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



Stipules ovate, oblique, green, ciliated. Peduncles axillary, about as long 

 as the petioles on the lower part of the stem, longer above ; slightly 

 compressed, bracteate, pedicels rising from the axils of the bracteae, so- 

 litary, or two together, a male and female. Occasionally the peduncle 

 is twice divided, with a pair of opposite bracteae at each division ; and it 

 is extremely probable, that, at another season of the year, the inflores- 

 cence would look very diiFerently, and the plant assume a much hand- 

 somer appearance, from perfecting many more flowers; for in the 

 axil of the leaf from whence the peduncle springs, and in the bosom of 

 each bractea, there is a cluster of flower-buds. Bractets cordato-ovate, 

 concave, blunt, entire, shorter than the pedicels. Corolla rose-coloured ; 

 outer petals cordato-ovate, pointed, sliarply serrated ; inner petals ob- 

 ovato-elliptical, entire, subacute. Stamens yeWo-w, monadelphous, union 

 of the filaments extended high ; anthers (as is common in the genus) ob- 

 ovate, truncated, compressed, the pollen-cases being distant, lateral, con- 

 nate. Germen with three unequal sides, unequally winged, of three 

 somewhat unequal loculaments, each containing a large, green, bi-parted, 

 waved, seminal receptacle, covered with minute ovules ; the largest 

 wing acute, the second subacute, and the third very small and rounded. 

 As far as I can judge by the imperfect characters which have been pub- 

 lihed of this beautiful and extensive genus, this species is undescribed. 

 It was raised from seeds sent from Rigla in Mexico to P. Neill, Esq. by 

 Captain Vetch, and flowered in the stove at Canonmills in October 

 1829. 



Gomphalobium polymorphum, var. luteum. 



This variety was imported from New Holland by F. Henchman, Esq. and 

 sent by Mr IVIackay to the Royal Botanic Garden, where it flowered in 

 spring last. It docs not differ at all from the representation given of 

 the species in Botanical Magazine, t. 1533, except that the leaves are 

 more generally linear, and the flowers of a bright yellow, with a faint 

 red tinge on the back of the vexiUum. 



Sphacele Lindleyi. 



S. Lindleyi ; ramis floccoso-tomentosis ; foliis petiolatis, cordato-deltoi- 



deis, subtus albidis ; bracteis sessilibus ovatis ; verticillis sub-8-floris. 

 Sphacele Lindleyi, ramis floccoso-tomentosis, foliis petiolatis ovato-lan- 

 ceolatis basi obtuse hastato-sagittutis subtus tonientosis superioribus 



sessilibus axillis utrinque sub-trifloris 'Benth. MS. 



Sphacele Lindlejd, Benth. in Bat. Keg. fol. 1289. 

 Stachys salvise, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 122G. 

 Description. — Shrub (in our specimens 5 feet high). Stem round below, 

 bark brown, cracked, and peeling, younger shoots tetragonous, green, 

 and pretty densely covered with short, white, soft tomentum. Wood 

 hard, witli a large pith. Branches decussating. Leaves on petioles about 

 a third of their own length, spreading, cordato-deltoid, attenuated to a 

 long bluntish apex, much wrinkled, light green, on both sides covered 

 with a short soft tomentum most abundant and white below, middle 

 rib strong, and, as well as the reticulated veins, very prominent below. 

 BractecB sessile, ovate, acute, in structure and colour resembling the 

 leaves. Floicers in verticels, generally of 8 flowers, spreading at right 

 angles, peduncled : peduncles simple, filiform, purple. Calyx campanu- 

 late, scarcely bilabiate, green, with many (13-15, Benth.) purplish nerves, 

 reticulated toward? the teeth ; tube twice as long as the peduncle, naked 

 within ; teeth 5, subulate, subequal, rather larger upwards, naked at 

 their apices, giving to a point the appearance of a minute soft jnucro, 

 but every where else on its outside, as well as the peduncle and outside 

 of the corolla, tomentous. Corolla bilabiate, purple, twice as long as the 

 calyx ; tube subcylindrical, slightly inflated towards the faux, white at 

 its origin, and, where the colourless portion terminates, surrounded on 



