supplementary to Encyc. of Plants a fid Hort. Brit. 1 7 1 



3369i/. PLATYSTI'GMA Benth." °~ {Platys, broad, stigma ; stigma ovate.) 13. 1. Sp 1 _ 



Ymekxe Benth. linear-#"a\ £ | pr § ... Y California 1833. S ... Hort. trans. 2. s. 1. 406, 407 



The description of the genus and species is from dried native specimens. 

 Living plants have not yet flowered in Britain. " It resembles, in habit, Pla- 

 tystemon californicus ; but it is smaller, more tufted, and widely distinct in 

 botanical characters. The flowers are yellow, rather smaller than those of the 

 Platystemon." (Bentham.') 



3369*. DENDROME N CON Benth. (Dendron, a tree, me/con, a poppy ; shrubby habit and affinity ) 



13. 1. Sp. 1. — 



rigida Benth. stiff-habtted ti. |or2? ... Y? California 1833. S ... Hort. trans. 2.s. 1.407 



Mr. Bentham has written Dendromecon n'gidum ; as mekon is feminine, we have written rigida. 



This is described from native specimens ; but it is possible that Mr. Douglas 

 sent home seeds from which, if sown, plants may by this time have arisen. 

 " A densely leafy, rigid, smooth, little shrub. Leaves lanceolate, denticulate, 

 wrinkled, rigid. Peduncles axillary, one-flowered. The flowers appear to be 

 yellow, and nearly as large as those of Papaver nudicaule." It is a very 

 remarkable plant in this order, on account of its shrubby stem and coriaceous 

 leaves and capsules." (JBentha?n.) 



3370. ESCHSCHO'LTZ/^. 

 28369a crdcea Benth. saffron-petaled -* A or 1 jl.o Saf California 1833. S co Hort. trans. 2.S.1.407 



In general habit, foliage, and size of the flower, E. crocea closely resembles 

 E. californica ; but promises far to surpass it in the rich orange colour of the 

 petals. E. crocea is equally hardy, and appears to flower even more freelv. 

 It is botanically distinguished from E. californica by the widely expanded 

 limb of that curious appendage of the peduncle beneath the insertion of the 

 calyx which is characteristic of the genus, and by the long attenuated point of 

 the calyx. (Bentham) 



Mr. Douglas has also sent home dried specimens and seeds of other species 

 of Eschscholtzk : these Mr. Bentham has described and named caespitdsa, 

 tenuifolia, Aypecoides (whose flower resembles that of ifypecoum grandi- 

 fiorum) ; " but no seed of them has vegetated." 



1553 MECONO'PSIS. 



13793a heterophylla Benth. various-lvd. 2e ? A ? pr. 1 ? ... O.R California 1833. S co Hort.trans.'2.s.'l.i08 

 crassifdlia Benth. thick-lfd. ^ ? A ? pr. 1? ••• O.R California 1833. S co Hort.trans.2.s.l.408 



Described from dried specimens. A plant or plants of one of the species 

 has been raised in the Horticultural Society's garden ; and, although the 

 plant or plants died, it is hoped that more will be raised from a share of the 

 first imported seed, which had been reserved. " The flowers of both species 

 are of an orange red, about the size of that of Papaver Argemone : they do 

 not appear likely to be so ornamental as many others of the poppy tribe now 

 in cultivation." {Bentham.} 



XLV. Grossuldcece. 



719 RI K BES. 



f28130 punctatum R. $ P. dotted-//^. * pr 3 ? ap.my Y.G Chile 1826. Ceo Bot. reg. 1658 



A figure of a plant is published in the Bot. Beg. for Nov. 1829, t. 1278., which Dr. Lindley has 



there named R'ibes punctatum, and identified by the same references as those given in t. 1658; 



but with the latter figure and description he does not couple any mention of, or reference to, 



the figure and description at 1. 1278. 



A rather pretty evergreen shrub, remarkable for the shining yellowish green 

 appearance of the leaves, and the short bunches of yellowish flowers. It is 

 hardy enough to live in a dry border without protection ; and would probably 

 succeed extremely well in the south of England, in rocky situations. The 

 species has been cultivated in the Horticultural Society's garden for several 

 years. {Bot. Reg., March.) 



5059 nigrum 



2 bacca flavida yellowish-berried 3£ cu 4 ap.my Wsh C co 



This may not be a variety of nigrum ; but it resembles nigrum in habit and appearance wholly. 

 All that I know of its history is, that W. Oldham, Esq., when residing at Rickinghall, near 

 Diss, Norfolk, presented, on Oct. 2. 1827, cuttings of it to the botanic garden at Bury St. Ed- 

 munds, Suffolk, as of " the green-berried black currant; " and stated that it had been received 

 into his neighbourhood from that of Bath. The cuttings were planted, grew, and formed plants, 

 which bore berries not green but obscurely yellow, flavoured like those of the black currant ; 

 and, besides, plenty of branches for other cuttings, which were supplied to several persons who 

 ,' had asked for them : among others, to (1 believe) J. Sabine, Esq., for the London Horticultural 

 Society. — J. D. 



