Dr Graham's Description of New or Rare Plants. S79 



certainly nearly approaches to Elephantopiis scaler, but may be distin- 

 guished from this species, which is moreover a native of the East Indies, 

 by being much larger, its stem much more branched, the leaves more 

 corrugated, more undulated, more strongly leticulated, and much more 

 densely covered with far softer pubescence below. I am enabled to 

 identity it as the plant of Martins, by a specimen communicated by 

 Martius himself to Dr Hooker, who, with his usual kindness, permitted 

 me to examine all the species in his herbarium. The specimen alluded 

 to was collected by IVIartius on the Rio Belmonte, too common a name 

 to be very precise, but probably in or not far from the province of Rio 

 Janeiro. 



Lobelia Kraussii. 



L. Kraussii ; caule herbaceo, glabro, erecto, ramoso ; foliis lanceolatis, 

 subsessUibus, decurrentibus, argute serratis, utrinque nudis; pedun- 

 culis axillaribus, solitariis, foliis longioribus ; laciniis calyciiiis subu- 

 latis, subdentatis, patentibus, coroUaque glabris. 



Description Root perennial. Stem (I-I4 foot high) succulent, green, 



glabrous, angular fi-om decurrent leaves, erect, branched. Leaves (4i 

 inches long, | broad) numerous, scattered, lanceolate, glabrous on both 

 sides, shining, bright green, paler below, sharply serrated, the serratures 

 largest at the base, subsessile, decurrent, much smaller towards the top of 

 the stem, slightly buUate, strongly veined, veins prominent on both sides. 

 Peduncles {3 inches long) axillary, solitary, numerous towards the top 

 of the stem, 1-flowered, nearlj' twice the length of the diminished leaves 

 from the axils of which they spring, smooth, compressed, and having 

 two subopposite bristle-shaped smooth decurrent bracteae near the 

 middle, below which they are bright green, paler in the middle, and 

 towards the top red. Calyx red, glabrous, persisting, of five rather un- 

 equal subulate segments (5-7 lines long), spreading at right angles to 

 the peduncle, and each with a very few obscure teeth. Corolla (1 inch 

 long) red, niarcescent ; tube compressed, cleft to its base along the up- 

 per side, but spreading little ; limb 5-parted, segments linear-subulate, 

 with the apices detiected, the two upper the broadest, the three others 

 turned downwards, and that in the centre rather the smallest. Stamens 

 shorter than the corolla, marcescent ; filaments white, smooth, forming 

 a half cylinder, and united, except towards the base, where only they 

 are unconnected to each other and pubescent; anthers leaden-coloured, 

 terminated by a dense white beard ; pollen abundant, and whitish. 

 Stigma bilabiate, segments revolute, rounded, glandular, shghtly hairy 

 behind. Style as long as the stamens, yellowish, and shghtly clavate, 

 continued downwards into the dissepiment, marcescent. Germen gla- 

 brous, bilocular, with a conical empty beak (which afterwards falls down) 

 rising above the calyx, otherwise inferior. Ovules numerous, attached 

 to a central receptacle, the transverse section of which is kidney-shaped 

 in each loculament. Seeds minute, pale brown, lenticular, hollow on one 

 side, when seen under the microscope dotted and shining. 

 The seeds of this plant were obligingly communicated to me from Domi- 

 nica in September 1828 by my valuable correspondent Dr Krauss, in 

 acknowledgment of whose kindness I have named the species. It first 

 flowered in the stove in January and February last, and is ornamental. 

 In the arrangement of the species, it must stand near L. persicifolia of 

 Lamarck. 



Nepenthes distillatoria : foem. 



Early in summer 1828, I was informed by Professor Dunbar of this Uni- 

 versity, that a i)lant of Nepenthes distillatoria was coming into flower in 

 his stove. I immediately went to see it, and was not a little pleased to 

 find llial it was a female. Professor Dunbar was kind enough ui permit 

 its removal to the IJotanic (Jarden, where we placed it beside our male 

 j)lant, fortunately then in flower for the second time. As the female 



