supplementary to Encyc. of Plants and Hort. Brit. 65 



parts of their edges, flowers are produced all over the plant. They are of a 

 bright lemon colour, H in. in diameter. The stamens evince, when touched, 

 a slight irritability. Fruit subglobose, from 1 in. to If in. in diameter; of a 

 delicate transparent yellow; smooth, except being studded with tufts of 

 chestnut-coloured bristles. The flesh of the fruit is of a yellowish white 

 colour, juicy, with a fine acid, somewhat resembling an indifferent, hard- 

 fleshed, or unripe plum ; with a smell and slight flavour like those of the 

 leaf-stalks of garden rhubarb." (Bot. Mag., Jan.) 

 LXV. Thymelce'cE, 



87. PIMELE^A. rBot mag. 32S8 



29126a gracihflora Hook. s\ender-calyzed Ht \ | or 3 my. jn W King George's Sound 1830 ? C p.l 



" May be easily mistaken for P. sylvestris " (IX. 364.) ; but comparison 

 will prove it quite distinct. " It is extremely pretty, and flowers freely in the 

 green-house in common peat soil ; and retains its snowy blossoms, which are 

 disposed in rather lax heads, for a considerable length of time. It was raised 

 from seeds sent by Mr. Baxter : " we suppose, to the Glasgow Botanic Gar- 

 den ; but this is not stated, nor whence the drawing had been derived. (Bot. 

 Mag., Dec. 1833.) 



LXXVII. Leguminosce. 



1968. ^NTHY'LLIS. 

 17625a Webbiana Penny Webb's ^ A or | my jl Pa.Ro Teneriffe 1829. S 6.1 Bot. mag. 3284 



Communicated to the Botanical Magazine by Mr. Cameron, of the Botanic 

 Garden, Birmingham. It was introduced by Philip Barker Webb. " It is 

 an extremely delicate and pretty species." Its principal charms are its heads 

 of rose-coloured flowers, pretty pinnate leaves, and the white silky pubes- 

 cence which invests the whole of its herbage. " It is hardy, and should be 

 cultivated on a dry soil." {Bot. Mag., Dec.) 



1980. ADE'SMIA. 



uspallat^nsis Gill. Uspallatan J* I pr 1 jl Y Chile 1832. C s.l Sw. fl. gar. 2. s. 222 



" It evidently varies a good deal in the number of its leaflets, and also in other minor points : 

 circumstances which dispose us to hesitate in recognising as distinct species [the uspallaWnsis] 

 the A. h6rrida and A. trijuga." (D. Don.) 



A slender, thorny, diminutive shrub, which is interesting in its branched 



spines ; in its abruptly pinnate leaves, whose leaflets are pretty in their small- 



ness ; in its rich, yellow, red-streaked, small, pea-shaped blossoms, which are 



produced in few-flowered terminal racemes ; and in its legumes, which, " when 



full grown, are particularly pretty, from the long feathery hairs with which they 



are adorned." A. uspallatensis is in the Chelsea Botanic Garden, where it has 



been raised from seeds obtained of Mr. Cuming. Uspallata is a plain abo.ut fifty 



miles long, and six broad, on the eastern Andes. ( The Brit. Flow. Gard., Jan.) 



1985. iUPPNUS. 



17717a incanus Grah. hoaxy-herbaged Ht \ l>r 3 jn.o Pa.Li Buenos Ayres ? 1832. S s.l Bot. mag. 3283 



" It approaches very near to L. multiflbrus of Encyc. Method, iii. 624." {Dr. Graham.) 



Described as " a very handsome species, raised by Mr. Neill from seeds of 

 it sent by Mr. Tweedie of Buenos Ayres," and as flowering " freely in the 

 green-house at Canonmills [Mr. NeilPs], in June, 1833." The leaves are 

 figured of from seven to ten leaflets ; and the star formed by them, as rayedly 

 arranged, is described as of " about 6 in. across." The raceme of flowers is 

 " a foot and a half long." The flowers are not very large, but they are 

 numerous ; the corollas are of a pale lilac colour : and these features, added 

 to those of the hoariness of the plant's herbage and the graceful form of the 

 leaflets, must render the species a very interesting one. (Bot. Mag., Dec.) 



iupinus, a species of, named, probably by Dr. Lindley, albifrons, is 

 figured in the Botanical Register for January. It is only stated to be " a new 

 shrubby Californian species, figured from the garden of the London Horticul- 

 tural Society." A fuller account, it is promised, will be supplied in the next 

 number. The figure exhibits a very pretty species. 



Mr. David Douglas, " in his first visit to the shores of the Columbia, 

 detected no less than seventeen species of lupine; and several species 

 have rewarded him on his second visit, as well as in California." (Dr. 

 Hooker, Bot. Mag., Dec. 1833, t. 3283.) 



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