14- Notices of new and interesting Plants. 



of almost every shoot : they are very fragrant, with an odour resembling that of hawthorn. Compara- 

 tively hardy, and deemed the finest species of Escallonz'a yet in Britain. 



LI I. Salicarice <$ Lagerstrcemiex. 

 1588. LAGERSTRCETML4. 

 13918 rndica 



2 rosea B. C. rosy » i_J or 12 au.s Ro China 1825. C r.l Bot, cab. 1765 



LX. Proteacess. 

 316. GREVI'LLE^. 



planifblia iJ.ift-.il/SS. flat-leaved » i_J or 2 my.jn Ro N. S. W. 1828.? C p.l Bot. cab. 1737 



G. concinna Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1383., not of Brown's Prod, nor of Sweet's Flora Aust. It is the G. 

 Seymour/a? of Sweet's MSS., and is admirably described, and thus denominated, by Mr. Sweet, in Gard. 

 Mag., vol. vii. p. 506. The plant is in Low's Nursery, and also in Colvill's ; and Mr. Riath, the skilful 

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

 previously to Mr. Sweet's naming it G. Seymouri* : as, therefore, a figure of the plant has since been 

 published" in the Botanical Cabinet, under Mr, Brown's first applied name of G. planifolia, possibly this 

 name had better be adopted, although Mr. Sweet was the first to publish a name and description of the 

 species. His able description of it will be found in Gard. Mag., vol. vii. p. 506. 



Grevillea josmarinifblia is blooming at Knight's and Young's, G. linearis at Young's, and G. arenaria 

 at the Comte de Vandes's. 



»326». HEMICLI'DIA R. Br. (Probably from hemisus, half, and kleio, to shut up.) Proteaceas. 

 L Baxter*' R. Br. Baxter's * i [or 3?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 Dryandra. 



Two fine plants of Hemiclidia Baxter; were blooming (20th) at Young's. It is, indeed, a charming 

 shrub ; its " pinnatifid 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 filled with a crispate wool, and sepa. 

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



Mr. Brown, in the recently published First Supplement to the Prddromus of the Flora of New Holland, 

 describes many new species 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 added 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 I think with greater propriety, denominated glands. For these cutaneous 

 glands, as far as I have been able to determine, are often truly imperforate, and exhibit a disk formed 

 of a membrane in some cases transparent, in others opaque, and occasionally, though very rarely, 

 coloured. Each of these glands, which are quite minute, occupies either wholly or in part one of the 

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

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

 figure of the 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 often annular and continuous, as if from the confluence of the two segments at their 

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

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

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

 tain families of plants, the cutaneous glands are sometimes found only in the subtace of the leaves, and 

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

 proteaceous plants of southern Africa, except in Brabejum, in which, as in all the hitherto known 

 Proteacea: of America, of Asia, and of the Islands of New Zealand and New Caledonia, the cutaneous 

 glands are obvious in the subface 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 

 faces 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 faces themselves, imparts an almost 

 peculiar character to the woods, and especially to the extra-tropical ones, of New Holland and Van 

 Diemen's Land. 



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

 glands in their figure and position, and in their proportion to the areoles of the epidermis; insomuch 

 that, by accurate inspection of these organs, it is often possible to ascertain the limits of genera, and 

 sometimes the affinities of genera or of their natural sections ; it must, nevertheless, be confessed that, 

 in some genera, and in some of those of the New Holland Proteacea, considerable diversities in the 

 figure and position of the glands may be found." 



At Knight's, two specimens of Banksz'a ericifolia, each 6 ft. high, are bearing numerous cones of 

 flowers. 



LXII. Aristolochiece.' 

 2582. ^RISTOLO^CHIA. 

 S2844<i caudata Lindl. taW.lipped JEJcu 5 jn Ld Brazil 1828. Sk It.l.r Bot. reg. 1453 



" A creeping perennial from Brazil, with numerous branches extending for several feet from the 

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

 glaucous green, roundish cordate, almost kidney-shaped near the root, but three-lobed towards the end 

 of the branches. The flowers are very extraordinary, being pitcher-shaped, of a yellowish brown 

 colour, deeply marked with prominent veins on the outside ; the upper lip is fleshy, and similarly veined ; 

 the under side of it, as well as the narrow elongated part, is of a very dark brown colour, tinged with 

 yellow at the points. From the bottom to the throat of the flower is about 2 in. : the length of the 

 extraordinary caudate or tail-shaped " lip is neurit/ 18 in." Thrives in light rich loam in the stove, 

 ' and is readily increasable by its creeping roots. In affinity"it is near A. trilobata noticed in Vol. VII, 

 p. 339. Raised at Sir Charles Lemon's seat, Carclew, Cornwall. [Bot. Reg., Nov. 1831.) 



LXXII. Sanguisdrbete. 

 CEPH ALOTUS follicularis, the New Holland pitcher-leaf; a truly extraordinary and wonderful plant, 

 The term pitcher-leaf instantly calls to mind the far-famed pitcher plant, Nepenthes distillatoria ; but 



