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CURTIS’S

BOTANICAL MAGAZINE;

Fides AVE ‘a

Flower Garden Displayed:

In which the most Ornamental Foreren Pants cultivated in the Open Ground,

the Green-House, and the Stove, are accurately represented and coloured.

. To which are added,

‘THEIR NAMES, CLASS, ORDER, GENERIC AND-SPECIFIC CHARACTERS,

ACCORDING TO THE SYSTEM OF LINNZUS;

Their Places of Growth, Times of Flowering, and most upproved

Methods of Culture.

CONDUCTED

By SAMUEL CURTIS, F. L. S.

THE DESCRIPTIONS

By WILLIAM JACKSON HOOKER, L. L. D.

F.R. A.and L. S. and Regius Professor of Botany in the University

of Glasgow.

VOL. IX. i

OF THe NEW SERIES; .

Or Vol. tx11. of the whole Work.

“« Well they reward the toil. The sight is pleased,

The scent regaled. Each odoriferous leaf,

Each opening blossom freely breathes abroad

Its gratitude, and thanks Him with its sweets.”

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HIABENARIA GIGANTEA. GIGANTIC

HABENARIA.

SEK EEK EEE EEE

: Class and Order.

GynanpriA Monanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—Orcuipez. § Orurypez. )

Generic Character.

Cor. ringens. Labellum basi subtus calcaratum. Glan-

dule pollinis nude, distincte, (loculis pedicellorum adnatis

vy. solutis distinctis.) Br.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Hapenaria gigantea; tuberibus indivisis, labio tripartito,

lobis lateralibus sursum curvatis pectinatis intermedio

porrecto lineari-spathulato, cornu longissimo, petalis

2 interioribus linearibus falcatis.

Orcuis gigantea. Smith Ex. Bot. v. 2. p. 79. t. 100.

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In the month of June of the present year, we had the

high gratification to receive at the Glasgow Botanic Gar-

den, among other terrestrial Orchideous plants from Bom-

bay, roots of the present individual from Joszrn Nimmo,

Esq., under the name of Orcuis Susanne. These have

flowered in great perfection in the following month of Sep-

tember, yielding a delicious fragrance, and have added a

truly splendid plant to the already rich collection of Orchi-

dew in that establishment. I am not however able to

satisfy myself that it is the species so called by Linnaus,

He refers to the “ Fros Susanne of Rumpnius, figured in

Herm. Par. Bat. t. 209, and in the Herbarium Amboinense,

v. 5. p. 99: but, however they may represent our plant in

the general structure of the flower, as far at least as can be

judged from such imperfect figures, they are both figured

and described as much smaller in all their parts -_ our

plant,

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‘plant, which is certainly the O. gigantea of Sir J. E. Smrru.

It was found by Dr. Bucuanan in Upper ae a and in the

Mysore country, and we possess specimens from the Coun-

tess of Datnousie, gathered by her ladyship at Simla in

Nepal. The true Orcuis Susanne appears to be confined

to Amboyna, and Sir J. Smirn describes the flowers as of

a very brilliant white. About Bombay, Mr. Nimmo says,

the present species is extremely rare: its flowers measure

nearly four inches between the extremes of the two lateral

sepals.

Descr. Stem from three and a half to four feet high,

erect, stout, very leafy : lower /eaves broadly elliptical con-

cave, gradually passing upwards with sheathing bracteas.

Raceme of four to six, very large, greenish white, very

fragrant flowers. Three outer petals, or sepals, obovate,

spreading, the upper one peculiarly broad: two inner ones,

or petals, linear, falcate, about as long as the outer. Lip

rge, tripartite: the lateral lobes pectinated, curved up-

wards ; the intermediate one linear-spathulate, entire, stand-

ing forward: spur very long, green: Anther large, the base

of the cells remote. Pollen mass club-shaped; granules

brownish-yellow.

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Fig. 1. Lower Leaf: nat. size, 2. Lip and part of the Spur. 3. Column

with the Anther. 4, Pollen masses: magnified.

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TRoPZOLUM MAJUS; var. atro-sanguineum. GREATER

Inp1an Cress or Nasturtium; dark-red var.

EERE EERE EK KEE EER ER EEE

Class and Order.

OctanpriA Monoeynta.

( Nat. Ord.—Tropo.ez. )

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-partitus, lobo superiore calcarato. Pet. 5, ine-

qualia 3 inferiora minora aut evanida. Stam. 8 ab ipsa

basi libera. Carpella 3, suberosa, reniformia indehiscentia,

hinc sulcata rotundata.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Trormotum majus; foliis peltinerviis orbiculatis subquin-

nervis apice non exsertis, petalis obtusis.

Tropmotum majus. Linn. Sp. Pl. p.490. Curt. Bot. Mag.

t. 23. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 226. De Cand.

Prodr. ~. 1. p. 683.

(8.) atro-sanguineum ; floribus atro-sanguineis. Sw. Br.

Fl. Gard. t. 204. (Tab. nostr. 3375.)

The Common or greater Indian Cress, though a native of

Peru, proves a hardy annual in this country, and has been

cultivated in Europe ever since 1684. From the ease with

which it may be propagated, and the great beauty of the

flowers, it is a great favourite with the humble cottager ;

its frequency having almost banished it from the gardens of

the more curious in flowers. The older Botanists called it

“a Viola inodora, scandens, nasturtii sapore,” &c. : and hence

its English name of Nasturtium, and Indian Cress. The

Cress-like flower is, indeed very remarkable ; and it is a

well-known fact, that the caterpillars of the white butter-

flies, which usually feed upon Cruciform plants, readily

devour

devour the leaves of Trorzotum, though belonging to a

widely different natural family.

Beautiful as are the flowers of the common state of our

Trorzotum, the present variety far exceeds them; the

colour being a remarkably rich blood-red, with a fine vel-

vety lustre. Of the origin of this variety we are ignorant,

and whether it will be propagated by seeds. It may be

increased by cuttings, and is indeed already not uncommon

in gardens. The beautiful drawing here engraved was

e by Miss Pops, from plants which flowered during the

summer of 1834, in the Glazenwood nursery.

Pub ty S. Curtic Glaxennocd BaJan# 1, J835.

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ANEMONE VITIFOLIA. VINE-LEAVED

ANEMONE.

KEE EEE EEE EEE EEE KEKE

Class and Order.

PoLyANnpRIA Po.Lyeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Ranuncutacez. )

Generic Character.

Involucrum trifolium a flore distans, foliolis incisis. Ca-

lyx petaloideus, 5—15-sepalus. Petalao. De Cand.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

ANEMONE Vitifolia ; foliis rotundato-cordatis, 5—7-lobis sub-

tus cauleque adpressé lanuginosis radicalibus longé

petiolatis involucellis subsessilibus trifidis, sepalis ova-

libus extus sericeis, pistillis superné glabris, caryop-

sidibus pedicellatis, muticis densissimé lanuginosis.

Wall. in Bot. Reg.

Anemone vitifolia. Buchan. in De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p.

21. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1385.

The present is one of the few Anemones from Northern

India that are cultivated in our gardens, to which it was in-

troduced by Lord Amuerst. Dr. Watticn informs us that

“it is one of the commonest, as well as most ornamental

flower-plants in Nepal, where it grows in all the forests of

the great valley, and the surrounding mountains, delighting

in the most shady, retired, and moist situations in the vicin-

ity of rills and torrents.” It is also found in Kamoun and

in Gossam-Than, in the Himalaya. Our flowering speci-

mens were sent in October, 1834, by Mr. N. Don, from

Knyppersley Gardens, near Congletan, where they flourished

in the open border. :

Descr. Stem, in our plant, about a foot and a half high,

(two to three feet high, according to Dr. Waxticn,) a

nearly

nearly simple, clothed with appressed hairs. Radical-leaves

upon long stalks, cordate, lobed and coarsely serrated, much

nerved aud somewhat wrinkled, glabrous above, downy

and paler beneath. The involucre, both in our wild and

cultivated specimens, seems to consist of two leaves scarcely

differing from those of the root, except in being smaller ;

within these are two still smaller ones, from within which

arise the peduncles, three to four in number, each bearing a

single flower, drooping in the state of the bud, afterwards

erect. Sepals five, obovate, concave, white. Stamens

numerous, yellow. Head of Pistils roundish-ovate.

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MICROTIS PARVIFLORA. SMALL-FLOWERED

Microris.

Class and Order.

GynanpriA Monanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—Orcuipem. § Arernuses. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium ringens, foliolis lateralibus exterioribus ses-

silibus, labello suppositis ; interioribus subsimilibus, ad-

scendentibus. Labellum dissimile, oblongum, obtusum

basi callosé. Anthera columnam infundibuliformem posticé

terminans, auriculo membranaceo utringue aucta (unde

nomen.) Masse Pollinis utriusque loculi bine, pulvereex,

basi affixe stigmatis apice soluto—Herbe glabre. Bulbi

indivisi, nudi. Folium caulinum unicum, Jjistulosum, teres,

vagind longd. Spica multiflora. Flores parvi, virescentes,

v. albi, labello indiviso v. bilobo. R. Br.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Microrts * parviflora ; perianthii foliolis inferioribus revo-

lutis interioribusque linearibus, labello lineari-oblongo

integerrimo : marginibus nudis; disco dimidii superioris

ecalloso, spice floribus omnibus approximatis. Br.

Microtis parviflora. Br. Prodr. v. 1. p. 321. Spreng.

Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 713.

Sent by Attan Cunnincuam, in 1824, with others of

the very curious terrestrial Oncuinex of New South Wales

to His Majesty’s Garden at Kew, where it flowered in

October, 1828, when the drawing, which Mr. Baver has

obligingly communicated to us, was made. In September

of the present year the same plant flowered in the green-

house of the Glasgow Botanic Garden, among a box of

rare Orcuipe# sent by Mr. Ricuarp Cunninenam from the

Same country, the preceding year. In the colony of Port

Jackson,

_* From pixpos, small, and #; 2rd, an ear, from the small auricle on each —

side the column,

Jackson, Mr. Attan GonnineiAm Observes, ‘“ the species

affects clayey soils in low, pies ie Sen where,

should the mm prove’ moderately moist, . sere

caeetathe oahd feta nation of the hbie ithe, it At “Ars

in abundance, with the several species of Diuris, which, like

the Crowfoots of our English meadows, bespangle the grassy

lands of that colony, with their rich and various bright-

yellow flowers, in the months of spring.”

-Descr. An extremely slender plant, eight to ten inches

high, simple, bearing a single, subulate fistulose leaf, arising

from near the middle. Spike terminal, of many small, pale

green, inconspicuous flowers, each subtended by a small

bractea. The oblong, angular germen occupies the greater

portion of the flower. Upper sepal nearly orbicular, con-

cave, acute: two lateral ones lihear-oblong and revolute,

dotted with red. Petals linear, almost white. Lip small,

linear-oblong, acute, recurved, entire, with two callosities

at the base. Column short, white, with an auricular appen-_

dage on each side at the top, between which the Anther is

situated.

Fig. 1. A front, and fig. 2, a side view of the Flower: magnified eight —

diameters. 3 and 4. Front and side views of the Column and Labellum of —

the same Flower: magnified sixteen times in diameter. 5, Front and side

views of the Pollen masses, magnified sixteen times in diameter. 6. Pol-

len grains, magnified two hundred times in diameter.

In this place may be noticed another species, which Mr. Brown man

years ago, (Prodr. 1. p. 320. in Obs.) referred to this Genus, but whic

has not yet been sufficiently defined by Botanists in any work, It isa

native of New Zealand; was originally discovered by Sir Josepu Banks

in Captain Coox’s first voyage of circumnavigation, and was afterwards —

met with by Forster and others. It appears to stand intermediate —

between Mr. Brown’s M. rara, and that eminent Botanist’s M. media, —

of which a description and figure is given in the next article, and it may

be named and characterized as follows.

M. Banksu ; perianthii foliolis inferioribus ovato-lanceolatis subpatenti- —

_ bus: interioribus lineari-oblongis obtusiusculis, labello oblongo- —

cuneato lobato: dimidio inferiore dilatato retuso, disco verrucoso,

_ marginibus tuberculato-incrassatis, spice floribus preecipué distinc-

tis, inferioribus distantibus. — Es:

rents begs Forst. Prodr. n. 311.

Epipactis porrifolia. Swartz in Act. Holm. 1800. p. 233. Pers. Syn.

_ 2. p. 513... Willd, Sp, Pl. 4. p. 89. i :

_ Microris ‘porrifolia.” Spreng. Syst. Veget. 3. p. 713.""""

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Microtis MEDIA. MuppLe-sizep Micrortis.

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Class and Order.

GynanpriA Monanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—Orcuipem. § AreruusEa. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium ringens, foliolis lateralibus exterioribus ses-

silibus, labello suppositis ; ixterioribus subsimilibus, adscen-

dentibus. Labellum dissimile, oblongum, obtusum, basi

callost. Anthera columnam infundibuliformem posticé

terminans, auriculo membranaceo utrinque aucta, (unde

nomen.) Masse Pollinis utriusque loculi bine, pulveree,

basi aflixe stigmatis apice soluto.—Herbe glabre. Bulbi

indivisi, nudi. Folium caulinum unicum, Jfistulosum, teres,

vagind longd. Spica multiflora. Flores parvi, virescentes,

v. albi, labello indiviso v. bilobo. R. Br.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Microtis media; perianthii foliolus inferioribus revolutis

oblongis acutis : interioribus linearibus obtusis, labello

oblongo-cuneato apice retuso : dimidii superioris disco

verrucoso-incrassato marginibus calloso -tuberculatis.

Br.

Microris media. Br. Prodr. v. 1. p. 321. Spreng. Syst.

Veget. 0. 3. p. 713.

‘“* When Capt. Kine returned from New South Wales in

1823, he brought home with him turfs of the Cer#atotus of

King George’s Sound, at which port he had touched in his

assage ; and that curious vegetable having flowered at

€w, an opportunity was afforded of publishing a coloured

figure of it in the Botanical Magazine (t. 3119.) From

the sod that contained the Australasian Pitcher-plant sprang

up, unexpectedly, our present subject, which produced its

Owers in 1825, and thus enabled Mr. Bauer, (to whom a

are indebted for the drawing from which our figure and

magnified dissections are copied) to make a sketch of this

rare plant—an inhabitant (with the Cernaxorus) of swampy

grounds on the immediate shores of King George’s Sound,

where it was originally discovered by Mr. Brown in 1801.

After flowering, the plant died altogether at Kew, and has

not since, we believe, been reintroduced to any of our col-

lections.’”’ Allan Cunningham.

Descr. Whole plant, in general aspect, very much re-

sembling the M. parviflora represented in our last plate,

but more than twice the size. The flowers too are ex-

tremely similar, and the chief difference is to be found in

the lip, which is here larger in proportion to the rest of

the flower, and it is singularly wedge-shaped, truncated,

and obtuse, even retuse at the extremity :—the disk being

moreover furnished with two oblong, warty callosities, and

the margin of the lower half and apex, with several glo-

bose, tuberculated processes.

Fig. 1. Front, and fig. 2, a side view of the expanded Flower magnified

ight times in diameter. 3. A front, and 4, a side view of the parts of Fruc-

tification and Labellum of the same Flower: magnified sixteen times in

diameter. 5. Front and side view of the Pollen masses : magnified sixteen

times in diameter. 6. Pollen grains of the same: magnified two hundred

times in diameter. 7. A transverse section of the Ovarium: magnified

eight times in diameter.

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CALANDRINIA SPECIOSA. SHOWY-FLOWERED

CALANDRINIA.

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Class and Order.

Portyanpria Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Porrvtacez, )

Generic Character.

Calyx persistens bipartitus, sepalis subrotundo - ovatis.

Petala 3—5 hypogyna aut imo calyci inserta, libera aut

ima basi subconnata, equalia. Stam. 4—15 toro vel basi

petalorum inserta, libera, petalis sepé alterna. Stylus 1

brevissimus apice tripartitus, lobulis in stigma clavato-ca-

pitatum collectis. Capsula oblongo-elliptica 1-locul., 3-

Valvis, polysperma. Semina placente centrali funiculis

capillaribus adnexa.—Herbe succulente glabre Americane

habitu Samoli. Folia integerrima radicalia aut alterna.

Pedicelli 1-flori axillares aut oppositifol, Genus vix a

Talino différt. D C.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Catanprinta speciosa ; caule inferne fruticoso, foliis carno-

sis spathulatis obtusis glaucis, racemis terminalibus

laxis simplicibus, calycibus maculatis.

Catanprinia speciosa. Hort. Eps.

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This plant was received at the Glasgow Botanic Garden,

om Mr. Youne of Epsom, with the name here given,

which we find nowhere recorded, and without any mention

of its native country, which, however, is probably the same

With that of its near allies lately figured, C. discolor (Bot.

8- t. 3357), and C. grandiflora (t. 3369), namely Chili.

From both those species it differs in the more shrubby stem,

Particularly at the base, in the differently shaped epee

and in the size of the flower, which is larger than that of any

species with which we are acquainted. With us, it has

been hitherto kept in an airy part of the stove, where it

flowered in July.

Descr. Stem thick and almost woody at the base, re-

sembling that of Sempervivum arboreum, and like it marked

with the scars of fallen leaves, branched upwards, the

branches rather short, spreading, green. Leaves almost

exactly spathulate, obtuse, more or less tapering at the

base, patent, fleshy, glaucous. Peduncle elongated, termi-

nal, having a few bractezform leaves, and bearing at the ex-

tremity a raceme of several flowers, of which one only opens

at a time, beginning from below ; each pedicel is accompa-

nied by two broadly ovate, unequal, membranaceous brac-

tea, spotted with purple. Calyx of two roundish-cordate,

concave, pale yellow-green leaves, spotted with purple.

Peials large, of a brilliant and deep rose-colour. Stamens

numerous, in several series: Filaments and Anthers deep

purple, the former with the innermost ones pubescent.

Pollen orange-brown.

Fig. 1. Calyx: magnified.

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Lub. by S. Curtis, Harotwood Hex Jantl 2835.

( 3380 )

AnaGaALiis Moneu; var. Willmoreana.

ITatian Pimperne., Mr, Willmore’s war.

Se oe Ol ROR ORR RO RO

Class and Order.

Pentanpria Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Primvricez. ) |

Generic Character.

Cal. laciniis 5 acutis. Cor. rotata, laciniis ovatis rotun-

datis. Filamenta basi villosa. Stigma globosum. Cap-

sula globosa, mucronata, circumscissa. Semina numerosa,

ovata, subtrigona, scabra ; receptaculo globuloso.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Avacatuis * Monelli ; foliis lanceolato-acuminatis trinerviis

oppositis verticillisve, caulibus adscendentibus, corolle

(cerulee) marginibus minutissimé eroso-crenulatis.

AnaGatiis Monelli. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 211. Curt. Bot.

Mag. t. 319. Roem. et Schult. Syst. Veget. v. 4. p. 117.

Spreng. Syst. Veget.v. 1. p. 570.

Anacatuis linifolia. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 212. Roem. et Schult.

vo. 4. p. 118.

(8.) corolla vividé purpureo-cerulea. (Tab. nostr. 3380.)

‘~—eeen

Tab. 319 of our Magazine, represents the usual appear-

ance of Anacatiis Monelli, with flowers of a rather pale

blue. In October of the present year (1834), Mr. Don, of

Knyppersley Gardens, near Congleton, Staffordshire, was so

obliging as to send me the beautiful variety here represented

(accompanied with the drawing by Mr. T. Hoxzanp), and

which

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* From waythaw, to laugh. Piiny says the ANAGALLIS excites plea-

Sure; and DioscoripEs, that it removes obstructions of the liver, which

Create sadness,

which had been raised by Mr. Witumorg, from seeds sent

from Madeira. Supposing it to be new, it was communi-

cated to me with the specific name of Wittmoreana ; but

however it may excel the A. Monelli in brilliancy of colour

in the blossom, I think it will on all hands be granted that

it can only be considered a variety of that species. It thrives

well in a light, rich soil, and continues in flower for a con-

siderable length of time. Its mode of treatment in the

garden is well described at t. 319 of this work.

Descr. Stems long and straggling, sharply -angled.

Leaves opposite or ternate, sometimes quaternate, sessile,

broadly-lanceolate, acuminate, three-nerved. Flowers nu-

merous. Peduncles slender, solitary from the axil of each

leaf, single-flowered: the bud drooping. Calyx -leaves

lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla of a brilliant blue-purple

above, paler and redder beneath, the eye or centre yellow,

the margin minutely and irregularly crenated. Anthers

yellow : Filaments clothed with red hairs.

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Fig. 1. Stamen: magnified.

Lud. by S. Curtis. Glaxenwood Essex. Feb L URS

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CEREUS GRANDIFLORUS. LARGE-FLOWERED,

3 or NIGHT-BLow1nG CEREUs.

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Class and Order.

Icosanpr1A Monoeynta,

( Nat. Ord.—Cacrez. )

Generic Character.

Sepala numerosissima imbricata basi ovario adnata, in

tubum elongatum concreta, exteriora breviora calycinalia,

media longiora colorata, intima petaliformia. Stamina nu-

merosissima cum tubo concreta. Stylus filiformis apice

multifidus. Bacca sepalorum reliquiis areolata tuberculosa

aut squamata. Cotyledones nulle >—Frutices carnosi elon-

gati axi ligneo interné medullifero donati, angulis verticali-

bus spinarum fasciculos gerentibus regulariter sulcati, An-

guli sew ale nunc plurime, nunc paucissime, rarius dua

tantum et tune rami compresso-alati. Flores ampli é spi-

narum fasciculis aut crenis angulorum orti. D C.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Cereus grandiflorus ; radicans diffusus scandens 5—6-an-

gularis, setis 5—6 brevibus vix tomento longioribus.

C : 3

Cereus grandifiorus. Mill. Dict. Haw. Syn. Succ. Pl. p.

184. De Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p. 468.

Cacrus grandiflorus. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 688. De Cand.

Pl. Grasses, t. 52. Spreng. Syst. Veg. v. 2. p. 496.

Cereus gracilis scandens, &c. Trew, Ehrh. t. 31, 22.

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The Cactus-family though possessing stems of the rudest

and mostigrotesque forms is surpassed by none in the beauty

of its blossoms. While the Cereus speciosissimus, as its

Name would lead us to expect, produces flowers of a re- _

markably large size, and possessing very brilliant colours,

the

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the subject of our present figure yields to no plant in the

size, delicacy, and fragrance of its blossoms: nor are these

its only peculiarities ; it has been aptly described as

“ Queen of the dark, whose tender oe fade

In the gay radiance of the noon-tide hours.”

“ That flower, supreme in loveliness, and pure

As the pale Cynthia’s beams, through which unveiled

It blooms, as if unwilling to endure -

The gaze, by which such beauties are assailed.”

In our stoves the season of blossoming is usually the

month of August. At ten or eleven at night the flowers

are fully unfolded, and by day-light they are closed never

more to expand. The closing of the flower may be retarded

as Mr. Murray has ascertained, even for a whole day by re-

moving the bud before it is fully open, and putting the cut

end into wet sand. Our drawing was made from a plant —

which had three flowers in perfection at thesame hour. The

species is a native of the West India Islands, and was, ac-

cording to Hortus Kewensis, cultivated before 1700, in the

Royal Gardens at Hampton Court. The present and all the

more beautiful and showy species and varieties of Cactus,

are no where perhaps more successfully cultivated than at

the extensive gardens and nursery grounds of Mr. Curtis

at Glazenwood, Essex; where the curious and grotesque

forms of the stem form a singular contrast with the splen-

dour of the blossoms.

Descr. Stems creeping and extending to a great length, branched,

cylindrical, with from five to seven angles, the angles bearing numer-

ous, small tufts of a woolly substance, intermixed with six to eight short

sete. Copious radicles are thrown out from various parts of the stem, —

even when the latter does not come in contact with the soil. There is

no trace of leaves of any kind. The flowers are lateral. The bud is at

first globose, acute, then clavate, sessile, covered with imbricated scales,

_ bearing long sete. When fully expanded, the flower is a span across :

the tube of the calyx long, green, the limb cup-shaped : the former is

composed of the united, imbricated scales above mentioned: the latter

is formed of the numerous long, spreading, tawny-orange, upper seg-

ments of the calyx, forming a sort of ray, and of an inner series of

calyx-segments or petals, which are oblong, broader upwards, nearl

erect, and of a pure white colour. Stamens numerous, long, at lagi

inclined to one side: Filaments white : Anthers linear-oblong, yellow.

Style as long as the stamens: Stigma of many rays.

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( 3382 )

DipLopappus tncanus. Hoary Dip.Lopappus.

Class and Order.

SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA.

( Nat. Ord.—Composrra. )

Generic Character.

Radius uniserialis femineus. Discus hermaphroditus.

Pappus biserialis conformis.. Corolla disci regularis. Ache-

nium erostre.—Herbe v. fruticuli Americani, Asiatict, vel

Africani, foliis alternis integris ; capitulis terminalibus, so-

htariis, colore varie tinctis. Less.

Specific Name and Character.

Dirtopappus incanus ; foliis linearibus obtusis glauco-inca-

nis semiamplexicaulibus, caulis corymbosi ramulis uni-

floris, involucri squarrosi foliolis lineari-lanceolatis

glandulosis. Lindl.

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The Genus Dirtopappus is very nearly allied to Aster,

being distinguished from it scarcely by any thing but the

double row of the pappus, whence the name. It includes,

Owever, plants with yellow, as well as purple, flowers, a

Colour never known in Aster: hence it embraces Cury-

Sopsis of Nurrat, and both Lesstne and Linptey combine

With it Dierosreearum of Kunru and Aptoparrus of Cassint.

Few of the Asteroid family are more worthy of cultivation

than the present, bearing as it does copious flowers, of

Peculiarly bright colours, and continuing to blossom in the

©pen border till late in October. Dr. Linptey, however,

recommends its protection in a frame during winter. It is

a native of California, where it was discovered by Mr.

°UGLAS, and was communicated by Mr. N. Down from

nyppersley Gardens, near Congleton.

Descr.

Descr. Perennial. Stems much branched, and, as wellas

the foliage, every where clothed with short, dense, glaucous

pubescence, occasioning a hoary appearance, that suggested

the specific name. Leaves scattered, about an inch long,

linear-lanceolate, entire, patent or recurved, gradually be-

coming smaller on the ultimate branches, which are termi-

nated by a large single flower. Involucre almost globose,

the scales numerous, linear, squarrose, slightly glandular.

Ray of many florets, and of a bright purple colour. Disk

deep yellow.

Fig. 1. Floret from the Ray. 2. Ditto from the Disk: magnified.

( 3883 )

JUSTICIA CARNEA. FLESH-COLOURED

| JUSTICIA. oo

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_ Class and Order.

DianpriA Monoeynta.

( Nat. Ord.—AcanTHacez. )

Generic Character.

Cal. xqualis, 5-raro 4-partitus. Cor. valde irregularis,

bilabiata, vel ringens, labio inferiore diviso. Stamina 2

antherifera, Anther@ biloculares, loculis insertione szpius

mequalibus. Filamenta sterilia nulla vel obsoleta. Ovarw _

loculi dispermi. Dissepimentwm adnatum. Semina retina-

culis subtensa. Br.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Justicia carnea; antherarum loculis parallelis, spicis termi-

nalibus imbricatis multifloris foliis brevioribus, brac-

teis maximis, labio corolla superiore lineari emar-

ginato, inferiore recurvo apice obtuso trilobo, foliis

ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis subcrenatis longissime

_ petiolatis. Lindl.

Justicia carnea. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1397.

: See

_ This very beautiful and most desirable inmate of the stove

is a native of Rio Janeiro, and was first described by Dr.

Linpiey from plants introduced by the Rt. Hon. Rorert

Gorpon. We have imported it from the same country at

the Glasgow Botanic Garden, where the plant, from which

our figure was taken, appeared in the autumn of 1834, and

_ Wwe have since received more splendid specimens from Mr.

ee Don’s garden at Knyppersley, near Congleton, Shrop-

ire. ?

Descr. Stem four to five feet high, branched, the

branches four-sided. Leaves opposite, ample, on long

petioles, ovate, attenuated at the base, sharply acuminated

at the extremity, glabrous, entire, reticulated, gradually

smaller upwards, where they pass into bracteas, which are

very numerous, the outer ones ovato-lanceolate : inner ones

small and linear. Corolla very long and of a beautiful

rose-colour, two-lipped ; upper lip erect, entire, lower one

revolute, three-toothed. Anther deep purple.

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( 3384 )

~Wepe ia? aurea. Goipen WeDELIA,

KEKE EEE EK EEE KK ERK REE EEK

Class and Order.

SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA.

( Nat. Ord.—Composrrz. )

Generic Character.

Radius femineus, uniserialis, rarissime nullus. Ache-

nium conforme, erostre, angulatum, urceolo foliaceo, hine

inde aristam unam alteramve brevem gerente coronatum,

disco epigyno minuto.—Fruticuli aut herbe Americane vel

Polynesice vel Nepaulenses, magis minusve hispide, foliis

oppositis, integris aut paucilobatis ; capitulis luteis, termina-

ibus, solitariis. Less. r

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Wepeuia? aurea; foliis ellipticis yenosis scabris serratis

sessilibus, involucri foliolis elliptico-lanceolatis, ache-

niis compresso-triquetris aristis tribus subspinosis.

EDELIA aurea. D. Don, MSS.

My first knowledge of this plant was from specimens sent

to me by the late Mr. Barcray, raised from Mexican seeds,

with the name here adopted. In August 1824, specimens

flowered at Glasgow, which were sent by Mr. Cameron

(formerly gardener to our lamented friend just mentioned)

from the Birmingham Botanic Garden, under the name of

Wepeuia aurea, D. Don, MSS. The habit is indeed that

of Wepezr, but the achenia so little accord with that Genus

im their structure, that were it not for the opinion thus

€xpressed of Mr. Don, I should scarcely have ventured to —

refer it to Wepetia. With some modification, however, of

the Generic Character, it might be included. It is said to

ave a tuberous root. ©

Descr. Plant apparently a foot, or a foot and. a half

high, herbaceous, rounded, scabrous, as is the whole plant,

| slightly

slightly branched. Leaves opposite, the lower ones rarely

alternate, elliptical, acute, the upper ones almost acumi-

nate, sessile, serrated, somewhat three-nerved at the base.

Peduncles terminal, in threes. Involucre of rather few sub-

squarrose scales, of which the outer are elliptical-lanceolate,

the inner smaller and narrower, gradually passing into the

palee of the receptacle : these latter are lanceolate, acumi-

nate, carinato-conduplicate. Flowers orange-yellow. Ache-

nium of the ray triangular, with three short, rigid teeth :

that of the disk triangular, compresso-carinate, with three

long, equal, subpaleaceous teeth.

Fig. 1. Floret of the Ray. 2 Achenium of ditto. 3. Floret of the Disk

with its Bractea. 4. Fruit of ditto: magnified.

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I Curtis Glazenwood Hison F'ebV2. 1855

C 3385 )

Soranum Tweepianum.~ Mr..Tweepir’s

SoLanum.

ERE EEREE ERE EKER

Class and Order.

Pentanpria Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Soranez. ) _

Generic Character.

Cal. 5—10 partitus. Cor. subrotata, 4—10-fida. _An-

there conniventes apice poro gemino dehiscentes. Bacca

2, 3, 4-locularis, placentis septo adnatis. Semina glabra.

Specific Name and Character.

Sotanum Tweedianum ; pubescenti-viscidum, * caule her-

baceo, foliis cordatis basi angulato-dentatis sublonge

petiolatis, racemis umbellatis, floribus (inter majores)

nutantibus.

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Among the numerous species of Soranum which we have

received from Mr. Tweepte, gathered near Buenos Ayres,

is the present one, of which seeds were sent to the Glasgow

Botanic Garden in 1833. It produced its conspicuous and

lively flowers in the greenhouse in the month of October :

these are of a purplish-white colour, with the projecting

Stamens of a full orange. The foliage indeed has little to

recommend it, being very similar to that of some of the

Varieties of our S. nigrum. See

Descr. Stem a foot and a half high, erect, rounded,

branched, especially upwards, green tinged with purple,

clothed with short and fine ciaday hairs. Leaves alter-

Nate, upon footstalks of about the same length, cordate,

rather acute, membranaceous, obtuse and somewhat unequal

at the base, where, at the sides, they are sinuato-dentate ;

cl posite to the leaves, about two

long, bearing, i in an umbellated raceme, five or six

flowers. Calyx 5-fid. Corolla rotate,

ale purplis -white, yellow at the base. Stamens

e anthers are a deep orange colour.

Lich. By Curtis Gtaxzenwood Forex Feby LZ 78BE.

C 3386)

PHYSOSTEGIA IMBRICATA. IMBRICATED

PuvysostTectra.

Class and Order.

DipynamiA GyMNosPERMIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Lazurz. )

Generic Character.

Calyx per anthesin tubuloso-campanulatus, post anthesin

inflato-campanulatus, obscure sub 10-venius, subzequaliter

9-dentatus vel truncatus vix dentatus. Corolla tubo longe

exserto, intus exannulato, fauce inflata, limbo bilabiato,

labio superiore suberecto subconcavo integro vel emargi-

nato, inferiore patente trifido, lobis rotundatis, medio ma-

Jore emarginato. Stamina 4, sub labio superiore adscen-

dentia, subdynama, inferioribus eminentibus. Anthere

approximate, biloculares, loculis parallelis distinctis nudis.

Stylus apice subequaliter bifidus, lobis subulatis apice —

stigmatiferis. Achenia sicca, levia. Benth. <a

Specific Name and Character.

Puysostecia* imbricata ; caule elato, foliis elliptico-lan-

ceolatis grosse serratis, spicis paniculatis tetragonis

floribus erectis dense imbricatis, corolle labio superiore

valde concavo, tubo vix inflato.

The Genus Puysosteeta is founded upon the Dracoce-

PHALUM Virginianum of Linn. and Bot. Mag. t. 467, to

which Species the learned and ingenious author has referred

the DracocerHatum lancifolium, Mancu, D. variegatum,

Venr., D. denticulatum, Arr, (and Bot. Mag. t. 214), D.

speciosum,

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ee From Puow, a bladder, and orsyw, to cover, probably from the swollen

*racter of the calyx which covers the Fruit.

speciosum, Sw., and D. obovatum, Ett. To the Genus he

has added, but not without some hesitation, a new species

from my Herbarium, P. truncata, a native of Texas. From

all these our plant appears truly distinct, though its affinity

is doubtless with D. Virginianum. The differences, how-

ever striking to the eye are, nevertheless, I regret to say,

difficult to be given in a specific character. The plant is

much taller, the leaves are broader and more copiously and

strongly serrated, the spikes more numerous and crowded,

the flowers dense, nearly erect and closely imbricated : the

corolla much shorter, less attenuated at the base, and, con-

sequently, apparently less inflated upwards, of a red-purple

colour above, almost white beneath, and the upper lip is

considerably arched. This (as do the other two species of

the Genus,) inhabits Texas, whence roots were sent to the

Glasgow, and probably to the other Botanic Gardens in

this country, by Mr. Drummonp. It flowers during the

latter end of summer and autumn, and is a hardy perennial.

Descr. Root much creeping beneath the surface of the

ground. Stem rising quite erect, five to six feet high, four-

sided. Leaves opposite, the radical ones broadly elliptical,

petiolate, upper ones elliptical, lanceolate, sessile, all of

them coarsely serrated, especially in the upper half, gla-

brous, bright green, frequently tinged with purple-brown.

Spikes numerous pedunculated, from the axils of the upper

leaves, which gradually become small, so that the spikes

appear paniculated. Flowers in four rows, densely imbri-

cated, erect. Calyx campanulate, with five distinct, nearly

equal teeth. Bracteas ovate, shorter than the calyx. Co-

rolla red-purple above, pale and almost white below, with

a few reddish spots. Upper lip very concave: lower with

three almost equal lobes. Tube not strikingly inflated.

Germen with a yellow linear gland rising above the ger-

men.

Fig. 1. Flower with its Bractea. 2. Corolla seen from the underside.

3. Pistil.

fied by S. Crerti.

Glanenwood. Jxsex Feb ? 2 I83E

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( 3387 )

BEGONIA GERANIIFOLIA, GERANIUM-LEAVED

BEcGonta.

A ae ae ee oe a a a an

Class and Order.

Monazcia Poryanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—Beeontacez. )

Generic Character.

Masc. Cal. o. Cor. polypetala, petalis plerumque 4,

inequalibus. Fam. Cal.o. Cor. petala 4—9, plerumque

mequalia. Styli 3, bifidi. Caps. triquetra, alata, trilocu-

laris, polysperma.

Specific Name and Character.

Begonia geranifolia ; caulescens glaberrima, foliis equa-

liter cordatis acutis acute lobatis inciso-serratis sub-

plicatis nitidissimis fusco-marginatis subtus concolori-

bus, floribus masculinis 4-petalis, 2 exterioribus rotun-

datis coloratis interioribus obovatis undulatis (albis).

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Numerous as are the species of Brconra in Brazil, they

appear to be rare, in similar latitudes on the opposite side of

the vast continent of South America: and only one seems

to be recorded as a native of Peru, B. octopetala, L’Hertr.,

Which we have received from Mr. Maruews. The present

Was discovered in the neighbourhood of Lima, and roots

brought to the Glasgow Botanic Garden by Mr. M‘Lezan,

In 1833. In September of the following year, they pro-

duced their exceedingly pretty and very delicate red and

White flowers, which contrasted well with the glossy aud

cep green foliage. It is to be regretted that only male

Owers have yet been produced, I am therefore unable to

characterize the form of the fruit or germen. -

EscR. Stem about a foot high, erect, somewhat an-

ular, but very obtusely so, succulent, pale, semipellucid,

green,

green, with a slight purplish tinge, branched upwards in a

somewhat dichotomous manner. Branches rounded. Leaves

on long, rounded, footstalks, cordate, the sides nearly

equal, plaited, cut into many unequal, very acute lobes,

and those inciso-serrate, green on both sides, paler beneath,

above of a full and very bright and glossy green, the

margin red, perfectly glabrous, as is the whole plant : the

nerves radiate as it were from the base, without any distinct

midrib. At the setting on of the leaf are two large con-

nate, membranaceous bractee. Peduncles terminal, bear-

ing two or three flowers, which are inclined, drooping

while in bud. Male-flower of four petals, of which, the

outer and larger are almost orbicular and red, the two inner

' obovate, waved, and white.

Fig. 1. Cluster of Stamens. 2. Anther: magnified.

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Glaxenwood Lssex. Mar * I IS3S

Lub, by S. Curtis.

( 3388 ) ,

CATASETUM PURUM. SporTLeEss Oarasnroné?

Cligs bad Order: ®

Ginanpri4 Monanpria. =

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( Nat: Ord.—Orcuipem.)

Generic Character. iy

Perianthium sepius globosum, nunc explanatum. Sepala

et Petala subequalia. Labellum crassu 1, carnosum, nu-

dum, ventricosum vel explanatum, fimbriatum ; sub apice

Saccatum, obsolete trilobum. Columna erecta, aptera,

libera, apice utrinque cirrhosa. Anthera subbilocularis,

antice truncata. Pollinia 2, postice biloba vel sulcata,

caudicula maxima nuda demum elastice contractili, glan-

-. dula cartilaginea subquadrata—Herbe terrestres vel epi-

phyte, caulibus brevibus fusiformibus vestigiis Joliorum ves-

titis, Folia basi vaginantia, plicata. Scapi radicales.

' Flores speciosi, racemosi, virides, nunc purpureo-maculati.

te SB ae

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Caraserum purum ; spica multiflora, perianthii foliolis con-

cavis deflexis immaculatis, labello ore contracto in-

tegro lateribus denticulatis. in eggs

Caraserum purum..~Nees Pl. Hort. Med. Bonn. 1824.

Tab. I, uur

Cavaserominapertum. Hook. Exot. Fl. v. 3. t. 213. (1826.)

‘eee

This is one of the-best-characterized of all the Carasera,

and although introduced to the Liverpool Botanic Garden,

48 mentionedin the Exotic Flora, more than eight-years

480, it appears to be still a rarity in our collections. So

is confinéd. to two of the gardens of Liver-

ar as I know, it

Pool, which: rank high in the Orchideous department,

Namely, the Botanic Garden and that of Cuartes Ho a,

¥ wit : ie a — —— sq., |

¥OL.. ry. D

Esq., who also imported it from Brazil. From both these

establishments, where it flowers during the winter months,

it has been obligingly communicated to me. At the time

I described this plant in the Exotic Flora, I was not aware

of its having been published two years previously by Dr.

Nees von Esenseck in the work above quoted. I now

gladly adopt his name. His plant differs in no respect from

ours, save in the fewer and narrower leaves. I may here

observe, that the flowers of the spike in the accompanying

figure (taken from Mr. Surpnern’s specimen) being con-

siderably advanced, the segments of the perianth are on

that account more deflexed than in an earlier stage of per-

fection, and their margin reflexed. Our figure 1, from

Mr. Horsratu’s plant, represents the more perfect form of

the flower.

Descr. The bulbs and foliage of this plant are similar

to those of the other species of the Genus: and the distin-

guishing marks of the flowers are better understood by a

reference to the figure than by words. They are, perhaps,

the smallest of the concave-lipped species, and of an uni-

form pale yellow-green colour, the inside of the lip only

excepted, which is of a purplish-brown colour. The lip

itself is superior, remarkably contracted at the mouth, the

margin at the extremity destitute of teeth, the sides denti-

culate. The sepals are ovate, concave, and as well as the

petals directed downwards, so as only to enclose the lower

part of the labellum with their concave bases, in age they

are still more deflected, and the margins turned outwards.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Flower with the Sepals bent back inage. 3. Back

view of the same. 4. Column, from which the Anther-case, fig. 5, is re-

moved, 6. Pollen-mass: all, but fig. 1—3, magnified.

Mar* I JESS.

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( 3389 )

RvELLIA ELEGANS. NEAT BLUE-FLOWERED

RvELLIA.

EERE KEE EEE KERR ERE

Class and Order. |

Dipynamia ANGIOSPERMIA.

( Nat. Ord —Acanrnacesz. )

Generic Character. i

Calyx 5-partitus equalis. Corolla infundibuliformis,

limbo 5-fido subequali patente. Anthere 2-loculares.

Capsula polysperma, dissepimento adnato. |

Specific Name and Character,

Rvuenusa * elegans; herbacea, pubescenti - hirsuta, foliis

ovato-acuminatis grosse serratis longe petiolatis, flori-

bus in ramis terminalibus subsolitariis pauci-bracteatis,

calycibus ciliatis.

This very pretty species of Rurtxi is cultivated in the

Stove of the Glasgow Botanic Garden, having been raised

from seeds sent from the East Indies. Its bright blue

blossoms continue during great part of the summer, and

render it an acceptable plant to our collections. It is pro-

bably described in Professor NEEs von Esxnsecx’s elabo-

rate memoir, entitled ““ Acanthacee Indie Orientalis,” and

Siven in Dr. Waxticn’s “ Plante Asiatic Rariores;” but

without the fruit, I am unable satisfactorily to refer it to

its proper Genus among the numerous ones there character-

ized. I wish it therefore to be considered a Ruexuia of

Roxguren and most other authors.

Descr. The root is probably annual. The stem erect,

slender, hairy with patent hairs, erect, branched; the

branches

— noon

* Named after Jonn RvE tte, a French Botanical writer, who lived in

the sixteenth century. -*

branches opposite and axillary, simple. Leaves opposite,

pubescent, ovato-acuminate, coarsely serrated, tapering at

the base gradually into a footstalk, nearly equal to the leaf

in length. The leaves at the extremity of the branches

appear suddenly to become ovato-lanceolate, lax, sessile

bracteas, enclosing one to three flowers. Calyx of five

deep, linear-lanceolate, ciliated segments, not half so long

as the tube of the corolla. Corolla hypocrateriform. Tube

curved, white, purplish upwards, where it is somewhat in-

flated. Limb very bright blue, of five nearly equal, emar-

ginate lobes. Stamens four; two with hairy filaments, the

other two small, and apparently abortive, all included.

Germen oblong, tapering into a slender Style, included

within the flower: Stigma of two, very unequal, sharp-

pointed lobes. |

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx laid open, including the Pistil. 3. Stamens :

magnified.

Miss Al Young det* . Lub, by S§, Curtis

, Glazenwoed Fissex. Mar ®l 1834.

( 3390 ) :

SopHoRA TOMENTOSA, 6. Downy Sopnora,

variety.

ERK KEEEE ERE EKER ERE EK

Class and Order.

DecanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Leeuminosa. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 5-dentatus, basi campanulata aut subattenuata.

Pet. carinalia sepius apice concreta. Legumen monili-

forme apterum, polyspermum.—Arbores, frutices aut herbe,

Soltis impari-pinnatis sepius exstipulatis, racemis terminali-

bus simplicibus paniculatisve. D C. i ;

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Sopnora*tomentosa ; fruticosa, subsericeo-can escenti-pubes-

"eens, foliolis suboppositis 7—9 jugis cum impari ova-.

libus obtusis coriaceis reticulatis, racemis erectis elon-—

gatis terminalibus demum lateralibus, bracteis sub-

— ulatis deciduis, calycibus inflatis dentibus obsoletis, —

*~ _ staminibus deciduis basi incrassatis pubescentibus.

SopHora tomentosa. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 533. D C. Prodr.

v. 2. p. 95. Spreng. Syst. 2.p.346.

(8.) foliis ramulisque junioribus canescentibus, demum nu-

~ diusculis lucidis. Tab. nostr. 3390. ‘ :

Sopuora occidentalis. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 533.

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The shining, dark green, handsome foliage of this plant,

Contrasting with its bright yellow spike-like panicles of

_ flowers, render it a very ornamental shrub ; but in Madeira,

- (where our description was made by Mr. Lowe, and our

| drawing

* From its Arab name, Sophera.

drawing by Miss M. Youne, for the blossoms have we

believe never been produced in Britain,) it is singularly

liable to be infested by a species of caterpillar, which, at

intervals, absolutely swarms upon it, stripping it of all its

leaves and beauty. The foliage has a fetid, subbituminous

smell, like that of Psoratea Americana, L., or P. bitumi-

nosa, L.

Raised from Brazilian seeds by Mrs. Penrotp, of the

Achada, flowering chiefly in May or June ; the seeds ripen-

ing in September and October. Mrnier says that in Ja-

maica, of which it is a native, the other more hoary variety,

a, Sopuora tomentosa, L., is called Sea-side Pigeon Pea.

This was made by Lrnnaus a distinct species from the

smoother plant here figured (S. occidentalis, L.): but they

have been long united by Mr. Brown, under the name of

S. tomentosa.

Descr. An upright, evergreen, bushy shrub, in Madeira

about five feet high, conspicuous for its fine dark-green, shin-

ing foliage, somewhat resembling that of the Locust-tree, or

Carob-tree (Ceratonta Siliqua, L.). Branches round, gray-

ish, straight, erect, and rather simple, or but distantly sub-

divided : while young clothed with dense, adpressed, very

short and close sete rather than hairs; giving them a

somewhat hoary or mealy gray appearance. Petiole sub-

quadrangular, compressed, or with the sides flattened and

broader than above, where it is strongly but narrowly

channelled ; hoary, like the young leaves and branches.

Leaflets from six to nine, but generally in eight pairs, with an

odd terminal one ; on short, flattened, pale flesh-coloured,

mostly opposite, downy petiolules ; their edges slightly

revolute: they are from one and a half to two inches long,

and from an inch and a quarter to an inch and a half broad,

diminishing in size from the second or third pair to the

terminal odd one, broadly oval, varying from roundish to

elliptic, obtuse, though with often an inconspicuous, short

point, coriaceous ; shining, and ultimately nearly smooth ;

finely reticulated as if minutely punctate, and of a dark,

glossy green above; beneath pale, with the reticulating

veins darker, very fine, but distinct and regular, presenting

a beautiful appearance through the lens: both sides spar-

ingly sprinkled, even when old, with extremely short and

minute adpressed hairs. Often by abortion the uppermost

pair or two of leaflets is imperfect, and variously combined

with the terminal odd one: and all the leaflets have a ten-

dency to become more or less alternate. Flowers co

ike

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like those of Spanish Broom (Spartium junceum, L.) but

rather paler, bright lemon-yellow, middle-sized, scentless,

in erect, leafless panicles from six inches to a foot long,

truly lateral and axillary, but at first appearing terminal,

by their pushing aside out of its direction in a geniculate

manner the young shoot, which by being also adnate to

the petiole of the uppermost developed leaf, resembles

rather a side-branch coming out at the base of the panicle.

Bracteas small, linear-subulate, adpresso-pubescent, about

half the length of the pedicels when the flowers ex-

pand. Pedicels a quarter to one-third of an inch long,

round, adpresso-pubescent, erecto-patent, jointed close be-

neath the calyx. This last is in the bud oblong, with five

shallow, but distinct, equal teeth ; in the flower large, in-

flated, cup-shaped, slightly gibbous above ; the base thrust

in (intrusus ) like the bottom ofa bottle : teeth broad, very

shallow and inconspicuous : the whole hoary-pubescent,

pale greenish-yellow, and full of honey. Standard reflexed,

uniform, bright yellow. Keel and wings of equal length,

nearly as long, and the same uniform colour as the stand-

ard. Stamens ten; their filaments nearly white, smooth

upwards, but pubescent and thickened at the base ; per-

fectly distinct and free throughout. Anthers pale brown.

Style simple, with the stigma truncate, smooth, green,

about the length of the stamens. Ovary linear, silky, con-

taining many ovules. Pod five or six inches long, curved,

drooping, indehiscent, moniliform; the seeds forming glo-

bose, bead-like knots, pale yellowish, finally dark brown or

blackish, hoary with very fine cinereous pubescence: fre-

quently several seeds are abortive, and then the pod between

the remainder is stran gulated and reduced almost toa thread.

Seeds from five or six to ten or twelve, the size of small

peas, subglobose or subcordate, a little pointed both at top

and bottom, with a faint, indistinct groove down the back,

quite smooth and shining, tawny brown or dark fawn

colour, darker about the hilwm, which is a small elliptic

cavity with dark edges.

Fig. 1. Ripe Legume. 2. Seed: nat. size,

Fitch del®

Pith. by S, Curtis. Harxenwood. Bisex, Mar*d 1835 Foan So

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PENTsTeMoN RicuaArpsoni. Dr. RIcHarp-

SON'S PENTSTEMON. &

KEKE EKER EEE REE EKER

Class and Order.

DipynamiA ANGIOSPERMIA.

-( Nat. Ord.—Scropnurarinez. )

Generic Character.

Cal. pentaphyllus aut quinquepartitus, bractea solitaria

distante. Corolla ventricosa, bilabiata. _ Stamina didy-

nama, rudimento quinti filiformi sepius barbato. Anthere

Sejuncte, sepius glabre. Capsula ovata, bilocularis, bi-

Valvis, polysperma. Semina angulata.—Herbe v. suffru-

tices, Americane, vel Orientali-Asiatice. Folia levia, acu-

minata, sepius serrata. Flores paniculato-racemosi, purpu-

ret, roset, albidive. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Pentstemon Richardsonii; caule herbaceo, foliis sessilibus

pinnatifidis, calycibus glanduloso-pubescentibus, laci-

niis ovatis acutis, corolle labio superiore bilobo, infe-

riore trilobo transverso, pedunculis racemosis 2—3-

floris. Lindl. eS

Pentstemon Richardsonii. Douglas, Journ., &c. ined.

Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1121.

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A hardy perennial, now become frequent in our gardens

though of comparatively recent introduction. It isa native

of the Columbia and its tributary streams, where it was

discovered by Mr. Doveuxas, who named it in compliment to

t. Richarpson, the friend and companion of Sir Joun

RANKLIN. It flowers during the greater part of the sum-

mer months, and the blossoms are succeeded by numerous

Seed-vessels,

Descr.

Descr. Stem erect, or nearly so, much branched, the

branches slender, slightly downy. Leaves ovato-acuminate,

very obscurely pinnatifid, pubescent, the segments narrow,

acuminated, often toothed. The numerous, short, lateral

branches bear two or three handsome flowers. Calyx in

five deep, lanceolate, rather than ovate, segments, which are

acuminated and spreading. Corolla purple, the tube much

swollen, ventricose: upper-lip two-lobed, erect, lower three-

lobed, standing forward. Barren filament linear, com-

pressed, yellow-green above, white below, bearing near the

extremity a few scattered white hairs.

Fig. 1. Barren Filament: magnified,

Swan Jt

Lub, by S Curtis Glaxenwood. Essex. Mart 1. 1835

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CENOTHERA SINUATA. SCOLLOP-LEAVED

EVENING PRIMROSE.

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Class and Order.

Ocranpria Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Onacraniz. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 4-fidus, tubulosus. Petala 4, calyci inserta. Cap-

sula 4-locularis, 4-valvis, infera. Semina comosa.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

CENoTHERA sinuata; decumbens molliter pubescens, foliis

oblongo-lanceolatis sinuato-pinnatifidis incisisve, flori-

bus axillaribus parvis (luteis), sepalis versus apicem

unguiculatis, fructibus cylindraceo-tetragonis sub-

arcuato-incurvis pilosis.

CEnotuera sinuata. Mich. Fl. Am. v. 1. p. 224. Pursh,

Fl. Am. v. 1. p. 261. Elliott, Carol. v. 1. p. 448.

Spreng. Syst. Veget.v.2. p. 227. De Cand. Prodr. v. 3.

p. 48. Dncety, Fl. of Un. St. v. 1. p. 388. Hort. Kew.

ed. 2. v. 2, t. 343.

(8.) minima ; caule humile simplice unifloro, foliis integris.

Nutt. Gen. Am. v. 1. p. 245. Torrey, Fl. of Un. St.

v. 1. p. 389.

(EnorHers minima. Pursh, Fl. Am. v. 1. p. 262. t. 15.

CENoTHERA sinuata seems to have been introduced to

our gardens, according to Hortus Kewensis, in 1770, by

- Ricnarp. Yet it has never found a place in any

Periodical botanical work, nor do I think it is by any

Means a general plant in our collections. American au-

thors give it as an inhabitant of New Jersey, Virginia,

Carolina, and Georgia. Seeds have been sent from wir

by Mr. Drummonp in 1833, from which plants were raised

that flowered in the open border in the Glasgow Botanic

Garden in September of the following year. The G8. min-

ema, Pu. is now generally allowed to be a starved state of

the present species.

Descr. Stems decumbent, branched, 1—2 feet long ;

the branches round, soft with pubescence as is the whole

plant, often tinged with purple. Leaves sessile, oblongo-

lanceolate, acute, sinuato-pinnatifid, subincised. Flowers

axillary, solitary, shorter than the leaf. Segments of the

calyx scarcely shorter than the corolla. Petals obcordate,

yellow. Fruit (immature) linear, 4-sided, hairy.

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ONCIDIUM TRIQUETRUM. TRIQUETROUS-

LEAVED ONCIDIUM.

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Class and Order.

GynAnpriA Monanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—Orcuiwez. )

Generic Character.

Labellum explanatum lobatum basi tubereulatum. Petala

patentia (2 antica nunc connata). Columna alata. Masse

pollinis 2, postice bilobe ; medio affixe processu communi

stigmatis. Br.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Onciprum triquetrum ; petalis acutis anticis connatis, la-

belli lobo medio subrotundo indiviso, scapo racemoso,

foliis triquetris. Br. -

Oncipium triquetrum. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 5.

p. 216. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 723. :

Cyrmeipium triquetrum. Sw. Fi. Ind. Occ. p. 1475.

Although introduced from Jamaica to the Royal Gardens

of Kew by Rear Admiral Brien, so long ago as the year

1793, a figure of this beautiful plant has never appeared in

any work, from which it may perhaps be inferred, that the

Species was soon lost to our gardens. It has, however,

been again introduced by Cuartes Horsratt, Esq. from

the same country, and in his collection we had the plea-

Sure of seeing it in the autumn of the present year. The

plant had been liberally divided, and a portion sent to the

Sardens of Wentworth, where our figure was made from it

im full flower in October 1834. Lk!

.Descr. Plant destitute of bulb. The leaves arise imme-

diately from the root, are few in number, distichous, four

to six inches long, cartilaginous, triquetrous, but laterally

compressed, grooved above, very acute ; the colour a deep

full green, with a reddish margin. Scape from the centre

of these leaves, and about equal to them in length, slender,

curved, purplish, bearing a few bracteas, and terminated by

a raceme of ten to twelve, handsome, but moderately-sized

flowers. Calyx of two opposite, broadly-lanceolate, pur-

plish-green leaves, the lower one formed of two, combined

and bidentate. Petals white, tinged with pale green, and

variously spotted with purple; the two lateral ones ovate,

the lower one, or labellum, cordato-ovate, the base on each

side spreading into two rounded lobes : the central base or

disk being occupied by a large, fleshy, orange-coloured

eo which is’ confluent with the base of the column.

olumn short, with a broad wing above on each side the

stigma. Anther-case ovate, imperfectly two-celled. Pol-

len-masses ovato-globose, attached to a slender rather long

pedicel with a gland at its base.

Fig.1. Back view of a Flower. 2. Labellum and Column, 3. Front

view of the Column from which the Anther has been removed. 4. Anther-

Case. 5. Pollen-masses :—magnified.

3594,

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ACACIA UNDULHFOLIA, WAVED-LEAVED

VARIABLE ACACIA. a

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Class and Order.

PotyeamiA Monazcia.

( Nat. Ord.—Lereuminosz. )

Generic Character.

Flores polygami. Cal.4d—b5-dentatus. Pet. 4—5, nunc

libera, nune in corollam 4—5-fidam coalita. Stam. nu-

mero varia 10O—200. Legumen continuum exsuccum bi-

valve.—Frutices aut arbores, habitu et foliatione valde

varie. Spine stipulares sparse aut nulle. DC.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Acacta undulefolia ; stipulis minutis acuminatis deciduis,

phyllodiis laté ellipticis ovatisve obliquis interdum

subequilateris undulatis planiusculisve acuminatis —

leviter parallelo-venosis glabris, mucrone attenuato —

incurvato terminatis, margine autico prope basin uni-

glanduloso, capitulis solitariis geminisve axillaribus

pedunculatis, pedunculis glabriusculis vel parcé pi-

losis phyllodium superantibus, ramulis teretiusculis

diffusé dependulis cano-pilosis, floribus quinquefidis,

petalis erectis apice uncinatis, stylo staminibus feré

duplo longiore. Allan Cunn.

Acacia unduletolia. Allan Cunningham MSS. (1822.) G.

Don’s Syst. of Gard. v. 2. p. 404. n. 41. Lodd. Bot.

Cab. t. 1544.

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That considerable portion of our globe, now more gene-

rally called by geographers Australia, by whom it has been

justly regarded as a fifth continent, exceeding in extent

full three-fourths of Europe, has long been characterized as

a land of anomalies, furnishing many extraordinary incon-

Stuous features, not simply in its physical constitution,

Seographically and geologically considered, but in the

character of jis aboriginal inhabitants, and especially in its

animal and vegetable products. On the characteristic fea-

tures and Seographical range of the latter, in that dg ¢ &

Mr. Brown has, some years since, furnished us with many

highly interesting remarks, in the appendix to the voyage

of Captain Fiinpers ; where he has particularly noticed

those Genera of the Australian Flora, Eucatyprus and

Acacta, as being each, so numerous in species, and so exten-

sively scattered over the whole country, as to form striking

peculiarities of its vegetation—their respective aggregates

moreover, if taken together, and considered with respect to

the mass of vegetable matter they contain, (calculated from

the size, as well as the number of individuals), exhibiting a

proportion of the whole, perhaps almost equal to all the

other plants of that continent.

That two Genera, agreeing truly in a part of their eco-

nomy, although of very different orders, should thus largely

contribute towards that peculiar character of the Australian

forest-vegetation, which has long since met the observation -

of Botanists, is of itselfremarkable ; but there are two other

striking facts connected with the forests of New Holland,

that are highly interesting to physiologists, which all tra-

vellers in those regions have remarked, but on which, few

_ have reasoned. ‘These are the position of their leaves on

the branch, and the gray or sombre aspect they give to the

landscape. Neither, have escaped the scrutinizing obser-

vation of Mr. Brown ; for, regarding the former, he has

observed, that in those Genera, the leaves are vertical—in

other words, instead of presenting their surface towards the

stem, the margin is opposed. to it, so that both surfaces have

the same relation to light : and in respect to the absence of

vegetable lustre in the wilds of that continent, that philoso-

phical botanist has, by microscopic investigation ascer-

tained, that it is to be attributed to the equal existence of

cutaneous glands (pores, or stomata of the epidermis of

most authors) on both surfaces of the leaves.

Why that vertical economy, which so uniformly takes

place in the aphyllous Acacia, in the Eucaryrtt generally,

and in species of certain Genera of Proteacem—a family also

greatly dispersed, and presenting remarkable modifications

in Australia—should thus prevail in that country, and that —

both pagine should bealike furnished with cutaneous glands,

it may be difficult to explain ; although it does indeed almost

seem obvious, that, that deviation from the usual position of

leaves generally, which takes place in those leading Genera

in Australia, as well as the uniformity, and perhaps greater

adaptation of both surfaces (by some peculiar absorbent or-

ganization) to imbibe atmospheric moisture at night, have

a reference to that known constitutional dryness of the

country,

country, to which those plants are indigenous. Whatever

their functions may be, Mr. Brown is of opinion, that cuta-

neous glands more frequently occur on both surfaces of the

leaves of plants on that continent, than in any other part of

the world.

Of the Genus Acacta, nearly one hundred species were

known to that able and discriminating Botanist in 1814;

of which, by far the greater number belonged to the sec-

tion, containing such as are, in almost every individual,

wholly destitute of true leaves, in the adult state : whose

petioles therefore, greatly developed, put on the appear-

ance, and doubtless perform all the requisite functions

of leaves. Since that period, great has been the accession

of new species to our living collections, and especially to

the Herbarium ; for, in the latter, are now to be enume-

rated full two hundred species, indigenous to Australia,

of almost every form of phyllodium and habit—many in-

deed, exhibiting, in the modes of inflorescence, a beauty,

that renders them greatly to be desired in the living state,

The species of which we now give a figure, is another of the

discoveries of Arran Cunnincuam in the interior of New

South Wales, to which this work has so often referred. It

was discovered in 1822, clothing rocky hills near Bathurst ;

and was subsequently observed occupying arid spots in the

country lying N. W. from that settlement, at elevations

exceeding three thousand feet above the level of the sea.

Although an inhabitant of districts, in which the tempera-

tare in the winter months, is often reduced to the freezing

point, and where even snow remains upon the surface, fora

short period, in seasons of unusual severity, for the latitude of

that colony, it nevertheless requires, in this country, the

Shelter of a greenhouse in winter, not having the constitu-

tion of a compatriot, and indeed companion of its native

hills, Evcanyprus pulverulenta (Sims), which bears our

climate without distress, when placed against a wall ina

Southern aspect. First raised from seeds received at Kew

m 1823, and an acknowledgment of our thanks is due to

Mr. Arron, for the specimens transmitted us, from which

our drawing was made. This comparatively rare plant,

Which neither ripens its pods with us, nor is by auy means

readily propagated otherwise, isa very distinct species from

any of the Australian portion of the Genus, enumerated by

B Canpoute; it approaches however nearest to A. anceps

of his Prodromus.

Descr,.. A shrub seldom exceeding a height of four feet, and in its

Rative country of variable, irregular habit, and much branched; the

Tanchlets being of a dark colour, crowded with axillary flowers to their

very

very extremities, and densely clothed with short, cinereous hair. In

the cultivated state, the branchlets are brown, subangular, pilose, and of

spreading, dependent habit. Phyllodia copious, alternate, often an inch

long; in some instances but a little more in length than in breadth,

elliptical or ovate ; as frequently equilateral as oblique, especially in the

wild specimens: often of very flexuose surface with undulated, thick-

ened margins, or almost entirely plane, acuminate, with an attenuated,

curved mucro; the upper margin more wavy than the lower, and near

the base furnished with a rather prominent oval gland; smooth, hav-

ing several faintly-marked primary veins, diverging from the midrib

at an angle of forty-five degrees, and running parallel to each other.

Flowers bright-yellow, formed in solitary, rarely geminate capitula, and

projecting beyond the phyllodia, on peduncles from the axilla, Pedun-

eles either nearly smooth, or but thinly interspersed with hairs. Calyx

small, five-toothed, smooth. Corolla five-cleft, each segment erect,

margins somewhat incurved, apex hooked, Stamens numerous, about

half the length of the style, Legume (in the ripe state) dark-brown,

two to three inches long, and one broad, compressed, obtuse, slightly

curved, subgibbous, the outline often repand or subsinuate, with a

thickened margin ; smooth, and traversed b parallel, ultimately branch-

ed veins, one-celled, long-peduncled. Seeds four to eight, seldom more,

flattish, obtusely elliptical, very smooth, brown-black. Umbilical

. funicle simple, cymbiform,

Of the same section as, and closely akin to our plant, our Herbarium

furnishes several, as yet unpublished species; of which, two more nearly

allied, have been defined by Mr. CUNNINGHAM, as follows:

_A. sertiformis ; glaucescens glabra, stipulis acutis persistentibus, phyllo-

diis obliqué subrotundis perlaté ovatisve acuminatis manifesté parallelo-

venosis, venulis anastomozantibus, acumine incurvato innocuo, dimidio

superiore minore ad basin uniglanduloso, capitulis solitariis axillaribus pe-

dunculatis; pedunculo phylloditin eequante, (nunc duplo longiore,) ramis

teretibus elongatis incurvatis deflexisve, floribus quinquefidis, petalis sube-

rectis, stylo staminibus pauld longiore.

Has. in Nove Cambrie Australis parte interiore: in desertis ad margines

occidentales planitiei perample Liverpool. Adi, Cunn. 1825. Florens lecta -

mense Maio.

Oss. Frutex erectus, pulchellus, quinque—sexpedalis, Rami teretes,

leves, picei; prim6 erectiusculi, elongati, viminei ; dein (versiis apices) in-

flexi, vel declinati, quandoque in curvamina sertiformia ropemodum dispo-

siti. Phyllodia copiosa, uncialia, patentia, Capitula lie constanter ad

axillas solitaria. Calycis dentes glabri.

A. piligera ; hirta, pilis laxis patentibus, stipulis acuminatis persistenti-

bus, phyllodiis subobliqué ellipticis obovatisve planiusculis cuspidatis, ob-

tusisve cum acumine, mucrone attenuato subulato sphacelato, margine

antico prope basin uniglanduloso, capitulis pedunculatis solitariis subgemi-

nisve, pedunculis phyllodio longioribus, ramulis teretibus Virgatis strictis,

— quinquefidis, petalis erectis, staminibus dimidium styl vix quan-

tibus,

Has. in Nova Cambria Australi: in cacuminibus apricis preruptis mon-

tium ad flumen Hunter. Adi, Cunn. 1825, Aprili, Maio floret. ;

Oss. Frutez strictus, elegans, orgyalis et ultra. Rami erecti, virgati,

laxiis foliosi. Phyllodiorum paging plis minis planiuscule, pilis perraro

consperse. Capitula florum aurea. Dentes calyeis ciliati.

( 3895 )

MaxitiariA Deppit. Depp's MAXILLARIA.

KKK KK EK EEK KK EKER EEKE

Class and Order.

GynanpRiA Monanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—OrcuivEz. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium patens, resupinatum, Labellum cum pro-

cessu unguiformi column articulatum, trilobum. Foliola

lateralia exteriora basibus cum processu columne connata.

Pollinia 4, basibus connata, glandulosa, (vel 2, pedicellata,

pedicello basi glanduloso.)—Herbe parasitica, bulbose,

Americe meridionalis. Racemi (vel scapi uniflori) radica-

les, Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Maxittaria Deppii; calyce patente, foliolis oblongo-obtu-

sis maculatis, corolla porrecta, petalis lateralibus obo-

vatis (albidis), labello trilobo (flavo) purpureo-macu-

lato, lobis lateralibus incurvis, intermedio ovato-acu-

minato undulato reflexo, scapis radicalibus, bulbo

ovato compresso apice subtriphyllo.

Maxittaria Deppii. Lodd. Bot. Cab. p. 1612.

This very fine species of Maxillaria was received by Mr.

Loppicrs, from Mr. Depre, who gathered it near Xalapa,

in New Spain. Our drawing was made in October, 1834,

at Wentworth, the seat of Earl FirzwittiaM, where, under

the able management of Mr. Cooper, the Orchideous plants

are cultivated with a degree of success which, if it even be

equalled, can never-be surpassed by other Horticulturists ‘

So that, greatly as my expectations had been raised, I must

confess that the sight of this collection, whether the vigor-

ous growth and beauty of the foliage, or the number of

Splendid species blossoming at one time be considered, far

exceeded

VOL. 1X e. D

exceeded my warmest anticipations. The present was one

among the rarer species which I was glad to have the op-

portunity of figuring from the growing plant.

Descr. Bulbs broadly ovate or rotundate, compressed,

furrowed, clustered, sometimes arising from the base of

a leaf; but the leaves are generally produced, three or

four together, from the extremity of the bulb. They are

broadly elliptico-lanceolate, striated and waved. Scapes

radical, single-flowered, partially clothed with red-brown,

sheathing scales. Flowers large, handsome. Calyx of

three ovato-elliptical spreading leaves, the two lateral ones

combined below, and projecting into an obtuse but distinct

spur: their colour is dingy green, spotted with purple.

Petals standing forward: two lateral ones white, obovate,

concave ; lower one or lip bright-yellow, with a few pur-

plish spots, three-lobed, its two lateral lobes incurved, the

intermediate one reflexed, ovato-acuminate, the margins

waved : in the disk of the labellum, towards the base, is a

yellow gland. Column elongated, white, marked with pur-

plish lines. Anther hemispherical.

Fig. 1. Lip, nat. size. 2. Column :—magnified.

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PLAGIANTHUS? sIDOIDES. SIDA-LIKE

PLAGIANTHUS.

Class and Order.

Monapvetpuia Decanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—Evurnorpiacez? Bompacen. D C. )

Generic Character.

Flores hermaphroditi. Calyx subhemispheericus, 5-den-

tatus. Petala 5, ovalia, basi cum tubo staminum unita.

Stamina 10—12; filamenta in tubum cylindraceum unita.

_ Pistillum solitarium. Germen ovatum uni- bi-ovulatum,

ovulis suspensis. Stylus crassiusculus. Stigma magnum,

bilobum, hine decurrens, papillosum. Capsula subdru-

pacea, mono-dicocca, apiculata, indehiscens? Cocculi

Monospermi. Semen pendens. Albumen carnosum. Em-

bryo immersus, curvatus: Radicula cylindracea, ad hilum

Seminis.versa : Cotyledones majuscule, plane, subfoliacee,

longitudinaliter undulate.—Frutex parvus, virgatus. Folia

linearia, fasciculata, 3-nervia. Flores subsolitarii, parvi,

breviter pedunculati, flavescentes.

Specific Name and Character.

Piaciantuus? sidoides ; foliis sparsis lanceolatis serratis

rugosis subtus cano-pubescentibus, floribus glomeratis.

("ene

A shrub of no great beauty ; with the habit of some of

the Australian Sipas, but with a structure of the flower en-

rely that of the New Zealand Pxaaiantuus, so that not-

withstanding a considerable difference in habit, I dare not,

without a knowledge of the fruit, separate it from that

Genus. It is a native of Van Diemen’s Land ; and seeds

Were sent from thence to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, by

the late Mr. Lawrence ; and it produced its small and un-

obtrusive flowers in the Greenhouse, in September, Pe

ESCR.

‘

Descr. Shrub two to three feet high, slightly branched,

downy above. Leaves scattered, shortly petiolate, lanceo-

late, wrinkled with the reticulated veins, strongly serrated,

downy, canescently-woolly beneath. Flowers axillary,

glomerated, small. Calyx bell-shaped, monophyllous, five-

toothed, hoary with down. Corolla of five spathulate,

ciliated petals, a little longer than the calyx, combined by

their claws. Filaments united into a cylindrical, downy

tube and confluent at the base with the claws of the petals.

Anthers about ten, apparently one-celled, pale yellow.

Germen ovate, green, attenuated into a rather thick, white

style, equal in length with the stamens. Stigma pro-

truded, bipartite.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Corolla, including the Stamens and Pistil. 3, Column

of Stamens and Pistil. 4, Pistil :—magnified.

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HABENARIA GoopYEROIDEs. GoopyERA-

. LIKE HABENARIA.

Class and Order.

GyYNANDRIA Monanpria.

( Nat. Ord. —Orcuivex. § Opurypez. )

Generic Character.

Cor. ringens. Labellum basi subtus calcaratum. Glan-

dule pollinis nudx, distincte (loculis pedicellorum adnatis

vel solutis distinctis.) Br.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

HABenaria goodyeroides ; caule elongato, foliis elliptico-

lanceolatis, spica multiflora, labello subintegro peta-

lisque obtusis (albidis), calcare globoso saccato, foliolis

calycinis ovato-acuminatis (herbaceis).

Hapenaria goodyeroides. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. p. 25.

Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 690.

This is the other species of Hasrnaria from Bombay,

mentioned at t. 3374, when speaking of H. gigantea, as

communicated by Josep Nimmo, Esq., to our Botanical

Garden, where it flowered in December. It is a rare and

interesting plant, though greatly inferior in beauty to the

- Sigantea. It appears entirely to agree with the H.

_S0odyeroides of Mr. Don, a native of Nepal. So that, on

the continent of India, it seems to have an extensive range.

Escr. Stem a foot in height, erect, simple, rounded, |

leafy. Leaves patent, remote, gradually larger upwards,

where they are more crowded, elliptical-lanceolate, rather

acute, striated, waved, of a satiny-green lustre. Peduncle

terminal, sheathed with erect, lanceolate bracteas, and

“ating a rather long and densely crowded spike of small

owers, intermixed with subulate bracteas, which are rather

longer

ec ale

longer than the flower. Perianth with the segments erect,

nearly equal in length. Calyx of three ovato-acuminate,

eenish leaves. Petals white, two lateral ones ovate, very

obtuse: lower one or labellum ovate, with the sides in-

curved, the apex reflexed, the base prolonged into an

inflated, globose, yellowish-green spur, very much shorter

than the linear-oblong, twisted germen. Column very

short. Anther large in proportion to the size of the flower,

yellow, having on each side a clavate, erect gland or abor-

tive anther. .

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Lip with its Spur. 3. Column. 4. Pollen mass:

magnified.

( 3398 )

CLERODENDRON HASTATUM. HALBERD-LEAVED

CLERODENDRON.

KKK KEKE KEKE KKK KEKE KEKE

Class and Order.

Dipynamia ANGIOSPERMIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Versenacez. )

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-fidus (nunc 5-dentatus). Cor. tubo cylindrico ;

limbo 5-partito, patente, laciniis subzqualibus. Stam. -

es faucem inserta, exserta, adscendentia: antherarum

oculis parallelis. Bacca pyrenis 4, monospermis. Br.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

CLERopENDRON hastatwm ; foliis oppositis subhastato-cor-

datis 5-lobis acuminatis, ramis pedunculisque villosis,

panicula decussata dichotoma ramosa, calyce foliaceo

acuto, tubo corolle longissimo filiformi. Wall, in Bot.

Reg.

Cathovkxpudn hastatum (sphalmate C. sagittatum). Wail.

Cat. Herb. Ind. num. 1786. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1307.

Sipnonantuus hastata. Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 46.

_ A-valuable acquisition to our stoves, for which we are

indebted to Dr. Waxuicu, who introduced it by seeds pro-

duced in the Botanical Garden of Calcutta. It is a native

of Sylhet, where it was discovered by Mr. Smrrn, who sent

it to Dr. Roxpuren, in 1811. Our drawing was made at

Wentworth Gardens, in October, 1834: but the flowers

were so long, and the panicle and foliage so large, that not

even a quarto plate would have done justice to the subject.

he blossoms are delightfully fragrant.

. Descr. A shrub from five to six feet in height, branch-

mg Mostly at the top; branches spreading, square with ob-

tuse angles. Leaves opposite, a span and more long, hal-

, berd-shaped,

berd-shaped, very acute, downy all over, the two lateral

lobes often again divided: the upper leaves among the pa-

nicles are small and ovate or lanceolate. Panicle large,

spreading, pedunculate, arising from the axils of the upper

leaves. Peduncles and branches purplish-brown, downy.

Calyx inflated ; with five connivent lobes, of a yellow-green

colour, the segments purple, and there is a band at the

bottom of the calyx of the same colour: the whole gla-

brous, but viscid. Corolla white or greenish-white : the

tube exceedingly long and slender, curved, downy with

glandular hairs ; Limb of five spreading, waved or tortuous

segments. Ftlaments and style exserted, purple. Anthers

purple-black, as is the pollen.

Fig. 1. Section of the Calyx, showing the Germen.

ase,

Swan oe

Claxenwood. Fevex, AprL 183.

Lub by S Cortes

C 3399 )

Eurycies CunNINGHAMI. SMALL-FLOWERED

Eurycies, or BrisBaxe Lity. ae

FRE

Class and Order. :

HexanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—AMARYLLIDE2. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium hypocrateriforme, limbo sexpartito, Sta-

mina faucialia, filamentis dilatatis coronam mentientibus,

utrinque unidentatis ; anthere versatiles. Ovarium 3-locu-

lare; ovulis geminis collateralibus appensis. Capsula.

Semina testa carnosi. Lindl.

Radix tunicato-bulbosa. Scapus pedalis et infra, erectus,

subteres. Folia plura, (2—5) petiolata, subrotunda, ovato-

orbiculata, s. oblonga, brevi-acuminata, basi plis minis cor-

data, concentrice nervoso-costata, feré Hemerocallidi japo-

nice, leté viridia. Involucrum 2—3-phyllum. Umbella

4—12-flora. Flores tubulosi, hexandri, albi. Tubus sub-

cylindricus. Filamenta basi dilatatd, complanatéd, in tubum

dentatum proximé contigua, adhuc plerumque distincta.

Stylus erectus. Stigma simplex, rard divisum. Ovarii

loculi bi-rarius tri-spermi. Semina bulbiformia.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Eurycites Cunninghamii; umbella 4—6-flora, perianthii

laciniis ovato-oblongis planis, erecto-patulis, staminum

dentibus lateralibus subulatis, intermedio subequa-

libus.

Eurycies Cunninghamii. Ait. MSS. apud Hort. Reg. Kew.

Loud. Hort. Brit. Suppl. p. 588. Lindl. in Bot. Reg.

¢. 1506. | |

(ee

It was, we believe, Mr. Brown who first suggested, that

ANCRATIUM amboinense of Linnzus, differed from the other

7 species

species of the Genus, in the structure of the ovarium and

corona—the cells of the former being furnished with two

seeds, and the tube-like form of the latter, cut down nearly

to its base, into almost six distinct segments. 'T'wo years

afterwards, viz. in 1812, Mr. Sarissury proposed, in a

paper that appeared in the transactions of the Horticultural

Society of London, to remove that Amboyna Lily, from its

then co-ordinates, toa new Genus; to which, without any

definition of character, he gave the title of Eurycies * :—a

Genus, (thus submitted for adoption by future botanical

writers) at that time, limited to the solitary species ; the

Crinum nervosum of L’Heritier, who had probably relied

upon the accuracy of the figure of Rumpu. (in the sixth

volume of the Herbarium Amboinense), being considered

by botanists identical with it.

Since that period, however, two very distinct species,

both natives of New South Wales, and of Mr. CunnineHam’s

discovery, have been added to the Genus. Of these, the

one here figured was originally gathered in the year 1824,

on the banks of the Brisbane River, at Moreton Bay ; where

it was observed growing in great abundance beneath the

shade of the Araucariz of the forests of that almost tro-

pical region, and where, urged by the rains, which fall on

that coast in the summer months, it frequently puts forth its

flower-scape before the leaves appear.

In botanical affinity, Eurycies approaches nearest to

Catostemma of Mr. Brown, a Genus exclusively Australian,

and now—rather a remarkable coincidence—also compris-

ing three species ; of which, one (C. album, an inhabitant

of the north coast of that continent) has the elliptical nerved

leaves, so characteristic of the individuals of the Genus of

our present subject.

Descr. Bulbs nearly round, tunicated, about the size of

a walnut, hazel-brown, with a palish-green apex. Leaves

two to five, long-petioled, elliptical or oblong, acuminate,

rather cordate at the base, smooth on both sides, strong-

nerved ; nerves curved and parallel. Scape erect, about

a foot high, bearing an umbel of from four to six flowers,

within an involucrum of two or three leaves, of unequal size

and always shorter than the flowers themselves, when eX-

panded.

——

_* Derived from edpds, broad, and xatiw to close up: in reference to the

dilated bases of the filaments, which may be said, partially to close up, the

orifice of the tube of the flower. -

Cw. ee

panded. Flowers superior, tubular, pedicellated, white ;

segments of the perianth ovate-oblong, or oblong-lanceo-

late, rather plane, erect-patent, bluntish, somewhat shorter

than the tube. Stamens six, inserted into the orifice of the

tube, shorter than the limb of the perianth : filaments dilat-

ed at the base, approaching closely, so as to appear in the |

form of a corona, with alternate sterile teeth, (occasionally

bilobed) not quite the length of those bearing the anthers.

Style erect, almost twice the length of the stamens, but

somewhat shorter than the segments of the perianth. Stigma

distinctly three-lobed.

The following may serve as distinctive Characters of the species at

present known; and to each is added, its botanical history. _

1. E. sylvestris ; (meliiis amboinensis,) umbella multiflora, (circiter

~ 10—12) perianthii laciniis spathulato-lanceolatis parum undulatis pa-~

tentibus, staminum dentibus lateralibus introrsum curvatis, intermedio

tri- quadruplo brevioribus.

Narcissus amboinensis, &c. Commel. Hort. v. 1. p. 77. t. 39.

Cxpa sylvestris. Rumph. Amb. v. 6. p. 160. t. 70. f. 1.

Pancratium amboinense. Linn. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. p. 46. Blume

Enumer. Pl. Jav.1. p. 25. Spreng. Syst. Veget. 2. p. 46. Bot.

Mag. t.1419. Redouté Lil. t. 384.

Pancrativum nervifolium. Salish. Paradis. t. 84.

Crinum nervosum. L’ Herit. Sert. Angl. p.8. Persoon Syn. 1. p.

302, Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. p. 47.

Amaryuuis rotundifolia. Lamarck Encycl. 1. p. 124.

Prorpuys amboinensis. Herbert in Bot. Mag. App. (1821) p. 42.

Evurycies sylvestris. Salisb. in Hort. Soc. Lond. v. 1. p. 337.

Schult. Syst. Veget. 7. p. 909.

Evryctes amboinensis. Loud. Encycl. Pl. p. 242.

Has. In insula Amboyna ad oras sylvarum. G. E. Rumph ;

atque in ins. Java, in sylvis vastis montium Panangounan, sub tegmine

Tectone, abundé. 1793. J. J. Labillardiére. -

Ozs. Flores triunciales et wltra. Tubus laciniis parum longior.

Bases coroneformes staminum semisexfide. Stamina stylum equan-

tia, perianthio breviora. Stigma leviter subtrilobum. _

In the present day, rather a rare plant in our collections ; although

an old inhabitant of our gardens, having been cultivated at Chelsea by

Miter, who probably obtained it from Amsterdam, to which once

celebrated Botanic Garden, it was introduced direct from Java, in the

days of the Comme tines, almost a century and a half since.

2. E. australis ; (meliis Aingii,) umbella suboctoflora, perianthii

laciniis lineari-lanceolatis acutiusculis undulatis erecto-patentibus, sta-

minum denticulis lateralibus acutis erectis, intermedio sexies brevior1-

us.

Pancrativum australasicum. Ker in Bot. Reg. t. 715.

: PANCRATIUM

Pancrativm australe. Spreng. Syst. Veget. 2. p. 47.

Evryc ies australis. Schult. Syst. Veget. 7. p. 911.

Evryc es australasica. Loud. Encycl. Pl. p. 242.

Has. in Nove Camb. Australis ore equinoctialis, insula depressd

calcaria Cairncross, in grad. 11 lat. australis, ubi, in locis umbrosis

prope littus, parcé crescit. 1820. Allan Cunningham. Visa mense

Augusto, absque floribus ; sed verosimiliter Decembri, Januario floret.

Nunquam versus interiorem partem continentis australasice, lecta

fuit, secundum Ker.

Oss. Nimis affinis E. sylvestri, sed prorsum minor, Flores vix

tripollicares. Bases coroneform. staminum omnino sexpartite. F%la-

menta perianthio breviora. Stigma simplex.

Bulbs of this very rare species were received at Kew in 1821, to

which garden alone, in Europe, were they sent from New South Wales.

In the course of the following year they flowered in the stove; and the

ns appearing soon afterwards in a nursery-garden where it also pro-

uced flowers, a figure was published of it in the Botanical Register,

where it was described, as a species closely allied to PancratTiuM

amboinense, but differing in having a corona “ six-parted to the very

bottom.” As the plant, under the culture it met with, produced no

offsets from the roots, and was not to be propagated otherwise, it was,

at the fourth year after its introduction, lost to Britain—the bulbs which

progressively decreased in size, becoming eventually dried up. Nor

are they very likely to be reintroduced to our Collections, for the plant

has not been found in any part of New South Wales, hitherto visited,

as inaccurately stated in the work just referred to, but was observed

sparingly, in the voyage of Captain P. P. Kine, on the small, uninha-

bited, sandy island above named, at which, there is no inducement

~ sing ships to touch, since it furnishes but little firewood, and no

esh water.

3. E. Cunninghamii ; (supra tab. 3399.)

_ Has. in Nova Cambria Australi: in sylvis densis subhumidis, ad

ripas fluminis Brisbane, Moreton Bay, versus tropicum. 1824. Allan

Cunningham. Floret Decembri, Januario. e

Oss. Precedenti proxima; at flores umbelle omnind minores et

pauciores. Perianthium sesquiunciale. Stylus staminibus longior, atque *

perianthii feré longitudine. Stigma trilobum. (Allan Cunningham.)

SS ———

Mor l 183:

Curtis. Glaxenwood Fisex

Fich by S:

( 3400).

PTEROSTYLIS CONCINNA. NEAT Prero-

STYLIS.

SRR ekek

Class and Order.

GynanpriA Monanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—Orcuip_ez. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium ringens tetraphyllum, foliolo inferiore bi-

fido (é duobus infra coherentibus conflato). Labellum un-

guiculatum, subinclusum. Lamina basi appendiculata v.

gibbosa. Ungue infra labio inferiore connato. Coluwmna

basi galea connata, apice alata. Anthera terminalis, per-

sistens, loculis approximatis. Masse pollinis in singulo

loculo bine, compresse, pulveree. Stigma medio columne

adnatum.—Herbe terrestres, glabre. Bulbi nudi, indivisi,

caudicem descendentem radiciformem terminantes. Folia

nunc radicalia stellata, nervosa, membranacea, scapo brac-

teato aphyllo; nunc caulina alterna, radicalibus nullis.

Flores solttarii rariisve racemosi, ochroleuci, sepiis majus-

culi. Br.

Div. I. Appendix apice diviso, penicillata. Folia radi-

-calia stellata. Scapus bracteatus, aphyllus. Br.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Prerostyiis concinna ; foliis radicalibus stellatis, scapo

medio unibracteato, labelli lamina emarginata inclusa

columnam equante. Br. :

Prerostyuis concinna. Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. v. 1. p.

326. Hooker Bot. Journ. v. 1. p. 274. t. 136. Spreng.

Syst. Veget. v.3. p. 715.

This graceful little Orchideous plant, like the majority of

the species of this remarkable Genus, is a native of the vici-

nity

nity of Port Jackson, where it was discovered by Mr. Brown,

and introduced to the Royal Gardens at Kew by Mr. Atian

CunnincHam in 1828. I am indebted to W. T. Arron, Esq.

for the drawing here represented, taken from a plant which

flowered in that rich establishment in 1830. This is rather

more luxuriant than the native specimens in our Herbarium,

which we possess from Mr. Brown himself (gathered in

1803,) Mr. Ricnarp Cunnineuam, and Dr. Sieser. By

this last-named botanist, it is incorrectly called P. acume-

nata.

Descr. The root is a descending fibre, about the thick-

ness of small twine, bearing at the extremity two small,

pea-shaped tubers. Sometimes a second fibre is thrown

out, four to five inches long, in a horizontal direction, and

slightly thickened at the apex. Leaves radical, ovate.

Scape four to six inches high, slender, erect in our culti-

vated plant, bearing three to four sheathing bracteas.

Flower erect, beautifully varied with purple-brown, green

and white, galea acute. Lower sepal with two much atten-

uated segments, longer than the galea. Labellum strap-

shaped, emarginate, purple appendage ; with a glandular tuft

of hairs at its extremity. Column about as long as the lp,

green ; wings white, with two filiform appendages at the

top on each side the anther.

Fig. 1. Front view of a Flower. 2. Back view of ditto. 3, Side view

of the Column and Lip. 4. Front view of the upper part of the Column:—

magnified.

See

Lub. by §. Curtis Glavenwook Zissexhpr 118%

( 3401)

PTEROSTYLIS ACUMINATA. ACUMINATED

PTEROSTYLIs, :

KKK KKK EKER EKER ERE EEE

Class and Order.

GyNnAnDRIA Monanpria.

He scte ie aegect sarc a

( Nat. Ord.—OrcuipeE. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium ringens, tetraphyllum, foliolo inferiore bi-

fido, (€ duobus infra cohzrentibus conflato). Labellum

unguiculatum, subinclusum. Lamina basi appendiculata

Vv. gibbosa. Ungue infra labio inferiore connato. Columna

basi galed connata, apice alata. Anthera terminalis, per-

sistens, loculis approximatis. Masse pollinis in singulo

loculo bine, compress, pulveree. Stigma medio columne

adnatum.—Herbe terrestres, glabre. Bulbi nudi, indivisi,

caudicem descendentem radiciformem terminantes. Folia

nunc radicalia stellata, nervosa, membranacea, scapo brac-

feato aphyllo; nune caulina alterna, radicalibus nullrs.

Flores solitarii raritisve racemosi, ochroleuci, sepiis majus-

culi. Br. :

Div. I. Appendix apice diviso, penicillato. Folia radt-

calia stellata. Scapus bracteatus, aphyllus. Br.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Prerostyuis acuminata ; foliis radicalibus stellatis, bractea

scapi preter floralem unica, flore erectiusculo, labio

inferiore param longiore, galeé acuminata, labelli la-

mina integra : apice attenuata exserta columnam supe-

rante. Br.

Prerosryzis acuminata. Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. v.1. p.

326. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 715. 7 i

‘tenses

This is the fifth species of the singular Australian Genus

-TEROsTYLIs, which we have had the privilege of figuring *

the

the Botanical Magazine from the Royal Gardens at Kew,

by the obliging attentions of Mr. Arron. It was imtro-

duced by Mr. Arran CunNINGHAM, from the neighbour-

hood of Port Jackson, in 1827, and our drawing was made

there in April of last year, 1834. ‘The flower is so large in

proportion to the size of the plant, as to render this one of

the most striking of the species yet known in cultivation.

Descr. Root, two small tubers at the end of a branching

fibre. Leaves few, three to four, radical, oblong - ovate,

waved at the margin, reticulate. Scape a span high, in

native specimens bearing only one bractea, in our plant, as

in the cultivated state of P. concinna, three or four, closely

embracing the scape. Flowers solitary, terminal, nearly

erect, but much curved, large, greenish-white. Galea much

acuminated. Lower sepal with two acuminated, divaricating

segments, about as long as the galea. Labellum \inear-

oblong, acuminated, bearing at its base a pedicellated tuft

of glandular hairs (the appendage). Column scarcely so

long as the lip: its wings small, white, with two setiform

appendages at the top.

———

Fig. 1. Front view of a Flower. 2. Back view of ditto. 3. Side view

of the Labellum and Column. 4. Front view of the Column, 5. Back

view of the Labellum: nat. size.

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( 3402 )

ZYGOPETALUM Mackati; 6 crinitum. Mr.

Mackay’s Zycoretatum; hairy-lipped var.

Class and Order.

GyYNANDRIA Monanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—OrcuipeEs. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium explanatum, sepalis petalisque adscendenti-

bus, subeequalibus, cum ungue producto columne connatis.

Labellum muticum, indivisum, patens, ungue ascendente :

cristé magna transversa carnos4. Columna brevis, arcuata,

Semiteres. Anthera subbilocularis. Pollinia 2, biparti-

bilia, in glandulam transversam subsessilia—Herbe ter-

restres ( ? ), subacaules ; foliis plicatis patentibus. Flores

speciosi, labello ceruleo. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Zycoreratum Mackaii ; foliis lorato-lanceolatis striatis a-

pice recurvis racemo brevioribus, sepalis petalisque

oblongo-lanceolatis acutis, labello obcordato pubes-

cente callo baseos crassissimo retrorsuin bilobo. Lindl.

Zygoreratum Mackaii. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2748. Lodd.

Bot. Cab. t. 1664. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 187.

Evopuia Mackaiana. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1433.

(8.) erinitum, venis labelli magis pilosis. Lindl. Gen. et

Sp. Orchid. p. 187. (Tab. nostr. tab. 3402.)

Zycoreratum crinitum. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1687.

————

At tab. 2748 we gave a full description of our Zyeore-

Tatum Mackaii. Like many other of the splendid tropical

Orchidee, this seems liable to considerable variation, and

among other kinds cultivated in the rich collection at

entworth, Mr. Coorer pointed out to me the present,

flowering

VOL. Ix. E

flowering in great perfection, in October, 1834. It is a

native of Brazil, and appears identical with the Z. crinitum

of Mr. Loppices, which Professor Linptey has, 1 think with

justice, considered a variety of Z. Mackait. Indeed the

Evropnia Mackaiana of the Bot. Register (t. 1433) appears

to be intermediate between the true Z. Mackati and our

present plant ; which latter is distinguished from both those

just mentioned by the more acute anther-case, by the entire

- (not emarginate) lip, conspicuously hairy at the base, and

marked with purplish-red interrupted and nearly parallel

lines. Professor Linpuey considers the species of this Genus

to be “ terrestrial,” to us they appear to be epiphytes.

Fig. 1. Front view of the Column, terminated by the Anther. 2. Apex

of the Column, from which the Anther-case is removed, as re resented, as

seen on the underside, fig. 3. 4. Side view of the Lip: slightly magnified.

Pub by S. Curis Clazenweoed Ksse: May IIIS.

Suan se

: (+ 3403 +)

NEOTTIA CALCARATA, SpurRRED NEOTTIA.

KEK EEK KEEEE KEE KEE EEEEK

Class and Order.

GynanpriA Monanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—Orcuines. )

Generic Character.

Cor. ringens : petalis exterioribus anticis labello imberbi

suppositis ; interioribus conniventibus. Coluwmna aptera.

Pollen farinaceum.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Neorria calcarata; labello acuminato denticulato basi

decurrente, cornu apice libero tereti-subulato curvo,

petalis lanceolato-acuminatissimis, foliis ellipticis acu-

tis longe petiolatis.

Neortia calcarata. Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. v. 3. p. 1413.

Srenorruyncnos calcaratum. “ Rich.” Spreng. Syst. Veget.

v. 3. p. 710.

From the rich collection of Cuartes Horsriexp, Esq. of

Liverpool, where it was introduced from Jamaica. SWARTZ

describes it as a native of St. Domingo : so that it 1s pro-

bably to be met with in several of the West Indian Islands ;

yet no author seems to have been acquainted with it except

Swartz.

Descr. Leaves three or four, all arising from a few

large, brownish, oblong scales on the top of the root ; three

or four inches in length, elliptical, slightly waved, very

acute, about three-nerved, of a deep yellowish-green on the

upper side, with a peculiarly satiny lustre, beneath paler

and somewhat glaucous; the base tapers into a stout

petiole, about equal in length with the blade of the leaf.

Scape eight or ten inches high, pale, reddish, terete, bear-

ing three or four sheathing, acuminated, pale green brac-

teas,

teas, and at the extremity, a spike of six to seven distantly -

placed, pale, yellowish-green flowers. Petals linear and

very much acuminated, the three outer spreading, the two

nner combined with the upper one and forming a galea.

Lip long, much acuminated and reflexed, serrated or denti-

culate at the margin, the lower half entire, canaliculated,

the base running down so as to form a lengthened spur, of

which the lower part only is combined with the germen,

the rest free, tereti-subulate, curved; about as long as the

germen. Column short. Stigma with a long, linear apex.

Anther acuminated, the cells yellow. Bracteas subulato-

lanceolate, acuminate.

Fig. 1, Bractee and Flower from which the Petals are removed, showing

the Spur, Column, and Lip: magnified.

“peti nero

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Sw are FE

WF del? * Pub. by S. Curtis Clazerwood Esser May L1835

| ( 3404 )

GOLDFUSSIA ANISOPHYLLA. UNEQUAL-LEAVED

GOLDFUSSIA.

KKK KEE REE EEE KKK EERE

Class and Order.

DipynaAmrA ANGIOSPERMIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Acanruacez. )

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-partitus, subequalis. Corolla infundibuliformis,

limbo quinquefido obtuso equali. Stamina inclusa, didy-

nama, humiliora sepe brevissima reflexa. Anthere mutan-

tes; locelli in connectivo uncinato glanduloso obliqui,

ovati, membranacei. Stigma simplex, subulatum, altero

latere crenatum. Capsula sexangularis, bivalvis, a dissepi-

mento solubilis, loculis infernis dispermis. Semina discoi-

dea, retinaculis subtensa.—Inflorescentia: flores pauci in

capitulo, bibracteolati, bracteis deciduis ; rarius spicati, spica

post delapsas bracteas magis elongati. Capitula peduncu-

lata, pedunculo simplici vel diviso. Frutices, foliis penniner-

vils curvinerviis, nervis omnibus apicem patentibus, nec vero

attingentibus. Nees.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Gorprussta* anisophylla ; foliis oblongis caudato-acumina-

tis, opposito minimo. Nees.

GoLpFussiA anisophylla. Nees, in Pl. Asiat. Rar.v.3.p. 88.

Rvuenuia anisophylla. Hort. Bot. Cale. Hook. Ex. Fl. t.

191. Wail. Cat. n. 2349. a. b. Spreng. Syst. Veget.

cur. post. p. 236.

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Chis beautiful plant was found by Francis pe Syzva, at

Silhet, and through Dr. Watticu introduced to European

gardens,

—

* Named by Dr. NeEs von EsENBECK, in honour of Dr. GoLpFuss,

Professor of Nat, History at Bonn upon the Rhine.

gardens, where it is a great ornament to our stoves, flow-

ering during the winter and spring months. The flowers

are handsome, but in a measure concealed by the distichous

foliage, under which they seem to insinuate themselves,

though they originate in the upper axis of the leaf. The

leaves themselves have a striking peculiarity in exhibiting

the costa and nerves prominent on the upper side of the

leaf, and sunk into the substance of the leaf (the costa ex-

cepted, which is slightly prominent) on the under side. On

each side of the nerve, however, on the upper side, the pa-

rencbyme forms a closely-placed elevated line.

Descr. Plant one and a half to two feet high, much

branched, glabrous ; branches zigzag, patent or even, re-

curved, compressed, slightly winged. Leaves distichous,

opposite, though appearing alternate by the abortion of

one of every pair alternately, broadly lanceolate, acumi-

nato-caudate, serrated, above dark-green, with prominent

nerves, beneath pale, with sunken nerves: when held be-

tween the eye and the light, copious small pellucid lines,

generally lying in a transverse direction, are visible. Petiole

short, flat above, keeled below, slightly winged at the mar-

gin. Abortive leaf very small, lanceolate, acuminate, with

an obscure central nerve, sometimes altogether wanting.

Pedunceles axillary, but inclined downwards, so that they

are in a measure concealed under the spreading leaves and

branches. Peduncles from the axil of the fully-formed leaf;

rarely one arises from the opposite side also ; an inch or an

inch and a half long, bearing a terminal, sessile glomerule,

and sometimes one or two lateral ones of two to three flow-

ers, and these subtended by about as many small bracteas.

Calyx very small, of five deep linear-lanceolate, erect, equal,

pale yellow-green, erect, segments, clothed with glandular

hairs. Corolla funnel-shaped, the throat slightly compressed,

the limb a little irregular, within hairy, the whole pis

blue, prettily variegated and veined with pale marks of the

same colour, and red and yellow. Anthers and filaments

white, Style clavato-acuminate.

May 11835.

Lich. by 8. Curtis Claxenwood. Essex

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( 3405)

CHILODIA SCUTELLARIOIDES. SCUTELLARIA-

LIKE CHILODIA.

SKK KEKE EKER KER ERE

Class and Order.

DipyNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Laxisrz. )

Generic Character.

Calyx campanulatus, tubo brevi 13-striato, bilabiatus,

labio superiore integerrimo, inferiore emarginato, fauce in-

tus nuda. Corolla tubo amplo brevi, limbo campanulato-

subbilabiato, labio superiore erecto subplano emarginato-

bifido, inferiore trifido, lobo medio majore bifido, (aut emar-

ginato,) omnibus planis, patentibus. Stamina 4, subeequalia,

tubo breviora. Filamenta glabra nuda. Anthere bilocu-

lares, loculis parallelis glabris nudis muticis. Stylus apice

breviter bifidus, lobis subzqualibus, apice stigmatiferis.—

Frutex habitu Prostanthere. Benth.

Specific Name and Synonyms.

Cuitopia* scutellarioides. Brown, Prodr. Fl, Nov. Holl. ».

1. p. 507. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 703. Benth.

Gen. et Spec. Labiat. p. 447. Loud. Hort. Brit.

Suppl. p. 585. ;

Cuiropia australis. Loud. Hort. Brit. Suppl. p. 585.

ProstantrHERA empetrifolia. Steb. Herd. Nov. Holl. n. 187.

fide exempl. in Herb. D. Lambert. e

The Lasrats hitherto observed in New Holland, consist of nineteen

genera; and while some of them, as Satvia and Teverium, (abounding

i species, and occupying an extensive geographic range in other por-

tions of the globe,) are barely represented in that vast country, and

PRuNeELLa and Lycorus, furnishing each a solitary species ype 8

_* From xtiros, a lip, and. édes, a tooth; the lower lip of the calyx being di-

vided ; in which respect it differs from PRrosTANTHERA of LABILLAR-

DIERE, the little-known Cryputa of Mr. Brown, and the Linnean Genus

CUTELLARIA, to all which it is very closely allied.

South Wales, which appear, under some modification by climate, iden-

tical with the common British individuals of those genera; others, —

forming a very remarkable and well-defined section of the order, are

absolutely limited to Australia, where their numbers, now amounting to

nearly fifty species, present, both in structure and habit, another exam-

ple of those peculiar forms of Australian vegetation, to which we have

so frequently taken occasion to advert.

To this latter groupe of Genera—the ProstanTHEREx of Mr. Ben-

TtHamM—belong Westrinaia and Curropia, the Genus of our present

plant; of the former we have afforded some illustration, in folios 3307

and 3308 of this work, and for the opportunity now afforded us of giv-

ng a figure of the latter, we are again indebted to the liberality of Mr.

ITON.

Cuitopi1a was founded by Mr. Brown, on the form of the calyx,

which is similar to that of Scure.iarta in its earlier state, but it dif-

fers from that Linnean Genus, in its lower lip being emarginate, or even

more or less bifid, and in the presence of bracteee near its base; and on

the structure of the anthers, which are not furnished with spur-like

appendages as in ProstanTHERA, a Genus with which, however, it

perfectly accords, in the form of the corolla, and in habit. :

A shrub of New South Wales, of rare occurrence in that colony ; in-

habiting barren forests in the vicinity of the Nepean River, whence

seeds were communicated to Kew Gardens, in 1828.

_ Forming a handsome hardy greenhouse plant, and flowering freely at

various seasons, it has proved itself an interesting acquisition to our

collections. It is not, however, easy of propagation; for it has hitherto

ripened its seeds very sparingly, and cuttings do not readily strike root.

Descr. A shrub, in its wild state, from two to three feet high, very

erect, with numerous, long, upright, slender branches, more or less stri-

ooh under cultivation, of more diffuse and bushy growth; the branch-

ets opposite, terete, interspersed sparingly with hairs. Leaves oppo-

site, half an inch in length, erect-patent, inserted remotely on the branch,

subsessile, linear, or linear-lanceolate, acute, apex often curved, margin

subrevolute, smooth, and dark-green above, whitish on the under side.

Flowers solitary, upon Dedcudes half the length of the leaf, axillary,

violet-blue. Peduncle with two linear, subulate bracteas near the apex.

Calyx campanulate, tube short, longitudinally striated, smooth, having

minute, crystalline bodies interspersed on the surface, bilabiate; upper

lip entire, bent upwards, margin smooth, base arched, villous ; lower lip

emarginate, or bifid, margin finely ciliated. Tube of the corolla short,

inflated, a little longer than the calyx; limb campanulate-bilabiate,

slightly pubescent on the outside; upper lip bifid, reflexed; lower lip

divided into three lobes, spreading, the middle segment somewhat larger,

retuse, and occasionally emarginate. Stamens four, nearly of the same

length, purple, inserted almost at the base of the tube of the flower, and

about half its length. Filaments short, smooth; anthers two-celled,

brown ; cedls parallel, smooth, ecalcarate, or without spur-like processes.

Pa exserted. Stigma bifid, lobes unequal. Germen four -lobed.

. Cunningham,

—

Fig.1. Side-view, and fig. 2 front-view of the Calyx. 3 and 4 Corolla.

5. Corolla laid open to show the Stamens.

C 3406 )

SAXIFRAGA LIGULATA. FRINGE-LEAVED

SAXIFRAGE.

KEKE KEKEK EKER KEK KEKKERKE

Class and Order.

DecanpriA Dieynta.

( Nat. Ord. —SaxirraceEa. )

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-sepalus, sepalis plis minis inter se et sepé cum

ovario coalitis. Petala 5 rariter irregularia, breviter ungui-

culata integra. Stamina 10, 5 sepalis, 5 petalis opposita ;

anthere biloculares. Capsula calyci adnata vel libera;

carpella 2 sepé usqué ad stylum coalita. Semina numerosa

rugosa vel levia, in pluribus seriebus disposita—Herbe pe-

rennes vel annue.—F lores sepiis paniculati, vel corymbosi,

abortu solitarii. D C.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Saxirraca ligulata ; acaulis, foliis petiolatis coriaceis late

obovatis retusis ciliatis, scapo brevi parce bracteato,

panicula cymosa. oe

Saxirraea ligulata. Wall. in Asiat. Res. v. 13. p. 398, with

a figure. Don, in Linn. Trans. v. 13. p. 348. Hook.

Kx, Fl. v. 1. t. 49. Sw. Brit. Fl. Gard, t. 59, De

Cand. Prodr. v. 4. p. 38. As fe

Mreasea? ciliata. Haw. Enum. Sax.p.7.

When this charming plant was first introduced to this

country from Nepal by Dr. Waxticu, great hopes were en-

tertained that it would prove as easy of cultivation in our

open borders as the nearly allied S. crassifolia. But the

steat_fickleness of our climate at the early season of its

‘Ossoming (January and February), renders it desirable

that it should be treated as a hardy greenhouse plant, or

1€ Inmate of a cool frame. D

ESCR.

Descr. Root thick and woody, bearing several large

spreading, bright-green, broadly ovate leaves, beautifully

ciliated at the margin, and frequently waved there also.

The petiole is short, thick, bearig a long, erect, ciliated

sheath or ligule (whence the specific name) just above where

it is set on to the stem. Scales five or six inches long, with

one or two bracteas, and terminated by a cymose panicle of

large, handsome, white flowers, frequently tinged with rose-

colour. Calyx obtuse and red at the base, and greener

upwards, and five-cleft. Corolla of five, obovate petals,

with short claws. Stamens ten. Filaments erect, alter-

nately shorter, rose-coloured. Anthers reddish-purple.

Germen free. Styles long, erect. Stigmas obtuse.

( 3407 )

EpaAcris IMPRESSA. FovEoLATED EPAcris.

SKK KKK KEE EEK EERE

Class and Order.

Pentanpria Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—EpacriveEg. )

Generic Character.

Cal. coloratus, multibracteatus, bracteis textura calycis.

Cor. tubulosa, limbo imberbi. Stamina epipetala: Anthe-

ris supra medium peltatis. Squamule 5 hypogyne. Cap-

sula placentis columne centrali adnatis.—Fruticuli ramosz,

sepius glabri. Folia sparsa, petiolata v. basi simplict. Flo-

res axillares, in spicam foliatam sepius digest, albi v. pur-

purascentes. Br.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Epacris impressa; floribus pendulis spicatis, foliis lanceo-

latis sessilibus attenuato-acuminatis, pedunculis calyce

ter brevioribus, corollis cylindraceis, tubo calycem bis

superante (Br.) basi foveolis 5 impresso.

Epacris impressa. Labill. Nov. Holl. v. 1. p. A3. t. 58. .

Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 551. Roem. et Sch. v. 4.

p. 381. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 629. Sweet Fi.

Austral. t. 4. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1691.

An elegant and graceful species of a beautiful Genus,

remarkable for the large size and rich deep rose-colour of

its pendent flowers. It is a native of Van Diemen’s Land,

as well as of the south coast of New Holland, and was in-

troduced by Messrs. Mackay of Clapton, a few years since

through their collector, Mr. Baxter. The plant from

which our figure was taken, blossomed in the greenhouse of

the Glasgow Botanic Garden, in February, 1835.

Descr. Epacris impressa forms a shrub about three feet

high, with erect, somewhat virgate branches, which are

clothed

clothed with a rather dense down. Leaves scattered, spread-

ing horizontally or reflexed, lanceolate, gradually attenu-

ated into a sharp and pungent point, the points often pur-

ple, glabrous, dark-green above, paler beneath. Flowers

in terminal, leafy spzkes, drooping, rather large. Peduncle

exceedingly short, and clothed with a few, ovate, acute,

greenish scales, and partly concealing the calyx, erect, ap-

pressed, of five, lanceolate, acuminated, ciliated leaves, in

my specimen not one-third of the length of the corolla.

Corolla beautiful rose-colour : the twbe cylindrical, or nearly

so; near the base and alternating with the calycine leaves

are five depressed spots or foveole: the limb of five round-

ish, but very'acute segments. Anthers five, sessile, just

within the mouth of the corolla. Germen globose, with

five small adpressed glands or scales at the base. Style as

long as the tube of the corolla, a little swollen below the

middle. Stigma capitate, yellow.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil :—magnified.

3408.

Vhs

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cenwood Evsex May J 1056

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Bch by 3

( 3408 )

ACACIA PRENSANS. PRICKLY FEATHERED

ACACIA.

SEEK KKK KEKE KEK ERK EEK

Class and Order.

PotyeamiaA Monaecta.

( Nat. Ord.—Leeuminosz. )

Generic Character.

_ Flores polygami. Cal. 4—}-dentatus. Pet. 4—5, nunc

libera, nunc in corollam 4—5-fidam coalita. Stamina nu-

mero varia. Legumen continuum. D C.

(Sects LV¥.:.§ EAA)

Specific Name and Character.

Acacia prensans ; caule scandente rhachique foliorum acu-

leatis; aculeis sparsis, recurvis: ramulis junioribus —

sulcatis, rhachibusque pedicellisque fulvo-velutinis :

pinnis sub-7-jugis; foliolis 16—22-jugis, oblongis

acutis, inferne marginibusque pubescentibus, subcilia- _

tis, basi valde inequalibus: petiolo infra medium 1- _

glanduloso ; glandulaque inter 2—4 ultima paria pin- —

narum, inferiore semper infra jugum posita: capitulis

globosis, axillaribus, pedunculatis; in paniculam _

laxam, elongatam, primd terminalem, basi foliatam

dispositis. Lowe. i aes

An Acacia pinnata, De Cand. et alior. ?

A most elegant and lovely shrub ; but a dangerous neigh-

bour to other plants within its reach, and requiring much —

space for its display. It would be capable of being formed

into an impenetrable fence, or might be advantageously

employed to give additional security, if trained along a

wall. “The flowers are scentless, but singular and hand-

Some, from the strong contrast between the pale yellow

bundles of stamens, and the dark dull mulberry-red of their

‘terstices. In the bud the heads are altogether dark dull-

red ; becoming yellower as the filaments expand. The

"alive country of this Acacia must remain uncertain: a

: single

single tree of it has long existed in the garden of the Valle, near

Funchal: but I can learn nothing of the exact date of its introduction,

or of its origin. I am indebted to Miss Youne for the beautiful and

highly characteristic drawing.

Descr. A climbing shrub, of extremely rapid and luxuriant growth,

and remarkably elegant and delicate foliage. Stem erect and stout, but

not thicker than the arm, covered with a dark-brown bark. Branches

simple stigma. Ovary minute, green, angular, oblong, slightly hair,

rodite. Lowe.

Fig. 1. A single Flower, with its minute bracteola at the base. 2. ‘

rium and Style :—both magnified.

Essex

Clazenwecd,

( 3409 )

RanpiAa Bowreana. Mr. Bowie's

Ranplia.

Class and Order. :

PentanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Rusracea. )

Generic Character.

Calycis tubus obovatus, limbus 5-lobus. Corolla hypo-

crateriformis, tubo brevi, lobis calycinis in Sect. I. vix lon-

giore, in Sect. II. duplo triplove longiore, limbo 5-partito.

Anthere intra faucem sessiles incluse. Stigmata 2, crassa.

Bacca calyce coronata subsicca, corticosa, bilocularis.. Se-

- mina in quoque loculo plura, placente centrali affixa, in

pulpa nidulantia, aut deorsum imbricata aptera. Albumen

cartilagineum. Embryo rectus, radicula tereti, cotyledoni-

bus orbiculatis planis—Arbuscule aut frutices ramosissimi.

Spine axillares opposite aut subverticilate. Folia sessila

aut brevi-petiolata. Stipule utrinque solitaria, interdum

evidenter é duabus concretis facte. Flores ex axillis sepius

solitarii subsessiles. Genus affine Posognerie, a qua dig-

noscitur fructu vere biloculare. D C.

Srcr. II. Frutices inermes. Corolla tubus apice ad

Jaucem sepius dilatatus obconicus.—An genus proprium ?

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Ranp1a* Bowieana ; inermis, fruticosa, glabra, foliis in ramos

terminalibus obovato-oblongis acuminatis brevi-petio-

latis membranaceis-subtus venis obsolete pubescen-

tibus, stipulis membranaceis, floribus in ultima ramu-

lorum axilla terminalibus solitariis, corolla tubo lon-

gissimo, calycis lobis subfoliaceis spathulatis.

Ranp1a Bowieana. Allan Cunningham, MSS. :

* Named after Isaac RAND, an English Apothecary.

VOL. IX, ‘KF

A handsome stove plant, discovered in the year 1815 by

Mr. Attan Cunntnenam and Mr. Bowie the King’s Bota-

nical Collectors, in Brazil, and by them sent to the Royal

Gardens at Kew. I am indebted to Mr. Arron for the fine

specimen here figured. The Genus must remain doubtful,

until we have the opportunity of examining the fruit. Mr.

Cunnincuam observes the ovary to have “ two cells, and

each cell to contain many ovules, which appear evidently

to indicate that the seeds in the mature fruit are enveloped

in a soft pulp ;” and he agrees with me in thinking that for

the present, it is best referred to Ranpia,.

Descr. A shrub of slender habit, “‘ destitute of spines

(in cultivation), with opposite branches, and clothed with

glabrous, brown bark: bearing the leaves at the extremity

of long, straight shoots, so that they appear clustered. But

however closely they are placed, they are opposite, oblong,

but broader upwards, acuminate, membranaceous, waved,

situated on rather short stalks, glabrous every where except

on the midrib and nerves beneath, where there is a slight

degree of downiness from minute, appressed hairs. Sti-

pules opposite, large, membranaceous, imbricated, oblong,

and slightly acuminated. The flower is large, handsome,

solitary, terminal upon a branch that has become axillary

by innovations from beneath it. Calycine segments half

an inch long, spreading, spathulate, somewhat leafy. Tube

of the corolla very long, cylindrical, and green for the

greater part of its length, moderately dilated and yellowish

above, the limb spreading, or slightly recurved, of five large,

obovate, yellow-buff-coloured seginents. Anthers linear,

sessile, situated just at the mouth of the corolla. Style

filiform, as long as the tube of the corolla; Stigma large,

clavate, yellow, exserted.

———

* Apex of a Flowering Branch, with the lower part of a Flower. 2. Up-

per part of the Corolla, laid open to show the Stigma and Anthers. 3.

Anther: magnified. = oA

( 3410 )

EPIDENDRUM? STENOPETALUM. ACUTE-

PETALED EPIDENDRUM.

KEE EE EE EEE REE EERE

Class and Order.

GyNnAnDRIA Monanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—Orcutpex. )

Generic Character.

Sepala patentia, subequalia. Petala sepalis equalia,

vel angustiora, rarius latiora, patentia vel reflexa. Label-

lum cum marginibus columna omnino vel parte connatum,

limbo, integro vel diviso, disco sepius calloso, costato vel

tuberculato ; nunc in calcar productum ovario aceretum et

cuniculum formans. Colwmna elongata : clinandrio margi-

nato, sepe fimbriato. Anthera carnosa, 2—4-locularis. Pol-

linia 4, caudiculis totidem replicatis annexa.—Herbe (Ame-

ricane) epiphyte, caule nunc apice vel basi pseudo-bulboso

nunc elongato apice folioso. Folia carnosa rarissime venis

elevatis striata. Flores spicati, racemosi, corymbosi, vel

Paniculati, terminales vel laterales. Lindl. i ick sal

Specific Name and Character.

Eripenprum stenopetalum ; caulibus erectis flexuosis arti-

culatis striatis apice diphyllo, foliis lineari-oblongis

obtusis coriaceis ; corymbo subumbellato sessili, sepa-

lis petalisque ovatis acuminatis subequalibus paten-

tibus, labello patente libero obovato obtusissimo basi

intus subtuberculoso, columna apice dentata.

‘eee

This very pretty Orchideous plant was received at the

Glaseow Botanic Garden from cies. by favor of Mr.

AcFADYERr, and flowered in that establishment in February

and March of the present year, 1835. The plant is new to

rofessor Linptey, but owing to the imperfect state of the

anther, we cannot refer it with certainty to the present

Genus.

aan

Genus. If it be really an Eripenprum, as its habit would

lead one to conclude, it is another species added to that

small groupe of the Genus, with a column quite distinct

from the lip, to which our E. bicornutum, t. 3332, belongs.

The flowers continue for a considerable length of ‘time in

_ perfection. ;

Descr. Root of rather thick, branched jibres, throwing

up several erect, simple stems, ten inches or a foot high,

flexuose, jointed, rounded and striated, a little tapering at

the base and at the extremity, and partly sheathed by the

bases of former years’ leaves, and terminated at the extre-

_mity by two ‘spreading, linear-oblong, coriaceous, very

obtuse, smooth leaves, from two to three inches in length.

From between these the flowers arise in a sort of corymb,

haying an umbellate appearance of from four to six in

number, and nearly sessile. Peduncles scaly below. Flow-

ers slightly curved. Sepals three, spreading, ovato-lan-

ceolate, acuminate, petals also spreading, ovate acuminate,

both of a delicate rose colour. Lig quite free, by no means

adnate with the column, patent, obovate, very obtuse at the

base, above having a square, yellowish-white, slightly tu-

berculated disk, the rest of the lip is rose-coloured, with a

dark red spot in the centre. Column short, deep rose-

colour, keeled on the back, toothed at the apex, white

beneath. Within a cavity, just below the apex, the anther

is situated, but it seems to be in an imperfect state.

——

—————

Fig. 1. Lip and Column. 2. Lip. 3. Front view of the Column: magnt-

Swan Se:

Curtes ded* Pub. be S§.Curtis. tlazenweed Fssex. June 118355.

( 3411 +)

Ecuinocactus Eyriesti. Sweet-sceENTED

Spiny Cacrus.

Class and Order.

IcosanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Cacrea. )

Generic Character.

Sepala wumerosa, imbricata, basi ovarii adnata, in tubum

brevissimum concreta, exteriora involucriformia, interna

petaliformia. Stamina numerosa. Stylus filiformis, apice

multifidus, Bacca sepalorum reliquiis subsquamata. Co-

tyledones nulla ?—Frutices simplicissimi, carnosi, ovati aut

globosi, melocactoidei, costati, aphylli, costis tuberculis con-

Jluentibus quasi formatis, dorso aculeorum fasciculos geren-

tibus. Cephalium sew spadix nullus. Flores e fasciculis

aculeorum ad apices costarum orti, similes floribus Cerei

sed tubo vix ullo donati. DC.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Ecuinocactus Eyriesii, caule subgloboso umbilicato, costis

13 continuis aculeatis subundulatis, tuberculis lanatis

spinas plures breves rigidas rectas gerentibus, flore

buceiniforme curvato 6 uncias longo odoratissimo ~

extus cinereo villoso, petalis acutissimis stellatis.

Lindl.

Ecuinocactus Eyriesii. “ Otto in Verhandl. Preuss. Gart.

ver.c.ic.”’ Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1707.

The drawing of this charming Ecuinocacrtus, no less re-

markable for the great size of the flower, than for its deli-

Clous fragrance, was made by Mr. Henry Courris, the

youngest son of the Conductor of this work, in whose

choice collection, at Glazenwood, it flowered in Jan., 1835.

his noble flower, like that of Cergus grandiflorus, ane

, o

to expand only at night. It is a native of Mexico, having

been introduced to the Horticultural Society, according to

Dr. Linptery, some years ago by Sir Joun Lusgocs.

Descr. Stem subglobose, depressed, and even umbili-

cated at the top, about as large as a middling-sized orange,

marked with several, twelve to fourteen, sharp and promi-

nent angles, upon which are several white, rounded, woolly

tubercles, mixed with several short and not very conspicuous

spines. The flower is exceedingly large in proportion to

the size of the stem, and breaks forth from one of the an-

gles, ascending. Tube a span long, funnel-shaped, greyish

green, woolly, and marked with numerous tufts of oblong

brown hairs; within green. Petals numerous, lanceolate,

very acuminate, white, patent, often reflexed. Stamens

numerous, rising a little above the tube of the flower, most

numerous on one side: Anthers yellow. Style scarcely

reaching to the summit of the stamens. Stigma rayed. —

> :

Lub. by 8 Curtis. Glarenwood Bisex

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( 3412 )

CYPRIPEDIUM INSIGNE. [LARGE-FLOWERED

Lapy’s SLIPPER.

Jee bbbiookeskskskata

Class and Order.

GynanpriA Monanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—OrcuipEz. )

Generic Character.

Labellum ventricosum inflatum (nunc saccatum.) Co-

lumna postice terminata lobo petaloideo (stamine sterili)

antheras distinguente. Petala duo antica sepe connata.

Br.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Cypripepium insigne; acaule, foliis cartilagineis ligulatis

scapo piloso dimidio brevioribus, perianthii lacinia su-

periore fornicata emarginata, lateralibus obovatis sub-

undulatis obtusis extus pubescentibus, inferiore labello

venoso basi inflexo paulo longiore. Lund.

Cypripepium insigne. Wall. MSS. Lindl. Coll. Bot. t. 32.

Hook. Ex. Fl. t. 34. Lodd. t. 1321. :

Of the most beautiful Genus Cyprirepium, no species,

perhaps, excels that here figured, whether the size of the

blossom, or the colour and markings of the floral coverings

be considered. It is a native of Nepal, along with its near

aflinity, C. venustum. Both were introduced to our gar-

dens through the liberality of Dr. Waxuicu, and both are

remarkable for their distichous and coriaceous leaves. The

individual here figured blossomed during the winter months,

i Mr. Curtis’s collection, at the Glazenwood Nursery, and

the drawing was made by Miss Maria Curtis.

Descr. Stem none. Leaves radical, few, and equitant

at the base, broadly linear, coriaceous, distichous, keeled

at the back, glabrous, of a yellow-green colour. Scape

terete, downy, curved at the extremity, and there bearing

an ovato-oblong, green, glabrous, remarkably compressed,

striated spatha. Flowers solitary, very large, three to four

inches across: the two outer segments of the perianth (the

upper and lower, the lower being formed of two combined)

broadly ovate, almost rotundate, the lower and smaller one

of an uniform green, the upper green, except the extremity,

which is white ; the whole, especially the disk, richly spot-

ted with brown. The two inner and lateral segments

spreading, oblong, broader towards the extremity, yellow-

green, with purple stria, pale at the base. Lp large, sac-

cate, rich greenish-brown without, yellow within. Column

of fructification short, terminated by a large, obversely

cordate, yellow, slightly convex lobe, glandular below,

beset with minute red hairs above: beneath this, at the

base, are two short, lateral processes or filaments, to the

side of each of which is attached a single, sessile, two-

lobed, orange-yellow anther ; its lobes rather unequal.

ssaitinmaaeenannemmmamna cites, ag te

i onre

Swart Se.

Pub by § Curtis

J ry S dis Haz j

by S Curls Glazenwoed Exsur. June LIEG3 .

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( 3413)

‘BarosmMa crenuLatTa. CRrENULATED

Diosma, or Buckv.

SEHR

Class and Order.

PentanpriA Monoeynia,

( Nat. Ord.—Rwracea. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 5-partitus, laciniis equalibus. Petala oblonga,

Subsessilia. Filamenta 10; alterna sterilia petaliformia,

staminibus breviora. Stylus petala equans. Sigma equale,

obtusum. Bartl. et Wendl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Barosma* crenulata ; stylo inferne villoso, foliis lanceolato-

— ovalibus obtusis crenulatis dorso incisurisque glandu-

loso-punctatis, pedunculis axillaribus uni-trifloris.

Barosma crenulata. Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. Suppl. t.

12. Roem. et Sch. Syst. Veget. v. 5. p. 448.

Diosma crenulata. Linn. Amen. Acad. v. 4. p. 308.

Diosma crenata. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 287. Thunb. Fl. Cap.

ed. Schult. p. 227. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 1. p. 1138. (not

De Cand., nor Lodd. t. 404., nor Woodv. Med. Bot.

Suppl. t. 14.)

Bucco crenata. Roem. et Sch. v. 5. p. 414.

Parapetarirera odorata, Baril. et Wend. Coll. 1. p. 50. ¢.

15.

Diosma odorata. De Cand. Prodr, v. 1. p. 714.

Diosma serratifolia. Burch. Trav. in Afr.v. 1. p. 476, figure

(not Curt.)

Diosma serratifolia. 8. Bartl. et Wendl. Diosm. p. 99.

(nol «.) :

Diosma latifolia. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 290. (not of Linn. and

searcely Andr.)

ease oae ———

* From. Gapus, strong, and coun, small, from the powerful scent of the

leaves,

There

There are, perhaps, few plants, that have been long cul-

tivated in our collections, which are less understood and

which require more illustration by figures, than the various

species of the old Genus Diosma of the Cape, and which

now constitute a section of the Nat. Ord. Ruracesm, of which

Messrs. Bartring and WenpLanp, in an excellent little

work, entitled ““ Diosmez Descripte et Illustrate,” (Goet-

tingen, 1824,) have constituted nine distinct Genera. The

individual now figured is an old inhabitant of our green-

houses, where it has gone under various names, such as

Diosma crenata, D. latifolia, D. odorata, &c. WENDLAND

figured it under the name of Paraperairera odorata in his

Colect. 1. t. 15, but he afterwards made it the var. 6. of

Diosma serratifolia, Curt. Mag. p. 456, and has referred to

the same var. the D. crenata, of Linn., Tuuns., Wittp., &c.

But surely if it can be proved to be the D. crenulata (not

crenata) of Linn. Amen. Acad., that name ought to be

adopted, in preference to any other : and Linnaus’s descrip-

tion does appear to me to be so characteristic, (“* Rami ru-

bentes. Folia glabra, lanceolata-ovalia, obtusa, petiolata

subtus punctis adspersa, margine obsolete serrata, puncto

pellucido intra singulam senaturam,” &c.) that, for my own

part, | have no hesitation in preferring the name. My opi-

nion is further strengthened by a remark of Sir J. E. Sura

in Rees’s Cyclopedia, where he notices the great affinity of

the D. serratifolia (a supposed Australian species) with the

D. crenata of Linnzus. Of the true D. serratifolia, 1 have

only seen cultivated specimens; they have much longer,

narrower, and acuminated leaves, marked with raised glands

on the upper surface, as well observed by Mr. Curris, and

with three distinct nerves, as figured and described by VEN-

TENAT (Jardin de Malmaison, t. 7 7.) decidedly serrated

leaves, and always pure white flowers: so that I have no

hesitation in keeping these two distinct. The D. serratifo-

ha of Burcue.t, (Travels, v. 1. p. 476, figure,) if the shape

of the leaves be correct, I can have no hesitation in refer-

ring to our crenulata ; the valuable properties of which as

an internal medicine, and as an outward application* for

healing

* A Hottentot being severely wounded by the bursting of a gun, his

companions expressed so much faith in the powers of Bookoe-azyn (Bookoo

Vinegar) as a wash to cleanse and heal the wound, that I allowed it to be

used. Our small stock of this liquid soon failing, we had recourse to an in-

fusion of the Diosma leaves in brandy, with which the injured part was

washed night and morning for two or three weeks, the effect of this applica

tion

healing lacerated flesh, are related by Mr. Burcuett, in the

same volume. Lastly, I may mention that the Bucku of

our Pharmacopzias, which has lately obtained so much

celebrity as a sudorific, diuretic, and tonic; such at least

as I have examined from the Glasgow Apothecary’s Hall,

undoubtedly belongs to the present species. Hence, though

others of the Diosma groupe may contain similar properties,

abounding as they all do in a strong aromatic odour, and

glands filled with essential oil, yet by the Hottentots and

those who gather Bucku for the European market, prefer-

ence is given to our Barosma crenulata. The scent seems

to me to be as powerful as that of any other of the tribe,

but at the same time much more agreeable, and more re-

sembling that of some Mints. Mr. Loppiess observes, that

it is extremely difficult to propagate by cuttings, that seeds

are never produced with us ; and that we are dependent for

increase upon supplies which now and then reach us from

its native country. The species is really a handsome one:

the flowers which appear in early spring, continuing a long

time in perfection, are purple in bud, of a delicate bluish

colour when fully expanded. As in the Rue, the stamens

are applied alternately to the stigma where the pollen is

discharged. }

Descr. The plant from which our description and figure

are taken, is an upright shrub, between two and three feet

In height, with twiggy branches of a brownish-purple tinge.

Leaves decussate, spreading, about an inch long, oval-lan-

ceolate, on very short petioles, very obtuse, delicately and

minutely crenated, quite glabrous, rigid, darkish-green, and

quite smooth above, with a few very obscure oblique nerves,

beneath paler, dotted with glands which are scarcely pellu-

cid, while at every crenature is a conspicuous pellucid gland ;

there is also a narrow, pellucid’margin round the whole leaf.

Peduncles about as long as the leaf, axillary and terminal,

chiefly from the superior leaves, single-flowered, often (but

not always) bearing a pair of small opposite leaves, or

bracteas, above the middle, each of which in my native spe-

cimens sometimes bears a flower in its axil. Beneath the

calyx are two or three pairs of small imbricated bracteas.

Calyx

=___.

Hon being very satisfactory. This Bookoe, or Bucku-azyn, is made by

Simply putting the leaves of Diosma serratifolia, or some other species of

the Same Genus, into a bottle of cold vinegar, and leaving them to steep ;

uSion has been made, and sometimes turning to a mucilage.

Calyx of five ovato-acuminate leaflets, green, tinged with

purple. Corolla of five ovate petals, purple in bud, blush-

coloured when fully expanded. Stamens five, at first erect,

then recurved, about as long as the petals. Filaments

slightly villous. Anthers oblong. Barren filaments five,

lanceolate, white, rather villous, tipped with a gland, the

lower part erect, the upper half spreading. Hypogynous

disk, an annular, dark-green gland. Germen very short,

abortive (?) crowned with five lanceolate, fleshy, slightly

spreading appendages. Style filiform, curved: Stgma mi-

nute.

Fig. 1. Peduncle and Flower, from which the Petals have been removed.

2. Pistil and hypogynous disk :—magniied.

( 3414)

PrimuLa Patinurt. Paninurtan.

PRIMROSE.

KEKE EEE ERK KKK KKK KEK

Class and Order.

PentanpriaA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord. —Primuacez. )

Generic Character.

_ Calyx 5-dentatus. Corolla hypocrateriformis, tubo ey-

lindraceo, ore nudo. Stigma capitatum. Capsula unilo-

cularis, decem-dentata.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Primvuta Palinuri ; subcaulescens, foliis obovato-spathula-

tis dentatis glabris, scapo laterali foliis longiore,

umbella subnutante, involucro inaquali pedunculos

~ equante, corolle limbo margine incurvo.

Primuxa Palinuri. Jacq. Eclog. p. 63. t.43. Tenore, Fl.

Neap.t. 14. Lehm. Prim. p. 43. Spreng. Syst. Veget.

~.1.p. 575. Hooker, Ex. Fl. t. 118.

We have chosen a small-sized plant of the Priwura

Palinuri as best suited to the size of our page. In some of

the individuals cultivated by Mr. Murray in the Glasgow

Botanic Garden, the foliage is thrice the size of that here

represented, and has a most striking resemblance, as Pro-

fessor Leumann has well observed, to that of a luxuriant

Plant of Semrervivum arboreum. This circumstance, to-

Sether with the bright yellow corollas, almost pure white,

Mealy calyces, pedicel, aud involucre, and the season of its

lossoming (March) render it a most desirable acquisition.

The fra rance too, similar to that of the Cowslip, but more

Powerful, is another recommendation. It is a native of

alinuri near Salerno, in the Neapolitan dominions ; and in

the more Southern parts of Britain it appears that it may be

Cultivated in the open border. D

ESCR.

Descr. Perennial. There isan evident stem, rising two

or three inches above ground, marked with the scars of the

fallen leaves, the perfect leaves forming a spreading crown

tothe summit. These are, in our plants, from four to six or

eight inches in length, obovato-spathulate, irregularly

toothed at the margin, except in the lower half, quite gla-

brous and naked (not mealy), obscurely veined, and of an

uniform pale green colour. Scape from among the lower

leaves, and longer than they, rounded, glabrous, bearing a

somewhat drooping Umbel. Involucre, pedicels, and ealy-

ces densely covered with a white, mealy, or powdery sub-

stance, in which the fragrance appears to reside. Corolla

full yellow, infundibuliform, the segments nearly erect, their

margins incurved. Stamens included. Germen globose :

Style filiform, as long as the tube. Stigma capitate, glan-

dular.

Plt

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Libby SCs Cazenwooid Hss0t. June a7?

Spe: ectioke

CRASPEDIA MACROCEPHALA, LARGE-HEADED

CRASPEDIA.

KEKE KEKE ERE KEK EERE EEE

Class and Order.

SyNGENESIA SEGREGATA.

( Nat. Ord.—Composirm. Sub-tribe GnarHanien.

I. Craspedie. Less. )

Generic Character.

Capitulum compositum, subglobosum. Involucrum im-

bricatum, polyphyllum. Involzcella subpentaphylla, folio-

lis membranaceis uniserialibus. Capitula partialia subquin-

queflora, flosulis infundibuliformibus. Pappus uniserialis

plumosus.—Herbe Australasice, simplices, monocephale ;

foliis Lineari-oblongis, inferioribus spathulatis.

Specific Character.

Craspepia* macrocephala ; foliis latis strigoso-hirsutis.

_This very interesting plant was raised by Mr. Curtis, at

his extensive nursery-ground, Glazenwood, in the summer

of last year, from seeds brought by Dr. Witson from Van

lemen’s Land. ‘“ They were gathered,” Mr. Curris

observes, « by Mr. Witt1am Davinson, the Curator of

the Hobart Town Botanic Garden, on Mount Welling-

ton, at an elevation of three thousand feet above the

level of the sea, The plant flourishes with me in a com-

mon pit, but I expect it will prove quite hardy, though

do not venture to remove it to the border during winter.

he appearance of the foliage is similar to that of Ammo-

Blum alatum, but of a more bluish green, and the smell of

the flowers resembles that of honey-comb, or of the Bup-

PLEA globosa.”’

The

octane

Se xpaomedor, a fringe, in allusion, probably, to 2 appearance of the

The recent plant I have not had the opportunity of see-

ing: but from the accurate drawing made by Mr. WILLIAM

Curtis, and with the assistance of native dried specimens

in my possession, gathered by the late Mr. Lawrence, on

the summits of the western mountains of Van Diemen’s

Land, I am able to draw up the following character.

Descr. Root perennial. Stem eighteen inches or more

high, simple, terminated by a single, large head of flowers,

and, as well as the foliage, of a bluish or glaucous colour,

and clothed with appressed rather silky hairs. Leaves ob-

long, alternate, gradually smaller upwards, the lower and

root-leaves much the longest, and broader upwards, so as

to be spathulate. Capitulum nearly globose, dirty yellow-

ish-white. Involucre of several imbricated, ovate or obo-

vate leaflets, margined with brown, as are some of the upper

leaves. The head of flowers itself, if carefully examined,

will be seen to be made up of numerous compact smaller

or partial capitula, each of about five flowers, and sur-

rounded by about five lanceolate membranaceous scales of

a partial involucre. Of the florets some appear to be

neuter, others perfect. Corollas infundibuliform, the tube

remarkably slender. Germen slender and filiform in the

abortive florets, obovate, compressed and silky in the fertile

ones. Pappus of about fourteen sete, which are beauti-

fully plumose.

Fig. 1. Partial Capitulum with its Involucre, 2. Single Floret, with one

of the Scales of the Involucre :—magnified.

( 3416 )

VanpA Roxpureni; var. unicolor. Dr.

RoxsurGu’s Vanpa; whole-coloured var.

Class and Order. :

GynanpriA Monanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—OrcuipeEz. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium explanatum, patens, petalis sepalisque sub-

equalibus. Labellum saccatum, v. obconico-calearatum,

cum basi columne continuum, subtrilobum: lobo medio

carnoso. Columna crassa, libera, abbreviata, rostello ob-

tuso. Anthera bilocularis. Pollinia 2, obliqué biloba,

caudicula lineari, glandulé subrotunda.—Herbe epiphyte,

caulescentes. Folia disticha, coriacea. Spice oppositifolia.

Flores speciosi. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Vanpa* Roxburghi; foliis apice obliqué tridentatis, racemis

erectis foliis longioribus, sepalis petalisque oblongo-

obovatis undulatis obtusis, labelli lobo medio ovato

emarginato. Lindl.

(«.) tessellata ; sepalis petalisque tessellatis.

Vanpa Roxburghi. Br. in Bot. Reg. t. 506. Sims in Bot.

Mag. 2245.

Cymsipium tesselloides. Roxb. Fl. Ind. ined.

Vanna. Sir W. Jones in Asiat. Res. v. 4. p. 302.

(8.) unicolor ; sepalis petalisque unicoloribus. (‘Tas. nostr.

3416).

a 7

_This singular-looking Orchideous plant, kindly commu-

nicated from the rich collection of Lord Frrzwitttam at

— Vanda is the Hindoo name, according to Sir W1LL1aM Jones, of this,

Wentworth,

VOL. Ix, G

Wentworth, by Mr. Cooper, has an aspect so different from

the Vanna Roxburghi of the Bot. Reg. and Magazine —

above quoted, that notwithstanding it was communicated

by Mr. Loppices to Mr. Cooper under that name, I could

not at first bring myself to consider it other than a distinct

species, and Mr. Coorer seems himself inclined to the same

opinion. But upon a careful examination and comparison

it will be seen that, independent of the luxurious state of

our plant, so characteristic of all the epiphytes cultivated

at Wentworth, the difference chiefly depends upon the co-

lour of the upper side of the sepals and petals, of a greener

hue, and distinctly tessellated, like the flowers of the com-

mon Fritillary; whereas, in our plant, this part is of an

uniform glossy, chestnut-brown colour. The lip, at least

the large middle lobe, is tinged of the same colour instead

of being purple, as in the original V. Roxburgh.

The plant from which this drawing was made, has at-

tained a height of five feet, bearing several lateral branches

and throwing out many tortuous roots.

—

Fig. 1. Side view of the Column and Lip. 2. Front view of the same,

—Magnified. :

Pub by S.Cusntistaxemwed Fiseex Jat? 1.2 P33

€s 3417)

STYPANDRA PROPINQUA. SLENDER, AZURE-

FLOWERED STYPANDRA.

SEER EK KEKE EEE EERE

Class and Order.

HexanpriA Monoeynta.

( Nat. Ord.—AspPHopELEZ. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium 6-partitum, equale, patens, deciduum. Sta-

mina 6. Filamenta infra attenuata, curvata, glabra, supra

stuposo-barbata. Anthere basi emarginate insert. Ova-

rium loculis polyspermis. Stylus filiformis. Stigma sim-

plex. Capsula 3-locularis, 3-valvis. Semina pauca, ovalia,

levia umbilico nudo. Embryo rectus. Br.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Srypanpra* propingua ; glaucescens, foliis omnibus dis-

tinctis remotiusculis strictis plis minisve aversis: ba-

seos marginibus equaliter rectis.

Stypanpra propinqua. All. Cunn. MSS.

A handsome plant, differing from S. glauca of Mr. Brown,

to which it is very closely allied, in being altogether of more

slender habit, with narrower leaves, of which the upper

Surface is as frequently presented to the stem of the plant,

as turned from it, both margins at the base being alike

straight, and not as in S. glauca, where one edge, above

the sheathing of the leaf, is uniformly bent back. Itisa

native of the interior of New South Wales, and was origi-

nally detected in 1822, growing in large tufts among sand-

Stone rocks, in the broken country on the north of the set-

tlement of Bathurst. : F

rom

t * From ervmn, tow, and arp, a male, so named from the dense tuft of hairs

at the upper part of the filament.

From seeds, gathered at the period of its discovery, it

was raised in Kew Gardens, where it has ever since been_

an inmate ; but, under whatever culture, has not shown it-—

self a plant of free growth.

It appears to succeed best in a dry, warm part of the

greenhouse, where it annually puts forth its pretty azure

blossoms in the spring. The plant has not hitherto ripened

its seeds in this country, but may be increased by cuttings.

Descr. A tufted, smooth, subglaucescent, perennial plant,

throwing up from the roots, many slender, slightly-com-

pressed reclining stems, which are clothed with the sheath-

ing bases of the leaves. Leaves wholly cauline, distinct,

alternate, four inches long and under, erect-patent, disti-

chous, the upper pagina more or less opposed to the stem,

or but slightly turned from it ; carinate, striated with many

longitudinal ee sheathing at the base, where the mem-

branaceous margins are equal and simple. Flowers of a

bright azure, terminal, formed into a corymbose panicle,

each corymb few-flowered, sheathed at the base by a folia-

ceous, acuminated bracte. Pedicels ebracteated, nodding,

simple, dichotomous, or umbellate. Perianth six-partite,

nearly equal, each segment ovate, acute, five-nerved. Sta-

mens six, hypogynous, erect, of a bright yellow. Filaments

smooth, attenuated, curved ; the upper portion thickened

into a bearded or stupose tuft. Anthers bilocular, bursting

longitudinally, and after dehiscence revolute, curved at the

apex ; base emarginate, at which point they are attached

to the filaments. Stigma subecapitate. All. Cunningham.

( 3418 )

DENDROBIUM DENSIFLORUM. MANyY-FLOW-

ERED DENDROBIUM.

KEE KKK ERE KEKE ERE KEKE

Class and Order.

GynAnpRIiA Monanpri.

( Nat. Ord.—OrcuipeEz. )

Generic Character.

Sepala membranacea, erecta v. patentia, lateralibus ma-

joribus obliquis cum basi producta columne connatis. Pe-

tala sepalo supremo sepitis majora, nunc minora, semper

membranacea. Labellum cum pede columne articulatum

v. connatum, semper sessile, indivisum v. trilobum, sepits

membranaceum, nunc appendiculatum. Colwmna semiteres

basi longé producta. Anthera bilocularis. Pollinia 4, per

paria collateralia.—Herbe epiphyte, nunc caulescentes, nunc

rhizomate repente pseudo-bulbifero. Folia plana, sepius

venosa. Flores solitarii fasciculati, v. racemosi, speciosi.

Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Denprozgium densiflorum ; caulibus articulatis clavatis pen-

dulis apice foliosis, foliis oblongis acutis nervosis, race-

mis lateralibus multifloris foliis longioribus : junioribus

strobiliformibus, bracteis oblongis plicatis recurvis pe-

dicellis longioribus, sepalis patentissimis ovatis obtusis,

petalis conformibus majoribus, labello majore rhom-

boideo unguiculato serrulato retuso. Lindl.

Denprosium densiflorum. Wall. Cat. n. 2000. Lindl. in

Wall. Pl. As. Rar. n. 40. Gen. et. Sp. Orchid. P. 1.

p. 90.

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Early in the month of March of the present year, I had

the pleasure to receive this very handsome Orchideous plant

from the Lord Firzwitiiam’s collection at Wentworth, by

the

the kindness of Mr. Cooper. This indefatigable and most

successful cultivator of Orchidee observes, that he received

it through the liberality of the Horticultural Society, to

whom it was sent by Dr. Waxuicu. According to that

gentleman’s account, in the place above quoted, the plant

is an inhabitant of Nepaul, where it flowers during the

rainy seasons. If we may judge from the specimen figured

in Watucn’s “Icones,” Mr. Coorer will have the satis-

faction of seeing a much larger raceme of flowers at some

future season, and one that will amply deserve the specific

name Dr. Waxuicu has given to it. But in fact, of two

plants possessed by Mr. Coorrr, one only, and that the

offset (the one here figured) has blossomed, the other, and

a much finer specimen, has as yet shown no disposition to

flower.

Descr. The plant from which our drawing was taken

is about a foot in height. The stem is jointed, clavate,

compressed, furrowed, with the joints sheathed by a deli-

cate membrane, bearing at the extremity about three dis-

tichous broadly lanceolate, obscurely nerved, dark-green,

coriaceous leaves. Raceme lateral, from the extremity of

the joint, immediately beneath the lowest leaf, longer than

the leaves, recurved, bearing numerous, handsome, orange-

buff-coloured flowers, quite destitute of fragrance. Brac-

teas lanceolate, reflexed, striated, straw-coloured, membra-

naceous. Sepals and petals similar in shape and colour,

ovate, obscurely striated, but the two lower sepals unite

and run down into a blunt spur at the base of the lip. Lip

deep orange-colour, with an orbicular, concave lamina,

beautifully fringed at the margin, and hairy on the upper

surface, tapering below intoa claw, within which is a small,

bifid, fringed scale, directed inwards. Column short, orange-

yellow, decurrent below where the lip unites with it. An-

thers nearly hemispherical, attached by a filament to the

back of the column. °

cteaenieaiacee

ff Be 1, Side view of the Lip. 2. Front view of the Column :—magnr-

ed,

ae wes

( 3419 )

LEprosPERMUM scoPpARIUM; var. grandiflorum.

Ricip-Leavep Lxprospermum; large-flowered var.

Class and Order.

IcosanpRIA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Myrracez. )

Generic ee

Calycis tubus subturbinatus ; mbus 5-fidus lobis trian-

gularibus valvatis. Pet. 5. Stam. 20—30 libera, petalis

breviora. Stylus filiformis. Stigma capitatum. Capsula

4—}-locularis, rarissimé 3-locularis. _Semina oblonga

minima.—Frutices Nove Hollandie. Folia alterna, inte-

gerrima, punctata, parva. Flores albi. DC.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Leprosrermum® scoparium ; foliis ovatis mucronatis obso-

leté trinerviis, calycibus glabris, dentibus membrana-

ceis coloratis. De Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p. 227. Spreng.

Syst. Veget. 2. p. 492.

(Var.) grandiflorum ; flore magno roseo, vel in umbra sepe

albo.

Satine

An old inhabitant of our gardens, having been raised at

Kew, from seeds received from Port Jackson, so far back ©

as the year 1817. Although it does not appear specifically

distinct from L. scopariuwm, Lin., having the squarrose,

acuminate leaves, smooth calyx, and coloured calycine

Segments of that species, it is, nevertheless, a very interest-

ing variety, remarkable for the large size of the flowers,

and the blush-coloured tint of their petals. :

f t

* EF, :

ee From arres, slender, and omepua, the seed, on account of the minute-

€ss of the seeds,

It is a desirable plant for the conservatory, as it usually

commences flowering, which it does very copiously, in the

early spring, and continues in blossom the greater part of

the summer ; but it should be placed in a situation fully

open to the light, for then its flowers, which often extend

along the last year’s branches, thus forming a kind of ra-

ceme, are all, more or less tinged with a rose-colour ;

whereas, if crowded among other and taller plants in the

greenhouse, the petals expand and continue of a pure white.

In its native swamps in the neighbourhood of Botany Bay,

beneath an almost ever-sunny sky and amidst a consider-

able glare of light, the flowers are uniformly of a deep

rose-colour. It may be propagated by cuttings as well as

by seeds, which appear to ripen plentifully,

Descr. A bushy shrub, five feet high, much branched,

clothed with a pale-brown bark: branches rather slender,

spreading or dependent, subdivided ; branchlets attenuated,

silky, with appressed hairs. Leaves alternate, more or less

crowded on the branchlets, ovate, ovate-lanceolate, acumi-

nate, mucronate, short-petioled, patent, rigid, concave,

smooth on the upper side, obsoletely three-nerved and silky

beneath, with numerous small dots, margins membranace-

ous and rather scabrous. Flowers large and white when

influenced by shade, but when exposed to the light, rose-

coloured, solitary, lateral or axillary, on short footstalks.

Adherent tube of the calyx smooth, minutely dotted, limb

of five obtuse, oval, membranaceous coloured lobes, deci-

duous. Petals five, white, or tinged with a rose-colour,

large, orbicular, with a short claw, inserted in the calyx

between its lobes, spreading, smooth, obsoletely nerved,

dotted, margins slightly repand. Stamens between thirty

and forty, inserted in the calyx, and scarcely one-third of

the length of the petals. Filaments erect, white, curved

inwards. Anthers pale-brown, bilocular, several apparently

abortive. Ovarium inferior, summit five-lobed, glandulous,

bearing a thick, fleshy style in the centre, which is nearly

the length of the stamens. Stigma capitate, flattened.

Capsule smooth, glossy, pale-brown, hemispherical, five-

celled, each cell containing numerous slender seeds.

+2 b gi it

teh. by 3. Ceartis Clacenwoadl Bier KL PIBE.

( 3420 )

ACACIA TRISTIs. Mournret ACACIA.

EK EEK EE EEE KR EEE RREEK

Class and Order.

Potyeami1a Monaccta.

( Nat. Ord.—Leeuminosz. )

Generic Character. :

Flores polygami. Cal. 4—5-dentatus. Pet. 4—5, nune

libera, nune in corollam 4—5-fidam coalita. Stam. numero

varia, 1O—200. Legumen continuum, exsuccum, bivalve.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Acacta tristis ; stipulis setaceo-spinescentibus deciduis,

phyllodiis faleatis nervis duobus inaqualibus margine

Superiore recurvo, pedunculis subsolitariis cumque folio

longiore ramuloque suleato puberulis. Graham.

Acacta tristis. Graham MSS.

This plant was raised at the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh,

from seeds communicated by the late Mr. Fraser from New

Holland in 1828, and flowered freely both in the green-

house and on the open wall in March and April, 1835. _ Its

nearest affinity is to A. undulata, Witxp., but may be easily

distinguished from this by its lurid, not lively green colour,

by the peculiar nervation of its leaves (phyllodia) by these

being longer both actually and relatively to the peduncle,

by its more setaceous stipules, which are lateral, not infe-

Nor and distinct, not coalescent at the base, by its pubes-

cence, by its capitula being generally single, very rarely in

Pairs, the reverse of which is the case in A. undulata, in

Which also the flowers are larger with much more acumi-

Nated bracteew. It is also, and perhaps quite as nearly,

allied to A. armata, from which it is distinguished by the

smaller degree of hairiness of the branches, by the pubes-

Cent peduncles shorter than the leaves, and by the nerva-

tion of these. In the arrangement of the species it ought

to stand between A. undulata and A. armata. The nerva-

tion of the leaf is nearly that of A. verniciflua, from which

't is distinguished by its stipule. I

In the present state of our knowledge these characters va

must be admitted as specific distinctions, but it is not at all “iy

improbable that we shall hereafter be found to have very oe |

unduly multiplied species in this Genus. In other Genera |

forms far more unlike than many of these are to each other,

are known, from their history and cultivation, to be hybrids

or seedling varieties. The Acactas are seldom raised from

the seeds of cultivated plants, and we have but an imper-

fect assurance that in the wild state they have not that mu-

tability of form which occurs in other Genera, and renders

all specific distinctions uncertain. These observations are

particularly forced upon me by the remarkable varieties of

form which exist amoug the different specimens of Acacia

decipiens, A. longifolia, A. stricta, and especially of A. ver-

miciflua, at present in flower both in the greenhouse and

in the open air at the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh.

The specific name is descriptive of the drooping branches

of our plant, and dull-green colour, compared with its

nearest allies; but was first suggested by circumstances,

entirely personal, under which I write the description.

Descr. Shrub erect; branches drooping, puberulent,

many-furrowed, when young green, afterwards brown. Sti-

pules, like strong, rigid, straight, and spreading sete, which

are at first green, and flattened on the sides which are to-

wards the leaf, soon becoming brown, and at last falling,

lateral, and free at the base. Leaves very shortly petioled,

sub-erect, dark-green, slightly faleate, curving upwards,

except at the mucronated tip, which is more or less bent

down, slightly pubescent, especially when young, undulate,

: : °

having a single sessile gland on the upper edge, near the

base ; middle rib tolerably conspicuous, branching upon

its lower side ; a fainter sub-simple rib occurs between this

and the upper edge, and rather more than half way to this

last. Heads solitary, or very rarely in pairs, on solitary

pubescent peduncles, half the length of the leaf, and rising

from the side of the bud in its axil, many-flowered, flowers

yellow. Bractee greatly attenuated at the base, shorty

so at the apex, marcescent, Calyx turbinate, five-toothed,

teeth rounded and ciliated. Corolla twice as long as the

calyx, five-cleft, segments narrow. Stamens very numerous,

twice as long as the corolla. Style lateral, longer than the

stamens. Germen oblong, slight sed. yellowish-

green. Graham. §> Slightly compressed, y

Fig. 1. Leaf or Ph : Sig : : ee,

melonited r Phyllodium with its Stipules, ' 2. Flower and Bractea

( 3421 )

Isopocon Lovupont. Mr. Lovpon’s

Tsopocgon. |

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Class and Order. if

Terranpria Monoeyniac

F daee

( Nat. Ord.—Prorzacem, )

Generic Character. >

Perianthium quadrifidum, tubo gracili diutids persistente.

Squame nulle hypogyne. Stylus totus deciduus. Stigma

fusiforme vel cylindraceum. Nux sessilis, ventricosa, un-

dique comosa.—Frutices rigidi. Folia glabra, plana v.

Jiltformia, divisa v. integerrima. Capitula terminalia, rard

axillaria. Flores modo densissimé imbricati, strobilo glo-

boso ; modo fastigiati, receptaculo communi planiusculo sub-

envolucrato, paleis deciduis, congestis. Br.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

lsopocon* Loudoni ; foliis lanceolatis lingulatisve integer-

rimis apiculo sphacelato, ramis perianthiisque glabris :

apicibus laminarum sericeis, stigmate fusiformi barba-

to, strobilis hemisphericis.. Br.

lsopogon Loudoni. D. Baxter. Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl.

Suppl. prim. p. 8.

The Genus Isopocon, of which the learned author of the

Prodromus Fl. Nove Hollandie originally described twelve

Species, has, by the researches of botanic travellers, of late

years, and especially by those of Mr. Baxrer on the south-

West coast of New Holland, received an important accession

gett

1° tte

* From sos, equal, and rwywr, a beard, in allusion to the nuts of the fruit

ing equally, or on all sides, bearded, by which character the Genus is

readily distinguished from PETROPHILA.

to its number, by which Mr. Brown has at length been

enabled to extend it to twenty-three species.

The present, a rare and handsome plant, and probably

the most showy of the whole Genus, was one of the disco-

veries of that indefatigable botanic-voyager, whilst on his

last visit to King George’s Sound, in 1829; and the name

he gave it, which Mr. Brown has adopted in the work

above quoted, was in compliment to the respectable and

laborious editor of the several well-known elaborate works

on Botany and Gardening. The plant was raised from

seeds, in 1830, both at Kew and in the nursery of Mr.

Knieut, of the King’s Road; but it has hitherto only pro-

duced its flower-heads in the former garden, whence a spe-

cimen was obligingly communicated to us in the spring,

which has now enabled us to publish a figure of one of the

rarer of the South Australian Proreaces.

Descr. An upright shrub, rising to the height of four

or five feet: branches few, erect, clothed with a red-brown

bark, the younger ones covered thinly with short cinereous

hairs. Leaves coriaceous, alternate, remote, or occasionally

fasciculated on very short branchlets ; lanceolate, lingu-

late, or subspathulate, entire, obsoletely and faintly three-

nerved, tapering towards the base, which is somewhat

dilated; apex pointed, sphacelate; the younger leaves

having a thin appressed cinereous pilosity on both pagine,

which appears to wear off by age ; the adult ones, which are

from four to five inches long, being quite smooth. Flower-

head terminal, solitary. Involucre of numerous elliptical,

imbricated bractes, which are densely covered with fer-

ruginous hairs, having at its base a ray of three or four

leaves. Flowers in each head numerous, spreading, of a

rich purple. Perianth long, very slender, smooth, deeply

divided into four linear lamine, which are about the length

of the tube, their apices at the back being of a very dark

purple, and tipped with a pencil of white silky hairs. An-

thers four, white, bilocular, imbedded in the concave points

of the lamin of the perianth, Style about the length of |

the perianth, filiform and smooth below, widening upwards .

into an angular, fusiform, bearded stigma. c

(AER, Jes

Ruyopopenpron Cavucasicum; var. straminea.

Caucasian RuopopENDRON; Straw-coloured var.

SEE HEI IOk

Class and Order.

DecanpriA Monoaynia. ~

: ( Nat. Ord.—Enricez. )

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. infundibuliformis 5-lobus. Stam.

5—10 declinata : antheris apice biporosis. Capsula 5-lo-

cularis, 5:valyis, ab apice dehiscens, valvarum marginibus

inflexis dissepimenta formantibus : Receptaculum centrale.

Semina membrana involuta.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Ruopopenpron Caucasicum; caule diffuso, foliis elliptico-

lanceolatis coriaceis supra glabris venoso-reticulatis

subtus brevissime ferrugineo-tomentosis margine revo-

lutis, bracteis magnis oblongis concavis persistentibus, _

corolla campanulato-infundibuliformi. | :

Ruopopenpron Caucasicum. Pall. Ross. v. 1, p. 46. t. 31.

Bot. Mag. t. 1145. Aut. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 3. p, 50...

Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 92. i

Var, (B.) staminea ; floribus stramineis, intus fulvo-macu-

latis. i

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_ The Ruopopenpron caucasicum would appear to be sub-

ject to much variation in the size and colour of the flowers,

if we may judge from the only figures I am acquainted

with, namely, that in the Flora Rossica, and that in the

Botanical Magazine ; in the former, which we may consi-

der as the colour of the flowers of the native plant, they

are comparatively small, and entirely of a delicate pink or

rose-colour; in Curmis’s figure they are as large as those

of R. arboreum, pure white within, spotted with green and

tinged

tinged with a deep shade of blush on the outside. In our

Glasgow Botanic Garden, and some other collections in

Scotian, there is cultivated as the R. Cawcasicum, the ex-

tremely beautiful variety here figured, than which I can

conceive no plant more desirable or more ornamental for

an American border or shrubbery. At this season (April,

1835), notwithstanding a most unpropitious spring, our

bushes, one of which is two feet high, and three feet in

diameter, have the extremities of their fine leafy branches

terminated with an umbel of large, beautiful, straw-coloured

flowers, forming a striking contrast with the rich scarlet of

other kinds of Ruopopenpron already beginning to show

their blossoms in the same border. If the R. chrysanthum

had been a common plant in our collections I should have

thought our present one might have been an offspring from

it and the true R. Caucasicum.

Descr. A shrub, with spreading branches, amply clothed

with leaves at their extremities, which are elliptical-lanceo-

late, glabrous, dark-green above, minutely reticulated ;

below rust-coloured from the presence of a copious, but

extremely short, reddish-yellow down. Flowers in terminal

umbels, or rather, if the pedicels were traced to the base, ra-

cemes: but these pedicels are wholly concealed below by

the large, membranous, concave, imbricated bractes, which

form a cone-shaped covering to them, Pedicels and minute

five-toothed calyx reddish, downy. Corolla large, straw-

coloured, between campanulated and funnel-shaped, waved,

slightly irregular within, on the upper side, marked with

numerous fulvous spots. Style and stamens declined, the

fatter longer than the corolla, and reddish ; the former

shorter than the corolla, and of an uniform pale-yellow.

Stigma capitate, yellow-green.

CB 409 4 G90 2 1a gga

RuHODODENDRON aARBOoREUM (hybridum), Arra-

CLERENSE. MHigh-clere hybrid var. of the Trer

RHoODODENDRON.

BREE KEKE EEEEEEEER

Class and Order.

Decanpria Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Enrticea. )

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. infundibuliformis, 5-loba. Stam.

5—10, declinata: antheris apice biporosis. Capsula 5-

locularis, 5-valvis, ab apice dehiscens, valvarum marginibus

inflexis dissepimenta formantibus: Receptaculum ceutrale,

5-angulare. Semina membrana involuta.

(For Specific Character and Synonyms of the Species, see

tab. 3290.)

Ruopopenpron alta-clerense. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1414.

For this truly splendid ornament of our gardens, it seems

we are indebted to Lord Caernarvon, who sug; ‘ested the

idea, as stated in the Bot. Register, that “if a hybrid variety

could be obtained between RuopopEnpron arboreum and

some one of the hardy American species, the result would

be a more robust constitution on the one hand, anda greater

brilliancy of colour on the other; and also, that if the pol-

len of R: arboreum could be employed, the stature of the

hybrid would also be increased.” Such has been the conse-

quence of numerous experiments that have since been tried

by various persons who have fertilized the pistil of Ruopo-

DENDRON Ponticum, or some of the equally hardy American

Species with the pollen of R. arboreum, and our shrubberies

and open borders can now boast of these favourite and

highly ornamental shrubs, equally hardy with the R. ponti-

cum, equally splendid in regard to the size and — =~

VOL. Ix, H

the flowers with R. arboreum, and blossoming earlier by

nearly six weeks than our common hardy sorts. The spe-

cimen here figured was in perfection in the Glasgow Bota-

nic Garden the latter end of April, notwithstanding that

the season was more unpropitious than usual. The under

side of the leaves presents more of the rusty hue of the

East Indian parent than the Aura-cLerENse of the Bot.

( 3424 +) |

HIAKEA FERRUGINEA. Rustry-sTALKED

HaAkeEa. |

KEKE RE EEE REE EEK EEK

Class and Order.

Terranpria Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Proreacez. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium 4-phyllum, foliolis secundis, apicibus cayis

staminiferis. Anthere immerse. Glandula hypogyna unica

dimidiata. Ovariwm pedicellatum, dispermum. Stigma

subobliquum, e basi dilatata mucronatum. Folliculus uni-

locularis, ligneus, pseudo-bivalvis, loculo excentrico, Se-

mina ala apicis nucleo longiore. Br.

Specific Name.

Hakea Jerruginea. Sw. Fl. Austral. t. 45.

This rather handsome and free-growing species has been

raised from seeds sent to the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh,

under the names of Haxza elliptica and H. marginata. It

differs from both these, and is, no doubt, the H. JSerruginea

of Sweer, l. c., which I had overlooked, because not quoted

by Brown, till pointed out to me by Dr. Hooxer. I can

Scarcely persuade myself that this plant is not described in

the Supplement to the Prodr. Fl. Noy. Hollandiz ; because

I understand the seeds which I received from Col. Linpsay

were collected at King George’s Sound ; but if he has no-

ticed it, the form has been so much altered by cultivation,

that the character will not apply. It comes nearest to Mr.

Brown’s H. repanda, which indeed I was inclined to consi-

der it: but Dr. Hooker informs me that a specimen which

1€ possesses, and which he believes to be H. repanda, is

different. It flowers very freely in the greenhouse, and —

probably will thrive upon a south wall, where we have

lately planted it.

Descr.

Descr. Shrub erect (specimen described six feet high),

Bark brown ; on the twigs covered with brown tomentum.

Branches long, slender, drooping, somewhat flexuous,

Leaves (two to three inches long, eight to thirteen lines

broad) largest below the origin of the branches, ovato-ob-

long, terminated with a short, stout, sphacelated mucro ;

when young, adpresso-pubescent ; when old, glabrous ;

three to five-nerved, reticulated, obsoletely crenate, and the

most ovate appearing, with their dilated bases, partly to em-

brace the branches. Fascicles axillary, sessile. Scales of

the flower lead-brown, membranaceous, nerved, concave,

ciliated, and diaphanous in the edges, the inner ones rhom-

boid and petiolate, the outer ovate and sessile. Peduncle

and every part of the flower glabrous. Style erect, bearing

the conical stigma (which is generally covered with the

yellow granular pollen) beyond the recurved second seg-

ments of the four-parted perianth. Graham.

Se.

Swath «

sg * 7 7835.

Pub. by 8. Curtis, Glazenwoad Essex

( 3425 )

Hoya Porrsir. Mr. Porrs’s Hova.

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Class and Order.

Pentanpria Dicynta.

( Nat. Ord.—AscLepiaDEz. )

Generic Character. ve @

Masse Pollinis leves, 10, erecto-conniventes. Anthere

membrana terminate. Corona staminea pentaphylla, foli-

olis depressis, angulo interiore producto in dentem anthere —

incumbentem. Cor. rotata. Br.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Hoya* Pottsii ; foliis cordato-ovatis brevi-acuminatis supra

trinerviis, corolla supra vix pubescente.

Hoya Pottsii. Trail, in Hort. Trans. v. 7. p. 25. t. 1.?

Loddiges, Bot. Cab. t. 1609.

Cultivated in the stove of the Bot. Garden of Glasgow,

where it flowers in May. It is much to be regretted that

Mr. Trait, in his otherwise valuable paper on the different

species of Hoya, has not more precisely defined the charac-

ters between his Hoya Pottsii and H. trinervis. Our plant

is undoubtedly the H. Pottsit of the Bot. Cabinet, but the

colour of the flowers is different from that of Mr. TRAILL,

and in this respect, as well as in some others, it agrees better

with the trinervis, of which its author says, “ It bears a great

resemblance to H. Potsii, from which, however, 1t may be

principally distinguished by its larger and thinner leaves,

the veins of which are more strongly marked, and also by

the yellowish colour in the centre of the crown.” May not

the two be varieties of one and the same plant? In ours,

* Named in honour of Mr. THomas Hoy, gardener to His Grace the

Duke of Northumberland.

old leaves at the base of the plant are much thicker than the

upper ones, and have the nerves more obsolete. From H.

carnosa the species is best known by its larger, broader,

three-nerved leaves, and the almost entire absence of down

upon the upper surface of the corolla. It wholly wants the

bright red spots in the inside of the crown, and the smell

certainly cannot be compared to that of a “ rich plum-

cake, or a combination of that of honey with the almond

flavour of the Peruvian Heliotrope,” (to which that of H.

carnosa is likened by Sir J. E. Smiru,) but rather resem-

bles that of strong and bad honey. :

If we are correct in considering the plant to be the ori-

ginal H. Pottsi, it is a native of the vicinity of Macao,

where a leaf was gathered by the zealous collector to the

Horticultural Society, whose name it bears, and which,

being given to Mr. Sasine, and planted, soon flourished.

The H. trinervis was brought from China by Mr. Jon

Damper Parks.

Descr. Stem long, branched, twining, the extremities

frequently leafless and rooting. Leaves ovato-cordate witha

short acumen ; when old, very thick, and between fleshy and

coriaceous, convex below, and pale-green, with scarcely an

appearance of nerves; above concave, deep-green, with

one central and two lateral nerves, the middle one some-

times sending out very obscure lateral oblique ones, the

margin slightly revolute. Petioles rounded, short, very

thick ; when old, clothed with a sort of pale-brown bark.

Peduncle from the side of one of the petioles at its base,

two inches long, bearing a compact almost globose umbel

of flowers. Calyx with five short, broadly ovate teeth.

Corolla rotate, of five broadly ovate, acute, very pale yel-

low-green lobes, quite glabrous below, above so slightly

downy that the pubescence can only be seen by the assist-

ance of a microscope. Crown of five large, depressed,

fleshy, ovate, spreading, white leaves, between which the

colour is orange.

( 3426 )

OrcHIs TEPHROSANTHOS; var. densifolius. Narrow-

LipPED Mirrrary Orcuis; Crowded-flowered var.

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Class and Order.

GynanpRIA Monanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—OrcnipeEx. )

Generic Character.

Corolla ringens. Labellum basi subtus calearatum.

Glandule (1—2.) pedicellorum pollinis incluse cucullo

unico. Br.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Orcuis tephrosanthos ; labello tripartito, laciniis linearibus

intermedia bifida cum mucrone interjecto, petalis acutis

conniventibus, cornu subincurvo germine duplo brevi-

ore, bracteis brevissimis.

Orcuis tephrosanthos. Vill. Delph. v. 2. p. 32. Desf. Atl.

v. 2. p. 318. Hook. in Fl. Lond. N.S. cum Ic.

Orcuis militaris. Engl. Bot. t. 1873.

Orcuis militaris? Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1334.

Orcnis simiam referens. Vaill. Bot. Par. t. 31. f- 25, 26.

(excellent ).

(8.) spica mulltiflora, foliis latioribus. Tab. nostr. 3426.

Orcuis simia. De Cand. Fl. Fr. ed. 3. v. 2. p. 249.

This extremely handsome Orcnis has been received at

the Glasgow Botanic Garden, from the Continent of Europe,

under the name of O. simia; buta careful comparison with

the rare O. tephrosanthos of the south of England will show

that, notwithstanding its greater size and beauty, it can

only be considered a luxuriant state of that plant. It seems

to be a species that has been very little understood, and

consequently that has received different appellations, be-

sides those quoted above ; such as, for example, O. zoophora,

Tuurtt., O. cinerea, Scurank, O. cercopitheca, Porr., &e. De

: CANDOLLE

Canpotte has certainly given a wrong synonym in quoting

Hatter, Helv. n. 1275. t. 30, which has a lip quite different

from our plant, and is in reality O. acuminata of Desron-

raines. I scarcely know whether to quote the O. tephro-

santhos, 8. of Ker. in Bot. Reg. p. 375, because of the very

sharp segments of the lip, and waved leaves, which is,

moreover, far inferior, in point of beauty, to the present in-

dividual. Its flowering season is in May.

Descr. Bulbs two: roundish-ovate. Stem a foot high in

our plants. Leaves oblong, or oblongo-lanceolate, some-

what acute, striated, pale-green above, paler still, and some-

what glaucous beneath; they are mostly confined to the

lower part of the stem. Spike oval, of numerous, crowded,

handsome, fragrant flowers. Sepalsand petals purplish-white,

spotted, all ovate and much acuminated, forming a helmet

over the column. Lip purple, variegated with white, and

studded on the upper side with darker, red-purple, chrystal-

line points, three-lobed, the middle lobe bipartite, with a

mucro between; all the lobes linear, obtuse, and curved

upwards. Spur short, decurved, swollen towards the apex.

Bracteas small, much shorter than the twisted germen.

Fig. 1. Side view of a Flower. 2, Front view of a Lip, with its Spur :—

magnified. P P

( 3427 )

ErICA RECURVATA. DROOGPING ROUND-

HEADED HEATH.

KKK KEKE KEK EEK EERE REE

Class and Order.

OctanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Enricinez. )

Generic Character.

Cal. 4-sepalus inferus. Cor, 4-fida. Stam. receptaculo

inserta, Anthere bifide. Caps. 4-locularis.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Erica recurvata; foliis 6-fariis linearibus flexuosis paten-

tibus obscure denticulatis glabris, floribus terminalibus

dense capitatis involucratis nutantibus, calycis laciniis

subulatis appressis tubi longitudine, corolla tubo

ovato-cylindraceo (albo) laciniis erectis conniventibus

intense nigro-fuscis, antheris bipartitis muticis, stylo

longissime exserto.

Erica recurvata. “ Andr. Heath. v.4.” Lodd. Bot. Cab.

t. 1093. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 195.

Evryzoma recurvata. Don, Syst. of Gard. et Bot. v. 3.

p. 817.

Among the numerous species of Cape Heath which adorn

our collections, there are few that are more peculiar, as to

aspect, or more readily distinguished by character, than the

present, which produces its singular blossoms in the heath-

ery of the Glasgow Botanic Garden, in the month of May.

The foliage is of a delicate green colour, and the leaves, at

the extremity of the branches, form a sort of starry crown

around the dense heads of flowers, which are white below,

and afford a striking contrast to the deep brown, almost

black, connivent segments of the corolla, and the bright-

red, much protruded styles.

I am too ignorant of the structure of the flowers of this

most extensive and highly beautiful Genus of plants, to be

able to form an opinion of the merits of Mr. Don’s arrange-

ment of it into new Genera. In the present instance, I fear —

the species is not ranked, by our author, with those to which

it is naturally allied ; nor does it accord in several particu-

lars with the Generic character laid down for Eurytoma,,.

which should have “a foliaceous calyx, a salver-shaped

corolla, with an elongated, filiform or ventricose tube, anda

dilated limb: filaments dilated, channelled; and leaves

which are adpressed ;’”—marks which do not exist in our

plant.

Descr. With us Erica recurvata forms a shrub, about

two feet high, much divided above into branches that are

rather stout and flexuous, or almost tortuous, clothed

with delicate, pale-green, spreading, sexfarious, narrow,

linear leaves, of which the upper surface is plane, the

lower keeled and marked by a furrow in the middle ;

the margin slightly denticulate, every where glabrous.

Flowers terminal on short branches, ten to sixteen collected

together in a dense drooping head, slightly adhering by

means of a viscid substance which invests them, and sur-

rounded by a ray of leaves, which constitutes a kind of i-

voluere. Pedicels exceedingly short, bearing two or three

linear-subulate, white bracteas, of which the outer and

longer ones are often tipped with green. Cal. four-partite ;

segments \anceolato-subulate, appressed, a little scabrous at

the margin, pure white. Corolla between ovate and cylin-

drical, about half an inch long, white ; the segments alone,

which are erect, or rather connivent, deep brownish-black,

acuminated. Anthers included, bipartite, muticous; the

r sale extending almost the whole length of the cells.

ermen subglobose, four-lobed : Style twice as long as the

corolla, white below, bright-red above: Stigma obtuse;

searcely dilated. :

_Fig..1. Flower with Bracteas. 2, Stamens. 3. Anthers. 4. Pistil. 5.

Portion of a Leaf seen from above. 6, Ditto from below.—Magnified. —

—

( 3428 )

VACCINIUM ALBIFLORUM. WHITE-FLOWERED

W HORTLE-BERRY.

SEK KEK KKK KEK KEE ER |

Class and Order:

Decanpria (OcranpriA alior.) Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—VaccintEs. )

Generic Character.

Cal. 4—b-dentatus. Cor. urceolata s. campanulata, lim-

bo 4—5-fido reflexo. Anthere bicornes vel mutice, Bacca

4—5-locularis.

Specific Name and Character.

Vaccinium albiflorum ; ramis floriferis subaphyllis, racemis

subcorymbosis secundis nutantibus bracteatis (bracteis

valde deciduis), corollis lato-ovalibus, calycibus pa-

tenti-reflexis, foliis ovali-lanceolatis obscure serrulatis

membranaceis deciduis subtus costa nervisque praci-

pue patenti-pilosis, germine omnino infero.

The affinity of the present very pretty species of Waor-

TLERERRY is undoubtedly with the V. corymbosum of Lin-

Nz&us and American authors ; so much so, indeed, that. I had

myself, at one time, considered it only a variety, but the

nature of the germen, I think, forbids such an unton ; for,

in the last-mentioned species it is half superior ; in this

wholly inferior, presenting a flat or convex surface at the

ag where the style is inserted ; and this, coupled with some

other distinctive marks, such as the reflexed and thinner

and reflected teeth of the calyx, broader corolla quite even

on the surface, stouter style, more deciduous bracteas, and

more hairy leaves in our V. albeflorum, have induced me to

think that the two are permanently distinct. At any rate,

after having given a faithful representation with dissections

of both (for the V. corymbosum will appear in a forthcoming

number),

number), I must leave the reader to judge for himself, only

observing that, if, as is more than probable, it is some de-

scribed Vaccinium, the characters I have above alluded to

are no where expressed. The figure of V. amenum of

Bot. Reg. t. 400, and particularly of Bot. Rep. t. 138, are

very like our plant: but Mr. Don, in the Cycl. of Gard.

and Bot. has decidedly referred them to the V. corymbosum,

as Sir James Smitn has the amenum of Hort. Kew., upon

the authority of original specimens. It may possibly be

the V. album of Lam. (not of Liyy., for that Sir James

Smiru has ascertained to be Xytosteum ciliatum, 6. Ph. nor

of Pursu, which is V. accinium stamineum) ; but the descrip-

tion is too vague to allow a correct judgment to be formed.

Thus circumstanced, however anseiiingly, I am obliged to

give a new name to our present plant, and that one expres- .

sive of a mark by which it is at once distinguishable from

its near ally, V. corymbosum. It has been received at the

Glasgow Botanic Garden, from North America, and it

flowers in May.

Descr. A small shrub, with spreading, green, rounded

branches, of which the younger ones are hairy. Leaves

oval-lanceolate or lanceolate, nearly sessile, slightly acu-

minate, membranaceous, wavy, minutely serrulated, and

ciliated at the margin, beneath more or less hairy, especially

on the midrib and nerves, with spreading hairs. Flowers

in short corymbose, bracteated racemes of the preceding

year’s branches, which are either leafless, or which throw

out short leafy branches from immediately below the ra-

cemes. Bracteas quickly deciduous. Calyx of five, spread-

ing, almost reflexed, membranaceous, green teeth, sometimes

tinged with brown. Corolla broadly oval, dingy white,

scarcely at all furrowed, the mouth very slightly contracted,

and having five small, recurved teeth. Stamens ten: fila-

. ments short, broad, hairy on the outside and at the margins :

Anthers acuminated, bifid. Germen wholly inferior, its

summit presenting a flattened, or slightly convex disk : Sty/e

longer than the stamens, slenderer than that of V. cory”

bosum.

——

———

Fig. 1. Flower, 2. Stamens. 3. Side view of the Pistil and uy* f

4. Front view of ditto, showing the flattened or slightly convex summit 0

the Germen magnified.

( 3429 )

Vaccinium caspitosumM. Dwarr Tvurrep

W uorTLe-BERRY.

KKK KEKE EEE EEE EER EE

Class and Order.

DecanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Vacciniez, )

Generic Character.

Cal. 4—5-dentatus. Cor. urceolata s. campanulata, lim-

bo 4—5-fido reflexo. Anthere bicornes vel mutice. Bacce

A—D}-loculares.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Vaccinrum cespitosum ; pusillum cespitosum, foliis obova-

tis basi attenuatis membranaceis serratis reticulatis

glabris nitidiusculis deciduis, pedunculis subsolitariis

unifloris, corollis urceolatis, calyce_brevi, antheris

bisetosis.

Vaccinrum cespitosum. Mich. Am. v. 1. p. 234. Pursh,

Fl. Am. v. 1. p. 288. Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. v. 2. p. 33.

t. 126.

This very pretty dwarf species of Whortle-Berry was

long only known to Botanists by Micuavx s very imperfect

description, made from specimens he found about Hudson's

Bay, till Mr. Menzies supplied our Herbaria from the

North-west coast of America, Mr. Dovexas from the West

side of the Rocky Mountains, and Mr. DrumMonD, from the

East side (nearly in the same latitudes, 52° North), as well

as from Lake Winipeg and the Sashatchawan. The plants

found in the Rocky Mountains being 1 fruit, Mr. Drum-

monp has had the satisfaction of introducing the plant to

our gardens. The drawing here given was made from

specimens in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, where it bears

its numerous and exceedingly delicate and graceful blos-

soms

soms in the month of May. In the native specimens, the

blossoms and berries seem to be quite as numerous as the

leaves. On one specimen, scarcely more than two inches

high, but much spreading, I have counted upwards of thirty

flowers.

Descr. The main stem of this plant creeps under ground,

and in its native country, sometimes to the length of several »

inches, from its upper extremity sending up several short,

tufted branches, from two to four inches high, woody and

greenish brown, rounded. Leaves copious, alternate, obo-

vate, attenuated below, distinctly serrated, glabrous, some-

what shining, much and conspicuously reticulated, espe-

cially beneath, where the colour is paler, but not glaucous.

From the axils of the leaves the peduncles spring, solitary,

or rarely two together, drooping, short, single-flowered,

-accompanied by oue or two concave, membranous, decid-

uous bracteas at the base. Calyx obscurely five-lobed.

Corolla urceolate, very delicate, white, with a tinge of deep

blush, the mouth contracted, and having five, recurved,

blunt, teeth. Stamens ten: Anthers with the cells much

prolonged upwards, and bearing two long, slender awns at

the back. Berry globose, glaucous, blue-black.

Fig. 1. Leaf. 2. 3. Flowers. 4, Stamen. 5. Pistil and Calyx. 6.

Fruit (nat. size) ; all but fig. 6 magnified.

CrescentTiA CuJere. CaLaBasn Tree.

ssieiabhhihihannnanad

Cline nid Order.

Dipynamia ANGIOSPERMIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Brenontacez. )

Generic Character.

Cal. bipartitus, equalis, decidinié. Cor. subcampanulata ;

tubo brevissimo ; fauce magna, ventricosa, limbo 5-fido in-

quali. Stam. 4, didynama, cum rudimento quinti: Bac-

ca cucurbitina, unilocularis, cortice solido, interne pulposa

polysperma.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Crescenta * Cujete ; foliis fasciculatis lato-lanceolatis in-

ferne attenuatis.

Crescentia Cujete. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 872. Jacq. Am. p.

175. t. 111. Spreng. Syst. coed, v. 2. p. 842.

Crescentia arborescens, &c. Br. Jam. p ” 265.

onnoe cucurbitifera Americana, &e. va Jam. 2. p.

Te. ae

The Calabash tree was cultivated by the Earl of Porr-

LAND in this country, according to the Hortus Kewensis, so

long ago as the year 1690 ; and branches of it are not un-

frequently sent over to our Collections from the West

India Islands, for the sake of the epiphytes with which

they are invested, and these being fixed in the earth, readily

vegetate: but I was not aware that any had produced

lossoms in our stoves, until Cuartes Horsrarr, Esq.

obligingly sent me a E flower which was S perfected in his

2 | garden

* So named in honor of Pert

culture,

VOL. Ix. ae ig

RESCENTIO, an Italian writer on Agri-

Ph eas

garden at Liverpool, accompanied by a drawing of the

plant, from, the pencil of Mrs. Horsrart. An excellent

drawing of a flowering plant has likewise been sent to me

from Antigua, by Dr. Nicuotson, which has materially

assisted me in completing the present figure. | The fruit is

copied from that given in the Flore Médicale des Antilles,

but evidently much diminished im size, since it is described

by authors as being sometimes much larger than the human

head. Mr. Horsrant’s plant is growing so vigorously, and

has borne flowers so readily, we are not without hopes

that it may ere long produce fruit also: and it is this part

which is well known in the West Indies and all the warmer

parts of America, under the name of Calabash (Calabdca,

a gourd, or pumpkin*, from its resemblance to that fruit,)

and which they employ for so many useful purposes. The

skin being removed from without, and the pulp with the

seeds from within, the hard, woody shell alone remains, and

serves, according to its size, for various kinds of domestic

utensils, such as water-cans, goblets, coffee-cups, and even

for kettles to boil water in “ it being so thin, hard, and

close-grained, as to stand the fire several successive times

before it is destroyed.’ The outside is often polished by

the Indians, and carved and stained with various figures of

beautiful execution. Various forms are given to the fruit,

by ligatures applied while the fruit is still growing upon the

tree, and so great a variety of purposes is it made to serve,

that it sometimes constitutes almost the sole article of

furniture of the Carib Indians. Much of their food is kept

in Calabashes, and a small piece of the shell of the same

fruit serves them to take it out with. The pulp of the

fruit is considered in the country a sovereign remedy for

several disorders, both internal and external. Dr. WricHtT

recommends it as an excellent poultice for bruises and

inflammations.

The wood of the tree is described as being very tough

and flexible, and various articles of carpentery work are

made of it ; such as stools, chairs, saddle-trees, crooks for

mules, shafts, and handles for tools, &c.

Descr.

—

* Tam aware that Mr. Lunan, in the Hortus Jamaicensis, expresses a dif-

ferent opinion, and supposes that “it derives its name from being as big as @

man’s head, which the Spaniards call calabash.” But I believe it will be

found, that the term is only applied in contempt; as Cascos de Calabaga,

Tee, empty-headed; having no more brains than a pumpkin-

S/LELL,

Drscr. A Tree, according to Jacquin, twenty feet in

height, readily distinguished from all others by its peculiar

habit: for it sends out large, horizontal, scarcely divided

branches, which bear fascicles of leaves at various dis-

tances. These leaves are from four to six inches in length,

broadly -lanceolate, somewhat acute, entire, tapering at

the base, but destitute of petiole. Peduncles, in general

from the older portions of the trunk or branches, solitary,

rarely two or three together, decurved, bearing a single,

pendent flower of a large size, and, though varying some-

what in colour, generally of a yellowish-green, more or

less streaked or veined with reddish lines. The calyx is

large, of two roundish, or oval, green, concave lobes. Co-

_ rolla large, somewhat campanulate, with a remarkable con-

striction below the middle, above which it becomes ventri-

cose, and at the mouth cut into five, much crisped and

waved, sharp, but rather unequal segments, which are at

length reflexed: it does not readily fall away, but decays

upon the peduncle, and then gives out a very disagreeable

smell. Stamens four, didynamous, sometimes five, shorter

than the corolla. Anthers of two oblong lobes, spreading

at their base. Germen ovate, surrounded by a %

fleshy, yellowish ring : Style rather longer than the corolla:

Stigma two-lobed. Fruit, according to authors, an oval

or round berry, large, externally coriaceous, one-celled,

containing a copious pulp, in which are imbedded several

cordate, compressed seeds, which are said to have two

cells,

The Plate represents a portion of a Branch, with Leaves and Flowers of

the nat. size, 1. Fruit smaller than nature.

C S431

Paonia Russi. Crimson Pony.

Class and Order.

PotyanpriA Dieynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Ranuncutaceg. )

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-sepalus, foliaceus, inequalis. Pet. 5—10, subor-

biculata. Stam. numerosa. Discus carnosus, ovaria cin-

gens. Carpella 2—5, grossa, stigmatibus bilamellatis

crassis instructa, in folliculos capsulares conversa. Semina

subglobosa, nitida.—Radices fasciculate. Folia caulina

biternatim-secta. Flores ampli albi aut purpurascentes.

DC.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Pzonra Russi; herbacea, carpellis pilosis recurvatis, folio-

rum segmentis ellipticis integris subtus vix pubescen-

tibus.

Paonia Russi. “ Biv. Man. Sic. 4. p. 10.” De Cand.

Prodr. 2.1. p. 67. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 615.

Sw. Br. Fl. Gard. t. 122.

So many hybrids and varieties of Pzony are now culti-

vated in our gardens that it would puzzle the most acute

Botanist to mark the limits of the species. The present

plant goes by the name I have here adopted in our gardens,

and I have no reason to think that it is other than the one

intended by Brivone. But that author himself observes

“ P. humili affinis :’’ and any one who will be at the trou-

ble of comparing our present figure with the one given at

t. 1422 of the present work, cannot fail to observe a ve

great similarity. Our plant has, however, the advantage in

respect to depth and brilliancy of colour; and it is well

worthy of a place in every collection.

Our drawing was made from a specimen that flowered in

& pot placed in a cool frame in the month of May. The

“a was not above a foot in height, and it bore but one

ower.

—S ee ee eae ee se

( 3432 )

CRATAGUS COCCINEA. LARGE-FLOWERED

AMERICAN WHITETHORN.

KEE EEK EEE KEKE EE EEE

Class and Order.

IcosanpriA Di- Pentacynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Rosacez. )

Generic Character.

Cal. tubus urceolatus, limbus 5-fidus. Pet. patentia ob-

cordata. Ovarium 2—5 loculare. Styli totidem glabri. Po-

mum carnosum ovatum dentibus calycinis vel disco incras-

sato clausum, putamine osseo.—Frutices spinosi. Folia

angulata vel dentata. Corymbi terminales. Bractee subu-

late decidue.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Crarzeus* coccinea; spinosa, foliis cordato-ovatis angu-

lato-lobatis acute serratis glaberrimis sublonge petio-

latis, petiolis segmentisque calycinis subulatis glandu-

losis, floribus pentagynis.

Cratzeus coccinea. Lann. Sp. Pl. p. 682. Mich. Am. v.

1. p. 288. Pursh, Fl. Am. v. 1. p. 337. Ell. Carol.

©. 1. p. 508. Torrey; Ft. of Un. St. 'v:.1..p. 475.

Hook, Fl. Bor. Am. v. 1.

This is an extremely beautiful plant, and assuredly one

of the greatest ornaments of our shrubberies, loaded as it is

im the month of May with its large clusters of white, but

Scarcely fragrant blossoms. ‘The leaves too are copious,

and of a delicate yellowish-green, much lobed and finely

Serrated at the margin. It is a native of North America,

from Canada to the Southern United States. fs

ESCR.

sntuned from xparos, strength, in allusion to the extreme hardness of the

wood,

Descr. In our Botanic Garden, this Whitethorn forms

a large shrub, 1 might almost say a tree, from its being

eighteen to twenty feet high, with numerous more or less

spreading branches, clothed with a small, dark purplish-

brown, glossy bark, and here and there bearing rather long

and straight but strong thorns, chiefly on the older branches.

Leaves, on slender, glandular petioles, which are about an

inch and a half long, broadly ovate, approaching to cor-

date, quite glabrous, membranaceous, with many acute

lobes, and finely and sharply serrated: the nerves oblique,

parallel, reaching to the end of each lobe. Corymbs com-

pound, terminal on the numerous, short, lateral branches,

of several large, white flowers. Calyx of five spreading,

subulate segments, glandular at their margins, the glands

stipitate. Corolla of five, very concave, somewhat crisped

and nearly orbicular petals. Stamens generally ten, about

as long as the petals. Anthers oval-oblong, at first deep

pink, afterwards greenish. Germen oblong-turbinate,

smooth and quite glabrous in our specimens. Styles five.

Stigmas capitate.

a aes

3450.

Swan.d!

Pubby S. Carts. Glazenweed, Essex, Sept? 1. 1835,

( 3433 )

Vaccinium corymMBosum. MANyY-FLOWERED

W HORTLE-BERRY. :

KKK EEE EEE EERE

Class and Order.

Decanpria (Ocranpria alior.) Monoaynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Vacciniee. )

Generic Character.

Cal. 4—}-dentatus. Cor. urceolata seu campanulata,

limbo 4—5-fido reflexo. Anthere bicornes. Bacca 4—5-

locularis.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Vaccinium corymbosum; ramis floriferis pleramque aphyl-

~ lis, racemis subcorymbosis secundis nutantibus bracte-

atis, corollis lato-cylindraceo-ovatis, calycibus fere

erectis, foliis elliptico-lanceolatis obscure serrulatis

membranaceis deciduis (nervis subpubescentibus ex-

ceptis) glaberrimis, germine semisupero.

Vaccintum corymbosum, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 499. Pursh,

Fl, Am. v. 1. p. 286. Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. v. 2.p. 31.

Donn, Syst. of Gard. et Bot. v. 3. p. 853.

Vaccintum amenum. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, v. 2. p- 358.

Bot. Reg. t.400? Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 138 ?

Vaccrnrum dimorphum. Mich. Am. v. 1. p. 231.

(8.) fuscatum, corollis subcylindraceis pulcherrime roseo-

vittatis. —

Vaccinium fuscatum. Pursh Am. Sept. v. 1. p. 287. Bot.

Reg. t. 302.

Vaccinium formosum, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 97.

Vaccinium virgatum. Wats. Dendr. t. 33. (non Ait.)

A very abundant species of Whortle-berry throughout

almost the whole of North America, but subject, in its

native country, as it would appear from the accounts of

American

American authors, and undoubtedly, as cultivated in our

gardens and our shrubberies, to much variation: so that I

entirely agree with the view Sir James Smrrv has taken of

this subject, and gladly unite the amenum, dimorphum,

virgatum, (at least of Warson,) and fuscatum with the

present species, to which I have added the V. Marianum of

Mr. Watson. All the kinds, however, are well worthy a

place in the garden ; being quite hardy, and bearing copi-

ous blossoms during the month of May. The beauty of

the flowers is best seen by lifting up the branches; for in

consequence of their drooping position, they are in a mea-

sure concealed from the spectator by the pedicels, calyces,

and bracteas.

Descr. A spreading shrub, about four feet high, with

rounded, glabrous branches of a purplish-green colour.

Leaves deciduous, elliptical-lanceolate, nearly entire, of a

tender green tinged with brown, glabrous or with only the

midrib and a few of the nerves (principally beneath) clothed

with short, appressed hairs. Flowers arranged in subco-

rymbose, sessile racemes, upon rather long, leafless branches,

with many deciduous bracteas. Pedicels all curved down-

wards and secund. Calyx-segments nearly erect, often

tinged with purple, almost half-inferior. Corolla ovato-

cylindrical, in bud having five conspicuous angles, which in

the full flower are obsolete, white tinged with rose colour.

Stamens ten: Filaments broad, incurved, hairy on the out-

side and at the margins, glabrous within: Anthers with two

cells, much elongated upwards, destitute of horns. Germen

with nearly the upper half free, convex : Style rather thick,

shorter than the corolla, but longer than the stamens.

Fig. 1. Flower, with its pedicel and bracteas. 2, Calyx and Pistil. 3.

The same, with a portion of the Calyx cut away, to show the half-superior

Germen. 4. Back and front view of a Stamen: magnified.

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Vaccinium PENNSYLVANICUM. SMALL

WiUILLOW-LEAVED WHuoORTLE-BERRY.

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Class and Order.

DecanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Vacciniex. )

Generic Character.

Cal. 4—5-dentatus. Cor. urceolata seu campanulata,

limbo 4—5-fido reflexo. Anthere bicornes. Bacca 4—5-

locularis.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Vaccinium Pennsylvanicum ; humile, ramis floriferis sepis-

sime foliosis, racemis subcorymbosis secundis nutanti-

bus bracteatis, corollis brevi- cylindraceo -campanu-

latis, calycibus erectis, foliis lanceolatis acutis glaber-

rimis serrulatis nitidis (subtus precipua) subciliatis

deciduis, germine disco elevato medio depresso.

Vaccinium Pennsylvanicum. Lam. Enc, v. 1. p. 72. Mich.

Am. »v. 1. p. 232. Torr. Fl. of Un. St. v. 1. p. 416.

Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. v. 2. p. 32.

Vaccinium tenellum. Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 2. p.12? Pursh,

Fl. Am. v. 1. p. 288. |

I noticed in my Flora Boreali-Americana the affinity of

this very pretty plant with Vaccinrum corymbosum: it is,

however, I believe, perfectly distinct, at all times a dwarf

species, having peculiarly narrow, lanceolate, minutely,

but distinctly serrulated leaves, quite destitute of hairs, ex-

cept that the margin is a little ciliated, densely placed

flowers, on very short racemes, and what I consider of

greater importance, a shorter and more campanulate co-

rolla, with a longer calyx, and a germen which is not at all

superior, but presents merely an elevated, concave disk

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above

above its point of union with the calyx. Itis very common

in the Northern States of America, and in Canada, and

bears a fruit which, according to American writers, is very

much esteemed.

Descr. A low dwarf shrub in our gardens, rarely rising

more than from eight or ten inches toa foot high, the young

branches greenish, and rough with very minute warts, and

slightly downy. Leaves small, lanceolate, glabrous, some-

what shining, conspicuously so beneath, membranaceous,

serrulated and minutely ciliated at the margin. Flowers in

dense, crowded, many-flowered, secund and drooping brac-

teated racemes. Pedicels very short. Calyx of five, rather

deep, erect lobes. Corolla shortly cylindrical, approaching

to campanulate, the mouth open, with five, recurved, blunt

teeth: the colour a pale greenish-white more or less tinged

with red, sometimes in streaks.

ft oe 1, 2. Flowers, 3. Stamen. 4. Pistil and Calyx. 5. Leaf: magni-

ed.

( 3435)

CASSIA GLANDULOSA. (GLANDULAR-LEAVED

CASSIA.

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Class and Order.

DecanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Leeuminose. )

Generic Character.

Sepala 5 vix basi coalita plus minus inequalia. Pet. 5

ineequalia. Stamina 10, libera inequalia, 3 inferiora lon-

giora; 4 media brevia, recta ; 3 superna antheris abortivis

difformibus. Anthere apice dehiscentes. Ovarium stipi-

tatum, spe arcuatum. Legumen varium.—Arbores, fru-

tices, aut herbe. Folia simpliciter et abrupte pinnata.

Petioli sepe glanduliferi. Foliola opposita.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Cassia* glandulosa ; fruticosa, foliis 14—18-jugis, foliolis

oblongis mucronatis basi obliquis superioribus sensim

minoribus subtus rachide ramisque pubescenti-pilosis,

glandula pedicellata infra par infimum, et non raro

aliis infra paria secunda et tertia minus pedicellata, —

stipulis lato-subulatis, pedunculis subternis unifloris

florem subaquantibus. roe

Cassia glandulosa. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 542. De Cand. Prodr.

v. 2. p. 503? Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 3427

I dare not venture to introduce other synonyms of this

very pretty species of Cassia, which I quite believe to be

the plant described by Liynaus under the above name,

and

* Said to be derived from the Hebrew word Ketzioth, rendered by

Kacray, in the Greek Septuagint, and latinized by Cassia,

and which I have received from Jamaica, Trinidad, St.

Vincent’s, and other of the West Indian Islands, whence

also the seeds were transmitted from which plants were

raised in the stove of the Botanic Garden of Glasgow. It is

a plant of considerable elegance of foliage, and bearing its

copious blossoms for at least nine months out of the twelve.

Professor De Canpotte’s character of C. calycioides agrees

as well with our plant, as does that of his C. glandulosa ;

but the figure of M. Coxzapon has the leaves considerably

different from ours.

. Descr. In our stove, this plant forms a shrub four to

five feet high, clothed with brown bark, and bearing, espe-

cially at the top, many long, rather straggling and pendent

branches ; thus, as it were, presenting the graceful foliage

and ale coloured flowers more immediately to the spec-

tator. Young branches green and downy. Leaves alter-

nate, distichous, pinnated with from twelve to eighteen

pairs of oblong, mucronated, nearly sessile leaflets, oblique

at the base, marked with closely-placed, oblique veins,

downy beneath and at the margin with appressed hairs.

Stipules appressed, broadly subulate, slightly hairy. Pedun-

cles axillary, two or three rising from the same point, single-

flowered, and about as long as the flowers, with several

small, acuminated bracteas at the base, and a pair of oppo-

site ones a little below the flower. Calyx of five subulate

leaflets, almost as long as the petals. Petals five, very un-

equal, spreading, concave, full yellow: four nearly of the

same size, and obovate, the fifth much larger, obcordate,

and distinctly clawed. Stamens ten; of which seven are

short, yellow, and abortive ; three with long purple-brown

anthers. Germen linear, hairy, gradually attenuated into

the curved, glabrous style.-—The fruit of our cultivated

plant I have not seen; but that of my native specimens is

about an inch and a half long, linear, compressed, dark —

brown, hairy, with the margins thickened.

Fig. 1. Base of the Petiole with Leaflets and Glands: magnified.

Pub. by S$. Curtis launwood Kisen Sept? LIE 3S.

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( 3436 )

SIDA INAQUALIS. OBLIQUE-LEAVED SIDA.

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Class and Order.

MonapetpHiA PoLyAanpRIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Matvacez. )

Generic Character.

Cal. nudus, 5-fidus, sepe angulatus. Stylus apice mullti-

fidus. Carpella capsularia, 5—30 circa axim verticillata,

plus minusve inter se coalita, 1-locularia, mono- aut oligo-

sperma, apice mutica aut aristata. D C.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Siva inequalis ; fruticosa, foliis cordato-ovatis acuminatis,

basi ineequalibus crenulatis utrinque hirtis, pedunculis

petiolos longe superantibus apice geniculatis, calyci-

bus basi productis, corollis campanulatis, capsulis

subinflatis,

Sipa inequalis. Link et Otto, Berl. t. 34. Spreng. Syst.

Veget.'v. 3. p. 117.

We received this plant from the Berlin Botanic Garden

in 1829, under the name of Stipa inequalifolia. It flowered

freely for the first time in the stove in the Royal Botanic

Garden, Edinburgh, in May, 1835. It is said to be a

native of Brazil.

Descr. Shrub erect (in the specimen described slender,

and nearly seven feet high). Bark light gray, on the young

shoots green, and covered with short, harsh, glandular

pubescence. Petioles (one to two inches long) alternate,

spreading, round, having similar pubescence to the twigs,

swollen at the apex. Leaves (four to seven inches long,

two to three inches broad) slightly undulate, having on

both sides a short, harsh pubescence, bright green and

shining above, paler and without lustre below; where in

the

the young state it is at first white, then becoming somewhat

rusty, an appearance of which scarcely a trace remains in

the adult leaves, cordato-ovate, unequal at the base, acumi-

nate, crenulate, middle rib and veins prominent ‘on. both

sides, especially behind. Peduncles (about two inches

long) lateral, subtended by a lanceolate, nerved, pubescent,

deciduous bractea, round, geniculate near the apex, with

pubescence similar to that on the petioles. Calyx five-cleft,

segments ovate, acute, with ferruginous pubescence, some-

what keeled, and keel. produced at the base. Corolla (an

inch and a half long, and when fully expanded, two inches

across) white, campanulate, petals clawed, orbiculato-ovate,

delicately glanduloso-pubescent on the outside, glabrous

within, shining only at the claws, many-nerved, nerves very

prominent on the outside, dichotomous towards their ter-

minations, and with smaller reticulating branches. along

their sides. Stamens and styles equal to the height of the

petals, glabrous ; anthers small, yellow, pollen granules

yellow, minute, globular. Graham.

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CaNNA GLAUCA, y, rubro-lutea. GLAUCOUS-LEAVED

_Inpran-Reep ; reddish yellow-flowered var.

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Class and Order. :

Monanpria Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Cannez. )

Generic Character.

Anthera simplex, filamenti margini adnata. Stylus cras-

sus, claviformis. Stigma obtusum. Caps. 3-locularis. Se-

mina gibbosa, numerosa.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Canna* glauca; foliis elliptico-lanceolatis valde acuminatis

glaucis, corolle laciniis exterioribus erectis, labio su-

periore trilobato lobis tribus ovatis strictis inferiore

indiviso recurvo.

Canna glauca. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 1. p. 4 Rose. Linn.

Trans. v. 8. p. 339. Scit. Pl. cum Ic. Sm. Ex. Bot. p.

83. t. 102. Roem. et Schult. v. 1. p. 13. Spreng.

Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 7. |

(B.) rufa ; corollis rubro tinctis ; labello variegato integer-

rimo. Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 2302.

(y.) rubro-lutea ; florum basi labioque inferiore rubris, la-

bio superiore luteo. (Tab. nostr. 3437.)

The Glasgow Botanic Garden is indebted for the posses-

sion of this plant to Mr. M‘Fapyen, who sent it from Ja-

maica. It may be reckoned among the handsomest of the

Genus, especially if the foliage be considered as well as the

flower, the leaves being remarkably elongated, germ a

elicate

* From Can, or Cana, a reed, in Celtic, and that from Cana, a watery

place, in the same language.

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delicate glaucous hue, while the large blossoms are varied

with red or yellow. Notwithstanding its superiority in

point of beauty over the Canna glauca 8, figured at t.2302

of this work, I dare not venture to consider it other than a

variety. It flowers in the stove in the month of August.

Descr. Stems four to five feet in height. Leaves of a

singularly light and glaucous hue, the lower ones very long

and lanceolate, much attenuated at the base, the upper ones

dually shorter and broader, elliptical-lanceolate, all of

them sharply acuminated, and having a slender, scariose,

reddish-brown margin. Flowers in a lax, compound spike.

Calyx of three, convolute, erect leaves. Corolla with the

upper lip in three deep, spathulate, ascending divisions, of

a yellow colour, reddish below: lower lip of one revolute,

linear, reddish-yellow segment. Filament of the same

colour, petaloid, the apex recurved. Style much compress-

ed, yellow below, red at the extremity.

Fig: 1. Flower, from which the upper Lip is removed :—magnified.

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| ( 3438 )

WESTRINGIA EREMICOLA. Desert West-.

RINGIA.

SEEK KEKE KKK EK ERE KE EEE

Class and Order.

DipynamMiA GyMNOSPERMIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Lasiatz. )

Generic Character.

Cal. xqualis, 5-dentatus. Cor. tubo brevi, fauce ampli-

ata, limbo subbilabiato, labio superiore bifido, inferiore tri-

fido, lobo medio subbifido. Stam. 4, erecta, distantia ;

superiora fertilia, antheris dimidiatis unilocularibus glabris ;

inferiora sterilia, antheris bipartitis, lobis linearibus depen-

dentibus cassis.—Frutices. Folia perennantia, ternatim vel

quaternatim verticillata, integerrima. Benth.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Westrineta eremicola ; foliis ternis linearibus margine revo-

lutis subtus cinereis, calycibus sericeo-pubescentibus,

dentibus tubo sublongioribus. Benth. Gen. et Spec.

Labiat. p. 459. |

Westrineia eremicola. Allan Cunningham, MSS.

Westrinei longifolia. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1481. non Br.

A native of the internal parts of New South Wales, and

as far as our researches have extended in that vast country,

the only species known to be indigenous to the Interior—

the localities of its several congeners being confined to the

coast-line, or its vicinity, where they either occupy exposed

spots on the boundary sandhills of a weather-beaten shore,

or stations in the stony back-grounds equally within the

influence of the sea air. The present subject was originally

discovered by the botanists attached to the expedition of

Mr. Oxtey on the Lachlan River, in 1817, who met with it

Scattered over a considerable extent of level, barren country,

bounding that stream on the South-west. It approaches

nearest

nearest to G. longifolia, (Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl.) under

which name it has been figured in the Botanical Register ;

but it differs essentially from Mr. Brown’s plant, in its

leaves, which are shorter, having a white tomentum on

the under side; its flowers being moreover, altogether

smaller, and the tube of the calyx somewhat shorter than

the teeth. From seeds gathered in 1822, in the neigh-

bourhood of Bathurst, where the plant was again detected,

it was raised at Kew, from which garden it was distributed

to other collections, and by the liberality of Mr. Arron,

specimens in flower were sent us in October last.

During the winter season, it requires but the protection

of a frame or pit ; at other periods of the year, it thrives well

in the open air, and producesa succession of flowers between

the months of spring and autumn. The usual mode of pro-

pagation is by cuttings, for it hardly ripens its seeds in cul-

tivation.

Descr. An erect shrub, rising usually to the height of

two or three feet, with many slender, cinereous, divaricate,

rather copiously-leaved branches, for the most part of oppo-

site insertion. Leaves verticillate, ternate, patent, about

half an inch in length, somewhat subulate, linear, acute,

mucronate, margins very revolute, dark-green, scabrous, in-

terspersed with minute white hairs above, and clothed with

a whitish pubescence on the underside. Flowers solitary,

axillary, short-pedicelled, rather crowded at the extremities

of the branches. Calyx subcampanulate, obtusely-angled,

pubescent, with two linear bracteas at the base, extending

beyond the lower half of the tube, five-cleft, teeth lanceo-

late, acuminate, slightly subulate, equal to, or even longer

than the tube. _ Corolla pale-blue, tube densely clothed with

spreading, white hairs; upper lip obtuse, bifid, margins

bent back, pubescent, without spots; lower lip deeply tri-

artite, for the most part smooth, with a few ochre-co-

oured spots at the base, lateral segments retuse, emar-

ginate, shorter than the intermediate one, which is dilated

at the apex and bifid. Stamens four ; upper two fertile,

lower two, imperfect. Filaments studded with numerous

minute glandulous hairs, apex gibbous, and evidently

jomted. Fertile Anthers one-celled, margins of the valves

blue. Pollen white. Sterile Anthers white, bipartite, lobes

linear, arcuate, dependent. Style filiform, exserted, the

length of the filaments. Stigma bifid. Germen’4-lobed.

icasensenanmanen

Fig. 1. Calyx and Bracteas. 2. Corolla and Stamens. 3 Fruit inivestéd

by the Calyx.

C 3439 )

RHODODENDRON CALENDULACEUM, var. fulgidum.

FLAME-COLOURED RHODODENDRON ; orange-red var.

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Class and Order.

DecanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Enricez. )

Generic Character.

Cal, 5-partitus. Cor. infundibuliformis, 5-loba. Stam.

5—10, declinata : antheris apice biporosis, Capsula 5-locu-.

laris, 5-valvis, ab apice dehiscens, valvarum marginibus im-

flexis dissepimenta formantibus. Recepiaculum centrale,

5-angulare. Semina membrana involuta.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Ruopopenpron calendulaceum ; foliis oblongo-ovalibus

adultis hirsutis, corolle tubo laciniis breviore. piloso

subviscido, calyce villoso.

Azauea calendulacea. Mich. Am. v. 1. p. 151.

Var. croceum. Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1721.

Var. fulgida. Tab. nostr. t. 3439.

This very beautiful plant was received by the Glasgow

Botanic Garden from Mr. Matcotm as the var. fulgida of

Azalea (now RHopovENDRON) calendulacea. It is, we believe,

a hybrid variety, and if we may judge from the appearance,

between R. Ponticum and R. nudiflorum, var. coecineum ;

but of the parentage we will not undertake to speak : suffice

it to say, that it reeommends itself no less by the fine colour

of its inflorescence, than by the bright green of its leaves,

which spreading out beneath the corymbs of flowers, forma

rich back ground to them. Cultivated in pots forced in the

conservatory in the spring months, there are few plants

better calculated to enliven a collection than the present.

It comes near the “‘ Copper-coloured High-clere Azalea” of

Bot: Reg. t. 1366, but is infinitely superior in point of rich-

ness.of colour.

ana by S. Curtis Claxenwood Besex, Ont? 11835.

( 3440 )

GILIA ACHILLEHFOLIA. MUILFOIL-LEAVED

GILIA.

‘Class and Order.

PentanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Poxemoniaced. )

Generic Character.

Cal. campanulatus, 5-fidus, margine et sinubus membra-

naceis. Cor. infundibuliformis vel subcampanulata, limbo

5-partito, laciniis obovatis integris. Stam. ad faucem v.

vix intra tubum inserta. Anthere ovato-subrotunde. Cap-

sule loculi polyspermi. Benth.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Gia achilleefolia; caule erecto glabriusculo, foliis bi-

tripinnatisectis segmentis lineari-subulatis, corymbis

capitatis multifloris longissime pedunculatis, calycibus

sublanatis, corollis calyce duplo longioribus, stamini-

bus corolla brevioribus. Benth.

Guia achilleefolia. Benth. in Bot. Reg. fol. 1622. Lindl.

Bot. Reg. t. 1682.

A very pretty hardy annual, discovered by Mr. Davin

Dovexas, in North California, and sent to the Horticultural

Society, by whom it has been distributed to various gar-

dens. ‘ It blossoms during the summer months, and resem-

bles, as Professor Lanptey remarks, the Guiia capitata

(Bot. Mag. t. 2698) ; but its flowers are much larger and

of a more purple colour, and the stamens are not exserted.

Descr. An upright, nearly glabrous, much branching

plant, a foot or more high. Leaves alternate, deeply pin-

natifid, sometimes bipinnatifid, the segments opposite, all

linear, acute, the ultimate ones solitary on one side. Pe-

duncles axillary and terminal, slender, bearing a ey oe of

rom

from eight or ten or even more flowers. Calyx downy,

of Gye deep segments, united, for nearly their whole leapt,

by an inter » membrane. Corolla te

’ with the limb spreading, of five rather acute, ovate

lobes. Style exserted: Stigma trifid. _

Fig. 1. Calyx, including the Pistil :—magnified.

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( 3441)

Putox Drummonpur. Mr. Drummonn’s:

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Class and Order.

PentanpriA Monoeyntia.

( Nat. Ord.—PotEemoniacez. )

Generic Character.

Cal. prismaticus 5-fidus. Cor. tubo elongato, limbo hy-

pocrateriformi 5-lobo. Stam. inzqualia tubo inserta. Caps.

3-locularis, 3-valvis, subtrisperma.

Specific Name and Character.

Putox * Drummondii; annua, patenti-pilosa erecta, foliis

oblongis acutis aristatis, basi subcordatis semiamplexi-

caulibus infimis subspathulatis, floribus corymbosis,

corolle laciniis subulatis acuminatissimis reflexis co-

rolleque tubo (calycis tubum ter excedente) hirsutis-

simis.

Among the many interesting plants which attracted Mr.

Drummonv’s attention during his journeyings in Texas,

was the present very handsome species of Putox. The

seeds sent over, in the early part of the year 1835, soon

vegetated, the plants blossomed most copiously, and with

equal profusion and brilliancy of colour, whether in the

greenhouse or in the open border ; and it bids fair to be a

great ornament to the gardens of our country. Hence, and

as it is an undescribed species, I am desirous that it should

bear the name and serve as a frequent memento of its un-

fortunate discoverer, who shortly after quitting Texas, fell

* From g”0é, flame, on account of the brilliancy of the blossoms in some

species,

a victim to the climate of Cuba, in the prime of life, and

just as he was on the point of exploring the botanical riches

of that portion of the United States, which, next to Texas,

held out the best prospect of rewarding his indefatigable

exertions, namely, Florida. He has, indeed, accomplished

enough, by his zeal and researches, to secure to himself a

lasting name throughout the botanical world: yet it is im-

possible not deeply to regret the loss, both as concerns our

favourite science and his friends. He had made arrange-

ments for a grant of land in the interior of Texas, so that

his prospects for the maintenance of his family were brighter

than ever; and he could not have failed, by the proximity of

his intended residence to the hitherto unexplored mountains

of North Mexico, to render yet greater service to that sci-

ence to which he was so ardently qt and in the pursuit

of which, he has thus fallen a sacrifice.

Descr. Pxutox Drummondii has a small and decidedly

annual root. Stem a foot or more high, simple or branch-

ed, clothed with long, patent hairs. Leaves, below oppo-

site, and oblongo-spathulate, above alternate and oblong,

acute and aristate, somewhat cordate at the base, sometimes

even auriculated, and semiamplexicaul, ciliated at the mar-

gin and slightly hairy, but chiefly so beneath : all of them

of a pale green colour. Corymbs terminal, of several large

very showy flowers. Pedicels short, and as well as the

ealyx and subulate bracteas, clothed with long, patent hairs,

some of which are tipped with glands. Calyx of five, long

subulate segments, but united by a pellucid membrane for

one half of their length into a tube; the limb reflexed.

Corolla hypocrateriform, with the tube about thrice as long

as the tube of the calyx, and very hairy, with the hairs

patent : the Limb of five spreading, obovate, approaching to

rhomboidal lobes, pale purple without, within, or on the

upper side, of a brilliant rose-red or purple, varying exceed-

ingly on different individuals in intensity, and in their more

or less red or purple tinge : the eye generally of an exceed-

ingly deep crimson. Stamens completely within the tube,

but at different heights: the filaments, for almost their

whole length, combined with the corolla. _Germen ovate :

Style short: Stigmas three, as long as the style. Capsule

ovato-globose, beautifully dotted, tipped with the persistent

style, and included within the persistent calyx.

ts BAAMa)piamilo sci.

Merspiwws Lopata. Cut-Leavep Mepiar.

. Class and "order.

IcosanDRIA PENTAGYNIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Rosacez, )

Generic Character. | "hh | i

Cal. 5-fidus, laciniis foliaceis. Pet. suborbiculata. Dis-

cus magnus mellifluus. Styli 2—5, glabri. Pomum tur-

binatum apertum 5-loculare, endocarpio osseo. DC.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Mespixvs* lobata ; inermis, foliis obovato-ellipticis acutis

serratis apice lobatis supra glabris nitidis subtus pubes-

centibus, stipulis deciduis semicordatis, hine auricu-

latis incisis, hloribiis 1—5 corymbosis digynis. a

Mespitus lobata. Poir. Encycl. Bot. Suppl. v. 4. p.71. —

Mespixus Smithii. De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p. 633.

Mespitus grandiflora. Smith, Ex. Bot. v. 1. p. 33. t. 18.

Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 505.

This interesting species of Medlar, handsome in its

foliage, as well as in its blossoms, (which latter too yield a

fragrance similar to that of the Hawthorn,) seems to have

been Jong cultivated in our gardens and shrubberies, though

we are wholly unacquainted with its native country. Sir

James Smirn first described it in the Exotic Botany, and

named it M. grandiflora, an appellation which it scarcely

merits: for the flowers are not larger than that of the only

other true Mespitus, namely, M. Germanica, neither are

they so small as to be “ only half the size,” of the latter,

as stated by De Canpoxtz, who changed the name to M.

Smithii, without being aware that it was the M. lobata of

Poirer, who described it from plants growing in the French

nurseries.

Descr.

* Micman, the Greek name for the Medlar.

Descr. A small éree, similar in its mode of growth to

the common Medlar, with long, somewhat pendent branches

and copious foliage, in which the pure white blossoms are,

as it were, nestled. Leaves obovato-elliptical, on short

petioles, the margins finely serrated, towards the extremity,

on each side, distinctly lobed, acute, the upper surface

glabrous and shining, the under paler, and slightly downy.

Stipules semicordate, or cut and glanduloso-serrate, gene-

rally with a lobe or auricle on one side at the base : but

they are only seen at the base of the young leaves. Flowers

large, white, fragrant, rarely solitary, generally two to five

from the extremity of the numerous short branches, corym-

bose. Germen top-shaped, downy. Calyx lanceolate, acu-

minate, with glandular serratures, soon reflexed. Petals

nearly orbicular, waved at the margin. Stamens numerous:

Anthers purplish-brown. Styles two, rarely three: Stigmas

capitate.

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Class and Order.

DecanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Lereuminosz. )

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-fidus, labiis proportionatis, bibracteatus (bracteis

sepius ipso tubo insidentibus). Cor. papilionacea. Germ.

sessile, dispermum. Stylus subulatus, adscendens. Stig-

ma simplex. Strophiola seminis lobis posticis incisis. D C.

Specific Name and Character.

Puiten#a cordata; capitulis terminalibus, foliis cordato-

ovatis acutis mucrone pungenti subcarnosis concavis

utrinque glabris, stipulis scariosis.

This plant was raised at the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh,

in 1832, from seeds sent from Van Diemen’s Land the year

before, by Campzett Rippei, Esq. It flowered very freel

in the greenhouse in April, 1835, and is highly ornamental,

notwithstanding the lurid colour of its foliage and branches.

Descr. Shrub erect; branches erect, red, villous, when

very young green. Leaves crowded, petiolate, spreading,

cordato-oyate, acute, terminated by a pungent bristle ; vein-

less, somewhat fleshy, concave, glabrous on both sides,

shining below, of a very dark green. Petioles red, fleshy,

adpressed, tumid at the base. Sizpules erect, acute, ad-

pressed, nearly twice as long as the petioles, within which

they cohere, membranous. Bractee two, at the base of the

calyx, ovato-lanceolate, keeled, adpressed, free, as long as

the calyx-tube. Calyx red, villous, teeth of the lower lip

spreading and somewhat reflected, equal. Flowers capi-

tate at the extremity of the branches, 2—5 in the capitula,

perfumed,

perfumed, but not pleasantly ; standard rotundato-kidney-

shaped, slightly notched, orange-coloured, with a few red

streaks and spots near the claw ; ale spathulato-oblong, of

the same colour and nearly as long as the standard, in con-

tact by their upper edges, tooth short, claw linear, nearly

half the length of the plate; keel red-orange-coloured at

the apex, monopetalous, the linear claws only being free,

apex notched, teeth short and blunt, papilla on each side

distinct. Stamens included. Anthers elliptico-rotund,

orange-coloured. Pistil equal to the longest stamens.

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Class and Order.

Monaeci1A PoLyAnpRiA.

( Nat. Ord.—Becontacea. )

Generic Character.

Masc. Cal. 0. Cor. polypetala. Pet. plerumque 4,

inequalia. Fam. Cal.o. Cor. petalis 4—9, plerumque

inequalibus. Styli 3, bifidi. Capsula triquetra, alata, tri-

locularis, polysperma.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Beconta heracleifolia ; acaulis, foliis subequalibus cordatis

pilosis profunde palmatis, lobis 7 lanceolatis acutis

incisis serratisque, petiolis scapisque elongatis patenti-

hispidis, corollis dipetalis, fructu trialato, alis rotun-

datis obtusis, altera maxima.

Brecon heracleifolia. Schlecht. et Cham. in Linnea, v. 5.

p. 603. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1668. .

Beconra heracleifolia. Grah. in N. Phil. Journ. July,

1833.

Our plate represents a small flowering specimen, with

male flowers only, of this fine and handsome plant from a

drawing kindly made by Mr. Macnas at the Edinburgh Bo-

tanic Garden, to which we have added a panicle with both

male and female flowers, and nearly perfect fruit, from a

noble plant in the stove of the Glasgow Botanic Garden,

where it flowers in the greatest perfection, in Apriland May.

The species is a native of Mexico, having been detected by

Messrs. Scutepe and Depre in Xalapa, and first described by

the learned authors above quoted in the Linnea. Through

Mr. Orro of Berlin, it has been introduced to our collections.

VOL, IX, L Descr.

Descr. ‘“ Leaves (seven inches across) bright green

above, paler below, all radical, subpeltate, cordato-palmate,

hairy above and below, with seven strong radiating nerves,

very prominent below, lobes lanceolate, oblong, undulate,

sinuate, unequal, the central (four inches from the insertion

of the petiole to its apex) being the largest, the others gra-

dually smaller to the sinus ; petiole rather shorter than the

middle lobe, densely covered with long, coarse, entangled

crystalline hairs, which, in fading resemble yellow wool.

Scape (two feet high) tapering upwards, straight, pretty

closely covered with oblong, red streaks, from which spring

long, tortuous, acute, crystalline hairs. Bracteas in op-

posite pairs, at each division of the flower-stalks, serrated,

ovate, hairy, dentato-ciliate, nerved, smaller in every suc-

ceeding pair. Peduncles dichotomo-deliquescent, streaked

like the scape, and somewhat hispid. Flowers rose-colour-

ed, dipetalous, petals round, entire: male flowers in the

cleft of the peduncles, expanding before the female. Sta-

mens yellow, ascending : filaments cohering only at their

base; anthers spathulate ; connective extending beyond the

Joculaments.” Graham. Capsule triquetrous, with three

obtuse, membranous, brownish wings, of which, two are

comparatively short, the third much larger, and pointing

upwards.

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Class and Order.

PentanpriA Monoeyntia.

( Nat. Ord.—Primutacez. )

Generic Character.

Cal. tubulosus, quinquefidus seu quinquedentatus, per-

sistens. Corolla tubulosa fauce v. nuda v. glandulosa, limbo

5-lobo. Capsula apice 10-dentata polysperma.—F lores

subumbellati involucrati.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Priuta Sibirica; glaberrima, foliis oblongis quibusdam

subrotundis membranaceis subrugosis integerrimis v.

crenatis longé petiolatis, scapo erecto stricto gracili,

umbella pauciflora, involucro subtriphyllo, foliolis cal-

caratis vaginantibus pedunculis laxis, demum strictis

et inequaliter elongatis.

(#.) foliis crenatis.

Primuta Sibirica. Jacq. Misc. Austr. 1. 161. Walld. Spec.

Plant. 1. 806. Roem. et Schult. Syst. Veg. 4. 143.

Pers. 1.170. Spreng. Syst. Veg. 1.576. Ledebour,

Fl. Altaic. 1.213. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3167.

Primuta rotundifolia. Pall. It. 3.223.

Primuta intermedia. Ledebour, Mem. de I’ Acad. des Sci-

ences de St. Peters. v. 519. (var. minor.)

Primuta foliis ovatis, glabris, integerrimis; umbellis pauci-

floris nutantibus. Gmel. Fl. Sib. 4. 83. t. 46. f. 1.

(8.) foliis integerrimis. Tab. nostr. 3445.

This variety, as well as that figured at t. 3167, is a native

of marshes among the Altai Mountains about the middle

of the range, and was received at the Botanic Garden,

Edinburgh,

Edinburgh, in 1832, from Mr. Goldie of Ayr, where several

specimens flowered in the cold frame and greenhouse in

March and April, 1835. ¥

Descr. Whole plant perfectly glabrous. Leaves all ra-

dical, oblong, or some of the smaller ones subrotund, mem-

branaceous, flaccid, flat, or concave at the base, of a light,

lively green, entire in the margin, or obscurely toothed,

veined and slightly rugose ; mddle rib very strong, and

forming a prominent keel behind ; petioles longer than the

leaves and slender. Scape (in our cultivated plants eight

inches to a foot high, in native specimens, according to

Lepezour, from three inches to nearly a foot) erect,

straight, slender, shining. Involucrum generally of three

or four leaflets, but varying with the number of pedun-

cles in the umbel, erect, adpressed, herbaceous, blunt or

somewhat pointed, having at the base a colourless slightly

spreading spur. Peduncles generally three or four, slender,

at first lax and somewhat nodding, afterwards straight,

erect, parallel, and very unequally elongated (from half an

inch to two inches). Calyx oblong, with five connivent,

short, nearly blunt teeth, herbaceous, furrowed between the

lobes, in appearance very nearly resembling the involucre,

but herbaceous and gibbous, not toothed at the base. Co-

rolla, tube nearly twice as long as the calyx, yellowish,

a bare angled, dilated at the apex ; limb (eight lines across)

oblique, five-parted ; segments obcordate, two thirds of the

length of the tube, reddish lilac, paler behind ; throat

yellow. Stamens sessile in the dilated apex of the tube,

oblong, yellow. Germen ovate, glabrous, green. Style

straight, (shorter than the tube of the corolla in the speci-

sl A ans ait reddish. Stigma globular, light-green.

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Vaccinium CANADENSE. CANADIAN Wuor-

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Class and Order.

DecanpriaA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—VacciniEz. )

Generic Character.

Cal. 4-dentatus. Cor. urceolata s. campanulata, limbo ~

sna0, reflexo. Anthere bicornes. Bacca 4—5-locularis.

pr. )

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Vaccintum Canadense ; ramis floriferis foliosis, racemis sub-

corymbosis secundis nutantibus bracteatis, corollis

campanulatis, calycibus feré erectis, foliis lanceolatis

integerrimis membranaceis deciduis supra (ad neryos)

pubescentibus subtus hirsutis, germinis disco elevato

medio depresso, stigmate incluso.

Vaccinium Canadense. Herb. Banks. Rich. in Frankl.

lst Journ. ed. 2. App. p. 12. Hook. Fl. Bor, Am. 2.

2. p. 32.

This plant had often been received by Mr. Murray from

Canada, and was long cultivated in the Botanic Garden of

Glasgow, without a naine, until we raised plants sent home

by Mr. Drummonp, from Capt. Sir Joun FRAnNKLIN’s second

expedition ; when, upon comparing flowering specimens

with my original ones of V. Canadense, gathered and named

by Dr. Richarpson on the first of those important journies,

I clearly ascertained that they were the same species, which

nevertheless does not appear yet to have been taken up by

any American Botanist. It flowers in May, and may be

readily known from V. corymbosum by its dwarf size, leafy

flowering branches, and campanulate corolla, from V. Penn-

sylvanicum

sylvanicum by its large, quite entire leaves, and wider

mouth to the corolla, and from both by the very hairy leaves.

It seems to have been first discovered: by Katm; whose spe-

cimen, under the name adopted by Dr. Ricarpson, is pre-

served in the Banksian Herbarium.

Descr. _ Stem much branched, from six to eight or ten

inches high, the branches clothed with a dingy-coloured,

downy bark. Leaves often an inch long, lanceolate, acute

at both extremities, quite entire at the margin, membrana-

ceous, deciduous, soft and flaccid, the veins above downy,

the whole underside clothed, but especially on the midrib

and veins, with copious spreading hairs. Racemes short,

four to six-flowered, subcorymbose. Calyx nearly erect,

green. Corolla short and campanulate, white tinged with

red, the mouth open, five-toothed, the teeth reflexed: Sta-

mens shorter than the style: and the style itself is included

within the corolla. Berries blue-black, agreeable to the

taste.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx. 3, 4, Stamens. 5. Underside of a Leaf.

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VACCINIUM MYRTILLOIDES. FLASK-FLOW-

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Class and Order.

DecanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—VaccineEs. )

Generic Character.

Cal. 4-dentatus. Cor. urceolata s. campanulata, limbo

4-fido reflexo. Anthere bicornes. Bacca 4—5-locularis.

Spr.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Vaccinium myrtilloides ; foliis ovalibus ovatisque utrinque

acutis serratis membranaceis glabris, pedunculis soli-

tariis unifloris, corollis lato-ampullaceis depressis, ra-

mulis angulatis.

Vaccinium myrtilloides. Mich. Am. v.1. p, 234. Pursh,

Fl. Am. v. 1. p. 288. Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. v. 2. p. 32.

Vaccinium angustifolium. Azé. Hort. Kew. ed. 1. v. 2.

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(8.) macrophyllum ; foliis majoribus.

(y.) Myrtillus; var. Sm. in Rees Cycl.

(y.) membranaceum. Dougl. MSS.

A very singular and well-marked species of Vaccinium,

allied to our V. Myrtillus, and in a dry state, when the

corollas are injured by pressure, it may be easily mistaken

for a variety of that species, as was done by Sir J. E. Smrra;

but whoever sees recent flowering specimens, can never be

at a loss to distinguish it: for the blossoms are so remark-

ably short and broad, that they almost exactly resemble

the apophysis of Sptacunum ampullaceum. Introduced by

Mr. Drummonp, the indefatigable and meritorious Assistant

Naturalist, during Capt. Sir Joun Frankuin’s second pe

ition

dition into North America. He found it abundantly on

high alpine woods of the Rocky Mountains, about lat. 52°.

It was originally discovered by Micuaux in“ Canada and

Hudson’s Bay,” and it was found by Mr. Menztes on the

North-west coast, and by Mr. Dovetas on the West side of

the Rocky Mountains: so that like the V. cespitosum

already figured in our Magazine, its place of growth extends

from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

Descr. In the Glasgow Botanic Garden, this plant forms

a shrub about a foot high, with spreading branches, the

younger ones of which are distinctly angular, pale brown.

Leaves oval, sometimes oval-lanceolate, rarely ovate, acute

at both extremities, membranous, deciduous, veiny, serrat-

ed, glabrous. Peduncles solitary, short, curved downwards,

each bearing a solitary, pendent flower : of which the corolla

is remarkable for its agon-shaped appearance, being glo-

boso-urceolate, but singularly depressed, pale yellowish-

green, or dingy white tinged with red. Stamens ten. Fila-

ments glabrous: Anthers with two rather short awns. The

fruit is large, globose, blackish-purple, apparently desti-

tute of bloom, and according to the observations both of

Mr. Drummonp and Mr. Dovexas, highly esteemed by the

natives.

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Class and Order.

TerranpriaA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Berseripea, )

Generic Character.

Sepala 6—8, extus sensim minora. Petala 4—6, intus

appendice discolora aucta. Capsula siliculiformis, poly-

sperma. Semina obliqua transversim inserta.—Herbe ra-

dicibus perennibus, foliis petiolatis multisectis. D C.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Epimepium diphyllum ; petiolis filiformibus dichotomis ra-

- cemum unilateralem gerentibus, geniculis tumidis pi-

losis, foliolo solitario in utroque ramo, petalis planis.

Erimepium diphyllum. Lodd. Bot. Cab. 1858.

The petals (nectaries, Linn.) of this rare plant possess a

form extremely unlike that which occurs in Ermepium al-

pinum, but the variation is precisely similar to that which

exists occasionally in Aguiteeia, and cannot form a generic

distinction, where the whole habit of the plant, and the

structure of every part of fructification, except the corolla,

is precisely as in the common species. I have taken a dif-

ferent view of the petiole, and the origin of the flowers,

from that which is commonly received, but it seems to me

simplest, and that which best explains the appearances,

This species is a native of Japan. We received a plant at

Edinburgh from Berlin in 1834. It flowered pretty freely

in the greenhouse of the Botanic Garden early in spring.

I do not find the hairiness of the petiole, excepting at the

joints, nearly so great as is represented in the Botanical

Cabinet.

Descr.

Descr. Pelvoles all radical, numerous, filiform, dichoto-

mous, sparingly covered with spreading hairs, which are

more abundant at the swollen joints, each branch support-

ing one leaflet, one of the branches occasionally trifid, and

supporting three leaflets. Leaflet (length an inch and a half,

breadth nine lines) about as long as the branch of the peti-

below glaucous and pubescent, about nine-nerved, reticu-

late, distantly provided with bristle-shaped teeth. Many

of the petioles barren, others having towards the top a

swollen joint, from which a raceme springs. The portion

of the petiole above this joint is equal in length to the

branches of the barren petioles, and its subdivisons half of

that length. Peduncle longer than the leaf and the portion

of the petiole above its origin, without flowers for about

half its length (rarely one or two in its axil) above this

having about four straight, slender, glabrous, secund pedi-

cels (about half an inch long) green and slightly swollen

under the flower, the lower ones arising in the axils of small

bracteas, which are wanting in the upper. Flowers ex-

panding irregularly along the rachis, white, cernuous, with

four unequal, caducous, slightly coloured, and dotted brac-

teole at the base. Sepals four, lanceolato-oblong, spread-

ing. Petals four, obovate, rather longer than the sepals,

flat. Stamens four, about half as long as the sepals ; anthers

nearly sessile, oblong, yellow, opening by a valve rolling

upwards on each side ; connective green; pollen granules

minute, oblong, yellow. Pistil green, longer than the sta-

mens ; stegma blunt, terminal; style filiform ; germen ob-

long, gibbous on the lower side, unilocular ; ovules several,

obovate, attached to the dorsal suture. Graham.

Fig. 1. Flower, 2. Calyx and Petal. 3. Stamens and Pistil. 4,5. Sta-

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DycKIA RARIFLORA. FrEW-FLOWERED

DyckIA.

Class and Order.

Hexanpria Monoeynia.

2 ( Nat. Ord.—BrometiAcez. )

Generic Character.

Cal. triphyllo-tripartitus ; lacinia (v. foliola) subequales,

erect, (nunquam spirales,) elliptice, concave. Cor. urce-

olato-subeampanulata ; petala erecta (nec spiraliter sibi in-

cumbentia), crassiuscula, obovato-rhomboidea, basi nuda.

Filam. lanceolata, acuminata, ad 1—% in cylindrum basi

petalorum adnatum connata. Anthere erecte, ovato-lan-

ceolate, basi sagittato-emarginata affixe. Germen pyra-

midali-oblongum, trilobum, tripartibile, triloculare, tri-

valve ; loculis polyspermis, apice vacuis, valvulis eoncavis,

coriaceis, marginibus introflexis dissepimenta formantibus ;

ovulis angulo interno loculorum biseriatim affixis. Styl.

brevissimus v. subnullus (?) tripartibilis. Stigmata 3, pa-

tentia, apice bifida. Schult. fil. im Martius Fl. Brasil. ined.

Specific Character and Synonym. ,

Dycx1a* rariflora ; foliis lineari-subulatis recuryo-paten-

tibus, spica rariflora, bracteis membranaceis adpressis,

calyce acutiusculo dimidio brevioribus. ‘

Dycxra rariflora. Schultes fil. in Syst. Veget. 7. 1195.

We received this plant, which is a native of Brazil, from

the liberal conductors of the Botanic Garden, Berlin, in

1832.

* So named in honor of the Prince de Satm Dyck, distinguished for his.

- knowledge of Succulent Plants, and his noble Collection of them in a living

1832. It is very handsome, and flowered, for the first time,

ae stove of the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in June,

1835.

Descr. Stem short, stout. Leaves (seven inches long,

four to six lines broad at the base) crowded, subulate, spread-

ing, deflexed in the upper half, rigid; above, when young,

channelled, afterwards flat, of an uniform dark-green colour,

shining ; below rounded, glaucous, striated ; teeth aristato-

spinous, distant, spreading, straight or hooked backwards

or forwards, dark brown. Flower-stalk (two feet high)

elongated, erect, somewhat woolly at the top, scaly, the

scales woolly, adpressed, and clasping, below resembling

reduced, suberect leaves, above less acuminated : membra-

nous, and marcescent. Flowers (about twelve) scattered

loosely near the top of the stalk, without pedicels, arising in

the axils of the scales, spreading, orange-coloured. Calyx

three-parted, segments rigid, concave, ovate, overlapping

at the base, adpressed, twice as long as the scales. Corolla

twice as long as the calyx, trifid, triquetrous when fully ex-

panded, nectariferous at the base ; segments slightly une-

qual in breadth, rhomboid, elongated at the base, spread-

ing along the centre, compressed on the sides, somewhat

undulate, united at the base with the calyx into a fleshy

mass. Stamens six, inserted into the corolla, but alternately

in the centre of the segments, and towards the edge so as to

be opposite to the sepals, subexserted ; filaments broad,

flattened, slightly tapering at the apex ; anthers bilocular,

sagittato-oblong, bursting along the front, attached at the

bottom of the sinus to the filament, and placed on the face

of a broad connective; pollen granules minute, yellow, ob-

long. Pistils shorter than the stamens ; style trifid, seg-

ments twisted together, and towards the apex each on its

own axis, so as to give the linear stigma a spiral form.

Germen oblong, three-lobed, lobes cohering in the centre ;

ovules numerous, rounded, flattened from being crowded

above each other, attached in two rows within each locula- _

ment to a central receptacle. Graham.

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Class and Order.

Terranpria Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Proreacez. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium quadrifidum, tubo gracili diutids persistente.

Squame nulle hypogyne. Stylus totus deciduus. Stigma

fusiforme y. cylindraceum. Nusx sessilis, ventricosa, undi-

que comosa.—Frutices rigide. Folia glabra, plana v. Sfili-

Jormia, divisa v. integerrima. Capitula terminalia, raro

axillaria. Flores modo densissimé imbricati, strobilo glo-

boso ; modo fastigiati, receptaculo communi planiusculo

subinvolucrato, paleis deciduis, congestis. Br.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Isopocon spathulatus ; foliis cuneato-obovatis lineari-spa-

thulatisve, apiculo acuto, caule prolifero, capitulis

solitariis obvallatis. Br.

Isopogon spathulatus. Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. Suppl.

Prim. p. 8.

(a.) obovatus ; folia obovata plana. Br. loc. cit.

(8.) linearis ; folia lineari-spathulata. Br. loc. cit. Tab.

nosir. 3450.

A native of King George’s Sound, where, it appears, the -

two varieties enumerated by Mr. Brown were discovered

by Mr. Baxrer in 1829, and by whom the present one was

introduced to the gardens near London in the following

year. It is a plant of strong growth, flowering with

freedom in the spring of the year, and, although not so con-

Spicuous among other plants of the greenhouse, as its

congener I. Loudonit of Mr. Brown, of which we latel

published a figure in this work, (tab. 3421,) it nevertheless

will

will doubtless be regarded, when more generally known, as

deserving a place in every choice Collection—the disposition

it manifests to push forth its heads of blossoms at the ex-

treme points of the lateral branchlets, which the plant

throws out rather abundantly, and by which it is readily

propagated, rendering this narrow-leaved variety of our

species, well worth the cultivator’s care.

Descr. A smooth shrub of rather irregular growth ; in

cultivation, seldom above two feet in height, much branch-

ed, and inclined to a bushy habit. Branches elongated,

spreading, often horizontal and slightly deflexed, prolife-

rous, more or less disposed in whorls, clothed with a brown

bark ; the branchlets covered with cinereous hairs. Leaves

numerous, much crowded, especially at the extremities of

the branchlets, linear-spathulate, thick, coriaceous, veinless,

dark-green, slightly convex on the upper side, and termi-

nated in a short, horny, red mucro, the adult ones being

about an inch in length, smooth, and levigated. Flowers

pale-purple, crowded together at the extremities of the

branchlets, and forming solitary, sessile heads, encircled by

short leaves. Bractes lanceolate, acuminate, reticulately-

veined, and densely ciliated with long white hairs. Perianth

slender, smooth, divided into four linear subspathulate

lacinie, equal in length to the tube, the points of the

lamine being dark-purple, concave above, ciliated, tipped

with long, white, silky hairs, and in the concavities the

anthers are immersed. Anthers four, linear, bilocular,

yellow, each furnished at the apex with a small capitated

_ pomt. Style filiform, smooth, the length of the perianth.

"Stigma fusiform, studded with small, transparent, short

points, obtusely apiculated.

HT. id aeit g Lib by S Curt Glaxenwoed HxsexDec.7 7 F845

A eit AER)

+ 4

( 3451 )

BrASSIA CAUDATA. LONG-TAILED Brassia.

ERK E KEK EEE EEE EKER ERK

Class and Order.

GynanpriA Monanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—Oncuipez. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium explanatum. Sepala et petala angusta, li-

bera, aqualia; his nunc minoribus. Labellum planum,

indivisum, ecalearatum, columna continuum, basi bicrista-

tum. Columna libera, aptera, nana. Anthera 1-locularis.

Pollinia 2, postice sulcata, caudicula brevi, glandula crassa.

—Epiphyte pseudo-bulbosa. Folia pergamenea. Scapi

radicales vaginati. Flores speciosi, spicati. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Brassta* caudata ; sepalis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis, late-

ralibus longissimis, petalis acutis minoribus, labello

acuminato. Lindl.

Brassia caudata. Lind. Bot. Reg. t. 832. Hook. Ex. Fi.

t. 179. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 729. Lindl. Gen.

et Sp. Orchid. p. 212. ,

Mataxis caudata. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 4. p. 83.

Epipenprum caudatum. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1349.

HELLEBORINE ramosissima, caulibus et floribus maculosis.

Plum. Ic. t. 277.

A most singular and beautiful plant, an inhabitant of

Jamaica, and, probably, of other West Indian islands,

first introduced to this country, we believe, by Mr. Les of

Hammersmith, and now pretty general in our collections

* In compliment to Mr. Brass, an assiduous collector of plants in South

Africa, for the Royal Gardens at Kew.

VOL, IX. M

of tropical Orchidee, being a ready flowerer, and continu-

ing long in blossom. Our figure was made at the Glasgow

Botanic Garden, in September, 1834.

Descr. From the top of an oblong, compressed, dark-

green bulb, sheathed at the base with three or four large

brown scales, arise two oblong, coriaceous leaves. From

the base of the same bulb, and subtended by a small leaf

with a long, sheathing base, springs a flower-stalk, which,

(including the spike,) measures eighteen inches long, and

isdrooping. Flowers eight to ten, large. Sepals lanceolate,

acuminate, the two lateral ones with excessively long, slen-

der tails; all of them, as well as the two petals, (much

shorter, and smaller in size than the sepals,) of a pale,

greenish-yellow colour, marked with dark-brown spots.

Lip oblong, yellowish, with a narrow acumen, at the base

marked with red-brown spots, and bearing two oblong

glands. Column short, pale green. Anther-case hemi-

spherical, yellow.

Fig. 1. Lip of the Corolla. 2. Pollen-masses :—magnified.

Lub by 5. Curtis, Clarenwood Eva Decll3s3as.

( 3452 )

PHACELIA CONGESTA. CLUSTER-FLOWERED

PuaAceELIA.

SEK EEK EKER EE EER EEE

Class and Order.

PenTANDRIA MonoGynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Hypropnyzzez. )

Generic Character.

Calyx quinquepartitus, persistens. Corolla subcampa-

nulata, quinquefida, basi intus quinquesulcata. Stamina

exserta. Stylus brevis, stigmatibus 2 elongatis. Capsula

bivalvis, tetrasperma, valvula singula dissepimento dimi-.

diato. *

Specific Name and Character.

Puaceria* congesta; pubescens, foliis inequaliter pinnatis,

pinnis pinnatifidis inciso-lobatis, racemis corymbosis

multifloris.

Among the many interesting plants, collected by Mr.

Drummonp in Texas, and sent home in his last despatches

from that interesting country, the present beautiful species

of Puace.ia was the first to display its pretty blossoms in

the Glasgow Botanic Garden. They were in perfection in

the greenhouse, in the month of June ; and being an annual

plant, there is no doubt but it will soon become a great

ornament to our flower-borders. It was discovered at

Galveston Bay. As a species, its nearest affinity is with P.

bipinnatifida of Micu. F\. Bor. Am. v. 1. p. 134. t. 16, a native

of the Alleghanies, whence I have fine specimens from Dr. |

Snort; but that is altogether a much larger plant, with

less divided leaves, and a simple, or at most a forked raceme.

Descr.

* From Qaxsacs, a bundle, on account of the crowded flowers.

Descr. Root annual. Stem rounded, downy, waved,

and branched in our cultivated specimens, simple and up-

right in our native ones. Leaves stalked, pinnated, pinne

alternate, extremely unequal, oblongo-ovate, some sessile,

some on petioles, pinnatifid, lobed and cut, the ultimate

ones almost bipinnatifid: all slightly downy. Peduncles

lateral and terminal, bearing three to five rather dense,

corymbose racemes, of bright purplish-blue flowers. Calyx

lateral, compressed, of five deep, linear-lanceolate, erect

segments. Corolla broadly campanulate, with a large,

spreading, five-lobed limb: at the bottom of the tube

within, are five pairs of oblong, oblique, white, mem-

branous, convex scales, much resembling the involucres

of some AspLeNiA, and between each pair a filament of a

stamen is inserted. Anther small, yellow. Germen ovate,

very hairy, two-celled, four-seeded: seeds attached to a

central receptacle.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx and Pistil. 3. Portion of the Tube of the

Corolla, to show the Scales. 4. Pistil:-—magnified.

Sicbby 3 Curtis Clarenwood Fess Dest 11838.

3453

( 3453)

Rusus NutKanus. NutKka Brampste.

Kok sksbobestsbokokk ssl Maeods

Class and Order.

IcosanprRIA PotyGynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Rosacea. )

Generic Character.

Cal. fundo planiusculus 5-fidus nudus. Pet. 5 et Stam.

numerosa calyci inserta. Carpella plurima in toro mani-

feste protuberante non carnoso capitata, stylo sublaterali

superata, in drupellas carnosas conversa. Semen inver-

sum. DC.

Specific Character and Synonyms. ze

Rusvus Nutkanus ; caule fruticoso erecto flexuoso stoloni-

fero apice glanduloso-piloso basi nudiusculo, foliis 5-

_lobis inequaliter dentatis, corymbis simplicibus, caly-—

cibus subinermibus cuspidatis, laciniis corolla alb

equalibus, stipulis connatis persistentibus. Lindl.

Rusus Nutkanus. De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p. 566. Lindl.

Bot. Reg. t. 1368. Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. v,1. p. 183.

A large-flowered, handsome Rusus, nearly allied to the

_R. odoratus, or Flowering Raspberry of our gardens and

shrubberies, of which the distinguishing characters are ably

pointed out by Professor Linptey in the Register above

quoted. It isa native of the western side of North Ame-

riea, having been discovered by A. Menzies, Esq. during

the voyage of Captain Vancouver, at Queen Charlotte’s

Sound, lat. 51°, on the north-west coast of America; and

has been since ascertained by the late Mr. Dovexas to have

a range along that shore, from 43° in North California to

Nutka Sound, in lat. 52°, where Mocino gathered it. Mr.

Dovexss found it extending in the Interior to the head-

springs of the Columbia River, while Mr. Drummonp is the

' only

only person who has detected it on the eastern declivity of

the Rocky Mountains, in lat. 52°. It is a hardy shrub with

us, flowering in the summer months.

Descr. Stems erect, branched, woody, the branches

glabrous, or sparingly setose, with glandular hairs. Leaves

large, handsome, cordate, five-lobed, the lobes broad, acute,

doubly serrated, the surface beautifully and copiously reti-

culated with veins. Peduncles terminal, corymbose, and,

as well as the pedicels and calyx, glandular. Calyx-leaves

ovate, concave, suddenly acuminated. Petals large, white,

nearly orbicular, crumpled. Stamens numerous: anthers

yellow. Pistils numerous.

IBIS

Dek

sword. Bisex

S Cartes eax

Pub by

( 3454 )

RHoDODENDRON Maximum; hybridum. Lavret-

LEAVED RyopopENDRON: hybrid var, |

JeebHbbHebeebbbbbk

Class and Order. |

Decanpria Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Enricinez. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla infundibuliformis 5-lobus.

Stamina 5—10, declinata: antheris apice biporosis. Cap-

sula 5-locularis 5-valvis, ab apice dehiscens, valvarum mar-

ginibus inflexis dissepimenta formantibus : Receptaculum

centrale 5-angulare. Semina membrana involuta. |

Specific Name and Synonyms.

RuopopEnpRongnaximum : hybridum.

Ruopopenpron hybridum ; bigener. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t.

Por, | 95. : =

Ruopopenpron fragrans. Fortulan.

This charming plant has been for some time cultivated

in the American border of the Glasgow Botanic Garden,

under the name by which it was received of RHopopENDRON

Jragrans. It has every appearance of a hybrid, and has so

many points in the form and colour and fragrance of the

blossoms common with the R. hybridum, (bigener, of the

Botanical Register,) that I have little hesitation in referrin

to that figure as a synonym. The chief differences are, that

in the plant now alluded to, the flowers are smaller, and

the leaves larger than in ours; which latter is indeed

much the handsomer of the two. Assuming the two to

have the same origin, then our hybrid is the offspring of

the common white, glaucous-leaved Azatea, which had

been fertilized with the pollen of RuopopenpRon maximum.

atever be its origin, it is amply worthy of a place in

every flower-garden and shrubbery.

Lub ty .S Curtis Glarenweed Esser Dee? LIBIS.

Swan Se

( 3455 )

BELLIS INTEGRIFOLIA. AMERICAN Daisy.

Class and Order.

SyNGENESIA SUPERFLUA.

( Nat. Ord.—Composirz. )

- Generic Character.

Involucrum hemisphericum subuniseriale ; squamis equa-

libus. Radius uniserialis. Pappus o. Achenium com-

pressum erostre. Receptaculum conicum nudum.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Betus integrifolia; annua puberula ramosa gracilis, foliis

oblongis spathulatisve integerrimis, involucri foliolis

linearibus acutissimis, acheniis pyriformibus pubes- ~

centi-hirsutis. ah a |

Betus integrifolia. Mich. Am. v. 2. p. 131. Pursh, Fl. -

Ecuipra integrifolia. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 602.

Bracnycome xanthocomoides. Less. Comp. p. 192? Lin-

This rare plant was long known only from the report of

~Micuavx, as an inhabitant of shady hills and banks of

rivers in Tenessee. Pursu had never seen it. Nurratt,

when he-wrote his useful Genera of North American Plants,

was unacquainted with it, and observed, ‘‘ No Botanist

has yet collected this plant since Micuaux. Is it not an

Ecurra ?”’—And upon this latter suggestion, as it would

appear, Sprencex transferred it to Ecuipra : and a general

opinion prevailed that no species of our favourite Daisy —

was to be found in the New World. But Mr. Norraut ~

had afterwards the good fortune to meet with it himself in —

the Arkansa Prairies, and to him and to Dr. Boorr I am

indebted for my first knowledge of the species. Dr. Suorr

finds

finds it abundant in some parts of Kentucky: and Mr.

Drummonp gathered it both at Rio Brazos and San Felipe

de Austin, in Texas, from whence he sent numerous speci-

mens and seeds. From the latter, Mr. Murray has raised

plants, which blossomed in a cool frame and in the open

air, during the months of June and July, in the Glasgow

Botanic Garden. Micnaux was assuredly correct in refer-

ring the plant to the Genus Betuis, with which it accords

in every essential. particular. Mr. Arnorr, indeed, is of

opinion that this plant is the same as the Bracuycome

xanthocomoides, Less. Comp. p. 192, and Linnea, v. 9,

p. 265, from Mexico; but the Berxis aculeata, and B.

ciliaris of Laxiu., are true genuine species of BracnycomE,

and the fruit in them is totally different from that of our

BELLs.

Descr. Root annual, small. Stems rarely simple and

unbranched, generally they are branched, and frequently

many arise from the same root and are spreading or ascend-

ing, sparingly downy or hairy, slender; branches filiform.

Leaves mostly remote, oblong or spathulate, entire, the

upper ones nearly sessile, the lower ones broader, almost

obovate and more decidedly petiolate: all of them slightly

downy or hairy. Peduncles terminal upon the stem or

brane es, elongated, naked, single-flowered : flowers droop-

ing before expansion. Involucre of about twenty equal

leaflets, almost entirely in a single series, linear, very acute,

the margins pale and diaphanous. Corollas of the Ray four-

teen to twenty, ligulate, white, with a purplish tinge, espe-

cially on the outside, entire or two-toothed at the apex.

Corollas of the Dise five-cleft, remarkably contracted at the

base. Anthers without spurs. Lobes of Stigma ovate, erect.

Achenium pyriform, on a pitted receptacle, hairy, slightly

compressed.

aaa?

Fig. 1. Floret of Disc. 2. Ditto of the Ray. 3. Receptacle and Involucre.

4. Achenium —magnified. €

VELTHEIMTA) ;GLAUCA (var. foviies rubescenti-pur-

‘pureis). Graucous-Leavep VELTHEIMIA (red- ~

purple- -flowered var.)

a aiuiash aks ese eae asked

Class and Order.

Hexanpria Monoeynta. 608 ad

( Nat. Ord.—Liuacez, ) |

Generic Character.

Corolla monopetala, sitiiadrédconataiiseee limbo: bonded

simo erecto-patulo, 6-dentato, regulari, laciniis subequa-

libus... Filamenta medio tubi adnata, inde libera, inclusa;

Stylus subulato-filiformis declinatus, stigmate cuspidato.

Capsula diaphano- -membranacea, trialata, subovattet a

lis 5b monospermis. Semina obovata. —

| Specific ‘Character and Syoleghie™

VELTHEIMIA* glauca ; foliis lato-la nceolatis patentibus dee

tis undulatis glaucis, perianthii limbo nna inten at

Jacq. Hort. Schenbr. v. 1. p. 40. t. T7. > :

Vetruemr glauca. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 2. p. 182. ‘Bot.

Mag. t. 1091. (flore albo.) Spreng: errs wee ® v. Cig

p. 75.

Aterris glauca. Art. Hort. Kew. ed. 1. v. 1. p. 485.°

Var. floribus rubescenti-purpureis.—Tab. nostr. t. 3456.

VELTHEIMIA glauca. Redout. Pl. Liliac. v. 8. t. 440.

This Risdairae Cape bulb is worthy of a abi in the

poses of this Magazine, not only as exhibiting flowers of a

very different colour from those of the same species repre-

sented at p. 1091 of this work, but also as showing the true

form and direction of the leaves, which 1 in the former plate

* In honour of Fr. Auc. bE VELTHEIM, a German patron of Botany.

of this Magazine, as well as in the splendid figure given in

the Hortus Schcenbrunensis, appear in both cases to haye

been affected by the plants having been unnaturally drawn

up by heat, so as to assume an altogether different appear-

ance. Repouré’s figure, on the other hand, is highly

characteristic. We are indebted at the Glasgow Botanic

Garden for our bulbs to Baron Lupwie, a nobleman resident

at the Cape of Good Hope, where he generously devotes his

time and his fortune to the promotion of Botany and Horti-

culture, particularly with the view of rendering service to

the colony by the introduction of useful plants. To Europe

he has, with the greatest liberality, communicated many

rare South African plants, and has enriched our gardens

with several new or little known species.

Descr. Bulb elongated, covered with dark brown coats.

Leaves arising from the bulb, the lowermost ones almost

ovate and scarcely at all contracted at the base, the rest

gradually becoming more elongated, very broadly lanceo-

late, and patent, acute, glaucous and waved, especially at

the margin, faintly striated, beneath having a rather con-

spicuous thick cosia, the base attenuated, and in the upper

leaves especially, forming a long sheath. Scape ten inches

to a foot high: bearing a dense raceme of flowers, erect in

the bud, altogether pendent when fully expanded, of a red-

dish colour marked with paler spots ; each segment with a

little white spot at the point; the limb purple: Filament

curved, arising from the middle of the tube: Anthers) ob-

long, yellow. Germen oblong, green, six-angled: style as

long as the perianth, curved: stigma acute.

——s

» Fig. 1, Flower, 2. The same cut through vertically :—magnified.

Ficé by S Curtis. Claxerwood DivexD ee ZIEBS

a svi (3457. /)

| EpIDENDRUM CONoPsEUM. Froripa Epi-,

| ot Sha - DENDRUM. hae

| Class and Order.

_.GYNANDRIA Monanpria.

é «

(Nat. Ord.—Orcuwesi)) 94 {08 om

Bak J

: ‘ i¢ , Puyey on. botpon fey AbacS4 arypat a

[aq tt800 stone 2A ir bee Ceara ae ee aera

'-Sepala patentia, subequalia. Petala sepalis equalia vel

angustiora, rarius latiora, patentia vel reflexa. Labellum

eum marginibus columne omnino vel parte connatum, lim-

bo integro vel diviso, disco sepius calloso, costato vel taber-

. eulato; nunc in calcar productum ovario accretuin et euni+

; culum formans. Columna elongata; clmandrio marginato,

sepe fimbriato. Anthera carnosa, 2—4-locularis. Pollinia

4 -eaudiculis totidem replicatis annexa.—Herbe (Ameri-

cane) epiphyte, caule nunc apice vel basi pseudo-bulboso,

nunc elongato apice folioso. Folia carnosa, rarissime vents

elevatis striata. Flores spicati, racemosi, corymbosi, vel

paniculati, terminales vel laterales. Lindl. j

Specific Character. and Synonyms. a7? ree rn eaten Ed

Epipenprum conopseum ; foliis binis subradicalibus rigidis

coriaceis, scapis plurifloris, sepalis linearibus, obtusis

petalisque angustioribus spathulatis patentibus, labello

obcordato obtuse trilobo.

{ Epipenprum conopseum. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v.

5. p. 219. Nutt. Gen. Am. v. 2. p. 198. Kill. Carol.

v. 2. p. 506. Spreng. Syst. Veget.v. 3. p. 757. Lindl.

Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 106.

EripenpRUM Magnolie. Muh. Cat. 81.

A plant, I believe, of very rare occurrence in our collec-

tions, and rendered the more interesting from being the

only

only parasitical Orchideous ‘plant found in the United

States. It inhabits, indeed, only the southern territories,

sometimes growing on the trunk of the Oaks, but far more

venerally on -that.of Macnouia grandiflora, , It was, first

ound by Mr. Wiriiam Barrram in Florida, and among the

very last despatches of plants sent by the late Mr. Drum-

MOND, which were from Apalachicola in West Florida, were

several specimens of this delicate epiphyte. Mr. Exxiorr

observes, that its most northern limit is at the entrance of

Port Royal Inlet, on the coast of Carolina, in lat. 32.

Indeed it seems to be confined chiefly to the vicinity of the

sea; yet it must be capable of enduring some degree of

frost, for at the very time that Mr. Drummonp procured his

living plants at the spot above-mentioned, the ice was so

thick in one night’s time as to bear the weight of a man.

Our flowering specimens were obligingly communicated by

Messrs. Suepuerps, from the rich collection of Epiphytes at

the Liverpool Botanic Garden, to which it was sent from

North Carolina, by Mr. Gorpon, attached to branches of

Macnouia grandiflora. 6) CEhS

Deser. “Whole plant not more than four to five inches

high, slender, graceful. Roots thick, fleshy, vermicular.

Stems. short, scarcely an inch long, and not thicker.than a

sparrow’s quill. Leaves two, oblongo-laneeolate, acute,

springing from the extremity of the short stems, and from

the middle of them arises a peduncle, bearing five to six

pale yellowish-green flowers. Sepals cuneato-spathulate,

spreading: petals similar, but narrower. Lip three-lobed,

lobes broad, middle one emarginate ; at the base above are

two glands. Column elongated, the margin reddish. An-

ther-case hemisperical,

——

Fig. 1... Front view of the Lip and Column magnified. ;

The

Na”

ai —

In. which’ the: Latin Names’ of the Plants):contained: in- thé Vinth

"Volume of the New Series (or Sixty-second of the Work) are

‘ alphabetically arranged.

Pi.

3408 Acacia prensans.

3420 tristis.

3394 unduleefolia,

3380 a piittiete var. ighe¥

moreana.

3376 Anemone vitifolia,

3413 Barosma crenulata, —

3387 Begonia bite 6,

3444 —- heracleifolia.

3455. Bellis integrifola.

3451. Brassia caudata.

8379 Calandrinia speciosa.

3437 Canna glauca, y fabiibtlntes::

3435 Cassia glandulosa,

Catasetum purum. > ‘4

81 Gereus grandiflorus.

3405 Chilodia scutellarioides,

3398°Glerodendron hastatum.

Cs Craspedia macrocephala.

eneae tegus coccinea.

3430 Crescentia Cujete.

3412 Cypripedium insigne,

oe Dendrobium densiflorum.

2 Diplo us incanus.

3449 ae i

3411 Echinocactus Eyriesii.

53407 Epacris impressa.

3457 Epidendrum conopseum.

3410 ? stenopetalum.

3448 Epimedium diphyllum.

3427 Erica recurvata.

8399 Eurycles Cunninghamii.

3440 Gilia achilleefolia.

3404 Goldfussia anisophylla.

3374 Habenaria gigantea.

3397 goodyeroides.

3424 Hakea ferruginea.

3425 Hoya Pottsii.

3421 Isopogon Loudoni.

3450 apoteieish, var. li-

nearis. ae

8383 Justicia carnea.

3419 Leptos rmum scoparium, var.

iflorum.

3442 Mespilus lobata.

3377 Microtis parviflora.

5308 Maxil abe

; laria pil.

3403 Newt calcarata. _

iti

3441 Phlox

Pl.

3392 CEnothera sinuata.

3393 Oncidium triquetrum.

3426 Orchis S14 ggree nd var.”

densifohius. 32

3431 Peonia Russi. «

1, Pentstemon 1c a0

452 Phacelia congesta. 9)

ona” freee

3386 Physostegia inibricata, | 1) 3

3396 | Plagianthus /, sidoides. sag li

3414 PoRMHS Rebn url... A lnleges Sar *

‘Tima, | |

3445 Stoica;

3400 Pterostylis! concinna.!0 "94 Wi

3401. a pat ‘.

3443 Pultenea cordata, .,

3409 Randia Bowieana. ~ *

3439 Rhododendron Calendie

ceum, var; fulgidum.) 150

3423 os arboretum, var.

hybridum altaclerense.

3422 Chupmansng

2 gar. ‘strmmneum:' |) PY

|| 3454 Hise pins paris hy-

3453 Rubus Nutkanus,, idle ous

3389 Ruellia elegans. as Se

3436 Sida inequalis.

3385 Solanum I weedianu:

3390 Sophora tomentosa, P.

3417 Stypandra propinqua.

3375 propane majus, var. atro-

3428 Vaccinium clhigorte,

3429 ceespitosum.

3446 Canadense.

3433 corymbosum. —

3447 myrtilloides.

3434 Pennsylvanicum.

8416 Vanda Roxburghi, var. uni-

color.

3456 Veltheimia glauca, (var. flori-

bus rubescenti-purpureis).

3384 Wedelia ? aurea.

3438 We 4 eremicola.

3402 Zygopetalum Mackaii, 8. cri-.

nitum. |

INDEX,

In which the English Names of the Plants contained in the Math

~ Volume of the New Series (or Sizty-second of the Work) are

_ alphabetically arranged.

- =

—.

Fi.

3420 Acacia, mournful,

3408 prickly-feathered.

3394 wave-leaved, variable.

3376 Anemone, Vine-leaved.

3387 Begonia, Geranium-leaved.

3444 Cow-parsnep-leaved.

3453 Bramble, Nutka.

3451 Brassia, long-tailed.

3413 Bucku, or crenulated Diosma.

_ 3411 Cactus, sweet-scented, spiny.

_ 8430 Calabash Tree.

3455 Daisy, American.

3418 Dendrobium, many-flowered.

3413 Diosma, crenulated, or Bucku.

Diplopappus, hoary,

3457 ———

3448 Epimedium, twin-leaved.

8392 Evening-Primrose, scollop-

leaved.

3399 Eurycles, small-flowered, or

_ _ Brisbane Lily.

3440 Gilia, Milfoil-leaved.

3404 Goldfussia, unequal-leaved.

3374 Habenaria, gigantic.

3397. -— Goodyera-like.

$424 Hakea, rusty- ed.

3427 i drooping round-head-

3425 Hoya, Mr. Pott’s.

3375 Indian Cress, or Nasturtium,

-—- Reed, aucous-leaved,

rediis-yeliow were ar.

3421 Isopogon, Mr. Loudon’s,

2410 Hpideniicun, abttaipetale’.

Wann foe

og spathulate-leaved, || 3483 Whortleberry, many-flowered.”

_ _ linear-leaved var. _ | 8434 aa willow-

3383 Justicia, flesh-coloured. et leaved.

3412 Lady’s slipper, large-flowered. || 3428 . white-flowered.

3419 Leptos ». Tigid-leaved, || 3429 . dwarf, tufted.

= flowered var, 3446 Canadian. —

= » Deppe’s. |) 8447 flask-flowered

3442 Medlar, cut-leaved.

_ 3377 Microtis, small-flowered.

3378 Microtis, middle-sized.

3375 Nasturtium, or Indian Cress,

dark-red var.

3403 Neottia, spurred.

3393 Oncidium, triquetrous-leaved.

3426 Orchis, narrow-lipped military,

crowded-flowered var.

3431 Peony, crimson.

3391 Pentstemon, Dr. Richardson’s.

3452 Phacelia, cluster-flowered.

3441 Phlox, Mr. Drummond’s.

3386 Physostegia, imbricated.

3380 Pimpernel, Italian, Mr. Will-

more’s var,

3396 Plagianthus, Sida-like.

3414 Primrose, Palinurian.

3445 ——_—_—— Siberian; entire-

leaved var.

3400 Pterostylis, neat.

3401 — i

3443 Pultenea, sharp heart-leaved.

3409 Randia, Mr. Bowie’s.

3422 Rhododendron, Caucasian,

straw-coloured var.

}} 8454 laurel-leaved,

hybrid var.

Tree, High-

clere, hybrid var.

3439 flame-coloured,

orange-red var.

3389 Ruellia, neat blue-flowered.

3406 Saxifrage, fringe-leaved.

3436 Sida, oblique-leaved. .

3385 Solanum, Mr. Tweedie’s.

3390 Sophora, downy var.

3417 Stypandra, slender, azure-

owered.

3416 Vanda, Dr. Roxburgh’s whole-

coloured var..

3456 Veltheimia, glaucous-leaved,

(red-purple-flowered var.)

3384 Wedelia, golden. ee Se

3488 Westringia, Desert.

3432 Whitethorn, large-flowered

American.

3402 Zygopetalum, Mr. Mackay’s -

hairy-lipped var.

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