234 ffgW AND RAP.l' H.A.M',. 



6. DELPHINIUM V1M1NEUM. Slender upright Lwkspur. [BeU Mug. 3593. 



RANUNCULACE*. POLYANDRIA TRIGNY1A. 



The late Mr. Druinmond sent seeds of this plant from the Texas to the 

 Glasgow Botanic Garden, where it has bloomed, it is a hardy perennial spe- 

 cies growing about a yard high. The steins are slightly branching. 'J he 

 tiowers are produced in rich racemes, and are of a bright azure blue co- 

 lour. It deserves a place in every flower garden, being highly ornamental 

 from July to September. 



7. DELPHINIUM TENUISSIMUM. Short ilender Larkspur, [Bolonisf. 



A hardy annual plant, introduced into this 1 country in 1836, seeds of it 

 v. ere gathered by Dr. Sebthorp, near Alliens. It has bloomed in the Liver- 

 pool Botanic Garden, producing a profusion of flowers and seeds. The 

 plant grows to about a foot high, producing its flowers in loose panicles, 

 they are of a violet blue colour, 



8. DIPODIUISI PUNCTATUM. Dolled flowed. [B.x. P^. 1980. 



ORCHIDACE*. CYN ANDRIA MO.YANDRM, SYNONYM, DENDROBIl M PI'NCIATUM. 



This terrestrial species of Orchidea? has been found in Van Dieman's 

 laud, as well as in New Holland, but more plentiful in the latter country. 

 Mr. Jackson found it there flowering in December. It baa bloomed in the 

 collection of Messrs. Loddiges's. The stem is ol a dark purple colour, ris- 

 ing from eigteen inches to two feet high. The (lowers are numerously pro- 

 duced on a cylindrical raceme. Each blossom is of a dark purple, spotted 

 with blood colour, ;:nd are about an inch across, producing a very pretty 

 effect. Dipodimn, from dis two ; and pons podos, a foot ; alluding to the two 

 stalks of the pollen masses. 



9. EPIDENDRUM CORIACEUM. Leathery leaved [Eot. Ma b . Sr.'ir, 



ORCHID ACEI. CYN ANDRIA MONAYDRIA. 



Charles, Parker, Esq. sent this species from Demerara to the Liverpool Bo- 

 tanic Garden, where it has bloomed. It had been considered by Mr. Shep- 

 herd to be a variety of E. variegatum but it appears now to be a distinct 

 species ; the leaves are more coriaceous, more lanceolate, shorter and less 

 striated and acute ; the spotting of the flowers are also very different. The 

 flowers are produced in a spike, and the raceme contains from eight to ten. 

 Each blossom is about an inch across, whitish, beautifully spotted with red. 

 Epideiuhum, from tpi upon, and dcnUron, a tree; referring to its native si- 

 tuation. - 



10. HABRANTHUS ANDERSONII var. TEXAMUS. Hot. AI<ig. 3596. 



AMARYLI.IDEJT. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Grows in a native slate in Monte Video, and in Buenos Ayres. The 

 scape is one flower. The flower is an inch and a half across, of a golden 

 yellow colour, with the outside of the petals, striped with redish brown. 

 Hnbranthus, from ubros delicate, and anthos a flower. 



11. HOSACKIA STOLONIFERA. Creeping rooted [B.x. Rfg. 1977 



LEGI'MINOSC. DIADEI.PIUA DECANDRIA. 



The late Mr. Douglas sent seeds of this plant from California. It is a 

 hardy herbaceous plant, forming a bush of a yard high, and has much the 

 appearance of a shrub during summer. The flowers are produced in nod- 

 diug umbels. Each blossom is small greenish, with chocolate coloured 

 middles. The plant blooms in June and growing rapidly and bushy, is 

 found to be valuable, has an under shrub, fi!!ii;g up vacancies between 

 shrubs. It increases rapidly by its creeping loots. 



