192 Dr Graham's List of Hare Plants. 



Description. — Shrub (in the specimen described I foot high) erect, much 

 bi-anched, branches spreadiug, sliortly glanduloso-tomentous, glutinous, 

 green. Leaves small, crowded, fleshy, subulate, recurved, gibbous on 

 the outside at tlie base, glandular over their whole surface. Flovera 

 (li inch long) white, solitary, on short terminal peduncles, slightly glu- 

 tinous. Calyx green, slightly irregular, 5-toothed, glabrous, wrinkled. 

 Corolki liypogynous, tubular, glabrous within and without; tube clavato- 

 cylindrical at the base ; limb short, plicate, after expansion revolute. 

 Stamens 5, perigynous, free above the cylindrical portion of the corolla, 

 unequal, the longest projecting into the throat, filaments glabrous ; 

 anthers short, oblong, yellow, versatile, fixed by the back, lobes burst- 

 ing laterally ; pollen granules minute. Pht'd scarcely exceeding the 

 longest stamens ; stigma green, capitate, cleft across the vertex ; style 

 filiform, slightly swollen towards the stigma ; germen placed upon a 

 2-lobed, deep orange-coloured disk, green, ovate, slightly compressed, 

 bilocular, ovules very numerous, attached to and covering the dissepi- 

 ment. 



This is an exceedingly pretty plant, flowering profusely in the green- 

 house, bearing forcing in stove heat, and lasting in beauty a long while. 

 It came into blossom in one of the stoves in Mr Cunningham's nursery 

 garden at Comelybank, Edinburgh, in the end of March, and conti- 

 nued covered with flowers for more than three weeks. In the green- 

 house of the same extensive establishment, the blossoms are not yet 

 (18th April) expanded. Mr Cunningham received the plant from 

 France, and understood that it had been imported from Chile. 



The flowers of Fablana imbrkata are said to be lilac, and as they are in 

 the specimen described pure white, thei-e may be a doubt about the 

 specific name ; but I cannot see any distinction between this plant and 

 a specimen which I have from Dr Gillies as F. imhricata, and the de- 

 scription applies in every thing but the colour of the flower. I do not 

 see any sufiicient specific distinction between our plant and the speci- 

 cimens from Conception distributed by Mr Cumming with the No. 140, 

 thougli this seems more robust, and to have leaves proportionally 

 shorter and more adpressed. 



Heterotropa. 



Genfric Character. — Perianthium ventricosum coloratum triloba- 

 tum, fauce plicata introflexa, introrsum reticulato-venosum, venis- 

 verticalibus prominentibus. Stamina 12 ; C exteriora stigmatibus 

 opposita, filamentis tiiangularibus adnatis : antherse basifixas sub- 

 introrsiie ; 6 alterna sessilia : anthemo evidenter extrorsfe. Styli 6 

 concreti, stellatim expansi, singulis obcordatis, parte inferiore stig- 

 matifera. Stigmata ovato-attenuata papillosa. Ovarium 6-loculare, 

 liberum. — Morren et DecaUne, Ann. Sc. Nat. 2de serie, — Botanique, 

 tome ii. p. 314, t. 10. 

 Heterotropa asaroides, Morren et Decaisne, 1. c. 

 Description. — Stem very short. Stipules large, cordato-ovate, concave 

 above, keeled below, coloured, ciliated, otherwise subglabrous. Leaves 

 petiolate, deeply cordate, blunt, slightly waved and reflected in the edge 

 (from the blunt auricles to the ajjex about 4-5 inches long, 3i inches 

 broad), dull green, and irregularly blotched witli lighter coloured spots 

 on the upper surface, where also it is slightly pubescent, especially to- 

 wards the edges, glabrous, shining, and having purple veins, and occa- 

 sionally purple blotches below ; petiole (3i in. long) coloured, glabrous, 

 deeply channelled above, rounded below. Flower j^erfumed, somewhat 

 like a ripe apple, sessile, as large as a walnut, cartilaginous ; tube sphe- 

 roid, glabrous on the outside, of dull purple colour, blotched with grey ; 

 limb of darker purple, 3-fid, reflected, segments large, rounded, undu- 

 late, above transversely wrinkled, hairy, becoming glabrous towards 

 the throat, where the wrinkles are drawn up into thin edges of brighter 

 purple, waved, and the outer ones crested with white; throat half closed 



