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Art. XXII . — List of Rare Plants which have Flowered in the 
Royal Botanic Garden , Edinburgh , during the last three 
months. Communicated by Professor Giiaham. 
June 10. 1825. 
Alstrcemeria pulchra. 
This beautiful plant flowered very 
freely. The umbel many-rayed. 
The rays are badly described as 
3-flowered. They are single 
flowered, though often (not ne- 
cessarily) subdivided to 3 or 4 
times, but each leading subdivi- 
sion bears one flower only. At 
each subdivision there is one leaf- 
let. The style at length be- 
comes longer than the stamens. 
The pollen is leaden-coloured. 
Bromelia pyramidalis. 
Cactus speciosissimus. 
This most splendid species is at pre- 
sent showing flower very freely. 
Two of its rich blossoms are ful- 
ly expanded, and there are four 
flower. buds on the same plant. 
Calanthe veratrifolia. 
Cerbera fruticosa. 
Chamserops humilis (foem.) 
This flowered later than the male 
plant, from having been kept 
in a different house, and in a 
lower temperature. 
Conan thera bifolia ? 
This is certainly the plant figured 
under this name in Bat. Mag. 
t. 2406. ; but whether that of 
FI. Peruv. or not, I have unfor- 
tunately no means of determin- 
ing. Dr Sims says the figures 
in that work and in Feuillee re- 
present the petals narrower and 
more reflexed than his plant; 
and the three radical leaves 
which appear in his plate, he at- 
tributes to the bulb which pro- 
duced them not having flower- 
ed. As the root- leaves in his 
flowering plant had decayed be- 
fore the flower expanded, he pro- 
bably had not seen them. They 
never decayed with us before 
flowering: we had several plants, 
and all except one, a small one, 
which did not flower, had three 
radical leaves. The bulbs were 
imported from Chili, and have 
hitherto been kept in the stove. 
The following I would suggest 
as corrections of some parts of 
the description of the species. 
Bulb solid, articulate, conical, flat, 
and oblique below, upon which 
surface the new bulb is formed, 
and afterwards carried about 2 
inches perpendicularly into the 
soil. 
Root -leaves 3. Stem-leaves amplexi- 
caul, all linear, flat, with (3 ?) 
contiguous yellow ribs thicken- 
ing the leaf in the centre, and 
prominent behind. Stem branch- 
ing above, erect, foot high. 
Panicle loose ; pedicels single- 
flowered. Corolla monopetalous, 
deep blue, veined ; limb spread- 
ing, 6-parted, segments concave, 
and the alternate ones ciliated ; 
tube campanulate. 
Crimim scabrum. 
Bulbs imported from Rio de Janei- 
ro by Captain Graham, of H. M. 
Packet Service, in 1824. The 
belief that this is a native of 
Brazil, is therefore well founded. 
Curcuma viri diflora. 
Dionsea museipula. 
Eabricia myrtifolia. 
Gesneria bulbosa. 
Grevillea juniperina. 
Hedychium eiatum. 
Heliconia Bihai. 
Hoya acuta. 
This plant, I believe, has not be- 
fore flowered in this country. 
Tike the other species, it re- 
quires the heat of the stove, but 
grows less freely than H. carnosa. 
Xsmene calatliinum. 
The specimen of this plant was im- 
perfect : the scape had only one 
flower, and of this one-half of 
the nectary and stamens were 
awanting. 
