16 Notices of new and interesting Plants. 



ham, and others, accompanied Captain Logan to examine a fresto on the banks of a stream, called Break. 

 fast Creek, three miles north-west of Brisbane Town, noted for its gigantic timber, and the vast variety 

 of its plants. Of these they mention several by name, and, in proceeding, remark : this forest abounds 

 in r/rtica glgas, as well as in an unpublished and most interesting new plant, Castanosp^rmum 

 australe Cunningham and Fraser's MSS., that produces fruit larger than a Spanish chestnut, by which 

 name it is here known. The tree is forty feet and upwards in height, its blossoms papilionaceous and 

 saffron-coloured, disposed in racemes, and produced from the two-years-old wood. The legumes are 

 large, solitary, and pendent ; the leaves, which are nearly a foot in length, are impari-pinnate, each 

 leaflet being oval, lanceolate, and of a rich green ; and Mr. Fraser remarks, " the shade afforded by the 

 whole tree excels that of any other I have hitherto seen in New South Wales." By the natives the 

 large and handsome seeds are eaten on all occasions, and have, when roasted, the flavour of a Spanish 

 chestnut ; and I have been assured by Europeans, who have subsisted on them exclusively for two days, 

 that no other unpleasant effect resulted than a slight pain in the bowels, and that only when they were 

 eaten raw. 



Mr. Bowie's admirable article (p. 5.) on the Leguminbsje, teaching the native soils various species 

 affect, their native heights and habits, and communicating numerous valuable suggestions for their suc- 

 cessful cultivation in British collections, merits every attention. 



At Young's, the principal leguminous plant in blossom (20th) is Kennedyo monophylla 2 longerace- 

 m&sa ; and its graceful climbing habit, pleasing foliage, and long lax racemes of lilac blossoms render it 

 a choice ornament of the season. Mr. Penny considers it too distinct from K. monophylla to be a 

 variety. Here, also, are blooming Acacia Brownz'i and lophantha, and lunata will be in bloom in a 

 fortnight, Chorizt:ma nana, Dillwynz'a ^'unip^rina, and Glycine bitumin&sa, although this last but 

 partially. At Knight's, a fine shrub of Priestleya hirsdta is becoming splendid with numerous short 

 dense spikes of beauteous golden blossoms. Elsewhere have been observed Indigofera cytisoldes and 

 Coronilla glauca. The elegantly variegated variety of the latter would more prevail in country collec- 

 tions were it better known. Furze on heaths is gay with partial blossom. 



XCIII. Celastrlnece. \ 



666. .EUO NYMTJS. 



bullatus^. C. bullate St |_J un ... my.jn Pk Nepal 1828.? C l.p Bot. cab. 1749 



CXXI. PittospbretE. 

 *671a. SO'LLY^'Lindl. Sollya. {Richard Horsman Solly, F.R.S., &c. &c.) 5.1. Pittosporece. 2. 



heterophyllaZ,2rc<#. various-leaved %_ \ | or 5 jl B NewHoll.1830. S p.l Bot. reg. 1466 



" Likely to prove a very fine green-house climber : " its blossoms are blue, beautiful, and produced in 

 nodding cymes. Figured from Mr. Knight's Exotic Nursery, where plants during summer, on a wall 

 with a western aspect, have grown most vigorously, and in this situation, as lately as Jan. 20. 1832, were 

 abounding in deep green leaves, as if unhurt by all the past frost. 



angustifblia Lindl. narrow-leaved %_\ | or " 8 jn.au B V. Die. L. 1823. „ S p.l Bot. reg. 1466 



Billardier« Sm. fusiformis Lab. Hort. Brit. No. 5530. p. 84. 



Professor Lindley found this genus on the hitherto considered species of Billardiera which possess a 

 chartaceous pericarp; the fruit of the legitimate species of Billardiera being a pulpy berry. 



In Sdllya heterophyila the structure of the petals is lamellate, that is, of two plates or pieces as if 

 grown back to back. The tubular-coloured calyx of Daphne Mezereum (which will shortly blossom) 

 will be found to exhibit a similar structure. 



Of Pitt6sporum undulatum, a variety with its leaves strongly and constantly variegated exists at 

 Colvill's. 



CXXII. Geraniacete. 

 1932. GERA^NIUM. 

 17234ar albiflorum Hook, white-flowered ^ A or 1| su Wsh N. Amer. 1827. D co Bot. mag. 3124 

 Approaches in habit and general appearance both G. pratense and G. maculatum ; but differs from 

 each in sufficient characters, and in its constantly white blossoms : these are copiously produced 

 during the summer months, and the plant is readily multiplied by division. Has :been called G. 

 maculatum, and a variety of G. angulatum : was brought home at the return of Franklin's second 

 expedition. 



CXXIII. Oxalldece. 

 1414. O'XALIS. 

 11902a crenata Jac. notched-petaled A A esc 3 jl.s Y Peru 1829. O s.l Sw.fl.gar.2.s.l25 

 0. Arrac&cha G. Don. Syst. Bot. and Gard. 1. 756. 



Cultivated abundantly in the gardens about Lima as a salad, for which purpose its succulent stems 

 and acid flavour seem strongly to recommend it It grows freely in our open borders, is readily 

 increased by cuttings as well as by its tubers, which require to be taken up and preserved from frost in 

 the manner potatoes are. The tubers are produced in considerable plenty, and are often two inches 

 long, and an inch in diameter. When raw they are slightly subacid ; but on being boiled they lose 

 this acidity entirely, and taste very much like the potato, for which they might form occasionally 

 an agreeable substitute at the tables of the curious. 



CXXIX. Volygaleie. 

 *2055a. MONNrN/f R. & P. Monnina {Monnino, Count de Flora Blanca, a Spaniard, and patron of botany.) 

 obtusifolia H. f Kth. obtuse-lvd A i_j or ... jn Rsh.P Lima 1830. S p.l Bot. mag. 3122 



A small upright-branched shrub, with glaucous leaves of the size and shape of those of box : its 

 branches terminated by racemes of small purplish red pea-shaped blossom. Sent in 1830 from Lurin 

 near Lima by Mr. Cruikshanks, and is described from dried specimens in Hooker's Botanical Miscellany, 

 vol. ii. p. 208,. as M. nemorosa. 



In this order, Polygala grandiflbra, tetragona, and oppositifdlia, and Muraltw stipulacea and mixta, 

 are blooming in all the collections in which they are kept. 



CXXX. "ViolacetB. 

 701. FFOLA. 

 f5748fl suavis Bieb. fragrant fc A ta 5 sp] Pa.B Ukraine 1823. Deo Sw.fl.gar.2.s.l26 



No. 5718. Hort Brit. 



