404 Dr Graham’s List of Rare Plants. 
keel, ciliated at the base, with hairs similar to those on the longer pe- 
tals, everywhere else sub-glabrous, white, and marked in the middle 
with two transverse red bands, and a few red spots higher up, truncated 
at the apex, and there terminated ‘With four blunt revolute teeth, of 
which the outer are the broadest and longest. Stamens numerous, ten 
barren placed in pairs within the shorter petals, than which they are 
scarcely longer, subulate, concave internally, villous, meeting at their 
points in the centre of the flower ; fertile stamens much more numerous, 
lodged within the longer petals, and erected in succession as in the 
genus,. longer than the shorter petals, glabrous, filiform; anthers versa- 
tile, yellow, becoming leaden coloured, oblong, bursting along the sides, 
pollen white, granules minute, nearly spherical. Pistil shorter than 
the stamens; stigma minute, dentate; style straight, stout, persisting ; 
ermen half superior, the only part within the calyx which has sting- 
ing hairs, unilocular, bursting by three acute valves in its free portion ; 
placentz 3, parietal, alternating with the valves. Ovules numerous. 
Seeds numerous, oblong, dark, reticulated. 
This is a native of Mexico, and seeds were obligingly communicated to 
the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in 1841, from the London Hor- 
ticultural Society. Two plants flowered in the stove in January and 
February 1842, and have ripened seed. It can hardly be considered or- 
namental, but is interesting as being a perfectly distinct species. 
Stylidium recurvum, Grah. 
S. recurvum, caule ramoso, foliis apice ramorum confertis, subulatis, re- 
curvis, marginibus basin versus membranaceis ; pedunculis confertis, 
subcymosis, subterminalibus ; germine lineari. 
Stylidium recurvum, Grak. in Bot. Mag. 3913. 
DescripTion.—Stem (in the specimens described 6 inches high) suffruti- 
cose, slender, much branched in tufts, and there sending down long 
wiry roots, glabrous, red, almost incased in leaves. Leaves numerous 
all along the branches, but much crowded and spreading in a stellate 
form at their apices, subulate, mucronulate, arched backwards, shining, 
somewhat rough, of deep green colour, with a membranous colourless 
ragged border on each side near the base. Peduncles crowded from the 
apex of the branches, pubescent,cymose. Calya 5-partite, unequal, per- 
sisting, segments elliptical, concave internally, pubescent on the out- 
side. Corolla (9 lines across in the greatest diameter) 5-cleft, in the un- 
expanded bud yellow on the outside, reddish-orange within ; tube gla- 
brous and shining, pale green, twisted ; limb spreading flat, salmon-co- 
oured and glabrous in front, yellow in the throat, white and glanduloso- 
pubescent behind ; lip recurved, small, ovate, of nearly uniform reddish 
colour, turgid and shining, having at its base two erect teeth white or 
greenish and tipped with red :—Other segments of the limb elliptical, 
the pair most distant from the lip being the largest. Column flattened, 
green and twisted immediately above the germen, of uniform brown 
tinge in front beyond the first flexure and green behind, beyond the se- 
cond flexure (which forms a right angle) green both in front and behind, 
but edged with brown, and having a whorl of spreading crystalline monili- 
form partly coloured hairs at the apex. Anthers green, bursting along 
the front, and then reflexed in two parallel lines across the column of 
fructification ; pollen abundant, granules small, greenish-white. Stigma 
rounded, villous. Germen linear, 3-gonous, equal at the apex, distinct- 
ly furrowed along two sides, more obscurely along the third, pubescent, 
the hairs, as well as those on the peduncle, pedicels and calyx, short, 
spreading, glandular. 
I first saw this species in the nursery of Mr Cunningham, Comely Bank, 
Edinburgh, where it flowered in a frame in May 1840. In the month fol- 
lowing we received it at the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, from Mr Hen- 
derson’s nursery in the Edgeware Road, and at the same time from Mr 
Jackson, nurseryman, Kingston, Surrey. Itis native in the neighbour- 
hood of Swan River, Australia, and in the arrangement of the species 
should stand near Stylidium breviscapun. 
