Dr Graham's Description of New or Rare Plants. 379 



before the separation of the segments falcate, segments linear, acute, the 

 two upper becoming reflected laterally, the others scarcely altering their 

 form. Filaments pink, straight, flattened, ciliated, ciliie colourless. 

 Anthers leaden-coloured, cernuous, the two upper ciliated for half their 

 length. Stigma bilobular, pubescent, scarcely ciliated, pink. Style (1 

 inch long) filiform, glabrous, slightly coloured. Germen inferior, ovules 

 numerous. 

 A native of Hayti. A plant was received at the Botanic Garden, from 

 our excellent "friend Dr Fischer of St Petersburgh, in 1830. It flowered 

 in August 1C31. 



Torenia ? fimbriata. 



T. fimbriata ; caule erecto, subglabro ; foliis ovato-lanceolatis, medio ser- 



ratis, glabriusculis ; calyce quinque-partito. 

 Torenia fimbriata, Hooker MS. 



Description Root slender, tapering, having many branching lateral 



fibres, annual ? Stem erect, with very short, harsh, slightly reflected 

 pubescence at its base, perfectly glabrous above, channelled on two sides, 

 alternating at the joints. Leaves ovato-lanceolate, acutely serrated, en- 

 tire at the apex and base, subciliated, veined, scabrous along the veins, 

 behind soft, and subglabrous in front. Inflorescence a few-flowered ter- 

 minal cyme; peduncles erect, ebracteate, stout. Calyx smooth, regular, 

 5-parted, persisting, segments acute, niucronulate, spreading in their 

 upper half, closely imbricated below. Corolla (1 inch long, 1 inch across) 

 lilac and white, striated, glanduloso-pubescent, ringent, its limb dilated, 

 spreading, crenate, the upper lip two-lobed, the lower three-lobed, 

 the central lobe being the largest, and emarginate ; tube campanu- 

 late, dilated on its lower side, somewhat flattened above, contracted and 

 having two pits without on each side towards its base, again dilated as 

 it covers the germen. Stamens didynamous ; filaments hairy distant, 

 near the base, adhering to the corolla nearly as far as the throat, there 

 suddenly bent, the longer at right angles, the shorter at an obtuse 

 angle ; the longer filaments, each having a elavate tooth at this angle, 

 pass horizontally round the throat of the corolla, and meet under the 

 stigma; the shorter, having a much smaller tooth at the angle, pass 

 obliquely upwards to the style, and meet below the others ; anthers bi- 

 lobular," divaricating, lilac, at first free, afterwards cohering in pairs, 

 and bursting along the from. Stigma exserted, of two ovate, subacute, 

 diverging plates, the lower rather the largest. Style glabrous, filiform, 

 slightly flattened near the stigma, as well as the filaments and stigma 

 colourless, marcescent. Germen green, conical, slightly furrowed in the 

 sides. Ovules very numerous, attached to a large central receptacle. 

 Capsule ovate, tumid, tipped by the persisting base of the style, bilocu- 

 lar, bivalvular, valves entire, "dissepiment parallel to the valves. Seeds 

 very numerous, ovate, dotted. 

 Seeds of this very pretty plant were sent from New Holland by Mr Era- 

 ser last year, and communicated to the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, both 

 directly from himself and by Sir T. Brisbane, in October and Novem- 

 ber. They were marked " Ruellia, sp. nov. from the banks of the river 

 Brisbane, ']\Iorton Bay." It is after a comparison which Mr Brown 

 kindly allowed me of his New Holland specimens, and chiefly on account 

 of the depth of the calyx-segments, that I have added the mark of doubt 

 regarding the genus. 



Trichocladus crinitus. 



Dahlia crinita, Thunherg, Dissert. Ed. Pers. 1. 109.— 7d Prodr. Fl. 



Capens. 1 — Id. Fl. Capens. 1. 35. 

 Trichocladus crinitus, Pers. Synop. 2. 598. — Spreng. Syst. Veget. 3. 890. 



DEScnn'TioJf A7cm woody, erect, branched ; j'oung shoots and petioles 



covered with dark brown tomentum. Leaves petiolate, opposite, lanceo- 

 lato-elliptical, acuminate, peltate and rounded at the base, undulate, 

 veined, coriaceous, slightly hairv above, densely so below, hairs slightly 



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