Dr Graham's List of Rare Plants. 185 



petioles hispid, especially on the older branches, one-fourth of an inch 

 long. Siipulce varying in size and shape, pointed, transparent, reddish, 

 and spotted like the stem, caducous. Panicle supported on footstalks 

 about half the length of the leaves, dichotomous, smooth and shining. 

 Bractece unequal, shorter than the pedicel, pellucid, colourless. Flowers 

 white ; corolla of the male of four petals, of which the two outer are large 

 and cordate, that of the female of five petals, the largest about one-third 

 of the length of the wings of the capsule. Capsule., wings rounded, taper- 

 ing towards the pedicel. Stigmata convolute, pubescent, with two promi- 

 nent angles on each, yellow. Stamens numerous, yellow. Seeds very 

 numerous, covering the projecting wings of their green receptacle. 

 We received this plant in 1825 from M. Otto at Berlin, under the specific 

 name here adopted, and were informed that the native country was Bra- 

 zil. It has been kept in the stove. 



Bignonia candicans. 



This plant has never perfectly evolved its flowers, but these have repeat- 

 edly decayed, both this year and last, when they were just about to 

 burst. The shrub thrives well in the stove, and is trained to a consider- 

 able length along the glass. 



Brexia madagascaricnsis. 



Buddleia brasiliensis. 



B. brasiliensis ; foliis deltoideis, per petiolos decurrentibus, connatis, irregu- 

 lariter dentato-crenatis, floribus verticillatis, bracteatis, ramis tetragonis, 

 lanatis. 



Description — Shrub erect. Stem nearly round. Branches opposite, de- 

 cussating, young shoots four-sided, covered with a white wool, which 

 subsequently peels off, exposing the brown and cracked bark. Leaves 

 opposite, decussating, when young oblong, afterwards becoming wider at 

 the base, and more pointed, so as to be nearly deltoid, unequally tooth- 

 crenated, broadly decurrent along the petiole, where quite entire, con- 

 nate, soft, tomentous, especially below where white, green above, reticu- 

 lated. Flowers verticillated, the lower whorl on two short axillary foot- 

 stalks ; verticillus leafy ; bractece small, pointed, green, placed on the out- 

 side of the whorls. Calyx persisting, green, covered with white tomentum, 

 4-cleft. Corolla orange-yellow, hairy within and without, least so on the 

 upper surface of the limb ; tube more than twice the length of the calyx ; 

 lin^ spreading, 4-cleft, segments rounded. Anthers reddish, sessile in 

 the throat of the corolla, pollen pale yellow. Germen hairy, lodged in 

 the calyx ; style filiform, at length exserted ; stigma rounded, lobular, 

 deep green. 



Seeds communicated to the Botanic Garden by Mr Hunneman in 1824, 

 and received by him from Russia under the name here adopted. Spren- 

 gel quotes under Buddleia brasiliensis., B. perfoliata of Humboldt ; but this 

 is quite distinct from our plant. 



Convolvulus candicans. 



Flowered on the wall outside one of the stoves. 



Crataegus glabra. 



This fine plant was covered with flowers on the open wall in November, 

 and will continue so during thi^ month also, unless the weather prove 

 verysevere. It seems probable that it came into flower, and pushed 

 much new wood, at this season, in consequence of the warm rains which 

 succeeded the unusually long continued hot and dry weather of summer 

 and autumn. If it shall prove sufficiently hardy for the open ground, 

 there have been few more desirable additions made to the shrubbery ; 

 and it has alreadv borne, without injury even to its flowers, a cold of 

 25° Fahr. 



Crinum anomale. 



