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reous white, longer than the limb, jjths longer than the style, Iths than the 
anthers ; filaments adnate, from £ to ^ths of an inch from the base, sepals 
Jths, petals jjths wide, tortuous. N. moschatus a Bot. Mag. — 7. Albicans. 
Cor. citrina mox subalbescens limburn subalbescentem superans, stylo 
unc. anther is 1£, longior ; Jilam. \-rs basi adnata. Cup lemon, turning 
whitish soon, longer than the limb, exceeding the style an inch, the 
anthers ; filaments adnate as in Tortuosus; sepals fifths, petals 11 wide, 
tortuous. — 8. Cernuus. Corona cernua citrina mox subalbescens limburn 
subalbescentem superans stylo unciam fere longior ; fil. circ. i unc. a basi 
adnata. Cup hanging down, lemon, turning soon to whitish, exceeding 
the style near an inch, the anthers near lj; filaments adnate at about gth 
from the base, sepals igths, petals 9 wide, tortuous. The filaments of 
tortuosus are slenderer, of cernuus thicker, though shorter, than those of 
albicans ; the anthers of cernuus a little longer and yellower. I suspect 
tortuosus of being a garden cross between albicans and bicolor. — 9. Mos- 
chatus. Cor. sulphurea mox albescens limburn album cequans, stylo 
5 longior. Cup sulphur, turning to white, longer than the white limb, 
exceeding the style 5 of an inch. N. Moschatus S. Bot. Mag. 32. 1300. — 
10. Sabinianus. Cor. lutea limburn album superans , stylum cequans; 
fil. i-i a basi inceq. adnata. Cup yellow, longer than the white limb, 
equalling the style ; filaments adnate unequally | and |ths of an inch from 
the base. — Ganymedes. Its anthers are attached nearer the middle than 
those of Queltia, and their margins do not come in contact behind. 
Striatulus is shorter, stouter, with larger cup and limb than pulchellus, 
and its petaline stamens more prolonged ; style long and salient. — Her- 
mione. A specimen of wild Hermione, just received from the Hon. Wm. 
Fox Strangways, very common near Genoa, exhibits the natural form of 
H. brevistyla, which I had found in no herbarium. Flowers 3-4, fragrant ; 
tube a little exceeding half an inch, green; limb 3-8ths, white; sepals 
much wider than petals, cup deep orange, not 3-16ths long ; style 3-16ths 
shorter than the tube ; leaves narrow. Bifrons is the only Hermione 
with leaves not tending to glaucous ; no Ajax has green, no Corbularia 
glaucous, leaves. — H. Dubia, incorrectly represented in Redoute, has the 
style as long as papyracea, of which it is clearly a variety, with shorter 
and blunter segments. By a recent examination of a live specimen, I am 
satisfied that N. pumilus of Redoute is a weak one-flowered specimen 
of H. dubia, var. 1. The flower tallies exactly, and the wild specimens 
are often 2-flowered. In cultivation the flowers become more numerous, 
and the leaves broader, than in any of the three wild varieties. Herm. 
dubia must therefore be transferred to papyracea, as v. 3. dubia, or more 
properly Gallica, and its wild variations marked subvar. My opinion 
of N. pumilus of Redoute is confirmed by information since received from 
Paris, that no trace of it exists there. — One var. of double Hermione is 
brevistyla. -Queltia pumila must be expunged as a nonentity. — A fine 
2-flowered variety of Queltia odora grows amongst the chesnut trees near 
the church of N. Senhora del Monte in Madeira. Var. 8. Isometra ; 
germine, tubo, et corona isometris, fere semuncialibus, limbo § unc. corona 
stylum -jj superante leviter sexloba. Germen, tube, and cup equal, each 
near | inch, limb f , long ; cup exceeding the style l-16th, slightly six- 
lobed. The fetid Queltia cannot be, as some have suggested, a cross 
between plants of agreeable scent. 
The curious mule Rhododendron (see p. 359) from the plant called 
Rhodora Canadensis by Az. Pontica is now in flower. The flowers are 
of a very pale yellow, with from seven to nine stamens. It will be iigured 
in the Bot. Reg. 
March 25, 1837. 
