722 Floricultural and Botanical Notices, 



have presumed the species to be hardy. The petioled, lanceolate, un- 

 equally serrated, hairy leaves, which are 2 in. long and 10 lines broad, are 

 " irregularly sprinkled above with dull red spots," and this is the property 

 expressed in the epithet cruentata. 

 CXX1. Pitlospbrece. 



679. PITTO'SPORUM. 



angustifblium B. C. narrow-leaved n. | | cu l?jn Y N.S.W. 1830. C l.p Bot. cab. 1859 



" This has lately been introduced from New South Wales. It is of a 

 delicate habit, having a few slender straggling branches, and it flowers in 

 June." (Bot. Cab., Oct.) 



CXXXII. Males/ierbiacead. 



3472. MALESHE'RBJX 

 29001« coronata D. Don faux .crowned O or 2| jn.s B Chile 1832. S It Sw.fl.gar.2.s.l67 



Of this interesting genus, six species, native to Peru and Chile, are 

 known to botanists; and two of them are already in cultivation in Britain. 

 M. humilis is registered in our Additional Supplement, p. 593. M. coronata, 

 the second species, which, as well as M. humilis, and some other species, is 

 annual, has been raised by Mr. Thomas Brown, of the Highgate Nursery, 

 from seeds collected in Chile by Mr. Hugh Cuming; from whose rich 

 herbarium Mr. Don had previously described M. coronata and three other 

 species. M. coronata has an upright, branched, pubescent stem, and 

 rather long, linear, narrow, toothed, pubescent leaves. From the axils of 

 the diminished leaves on the branches are produced the blossoms, and not 

 sparingly. These have a short green tube, on the top of which are seated 

 five green spreading calycine segments, and, alternate with them, five blue 

 petals ; so that the ten segments together form a slightly starry blossom, 

 green and blue in colour, orbicular in outline, and equalling a penny-piece 

 in size. The plant flowered with Mr. Brown in September last : it requires 

 a light sandy soil, and is increased by seeds. (Sweet's Flower-Garden, 

 Nov.) 



The genus Malesherbza, in natural affinity, is between the genera Passi- 

 flora and Turnera ; and is in Monadelphia Pentandria of the system of 

 Linnaeus. 



CXLVI. Galacinece. Francos sonchifolia is figured in Loddiges's 

 Botanical Cabinet for November, t. 1864: it has rosy petals, with a feathered 

 purple stripe down the centre of each. With Messrs. Loddiges " it grows 

 freely, with a stem 2 or 3 ft. high, flowering in July. It is a coarse-looking 

 plant in its herbage, but the flowers are numerous and beautiful. They 

 are likely to be followed by seeds, by which it will be readily multiplied. 

 The soil should be rich loam." This species is already in our Additional 

 Supplement, but less perfectly than we now give it : — 

 , f28870 sonchifblia Feu. Sow-thistle-lva £ A or 2| jl.au Ro.P Chile 1830. S r.l Bot. cab. 1864 



Dicotyledonous Monopetalous Plants. 

 CLXXVII. StyMiece. 



' 2581. STYLI'DIUM. 



a hirsutum _R..Z?r. hairy.scaped j£ lAJ or § my.jn Ro Kg.G.'sSd.l830? S s.p Bot. mag. 3194 



This species has newly come into cultivation ; and its purplish rose- 

 coloured corollas, yellow in the throat, are larger than those of any species 

 in our gardens. Mr. M'Nab raised the plant figured from a seed taken 

 off a native specimen, sent to him by the late Mr. Fraser. It blossomed 

 in the green-house of the Edinburgh Botanic Garden through May and 

 the early part of June. (Bot. Mag., Nov.) 



Stylidiumjunceum is minutely described by Dr. Graham, in the Edin- 

 burgh New Philosophical Journal for Oct. 1832, p 364., whence we are 

 enabled to fill in the blanks which appear under this species in the Add. 

 Supp.y No. 29277. 



