supplementary to Encyc. of Plants and Hort. Brit. 67 



A pretty little plant, introduced by Mr. Cuming. Its brilliant flowers are 

 produced during nearly the whole of the summer. It requires the green- 

 house. (Bot. Cah, Dec.) Messes. Loddiges, doubtless, possess the plant: 

 Mr. Dennis does also. 



CXXXL PassiflbrecB. 



1923. PASSIFLO'RA. % Decaloba Dec 



kermesina Lk. # 0. crimson {sepals and petals) |_ EI spl 20 all sea C ... 1831. L r.l Bot. reg. 1633 



" Brought from the Berlin Botanic Garden, to the London Horticultural 

 Society's Garden, by Mr. Bentham, in the autumn of 1831 ; and it has been 

 almost ever since in ilower. It is, beyond all comparison, the most beautiful 

 species in cultivation, except P. racemosa. Its flowers have a richness of 

 colour which art cannot imitate ; they are produced in very great abundance, 

 at almost all seasons.; and, in consequence of the length of the slender stalks 

 from which they singly hang, the whole plant has a graceful aspect, which is 

 unrivalled even among passion-flowers. Unfortunately, it is propagated with 

 considerable difficulty, no part of the stem, striking from cuttings except what 

 is very woody and completely formed; and this, which is always at the bot- 

 tom of the stem, can scarcely be procured without cutting down the whole 

 plant. Requires a hot and damp stove." ( Bot. Reg., Dec.) The leaves are 

 three-lobed, green above, of a wine colour beneath. 



PASSIFLO'RA. \ Dysosmia flc." [Sot. re g. 1634 



.gossypiii'ulia Desv. Cotton-tree-lfd. fl_ E] cu 8 au W W. Indies, Mexico, Lima lb31. C r.l 

 .Synonyme: " P. £ibiscifblia Dec. Prod. iii. 331. " (Lindley.) 



A herbaceous perennial species, requiring the stove in Britain. Its flowers 

 (white) are not showy or very large ; and its leaves not striking, but illustrate 

 the planf s specific name, in showing a resemblance to those of the cotton 

 tree. The green-stalked glands of its leaf-stalks, and of its airy pinnate 

 Involucres, are beautiful objects. [Bot.^Reg., Dec.) 



By misapprehension or oversight, ail the species of Passifl&ra, MurucMa, and Tacsbnia, in Hort. 

 Brit, p. 269, 270., are marked as evergreen twiners (£_) : none of them entwine, all climb and 

 are evergreen (jj_). 



CXLVI. Galacmea;.. 



SJ50. FRANCOS. 

 fS887d ram&sa D. Don branched-?ra/?er. jg _A1 er 2| jlau W Chile 1831. S p.l Sw.fl.gar.2.s.223 



This pretty species is figured from Mr. Knight's nursery, Chelsea. Its 

 white flowers are smaller than those of F. appendiculata, which are of a pink 

 colour ; but they are, perhaps, more numerous, and the branched inflorescence 

 presents them more amassed. F. ramdsa grows abundantly on the hills near 

 Valparaiso, in Chile. In Britain it thrives in a mixture of sandy peat and 

 loam, and perfects an abundance of seeds. (The British Flower-Garden, 

 Jan.) 



Of F. appendiculata, Dr. Lindley has published a figure in the Bot. Reg... 

 for Jan., and pronounces this and F. sonchifolia to be identical ; and states 

 that " F. ramosa would have but slender claims to being preserved [in the rank 

 of a species], if it were not for the absence of pubescence from its inflo- 

 rescence." 



MONOPETALOUS DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS. 



CLXX. J&ricetR. 



1341. ANDRO'MEDX [L s..p Bot. mag. 3285 



f 11044 ialicifolia Commerson Willow-lfd. BH_J.or 3? my P.Gsh Mauritius, Madagascar 1828? 



Hitherto we possess only figures [of this species] made from native specimens." (Dr. Hooker.) If 



this be the fact, A. .salicifolia Wat., of Hort. Brit. No. 11044., is a distinct species or variety. 



\ That this latter is a distinct species is probable from Mr. Sweet's referring it to the genus 



L-ybnia. See his Hort. Brit., ed. 2. p. 331. 



Introduced, from the woods of the Mauritius, by the late Mr. Telfair, into 

 the garden of the late Robert Barclay, Esq. ; and thence to the Birmingham 

 Botanic Garden. The flowers borne by the specimen received by Dr. 

 Hooker, in May, 1833, were of a greenish hue, "partaking little of the fine 

 purple so remarkable in drawings from living native specimens." The species 

 in Britain " needs the protection of a warm green-house." The flowers are 



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