Dr Graham's List of' Rare Plants. 421 



lucre, but rather less coarse, with the marginal nerves less conspicuous, 

 at first erect, afterwards folded over the gennen. CoroUa (about 1$ 

 inch long, 2 inches across when fully expanded) pentupetalous, orange- 

 coloured, yellow at the base ; petals imbricated and convolute, dola- 

 briform, many nerved, slightlyrtomentous, deliquescent in decaying. 

 Stamens indefinite, raonadelphous, inserted into the base of the petals, 

 and uniting these to each other; united filaments sliglitly tomentous, gi-a- 

 dually smoother upwards, free portion glabrous ; antlieis kidney-shaped, 

 unilocular, opening alo^g tlie vertex, attached loosely in the sinus to 

 the filament. Styles 10, cohering for above l-3d of their length, gla- 

 brous, each terminated by a small pencil-shaped crimson-coloured stig- 

 ma. Gennen oblong, wrinkled, green, of five verticillato lobes, each 

 containing a single oblong ovule, compressed on its inner side, and 

 there attached near its base to a central placenta. Cai-pds d&rk brown, 

 much wrinkled, subglabrous, glabrous and nearly white within, where 

 they seem evidently to be bivalvular, but are not, I think, dehiscent. 

 Seeds kidney-shaped, pale brown, glabrous except along the back, where 

 there are a few, and at either extremity, where there is a tuft of yel- 

 lowish hairs. 



We received this plant from the Botanic Garden, Berlin, in 1836. It 

 flowered freely in the stove at the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in July 

 1837 ; but though its blossoms arc of considerable size, and not destitute 

 of beauty, the plant will probably never be a favourite in cultivation, 

 because its flowers are only expanded during the forenoon, and the 

 shrub is coarse and in no degree attractive. It is a native of Brazil. 



Sprengel unites Lebretonia to Pavonia^ and Decandolle questions the pro- 

 priety of considering them distinct. The only part of the definition 

 which seems to me to justify the separation is the reported dehiscence 

 of the carpels, which 1 have not found to take place. 



Pimelea hispida. 



P. hispida ; involucris tetraphyllis : foliolis ovatis margine simplici in- 

 tus subsericeis capituli dimidio brevioribus, perianthii tube dimidio 

 iuferiore hispido, foliis lanceolatis linearibusve. — Br. 

 Pimelea hispida, — Br. Prodr. 3G0. — Eocm. et Schult. i. 273. — Spreug. 

 Syst. i. 92. 

 Description. — Skmb erect, slender, much branched; branches erect, 

 glabrous; bark yellowish-brown. Leaves (half an incli long, 2 lines 

 broad) opposite, light green, linear-lanceolate, or narrow ovato-lanceo- 

 late, slightly folded forward along the middle rib, which is conspicu- 

 ous, but without any lateral veins. Flowers capitate, surrounded by a 

 tetraphyllous involucre, of which the leaflets are cordato-ovate, concave 

 within, keeled on the back, and with an obscure lateral nerve on each 

 side, the two outer the narrowest, the others slightly silky on the in- 

 side. Perianth much longer than the involucre, red in the lower, 

 white on the upper half; tube covered on the outside with spreading 

 hairs, which are fewer, coarser, and much longer on the back of the 

 limb ; limb spreading, segments elliptical. Stamens deflected, white. 

 Stiijma small, capitate ; stijle exserted, glabrous, inserted below the apex 

 of the ovate, green, glabrous gennen. 

 We received this plant from Mr Low of Clapton in 1836. It flowered 

 freely with the usual treatment of greenhouse plants, but the flowers 

 are not of very long duration. 



Pimelea intermedia, Hort. 



P. intermedia ; foliis oppositis, glaberrimis, flor^libus ovatis acutis ca- 

 pitulo multifloro brevioribus, ramis lineari-lanceolatis ; raiuis gla- 

 berrimis, gracillimis, strictis ; calycibus toraentoso-villosis. 

 Description.— iS'ArH6, slender, erect, with loug straight almost filiform 

 branches, which are covered with brownish-yellow, glabrous, cracked 



