supplemeyitayy to Encyc. of Plants and Hort. Brit. 73 



Martius's treatise was laid before the academy on May 21. 1832. 

 Some of them had been introduced as early as, or before, 1829; 

 for the names of some of them are registered in the Hortus Re- 

 gius Mojiace?isis, Munich, 1829. 



The descriptions are very detailed and elaborate, and the 

 figures are exquisitely executed. Sections and views of the 

 mammillae, prickles, hairs (these are jointed in some species, 

 perhaps in all), flowers, stamens, pollen, pistil, and of the berry, 

 ovules, and seed, are given at the foot of one or other of the 

 figures of the specimens : these last are coloured. 



LXXVIL LeguminbscB. 



2100. PHA''CA. {^Jameson's Edi'n. Phil. Journ., No. 35., descript. 



ca.n^scens Hook. ^ Arnoit canescent-kerbaged ^ J^ 1 ? in.jy Pa.Ro Valparaiso 1831? SI 



Stem elongated, slightly branched. Leaf 3 in. long, of 10 or 

 12 pairs of leaflets. Racemes of flowers, axillary, on peduncles. 

 Corolla pale rose-coloured. " This plant, found by Mr. Cuming 

 at Valparaiso, we received in the botanic garden, Edinburgh, from 

 that of Birmingham, in spring, 1834. It flowered in the green- 

 house in June and July." (Dr. Graham, in Jamesori^s Edin. Phil. 

 Journal, No. 35.) The plant is most probably hardy, or nearly so. 



C. Sapinddcecje. 



1159. EUPHOnilA. [a floriferous branch ; Hort. Trans, ser. 1. ii. 28*, the fruit 



t9359. i(/n^a« Lam. the \onga.n fruit i □ fr 30 ? my.jn Pa.Y China 1786. L r.m Bot. reg.1729. 



The litchi [Euphoria Litchi'\ and the longan are two of the 

 finest fruits that the Chinese possess. Both species are trees ; 

 and many varieties of each are cultivated in China. In both 

 species the fruit is of this structure: a tough, thin, leathery coat 

 includes a colourless semitransparent pulp, in the centre of which 

 is a dark brown seed. The flavour of the pulp is slightly sweet, 

 subacid, and particularly pleasant to the taste, in a warm climate. 

 The litchi is most esteemed by Europeans ; the Chinese prefer 

 the longan, considering it to possess medicinal properties as a 

 stomachic. Both species have been transplanted, from China, to 

 many places in the East Indies. (Bot. Reg., Jan.) The figure 

 of E. Longan in Bot. Reg. is from a plant in flower in a hot- 

 house at Syon, in May, 1833. The figure of the fruit in Hort. 

 Trans, is from fruit produced, in 1816, at Mr. J. Knight's, of 

 Lee Castle, near Kidderminster : the only place in Britain in 

 which E. Longan has produced its fruit. 



CXXXIX. UnecB. 



921. iPNUM. 

 7428a moni'igynum Fo)-s<. cowcre/e-styled ^ A or 2 jn.au W N, Zealand 1832. S s.l Sw.fl.gar.2.s.270 



Ornamental, herbaceous, perennial, hardy. The figure is 

 from " a plant which flowered in Mr. Knight's collection, 

 King's Road, Chelsea." We saw the species flowering in the 

 London Horticultural Society's Garden in August, 1833. The 

 stems, 2 ft. or more high, are garnished with glaucous leaves; 

 and terminated by corymb-shaped panicles of flowers, whose 



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