386 Dr Graham's List vf Rare Plants. 



In conclusion, I think, a journalist certainly entitled to re- 

 mark, in a tone of right feeling, those coincidences which must 

 at times occur in the history of science, when different persons 

 happen to strike into the same path of inquiry ; but to hunt in- 

 cessantly after obscure, vague and distorted charges of plagi- 

 arism, only betrays the workings of a base and malignant dispo- 

 sition. I ever am, &c. (Signed) John Leslie. 



Queen Street, \ 

 March % 1827. J 



List of Rare Plants which have Fhzvered in the Royal Bota^iic 

 Garden, Edinhui'gh, during the last three months ; with 

 Description of a new species of Euonymus. Communicated 

 by Dr Graham. 



10^/^ xMarch 1827. 

 Banksia latifolia. 



serrata. 



Dichorisandra thyrsiflora. 



Euonymus scandens. 



E. scandens ; fruticosa, scandens, radicans ; foliis lanceolato-ovatis, crenato- 

 serratis, venis obliquis ; pedunculis filiformibus, axillaribus bis (terve ?> 

 dichotomis ; germine scabro. 



Description — Shrub climbing to a great distance. Branches very long, 

 cylindrical, green with brown scars, adhering to every thing in contact 

 with them, by long, flattened, branching, white threads, which at first 

 spring in linear tufts, but afterwards throughout the whole length of the 

 branches, and hanging loose on all sides, conceal these in an entangled 

 mass. Leaves opposite, somewhat decussating, the older ones somewhat 

 coriaceous, the younger shining and membranous, bright green, and paler 

 on the back, ovate or ovato-lanceolate, acuminate, crenato-serrate, the 

 serratures being frequently, especially on the ovate leaves, compound, 

 veins oblique, and, as well as the middle rib, prominent on both sides, 

 reticulations at the edges most distinct on the under. Petioles chan- 

 nelled, approximate on the branches, distichous on the flowering-shoots 

 (^inch long) ; stipules minute, brown, lacerated, one on each side of the 

 petiole ; buds lanceolate, pointed, covered by imbricated blunt scales, some 

 of which are persistent upon the base of the twig. Bractece small, awl- 

 shaped, brown, reflected, slightly fringed, with brown glands at their 

 edges. Peduncles axillary twice (or thrice ?), dichotomous, filiform, an- 

 gular, straight, nearly three times as long as the petiole. Calyx very 

 small, green, tetraphyllous, segments rounded, persisting, at every pe- 

 riod concave, and closely applied behind the bases of the stamens. Co- 

 rolla yellowish-white, 4-petalous, petals rounded, minutely toothed, re- , 

 fleeted, attached by small claws, which are about the length of the calyx, 

 and concealed. Stamens Ai filament»-wh.\\X'ih. and tapering, scarcely longer 

 than the claw of the petals, at first erect, afterwards reflected, inserted 

 into broad, flattened, green bases between the petals; anthers yellow, of 

 two roundish lobes, about as long as the filaments. Germen flattened, 

 yellowish-green, indistinctly warted. Stigma at first deejj green and ses- 

 sile, after the shedding of the pollen paler, blunt, and continuous with 

 a stout, linear, furrowed style equal in length to the filaments. 



