supplementary to Enci/c. of Plants and Hart. Brit. 39 



received from Mr. David Douglas, in the years 1831, 1832, 1833. 

 By George Benthara, Esq., F.L.S., Secretary." The report was 

 read on June 17. 1834. Not any of the live plants of either of 

 the two species o^ Ribes had, up to that date, produced flowers. 

 Both are allied to sanguineum. Glutinosum in foliage only dif- 

 fers from that species in being destitute of down and slightly 

 viscous. It promises, from the dried specimens transmitted by 

 Mr. Douglas, to exceed sanguineum in beauty : the bunches of 

 flowers are twice the length of the bunches of sanguineum, and 

 contain at least from 30 to 40 flowers, which are borne on long 

 slender pedicels ; the colour of the flowers is red : its degree of in- 

 tensity cannot be judged of from the dried state of the specimens. 

 Glutinosum "is quite hardy, and grows vigorously in common gar- 

 den soil." Malvaceum differs from sanguineum in these points: — 

 its leaves are very rough and hispid on the upper side, and clothed 

 underneath with a whitish cottony down. The bunches of 

 flowers are shorter and closer, and each flower is nearly sessile 

 on the common stalk. It is deemed to be as hardy as san- 

 guineum, and as easily propagated. [Hart. Tra7is.) 



C\. Ex6g., subcl. Compl. polypet., group Albumin., alliance GrossMes, order EscslloniAcecc. 

 •[687. ESCALLO^N/^ [Conception and Valparaiso in Chile 1831 C p.l Sw. fl. gar. 2. s. 310 

 f28855 pulverultnta Pejs. dusted {deemed accidentally) * | or 8 jl W Common about 



A very handsome shrub, upright, branched, evergreen. 

 Leaves on short foot-stalks, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, flat and even, 

 2 in. to 4 in. long, 1 in. to 1^ in. broad, light green, regularly 

 crenulate, pubescent, varnished and glutinous on both sides, es- 

 pecially in the younger leaves. Flowers small, petals white, 

 anthers yellow. "Some of the flowers in our specimens, we re- 

 marked, were ten-cleft and decandrous." The flowers are dis- 

 posed into racemes that are spike-formed, 3 in. or 4 in. long, and 

 terminal ; each raceme consists of many flowers. Flowering spe- 

 cimens were communicated from " the Birmingham Botanic Gar- 

 den, by Mr. Cameron, the zealous curator of that establishment." 

 [Brit. Flffao.-Garden^ Nov.) 



Cl. Ex(5g., subcl. Compl. polypet., group Albumin., alliance Berberries, order Berheracex. 

 390. ^PIME^DIUM [mag. SMS 



f diph;^llum Xorfd. Bot. cab. twin .leafed :3t A pr | my W Japan 1830? Dltl Bot. 



Noticed in VIII. 721. The flowers are pendent and do not 

 include any pouch-shaped petals, nectaries of Linnaeus, such as 

 are in the flowers of E. alpinum. {Jiot. Mag., Nov.) 



Cl. Exog., subcl. Compl. polypet., group Epigynbsae, alliance Cucurbitales, order Cactaceje. 



+1472. CE^REUS {Cereus in Latin, " Literally, a torch or taper; a name translated by the English 



Torch-thistle; and given to these plants in conseq\ience of the upright kinds having some. 



thing the appearance of the tapers used in the ceremonies of the Roman Catholic religion " 



— Lindley, in Bot. Reg., 1. 1807.) [16,90 C s 1 ru Bot. reg. 1807 



f 12559 triangularis Haw. triangular.«?e?wmerf t^ ZD or 7- s W Y Mexico and W. Indies 



"It flowers so rarely, that" its flower " has never," before in 

 the figure cited " been represented from a European specimen." 

 (Lindlei/.) In Loudon's H. B., Bot. Mag., t. 1884., is cited for 

 a figure : correctly ? It flowered, in September, ] 834, at Sir G. 



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