supplementary to Encyc. of Platits and Hort. Brit. 175 



bright green foliage, were in perfection to the very end of November, when 

 our figure was taken." (Dr. Hooker, in Bot. Mag., Feb.) 



2323. HELICHRY^SUM 20992 bracteatum. 



2 involdcro albido whitish-involucred O or 3 jl.o Y Camb. bot. gard. 1833? S co 



A living plant or plants of this remarkable variety was growing, in 1833, in 

 the Cambridge Botanic Garden • whence derived, and when, I either omitted 

 to ascertain or have forgotten. — J. D. 



2337. ^'STER. 

 f21332 eminens W. tall-stemmed ^ A or 7 s.o B United States ... D co Bot. reg. 1614 



2 virgfneus Nees pure vrhiterayed & A or 3 s.o W.Y United States ... Deo Bot. reg. 1656 

 " A. junceus H. K., A. longifolius Lain., A. virgineus Nees Synops. Ast, A. eminens var. virgineus 

 Nees Gen. et Sp. Ast., A. albus of English gardeners." (Bot. Reg. 1656.) 



This species is characterised by its involucrum • which consists, in all the 

 varieties, of a few very narrow rather leafy spreading scales, which seem as if 

 they all originated from the same circle, and have a somewhat squarrose 

 appearance. The rays of some varieties are of a violet colour ; of others, light 

 blue; and, in A. eminens var. virgineus, white. (Bot. Reg., March.) This last 

 variety is doubtless figured from the Horticultural Society's collection. 



CXCI. Caprifolidcece. 



892. flBU'RNUM. [Bot reg. 1650 



7129a cotinifblium D. Don Cotinus-lfd. 3£ or 10 my.jn W.Pk Himalayan mountains 1830 ? LI 



Common in the Himalayas, at elevations of from 5000 ft. to 7000 ft., in 30° 

 N. lat. In Britain it proves tolerably hardy. It much resembles V. Lantana: 

 its leaves have the same wrinkled grey aspect, its branches the same mode of 

 leafing and budding, and its fruit a very similar form ; but the flowers are 

 much larger, more coloured with pink, and neither flat nor slightly bell-shaped,' 

 but of a distinct obconical figure. (Bot. Reg., Feb.) 



CXCV. Asclepiddese. 



778. CEROPE^GIA. (Keropegion, a lampstand or candelabrum ; resemblance borne by the 



flowers as disposed in umbels.) 



+6213a LusIim Grah. Mr. Lush's & _| 23 cu ... o G.P E. Indies 1833. O p.l Bot. mag. 3300 



Itjias great affinity with C. acuminata Box., especially in the structure of the flowers. The leaves 



of C. Lushii are narrow, thick, fleshy, veinless ; those of C. acuminata, broader, not fleshy, and 



have lateral veins which emanate from the midrib. 



C. Lushw is not showy, but is graceful. " Many of the ceropegias are 

 possessed of considerable beauty, and are highly ornamental to the bushy 

 and uncultivated places in which they grow. They are, too, esculent • and are 

 used, either raw or stewed, in curries by the natives. Of one species, C. bul- 

 bosa, the root resembles a small turnip, no less (according to Dr. Roxburgh) 

 in appearance than in flavour,* and its leaves taste like purslane." (Bot. 

 Mag., Feb.) 



At the foot of p. 737. in Vol. IX. it is stated, that, at a show, on June 26. 



1833, of the Norwich Horticultural Society, 



"Ceropegia stupeUtefdrmis, a curious little plant, raised by Mr. Hitchen, and now flowered for the 

 first time, was exhibited by him, and received the large silver medal." Is this an undescribed 

 species ? It probably is. 



H6i/a carnosa will emit Roots into the Mortar of Walls, which collect there the 

 Means of supporting the Plant. — In Sept. 1833, Mr. Shepherd, sen., the 

 venerable and respected curator of the Liverpool Botanic Garden, showed me, 

 in a stove there, a plant of H6y« carnosa in full bloom growing from inter- 

 stices of the wall, into which it had established its roots ; the part of the plant 

 which intervened this point of attachment and that of the pot in which the plant 

 had originally grown had died away. I have a plant which has rooted firmly 

 into a wall in a green-house here, perhaps to follow the course of the plant at 

 Liverpool. — N. S. Hodson. Botanic Garden, Bury St. Edmunds, Jan. 1834. 



CXCIX. Convolvuldcece. 



491. IPOMCE*-A. [Bot. mag. 3297 



rubro-caerCtlea Hook, reddish-blue-corollaed ^ ? J| E3 spl. 8 ? s.n B.R Mexico 1833? S p.l 



" A twining smooth plant, with herbaceous branches. Leaves heart-shaped, 

 acuminate. Peduncles axillary, bearing from three to four flowers. Corolla, 

 in bud, white, with the limb of a rich lake red • which, when the corolla is fully 

 expanded, becomes of a fine purplish blue There are, perhaps, few, if 



