504> Floricidtural and Botanical Notices^ 



sembling some potentillas in their general aspect; but with 

 flowers collected into heads, unguicidate petals, a campanulate 

 calyx, and 10 stamens, often with ovate petaloid filaments. 

 They form a transition from Potentilla to the genus Sibbald/«, 

 and thus assist in establishing a graduated series of structure 

 between the most highly developed forms of 2?osaceae, and such 

 imperfect forms as we find in Sanguisorbeae. (^Bot. Reg., Oct.) 

 AsclejnddQad. 



*PHILIBE'RT/^ Kunth. The Philibertia. (In honour of M. Philibert, author of an elementary 

 Treatise on Botany.) 

 ♦gracilis jD. Z)ore slender $_ A el 6 jn Y.W. Buenos Ayres 1836 C s.l Swt. Br. fl.-gard.403. 



A perennial herb, clothed with soft spreading hairs. Stems 

 filiform, twining. Leaves opposite, stalked, cordate, acuminate, 

 soft; green on both sides ; 1^ in. long; the posterior lobes rounded 

 and spreading. The plant was raised by Dr. Neill of Canon- 

 mills from seeds collected by Mr. Tweedie between Buenos 

 Ayres and Tucuman. The plant was kept all winter in a 

 vinery, trained to a rafter, where it did not appear to suffer from 

 being occasionally exposed to a little frost, very little fire having 

 been employed. \Swt. Br. Fl.-Gard., Oct.) 



Scrophiddrince, 



S468. LOPHOSPE'RMUM [Swt. Br. fl.-gard. 401. 



►scandensZ). JDoft (Lira, rrawi./xv. 353.) climbing £ | or 10 jn.o P Mexico 1835 C s.l 



A scandent perennial herb, clothed with soft, spreading, ar- 

 ticulated, viscid hairs. Leaves alternate, stalked, cordate, acu- 

 minate, serrated, with broad mucronulate teeth, palminerved and 

 reticulately veined; from 2 in. to S in. long, and from !§ in. to 

 2 in. broad ; dark green above, paler and less hairy beneath. 

 Corolla funnel-shaped, 2 in. or more in length, of a dull purple, 

 with the tube white on the under side. 



" It is with no little satisfaction," says Professor Don, " that 

 we present to our readers a figure of the original species of this 

 highly ornamental genus." The plant was first introduced, in 

 1835, to the Liverpool Botanical Garden. In habit, it comes 

 near to L. atrosanguineum ; and in the form of its flowers it is 

 exactly intermediate between that species and L. erubescens. 

 (L. scandens Bot. Mag., 3037. and 3038.; Swt. Br. Fl.-Gard. 

 68.) {Swt. Br. Fl.-Gard., Oct.) 



\ erbendcece. 



1755. PE-'TRE^ Civ. p. 199. 



*Stapel/£B Paxt. Stapelia.j?ot(jererf fl_ □ or 20 jn L ?S. Amer. ... C r.m Pax. mag. of bot. 



A twining stove shrub. Leaves oblong, rather acute ; veins 

 on the under surface, especially the principal, very prominent, 

 rough on both sides, and of a yellowish-green colour. " When 

 trained to the back wall of a stove trellis, or up a rafter, it is 

 very ornamental, even though not in flower; but in a state of 

 flowering, although the corolla is rather fugitive, it is, in con- 

 sequence of the less fugacious nature of the calyx, and the pen- 



