186 Dr Graliain's Description of' New or Rare Plants. 



lower, early marked all round with a yellowish border, from coiiimeii- 

 cing decay, 5-ribbed, the outermost ribs branched from the base, finely 

 reticulated all the over the back. Petioles (2-3 inches long) reddish 

 at the base, obscurely channelled above, hairs in general recurved. 

 Scape (1 foot high) erect, round, hairs smaller than on the leaves. 

 Spike (3 inches long) secund, lengthening as the flowers fade. Flowers 

 nearly sessile ; pedicels of the flowers spreading, of the fruit more ro- 

 bust, and erect. Calyx campanulate, persisting, 5-cleft ; segments re- 

 flex-spreading, acute, mucronulate, reddish-white ; tube green, angled. 

 Corolla 5-petaled, spreading, white ; petals inserted into the calyx at the 

 bottom of the incisions, 3-cleft, segments acute, fan-shaped. Stamens 5, 

 alternating with the petals, opposite to the segments of the calyx, 

 and rising from its base, but adhering to the inside of its tube ; fi- 

 lament free for a little way, where the calyx becomes coloured. An- 

 thers rather large, cordate, attached by the back near the base to the fila- 

 ments, connivent ; lobes furrowed on the outside, at first yellowish-white, 

 afterwards leaden coloured ; stigmata 2, sessile, spreading, blunt. Ger. 

 men half inferior, green, ovate, unilocular, in the upper half bivalvular, 

 opening very early after the pollen is shed, and exhibiting the ovules 

 long before they are ripe, or have even attained their full size, the lower 

 part of the capsule remaining as a cup, filled with ovules, and surrounded 

 by another cup, somewhat shorter than itself, formed by the persisting 

 calyx. Ovules obovate, smooth, shining, green, crowded upon two parie- 

 tal receptacles. 

 We have raised this plant in the open ground at the Botanic Garden, 

 Edinburgh, from seeds presented by Mr Drummond after the retiyrn of 

 the last overland journey to the arctic coast of America. It flowered 

 in May. 



Pimelia clavata ; fcein. 



P. clavata ; erecta, ramosa, floribus dioicis ; foliis oppositis, erectis, lan- 

 ceolato-oblongis, apice callosis, subtus pubescentibus, demum coriaceis, 

 capitulo masculo nudo terminali superantibus ; perianthiis, i)eduncu- 

 lis, ramulisque pubescentibus, tubo perianthii ovato persistente, limbo 

 dimidium tubum jequante, stylo exserto. 

 Pimelia clavata. La Billard. Nov. Holl. i. 11 — Brown, Prodr. 361. 



Description Shrub erect ; branches spreading, when young villous, red. 



Leaves crowded, erect on short petioles, lanceolato-oblong, bright green, 

 smooth and shining above, paler and pubescent below, channelled over 

 their whole length above, and towards their apex below, when young 

 soft, and callous at the apex, afterwards stiif and thick, middle nh dis- 

 tinct, and slightly prominent behind only towards the petiole, veins ob- 

 lique, and little branched. Flowers dioecious. Female : Capilulum 

 terminal, peduncled, flat, consisting of several small yellow flowers, 

 without involucrum. Peduncle pubescent, hairs subappressed, white. 

 Perianth pubescent without, hypocrateriform ; tube ovate, persisting, 

 green; limb 4-parted, imbricated, spreading horizontally, yellow, seg- 

 ments with reflected sides, smooth above. Stamens abortive, minute, 

 inserted into the throat. Pistil single ; stigma hairy ; style lateral, ex- 

 serted ; germen ovate, green, smooth ; ovule single, pendulous. 

 This species was introduced from New Holland by Mr Henchman, and 

 raised by Mr Mackay at the Clapton Nursery. The specimen in the 

 Botanic Garden, which is female, was obligingly sent from that collection 

 under the name of P. incana in 1828, and flowered freely in the green- 

 house under the usual treatment in April. I have Mr Brown's autho- 

 rity for stating that it is the P. clavata of La Billardiere and of liis Pro- 

 dromus. The plai t is handsome, but the flowers insignificant. 



Polemonium moschatum. 



P. moschatum ; foliis pinnatis, multijugis, foliolis cordato-rotundis sub- 

 glabris; calycibus hirsutis; laciniis coroUre obtusis ; caulibus dift'usis. 

 Polemonium moschatum, Wormskiold, MSS. fide Hooker. 



