1 40 Floricultiiral and Botanical Notices, 



not flowers so large as some of those on wild specimens, nor of 

 the colour described by Nuttall ; and he has attributed this to the 

 plants, from seeds sent by Mr. Drummond in the spring of 1835, 

 not producing their blossoms till the period of the autumnal 

 colds. It may be found in future seasons to flower earlier. The 

 flowers are described to have a corolla that has the tube con- 

 siderably inflated, pale, almost white,, tinged with purple ; the 

 limb of five spreading segments, within white, slightly suff'used 

 with yellow, and streaked with red. According to the figure, the 

 corolla is 1 in. long, and the limb nearly 1 in. across ; the lower 

 part of the filaments whitish, the anthers deep purple. The 

 figure is from the species, in a living state, in the Glasgow Bo- 

 tanic Garden, [Bot. Mag., Feb.) 

 CCXIII. SolandcecB. 



587. SA'RACH^ R. and P. (After Isidore Saracha, a Benedictine monk, much attached to botany, 



and who enriched the royal gardens at Madrid with many rare plants.) 5. 1. Sp. 3. 



[fl.gar. 2. 3. 323 

 * viscbsa iA.? Qla^mmy-herbaged S^ i 1 cu 1 s W spot, with Ol. Peru? 1834 SO p.l Sw. 



Stem sufFruticose. All parts of the plant thickly clothed with 

 glandular clammy hairs. Leaves heart-shaped, about 5 in. long, 

 and about as much broad, sinuosely lobed, with several large 

 triangular j)ointed teeth, or sometimes wholly entire. Flowers 

 in nearly sessile umbels in the forks of the branches : the umbels 

 of from three to five flowers. Corolla with its limb nearly l^in. 

 across, with five ovate -triangular acute lobes, white, marked 

 towards the centre with olive-coloured spots : tube very short 

 and wide. Berry globose, the size of a cherry, scarlet. The 

 account is relative to " a plant which flowered, and subsequently 

 ripened its fruit, in an open border of the Chelsea Botanic 

 Garden." It " is shrubby, and requires to be protected in the 

 green-house during winter. It is easily multiplied both by seeds 

 and cnVdugs." [Brit. Floio.-Gard., Feb.) 



588. ZY'CIUM [CO Sw. fl. gar. 2. s. 324 

 tl678 Sfrum L. African St or 10 su Liv P. Northern Africa, or else C. G. H. (see below) 1712 C 



" Although too tender to grow in the open border unpro- 

 tected, it will be found to succeed admirably well, if planted 

 against a wall in a favourable aspect. The plant whence our 

 drawing was taken is placed against the wall of the Chelsea 

 Botanic Garden, where it has stood for many years, without 

 any kind of protection, except what its situation affords, and is 

 annually adorned throughout the summer months with a pro- 

 fusion of its rich purple blossoms." As to its native country, 

 " some will have it to be indigenous to northern Africa; while 

 others, with Thunberg, give the Cape of Good Hope as its na- 

 tive country. The former opinion I am rather inclined to adopt, 

 as Thunberg's description would seem to apply to a species 

 different from the present." [Professor D. Don, in B7'it. Flow.- 

 Gard., Feb.) 



