Notices of new and interesting Plants. 2 1 



CCXIII. Solanecs § with a capsular Pericarp, 



1714. SALPIGLO'SSIS. 



integrifblia Hook, entire-leaved O l I 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 Salpigl6sses. Dr Hooker 

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



linearis Hook. Ymear-leaved O I I or 1 jl ... Uraguay 1831. S It Sot. 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. 124., mention will be found of four hybrid Sal 

 piglusses that were exhibited from the garden at Callander Park. 



H90a. ? NIEREMBE'RG/// Kth. Nierem. (./ E. Nieremberg, author of a History of Nature 1 5 1 



linariaefulia Grak. Toadflax-lvd O ? I I el f jl Wsh Uraguay 1830. S p ? Bot. mag." 3108 



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, 5-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. ripens 

 growing in Peru ; N. angustifblia, in Mexico ; N. pubescens, 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 

 linariaefblia. Mr. D. Don has not a doubt that both writers have the same plant in view • so as Pro. 

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



. In this order the prettiest plant observed in blossom is Brunsfelsz'a uniflbra (Francisrea Hope&na of 

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

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

 of a snow white, or appearing to be so, from the advantageous contrast of therecent flowers 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 Plinu 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. 



CCXX. Verbenacecs. 

 1738. LANTA V NA 15565 nfvea 



2 mutabilis Hook. changeab\e-hued& CD or 5 my.jn Y.Ro ... C l.p Bot mag. 3110 



Has the habit of L. nivea ; 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 May and June and 

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

 The Gardoquia origanoldes of Reichenbach is a species of Lantana. {Eenthotm.) 



1749. TERBE^NA. 

 15631a venbsaGill & Hook, strong-veined £ lAJ or 2§ su Ro Bu. Ayres 1830. S s.I Bot. mag. 3127 



"A very handsome species, in many respects allied to V. bonariensis, 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 Lantana laVandulaefblia of Loddiges's Bot. Cab. 1573. is 

 Lippia dulcis of Loudon's Hort. Brit, p 484. 



CCXXI Labiates \ TSepitece. 



*1682a. GARDOQUI\4 R. Sf P Gardoquia. (D. Diego Gardoqui, a noble Spaniard.) Labiates [Oct. 1831. p. 377 

 Gillies« Grah. Gillies's & t_J ... 2 ... Li Chile 1828. S ... Jameson's jour. 



discolor Kth. two.coloured St CD ap-jl P Caraccas 1827. S ... Sur h. brit. 2. 409 



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 Bot. Reg. 1300., a species of Lantana. 



1693. SCUTELLARIA. 



15284a variegata Hort. variegated-j^ £ A P' f au P.y Switzerl. ... D p.l Bot. reg. 1460 

 Scutellaria variegata Hort. 



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

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



In this order, the most interesting plants in flower since the 15th are Pogostemon plectranthoides ? 

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

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

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

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

 P. plectranthoides 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, 

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

 lating to that of O'cymum gratfssimurn. 



*76a. AUD1BE'RTL4 Benth. Audibertia. (M. Audibert, of Tarascon, nurseryman.) 2.1. Labiates. 

 incana Benth. hoary St. cu 1| jl.s Pa.B Colombia 1827. S co Bot. reg. 1469 



Salvia carnbsa Herb. Doug. 

 Differs from Salvia in habit, form of corolla, and in its anthers; the connectivums of which are not 



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