Dr Graham's List of Bare Plants. 3ff 



■« fleeted in tbe edges, glabrous on botb sides, of lively green above,"dotited 

 and rather paler below, where also the middle rib and oblique veins 

 are prominent. PerluvcU-s (3 lines long) axillary, solitary, collected to- 

 wards the extremities of the branches, 3-flowered, glabrous ; pedicels 

 rather longer than the peduncle, the lateral ones having a small ad- 

 pressed bractca on their outer side at the base, and two opposite ones 

 below the middle, the central one being without any bractese. Flowers 

 handsome, pendulous. C<ihix (ith of an inch long) slightly cur^•ed, 

 green, sprinkled with glands, and very obscure pubescence, teeth erect, 

 nearly equal, the uppermost rather the smallest. Corolla five times 

 as long as the calyx (at least in cultivated sj)ecimens) red-purple ; tube 

 clavato-funnel-shaped, slightly compressed laterally, slightly pubescent 

 on the outside, hairy within, especially on the lower side and towards 

 the limb; limb 2-lipped; upper lip slightly reflected, of two rounded 

 teeth, lower lip of three, more recurved, linear segments. Stamens ex- 

 serted, straight, distant, the two longer projecting forwards from the 

 centre of the flower, the two shorter parallel to and above them;-fila- 

 ments colourless, adherent to about the middle of the tube, above which 

 they ai'e free, and at the point of separation the corolla projects in little 

 external corresponding eminences ; antliers dark lilac, of two much 

 divaricated lobes, oi)ening along the vertex ; pollen white. Pistil equal 

 to the longest stamens, pale lilac towards the top ; stigma bifid, seg- 

 ments nearly equal, subulate, curved outwards ; germen-lobes erect, 

 placed upon a flesliy disk, which is longer tlian the lobes. 

 This very ornamental plant was received at the Garden of the Caledonian 

 Horticultural Society from Mr Atkin, nurseryman, Northampton, in 

 June 1838, and produced in the greenhouse a succession of flowers du- 

 ring nearly the whole summer and autumn of 1839. It Aery much re- 

 sembles Garrhjqiua (jraiidijlora, but maybe distinguished from this espe- 

 cially by its foliage being perfectly glabrous even when young, by its 

 patent, not erect branches, and by its shorter style. 



O.sbeckia canescens. 



O. canescens ; caule fruticoso, erecto ; foliis cordato-ovatis, obtusis, utrin- 

 que tuberculatis, subtus incanis ; p:iniculis terminalibus axillaribus- 

 que ; bratteis ovatis, caducis ; floribus erectis ; calycibus ovatis, 5- 

 fidis, tuberculato-incanis : petalis obovatis, glabrig ; staminibus 10 

 fertilibus, connectivis ina?qualibus. 

 Description. — Stem (7 feet high) weak, requiring support, 4-sided, rough, 

 hoary : branches erect. Leaves (3 inches long, I J broad) shortly petio- 

 late, opposite, decussating, subc'ordato-ovatc, blunt, o-7-nerved, spread- 

 ing, deflected when old, tubercular on both sides, bright gi-een above, 

 hoary below. Peduncles axillary and terminal, often divided, many- 

 flowered, in panicles at the extremity of the branches. Bracteee soli- 

 tary at the origin of the pedicels, concave, ovate, caducous, articalated 

 at the base. (Mijx on the outside, like the pedicels, and the greater 

 part of the plant, hoary, within glabrous ; tube ovate ; limb 5-partite, 

 segments ovato-i'.eltoid, spreading, with alternate external filamentous 

 erect appendages. Flowers (li inch across) very numerous, very hand- 

 some ; petals obovate, scarcely emarginate, cuneate towards tlie base, 

 glabrous, reddish-lilac above, paler below, inserted into the throat of 

 the calyx. Stamens J(», all fertile, (k^clined ; filaments glabrous, about 

 half as long as the petals, inserted into the throat of the calyx ; anthers 

 purple, compressed laterally, undulate along the face, no.arly straight, 

 opening by a pore at the apex ; connective bright red, in five, in wlxich 

 the anthers are erect, having a sessile emarginate yellow auricle at the 

 b.ise, in the other five twice as long as the anthers, and ascending, the 

 auricle being elongated subemarginate and yellow. Pistil about as long 

 08 the longest stamens ; stigma blunt, small, greenish ; style glabrou8» 

 declined in tbe opposite dlKction £com the stamens, vexy tlightl; tar 



