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l>y a tvanKvovse plate of tlie same structure, leaving a triangular open- 

 ing in the middle ; inuer surface ribbed, with honey-combed reticula- 

 tions between the ribs. .S'f(r»i(?«s 12, filaments coloured, very short, in 

 six reduced almost to a lanceolate connective projecting beyond the 

 anther, which consists of two distinct cells placed on the outside, in 

 the other six, which alternate with these, the connective is narrower, 

 more blunt, and the anther-cells sublateral. Pollen white, granules 

 minute, spherical. Styh short, fleshy, deep purple, with six vertical 

 plates or aiiyles opposite to the stamens with sublateral cells, and six 

 terminal nearly horizontal obcordate lobes of the same colour and tex- 

 ture as the rest of the style, covering the stamens, each lobe attached 

 along the middle of its lower surface to the top of one of the vertical 

 plates, and each liaving, as if pendent from its sinus, an erect ovato-acu- 

 minate stigma, these alternating with cucnllate spaces formed by the 

 lower sides of the adjoining obcordate lobes of the style. Germen half 

 inferior, 6-locular, the loculaments being placed immediately under the 

 stigmatic surfaces, the dissepiments nnder the cucnllate spaces. Ovules 

 10, in two rows in each loculament, horizontal, placenta; central. 

 Tliis most curious plant was imported into Europe from Japan by M. Von 

 Siebold. We received it at the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, from Mr 

 Young at Epsom, in 1838. It flowered in the greenhouse in the end 

 of February 1839, and remained long expanded. Soon after this it 

 flowered more freely under a hand-glass in the open border at the nur- 

 sery ground of Air Cunningham, Coinelybank, and the last blossom did 

 not decay till after the beginning of June. 



Pimelia decussata, var. diosma^folia. 



P. decussata ; involucro tetraphyllo, foliis ranieis dissimile, foliolis late 

 ovatis, semicoloratis, utrinque glabris ; capitulo termiuale ; perianthii 

 tube hispido ; foliis oj^positis, decussatis, ovalibus, coriaceis. — Br. 

 Var. tUosma'foUa ; foliolis iuvolucri ovatis, acutis, lanato ciliatis, capitu- 



lum subasquantibus ; perianthiis saturate roseis. 

 Pimelia diosniLcfolia, Hortnl. 

 Description of the variety. — Shrub erect. Branches lax, spreading- 

 Jjcares oblong, coriaceous, opposite, decussating, reilexed, mucronulate, 

 dark green above, glaucous below. Cupitahim crowded, terminal, ra- 

 ther small. Involucre of 4 ovate acute subcoloured leaves, which are gla- 

 brous on both sides, but ciliated on the edges, scarcely shorter than the 

 capitulum. J'ertanth bright rose-coloured, hispid on the outside, hairs 

 very long in tlie lower half of the tube, and on the outside of the limb, 

 shorter and subappressed on the upper half of the tube. SUanens in- 

 serted into the throat of the perianth, scarcely half the length of the 

 limb. Stiile much exserted, lateral. StujiiM capitate. Germen oblong, 

 glabrous, green. 

 This very pretty plant was received at the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 

 from Mv Alakoy of Liege, under the name of Piwelia diosmoefolia, but I 

 am convinced it is only a variety of P. decussata, distinguished by its 

 darker rose-coloured flowers, its more ciliated involucrum, and its 

 dense, small, more crowded capitiila. It very nearly resembles Pimelia 

 Hendersonii, distinguishable chiefly by its smaller capitula, and by its 

 less acute foliage, and, I fear, is a link by which this will also lie united 

 to P. decussata, which is known to be a varialile species. The form 

 now descriljed is very handsome, very worthy of cultivation, and readily 

 distinguished. It should receive the ordinary treatment and protection 

 of tlic other species of the genus, and will be found to flower very 

 abundantly. 



Solanum fragrans. 



S.j'raijrans; arborescens ; foliis gaminis, ovatis cordatisvc, inaequalibus, 

 integerrimis; lacemis solitariisex axillis ramorum ; floribus sccundis, 



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