supplementary to Encyc. of Plants and Ilort. Brit. 297 



male flowers, the sepals are two, rosy ; petals ! two, white, and 

 smaller : in the female flowers, the sepals are four, rosy ; the 

 petals ! four, white, two of them smaller than the other two. 

 Pretty ; and of great botanical interest, as the presence of petals 

 in its flowers tends much to elucidate a question on the affinities 

 of the natural order Begon/ace*^, which the genus Beg^nm con- 

 stitutes. Mr. Richard Harrison has living plants of the B. 

 petalodes. {Bot. Reg.^ May.) 



Embryo Dicotyledonous: Corolla Monopetalous. 

 CLXX. Yiricdce(je. 



1339. ^HODODE'NDRON. [arbbreum ^ 1829. L s.p Sw.fl.gar.2.s.2S5 



ventistum Z). Dore lovely Vl- or 1 mr Pk.Spot Eng. hybrid, from ^. caucasicum 9, and 



An exceedingly showy and interesting plant ; raised by Mr. 

 William Smith, now nurseryman, Norbiton Common, near 

 Kingston, Surrey, in 1829, from seeds of R. caucasicum that 

 had been fertilised by pollen of R. arboreum. The plant from 

 which the figure has been taken was not more than 8 in. high, 

 and had two large clusters of fifteen flowers each ; the corollas 

 are represented as nearly 2 in, across, and are stated to be of a 

 rich pink colour, marked inside with dark-red spots. The leaves 

 are 4 in. or 5 in. long, 2 in. broad ; dull green and veiny above, 

 rusty brown beneath. R. venustum is quite hardy, and is easily 

 increased by layers. [British Flower- GardeJi, May.) 



CLXXXVI. Composites. 



2,-35fi. MVTVSIA. '° 



21570a latifolia i). Dora broad-leafed £_ 1 1 or 10 ? o Pa.Pk.Y Valparaiso 1832. C p.l Svv.fl.gar.2.s.288 



Stem shrubby, climbing, winged in the direction of its length 

 with three leafy appendages, which are toothed. Leaves cordate- 

 oblong, toothed, ending in a scollop or notch, in whose centre is 

 the midrib of the leaf; which midrib is continued into a tendril 

 Sin. long, by whose prehension of contiguous objects the branches 

 are supported. Heads of flowers shown to terminate, singly, 

 axillary branches or branchlets. Of the corollas w^hich form a ray 

 to the head, eleven are shown ; these are of a pale pink colour 

 (that proper to them at Valparaiso : in the specimen produced 

 in Britain they were nearly white ; " a circumstance, perhaps, 

 owing " to the plant's " flowering so late in the season "), and 

 nearly 1 in. long. The corollas of the disk of the head are 

 purple-coloured. The anthers yellow and prominent. " Flower- 

 ing specimens of this curious and interesting plant were commu- 

 nicated in October last [1834], by the Rev. Townshend Selwyn, 

 from his collection at Kilmington Rectory, Wilts." [British 

 Flotioer-Garden, May.) 



CXCI. QaprifolidcecE. 



621. CAPRIFO^LTUM. 



liispi'dulum iznrf/. hispid-sKr/aced J_ 3fe or jl Ro N.W. America 1833? C p.l Bot.reg.176i 



Mr. Douglas discovered this species in woods in north-west 



