14. Notices qffim: and initresiing Plaula. 



of alinoit every ihoot: they are very fragrant, with an odour resembling that of hawthorn. Coinpara- 

 Uvcly hardy, and deemed tl)e tiiiest specieit ul IijicalluiuVi yet iu Britain. 



LII. HaliciiritC ^ Lagcrstricmxias. 

 1588. LAGERSTRCETM/zf. 

 13918 fndica 



S rt>sea B. C. rosy • I | or 12 au.s Ro China 1825. C r.l Bot cab. 17G5 



LX. Prutc!).ccte. 

 316. OREVI'I.LE.*. 



planifbHa fl./^r..VSS. flaUleavcd •) | or 2 niy.jii Ro N. S. W. 1828.? C p.l Bot. cab. 1737 



Ci. coni-iriiia Lindt. in But. J{,-g. l:Mj., not of Brown's Prod, nor of Sweet's Flurn Auit. It is the G. 

 Seymoi'ir/Vp of Sweet's M.SS , and is admirably described, and thus denominated, by Mr. .Sweet, in Gtirii. 

 Mug., vol. vii. p. 5(h). The plant is in I/)w's Nursery, and also in Colvill's; and Mr. Hiath, the skilful 

 foreman of the latter establishment, remarks that Mr. Brown had in MSS. denominated it G. planifulia 

 previously to Mr. Sweet's namnig it Ci. Sevmoi'iri^ : as, therefore, a Kgure of the plant has since been 

 published in the Botanical Cabiiul, under ^Ir. Brown's first npp/U-d name of G. planitTilia, possibly this 

 name had better be adopted, altliough Mr Sweet was the first lo pubtish a name and description of the 

 species. His able dejcription of it will be found in Gard. itag , vol. vii. p. aCMi 



Grevllleu rosm.irinifblia is blooming' at Knight's and Young's, G. line&ris at Young's, and G. areni^ria 

 at the Comte de \andcs's. 



•326fl. HEMICLl'DIA It. Br. (Probably from hcmhus, half, and klcio, to shut up.^ Protegees. 



Baxteri R. Br. Baxter's •; i or 3 y jn Y Lucky Bay ... C p.l Bot, reg. 1455 



A very handsome evergreen shrub, recently from Lucky Bay in New Holland, well furnished with 

 spiny oak-like leaves. It is closely allied to the genus Drvandra. 



Two tine plants of Hemiclidia Baxtir/ were blooming 0-Wh) at Y'oung's. It is, indeed, a charming 

 shrub ; its pinnatitid leaves, whose lobes are ended by a pungent mucro, are devoid of glands on the 

 surface, but beneath are reticulated, veined, and the pitted areoles hlled with a crispate wool, andsepa* 

 rately occupied by a gland in their bottom." Broiun. 



Mr. Brown, in tlie recently published First Supplement to the Prdtiroinus of the Flora ofXew Holland, 

 describes many new siwcies belonging to this order; and, in the preface to the Supplement,' exhibits 

 some remarks on certain peculiarities which proteaceous plants present in the structure of their leaves. 

 After briefly noticing the systematic parts of his book, he remarks, " I have also addeii under each 

 genus a few observations mainly relating to the structure of the leaves, and more particularly descriptive 

 of those organs belonging to the epidermis, which by many authors are called pores and stomata ; but 

 which by some are, and 1 think with greater propriety, denominated glands. For these cutaneous 

 glands, as far as 1 have been able to determine, are ofteii truly imperfor.itc, and exhibit a disk formetl 

 of a membrane in some cases transparent, in others opaque, and occasionally, thoUj;h very rarely, 

 coloured. Each of tlioc glands, which are quite minute, occiijiies either wholly or in part one of tlie 

 areoles of the epidermis ; these areoles (or portions of the leaf which intervene the reticulations of a 

 leaf) being usually sindl, but sometimes large, and generally more or less varied in their fonn. The 

 figure of tne glands themselves is usually oval, sometimes roundish, rarely dilated crosswise, and still 

 more rarely they are angular. The limb is either composed of two distinct segments nearly parallel, but 

 .slightly arched, or olten annular and continuous, as if from the confluence of the two segments at their 

 extremities : the ilisk is sometimes nearly oval, and sometimes linear, Imt very rarely angular ; it is not 

 unfrequently double, the exterior one being usually oval; the interior one resembling a very narrow 

 clelt, and being sometimes opaque, at others transparent, and sometimes, perhaps, perforate. In cer- 

 jtain tamiliesof plants, the cutaneous glands are someiimes found only in the subtace of the leaves, and 

 kometimes they are found in both faces, i. e. subfacc and surface. They occupy both faces in all the 

 proteaceous plants of soutlurn Africa, excent in Brab^jum, in which, as in all the hitherto known 

 Protedrcd ot America, of Asia, and of the Islands of New Zealand and New Caledonia, the cutaneous 

 glanils are obvious in the subfacc only. About one third part of the proteaceous plants of New Holland 

 exhibit leaves whose surface (not subface) is completely destitute of glands ; and this fact is the more 

 remarkable, inasmuch as an especially large number of the trees and shrubs of Australia have both the 

 facea of their leaves equally furnished with glands ; the prevalence of which structure, and this usually 

 accompanied by the vertical position and exact similitude of the f.ices themselves, imjiait^ an almost 



n-culiar character to the woods, and especially to the extra-troiiical ones, of New Holland and Van 

 iemen'a I^aiid. 



In many genera, not only in this but in other orders, there prevails a conformity in the cutaneous 

 glands in their ligure and JHisiiion, and in their jiroportion to the areoles of the epidermis; insomuch 

 that, by accurate in«|iection of these organs, It i> often (wssible to a^cerlain the limits of genera, ami 

 sometimes the altlnlties of gener.i or of their natural sections ; it must, nevcrthdess, be confessed that. 

 In some genera, and in some of those of the New Holland I'rotertivir, considerable diversities in the 

 figure and iKisilion of the glands may lie fouml." 



At Knight's, two s|iecimens of Bftnkito fricifOlia, each fi fl, high, are bearing numerous cones of 

 flowers. 



LXII. Aristolochiite. 

 8582. ^RLSrOLO'CHIA. 



S8JH4a cau.lMa /.i/ii//. taiUipped ^ [^ cu 5 jn I>1 Braiil 18:8. Sk It l.r Hot. reg. 145.1 



" A creeping )>erennial from Brazil, with numerous branches extending for several feet Irom the 

 root, and tomedmes alUichliig themselves to other plants which grow near them." The leaves are dark 

 glaucout green, rouiidiah cordate, almost kldney.«ha|>ed near the root, but thrw lobed towards the end 

 of the branches, 'i'he flowers are very extraordinary, being pi(cher.»hn|K-d, of a yellowish brown 

 colour, deeply marketl with prominent veins on the outside ; the upiH-r lip is fleshy, and similarly veined ; 

 the under side of it, us well n« the narrow rlongnled part, is of a very ilark brown colour, tinged with 

 yellow at the points. Krom the bottom to the throat of the flower is about J in. : the length of the 

 exir.iordinary caudate or tail-shaped " lip is nrtirli/ l.sin. " Thrives in light rich loam in the stove, 

 and IS readily increasable by its creeping routs. In alliiiKy it is near /f. trilobiila noticed in VoL VII. 

 p. 3o'J. Raised at Sir Charles Ix-mun's seat, Carclcw, Coruwall. \^lJul. Btg., Nov. 18J1.) 



LXXII. Sanguiadrbftt. 

 Cr.rH A \Xy' I'CS folllculiiris, the New Holland pitcher.lcaf ; a truly extraordinary and wonderful plant 

 The term pitcher.lcaf instantly calls to mind the far-famed pitcher plant, A'epcnthc* diilillat^ria ; but 



