194 Dr Graham's List of Bare Plants. 



pedicellis inferioribus maxime elongatis ; calyce 6-fido ; coroUis lato 

 campanulatis, profunde 5-partitis, limbo reflexo ; stamiaibus genicu- 

 latis, stigmate dilatato concavo. — Hooker. 

 Solaaum fragrans, Hooker, in Bot. Mag. 3684. 

 Description. — Whole plant unarmed. Stem erect, shrubby (12 or 13 

 feet high in the specimen described by Hooker, in ours, a cutting from 

 his, flowering freely though less than 3 feet high), glabrous, pubescent. 

 Branches spreading, green. Leates petiolate, alternate and distant be- 

 low, subopposite above, unequal, and approaching eacli otlier on one 

 side of the branches, coriaceous, ovato-cordate, shortly acuminate, ob- 

 scurely sinuated, and slightly waved, slightly reflexed in the edges, dis- 

 tantly denticulate, bright green above and glabrous, paler below and 

 somewhat roughened ; middle rib strong, veins few, conspicuous ; pe- 

 tiole about half the lengtli of the lamina. Bacemes solitary, in the axils 

 of the branches, pendulous, many-flowered, ebracteatc ; pedicels single- 

 flowered, articulated near the base, becoming elongated and reflexed, 

 secund. Calyx 5-cleft, yellowish-green, as well as the peduncles and 

 pedicels the petioles and yoimg shoots slightly glanduloso-pubesceut, 

 segments entire. Corolla coriaceous, deciduous, campanulate, 5-cleft, at 

 last parted to tlie apexof the calyx segments and spreading wide, glabrous 

 and shining, at first i)urple, brighter and more lilac within, becoming 

 much i)aler, rather more red, and at last yellowish, segments acute, al- 

 ternate with those of the calyx, valvate, reflected. Stamens 5, alternate 

 with the segments of the corolla, inserted into its base, and shorter than 

 it; filaments stout, short, spreading ; anthers connivent at the apex, 

 purple, ovate, opening by two pores inider the stigma, wliere they are in 

 contact with the top of the style ; connective large, yellow, gibbous on 

 the outside at the base of the anther ; pollen white, granules small, 

 round. Pistil glalirous, green, rather longer than the stamens, about 

 half the length of the corolla ; stigma dark green, dilated, forming a 

 shallow oval fleshy cup, with two large swellings within ; style stout 

 and clavate ; germen oval, as well as the style yellowish-green, bilocu- 

 lar ; placentae entire, large and 2-fid, covered with numerous o^^lla. 

 This plant was propagated from a cutting of the Glasgow jjlant, and 

 flowered freely in June 183!) in a pot kept in stove heat. I did not at 

 any time perceive the perfume mentioned by Sir William Hooker, and 

 from which he has derived the specific name. It is therefore, as in 

 many other examples of vegetable perfumes, perceptible only at parti- 

 cular hours, or in particular states of the weather. 



Thysanotus proliferus. 



T. jyroUfertis ; foliis linearlbus, longissiniis, canaliculatis, glabris ; scapo 



prolifero ; umbellis multifloris ; pedicellorum articulo inferiore bra(!teis 



longiore(exterioribus exceptis); staminibus tribus, styloque decurvis. 



— Liudl. 



Thysanotus proliferus, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 8. ann. 1 838. 



Description. — Root fibrous. Stem erect, compressed, glabrous, green, 



branched, leafless, excepting at the base, or at its subdivision when 



this is low, where occasionally a single short leaf or greatly enlarged 



bractea is produced. Leares linear, numerous at the base of the stem, 



dark gi'een or subglaucous, glabrous, channelled, equal to the stem, but, 



from decaying at the apex in the specimen described appearing shorter. 



Umbels many-t'owered, one or two upon each stem, approximated or 



remote, in the former case the lateral one sessile, in the latter supported 



upon a stalk more or less elongated, at the origin of which there are 



generally two flowers. Bractece ovato-subulate, herbaceous, with sca- 



riose edges. Pedicels articulated above the base, each springing from 



the axil of a bractea, the lower joint being longer than this in all the 



flowers excepting a few on the outside ; upper joint longer than the 



lower, and more glaucous. Sepals ovato-oblong, spreading wide, rau- 



