184 Dr Graham's Description o/'Nezv or Rare Plants. 



nerved, plicate, linear-lanceolate, about 7 perfect, and 2 or 3 on the 

 outside, having the dilated bases only. Scape (3 feet high), rising 

 from the base of the bulb, erect, j'ointed, alternate niarcescent pointed 

 sheaths rising from tlie joints. Spike many-flowered, evolved before 

 the leaves on the bulb which produced it decayed, and after the leaves 

 of a new bulb had nearly attained their full size. Bractece resem. 

 bling diminished sheaths, ovate, pointed, equal in length to the ger- 

 men. Flowers single, inodorous, handsome. External perianth of three 

 segments, reflected, ovate, acuminate, contracted at the ba.se, ob- 

 scurely nerved, green and irregularly spotted with brown within ; in. 

 temal perianth of two segments, similar in form to the external, but 

 rather broader, and blunt with a smaller point, projecting forwards, 

 nearly horizontal, bright yellow on the outside, paler within. La- 

 bellum articulated at the base of the column, of three segments, the 

 two lateral the smallest, erect, broad and blunt, reflected in the edge, 

 pale yellow on the outside, brownish within, with a few dark streaks 

 at the base, crenate where it joins the central lobe, which is subro- 

 tund, reflected at the -sides, crisped, but entire at the edge, except- 

 ing at the apex, where it is subcrenate, on the outside having nearly 

 the same colour with the outside of the inner perianth, but darker 

 and somewhat orange within, thicker than any other part of the pe- 

 rianth, all of which is somewhat fleshy, the green outer segments the 

 least so. Spur very short, straight, conical, but gibbous on both sides 

 towards the apex. Column projecting horizontally into the centre of 

 the flowei-, nearly white, clavato-oblong, thick and fleshy, rounded above, 

 flat below. Anther-case terminal, j)ear-shaped, emarginate, having two 

 cysts for the pollen-masses, and in the middle of each an imperfect lon- 

 gitudinal sejjtum. Pollen masses 2, waxy, orange, pear-shaped, furrowed 

 on the side next the anther-case for the reception of the imperfect sep- 

 tum, simple, arising by a common, thin, colourless, oblong pedicel, longer 

 than themselves, from a scale of similar aj)pearance, oval, and gluti- 

 nous. Germeii (1 inch long) rather slender, green, twisted, furrowed, 

 flat on one side, rounded on the other. 



In one of the flowers on our specimen, there is a remarkable monstrosity. 

 One of the segments of the inner perianth is reflected, and assumes the 

 appearance of the outer perianth, and on each side of the perfect anther 

 there is an abortive but distinct ajjpearance of tico others, making 

 the whole number five. Mr Brown remarks, that the appearance of one 

 abortive stamen on each side of the perfect one in many OrchidecB, brings 

 them within the ternary arrangement so common in monocotyledonous 

 plants ; and Dr Hooker shews, that in Epideiidmim fuscatum, Bot. Mag. 

 2844, the three anthers are all perfected ; but the singular monstrosity 

 which I have noticed, would shew that a tendency exists to carry our 

 plant forward to the quinary arrangement of Dicoti/ledones. 



AVe received our plant in 1828 from the garden at Kew, where so much 

 has been done lately to extend the high reputation of that noble collec- 

 tion. It has been kept in the stove, and flowered in A])ril, growing in 

 a pot among chips of bark. 



Lantana mollis. 



L. mollis ; inermis ; foliis oppositis, cordato-ovatis, acuminatis, crenato- 

 serratis, utrinque pubescentibus, pedunculo longioribus ; bracteis cor- 

 dato ovatis, acutis. 

 Descriptiok. — Shrub erect, unarmed ; branches long and lax, subtetrago ■ 

 nous, when yoiuig grooved on two sides. Leaves (3 inches long and I 

 broad) opposite and decussating, cordato-ovate, acuminate, rugose, pu- 

 bescent on both sides, the pubescence being rather more harsh above 

 than below, crenato-serrate, decurrent along a short petiole, middle rib 

 and veins prominent behind. Capitulu flat, axillary, on ])eduncles wliicli 

 are as long as the petioles (i inch), and like them })ubescent. liracleie 

 ovate, acuminate, imbricate, pubescent, especially on the outside. Floiecrs 



