supplementary to E?icyc. of Plants and Hort. Brit. 69 



" The first head of flowers (flower) which appeared was at the termination of 

 the main branch, and quite erect, and afterwards each lateral branch threw out 

 a flower at its extremity, rather in a horizontal direction, the end of the flower- 

 stalk inclining upwards." (Bot. Mag., Jan.) 



Cephalophora glauca Cav. — I would recommend this annual to attention, 

 not for the beauty of its flowers, for they have no conspicuous beauty, but for 

 the delightful fragrance of its herbage : it resembles that of a ripe melon. 

 The whole plant is, even its seeds are, fragrant; and a little of it put amongst 

 clothes gives them a most agreeable perfuine. I would have this generally 

 known, that the plant, which, though not showy in its flowers, is an interesting 

 one, may be more generally cultivated. It requires no particular treatment : 

 raise it on a hot-bed in spring, and plant it out when up. — G. M. Elliott. Caul, 

 Sept. 18. 1833. 



CXCI. Corner Dec. Benthaim'a fragifera. (IX. 367.) Mr. John Roberts, 

 gardener to J. H. Tremayne, Esq., of Heligan, St. Austle, Cornwall, most 

 kindly sent us, on Dec. 26. 1833., specimens, bearing ripe fruit, leaves, and 

 flower-buds, of this newly "introduced and highly interesting hardy evergreen 

 shrub. Mr. Roberts is the person who has the happiness to be the first who 

 raised this plant ; with whom it flowered for the first time in Europe, and who 

 supplied the specimens from which the drawing published in the Botanical 

 Register was taken. His plant of Benthamia fragifera is 16 ft. in height and 

 covered with fruit. It has been out in the open ground for eight years, with- 

 out any protection, not even a mat. It is planted in stiff* clay, and at a great 

 elevation. The forward state of the flower -buds on the specimens, suggest 

 that the flowers of the plant are displayed early in the year ; though, we pre- 

 sume, not so early as those of the Cornus mascula: the leaves of Benthamia 

 fragifera resemble, a good deal, those of the C. mascula; but are, we think, 

 more elegant. The involucral leaves, which first defend, and then garnish, 

 the heads of flowers, are large and showy; as is evinced in some dried spe- 

 cimens which one of Mr. Roberts's assistants had given him to send us. The 

 heads of ripened fruit are orbicular, depressed, more than 1 in. across, of 

 a tawny red, and on a peduncle 3 in. long. A bush studded with these, partly 

 pendulous by their weight, and abounding in its neat green glossy leaves, must 

 be, in a bright autumn day, a very lovely object. We have distributed the 

 seeds, obtained from the fruits sent by Mr. Roberts, to botanic gardens and 

 nurseries. The shrub, it is stated in the FloricuUural Cabinet, may be increased 

 by cuttings, planted in loam under a hand-glass. 



CXCV. Asclepiddese. 



775. MARSDEW.4. 



flavescens Cun. yellowish-,/Zwd. $_ □ fra ? 20 ? jn.au Ysh N. Holl. 1830 ? C s.l Bot. mag. 3289 

 Nearly allied to M. viridiflbra Br. 



Discovered by Mr. Allan Cunningham on the sea-shore at the Illawana 



district, in lat. 34^°, New Holland, whence he introduced living plants of it to 



Kew, where they flower throughout the summer months. The figure exhibits 



a twining branch, which bears opposite petiolate lanceolate leaves waved at 



their margin, and stalked axillary cymes of green flowers whose corollas are 



wheel-shaped. (Bot. Mag., Dec.) 



778. CEROPE v GIA. 



Lush« Grah. Dr. Lush's Jfc E3 cu 8 ? s Lead Bombay 1833. O pi 



Leaves lanceolate-linear, on short petioles; peduncles axillary, cymose; 

 corolla | in. long, leaden-coloured, and glabrous on the outside, deep purple, 

 and slightly hairy within. This plant flowered in a stove in the Royal Botanic 

 Garden, Edinburgh, in September, 1833. Dr. Graham received it, in February, 

 1833, from his " friend, Dr. Lush of Bombay." (Dr. Graham, in Jameson's 

 Phil. Journ., January, 1834.) 



CXCVII. Gentihneas. 



464. VILLA'RS/^. „ , „ , .„„, 



chiUnsis B. C. Chilian =*= _AJ or 1 jn Pa.Y Chile 1832? D r.l Bot. cab. 1994 



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