Dr Graham's Description of New or Rare Plants. 177 



ing, terminal, bracceated panicles. Calyx persistent, 5-parted, 4 of the seg- 

 ments suberect, the two upper rather shorter than the next, and the lowi 

 est, which is closely applied to the under side of the tube of the corolla, 

 is considerably longer than any of the others, at least in the cultivated spe- 

 cimens. Cwolla fully an inch across in both directions, slightly pubescer.t 

 on the outside, bUabiate ; upper lip, as in the other species, 3-lobed, of 

 which the central is much narrower than in S. porrigens, or S. pinna- 

 tus of our gardens (which is certainly different from S. 'pinnatus of 

 Ruiz and Pavon), entire, with prominent edges forming the throat, 

 revolute in its sides towards the apex, and dra^vu out to a long erect 

 point, which, as well as its base, and the whole of the remainder of 

 the corolla, is of uniform pale rose-lilac, rather darker and somewhat 

 streaked on the outside, the centre being orange coloured, with a few 

 dark purple streaks; lateral !obes biparted, and each segment bifid: 

 lower lip tripartite, lateral segments linear, very narrow, spreading, 

 and half the length of the central, which is notched, and each seg- 

 ment is drawn out into a long beak : tube slightly curved, compressed 

 laterally, and longer than the limb. Stamens four, filaments pubescent 

 at the base, the two upper very short, abortive, and projecting fonvards 

 from the edge of the central lobe of the upper lip at its base, the two 

 others rising from the base of the lower lip, nearly reaching to the fissure 

 in its central lobe, and, as in the other species, retained within this till 

 the pollen is ripe, after which they advance, and pass forward in 

 straight parallel lines from the centre of the flower ; anthers large, green, 

 broadly elliptical, notched at their base, bilobular, bursting along tiieir 

 inner surface; pollen greenish- yellwv. 5'%jria very minute, terminal. 

 Style rather longer than the stamens, ascending at its extremity, lilac. 

 Germen small, conical, yellow, bilocular. Ovriles numerous, attached to 

 a central receptacle in each loculament ; capsule ovate, longer than the 

 calyx, bivalvular, valves bifid. Seeds brown, dotted, somewhat scaly, 

 reniform, or so much bent round that their extremities meet. 

 This remarkably distinct species of Schizanthus was raised by James Boog, 

 Esq. in his garden at Portobello, from seed brought to this country by 

 my excellent friend Dr Gillies, having been gathered by him in various 

 places on the Chilian side of the CordUlera of the Andes, at an elevation 

 of 8000 or 9000 feet above the level of the sea. The seed was sown in 

 May 1829 in the open border, and the plants not having flowered, were 

 taken into the house during winter, but planted out again in March. 

 They began to flower in the beginning of June, and I doubt not will 

 produce abundance of blossoms during the summer. The plant, when 

 thus treated, has therefore proved to be biennial at least ; whether it 

 may be longer lived, or whether, if raised in a greater degree of heat, it 

 might not have flowered during the first year, and died, I cannot say. 

 Dr Gillies obligingly wrote to me when the plant came into flower, ex- 

 pressed his conviction that it was a nondescript species, narrated its 

 most characteristic features, and inclosed a specimen. 



Scilla pumlla. 



S.pumila; corolla patente ; folio solitario vaginante, apice calloso; race- 

 mo erecto ; bracteis pedicello multo brevioribus. 

 Scilla pumilla, Broter, Flora Lusitanica, i. 52?. 



Description Leaf {2 inches long, J inch broad) generally or always, as in 



the specimen described, solitary, involute, ovato-acuminate, with a callous 

 subcylindrical apex, subcarinate, waved, glabrous. Scape about the same 

 length as the leaves, erect, filiform, glabrous, green, racemose (3-flowered 

 in the specimen described), pedicels purplish, gradually elongating (to 

 about half an inch), springing from the axil of a small sheathing hractea, 

 which is occasionally drawn out into a point, projecting from some part of 

 a truncated ragged extremity. Corolla bright lilac (half an inch across), 



APKir. — JUNE 1830. M 



