J74< Dr Graham's Description qfNew or Bare Plants. 



Dkscription Whole plant glabrous. Stem suffruticose, much branched, 



very slender, round, twining ; bark grey and exfoliating, on the young 

 shoots green, glabrous, and shining. Leaves (2 inches long, 1 inch broad 

 but gradually smaller, and the uppermost about 4 lines long, 2 lines broad 

 while the low and largest on a vigorous cultivated specimen are 4 inches 

 long and nearly 2\ broad,) opposite, petioled, cordate, acuminate, gla- 

 brous on both sides, shining, pale, with prominent veins and obscure mi- 

 nute reticulations below, dark, and the veins slightly channelled above. 

 Stipules small, subulate, and at length often reflexed in their upper half, 

 bases broad and connate within the petioles, so as to form a small cup, 

 which is occasionally toothed, round the branch. Peduncles elongated, 

 solitary, glabrous, filiform, shining, and single-flowered, at the extremi- 

 ties of the branches, which are subsequently elongated, rendering the pe- 

 duncle axillary. Calyx green, glabrous, 4-partea, with minute divided 

 intervening teeth; segments acute, at length reflected, 1-nerved. Corolla 

 (fully 1 ^ inch long, 3^ lines across the revolute limb) very handsome, 

 shining on the outer surface, and glabrous every where, except a little 

 above its base on the inside, where, for some distance, it is densely clothed 

 with inverted white hairs ; tube clavato-funnel-shaped, with four flat 

 sides, nectariferous fand only colourless at the base, every other part of 

 the corolla vermilion -orange coloured, deepest on the inner side of the 

 limb, green in the young buds, throat dilated and naked ; limb 4 -parted, 

 segments deltoid, revolute. Stamens four, alternating with the segments 

 of the corolla ; filaments colourless, adhering to the tube throughout its 

 whole length, the free portion slightly connivent, and rather shorter than 

 the segments of the limb ; anthers versatile, oblong, purple, inserted by 

 the back, bursting along the front of the cells, which are distant in the 

 middle, connivent at the extremities; pollen green. Germen inferior, 

 green, compressed, bilocular, crowned by a white depressed disk, which rises 

 above the insertion of the corolla. Style rather longer than the stamens, 

 exserted, colourless, filiform. Stigma green, blunt, of two erect parallel 

 lobes. Ovules numerous, erect, on erect free columnar receptacles, one rising 

 into each loculament from near the base of the dissepiment. Capsule ovate, 

 compressed, channelled on both sides, crowned by the persisting indurated 

 calyx, bivalvular, bilocular, opening by a division of the dissepiment ; 

 valves boat-shaped, nerved, and each splitting into two teeth at the apex. 

 Seeds brown, round, flattened, and surrounded by a membranous wing. 



This truly beautiful plant, the bright vermilion of whose corolla surpasses 

 immeasurably the colouring of the Botanical Magazine, was raised from 

 seed sent by Mr Tweedie from Buenos Ay res, and first showed flower in 

 the stove of Mr Neill's garden at CanonmiUs, in August last. Another 

 and stronger specimen is just now (10th October) opening its first blos- 

 soms, and being covered with a profusion of buds in every stage, it pro- 

 mises to be exceedingly ornamental during many weeks *. My native 

 specimens, obligingly communicated by Mr Tweedie, are from the woods 

 of the Uruguay. The seeds were gathered in the province of Entre 

 Rios, on the banks of the Arroya de la China, a stream which enters 

 the Uruguay. The dilated naked throat of the corolla forms a remark- 

 able exception to the generic character, as drawn by Jussieu in Memoires 

 du Museum, 1820, p. 384, and the 4.sided tube of the corolla, with the 

 connivent filaments, are at variance with the generic character given by 

 De Candolle, L c. 



Milla uniflora. 



M.unijiora; scapo unifloro; spatha bifida, inaequali; capsula clavata,apice 



Description — Bulb ovate, forming new ones at the base. Leaves (1 foot 

 long, 2^ lines broad) all radical, glaucous, glabrous, linear, concave in 



* This account I originally drew up for the Botanical Mngazine at the date here mentioned, 

 and it is published fol. 3202. of that work. I am now able to sUte, that the expectation of the pro- 

 tracted beauty of the species has been confirmed : it trontinued in flower to the end of November, 

 and, even now, is covered with a profusion of bu(i». 



