Dr Graham's Description of' New or Rare Plants. 183 



multifloris cumque calyce et silicula oblonga glabris ; fetalis emargi- 

 natis, calyce sublongioribu s ; stylo abbreviate. 



Deschiption Plant densely csespilose, perennial. Leaves (5 lines long, 



2 broad,) much crowded, subcamose, smooth, veinless, indistinctly keeled, 

 siibdenticulate, rather sparingly ciliated with simple spreading hairs. 

 Peduncles (li inch long) smooth, racemose, many-flowered ; pedicels 

 smooth, nearly as long as the flowers. Calyx smooth, green, edged witli 

 yellow. Corolla yellow ; petals emarginate, rathei longer than the calyx. 

 Stamens and pistil included. Style nearly awanting. Silicle smooth, ob- 

 long, inclined to hnear in the wild, broader and more ovate in the cul- 

 tivated specimens. 



This species was added to our collection by seeds from the Rocky Moun- 

 tains, N. America, presented by Mr Drummond in February 1828. It 

 flowers most freel}', has been constantly kept in the open air, produces 

 abundance of seed, and has come up in many of the neighbouring pots 

 in the Edinburgh Botanic Garden without any change of character. 



We have a plant which seems to be a white-flowered variety of tliis, raised 

 from seed presented by Dr Richardson, from his collection formed du- 

 ring the same expedition. The plant is more lurid, the calyx reddish, 

 and the corolla white, but I can perceive no other difference. 



Both varieties exist in the herbarium of IMr Drummond, now in the pos- 

 session of Dr Hooker, through whose kindness I was enabled to com- 

 pare the cultivated with the wild specimens, and to ascertain that the 

 appearance of the plant is quite unchanged. The flowers are much 

 smaller than in Draba glacialis. 



Draba glacialis. 



D. glacialis; foliis lineari-lanceolatis integerrimis pedunculoque elongate 

 steUato pubescentibus; calycibus villosis; siliculis ovatis glabris; stylo 

 brevi. 



Draba glacialis, Adams. Mem. Soc. Nat. Mosq. 5. 106. fide DC De 



Cand. Syst. Veg. ii. 338. ; lb. Prodrom. i. 16?. 



Description — Plard {2 inches high) caespitose. Stems procumbent and 

 rooting at the base, erect above, leafy, hairy, hairs reflected and gene- 

 rally branched. Leaves (10 lines long) scattered, linear- lanceolate, blunt, 

 glaucous, thickly set with branching hairs on both sides, suberect and 

 connivent at the apices. Peduncle (2 inches long) filiform, rising from 

 near the bottom of the stem, opposite to a leaf, slightly flexuose, spa- 

 ringly provided with hairs, which are generally branched. Pedicels about 

 as long as the flowers, and elongating with the silicle, nearly smooth, 

 the lower one occasionally having a leaf. Calyx turgid, slightly pubes- 

 cent, blunt, greenish-yellow. Corolla yellow, longer than the calyx, pe- 

 tals obovate, emarginate, veined, claws short. Stir/ma capitate, yellow. 

 Style very short, green. Silicle ovate, smooth ; seeds about 12. 



Plant raised at the Edinburgh Botanic Garden from seeds communicated 

 by Mr Drummond, having been collected by him on the Rocky Moun- 

 tains. The native specimens, which are abundant in the excellent her- 

 barium of Mr Drummond, are covered with a profusion of flowers, so 

 that tlie plant will probably be found worthy of cultivation as an orna- 

 mental species. 



Eulophia streptopetala. 



E. streptopetala ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis nervosis, scapis simplicibus, se- 

 palis exterioribus oblongis obtusis : interioribus duplo majoribus co- 

 loratis basi tortis, labelli lobo medio rotimdato eniarginato : calcarc 

 conico abbreviate Lindley. 



Eulophia streptopetala. Hot. Reg. t. 1002. 

 Description — Bulb (3 inches long, 1 broad) ovate and somewhat elou- 

 /»ated, green and smooth, but cased in the withered bases of the leaves. 

 Leaves (1 foot long, 1 indi broad), bright green, c(iuitant, articulated 

 above their dilated bases, by whicli they ensheatli the bulb, strongly 



