CURTIS’S

BOTANICAL MAGAZINE,

COMPRISING THE

Plants of the Ropal Gardens of Kew,

AND

OF OTHER BOTANICAL ESTABLISHMENTS IN GREAT BRITAIN ;

WITH SUITABLE DESCRIPTIONS ;

SIR WILLIAM JACKSON HOOKER, K.H.,D.C.L. Oxon.,,

LL.D., F.R.S.A. AND L,S., DIRECTOR OF THE ROYAL GARDENS OF KEW.

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: VOL. XI. @)

OF THE THIRD SERIES;

(Or Vol. LXXXI. of the Whole Work.)

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** Another Flora there, of bolder hues

And richer sweets, beyond our garden pride,

Plays o’er the fields, and showers with allen hand

Exuberant spring. 2 _ Thomson.

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LONDON:

LOVELL REEVE, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

1855.

JOHN: EDWARD TAYLOR, PRINTER,

“UITTLE QUEEN STREET, LANCOLN’s INN | FIELDS.

DR. THOMAS THOMSON

SURG. H.E.L.C.,

SUPERINTENDENT OF THE

HON. EAST INDIA COMPANY'S BOTANIC GARDEN OF CALCUTTA,

‘THE WORTHY SUCCESSOR OF

— ‘ROXBURGH A WALLICH, AND A FALCONER,

A TRIBUTE OF AFFECTION AND

Royat, GaRpENs, Kew,

December, 1855.

Plate.

4840

4871

4832

4864

4842

4.890

4841

4855

4852

4846

4883

4835

4839

4834

4854

4879

4845

4837

4880

4889

4888

4838

4844

4887

4886

4853

4828

4825

4861

4866

4856

4870

4827

INDEX,

In which the Latin Names of the Plants contained in the Eleventh

Volume of the Turrp Series (or Eighty-first Volume of

the Work) are alphabetically arranged.

Abutilon insigne.

Achimenes heterophylla.

Aichmea mucroniflora.

Akebia quinata.

Albuea? Gardeni.

Amphicome Emodi.

Begonia Natalensis.

urophylla.

Berberis Bealei.

Billbergia rhodocyanea.

Wetherelli.

Brownea grandiceps.

Burlingtonia decora.

Canna Warszewiczii.

Campanula primuleflora.

Chameedorea elegans (mas).

Clerodendron feetidum.

Coelogyne speciosa.

Cordia superba.

Crawfurdia fasciculata.

Cymbidium giganteum.

Delphinium cardinale.

Dendrobium MacCarthie.

Dendrochilum glumaceum.

Dipladenia acuminata.

Harrisii.

Diplothemium littorale.

Drymonia villosa.

Embothrium coccineum.

Eremurus spectabilis.

Escallonia pterocladon.

; var. planifolia.

~ Ernesti-Augusti (mas).

Plate.

4848

4847

4860

4858

4831

4876

4873

4826

4872

4865

4878

4836

4829

4881

4869

4877

4863

4875

4859

4884

4874

4.843

4882

4885

4862

4850

4867

4833

4868

4851

4849

4857

4830

Eupomatia laurina.

Garcinia Mangostana.

Genetyllis macrostegia.

tulipifera.

Geonoma corallifera.

Gilia dianthoides.

Helianthemum Tuberaria.

Hoya (Otostemma) lacunosa.

Leptodactylon Californicum.

Nicotiana fragrans.

Odontoglossum maculatum.

Paphinia cristata.

Pentaraphia Cubensis.

Phygelius Capensis.

Physosiphon Loddigesii.

Rheum acuminatum.

Rhododendron Californicum.

Keysii.

retusum.

Salvia asperata.

earduacea.

Sciodacalyx Warszewiczii.

Sobralia fragrans.

Stanhopea ecornuta.

Streptocarpus Gardeni.

— polyanthus.

Stylophorum diphyllum.

Talinum polyandrum.

Thermopsis barbata.

Thyrsacanthus Schomburgkianus

Tradescantia Martensiana.

Trichopilia coccinea.

Warrea discolor.

INDEX,

In which the English Names of the Plants contained in the

Eleventh Volume of the Tuirp Ssrizs (or Highty-first

Volume of the Work) are alphabetically arranged.

PPR nnnnnn

Plate.

4840 Abutilon, handsome-flowered.

4871 Achimenes, various-leaved.

4832 Aichmea, spiny-petaled.

4864 Akebia, five-leaved.

4842 Albuea, Captain Garden’s.

4890 Amphicome Emodian.

4855 Begonia, caudate-leaved.

4841 Natal.

4979 Bell-flower, primrose-leaved.

4852 Berberry, Mr. Beale’s Chinese.

4846 ditto ; flat-leaved var.

4883 Billbergia, blue and red.

4835 Mr. Wetherell’s,

4839 Brownea, cluster-flowered.

4834 Burlingtonia, neat.

4854 Canna, Warszewicz’s.

4845 Chamedorea, elegant (male).

4837 Ernest- Augustus’s

(male).

4880 Clerodendron, fetid.

4889 Coelogyne, showy.

4888 Cordia, large white-flowered,

4838 Crawfurdia, fascicle-flowered.

4844 Cymbidium, gigantic.

4886 Dendrobium, Mrs. MacCarthy’s.

4853 Dendrochilum, glumaccous.

4828 Dipladenia, acuminated.

4825 Lord Harris’s.

4861 Diplothemium, sea-shore.

4866 Drymonia, shaggy.

4856 Embothrium, scarlet.

4870 Eremurus, showy.

4827 Escallonia, winged-branched,

4848 Eupomatia, laurel-like.

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Plate.

4860 Genetyllis, large-involucred.

4858 -—— tulip-bearing,

4831 Geonoma, coral-bearing.

4876 Gilia, pink-like.

4826 Hoya, furrowed.

4887 Larkspur, scarlet-flowered.

4872 Leptodactylon, Californian:

4847 Mangosteen, or Mangostan. -

4878 Odontoglossum, spotted.

4836 Paphinia, crested.

4829 Pentaraphia, Cuba.

4881 Phygelius, Cape.

4869 Physosiphon, Mr. Loddiges’.

4859 Rhododendron, blunt-leaved.

4863 -~ Californian.

4875 Mr. Key’s.

4877 Rhubarb, sharp-leaved Sikkim.

4873 Rockrose, truffle.

4884 Sage, rough-leaved.

4874 thistle-leaved.

4843 Sciodacalyx, Warszewicz’s.

4882 Sobralia, fragrant.

4849 Spiderwort, Marten’s.

4885 Stanhopea, hornless.

4862 Streptocarpus, Captain Garden’s.

4850 — many-flowered.

4867 Stylophorum, two-leaved.

4833 Talinum, many-stamened.

4868 Thermopsis, shaggy.

4851 Thyrsacanthus, Schomburgk’s.

4865 Tobacco, sweet-scented.

4857 Trichopilia, red-flowered.

4830 Warrea, discoloured.

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DIPLADENIA Harrisit.

Lord Harris’s Dipladenia.

Nat, Ord. ApocyNE®.—PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4702.)

DrPLaDENIA Harrisii ; scandens fruticosa glabra, foliis amplis oblongo-ovatis

acuminatis, racemis axillaribus folio brevioribus, floribus ante expansionem

nutantibus, lobis calycinis ovatis obtusissimis intus squamula laterali auctis,

corolla tubo inferne constricto basi inflato, squamis hypogynis 5 subdigitatis

basi in cupulam ovaria superantem unitis, staminibus ad constrictionem —

tubi corolle insertis, antheris villosis.

DipLapENIA Harrisii. Purdie, MS.

An inhabitant of the banks of the Caroni, and to the eastward

of Mount Tamana, Trinidad, where it was recently discovered by

Mr. Purdie, the intelligent superintendent of the Botanic Garden

of that island. Dried specimens and excellent drawings by Miss

Fuller and Mr. Cazabon, and descriptions and living plants,

Were at once sent to us by its discoverer, and from them we

have profited, as well as from superb flowering specimens sent

to us by Messrs. Veitch and Sons, who are the first to have

flowered it in Europe, in September, 1854. Mr. Pardie well.

observes of it :—'This fine plant is not surpassed by any one of

its congeners, whether we consider the size and beauty and fra-

grance of its flowers of metallic lustre, or its entire habit.” The

very buds are handsome, large and drooping, with a blend-

ing of red into a full and clear yellow, which colours however

become more brilliant in the fully expanded corolla. The very

blunt calycine segments, and the peculiar nature of the hypo-

gynous glands, forming together a rather large lobed and ‘fim-

briated cup, differs, as Mr. Purdie justly observes, from most of

our known Dipladenia ; but we apprehend it as good a Dipla- ae

JANUARY Ist, 1855.

denia as many of the species referred to it. It is, we need

hardly add, a stove plant, and a more highly ornamental one can

scarcely be imagined; most appropriately named in honour of

Lord Harris, the late able Governor of Trinidad, and a great friend

to science. ‘The following is chiefly from Mr. Purdie’s accurate

notes.

_ Drscr. Fruticose, scandent, branched ; ranches glabrous, te-

rete. Leaves opposite, the largest of them ten to fifteen inches

long, four to five broad, oblong, approaching to ovate, tapering

to a point, submembranaceous, pinnately veined, often purplish

beneath. Petioles scarcely an inch long, stout. Racemes axil-

lary and terminal. Pedice/s often an inch long, red, bracte-

ated, curved downwards so as to be quite subsecund, while the

flowers are in bud. Cualyz of five, deep, subimbricated, ovate,

obtuse, slightly concave, green /obes or segments lying close to :

the swollen base of the corolla: each has within, at the base, near

the margin, an orbicular toothed scale; two of the lobes are

smaller than the other three. Corolla large, handsome, fra-

grant, full glossy yellow, the tube tinged externally with red, and

internally streaked with the same colour, forming bifid rays on

_ the limb, which latter is three and a half inches across: tvbe

funnel-shaped, contracted below, the base itself swollen or in-

flated and five-ribbed, Jodes of the Jimé large, spreading, subro-

tund. Sfamens included, inserted at the constriction near the

base of the tube ; fiZaments short, downy ; anthers sagittate, hairy

at the back, each side below terminating in a spine. Ovaries

two, glabrous, surrounded by five large fimbriated or almost

digitated glands, united at the base into a cup. Styles united ;

stigma clubbed, bifid at the apex, sheathed by the anther.

Fig. 1. Section of the base of the corolla.

glands. 38. Two of the calycine lobes.

magnified.

2. Pistil and the hypogynous

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HOYA (OrostemMMA) LACUNOSA.

Furrowed Hoya.

Nat. Ord. AscLEP1IADE®.—PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4347.)

Hoya (Otostemma) Jacunosa; scandens radicans, foliis mediocribus carnoso-

coriaceis ellipticis basi apiceque acuminatis petiolatis obscure penninerviis

nervis immersis, pedunculis solitariis interpeticlaribus, umbellis multifloris

planis, laciniis calycinis ovatis marginibus carinaque denticulatis, corollz

rotate carnose velutino-villose: lobis triangularibus demum reflexis, coronz

staminee foliolis navicularibus concavis.

Hoya lacunosa, Blume, Bijdr. p. 1063. Dene. in De Cand. Prodr. v. 8. p. 638.

Blume, Rumphia, v. 4, t. 184. f. 2.

OrosteMMA lacunosum. Blume, Rumphia, l. c. p. 30. Mus. Bot. Iugd. Bat.

v. 1. p. 59. f. 11. Walp. Annat. Bot. Syst. v. 3. p. 65.

A native of the trunks of trees, not only in Java, but in other

islands of the Indian Archipelago, according to Blume. In habit

and mode of growth this species reminds one of the Hoya Bella,

figured at our Tab. 4402; but it is much less elegant and

attractive, and wants the pink eye which gives such effect to

that species. The Indian Archipelago abounds in species of the

genus once ranked under Hoya, and even by Blume himself;

but this genus is now, by that author, divided into several

genera ; and to the present species he has, in the letterpress to his

“Rumphia’ above quoted, but not on the plate, given the generic

name of Otostemma.* “ Ab Hoya,” he says, “recedit dentibus

* “Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla rotata, quinquefida, laciniis revolutis. Corona

staminea pentaphylla, gynostegio elevato adnata; foliolis navicularibus, carnosis,

divaricatis, supra concavis, angulo interiore in dentem antheram superantem pro-

ducto, subtus appendice deorsum bidentata auctis. Anthere stigmati incum-

bentes, apice simplices, acute. Podlinia basi affixa, erecta, approximata, line-

aria, compressa. Stigmata obsolete apiculata. Folliculi leves. Semina plu-

rima, ad umbilicum carnosa.—Herba Archipelagi Indici, in arboribus radicans ;

foliis oppositis v. rarius verticillatis, carnosis, glabris ; umbellis longiuscule pedun-

culatis ; floribus parvis, albidis.” Blume.

JANUARY Ist, 1855.

corone staminez super antheras protractis, cujus foliola subtus

esulcata singula appendice bidentata sunt preedita, necnon an-

theris simplicibus haud membrana terminatis;” and he adds,

“Alias quoque stirpes sub Hoya militantes ad hoc genus re-

ferendas esse probabile videtur ; qua de re diligens florum explo-

ratio docebit.”-—Not being aware of the minute differences at

the time our drawing was made (March, 1854), our artist’s

attention was not directed to them; and perhaps science will

not suffer by considering Otostemma a group or section of Hoya,

at any rate till we are better acquainted with its affinities. The

flowers are fragrant, which is a recommendation. We owe the

possession of the plant at Kew to Mr. Lowe, of Clapton.

Descr. A climbing shrub, with green branches, two to three

feet in length; dranches terete, throwing out roots from various

points, especially where the leaves are inserted. Leaves op-

posite, elliptical, lanceolate, between coriaceous and fleshy, acu-

minated, marked above with a depressed line or midrib, and

with a few horizontal depressed veins (whence the name, we

presume, of /acunosa). Petioles short, thick. Peduncles inter-

petiolary, generally shorter than the leaf, solitary, bearing a flat-

tened umbel of numerous flowers. Pedicels thickened upwards.

Calyx of five, ovate or elliptical, rounded Jodes, denticulate on

the margins and keel. Corolla rotate, greenish-yellow, the five

fobes eventually reflexed, the inner surface clothed with a circle

of velvety hairs. Staminal crown of five, spreading, lanceolate

foliola, concave at the top and embossed in the centre.

Fig. 1. Leaf. 2. Flower. 3. Calyx and pistils magnified.

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ESCALLONIA prerocrapon.

Winged-branched Escallonia.

Nat. Ord. SaxtrraGEm®.—PEnTANDRIA Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TAB. 4473.)

Esca.Lonta pterocladon ; fruticosa ramosissima, ramis alte sinuato-alatis alis

ciliatis, foliis brevi-petiolatis parvis lanceolatis coriaceis nitidis glaberrimis

glanduloso-serratis, floribus numerosissimis axillaribus solitariis nutantibus

secundis spicas foliosas formantes, pedicellis brevibus bracteolatis, calycis

tubo turbinato levi laciniis triangulari-subulatis marginibus parce glandu-

losis, petalorum unguibus in tubum cylindricum approximatis, stylo basi

glandula epigyna (seu toro) magna apice laciniata vaginato.

“A decidedly hardy shrub, four to five feet high, an abundant

bloomer, and fragrant.” These are recommendations for a bushy

plant with leaves like a small-leaved myrtle, and very pretty, al-

most Epacris-like flowers, white tinged with red. It inhabits

Western Patagonia, where it was detected by Mr. Wm. Lobb;

and it flowered in the open border at the Messrs. Veitch and

Son’s Nursery in July, 1854. There are two South Chilian

Species of this genus described and figured by Péppig, viz.,

Liscallonia alpina and LE. florida (Nov. Gen. et Sp. t. 13 et 14);

but the former has obovate leaves, and only a few terminal,

erect flowers upon the branches: the latter is extremely dif.

ferent in the structure of the flowers, and neither of them has

the curiously-winged branches. These wings indeed, in a mea-

Sure, disappear on the older branches and stems, for they crack

and -peel off. x

Descr. A small much-branched shrub, with spreading

branches: the old wood clothed with loose, cracked, papyra-

ceous bark: the dranches red, straight, rigid, singularly angled,

and winged with vertical ale, which are sinuated and downy or

fringed at the edge. Leaves scattered, copious, small, the largest

of them less than half an inch long, patent or often reflexed, per-

manent, lanceolate, acute, coriaceous, dark-green, shining, penni-

JANUARY Ist, 1855.

nerved, subglanduloso-serrate, tapering below into a very short

petiole. Flowers copious on all the younger branches, solitary

from the axils along their whole length, secund, drooping: the

leaves however pass into minute bracteas at the apex; so that a

whole branch may be considered a leafy raceme. Pedice/s short,

red, bearing two, lanceolate, opposite éracteoles, with very con-

spicuous glandular serratures. Calyx-tube quite glabrous, tur-

binate, even (not angled), the lower half incorporated with the

ovary, the /imé or free portion divided half-way down into five

acuminated teeth, with two or three glandular serratures on their

margins. Petals spathulate: the claws broad, erect, and so ap-

proximate as to form a cylindrical tube, white, tinged with red:

the /amina obovate, spreading. Stamens included. Style thick,

broader upwards, as long as the claws of the petal, for one-third

of its length sheathed by a ¢orws or large epigynous gland, fim-

briated at the apex. Stigma large, peltate.

Fig. 1. Portion of a winged branch, with leaves, and a flower. 2. Flower

from which the stamens and petals, and part of the calyx, are removed.

3. Petal :—magnified.

Tas. 4828,

DIPLADENIA acuminata.

Acuminated Dipladenia.

Nat. Ord. ApocyNe#.——PENnTANDRIA MoNnoGYNIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4702.)

DIPLADENIA acuminata; fruticosa scandens glaberrima, foliis brevi-petiolatis

elliptico-ovatis breviter acuminatis reticulatim yenosis basi cordatis, squa-

mis stipulaceis carnosulis laciniatis, racemis terminalibus (axillaribusque *)

plurifloris, pedicellis elongatis (demum spiraliter tortis), laciniis calycinis

longe subulatis strictis erecto-patentibus tubi corolle parte cylindracea -

contracta dimidio solummodo brevioribus, corollz tubo superne campanu-

lato limbi lobis insigniter acuminatis.

To Messrs. Veitch and Son, of the Exeter and the King’s-

road (Chelsea) Nurseries, we are indebted for the specimen of

the very beautiful Brazilian Dipladenia here represented, in

July, 1854. We confess that, on a cursory glance, we were led

to consider it the same as the D. crassinoda,* Lindl. Bot. Reg.

1844, t. 64 (assuredly however not the D. crassinoda of De

Candolle,—Eehites crassinoda of Gardner); but, besides the

greater size and beauty of the blossoms, the calyx is very dif-

ferent, and no less so the very acuminated lobes of the corolla.

Dipladenia splendens too (Bot. Mag. t. 3976, sub Achitem), has

a good deal of resemblance to our plant in the size and colour of

the flowers; but the calyx and corolla of that species are also

very different, and the petioles want the curious fleshy stipula-

ceous scales which are so remarkable in D. acuminata and D.

crassinoda (Lindl.). The present is, no doubt, a very distinct

* Echites crassinoda of Gardner (Hook. Lond. Journ. of Bot. v. 1. p. 544,

and n. 250 of Mr. Gardner’s Herb. Bras.) is a small shrubby (not scandent)

species, referred doubtfully by De Candolle to Dipladenia; and is nearly allied

to Echites (Dipladenia) atropurpurea, Lindl. (see Bot. Reg. 1843. t. 27).

JANUARY Ist, 1855.

species, and may vie in beauty with D. Harrisii of our present

number.

Duscr. A climbing shrub, everywhere glabrous. Leaves op-

posite, on short petioles, between ovate and elliptical, submem-

branaceous, shortly acuminate, penninerved and reticulated, the

base cordate. Where the petioles are inserted upon the branch

are two, fleshy, laciniated, somewhat stellated, conspicuous, sti-

pulaceous scales. Raceme subpaniculate, in the only specimen

we have seen terminal, many-flowered ; pedicels curving up-

wards, at length spirally twisted. Flowers very large, fine deep

rose-colour, streaked with deeper red at the faux. Calyx cut to

the base into five, long, straight, erecto-patent, subulate Jacinie,

half as long as the contracted portion of the tube of the corolla.

Corolla green in the bud, very large when fully expanded. The

‘ube infundibuliform, campanulate in the upper half, and con-

tracted and cylindrical and white in the lower half: Zimd full

four inches across: the does spreading horizontally, oblique,

subrotund, but tapering into a long acumen. Stamens inserted

at the summit of the contracted portion of the tube, and sheath-

ing the stigma and top of the style. Filaments very short. An-

thers linear, glabrous. Ovaries two, with an obtuse, fleshy

gland, on each side at the base. Style united, filiform. Stigma

conical, five-lobed.

Fig. 1. Leaf and stipulary scales. 2. Stamens. 3. Pi til and hypogynous

glands :—magnified, se ae a

Tas. 4829.

PENTARAPHIA Cuvusensis.

Cuba Pentaraphia.

Nat. Ord. GesNERIACEZ.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx tubo obconico 5-10-costato cum ovario connato, limbo su-

pero, laciniis 5 subulatis estivatione valvatis interdum summo apice inter se

contortis; corolle tubo ventricoso campanulato vel eylindraceo, ima basi interdum

constricto, limbo oblique bilabiato 5-lobo, dodis rotundatis subzequalibus magis

minusve crenato-fimbriatis. Stamina corolle tubo infimo inserta, didynama, ex-

serta, rudimentum quinti sterile; anthere dorso affixee, biloculares, primum per

_ paria coherentibus, post anthesin coriaceae. Stylus filiformis, stamina seepius su-

perans ;- stigma obscure bilobum. Discus epigynus annulatus, primo integer, si-

nuatus, dein quinquies vel multifariam divisus. Ovarium uniloculare, placentis

duabus parietalibus subcontiguis bipartitisque multiovulatis; ovulis anatropis.

Capsula calyce coronata infera, summo apice incomplete bivalvis, valvis medio

placentiferis. Semina minima, basi et apice attenuata, testa cellulosa tenuis, al-

bumen parvum, carnosum, album, embryo cylindraceo-oblongus in axi albuminis,

radicula teres, cotyledones ovate contigue.—Frutices Antillani glabri resinost

ramosi; ramulis inferne nudis ; foliis ad ramulorum apicem congestis dentatis sti-

pulatis ; floribus solitariis axillaribus vel sepius umbellatis. Dene.

PENTARAPHIA Cubensis ; ramis epidermide tenui lamellosa cinerascente vestitis,

foliis obovatis vel obovato-cuneatis superne crenatis vel dentato-crenatis ©

obtusis inferne integris in petiolum brevissimum attenuatis subtus reticu-

latis, pedunculis folio brevioribus, calycis segmentis subulatis, corolla tubu-

losa, capsula obconica quinquenervata. Dene.

Pentararuta Cubensis. Dene. in Ann. Se. Nat. 8rd Ser. v. 6. p.98. Walpers,

Repert. Bot. v. 6. p. 735. Lindl. Journ. of Hort. Soc. v. 5. p. 86, cum Ic.

A warm greenhouse suffices for the successful cultivation of

this pretty Gesneriaceous shrub, a native, as its name implies,

of the island of Cuba, where it was discovered by Mr. Linden,

growing about St. Yago, Pinal de Nimanima. Through Mr.

Linden living plants have been received at our Nurseries, and

the Kew Gardens are indebted to Mr. Henderson, Pine-apple

Place, for our plant here figured. Coming from such a source,

we cannot doubt but ours is the true plant of M. Decaisne.

~Duscr. A small shrvd, with erect terete branches, glabrous, as

is every part of the plant. Zeaves alternate, in shape not unlike

JANUARY Ist, 1855.

those of Myrica Gale, being obovate-lanceolate, coarsely serrated

in the upper half, cuneate below, and tapering into a short fvot-

stalk, dark green above, pale beneath, penninerved. Peduncle

an inch to an inch and a half long, slender, axillary, single-

flowered, curved downward, bearing two opposite subulate bracts

below the middle. Hower drooping. Calyz-tube incorporated

with the ovary, turbinate, five-angled ; Limé of five, spreading,

subulate laciniz. Corolla red, with the tube nearly cylindrical,

curved, broadest in the middle ; Zimé of five, nearly equal, rotun-

date, fringed, spreading lobes ; mouth with a dark border, yellow

in the throat. Stamens as long as the tube: fifth stamen reduced

to a short subulate filament. Lpigynous ring large, fleshy, si-

nuated. Style exserted. Stigma capitate, nearly entire.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Stamens. 3. Pistil and epigynous ring :—magnified.

eae

: a ot :

W. Fitch delet lith Vincent Brooks [mp

Tas. 4830.

WARREA piIscotor.

Discoloured Warrea.

Nat. Ord. OrncHipp#.—GyYNANDRIA MOoNANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas, 4766.)

Wanrea discolor; labelli lobo medio orbiculari retuso (disco purpureo) laterali-

bus semiovatis angustis non conniventibus, appendice carnosa subquadrata

multisulcata apice digitato-laciniata.

Warrea discolor. Lindl. in Journ. Hort. Soc. Lond. v. 4. p. 265.

Under our Warrea quadrata (Bot. Mag. Tab. 4766) is noticed

the affinity of that with another species of Dr. Lindley, WV. dis-

color : “ the flowers, however,” it was observed (of V. quadrata),

“are larger and more fleshy, with no purple but in the centre and

upper half of the lip; and is essentially known by the appendix

at the base of the lip being nearly square, about three-toothed in

front, and deeply furrowed ;—that of 7. discolor 1s uniformly

digitate in all the specimens I have seen.” Lindl. :

We have now the pleasure of figuring the 7. discolor, which

shows the correctness of Dr. Lindley’s observations. ‘The speci-

men was received in May, 1854, from Mr. Jackson, of the King-

ston Nursery, who purchased it, as well as the former species, at

one of the sales of Mr. Warszewitz’s Central American Plants.

We observe the leaves to be considerably narrower than in /.

quadrata. —

Duscr. Asin WV. quadrata, we do not find any distinct pseudo-

bulbs ; the Zeaves have equitant bases, upon which the leafy por-

tion is jointed. These /eaves are about a span long, erect, sub-

membranaceous, rather narrow-lanceolate, striated, attenuated

below, sharply acuminated at the point. Scapes radical, single-

flowered, shorter than the leaves, terete, bracteated ; dractee dis-

tant, sheathing, brown, membranaceous. Flowers large, droop-

ing. Sepals patent, lanceolate, white. Petals ovate, shorter and

broader than the sepals, obtuse, white with a faint tinge of pur-

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ple, erecto-patent. Zip large, broadly obovate in general outline,

white, with the disc deep purple, gradually fading into white to-

wards the margin: the sides of the lip are moderately involute,

and represent the two lateral lobes, which do not almost meet as

in W. quadrata ; the intermediate lobe is suborbicular and slightly

retuse: at the base of the lip within is a large, fleshy, almost white

appendage or crest, with many furrows, and fringed or digitate

with many subulate segments. Column short, concealed by the

moderately involute sides of the lip, club-shaped, white. Azther-

case small. Pollen-masses four, inserted upon a large, triangular

caudicle.

Fig. 1. Lip. 2. Column. 3. Pollen-masses :—magnified.

W.teh ae. et ath Vincent. Broaks Imp:

Tas. 4831.

CHAMAEDOREA Ernesti-Avcusti (ram.).

Firnest-Augustus’ Chamedorea (female).

Nat. Ord. ParmMace2.—~Diacia HEXANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Flores dioici, in spadice ramoso sessiles, ebracteati. Spathe

plures, membranaceze, compress, persistentes—Masc. Calyx exterior cupu-

laris, 3-lobus ; interior 3-sepalus ; sepalis rotundatis, erecto-conniventibus, pre-

floratione valvatis. Stamina 6, e fundo calycis; filamenta teretia, brevia; an-

there lineati-oblonge. Ovarii rudimentum.—Fam. Calyx exterior cupularis,

tripartitus ; interior ut in mase. y. tridentatus (Mart.). Staminum radimenta

nulla. Ovarium 3-loculare. Stigmata 3, sessilia, parva, acuta. Bacca 1-sperma

(aut profunde triloba, trisperma? Mart.). Albumen xquabile, corneum. Hm-

éryo dorsalis, basim versus situs (lateralis, Endl.).—Palme minores. Caudex

arundinaceus, annulatus. Frondes terminales vel laterales, pinnatifisse v. pinnate ;

pinnis rachi subverticaliter adnatis, planiusculis ; petiolis vaginantibus. Spadices

sparsi et vage ramosi (ramis ¢eretibus), infra, rarius inter frondium vaginas lon-

giusculas sessiles ; fructiferi corallino-rubentes vel aurei. Spathze membranacee,

spadice increscente apice perfosse, in ejus pedunculo magis minusve persistentes.

Flores flavescentes et virescentes. Bacce globose vel subglobose, parce carnose,

minuscule. Kth. (ex Mart. et Endl.)

Cuamaporea Frnesti-Augusti (fem.); candice 3—5-pedali arundinaceo annu-

lato erecto basi radicante apice dilatato folioso, foliis petiolatis cireumscrip-

tione obovatis basi cuncatis profunde bifidis margine seepissime grosse ser-

ratis raro subincisis, petiolis folio brevioribus basi insigniter dilatatis am-

plexantibus, pedunculis axillaribus petiolum superantibus solitariis inferne

sénsim angustioribus erectis, spathis 3-4 vaginatis persistentibus, spadice

pedali et ultra cylindraceo coriaceo-carnoso demum coccineo, calyce albo

primum immerso, petalis coccineis.

Coammporea Ernesti-Augusti. Wendland in Allgemeine Gartenzeit., March,

1852, No.10. Hjusd. Index Palmar. p. 12.

Notwithstanding the invaluable labours of a Martius, the study

of the Palms is still attended with great difficulties ; nor is this

to be wondered at, when it is considered how few, like Martius,

have the opportunity of studying them in their native countries,

and of observing their various phases in the form of leaf, etc., at

various periods of their growth, or arising from different locali-

FEBRUARY lst, 1855.

ties. ‘he majority of them are also very unsuited to afford

specimens that can be of practical utility in the Herbarium, to

say nothing of the time and trouble required for preparing good

specimens. Happily the culture of the Palms in our stoves has

of late years prevailed, both in our own country and upon the

Continent, and very many species have produced their flowers

with us ; but still there remains the difficulty of reconciling our

species with those that have been figured and described, too

often from imperfect samples.

The little Palm before us, which does not appear to exceed, if

equals, the height of a man, attracts attention by the rich,

coral-like, simple, thick, and fleshy spadices, almost a foot long,

—while young, green indeed, but then studded with the red fe-

male flowers, placed at considerable distances from each other.

With quite the habits of a Geonoma, and much resembling more

than one species of that genus figured by D’Orbigny in his

‘ Voyage dans l’Amérique Méridionale,’ it is nevertheless a true

Chamedorea, a graceful genus of small reed-stemmed palms, pe-

culiar to the tropical parts of South America, of which forty-two

species are given in Wendland’s ‘ Enumeratio Systematica Cha-

meedorearum.’ The present is a native of Tabasco, in New

Granada, where it was found by Mr. Linden, and was received

by us from Mr. Linden, under the name of “ Geonome sp.”

Mr. Wendland indeed, in his useful ‘ Index Palmarum,’ tells us

that in different gardens this plant has gone under the name of

Chamedorea latifrons, Ch. simplicifrons, Geonoma latifrons, and

Hyospathe elegans. Another Palm, with altogether this habit

as to stem and foliage, which we received from the same source

as “ Chamedoree sp.,” has flowered with us. It exhibited, at

the flowering-season, branched, slender spadices. This, one of

our intelligent German gardeners, Mr. Hannemann, who had

been in Mr. Van Houtte’s establishment at Ghent, recognized

as what was considered there the male of the present plant, and

we were not long in determining the plant to be the Chamedorea

Lirnesti- Augusti of Wendland. This male plant will be given in

our next number.

Descr. Our Palm has attained a height of five feet from the

ground, including the leaves. The stem or caudew is erect, reed-

like, about two inches in diameter, marked with the scars of

fallen leaves, and thus appearing jointed: from the lower portion

above the ground, many thick, fleshy roots appear, and de-

scend into the earth. Leaves terminal, ten or twelve, about two

feet long, including the petiole; the blade is broad-cuneate, with

a deep slit almost half-way down from the apex, which divides

the leaf into two large spreading acuminated lobes; the margins

are serrated, the sinuses more or less deep, but never reaching

to the midrib, and rarely exhibiting a deep gash: the surface

is obliquely plaited, and striated by the parallel nerves. Petiole

about one-half the length of the leaf, below dilated into a large,

concave, sheathing base, which gives a swollen appearance to the

part of the stem occupied by the leaves. From the axil of the

leaves the peduncle appears, a foot long, enclosed in three or

four cylindrical close-pressed spathas, from which emerges a cy-

lindrical spadiz, nearly as long as the peduncle, tapering a little

at the base and towards the point, thick, fleshy, at first green

and then studded with the red bead-like flowers, afterwards the

_ spadix becomes bright coral-red, and then marked with the black

scars of the withered flowers. /V/owers, in bud quite sunk in

distant cavities on the spadix, solitary, are spirally arranged.

Calyx white, waxy, forming a three-lobed cup, of a totally dif-

. ferent nature from the petals or inner sepals. Coro//a of three,

cymbiform, orange-red petals, which connive over the pistil.

Ovary subrotund, obscurely three-lobed. Style none. Stigmas

three, short, spreading. ‘There is no trace of stamens or rudi-

ments of stamens in our flowers.

Fig. 1. Female flower. 2. Pistil:—magnified. 3. Small spadix in its green

state, studded with the scarlet female flowers :—zat. size.

Tas. 4832.

AKCHMEA MUCRONIFLORA.

Spiny-petaled Aichmea.

Nat. Ord. BRoMELIACE®.—HEXANDRIA Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4293.)

AicumBa mucroniflora ; foliis lato-ligulatis obtusis cum apiculo canaliculatis

cartilagineis spinuloso-marginatis basi late yentricosis, racemo denso spi-

cato brevi-elliptico, bracteis universalibus amplis foliaceis coloratis (coccineis)

denticulatis acutissimis, floribus glomerato-fasciculatis, bracteis partialibus

calycibus petalisque mucrone spiniformt atro-fusco terminatis, filamentis al-

ternis petalis confluentibus, fructibus ceeruleis.

The genus Aechmea was so named by the authors of the

‘Flora Peruviana,’ in consequence of the rigid points of the

calyx of the flowers. In the present species the same rigid

points exist on the leaves, on the partial bracts, on the sepals of

the calyx, and on the petals. By this latter character the pre-

sent species (a native of Demerara, and sent to us from thence

by His Excellency Governor Barkly,) may be alone distinguished

from Atchmea Mertensii, of the same country, figured at our

Tab. 3186. There the petals are red, plane, narrow linear-lan-

ceolate, gradually acuminated, lax and free : here the petals are

connivent, oblong, concave, orange-yellow, streaked with brown

on the back, and suddenly terminating in the sharp, hard, dark-

brown mucro: the spike too, in our plant, is infinitely shorter

than in _Z. Mertensii, and not disposed to be compound ; and

the stamen that is opposite to the petal has the filament com-

bined with it for nearly its whole length. In both, the spike

eventually becomes a mass of mazarine-blue pyramidal berries.

—TJt flowered with us, for the first time, in September, 1854.

Descr. Leaves radical, in our plant not exceeding a foot long,

broad-ligulate, obtuse, with a spiny green acumen, cartilaginous,

FEBRUARY Ist, 1855,

bluish-green, clothed with exceedingly minute furfuraceous scales,

canaliculate, the upper half reflexed, dilated below, so as to form

a concave convolute base, the margins for the whole length be-

set with slightly curved dark-brown spiny ¢eeth, longest and

strongest towards the base. Scape central, scarcely rising above

the sheathing bases of the upper leaves, and bearing six to eight,

spreading, large, coloured (scarlet), broad-lanceolate, acuminated

(but not mucronated), denticulated, concave dracts, immediately

above which the spzse, oblong-cylindrical, short (four inches

long), terminates the scape. ‘The flowers are glomerated upon

the spike. Partial bract so large and broad as to surround the

whole base of the flower, or ovary, green, membranaceous, stri-

ated, tipped with a strong dark-brown spine or mucro. Calyx of

three, convolute, large, membranous, yellow-green sepals, tipped

with a spiny mucro, like that of the partial bract. Petals three,

erect, or slightly twisted, connivent, orange-yellow, streaked with

dark purple-brown at the back, oblong, concave, tipped with a

hard, brown, spinous mucro: within each petal, at the base, are

two, membranaceous, white, fimbriated scales. Stamens six, three

alternate with the petals free ; the others have the long filaments

combined with the disc of the petals, the apex and the oblong

anthers only being free. Ovary turbinate, inferior: style nearly

as long as the petals, dilated upwards: stigmas three, convolute,

fimbriated. Fruit a pyramidal Jerry of a rich blue, similar to

that represented in our 4. Mertensii, Tab. 3186.

Fig. 1. Flower and partial bract. 2. Petal and two stamens. 3. Pistil,

from which the petals and stamens are removed :—magnified.

Witch. del, e Lith.

Vineent Brooks imp.

Tas. 4833.

TALINUM ponyanprum.

Many-stamened Talinum.

Nat. Ord. PortuLAcE®.—DopgEcaNDRIA MoNOGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx diphyllus, deciduus, foliolis ovatis, oppositis. Corolle pe-

tala 5, hypogyna, libera vel basibus coalita, tenerrima, fugacia. Stamina 10-30

(et ultra), petalorum unguibus aggregatim inserta; fi/amenta filiformia ; anthere

biloculares, ovatee, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovarium liberum, uniloculare.

Ovula plurima, placentz basilari funiculis distinctis inserta, amphitropa. Stylus

filiformis, apice trifidus, lobis patulis intus stigmatosis, vel stigmata 3, sessilia,

arcte conniventia. Capsula chartacea, nitida, unilocularis, trivalvis, epicarpio ab

endocarpio haud soluto, placenta basilari. Semina plurima, lenticulari- vel glo-

boso-reniformia, testa crustacea, nitida, leevissima, striata, umbilico strophiolata.

Embryo anuularis, albumen farinaceum cingens.—Herbze interdum suffrutescentes,

carnos@, glaberrime, in America tropica et subtropica copiose, parcius in Capite

Bone Spei, Arabia Felici et Oceania intertropica crescentes, foliis alternis vel sub-

oppositis, integerrimis, exstipulatis, floribus cymosis, racemosis vel solitariis, axilla-

ribus, purpureis flavis vel albis, fugacibus.—Endl.

TaLInum polyandrum; annuum glabrem, caulibus ascendentibus, foliis late lineari-

spathulatis carnosis obtusis supra linea media canaliculatis, pedunculis ter-

minalibus elongatis apice racemosis 5—8-floris, pedicellis elongatis susecun-

dis gracillimis demum reflexis, petalis late cuneatis remotis, staminibus

numerosis, stigmatibus 3 filiformibus sessilibus pubescenti-glandulosis.

The two genera Zulinum and*Calandrinia (formerly considered

to be almost wholly confined to the New World) have long ap-

peared to me to be undistinguishable the one from the other.

De Candolle says of the latter, “vix a Za/ino differt :” and Messrs.

Torrey and Gray remark that it is intermediate between Talinum

and Claytonia. Of late years several Australian species have

been referred to Calandrinia. Among the first was C. calyptrata,

Hook. fil. (Ic. Plant. t. 296), detected by Mr. Gunn in Van Die-

men’s Land (who also discovered there what has been referred

by Dr. Hooker to Claytonia—Claytonia Australasica, Ic. Plant.

t. 293). Major Mitchell detected two species in eastern tropical

Australia, which are described in the journal of that traveller.

FEBRUARY lst, 1855.

Three species (together with C. calyptrata above mentioned) are

enumerated in Dr. Lehmann’s ‘ Plantz Preissianee’ of the Swan

_ River Settlement, besides a plant referred to Zalinum; and it

is from this country that we raised our present plant from seeds

sent by Mr. Drummond in 1853. Among the species of Preiss,

none accords with this. C. Balonensis, Lindl. in Mitch. (foliis

angustatis obovato-lanceolatis alternis oppositisque, racemis se-

cundis multifloris, caulibus multo longioribus, floribus conspicuis

polyandris), seems not far distant from the present species ; but,

with no further marks to guide me, and considering the widely

different locality, it will be safer to keep it distinct.* I have re-

ferred it to Zalinum because of the numerous stamens, exceeding

even what are attributed to Zulinum. It flowered in the green-

house in August, 1854.

Drscr. Root slender, descending, fusiform, annual, bearing

several leaves at the top, and several spreading, ascending, terete,

slender, reddish stems, scarcely a span long: these have distant,

alternate, or very rarely opposite, broad-linear, subspathulate, ses-

sile, entire, obtuse, fleshy, thickened /eaves, having a depressed

longitudinal central line above, quite plane below, with no con-

spicuous costa or nerve; the largest of them are three inches

long. Peduncles terminal or subaxillary, including the racemes

longer than the stem, very slender. Pedicels subsecund, long,

filiform, at length reflexed. Calyx of two, opposite, broad-ovate,

cymbiform, green sepals. Petals five, spreading apart from each

other, red-purple. Stamens very numerous, spreading, about half

as long as the petals. Anthers small, yellow. Ovary subglobose,

crowned with three, sessile, filiform, glanduloso-pubescent slig-

mas: style none. ’

Fig. 1. Calyx and pistil -—magnified.

* L[have, since the above was in type, seen authentic specimens of Dr. Lind-

ley’s plant. It is quite different from ours, having much broader and more

spathulate leaves and larger flowers ; but it is closely allied to our present spe-

cies in habit, and in the very numerous stamens and absence of style.

Tap. 4834.

BURLINGTONIA pecora.

Neat Burlingtonia.

Nat. Ord. OrncuipEm.—GyNANDRIA MoNnaANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Perianthium membranaceum, convolutum, obliquum. Sepala m-

guiculata, labello breviora, basi a petalis distincta; Jateralia basi concava, con-

nata, labello supposita. Petala unguiculata, labello parallela, sepalis longitudine —

eequalia, sed latiora. Ladellum unguiculatum, bilobum, basi cornutum vel muti- —

cum, cum columna parallelum, apice dilatatum, ungue canaliculato, lamellato. —

Columna teres, longe clavata, nunc apice appendicibus duabus coloratis aucta ;

clinandrio dorsali, stigmate utrinque cornuto. Anthere uniloculares. Pollinia

2, postice excavata, caudicule subulate elastice adnata.—Herbe epiphyte,

pseudobulbis 1-2-phyllis, basi foliatis. Lindl.

Burtineronta decora; caulibus elongatis gracilibus hic inde proliferis, pseudo-

bulbis ovatis compressis monophyllis, sepalis petalisque (albis roseo-macu-

latis) acutis, labelli ungue sepalis petalisque longiore, caleare integro, co-

lumna apice appendicibus 2 faleatis erectis pilosis aurita.

Burrneronia decora. “Lemaire, Jardin Fleuriste, v. 2. Jan. 1852, ¢. 188.”

Lindl. et Pact. Fl. Gar. v. 3. p. 100 (with a woodcut, copied, we presume,

JSrom a continental figure).

BURLINGTONIA ameena. “ Planchon in Hort.”

For the opportunity of figuring this very pretty Orchideous

plant, we are also indebted to the kindness of Mr. Jackson.

It was received by him from Paris, and we find a woodcut of it

among the “gleanings and original memoranda” of Lindley and

Paxton’s ‘Flower Garden,’ accompanied by some observations,

from which we learn that it has been lately figured by Van

Houtte in his ‘Flore des Serres’ (we presume, under the name

given by M. Planchon,) as well as by M. Lemaire ; and further,

that “it was introduced from the province of St. Paul's, in

Brazil, by M: Libou, the collector for M. de Jonghe; that this

flowered in May, with Mr. Makoy, when it was named #. decora,

under which name it is mentioned in various trade-catalogues,

and afterwards published by M. Lemaire.” —We find it difficult _

in words to distinguish this, specifically, from the B. rigida, —

' FEBRUARY lst, 1855.

figured by Dr. Lindley in the ‘Sertum Orchidaceum,’ t. 36, dif-

ferent as the two appear at first sight. The conductors indeed

of the ‘ Flower Garden’ say that, “ according to the author above

quoted, we have in this plant much smaller flowers, a simple, co-

nical, not two-lobed spur, short, very sharp sepals and petals, and

a pair of great lacerated appendages at the base of the lip; to

say nothing of the spotting which is so unlike anything among

Burlingtonias, except maculata.” Now certainly the “pair of

great lacerated appendages at the base of the lip’’ do not exist

in our plant. In B. rigida it will be seen that there are four

elevated and laciniated plates: in our plant the two outer ones

are marginal. The chief differences, if constant, appear to us to

be in the smaller size of the entire plant, the entire spur, the

more acute and spotted sepals and petals, and the greater length

of the claw of the lip in proportion to the limb or ultimate lobe.

It is certainly a plant of great beauty and delicacy, and the more

welcome for flowering in early winter.

Dzscr. From different parts of a long, slender, radicant stem,

there arise small oval or ovate compressed pseudobulbs, each

bearing an oblong, obtuse, subcoriaceous, veinless /eaf. A lesser

leaf appears at the base of a bulb, and from the axil of this the

scape springs, a span or more high, slender, erect or nearly so,

articulated at intervals and bearing small membranaceous bracts

from each joint. V/owers racemose (or rather a spike, for the

ovaries are sessile, very long and slender and pedicelliform), dis-

tichous, moderately large for the size of the plant, inclined,

scarcely drooping. Calye and sepals connivent, ovate, acute,

nearly uniform, the two lateral seya/s combined for a great part

of the length, so as to represent a single broad bifid sepal at the

back of the lip; all are white, beautifully spotted with deep rose-

colour. Spur short, deflexed, obtuse (not bifid). Zip nearly or-

bicular, two-lobed, white, large, spreading, suddenly contracted

into a broad claw, which has four elevated membranes; the

lateral ones, marginal and strongly laciniated, may perhaps be

considered as obsolete lateral lobes: these membranes are buff-

coloured. Colwma terete, clavate, hairy in front, terminating above

in two, long, deep, rose-coloured, wavy, erect, but slightly falcate

and villous, linear-oblong ears: two other subulate reddish pro-

cesses are seen in front, one on each side the stigma. Anther-

case very large, helmet-shaped. Pollen-masses two, attached to

a spathulate caudicle, and arising from an oval gland.

Fig. 1. Under side of an entire flower, showing the spur. 2. Column and lip.

3. Front view of acolumn. 4, Pollen-masses :—magnified.

~\ Tas. 4835.

BILLBERGIA Weruvere -ti.

Mr. Wetherell’s Billbergia.

Nat. Ord. BRoMELIACER.—HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4756.)

Brurpereia WVetherelli ; foliis cartilagineis lato-ligulatis obtusis cum acumine

basi latioribus concavis circumvolutis marginibus obscure spinuloso-serratis,

seapo foliorum vaginis inclusis, rachi tomentosa spicaque densa exsertis nu-

tantibus, bracteis universalibus amplis coloratis coccineis, petalis (apice

purpureis) spathulatis intus versus basin lineis duabus membranaceis sub-

fimbriatis et ad basin squamis duabus fimbriatis.

Dr. Lindley has long ago (Bot. Reg. 1827, under Tab. 1068)

observed that it would be difficult to point out a family of plants

more interesting from their beauty or singularity than that of

Bromeliacee ; and we think the two plants of this family, repre-

sented in our present number, serve to strengthen that remark.

He further adds, “ of which the systematic arrangement has been

less carefully studied ;” and he has himself given, /. c., a “ synopsis

of what he considers the essential characters of the genuine

genera :” and there, for the first time, we believe, Bil/bergia of

Thunberg is clearly defined. To this he has referred several

described Brazilian Bromelias, and Martius has added several

new ones. None of these however accord with our plant, which

we lately received from Bahia by favour of James Wetherell,

Esq., H.M. Vice-Consul at that city. The handsome flower-

spike was produced in December, 1854. It may rank syste-

matically near Bromelia iridifolia, Nees et Mart. (Billbergia

iridifolia, Lindl. Bot. Reg. f. 1068) ; differing however remark-

ably in the foliage, and no less in the nature of the inflorescence.

It is an extremely showy species, and easily cultivated in a moist

stove and not exposed to too powerful light.

Descr. Leaves all radical, scarcely a foot long in our spe-

cimens, broad-ligulate, cartilaginous, glabrous and destitute of

minute scales or scurf, moderately channelled, narrower up-

FEBRUARY Ist, 1855.

wards, and ending in a short acumen, the margins rather ob-

scurely spinuloso-serrate, the serratures pomting upwards; the

bases are much dilated, concave, and sheathed, as is common to

many Lromeliacee : the outer leaves are more or less recurved.

Scape central, mostly concealed by the sheathing bases of the

leaves ; the rest of it, bearing the flowers and highly-coloured

bracts, is exserted and drooping, bent down suddenly towards

the ground: the rachis stout, clothed with whitish dense wool.

Universal dructeas, the lower ones flowerless, all of them large,

at first imbricated, then more or less patent, two to three inches

long, scarlet, sharply acuminated, obsoletely striated, entire.

Flowers forming a thick thyrsoid spete, only the upper ones

destitute of the large bracteas, and scarcely exserted beyond the

bracteas of the inferior flowers. Calyx superior, of three, erect,

membranaceous, white, oblong sepals, slightly tinged with red.

Petals about half as long again as the sepals, erect, spathulate,

the claw white, the /imé purple, moderately patent; within the

claw are two longitudinal plicee, which meet over the filament,

and are partly laciniated ; and there are besides two fimbriated

scales at the very base of the claw. Stamens all free.

Fig. 1. Petal, with the scales and stamen :—magnijied.

430d C

Vincent. Brooks Tap.

Tas. 4836.

PAPHINIA cristata.

Crested Paphinia.

Nat. Ord. OrncutpEx%.—Gynanpria MONANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Flores subregulares, expansi petaloidei, parum in mentum pro-

ducti. Labellum parvum, unguiculatum, tripartitum, glandulis filiformibus apice

alibique obsitum. Colwmna clavata, elongata, semiteres, apice auriculata. Pol-

linia 4, per paria caudicule elongate apice setacee afflixa, glandula minuta sub-

ar dene 3 rostello subulato.—Herba pseudobulbosa, scapo pendulo paucifforo.

indl.

PaPHInta cristata ; pseudobulbis ovatis sulcatis mono-triphyllis, foliis oblongo-

lanceolatis plicatis, seapo pendulo bifloro squamis laxiusculis vaginato, flori-

bus explanatis, sepalis petalisque lanceolatis acutis zqualibus, labello multo

minore tripartito carnoso, laciniis lateralibus faleatis intermedia rotundata

Feber ag utrinque unidentata, ungue subcristato disco bidentato.

PapHINIA cristata. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1843. Miscell. p. 14.

Maxinxaria cristata. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1811.

A very curious and really handsome Orchideous plant, native

of Trinidad and New Granada, first published by Dr. Lindley

as a Mazillaria, and then very justly raised by him to the rank

of anew genus. In our plant the flowers are large, and the

markings are of a deeper and more chocolate-brown colour ; and

there is a slight difference in the form of the lip, but not enough

to justify its being considered a new species. Our plant was

received from Mr. Purdie. It flowers in the Orchideous stove

in August. 2

Descr. Pseudobulbs clustered, oblong-ovate, compressed, mo-

derately furrowed ; one of the old bulbs is terminated by two_

leaves; the younger one with three, besides leafy scales at the

base: these /eaves are four to six inches long, lanceolate, patent,

submembranaceous, plicate. Peduncles solitary, single or two-

flowered, pendent, emerging from the base of a pseudobulb,

jointed and sheathed with loose, brown, membranaceous scales.

Sepals and petals alike in shape, the latter smaller, all of them

MARCH Ist, 1855.

patent, lanceolate, fleshy, having a white ground, variously

streaked, and blotched, and spotted with dark chocolate-brown :

the intermediate less covered with brown, and with more regular

transverse bands. ip very curious in form, almost entirely of

a rich chocolate-purple colour, very much smaller than the petals

or sepals, somewhat ovate in circumscription, shortly unguicu-

late, thick and fleshy, deeply two-lobed; two lateral lobes oblong,

acute, subacinaciform; middle lobe rhomboidal (7.e. with an angle

or tooth on each side), terminated at the apex with a crest, a

tuft or pencil of club-shaped, downy, white fimbrize: the disc

is curiously crested, and there are four long-pedicellated glands

on the claw. Column yellow-green, banded with chocolate near

the base, club-shaped, semiterete, with a large projecting tooth

on each side below the anther: between which teeth, in front, is

the very long, prominent rostellum. Anther-case hemispherical.

Pollen-masses obovate, from a long caudicle ; gland small, tri-

angular.

Fig. 1. Column and anther. 2. Pollen-masses. 3. Labellum, 4. Fimbria

from the apex of the labellum :—magnified.

Tas. 4837.

CHAMAZDOREA Ernesti-Avueusti (MAs).

Ernest-Augustus’ Chamedorea (male).

Nat. Ord. Patmacr®.—Di@cra HexanpRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4831.)

Cuammporea Lrnesti- Augusti (mas); caudice 3—4-pedali arundinaceo annulato

erecto basi radicante apice dilatato folioso, foliis petiolatis circumscriptione

obovatis basi cuneatis profunde bifidis margine seepissime grosse serratis raro

subincisis, petiolis folio brevioribus basi insigniter dilatatis amplexantibus,

pedunculis petiolum superantibus crassiusculis inferne sensim angustioribus

erectis spathis vaginatis persistentibus, spadice 8—9-pollicari simpliciter

ramoso, ramis plurimis 6-8-pollicaribus attenuatis gracilibus obtuse angu-

latis, calyce albo primum immerso operculiformi, petalis coccineis.

CHamMmporEA Ernesti-Augusti. Wendland in Allgemeine Gartenzeit. 1852, No.

10. Hjusd. Index Palmar. p. 12. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4831 (foem.).

We have already, under our Tab. 4831, alluded to the Palm

now under our consideration, and given our reasons for believing

it to be the male plant of Chamedorea Hrnesti-Augusti. It en-

tirely agrees with the description above quoted, except that Mr.

Wendland describes the lower portion of the spadix as com-

poundly divided, whereas the branches of the spadix in our plant

are always simple, as here represented. It is equally a native of

New Granada, and was received from the Belgian Gardens under

the name of “ Chamedoree sp.”

Descr. Our description given at Tab. 4831, of the root, stem

(or caudex), and fronds and spathas, are equally applicable to

the present plant: the difference is in the spadiv: this, instead

of being simple (unbranched), thick, and cylindrical, 1s, from

where it emerges from the spatha, divided into many, long, slen-

der, thickish, but almost filiform, patent, or below reflexed, flex-

uose branches, tapering to a point, and clothed with numerous

MARCH Ist, 1855.

scattered flowers: the main rachis is obtusely many-angled : the

branches bluntly three-angled: all at first white, afterwards

green, but withering without attaining the rich scarlet of the

female spadix. Young flower-duds very much sunk in the sub-

stance of the rachis, but soon emerging. Calyz small, at first

hemispherical, then cup-shaped, white, bursting open in three

blunt segments, longer than those of the male calyx. Petals

three, united at the base, broad oval, obtuse, or nearly cymbi-

form, deep orange. Stamens six, united by their short filaments

at their base. Anthers oval-oblong, two-celled. Ovary small,

abortive, with a short s¢y/e and spreading three-lobed stigma.

Our Plate represents a reduced figure of the entire plant, and a portion of the

spadix :—nat. size. Fig. 1. Portion of the spadix, with flowers. 2. Lower

portion of the calyx, with stamens and abortive ovary :—magnified.

<—

7.7.

Vincent Broaks Emp

W. Fitch del. et Lith

TAs. 4838.

CRA WFURDIA waserosruars,

Fascicle-flowered Crawfurdia.

Nat. Ord. GENTIANEH.—PENTANDRIA DieyNIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx 5-fidus v. 5-dentatus, dentibus distantibus. Corolla mar-

cescens, clavata, foveis glandulisque destituta, intus nuda, limbo 5-partito,

plicis exsertis aucto. Stamina 5, imo corolle tubo inserta ; filamentis basi sub-

eequalibus. Anthere erecte, incluse. Ovarium disco hypogyno quinquelobato

basi cinctum, uniloculare, ovulis suture insertis. Stylus distinctus, persistens,

stigmatibus binis terminalibus oblongis revolutis. Capsula stipitata, bivalvis,

septicida, valvulis brevissime involutis subunilocularis, placentis suturalibus.

Semina placentis immersa ; testa alata.—Herbe volubiles, Nepalenses, ramis elon-

gatis, foliis petiolatis, floribus speciosis plerumgue axillaribus. Griseb. in DC.

CrawFurptia fasciculata ; foliis lanceolatis magis minusve latis, floribus solitariis Z

fasciculatisve, calycis tubo alte 5-alato, laciniis subulatis tubum subsequanti-

bus, corollis infundibuliformibus, limbo laciniis accessoriis aucto.

Crawrurpta fasciculata. Wall. Fl. Nepal. Tent. p. 63. ¢.47. Griseb. in DC.

Prodr. v. 9. p. 121. :

Gentrana volubilis. Don, Nep. p. 126.

Two species of this most lovely plant, from Sheopore and

Nepal, were first made known by Dr. Wallich ; and so “ different

are they,” he observes, “ in their climbing habit from all the other

members of the Order of Gentianee, that I cannot hesitate de-—

taching them into a separate genus .” and this he named Craw-

furdia, “in honorem dilectissimi ~Joannis Crawfurd, armigeri,

insule Singapore gubernatoris propter opus suum de Archipelago —

Malayano bene meriti, historiz naturalis totius, preprimis vero

botanices fautoris strenui, ejusque studio addictissimi.” Mr.

Crawfurd’s name, too, stands recorded in connection with the

discovery of the splendid Amherstia nobilis (see the account of

that plant under our Tab. 4453). Seeds of our C. fasciculata

were sent from Khasya by Mr. Thomas Lobb to Mr. Veitch,

with whom it flowered in the greenhouse in January of the pre-

marcy Ist, 1855.

‘sent year (1855). Although this is the smaller-flowered species

of the two, it is the more highly coloured in the corolla, and the

flowers are more copious,—often, as Dr. Wallich figures, four to

six growing together in a fascicle; but this is not by any means

constantly the case. Dr. Royle finds it in Garhwal, and Dr.

Hooker throughout the Khasya hills and in Sikkim. Crawfurdia

Japonica seems quite to accord with this species, as far as can be

judged from the character given in Walpers.

Derscr. Root said by Dr. Wallich to be fibrous, and is pro-

bably annual. Plant everywhere glabrous. Stems slender, fili-

form, terete, of considerable length, branched, with longer, slender

branches of the like character, twining in the same way as our

Convolvulus arvensis, reddish or purple. Leaves opposite, in

rather remote pairs, lanceolate, acuminate, the larger and older

ones broader and obtuse at the base ; all of them entire, three- to

five-nerved, dark green above, pale beneath; petioles scarcely

half an inch long. Flowers axillary, upon very short peduncles,

solitary, or two or three, or more, together, and in the latter

case fasciculate, whence the specific name. Bracteas generally

two, small, foliaceous. General aspect of the flower very much

that of Gentiana Pneumonanthe, but larger. Calye, the tubular

portion oval, or almost cylindrical, with five conspicuous, longi-

tudinal wings. Zimdé of five, subulate, erect lobes, nearly as long

as the tube. Corolla about an inch and three-quarters long,

infundibuliform, pale purple externally, with five broad, whitish

lines, within rich purplish-blue ; the limb of five, spreading, acu-

minated segments, having in the sinus a broad, obtuse, slightly

crenated tooth or lacinula. Stamens five, altogether included ;

filaments subulate, inserted below the middle of the tube of the

corolla ; anthers subsagittate. Ovary oblong, stipitate; the

stipes springing from the centre of a five-lobed dise ; styles two,

approximate, or apparently slightly combined for their whole

length, as long as the ovary. Stigmas two, long, terete, papil-

lose, spirally revolute. Capsule stipitate, elliptical, compressed,

mucronated.

_ Fig. 1. Corolla laid open. 2. Pistil and glandular dise :—magnified. 3. Cap-

sule :—xnat. size. ;

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Tas. 4839.

BROWNEA GRANDICEPS.

Cluster-flowered Brownea.

Nat. Ord. Leaumrinos&.—MoNADELPHIA DECANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx tubo elongato, persistente, limbi quinquepartiti decidui /a-

ciniis longis, duabus vy. quatuor per paria coherentibus. Corolle petala 5, summo

calycis tubo inserta, longissime unguiculata, subeequalia. Stamina 10-15, cum

petalis inserta, in tubum hine fissum coalita, omnia fertilia. Ovarium stipitatum, _

6-7-ovulatum. Stylus filiformis ; stigma acinaciformi-compressum. Semina ovata,

compressa, fibris fungosis obvoluta.—Arbuseula America tropice inermes, spe-

ciose ; ligno flavescente, duro, foliis paripinnatis, foliolis integerrimis, inflores-

centia ¢erminali, floribus racemosis v. plus minus dense spicato-capitatis, bracteatis,

coccineis v. albis, pedicellis apicem versum bibracteatis, bracteis in tubum infundi-

buliformem bilobum connatis. Endl. —

Brownega grandiceps. Jacq. Coll. v. 8. p- 287. ¢. 28. f. la. . t, 22,

H. B. K. Nov. Gen. Am.v.6. p. 313. De Cand. Prodr.v.2. p.477. Spreng.

Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 15. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1841. t. 30. Walp. Repert. v. 1.

p. 843. . 5. p. 565. Annales, v. 2. p. 447.

of richness of colour of the

Although very inferior in point ,

oy (Roured at our Tab. 3964), yet the

quantity of flowers collected

flowers to Brownea coccinea

into an almost globose head, nearly

eight inches in diameter, gives this infinitely the advantage over

that species. It produces these blossoms much less frequently,

and the only fresh sample we have ever seen is the fine one sent

over from the stoves.of the Glasnevin Botanic Garden, for the

purpose of being figured in the present work, by Mr. Moore, in

the autumn of 1853. Dr. Lindley mentions a peculiarity in

this shrub which we have not had the opportumity of observing.

“The brilliant head (of flowers) appeared on the side of the

main stem, among the leaves, which at that time presented a

singular phenomenon. Every evening they rose up and lifted

themselves from the blossoms to expose them to the dew, so

that each morning these beautiful objects were uncovered ; but

as day advanced, the leaves gradually drooped, and bent down

MARCH Ist, 1855.

over the flowers to guard them from the rays of the sun.”

Seven or eight species of this fine genus of plants are described,

all inhabiting the tropical regions of South America: the present

inhabits mountain-woods about Cumana, Cariepe, Caraccas, and

La Victoria, and bears the name, among the inhabitants, of

“ Rosa del Monte,” or “ Palo de Cruz.”

Descr. A small ¢ree, we understand, in its native country ;

branches stout and downy. Leaves large, a foot and more long,

drooping, alternate, abruptly pinnate; pinne upon very short

petiolules, and extending the whole length of the very downy

ferruginous petiole, alternate, oblong or lanceolate, penninerved,

entire, glabrous, obtuse at the base, much and sharply acumi-

nate, almost caudate at the apex, the sides unequal, the margins

_ wavy: lowest pinnules perfectly cordate, with a narrow subulate

acumen, nearly as long as the leaf. Mowers large, red, exceed-

ingly numerous, forming a dense globose thyrsus, or very large

pendent capitulum, eight inches across, which proceeds from the

very downy apex of a branch. Pedicels short, downy. Bracts at

the base of the pedicels, large, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, con-

cave, coloured, downy at the back. Bracteoles formed of two,

united by their margins, bifid at the apex, resembling an outer

calyx. Calyx funnel-shaped, tripartite, upper segment longer and

deeply bifid. Pe/als large, spathulate ; /amina obovate, waved ;

claws slender. Stamens arising from the tube of the calyx, as

long, or rather longer than the petals, monadelphous at the

base: anthers linear, versatile. Ovary stipitate, springing from

the tube of the calyx, linear-oblong, downy ; style filiform,

subulate, exceeding the petals and stamens in length; stagma

capitate.

Fig. 1. Flower, with its pair of united bracteoles. 2. Bract. 3. Tube of

the calyx and of the filaments, including the pistil:—more or less magnified.

Tas. 4840.

ABUTILON INSIGNE.

Handsome-flowered Abutilon.

Nat. Ord. Matvace®.—MonaApDELPHIA POLYANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Involucellum nullum. Calya 5-fidus, seepius cupuleeformis, laciniis

westivatione valvatis. Corolle petala 5, hypogyna, obovata, seepius inzequilatera, —

unguibus imo tubo stamineo adnato, eestivatione convolutiva. Tubus stamineus —

basi dilatata fornicata ovarium tegens, superne angustatus, columneeformis, apice —

in filamenta plurima filiformia divisus, rarius simul infra apicem antherifer. da-

there reniformes, sinu affixee, versatiles, rima semicirculari aperte, bivalves, se ito

manifesto. Ovarium sessile, quinque-multiloculare. Ovula in loculis 4—9, angul

centrali inserta, adscendentia et pendula. Styli loculorum numero, filiformes,

basi plus minus coaliti ; s¢igmata capitata. Capsula penta-polycocca, coccis hand

secedentibus, apice introrsum rima apertis. Semina in loculis pauca v. abortu

solitaria, reniformia v. subhippocrepica ; festa crustacea, emarginature sinuum-

bilicata. Hmbryo intra albumen paucum subcarnosum homotrope arcuatus ; co-

tyledonibus foliaceis, ‘petiolulatis, basi auriculatis, sepe plicato-involventibus.—

Herbm, suffrutices v. frutices, nonnulle arbores, in regionibus tropicis et subtropicis

totius orbis crescentes ; foliis alternis, petiolatis, cordatis, dentalis v. rarissimé lo-

batis, stipulis lateralibus geminis, pedunculis axillaribus, solitarits 0. pluribus,

uni-multifloris, infra apicem articulatis, interdum floribus spicatis v. racemosis,

rarissime corymbosis. Endl.

AsuTILon insigne ; fruticosum, ramis petiolis pedunculis calycibusque pubi stel-

lata ferruginea obsita, foliis sublonge petiolatis cordatis subangulatis gross

serratis reticulatis pubescentibus, stipulis parvis subulatis, racemis nutanti

bus paucifloris, calyee campanulato 5-fido, lobis ovatis acuminatis, petal

euneato-obovatis amplis albis pulcherrime venis rubris pictis inferne ap-

proximatis, laminis patentibus crispatis, ovariis globosis tomentosis. =

Axsurtion insigne. ‘“ Planchon, MSS. in Van Houtte, Fl. des Serres, 0. 6. p. 11.

#551. Walpers, Annal.v.2.p. 157.

The Royal Gardens of Kew are indebted to Messrs. Lowe, of

the Clapton Nursery, for the possession of this very desirable

stove shrub,—a native of New Granada, and introduced into

Europe by Mr. Linden. It has the advantage, too, of bearing

its lovely flowers when the plant is not more than one or two.

feet high, and these flowers continue some time in perfection, ap-—

pearing with us in January. The ground-colour of the large

MARCH Ist, 1855.

petals is white, but that is almost entirely obliterated by the rich

carmine veining or reticulation, both without and within; but

brightest on the upper side.

Descr. A small shrub, with rather large, alternate, long-petio-

lated, truly cordate, acuminated, sometimes angled, or slightly

lobed /eaves, coarsely serrated, reticulately veined, glabrous; the

principal nerves beneath, the slender petioles, peduncles, calyces,

and young dranches clothed with ferruginous stellated down.

Peduncles axillary, slender, dooping, about as long as the leaves,

solitary, bearmg an imperfect umbel or few-flowered cyme, and

accompanied by two small, ovate, acuminate leaves. Stipules

small, subulate. Pedicels jointed above the middle. Calyz large,

campanulate, five-lobed at the mouth; lobes ovate, acuminate.

Petals cuneato-obovate, large, the broad lamina spreading, white,

a and richly coloured with close, crimson reticulations. Staminal

tube as long as the petals: anthers numerous. Ovary globose,

woolly, about fifteen-celled. Style as long as the staminal tube,

dividing into fifteen stigmas.

Fig. 1. Ovary. 2. Transverse section of the same :—magnified.

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Tas. 4841.

BEGONIA Natatensis.

Natal Begonia.

Nat. Ord. Beconrace#.—Mone@cra PoLyaANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4172.)

: BrGon1a Natalensis; tuberosa glabra, caule succulento inferne erasso nodoso

ramoso, foliis ineequaliter semicordatis acuminatis lobatis hine grosse auri-

culatis serratis albo-maculatis, pedunculis axillaribus dichotome ramosis, ©

floribus nutantibus, masculis sepalis 2 rhombeo-orbicularibus, foemineis se-

palis 5 (nunc 4) rhombeo-ovatis, fructu 8-alato alis 2 majoribus subacute

angulatis unico breviore obtusangulo.

2 Above 170 species of Begonia are enumerated by Walpers.

The majority of these having been described from dried speci-

mens, too often very imperfect ones, it is hard to say whether

- this is among them or not. It certainly does not accord with

; any one of the very few that are natives of South Africa, to

vs which country our plant belongs. It was brought to us by

' Captain Garden, from Natal; and though possessing no bright

1 or lively colours, is a desirable inmate of the stove, or of a warm

greenhouse, from its being so abundant a flowerer, and from

these flowers being in perfection in the winter months, Novem-

ber and December.

Duscr. Root a large depresso-globose tuber, scarcely half

buried in the ground, and sending out branched fibres, true

roots, from almost regular distances of the circumference ; this

tuber is of a greyish-brown colour, quite smooth, and rather

gradually contracts itself into the thickened base of the stem,

which is knotted and branched, and the maz stem and branches

upwards gradually become more and more slender ; but the

whole is of a very succulent character, of a dirty yellowish-

green, tinged with copper-colour, jointed and nodose at the

joints; height from a foot to a foot and a half. Zeaves semicor-

date and acuminate, resembling the half of a cordate five-lobed

APRIL Ist, 1855.

leaf, the costa dividing it into two very unequal portions, and the

lower lobe forming a large appendage or ear to the leaf on one

side. The margin is also coarsely, almost lobato-, serrate ; the

colour a dull green, paler beneath, the upper side marked with

whitish spots, most apparent on the old leaves. Petio/e shorter

than the leaf, reddish. Peduncles axillary, solitary, about as long

as the petioles, dichotomously branched, each panicle or cyme

bearing both male and female flowers. Jale flowers consisting

of two orbicular or subrhomboid, spreading, yellowish-white

sepals, tinged with rose, and slightly veined ; stamens fasciculate,

ten or twelve. Female flowers of five (rarely four) spreading,

rhombeo-ovate sepa/s, of the same colour as the male. Ovary

and fruit with three vertical wings, two of them large, rather

acutely angled, and forming together a nearly equilateral tri-

angle; the third wing is shorter, rounded (or forming the seg-

ments of a circle in its outline), and slightly waved. Sfy/e short ;

stigmas very downy, much and spirally twisted.

Fig. 1. Fruit nearly mature :—magnified.

Tas. 4842.

ALBUCA? GarpeEnt.

Captain Garden’s Albuca.

Nat. Ord. ASPHODELEZ.—HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx corollaceus, 6-sepalus, regularis, persistens. Sepala ima basi

connata; nunc omnia, nunc nonnisi exteriora apice fornicato-excavata ; hee

multi(7-17)-nervia, plana, patentissima; interiora paullo breviora, sed latiora,

tenuiora, medio 5—7-nervia, concava, erecto-conniventia. Stamina 6, basi sepa-

lorum inserta iisque breviora; tria exteriora minora, interdum castrata. ila-

menta crasse filiformia ; tria interiora basi membranaceo-dilatata. Anthere bi-

loculares, introrse, lineari-oblonge, apice profunde emarginate, basi_ bifid,

dorso medio affixee. Ovarium liberum, sessile, triloculare ; ovwla in loculis cre-

berrima (circiter 50), biseriata?, horizontalia, anatropa, sessilia. Stylus erectus,

crassus, profunde 3-sulcatus (pyramidatus, Lindl. ; pyramidato-inversus, Juss.).

Stigmata tria, papillosa, nune globulosa, distincta, nune abbreviato-conica, pyra-

midato-conniventia (stigma trigonum, papilloso-hirtum, Endl.). Capsula perga-

menea, elliptica, triangularis, trilocularis, apice loculicido-trivalvis. Semina in

loculis creberrima, compresso-plana, lata (latiora quam longa), undique mar-

ginato-alata, nigra, nitidula; ¢esta tenuis, membranacea, albumini carnoso ad-

nata, margine alato-ampliata. Zmbryo axilis, cylindraceus, rectus, albumine vix

brevior ; radicula hilum attingens.—Herbe bulbose, scapigere, facie Ornithogali.

Racemi lawiflori. Flores longe pedicellati, cernui, virides, flavidi vel luted ; pedi-

cellis patentibus, bractea membranacea longa stipatis. Kth.

AtBuca? Gardeni ; acaulis bulbosa stolonifera glabra, bulbis squamosis, squamis

4-5 amplis latis laxis, foliis 3-5 lato-lanceolatis inferne attenuatis basi

dilatatis obsolete striatis, scapo simplici foliis breviore bracteato, racemo

ovato erecto plurifloro, pedicellis strictis basi bracteatis, sepalis (albis) ob-

longis patentibus usque ad basin liberis, filamentis subulatis omnibus an-

theriferis, antheris oblongis.

From Natal, South Africa, whence the roots were brought to

us early in 1854, by Captain Garden, to whom we owe the pos-

session of many curious plants and interesting Museum objects.

They flowered with us in the stove in October of the same year.

It is only provisionally that I place it in A/éuca. Its habit is

peculiar, but in many respects it approaches the Albuca phy-

sodes, Gawl. in Bot. Mag. t. 1046, and both will probably rank

in the same genus. The late Professor Kunth removed that

species (physodes) from Albuca, with which it has little affinity,

APRIL Ist, 1855.

and referred it, among “ species dubiz,” to his new genus Jdo-

thea, although the structure of the sepals (inferne in tubum

campanulatum) is quite at variance. Our materials will hardly

justify us in forming a new genus.

Duscr. The éu/és are stoloniferous, reminding one of the

pseudobulbs of many epiphytal Orchidaceous plants, thickened

or tuberous at the base, and coated with large, broad, leafy,

rather lax, brown scales, from within which the Zeaves, three to

five to each plant, arise ; they are almost a span long, broad,

lanceolate, quite glabrous, tapering below, there becoming di-

lated, sheathing at the very base. Scape shorter than the leaves,

— erect, bracteated, purple. Raceme erect, ovate, many-flowered.

Pedicels (as well as the rachis) pale green, straight, spreading,

about three-quarters of an inch long, bearing a dracteole half

their length at the base. /V/owers white, scentless, small. Se-

pals six, oblong, obtuse, spreading, quite free to the base, every

alternate one with a depression or cavity at the apex (as in so

many true Albucas). Stamens six, perfect, hypogynous, alter-

nate with the sepals; ji/aments naked, subulate ; anthers long,

oblong, yellow. Ovary subrotund, gradually tapering into a

three-furrowed style. Stigma obtuse.

Fig. 1, Flower and pedicel. 2. Pistil :—magnified.

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Tas. 4843.

SCIODACALYX Warszewiczil.

Warszewicz’s Sciodacalyz.

Nat. Ord. GESNERIACEX.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx tubo cum ovario connato, limbo horizontaliter patente,

leviter 5-lobo, Jobis wequalibus. Stamina corolle tubo inserta, 4 didynama, in-

clusa, cum rudimento quinta. Anthere 2-loculares. Corolla in calyce subrecta,

basi subobliqua, tubo fere recto, inflato, fauce constricta, limbo subzequali patente.

Ovarium calyci adnatum, annulo crenato cinctum, uniloculare, pluriovulatum.

Stylus simplex; stigma bifidum. Capsula unilocularis, plurisperma, bivalvis,

valvis medio placentiferis.—Herbee Americe tropice, stolonibus syuamoso-amenta-

ceis, perennes, caule erecto, foliis calycibusque villoso-hirsutis, foliis oppositis

petiolatis oblique ovatis v. cordato-ovatis, acuminatis, grosse crenatis, pedunculis

axillaribus, umbellam 3-plurifloram gerentibus.

ScropacaLyx Warszewiczii. Regel, Gartenflora, Jakrg. 1853, p. 258, é. 61.

GesneRIA Regeliana. Warsz. MSS.

oe genus Sciodacalyx, Reg., deriving its name from the

umbrella-like expansion of its calyx, is allied to Hepiella, Reg.,

and Brachyloma, Stanst. We are only acquainted with one spe-

cies of this fine genus, viz. S. W< arszewiczii, which the collector,

hose name it bears, discovered in the mountains about Santa

Marta, New Granada, and transmitted to the Botanic Garden at

Ziirich, where it was first brought to flower, and whence it was

diffused over the different gardens of England and the Conti-

nent. Its chief merits as an ornamental stove-plant consist in

flowering from July until almost the end of the winter, and its

-gay-coloured blossoms.

_ Descr. A perennial herb, three to four feet high, with catkin-

like stolons. Stem, petioles, leaves, and calyx villoso-hirsute.

Leaves opposite, with long petioles, oval-shaped or cordate, gene-

rally with an irregularly-sided base, crenate at the margin, and

acuminate at the apex. Flowers arranged in axillary umbels, three

to six. Calyx attached to the ovary, five-lobed ; lobes expanded

APRIL lst, 1855.

almost horizontally, like an umbrella. Corolla nearly straight,

almost oblique at the base, with a slightly inflected tube, and a

five-lobed limb, hirsute, scarlet, with the exception of the base

of the tube, which is yellow, and the lobes, which are either

bright yellow or yellowish-green, dotted with red or brown.

Stamens five, four of which are fertile, bearing bilocular anthers

connate with each other. Ovary hirsute, surrounded by a

glandular five-lobed ring. Stigma bilobed. Capsule unilocular,

many-seeded, two-valved.— Seemann.

Fig. 1. Pistil and hypogynous glands. 2. Ovary with ditto :—smagnified.

penonen tO

Brooks Im

ent

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Tas. 4844.

CYMBIDIUM GaicanTevm.

Gigantic Cymbidium.

Nat. Ord. Onco1pE#.—GYNANDRIA Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. Perianthium explanatum, petalis sepalisque subzequalibus liberis.

Labellum sessile, liberum, ecalcaratum, concavum, cum basi column nunc arti-

culatum, nunc leviter concavum vy. trilobum. <Anthera bilocularis. Pollinia 2,

sepius postice biloba, in glandulam subtriangularem subsessilia. Lindl.

CyMBIDIUM giganteum; foliis ensiformibus striatis acutis racemo cernuo multifloro

longioribus, bracteis minutis, sepalis oblongis petalisque lineari-lanceolatis

acutis, labelli trilobi lobis lateralibus parvis acutis basi pubescentibus inter-

medio multo majore ovato acuto undulato medio barbato lamellis arcuatis

apice connatis pilosis. Lindl,

CymBIpIuM giganteum. Wall. Cat. n. 7355 (non Willd.). Lindl. Gen. et Sp.

Orchid. p. 163. Sert. Orchid. t. 4. Past. Mag. of Bot. p. 241, cum Ie.

? CrmBrpIvM iridioides. Don, Prodr. p. 36. aes Uae

Native of Nepaul and Kamaon, where it was discovered by

Dr. Wallich, and by him introduced to our gardens. The figure

of this noble and fragrant species in the ‘Sertum Orchidaceum ’

above quoted, from a drawing by Dr. Wallich’s draughtsman, is

so unlike our plant in the colour and form of the flowers, that

we should have failed to have recognized it as the same, had it

not been for the figure in the ‘ Magazine of Botany,’ which seems

intermediate between the bright, spotted, and streaked flowers

of our plant and the very dull and unexpanded sepals and petals

of the Indian drawing; the foliage however is faithfully repre-

sented ; and certainly, though placed by Dr. Lindley in a section

of which the species should be destitute of bulb, our plant has

a very evident pseudobulb, clothed with the remarkable broad

and sheathing bases of the leaves. Flowers with us in the stove

in September and October.

- Drsor. Stemless. Roots thick, fleshy, terete. Pseudobulb large,

oblong, leafy. Zeaves two to two and a half feet long, distichous,

APRIL Ist, 1855.

ensiform, striated, rather acute, tapering below imto a narrow

channelled portion, on which the blade is articulated, and this

again becomes exceedingly dilated, striated, and sheathing around

the pseudobulb. Scape two to three feet long, radical, stout,

erect or declined from the weight of flowers, clothed below with

lax, sheathing, brown, membranaceous scales. owers four inches

in their spread, large, fragrant, distantly placed. Bracts very

small. Sepals and petals nearly equal, two, oblong-lanceolate ;

the petals and two lateral sepals spreading almost horizontally,

the upper or intermediate sepal bending down so as to forma

kind of hood over the column; their colour is yellowish-green,

externally faintly, internally strongly, streaked with blood-coloured

lines and dots. Jip as long as the petals, recurved, bright

yellow, spotted and streaked with blood-colour; side lobes in-

curved; middle lobe ovate, waved, ciliated; on the disc are two

ciliated lamellae, which unite at their apices. Co/wmn semi-terete,

streaked. Anther-case hemispherical. Pollen-masses two, sub-

triangular, with a hatchet-shaped caudicle.

Fig. 1. Pollen-masses :—magnified.

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Tas. 4845.

CHAM/EDOREA eExeGans (As).

Elegant Chamedorea (male).

Nat. Ord. Patmace®.—Dria@cira HEXANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4831.)

Cuammporea élegans ; caudice abbreviato stricto arcte annulato, vaginis brevi-

bus ovato-lanceolatis apice leviter auriculatis, petiolis superne suleatis subtus

rachique dorso fascia albida, rachi superne scabra, pinnis concinnis angusto-

lanceolatis utrinque acuminatis, spadicibus inter frondes laxis angulatis,

foemineis duplicato-ramosis, corollis foemineis tridentatis, baccis subglo-

bosis. Mart.

Cuamaxporza elegans. Mart. in Linnea, v. 5. p. 204. Paim. v. 3. p. 159. t.

R. fig. 3 (analysis of portions only). Kunth, Enum, Pl. v.38. p.171. Wendl. —

Index Palm. Suppl. p. 57. ot

Wendland, in his ‘ Enumeratio Systematica Chamzedorearum,’

has forty-two species of the genus; but it is no easy task to —

refer a given plant to its proper place among the species: many

are but imperfectly known ; of few are both the male and female

plants known (and the inflorescence differs materially in the two

sexes), and the difficulty is increased by the characters of the

more recently described species—we allude to Mr. Wendland’s

in particular—being so unreasonably long, that without knowing

which are really essential characters, it is impossible to derive

advantage from them. Happily in the present instance we have

to be guided by a character of a species of Von Martius, which,

as far as that of the male plant is concerned, seems to be iden-

tical with ours, which was received from Mr. Linden, without

being marked by any specific name or country. If we are right _

in referring it to C. elegans (and unfortunately the figures given

by Martius are of very little help to us), it is a native of Mexico,

and appears to be introduced into Europe by Messrs. Schiede

and Deppe. In general habit it much resembles C. gracilis,

APRIL Ist, 1855.

Willd. (Borassus pinnatifrons, Jacg. Hort. Schenbr. v. 2. p. 247

and 249); but there the spadices originate on the naked caudex,

much below the fronds, and are erect, both male and female ;

not drooping, as in our plant. C. elegans flowers in the winter

and spring months.

Descr. Maze: Onur living plant has a caudex between three

and four feet high, annulated with the scars of fallen leaves,

rooting from above the base, slender, erect, an inch and a half

in diameter, crowned with a tuft of six to eight eaves or fronds,

which are nearly three feet long, pinnated with about fourteen,

more or less broadly lanceolate, subfalcate, striated leaflets, the

uppermost or terminal pair more or less combined. Pefiole not

one-fourth the length of the blade, triquetrous, grooved above,

the lower portion forming a somewhat inflated sheath around

the stem. From the axils of two or three of the lower leaves a

spatha arises ; this consists of two or three long, imbricating,

tubular, sheathing scales, open at the extremities, and from this

the long panicle of flowers depends, almost as long as the leaves.

The dranches are slender, terete, flexuose, almost filiform, green,

studded with small flowers, but conspicuous from the rich orange-

colour of the corollas. Calyx scarcely immersed, yet situated in

a small depression, cup-shaped, trifid, white, the lobes round.

Petals three, combined at the. base, cymbiform, thick, erecto-

patent, bright orange. Stamens six, not longer than the petals.

Anther oblong. _Rudiment of the pistid oblong, tapering, with a

triangular jagged stigma.

Fig. 1. Portion of a panicle of male flowers :—wat. size. 2. Portion of the

rachis, with flowers. 3, Single flower magnified.

Tas. 4846.

BERBERIS Beater; var. planifolia.

Mr. Beale’s Chinese Berberry ; flat-leaved var.

Nat. Ord. BERBERIDEZ.—HEXxANDRIA MoNoGYNIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4308.)

BerBerts (Mahonia) Bealei ; foliis atro-virentibus subglaucis crasso-coriaceis ri-

gidissimis, foliolis 4—5-jugis ovatis sinuatis grosse parce (5-6) ineequaliter

spinoso-lobatis valde pungentibus infimis subrotundatis ad basin petioli

stipuleeformibus terminali petiolato, racemis fasciculatis, petalis apice bifidis..

a.; foliis basi magis minusve cuneatis, sinuum marginibus reflexis. Berberis

Bealei, Fort. in. Gard. Chron. 1850. p. 212. B. Japonica, Lindl. in FI.

Gard. v. 1. p. 11 (with woodcut of a portion of a very large leaf, f. 2).

Manonta Japonica. De Cand. Syst. Veget. 0. 2. p. 22? te .

- Inex Japonica. Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 77? Le. Jap. t. 22?

B. planifolia ; foliis subdeltoideis (basi transversim truncatis) crassissimis subim-

bricatis, petiolis purpureis, floribus minoribus. (Tab. Nostr. 4846.)

a ty

We are indebted to Messrs. Standish and Noble for two very

different-looking plants of Berberss, introduced by Mr. Fortune

to this country from China, from a district considerably to the

north of Shanghai; one marked 2. (Mahonia) Japonica and the

other marked B. Bealei.*. By Dr. Lindley, Z. c., the two names

are considered to belong to the same plant, “ Berberis Japonica,

Lindl. (Ilex Japonica, Z%wnb.), alias B. Bealei, Fort.’ The o

bearing the latter name resembles the plant so strangely refer

by Thunberg to Jez, and we propose to give an early figure of

it, under the name however of B. Bealei, since we cannot satisfy —

ourselves it is identical with Thunberg’s Japan species. The —

other kind we received from Messrs. Standish and Noble, the —

one here given, has points of difference which at first led me —

to consider it as distinct; but I think it safest to record it only

as a variety. Indeed we shall have occasion to show that 2B. —

Japonica may be one of the many forms of B. Nepalensis, to —

* Since the above was in type we have received a third hardy Chinese kind,

B. intermedia, Stand. and Noble, and a fourth most remarkable species, B. tri-

furca, Lindl, All are eminently beautiful plants, and we shall soon notice them

more particularly.

APRIL Ist, 1855.

which Mr. Don, in his Prodr. Fl. Nep., and Drs. Hooker and

Thomson, in their Fl. Indica, ined., have unhesitatingly referred

it, though probably in both cases without having seen any au-

thentic (Japanese or Chinese) specimens of Thunberg’s plant.

Our present object is however to notice the differences between

the plant now before us and what we shall consider B. Bealei

vera. It has much smaller and denser flowers,—twice the

number, at least, in the same length of raceme; the bracts, the

rachises, the petioles especially, and even the scales on the young

branches, are tinged with red or dark purple; the leaves are

shorter and more compact, the leaflets thicker, almost imbri-

cated, and more deltoid in form,—that is, having the base trun-

cated and almost lapping over the base of the opposite one; and

what is still more remarkable, singularly plane on the surface,

the margins between the spines by no means reflexed as in true

Bealei (and as in the leaf of the Holly). It proves perfectly hardy,

and has stood quite unharmed through our late severe winters.

Both are in blossom with us in March, in a cool house.

Dzscr. Our plant is at present scarcely a foot high. The

young branches are moderately stout, pale glaucous-green, scaly,

with purplish-brown, lanceolate, appressed scales. Leaves spread-

_ ing, the largest of our plant a foot long,* with usually four, never

- more than five, pairs of opposite Jeafiets, including the lowest

pair, which are more distant from the rest, and so close to the

stem as to have quite the appearance of large stipules: the ter-

minal Jeaflet_is petiolate and cordato-ovate, the rest are deltoid-

_ ovate, spreading horizontally, thick, coriaceous, the base trun-

cate, its whole breadth closely applied to, and even lapping over,

_ the rachis, quite plane on the surface, sinuato-spinose, the spines

few (five to six), strong and pungent, the lowest pair are the

most deltoid, and the terminal leaflet is almost exactly ovate,

_ subcordate at the base, and has the most spines (seven to nine) :

_ the colour is very dark, opaque, green above, and slightly glau-

cous, paler and not at all glaucous beneath: the rachis is dark

purple, nodose at the setting on of the leaflets. Racemes in a

terminal fascicle, springing from an involucre of several, herba-

ceous, broad, ovate, green scales, tipped with purple. Rachis

terete, tinged with purple: the lower part destitute of flowers,

but scaly, with spreading bracts, the same which are at the base

oe Of the short pedicels, herbaceous, red-purple. Flowers small,

secund, drooping, crowded. Corolla yellow : petals bifid at the

apex.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Petal and stamen. 3. Pistil :—maynified.

* These leaves vary remarkably in size. Messrs. Standish and Noble have

_ sent us a tracing of a terminal leaflet which measures eight inches long and

rather more than six broad!

Vine ent

iiecainiichde menial

Tas. 4847.

GARCINIA Maneostana.

Mangosteen, or Mangostan.

Nat. Ord. GuTrirFER&.~—DopECANDRIA MoNnoGynia.

Gen. Char. Flores monoici, vel divisi. Calyx persistens, ebracteolatus, tetra-

phyllus, foliolis subzequalibus, imbricatis. Corolle petala 4, hypogyna, calycis

foliola alterna, eestivatione imbricato-convoluta.—Masc. Stamina plurima, recep-

taculo carnoso quadrangulari inserta, libera vel ima basi coalita; filamenta fili-

formia, brevia; anthere introrse, biloculares, erecte, loculis longitudinaliter de-

hiscentibus. Ovarii rudimentum.—Fem. Stamina sterilia 8-80 ; filamenta dis-

tincta, vel monadelpha, aut tetradelpha, fasciculis cum petalis alternantibus, glan-

dulis nullis interjectis. Ovarium liberum, 4—10-loculare. Ovu/a in loculis soli-

taria, e basi erecta, anatropa. Stylus terminalis, brevis; stigma late peltatum,

sublobatum. Drupa carnosa, balsamiflua, stylo superata, putamine chartaceo 4—

10-loculari. Semina in loculis solitaria, erecta, pulpa carnosa involuta; testa

coriacea. Embryo exalbuminosus, orthotropus ; cotyledonibus crassis, carnosis,

conferruminatis ; radieula brevissima, infera.—Arbores Indice, foliis oppositis,

petiolatis, coriaceis, integerrimis, nitidis, stipulis nullis, floribus terminalibus vel

axillaribus. Endl. ; :

Garctnta Mangostana ; foliis elliptico-oblongis acuminatis coriaceis, floribus

terminalibus solitariis “masculis fasciculatis,” bacca pomiformi globosa

levissima stigmate 5-8-radiato coronata.

Garcinta Mangostana. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 615. Willd. Sp. Pi. v. 2. p. 838.

Roxb. Fl. Ind. v. 2. p. 618. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 448. Aiton, Hort.

Kew. ed. 2. v. 3.p.143. Marsd. Sum. Atl. t. 3.

Mancostana Garcinia. Gert. Pruct. 0.2. t:105.

Mancostana. Rumph. Herb. Amb. 0.1. p. 43.

That the Art, or rather, as it may assuredly now be called,

the Science of Horticulture, is brought to greater perfection in

England than anywhere else, is a fact, we presume, generally

admitted ; and if we were required to point out instances of the

greatest triumphs in this line, we would, at this moment, direct

attention to that most striking of all trees, for health and beauty,

the Camellia reticulata, at Bank Grove, Kingston, Surrey, the

seat of Byam Martin, Esq.; and the fruit-bearing Mangosteen,

at Syon, the subject of our present plate. It is but a few days

MAY Ist, 1855.

ago that we were privileged to see the former (Camelia), from

which upwards of 4500 flower-buds had been removed, lest the

tree should be too much weakened, while more than that num-

ber were left to expand, affording a succession of blossoms, from

six to eight inches each in diameter, so close set upon the

branches that they often touched each other, yet allowing ample

view of the handsome reticulated foliage (characteristic of the

species), and continuing some weeks in an almost equal state of

perfection, to the gratification of imumerable visitors, who have

been generously permitted to inspect it. The next day word

was brought to us from Syon, that the noble Mangosteen plant

there (of which we already possessed drawings of the flowering

specimens) was bearing ripe and ripening fruit. Our drawing

represents both states. It is well known that His Grace the late

Duke of Northumberland encouraged the cultivation of tropical

fruits, built stoves especially for ‘hem, and was eminently success-

ful—witness the ripening of the Chocolate, the Nutmeg, Cloves,

Litchis, Vanilla, and other rarities. Happily for Horticulture,

the present Duke has trodden in his noble brother's steps, and

under the skilful management of Mr. Ivison it is, that the J/an-

gosteen has borne flowers* and ripened its fruit. In appearance,

the fruit is gwite perfect; but it remains yet to be ascertained

what its flavour may prove.t ‘The tree is a native of the Mo-

lucca Islands, but its cultivation has extended to the Malay

Archipelago; beyond which, it would appear, that all attempts

to grow the tree well, and mature the fruit, have been hitherto

unsuccessful; and it is an acknowledged fact that only those

persons who have visited the Eastern Archipelago have been

able to indulge in this highly prized fruit. In Bengal, espe-

cially in the noble Botanic Garden there, we naturally look for

the products of the adjacent islands: but Dr. Roxburgh, in his

‘Flora Indica,’ says, “From the earliest accounts we have of

this charming tree and its delicious fruit, we learn that all the

innumerable attempts hitherto made to familiarize it to other

countries (than the Malay Peninsula, and islands to the east-

ward of the Bay of Bengal) have uniformly proved unsuccessful.

For these thirty-five years past I have laboured in vain to make

it grow and be fruitful on the continent of India. The plant has

* We should not do justice to the Leigh Park Gardens, and the skill and

abilities of Mr. Scott, the intelligent gardener of Sir George Staunton, did we

not say that he has succeeded in flowering the Mangosteen at the same time

(during the past winter), but the fruit failed. ‘

+ While this sheet was in the press we were honoured by being invited to

partake of a ripened fruit by His Grace the Duke of Northumberland. The

fruit had xo seed. The edible part is the pulp of the cells, and these cells sepa-

rate easily from each other, like the cells or lobes of an orange. ‘The flavour was

delicious, and compared by some who partook of it to that between a first-rate

peach and of a good grape. ’

uniformly become sickly when removed to the north or west of

the Bay of Bengal, and rarely rises beyond the height of two or

three feet before it perishes.”

Rumphius, writing on this tree, says :—“ Ejus fructus ex tes-

timoniis omnium Indorum, apud quos reperitur, optimus ac salu-

berrimus habetur omnium reliquorum fructuum.” And all re-

cent travellers bear the same testimony to its excellence. We

will only give that of Dr. Abel, when speaking of the fruits of

Batavia :—“ First, im beauty and flavour, was the celebrated

Mangostan. his, which has been so often eulogized by trayel-

lers, certainly merits much of the praise that has been lavished

upon it. It is of a spherical form, of the size of a small orange ;

is, when young, of a reddish-green colour; when ripe of a red-

dish-brown; and when old of a chestnut-brown colour. Its

succulent rind is nearly the fourth of an inch in thickness. It

contains a very powerful astringent juice, and in wet weather

exudes a yellow gum, which is a variety of gamboge. On re-

moving the rind, its esculent substance appears in the form of a

juicy pulp, having the whiteness and solubility of snow, and a

refreshing, delicate, delicious flavour. ‘To define it by more pre-

cise language, is very difficult. We were all anxious to carry

away with us some precise expression of its qualities ; but after

satisfying ourselves that it partook of the compound taste of the

pine-apple and peach, we were obliged to confess that it had

many other equally good, but utterly inexpressible, flavours.

From its perfect wholesomeness, it may be eaten In any quan-

tity; and as it possesses no luscious qualities, it does not soon

cloy the palate.” —It is not a little singular that a plant, nearly

allied to the Gamboge, should yet yield so wholesome a fruit.

The rind is astringent, and employed in cases of dysentery, and

the bark of the wood is used as a dye.

Dzscr. In our stoves we are not aware that the J/angosteen

plant has attained a greater height than ten or twelve feet. In the

Malay Islands it is said to be twenty feet. Dr. Roxburgh speaks

of it as a ¢ree of a “large size, with a straight trunk and nume-

rous spreading opposite branches and branchlets, forming an

elegant conical head.” Young dranches terete, green, abounding

in yellow juice. Leaves opposite, six to eight inches long, thick

and coriaceous, glossy, elliptical-oblong, acuminate, penniveined,

the veins close and parallel, almost horizontal. Pe/iole short,

thick, sometimes transversely wrinkled. Mowers, in the plant

under our examination, solitary, terminal, on a short stalk, (Rox-

burgh says the perfect flowers are solitary, those which have

stamens only, fascicled,) bearing imperfect ? stamens and pistil.

Calye of four large, imbricated, thick, pale green, suborbicular

sepals. Corolla dirtyish red colour, pale on the underside, of four

spreading, suborbicular petals, longer than the calyx. Stamens

twelve to fourteen, small, and apparently weak and imperfect, yet

polliniferous. i/aments short, much shorter than the pistil,

slender, all arismg from a narrow, white, annular ring. Anther

subglobose, two-celled ; ce//s opposite, white. Ovary large, glo-

bose, six-celled. Stigma very large, almost as large as the ovary,

six- to eight-rayed, rays obtuse, coherent with the top of the

ovary. Fruit a large, globose, succulent Jerry, subtended by

the persistent calyx, and crowned with the persistent stigma,

deep purple-brown, more or less tinged with yellow or dull

orange, and exuding yellow drops of juice, five- to eight-celled,

each cell one-seeded.

‘Fig. 1. Flower-bud. 2. Back view of a flower. 3. Stamens and pistil. 4.

Stamens. 5. Transverse section of ovary:—all more or less magnified. 6.

Fruit :—natural size. 1. Transverse section of ditto (from Geertner) :—natural

size.

>is

Tas. 4848.

EUPOMATIA taurina.

Laurel-like Eupomatia.

Nat. Ord. ANONACE#.—POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Perigonium tubo turbinato, cum ovario connato, limbo supero,

juxta basin operculo semielliptico caduco transversim dehiscens, Stamina plu- |

rima, margini persistenti limbi perigonialis multiseriatim inserta, basibus con-

nata, exteriora fertilia, patula vel reflexa, filamentis e basi lata subulatis, antheris

bilocularibus, loculis linearibus adnatis connectivo in mucronem producto supe-

ratis, longitudinaliter dehiscentibus, interiora sterilia, petaloidea, sensim minora,

arcte imbricatim conniventia. Ovarium inferum, multiloculare, loculis sparsis,

ad angulum centralem multiovulatis. Stigma sessile, planiusculum, areolis sub-

rotundis loculorum numero notatum. Bacca turbinato-obovata, limbi perigo-

nialis margine angusto coronata, apice truncato areolata, multilocularis. Semina

in loculis solitaria vel gemina, angulata, impresso-punctata ; wmbilico basilari,

rhaphe chordeeformi, ¢esta membranacea, endopleura tenuissima. Albumen car-

nosum, teste processubus lobatum, ejusdem pro tione secundum rhaphem

semibipartitum. 2mébryo in basi albuminis prope umbilicum minutus ; cofy/edo-

nibus linearibus, foliaceis; radicula teretii—Frutex Nove-Hollandie Orientalis

extra-tropice, erectus, ramosus ; trunco gracili, ramis teretibus, subporrectis ; foliis

alternis, bifariis, petiolatis, exstipulatis, impunctatis, coriaceis, utringue nitidis,

integerrimis ; pedunculis azillaribus, unifloris, folio brevioribus, ramuliformibus,

foliis alternis, nanis bracteatis. Endl. (ex Br.).

Evromatta Jaurina.

Evpomatta laurina. Br. Bot. of Terra Austr. p. 65, Atlas, t. 2.

This remarkable Australian plant, which the learned author

of the genus says, “forms an unexpected addition to Azonacea,

of which it will constitute a distinct section, remarkable in the

manifestly perigynous insertion of its stamina’ and the cohesion

of the tube of its calyx with the ovarium,” has been hitherto

described by no botanist but Mr. Brown, who gives for its loca-

lities woods and thickets in the colony of Port Jackson, especially

in the mountainous districts, and on the banks of the principal

rivers ; flowering in December and January. Yet, rich as our

Herbarium is in Australian plants, we never had the good fortune

to procure a specimen; and great as our botanical intercourse

has been with Australia, our garden has never possessed the

MAY ist, 1855.

plant,* nor had we ever seen a specimen, till the Messrs. Hen-

derson, of Pine Apple Place, were so good as to send us, in

March of the present year, a plant, from which our present

figure is taken. Through what channel the plant came into

Messrs. Henderson’s possession, they are not aware. It was

neglected, from having produced no flowers, for a long time, and

the blossoming brought it to immediate notice; for these blos-

soms are exceedingly curious in structure, and of great botanical

interest. “A singular part of the structure of Hupomatia,” Mr.

Brown goes on to state, “consists in its internal barren, petal-

like stamens, which, from their number and disposition, com-

pletely cut off all communication between the anthere and stig-

mata. ‘This communication appears to be restored by certain

minute insects eating the petal-like filaments, while the antheri-

ferous stamina, which are either expanded or reflected, and ap-

pear to be even slightly irritable, remain untouched.”’

There are some differences between our plant and the figures

made by Mr. Bauer and description of Mr. Brown, but not suffi-

cient to justify us in forming of it a distinct species. Most of

Mr. Brown’s description is included in Endlicher’s Gen. Char.

above given.

Drscr. The plants we have seen from Mr. Henderson are

young, and at present not more than a foot high, shrubby,

branched. Leaves sempervirent, broad-lanceolate, acuminate,

somewhat cuneate at the base ; petiole very short. Mowers soli-

tary, terminal on short branches. We have not seen the bud.

with its curious deciduous hemispherical operculum, which con-

stitutes, Mr. Brown observes, the only floral covering. The

jiower then, as seen in our figure, consists of a turbinate green

receptacle, on the thickened edge of which the numerous stamens

are arranged in many series, of which the outer are antherife-

rous, consisting of a broad subulate ji/ament, with a linear ce//

on each margin, opening longitudinally : all the inner stamens

are abortive, large, petaloid, obovate, yellow, stained with orange

or blood-colour at the base, especially the inner ones, and have

exactly the appearance of a many-petaled corolla, of which the

outer ones spread so as to cover and conceal the perfect stamens,

while the inner ones are connivent, and almost conceal the ova-

ries. The outer of these petaloid stamens have the disc beset

with conspicuous, stipitate, globose glands, and the margin with

stellated hairs, while the rest have, both on the disc and on the

margin, the stipitate glands. (In Mr. Brown’s plant the peta-

loid abortive stamens are small and all connnivent, much shorter

* A shrub indeed, called by this name, and sent as such by Allan Cunning-

ham, more than thirty years ago, to Kew Gardens, proves to be something quite

different. The leaves have the fragrant smell of some Laurineous plant, but the

plant has never produced blossoms.

than the spreading fertile stamens, and destitute of the remark-

able glands and stellated hairs.) The flattened disc of the re-

ceptacle bears on its surface, what appears at first sight a many-

celled depressed ovary, and so our figures make them appear ;

but a careful dissection will show it to be composed of a number

of ovaries, all on the same plane, and incorporated into a mass,

each terminated by its slightly elevated but sessile penicillate

or tufted stigma, one-celled, the cell contaming four or five hori-

zontal ovaries attached to one side of the cell. The fruit is

unknown to me, and I refer to Mr. Brown’s figure and descrip-

tion for it.

Fig. 1. Vertical section of a flower, from which the operculum had fallen. 2.

Perfect stamen. 3. Outer abortive petaloid stamen. 4. Inner ditto. 5. Re-

ceptacle from which the stamens (fertile and barren) are removed, and showing

the disc bearing the united pistils. 6. Section of two of the coadunate ovaries ;

but there should have been in this more magnified figure, a faint vertical line

distinguishing the ovaries, and a transverse line below, as the separation from

the receptacle :—all more or less magnified.

4849

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Tas. 4849.

TRADESCANTIA Martenstana.

Martens’ Spiderwort.

Nat. Ord. ComMELYNEM.—HEXANDRIA MOoNOGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Flores regulares. Sepaia 6, libera, patentia; tria exteriora navi-

cularia, persistentia; tria interiora majora, petaloidea, breviter unguiculata, mar-

cescendo persistentia. Semina 6, subhypogna, omnia fertilia. Filamenta \ibera,

plerumque barbata. Anthere conformes, loculis reniformibus, connectivo varia

forma distinctis, interdum tres sepalis exterioribus opposite robustiores, loculis

replicatis, extrorsee, filamentisque brevioribus sustentee. Ovarium sessile, trilo-

culare; ovula in loculis 2, superposita. Stylus 1. Stigma simplex, obtusum,

infundibulare vel peltato-ampliatum. Capsula trilocularis, trivalvis ; valvis medio

septiferis. Semina bina, superposita, angulata.—Herbe Americane, erect@ vel

diffuse, sepe repentes. Folia indivisa. Vagine integre. Pedunculi azillares et

terminales, solitarii, gemini vel plures, apice umbellato-pauci-multiflori, sepe brevis-

simi, subnulli folioque duplici involucrati. Kunth.

TRaDEScANTIA Martensiana ; pubescenti-glandulosa, caule procumbente geni-

culato radicante apice nudo, foliis oblongo-ovatis acuminatis sessilibus va-

ginatis, vaginis villosis, panicula terminali elongata effusa ditrichotoma,

pedunculis fasciculatis umbelliferis ex axilla bractez scariose vaginantis,

pedicellis calycibusque pubescenti-glandulosis, floribus triandris, petalis albis,

filamentis glabris, antheris oblongis, stylo perbrevi, stigmate trilobo lobis

globosis hirsutis.

TRADESCANTIA Martensiana. Kth. Enum. Pl. v. 4. p. 697; Commelina multi-

flora, Mart. et Galeot. En. Synops. Pl. Mex, p. 3.

It is not a little remarkable that a plant of Mexico, possessing

so little beauty as the present, should come to us vid the East

Indies: but certain it is that the Royal Gardens of Kew received

the present Zradescantia from Mr. Manley, of Calcutta : and no

sooner did our late lamented friend Dr. Wallich see it growing

in our stove, than he assured us it was a plant with which he

was familiar at the Calcutta Botanic Garden, where it was con-

sidered an exotic, and it was endeared to him in consequence of ©

the powerful smell of violets emitted by the flowers. Our Her-

barium shows the plant to be a native of Mexico (Xalapa, Linden,

and Martens and Galeotti), and Guatemala (Mr. Skinner), and

the 7 Martensiana, Kth. 1. c. Messrs. Martens and Galeotti

MAY Ist, 1855.

say of it, “Flores odorem Viole odorate spirant ;’ and Mr.

Skinner observes upon his specimens, “sweeter than violets.”

On this account it is worthy of cultivation in every stove, and it

flourishes in damp earth among Zycopodia, and in situations

suited to the growth of tropical Ferns.

Descr. Whole plant more or less glandulose-pubescent.

Stems branched from below, terete, striated, one foot to one and

a half foot long, decumbent, the lower part closely, the upper

more distinctly, clothed with the sheathing basis of the alternate

leaves: these latter are sessile, oblongo-ovate, acuminate, striated,

the base obtuse, almost cordate, suddenly contracted into the

very hairy, striated, cylindrical, submembranaceous sheath, which

surrounds the stem. ‘The stem becomes more slender upwards

(with the leaves gradually smaller), and passes into the terminal

panicle, a span or more long: the dranches di-trichotomous, slen-

der, the ultimate ones bearing an umbel of small, white, but ex-

cessively fragrant, flowers, having exactly the odour of sweet

violets. Bracteas ovato-lanceolate, the lower ones sheathing at

the base. Calyx of three, green, glanduloso-pilose spreading se-

pals. Corolla of three, ovate, white, spreading, crenulate, obtuse

petals. Stamens three (only), alternating with the petals; /i/a-

ments naked ; anthers oblong, subsagittate. Ovary oblong, gla-

brous. Style very short. Stigma of three, rather large, peni-

cillate lobes.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Transverse section of ovary :—magnified.

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Tas. 4850.

STREPTOCARPUS poLyANTHUS.

Many-flowered Streptocarpus.

Nat. Ord. CyrTANDRACE®.—DIANDRIA MonoeGyNIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus, persistens, eequalis. Corolla tubuloso-infundibu-

liformis, tubo calyeem duplo vel multoties superante, fauce ventricosa, limbo ob-

liquo 5-lobo subaequali. Stamina 5, anteriora 2 fertilia, antheris glabris connatis,

loculis divaricatis, superiora 3 sterilia, tubo omnino adnata, apice tuberculiformia.

Ovarium teres, elongatum, rectum, 1-loculare, fere 4-loculare, placentis 2 didymis

lamellis conniventibus dissepimentum spurium formantibus utrinque revolutis

margine ovuliferis. Stylus linearis. Stigma bilabiatum, lobis reniformibus infe-

riore vix majore. Capsula siliqueeformis, teres, apice depressa, spiraliter torta,

loculicide dehiscens, ovarii structure: conformis, Semina plurima, minuta, ob-

longa.—Herbee Austro-Africane, acaules, cespitose vel caulescentes. Folia op-

posita, Scapi plurimi, 1- (2- vel pluri-\flori, juniores circinatim involuti. Corolle

pallide ceruleo-purpurascentes, intus lineis purpureis notate. De Cand.

Srreprocareus polyanthus ; foliis omnibus yadicalibus humifusis amplis cor-

dato-oblongis crenatis rugosis pubescentibus, scapo elongato bifido ramis

paniculatis plurifloris, corollis hypocrateriformibus, tubo curvato, limbo

valde obliquo profunde 5-lobo, lobis cuneatis dentatis.

Among the roots of some living Ferns, kindly brought to us

from Natal by Captain Garden, there appeared, in the summer

of 1853, seedlings of a plant, whose leaves, few in number and

pressed close to the soil, gradually developed themselves, till the

larger ones, in the following season (December), became a foot

long. From between the sinuses of these leaves and directly

from the root there emerged one to three scapes, attaining al-

together a foot in height, bearing good-sized panicles of pale-

blue flowers, which proved to be those of an undescribed, if not

wholly unknown, species, of the curious genus Sfreptocarpus,

such as we have here represented; but it was quite impossible

to include the entire foliage in an octavo page. A dried speci-

men of the same plant, and from the same country, We Possess.

in our Herbarium, from our friend Mr. Sanderson ; and it is,

MAY Ist, 1855.

all probability, the “‘ Didymocarpus ?” thus mentioned in Krauss’

‘Natal Flora,’ p. 122, “ e summis montibus inter Mauritzburg et

Natalbay, alt. 2000-3000.” It is as a species widely different

from the only hitherto described South African species, S. Revit ;

and equally, or more so, from the Madagascar species of Brown

and De Candolle, all of which are caulescent, with axillary in-

florescence.

Drscr. Leaves few, about two pair lying close to the ground,

and, as it were, pressed down upon the soil: these pairs are ex-

tremely unequal in size; one is nearly a foot long in our living

plant, the opposite one scarcely two inches; both are alike in

shape, cordato-oblong, rugose, downy, reticulately veined, the

margin somewhat undulated and closely crenated: beneath, the

veins are prominent, and the surface more downy. From one

to three scapes arise from the sinus of the large leaf, a foot and

more high, bearing a panicle, often bifid in the primary rami-

fication, and many short divaricating subfasciculated pedicels,

rarely bracteated, downy. Calyx hairy, with a short ovate tube,

and five erect linear teeth or lobes to the limb, of which one is

nearly twice the length of the rest. Corolla an inch and a half

long, and as broad in the limb, delicate pale-blue, veined. Zube

much curved ; Zimb very oblique, of five, spreading, reticulated,

cuneated, toothed /obes. Stamens inclined : Jertile ones two, in-

serted near the middle of the tube: sferi/e ‘ones near the base.

Filaments hairy. Ovary cylindrical, hairy, with a short cylin-«

drical style and conical stigma.

Fig. 1. Stamens. 2. Calyx and young fruit :—magnified.

Vincent Brooks Top.

Tas. 4851.

THYRSACANTHUS ScuomBurGkKIANUs.

Schomburgk’s Thyrsacanthus.

Nat. Ord. ACANTHACEZ.—D1anpRIA Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4378.)

THYRSACANTHUS rutilans; fruticosa, ramis subtetragonis, foliis subsessilibus

lato-lanceolatis acuminatis inferne attenuatis pilosulis margine subintegerri-

mis, racemis axillaribus terminulibusque laxis longis pendulis plurifloris,

bracteis floralibus subulatis, pedicellis brevibus, floribus oppositis, calycibus

5-partitis pilosis laciniis subeequalibus subulatis, corolle infundibuliformi-

tubulosze coccinez limbo parvo 5-lobo lobis subzequalibus erecto-patentibus,

staminibus inclusis sterilibus brevibus capitatis.

Tuyrsacantuus Schomburgkianus. Nees in Benth. Pl. Schomb. Lond. Journ. of

Bot. 1845, p. 636. ”. 71 e¢ 147, et in Herb. Nostr. De Cand. Prodr. v. 11.

p. 325.

Tuyrsacantuus rutilans. Planchon and Linden (coloured figure circulated).

Paxton’s Fl. Gard. v. 3. p. 73 (with woodcut). *

One of the most striking plants exhibited by the Horticultural

Society during their interesting winter meetings in Regent-street

(1854—5) was undoubtedly that of which the present is a figure

of a small specimen. The shrub is a native of South America,

and would appear to have a very extended range. Its discovery

is due to C. 8. Parker, Esq., in British Guiana, where Sir Robert

Schomburgk afterwards detected it; and it has lately been

found by Mr. Schlim in New Granada, near Ocafia, at an eleva-

tion of 4000 feet above the level of the sea, and has been dis-

persed by the Belgian Gardens. It seems to flower in the stove

nearly all the year round. Dr. Lindley remarks of it, when al-

luding to the winter plants flowering in the Horticultural So-

ciety’s Garden (Chron. March 3, 1855): “ One of the most or-

namental of these is Thyrsacanthus rutilans, a stove-plant, as yet

scarcely known; but which should be in every collection, as it

really is one of the handsomest things that has been introduced

MAY Ist, 1855.

for years. It produces great quantities of brilliant, crimson, tu-

bular flowers, attached near the ends of long, branched, droop-

ing flower-stems, which, when tied out a little, so as to fully ex-

pose the blossoms to view, render the plant very effective. ‘The

flowers also keep a long time in perfection, a desirable property

at all times, and especially at this season of the year.” This is

no exaggerated statement, as the public had an opportunity of

witnessing by the noble plants exhibited at the Society’s rooms

the following Tuesday, when they attracted the attention of

every visitor.

Descr. Our plants are two to three feet high, branched, the

branches subterete, glabrous, as is almost every part of the plant,

and twiggy. eaves a good deal confined to the young and ten-

der shoots, nearly sessile, broadly lanceolate, acuminate, penni-

nerved. acemes axillary and terminal, one to two feet and

more long; their dranches few, slender, and gracefully drooping,

below bracteated with subulate, opposite drac¢s, the rest bearing

good-sized flowers in opposite pairs, drooping. Pedicels short.

Calyz slightly hairy, deeply cut into five, subulate, erecto-patent

lobes. Corollas nearly two inches long, rich crimson, tubuloso-

clavate ; the Zimd small, of five, erecto-patent, nearly equal, ob-

tuse teeth. Sfamens included, two perfect, inserted a little below

the middle of the tube. Anthers oblong; two abortive, small,

capitate at the apex. Ovary oblong, seated on a conspicuous

gland, Style a little exserted. Stigma minute, bifid.

Fig. 1. Calyx and ovary. 2.. Pistil :—magnified.

Tas. 4852.

BERBERIS Beratet.

Mr. Beale’s Chinese Berberry.

Nat. Ord. BERBERIDEZ.—HEXANDRIA MonoGyYNIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4308.)

Berserts (Mahonia) Bealei ; foliis crasso-coriaceis rigidissimis, foliolis 4-5 -jugis

ovatis sinuatis parce (5-6) spinoso-dentatis valde pungentibus infimis sub-

rotundatis ad basin petioli stipuleformibus terminali petiolato, racemis fas-

ciculatis, petalis apice bifidis. -

BerBeris Bealei. Fort. in Gard. Chron. 1850, p. 212. Hook. Bot. Mag. Tab.

4845. Var. planifolia.

BERBERIS Japonica. Lind. in Fl. Gard. v. 1. p. 11, with woodcut.

Manonta Japonica? De Cand. :

[Lex Japonica. Thunb. Jap. p. 79. Ic. t. 32.

One remarkable state of this plant, as we believe it to be, has

been figured by us at our Tab. 4846, under the name of B.

Bealei, planifolia. Fortune discovered the one now figured, as

related in the ‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle,’ above quoted, in China,

about 150 miles north of China, in the distriet of Hwuy-Chow.

“The shrub was about eight fect high, much branched, and far

surpassing in beauty all the known species of Mahonia.” “ Sir

William Hooker,” he continues, “informs me that this may be

the plant which Thunberg calls Zea Japonica, figured and de-

scribed by Thunberg” (which Mr. Brown had long ago properly

referred to Berderis), and I think so still, and Dr. Lindley has

expressed the same opinion very confidently ; while, on the other

hand, Mr. Don, in his ‘ Flora of Nepaul,’ and Drs. Hooker and

Thomson, in their printed, but yet unpublished, ‘ Flora Indica,

have unhesitatingly, without having seen authentic specimens,

referred Thunberg’s plant to B. Nepalensis, Wall.; a species

with very long leaves, bearing numerous pairs of leaflets, of a

narrower form, more membranaceous texture (I am comparing

JUNE lst, 1855. ae ‘

our Chinese plant, for Thunberg’s figure is very unsatisfactory),

narrower and less pungent leaves, strongly veined. On referring

to Mr. Bentham’s Herbarium however, we find a Japan speci-

men (leaf only), gathered by Siebold in Japan, and this is clearly

identical with B. Nepalensis/ and we certainly do find in some

of our Jndian specimens, bere and there, leaves which exhibit

the varied forms of leaflets, the same rigid coriaceous texture, —

and very pungent spines seen in all our states of J. Bealev.

There is no reason whatever for retaining the name of Japonica,

in this instance so long buried and lost as it were in the genus

Ilex; and, though a further acquaintance with the Japan and

Chinese Berberries may show our Bealei to be a distinct species,

the probability is that it will be found to merge into the well-

known B. Nepalensis. I may here observe, too, that Messrs.

Standish and Noble have sent me, from their Bagshot Nursery,

another sort of Berberis from China, akin to the present, having

longer leaves, concave on their upper surface, and more ap-

proaching B. Vepyalensis : im no way, I think, really distinct from

&. Bealei,—all highly ornamental, and, horticulturally speaking,

different from each other. But, handsome as these are, they fall

far short in beauty of Dr. Lindley’s B. ¢rifurca, Lindl. in Pax-

ton’s Fl. Garden, p. 57, n. 525, where the woodcut of a portion

of the leaf will give a better idea of the plant than any descrip-

tion can do. The form of the leaflets is nearly oblong, the up-

per half scarcely spiny, except in the three terminal spines, which

point forward and have the intermediate of the three bent back :

the venation is strong, the margins always refracted, the ultimate

leaflet always sessile, the petiole and rachis dark purple. It

has not yet flowered; but in its foliage it is the Prince of Ber-

berries.

Descr. Our description of the variety of B. Bealei given at

Tab. 4846, and our respective figures, will indicate the characters

of the two better than any laboured description. ‘The leaflets are

here more undulated, the margin between the spines reflexed, and

the base more or less cuneate : in our present plant the flowers are

much larger, and much less numerous on the racemes.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Petal and stamen. 3. Pistil :—magnified.

Tas. | 4853.

DENDROCHILUM ecxiumacevn.

Glumaceous Dendrochilum.

Nat. Ord. OncHIipE®.—GYNANDRIA MoNANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Sepala et petala eequalia, libera, patentia. Labellum integerrimum,

sepalis subconforme, basi concavum v. carinatum, nune cristatum. Columna

brevis, semiteres, antice processubus duobus cornua referentibus, apice dentata

V. rostrata. Pollinia 4, libera ($8), incumbentia.—Herbze supra arbores vigentes,

foliis coriaceis in pseudobulbis sepius solitariis. Spice terminales aut laterales,

Jiliformes, multiflore. Flores juniores bracteis bifariam imbricatis occulti. Lindl.

(character ex Blume).

DENDROCHILUM glumaceum ; pseudobulbis aggregatis fusiformi-ovatis, foliis so-

litariis lato-lanceolatis striatis inferne in petiolum (squama ampla vaginatum) —

longe attenuatis, spica elongata lineari-oblonga compressa alba, floribus dis-

tichis, sepalis petalisque paullo minoribus acuminatis, labelli trilobi basi

bilamellati lobis lateralibus abbreviatis inflexis subacutis intermedio orbi-

culari, columna utringue unidentato dente spiniformi elongato, apice bifido

laciniato,

DrnpRocuiLum glumaceum. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1841. Mise. p. 23. n. 58.

With small flowers, and those possessing no colour to recom-

mend them, we yet consider this one of the most elegant and

graceful of Orchideous plants, and most desirable for cultivation.

It is easily increased, the small pseudobulbs growing in masses :

the leaves are ample for the size of the plant, sheathed below with

large coloured scales, and the many spikes of ivory-white, close-

set, distichous flowers, drooping from the extremity of a slender,

almost filiform, curved stalk, cannot fail to attract attention. It

is a native of the Philippines, and was imported by Mr. Cuming.

It is best cultivated in a wire-basket, and suspended from the

rafters of a moist stove. The'flowers are very fragrant.

Duscr. Pseudobulbs crowded, forming dense, spreading

masses, small, the younger ones fusiform, the older ones more

inclining to ovate. The former are clothed with two or more

large, generally red, sheathing sca/es, within which is a much

larger and longer (three to four inches long) sheathing, subcylin-

JUNE Ist, 1855.

drical, inflated scale, tawny, and tinged with red. Leaves soli-

tary, broad-lanceolate, rather obtuse, striated, tapering into a

long footstalk, which is enclosed by the sheathing scale. Pe-

duncle arising from the top of the pseudobulb, curved down-

wards, slender, filiform, sheathed below (as the petioles are),

and bearing a graceful, pendent, elongated, linear-oblong spike

of crowded, distichous, white, sessile flowers. In a young

state these spikes almost resemble those of Pholidota. Bracteas

lanceolate, convolute, white, at length tawny. Sepals and rather

smaller petals uniform, spreading, oblong, acuminate. Lip

small, projecting, and recurved ; three-lobed, lateral lobes acute,

curved forward, middle lobe rotundate: the disc of the lip has

two oblong lobes or thick lamelle. Colwmn short, compressed,

having on each side, near the base, a long spiniform tooth: the

apex winged, bifid, and laciniated. Anther-case conico-cucullate,

placed just above the small stigma.

Fig. 1. Front view of.a flower. 2. Column. 3. Labellum :—magnified.

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Tas. 4854.

CANNA Warszewiczii.

Warszewicz's Canna.

Nat. Ord. CANNACEZ.—MoNANDRIA MonoGynia.

Gen. Char, Calyx triphyllus. Corolle limbus exterior trifidus, interior bila-

biatus, labio superiore bi-tripartito v. abortu nullo, inferiore diviso. Filamentum

petaloideum, anthera marginali. Ovariwm inferum, triloculare. Ovula in locu-

lorum angulo centrali plurima, horizontalia, anatropa. Stylus petaloideus 3 stigma

lineare, margini adnatum. Capsula membranacea, papilloso-muricata, trilocu-

laris, loculicido-trivalvis. Semina plurima, subglobosa, testa coriacea, dura. Al-

bumen corneum. Embryo orthotropus, axilis, cylindricus, albuminis longitudine,

extremitate radiculari albumen. perforante, umbilicum attingente, cotyledonis :

apice subinflexo.—Herbee Americana, ut plurimum tropice, pauce Asiatica, per.

ennes, paludose, caule simplici, foliis longe petiolatis, late ovatis, spica a

laxa, floribus bracteatis. Endl. ae

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Canna Warszewiczii; foliis ovatis margine coloratis, vaginis spathis bracteis—

ealycibusque purpureis, corolla petalis omnibus intense coccineis inferiore

emarginato, capsulis lato-pyriformibus dense papilloso-muricatis atro-san-

guineis. : | ee :

Canna Warszewiczii. Dietr. in Otto und Dietr. Allgem. Gartenz. Jahrg. XIX.

p- 290.

Canna sanguinea. Hort. Germ.

This fine Canna was introduced into German gardens, in 1849, .

by M. von Warszewicz, from Costa Rica ; it is now very generally —

cultivated in England, and is well deserving of it,—the stem, but :

especially the peduncles, ovaries, calyx, and bracts, having a fine =

blood-red colour, and the flowers being of a bright scarlet. — Tt :

belongs to that section of the genus characterized by a bifid

upper lip of the corolla, including @. discolor, C. occidentalis, C.-

compacta, C. carnea, etc.; but it differs from its allies in several

essential points. x

Duscr. The root is perennial. The stem (when the plant is

well cultivated*) attains a height of three to three and a half :

* In German gardens this Canna is planted during the summer in the open —

borders, where it succeeds extremely well, as is also the case with other Cannas,

JUNE Ist, 1855.

feet, and is round, robust, dark blood-red, primrose, and (as is

the whole plant) glabrous. The /eaves are about one foot long,

and in the widest part about six inches across; they are ovate

or ovate-oblong, gradually tapering, and terminating in an al-

most threadlike apex; they are of a dark green, the midrib and

veins below being more or less intensely red, as is also their

margin. The inflorescence is more than half a foot long. The

corolla is scarlet, externally occasionally with a bluish tinge.

‘The ovary is nearly globose, obscurely tricorned, and thickly co-

vered with little warts; at first of dark blood-colour and prim-

rose, but, after the flowers have faded, becoming lighter, and

finally assuming a beautiful ruby colour, the warts being then

transparent, and when held before the light showing a fine red.

The sfamen is very narrow-linear, of a light brown, and of the

same length as the style. The fruit is nearly globose or obovate-

globose, as large as a good-sized cherry when perfectly ripe, quite

black, and covered with dried-up warts. The seeds are globose,

as large as peas, and jet black. Seemann.

Marantas, Musas, Begonias, Bambusas, etc. In England this mode of culture

has not yet been tried, probably from the prevailing notion that the difference of

temperature of the two countries, from May to October, is too great to allow the

experiment to succeed. There is no harm in tryipg it, especially as the case

is not quite a hopeless one. The Germans formerly never dreamed that they

should one day behold broad-leaved Banana trees and Cannas in their gardens

flourishing with tropical luxuriance. Seem.

Fig. 1. Flower from which the calyx is removed :—magnified. 2. Capsule.

3. Seed :—natural size.

Witch del. t hit

Tas. 4855.

BEGONIA vuropHy.ua.

Caudate-leaved Begonia.

Nat. Ord. Brgontacrm.—Monecia PoLyanpRia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4172.)

BrGontAa urophylia; acaulis ramosa, foliis amplis lato-cordatis inciso-dentatis

apice caudato-acuminatis, venis flabellatis subtus setosulis, petiolis setosis

setis mollibus deflexis, pedunculis radicalibus glabris, paniculis amplis valde

ramosis repetitim di-trichotomis, floribus dipetalis, masculis petalis obovatis

planis patentibus, foemineis petalis suborbicularibus valde concavis erecto-

patentibus, fructu 3-alato, alis duabus brevibus, unica duplo majore rotun-

dato-quadrangulari.

Brconta urophylla. Hort. Belg.

Under the above name we have received our present Begonia

from the Belgian Gardens. It is certainly among the finest and

handsomest of the genus; the leaves ample, and the flowers large

and very numerous, in panicles, which are compoundly divided

in a di- or trichotomous manner. We are scarcely in a condi-

tion, with our limited knowledge of the numerous species (now

unfortunately, too, hybridized by cultivators), to say what are its

nearest allies. Indeed, it is extremely different from any we are

acquainted with. The long caudex of the large leaf is very pecu-

liar. There are few species better deserving @ place in a tropical

stove. It flowers copiously in March.

Descr. Our plant is stemless: the /eafstalks spring directly

from the root, are succulent, terete, and sparsely beset with de- _

curved subulate soft bristles or setee. Leaves very large, a span

and more long, broadly cordate, green, paler beneath, the margm

inciso-dentate, the apex runs out into a long tail-like point. The :

veins commencing from a conspicuous circular disc, at the base

of the leaf, in the sinus, diverge in a flabellate manner, and are

beneath beset with soft, white, pellucid, chaffy hairs on many

of the nerves. Peduneles radical, terete, glabrous and smooth,

green, tinged with red, bearing a large, spreading, yet lax, di-

trichotomously divided panicle, with two sorts of flowers ;—

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male, large, and female smaller ones. Male flowers of two

spreading, opposite, plane, obovate, faintly striated, white petals,

tinged with bluish. Stamens numerous, club-shaped, yellow.

Female flowers not much more than one-fourth the size of the

males. Petals two, erecto-patent, suborbicular, very concave.

Ovary or capsule triangular, with a wing at each angle: two

short and narrow ; ove much larger, and dilated so as to have a

subquadrate form. « Style short. Stigma twisted.

Fig. 1. Female flower :—magnified.

_ Tas. 4856.

EMBOTHRIUM coccineEvum.

Scarlet Embothrium.

Nat. Ord. ProreacEm.—TETRANDRIA MoNnoGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Perigonium irregulare, hinc longitudinaliter fissum, apice quadrifi-

dum. Stamina 4, perigonii apicibus concavis immersa. Glandula hypogyna unica,

semiannularis. Ovariwm pedicellatum, uniloculare, multiovulatum. Stylus fili-

formis, persistens; stigma verticale, clavatum. Folliculus oblongus, unilocularis,

polyspermus. Semina apice in alam arachnoideam producta, pellicula interposita

distincta.—Frutices v. arbuscule glabre in America antarctica provenientes ; Ta~—

mulis guandoque gemmarum sguamis persistentibus obsitis, foliis sparsis integerrimts,

racemis terminalibus corymbosis, paribus pedicellorum unibracteatis, involucro com-

muni xullo, floribus coccineis glaberrimis. Endl.

EMBOTHRIUM coccineum ; foliis ovali-oblongis obtusis mucronulatis subtus dis-

coloribus, ramulis squamatis. Br.

Emporurrum coccineum. Forst. Gen. p. 16. tab. 8. litt. g.—m. Linn. Suppl.

p. 128. Lam. Ili. t. 55. f. 2. Cavan. Icon. v. 1. t. 65. Roem. et Schult.

v. 3.p.431. Br. in Linn. Trans. v. 10. p. 196. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1.

p. 483. Hook. fil. Fl. Antarct. v. 2. p. 342.

Abundant as are the Proteacee in the Southern Hemisphere,

in Africa and Australia, they are comparatively of rare occurrence

in the Indian Islands and in South America. The genus Hm-

hothrium however, as limited by Mr. Brown, the great authority

in this Natural Family, is confined to the latter country, and chiefly

to the very high southern latitudes ; 2. Janceolatum of Ruiz and

Pavon being not found north of Concepcion, while our present

beautiful species is chiefly confined to the Straits of Magellan and

Tierra del Fuego, not however reaching to Cape Horn. It

might be expected then, as it proves, to be quite hardy in this

country, to which it was introduced by Messrs. Veitch, through

their collector, Mr. William Lobb. Our flowering specimen here

represented was sent from the Exeter Nursery n May, 1853.

It is a handsome evergreen shrub, with racemes of the richest

scarlet flowers.*

* Those who had the gratification of witnessing the Exhibition of Flowers at

Gore House this day (May 16), cannot fail to have seen and admired, among

the more powerful attractions of the place, the splendid Orchidee from the

Messrs. Veitch’s Exotic Nurseries, Exeter and Chelsea, and the no less splendid

Embothrium coccineum.

JUNE Ist, 1855.

Descr. Shrub apparently of moderate height, two feet in the

present instance: dranches terete, brown, woody ; the younger

ones said to be clothed with scales. Leaves shortly petiolate, ;

oblong-oval, approaching to elliptical, firm, coriaceous, two and

a half to near three inches long, entire, glabrous, dark green

above, pale beneath, penniveined, very obtuse at the apex and

mucronate, tapering below. Pefioles about half an inch long.

ftacemes numerous, terminal, sessile, many-flowered. Rachis

green. Pedicels red, half an inch to an inch long, erecto-

patent. #V/owers bright scarlet ; in bud nearly two inches long,

tubular, curved upwards, the closed segments of the perianth

forming a globose head, eventually separating one-third of the

way down from the apex into four, spathulate, reflexed, and often

spirally twisted /odes, in the concave apices of which the sessile

oblong anthers are imbedded. Ovary elongated, cylindrical,

shortly stipitate, bearing a prominent gland on the upper side of

the stipes, tapering gradually into the red exserted style: stigma

oblong, yellow, tipped with green.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil :—magnified,

Tas. 4857.

TRICHOPILIA coccinea.

Red-flowered Trichopilia. ~

Nat. Ord. OxncnHipEm.—GyNAanDRIA MONANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Sepala et petala zqualia, patentia, angusta. Labellum magnum,

petaloideum, convolutum, cum columna parallelum, trilobum, lobo intermedio

subbilobo planiusculo, intus nudum. Colwmna teres, clavata. Clinandrium cu-

cullatum, trilobum, villoso-fimbriatum. A4zthera unilocularis, compressa, antice

convexa. Pollinia 2, postice sulcata, caudicule tenui cuneate adherentia: glan-

dula minima.—Pseudobulbi carnosi, vaginis maculatis supertecti, monophylli,

coriacei. Flores solitarii, axillares. Lindl. ® ‘

TricnoPii1a coccinea; pseudobulbis angustis oblongis compressis sulcatis

monophyllis, foliis lanceolatis planis basi subcordatis acuminatis recurvis,

pedunculis plurifloris, petalis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis semel tortis, la-

bello quadrilobo lobis rotundatis convexis planis basi arcte convoluto, cu-

culli trilobi laciniis fimbriatis subeequalibus. Lindl.

TRicnopri1a coccinea. Lindl. in Pawton’s Fl. Gard. v. 2. t. 54.

TRICHOPILIA marginata. “ Henfr. Gard. Mag. of Bot. July 1851, with a figure.”

A native of Central America, where it was discovered by Mr.

,Warszewicz, who sent it to England in 1849, under the name of

Trichopilia coccinea, a name properly adopted by Dr. Lindley,

though not till after it had been published by Mr. Henfrey under

the name of 7. marginata. The specimen here figured in April

of the present year (1855) is from the collection of S. Rucker,

Esq., Wandsworth, and we are informed by his skilful gardener,

Mr. Junkermann, that it was presented to that gentleman by

Mr. H. Gireoud, gardener to Charles Nauen, Esq., of Berlin ;—

equally derived from Mr. Warszewicz. It is a very handsome

Species, most so of any of the genus, and is described as some-

times having the entire flower of a rich deep carmine colour,

whereas in our plant the outside of the flower is white, or nearly

so;—the upper or inner side red-purple; the sepals margined

with white. In Dr. Lindley’s figure the upper side of the la-

bellum has a clearly defined border of white, and the peduncles

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or scapes are single-flowered. Its nearest affinity is with 7! for-

“ilis ; from which the last-mentioned author observes it differs

“ principally in its larger and rich carmine flowers, slightly twisted

sepals and petals, and the equal size of the fringed lobes of the

anther-hood.” ,

Descr. Pseudobulbs clustered, oblong, compressed, smooth,

dark green. Leaves solitary, from the apex of the pseudobulb,

broad-lanceolate, coriaceous, suddenly acuminate ; near the base

often somewhat spreading, so as to be subauriculate. Peduncle

from the base of the pseudobulb, about three-flowered. FYowers

large, handsome, in our specimen white externally, reddish-purple

within. Pefals and sepals spreading, linear-lanceolate ; sepals

of the same shape, but slightly twisted, all margined with white

above. Lip trumpet-shaped, the mouth oblong, large, spreading ;

the four lobes broad, rounded, waved. Column included within

the convolute claw of the lip, white, terete. Hood of the anther

three-lobed ; /odes nearly equal in size, fringed.

Fig. 1. Column. 2. Pollen-masses :—magnified.

Tas. 4858.

‘GEN ETYLLIS ruuipirera.

Tulip-bearing Genetyllis.

Nat. Ord. Myrtacem.—Icosanpria Monocynta.

Gen. Char. Calyx tubulosus, 5-costatus, dimidiatus, inferne ovario adnatus,

basi carnosus, superius in faucem productus, limbo obtuse 5-dentato ; totus levis,

v. inferiore parte ovarium corticante rugulosus, vel rugis transverse parallelis in

marginem liberum cartilagineum productis pluriannulatus. Corolla scariosa vel

membranacea, limbo calycis adnata; petala 5, concava vel naviculari-carinata, in

acumen obtusum extenuata, conniventia. Andronitis ultra calycis limbum bre-

vissimo, brevi, v. longiori spatio monadelpha, inferius inde confluens in laminam

parieti faucis adnatam. S/aminodia 10, staminibus totidem rite alterna, varie

configurationis dentiformia, subulata, liguliformia, petaloidea, preefloratione erecta.

Filamenta staminodiis subeequalia v. longiora, filiformia, prafloratione introflexa,

antheris duplice serie, altiori et demissiori, fauci applicatis. Anthere globose,

connectivi simplicis fronti insertze, bilocellatee, locellis subconfluentibus, virgineis

leviter constrictis, poro postico dehiscentibus. Ovarium calyci omnino immer-

sum, vertice truncatum laminaque epigyna indutum. Ovula gemina paucave in

placenta basifixa centrali erecta, anatropa. Stylus exsertus, infra stigma barba-

. . .—Flores in apicibus ramulorum pauci vel numerost

capitato-conges latati receptaculiformis areolis sessiles, v. pedicellati,

bracteis stipati betatis, extimis vero sepe auctis coloratisque imvolucrum

capituli exhib eolee bine, libere, juxta calycis basin opposite, sessiles,

membranacee, , floris primordium amplectentes, dein divergentes,

sub anthesi deci

GENETYLLIS ¢ulipifera ; foliis plerisque oppositis subsessilibus patentibus punc-

tatis oblongo-ellipticis obtusis membranaceo-marginatis serrulatis, capitulis

nutantibus, involucris amplis campanuliformibus albis sanguineo pulcher-

rime pictis, foliolis latissimis, calycis tubo inferno 10-suleato suleis transverse

rugosis, staminodiis clavatis apice coloratis parvis.

GENETYLLIs tulipifera, Hort.

Hnparome tulipiferum. ‘Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1854, p. 323.

During the distant excursions so frequently made by the vene-

rable Drummond in Western Australia to the interior of the

Swan River Settlement, he spoke with rapture of two species of

Genetyllis, a8 among the most interesting of his discoveries ; and

When his specimens were distributed to the European subseri-

WLY Ist, 1855.

bers, they were found to bear him out in his eulogies ; and these

have both now happily been raised from seeds in our gardens ;

so that in April of the present year we had the pleasure to re-

ceive beautiful samples of the two, flowering in great perfection,

from the nursery of Messrs. Garaway, Mayes, and Co., of the

Bristol Nursery. The same were exhibited at the summer exhi-

bitions of the present year, and have attracted much attention.

Both are figured in the present number. That now before us,

G. tulipifera, though only two feet ten inches high, had from 150

to 200 heads of flowers upon it. Each little branch is terminated

with a drooping richly coloured involucre, resembling a gay tulip,

and which many, unacquainted with the family to which the plant _

belongs, take for a large corolla: whereas they are but floral

leaves, shelterimg and completely concealing from view the real

flowers. It is a hardy greenhouse plant.

Dzusor. Shrub between two and three feet high, firm, erect,

much branched; branches nearly erect, angled, pale brown.

Leaves mostly opposite, nearly sessile, perennial, patent, between

elliptical and oblong, dark green above and punctated, pale be-

neath, the margin cartilaginous or submembranaceous, pellucid,

minutely serrulate. Heads of several flowers terminating the nu-

merous branches, and with their large and highly coloured zavolucre

drooping. The upper leaves are also gradually larger, broader,

and more or less coloured ; those, constituting the involucre, with

the interior or uppermost ones white, more or less streaked or

blotched with deep rose or blood colour, and so arranged as to

resemble a large bell-shaped, polypetalous corolla. Flowers

small, few in number, collected into a head at the base of the

involucre, each subtended by two concave and subcarinate drac-

teoles. Calyx-tube subturbinate, below ten-furrowed, the furrows

transversely wrinkled: /imé of five, small, obtuse teeth. Corolla

of five, ovate, obtuse petals. Stamens arising from the edge of a

— fleshy annulus or dise at the mouth of the calyx ; ten perfect,

short, with globose anthers, and ten (outer series) are minute,

clavate staminodia. Style thrice as long as the flower, thick,

subulate, barbate below the acute stigma.

Fig. 1. Leaf. 2. Flower. 8, 4. Bracteoles. 5. Vertical section of calyx.

6. Stamen and staminodium :—sagnijied.

Tas. 4859.

RHODODENDRON krerusvun.

Blunt-leaved Rhododendron.

Nat. Ord. Ertcacem.—DrcanpriA MonoGynta.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4336.)

RHODODENDRON retusum ; fructicosum, ramulis exasperatis, foliis obovato-ob-

longis coriaceis obtusis retusisve subtus pallidis squamulosis marginibus

recurvis, floribus umbellis pedunculisque hirsutis, calycibus parvis lobis 5

brevibus unico longiore pedunculisque hirsutis, corollis infundibuliformi-

tubulosis coccineis basi ventricosis, staminibus subexsertis, ovario elliptico

squamuloso. ‘ ta ig Oe

RHODODENDRON retusum. Bennet in Fi. Jav. p. 88. t. 20. De Cand. Prodr. OF Fx a

p. 124. ‘ a =

VireYA retusa. Blum. Bijdr. p. 856.

A native of high mountains of Western Java, where it was

first found by Blume; and Dr. Horsfield detected it in the

island of Sumatra, in 1818, on a journey from Padang to Me-

nangcabo, in shaded situations about 3000 feet above the ocean.

It may be considered then a greenhouse plant, and should be

treated as such. Messrs. Rollisons, of Tooting Nursery, have raised

it from seeds sent by their collector, Mr. Henschell, from Java,

and we are indebted to them for the opportunity of figuring it.

It is truly a lovely plant, of the group of BR. ferrugineum and 3

hirsutum among European species, and ZR. anthopogon, lepidotum, :

etc., among Indian species; but in the size and colour of its

flowers and foliage, handsomer than any of them. The flowers

approach nearer to scarlet than any other species of the genus.

It blossomed with Messrs. Rollisons in May. |

Descr. A shrub a foot to two feet high ; branches woody, “

brown in age, rough with minute raised points; less so in the

cultivated than in the wild state. Zeaves two to two and a half

inches long, almost sessile, oblong or elliptical-obovate, evergreen, —

coriaceous, spreading, glabrous, the margins recurved, the apex

JULY Ist, 1855, wa S. '

very obtuse or often retuse, dark green above, the younger

ones paler, the old ones a little inclined to ferrugmous be-

neath, and there furfuraceous with numerous minute scales. Um-

bels terminal, of six to eight or nine flowers. Peduncles about

two-thirds of an inch long, red, hairy. /owers moderately

drooping. Calyx minute, yellow-green, ciliated and squamulose,

five-toothed ; teeth very short and acute, but one longer than the

rest. Corolla an inch and a quarter or an inch and a half long,

rather bright scarlet, tubuloso-infundibuliform, the base ventri-

cose, the limb short and moderately spreading, of five rounded

lobes. Stamens a little exserted, ten; filaments glabrous, and

slightly thickened below; anthers tawny. Ovary oblong, five-

angled, squamulose, inserted on a lobed glandular disc. Style

filiform, rather shorter than the stamens, thickened below the

stigma.

Fig. 1, Stamen. 2. Calyx and pistil. 3. Section of ovary :—magnified.

4360

Vincent Brocks Imp.

Tas. 4860.

GENETYLLIS macrostzera.

Large-involucred Genetyllis,

Nat. Ord. Myrtacnm.—Icosanpria MOoNoGYNIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4858.)

GENETYLLIS macrostegia ; foliis plerisque oppositis erecto-patentibus subses-

silibus lineari-subspathulatis anguste serrulato-cartilagineo-marginatis supra

punctatis, capitulis nutantibus, involucris amplis subcylindraceo-campanu-

liformibus unicoloribus rubris, foliolis ellipticis, calycis tubo inferne 5-sulcatis

sulcis transverse rugosis, staminodiis parvis clavatis apice coloratis acutis.

GENETYLLIS macrostegia. Turcz. in Bull. de la Soc. Imp. Sc. Nat. de Moscou,

v. 22. Part I. p.17. Walpers, Ann. Bot. v. 2. p. 616.

We have alluded to this Genetyllis, under our Tab. 4858, as

one of the two beautiful species of the genus the discovery of

which in West Australia had given such pleasure to Mr. Drum-

mond, and as having been received by us from the Bristol Nur-

sery, Messrs. Garaway, Mayes, and Co. _ It is scarcely less beau-

tiful, and certainly not less curious, than the @. tulipifera, figured

at the Tab. just mentioned. It is a smaller plant; the leaves

are much narrower, more sparse; the coloured involucres are

perhaps more numerous, but smaller, not so spreading at the —

mouth, and the foliola are narrower, and all of a uniform brick-

red colour. In writing on the G. tulipifera, Dr. Lindley says, —

“that plant should be compared with the G. macrostegia of

Turczaninoff.” We think, however, our friend has done right

in not adducing the latter as a synonym to that species. The

present one accords so much better with the short description

of G. macrostegia, that I think there can be little doubt that this

is the species that was in view, and that G. ¢ulipifera was quite

unknown to him. It proves to be as hardy as the others ; and

Messrs. Garaway and Mayes observe that it requires plenty of

light and air, a compost of good peat and sand, with a little

charcoal intermixed, and a moderate supply of water, especially

in winter. It is the case with this and G. tulipifera, that the

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more hardy its treatment the brighter the colour of the bracts.

Both have the merit of continuing in flower three or four months

at atime. Their involucres are of a dry, membranaceous cha-

racter, and would probably retain their colour and form for a

long time in a dried state, like the Xeranthemums and other

so-called Hverlastings.

Descr. The figure will show, almost better than words can

do, how this plant differs from G@. tulipifera. It is smaller, slen-

derer, and more twiggy. The /eaves rather longer, but much

narrower, and subspathulate. The dracts or folioles of the invo-

lucre are narrower and less convolute, and less retuse at the apex.

The flowers are very similar in structure; but we observe only

five furrows in the lower part of the tube.

Fig. 1. Leaf. 2. Young flower. 3, 4. Bracteoles. 5. Vertical section of a

calyx. 6. Anther. 7. Stamen antl staminodium :—magnified.

Tas. 4861.

DIPLOTHEMIUM urrroraue.

Sea-shore Diplothemium. :

Nat. Ord. PatmMacr®.—Monecra POLYANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Flores monoici in eodem spadice, quincunciatim dispositi, masculi

in parte inferiore verrucis callosis hemisphericis (pedicellis, Mart.) super foe-

mineos impositi, in superiore solitarii, sessiles, bracteis flores masculos geminos

vel intermedio feemineo sociatos cingentibus, favoso-connatis, Spatha duplex :

exterior brevior, apice aperta, membranacea vel coriacea; interior clavata vel

cylindracea, mucronata, ventre demum fissa, dorso sulcata, lignosa. FL. Mase.

subcarnoso-coriacei. Calyx uterque 3-sepalis ; sepalis exterioribus anguste

ceolatis, carinatis, ima basi connatis, erectis; interioribus ovatis, subcai

erectis vel conniventibus. Stamina 6-12 vel indefinita (14-20, 24 et 60). ‘0

basilari; filamenta subulata, inequilonga; anther@ sagittate vel sublineares,

erectee. Ovarii rudimentum minutissimum vel nullum. FL. FreM. conacel,

striati, ovato-globosi. Calyx uterque 3-sepalus; sepalis ovatis, carinatis; ex-

terioribus imbricato-convolutis ; interioribus vix minc ribus, integerrimis vel re-

pando-dentatis. Ovarium globoso-trigonum, loculis 2 rudimentariis 1-loculare.

Stigmata 3, sessilia, triquetra, pyramidato-conniventia, demum subpatentia. Drupa

ovata vel obovata, stigmatum residuis umbonata, 1-sperma, cortice fibroso ; puta-

mine lapideo, basi 3-poroso. Aléumen cartilagineum, solidum. Embryo intra

porum basilaris.—Palme in maritimis sabulosis vel in campis siccis herbidis sparse

et gregarie crescentes, plerumque acaules, rarius caudicem craasiusculum inermem

annulatum elevantes. Frondes pinnate, breviter petiolate, pinnis angustis, firmis,

rigide patentibus vel crispis, interrupte aggregatis, subtus argenteis vel glauco-viridi-

bus ; petiolorum basi vaginante, fibroso-panniformi, tandem lacera. Spadices sim-

plices, antice dense florigeri. Spatha exterior intra frondium bases latens. Flores

majusculi, ochroleuci. Drupee flavescentes ; carne jibrosa, eduli. Mart.

DretotHEeMium Jittorale; acaule, frondibus spissis rectiusculis, pinnis rigidis

subtus glaucescentibus, floribus masculis 10-1 2-andris, drupis obovatis sub-

angulatis. Mart.

Dretornemtvm littorale. Mart. Palm. 110. t. 76. f.5 only. Kth. Enum. Plant.

v. 3. p. 290. .

Cocos aRENARIUS. Gomez, Act. Olysip. 1812. p. 61.

The Royal Gardens of Kew are indebted to the Jardin des

Plantes of Paris for the possession of this small but graceful

Palm. It threw up its spatha in the spring of 1855, which soon

burst, and exposed to view the spike, or spadix, of dull yellow

flowers. All the three described species of this genus are con-

JULY Ist, 1855.

sidered to be peculiar to Brazil. Of the present one a solitary

habitat is given by Martius, namely, “the sandy, maritime shores

of St. Sebastian.”

Dezscr. Stemless. A short, horizontal caudex appears above

ground, annulated or scarred transversely with the marks of for-

mer fronds, rooting below. Fronds three to four feet long, erecto-

patent, rigid. Pefiole more than half as long as the foliaceous

portion, angular, below connected by transverse fibrous web.

Pinne narrow, linear-lanceolate, solitary, or two to four proceed-

ing from the same point, all very much acuminated. Peduncle

shorter than the petioles, compressed. Spatha four to five inches

long, boat-shaped, acuminate; interior sheathing the peduncle

within. owers forming a close spike on the spadix, of a pale,

rather dingy yellow colour. In our specimen they seemed to be

all male flowers, each consisting of a monophyllous calyx, with

three deep ovate acuminate lobes ; corolla of the same shape and

colour. Sfamens twelve to fourteen or fifteen. Filaments subu-

late, short. Anther oblong, yellow ; no trace of pistil.

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STREPTOCARPUS Garpent.

Captain Garden’s Streptocarpus.

Nat. Ord. DipymocarPEm.—D1ANDRIA Monoeyn1a.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4850.)

Srreprocarrus Gardeni; foliis omnibus radicalibus humifusis oblongo-ovatis

basi cordatis pubescenti-velutinis crispatis rugosis crenatis, scapis plurimis

bifloris, floribus nutantibus, segmentis calycinis apice patentibus, corolle

tubo elongato curvato, limbo bilabiato, labio inferiore porrecto, stigmate

distincte umbilicato.

We had the satisfaction, at our Tab. 4850, of figuring a new

Streptocarpus, S. polyanthus, from Natal ; and we have now the

opportunity of representing another new species of this handsome

genus from the same country, and derived through the same gen-

tleman as sent us that, viz. our obliging friend Captain Garden.

The affinity of the present, it will be at once seen, is with the

well-known S. Revit; but it is nevertheless quite distinct, both

in foliage and in flowers. The leaves are longer and handsomer,

more ovate in form, more rugose and more wrinkled, and cor-

date at the base. The scapes are almost invariably two-flowered :

the calyx has the segments patent at their apices. The corolla,

though of nearly the same size, is different in form and incolour;

uniform pale-blue in 8. Rewii, here the tube is green or greenish-

white, and the limb lilac ; moreover the tube is much broader (not

suddenly contracted in the lower half), slightly curved down- —

wards; and the limb, instead of spreading mto five nearly a

equally spreading lobes, is more decidedly two-lipped, the two

lobes of the upper lip moderately patent, and the three com-

posing the lower lip porrected or standing forward : the lines on

the lower lip, instead of being blue and continuous, are sangul-

neous, and interrupted in dots or short streaks: the stigma too os

is different. The plant flowers copiously in a warm greenhouse -

during the summer months. It is not a little remarkable that

JULY Ist, 1855,

both this and our 8. polyanthus came from seeds accidentally

contained in the Natal earth brought with other plants.

Duscr. Leaves all radical and pressed close to the earth,

ovato-oblong, cordate at the base, on rather short petioles, cre-

nated, downy, reticulate-rugose, crisped, especially at the mar-

gin, paler and almost tomentose beneath. Scapes several from

the same plant, erect, downy, purplish below, the rest green,

bearing two flowers with a bractea at the forking of the pedicels.

Calyx quinquepartite ; segments linear, below erect, the apices

patent. Corolla two and a quarter inches long ; ¢wde moderately

curved downwards, rather broad, gradually enlarging upwards,

whitish or pale-green, decidedly green below, especially towards

the throat ; Zim pale lilac, two-lipped; wpper lip of two oval

lobes, moderately spreading back, lower of three such lobes

standing forward, and streaked in the inside with broken lines

or dots of a sanguineous colour. Stamens two perfect; three

minute abortive ones are represented by capitate glands. Ovary

long, cylindrical, downy, arising from an hypogynous cup, taper-

ing into a short narrow style. Stigma of two very short fleshy

lips, umbilicate in the centre.

Fig. 1. Pistil :—magnified.

Tas. 4863.

RHODODENDRON Catutrornicum.

Californian Rhododendron.

Nat. Ord. Ertcack™.—Dercanpria MonoGyniA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4336.)

RHODODENDRON Californicum ; foliis subobovato-ellipticis coriaceis acutis gla-

bris brevi-petiolatis concoloribus subtus pallidis, umbella terminali multi-

flora, calycis parvi subpilosi laciniis acutis unica longiore, corolla lato-cam-

panulata roseo-variegata lobis undulatis intus (tribus superioribus) flavo-

maculatis, staminibus 10 corolla brevioribus, filamentis basi pubescentibus,

ovario elliptico appresse piloso-sericeo.

RHODODENDRON Californicum. Hook. MS. in Herd.

We have possessed this plant in our Herbarium from the

mountains of California, and have recognized it as a new species

ever since Mr. Lobb’s first mission to that region; and on a

visit, this spring, to Mr. Veitch’s Exotic Nursery, King’s-road,

Chelsea, we were much struck with the great beauty of living

flowering plants of the same, exhibiting a richness of colour

in the varied pale and very deep rose tints of the numerous —

corollas, of which the large heads are beautifully nestled in an

involucre, as it were, formed by the handsome green leaves con-

stituting a dark background to the flowers. Some of these

plants were exhibited, with many other rarities from the same

Nursery, at the memorable Flower-show of the Crystal Palace at

Sydenham of this year (June, 1855), and could not fail to at-

tract attention, though surrounded by so many other floral beau-

ties: they were noticed the following week in the ‘ Gardeners’

Chronicle,’ among the new plants* exhibited by Mr. Veitch, as

a “delicate pink kind of Rhododendron, very different in appear-

ance from those of the eastern mountains of America, or from

any we have at present in cultivation.” It seems to be a most

_* One of these novelties was another species of Rhododendron from Borneo,

with large golden-coloured flowers, R. Brookeanum, which we trust soon to have

the opportunity of figuring and describing.

JULY Ist, 1855.

ready flowerer, the plants, with three or four of these splendid —

heads, being little more than a foot high. The species has stood

the winter well at Exeter.

Drscr. Apparently a small or moderately sized shruéd, with

the habit of small plants of 2. maximum, or still more of &.

Catawbiense, having stout branches, of which the younger ones

are green and subherbaceous. Leaves on short petioles, three

to four inches long, elliptical, obovate, acute, often almost mu-

cronate at the point, tapering at the base, except in the upper

leaves, glabrous and naked on both sides, paler coloured on the

‘underside. Beneath the flowers the leaves are generally more

crowded, so as to form a sort of involucre to the large umbellate

head. Calyx small, five-lobed ; the lobes form a broad base, al-

most subulate, slightly hairy. Corolla, in bud rich carmine,

when fully expanded broad campanulate ; tube short, suddenly

spreading into five, broad, oval, crisped lobes; the ground co-

lour is then pale pink, deeper towards the apex of the lobes, and

streaked with darker rose; three upper lobes with small yellow

spots within. Sfamens 10, unequal, shorter than the corolla;

jilaments deep rose, thickened and downy below. Azthers deep

pink. Ovary elliptical, with five longitudinal furrows, clothed

with long, appressed, silky hairs, five-celled. Sty/e rather larger

than the stamens, glabrous. Stigma with five very minute

points.

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AKEBIA aquinara.

Five-leaved Akebia.

Nat. Ord. LarpizaABALACEZ.—Mone@cia HEXANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Masc. Calyx 3-phyllus, foliolis ovato-lanceolatis concavis sub-

zequalibus, in eestivatione subvalvatis. Petala 0. Stamina 6, biserialia, sube-

qualia, libera ; filamentis cylindraceis primo erectis dein incurvatis ; antheris mu-

ticis. Ovariorum radimenta 6. Fam. Calyx foliolis subrotundis concavis.

Stamina 6-9, nana, abortiva. Ovaria 3-9, tunc ordine ternario disposita, dis-

tineta, oblongo-cylindracea, in stylum brevem stigmate peltato terminatum at-

tenuata, ovulis parieti foveolato v. papilloso affixis, primo orthotropis serins

anatropis ?—Frutices Japonici scandentes, foliis peltatim digitatis, 3-5 foliolatis,

foliolis apiculatis integerrimis v. repando-dentatis, sublobatisve. Racemi aaillares,

pedunculis axdrogynis, ima basi squamatis, paucifloris ; floribus femineis infertori-

bus longius pedicellatis. Decaisne.

AKEBIA guinata; foliolis ternis sepius quinis ovatis vel obovatis integris ob-

tusis v. emarginatis mucronato-setaceis. Dene.

AKEBIA quinata. Decaisne, Mém. sur les Lardizab. p. 195. Lindl. Bot. Reg.

1847, ¢. 28.

RasANIA quinata. Thunb. Jap. p. 148.

Our only wild specimens of this plant were collected by For-

tune in China, and are the A. 31 of his Herbarium: it appears

however to be a native of Japan, and is well figured and de-

scribed in the ‘ Flora Japonica’ of Siebold and Zuccarini. ‘The

plants represented, and which flowered at Kew, were received

from Mr. Lowe, of Clapton Nursery, and were originally intro-

duced into Europe by Siebold. :

Descr. A slender, scandent, evergreen shrub, with terete, flex-

uose stems, everywhere quite glabrous. eaves alternate, on

slender petioles, usually quinate ; leaflets articulate with the pe-—

tiole, petiolulate, obovate, emarginate, or obcordate, quite entire,

coriaceous, glaucous beneath. Racemes axillary and from re-

duced lateral branches, peduncled, their branches with minute

bractew at the axils, often corymbose. Fowers pedicelled, unl-

sexual, slightly fragrant. The males smaller, terminal on the

AUGUST Ist, 1855,

raceme, their sepals oblong or elliptical, reflexed. Stamens six,

in two series ; filaments very short; anthers oblong, blunt. Fe-

male flowers two to five on each raceme, on longer pedicels than

the males. Sepals three, broadly elliptical, concave, coriaceous,

subacute. Ovaries three to five in our specimens, cylindrical,

with blunt, sessile, discoid stigmata; imperfect stamina very

minute, sessile.

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NICOTIANA FRAGRANS.

Sweet-scented Tobacvo.

Nat. Ord. SoLANACE#.—PENTANDRIA Monoeyn1a.

Gen. Char. Calyx tubuloso-campanulatus, semiquinquefidus. Corolla infun-

dibuliformis vel hypocraterimorpha, limbo plicato-quinquelobo, lobis per zstiva-

tionem plicatis et conniventi-contortis, Stamina 5, corolle tubo inserta, inclusa,

seepe subeequilonga, nonnunquam ineequalia ; anthere longitudinaliter dehiscentes,

brevissime ovate: vel globose; pollen oblongum, longitudinaliter trisulcatum.

Ovarium biloculare, placentis linea dorsali dissepimento adnatis, multiovulatis,

nectario crasso annulari obsolete lobato basi circumdatum. Stylus simplex.

Stigma capitatum, pa orme, intus glandulis 2 magnis instructum. Capsula

calyce persistente tecta, bilocularis, apice septicido-bivalvis, vel quadri-multi-

valvis, valvis demum bifidis, placentas discretas retinentibus. Semina plurima,

minima, oblonga, subreniformia, rugosa. Hmbryo in axi albuminis carnosi, leviter

arcuatus.—Herbe, interdum suffrutescentes, sepissime glutinoso-pilose, in America

éropica copiose, partim in aliis terris (4) crescentes ; foliis alternis, integerrimis ;

floribus ¢erminalibus, racemosis aut paniculatis, albidis, virescentibus, v. purpuras-

centibus, pedicellis azillaribus, calyces subequantibus. De Cand. .

Nicotiana fragrans ; subglutinosa, ubique pilis brevibus crispulis pubescente-

sericea, foliis crassis subcarnosis inferioribus precipue radicalibus obovato-

spathulatis, caulinis paucis lineari-spathulatis, panicula terminali ampla mul-

tiflora, floribus in ramis subglomeratis nutantibus, calycibus inflatis laciniis

inzequalibus, corolla (alba) tubo longissimo cylindraceo ore paululum dila-

tato, limbo glabro 5—6-lobo lobis rotundatis patentibus dorso carinatis, sta-

minibus 5-6, filamento unico breviore.

A very fine species of Tobacco, discovered during Capt. Den-

ham’s surveying voyage by Messrs. Macgillivray and Milne in

rocks and waste places on the sea-shore in the Isle of Pines ; re-

markable for the firm, thick, fleshy character of the foliage, and

which becomes most beautifully satiny in the dried state, for the

great size it attains in a state of cultivation, and for the delicious

fragrance of the large white blossoms. It evidently belongs to

the same section with WV. undulata, Vent. et Br. (WV. suaveolens,

Lehm.); but cannot be the same, if Ventenat’s figure (Hort.

Malmais. t. 10) be correct. It is a plant of easy cultivation in

AvGusT Ist, 1855.

a cool greenhouse, and deserves a place in every collection. It

continues long in flower in the summer months.

Descr. Herbaceous. In cultivation attaining a height of three

to four feet. Root-/eaves large, broad-obovate, spathulate ; cau-

line ones few, distant, linear-spathulate, all of them thick and

fleshy, firm, and, as well as the entire plant, except the limb of

the corolla, clothed with short close-set hairs, which in a dry

state give them a silky or satiny appearance. Panicle large,

terminal, the branches bearing glomerated racemes of large, ter-

minal, pendent, very fragrant flowers. Bracteas small, appressed.

Pedicels short, decurved. Calyz ovate, inflated, five- or six-lobed ;

lobes erect, appressed, unequal; sublanceolate, obtuse. Corolla

with the tube very long, cylindrical, pale-green, almost white,

slightly enlarged at the mouth. Limé broad, spreading, of five

or six broad, somewhat waved, rounded lobes, carinated at the

back. Stamens five or six, adnate for nearly the whole length

of the tube, and reaching to the mouth; one shorter than the

rest and more free. Ovary ovate. Style as long as the corolline

tube. Stigma a dark green disc, depressed in the centre.

Fig. 1. Pistil. 2. Transverse section of ovary :—magnified.

Tas. 4866.

DRYMONIA vittosa.

Shaggy Drymonia.

Nat. Ord. GesNERIACEZ.—D1pyNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. Calyz liber, obliquus, 5-phyllus, sepalis imbricatis. Corolla obli-

que campanulato-subringens, basi postice gibba, fauce patula, labio superiore bi-

lobo, inferiore trilobo. Stamina 4, didynama, antheris inter se liberis ; radimentum

quinti nullum. Stigma bilobum. Annulus hypogynus et glandula postica. Cap-

sula baccans, ovata, coriacea, 1-locularis, bivalvis, placentis 2 parietalibus bila-

mellatis. Semina numerosa, fusiformia.—Frutices Australi-Americani scandentes,

hine inde radicantes, aut humifusi. Caules teretiusculi, epidermide nitida. Folia

opposita, petiolata, serrata, pubescentia, crassiuscula. Pedicelli avillares, solitarii,

uniflori, breviusculi, petiolo subequales, ebracteati. Corolle ample, flavide aut

alba, sepe picte. De Cand.

DrymontiA villosa ; villosissimo-lanata, foliis ovatis reticulatim venosis rugosis

acutis vel acuminatis serratis subtus venis valde elevatis, floribus axillaribus

subternis brevi-pedicellatis pseudo-verticillatis, calycis superne gibbosi laci-

niis acuminatissimis sursum inclinatis, corolla villose albze tubo curvato

compresso intus purpureo-lineato limbo bilabiato 5-lobo lobis rotundatis

obtusis, stylo staminibus multo breviore.

Drymonta villosa. Hort.

Received from Mr. Lowe, of the Clapton Nursery, under the

name* we have here adopted, but where described, if described

at all, we are ignorant ; it is reported to have been introduced

by one of Mr. Van Houtte’s collectors from Surinam. It appears

a very distinct and handsome species, remarkable for its densely

villous and woolly clothing. It flourishes in a moist stove, and

flowers in May and June.

Duscr. Subherbaceous, a foot or a foot and a half high, much

branched from below ; dranches erect, obtusely tetragonal, thickly

hairy and woolly. Leaves opposite, petioled, ovate, acute or

acuminate, coarsely serrated, villous with spreading hair, strongly

* This name also appears in the catalogue of plants of the Royal Horticultural

Society of Belgium.

AuGuUST IsT, 1855,

reticulated and rugose, the nerves prominent beneath and then

tomentose. Petioles an inch or more long, thick, woolly, and

villous. Vowers axillary, generally ternate and spreading, so as

to form pseudo-verticils. Pedicels short, single-flowered. Calyx

gibbose at the base, above deeply cut into five, large, much acu-

minated segments, inclining upwards, about one-third as long as

the tube of the corolla, very villous. Corolla villous externally ;

the tube gibbous at the base above, curved, compressed, the

mouth spreading, within on the lower side marked with purple

lines ; 42m two-lipped, upper of two, lower of three, spreading,

rounded lobes. Stamens included, four, didynamous. Anthers

nearly globose, approximate in pairs. Ovary ovate, villous, with

a large gland at the back. Sfy/e much shorter than the stamens.

Stigma obtuse.

a 1. Base of the tube of the corolla, with stamens and pistil. 2. Pistil and

gland.

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Tas. 4867.

STYLOPHORUM opipeHyuuvmM.

Two-leaved Stylophorum.

Nat. Ord. PAPAVERACES.—POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx diphyllus, foliolis pilosis, sestivatione valvatis, caducis.

Corolle petala 4, hypogyna, obovata, decidua. Stamina plurima, hypogyna ;

filamenta filiformia; anthere terminales, extrorse, biloculares, loculis longitudi-

naliter dehiscentibus. Ovarium oblongum, uniloculare. Ovu/a juxta placentas

intervalvulares, 3-4, plurima, anatropa. Stylus terminalis, columnaris; stigma

capitatum, tri-quadrilobum. Capsu/a elliptica, setosa, unilocularis, apice valvis

3-4 incompletis revolutis inter placentas filiformes persistentes dehiscens. Semina

plurima, scrobiculato-punctata, strophiolo umbilicali cristeeformi.—Herbee Joreali-

Americane, perennes, succo flavo replete, foliis paucis v. geminis, summis oppositis,

pinnatifidis, floribus terminalibus, subcorymbosis, luteis. Endl.

STYLOPHORUM diphyllum.

SrynopHorum diphyllum, Nuttall, Gen. v.2.p.7. Gray, Gen. Plants US. t. 48.

Botany of the Northern United States, p. 27.

StYLopHorum petiolatum, Nuttall.

StyLopHorum Ohioense. Spreng. Syst. v. 2. p. 570.

Meconopsts diphylla. DC. Syst. v. 2. p. 88. Prodr.v. 1. p. 121. Torrey et

Gray, Fl. N. Am. v. 1. p. 61.

Meconopsis petiolata. DC. 1. c.

CuEtipontum diphyllum. Miche. Fl. v. 1. p. 309.

A native of woods in the Western United States, whence all

our specimens are much larger than the cultivated ones, with

pinnatisect or bipinnatifid leaves and axillary flowers, from what

appear as involucral leaves in our specimen, becoming large and

bearing leaf-buds with flowers in their axil. The plant figured

was raised from seed sent by our esteemed friend Dr. Asa Gray, —

Professor of Botany in Cambridge University.

Drscr. Plants six inches to a foot high, of rather a pale green

colour and succulent texture, resembling Meconopsis Cambrica, the

petioles, stems, and peduncles loosely. covered with spreading

sete. Radical leaves broadly oblong or ovate, blunt, pinnatifidly

lobed, cordate at the base; the segments lobed and crenate,

glaucous below. Cawline leaves generally two, opposite, and

AUGUST 1st, 1855. :

volucre, shortly petiolate with a

side of the stem between the bases of the petioles,

etimes pinnatisect. FYowers solitary, pale yellow,

hairy. Stamens numerous. Axthers oblong.

e, with a straight columnar style, and truncate, some-

clavate, tigma. Capsule elliptical, splitting to.

base into four valves, by which character the genus is best

suished from Meconopses

Tas. 4868.

THERMOPSIS parsata.

Shaggy Thermopsis. ‘

foliaceis, racemis terminalibus, floribus pedicellatis, geminis v. verticillatis, ebrac-

teatis, flavis. Endl. d

THERMOPsIS barbata ; sericeo-tomentosa, pilis longis hirta, foliis 1-3-foliolatis,

foliolis oblongis stipulisque subsimilibus margine patentim pilosis utrinque

glabris v. longe et parce pilosis, calycibus pilosis, legumine oblongo v.

ovato vix falcato piloso demum leviter inflato. Benth.

THERMopsIs barbata. Royle, Ilustr. Himal. Pl. p. 100. t.34.f.1. Walp. Re-

pert. v. 1. p.562. Benth. in Hook. Lond. Jou p. 491.

p. 431

ANAGYRIS? barbata. Graham, in Wall. Cat. +

A fine species of Zhermopsis, with la

flowers, raised by Mr. Moore at the Glasnevin

from seeds sent from Himalaya by Majo Mad n, a

in June of the present year in the open air. It is a native of

elevations of 10,000 to 13,000 feet, chiefly in the drier valleys,

and has been found from Sikkim westward to the Simla Hima-

laya. . :

Desor. Roof perennial, woody. Stems stout, erect, branching,

six to eighteen inches high, villous with soft, spreading, white

hairs, as are the bracts, pedicels, calyx, and petioles. Leaves

whorled, sessile, lanceolate, acuminate or acute, glabrous OF Cl-

liated or hairy, three to seven in a whorl. F/owers in short ax-

illary racemes, together forming a thick, dense, elongated, com-

pound raceme.. Caly2 campanulate, with spreading, lanceolate,

AUGUST IsT, 1855. .

nts. Petals large, of a peculiar dull violeb-colouk, ;

8 ir erect, orbicular, two-lobed. Ale rounded

_shorter than the deflexed, oblong, blunt carina.

Ovary villous. Pod broadly oblong, blunt,

ed to a mucronate apex ; valves villous; seeds

Tas. 4869.

PHYSOSIPHON Loppiaestu.

Mr, Loddiges' Physosiphon.

Nat. Ord. OncHIDEH.—GyYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx tubulosus, basi ventricosus, apice trifidus. Pefala in fundo %:

calycis, carnosa, nana. Labellum et columna Stelidis. Pollinia 2, spherica—

Herb epiphyte Aaditu Pleurothallidis. Lindl.

PuysostpHon Loddigesii ; folio oblongo obtuso racemo solitario multo breviore,

calycis tubo triquetro, labelli lobo medio serrulato scabriusculo.

PuysosteHon Loddigesii. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. sub tab. 1797.

STELIs tubata. Lodd. Bot. Cad. t. 1601.

Received at Kew from the Belgian cultivators under a very

inaccurate name; and we are obliged to Dr. Lindley for the —

correct one, and the reference to the figure in Loddiges’ Bot. —

Cabinet. “Under the name of Sfelis tubata,” says Dr. Lindley, —

l.c., ‘Messrs. Loddiges have published a very curious plant,

with the habit of Pleurothallis, but with its sepals all united

into a tube, which is inflated at the base and contracted at the

mouth. Otherwise its fructification has the structure of Sfelis.”

Besides the present species, Dr. Lindley includes in the genus

Phys. emarginatus (Pleurothallis, Lindl.), and Phys. spiralis,

Lindl. (in Herb. Hook., from St. Catherine, Brazil), Phys. cari-

natus, Lindl. (a species very near the present), Phys. ochraceus,

Rich. and Galeotti (probably not distinct from this) ; and he has |

since expressed an opinion that Pceppig and Endlicher’s Speck-

linia dichotoma is a fourth species. ‘The present one is a native

of the mountains of Oaxaca, and flowers with us in July. Mr.

Loddiges describes and figures his plant as having drooping ra- —

cemes ; it is not so with us.

Drscr. From apparently a slender, creeping rhizome, arise

several, four to six or more, plants, each consisting of a petioled,

oblong, subspathulate, coriaceous, obtuse, one-nerved /ea/, the

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petiole sheathed with two cylindrical brown scales, from within

which the scape arises ; this is very slender, filiform, shorter than

the leaf, bearing one or two small, sheathing, remote dracts, and -

terminated by a long, slender, secund, erect, racemose spike of

many, rather distant, solitary flowers, which spread horizontally.

Pedicels a little longer than the sheathing, membranaceous bract,

curved. Flowers yellow-green in the lower half, the rest deep

red-orange, paler before full expansion. Three outer sepals (con-

- stituting the whole external portion of the flower) long lan-

- ceolate, but combined for more than half the length into the

: nish, triangular ‘vée, spreading or ventricose at the base,

contracted at the mouth; the dimd constituted by the three

- equally spreading, oblong, obtuse, mucronated, orange-coloured

apices. The rest of the flower is very small, and wholly included

within the tube. Petals obovate, shorter than the column and

lip. Zip articulated upon a short prolongation of the base of

the column, erect and applied to the face of the column, oblong,

-three-lobed ; intermediate lobe ovate, serrated ; within the lateral

lobes on each side is a lamella. Column semiterete, three-lobed

at the apex; /obes nearly equal, acute. Anther sunk im the

cavity between the three lobes.

_ Fig. 1. Portion of a rachis and flower. 2. Petals, labellum, and column

removed from the flower, fig. 1. 8. Column. 4, Labellum :—magnijied.

Tas. 4870.

EREMURUS sperctaBiLIs.

Showy Hremurus.

Nat. Ord. AsPHODELEZ.—HExANDRIA MonoGynla.

Gen. Char. Calyx 6-sepalus, corollaceus, regularis, deciduus(?); sepala dis-

tincta, inferne tri- superne uninervia, subzequalia, patentia, mox involuta. Stamina

6, hypogyna, sepala duplo superantia. Filamenta filiformia, imberbia, in alabastro

varie torta. Anthere biloculares, oblong, dorso supra basim bifidam pro re-

ceptione filiformi foramine instructs, margine tumido, secundum longitudinem

interne dehiscentes, interdum 1-2 castrate. Ovarium liberum, sessile, subglo-

bosum, triloculare ; ovuda in loculis 2 vel 3, inversa, uno latere secundum longi-

tudinem adnata (amphitropa, Hndl.); exostomio inferne spectante. Stylus

filiformis, stamina sequans, post fecundationem deorsum pendens, demum iterum

adscendens (Bieberst.). Stigma parvum, truncatum, simplex. Capsula mem-

branacea (Endi.), subgloboso-elliptica, 6-sulcata, trilocularis, loculicido-trivalvis ;

valvis medio septiferis. Semina in loculis 2-4, triquetra, arillo? tenuissime

membranaceo fuscescente, ad angulos alato prominente obtecta; testa nigra,

tenuis, coriacea. Hmbryo axilis, hilo parallelus, longitudine albuminis, extremitate

radiculari infera—Herba perennis. Radix e jibris crassis fasciculata. Folia

radicalia linearia, triquetro-carinata, striata ; caulis scapiformis, erectus, simplex,

nudus, apice racemoso-multiflorus. Flores longe pedicellati, solitarii, cernui, pedi-

cellis basi unibracteatis, sub apice articulatis. Sepala flavicantia, carina virente.

Eremurus spectabilis.

Eremurus spectabilis. Bieberst. Plant. Ross. t. 61. Fl. Taur. Cauc. v. 3. p. 269.

Fl. Alt. v. 2. p. 25. Sw. Fl. Gard. t. 188. Kth. Syn, Pl. 4. p. 554.

Spreng. Syst. Veget. p. 83.

Eremourvs Altaicus. Stev. in Nouv. Mém. de la Soc.des Nat. Mosc. v. 3.9. p. 98. t. 8.

Eremourvs Caucasicus. Stev. l.c. p. 96. ¢. 6.

Eremurvs Tauricus. Séev. 1. c. p. 97. ¢. 7.

AsPHODELUS Sibiricus. Sievers.

ASPHODELUS Altaicus, Pall.

A really handsome, hardy, Asphodelaceous plant, native of =

Altaic Siberia, the Caucasus, Koordistan, Tauria, Scinde, eto.

(Dr. Stocks). Variable indeed in its appearance (In a great |

measure perhaps depending upon soil and elevation above the —

level of the sea), and especially in the length and breadth of the —

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leaves, so that the excellent Steven has been induced to constitute

three species ; but neither do our authentic specimens, nor indeed

the descriptions of Steven, show any tangible specific distinctions,

and they are not adopted by succeeding botanists. Boissier has

indeed referred the Asphodelus Persicus of Jaubert and Spach

(Ill. Pl. Or. vol. 2. t. 102) to the genus Hremurus ; but the la-

mented Dr. Stocks rightly observes, in his notes on specimens

which he found in Scinde, “Hane plantam sub Hremuro potius

quam Asphodelo militare non solum ex antherz, filamenti, stig-

matisque characteribus (a cl. Bossiero enumeratis) patet,—sed

etiam ex ovulis in ovarii loculis 4—6 seminibusque membrana

laxa ad angulos alato-prominente testamque nigram tegente pre-

ditis.” Walpers enumerates it twice over under Hremurus and

— under Asphodelus. Boissier’s #. Aucheriana does not seem to

_ be truly different from spectabilis. It produces its long racemes

of sulphur-yellow flowers, with large bright orange-coloured an-

thers, in the month of June.

Descr. Root perennial, of several thick, fleshy, descending fasci-

culated fibres. Leaves all radical, from six inches to a foot long,

and from half an inch to two inches in width, linear-ligulate,

-glaucous-green, moderately channelled and obscurely keeled,

Sheathing at the base. Scapes three to four times as long as the

leaves (including the raceme), erect, terete, striated, bracteated.

Ltaceme elongated, subcylindrical, many-flowered. Flowers erect

in bud, patent when fully expanded. Bracteas subulate, gene-

rally shorter than the pedicels, which latter are about an inch

long. Perianth divided to the very base, with six ovato-elliptical,

spreading, sulphur-coloured sepals, slightly tinged with orange.

Stamens six. Filamenis rather longer than the sepals, orange-

coloured in their lower half. Anthers oblong, deep orange.

Ovary globose. Style subulate. Stigma a mere point.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Stamen. 3. Pistil:—magnified.

Tas. 4871.

ACHIMENES HETEROPHYLLA.

Various-leaved Achimenes.

Nat. Ord. GESNERIACE®.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4312.)

stylo staminibus longitudine corollz tubi.

Nostr.)

TREVIRANIA heterophylla.

] art. Nov. Gen. et Sp. v. 3. p. 65.

t.45: according to Walp. Ann. Bot. v. 1. p. 473).

4077 of our ‘ Botanical. Magazine.’

Trevirania pulchella.”

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AcuiMENgs heterophylia; parce pilosa, caule simplici atro-purpureo, foliis oppositis

petiolatis altero seepius minore ovatis acuminatis reticulato-venosis grosse

serratis, pedunculo axillari solitario unifloro basin versus szepe bibracteolato, —

ealycis lobis subulato-lanceolatis erectis eequalibus parce ciliatis, tubo ovario —

adheerente, corolle coccineze tubo (intus flavo) infundibuliformi-cylindraceo —

basi superne gibboso, limbi lobis zqualibus patentibus rotundatis crenatis,

Acuimenss heterophylla. De Cand. Prodr. v. 7. 536 (excl. Syn. Mart. t.120. —

: J. 2). Bentham, Plant. Hariw. p. 47. Hartw. Herb. Mewic. n. 352. (Herb.

ACHIMENES Ghiesbrechtii. Henders. Cat. 1853 (name only; but quoting as

syn. “A. ignescens,” Lemaire, MS. in Van Houtte Fl. der Gwehshsr. v. 3.

From the stove of the Royal Gardens of Kew, where it flowers

in July and August. Our plant was received from Mr. A. Hen-—

derson, Pineapple-place, Edgware-road, under the name of 4.

Ghiesbrechtii of Van Houtte ; and in Mr. Henderson’s catalogue —

for 1858 this is given as identical with 4. ignescens of Lemaire.

But it is unquestionably a species from Mexico, long ago described _

by Martius as Zrevirania heterophylla (Achimenes, DC), although —

our artist has not distinctly represented the imequality of size in

the opposite pairs of leaves which generally prevails. It is a

handsome species, most like Achimenes pedunculata, Benth., Tab. —

De Candolle has committed a little error in quoting Martius’

figure in the Nov. Gen. etc., t. 226, f. 2. The figure given there _

is thus referred to by Martius, under the species :—‘ Videas cha-—

racterem fructificationis (meaning of the genus) in tab. 226, f 2,

Drscr. Roof fibrous. Stem from a span to a foot high, dark

purple, herbaceous, slightly hairy, erect, decumbent only at the

very base. Leaves opposite, petioled, ovate, acuminate, one of

each pair usually smaller than the opposite one, the margins

coarsely serrated, the surface rugose with reticulated depressed

veins. Peduncles solitary, axillary, single-flowered, generally

having a minute pair of opposite minute bracteas near the base.

Calyx superior, of five, deep, subulate-lanceolate, erect, slightly

ciliated lobes. Corolla rich scarlet, glabrous (yellow within the

tube) ; the tube between cylindrical and funnel-shaped, slightly

curved, and slightly gibbous at the base above. Limdé of five,

spreading, equal, rounded, waved and crenulated lobes. Sta-

mens four, didynamous. Filaments inserted at the base of the

tube of the corolla, and nearly equal to it in length, and a fifth

abortive, subulate, very short filament. Ovary turbinate, united

with the tube of the calyx. Sfy/e filiform, as long as the stamens;

at its base is a five-lobed annular gland. Stigma two-lobed.

Fig. 1. Corolla laid open. 2. Ovary and style and portion of the calyx :—

SSS

4572

Vincent Brooks Imp —

Tas. 4872.

LEPTODACTYLON Catirornicum.

Californian Leptodactylon.

Nat. Ord. PoLEMONIACEH.—PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx tubuloso-campanulatus, subzequalis, semiquinquefidus, lobis

subulatis spinescentibus, sinubus membranaceis. Corolla infundibuliformis, limbo

patente, lobis obovatis obtusis. Stamina intra partem superiorem tubi inserta,

equalia. Anther@ oblonge. Stylus cum stigmatibus tubo corolle duplo brevior.

Capsula sublignosa, apice dehiscens ; loculis polyspermis, columna centrali cras-

siuscula.—Frutices humiles, ramosissimi. Folia alterna, profunde palmatisecta, la-

ciniis subulatis rigidis spinescentibus ; alia awillaria, integra, fasciculata. Flores

terminales, speciosi, Phlocem simulantes.

LepropactyLon Californicum ; superne pubescens, foliis patentibus, corolle

tubo exserto.

LEPTODACTYLON Californicum. Hook. e¢ Arn. Bot. of Beech. Voy. v. 1. p. 369.

t. 89.

Gira Californica. Benth. in De Cand. Prodr. v. 9. p. 316.

This lovely and hardy plant was considered by Dr. Arnott

and myself to constitute a distinct genus of Polemonacee, and

we named it Leptodactylon, from the deeply-digitated leaves and

their very narrow segments. Mr. Bentham however considers our

genus rather to form a section of Gi/ia, to which he gives our

name, Leptodactylon, and he adds to the two (L. Californicum.

and LZ. Hookerii), which we had referred to it, a third, from the

Rocky Mountains, namely, the Cantua pungens of Dr. Torrey

(Ogochloa Torreyi of Don, in Gard. Dict. vol. 4. p. 246). The

habit of our plant is more that of a Pi/or than ofa Gila. The

present species is a native of California, as its name implies,

and was first brought to notice by Douglas. Dr. Coulter also

found it in the same country, and Mr. William Lobb sent seeds

of it to Messrs. Veitch from San Bernardino, in South California,

and has thus been the means of introducing it to our gardens,

where, both in the Nursery at Exeter and at King’s-road, Chelsea,

it forms a low shrub in the open border, remarkable for the

slender segments of its copious foliage, and for the size and

beauty of the corollas. Blossoms in July.

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Descr. A low procumbent shrub, much branehed, the branches

slender, densely covered with fasciculated foliage. Leaves alter-

nate, deeply cut in a digitated manner, almost to the very base,

into from five to seven, subulate, but terete, rigid, hairy seg-

ments mucronate at their apices. Flowers copious, large, from

short lateral branches, often so crowded as entirely to conceal the

leaves and branches, sessile from the axils of the leaves. Calyx

with long, spreading hairs ; ¢vée cylindrical, with five ribs ; ¢eeth

subulate, mucronate. Corol/a hypocrateriform, rose-coloured ;

_ tube slender, longer than the calyx ; /imé of five, large, spreading,

cuneate, sometimes erose lobes. Anthers five, almost sessile, in-

serted just within the tube of the corolla, oblong. Ovary ovate,

glabrous, arising from an annular disc. Style as long as the

ovary. Stigmas three, erect, linear, as long as, or longer than

the style.

Fig. 1. Leaf with its axillary fascicle. 2. Calyx. 3. Corolla, the tube laid

open, showing the stamens. 4. Pistil :—magnified.

Tas. 4873.

HELIANTHEMUM Tvuserarta.

Truffle Rock-rose.

Nat. Ord. Crstacrm.—PoLyaNnpRIA MonoGyntia.

Gen. Char. Calyx triphyllus, bibracteolatus, bracteolis minutis, rarissime ca-

lycis foliola eequantibus vel nullis. Corolle petala 5, hypogyna, eequalia. Sta-

mina plurima, hypogyna, omnia fertilia ; filamenta filiformia, libera; anthere bi-

loculares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovarium uniloculare vel incomplete tri-

loculare, placentis nerviformibus, parietalibus vel semisepta marginantibus. Ovula

pauca vel plurima, orthotropa, e funiculis plus minus longis adscendentia vel

pendula. Stylus terminalis, cum ovario articulatus, filiformis vel subclavatus ;

stigma capitato-trigonum. Capsula chartacea vel subcartilaginea, unilocularis

vel incomplete trilocularis, loculicide trivalvis, valvaruam endocarpio membranaceo,

medio placentas vel semisepta margine seminifera gerente. Semina plurima vel

pauca, funiculo libero ad chalazam micropyli e diametro oppositam, inserta. Hm-

éryo intra albumen antitropus, uncinatus vel sigmoideus, cotyledonibus radicule

supere, chalazee e diametro opposite, interposito albuming accumbentibus vel in-

cumbentibus.—Herbe, suffrutices, vel fruticuli, in Luropa media et regione Medi-

terranea crescentes ; foliis alternis vel oppositis, stipulatis vel exstipulatis, tri- vel

penniveniis ; floribus solitariis, umbellatis, racemosis, corymbosis vel paniculatis.

Endl.

HeELianturmum Tuberaria; perenne, caulibus adscendentibus subsimplicibus,

- foliis radicalibus in petiolum desinentibus ovato-oblongis trinerviis tomen-

toso-hirsutis canescentibus subtus nervosis supra sulcatis, caulinis sessilibus

subglabris lanceolatis summis alternis, pedicellis basi bracteatis paucis sub-

paniculatis, calycibus glabris nitidis. De Cand.

Hetrantuemum Tuberaria. Mill. Dict. n.10. De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p. 270.

Cistus Tuberaria. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 741. Cav. Ic. v. 1. p. 65. t. 67.

TUBERARIA nostras. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. p. 12.

A really charming plant, the largest-flowered of all the species _

of Helianthemum, resembling in its blossoms a yellow rose, and

well adapted for sunny rockwork in a garden. Flowers in July,

and the blossoms continue long in succession. ‘The species in-

habits the south of France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Sicily, and the

north of Africa. It derives its specific name (Zwéerarta) from

the fact that it is found frequently in ground where Truffles

more or less abound. Hence it is the “ Zuéeraria nostras” and

“ Tuberaria major” of Bauhin.

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’

Descr. Root perennial. Leaves mostly radical, and these are

spathulate, that 1s, ovate or oblong, rarely subovate, acute, en-

tire, hairy and subtomentose (as is every part of the plant),

_ three-nerved, tapering below into a long petiole. Flowering-

stems (they may almost be called scapes) erect, panicled above,

bearing a few small, sessile, ovate, acute /eaves, sometimes op-

posite. Branches of the panicle bearing one-sided or secund

racemes. Pedicels bracteated at the base. Mowers very droop-

Ing in bud, erect when fully expanded in the sun. Calyz five-

sepaled, glabrous. Sepals, two outer small, three mner large,

broad-ovate, very acute, and very concave. Pedals five, bright

_ yellow, large, obcordate, spreading, with a dark blood-coloured

spot at the base. Stamens numerous; filaments rather short,

purple; anthers subglobose, deep yellow, almost orange. Ovary

_ globose. Stigma globose, sessile.

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Tas. 4874.

SALVIA CARDUACEA.

Thistle-leaved Sage.

Nat. Ord. LaBlat#.—D1anpria MONOGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx ovatus, tubulosus vel campanulatus, bilabiatus, labio supe-

riore integro vel tridentato, inferiore bifido, fauce intus nuda. Corolla tubo in-

cluso vel exserto, aquali, ventricoso vel ampliato, intus nunc piloso-annulato,

nunc nudo vel ad basin in latere inferiore processubus vel dentibus 2 instructo ;

limbo bilabiato, labio superiore erecto vel rarius patente, breviore vel longiore,

lobis lateralibus oblongis vel rotundatis ; patentibus, reflexis vel contorto-erectis,

medio plerumque latiore, integro vel emarginato. Staminum superiorum rudi-

menta nulla, vel parva claviformia ; fertilia (inferiora) 2 prope faucem tubi in-

serta; filamenta brevia, subhorizontalia vel rarius erecta, apice cum anthera arti-

culata et supra articulationem plerumque breviter producta, rarissime subconti-

nua. Anthere dimidiate. Connectiva elongata, linearia, transverse cum fila-

mento articulata; postice sub labio superiore corolla adscendentia et apice locu-

lum fertilem linearem adnatum vel versatilem ferentem, antice deflexa vel erecta,

nunc loculum alterum subconformem minorem polliniferum vel difformem cassum

gerentia, nune dilatata vel rarius brevissima, acuta, libera, vel seepius variis

modis inter se connexa vel connata. Ovarii discus antice tumens in glandulam

lobis subaequalem. Séylus adscendens, apice bifidus, lobis nunc subulatis zequa-

libus vel superiore longiore, nunc inferiore vel utroque rotundato dilatato com-

planato. Nucule ovoideo-triquetre, siccee, glabree, plerumque levissimee.—Genus

vastum, fere in omnibus regionibus terre obvinm, habitu et inflorescentia magnopere —

varium, semper antherarum structura agnoscendum. De Cand.

Satvra (§ Echinosphace) carduacea; caule erecto herbaceo subsimplici albo-

lanato, foliis petiolatis oblongis pinnatifidis subtus laxe lanatis, lobis ovatis

sinuato-dentatis, dentibus spinoso-acuminatis, floralibus bracteisque imbri-

catis spinosissimis, verticillastris remotis dense multifloris, calycibus inflatis

lanatis, corolla: tubo subincluso, labii inferioris lobo medio fimbriato.

Sazvra carduacea. Benth. Lab. p. 302. De Cand. Prodr. v.12. p. 349.

One of the most remarkable and easily recognized of the 407

species of the genus Salvia published by Mr. Bentham in De

Candolle’s Prodromus. That gentleman says of it, “ Species dis-

tinctissima, habitu Morine Persice vel Cardui.” It 1s a native

of California, discovered about the same time by Mr. Douglas

and Dr. Coulter; and now first introduced to our gardens by —

Messrs. Veitch, of the Exeter and Chelsea Nurseries, through a =

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their collector Mr. Lobb. It proves perfectly hardy, and is well

worthy a place in every garden. The flowers are large, beau-

tifully fringed, and of a delicate pale-purple colour, with deep

orange-coloured anthers: these flowers subtended by bracts and

floral leaves, quite resembling those of the Morina Persica. The

plant blossoms in July in the Exeter Nursery, whence our plant

here figured was derived. We have Coulterian and Douglasian

specimens in our Herbarium from California Proper, and others

from Los Angelos de Santa Barbara, from Mr. Nuttall, gathered

by Mr. Gambell.

Descr. Root fusiform, perennial. Stem one foot to one and

a half foot high, erect, four-angled and striated, very woolly,

branching at the base. eaves all radical, oblong-spathulate,

petiolate, sinuate, the lobes acute, spinuloso-serrate, cobwebby,

densely woolly beneath. Jowers terminal, in large, dense

pseudo-whorls ; the lower pseudo-whorl generally distant from

the rest. Bracts and floral-leaves verticillate, spreading, but

imbricate at the broad sessile base, oblong, acute, sinuato-spi-

— nulose, very woolly. Calye also with long lax wool, almost an

inch long, two-lipped ; wpper lip tridentate, ower shorter, bifid ;

all the teeth spinulose. Corol/a with the tube as long as the

calyx, white; /imd pale bluish-purple, as long as the tube, bi-

_ partite, gaping. Upper lip oblong, bifid and laciniated, plane

or with the margins recurved ; lower trifid: lateral lobes small,

lanceolate, slightly falcate, entire, intermediate one large, flabelli-

form, deeply fimbriated ; halfway down within the tube of the co-

rolla is a hairy ring. Stamens with sterile branch short, deflexed

within the tube; fertile branch erect, exserted, as long as the

lower lip. Fertile anther linear, curved, one-celled, hairy. Ovary

four-lobed, on a gland or receptacle as large as itself. Style

longer than the corolla. Stigma bifid.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Corolla laid open. 3. Fertile anthers. 4. Pistil:—

all more or less magnified.

Tas. 4875.

RHODODENDRON Kevyst.

Mr. Keys’ Rhododendron.

Nat. Ord. Ertcacrk®.—Dercanpria MonoGynia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4336.)

Subgen. Krysta, Nutt. Corolla tubuloso-cylindracea, limbi lobis erecto-conni-

ventibus, racemis brevibus e ramis vetustis lateralibus. Nutt.

Ruopopenpron (f Keysia) Keysii; ramis ferrugineis resinoso-punctatis, foliis

petiolatis elliptico-lanceolatis acutissimis mucronatis glabris, subtus pallidis

utrinque (subtus precipue) resinoso-punctatis, racemis aggregatis laterali-

bus ad basin ramulorum novellorum, calyce minuto e dentibus 5 acutis

eequalibus erectis, corolla tubulosa(!), limbi lobis 5 erectis ovatis obtusis,

staminibus 10, filamentis corolla tubum equantibus inferne hirsutis, ovario

ovato resinoso-punctato, stylo corolla breviore inferne hirsuto, stigmate vix

dilatato minute 5-lobo.

RHODODENDRON Keysii. Nutt. in Hook. Journ. of Bot. v. 5. p. 353.

This very remarkable Rhododendron is one of several new

species of the genus that rewarded the researches of Mr. Booth

in the mountains of Bootan,* and has been communicated to us

by his relative, Mr. Nuttall, from the garden at Mosley Hill,

Aigburth, Liverpool, the residence of Adam Fairrie, Esq. (Mr.

P. Williams, gardener), with the name, 2. Keysi. The remark-

able form of the corolla in this species, so unlike that of any in -

the genus, could not however escape the notice of so acute an

observer as Mr. Nuttall; and he suggested that it should consti-

tute a subgenus, under the name of Keysva, characterized by

the cylindrical corolla having a nearly equal five-lobed connivent

border. This name we have adopted. Mr. Nuttall further ob-

serves, that it bears its flowers in short axillary racemes coming

out of the old wood; and that in this respect, as in the shape of

* At an clevation of 9,000 to 10,000 feet above the sea-level; on the summit

and northern ridges of the Lablung, forming low thickets, among Gaultherias

and stunted Yews, above the ranges of R. Hookeri and R. Falconeri, and amid

snows two and three feet deep.

OCTOBER Ist, 1855.

the corolla, it resembles a Ziibaudia or Agapetes. It is indeed

a very remarkable species. The plant is cultivated under a vine

in a cool greenhouse, in consequence of which, Mr. Williams ob-

serves, the flowers (produced in July) are paler than they would

otherwise have been. The corollas too, let it be remarked, from

the blossoming having been too far advanced, had mostly fallen

off before the specimens reached the artist’s hands. In Mr. Nut-

tall’s garden it proved quite hardy during 1851 and 1852.

Duscr. Small shrvd, with ferruginous dranches, the young

ones densely dotted with resinous, glossy, reddish scales. Leaves

three to four inches long (on footstalks half to three-quarters of

an inch long), between elliptical and lanceolate, moderately cori-

aceous, glabrous, rather obtuse at the base, very acute and mu-

cronated at the apex, the upper side full green, the under side

paler ; both sides, but especially beneath, closely sprinkled with

the same reddish resinous dots as the young branches; costa

ferruginous. Veins not very conspicuous. Racemes clustered,

lateral, in consequence of the terminal shoot of the season, which

crowns the flowers: the bracts (if any) had fallen. Pedicels

dotted. Calyx minute, of five erect, nearly equal, short, acute

teeth. Corolla an inch long, forming a nearly cylindrical ¢uéde,

only very slightly contracted below the Jims, of a pale brick-red

colour (in the state in which we received them), yellowish at the

mouth and on the under side. Zimé of five, erect or subconni-

vent, ovate, obtuse lobes. Stamens and pistil included. Fila-

ments hairy below. Anthers with two large pores. Ovary resi-

noso-punctate, ovate, five-celled. Style hairy below. Stigma of

five minute lobes or points.

Fig. 1. Flower and pedicel. 2. Stamen. 3. Calyx and pistil. 4, Trans-

verse section of ovary :—magnified.

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Tas. 4876.

GILIA pDIANTHOIDEs.

Pink-like Gilia.

Nat. Ord. PoLEMONIACEZ.—PENTANDRIA MoNOGYNIA.

Gen, Char. Calyx tubuloso- vel obconico-campanulatus, 5-fidus, laciniis acutis.

Corolla infundibuliformis, nunc tubo longissimo fere hypocraterimorpha, nunc

tubo brevissimo subrotata, limbo regulari. Stamina ad faucem vel paulo infra

equaliter inserta, filamentis basi nudis vel piloso-appendiculatis. Discus cupuli-

formis, rarius obscurus. Ovarium ovoideum. Ovuia in loculis seepius plurima

(6-10) biseriata, interdum pauca, imo solitaria, nunc numerosissima 3—4 seriata.

Styli lobi seepe papilloso-hispidi. Capsula oblonga vel obovoidea, obtusa. Se-

mina ovoidea, angulata vel compressa, rarius angustissime alata.—Herbz annue

vel perennes, glabra, vel superne pubescentes vel lanate. Folia alterna vel oppo-

sita, subulata vel linearia, integra vel dissecta. Flores nune capitati, bracteis suf-

Julti vel ebracteati, nune sepius dissiti ebracteati. Corolle elegantes, lilacine pur-

purascentes albide vel rarius flavicantes. DC.

Gra (§ Dianthoides) dianthoides ; pusilla, simplex vel ramosissima glabra vel

hirsuta, ramis 1-paucifloris, foliis linearibus, floribus pedunculatis, corolle

lobis acutis serratis.

Gita dianthoides. End. Atakt. t. 29. Benth. in De Cand. Prodr. v. 9. p. 314.

Frnz1ta dianthiflora. Benth. in Bot. Reg. (under Tab. 1622, Collomia coccinea).

Hook. Ic. Plant. v. 2. p. 199.

This lovely annual, so well suited for a bedding-out plant, is

a native of California, where it was discovered by Douglas; but

is only now introduced to our gardens by the Messrs. Veitch, of

the Exeter and Chelsea Nurseries, through their collector, Mr.

William Lobb. Pretty as the species is in its wild state, and

as figured at Tab. 199 of our ‘Icones Plantarum,’ cultivation so

much improves it that at first sight it would be hardly recog-

nized as the same; for it becomes, from a little upright, scarcely

branched plant, with two or three flowers, a closely ramified and

spreading one, the filiform branches and small linear leaves com-

pletely covered and concealed by the numerous blossoms, of the

most delicate lilac colour, each having five dark blood-coloured

OCTOBER lst, 1855.

spots surrounding an orange-coloured eye in the centre. The

species blooms during the summer months, continuing long in

flower if sufficiently supplied with moisture.

Derscr. Root annual, fibrous, slender. Stem two to five or

six inches long, slender, filiform, glabrous, or with spreading

hairs, erect and nearly simple, or spreading more or less, often

very much and dichotomously branched; in the latter case

many-flowered. eaves opposite, connate at the base, in dis-

tant pairs, narrow, linear, hairy, and ciliate in the lower half.

Peduncles short, erect, slender, hairy, terminal and axillary, so-

_ litary, single-flowered. Flowers erect. Calyz of five linear seg-

ments, which are unequal in length, hairy on the back: the tu-

bular portion is membranous between the segments. Corolla

rotate, large in proportion to the size of the plant; ¢wée short:

limb of five, obovate, acute, spreading lobes, of a delicate lilac

colour, sharply dentato-serrate at the margin: at the base of

each segment is a dark, blood-coloured spot; and the mouth of

the tube is orange-yellow. Stamens five, equal, inserted near

the base of the tube: filaments slender, subulate. Anthers oval,

orange-coloured. Ovary ovate. Style a little longer than the

tube. Stigmas three, linear.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx and pistil. 3. Ovary. 4. The same cut through

transversely. 5. Leaves :—magnified.

Tas. 4877.

RHEUM ACUMINATUM.

Sharp-leaved Sikkim Rhubarb.

Nat. Ord. Potyconem®.—ENNEANDRIA TRIGYNIA.

_ Gen. Char. Perianthium 6-partitum, persistens. Stamina 9, perigonii foliolis

exterioribus geminatim, interioribus singillatim opposita. Stigmata 2-3. Cary-

opsis late alato-triquetra, basi perigonio emarcido stipata.—Herbe perennes Asia-

tice, foliis amplis, floribus pantculatis v. spicato-racemosis.

RHEUM acuminatum ; tripedale, ramosum, puberulum, foliis late cordatis acumi-

natis, petiolis ramisque panicule sulcatis granulatis, panicula composita

ramis strictis erectis, floribus (pro genere) majusculis, perianthii segmentis

subzequalibus late oblongis.

Rum acuminatum, Hook. Jil. et Thoms. MSS.

— The subject of this Plate, which is the common Rhubarb of

the Sikkim Himalaya, so closely resembles in most respects the

well-known 2. Hmodi, Wall. (2. australe, Don, see our Tab. 3508)

that we long hesitated about the propriety of describing it as a

different species ; after however having seen both cultivated for six

years in the Royal Gardens at Kew, we find no tendency in the

present to assume either the stature or the better-marked bota-

nical characters of R. Hmodi; and as the cultivated specimens

further retain all the distinctive features of the wild ones, which

were gathered in several distant localities, there can be little

doubt but that the two are permanently distinct. The pro-

minent characters of R. acuminatum are, its small stature and

slender habit, never exceeding a yard in height; its relatively

much broader leaves, which terminate in a long acuminate point ;

its flowers being three or four times the size of those of 2.

modi, and the segments of the perianth nearly equal, broader,

and more rounded. It inhabits rocky places, often amongst

brushwood in the subalpine and alpine regions of the Himalaya

of Sikkim and East Nepal, at elevations of 9—13,000 feet ; the

stems are pleasantly acid, and, though more dry and stringy

than those of 2. Hmodi, may be used for tarts; the root is

spongy, and but slightly, if at all, medicinal.

YCTOBER Ist, 1855.

With regard to the true R. Hmodi, Wall., which is the R.

australe of Don, it appears hitherto to have been found by Dr.

Wallich’s collectors only and in Nepal; and, as Royle has pointed

out, Wallich’s specimens of it preserved in the Linnean Herba-

rium are mixed with another species, 2. Webbianum, Royle.

The latter has since been collected in Kumaon (and in the

Tibetan province of Gugi, north of Kumaon) by Messrs. Strachey

and Winterbottom, in whose herbarium it is distributed under

the name of 2. modi. It is a specimen of this latter that

Meisner has further described as R. Hmodi in Wallich’s < Plante

Asiaticee Rariores’ (vol. iii. p. 65) ; and it was probably this also

that Wallich intended should bear that name, as it yields a far

better drug than the plant of which he sent home seeds, and

which has ever since been cultivated as R. Hmodi, Wall., or R.

australe, Don.

Duscr. Root a slender tap, sometimes several feet long, bright

orange within, spongy, and smelling slightly of medicinal Rhu- .

barb. Stem two to three feet high, sparingly branched, more

or less deeply red-purple or vinous, strongly grooved, covered, as

well as the petioles, panicles, peduncles, and pedicels, with minute,

granular, crystalline points. Stipules rather large, lanceolate,

acuminate. Pefioles slender. eaves a span long, broadly cor-

date, deeply bilobed at the base, with long, acuminate points,

pubescent below, opaque above, covered with minute crystalline

cells. Panicle sparingly branched ; dranches slender, rigid, bear-

ing small ovate leaves at the axils of the main divisions. Pedicels

_ very slender. Mowers upwards of a quarter of an inch across, —

_ deep lurid red-purple, or brown-purple. Zodes of the perianth

nearly equal in size, rounded. Fruit as in R. Emodi, Wall.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil. 3. Fruit :—magnified.

Tas. 4878.

ODONTOGLOSSUM macuLatTumM.

Spotted Odontoglossum.

Nat. Ord. OrncHIDACE®.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Perianthium explanatum, sequale ; sepalis petalisque angustis acu-

minatis liberis. Zabellum indivisum, ecalearatum, unguiculatum : ungue cum

basi columns continuo; lamina patente basi cristata. Columna erecta, mem-

branaceo-marginata, apice utrinque alata. Andthera bilocularis. Pollinia 2,

solida, ‘caudicula lineari, glandula hamata—Herbe epiphyte, pseudobulbifere.

Folia plicata. Scapus terminalis, vaginatus. Flores speciosi. Lindl.

OponToctossuM maculatum; pseudobulbis oblongis compressis monophyllis,

foliis oblongis nervosis acutiusculis, racemis pendulis multifloris brevioribus,

bracteis navicularibus herbaceis ovario brevioribus, sepalis lineari-lanceolatis

acuminatis discoloribus, petalis oblongis undulatis acuminatis, labello cor-

dato acuminato subcrenato, appendice unguis bivalvi concava cochleari apice

producta emarginata per medium argute serrulata, columna pubescente.

Lindl.

OvonrocLossum maculatum. Lindl. Bot. Reg. v. 26 (1840). ¢. 30.

From the Orchideous house at Kew, where it bears its long

pendent spike of lovely flowers in August. It is a native of

Mexico, imported thence by Count Karwinski, who has the credit

of its discovery. Dr. Lindley notices its affinity with the Odon-

toglossum Cervantesii of La Llave, and O. cordatum of the ‘Floral

Cabinet,’ but pronounces it to be truly distinct. oo ie

Descr. The specific character above given suffices for its dis-

tinction from other species. The psewdodulbs are rather small,

clustered, oblong, compressed, green, and subtended by herba- |

ceous scales. Leaf solitary, terminal on the bulb, oblong, lan- ee

ceolate, one-nerved, acute, subcoriaceous. Scape elongated, from

the base of the pseudo-bulbs, bracteated. Spike pendent, six- to

eight-flowered. Flowers large, very handsome. Calyx of three

lanceolate, spreading, much acuminated sepals, deep yellow,

blotched with rich brown, uppermost sepal the largest and ;

OCTOBER Ist, 1855.

< Petals spreading, of the same shape, but broader and

er, more regularly spotted. ip large, spreading, white,

reddish blotches. Column downy.

Tan. 4879.

CAMPANULA primuLa@FLoRa.

Primrose-leaved Bell-flower.

Nat. Ord. CAMPANULACEE®.—PENTANDRIA MonoGynIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx 5-fidus. Corolla apiece 5-loba vel 5-fida, seepius campanu-

lata. Stamina 5, libera ; filamentis basi latis et membranaceis, Stylus in preeflora-

tione pilis collectoribus (excepta ima basi) tectus. Stigmata 8 vel 5, filiformia.

Capsula 3—-5-locularis, valvis 83-5 lateraliter dehiscens. Semina ovata, compla-

nata vel ovoidea.—Herbee sepius perennes, nunc huimiles et humifuse, nunc 2-3-

pedales, erecte, multiflora, foliis radicalibus sepius forma diversis, floribus termi- —

nalibus vel awillaribus. Omnes in hemispherio boreali. DC.

CaMPANvLA (§ Eucodon) primuleflora; caule hispido simplici erecto, foliis pi-

losis ineequaliter duplicato-crenatis, radicalibus oblongo-lanceolatis obtusius-

culis petiolo marginato, caulinis ovato-oblongis acutis, floribus spicato-

racemosis axillaribus ternis vel singulis, tubo calycis obconico piloso, lobis _

acuminatis basi latis denticulatis corolla campanulata rotata duplo breviori- _

CaMPaNvLa primulefolia. Bot. Fi. Lusit. p. 288. Phytogr.v. 1. t. 20. De

Cand. Prod. v. 7. p. 478. e

CamPaNuLa peregrina. Hofim. et Link, Fl. Port. v. 2. p. 15. t. 83 (not Linn.).

The volume of De Candolle’s ‘ Prodromus,’ published in 1839,

contains 182 species of Campanula, and fifty-five species are

added since that period, and are included in Walpers’ ‘ Reper-

torium’ and ‘ Annales.’ Many of them are probably of doubtful

specific value. Happily the present one is well marked, and has

been both well defined and well figured in two continental pub- —

lications, though mistaken for another species in that of Link

and Hoffmannsegg: and it is one that deserves to be better —

known in this country than it is, for it is eminently handsome ~

and quite hardy, and may be made a great ornament to our —

flower-borders. It is a native of Portugal,* growing in moist —

rocks and shady places of the Algarves and Beira, and near

Coimbra, above Punhete and about Monchica : probably a rare

* The native country of this is, by some accident, omitted in De Candolle’s _

* Prodromus.’

OCTOBER Ist, 1855.

species. It flowers with us in July and August. Its nearest

affinity is with C. peregrina (Bot. Mag. t. 1257), from which it

differs essentially in its perennial root, angular, hispid stem, in

the different form and hairiness of the leaves, and in the absence

_ of the dark, almost black ring in the inner base of the corolla.

Dzscr. Root perennial. Stem annual, erect, two to three feet

high, branching only at the base (hence the plant takes a pyra-

midal figure), angular, succulent, the angles winged and hispid.

Leaves oblong or broad, lanceolate, alternate, spreading, reticu-

lately veined, unequally crenato-serrated and hairy, or hispid,

chiefly on the veins beneath, sessile, on the radical ones only

tapering into a winged, short petiole. F/owers solitary, or three

or four from the axils of leaves, which gradually become smaller

and bracteiform upwards. Peduncles short, single-flowered, his-

pid. Calyx-tube hemispherical, angled, hispid: md of five

_ spreading, lanceolate-subulate, sometimes serrated, ciliated seg-

‘ments, shorter than the tube of the corolla. Corolla large,

handsome, glabrous, purple-blue, pale at the base within: tube

short, broad, campanulate, spreadmg at the mouth: /imé of five

broad-ovate, rather acute, spreading lobes. Filaments with a

very broad, dilated base, completely covermg the top of the

ovary: anthers linear. Style short: stigmas three, large, linear-

oblong, spreading. —

Fig. 1. Pistil and stamens :—magnified.

Tas. 4880.

CLERODENDRON FOTIDUM.

Fetid Clerodendron.

Nat. Ord. VERBENACER.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. Calye campanulatus, rarius tubulosus, interdum pentagonus et

subinflatus, 5-fidus vel 5-dentatus, rarissime truncatus. Corolla infundibuliformis —

vel subhypocraterimorpha, tubo sepissime calycem conspicue excedente interdum»

longissimo, limbo 5-partito laciniis superioribus paulo magis approximatis sub- —

ineequali vel laciniis inferioribus magis minusve adscendentibus obliquo immo

subsecundo. Stamina 4, corolle tubo inserta, longe exserta, subdidynama ;

anthere supra basin inserte, basi fisse, biloculares, loculis parallelis rima longi- —

tudinali dehiscentibus. Ovarinm 4-loculare, loculis uniovulatis, ovulo in spermo-

phoro angulo centrali adnato pendulo. Stylus filiformis, exsertus, stigmate bifido

acuto. Drupa calyci ampliato insidens vel inclusa, baccata vel carnosa, quadri- —

vel sepius abortu mono-di-tripyrena, sepius 2—4-loba, pyrenis maturitate dis-

tinctis unilocularibus, putamine lignoso levi. Semen solitarium, erectum. Coty-

ledones oleose, applicite, radicula brevis infera—Frutices vel arbores inter

tropicos veteris orbis, imprimis vero Asie, copiose, in America vero parce crescentes.

Folia opposita vel terna, simplicia, integra vel rarius lobata, phyllopodio interdum

prominenti persistenti insidentia. Cymee trichotome vel axillares vel in paniculam

terminalem collecte. DC. é

CLERODENDRON fetidum ; foliis late cordatis pubescenti-pilosis grosse_ ct

dentatis subtus ad nervorum axillis glandulosis, corymbis dense

terminalibus, tubo corolle longissimo calycem quintuplo excedente,

4—5-partito. ‘ Bost

CLERODENDRON feetidum. Bunge, Mém. des Savans trang. de St. Pétersb. v. 2.

p. 126. Walp. Repert. Bot. v. 2. p. 126. aN :

CLERODENDRON Bungei. Steud. Nomencl. Bot. ed. 2. p. 382.

A charming species of Clerodendron of northern China, first

detected and described by Bunge, and more recently introduced —

to cultivation in our gardens by Mr. Fortune. We owe the pos-

session of our plant to Messrs. Standish and Noble, and we have -

hitherto treated it as a greenhouse plant; but Messrs. Masters —

and Sons, of the Exotic Nursery, Canterbury, announce, in the

‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle’ (1854), that it stood out unharmed in the

open air for six winters, till the winter of 1853-1854, but that

in May of that year a sucker was protruded a foot from the

ground, which attained a height of between three and four feet

OCTOBER lst, 1855.

before the autumn. It flowers in August, and the flowers were

rather fragrant than fetid.

Descr. Our plant forms a small handsome bushy s/rué, with

upright downy éranches, the younger ones, especially, beset with

_ short rigid aculei, partially concealed in the tomentum. Leaves

_ (on slender petioles, two to three inches long, channelled above),

opposite, large in proportion to the size of the plant, five to seven

inches long, broad, cordate, veined and reticulated, much acu-

_ minated, downy on both sides, the margin (except at the acu-

_ Inination) coarsely dentato-serrate. Corymds large, terminal,

compound, hemispherical, their dranches and pedicels downy.

_ Flowers very numerous, compact. Calyzx-tube oval-cylindrical,

downy ; Zimé of five erect or slightly incurved acute teeth. Co-

_ rolla wifundibuliform, with the tube very long and slender, twice

as long as the limb is broad, and three or four times longer than

the calyx including the limb : corolline limb spreading horizon-

tally, deep bright lilac, cut nearly to the base with five obovate

lobes. Stamens four, much exserted : filaments slender, filiform,

_ two alittle shorter than the other two: azthers dark purple, ob-

long, versatile. Ovary globose : style slender, filiform, glabrous,

_ longer than the corolline tube, but shorter than the filaments :

_ stigma slightly clavate, bifid.

Fig 1. Flower. 2. Pistil.

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Tas. 4881.

PHYGELIUS Capensts.

Cape Phygelius.

Nat. Ord. Scropnunarracem.—DIpyNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus. Corolle tubus elongatus, incurvus, limbi valde ~

obliqui laciniis rotundatis. Stamina declinata, exserta, quinti rudimentum ad

basin corolle minimum. Antherarum loculi paralleli, apice vix confluentes. Cap-

sula valde obliqua, loculo postico multo majore, apice tardius septicide dehiscens,

valvulis integris ? vel irregulariter disruptis? Semina ovoidea, subangulata ; testa

crassiuscula, spongiosa.—Genus Austro-Africanum, foliis Scrophularie, inflores-

- centia e¢ floribus Pentstemoni affine. Benth.

PHYGELIUS Capensis,

PuyGeius Capensis.. Z. Mey. MSS. Benth. in Comp. to Bot. Mag. v.2. p. 53.

Fielding, Sert. Plant. t. 66, 67. Benth. in De Cand. Prodr. v. 10. p. 300.

This beautiful plant, only recently discovered in Caffreland, at

Witbergen, on the sides of streams, by Drege, has very little the

habit of a plant of those regions, but reminds.one singularly of

the Pentstemons of North America. It was named Phygelius by

Ernest Meyer, probably from duyn, flight, shunning, or eschewing ;

in consequence of its having so long escaped the résearches of

botanists. Our noble flowering specimen was sent by Messrs.

Veitch, of the Exeter and Chelsea Nurseries, where it came to

great perfection in the open border in the summer months, and

promises to ripen seed : if it does, the plant will prove a great

acquisition to our gardens. It will, too, in all probability, in-

crease by cuttings, for the lower part of the plant at least is

perennial and shrubby: but it may require a greenhouse to pro-

tect it in the winter. The Witbergen is, we believe, however, a

very elevated mountain ; though we know not the height of the

locality of this plant above the level of the sea,—probably suffi-

ciently to justify an opinion of its being perfectly hardy.

Descr. Plant two to three feet high, including its panicle,

erect, below shrubby, above herbaceous, branched, everywhere

glabrous ; branches four-sided, angles winged. Leaves opposite,

the lower ones moderately large, four to five inches long (ex-

NOVEMBER Ist, 1855.

clusive of the petiole, which is two or two and a half inches long,

deeply channelled above, and auricled at the base on each side),

ovate, scarcely acuminate, serrated, penniveined, and reticulated

with transverse veins. The leaves gradually become smaller up-

wards. Panicle pyramidal ; rachis four-angled, winged ; branches

corymboso-racemose ; pedicels curved downwards, with all the

flowers secund and drooping. Calye with the tube short, cup-

‘shaped, obtuse at the setting on of the pedicel : /émé of five,

spreading, ovato-acuminate, spreading segments. Corolla tubu-

lar, funnel-shaped: the ¢u4e very long, curved, the base dilated

and inflated: /imd very oblique, of five, spreading, ovate seg-

ments: the colour is fine deep red, yellow at the base of the

limb. S¢amens four, exserted, didynamous : filaments inserted a

little below the mouth of the corolla, but their base is decurrent

within the tube: anthers oval, erect, free. Ovary ovate. Style

longer than corolla and stamens. S¢igma obtuse.

Figs. 1, 2. Portion of stem and leaves :—nat. size. %. Corolla laid open.

4, Anther. 5. Pistil. 6. Transverse section of ovary :—magnified.

4882

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Tas. 4882.

SOBRALIA rracrans.

Fragrant Sobralia.

Nat. Ord. OrcHTDACER.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Gen. Ohar. (Vide supra, Tas. 4632.)

Sopraxta fragrans ; humilis, glaberrima, caule pedunculoque ancipitibus, spatha

biflora carinata diphylla herbacea nunc foliacea, floribus parvis parum apertis,

labelli lobo medio cuneato bilobo lacero lateralibus obsoletis integerrimis

venis 9 lacero-cristatis. Lindl.

Sopraia fragrans. Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1853. p. 598. no. 5. Fol. Orchid.

Part 5. n. 12.

A very pretty, fragrant, small Sobralia, native of New Granada,

in the province of Ocafia, where it appears to have been disco-

vered by Schlim, and is probably introduced to our English

stoves by way of Belgium, Dr. Lindley describes it from spect-

mens sent by Linden, and from the living plant m the collection

of R. Hanbury, Esq. We are indebted for the individuals here

figured to Messrs. Henderson, of St. John’s Wood. They differ

a little from Dr. Lindley’s description, in having the sepals and

petals of the same uniform pale sulphur-colour (not the sepals

dull purplish-green), and in the flowers not bemg 1m pairs, but

solitary, perhaps from want of vigour in our plant.

Descr. Terrestrial. The sfems are about a foot high, clustered,

several from one root, compressed, the lower half sheathed with

the base of the lower leaf, and with several scales near the root.

Leaves one to two, oblong-lanceolate, four to five inches long,

rather fleshy, glabrous (as is every part of the plant), longitudi-

nally nerved, the nerves prominent beneath. Peduncle terminal,

long, compressed or ancipitate, bearing at the end two or three

lanceolate, more or less leafy, carinate, green bracteas, the outer

two to three inches long: from within these the flower emerges,

small for the genus, two inches long, fragrant, pale sulphur-

yellow, a little inclining to green. The flower 1s moderately ex-

panded. Sepals spreading, oblong-lanceolate : petals of the same

NOVEMBER lst, 1855.

_ shape, but closing over the column. Zp moderately large, ob-

ovate or cuneate, the side lobes obsoletely, confined to the invo-

lute lower margin; middle lobe large, spreading, beautifully

erisped and fimbriated; the disc has a deep tinge of yellow.

‘Throughout the whole length of the lip run nine elevated lines

or lamellz, which are delicately fringed towards the apex of the |

lip. Column semiterete, club-shaped: the anther sunk into a

cavity (clinandrium) at the extremity.

Fig. 1. Lip. 2. Column. 3. Pollen-masses :—magnified.

‘ Tas. 4883.

BILLBERGIA ruHopocyanea.

blue and red Billbergia.

Nat. Ord. BromeLiaceE®.—HEXxaNpDRIA MoNnoGyNIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4756.)

BILuBERGIA rhodocyanea ; foliis erecto-patulis exterioribus recurvatis omnibus

rigidis lingulatis basi dilatato-amplexantibus canaliculatis spinis nigris mar-

ginatis minute striolatis glauco-viridibus transversim albo-fasciatis apice

spinoso-apiculatis, seapo foliis breviore, thyrsoque capitato multibracteatis,

bracteis lanceolato-acuminatis spinoso-serratis omnibus roseis subfurfura-

ceis, alabastris roseis, floribus albis apice purpureo-ceruleis.

BILLBereta rhodocyanea. Lemaire in Van Houtte, Flor. der Gewchshsr. v. 3. p.

207. Walp. Ann. Bot. v. 1. p. 838.

Received at the Royal Gardens of Kew from Belgium under

the above objectionable name—a compound of Greek and Latin.

We find no locality given. South America abounds in beautiful

plants of this and of allied genera, which are eminently worthy

a place in our stoves, and which are neglected by the herbalist

because they are so troublesome to dry. ‘The present species has

its dark-green leaves elegantly banded with interrupted lines

of white; the bracts rose-colour, the rather large corollas white

tipped with blue.

Desor. Plants tufted. Leaves radical, outer a foot or a foot

and a half long, reflexed, inner gradually shorter and more up-

right, all ligulate, obtuse, with an acuminated mucro, the sides

incurved, so that the leaf is channelled and almost semicylindrical,

the colour externally dark green, occasionally tinged with dull

purple, banded transversely with slightly wavy interrupted white

lines, the apex is free from these bands, upper or inside of the

leaves uniform yellow-green ; the margin is beset with very sharp,

slightly curved, black spinules or prickles, all pointing upwards.

Scape shorter than the leaves, and almost entirely concealed by

NOVEMBER lst, 1855.

them, bracteated, dracteas lanceolate, very much acuminated,

rose-coloured, farinose, spinuloso-serrated at the margin. Flowers

arranged in a capitate ¢yrsus, clothed with numerous imbricating

rose-coloured bracteas, resembling those of the scape, concealing

the flowers till they are nearly expanded. Calyw-tube oval, in-

corporated with the ovary, yellowish, downy ; /imdé of three, rose-

coloured, erect, ovate, downy, blunt segments. Corolla of three,

linear-oblong or spathulate, erect, slightly convolute, very obtuse ;

petals vose-colour in bud, when perfect white, gradually passing

into blue at the tips, the margin here and there with a subulate

slender tooth. Sca/es at the base of the petals oblong, fringed

at the apex. Stamens shorter than the petals. Anthers linear,

acute. Style a little shorter than the stamens: stigma trifid, seg-

ments cuneate.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Petal, stamens, and scales. 3. Pistil :—magnified.

Tas. 4884.

SALVIA aspERATA.

Rough-leaved Sage.

Nat. Ord. Laprat#.—D1anpr1a MonoeyNia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4874.)

Satvra asperata ; caule herbaceo-glanduloso pubescente et piloso, foliis petiolatis

late subcordato-ovatis breviter acuminatis eroso-crenatis ramosissimis villo-

sis subtus vix canescentibus floralibus latis acuminatis herbaceis plerisque

calyces superantibus, racemis subramosis, verticillastris distantibus 6-10-

floris, calycis campanulati hispido-ciliati labio superiore subtridentato dente

supremo minimo ceeteris rectis vel subincurvis spinuloso-acuminatis, corolla

tubo calycem sequante galea falcata compressa.

SaLvia asperata. Falconer, MSS. Benth. in De Cand. Prodr. v. 12. p. 282.

Drawn from a plant that flowered in the open border of the

Royal Gardens of Kew in the summer of 1855. The seeds were

sent from Cashmere to Isaac Anderson,* Esq., of Maryfield,

Edinburgh, to whom we are indebted for the specimen here

figured. We know it to be identical with the 8. asperata of

Falconer, in De Cand. Prodr. 1. ¢.; but we are almost disposed

to consider it a variety of S. Sclarea, to which S. Simsiana, Ker,

Bot. Reg. t. 1003, and S. bracteata, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 2320,

should be referred. Mr. Bentham further notices the affinity of

this species with 8. Zingitana and S. Palestina, “ sed imprimis

foliorum forma differt.”

Dzscr. Our plant grows to the height of about two feet, and

is more or less branched from near the root. Stem erect and (as

well as the four-sided branches) hairy, the hairs mixed with glan-

* We have committed an unintentional error in saying at our Tab. 4874 that

the Californian Salvia carduacea blossomed in and was derived from the Exeter

and Chelsea Nurseries. It was indeed communicated to us by Messrs. Veitch,

and along with other Californian plants from thence; but it was accidentally

omitted to be stated that it was introduced to this country by the gentleman

above mentioned, Isaac Anderson, Esq., of Maryfield, Edinburgh, and by that

gentleman obligingly communicated to us through Messrs. Veitch, as they now

inform us. We are very glad to have the opportunity of correcting this error.

NOVEMBER Ist, 1855.

dular pubescence. Zeaves (the lower ones on long petioles), the

upper ones sessile, ovate or ovato-oblong, cordate at the base,

subacute, coarsely and duplicately dentato-serrate, villous, the

surface wrinkled and asperate, with raised arcole of the reticu-

lated veins, paler, and somewhat downy beneath. Floral spikes

very long. /Vhorls of from six to eight nearly sessile flowers;

each whorl subtended by a pair of opposite, sessile, large, broad-

ovate, sharply acuminated, spreading or reflexed, striated, sub-

membranaceous drac?s, pale-green, with streaks of greenish-white.

Calye campanulate, nearly as long as the tube of the corolla,

hispid, two-lipped : upper lip of three, sharp, spinulose teeth,

of which the intermediate one is the shortest ; lower one two-

toothed. Corolla greenish-white : ube curved, cylindrical, one-

third the length of the limb: Zimé two-lipped: upper lip longer

than the lower one, oblong, falcate, compressed, pubescent, and

hispid; lower lip three-lobed, intermediate lobe sarcate, hairy

large fleshy disc. Style very long, but included with the com-

pressed, upper lip: stigma of two, unequal, subulate segments,

a little exserted.

Fig. 1. Corolla. 2. Pistil :—magnified.

externally. Stamens included. Ovary four-lobed, seated on a

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STANHOPEA gEcornutTa.

Hornless Stanhopea.

Nat. Ord. OrncHIDACEm.—GYNANDRIA MoNANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Perianthium membranaceum, patentissimum vel reflexum, Sepala

libera, subundulata, mole sua ruentia. Petala conformia, angustiora. Labellum

liberum anticum; dimidio superiore (epichilio) convexo, inferiore (hypochilio)

excavato. Columna longissima, petaloideo-marginata. Anthera bilocularis.

Pollinia 2, elongata, fissa, caudicula quam glandula biloba stipitata breviore.—

Epiphyta pseudobulbosa. Folia plicata. Scapi radicales, vaginati, pauciflori.

Flores mawximi, magis minusve maculati. Lindl.

STANHOPEA ecornuta; scapo brevi pendulo, bracteis ovario brevioribus, sepalis

petalisque minoribus ovatis obtusis carnosis concavis, labello calceiformi ob-

tusissimo ecornuto margine antico tuberculato, columna brevissima carnosa

sinuato-lobata. Lindl.

SraNnHOPEA ecorunta. Lemaire, in Flore des ‘Serres, p. 181, Dec. 1846. Pazton,

Flow. Gard. Gleanings, no. 54. ic. 20. Reich. fil. Bot. Zeit. X. 1852, p. 836.

Lindl. Fol. Orchid. Part 1. p. 8.

STANHOPEASTRUM ecornutum. Reich. fil. in Mohl et Schlecht. Bot. Zeit. X.

1852, p.927. Xenia Orchid. tab. 43.

From the collection of Mr. Loddiges, at Hackney, who received

it from Central America. I am indebted to Dr. Lindley for the

following remarks, which are of more value than the most ela-

borate description, on this curious Orchid :— Em

“This plant was first published by Professor Lemaire in the

‘Flore des Serres,’ of December, 1846; and from that work it

was taken up in my ‘ Folia Orchidacea’ (October, 1852), with

the suggestion that it might be ‘a monster of some kind ; for in-

stance, of S. dricornis.’ Immediately afterwards Professor Reich- _

enbach, jun., announced (B. Zeit. Dec. 24, 1852) that he had ex- _

amined it, and ascertained that it was no monster, but a new

genus, Stanhopeastrum, ‘ uniting Peristeriacee and Stanhopeacee.’

This opinion my learned friend still entertains. When I ven-

tured to suggest the possibility of the plant being a monster, I

had not seen it. Now that a living specimen has been under

NOVEMBER Ist, 1855.

my observation, I entertain much the same opinion as before.

It is true that the separation of epichil, mesochil, and hypochil,

so remarkable in Stanhopea, does not occur in this plant; that

there is an elevated table in the middle of the hollow of the lip ;

and the column, instead of being long and winged, is short,

fleshy, and wingless. But, on the other hand, the habit of the

plant is so exactly that of Stanhopea, that Mr. Loddiges, from

whom the specimen which furnished the drawing was received,

always supposed it to be &. grandiflora. Nor does its mode of

flowering present any the smallest difference from Stanhopea

cirrhata, a plant from nearly the same country. That same

species has also a wingless, short, fleshy column ; its epichil is

equally undivided, the mesochil is scarcely distinguishable, and

the hypochil has a pair of fleshy horns, which answer to the la-

teral tumours in the lip of the species before us. With regard

to the elevated table in the middle of the lip, upon which the

_ Claim of Stanhopeastrum to be a genus must chiefly rest, I would

point to the great tabular mesochil of 8. grandiflora and qua-

dricornis as indicating a tendency towards the same structure.

Upon the whole, after weighing all the evidence that is attain-

able with regard to this question, that which I originally ha-

zarded as a conjecture has become a conviction, and I entertain

no doubt that we shall eventually discover proof that Stanhopea

ecornuta 1s a mere form of some such plant as S. cirrhata.”

Lindl.

_ It is only justice to the learned Professor Reichenbach, jun.,

_ to say that, since the above was communicated to us, he aban-

_ dons the views he held on the subject of the generic distinction

of this plant, and entirely agrees with those of Dr. Lindley.

_ Fig. 1. Column and lip. 2. Front view of the lip. 3. Front view of the

column. 4. Pollen-masses :—all more or less magnified,

Tas. 4886.

DENDROBIUM MacCarruta.

Mrs. MacCarthy’s Dendrobium.

Nat. Ord. OrcHIDE®.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4755.)

Denprosium MacCarthie; caulibus pendulis flagelliformibus teretibus striatis

versus apicem foliosis, nodis parce tumidis, racemis axillaribus 4—-5-floris,

floribus magnis dilute purpureis, sepalis lanceolatis acutis petala multo latiora

ovato-lanceolata longitudine fere equantibus, labello subtrilobato vel sub-

trapeziformi apice rotundato retuso, foliis lanceolatis.

This beautiful species of Dendrobium, which appears hitherto

to have escaped the observation of botanists in Ceylon, occurs

sparingly, pendent from the trunks of large trees, in the forests

about Ratuapoora and towards Galle, where it seemed to be

pretty generally known to the natives under the name of “ is-_

sak-mal,’ the meaning of which is “ Rainy-month flower,” or

“ May-flower.”’

With this charming plant, which is certainly the most beau-

tiful of the Ceylon Orchidacea, 1 wish to be associated the name

of my excellent friend Mrs. MacCarthy, the accomplished lady

of the Honourable C. J. MacCarthy, Esq., Colonial Secretary of:

the island, to whose kindness and regard for science I have been

indebted for many facilities in pursuing my investigations.

Duscr. Stems simple, one and a half to two feet long, of

about the thickness of a goose-quill, striated, slightly swollen at

the joints; internodes one to one and a half inch long. Leaves

few at the upper part of the stem, lanceolate, two and a half to

three inches long and from three-quarters to one inch wide. Ra-

cemes one to three, each one in the axil of a leaf, four- or five-

flowered ; peduncles with several sheathing bracts at the base ;

pedicels whitish, about one and a quarter inch long. Howers hand-

some, nearly three inches long and three and a half inches wide,

flattened vertically, pale purple.

equalling in length the mach wider oblong-lanceolate petals ;

DECEMBER Ist, 1855.

Sepals narrow-lanceolate, nearly :

iy of the same length as the petals, somewhat trapeziform,

rounded at the apex, retuse, scarcely three-lobed, somewhat cari-

nated above, white, with numerous small purple spots on the

throat, a large dark purple blotch on the disc, and the apex

broadly margined with paler purple, with about seven dark — ;

purple longitudinal streaks. Column white, slightly tinged with —

urple, subquadrate, with two truncated erect or slightly reflexed —

rns, between which is situated the helmet-shaped, purplish —

ther-cell ; the four narrow yellow pollen-masses cohere into an

Tas. 4887.

DELPHINIUM carpIna.e.

Scarlet-flowered Larkspur.

Nat. Ord. RANUNCULACEH.—POLYANDRIA TRIGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx deciduus, petaloideus, irregularis, sepalo nempe superiore in

calear deorsum producto. -Petala 4; 2 superiora basi in appendicibus intra

calear contentis producta. De Cand.

DELPHINIUM cardinale ; glabra elata, foliis (ratione plante) amplis longe petio-

latis digitato-quinquepartitis laciniis cuneato-lanceolatis simplicibus vel 3-5-

fidis, segmentis longe-acuminatis, caulinis paucis sensim minoribus simpli-

cioribus, panicula elongata, floribus intense coccineis, sepalis late ovatis

obtusis, petali inferioris limbo bifido duobusque interioribus versus apicem

pilosis, calcare rectiusculo floris longitudine, ovariis glabris.

Blue or purple or white Zarkspurs are familiar to us in our —

gardens. We have now the pleasure of making known a species

of Delphinium equalling if not surpassing any other in the size

and symmetry of the plant, and excelling in the brilliancy of co-

Jour of the flower, and that as rich a scarlet as can well be looked

upon. It is one of the many novelties detected by Mr. Wn.

Lobb in California, and introduced to our gardens by Messrs.

Veitch and Sons, of the Exeter and Chelsea Exotic Nurseries.

Treated as a hardy annual, it cannot fail to be a great favourite

with all lovers of handsome flowers. The United States Ex-

ploring Expeditions have likewise met with this rarity on their

overland journeys to California, and specimens we know are in

Dr. Torrey’s possession, but the plant has not been published.

Our plants were in great perfection in August. pe

- Dzscr. Cultivated specimens are from two to three feet high,

a good deal taller than our native dried specimens. The /eaves

are for the most part radical, and these on very long, stout, terete

petioles or stalks, glabrous, as is almost every part of the plant,

more than a span across, digitately divided, almost to the base,

into five primary spreading cuneate-lanceolate segments, strongly

nerved : the circumference represents a cordate outline: the seg-

ments are either simple and much acuminated and narrow, or

DECEMBER Ist, 1855.

they are broader and more or less deéply divided in two to five

lesser segments or lobes, which are also much acuminated ; the

cauline leaves are few, gradually smaller upwards, with shorter

petioles, fewer segments, at length gradually passing into the

simple, sessile, lanceolate dracts of the terminal panicle. This

panicle (a compound raceme) is elongated, bearing many large

exceedingly showy flowers, on long erect pedicels, which have a

pair of opposite subulate dracts, and are pubescent. Sowers

slightly drooping, nearly two inches long, including the spur, of

a rich scarlet colour, except the petals, which are partially deep

yellow. Sepals five, broad-ovate, very obtuse; spur as long as

the flower, gradually tapering and slightly ascending, scarlet to.

the tip. Inner petals with appendages or spurs of the same

shape, running down into the spur of the calyx; the /imdé, as

well as that of the lesser petals, pilose. Stamens numerous ;

anthers oblong, bright yellow. Ovaries three, erect, glabrous,

tapering into short subulate s¢y/es.

Fig. 1. Flower, from which the calyx is removed. 2. Ovaria :—magnijfied.

Et.

Tas. 4888.

CORDIA supErRsBa.

Large White-Flowered Cordia.

Nat. Ord. Borracine# (Cordiee).—PENTANDRIA MonoGyNIa.

Gen. Char. Calyx tubulosus, obovatus campanulatusve, 4—5-dentatus, rarius

3- seu 6-8-dentatus. Corolla infundibuliformis vel hypocraterimorpha, limbo

4—5-partito, rarius 6-12-lobo. Stamina tot quot lobi, corolle tubo inserta.

Stylus bis bifidus, seepius exsertus. Drupa ovata aut globosa, pulposa, ealyce

persistente seepius cincta, nunc in ovario 4-locul. post anthesin abortu ad loculos

1-3 seepe reducta, loculis 1-spermis.—Arbores aut frutices regionum orbis cali-

darum incole. Folia alterna aut rarissime subopposita, petiolata, formd varia, in-

tegerrima aut dentata. Flores dispositione vari, interdum abortu polygami aut

monoici. Corolle fere omnium alba. De Cand.

Corp1a (Sebestenioides) superba; arbuscula, ramis teretibus, petiolis peduncu-

lisque vix scabridis, foliis petiolatis cuneato-oblongis subito acuminatis, venis

primariis subtus valde prominulis, cyma terminali dichotomo-corymbosa, _

floribus sessilibus, calyce cylindrico submembranaceo apice irregulariter rupto ae

ante anthesin subclavato mucrone umbonato, corolle (albz) fauce longe in-

fundibuliformi, limbi lobis amplis rotundatis plicatis, staminibus 5, fila-

mentis inferne hirsutis.

Corpta superba. Cham. in Linnea, 1829, p. 474. De Cand. Prodr. 9. p. 476.

Corpta Sebestena. Vell. Fl. Flum. v. 2. p. 251.

This large-flowered Cordia was sent to us by M. Chantin, nur-

seryman in Paris, without any specific name, or any indication of

its origin. We refer it, with little hesitation, to the C. superba

of Chamisso in the ‘ Linnea’ above quoted, with his description of

which it sufficiently accords, though he says nothing of the co-

lour of the flowers. That author notices two varicties (if they are

worthy to be so considered), viz. a. cuneata and B. ellyptica, and |

De Candolle refers to the C. Sedestena of Vellozi, Flora Flumin. —

ii. p. 151, which indeed is a very fair representation of our plant.

If we are correct in our views, the species is a native of tropical

Brazil. It is treated as a stove-plant, and flowers in September.

Unless the term superba is significant of unusual size of flower —

and foliage, this species of Cordia scarcely deserves that appella-

tion. ae

DECEMBER Ist, 1855.

Duscr. At present our plant forms a shrub from two to three

feet high. The dranches are stout, terete, smooth. Leaves a

good deal confined to the ends of the branches, large, six to

eight inches long, elliptical-cuneate, somewhat waved, entire,

dark-green, acuminate; the principal nerves impressed above,

‘prominent beneath. Peduncle terminal, as long as the leaf,

bein ing a dichotomously divided cyme of very large white blos-

soms tinged with dull yellow, each sessile on a somewhat scor-

poid branch. Calyx grecnish-white, cylindrical-clavate, burst-

Ing at the top irregularly. Corolla very large, plaited, infundi-

buliformi-campanulate ; the lobes broad and rounded, spreading.

Stamens five, inserted on the narrow part of the tube, included :

Jilaments hairy at the base: anthers oblong arrow-shaped, ex-

trorse. Ovary subglobose. Style rather exceeding the stamens

in length: stigma twice bifid, segments clavate.

_ Fig. 1. Portion of the corolla with the stamens laid open. 2. Pistil.

3. Transverse section of ovary :—magnified.

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Tas. 4889.

COLOGYNE spectosa.

Showy Celogyne.

Nat. Ord. OrncH1ppm.—GyYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4440.)

CaLocyne speciosa ; pseudobulbis ovato-oblongis costatis monophyllis, foliis ob-

longo-lanceolatis 5—7-nerviis, pedunculis 1—2-floris pseudobulbis parum lon-

gioribus, petalis linearibus reflexis, labelli trilobi laciniis lateralibus antice

denticulatis intermedia biloba rotundata cristis duabus muricatis crassis

sub apice ipso labelli confluentibus tertia brevi tenui basilari interjecta.

Ca@toeyne speciosa. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 39. Bot. Reg. 1847. t. 23.

_ CHELONANTHERA speciosa. Blume, Bijd. 384. ¢. 51.

This very fine species of Calogyne was first imported by the

Messrs. Veitch, of the Exeter and Chelsea Exotic Nurseries, Ae :

- through their collector, Mr. Thomas Lobb, from Java. It. pro-

duced its blossoms with them in 1846 ; and it has proved, as the

Messrs. Veitch stated it would do, a “ free-growing and a free-

flowering plant.” Messrs. Rollison favoured us with a fine plant

from their nursery, which they received direct from their collector

in Java in 1847. The lip of the flower is a beautiful object, both

in the colour and marking, and in the exquisite fringe of the

crests and margin. :

Descr. Pseudobulbs clustered, between ovate and oblong,

compressed and marked with elevated ribs, bearmg a single

elliptical-lanceolate, acuminate, membranaceous, striated, and = a

plaited Zeaf on the summit. From within a young channelled or

grooved Jeaf (the scarcely formed pseudobulb being sheathed with

leaf, bearing one or two drooping flowers of a very large size,

but possessing no brilliancy of colour. Sepals broad lanceo-

late, the lateral ones the longest and narrowest, the intermediate

one broader and less acuminated, carinated, all of a pale olive-

green. Petals very long, linear, of the same colour as the sepals,

DECEMBER Ist, 1855.

deflexed. Zip very large, the principal ground-colour yellow, va-

riously tinged and blotched and veined with rich blood-red or

_ pitch colour ; the apex white. The form is oblong; it is three-

_ lobed, the lateral Zodes small, resembling ears, the latter and the

margin of the broad two-lobed middle /ode or segment fringed.

Two long crests run nearly the whole length of the Zip; these

are copiously fringed with pedunculated (peduncles often bifid),

stellated hairs, and are beautiful objects for the microscope.

Column large, semiterete, winged, crested at the top, below which

summit is sunk the anther-case, enclosing the four pollen-masses,

— united by a large gland.

__ Fig. 1. Column and anther. 2. Pollen-masses. 3. Lip, front view. 4. Fringe

_ of the crests of the lip :—magnified.

WeBitdh del ot Jith

Vincent Brooks ‘Tp.

Tas. 4890.

AMPHICOME Emop1.

Emodian Amphicome.

Nat. Ord. BIGNONIACEZ.—D1IpYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx oblongo-campanulatus, 5-dentatus aut sub-5-fidus, lobis acu-

minatisve, sinubus nudis. Corolla longe infundibuliformis, limbo 5-lobo, sub-

bilabiato, lobis subsequalibus rotundatis. Stamina 4, didynama, fertilia, quinto

sterili subulato. _Anthere per paria stylo arcte adpresse, lobis pilosis calcarato-

aristatis, connectivo appendiculato. Discus hypogynus, cyathiformis. Ovariwm

lineare. Stylus filiformis. Stigma bilamellatum. Capsu/a siliqueeformis, sutura

altera dehiscens, septo libero. Semina plurima, appensa, utrinque pilis distinctis

comosa.—Herbe Himalayenses, erecta, glabra. Caules teretes, perennantes aut

annui, basi radicantes. Folia alterna, petiolata, pinnatisecta ; segmentis 2-3-jugis

cum impari ovato-lanceolatis, dentato-serratis. Racemi terminales, lai, paucifiori.

Corolle rosea. DC. a

Ampnicome Emodi; foliolis cordato-ovatis petiolulatis obtusis crenato-lobatis, —

floribus erectis subcorymbosis (demum racemosis), calycis lobis abbreviatis

‘obtusis granulosis, corolle tubo infundibuliformi-campanulato limbi sequalis

lobis amplis rotundatis emarginatis patentibus, ovario oblongo, annulo hy-

pogyno ab ejus basi remoto. ee

Ampuicome Emodi. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1838, sub Tab. 19. De Cand. Prodr.

v. 9. p. 237.

INCARVILLEA Emodi. Wall. Cat. n. 487.

This, a discovery,of Dr. Wallich, is the original or first species —

of Amphicome (Incarvillea, Wall.) ; a genus of Northern ndia,

proposed to separate from Incarvillea, but which, at the sugges-

tion of Mr. Brown, he referred to a section of the last-named

genus. ‘The A. arguta, however, a species very different from

this, was that first known in cultivation, and it has been -well -

figured by Dr. Royle in his ‘ Himalayan Flora,’ and by Dr.

Lindley in the Bot. Register (1838, Tab. 19), from garden spe-

cimens. The last-mentioned author speaks of this “as the much

finer species, with much larger and more numerous flowers, a

more robust foliage, and much more considerable stature ;” but

which “ still remains to be introduced.” |

In 1852 we had the pleasure to receive native seeds from —

DECEMBER Ist, 1855.

Major Vicary, and our plant, here figured, blossomed at Kew

under a cool frame in October, 1855. It is indeed a remarkably

handsome plant; native of the mountains of Emodi, near Srina-

ghur, and on the Suen range of hills.

Dxscr. foot perennial. Stem annual, and, as is the whole

plant, glabrous, one to one and a half foot high, slightly branched.

Leaves a span and more long, especially the radical ones, impari-

_ pinnate, with about five to seven pairs of opposite, cordato-ovate,

obtuse, shortly (but evidently) petiolulate /eafle/s, their margins

crenato-lobate. Peduncles terminal, leafless, or only with two or

three cuneate bracts. Vowers large, handsome, at first corymbose ;

as the fruit ripens racemose. Pedice/s short, bracteated. Calyz-

tube turbinate, thick, fleshy: /imé of five, short, obtuse, thick,

granulated teeth. Corollu, with the fuse between infundibuli-

form and campanulate, orange. Zimé very large, of five, spread-

ing, rounded, emarginate, rose-coloured dobes. Stamens included,

inserted on the contracted portion of the tube of the corolla,

didynamous : filaments curved, so that the anthers meet in two

pairs: their ce//s diverging, and bearing each a long tuft of hair

and a spine at the back. Ovary oblong, shortly stipitate, sur-

rounded by an hypogynous ring. Style filiform. Stigma of two,

large, spreading lamine.

Fig. 1. Calyx and pistil. 2. Lower part of the corolla (laid open), with sta-

mens. 3. Anthers. 4. Ovary and hypogynous ring :—magnified.

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