524 Floricultural and Botanical- Notices, 



pride of their country, as well as the surest pillars of their own 

 high hereditary order. The name of Cavendish has long since 

 been enrolled even in the ranks of practical science : but it 

 shines forth, in these latter days, with renewed lustre in the per- 

 son of His Grace the present Duke of Devonshire, whose noble 

 residence at Chatsworth is rapidly becoming, by the good taste 

 and munificence of its present proprietor, as remarkable for 

 richness in objects of botanical importance as it has long been 

 admirable for its extent and princely magnificence." Dr. 

 Lindley has added a description of the characteristics of the 

 plant, and has named it Cavendish/a nobilis. It is a shrub with 

 laurel-like leaves, and its flowers are arranged in capitate racemes, 

 mostly terminal. " The corolla is bright crimson and tubular, 

 about an inch long." 



Embryo Dicotyledonous: Corolla Polypetalous, or not 



PRESENT. 



XXIV. MahdcecE. 



2023. SrDA. [mag. 3436 



inffiqualis Lk. 8; O. uneqaaVt/-based-leafed * □ or 6J my W Brazil ? 1829 C l.p. BoL 



Its affinity among the; species is not stated ; but Spreng. Syst. is cited, where it may be shown. 



Received at the Edinburgh Royal Botanic Garden, named Sida in^qualifolia, from the Berlin 



Botanic Garden. 



The figure and description are from a plant in the stove of 

 the Edinburgh Royal Botanic Garden. This plant is a slender 

 upright shrub, nearly 7 ft. high, bearing pubescent leaves that 

 have footstalks 1 in. to 2 in. long, and cordate-acuminate disks 

 that are from 4 in. to 7 in. long, and from 2 in. to 3 in. broad, 

 are crenulate, slightly undulate, bright green and shining above, 

 paler and without lustre below, white below when young, then 

 somewhat rusty, " an appearance [? appearances] of which 

 scarcely a trace remains in the adult leaves." A flower and a 

 flower-bud are shown at the tip of a branch. " Peduncles about 

 2 in. long, .... corolla l^in. long, and, when fully expanded, 

 2 in. across, white, campanulate, .... stamens and styles equal [in 

 height] to the height of the petals;" anthers yellow, and in 

 their number sufficient to produce a mass of yellow that centres 

 the mouth of the white corolla. {Bot. Mag., Sept.) 



LXXVII. Leguminbsce. 



2144. KENNE^DY^. [1834 C S s.p Bot. reg. 1790 



19380(1 Marryattis Lindl. Mrs. Marryatt's %_ \ 1 or 4 ap to jl S Australia, Swan River Colony 



Compared with K. prostrata, " it is much larger in all its 

 parts, and very much more hairy ; in fact, its young leaves and 

 stems are perfectly shaggy. The leaflets are larger, far more 

 wavy, and shorter than their stalk. The flowers grow about 

 four in a cluster, instead of two, or being altogether solitary." 

 " It flowers abundantly from April to July, producing a striking 

 appearance with its numerous scarlet blossoms, . . . Our first 

 specimens were communicated by Mrs. Marryatt : we afterwards 

 received others from the garden of Mr. Robert Mangles." Sir 



