208 Dr Graham's List of Bare Plants. 



mens monadelphous, opposite to the lobes of the crown, and subsessile 

 upon a fleshy mass on the inside of the base of each of these, each ter- 

 minated by an ovate thin and colourless membranous appendage, which 

 is spread upon the side of the stigma alternately with small dark purple 

 Rhomboid glands, which are split vertically on the outer side, and have 

 suspended from them, by short straight arms, two flattened elliptical 

 yellow pollen-masses, which are lodged in cavities on the inside of the 

 base of the membranous appendages. Each stamen has two yellow car- 

 tilaginous spurs, involute in the edges, and projecting downwards by the 

 sides of the short stout herbaceous filament, into cavities alternating 

 with the fleshy masses on the inside of the segments of the crown, 

 from which the stamens arise, so that in each cavity there is a spur 

 from two adjoining stamens, and as the glands are immediately above 

 these spurs, the pollen-masses from each belong to two stamens. Stig- 

 ma large, white, angled upon the sides from the indentation of the sta- 

 mens, rounded on the top, without any appendages. Styles 2, short, 

 erect, parallel, yellow. Ovules very numerous, slender, attached to large 

 receptacles from the inside of the gcrruen. 

 I first saw this handsome climber extending across the rafters from end 

 to end of a stove in the garden at Hales, near Liverpool, the seat of 



• Blackburn, Esq. in October 1837. It was covered with 



blossom, each flower remaining long in perfection. I could not ascer- 

 tain from whence it had been imported, but it is certainly identical with 

 Gardner's wild specimens collected in the province of Ceara in Brazil. 

 A cutting from the Hales plant flowered in the Botanic Garden, Edin- 

 burgh, in October 1840, but it will never be seen in the perfection I 

 found it in at Hales, unless, as there, it be planted in a border under 

 glass, and not kept in a pot. 



Stylidium Drummondii. 



S. Drummondii ; foliis omnibus radicalibus csespitosis, lanceolato-lineari" 

 bus, acuminatis, undulatis, marginibus reflexis, coriaceis, utrinque 

 nudis nitidis, base squamis elongatis vaginatis, scapo folia bis super- 

 ante, glanduloso-pubescente, paniculato ; calyce bilabiato, labio supe- 

 riore 3-fido, inferiore 2-partito ; corolla fauce coronata. 

 Description. — Leaves (4-8 inches long, 3 lines broad) all Radical, lanceo- 

 lato-linear, attenuated and rigid at the apex, coriaceous, glabrous and 

 shining on both sides, undulate, edges revolute, middle rib prominent 

 both above and below, collected into fascicles, and sheathed at the base 

 by elongated red scales. Scape twice as long as the leaves, erect, round, 

 glanduloso-pubescent, green, bearing upon its apex a large ovate pa- 

 nicle, of which the branches are glanduloso-pubescent, ascending, the 

 lower the longer, each springing from the axil of a lanceolato-subulate 

 glanduloso-pubescent bract, and having a similar bract at each subdivi- 

 sion. Flowers large and handsome, the terminal one of each branch, 

 somewhat irregularly upwards, expands first, and also the terminal one 

 of each subdivision. Calyx green, glanduloso-pubescent; tube adherent, 

 twisted, elliptico-ovate ; limb bilabiate, the lips placed laterally, the 

 upper 3-fid, the lower 2-partite, the segments linear-elliptical, as long 

 as the tube. Corolla (fully 1 inch broad from above downwards, 1 inch 

 across the middle of the upper, three-fourths of an inch across the 

 middle of the lower segments, and half an inch across the faux) very 

 handsome ; limb yellow on the outside, and brownish within before full 

 expansion, afterwards nearly white on the outside over the whole of 

 which surface it is glanduloso-pubescent, and bright but delicate lilac 

 on the inside, where it is glabrous, having four segments diverging in 

 form of a St Andrew's cross, elliptical, undulate and sinuated, the two 

 lower segments being rather the smaller, and more nearly obovate ; 

 fifth lobe minute, reflected upon the tube, obovate, colourless and 

 shining in the centre, having a glandular reddish-lilac border broadest 

 at the apex, and two slender teeth curved upwards at its base ; faux 

 crowned with two erect scimitar-shaped appendages, hairy, and about 



