supplementary/ to Encyc. of Plants and Hort. Brit, 139 



Annual. Beautiful in the many heads of flowers produced in 

 the summer and autumn : the heads are remarkable for the ray 

 bearing a circle of brown spots placed at a distance from the disk. 

 Peduncles much elongated, sometimes almost 1 ft. long. Stem 

 erect. Leaves opposite, undivided or cut in a pinnated manner. 

 Seeds received in the spring of 1835, from Mr. Drummond, who 

 had gathered them in Texas. [Bat. Mag., Jan.) 



CLXXIX. Brunoniaceae. 



*BRUNO^N7^ Smith. (So named by Smith in compliment to Robert Brown, Esq., D.C.L., &c. 

 &c., the present keeper of the Banksian herbarium in the British Museum, whom I may designate, 

 with perfect truth, as the most learned systematic botamist of this or any previous age. — Lindley.) 

 5. 1. Sp. 1. 



♦austrklis iJ. i?r. southern ]£ A or and fra 1 ... B New HoU. 1834 D? 1? Bot reg. 1833 



Leaves all radical, spathulate, hispid, and radiating from the 

 crown of the rootstock. Three scapes are shown in the figure, 

 the longest near I ft. long, terminated by a head of numerous, 

 rather small, flowers, that is subtended by an involucre of a few 

 leaves small and shorter than the flowers. The plant " in ap- 

 pearance is very like our wild scabiouses," but the flowers are 

 delightfully fragrant. According to the generic character by 

 Brown, each flower is subtended by four bracteas ; has a 5-cleft 

 calyx ; a corolla of one petal, with a slender tube and a limb of 

 five spreading segments ; five stamens arising from beneath the 

 pistil and with connate anthers ; a one-seeded ovary ; and a 

 stigma with a two-valved indusium. The fruit is a utriculus 

 [one-celled, one-seeded, capsule] enclosed in the enlarged hard- 

 ened tube of the calyx, which spreads upwards, and has its seg- 

 ments plumose. The seeds are without albumen. " A most 

 interesting perennial, introduced by Mr. James Backhouse in 

 1834. The drawing was made from specimens supplied by Mr. 

 Low of Clapton ; and " Dr. Lindley has " also received it from 

 the Messrs. Backhouse of York." He has recommend the pro- 

 tection of a frame or cool green-house for it. {Bot. Reg., Feb.) 



CC. Volemonidcece. 



473. COLLO'MIA [3468 



tCavanill6s» Hook, and Arn. Cavanilles's O or 1| jn— n R Y Chile 1832 S co Bot. mag. 



Synonymy : Phlox linearis Cav., Ic, not Collbmia linearis Nuit. ; CoUbmia CavanillesiV Hook 



and Arn. Bot. of Beech. Voy. v. i. p. 37. 1831 ; C. coccinea Lehv., Delect. Sem. Hort. Hamburg., 



1832 ; Bot. reg. t. 1622. ; C. lateritia D. Don, in Sw.fl.gar. 2. s. t. 206. 



Previously noted on by other names in Vol. IX. p. 620. 704. 

 706. " A very desirable annual." {Bot. Mag., Feb.) 

 CCXL ScrophularidcecB. 



nn. PENTSTE'^MON [St. Austin 1835 S s.l Bot. mag. 3465 



*Cobce^a Nutt. Cobcea-flower-like-flowered £ A or 2| aut W P Y R Interior of Texas, about 



Stem 2 ft. and more high. Leaves, the upper ones, oblong, or 

 even oblong-cordate and half stem-clasping; the middle ones ob- 

 long, narrower at the base, but sessile; the radical leaves oval- 

 spathulatepetiolate : allof themsomewhatglossy,denticulateat the 

 margin. Flowersinaterminal leafy panicle. Mr. Nuttall has called 

 the species Coboe^a on account of the magnitude, and a sort of ge- 

 neral resemblance in its flowers to those of CoboeV scandens. 

 Dr. Hooker has stated that the specimen that he has figured had 



