of the Aztiv^ues, whom Humboldt has made us acquainted with 

 in his Observations on the Aborigines of America, do not ex- 

 hibit a faithful imitation of nature. In truth, on many of these 

 monuments tigers and leopards are figured with the feet of the 

 Solidungula, a combination and error which the least scrupulous 

 artists of ancient Rome, and antique Greece, would never have 



committed. 



(To be continued.) 



Description of several New or Rare Plants which have lately 

 flowered in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh^ and chiefly 

 in the Royal Botanic Garden, By Dr Graham, Professor 

 of Botany in the University of Edinburgh. 



\Qth Dec. 1833. 

 Ceropegia Lushii. 



C.Lushii; radice tuberosa ; caule volubili ; foliis lanceolato-linearibus, 

 subprismaticis, breviter petiolatis ; pedunculis axillaribus, multifloris, 

 foliis multo brevioribus ; corollse tubo medio cylindraceo, limbo erecto, 

 piloso ; coronae segmentis interioribus erectis, filiformibus, fundo co- 

 rollse inclusis, exterioribus patulis, truncatis. 



Descriptipn Root a flat tuber, producing from its crown several long 



twining, fleshy, glabrous, filiform stems, of reddish-grey colour. Leaves 

 (1^-4 inches long, one-fourth of an inch broad near the base) opposite, 

 on short petioles, lanceolato-linear, gradually tapering to a long narrow- 

 point, glabrous, subprism-shaped, slightly undulate on the edges, chan- 

 nelled above, subglaucous. Peduncles axillary, cymose, greatfy shorter 

 than the leaves, many-flowered. Cali/x 5-parted, segments acute. Co- 

 rolla (three-fourths of an inch long) leaden coloured and glabrous on the 

 outside ; tube globular at the base, cylindrical above, deep purple and 

 slightly hairy within ; limb 5-parted, segments shorter than the tube, 

 erect, connivent and cohering at the apex, reflected in the edges, so as 

 to expose the inner surface, which is of deep purple, and covered with 

 spreading hairs of the same colour. Crown white, wholly included with- 

 in the globular base of the corolla, inner segments erect, filiform, alter- 

 nating with the outer segments, which are much shorter, spreading, 

 truncated, concave upwards. Anthers blunt ; pollen-masses erect, yel- 

 low. Pistil equal in length to the calyx, blunt, greenish-white, broadly 

 grooved on the sides between the angles. 

 The tuber of this plant I received from my friend Dr Lush of Bombay in 

 February last. It flowered in the stove of the Royal Botanic Garden in 

 September. 



Eriostemon gracile. 



iLgracUe; frutex humilis,ramuli8pendulis; foliis clavato-semicylindraceis, 



cumque petalo unguiculato parce tuberculatis, sparsis, numerosis ; flo- 



libus terminalibus, suliiariis ; fiiamentis monadelphis, versus apicem 



lanatis. 



I)E8CiirPTioN.~>-A low shrub, with pendulous, twiggy, very leafy, subver- 



ticillate branches, bark brown and scarred. Leaves (2 lines long) fleshy 



