138 Floricultural and Botanical Notices, 



1980. ADE'SMIA [fl.gar. 2. s. 322 



+17681 pendula Dec. pendulous-/r«/fe(Z ^ A or 1 su O and Y Buenos Ayres 1825 S s.I Sw. 



** A creeping perennial herb, furnished which long white run- 

 ners," apparently under-ground ones. Scapes 7 in. or 1 ft. high. 

 Leaves radical, impari-pinnate, 9 in. long. Leaflets, about twelve 

 pairs with the odd one, obovate or elliptical-oblong. Racemes 

 terminal, solitary, many-flowered, erect. Flowers more than 

 half as broad as a sixpenny-piece. Standard orange yellow, 

 streaked with purple lines ; wings orange yellow, keel pale yel- 

 low. A native of dry sandy pastures in Buenos Ayres, raised 

 in 1834, by Dr. Neill, Canonmills, near Edinburgh, from seeds 

 sent by Mr. Tweedie. The figure is from a plant in the Chelsea 

 Botanic Garden, where, in an open border, it has produced an 

 abundance of flowers and ripe fruit. It " appears to be quite 

 hardy." {Brit. Flo^.-Gard., Feb.) 



CXXXI. PassiJlordcecB, 



1923. PASSIFLO^RA 

 *? 16889a Mayano May's £ |or?30 English hybrid ?1833 C r.m 



On the wrapper of the Floricidtural Cabinet, the number for 

 February, 1836, is an advertisement from Mr. "William May, 

 nurseryman, &c., Hope Nursery, Leeming Lane, near Ripon, 

 of a kind of passion-flower, named as above ; and, besides, 

 his *' new hybrid fruit-bearing passion-flower," and particulars 

 to the following amount are stated of it. It flowers early, and 

 bears numerous flowers and fruits, insomuch that the plant, 

 covering a space of wall 15 ft. square, was on December 24. 1835, 

 bearing 94 fruits in a state of perfection. The fruit resembles 

 the yellow magnum bonum plum ; but it is of a deep orange co- 

 lour, ripens in October and November, and hangs upon the plant 

 until the end of January ; and the fruits, in contrast with the 

 fine deep green foliage, render the plant, in mid-winter, exceed- 

 ingly interesting. 



CLI. AmarantdcecB. 



[the word in Hort. Brit. 



735. CELO^SIA TC^efeos, something burnt, izwrf/eyy appearance of the inflorescence. Kelosis 



\&X)i coccinea L. scaxlet-inflorescenced im or 5 jn.s S China 1597 S r.m Bot. reg. 1834 



" It difi^ers from C. cristata [the common cockscomb] chiefly 

 in the crowded pyramidal arrangement of the inflorescence, the 

 narrower leaves, and the short stamens. It is also a far more 

 hardy plant, and goes on producing, glowing crimson tassels, in 

 the open border, till winter destroys it." The inflorescence seems 

 by the figure, composed of numerous ovate-acuminate spikes, 

 disposed into an ovate-acuminate one of more than 3 in. long, 

 and of nearly 3 in. broad in its broadest part. The figure is 

 from specimens from the Hon. W. F. Strangways, from his 

 garden in Dorsetshire. {Bot. Reg., Feb.) 



Embryo dicotyledonous: Corolla monopetalous. 

 CLXXXVI. Compositce. 



2415. COREO'PSIS . [mag. 3460 



*coronata Hook. " crowned " 3i or 2 su aut Y Br spot Texas in Mexico 1835 S co Bot. 



