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Description of several New or Bare Plants which have lately 



Flowered in the Neighbourhood of Edinburgh, and chiefly 



in the JRoyal Botanic Garden. By Dr Graham, Professor 



of Botany. 



\Qth June 1889. 



Anadenia Manglesii. 



A. MmigUsii ; foliis cuneiformibus, tripli-nervibus, venosis, utrinque 

 glabris et subconcoloribus, trifidis ; lobis cuneiformibus, lateralibus 

 3-fidis, ceutrali 3-5-fido, segmentis mucronatis. 

 Description. — Slu-tib erect. Branches scattered, spreading, as well as the 

 trunk round, green, slightly pruinose. Leaves (1| inch long, and as much 

 broad, scattered, rigid, spreading, cuneate, and tapering into a slender 

 petiole, 3-lobed, green on both sides, paler and brighter below, triple- 

 nerved, veined ; the lobes cuneate, 3-fid towards the apices, the centre 

 lobe sometimes 5-cleft, each segment terminated with a rigid mucro ; 

 nei-ves hard and prominent behind, flat in front. Racemes (about 1 \ 

 inch long) terminal, or, from appearing on very short branchlets, seem- 

 ing to be axillary, many-flowered ; rachis always straight ; pedicels {\ 

 an inch long) white, very slender, at first erect, afterwards spreading 

 wide, or arching backwards. Flowers in pairs, springing from the axil 

 of a single bractea, the lowest spreading first. Perianth (about 3 lines 

 long) glabrous, tetraphyllous, at first opening between the claws, and 

 adhering at the limb, which in this stage is green and capitate, after- 

 wards reflected when the limb becomes yellow, concave. Anthers ses- 

 sile in the limb of the calyx, yellow, lobes slightly divaricated at the 

 base ; pollen granules minute, white, 3-angular. Pistil stipitate, and 

 with its white glabrous footstalk as long as the perianth, prominent, 

 and exposed when this is reflected. Stigma piulc, conical. Style white, 

 tumid in front. Germen yellow, projecting in front. Orules 2. 

 We received this plant at the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, from Mr 

 Lowe of the Clapton nursery, in 1837, under the name of Grerillea 

 Manglesii. The flowers are small, but being very numerous, covering 

 the whole plant, and remaining long in perfection, it is far from being 

 destitute of beauty. It first came into flower in the greenhouse, under 

 the ordinary treatment of New Holland plants, in Alarch, and now 

 (31st May), though the spikes of expanded flowers are clustered at the 

 apex of every branch, there is a long succession of undeveloped buds. 



Bongardia, Meyer. 



Generic Character. — Sepala 3-6 : extcrne nuda. Petala 6, intus 

 basi nuda, poro nectarifero instructa. Stylus disco foliaceo reiii- 

 formi plicato margine stigmatoso terminatus. Fructus inflatus, mem- 

 branaeeus, unilocularis, indehiscens, 2-4 siiermus. Semina subglo- 

 bosa, fundo fructus inserta. Herba; acaules, glaberrima?, glaucfe, 

 radice tubei-osa ; foliis omnibus radicalibus, pinnatisectis ; scapis 

 apice ramosis, ad ramorum basin squamosis ; floribus aureis. 



B. Rauxeolfii ; foliorum scgmentis cuneatis, seniiverticillatis, utrinque 

 ge m i n i s, — Meye r. 



Bongardia Rauwolfii, Meyer, Enumeratio Plantarum in Mont. Caucas. 

 ct in Provinc. Caspiis collect, p. 174. 



Leontice Chrysogonum, Liv. Hort. Cliff'. 122. — Ibid. Sp. PI. i. 44?. — 



WUM. Sp. PI. ii. U8.—Pers. Synops. i. 380.— Hort. Kew. ii. 272.— Dr. 



Syst. Nat. ii. 24 i—lbid. Prodr. i. 109 {—Spremjel, Syst. Veget. ii. 121. 



— Schultes, Syst. Veget. vii. 20. — Henslow, in the Botanist, t. 50. 



Description. — Tuber round, reticulated. Leares all radical, vcrticillato- 



pinnate ; leaflets elliptical, concave on the upper side, cuneate at the 



base, where, on the upper side, there is u large brown mark, every 



