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lumn short, streaked with red in front, having a truncated scale near 

 its base, scarcely hollowed below the anther, at each side of which there 

 is a small tooth, and behind in the centre another, to which the bilobu- 

 lar greenish anther-case is attached ; pollen-masses sessile, each grooved 

 along the centre. 

 The plant was received at the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, from Went- 

 ■worth, in 183C, and flowered in the beginning of Maj 183?. It is hand- 

 some, but its blossoms quiciilj expand, and last a short while, being 

 therefore much less ornamental than the Oncidiums, which were in flower 

 with us at the same time, but whose individual blossoms are in beauty 

 for many days. 



Galphimia glauca. 



G. glauca ; foliis ovatis, obtusis, glabris, subtus glaucis, basi utrinque 



unidentatis, petiolis eglandulosis. — D. C. 

 Galphimia glauca, Cavan. Icon, et Descriptiones Plantarum, V. 61. t. 489. 

 — Z>. C. Prodr. 1. 682 — Sprengel, Syst. Veget. 2. 385 Don's Diction- 

 ary of Gardening and Botany, 1. 639 Henslow, in the Botanist, 



No. 18. 

 Malpighia glauca, Pers. Synops. PL 1. 506. 



Description Shrub erect ; branches suberect, afterwards pendulous ; 



dark brown, streaked with pale lines from the cracking of the cuticle. 

 Leaves opposite, petiolate, ovato-elliptical, glabrous, slightly undulate, 

 uni-dentate on each side near the base, rather opaque green above, glau- 

 cous below, middle rib strong, veins conspicuous, both prominent below, 

 and slightly channelled above. Petioles spreading, half the length of the 

 leaf, red, channelled above, and, when young, as well as the apices of the 

 branches, covered with adpressed coarse rusty hairs. Stipules small, su- 

 bulate, erect, adpressed to the branch, and connivent above the origin of 

 the petiole. Raceme terminal, pedicels springing from the axils of small 

 subulate bracteae, ascending, as well as the rachis covered with hairs si- 

 milar to those on the extremities of the branches, jointed in the middle, 

 with two opposite bracteae below the joint. Flowers falling at the joint 

 (with us without producing finit) yellow. Calyx 5-parted, segments lan- 

 ceolate, erect, spreading at the apex, herbaceous, without external glands, 

 slightly membranous at the edges. Petals 5, ovate, unguiculate, ciliated, 

 spreading, their claws projecting between the calyx segments, middle rib 

 greenish, and prominent behind, before expansion forming vertical angles 

 projecting between the segments of the calyx. Stamens ten, of rather 

 unequal length, the shorter opposite to the petals, and half their length ; 

 filaments stout, slightly tapering ; anthers about half the length of the 

 longest filaments, suberect, projecting with their bases a little way in 

 front of the filaments, slightly notched at both extremities, bursting 

 along the front of the cells, and falling from the filaments at an articu- 

 lation on the apices of these, which remain upon the flowers, having ac- 

 quired a red colour after the anthers have dropped. Stigmata minute, 

 terminal. Styles 3, subulate, diverging. Germen 3-lobed, glabrous, round, 

 3-ceUed, cells 1 -seeded. 

 This pretty shrub, native of Mexico, we received at the Edinburgh Bota- 

 nic Garden from Wentworth, and found it to flower very freely in a 

 warm stove in May, June and July 1837. 



Gesnera rupestris. 



G.rupestris; subacaulis, foliis ovatis, cucullatis, rugosis, pubescentibua, 

 inaequaliter crenato-dentatis ; corymbis subradicalibus ; pedicellis stric- 

 tis, gracillimis, glanduloso-pilosis. 

 Gesnera rupestris. Mart. 

 Description — Tnber flattened. Stem nearly awanting, supporting two 

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