112 NEW PLANTS, ETC., 



segments. Flowers in close axillary heads, on stalks shorter than 

 tlie leaves, small, white, inconspicuous, with linear segments to 

 the corolla. Calyces very spiny. Smell of the herbage foxy 

 and disagreeable. 



A hardy annual, requiring the same kind of treatment as 

 Leptosiplions. Tlie seeds should be sown thickly in tlie open 

 border in spring. It flowers in June and July, and is .suitable 

 for rockwork, growing about two inches high. 



June 28, 1848. 



11. LiMNANTHES ALBA.* Haitweg. 



Seeds were sent from California by Mr. Hartweg. 



Like L. rosea, this has the habit of Limnanthes Douglasii, but 

 the flowers are white, not yellow or pink, and their stalks are 

 very long. It is of interest in gardens, chiefly for the decoration 

 of heavy damp places, where better flowers will not grow. In 

 such situations all the species thrive and become ornamental, re- 

 taining tlieir freshness and flowering incessantly through the 

 whole summer. 



It may be a question whether tliey would not be useful salads, 

 as they all possess the agreeable warmth of Tropseolums without 

 being quite so pungent. 



Nov. 22, 1848. 



12. CaLLISTEMON BRACHYANDRUM.f 



The seeds received from his Excellency Captain Grey, said 

 to have been collected on the north coast of Australia, 

 in 1843. 



A stiff" bush, with the habit of other species of the genus, but 

 with deep-green, narrow^, pungent, channelled leaves, having con- 

 spicuous dots on the under side, and no veins. The spikes of 

 flowers are loose, and not more than 2 inches long, with very 

 downy calyxes, the number of whose divisions varies from 5 to 6. 

 The petals are dirty white, short, downy, concave, and inconspi- 

 cuous. The stamens are deep rich crimson, not more than twice 

 as long as the petals, and quite straight ; the anthers are of a 



* L. alha; foliis elongatis pinnatis, laciniis sessilibus ovatis acutisiategris 

 trilobisque, pedunculis loiigissimis, calycibus pilosis, petiolis basi barbatis. 



t C. brachijandnun ; rami's teretibus pubescentibus, foliis linearibus pun- 

 gentibus canaliculatisenerviis, calyce toraentoso, petalis iiisequalibus pubes- 

 centibus staminibus sanguineis duplo brevioribus. — J. L. 



