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GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
silky hairs, and divided into five sharp triangular lobes. The carpels are quite smooth. Mr 
Qiiua 
Society by Mr. Reeves, one 
of whose dried specimens is now before us. 
lAI 
Decaisne. A stove scandent slirub^ with dense flat leaves and short 
PliiKppi 
Blossoms in May 
""-^s-^t^. 
axillary umbels of greenish-yellow flowers. 
June, Introduced by Messrs. 
Yeitch and Son. (Fig. 192.) 
At one of the exhibitions in 
the garden of the Horticultural 
Society this novelty was pro- 
duced by Messrs. Veitch and 
Son. It is an erect bush with 
closely packed decussating ses- 
sile cordate leaves, very slightly 
downy beneath, and of a some- 
what parchment-like consistence. 
The flowers are destitute of gay 
colours, the principal tint being 
yellowish-green, reUeved by a 
coronet of rich purplish brown. 
It is very distinct from any of 
the other species in cultivation, 
and before flowering would not 
be taken for a Hoy a at all. 
383. Cathcartla. vil- 
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LOSA. J". B. HooTcer. A. beautiful annual (?) from Sikkira-Himalayaj with large yellow flowers. 
Belongs to Poppyworts. Introduced at Kew. 
The following is Dr. Hooker's character of this new genus : — Calyx diphyllus, foliolis oestlvatione irabricatis, caducis. 
Corollie petala 4, subrotunda, hypogyna, decidua. Stamina 25-30, hypogyna : filamenta filiformia gracllia ; antherse 
terminales, oblongse, biloculares, loculis latere longitudinaliter dehiscentibus, connective interposito. Ovarium 
cylindraceum, 5-6-sulcatum, miiloculare. Ovula niunerosa, in placentas filiformes 5-6 intervalvulares demum liberas, 
anatropa. Stigma amplura, sessile, heraisphrericum, camosum, ovario latins, persistens, 5-6-radiatum, radiis lamelli- 
formibus. Capsula erecta, stricta, siliquiformis, teres, imilocularis ad apicem, infra stigma persistens, fere ad basin 
5-6-valvis, valvis linearibus ; placentis filiformibus liberis ad apicem stigmati unitis. Semina numerosa, ovalia, 
compressa, scrobiculata, strophiolata, subcristata,— Herba annua vel biennis ex Himalaya orientali, pills longis fulvis 
patentibus villosa. Caulis teres, subsimplex. Folia inferiora, radicalia prsecipue, longe petiolata, cordata, subpalmatim 
sen pedatim 5-loba, lobis lobulatis, foliis superioribus sessilibus, supremis pinnatifido-lobatis. Pedunculi terminales 
axillaresque. Florcs cernui. Calyx hirsutus. Petala flava, magnitudine Papaveris Rhoeadis. Antherse aurantiacse. 
Stigma viride. 
** Found in Sikkim-Himalaya by Dr. Hooker, and reared in the Royal Gai-dens from seeds sent by him in the winter 
of 1850-1. It flowers in June, and may be treated as a hardy annual : the seeds ripening in July. The long, 
Bhaggy, fulvous hairs and bright yellow flowers give it a handsome appearance. In its foliage it differs remarkably 
from any of the Papaveracece with which I am acquainted, and no less in the fruit. It has the stigma of Pajpaver^ 
while the mode of dehiscence corresponds rather with that of Roenuria, We cannot question its forming a new genus, 
which is named by Dr. Hooker in compliment to J. F. Cathcart, Esq., B.C.S., late Judge of Thrhoot, who during a 
residence at Darjeeling devoted his whole tune to the illustration of the botany of that neighbourhood, and super- 
intended the execution, by native artists, at his own expense, of a collection of upwards of 700 foUo-coloured plates of 
Himalayan plants. These drawings, which are of great botanical value, and embrace a multitude of new plants and 
others of the greatest beauty and rarity, are, by the liberality of their possessor, placed at Dr. Hooker's disposal for 
the illustration of the Botany of Sikkim. This new Papaveraceous plant was raised from seeds, received last year 
from the elevated regions of Sikkim-Himalaya. It appears to be a perennial rooted plant, but we must await the 
result of next whiter, in order to know whether it is sufficiently hardy to bear the open air of this climate. Hitherto 
we have kept it in an airy frame, where it has flowered and produced perfect seeds. In summer it may be planted 
out m the open air m a cool shady place ; but at the same time care must be taken that it does not remain long 
saturated with moisture, for, on account of the soft and viUous nature of the leaves, a continued excess of moisture 
may cause them to damp oflF,"— Z?of, Mag:^ t, 4596. 
