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each peduncle having an umbel of three or four flowers. Each blossom ij 

 about an inch across. When it first expands it is of a pale blue slightly 

 tinged with green, then purplish, and when shrivelling, turns lilac. It is a 

 very interesting species, highly deserving a place in every collection. 

 Tweediain compliment to Mr. James Tweedie, an intelligent and industrious 

 collector of plants in Buenos Ayres,Tucuman, and Brazil, who has introduced 

 into this country many highly interesting plants, 



11. AN.ECTOCHILUS SETACEUS. Fringed flowered. [Bot. Reg. 1016- 



ORCHIDACEi, GYNANDRIA, MO.NANDRIA 



This newly introduced terrestrial orchideous plant, is a native of Ceylon, 

 and Java too, from whence it was sent to the Duke of Northumberland at 

 Sion Gardens, -where it has recently bloomed, The plant has much the ap- 

 pearance of Goodyera discolor, excepting the leaves, which are streaked 

 with golden veins, instead of white. The flower stems are similarly pro- 

 duced to those of G. discolor, but its blossoms are white and green with a 

 Bmall streak of rose on the labellum. Anaectochilus, from anikros, open, and 

 and cheilos a lip, alluding to the spreading open of the lip. 



12. CHRYSOCOMA SQUAMATA. Scaly stalked Goldylockt [Bot. Mag. J62S 



COMPOSITE. SYNGENESIS JEQIJALIS. 



A pretty perennial fructicose plant, a native of Van Dieman's Land, and 

 seeds of it were sent from thence by Ronald Gun, Esq. to the Glasgow Bo- 

 tanic Garden. The stem is much branched, and towards the base is of a 

 red-brown colour, and are very downy. The flowers are produced at the 

 ends of the branches, one upon each, of a pretty yellow colour. Each flower 

 is about an inch across. It flourishes freely in the greenhouse, blooming 

 most of the summer, and is of easy propagation by cuttings or slips, Chry- 

 cocoma from chrusos, gold ; and kome hair, referring to the golden heads of 

 the flowers. 



IS DODECATHEON INTEGRIFOLIUM. Entire leaved American Cowslip. 



(Bot. Mag. 3622. 



PRIMULACE32. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



This is a very distinct and handsome flowering species, which grows 

 abundantly in the woody country ot British North America. Mr. Drummond 

 sent seeds of it to the Edinburgh, and Glasgow Botanic Gardens, where the 

 plant has bloomed. The flower scape rises about nine inches high, and 

 supports an umbel of ten or twelve drooping flowers, each blossom is near 

 an inch long, of a rosy purple, with a yellow and white ring at the base. 

 There are two other new species discovered one is D. frigidum, and the 

 other not yet named. Dodecatheon so named in allusion to the number of 

 blossoms, frequently twelve, which it bears in one head. 



14 JASMINIUMGLAUCUM. Privet-leaved Jasmine. (Bot. Reg. 2015. 



JASMINACE32. DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



A native of the Cape of Good Hope. It has been introduced into this 

 Country some years, but it has not been merited as it deserves. The pUnt 

 is of neat growth risiug to the height of four or five feet, and from the flex- 

 ibility of the branches, the plant is peculiarly adapted for training around a 

 trellis of wire work, &c. It flowers very profusely, the blossoms are white, 

 and very fragrant. Each blossom is about three quarters of an inch aoross. 

 It ii a hardy grtenhouso plant flowering nea ly all the spring and sum- 

 mer. 



