Notices qffiew and i?iteresting Plants. 15 



this diflfers from that most essentially. Nepenthes distillatbria is an evergreen climbing plant, attaining 

 the height of from twelve to twenty feet, and has its large ovate-lanceolate leaves disposed alter- 

 nately along its stem, and each leaf sustains from its tip a long depending pitcher. In CephalOtus 

 there is no stem, save the flower scape, which is leafless, and but from one to two feet high ; and 

 although the leaves and pitchers of the plant are produced altogether in a rosaceous radical tuft, the 

 pitchers are distinct from the leaves, and have footstalks of their own. 



Dr. Hooker describes the plant minutely and excellently, and illustrates it by two plates ; one exhU 

 biting the entire plant ; the other, magnified dissections of its pitcher, flowers, and fruit. The leaves 

 are clustered, elliptical lanceolate, petioiated, entire, thickish, nerveless, and purplish ; and amongst 

 these, but principally occupying the circumference [of the cluster or tuft], are several beautiful and 

 highly curious pitcher.shaped appendages. These are ovate or somewhat slipper-shaped, between 

 ibliaceous and membranaceous, green tinged with purple, furnished with two lateral oblique wings, and 

 one central one ; the latter remarkably dilated at the margin, and all beautifully fringed with hairs. 

 The inside, which contains a watery fluid, and entraps many insects, especially ants, is clouded with 

 dark purple. The mouth is contracted, horseshoe-shaped, annulated, and crested with several deep, 

 sharp, vertical annuli, of a dark purple colour, each of which, as Mr. Scott pointed out, terminates in 

 a sharp point that projects over the mouth cf the pitcher, as if, possibly, to prevent the escape of the 

 entrapped insects. Lid of the pitcher flattish convex, green without, and a little hairy, within clouded 

 with purple, marked with broad veins, and scalloped at the margin ; at first the lid closes the mouth 

 of the pitcher, but afterwards becomes nearly erect, (h'oi. Mag. 3118, SUR) ', 



Living individuals of this extraordinary and wonderful plant are thriving in one of the stoves in Mr. 

 Knight's Exotic Nursery, under the skilful management of Mr. Scott. 



LXXIII. Rosiiccts 5 Spirtpaceie. 

 W'RSHIA tridentlita. " A hardy inelegant bush, having a glaucous aspect, and dull pale greenish 

 yellow flowers." From North-west America, by Mr. Douglas. Flowered in the Chiswick Garden, for 

 the first time in April, 18j0. Grows freely in heath-mould, and is easily propagated by layers. (But. 

 Reg. 14iK.) Desirable to all possessing a taste at all botanical, both on account of the botanist it 

 commemorates, and of its conspicuous distinctness of character. 



Rosacea § Dryd,dcte. 

 1537. SIEVE'RS/^ [;oMr«. 1831,19a 



rt)sea Grah. rosy ^ A or a '^y Rocky rao. 1827. D p.l Edin. n. phil. 



Sent home by Mr. Drummond. 



LXXVII. LeguminbSie ^ Sophfireje. 

 1251. GOMPHOLO^BIUM. 



Knight?««M/n Lindl. Knight's tt. i lei f au.s B NewHoll.ISSO. S p.l Bot. reg. 1468 



" It is a delicate plant, requiring a good airy situation." Raised by Mr. Knight, from Baxter's seeds. 



BAPTI SI A perfolikta" Coming from the dry sandyhills of Georgia, it might well he supposed to be a 

 tender plant ; hence, Messrs. Loddiges and others deem it a green. house plant. In the peat border of 

 the American ground, Glasgow Botanic Garden, it has survived two winters, and flowers in great per- 

 fection during July and August. The yellow blossoms are neither large nor showy ; but its perfoliate 

 leaves of so unusual a character for a leguminous plant, and their tender glaucous green colour, 

 render it eminently deserving a place in every garden." {Bot. Mag. 2121.) 



Legumindsce ^ 'Ldtea § 1. Genisiece. 

 1966. ONO^NIS section Natri'dium. 



pedunculirisLinrf/. peduncled «. | fr 1 ap W.Ro Teneriffb 1829. S s.l Bot. reg. 1447 



A pretty new species from Tenerifl'e, so not hardy ; slightly shrubby, simple-leaved, blooms in April, 

 and has whitish corols margined with rose. Messrs. Young of Epsom have the plant. 



LO^TUS jacobee'^us. Mr. Maund has grown as an annual, by planting in the open air, as soon as 

 the frosts of spring are past, a plant from the green-house, which, by autumn, produced seeds to sow 

 as annual seeds in the spring following. {But. Gard. 326., Oct. 1831.) 



Legmninosce \ 'Lotece ^ 5. Astragctlete. 

 2100. PHA'CA. 

 tl8846a astragalina Dfc. Astragalus-like^ A pr 1 jn.jl W.B Scotl. Clova mo. S s.l Bot. cab. 429 1 

 A newly discovered addition to the native flora of Britain. 



LeguminbsiB \ ViedysdreiE \ 2. EuhedysareiE. 

 1980. ADE'SMIA. 



glutinbsa G/«. 4- flboA:. slender.lvd * lJ or 2 ... Y Chile 1831. S s.l Hook.ch.planis. 



LeguminbstE ^ Xiciece, 

 2136. iA'THYRUS. 

 19322a decaphyllus PA. ten-leaved _6 A or 4 jn R.Li N. Amer. 1829. S co Bot mag. 3123 



" This is a highly ornamental species, and well merits a place in every flower border." 

 L. grandiflurus. Remarks on this splendid and now well known species will be found, p. SO. 



CROBUS canescens. ' A hardy perennial species; most desirable for its "large blossoms, whose 

 colour is a rich purple, becoming more blue when fully expanded." {Bot. Mag. 3117.) 



0. Fischtri. " A pleasing hardy perennial, 1 ft. in height ; with slender stem," narrow leaves, and 

 racemes of deep red blossoms produced in May and June. Increased by seeds, and likes light loam. 

 (Bol. Cab., 1740., Oct. 1831.) 



Leguminbsa ^ Cassilce. 



•1269a. CASTANOSPE'RMUM Cun. Moreton Bay Chestnut. {Cnstanea, chestnut; sperma, seed ; taste.) 

 austr^le Cun. southern J i_] f r 40 ... Saf N. HoU. 1828. S 1 Bot. mis. 51, 52 



This tree is thus spoken of in the second part of the Botanical Miscellany, in a most interesting 

 article by C. Fraser, entitled "Journal of a Two Months' Residence on the Banks of the Rivers 

 Brisbane and l^ogan, on the East Coast of New Holland." On July 4. 1828, Messrs. Fraser, Cunning. 



