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flower in the months of September and October, 18'2G. It was iuti'oduced by 

 Air. Cunningham in 1827 to the Royal Gardens at Kew, where it has bloomed. 

 Flower capitate, terminal, pure white. Pimelea, see page CO. 



3. P/oy/(JHMHs (//lYfr/cd/Ms, spreading-. Monodelphia, Decandria. Ivjphor- 

 biaceai. This plant was found in New Zealand by Mr. Allan Cunningham, 

 and introduced into the Kew Gardens. It bloomed there in May, and fruited 

 in July, 1833. It is a shrub that has little to recommend it on the score of 

 beauty, but from its variety and structure. Flowers, yellowish, about an inch 

 across. Plajrianthus, from plagios, oblique; and authos, a flower, from an 

 obliquity or irregularity of the petals. 



4. Beati/orlia Dampicri, Dampier's Beaufortia. Polyadelphia, Polyandria. 

 Myrtacea;. Apparently a dwarf shrub, with many opposite, orsubverticillate, 

 tortuouse, and sometimes rcHexed tetragonal (taken in conjunction with the 

 leaves) branches, which when the leaves are fallen away, arc quite rough, with 

 prominent teeth and scars. Leaves small, coriaceous, closely placed, beauti- 

 fully quaternate, generally reflexed. A rare plant, and one of the few shrubs 

 that are to be found upon the barren, loose, sandy downs of Dirk Hartoy's Is- 

 land, ott'Sharks Bay, on the West Coast of Australia, where seeds were gathered 

 in 1822, during the surveying voyage of Captain P. P.King, from which 

 plants were raised and flowered at Kew Gardens. It is the same plant which 

 the celebrated Navigator, Dampieu, gathered in 1669, on the sterile shores of 

 the neighbouring main, namely at Sharks Bay. The flowers are numerous, 

 collected in whorls below the extremity of a branch, very pretty. Petals small, 

 yellow, or brownish green, redden towards the apex. Filaments, pale rote, very 

 conspicuous in colour. Its fruit is as big as a pepper-corn, almost round, of a 

 whitish colour. Culture: requires the greenhouse, aud is iucreased by cuttings. 

 Soil: sandy peat and loam. Beaufortia, in honour of Marv, Duchess of 

 Beaufort, a Patroness of Botany. 



5. I.ysimachia Azorica, Azorian Loose strife. Pentandria, Monogynia. 

 Primulaceas. This extremely pretty Lysimachia was secured at the Glasgow 

 Botanic Garden, from that at Copenh;igen, under the name here given, whence 

 it would appear to be a native of the Azores. It is cultivated in a pot, and 

 treated as an Alpine plant ; that is, protected from the fickleness of our win- 

 ters, and kept in a cool, shady situation in the summer; and in June a jjot 

 lilled with this little plant is quite a beautiful object; for the peduncles are so 

 long as to elevate the bright and comparatively large bright j'ellow flowers, 

 above the tops of the stem and the delicate green foliage, Lysimachia, from 

 Lysis, dissolution; and machc, strife. 



6. CargllUa nustralis. Southern Cargillia. Octandria, Monogynia. Ebe- 

 uacea-. A much branching shrub. An inhabitant of dense shaded woods on 

 the coast of New South Wales, as well as on the banks of the principal rivers 

 of that colony, between the parallels oi 27 and 35 degrees, where it forms a 

 large shrub, and is usually to be met with in fruit in the winter season. Intio- 

 duced by Mr. Cunningham to Kew, in I82J, from Port Jackson. Flowers: 

 of a yellowish white, small; increased by cuttings. Soil: sandy peat aud 

 ioain. Cargillia, named in memory of JAMiiS Caugill, a Physician of Aber- 

 deen, and a contemporary of Cas])ar Bauhin. 



7. Tillandsia sctacca, setaceous (^bristly) leaved. Hexandria, Monogynia. 

 Bromeliacea'. A Parisitical jilant growing on the trunks of trees. Stem, scarcely 

 any. Leaves, numerous, imbricated, a foot long. Among a valuable collec- 

 tion of Jamaica plants received into the Glasgow Botanic Garden, fnmi Mr. 

 Smith, was the [iresent truly fine species of Tilhiudsia, which blossomrd in 

 -May, 1833. 'J'he flowering stem elongates itself into a leafy scape, scarcely a 

 foot in length, formed into a spike of scales; these scales are coriaceous, and 

 the edges are of a beautiful red. From each of the scales arises a single flower 

 ill succession, one only being in jierfeclion at a time, and continuing for a day. 

 Kntire flower, two iucbes long. Calyx, pale yellow. Petals, while, purplish 

 inward. The spike ajipears very richly variegated with red and yellow. Til 

 landsia, in honour of ivi.LiAs Tillanus, a Swcedisli Dolanist, and Professor ot 

 Mi'dicine in the I'liiversity of Abo. 



