Dr Graham's List of Bare Plants. ' 391 



Description. — Shrub erect. Stem robust (in the specimen described, 

 which is still growing freely, 5 feet high) bark brown, cracked, rough ; 

 branches, and especially the young twigs, covered closely with light- 

 coloured tomentum, mixed with stellate rusty pubescence. Leaves 

 (5-7 inches long, 2^3 inches broad) petiolate, deltoideo-ovatc, slightly 

 cordate at the base, green and hispid above, densely covered with 

 white tomentum mixed with rufous stellate pubescence below, espe- 

 cially along the ribs and veins, undulate, obscurely sinuated, when 

 young tomentum and pubescence alike on both sides, 3-nerved, and 

 often with a small additional nerve on cnch side, reticulately veined, 

 the nerves and veins prominent below. Corymbs, opposite to the leaves, 

 digitate, the branches flat during full flowering, before and after this 

 connivent. Flowers arranged alternately along the branches of the 

 corymb, shortly pedicellate, cernuous, secund, so as to form a flat con- 

 tinuous surface looking downwards. Bracts 3, lanceolato-elliptical, 

 at the apex of each pedicel, and adprcssed to the outer side of the 

 flower. Calyx 5 -partite, alternate with the bracts, segments ovate, 

 acute, with 7 parallel nerves on the inside, where they arc greenish 

 white. Petals minute, purple, elliptical, undulate, alternate with the 

 segments of the calyx. Stamens 5, opposite to the petals ; filaments 

 nearly colourless, thrice as long as the petals, and about ^ of the length 

 of the calyx ; anthers purple, about half as long as the filaments, to 

 which they are attached by the back, the face being turned outwards, 

 linear, with an inconspicuous connective, bursting by two pores at the 

 apex. Pistil about as long as the filaments ; siigma inconspicuous ; 

 style straight, erect, and this with the inside of the calyx are the only 

 parts attached to the corymb which are glabrous, every other part be- 

 ing more or less densely covered with light tomentum and rufous stel- 

 late pubescence ; germen globular, densely covered with harsh stellate 

 pubescence, which here is of a pinkish colour, 5-locular, cells glabrous 

 within, and containing several ovula attached to central placenta?. 



This very distinct species was raised from New South AVales seeds trans- 

 mitted to the Botanic Garden in July 1835, by the late Mr Richard 

 Cunningham. It has been kept in the greenhouse, and flowered freely 

 for the first time in May 1841. 



Ligustrum grandiflorum. — Hortul. 



L. grandijlorum ; ramulis pedicellisque villosis ; foliis ovatis, utrinque 

 glabris. 



Description. — Shrub erect, bark grey and cracked, branches spreading 

 wide or pendulous, twigs villous. Leaves opposite, ovate, acute, very 

 slightly attenuated at the base, pale green, glabrous on both sides, 

 petiolate, folded forward along the middle rib, veins few, distinct, 

 little reticulated ; petiole short, channelled. Panicle terminal, villous. 

 Bracts solitary at the origin of the pedicels, minute, caducous. Flowers 

 numerous, white, every where glabrous. Calyx small, cup-shaped, 

 greenish yellow, with 4 minute teeth. Corolla white, 4-partito, seg- 

 ments elliptical, spreading Avide. Stamens 2 ; filaments geniculate 

 near the apex, as long as the corolla, to the tube of which they adhere ; 

 anthers elliptical, attached by their middle, at the joint bent forwards 

 upon the filament ; pollen granules minute, spherical, yellow, the only 

 part of the flower except the calyx and germen which is not pure 

 white. Pistil shorter than the filaments ; germen globular, pale green, 

 glabrous ; style somewhat tortuous ; stigma oblong, blunt. 



We received this plant at the Botanic Garden from Mr Atkins, nursery- 

 man, Northampton, in 1831), under the name adopted. It is said to 



