Dr Graham's List of Hare Plants. 207 



cave below, obovato-elliptical, slightly pointed ^'X^rylorf 

 nhlinue and scarcely divided veins prominent below, petioles ^ ery short. 

 tXrs pedSLf axillary, solitary. Calyx 5-partite green, sejrmen s 

 subulato linear, spreading, half as long as the peduncle corolla (9 'inches 

 Ion- U broad) white, pendulous, funnel-shaped, glandular without pu 

 Ei ce tube in its lower half very slender, fleshy, and sharply o-angled, 

 £reu PP 'erhalfinfl a ted,sub^ 



the angles of the lower half to the sinuses between the broad ro winded 

 lobes of the slightly spreading limb. Stamens 5, reaching to *ithin an 

 inch of the sinuses of the limb, from then- origin at the ba ^ of the co 

 rolls ; filaments hard and wiry, glabrous ; anthers (1* ) ^r, 



burst ng along the sides ; pollen granules minute and spherical ^W 

 as long as the stamens ; stigma flat, passing over the vertex of the style 

 and tapering downwards on two sides for a quarter of an inch ; style 

 wirv, glabrous, colourless ; germen obovate, green, with five blunt angles 

 inferior, and having at the apex five blunt lobes which rise above the 

 calyx, and surround the base of the style; ovules very numerous, on 



a central clavate placenta. . uiju.Wm-.i, fi-nm 



This plant was received at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinbu gh fiom 

 Cuba, through the kindness of the Conde de , Femandina in 1838 has 

 been kept in the stove, and flowered for the first time in August 1840 

 I certainly nearly approaches toPortlandia r™**>^» ~"£ 

 me specifically distinguished by the less prominent ribs of the upper 

 part of the flower, by°the included stamens and pistil, by he veiy ■& fib- 

 rent form of the calyx segments, by the more ™* 1 ™™™™™?^™ 

 ferently formed leaf, more acuminate stipules, and, I would fain hope 

 by its flowering more freely; for, notwithstanding what is said n the 

 Bot Ma-, of the easy culture and free flowering of the P. graadtjhra 

 U is uSfersally acknowledged among cultivators that no plant is with 

 greater difficulty kept in good condition and scarcely any flowers less 

 frequently. A little more experience of our present plant may shew 

 i to hav? he same fault in cultivation, for its habit is very much like 



the other. 



Physianthus auricomus, Grah. 



P anricoS'S ; caule volubile, piloso ; foliis obovatis acuminata, basi 

 cordatis; floribus umbellatis, pedunculo petioli, multo longiore ; stig- 

 mate inappendiculato. 

 Gardner's Specimens, No. 1757. 

 Description -Stem woody, with milky juice, twining, densely covered 

 S spreading harsh yellow hairs. Leaves (3-4.1 inc hes long 2-2| 

 k^cts Cad) petioled, obovate, acuminate, cordate at the greatly nar- 

 rowed base, hairy on both sides, the hairs on the middle rib being longer 

 tl. <v i the rest, and like those on the stem, entire undulate rather paler 

 Wow U.a" above; petiole about one-fifth part of the **££%££ 

 channelled above, spreading, very harry on the back. «™"*»™™"i 

 in reference to the petioles, half as long as, or equal to, the length of 

 L 1 ■• if, hairy, umbellate, flowers expanding m succession ; bracts m- 

 volucrate ovato-lanccolate, acuminate, deciduous ipedceels about one- 

 Ihirdo the length of the peduncle, less hairy.. Calyx 5- P av He ; seg- 

 • s ovato-lam.-olate, acuminate, slightly hairy, eonnivent, veined. 

 • , ■ /a(l 1 inch long, li inch across) perfumed, white, somewhat fleshy, 

 r ki , hw-inff a!Tery few erect hairs near the throat, and every- 

 K I tfflonger than the calyx, swollen below, and 



• V i vr five gibbosities alternating with the segments of the calyx, 



• , ^ angled above, faintly marked with greenish veins on the out- 

 6 d ■ 1 ■ b 5-parted, segments ovate, spreading, and reflected rown 



I ■ li, .,• »bl on-' creen flat fleshy segments, erect in the tube of the co- 

 ; t. ,^ adpresM,-!, in their lower half adherent by their 



WkX and alternate with its gibbosities, shorter than the tube. Sta- 



