supplementary to Encyc. of Plants and Hort. Brit. 287 



green-house at Kew " an extremely pretty evergreen shrub, having very glossy 



leaves, with parallel nerves resembling those of many of the laurel tribe, and, 



like those of the Cinnamomum verum, of a delicate red colour when young. 



Flowers in terminal spikes, small, corolla white." (Bot. Mag., May.) 



CXCVI. Apocynece. 



532. ALY'XIA. 

 4374a ?uscif61ia B. Br., with the details as in Gard. Mag., X. 238. 



Synonyme : A. Richardson? Swt. in Loudon's Hort. Brit. No. 4373. 



2 pugionif6rmis Cun. Aagger-lfd. * i I fra ? s W Moreton Bay 1830. C p.l 



Synonymes : Gynopogon pugioniformis Cun. MSS. in 1828 ; Alyxia pugionif6rmis Cnn., Loudon's 

 Hort. Brit. No. 28595. ; A. ruscifblia var. pugioniformis Cun. in Bot. Mag. May, 1834. 



The enumeration of the known species of Alyxia, given in p. 238., was copied from the Bot. Mag. 

 for April, 1834. This enumeration is cancelled in the number for May, and the following 

 more correct one substituted : — A. actinophylla Cun., spicata R. Br., tetragbna R. Br., stellata 

 B. 8f. S., obtusifblia B. Br., faurina Gawdichaud, oliva?formis Gaud., Torresiana Gaud., Gyno- 

 pogon R. SfS., rfaphnoides Cun., ruscifblia B. Br., scandens B. fy S., iuxifoha B.Br. These 

 species are enumerated by Mr. Allan Cunningham, who has given, in the Bot. Mag., their dia- 

 gnostics, habitats, and synonymes. Dr. Hooker has added, that " there are, besides, A. odorata 

 Wall., calophylla Wall., lucida Wall, in Dr. Wallich's list of plants of the Honourable the East 

 India Company's museum." 



CCXL. Scrophularinece. 



itfl'MULUS Smiths Paxton (see p. 239.) is figured in the Botanical Register for May, 1. 1674. ; 

 where it is quoted, from Mr. George Smith, nurseryman, Islington, that he had raised it from 

 seeds of M. variegatus fertilised with the pollen of M. luteus rivularis. " It is a hardy plant, 

 with all the habit of M. luteus rivularis." From Paxton's Magazine of Botany for May, we 

 learn that 



" Mr. George Smith, Islington Nursery, London, has farther improved this 

 beautiful family ; kinds of which he possesses exceeding in beauty the M. 

 Smiths, being not only marked with distinct spots on each petal, but regularly 

 laced round the extremity ; the lower lip having three dark marks, and the 

 yellow considerably deeper." 



CCXL. Scrophularinece. § Bachnerevz D. Don. 



1782a. NYCTERI'NIA D. Don. {Nycterinos, nocturnal ; the flowers of all the species [known 



up to May, 1834] expanding at night.) 14. 2. Sp. 4.— 

 The genus is a very natural one ; and is essentially distinguished from .Erinus and Buchnera by the 

 structure of the anthers and stigma, and by the insertion of the filaments. It will contain, besides 

 .Erinus Lychm'dea Thun., fragrans, tristis, and africanus of Linnaeus, all natives of the Cape, and 

 agreeing remarkably both in habit and structure. (D. Don.) 



+15891 Lychnidea D. Don Lychnis-corollaed tt. , j fra f ap.jn W.P C. G. H. ... C s.p.l Sw.fl.gar.2.s.239 



.Erinus Lychm'dea Thun., Hort. Brit. No. 15891., Bot. Reg. 748. 



+15890 fragrans D. Don evening-scented «- i | fra * my.jn W.P? C.G.H. 1776. Cs.1 Bur. af. 49. 4 



.Erinus fragrans H. K., Hort. Brit. No. 15S90. 

 +15892 tristis D. Don dark-corollaed **- i_] pr 1 my.jn P C.G.H. 1825. C s.l 



.Erinus tristis Thun., Hort. Brit. No. 15892. 



Nycterinia Lychnidea D. Don is a plant of well-known interest for its grace- 

 ful flowers, and their fragrance in the evening or in cloudy weather. This 

 (and probably all the) species forms a very pretty border plant during the 

 summer and autumnal months. A store of plants, obtained from cuttings or 

 from seeds, should be provided in the green-house to this end. (The Brit. 

 Floiv.-Garden, May.) 



CCXIII. Sotdnece, 



489. PJETITNIA. 



+29217 intermedia D. Don intermediate £ ,AI or 1 au.o P.Y Parana 1832. Sit Sw.fl.gar.2s.237 



Salpiglossis linearis Hook, incidentally in the text of Bot. Mag. t. 3113. ; statedly and with a figure 



in Bot. Mag. t. 3256., Gard. Mag. IX. 621. ; Nieremberg/a intermedia Graham in Edin. Ph. J. 



1833 ; Nieremberg/a, section Petunia, species intermedia D. Don in Sw. Fl. Gar. 2. s. May, 1834 



t. 237. 



Mr. Neill, of Canonmiils, near Edinburgh, has raised a plant of this species 

 from seeds transmitted by Mr. Tweedie, who discovered it in sandy plains near 

 the banks of the Parana. " As the plant is found to produce seeds much 

 more freely than the other species, and to be of ready increase by cuttings, 

 we hope soon to see it a common ornament of the flower border, to which its 

 graceful habits, and successive profusion of blossoms of the deepest purple, 

 shaded partly with brown [and centred with yellow], and of a rich velvety 

 hue, cannot fail to render it a most welcome addition. It appears to be quite 

 as hardy as the [Petunia] phcenicea." (The Brit. Flow. -Garden, May.) 



PetUnia phoenicea proves itself to be, like P. nyctaginiflijra, a persistent shrub, in a mild winter 

 and sheltered warm aspect. The plant of which I have spoken in IX. 562. has remained 

 untrimmed in the state in which it ceased flowering last autumn ; and now (May 3.) exhibits 

 young shoots, protruded from the last year's branches in various points. 



