526 Floricultural arid Botanical Notices^ 



1271. CA'SSIA. [Sp.l Bot. mag. 3435 



10779 glandulbsa L glande^^midribbed • □ or 5 9 months out of the 12 Y West Indies ]822 

 Dr. Hooker has noted that he quite believes this to be the glandulbsa L. ; but he has queried its 

 identity with the glandulusa of Dec. Prod, and Spreng. Syst. 



In a stove in the Glasgow Botanic Garden this kind forms a 

 shrub 4 ft. to 5 ft. high, " bearing, especially at the top, many 

 long, rather straggling, and pendent branches ; thus, as it were, 

 presenting the graceful foliage and bright-coloured flowers more 

 immediately to the spectator." Leaves alternate, in two rows, 

 pinnated, with from twelve to eighteen pairs of oblong, nearly 

 sessile leaflets, downy beneath and at the margin. The corolla's 

 extreme points extend beyond the outline of a shilling piece ; in 

 colour, full yellows " It is a plant of considerable elegance of 

 foliage, and bearing its copious blossoms for at least nine months 

 out of the twelve." (Bot. Mag., Sept.) 



CXXII. GeranidcecE. 



Pelargonium, two varieties of, which have superior qualities, 

 have flowered this year, for the first time, at Mr. Dennis's, where 

 they had been raised from seeds. One variety is deemed to 

 excel Dennis's Perfection. It is similar to this in the characters 

 of the foliage and in the shape of the corolla. The colours of 

 the upper petals are crimson scarlet, with dark, velvet, defined 

 eyes ; lower petals lighter. The pugnacious name of Dennis's 

 Defiance has been applied to this. The other variety assimilates 

 in the characters of its foliage to Dennis's Amelia. The plant 

 has been raised from seed so lately as in 1835 : it is, for its size 

 and age, prolific in flowers. Umbels on rather long peduncles, 

 and of from five to eight flowers. Corolla large; the upper 

 petals scarlet, with dark defined eyes ; the lower petals more 

 rosy than scarlet, of such size, and so arranged, as to approach to 

 symmetry with the upper petals. The name for this had not 

 been, on Aug. 22., decided on. This variety was pointed out 

 to me then, and the other some weeks previously, by Mr. Joseph 

 Robinson, foreman to Mr. Dennis, and distinguished for his 

 proficiency in the culture of pelargoniums. — J. D. 



CXXIII. Oxalidea. 



14H. O'XALIS. ^ AdenophyllEB, judging by what follows. 

 1198Sa J DarwalUa/ja West Birm. Bot. and Hort. Soc. Dr. Darwall's $ .Alpr J? ••• "much paler" 

 11991a 5 [in colour than 0. versicolor Native country unknown ... O p.l 



See, under jLathyrus Armitagedmcs, above. The ideas im- 

 plied in the description in Latin in Aris's Gazette are these : — 

 Leaflet broadly linear, emarginate, bearing, beneath, many 

 glands ; peduncle longer than the leaf; styles long, these and 

 the filaments bearing hairs tipped with glands. Of the descrip- 

 tion in English in Aris's Gazette, the following is nearly a copy : 

 — The oxalis was sent as a variety of " Oxalis versicolor," but, 

 when examined, was found quite distinct, differing in its much 

 broader leaflets, and by the many dots on the margin of them, 

 instead of two, as in versicolor ; its corolla is much paler, and 



