Various editors

“ Leaves scattered, four to six inches long, linear-cuneate, coriaceous, rigid, often truncated at the extremity, the margins coarsely dentato-serrated, almost spinulose, the base attenuated into a very slender, pale yellow-green petiole: the upper side is glabrous, dark green, and glossy, very obscurely veiny, below paler, the vein and veinlets glabrous, the areolæ or lacunes filled with white down. Flowers of an uniform, rather pale, and dull yellow, densely collected into a broadly-oblong, terminal head. Scales very hairy, deep orange. ”

“ Corolla monopetalous, generally twice as long as the calyx; tube also short and reflexed; limb divided into six segments, arranged in a double series. Outer segments three, oblongo-ovate, their margins crisped and waved; of the same colour as the calycine segments, the ground bright yellow, marked with rows of irregular spots or interrupted stripes of reddish-brown, extending from the centre obliquely outwards, the smaller calycine sepal only being sometimes variegated with greenish-yellow along the middle and deep red at the margins. ”

“ Lip almost white, within spotted with purple, oblong, erect, the sides incurved, and a little waved, three-lobed, the middle or terminal lobe the largest, broad and retuse. Column short, white, plane in front, and then spotted with purple below the stigma. Anther white, hemisphærical, attached to the back of the top of the columns. Pollen-Masses yellow.
Dendrobium speciosum is a New Holland plant, that has long been cultivated in our stoves; but which, as far as I am aware, has rarely produced blossoms. ”

“ Hovea pannosa, thus named by its indefatigable discoverer, Mr Allan Cunningham, is a native of Mount Stirling, in the country northward from Bathurst, in the interior of New South Wales, and was raised at the Royal Gardens of Kew from seeds, sent in 1823. ”

“ Bauer: but no where, perhaps, has any species been cultivated, except at the Royal Gardens at Kew, whence Mr. Aiton has most kindly communicated drawings of three species which had flowered in that rich collection. The present individual was marked as P. grandiflora: but it differs from Mr. Brown's plant so named, the prescence of large radical leaves, in the different shape of the labellumm and, especiallt, in the much shorter segments of the lower lip of the flower. ”

“ Spike (four inches and a half long, three inches and a half broad to the
extremities of the styles) terminal. Flowers in pairs along the rachis, forming double lines, which are much crowded together, expanding from below upwards, every where yellow, except the stigma, which is red. Calyx (an inch and a half long) four-parted, woolly on the outside, the woolliness increasing upwards. Anthers subsessile, in the oblong hollow extremities of the calyx, linear-lanceolate. ”

“ Descr. A slender, scarcely branched, annual plant. Stems erect, glabrous, asis every part, wavy, rounded. Leaves scattered, remote, linear-filiform, from half to three quarters of an inch long, spreading, or often recurved, obtuse, entire, pale green, gradually becoming smaller upwards, and passing in bracteæ. Raceme terminal, few-flowered. Pedicals slender, wavy, much longer than the linear bracteæ. ”

“ Leaves scattered, pubescent when young, naked and dark green above when old, densely covered with snowy tomentum beneath; on short, erect petioles, linear, truncated, spinuloso-serrated, veinless, slightly revolute at the edges. ”

“ A NOBLEMAN
NO LESS DISTINGUISHED FOR HIS PRIVATE
THAN HIS PUBLIC VIRTUES,
AND WHO, BY THE VARIOUS SPLENDID WORKS WHICH HE HAS
FOSTERED, PATRONIZED AND PUBLISHED,
HAS EMINENTLY
DESERVED WELL OF BOTANY AND THE ARTS,
THE PRESENT VOLUME
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BY HIS FAITHFUL
AND VERY OBEDIENT HUMBLE SERVANT,
W. J. HOOKER.
Glasgow, Dec. 1, 1831.
Indexes
INDEX,
In which the Latin Names of the Plants contained in the Fifth volume of the New Series (or Fifty Eighth of the Work) are alphabetically arranged.
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Pl. 3111 Achras Sapota 3112 Ibid. 3046 Adamia cyanea. ”

“ Occasionally the peduncles spring up on the lateral twigs of those branches, at from three to eight inches from the terminal leaves; these twigs being sometimes but half an inch or an inch and a half long, and bearing three to five leaves. In such cases, the peduncles shoot from the tips of the twigs. Near the summit of the peduncles is a bracteaa, reflexed when the flower is full blown, subcordate, acute, about twelve-nerved, green, crispato-undulate at the margin, slightly variegated with yellowish-red. Flowers fragrant; when beginning to expand, white, marked with purplish=brown spots ”

“ Descr. Stem erect, rigid, branched, branches clothed with a dense, ferruginous tomentum. Leaves linear-oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, entire, glabrous, dark green and smooth above, with a depressed midrib, below clothed with a dense rusty-coloured down, and marked with a prominent midrib. At the base is a short, downy, petiole; at the point a small tuft of hairs. Stipules linear, very downy. Flowers produced in axils of the leaves, two or three from each of the upper leaves, on downy, short stalks, with a linear-subulate bractea at their base. Calyx very downy, and rusty coloured, two lipped ”

“ Perianthium ringeus, tetraphyllum, foliolo inferiore bifido, (e duobus infra cohærentibus conflato.) Labellum unguiculatum, subinclusum. Lamina basi appendicaluta v. gibbosa. Ungue infra labio inferiore connato. Columna basi galca connata, apice alata. ”

“ The peduncles opposite to the leaves, single flowered, round, smooth, greenish-white, pendulous, four to seven inches long, generally single on the young branches, or, sometimes two, when one is at the base and the other towards the top. ”

“ Stem a foot or more high, somewhat swollen, bulbiform, striated, jointed, sheathed with pale membranaceous scales, terminated by three large, coriaceous, oval-oblong, obtuse leaves, dark green above, paler beneath, obscurely striated, eight to nine inches long. ”

“ Stamina. apicibus concavis laciniarum immersa. Squamulæ hypogynæ 4. Ovarium uniloculare biovulatum. Folliculus lignosus: Dissepimento (e testis ovulorum amborum formato) libero bifido. Amentum flosculorum paribus tribracteatis. ”

“ Neillii. 3040 ––––––––– pallida. 3095 Annona squamosa. 3084 Anthericum? plumosum. 3091 Aphanochilus blandus. 3093 Arbutus mucronata. 3073 Argemone grandiflora. 3092 Arracacia esculenta. 3101 Asplenium Nidus. 3060 Banksia littoralis? 3120 ––––––– media. 3052 ––––––– speciosa 3121 Baptisia perfoliata. 3098 Brassavola elegans. 3076 Broughtonia sanguinea. 3069 Browallia grandiflora. 3094 Calceolaria angustiflora. 3115 Centroclinium appressum. 3114 ––––––––––––– reflexum. ”