Floricullural and Botanical Notices. 399 



Art. III. Floricultural and Botanical Notices of new Plants, and of 

 old Plants of Interest, supplementary to the latest Editions of the 

 " Encyclopedia of Plants" and of the " Hortus Britannicus." 



Curtis' s Botanical Magazine ; each monthly Number containing eight plates ; 



3s. 6d. coloured, 3s. plain. Edited by Dr. Hooker, King's Professor of 



Botany in the University of Glasgow. 

 JEdwai'ds's Botanical Register ; each monthly Number containing eight plates ; 



4?. coloured, 3s. plain. Edited by Dr. Lindley, F.R.S., Professor of Botany 



in the London University. 

 Sweets British Flower-Garden ; each monthly Number containing four plates ; 



3s. coloured, 2s. 3d. plain. Edited by David Don, Esq., Librarian to the 



Linnaean Society. 



POLYPETALOUS DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS. 



III. Tlanunculdcea;. 



1G37. .RANU'NCULUS 14562 willefoliatus. [Sw. fl. gar. 2. s. 248 



2 grandiflbrus D. Don large-flowered Jt ^ or % ap. Y Mt St. Angelo, Naples 1833. D lt.l 

 " R. garganicus Tenore," D. Don, in Sw. Fl. Gar., Gard. Mag. IX. 241., X. 341. 



Leaves tripinnately divided, with linear lanceolate segments. Stems several 

 upon a plant, each usually single-flowered; corolla and stamens of a golden 

 yellow colour ; corolla varying in size, sometimes lg in. across. Figured from 

 the collection of Mrs. Marryat; whose daughter, Mrs. Palliser, received it, 

 from Professor Tenore, under the name of R. garganicus. (See X. 341.) 

 Garganus is the ancient name of the Mount St. Angelo of the present day. 

 (The Brit. Flow.-Gard., July.) 



XIII. Anonacese § Schizdndrecs Blume. 



SPHiEROSTE^M A Blume. {Sphaira, a globe, sterna, a stamen ; the filaments of the stamens, 

 which are in number many, are all coadunate into a fleshy solid mass, the anthers only being at 

 liberty, and nestling in a number of little excavations of the mass.) 22. 12. Sp. 1. — 



[Bot. reg. 1688 



propinquum Blume near akin {to ? Kadsura) ^ □ or 10 ? jl Y Nipal 1828 ? C p.l 



The male sex only of the species is yet alive in Britain. 



A shrub with a twining glabrous habit, and aromatic leaves ; which last are 

 ovate acuminate, toothed, petioled, and alternate. The male flowers are of 

 about the breadth of a shilling, and solitary, on not long footstalks, in the axils 

 of the leaves : each consists of three green sepals, and three yellow petals, and, 

 in the centre of these, the yellow anther-bearing mass. Dr. Wallich found this 

 species in Nipal, on Mount Sheopore, and on hills about Sankoo. Dr. Lindley 

 has deemed it, in Britain, " a hot-house climber ; " and has added : — "It is 

 easily propagated by cuttings; and, in the fertile state [the female sex of it], 

 must be a handsome plant, with its long pendulous spikes of scarlet berries. 

 Unfortunately, the plant which flowered in the garden of the Horticultural 

 Society last July, and from which our drawing was taken, was a male; so 

 that we are not likely to see these berries until a fresh importation of plants 

 shall have taken place." We are, nevertheless, very glad to be able to learn 

 thus much of the male only. (Bot. Reg., July.) 



XL VII. OnagrdruB § Fuchsitee, I send you some showy flowers of a 

 hybrid fuchsia between Fuchs/a gracilis and F. coccinea, which I have raised 

 in this garden [that of J. H. Tremayne, Esq., Heligan, Cornwall]. It is planted 

 in the open ground; and was not, last winter (this being very mild), cut down 

 by the frost. The plant is 5 ft. high, and 15 ft. in circumference, and is loaded 

 with flowers : these are much larger, and of a better colour, than those of the 

 F. virgata, and render the plant a very showy one : it has been admired by all 

 who have seen it. — John Roberts. Heligan, Cornwall, June 26. 



The flowers of the hybrid are large and showy. From the tip of the germen 

 to the tip of the stigma is a length of 2| in. ; the segments of the coloured 

 calyx are 1| in. long. 



LXXVII. Leguminosa?. 



ZUPrNUS densiflurus, of which we have quoted an account in p. 173., is figured in Bot. Reg. 1689. 



