190 Dr Graham's Description of New or Rare Plants. 



twic^ as long as the petiole, persisting. Capitula dense, terminal or axil- 

 lary, in the latter situation 8-12.flowered, on peduncles (half an inch 

 long) solitary in each axil. Calyx bilabiate, upper lip bifid, lower 3-par- 

 tite. Corolla twice as long as the C2^y^x, orange-yellow, of deeper and 

 richer colour before expansion. Petals slightly unequal, the vexillum 

 rather the longest, the carina rather the shortest, on long claws ; vexil- 

 lum kidney-shaped, striated, reddish at its base ; alae elliptical, striated 

 with red at the base ; keel red, rather straight, emarginate and blunt at 

 the apex, its petals separated at the base. Stamens free, inserted into 

 the torus, imbedded within the keel ; filaments red, glabrous ; anthers 

 yellow, elliptical, pollen-granules yellow, very minute. Pistil as long as 

 the stamens, included within the keel ; germen hairy, green ; style gla- 

 brous, red, falcate, compressed laterally ; stigma simple, dorsal, white. 

 This pretty little shrub was first raised, at the Botanic Garden, Edin- 

 burgh, in 1831, from seed brought home by Dr Lang; and again in 1832, 

 from seed communicated by her Grace the Duchess Countess of Suther- 

 land. It first flowered in December 1833, and the same plant much 

 more fireely in March 1834. 



Lysinema pentapetalum. 



L. pentapetalum ; coroUis pentapetalis ; unguibus longitudinaliter dis- 

 tinctis, extus glabris, calyce longioribus, cumque segmentis ejus et 

 bracteis lanato-ciliatis. 

 Lysinema pentapetalum, Br. Prodr. 552. — Rmn. ^ Schult. Syst. Veget. 



4. 383 Spreng. Syst. Veget. 1. 630. 



Description — Shruh erect, with loose straggling branches, which are vil- 

 lous when young. Leaves very numerous, scattered, glabrous, shining, 

 bright green, fleshy, bluntly angled behind, flat in front, on short ad- 

 pressed petioles, linear-subulate, connivent at the apex, spreading, except 

 near the flowers, where they are suberect, often reflected at the lower 

 part of the branches. Flowers sessile, axillary, solitary, collected into 

 psuedo-spikes at the extremities of the branches. Bracteas numerous, imbri- 

 cated, linear, adpressed, brown, glabrous, lanato-ciliated, gradually larger 

 to the calyx. Calyx pentaphyllous, closely embraced at the base by the 

 bractese, from which it cannot be distinguished but by being rather longer 

 than the longest of these. Petals 5 ; laminse slightly reflected, white, 

 oblong, glabrous ; claws longer than the calyx, linear, brown, closely ap- 

 plied to each other at the apex, but without any organic union, glabrous 

 on the outside, woolly within. Stamens 5, alternating with the petals, 

 included ; filaments hairy, brown ; anthers oblong, somewhat pointed at 

 both extremities, attached by the backs above their middle ; pollen yellow, 

 granules globular. Hypogynmis scales 5, ovate, green, glabrous, alternate 

 with the filaments. Stigma obscurely lobed, fringed with hairs. Style 

 erect, rather longer than the stamens, red, hairy, green and clavate im- 

 mediately below the stigma. Germen round, sessile, tomentous, 5-locu- 

 lar. Ovules numerous, in two rows in each loculament, fixed to a green 

 central receptacle. 

 This plant was raised at the Botanic Garden from seeds collected at King 

 George's Sound, and communicated to me by Colonel Lindcsay along 

 with other seeds, and a valuable collection of dried specimens, in July 

 1830. It flowered freely in the greenhouse in March 1834. 



Sphaerolobium medium. 



S. medium; calycis tubo labiis dimidio breviore (corollis rubris) — Brown. 

 Sphierolobium medium, Br. in Hort. Kew. ed. 2d, vol. iii. p. 14. — De 



Cand. Prodr. 2. 108 Spreng. Syst. Veget. 2. 350. 



Description — Stem slender, branched from the base; branches ascending, 

 cylindrical, green, glabrous, rush-like, tough and woody. Leaves (34 

 lines long) linear-subulate, subappressed, glabrous, green, and slightly 

 spotted with black, opposite alternate or in verticels, caducous, the short 



