1 74; Floricultural and Botanical Notices, 



' especially by the position of the radicle in respect to the hilum." — D. Don, who cites, from Lede- 

 bourandhis own examination, five other zygophyllums which are probably referable to the genus 

 Fabago. 



F. major appears to delight in a gravelly loam. In the Chelsea Botanic 

 Garden, planted at the foot of the rockwork, near the edge of the gravel walk, 

 it has attained the height of 4 ft., and blossomed abundantly. The whole herb 

 has the smell and taste of Capparis spinosa. {The British Flower-Garden, 

 Feb.) 



CXLVII. ? Lhnndnthees R. Br. in London Phil. Mag., July, 1833, new 

 series, vol. hi. p. 70. and 71. 



The place of this new order is not absolutely determined. It includes the genera Limnanthes R. Br. 

 and Floerkea Willd. 



LIMNA'NTHES R. Br. Marsh-flower. {Limne, marsh, anthos, flower ; the plant's habitat.) 



Sp. 1.— 

 Douglasw R. Br. Douglas's Ji. O or ... W.Y California 1833. S m.s Hort.trans.2.s.lA09 



An interesting plant, from the elegance of its flowers and foliage. It is a 

 prostrate pale-green annual, with finely divided rather succulent leaves, and 

 five white striated petals with a yellow base. The flowers are of about the 

 size of those of the Campanula rotundifolia, are slightly fragrant, and very 

 pretty. From the habit of this plant, it seems to require a damp and shady 

 situation, where it will probably remain in flower for a month or six weeks. 

 It is propagated by seeds, which are produced in tolerable plenty. (Bentham, 

 in Hort. Trans., 2d ser. i. 409.) 



MONOPETALOUS DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS. 



CLXIX. Sapotese. 



556. CHRYSOPHY'LLUM. 

 f4490 monopyrenum Swx. one-stoned £ □ or 30 au.mr "W W.Indies 1812. C r.m Bot.mag.3303 



Figured and described from a tree which grows in the neighbourhood of 

 Funchal, Madeira. This tree forms rather an elegant evergreen one, about 

 30 ft. high, and with a trunk not exceeding 1 ft. in diameter. All parts of the 

 tree are, while young, milky, as is shown when they are cut or broken. The 

 leaves (oval) are smooth and shining above ; beneath beautifully satiny, with 

 pale rust-coloured close-pressed silky hairs. The leaves, before they fall, turn 

 to a beautiful deep rich red, variously marbled or mottled with yellow or 



white Flowers very small, scentless. . . . Fruit a shining purplish black 



ovato-oblong drupe, about 1| in. long and half an inch broad; the drupes are 

 always produced in great abundance; and are eatable, but not esteemed. 

 (Bot. Mag., Feb.) In the London Horticultural Society's collection at 

 Chiswick, a shrub of this species is trained over the interior face of the back 

 wall of one of the green-houses : the plant's leaves, especially their rusty 

 satiny surface, are most beautiful objects. 



CLXXXVI. Composites. 



2340a. PERICA'LLIS D. Don. {Perikalles, very pretty; radial ligulas beautiful.) 19. 2. Sp. 8.— 



Tussilaginis D. Don. Coltsfoot-//^. £ lAJ or 1 w.sp Li Teneriffe 1829. S s.l Sw.fl.gar.2.s.228 

 Cineraria Tussilaginis Heiit., Hooker in Bot. Mag. 3215. ; Senecio Tussilaginis Lindt. in Bot. Reg. 

 1550. Mr. D. Don has, in the place cited, investigated the structure and affinities of this plant; 

 and deems it a form of a distinct and natural genus, which he has characterised, and named 

 Pericallis. To it he would refer this plant, and Cineraria crutinta, aurlta, lactea, lanata, multi- 

 flbra, joopulifblia, and ?«alva?f&lia. The genus Pericallis has, he has remarked, the habit of 

 ITussilago, the involucrum of Othonna, and the corolla of Senecio. 



Pericallis tussilaginis D. Don is an ornamental and desirable plant. See 



IX. 106. Mr. Don deems it perennial if kept in a green-house. (Brit. Floiv. 



Gard., Feb.) 



2253a. KENTROPHY'LLUM Neck. {Kentron, a spine, phyllon, a leaf; leaves very spiny.) 19. 1. 



f 20440 arborescens Hook. shrubby *s | | or 6 au.n Y Spain 1731. C s.p Bot. mag. 3302 



Onobroma arborescens Spr., Carthamus arborescens L. 



This singular and not unornamental plant " has stood out of doors, in the 

 Dublin College Botanic Garden, for the last two winters, in a sheltered bor- 

 der, flowering freely in autumn, and throwing out many side-shoots from its 

 woody stem. Both flowers and leaves have an agreeable musky smell." (Mr. 

 J. T. Mackay.') " Its lively yellow [heads of] flowers, nestled among the 



