supplementary to Eiicyc. of Pleads and Hori. Brit. i^55 



blossoming through the summer months, and continuing in great 

 beauty, till cut off by the autumnal frosts." {Bot. Mag., Sept.) 

 Gestieracex. 



1698. GE'SNER/T 



*Lindleyi Hook. Lindley's tf [23 s.pl 2 jn.jl. S.Y Brazil 1825 C pi Bot mag. 3602. 

 Synonynie : G. rCitila atrosanguinea Lindl., Bot. Reg., 1. 1279. 



" This is a very striking plant, handsome in its foliage and in 

 its flowers; which latter, though each is but of few days' duration, 

 are succeeded by others in the same whoi'l for a considerable 

 length of time. Leaves alternate, entire, or laciniate, rarely fis- 

 tulous. Flowers in racemes, terminal or axillary, solitary. Pedi- 

 cels bibracteate or naked. [Bot. Mag., Sept.) 



Qonvolviddcece. 



492a. *PHARBrTIS r/io«. The Phaebitis. (From pAarSe, colour ; on account ]of the elegance and 

 variety of colour in the flowers ) 

 *diversif61ia L(Hrf/. 3-lobed ^ iQJ pr 5 jn s B.R Mexico ? 1836 R co Bot- reg. 1988. 



A very pretty little half-hardy annual, about half tlie size of 

 the common Convolvulus major, of which it has very much the 

 appeai'ance. It differs, however, in constantly producing, at the 

 latter part of the year, 3-lobed leaves, instead of entire ones ; so 

 that specimens of the same plant, collected at different seasons, 

 would be thought essentially different. In the first stage of its 

 gi'owth, it is like P. hispida ; at the next, it resembles P. /^edera- 

 cea, only that the calyx and inflorescence are distinct. Leaves 

 coi'date, acuminate. Flowers purple, with blood-coloured radii. 

 {Bot. Reg., Sept.) 



Solaimcea^. 



588a. GRABO'WSK//* Schlech. 4694. boerhaav/^/o/fVi (Crab5wskiVi G. Don.) 



Synonyme : LycmiuboeThaavice/d/iiim Linn, j Ehretja AaliraiR)lia L'Herit.; i^cium lietei"oph;fllum 

 Murray. 



" A spiny scrambling shrub, with singular, fleshy, glaucous 

 leaves, which give it a gray appearance, like ^''triplex i/alimus. 

 It is hardy enough, in the garden of the Horticultural Society, 

 to live out of doors against a south wall, where it does not suffer 

 at all in moderate winters : even in the last severe one, it was 

 not much injured. Notwithstanding the dull aspect of both 

 leaves and flowers, it forms a pleasing appearance when mixed, 

 with other and greener plants. It is a native of Brazil, where 

 Sellow found it in the fields and woods of the southern provinces, 

 a common shrub, growing from 6 ft. to 10 ft. high. It is also 

 found in Peru. Leaves obovate, somewhat wedge-shaped at 

 the base. Flowers opposite, solitary. CaljTc fleshy, rather 

 irregular, often laterally cleft. Corolla pale, lead- coloured, im- 

 bricate in aestivation ; segments reflexed at the margin ; veins 

 green, reticulate at the base ; 5 series of succulent articulated 

 hairs occupying the neck, filaments, and tube of the corolla. 

 Disk orange-yellow, fleshy, quickly absorbed by the growth of 

 the ovary. Ovary fleshy, 4-celled ; ovule solitary, spherical, 

 ascendant in each cell ; style simple, glabrous ; stigma thickened, 



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