Nolices of ne'w and interesting Plants. 2i 



CCXIII. Soiunea ^ with a capsular Pericarp. 



1714. SALPIGLO'SSIS. 



integrifblia Hook, entire-leaved O 1 ! or 1 jl Ro.P Uraguay 1831. S It Bot. mag. 3113 



Its corollas are broadly funnel-shaped, the tube dark bluish purple, the lobes of the border of a rich 

 crimson purple ; handsome, and very distinct from the previously cultivated Salpiglosses. Dr. Hooker 

 possesses another new species, which he denominates S. linearis. 



linearis Hoo/e. hnear-leaved O I I or 1 jl ... Uraguay 1831. S It Bot mag. 3113 



On p. 47. we have presented a remark from Dr. Graham on the sportiveness of the Salpiglosses ; and 

 in the Report of the Stirling Horticultural Society, p. 12+., mention will be found of four hybrid Sal- 

 piglosses that were exhibited from the garden at Callander Park. 



*490a. » NIEREMBE'RG/// Kth. Nierem. {J. E. Nleremberg, author of a Kistory of yiatxire.) 5.1. 



linarisfulia Grah. Toadflax-lvd O ? I I el i jl Wsh Uraguay 1830. S p ? Bot. mag. oioS 



An elegant slender plant, expected to thrive in our open gardens in summer, with stems 6 to 8 in. 

 high, leaves narrowly linear and pubescent, and very singular blossoms. The latter have an extremely 

 slender tube, an inch in length, surmounted by a salver-shaped broadly-spread border, S-lobed, white, 

 streaked with purple, having a yellow eye where it is inserted on the tube. From the sides of the 

 Uraguay, near Buenos Ayres. Flowered in July, 1831. Three other species are known, N. repens, 

 growing in Peru ; N. angustif6lia, in Mexico ; N. pub(5scens, on Monte Video. 



Dr. Hooker publishes this plant as N. gracilis, but makes no allusion to a species described in minute 

 detail by his friend. Professor Graham, in Jameson's Journal, 1831, p. 378., under the name of N. 

 linarifefblia. Mr. D. Don has not a doubt that both writers have the same plant in view ; so, as Prol 

 fessor Graham's name was first published, it is here adopted. 



, In this order the prettiest plant observed in blossom is Brunsfels/a uniflbra (Franciscea Hope^nd of 

 exploded nomenclature), and this at Messrs. Young's (Jan. 20), when beautiful it was, its re-jently 

 opened tubular corols being exquisitely fragrant, and their comparatively wide-spread orbicular border 

 of a snow white, orappearing tobeso,from the advantageous contrast of the recent flowtrs with the older 

 ones of a deep lilac hue displayed beside them. The plant was growing in a propagating house in a bed 

 of soil partly loamy, into which its branches were inlaid, and in this position were blooming. In the 

 Kensington Gardens conservatory (which includes a multitude of species, especially of old ones). So. 

 lanum Pseudocapsicum (the Capsicum /Imbmum Plinij of the Parisians) was beautiful just after Christ- 

 mas, from the elegant contrast of its glossy bright-hued berries, closely resembling miniature oranges 

 with the dark green foliage of the neighbouring plants. ° ' 



CC.XX. Verbcnuccis. 

 1738. LANTA^NA 15565 nivea 



2 mut^bilis //ooAr. changeable-^Mfdit I I or 5 my.jn Y.Ro ... C l.p Bot. mag. 3110 



Has the habit of L. nfvea ; but instead of heads of elegant flowers of a snowy white colour, as in that 

 kind, those of this variety (mutabilis) are " at first yellow with an orange eye, then becoming rose-coloured 

 with an orange eye, finally entirely rose-coloured : " the blossoms are produced in iVIay and June and 

 continue for a considerable length of time. A very desirable plant. 

 The Gardoqula origanoldes of Reichenbach is a species of LantJlna. {Bcntham.) 



1749. FERBE^NA. 

 \565\aiieni>sa.GiU8{ Hook. strong-veineA £ lAJ or 2i su Ro Bu. Ayres 1830. S s.l Bot. mag. 3127 



" A very handsome species, in many respects allied to V. bonari^nsis, differing in its much shorter 

 spikes, and vastly larger flowers, which are of a bright purple [rosy] colour." 



Li'ppia dulcis whose leaves are sweeter than sugar, of which property the specific name is expressive, 

 at Young's, was going out of flower ; but this mention of it enables me to impart a ray of systematic 

 knowledge communicated by Mr. Penny : the Lant^na lavandula;f61ia of Loddiges's Bot. Cab. lolo. \s 

 Llppia di'ilcis of Loudon's Hort. Brit, p 484. 



CCXXI Labiate § Nepilea;. 



*1682fl. G ARDOQUIM R. 8; P Gardoquia. (D. Diego Gardoqui, a noble Spaniard.) Lahiatce \_Oct. 1831. p. 377 

 Gillifes» Grah. Gillies's « i_J ... 2 ... Li Chile 1828. S ... Jameson's jour. 



discolor A7A. two-coloured *□ ap.jl P Caraccas 1827. S ... Siu h. brit.'i. iW 



G. origanoldes of Reichenbach in Sprengel's Addenda, and therefore also of Sweet's Hort. Brit. ed. 2. 

 p. 409., is according to Bentham in But. Reg. 1300., a species of LantJma. 



1693. SCUTELLA^RIA. 

 15284rt variegita Hort. variegated-Jfrf ;^ A pr J au P.y Switzerl. ... D p.l Bot. reg. 1450 

 ScutellSiria variegJita Hort. 



Mr. Lindley figures this pretty plant as the S. alplna of Linna-us : it looks very unlike, indeed, 

 the plant of Linnfeus ; wherefore the name variegata, applied by the nurserymen, is here retained. 



In this order, the most interesting plants in flower since the ISth are Pogostfemon plectrantliiildes ? 

 and Plectranthus carnbsus. The Pogostfemon is in a stove at Chelsea, and is presumed to be plectran- 

 tholdes. Its corols are small and of a grey blue, so unshowy; but its filaments are, as the word 

 Pogosteraon implies, bearded with hairs, in the manner, but more sparingly, of the filaments of Trades- 

 cantjia virginica, but seem not articulated in the same manner of matchless elegance. The herbage of 

 P. plectranthiildes has an aromatic odour. Plectranthus carnbsus is at Young's : its flowers also are 

 small, grey blue, and unshowy; but this defect, if defect it be, is compensated by the odour of the fleshy, 

 rigid, pubescent leaves ; which, on contact, supply an odour more grateful than describable, and assimi' 

 lating to that of O'cymum gratlssimum. 



*76a. AUDIBE'RT/.^ Benth. Audibertia. (M. Audibert, of Tarascon, nurseryman.) 2. 1. Lahiatce. 

 incSma i?t'n<A. hoary tl. cu 1| jl.s Pa.B Colombia 1827. S co Bot. reg. 1469 



Sfelvia carnbsa Herb. Doug. 

 Differs from Salvia in habit, form of coroUa, and in its anthers ; the connectivums of which are hot 



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