neem 
116 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
588. Erra FLORIBUNDA. Lindley; var. leucostachya. An epiphyte from Borneo, with long 
close spikes of white flowers. Introduced by Messrs. Low and Co. of Clapton. (Fig. 288.) 
pretty plant was exhibited in November, 1847, to the coer bend by Mr. Low, whose son found 
it on es Paid of the Sarawak River, growing in large masses on trees, the branches of which were fully exposed to the 
near Birmin and we are able to confirm th icion, th eture of the two plants عد وت‎ the same. The 
are, however, much more closely packed, and pure PV: without à ined of the purple with which the thin d of 
, floribunda are suff 
589. MALCOLMIA LITTOREA. A. 
Brown. (alias Hesperis littorea 
Lamarck; alias Cheiranthus litto- 
reus Linacus.) A hardy annual, 
with large purple flowers. Belongs 
to the Cruciferous Order. Native 
of the South of Europe. Blossoms 
Fig A. 
5 » 
pieni: TOM 
S SN 
in the Autumn. MA Me 
Of this really beautiful hardy plant, BRIG RY 1 i x 
cultivated in our gardens so early as 1683, Z 2 xe aS y. 7و1‎ um 
no bas hitherto been given Set FRAU M: 
It isa littoral plant of South Europe. Its vium. di Vie 
i ZS Aw eae sf 
northern 1 tes, and Lys SIR EN JE 
thence it extends itself along the coasts E SSN RSP 
of Spain and Portugal, and the western E Pee, 
shores of the Mediterranean.  Desfon- "ESI E QNO: 
taines detected it in Barbary, and Brous- 288 E^ zx whe 
sonet in Morocco. In our country it is bi A VAY vay 
ted as an annual. In warmer ORRIN 
climes it is at least biennial, the lower Nez 
MV C 
NA SYNA 
Our annual plants (and they woul 
survive a winter in our climate) sede erect, but flexuose, branching stems, scarcely a foot high, eiiis, hoary, as is the whole 
plant, petals and stamens excepted, with short stellated hairs. Lea ves lanceo late or linear-lanceolate or more frequently 
ual 
Flowers large for the size of the plant, in lax, termisud; many-flowered racemes. Pedicels at first very short, at len 
about equal in length d the calyx. Calyx narrow, oblon, : Sepals li near, obtuse, quite erect, two of them a little 
them), the lamina بسك"‎ weed (not veiny, like Malcolmia maritima, Bot. Mag. t. 166). Stamens six : the 
four longer nearly equalling the pistil ; two shorter rather longer than the germen. Germen cylindrical, downy. Style 
1 igmas two, long, linear, glandular within, and at the margin and apex, and united for the whole length of 
their faces into one, more or less bifid at the point. Siliqua two or two and a half inches long, uen terete (not 
torulose), flexuose, erecto-patent, terminated by the style and now sharp withered stigma.— Bot. Maj. 672. 
590. MEDINILLA SrgBoLDIANA. Planchon. A fine white-flowered hothouse shrub. Native of 
