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.,

F.L.S.,

CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE

OF FRANCE, AND DIRECTOR OF THE ROYAL GARDENS OF KEW,

Annee

VOL. XIV.

OF THE THIRD SERIES;

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

SO nnn

RAR AAR

** Nature, enchanting Nature, in whose form

And lineaments divine I trace a hand

That errs not, and find raptures still renewed,

Is free to all men,—universal prize.’’

a a aaa ta ata aaa naa

LONDON:

LOVELL REEVE, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

1858.

bho S0aS~5090

{

JOHN EDWARD TAYLOR, PRINTER,

LITTLE QUEEN STREET, LINCOLN’S INN FIELDS. :

| THE COUNTESS OF DONERAILE,

DONERAILE, IRELAND,

A GREAT ADMIRER

AND SUCCESSFUL CULTIVATOR OF PLANTS, — <—

INDEX,

In which the Latin Names of the Plants contained in the

Fourteenth Volume of the Tarp Sertrzs (or Highty-fourth

Volume of the Work) are alphabetically arranged.

Plate.

5031 Alschynanthus tricolor.

5077 Adsculus Californica.

5025 Ananas bracteatus.

5087 Apteranthes Gussoniana.

5064 Azalea ovata.

5047 Begonia Wageneriana.

5090 Billbergia Liboniana.

5050 Bolbophyllum Neilgherrense.

5042 Calanthe Dominii (hybrida).

5044 Camellia roszeflora.

5068 Campanula strigosa.

5039 Cattleya Aclandie.

5048 granulosa.

5032 luteola.

5051 Clianthus Dampieri.

5084 Ccelogyne pandurata.

5072 Schilleriana.

5033 Colletia cruciata.

5027 Cordia ipomeeeeflora.

5029 Cosmanthus grandiflorus.

5030 Dasylirium acrotrichum.

5041 —————- glaucophyllum.

5053 Dendrobium Chrysotoxum.

5058 Faleoneri ;_ sepalis

petalisque obtusioribus.

: pulchellum.

Eugenia Luma.

Fieldia australis.

Fritillaria Greeca.

Gaultheria discolor.

Gesneria cinnabarina.

- Donklarii.

Grammatocarpus volubilis.

Gustavia insignis.

Hydrangea cyanema.

Ilex cornuta.

5037

5040

5089

5052

5034

5036

5070

5028

5069

5038

5059

Plate.

5063

5075

5067

5073

5046

5088

5086

5080

5043

5083

5056

5078

5074

5085

5076

5045

5071

5035

5081

5057

5061

5049

5054

5065

5060

5066

5026

5082

5062

5079

5055

Indigofera decora.

Inga macrophylla.

Ismelia Broussonetii.

Isotoma senecioides; var. sud-

pinnatifida.

Kefersteinia graminea. .

Lobelia trigonocaulis.

Monstera Adansonii.

Nepenthes villosa.

Nipheea albo-lineata; var. reti-

culata.

Negelia multiflora.

Oberonia acaulis.

(Enothera bistorta; var. Veitch-

wana, -

Orchis foliosa.

Osbeckia aspera.

Ouvirandra Bernieriana.

Pentstemon Jaffrayanus.

Philodendron erubescens.

Pilumna fragrans.

Plocostemma lasianthum.

Polygala Hilairiana.

Polygonatum punctatum.

roseum.

Rhododendron argenteum.

Griffithianum,

Wight ; var. Aucklandit.

virgatum.

Saxifraga purpurascens.

Sonerila speciosa.

Thunbergia Natalensis.

Thyrsacanthus Indicus.

Tradescantia discolor; var. va-

riegata.

Xiphidium floribundum.

INDEX,

In which the English Names of the Plants contained in the

Fourteenth Volume of the Turrp Series (or Eighty -fourth

Volume of the Work) are alphabetically arranged.

errr er rere ew

Plate.

5031 Aischynanthus, three-coloured.

5087 Apteranthes, Gussoni’s.

5064 Azalea, ovate-leaved Chinese.

5047 Begonia, Wagener’s. -

5068 Bell-flower, strigose.

5090 Billbergia, Libon’s.

5050 Bolbophyllum, Neilgherry.

5077 Buck-eye, Californian.

5042 Calanthe, hybrid.

5044 Camellia, rose-flowered.

5039 Cattleya, Lady Acland’s.

5032 — citron-coloured.

5048 rough-lipped.

5051 Clianthus, Dampier’s.

5084 Ccelogyne, pace

5072

5033 Colletia, gross aptied.

5027 Cordia, Ipomcea-flowered.

5029 Cosmanthus, large-flowered.

5030 Dasylirium, bearded-leaved.

5041 glaucous-leaved.

5058 Dendrobium, Dr. Falconer’s ;

with sepals and petals more

obtuse.

5053 golden-arched.

5037 showy.

5040 Eugenia, pointed-leaved.

5089 Fieldia, Australian.

5052 Fritillary, Greek.

5034 Gaultheria, two-coloured.

5036 Gesneria, Cinnabar-flowered.

5070 — Donklar’s.

5028 Grammatocarpus, twining.

5069 Gustavia, showy.

5059 Holly, horned-leaved.

5038 Hydrangea, blue-stamened.

Plate.

5063 Indigo-plant, comely.

5075 Inga, large-leaved.

5067 Ismelia, Broussonet’s.

5073 Isotoma, Groundsel-leaved ; sub-

pinnatifid var.

5046 Kefersteinia, grass-leaved.

5076 Lattice-leaf, Bernier’s.

5088 Lobelia, triangular-stemmed.

5057 Milkwort, St. Hilaire’s.

5086 Monstera; perforated.

5043 Nipheea, white-lined ; reticulated

var.

5083 Negelia, white-flowered.

5056 Oberonia, stemless.

5078 Cnothera, twisted-fruited ; Mr.

Veitch’s var.

5074 Orchis, leafy.

5085 Osbeckia, rough-leaved.

5045 Pentstemon, Mr. Jatfray’s.

5071 Philodendron, red-purple.

5035 Pilumna, fragrant.

5025 Pine-apple, scarlet.

5080 Pitcher-plant, villous.

5081 Plocostemma, woolly- flowered.

5065 Rhododendron, Lord Auckland’s.

5054 silver-leaved.

5060 twiggy.

5066 Saxifrage, purple Himalayan.

5049 Solomon’s-seal, rose-flowered.

5061 spotted-stalked.

5026 Sonerila, showy.

5079 Spider-wort, purple-leaved ; va-

riegated var.

5082 Thunbergia, Natal.

5062 Thyrsacanthus, Indian.

5055 Xiphidium, copious-flowered.

Tas. 5025,

ANANAS BRACTEATUS.

Scarlet Pine-apple.

Nat. Ord. BromELIAcEH.—HeExanprta Monoeynta.

Gen. Char. Perigonii superi sexpartiti Jacinia exteriores calycine erecte, in-

teriores petaloidee erectie, ligulate, basi intus bisquamose, squamis tubulosis.

Stamina 6, epigyna, perigonii laciniis interioribus opposita; filamentis inter ea-

rundem squamas retentes, antheris linearibus erectis. Ovarium inferum, trilocu-

lare. Ovula in placenta palmatifida, ex apice anguli centralis loculorum pro-

tuberante pendula. Stylus filiformis ; stigmata 3, carnosula, erecta, fimbriata.

Bacce inter se et cum bracteis in syncarpium conferruminate, loculis plerumque

abortivis aspermis, rarissime bi-triloculares. Semina in loculis solitaria, ex apice

loculorum pendula, ovoidea, compressiuscula, festa membranacea, fusca, striata,

rhaphe fascieeformi alba umbilicum basilarem chalazz apicali tuberculiformis jun-

gente. Hmbryo minimus, in basi albuminis farinacei rectus, extremitate radicu-

lari umbilicum attingente, supera.—Herbee Americane (?) per tropicos totius orbis

diffuse ; foliis linearibus integerrimis vel spinuloso-serratis ; florum spica densa, de-

mum carnosa, connata, sepe coma foliorum terminata. Endl. °

Ananas éracteatus ; foliis spinoso-serratis, bracteis foliaceis coloratis. Lindl.

Ananasa bracteatus. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1081.

Ananas bracteatus. Rem. et Schult. Syst. Veget. v. 7. p. 1286.

Nana,,sew Ananas. “Marcgraaf, Hist. 1. cap. 16 (eacl. ic.).”

** Scarlet-leaved Pine. Hortulan.”

Highly ornamental a plant as this is to our stoves in the

summer months, it is nevertheless doubtful to us if it should be

considered in any other light than one of many varieties of the

Common Pine-apple (Azanas sativus). That species is indeed

characterized by the flowers “coma terminati.” Even in our

plant there is an incipient “coma,” which in Dr. Lindley’s figure

/. c. is more fully developed. Our plants have not yet produced

eatable fruit ; but we are informed by Dr. Lindley that “ the great

merit of this species (Ananas bracteatus) consists in the clear deep

crimson bractez of the flowering spike, which retain their colour,

although less brilliant in the ripe fruit; ‘he latter, however, 18 80

good, that no collection of Pines should be without the species.”

JANUARY Ist, 1858.

Great allowance must be made for the variation in plants that

have been for centuries under cultivation, especially in the case

of esculent and fruit-bearing ones, and the kinds bearing fruit so

much an object of competition, that there seems to be no end

of forms and colour. This species has nothing to do with Bro-

melia bracteata, Sw. and of ‘ Hortus Kewensis.’

Seeing that, as far as our knowledge extends, there are no real

differences between the two and Ananas sativus, already figured

in this work, we abstain from any full description. Roemer and

Schultes express a doubt whether this be distinct from Ananas

Sagenaria (Bromelia Sagenaria, “ Arruda de Camara, Diss.,” etc.,

_p. 41), noticed too in Koster’s Travels, vol. ii. p. 458. Both —

are considered natives of Brazil. With the latter we are totally

unacquainted. Is there really more than one species of Ananas, —

or true Pine-apple ?.

se Fig. 1. Portion of a leaf and a flower spike, nat. size. 2. Flower within its — ;

bractea and upon its fleshy receptacle. 3. Petal and stamen :—magnified.

JO Lb.

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Tas. 5026.

SONERILA speciosa.

Showy Sonerila.

Nat. Ord. MELASTOMACEH.—TRIANDRIA MoNOGYNIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4978.)

SoNnERILA speciosa ; herbacea erecta, ramis obtuse tetragonis, foliis longiuscule

petiolatis cordato-ovatis acutis argute serratis 5—7-nerviis serratis glabris,

petiolis versus apicem villosis, pedunculis terminalibus solitariis dichotomis,

ramis demum elongatis scorpioideis, floribus secundis, calyce urceolato glan-

duloso-piloso, petalis subrotundo-ovatis mucronulatis carina dorso villosa,

staminibus stylum aquantibus, antheris basi cordatis longiuscule acuminatis,

dorso basi medio obtuse calcarato.

SoNERILA speciosa. Zenker, Plant. Ind. Nilgh. p. 18. t.18. Ann. Se. Nat. o. 6.

p.151. Wight, Ic. Plant. Ind. Or. t. 2952.

From ‘the collection of the Messrs. Veitch, of the Exeter and

Chelsea Nurseries, who introduced the plant from the Neilgher-

ries, at the same time with the Sonerila elegans, figured from the

same collection at our Tab. 4978. It is a species that was

quite unknown to M. Naudin, when he published his elaborate

‘Melastomacearum que in Museo Parisiensi continentur Mono-

graphice descriptionis et secundum affinitates distributionis Ten-

tamen.’ It is a most lovely species, in richness of the colour

of the flowers far exceeding the yet handsome S. elegans just

alluded to. Zenker gives the locality of the plant about Otaca-

mund; Dr. Wight, “ Kaitie Falls, on moist sides of ravines above

the Avalanche Bungalow, very abundant, flowering in February :”

Dr. Wight seems to be alluding to the Neilgherries on the oc-

casion. | :

Descr. Stems scarcely a foot high, moderately branched :

branches herbaceous, obtusely quadrangular, glabrous. Leaves

opposite, petiolate, cordato-ovate, acute, serrated, five- to seven-

or even nine-nerved, glabrous. Pedioles rather shorter than the

leaf, channelled on the upper side, villous towards the extremity.

Peduncle terminal on the branches, solitary, very glandulosely

JANUARY Is, 1858.

_ hairy, terete, bearing a bifid oure

flowers: the dranches are su ioid and the flowers secun

Calyx urceolate and, as well as the pedicels, glanduloso-pilos

_ 4imé of three, patent, subrotund but acute lobes. Stamens, as |

the genus, three. Filaments flexuose. Anthers cordate at t

base, attenuated at the apex: on the back, at the point of ir

tion on the filament, is a short blunt spur. Style as long as

_ stamens, declined.

W. Fitch dd. ¢ ith.

Vincent Brooks np

Tas. 5027.

CORDIA rroma:mriora.

Ipomea-flowered Cordia.

Nat. Ord. BorRAGINEHM.—PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Gen. Char, Calyx tubulosus, obovatus campanulatusve, 4—5-dentatus, rarius

3- seu 6—8-dentatus. Corolla infundibuliformis vel hypocraterimorpha, limbo

4—8-partito, rarius 6-12-lobo. Stamina tot quot lobi, corolle tubo inserta.

Stylus bis bifidus, seepius exsertus. Drupa ovata aut globosa, pulposa, calyce

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. Kolia alterna aut rarissime subopposita, petiolata, forma varia,

integerrima aut dentata. Flores dispositione varii, interdum abortu polygami aut

monoict. Corolle fere omnium albe. DC.

Corpta (§ sebestenoides) ipomecflora ; arbo

pedunculis calycibusque subtus minute scenti-scabriusculis, foliis peda-

libus—sesquipedalibus late obovato-lanceolatis acutis vix acuminatis dimidio

superiore grosse spinuloso-dentatis, panicula terminali ampla laxa pluries

dichotoma, floribus sessilibus, calyce urceolato-cylindraceo apice 2-trifido |

(siccitate substriato) ante anthesin apice conico-mucronato, corolla (albe)

ample infundibuliformi-campanulate plicatule lobis rotundatis, staminibus

5, filamentis inferne hirsutis..

ramis teretibus, petiolis elongatis

Similar as this fine Cordia unquestionably is to the C. superba —

figured at our Tab. 4888 (supposed to be a Brazilian species) it —

is nevertheless truly distinct. In our stove the plant is quite

arborescent, having, though confined in a pot, attained a height

of fourteen feet. ‘The leaves are opaque (never nitent), a foot

and more in length, with petioles two to three inches long; their

apex is acute, not suddenly and finely acuminated, and the mar-—

gins of the upper half are coarsely though irregularly dentato-

serrate with large pungent spinulose teeth. he flowers are

laxly paniculated, and though of the same shape and colour as

in C. superba, are more than one and a half as large again, and iS

resemble at first sight those of some white Convolvulus or Ipo-

meea, quite conspicuous at a considerable height from the ground.

JANUARY lst, 1858.

el.

It is to be regretted that, as was the case with the plant we

figured for C. superba, we know nothing of its native country

or introduction ; and only that it is an old inhabitant of the

warm stove in the Royal Gardens of Kew, with the blossoming

of which, during the sunny season of the summer of 1857, we

could not fail to be struck. The section of the extensive genus -

Cordia (now that nearly all the Varroni@ are included in it) to

which this species belongs, is undoubtedly § Sebestenoides (Cordie

_Macranthe, Cham.), including twelve species, some inhabitants

of the Old, some of the New World, none of them in characters

according with the present species.

Descr. A small ¢ree, as cultivated with us, twelve to fourteen

feet high, probably, in its native country, like the C. macrophylla

of Jamaica, forty to fifty feet; much branched, dranches terete,

brownish from close-pressed minute villous down. Leaves much

confined to the branchlets, on terete petioles two to three inches

long, obovato-lanceolate, a foot to sixteen inches in length, five

inches wide in the broadest part, acute or only shortly and gra-

dually acuminate, opaque on the surface (not glossy), tapering

below gradually into the petiole, the upper half has the margins

very coarsely dentato-serrate, the teeth unequal in size, and spinu-

lose or mucronulate ; glabrous above, petioles and younger leaves

obscurely pubescent on the midrib and some of the principal :

prominent veins beneath. Panicle large, terminal. Peduncle

and pedicels as well as the calyx downy ; the latter sessile and _

subsecund on the branchlets, cylindrical or suburceolate, in bud

conical and apiculate at the point; /imd of two or three unequal

short spreading lobes. Corolla one and a half inch in diameter,

in form between infundibuliform and campanulate, white or

yellowish-white, wrinkled (plicate): the Zimé of five large rounded

spreading lobes. Stamens five, inserted near the base of the

corolla, shorter than the tube; filaments hairy at the base;

anther oval, cordate at the base. “ Ovary subrotund, four-celled,

_ (each cell with one ovule), tapering upwards into a bifid style,

vith a three-lobed stigma.

Fig. 1. Base of a corolla laid open, with stamens and pistil. 2. Transverse —

section of an ovary :—magnified.

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Tas. 5028.

GRAMMATOCARPUS vouusi is.

Twining Grammatocarpus.

Nat. Ord. Loasacr#.—POLYADELPHIA PoLYANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx tubo lineari cum ovario connato, limdi superi quinquepartiti

laciniis equalibus. Corolle petala 10, sammo ecalycis tubo inserta, quinque

ejusdem laciniis alterna, cucullata, basi subsaccata, majora, quinque iisdem op-

posita multo minora, apice bicallosa, triaristata. Stamina plurima, cum petalis

inserta, exteriora sterilia acuminata conica granulata, petalis minoribus per paria

opposita, wteriora fertilia, in fasciculos 5, iisdem majoribus oppositos approxi-

mata; filamenta filiformia; anthere biloculares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ova-

rium inferum, uniloculare, placentis parietalibus tribus, nerviformibus. Ovula

plurima, pendula, anatropa. Sfylus simplex ; stigma acutum. Capsula linearis,

torta, limbi calycini reliquiis coronata, unilocularis, juxta totam longitudinem tri- = __

valvis, valvis margine seminiferis. Semina plurima, subglobosa; testa fibrosa,

reticulata. Hmbryo in axi albuminis carnosi orthotropus; radicula umbilico

proxima.—Herba Chilensis, volubilis, pubescens ; foliis oppositis, pinnatisectis; flo-

ribus azillaribus terminalibusque, solitariis, subsessilibus, flavis. Endl.

/ Grammarocanrus: volubilis.

_ Grammartocarpus volubilis. Pres’, Symb. Bot. v. 1. p. 59. t. 38. Walp. Repert.

Bot. Syst. v. 2. p. 255, et v. 5. p. 778.

ScypHantuus elegans. Don, in Sweet Brit. Fl. Gard. v. 3. t. 238. Pazton,

Mag. of Bot. v.10. p. 8, cum ic. Gay, Fl. Chil. 0. 1. p. 465.

Loasa striata. Meyen, Reise um die Erde, v. 1. p. 310.

Descr. Stems long, slender, climbing and twining, herbaceous,

slender, soon becoming brown, but not woody, frequently branched _

in a somewhat dichotomous manner, rough with minute deflexed —

and probably (like its congeners) stinging hairs. Leaves oe |

site, also rough with the like hairs; the lower ones bipinna d;

upper ones smaller and only pinnatifid, sometimes trifid; all the

segments oblong, uninerved. Pedio/e’short, channelled. Flowers

in reality sessile, but appearing peduncled from the narrow —

elongated pedunculiform inferior ovary, terminal or axillary and

often arising from a fork of the branch. Calya-tube very long, .

slender, terete and furrowed, incorporated with the ovary ; limb of —

JANUARY Ist, 1858.

the base within :—magnified. 4

O29.

Vincent Brocks &

Tas. 5029.

COSMANTHUS GRAnDIFLORUS.

< Large-flowered Cosmanthus.

Nat. Ord. HypRoPHYLLACE#.—PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx quinquepartitus, sinubus nudis. Coro//a late campanulata,

caduca, 5-fida, tubo esquamato, lobis zstivatione quincunciali. Stamina 5, fila-

mentis gracilibus, corollam subsquantibus. Pollen oblongum. Nectarium mi-

nimum. Ovarium basi excepta pilosum, 5-loculare, placentis 2 parietalibus dorso

liberis 2-8-ovulatis. Stylus bi-(tri-)fidus. Capsula valvis 2 medio septiferis de-

hiscens. Semina 4-10, ovoideo-angulosa, lateraliter aut rarius extremitate ad-

fixa, rugulosa. Hméryo (ex C. parviflora) minimus, radicula supera.—Herbee

graciles, Boreali- Americana, annue ; foliis alternis ; racemis elongatis, ebracteatis,

simplicibus ; floribus pedicellatis, parvis, albis vel pallide ceruleis.—Differt a

Phacelia et Eutoca tubo corolle nudo; ab Emmenanthe preterea corolla caduca.

Benth.

Cosmantuvs grandiflorus ; adscendens, foliis lato-ovatis dentatis basi subcor-

datis rugosis uti caules et calyces hispidis, racemis ad apicem pluribus

circinatis, calycibus subsessilibus, placentis ultra 50-ovulatis. Benth.

CosMaNTHUS grandiflorus. Benth. in De Cand. Prodr. v. 9. p. 291.

Evroca grandiflora. Benth. in Trans. Linn, Soc. v. 17. p. 278.

Evtoca speciosa. Nuttall, Plant. Gambel. p. 158.

This plant has probably the largest flowers of all of the Order

Hydrophyllacee. Although discovered by Mr. Douglas during

his wanderings in California before 1834, it appears only lately

to have been introduced to our gardens by Messrs. Veitch,

through their collector Mr. William Lobb. We saw it for the

first time flowering in the extensive, hardy herbaceous ground

of Mr. Borrer, at Henfield, and thence obtained the specimens

here figured. Mr. Nuttall detected the species at San Diego,

California, and considering it to possess characters different fror

those of Eutoca (Cosmanthus) grandiflorc , he described it under

the name of Ewtoca speciosa. Only a solitary specimen was re-

ceived by the Horticultural Society from Mr. Douglas ; but we

possess fine native specimens in the herbarium from Mr. Nuttall

JANUARY lst, 1858.

and from Mr. William Lobb (n. 389), gathered on mountains of

San Bernardino, South California. If the flowers poe the

rich blue colour of Hutoca viscida, it would indeed be a splendid

ornament to our flower-borders.

Dzscr. A bold, free-growing, somewhat decumbent, herbace-

ous, branching p/ant ; in its native country three to five feet high

(W. Lobb), everywhere clothed with short simple hairs, inter-

mixed with glandular and viscid ones, which Mr. Nuttall ob-

serves emit (when rubbed) a heavy, resinous, rather disagree-

able smell, not unlike that of Rue. Branches terete, ascending.

Leaves large, rather coarse, on short petioles, ovate, somewhat

cordate at the base, sometimes approaching to rhomboid or tri-

_ angular, doubly dentate, sometimes almost lobed at the margin,

penninerved, nerves very prominent beneath. Flowers terminal

on young superior branches, which (the leaves becoming gra-

dually smaller) constitute a sort of leafy panicle of flowers. Ra-

cemes scorpioid. Pedicels very short, erect, so that the calyx

18S appressed to the rachis. Calyx cut into five, deep, linear,

spreading, afterwards erect, segments, about as long as the tu-

bular portion of the corolla. Corolla very large, almost two

inches across, campanulato-rotate, purple (very pale externally),

with a dark-purple ring and radiating lines at the faux. Lobes

subrotundate, very obtuse ; ‘ube white. Stamens five, much ex-

_ Sserted. Anthers oblong ; Jilaments subulate, hairy at the base.

_ Ovary pyramidal, partially villous. Style short, trifid ; branches

equal in length to the filaments of the stamens.

Fig. 1. Stamen. 2, Pistil :—magnified.

dd. ¢ Tith.

W. Fitch

ay.

Tas. 5030.

DASYLIRIUM acrorricuvum.

Rearded-leaved Dasylirium.

Nat. Ord. AsparaGINE#.—Diecta Hexanpria.

Gen. Char. Flores dioici. Masc. Perigonium corollaceum, profunde 6-parti-

tum ; foliolis oblongis, uninerviis, navicularibus, campanulato-conniventibus (pa-

tentibus, Brongn.) ; exterioribus paulo longioribus vel brevioribus; prefloratio

imbricata. Stamina sex, basi foliolorum inserta, plerumque iis breviora. ila-

menta filiformia. _Anthere biloculares, oblong, utrinque bilobe, dorso medio

affixee, introrsee. Pistillum rudimentarium. FL. Fem. Perigonium maris. Sta-

mina antheris effetis; ovarium liberum, triquetrum, angulis membranaceis, uni-

loculare ; ovula 6, per paria approximata, fundo ovarii affixa, erecta, anatropa.

Columna stylina brevis, in stigma infundibulare margine undulato-plicatum irre-

gulariter lobatum dilatata (stigma trilobum ; lobis brevibus, ovatis, divergenti-

bus, Brongn.). Fructus nucumentaceus, abortu monospermus (akenium, Brongn.),

ovato-trigonus, angulis in membranam latam expansis. Semen immaturum erec-

tum, fusiforme, utrinque acutum. Caulis lignosus, abbreviatus, foliosus, vel elon-

gatus, caudiciformis, apice foliosus, erectus.—Folia ¢ basi semiamplexicauli line-

aria, superne subulato-angustata, apice marcido sepe (semper, Byongn.) in fila dis-

solubilia, canaliculata, striata, rigida, margine nunc spinosa, inter spinas denticu-

lato-spinulosa, nune scabra. Panicule terminales, solitaria, erecta, simplices vel

ramose, bracteate. Flores parvi, albi, pedicellati, solitarii vel per 2-4 fascicu-

lato-congesti, in ramulis spicati vel racemosi ; pedicellis basi bracteolatis, superne

articulatis. Antheree flave.

Dasy.irtum acrotrichum ; caulescens, trunco elongato, foliis longissimis e lata

basi lineari-subulatis viridibus fasciculo fibrarum emarcidaruam terminatis

planiusculis striatis rigide serrulatis spinosisque, spinis subulatis sursum

curvatis, spica longissima cylindraceo-acuminata composita, spiculis (plant.

fem.) seu racemis eylindricis copiosis dense compactis erectis multifloris,

bracteis amplis subeequilongis ovatis acuminatissimis, floribus (foem.) dense

imbricatis, :

Dasyurrtvm acrotrichum. Zuccar. in Otto et Dietr. Aligem. Gartenz. 1838, n.

33. p. 259. Kunth, Enum. Pl.v.5.p.40.

Yucca acrotricha. Schiede in Linnea, v. 4. p. 230, et ». 6. p. 52. Schultes, Syst.

Plant. v. 7. p. 1716.

Rovira acrotricha. Brongn. in Ann. des Se. Nat. v. 14. p. 320.—

Dasy.irton gracile. Hort. Berol. 1847.

_Of late ‘years the enhouses of botanic gardens have exhic

bited noble scatitente of a very singular set of plants, with

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ue:

much of the habits of very narrow-leaved Yuccas, the foliage

generally terminated with a pencil or brush of loose parallel

rather rigid fibres, now and then sending up a solitary central

stem of very small Asparagineous dicecious flowers, of which Zue-

carini, in 1842, constituted a genus, to which he gave the not

very appropriate name of Dasylirivm (thick or succulent Lily).

Some well-grown species adorn the south end of the long succu-

lent-house of the Royal Gardens; and, probably on account 0

the unusually warm and sunny summer, two of the species threw

up their noble flower-stalks, the present one so tall, that the

flowering portion soon came in contact with the loftiest part of

this house, and it had to be removed into a taller one to perfect

its flowering. The genus being (it is stated) always dicecious,

we have in the present instance only the female plant. All the

kinds (and six are described, though imperfectly so in most

cases) are considered to be natives of Mexico, and in their native

mountains must form, along with Cactuses, a remarkable feature

in the scenery. Our plants of this were received from Mr. Rep-

per, of Real del Monte, through the kindness of the Company

bearing that name.

Descr. Stem erect, or nearly so; in the individual under con-

sideration about two feet high, and a foot at least or a foot and

a half in girth, clothed with the broad, scale-like, withered bases

of former years, and crowned by a graceful tuft of slender, plia-

ble, but firm and coriaceous /eaves, from three to four feet in

length, the older and lower ones spreading and recurved, the

younger and upper ones erect; all, from a broad base, rather

suddenly linear-subulate, terminated by a harsh tuft or pencil

of coarse fibres, nearly plane, that is, only slightly channelled on

the upper surface, of an ordinary rather yellowish-green colour,

finely striated on both sides, of a firm coriaceous texture, but —

with a graceful downward curvature of the old and lower leaves, —

the younger and terminal ones erect ; the margins cartilaginous, —

white, and pellucid, cut into very fine sharp serratures, the teeth _

sometimes double, and beset with strong subulate spines, at dis-

tances of about half an inch, more or less, a line long, curved up-

wards, and of a pale-brown colour, the younger ones colourless.

Peduncle terminal, solitary, at first rismg up somewhat like a head

of asparagus, but clothed with erect, imbricated, young leaves ;

then rapidly increases in size, and attains a height, including the

flowers, of fifteen and sixteen feet, the lower part partially clothed

with small leaves, which gradually pass upwards into subulate

_ bracteas, and among the spikelets they are large, broad, mem-

~ branaceous, ovate, sharply acuminated, brownish-green bracts,

as long as or longer than the spikelets. Spike (female) three

to four feet long, cylindrical, but slightly acuminated, loaded

with the numerous, erect, bracteated spikelets, or more properly

racemes. Pedicels short, jointed a little below the flower, and

there deciduous. Perianth of six, erect, imbricated, concave,

broad-ovate sepa/s, of a greenish colour, .streaked with red at the

apex, each enclosing an abortive stamen, shorter than the sepal.

Ovary (abortive) larger than the sepals, orbicular-oval, with

three thick but wing-like angles, and crowned with a deeply

_ three-parted style. Stigmas triangular. Cell solitary, with three

4 erect ovules.

Fig. 1. Entire plant, much reduced in size. 2. Small portion of a female

flower-spike, nat. size. 8. Apex of a leaf, nat. size. 4. Portion of a leaf, nat.

size. 5. Female flower. 6. Sepal, including the abortive stamen. 7. Trans-'

verse section of an ovary :—fig. 5 and 7 magnified.

JOST.

Vincent Brocks Imp.

W. Fitch dele ith

Tas. 5031.

JESCHYNANTHUS rricotor.

Three-coloured Aischynanthus.

Nat. Ord. CyrtanpracE®.—DipyNaMIA ANGIOSFERMIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx tubulosus, 5-dentatus, 3-fidus vel 5-partitus, subzequalis

aut subbilabiatus. Corolla infundibuliformis, tubo subincurvo ad faucem am-

pliato, limbo obtuse trilobo irregulari subbilabiato. Stamina 4-5, inclusa, 2-3

sterilia, minima, 2 fertilia; antheris crassis, loculis parallelis. Stigma obtusum

aut emarginatum. Bacca oblonga aut ovata, corticata, bilocularis, septi lobis in

margine revoluto seminiferis. Semina plurima, nuda, seepe foveata aut punctata.—

Suffrutices aué herbe, caule erecto aut procumbente. Folia opposit

nunc altero abortivo pseudo-alterna. Flores fasciculati aut capit

axillares, bracteati. Corolle purpuree (coccinea), alba, rarius

lutea. De Cand.

Aiscuynantuvs éricolor; scandens radicans subpubescens, ramis herbaceis

teretibus, foliis brevi-petiolatis oppositis ovatis acutiusculis carnosis aveniis,

umbellis petiolatis paucifloris (2-3) ebracteatis, floribus villoso

For the introduction of living plants of this most lovely Aischy-

nanthus, and for the opportunity of figuring it, we are indebted to

Mr. Low, of the Clapton Nursery, who imported the species from

reo. We are so fortunate as to possess dried specimens from

the same country, gathered by Mr. Thomas Lobb. Itisextremely

y Fischynanthus, and is well suited

different from any LEGSChY? ee Bes een

to ornament basket-work suspended to the roof in a moist stove.

he branches droop considerably, and the flower-stalks though the ©

con-

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exactly ovate, slightly acuminated but not oa at the apex,

a little downy, especially at the edge and beneath, quite entire.

Umbels of few flowers, both axillary and terminal, solitary. Pe-

duncle short, deflexed. Pedicels slender, and with an upward

curvature, so that the flowers become erect. These are very

beautiful and richly coloured. Calya short, cup-shaped rather

than tubular, red, the edge cut into five, erect, nearly equal,

rounded /odes, villous with slender hairs tipped with minute

glands. Corolla an inch and a half to two inches long, scarlet,

streaked with bright-yellow and black, glanduloso-hirsute ; tube

rather short, curved, nearly thrice as long as the short calyx,

gibbous on the anterior side; limb very oblique, about as long

as the tube, bilabiate; upper lip of one, lower of three, ovate

concave spreading segments. Stamens four, didyne

ing at the apex of the upper lip of the corolla, where the anthers

combine. Ovary linear, cylindrical, downy, arising from the

sntre very large hemispherical, depressed gland. Stigma

J0O32

Fitch dd eclith.

Tas. 5032.

CATTLEYA tuTeEoua.

Citron-coloured Cattleya.

Nat. Ord. OrncuripE#.—-GyYNANDRIA MoNANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tan. 4700.)

CaTTLEYa Juteola; parva, rhizomate repente ramoso, pseudobulbis fasciculat

ovalibus oblongisve demum sulcatis, foliis solitariis oblongo-ellipticis car-

noso-coriaceis crassis apice emarginatis, pedunculis vaginatis solitariis plu-

rifloris, floribus parvis luteolis, ovario pedunculiformi rectiusculo, sepalis

petalisque conformibus patentibus oblongo-lanceolatis subflexuosis obtusis,

labello perianthii longitudine trilobo intus velutino, lobis lateralibus elon-

gatis incurvis colamnam utrinque dentatam involventibus, intermedio

rotundato crispato ciliato-denticulato.

Carrieya luteola. Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1853, p. 774. Reichenb. fil. Xenia,

p. 209. ¢. 88.

Cattleya modesta, Meyer; C. Meyeri, Regel; and C. flavida, Klotzsch, accord-

ing to Reichenbach fil.

Received from the collection of Messrs. Rollison, Tooting

Nursery, and I am indebted to Dr. Lindley for the above refer-

ences and synonyms. As a species it is very unlike any with

which I am acquainted. In colour it approaches the much more

beautiful Cattleya citrina, but in scarcely any other character.

It flowered with the Messrs. Rollison in November, 1857, and

1s known to be a native of Brazil. =

Descr. Our plant has an annulated branched rhizome,

about as thick as a duck’s quill, sending down from beneath a

few thick fleshy fibres, and upwards, from the short branches,

elliptical, quite smooth and compressed pseudobulbs, which bear

one leaf, and while young are enveloped in a large, sheathed,

membranous, striated, sheathing scale, these crease In age, and

eventually become oblong, nearly terete and sulcated.— =

about three inches long, thick, succulent, dark-green, elliptical,

veinless, with a deep notch at the apex. From the base of -

leaf, at the top of the pseudobulb, arises the peduncle, scarcely

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two inches long, enveloped entirely in a compressed membrat

ceous sheath, slit open on one nf four- or five- or more flow

ered. Flowers racemose, pale lemon-yellow, small for the guna

Sepals and petals uniform, an inch and a half to two inches at

the most long, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, a little waved, all

spreading. zp about as long as the segments of the perianth, —

lobed, velvety within, the side-lobes elongated, incurved,

meeting over the column, and forming a kind of tube; the ter-

minal lobe broad, almost orbicular, crisped and ciliato-dentate at

the edge. Column much shorter than the lip, concealed within it,

semiterete, with a wing or broad tooth at*each margin above.

Anther-case sunk into the clinandrium. Follen-masses as in the

genus, each pair with a short cauda.

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

Tas, 5033.

COLLETIA cructiatTa.

Cross-spined Colletia.

Nat. Ord. RoHaAMNE#.—PENTANDRIA MoNoGYNIA.

_ Gen. Char, Calyx membranaceus, campanulatus v. tubulosus, limbi quinque-

1d ciniis ovatis, suberectis ; disco annulari, supra fundum tubi adnato, margine

involuto. Corolla nulla. Stamina 5, inter lacinias calycis summo tubo

issius inserta ; filamenta filiformia, ad tubi fandum decurrentia. Anthere

mes, loculis apice confluentibus, uniloculares, hippocrepice, rima arcuata,

ivalves. Ovarium liberum, globosum, triloculare. OQvula in loculis solitaria, e

basi erecta, anatropa. ‘Stylus filiformis, simplex, ealycis tubum eequans. Stigma

obsolete trilobum. Fructus siccus, sphericus, calycis basi circumscissa libera vel in-

ferne vix adheerente stipatus, trilocularis, tricoccus ; coccis crustaceis, secedentibus,

bivalvibus, monospermis. Semina erecta, ovata ; testa crustacea, levissima ; raphe

introrsum laterali. Hmbryo albuminis carnosi flavi strato tenui tectus, orthotropus ;

cotyledonibus maximis, carnosis, planis; radicula brevissima infera.—Suffrutices

Peruani et Chilenses, ramosissimi, subaphylli ; ramis decussatim oppositis, divaricatis ;

ramulis spinescentibus, interdum foliaceo-dilatatis ; foliis nullis v. minutissims,

oppositis, integerrimis ; floribus axillaribus, fasciculatis v. infra spinarum basin sitis,

nutantibus, albidis v. albido-roseis. Endl.

% vor!

Couterta eruciata ; fruticosa, ramis viridibus cauleque spinis magnis ovato-

triangularibus lateraliter compressis acutissimis horridis, foliis rarissimis

minutis ellipticis deciduis, floribus lateralibus solitariis fasciculatisve.

CoL.erta cruciata. Hook. et Arn. in Hook. Bot. Miscel. 1830, p. 152.

Coterta Bictoniensis. Lindl. in Journ. Hort. Soc. v. 5. p. 31 (with woodcut,

excellent).

oy jie) Jae gi ee eee

__ “This, one of the most singular among the many curious plants

in Dr. Gillies’ rich collection from South America, was gathered

during a hasty visit from his ship to the shores of the Banda

Oriental, near Maldonado. It may be considered as a shrub

whose stem and branches are constituted of a mass of opposite,

decussated and decurrent, large, laterally compressed spines, of

the same dull-green colour as the central portion that unites them,

and equally woody; their tips are darker-coloured, sometimes

brown, and very pungent. If the fascicle of flowers appbals a

any point except that of the base of a spine, it 1s either at the

FEBRUARY Ist, 1858.

extremity or below some slight swelling, and is indicative of a —

new spine which is about to appear. The leaves are so rare, that _

upon the dried specimens only one could be found, and that

upon one of the youngest branches. The form and structure of —

the flowers are very similar to those of Colletia feror.” Having

thus published, twenty-eight years ago, my views of the general —

structure of this remarkable plant from native specimens, and —

alluded to no specific affinity with C. spinosa (also described in —

the same Memoir), it can hardly be expected I should concur —

in the extraordinary transformation represented to Dr. Lindley —

as having occurred at Bicton Park, Sidmouth, by the intelligent —

gardener to Lady Rolle, Mr. James Barnes, viz. in the rearing

of C. cruciata from seed of C. spinosa. Let it be recollected, that

“when Sir Philip Egerton first saw this plant at Bicton Garde

and made inquiries of Mr. Barnes respecting it, the latter ha

quite forgotten its origin; but he had since a perfect. recol-

lection, and was reminded by the foreman of the Arboretum,

that it was a seedling raised from C. spinosa.” It is noways dis-

creditable to Mr. Barnes to infer that the latter view may be

erroneous, and that it is a plant which, through some channel

or other, was directly received from the eastern (and not the

western) side of South America, where I believe C. spinosa never

occurs. It would require experiments of the most confirmed and

. Satisfactory kind to show that this and C. spinosa (equally faith-

fully figured by Dr. Lindley, Journ. Hort. Soc. 1. c. p. 30, wood-

cut) were one and the same species. We cultivate them both

at Kew: one the Chilian species, C. spinosa, is perfectly hardy,

and flowers without shelter; while our present plant will only

succeed under the shelter of a wall, and never flowers. In De-

vonshire it is different. We have received the most beautiful

specimens reared by Mr. Veitch, in Devonshire, and from these

our figure is taken. The flowers, at first sight, much resemble

those of some Ericaceous Plant, and have quite a waxy appearance. —

. Descr. A shrub three to four feet high, copiously branched, —

the whole as it were made up of large, ovate-triangular, opposite

and decussate, laterally compressed, green, yet woody, very pun-

gent spines, singularly decurrent at the base. Here and there,

chiefly on the younger branches or small,terminal spines, an op-

posite pair of minute, elliptical, serrated leaves are to be seen; ©

but these soon fall away. From the base of the spines the flowers

ata on short peduncles, solitary or fasciculate, two to four —

m the same point, drooping, yellowish-white, tinged with —

Pa n at the base. Perianth single (calyx), the tube cylindrical, —

but a little swollen at the base, where there is a little difference

in texture, which difference terminates where the curious annulus

1s situated, and which is characteristic of the genus Colletia ; this —

forms a ring within, above the base of the perianth, is fleshy,

and singularly involute; /imé of five, narrow ovate segments,

_ hooked at the points. The,ovary is small, half sunk into the base

of the perianth, three-celled, each cell with one ovule. Style

terete, as long as the tube of the perianth. Stzgma three-lobed.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Flower laid open to show the interior, the annulus,

style, and stamens. 3. Base of the flower cut through vertically. 4. Base of

the disc. 5, 6. Leaf:—magnified..

Vincent Brooks a 1

WBitch dal. et ith .

Tas. 5034.

GAULTHERIA piscotor.

Two-coloured Gaultheria.

Nat. Ord. Ertcem.—Dercanpria Monoeynta.

Gen. Char. Calyx quinquelobus, demum ampliatus, plus minus baccatus et

capsulam ambiens aut fovens. Corolla ovata, ore seepe contracta, 5-dentata.

Stamina 10, inclusa ; filamentis seepe villosis; antheris 4-aristatis, nempe apice

bifidis, loculis biaristatis rarissime muticis. Stylus filiformis. Stigma obtusum.

Squame hypogyne 10, distincte aut concrete. Capsula depresso-globosa, 5-lo-

cularis, 5-sulcatis, 5-valvis; valvis septiferis, loculicidis, dehiscentibus. Placentge

axi adnate. Semina plurima, parva, testa subreticulata—Frutices aué rarius

arbuscule, ex America, rarius ex India, ort. Folia alterna, sempervirentia, den-

tata aut integerrima. Pedicelli nunc azillares, l-flori, nunc in racemum termi-

nalem dispositi, bibracteolati. Corolle albe rosee aut coccinea. De Cand.

GavLrnerta discolor ; ramulis glabratis, foliis obovato-lanceolatis acuminatis

subserratis subtus argenteis, nervis paucis margine subparallelis, racemis bre-

vibus 6-8-floris, pedicellis ciliatis bracteolatis, bracteolis parvis oblongis

acutis, sepalis ovatis acutis ciliolatis, corolle fauce barbata, lobis_roseis,

filamentis setulosis, antheris apice bicuspidatis, ovario villoso, disco 10-den-

tato.

GAULTHERIA dinaior Nuttall, M88.

A very elegant little species, discovered in the temperate regions

of the Bhotan Himalaya by Mr. Booth, and raised by our inde-

fatigable friend Mr. Nuttall, of Nutgrove, near Rainhill, Lan-

cashire. Its nearest ally is the common Himalayan G. fragran-

“ssima, from which, as from all its allies, the beautiful silvery

under surface of the leaves at once distinguishes it.

A small, almost glabrous, shrub. Branches rather slender,

angled. Leaves about an inch long, shortly petioled, obovate-

lanceolate, remotely and sharply but not deeply serrate, acuminate, —

narrowed at the base, dark-green above, silvery-white beneath.

Nerves few, springing from near the base of the midrib and run-

ning nearly parallel to the margin of the leaf. Racemes short,

axillary, few-flowered, much shorter than the leaves. Flowers

small, crowded, shortly pedicelled, about one-third of an inch

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long. Calyz, bracteoles and pedicels white. Corolla white, with —

bright-pi lobes, hairy at the mouth and base of the lobes.

Filaments ciliated with stiff sete. Anther-lobes muck on

the tip. Ovary villous. 7

pk ae . Flower, pedicels, and bracts. 2. Stamen. 3. Pistil. 4. Immature —

—all magnified. .

Tas. 5035.

PILUMNA FRAGRANS.

Fragant Pilumna.

Nat. Ord. OrcHIDE#Z.—GyYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Ovarium tricostatum. Sepala et petala equalia, patula, oblique

inserta. Zabellum basi columne adnatum, subintegrum, orbiculatum, convo-

lutum, inappendiculatum. Columna clavata, teres. Clinandrium cucullo dentato

membranaceo circumdatum; furcis duabus carnosis semiclausum. Stigma ver-

ticale. Pollinia 2, postice fissa, caudicule brevi et glandule ovate adnata.—

Herb: epiphyte; pseudobulbis vaginatis; foliis coriaceis; pedunculis radicalibus.

—Genus Aspasie fp um, clinandrio cucullato, columna tereti, necnon stig-

mate verticali nee versum. Lindl.

OMNA fragrans; folio lato oblongo racemo 2-3-floro breviore, bracteis

~ lanceolatis erectis obtusis, sepalis petalisque oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis,

labello oblongo apiculato subtrilobo levi. Lindl.

Prnumna fragrans. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1844, Misc. p. 74. n.

Tricnoprita albida. Wendl. fil. in Regel’s Gartenflora, 1854, p. 43. t. 78.

arming and deliciously scented plant the Royal

Gardens are indebted to Lady Dorothy Nevill, whose good taste

and love of horticulture, combined with those of Mr. Nevill,

have. Dangstein already the site of one of the best private

gardens in England. The plant is said to be a native of Popayan,

covered by Hartweg, though this has been considered (as

indley says the P. /awa was stated to be, but he suspected

sly) purchased at one of Mr. Skinner's sales of Guate-

lala plants. It has borne in some gardens the name of Zricho-

albida, and such a plant is indeed figured on a reduced

y M. Regel in his ‘Gartenflora’ above quoted. Our

not doubt, is the Pilumna fragrans. £Ne ‘

of this genus yet k is Fe Pa lava, Lindl. Bot.

~ Reg. 1846, t. 57, which has much smaller and differently co-

_~ loured flowers, wanting the © e spot he labellum, and

has a very differently formed pseudobult

™ great perfection in December, 1857.

Descr. Pseudobulb oblong, four to six in

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‘

or slightly compressed, smooth, monophyllous, sheathed at the

base with three or four large faintly striated membranaceous

scales. Leaf oblong-lanceolate, six to eight inches long, acute,

smooth, veinless, rather fleshy and opaque. Peduncle arising

from the base of the pseudobulb, pendent, about a foot long,

including the flowers: these are large, handsome, four or more

in a bracteated raceme. Bracteas ovato-oblong, acute, wither-

ing. Pedicels two inches long, but* gradually passing into the

club-shaped, three-furrowed ovary. Sepals and petals nearly

uniform, long (two and a half to three inches), very much

spreading, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, slightly twisted. Lip

very large, the lower part of the claw united to the column; the

rest involute, so as to enclose the column: from the claw the

limb suddenly expands so as to be very large, almost orbicular,

obscurely three-lobed, pure white, with an orange spot at. its

base on the disc. Column terete and club-shaped. Clinandrium

with two rounded entire ears in front, at the back three-lobed

and fimbriated. Anther-case operculiform. — Pollen-masses two,

with a caudicle and linear gland. ay

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

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Tas. 5036.

GESNERIA cInNABARINA.

Cinnabar-flowered Gesneria.

Nat. Ord. GusNERIACE®.—DipyNaMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4217.)

Gesnerra (§ Negelia) cinnabarina; tota molliter glanduloso-pubescens, caule

erecto, foliis cordato-rotundatis duplicato-crenatis purpureo-variegatis, panl-

cula- terminali elongata multiflora, bracteis linearibus oblongisve integris

lobatisve, pedicellis elongatis, calycis parvi lobis lato-subulatis patentibus,

corolla rubra subtus albo-fasciata usque ad basin ventricosa, limbi lobis

brevibus rotundatis, labio inferiore patente, ovario patente, disco annulari

subintegro.

Na&GELIa cinnabarina. Linden, Suppl. de Cat. des Pl. Exot. du Jard. de Brus.

1856 (figure only, unaccompanied by description.) -

The Gesneriacee of the Royal Garden and Herbarium of Berlin

alone, have furnished to Dr. Hansteen materials for a memoir on

the family, which he divides into 2 tribes, 12 sub-tribes, and 68

genera: how far it might be desirable to consider many of these

68 sections as sub-genera rather than genera, Tam not in a

position to say. The present plant, together with the well-known

Gesneria zebrina, would fallinto his genus Vegelia of his tribe 1,

Gesneree, and 3rd sub-tribe, Brachylomatee, and 1s distinguished

by “Corolla oblique adnata, tubo ventre inflato, dorso recto,

limbo inzequaliter quinquelobo, fauce late hiante. _Annulus perl-

gynus quinquecrenatus. Stigma capitatum. Reliqua ut in Ges-

neria.”” So very much does the present species resemble the

_ well-known Gesneria zebrina (figured. by us at Tab. 3940), that

it might easily be passed by as a variety of that plant, and in

habit, size, pubescence (soft and velvety), shape of the leaves,

and inflorescence, that our full description given under that Tab.,

may well enable us to dispense with a repetition here. The sole

difference is the flowers: yet even these are liable to some varia-

tion. The calyx here has acuminated almost subulate lobes,

MARCH Ist, 1858.

which spread horizontally (not short and erect). The corolla,

though about the same size, is different in colour, being of a

brick-red, paler beneath, and there banded with white; the ven-

tricose character is extended to the very base of the corolla, want-

ing the contraction at the base of the tube, so conspicuous in

G. zebrina. The limb is less oblique, the lower lip less porrected,

more patent. In the figure of Linden, the upper part of the

tube exhibits more yellow than in our plant, and that is a nearer

approach to the G. zebrina ; and the lobes are more acute. It

is described as a native of the forests of Chiapas, a State of the

Mexican Confederation which formerly belonged to Guatemala,

where it was discovered by Ghiesbrecht.

Fig. 1. Pistil, magnified.

Tas. 5037.

DENDROBIUM puLcHELLUM.

Showy Dendrobium.

Nat. Ord. OrncHIDE®.—GyNnaNDrRIA MONANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4755.)

DenpRoBIUM pulchellum; caulibus teretibus striatis pendulis, foliis oblongo-

lanceolatis subplicatis, pedunculis unifloris (racemis lateralibus strictis mul-

tifloris, Roxb.), bracteis brevibus ovatis obtusis, sepalis patentibus oblongis

apiculatis, petalis patentibus sepalis triplo majoribus ovalibus obtusis stri-

atis, labello basi obtuso breviter calearato unguiculato cochleariformi striato

villoso pulcherrime fimbriato-ciliato, ungue lobis 2-involutis.

Denprosrum pulchellum. Roxb. Fl. Indica, v. 3. p. 4862 Lindl. Gen. et. Sp.

Orchid. p. 82? Hensl. in Maund’s Botanist, v. 1. t. 5. Loddiges, Bot.

Cab. t. 1935.

That this is the Dendrobium pulchellum of our gardens, and of —

Maund and Loddiges, there can be no manner of doubt, but I

am by no means clear about it being the D. pule

burgh and Lindley. Dr. Lindley first published the plant, st

would appear, from the ‘ Icones Pictee’ and MSS. of Dr. Rox- —

burgh in the possession of the Honourable the India Company,

but he describes the “ racemes lateral, strict, and many-flowered.-

Roxburgh, in the last volume of the ‘ Flora Indica,’ does the same,

as we understand his words: “ Raceme lateral,” in the specific

character ; and in the description, “ Racemes lateral, from the

old leafless stems or branches, diverging, flexuose, with one

large pale pink flower at each of the six or eight curvatures.

Now this is totally at variance with the inflorescence of our

plant, and with the figures in Maund and in Loddiges : potwith-

standing which the specific character and description, 1n Maund,

make the flowers to be in “ many-flowered racemes.» Loddiges,

more prudently, gives neither character nor description. Lind-

ley again, probably deriving his information from Roxburgh s

drawing, says: “ Sepala alba ; petala rosea ; labellum. lutescens,

MARCH Ist, 1858. ~

hellum of Rox-

macula basi rubro-aurantiaca ;” which hardly accords with the

flowers of the Dendrobium before us. Our plant, therefore, we

wish to be considered the D. pulchellum of the gardens ; doubt-

fully of Roxburgh and Lindley. If the plant of these latter

authors, it is a native of the rocks and trees in the forest of

the Silhet hills,” according to Roxburgh.

Descr. Our plants are small, epiphytal. Stems, or leafy

pseudobulbs, growing several from one point, more or less pen-

dent, striated, scarcely a span long, subterete, jointed, throwing

out radicles from different points. Leaves alternate, scarcely

two inches long, oblong, acute, fleshy, patent, sheathing the stem

at the base. Flowers, in our specimen solitary from the joints -

of the stem, generally from those portions where the leaves have

fallen. Pedicels short, gradually passing into the clavate inferior

ovary, with small appressed dracts at the base. Sepals spreading,

equal, oblong, subacute, faintly striated, pale purple. Petals

much larger than the sepals, oval, obtuse, striated, purple-lilac.

Labellum \arge, orbicular, concave, villous, beautifully and finely

fringed at the margin; clawed at the base, and the claw bears

two incurved small lobes: colour of the lip purple at the edge ;

the disc orange, white between the orange disc and the purple

_ Margin.

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

Tas. 5038

HYDRANGEA cYANemMa.

Blue-stamened Hydrangea.

Nat. Ord. SaxrrraGace®: Tribe HypRANGEH.—DECANDRIA TRIGYNIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4253.)

HyDRANGEA cyanema; ramulis corymbosis petiolisque pubescentibus, foliis late

ovatis grosse serrato-dentatis utrinque pubescentibus margine ciliatis, fl. im-

perfect. sepalis 3-5 albis cuneato-ovatis grosse sinuato-crenatis, stylis 3-5

liberis brevibus.

HypRaNGEA cyanema. Nuét. MSS.

One of the many interesting Himalayan plants introduced by

Mr. Nuttall from Bhotan, where it was discovered by Mr. Booth.

As a species it is exactly intermediate in characters between the _

H. robusta, H.f. and T., and /. stylosa, Hf. and T., both natives —

of the adjoining province of Sikkim. It is indeed possible that

cyanema may prove to be a variety of one of these, for the arbo-

rescent species of Hydrangea (amongst which this no doubt will

rank) are with difficulty recognized in a young state, and some

of the most distinctive marks of the species reside in the capsules,

which are in this plant not formed. Z. stylosa, with which H.

cyanema accords perfectly in habit, foliage, and the sepals of the

imperfect flowers, differs in having very slender subulate styles ;

and H. robusta, with which Mr. Nuttall’s plant agrees in the

colour of the peduncles, pedicels, calyx, stamens, etc., and in the

form of the styles, is a very robust species, with broader, usually

cordate leaves, deeply and closely toothed and fimbriated, and

_ the petiole is generally winged, and the sepals of the imperfect

flowers are acutely toothed. ee

Descr. Stem apparently subscandent (as in young individuals

of various species), pubescent, as are the leaves on both surfaces

and inflorescence. Leaves shortly petioled, ovate, acute, coarsely

serrato-dentate, ciliated ; petiole not winged. Corymd spreading,

rather loose ; pedicels red. Imperfect flowers with three to five

MARCH lst, 1858,

broadly-ovate or obcuneate, sessile, white, sinuate, toothed

sepals, faintly vemed with red-purple. Perfect flowers small, —

scattered, glabrous. Petals and stamens blue. Ovary with

three robust, recurved sty/es, which are free to the base.

Fig. 1. Imperfect flower, from which the sepals have been cut away. 2. Per-

fect flower. 3. Calyx and pistil :—magnijfied.

IWBI,

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W. Fitch del

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Vince

Tas. 5039.

CATTLEYA Actanp1i«.

Lady Acland’s Cattleya.

Nat. Ord. OrcHIDEZ.—GYNANDRIA MoONANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4700.)

CATTLEYA Aclandia ; foliis ellipticis, floribus binis, sepalis petalisque herbaceis

obovato-lanceolatis sequalibus undulatis purpureo-maculatis, labelli_plani

calvi hypochilio dilatato paulo subrepando epichilio orbiculari reniformi

emarginato. Lind.

Cattieya Aclandiw. Lindl. Bot. Reg. v. 26. 4.48. Paxt. Mag. of Bot. v. 9. t. 1.

Fl. des Serres, v. 7. t. 674.

One of the handsomest of a very handsome genus, distinguished

by Dr. Lindley with the name of the late lamented Lady Acland,

of Killerton, Devon, by whom the plant was first introduced from

Brazil, and from a drawing by her Ladyship the figure im the

‘Botanical Register’ was engraved. We have since received living

plants from Bahia through our obliging friend J. Wetherall,

now her B. M. Consul at Paraiba, Brazil. The flowers are

charmingly varied in colour, and the structure of the labellum

departs from the usual form, constituting (with Cattleya bicolor)

a distinct section of the genus, distinguished by the base of the

lip being too narrow and too spreading to cover the column.

With us, April has been its flowering season in @ warm stove.

Duscr. Pseudobulbs cauliform, terete, jointed, four to five. «=

inches long, striated, branched at the base, and sheathed with —

membranaceous spathes at the joints. Leaves two, terminal, —

elliptical, obtuse, thick and fleshy. From the centre of this pair

of leaves the peduncle appears, bearing two large very handsome

flowers. Sepals and petals uniform, spreading, two to two and a :

quarter inches long, obovato-lanceolate, firm, fleshy, yellow-green,

strongly spotted and blotched with dark purple on the upper or

anterior side, much less distinctly so at the back. Lip large,

porrected, much larger than the petals or sepals, panduriform ;

MARCH Ist, 1858.

the base narrow and spreading, with two lateral lobes so small

that they do not include the column, as is usual in this genus ;

the lip is still more contracted near the middle, whence it ex-

pands into the broad, kidney-shaped extremity, emarginate at the

apex: the colour of the whole is pale purple, with darker veins,

and a yellow line on the disc. Column parallel with the lip, and,

as it were, applied to it, obovate, dark-purple, expanding into two

wing-like margins. Azther-case sunk between two teeth or small

lobes of the clinandrium. Pollen-masses as in the genus.

Fig. 1. Column. 2. Pollen-masses. 3. Lip :—all more or less magnified.

W. Fitch delet ith

Vincent Brooks imp

Tas. 5040.

EUGENIA Luma.

Pointed-leaved Eugenia.

Nat. Ord. Myrrtace®.—lIcosanpRIA MonoGyYNIA.

Gen. Char. Calycis tubus subglobosus, supra germen haud v. vix productus.

Germen inferum, 2—-3-loculare, multiovulatum; ovula sporophoris centralibus

affixa. Sepala 4, subrotunda, brevia, rarissime ovata v. acuta. Pefala 4, margini

tubi calycis inserta. Stamina plurima, cum petalis inserta, perigyna, libera, in

alabastro incurvata ; anthere biloculares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Stylus soli-

tarius ; stigma simplex. Fructus baccatus v. drupaceus, tune pyrenis cartilagineis

donatus, disco plano calyceque coronatus, 1—4-spermus. Embryo exalbuminosus,

carnosus ; cotyledonibus sepissime margine v. omnino conferruminatis ; radicula

abbreviata. Berg, in Linnea, v. 21.

Eveenra Luma ; ramulis foliisque novellis ad petiolum costam medium et mar-

ginem pedunculisque puberulis, foliis petiolatis rigide coriaceis ovalibus

v. ovali-oblongis cuspidato-acuminatis basi acutis adultis glabris vix punc-

tatis supra aveniis subtus pallidioribus venosis limbinervus, pedunculis

axillaribus folio longioribus 1-2-nis aut omnibus 3-5-floris aut altero uni-

floro altero trifloro aut summis omnino unifloris, germine biloculari, sepalis

subrotundis ciliolatis glabris. Berg.

Eneenra Luma. Berg. in Linnea, v. 27. p. 251.

Evcenta apiculata. De Cand. Prodr. v. 8. p. 273. Hook. et Arn. Bot. Mise.

v. 3. p. 321. Cl. Gay, Fl. Chil. v. 2. p. 398.

Myrtus Luma. Molina Chil. v. 2. p. 289.

A charming shrub, from the open border of the nursery of

Messrs. Veitch and Sons, who introduced the species from Chili,

through Mr. Wm. Lobb. It is quite equal in beauty to our

common Myrtle, and no more need be said to recommend it as

It blossoms in

an ornamental evergreen shrub for our gardens. :

the summer months, when the branches are literally loaded with

the white blossoms, almost concealing the copious foliage ; the

leaves indeed are not much unlike those of the common Myrtle,

piculated. It inhabits

but broader and suddenly and sharply a

the colder parts of Chili, fon Concepcion to the island of Chiloe,

MARCH Ist, 1858.

and Valdivia, and hence its hardiness may be accounted for. It

is called “Arroyan” by the natives.

* Descr. A shrub, varying, it is said, much in size in its native

country, from three to several feet in height, copiously branched ;

branchlets, petioles, and veins beneath ferruginously downy.

Leaves copious, opposite, nearly sessile, about three-fourths of an

inch long, broad, oval, approaching to orbicular, but acute at

the base and sharply apiculate at the point; above, in the living

state, distinctly pinnately veined, indistinctly so when dry; be-

neath paler and more obovately veined and reticulated, obscurely

dotted, and having a marginal vein. owers solitary, on rather

short peduncles, or the peduncles are branched and bear from

three to five moderately large white flowers. These also a good

_* deal resemble the common Myrtle, but the petals are larger and

more concave. There is a pair of dracts at the base of the ovary.

Stamens numerous. Petals four. Ovary two-celled. Cells two-

seeded.

Fig. 1. Two flower-buds and expanded flower, from which the stamens and

petals are removed. 2. Transverse section of ovary :—magnified.

«tig

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Vincent Br oaks Sanp e

os.

Witch dd clith

Tas. 5041.

DASYLIRIUM Guavucopuyiivum.

Glaucous-leaved Dasylirium.

Nat. Ord. AsPARAGINE#.—Dria@cta HEXANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5030.)

DasYLirtuM glaucophyllum ; caulescens, foliis longissimis e lata basi lineari-

subulatis insigniter glaucis apicibus integris (fasciculo fibrarum emarcidarum

non terminatis) planiusculis striatis marginatis rigide serrulatis spinosisque,

spinis subulatis sursum curvatis, spica longissima composita, spiculis seu

racemis cylindricis copiosis dense compactis multifloris, bracteis e lata basi

subulatis, floribus dense imbricatis masculorum filamentis longe exsertis.

Plants of this species of Dasyliriwm were received at the Royal

Gardens of Kew ‘at the same time with the D. acrotrichum, and

from the same source, namely, from Mr. Repper, of Real del

Monte; and the same unusually warm summer which encouraged

the blossoming of that species, no doubt had its influence on

this, and it came to perfection at the same time. The flow-

ering stem was about eleven feet high; probably, as the plants

increase in size, the flower-stem will also be larger. I regret that

I cannot find this anywhere described, yet it has well-marked

characters in the very glaucous hue of the more strict and rigid

(not gracefully drooping) leaves, and in the integrity of the apices

of the leaves, which do not break out in the tufts or pencils of

strong fibres as they do in D. acrotrichum. a

_Duscr. The stem of our plant, though of an arborescent cha-

racter, is not more than a foot high, thicker than a mans arm,

scarred with the marks of fallen leaves, and crowned at the top”

with a tuft of beautiful foliage. Zeaves three feet and more long,

spreading in all directions, but not recurved, rigid, strict, from

a broad base linear-subulate, tapering gradually into a fine entire

point, that is, it does not break up at the apex into a pencil or —

of rigid tough fibres; striated, margined with a narrow —

cartilaginous edge, which is minutely serrated, and rather dis- —

tantly beset with small, subulate, falcate, very sharp spoes.

MARCH 1sT, 1858,

From the centre of the stem arises the peduncle, which, includ-

ing the long spike, rises ten to twelve feet: upon this peduncle,

which is stout in proportion to its height, the leaves gradually

pass into subulate dracts, which become as though one higher

up in the compound spite. Mazz Puant: Spike yellow.

Flowers very dense on the spikelets, small, each of six, obovate,

retuse, erect sepa/s, greenish-white, streaked with red at the tip.

Stamens six, large. Filaments much exserted. Anthers oblong,

yellow, large. Adortive ovary three, small, conical bulbs on the

disc.—A few of the flowers proved to be female: ovary obcor-

date, three-lobed, abortive in our plant.

Fig. 1. Plant, greatly reduced in size. 2. Apex of a leaf, nat. size. 8. Up-

per portion of a male spike, nat. size. 4. Portion of a leaf. 5. Male flower.

6. Abortive pistil. 7. Ovary from a female flower :—magnified.

Vincent Broalts

W.Fitch del et lith .

Tas. 5042.

CALANTHE Domini (HyBRIDA).

Hybrid Calanthe.

Nat. Ord. Orcniprz.—GyNanprRia MoNANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Perianthium explanatum, liberam v. sepalis lateralibus labello

paululum adnatis, subeequale. Zadel/um cum columna connatum, lobatum v.

integrum, calcaratum v. muticum, disco lamellatum v. tuberculatum. Columna

brevis, rostello sepius rostrato. Pollinia 8, basi valde attenuata, quaternatim

glandule bipartibili adherentia.—Terrestres, scapis erectis multifloris. Folia data,

plicata. Flores albi aut lilacini, raro lutei. Lindl.

CaLantuE Dominii; hybrid between C. furcata and C. Masuca.

CatantuE Dominii. Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1858. p. 4.

Calanthe Masuca, Lindl., a purple-flowered species, is figured

at our Tab. 4541. Calanthe furcata is a species described by

Mr. Bateman (Bot. Reg. 1838, Misc. 34), chiefly differing from

C. veratrifolia (a white-flowered kind, see our figure, Tab.

2615) in the larger size of the lateral lobes of the lip. Of the

plant now under consideration, which was reared in the Exotic

Nursery of Mr. James Veitch, jun., King’s Road, Chelsea, and

exhibited to Dr. Lindley, that gentleman remarks: “ One might

have said that the flowers were just intermediate (between the

two now mentioned) in all respects. He would have consi-

dered it either as a purple-flowered C. furcata, or as a fork-

spurred, small-flowered C. Masuca. Had hybrids been sus-

pected to occur among Orchids, the plant would have been pro-

nounced a cross,—and such it was.” It is on this account that

We figure so interesting a plant here, and for the sake of intro-

ducing Dr. Lindley’s further remarks upon it, and of securing

to Mr. Dominy the right of priority in the difficult operation of

rearmg hybrid Orchids. :

“Tt appears that it had been raised in the Exeter Nursery by

r. Dominy, Messrs, Veitch’s indefatigable and very intelligent

APRIL Ist, 1858.

foreman, between C. Masuca and C. furcata. The seed was ob-

tained in 1854 by crossing those two species, was immediately

sown, and in two years the seedlings were in flower. Norisit |

the least remarkable circumstance connected with this produc-

tion, that it grows and flowers freely, while C. Masuca is a shy

plant. We therefore propose, with much pleasure, that the

name of the hybrid be Calanthe Dominii, in order to put upon

permanent record the name of the first man who succeeded in

this operation. He is indeed especially entitled to this distine-

tion, not only in consequence of having produced other Orchida-

ceous mules, among which we understand our Cattleyas, but be-

cause of his eminent success in raising such plants from seed, as

a matter’ of horticultural business.

“It is by no means our intention, in making the last remark,

to claim for Mr. Dominy the merit of being the first gardener

to raise seedling Orchids. On the contrary, about the year

1822, Prescotia plantaginea was raised abundantly in the garden

of the Horticultural Society; and it has been rumoured for some

time that seedling epiphytes are coming forward in certain Conti-

nental nurseries. What we do claim for him is therefore the

priority in raising Aydrid Orchids, a claim which will hardly be

contested.”’—Lind]. in Gard. Chron.

Fig. 1. Lip and portion of the spur. 2. Pollen-masses :—magnified.

2043,

peedss

prooks

Vincent

Tas. 5043.

NIPH/EA ALso-LinEaTA; var. reticulata.

White-lined Niphea ; reticulated var.

Nat. Ord. GesNERIACEH.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx semisuperus, equalis, 5-partitus. Corolla rotata, subzequalis ;

laciniis superioribus paulo minoribus et magis connatis. Stamina inclusa, libera,

conniventia; 4 fertilia subzequalia, antheris glabris ovatis ;.quintum sterile, car-

nosum, corolle dorso suo adnatum, deforme. Glandula_perigyne 0. Ovarium

uniloculare, placentis didymis polyspermis. Stigma simplex.—Herbe Ramondize

cujusdam caulescentis facie; foliis rugosis in verticillum approximatis; floribus az-

ilaribus terminalibusque aggregatis, candidis. Lindl.

Nirz#a albo-lineata; hirsuta, foliis oppositis lineis albis pictis, internodiis

elongatis, segmentis calycinis rotundatis tuboque hispidis.

coe albo-lineata. Hook: Bot. Mag.-t. 4282. Hanstein in Linnea,

4. es

Var. reticulata; foliis remotis albo-reticulatis, pedunculis in axillis pluribus quasi

verticillatis. (Tas. Nostr. 5043.)

v. 27. p.

cisaibaaiclaccionlh ‘ Se Senate ese are ae

The original species of Niphea, as figured and descr:

Dr. Lindley, le. had the 7 pairs of leaves so approximate

to appear whorled in fours on the upper part of the stem, and the

peduncles seemed to arise from the apex of the ,in.short,

Were terntinal. In our WN. albo-lineata, given at fab. 4.282, the 2

pairs of leaves are rather remote, but the upper 0

crowded as still to appear to be all terminal; in-our present

plant, which we take to be a variety of, but larger and hand-

Somer than that species, the pairs of leaves are still more sy

and the peduncles show themselves to be in whorls, or rat a

Pseudo-whorls, from the axils of the distant pairs of leaves. This

may be the effect of cultivation, but the character of the plant 1s

thereby improved. The variegated foliage 1s as conspicuous here

a in the origi i jines anastomose so as to

€ original albo-lineata, but the de a variety

at least partially reticulated. Hanstein has mac

of WV. Wie Mencia, hack he calls 8 reticulata, “ nervis a

albo-reticulata :? and to this he refers the WV. argyroneura 0

APRIL Ist, 1858.

described by : ae

nes are so far

Planchon and Linden, “Fl. des Serres, 8. 823. p. 201,” and

also WV. anechtochilifolia of Warsz. MSS., under which name we

received our plant from Berlin. Indeed, except the variegated

leaves and smaller flowers, there is scarcely any tangible specific

difference between the two. The humbler growth of the original

species, giving it a good deal the appearance of Ramondia, as

the author correctly observes, was due probably to imperfect cul-

tivation.

Fig. 1. Corolla laid open. 2. Pistil; the greater part of the ovary incor-

porated with the very hispid calyx-tube :—magnijied.

ae 4 4 .

Vincent Brooks Imp.

Tas. 5044.

CAMELLIA ros#FLora.

Rose-flowered Camellia.

Nat. Ord. TERNSTREMIACE®.—MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA.

/ Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 2745.)

CaMELura roseflora; ramis patentibus glabris, foliis ovatis acuminatis argute

serratis subcoriaceis glabris, floribus axillaribus solitariis declinatis, pedun-

culis brevissimis bracteatis, petalis obcordato-emarginatis, ovario styloque

glaberrimis, stigmatibus elongatis. .

This really handsome Camellia has been long cultivated in the:

Royal Gardens of Kew under the incorrect name of “ Camellia

euryoides, Lindl.,” a very peculiar species, first figured and de-

scribed by Dr. Lindley: the history of which is, that it was “a

stock on which the Chinese graft their varieties of Camellia Ja-

ponica. he grafted portion of a Camellia brought from China

for the Horticultural Society by Potts, in 1822, having died, the

stock sprang up and produced this plant. The same having

again befallen a Camellia brought home for the Society 1n 1824,

by Mr. J. D. Parks, this plant again shot forth.” Strange to say,

nothing further is known of the original C. ewryoides, and no

systematic botanist, that I am aware of, has ever further noticed

it. Our present plant, of which I know not the history, is quite

different from this, more robust in habit, glabrous even In the

young shoots, much larger in the flowers, which are pink-coloured.

In some respects this approaches the C. assimilis, Champ., m

Hook. Kew Gard. Misc. v. 3. p. 310, and Seemann, Bot. of

H.M.S. Herald; but there the flowers are solitary and terminal,

the stigma is small and obscurely three-lobed, the pistil very

hairy, as are all the free filaments of the stamens.

Descr. Our plant is a shrub, three feet high, with a much

more lax and straggling habit than that of the common Camellia

Japonica. Branches rather twiggy, patent, clothed with a brown,

quite smooth bark. Leaves ovate, acuminate, shortly petiolate,

APRIL Ist, 1858.

' firm, subcoriaceous, dark glossy-green, strongly serrated at the

margin, the base and acumen entire, rarely plane, slightly convex

above, a little waved, the apex obtuse. Vowers axillary, soli-

tary or rarely two together, opening in succession from the

upper ones downwards, sessile or nearly so, appearing more

decidedly sessile from the fact of the short peduncle being clothed

with imbricated scales, white or a little silky at the back, small,

at the base oval, gradually enlarging upwards till they pass into

the imbricated lobes of the calyx. Flowers much larger than

those of C. Sasangua, and much smaller than the ordinary size of

C. Japonica. Petals generally six, of a clear, full pink or rose-

colour, obcordate, but tapering so as to be cuneate at the base,

and there slightly united in two series, imbricated, never fully

patent, almost forming a tube below; the upper part more or

less patent, the apex retuse or emarginate. Sfamens not very

numerous (twenty-five to thirty) ; fidaments united in their lower

half into a firm, fleshy tube. Anthers small, yellow. Ovary sub-

globose, quite glabrous. Sty/e nearly as long as the stamens,

stout, tripartite at the apex, with three long stigmata.

Fig. 1. Pistil, magnified.

Tas. 5045,

PENTSTEMON Jarrrayanus.

Mr. Jaffray’ s Pentstemon.

Nat. Ord. ScRoPHULARINE#.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4818.)

PENTSTEMON Jaffrayanus ; perennis erectus glaber glaucus, foliis omnino inte-

gerrimis, radicalibus spathulatis in petiolum brevem attenuatis, intermediis

oblongo-ellipticis, supremis sensim minoribus sessilibus bracteisque cordato-

ovatis, floribus pseudo-verticillatim paniculatis majusculis, calycis lobis late

ovatis acutis, corolle pulcherrime czrulez basi fauceque rubree limbo bila-

biato, filamento sterili elongato imberbi.

My first knowledge of this lovely and hardy species of Pent-

stemon was derived from Mr. Jaffray’s collections made at Clear

Creek, North California, in 1853 (n. 1116 of his specimens).

Seeds were at the same time sent home by him ; but I know not

if they ever germinated. Messrs. Veitch and Sons, of Exeter,

and King’s Road, Chelsea, have been more fortunate with Cali-

fornian seeds of the same species they received from Mr. William

Lobb ; and in August, 1857, I had the pleasure to receive living

specimens here represented. The P. speciosus, Douglas. and

Lindley (Bot. Reg. p. 1270), from the Strahan River, North-

west America, is perhaps its nearest affinity, from which it is

abundantly distinct, and is certainly more beautiful,—for there

is that mixture in the corolla which is so unusual, viz. of bright

blue and red, of which however we have an example in the

Buglosses and some other Boragineous plants. This plant will

assuredly form an interesting addition to our hardy herbaceous,

and especially “bedding-out ” plants. It continues to produce

a succession of flowers in the summer months. . _

Drscor. Root perennial. Stems erect, branching only below,

about a foot high, young ones tinged with red, glabrous, as is

every part of the plant. eaves all very glaucous, entire ; ower

leaves spathulate, especially the root-leaves, and tapering below

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into a short petiole; intermediate ones oblong-elliptical, rather

obtuse, not the least attenuated at the base, quite sessile, thence

upwards they gradually become smaller and proportionally

broader, ovato-cordate or cordate and quite sessile, acute. Bracts

and éracteoles resembling these leaves, only still smaller. Panicle

terminal. Peduacles opposite, two- or three- or more flowered ;

flowers moderately large and spreading, and thus pseudo-verti-

cillate. Calya short, of five deep, broad, ovate, acute, somewhat

imbricated Jobes, the apices patent. Corolla an inch and a

quarter long, rich blue, red at the base and at the faux. Limd

bilabiate, upper of two, lower of three, rounded spreading lobes.

Stamens four, perfect, didynamous; anthers deep red. Sterile

filaments almost as long as the perfect ones, beardless. Ovary

narrow ovate. Style as long as the stamens. Stigma obtuse.

Fig. 1. Stamens. 2. Pistil :—magnified.

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Tas. 5046.

KEFERSTEINIA craminea.

Grass-leaved Kefersteinia.

Nat. Ord. Oncu1pE#.—GyYNANDRIA MoNnANDRIA.

Gen. Char. KEFERSTEINIA, Reichb. fil. Perigonii subpatuli sepala ac petala

(tepala, Reichb.) oblongo-lanceolata, acuta, submembranacea. Sepala retrorsum

oblique inserta. Labellum cum gynostemii pede producto articulatum, flabellatum

seu rhombeum, cucullatum, basi callosum; callo laminato, foveato. Gynostemium

semiteres, apice clavatum, rectum, marginibus lateralibus alatum, angulatum.

Androclinium perpendiculare, ellipticum, immarginatum, apice rotundatum, ros-

tellt tridentati dente medio subulato majore. Stigma lineare, transversum. Crista

longitudinalis a stigmatis labio inferiori ad medium gynostemium (certe stamino-

dium ent.). Pollinia pyriformia, papyracea, excavatula, per paria incumbentia,

valde inzqualia, in caudicula obtusa ligulata, superne angulata, glandula oblonga

infra adnata subequilonga. Reichd. fil.

KEFzRsTEINia graminea ; labello transverso rhombeo apice retuso dimidio ante-

riori denticulato seu lacero fimbriato, callo rhombeo seu triangulo antice

_ bilobo seu paucidentato a basi discum versus. Reich. fil.

KEFERSTEINIA graminea. Reichd. fil. in “V. Mohl, u. v. Schlecht. Bot. Zeit. x.

634.” Xen. Orchid. p. 67. t. 25. ii. f. 2-11.

ZYGOPETALUM gramineum. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1844, Misc. p. 15.

This curious Orchid was not known in cultivation when Dr.

Lindley named and described it as Zyyopetalum grameum. It

1s from Popayan, on the west side of the Andes, where it was dis-

covered by Hartweg, and it has since been found in the Caraccas

by Linden, Funcke, and Schlim. We derived our plant from the

Imperial Gardens of St. Petersburg, and we learn that it exists

in gardens under the name of “ Huntleya fimbriata.” Three

Species of the genus are described by Reichenbach fil.

Duscr. Pseudobulbs none. The eaves rise directly from the

root, and are about a span long, erect or spreading in a fan-

shaped manner, lanceolate, moderately acuminated, faintly stri-

ated, carinated below, and jointed on to the compressed and

conduplicate, equitant, sheathing bases. -Peduncles also radical,

springing from below the leaves, three to five, in a clustered

manner, slender, almost filiform, weak, two to three inches long,

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flexuose, single-flowered, bracteated at the base, with a solitary

bract near the middle, and a pair of opposite 4racts beneath the

single flower. Before expansion the peduncle almost rests on

the ground, rising up (but never erect) as the flower expands.

This flower is of a dirty-yellow colour, more or less copiously

spotted with deep rich brown, the sepals and petals the palest,

the large lip of the deepest colour; the whole reminds one very

much of the colouring, and indeed somewhat of the shape, of a

large Aranea diadema. Sepals and petals spreading horizontally,

oblong-lanceolate, uniform, except that the petals are rather nar-

rower. ip broad oval: it can scarcely be said to be three-

lobed ; it is gibbous at the base beneath, concave in the centre

above, the upper half suddenly bends downwards, and is emargi-

nate at the apex, the edge crisped and minutely denticulate: at

the base above is a large, four-lobed, fleshy gland (spotted like —

the rest of the lip), and, in our specimen, shaped somewhat like

a butterfly with the wings expanded. Column elongated, semi-

terete, carinated in front, the sides and carina unidentate near

the middle; the back is slightly downy. Anther in face of the

column. Pollen-masses four, club-shaped, attached to a trian-

gular gland.

Fig. 1. Labellum. 2. Column and anther. 3. Pollen-masses :—magnified.

Tas. 5047.

BEGONIA W AGENERIANA.

Mr. Wagener’s Begonia.

Nat. Ord. Beconrace®.—Monecra PoLyANDRIA.

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

Breconta Wageneriana; caule tereti erecto ramoso glaberrimo, foliis valde obli-

que ovatis acuminatis sinuatis hine serratis, petiolo foliis subdimidio bre-

viore, stipulis magnis oblongis obtusis apice longe mucronatis, pedunculis

axillaribus longissimis, panicula multiflora dichotome cymosa, floribus parvis

albis, masculis tetrasepalis, foemineis pentasepalis, capsule alis duabus bre-

vibus obtusis, tertia elongato-triangulari.

Moscuxowrrzra Wageneriana. Klotzsch, Begon. p. 76.

This may possess less beauty than many of the extensive

genus Begonia, yet the deep yellow-green of the foliage, the rich

colouring of the petioles and peduncles, and the very nume-

rous, white, starry flowers, yellow in the centre, renders it a de-

sirable inmate of the stove, and it continues blossoming for a

long time in the early spring and summer. It is a native of © :

Venezuela, and was introduced by Mr. Wagener to the Royal

Botanic Gardens, Berlin, whence our plants have been derived.

Descr. Plant wholly glabrous. Stem erect, two and a half to |

three feet high, terete, somewhat Zigzag, pale greenish-brown. :

Leaves five to six inches and more long, cordato-ovate, subfalcate,

very unequally sided, subpeltate, acuminate, yellowish-green, paler

beneath, one (the largest) side subangulato-sinuate at the margin,

the other side and the acuminated apex serrated, veins prominent

beneath. Petioles red, terete, erect, about half the length of the

leaf. Stipules caducous, nearly an inch long, membranous, ob-

long, with a rather long mucro at the point. Peduncles axillary,

very long, red, terete, succulent, bearing a much di-trichoto-

mously branched cymose panicle of numerous small white flowers,

sterile and fertile on different cymes. Sterile flowers of four,

spreading, rather obtuse, white sepals. Stamens numerous, very

APRIL Ist, 1858.

compact, linear, yellow, collected into a nearly sessile globose head

or ball. Fertile flowers of five, white, ovate, acute sepals, rather

smaller than the sterile ones. Capsule obconical, with three un-

equal wings ; two short, obtuse, and slightly denticulate ; the third

thrice as long, triangular, obtuse.

Fig. 1. Capsule, not quite mature, magnified. 2. Portion of a cyme, with

sterile flowers, nat. size. 3. Sterile flower, magnified.

Tas. 5048,

CATTLEYA GRANULOSA.

Lough-lipped Cattleya.

Nat. Ord. OncHIpE#.—GyNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 2700.)

CartLeya granulosa ; caulibus teretibus diphyllis, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis ob-

tusis, petalis obovato-spathulatis undulatis obtusissimis, labello cucullato

tripartito, laciniis lateralibus semiovatis intermedia sinu lato divulsa, ungue

eequilatero levi lamina rotundata plicata granulosa denticulata. Lindl.

Carrera granulosa. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1842, v. 28. ¢.1.

B. Russelliana ; foliis ovatis, pedunculis trifloris, floribus multo majoribus, petalis

magis lanceolatis, labello ungue angustiore. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1845, ». 31.

t, 50.

Even a quarto plate scarcely suffices to do justice to a well-

grown specimen of this noble Cattleya. Hartweg was the first

to bring the species into notice, having sent it from Guatemala

about 1840. It was figured by Dr. Lindley, with a solitary

flower, from the only plant then. known in Europe, in January,

1840. A three-flowered specimen then appeared in the same

publication for 1845, as a variety, with somewhat broader leaves,

as var. Russelliana. Our present specimen, with its noble clus-

ter of flowers, was sent to us from the Botanic Garden, Liver-

pool, in 1845, by the late Mr. Henry Shepherd. Well culti-

vated as this specimen is, there are certainly few Orchideous

plants that can surpass it in beauty. This flowered and was

n perfection in August. Plants have also been sent from we

temala by G. M. Skinner, Esq., who has contributed so largely

to our collections in this family. -

ot and more long, jointed

Drscr. Stems or pseudobulbs a fo

at distant intervals, compressed and furrowed, and _ partially

clothed with membranaceous sheaths. Leaves two, ae ae

(that is, there is a short portion of the stem, or pseudobul : e-

tween them), oblong, patenti-reflexed, coriaceous, rather broad in

MAY Ist, 1858.

the middle, sheathing only at the very base, obtuse at the point,

dark green. Peduncle terminal, stout, terete, bearing a spzke or

raceme of six to eight large flowers at the extremity. Sepa/s and

petals spreading, all of the same uniform olive yellowish-green

colour, with a few, scattered, small, sanguineous spots ; the sepals

oblong, obtuse, even ; the peta/s obovato-oblong, much waved at

the margin. Jip white, fleshy, not so long as the sepals and

petals, primarily three-lobed, the lateral lobes at the base rise —

like two auricles, and almost over the top of the column, they

are yellow within;.the middle lobe has a deep-orange spot at

the base, is broad and oblong for a great part of the length, and

spreading into a broad, somewhat reniform, waved, two-lobed

extremity, and is covered with innumerable, deep rose-coloured

granulations, from which circumstance the plant derives its spe-

cific name.

Fig. 1. Lip, slightly magnified.

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Tas. 5049.

POLYGONATUM ROSEUM.

Rose-flowered Solomon’ s-seal.

Nat. Ord. Smmnactnea.—Hexanprra Monoeyntia.

Gen. Char. Perigonium corollaceum, tubulosum, limbo breviter sexfidum et

erectiusculum, deciduum. Stamina 6, medio tubo inserta, inclusa. Filamenta

tereti-subulata. _Anthere biloculares, lineari-oblonge, emarginate, basi bifid,

dorso medio affixee, introrsee. Ovarium liberum, sessile, triloculare; ovuda in locu-

lis 3-6, biseriata, anatropa. Columna stylina terminalis, erecta, elongata, trigona,

inclusa. Stigma terminale, obsolete trilobum, supra papillosum. Bacca globosa,

trilocularis. Semina in loculis 1-2, subglobosa. Testa tenuissima, albumini

cartilagineo-carnoso arctissime adnata. Embryo parvus, tereti-oblongus, rectus,

axilis, in extremitate albuminis chalaza opposita inclusus.—Rhizoma horizontale,

incrassatum. Caulis erectus, simplex, superne foliosus, inferne squamis vaginatus.

Folia sessilia, sparsa, rarius opposita vel verticillata, striato-nervosa, nervis subti-

liter reticulato-anastomosantibus, plerumque membranacea. Pedunculi agillares,

solitarii, uni- vel racemoso-bi-pauciflori. Flores pedicellati, nutantes, albi, apice

virides ; pedicellis basi ebracteolatis vel bracteola minuta subulata instructis, sub

Jlore articulatis. Kunth. :

PoLtyGonatum roseum ; caule teretiusculo subsulcato, foliis oblongo-linearibus v.

lineari-lanceolatis acutiusculis apicibus rectis glabris, inferioribus subternis

superioribus sparsis margine subtusque in nervis subtilissime scabriusculis,

pedunculis axillaribus plerumque bifloris cernuis purpureo-roseis.

PoLyconatum roseum. Kunth, Enum. Pl. v. 5. p. 141. Ledeb. Fl. Ross. v. 4.

P. 123. Schultz, Syst. Veget. v. 7. p. 1669.

ConvatLarta rosea. Ledeb. Fl. Altaic. v. 2. p. 41; Ie. Plant. Ross. t. 1.

This very pretty Polygonatum, nearly allied to our Polygonatum

verticillatum, was sent to the Royal Gardens by Professor Bunge,

the friend. of Professor Ledebour at Dorpat, and. there is every

Teason to believe it is good authority for the plant so called of —

Ledebour in his ‘ Flora Rossica.’ We have also authentic Specl-

mens in the herbarium from Professor Bunge. It Is a native of

the Altaic Siberia, at the river Kurtsch, and of Chinese Songa-

ria, at Lake Saisang-Nor (Herb. Acad. Petrop. in Herb. Nostr.).

But it must be confessed that the species varies considerably —

in the length and breadth of the leaves, and their being more

or less verticillate, and if Ledebour’s figure be correct, above

MAY Ist, 1858.

quoted, in the size and colour of the flower. The species with

which I would immediately compare it is the Polygonatum Sibi-

ricum of Redouté’s ‘ Liliacées,’ figured there however from a

dried and much shrivelled specimen. From this the Convallaria

cirrhifolia of Wallich is not distinct. It is described as hav-

ing the leaves almost uniformly verticillate, and with more or less

cirrhose points. It is indeed extremely common in Himalaya, at

elevations of from 7—11,000 feet (Hooker and Thomson) ; but

specimens collected by Messrs. Strachey and Winterbottom, at

Rinkim in Thibet, in our herbarium, gathered at an elevation of

13,500 feet above the sea, partake of the characters of the two

species ; the lower leaves being quite straight at the points, as

in P. roseum, the upper ones with uncinate or slightly cirrhose

points, a character so common in P. Sibiricum ; so that unless

the living plant were to exhibit some mark of distinction, It

would be difficult to say to which of the two species this should

be referred. The colour of the flowers seems to be the same in

both. As neither one nor the other however has, as far as we

know, been cultivated in our gardens, we gladly represent the

rosea of Ledebour in our present Plate. :

Descr. Root a horizontal, fleshy ‘user, sometimes running

out to a great length, and forming a long, fleshy rhizome, throw-

ing up annual, simple, herbaceous, erect stems, one to two feet

high, terete ; but at the same time angular on the surface, pale

whitish-green, sometimes tinged with red streaks. Leaves gene-

rally subverticillate but rarely strictly so, and here and there

quite alternate, especially at the summit and at the very base,

where indeed they almost constitute scales; in form the leaves

are linear or linear-lanceolate, the uppermost ones slightly acu-

minated, striated, entire, the margins and keel under a high

magnifier scaberulous. Peduncles axillary, solitary or two to-

gether, generally forked and two-flowered, sometimes bearing

four flowers, rarely one. Peduncle and pedicels prettily mottled

_ with dark-purple. Perianth in our living specimens about three-

quarters of an inch long ; the ground-colour is white, but slightly

tinged with purple, mottled and streaked with pink, so that the

general tint 1s rose-colour ; the ¢ube long; the dimé of six, ovate,

spreading segments, white at the margin and somewhat serrated

or crested at the very apex. Stamens and pistil included. An-

thers oblong, yellow. Ovary obovate. Style shorter than the

ovary. Stigma truncated.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil :—magnified.

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Tas. 5050.

BOLBOPHYLLUM NEILGHERRENSE.

Neilgherry Bolbophyllum.

Nat. Ord. Orncu1pE®.—GyYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4088.)

Bo.BoruytLum Neilgherrense ; rhizomate repente, pseudobulbis ovatis angu-

latis subcorrugatis, folio solitario oblongo-elliptico obtusiusculo, scapo folio

multo breviore, spica subcylindracea erecta, floribus laxiusculis erectis, —

bracteis lanceolatis herbaceis, sepalis lateralibus ovato-lanceolatis dorsali

quadruplo majoribus, petalis parvis e basi ovata acuminatis purpurascenti-

bus, labello recurvato trilobo, lobis lateralibus parvis intermedio lingulato

integro, disco sulcato, columna utrinque alata, alis apice cuspidato-acumi-

natis.

Bo.pornyiium Neilgherrense. Wight, Ic. Plant. Ind. Or. v. 5. ¢. 1650.

Our pseudobulbs of this plant were received from Mr. M‘Ivor, :

who collected them in the Neilgherries in 1849; and Dr. Wight,

the only author, as far as we know, who has noticed it, has given

it as a native also of Malabar. That author alludes to its affinity

with Bolbophyllum Careyanum, but considers it quite distinct, as"

may be seen by our figure of that species at our Tab. 4166.

It flowered with us in January, 1858, in the warm Orchideous

House.

_ Descr. Pseudobulbs oblongo-ovate, slightly compressed, par-

tially clothed with a sheathing membrane, and arising from a

creeping, jointed, sheathed rhizome, scarcely 80 thick as a

goose-quill. _ Leaf solitary from the apex of the pseudobulb,

four to six inches long, nearly erect, coriaceous, elliptical-oblong,

rather obtuse, tapering below into a thickened, short petiole.

Scape from the base of the pseudobulb, three to four inches

long, terete, jointed, joints sheathed with a membrane. Spike

scarcely three inches long, of several, erect, brownish-green, lax

flowers; each flower subtended by a small, lanceolate, greenish

bract. Sepals ovato-lanceolate ; dorsal one small ; lateral ones

connivent at the base, so as to resemble the carina of a pa-

MAY Ist, 1858.

pilionaceous flower, four or five times as large as the dorsal

one: colour brownish-green, spotted. Peta/s smaller even than

the dorsal sepal, purplish, from a broad base, acuminate. Lip

springing from the decurrent base of the column, and jointed

upon it, recurved, three-lobed ; lateral lobes small; intermediate

one tongue-shaped, entire, furrowed down the middle. Column

short, winged on each side, which wings terminate above in an

acuminated point on each side the anther-case.

Fig. 1. Entire flower. 2. Flower from which the sepals and petals are re-

moved, showing the column and the lip. 3. Pollen-masses magnified.

Vincent Brooks Tp

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Tas. 5051,

CLIANTHUS Damptert.

Dampier’s Clianthus.

Nat. Ord. Leguminos#.—D1apELPHIA DECANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx late campanulatus, subzequalis, 5-dentatus. Vewillum acu-

minatum, reflexum, alis parallelis longius; carina scapiformis, vexillo alisque

multo longior, omnino monopetala. Stamina manifeste perigyna, diadelpha, omnia

fertilia. Stylus staminibus duplo longior, versus apicem hine leviter barba-

tus, stigmate simplicissimo. Legumen pedicelfatum, coriaceum, acuminatum,

ventricosum, polyspermum, intus lanulosum, sutura dorsali recta, ventrali con-

vexa. Semina reniformia, funiculis longiusculis affixa.—Suffrutices herbeeve ;

foliis impari-pinnatis, stipulatis ; floribus speciosissimis, racemosis. Lindl.

CuiantHus Dampieri; herbaceus prostratus sericeo-villosissimus, foliolis oppo-

sitis (rarissime alternis) oblongis passim lineari-oblongis obovatisve, pedun-

culis erectis scapiformibus, floribus subumbellatis, calycibus 5-fidis sinubus

acutis, ovariis (leguminibusque immaturis) sericeis. Br.

Cutantnus Dampieri. 42. Cunn. in’Hort. Soc. Trans. ser. 2.0. 1. p. 521. Br.

in App. to Sturt’s Exped. to Central Australia, p. 71.

Cutantuus Oxleyi. 4. Cunn. in Hort. Soc. Trans. 1.c. p. 522.

Donta speciosa. Don, Gard. Dict. v. 2. p. 468.

Conurea Nove-Hollandie. “ Woodw..in Dantpier’s Voy. v. 3. p. 111. t. 4.

eA 7? *

From the Greenhouse of Messrs. Veitch and Sons, Exeter,

and King’s Road, Chelsea, where its splendid blossoms were pro-

duced in the month of March of the present year 1858. In

point of size the flowers are quite equal to those of the now well-

known Clianthus puniceus, but in richness of colour far superior,

for the uniform crimson of the petals is relieved by the velvety

purple-black disc of the standard of the petals. Clianthus Mere

is considered to be a native of New Zealand, though a decidedly

wild locality has perhaps never yet been recorded.* This species

* Sir Joseph Banks and Dr. Solander, who were the first to notice this

plant, in 17 69, are said to have found it “on some part of the porn

the Northern Island of New Zealand, or in Cook’s Strait. Mr. Sat SOT

ham observes, that this plant does not occur in a collection form mt oot

brother in New Zealand, and was not. seen by himself during his first visit to

MAY Ist, 1858.

now under consideration is a native of New Holland, and was

discovered so long ago as 1699, by Dampier (and published and

figured by Woodward, in Dampier’s Voyage, above quoted), in

the dry sandy islands of Dampier’s Archipelago, North-west Aus-

tralia, latitude 29° 19’ to 20° 30’, longitude 116° to 117° east.

Allan Cunningham gathered it in the same locality in 1818.

Specimens from near that group of islands, namely on the

“north-west coast of Australia,” are in my herbarium, gathered

by Mr. Bynoe in the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. Again, Mr.

Allan Cunningham met with the same plant in the western

_ interior of New South Wales, on the eastern shore of Regent's

Lake on the river Lachlan. The same plant was observed on

the Gawler Range, not far from the head of Spencer’s Gulf, in

1839, by Mr. Eyre, and more recently by Captain Sturt, on his

“Barriere Range, near the Darling, about 500 feet above the

river.” Mr. Brown has examined specimens from all these

localities, and is satisfied that they belong to one and the same

species.

Mr. Brown, judging from the unripe pods in my herbarium,

was of opinion that this would, when the perfect pods were

known to us, prove to be sufficiently distinct from the original

New Zealand species to form a distinct genus, but the pods and

the seeds seem to exhibit no difference as far as can be judged

from the immature state, save in the absence of the woolly sub-

stance in the former. ‘The seeds are rather numerous, and are

each on a long podosperm.

On the first exhibition of this charming plant at the Horti-

cultural Society, a silver medal was most justly awarded to

Messrs. Veitch and Son. .

Drscr. A procumbent or ascending, herbaceous plant, glau-

cous, and hoary all over with long, whitish, silky hair. Stems

slightly angular and tinged with red. Leaves alternate, pinnated,

petiolated, oblong, with about sixteen rather closely placed sub-

opposite, oblong or elliptical, frequently acute, sessile leaflets ;

petiole one to three inches long, with a pair of large, herbaceous,

bifid stipules at the base. Peduncle terminal, sometimes a spat

long, bearing a racemose wmbel of four to six, very large, droop-

ing flowers. Pedicels bibracteolate. Calya hairy, with the tube

the Northern Island in 1826. It is probably a rare plant, and its peculiar

localities are to the southward of the Bay of Islands, where Allan Cunningham

subsequently gathered it; it also occurs on the shores of the River Thames,

at Mereury Bay, where Cook afforded the naturalists who accompanied that voy-

age the opportunity of landing, in 1769, and near which, namely at Tauranga, in

the Bay of Plenty, are the Missionaries’ Home Stations, whence the first seeds

were sent to Europe, and raised by W. Leveson Gower, Esq., of Titsey Place,

Godstone. Dr. Hooker, in his ‘ Flora Nove Zelandizx,’ gives the locality of Banks

and Solander, and says, ‘‘ more generally cultivated.”

cup-shaped, obtuse at the base ; segments five, nearly equal, erecto-

patent, lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla bright-red. Standard very

large, ovato-lanceolate, suddenly from above the base curved up-

wards, so that it presents its imner surface to the spectator in

front, and this exhibits a double or two-lobed projection at the

base of the disc, very prominent, and of a purplish velvety black

colour, gradually melting into the red, and reflecting a strong

light from the apex of its lobes. Wings small, lanceolato-subu-

late, deflexed ; Aeel very large, deflexed, lanceolato-falcate, acu-

‘minate, longer than the standard. Stamens diadelphous, nine

united and one free, very long. Anthers linear. Ovary pedicellate,

hairy, linear, gradually tapering into the long, subulate s¢y/e.

Fig. 1. Stamens and pistil. 2. Pistil removed from the receptacle :—magnified.

MDL.

Fitch del.et ith ,

Vincent Brooks Imp. a

Tas. 5052.

FRITILLARIA Graca.

Greek Fri tillary.

Nat. Ord. Littacem.—Hexanpria MoNnocGynta.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 3280.)

FRrivtnuarta Greca 3 glabra glauca, caule humili basi nudo dein 5-8-phyllo,

foliis omnibus alternis, inferioribus approximatis od/ongis vel oblongo-lanceo-

latis obtusis acutiusculisve, summis remotioribus anguste linearibus acutis,

floribus mediocribus 1 rarins 2 terminalibus nutantibus ultimo foliosis

breviori approximatis, perigonii breviter campanulati basi rotundati non

gibbosi diametro suo eequilongi phyllis extus fascia viridi-lutescente longi-

tudinali percursis, cxterum rubris obscure tessellatis ellipticis apice ro-

tundato vel subattenuato obtuso vel subretuso pilosulis, nectario oblongo-

lipeari, staminibus corolla dimidio brevioribus, filamentis glabris e basi di-

latata attenuatis anthera breviter apiculata duplo longioribus, stylo glabro

sogitadinis ovarii stamina paululum superante ad medium usque trifido.

ois.

Frivrenarta Greeca. Boiss. ef Sprunner in Boiss. Diagnos. Plant. Orient. Nov. — :

n. 7. 1846, p. 104.

FRrrriiania tulipifolia. Fl. Greca, non M. Bieb. (Boiss. in Herb. Nostr.)

A native of Mount Hymettus, about the middle of the moun- —

tain, and hardy in our gardens. Of this pretty Fritillary, like —

the Rose-flowered Solomon’s-seal of this number, Tab. 5049, we

have the advantage of possessing authentic living plants, derived —

from M. Boissier’s garden at Geneva, and from which our

figures have been taken. They flower readily in the open

border, and in a frame in the month of March, when flowers

oe ific character given by

are always welcome. Long as is ae ee to the authors of the,

Boissier and Sprunner, it is only j , ey

Species to vie. their own wiedis for indeed so — pes |

allied to F. talipifolia of Bieberstein, Centur. Plant. Ross. ta.

41, that I should have a difficulty im aes : me a ah

except by the markings of the flowers;—m™ a pag BS

tessellated, very much like 7. Meleagris; ™ ‘ie stare of ee

tessellated, and having a green line down the o

MAY Ist, 1858.

sepal. In one of our native specimens, however, also “e monte

Hymetto Attice,’ from Heldreich, marked as a var., the green

line is quite obsolete, and the whole perianth is a chocolate-

brown. The most essential distinguishing characters, we pre-

sume, are given above in italics. It is only in a note upon

specimens from Boissier himself, in our herbarium, that he has

attached the remark that this plant is the /. tw/ipifolia of ‘Flora

Greeca,’ not of M. Bieberstein: that synonym is not given in

the ‘ Diagnoses.’

Descr. Root a small, subglobose 4u/é. Stem a span (more or

less) high, slender, erect, terete. Root-/eaves from young bulbs

four to five inches long, lanceolate, tapering into a petiole.

Cauline /eaves, in our plants and specimens, four to six or seven

in number, mostly five, elliptical or linear-lanceolate, nearly erect,

striated, the upper ones gradually smaller, uppermost one arising

from the base of the peduncle. //owers solitary, rarely two,

smaller than those of F. Meleagris, and less campanulate. Sepals

elliptical, slightly apart when fully open, tawny or ferruginous-

brown, spotted but scarcely tessellated, with a dorsal green line

continued to the projection which constitutes the nectary at the

base ; the margin is also pale-green. Stamens shorter than the

sepals, and rather shorter than the pistil. Ovary oblong. Style

short, longer than the ovary, and nearly twice as long as the

branches of the style.

Fig. 1. Sepals, with nectary. 2. Pistil:—magnified.

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Tan. 3033.

DENDROBIUM curRyYSoTOXxUM. «

Golden-arched Dendrobium.

Nat. Ord. OncnipE®.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4755.)

DENnpRosium (§ Dendrocoryne) chrysotocum ; pseudobulbis angustis multicos-

tatis 2-4-foliis, foliis oblongis horizontalibus coriaceis, racemis lateralibus

laxis gracilibus arcuatim decurvis pseudobulbos eequantibus, bractea basilari

parva spathacea floralibus minimis herbaceis, sepalis petalisque explanatis

oblongis obtusissimis 'planis bis duplo latioribus, labello indiviso cucullato

rotundato pubescente margine minutissime pectinato et fimbriato. Lindl.

52 tage (§ Dendrocoryne) chrysotoxum. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1847, sub t.

9. ;

The Dendrocoryne section of the fine East Indian genus Den-

drobium forms, Dr. Lindley observes, “a peculiar group, best

perhaps characterized by their having a fleshy, angular stem,

_with two or more manifest articulations, one or more leaves at

the upper end, and a lip not broken up into a tuft of hairs or

fringes. They are, as it were, Bolbophylla passing into Dendro-

bia. In the group thus limited are included D. densiflorum,

Griffithii, aggregatum, tetragonum, Vettchianum, speciosum, and

some others formerly placed in Desmotrichum, a species whose

lip is broken up into a brush.” ; |

Our plant here figured is certainly not among the least hand- |

some in this lovely group, and was imported from India by

Messrs. Henderson. It flowers with us in March, and is highly

ornamental to the stove at that season. ag

Drscr. Pseudobulbs long, clustered, clavate or rather spindle-

shaped, jointed, with elongated joints, and clothed with a com-

pact, whitish, membranaceous sheath, having about four, more

or less spreading, oblong, acute, coriaceous, dark-green /eaves at

the extremity. Peduncle \ateral, arising from the top of the

pseudobulb, just below the leaves, rather short, bearing a shee

fully drooping raceme of twelve or more, large, golden-yellow

flowers ; almost a span long. There 1s @ deciduous, scariose,

JUNE Ist, 1858.

sheathing dract at the base of the peduncle, and a very small one

at the base of each ovary. The flowers are two inches across.

Sepals and petals spreading; the former rather small, oval or ob-

long-oval; the latter broad-ovate, twice as large as the sepals,

slightly twisted. Zip spreading, undivided, cucullate, the base

contracted, having a prominent blunt spur behind, the lamina

orbicular, pubescent on the upper surface, the margin most

beautifully fringed and ciliated: the colour of the lip is of the

same deep bright-yellow as the rest of the flower, but the disc

above is orange-colour, leaving a pale margin, and an arch or

semicircle of very deep orange is seen at the base of the lamina,

which suggested the specific name of the plant. Co/wmn short,

with a broad blunt tooth on each side the anther-case. ’

Fig. 1. Column and anther. 2. Portion of the fringe of the lip :—magnified.

YAM,

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Tas. 5054. :

RHODODENDRON aARGENTEUM.

Silver-leaved Rhododendron.

Nat. Ord. Errcr®.—Decanpria Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4336.)

ee ee or eee

RHODODE

* : a : ae

DRON argenteum ; foliis amplis coriacels oblongo-obovatis acutis in

laberrimis subtus argenteis,

oie crassum attenuatis planis utrinque g

Ke ott el Siete bracteis deciduis dense sericeis, floribus capita-

seaeotes vit is ea crassis puberulis, calyce brevissimo obscure lobato,

St eilchie a a a majuscule tubo campanulato, limbi lobis 8 breviuseu-

ae ces aminibus 10-15, filamentis basin versus glanduloso-pubescen-

, ovarii pubescentis loculis 10-16, stylo flexuoso crasso, stigmate

. dilatato.

HODODENDRON argenteum. Hook. fil. Rhod. Sik. Himal. p. 10. t. 9.

Bi es

feet in height, a native of |

f Sinchul, Suradah, and —

he level of the sea; an

fine Rhododendron-dis-

lant on é rless state it is a noble —

feneth et of its foliage, the leaves being often a foot mm

bie ia broad in proportion, always silvery beneath. Another

et sting state is in the early spring, whe

orming ; these are long, and clothed with coloured, imbri- —

the Dr. Hooker remarks, like

cone of some species of Pine ; the outer or lower scales broad

a .

nd coriaceous, glabrous, reddish-brown ; the innermost ones

Still more interesting is the

=agat , pink in bud, gradually

whitening as they expand, and having at the base of the tube

ot surrounding the stamens,

quite conspicuous on a full front view of the flower. The

oduced for the first time

flow

8 “tabs as far as we know, now pr

tivation, in a cool greenhouse of the Royal Gardens, m

JUNE Ist, 1858.

n the new leaf-buds a

Descr. Our plants are from four to five feet high, erect.

Leaves very much confined to the summits of the branches,

oblongo-obovate, coriaceous, conspicuous, penninerved; the nerves

sunk, dark full green above, beneath silvery-white. ower-buds

imbricated with large, brown, very broad, obtuse scales. Howers

capitate, compact. Peduncles very short, subumbellate, thick,

curved downwards. Calyx literally none, unless about. six

small dracteoles, reflexed bodies bent down upon the peduncle,

can be so called; these have their origin at the very top of

the peduncle (under the very base of the corolla), and are linear

or oblong, white, somewhat fleshy, occasionally divided into two

unequal segments. Corolla in bud fine rose-colour, obovate

compressed, deeply eight-furrowed; as the corolla expands it

gradually changes to white, and is then broad, tubular-campanu-

late, two and a quarter inches long, laterally a little compressed ;

tube slightly widening upwards, eight-furrowed, discoloured at

the base in consequence of a large, black-purple, velvety, eight-

rayed spot, at the bottom within, surrounding the stamens.

Limb spreading, two and a quarter inches in diameter, eight-

lobed; Jodbes rounded, imbricated, deeply emarginate, almost

bifid, slightly lobed or waved. Stamens sixteen. Filaments com-

pacted almost into a tube below, white, slender, as long as the

tube of the corolla, slightly curved upwards from the base,

and there hairy. Anther small, oblong, rich red-brown, open-

ing by two pores at the apex. Pollen white. Ovary ovate-

oblong, ten-furrowed, woolly. Style as long as the stamens, set

abruptly on to the top of the ovary; the apex clubbed, and

Gurving upwards. Stigma a large, fleshy-coloured, oval disc, with

a depressed line in the centre.

Fig. 1. Flower, nat. size, with the five bracteoles (?) at the base of the corolla.

2. Stamen. 8. Pistil, 4. Transverse section of the ovary, seated upon the

fleshy disc, *

W. Bitch del et lith

Vincent Brocks Imp. a

Tas. 5055.

XIPHIDIUM FLorispuNpDuM.

Copious-flowered Xiphidium.

Nat. Ord. WAcHENDORFIACEZ.—TRIANDRIA MonoGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Perianthium corollinum, hexaphyllum ; foliolis patentibus, exteri-

oribus dorso puberulis, interioribus paulo minoribus glabris. Stamina 3, hypo-

gyna, perigonii foliolis interioribus opposita ; filamenta filiformia ; anthere basifixe.

Ovarium liberum, trigonum, triloculare. Ovula in placentis e loculorum angulo

centrali tumentibus, plurima, amphitropa. Stylus filiformis; stigma capitato-

trilobum. Capsula subglobosa, carnoso-mollis, trilocularis. Semana plurima,

subglobosa.—Herba perennis in America tropica cis Aiquatorem obvia ; radice

fibrosa ; caule simplici, hirsutiusculo, basi folioso ; foliis ensiformibus, equitantibus,

* geotees integerrimis v. subserrulatis ; floribus paniculatis, subsecundis, nutant-

bus. Endl.

XIPHIDIUM floribundum,

Xipuipium floribundum. Sw. Prodr. p. 17; Fl. Ind. Occ. v. 1. p. 80. ¢. 2.

Vahl, Enum. v. 2. p. 162. Reem. et Schult. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 487. os

a, albiflorum ; floribus albidis. Sw. (Tas. Nostr. 5055.)

Xipurp10 albidum. Lam. Ill. v. 1.p.181. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v, 1. p. 170. —

Xipuipium album, Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 1. p. 249. ne

Ixta Xiphidium. Lofl. It. p. 179.

‘8. ceruleum ; floribus intus ceruleis. Sw. aS gers

Xrpurprem ceruleum. Aubl. Guian. v. 1. p. 83. ¢. 11. Willd. Sp. Pi. [os

p. 24. 6 | :

Xipuipium giganteum. Lindl. Bot. Reg. v. 32, under t. 6g, and v. 33, ander ‘1.

This is a little-known plant, peculiar to tropical America, —

remarkable for its equitant leaves and Iris-like habit, with only

three stamens, but having a regular floral envelope of six pieces, =

and a superior ovary, as in Asphodelee. Its affinity is natural

with Wachendorfia, and these two genera have generally been

placed in Hemodoracee ; but Mr. Herbert has cine pe |

them the Nat. Ord. Wachendorfiacee, which 18 gone: ns a

Lindley, though the position of this Order-1s not very dleadly a

determined. The species, too, have apparently been nee ges! 2

multiplied ; and it is generally acknowledged that the blue- an a

JUNE Ist, 1858. |

white-flowering kinds are mere varieties of each other; while

Dr. Lindley’s Xzphidium, being identical with our plant, derived

from the same source, Santa Martha (Mr. Purdie), is simply a

larger specimen than usual, with leaves obsoletely serrated. Be-

sides the localities for this species given by Aublet and Swartz,

namely French Guiana, Vera Cruz, islands of Tobago and St.

Christopher, I may add, from-my herbarium, Plain of Dapur,

Santa Martha, Surinam, British Guiana, Antioquia, New Gra-

nada (Holton), Mecapulco, Mexico, and Dominica, St. Vincent,

and Jamaica of the West Indian Islands.

Descr. Rhizome long, descending, jointed, thick as a swan’s

quill, radicant and sending out offsets. Stems apparently annual,

herbaceous, from a few inches to a foot or more long, erect, com-

pressed, unbranched, but not unfrequently proliferous from buds

in the axils of the leaves, glabrous, leafy. Leaves alternate

equitant, sword-shaped, the flattened base forming a short sheath

upon the stem (as in Jris), from eight or ten inches to a foot

and a half long, one to two inches and more broad, distichous,

| membranaceous, closely striated, more or less distinctly but finely

spinuloso-serrate, especially towards the acuminated apex. Pe-

duncle terminal, bracteated, bearing an oblong thyrsus or com-

pound raceme of flowers, from four to six or eight inches long ;

racemelets spreading, subscorpioid ; the flowers six to eight, all

on the upper side, gradually opening from below, hairy or gla-

brous.. Pedicles bracteolated, short. Pertanth of six, white,

spreading, oblong-oval sepals, regular. Stamens as long as the

pistil, three, erect, from the base of the inner sepals. laments

short, glabrous. Anther oblong, orange-colour. Ovary quite su-

perior, globose, obscurely three-lobed. Style twice as long as the

ovary. Stigma obtuse. Both in our cultivated specimens and

in all our numerous native ones in the herbarium, the ovary falls

_ off without coming to maturity, the plant apparently increasing

_ mainly by lateral buds from the stem.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil :—magnified.

Vincent Brodks bap.

Tas. 5056.

OBERONIA acauvtis.

Stemless Oberonia.

Nat. Ord. OrncHr1pDEZ.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

' Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4517.)

OBERONIA acaiilis ; curvato-dependens, foliis ensiformibus e basi sensim Jonge

acuminatis, racemo elongato multifloro, floribus compactis subverticillatis,

sepalis petalisque subspiraliter patenti-reflexis, labello 4-lobo margine fim- o7

briato facie superiore pilis sparsis villosis, lobis obtusis duobus terminalibus a

majoribus, disco canaliculato.

OBERONIA acaulis. Griff. in Notule ad Plantas Asiat. pars 3. p. 215; Itin.

Notes, p. 16; Ic. Plant. Asiat. t. 286. 0. 1.

The genus Oderonia will prove a very extensive one In species,

though comparatively few are as yet accurately described. Dr.

Lindley has kindly referred us to the Oberoma acaulis, Grif,

for the present species. It is rudely figured by Griffith, 1-c.,

and the dissections are still more rude; but the identity of the

two is confirmed by an original specimen in Dr. Lindley’s her-

barium. It is a native of Churra, in Khasya, Eastern Bengal,

and is one of the many interesting Orchideous plants the intro-

duction of which to our gardens we owe to Mr. Simons. It

flowered with us in February of the present year. Be

‘Duscr. The habit of this plant is very peculiar. Cultivate

on a small block of wood, and suspended from the roof of the

Orchideous house, it takes a downward curvature, sO that the

leaves and orange-coloured raceme are strongly curvato-pendent.

Leaves stemless, few, the longest of them a foot long, eee

falcately recurved, gradually tapering from the base into * ihe

acumen, scarcely an inch broad in the widest part ; their ewe a

equitant, in colour glaucous-green. Peduncle three to nee m7 i.

long, rather stout, terminal. Raceme long, cylindrical, alt a :

equal in length to the leaves, with very numerous same oor io

(but not bright) fowers, compact, but much less so and by no —

JUNE lst, 1858.

means so small as in our O. tridifolia (Tab. 4517). Bracteas —

oblong-acute, serrated at the apex. Sepals and petals uniform, _ 3

ovate, fimbriato-ciliate, singularly reflexed, so as to be on the |

same plane with the labellum, with an exactly opposite direc-

tion, and at the same time slightly spirally twisted. Zip sub-—

quadrangular, obtusely four-lobed, or, in other words, three-

lobed; middle lobe much the largest and broadest, and itself

two-lobed ; all obtuse, and all fimbriato-ciliate; and the same

soft hairs of the margin extend to the surface of the lip: the

disc is channelled. Colwmn very short. Anther-case hemisphe-

rical. Pollen-masses two.

Fig. 1. Bractea. 2, 3. Flowers. 4. Pollen-masses :—magnified.

Tas. 5057.

POLYGALA Hi.arriaNna.

St. Hilaire’s Milkwort.

Nat. Ord. PotyGaLacE®.—DIADELPHIA OcTANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Calycis sepala persistentia, 2 interiora aleformia. Petala 3-5,

tubo stamineo connexa, inferiore carinzeformi (forsan e duobus coalitis constante). +

Capsula compressa, elliptica, obovata aut obcordata. Semina pubescentia, /ilo

carunculata, coma destituta. De Cand.

Potyeata (§ Ecristata) Hilairiana ; frutex, caule simplici superne folioso, foliis

oblongo-ovatis acutiusculis coriaceis basi in petiolum attenuatis, spicis axil-

laribus terminalibusque folio brevioribus, floribus (inter maximos) sessilibus

basi minute bibracteatis, calyce clauso, sepalis duobus interioribus corolla

paulo brevioribus suboblique ovatis paululum falcatis, corolla imberbi, peta-

lis 2 linearibus intermedio apice cucullato trilobo, ovario subrotundo emar-

ginato.

Potyeata Hilairiana. Endl. in Linnea, v. 17. p- 357. <Atakt. Bot. v. 4. 4.453,

Walp. Repert. Bot. Syst. v. 1. p. 242. é

Received at the Royal Gardens of Kew from Mr. Mackay, of

Liége, under the name of Polygala Brasiliensis, a species, if we |

may judge from the brief and only character (of less than two —

lines in De Candolle’s ‘ Prodromus’), with characters totally at

variance from this now under consideration, which is, however,

unquestionably identical with the Polygala Hilairiana of End-

licher, of which we possess specimens from South Brazil, ga-

thered by Sellow. It is also in the Benthamian Herbarium, from

Martius (n. 1186). It is perhaps the largest-flowered species of

the genys. Some of our leaves are fully a span long, and the

flowers are quite an inch long. Yet although the leaves are

large and evergreen, the flowers present but little show or

beauty. Endlicher gives it as an inhabitant of the neighbour-

hood of Bahia. It flowers in the stove during the spring

months. ee

Dzscr. Stem unbranched, erect, a foot high in our flowering

plants, terete, woody below, herbaceous above, where alone the

plant is leafy, glabrous, as is every part of the plant. Leaves in

JUNE lst, 1858.

our growing specimens four to five inches, in our native speci-

mens a span long, subcoriaceous, oblongo-ovate, subacute, penni-

nerved, entire, tapering below into a short petiole, all alternate.

Racemes spicate, solitary, axillary and terminal, shorter than the

leaves, erect, six- to eight- or ten-flowered. Flowers the largest

of the genus. Pedicels short. Calyx of five sepals, three outer

very small, green, ovate, of which two are combined and un-

equally bifid. Two inner sepals corolloid, white, with a tinge of

green and black, obliquely ovate, a little falcate, obscurely nerved,

three-quarters of an inch long, both close-pressed to the corolla.

Corolla a little longer than the inner sepals (or ale); inner pe-

tals combined for the greater portion of their length into a tube,

white and compressed. Lateral petals linear, subacute, inter-

mediate one cucullate and three-lobed, and rose-coloured at the

apex. Stamens also combined into a tube; the jilaments free

above. Anther ovate. Ovary orbicular, compressed, emargi-

‘Nate. Style filiform, curved upwards, and clavate towards the

apex. Stigma cleft.

Fig. 1. Calyx and pistil, the corolla removed. 2. Corolla. 3. Stamens :—

magnified,

e YA Se y.

q Brooks imp.

W. Fitch dele lith . “Vincent

Tas. 5058,

DENDROBIUM Faxconenrtr; var. sepalis petalisque

obtusioribus.

Dr. Falconer’s Dendrobium : with sepals and petals more obtuse.

Nat. Ord. Onca1pE®.—GyYNANDRIA MoNANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tan. 4755.)

DEnpRosium (§ Dendromyce) Falconeri ; caulibus hie illic ramosis elongatis

pendulis gracilibus striatis articulatis geniculis nodosis, foliis paucis parvis

1-3 terminalibus linearibus, pedicellis solitariis unifloris, floribus amplis

speciosis, sepalis oblongo-lanceolatis subtortilibus petalisque ovatis equi-

longis patentibus apice purpureo-maculatis, labello cucullato, limbo vix Be

trilobo ovato acuto undulato integerrimo ciliato, disco aurantiaco basi

apiceque purpureis, calcare brevissimo.

Denprosium Falconeri. ,Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4944.

B; foliis minoribus, petalis sepalisque obtusioribus, maculis purpurascentibus

minoribus. (Tas. Nosrr. 5055.)

From the nursery of Messrs. Jackson, where it produced its

beautiful and richly-marked flowers in March, 1858. It is one

of the many East Indian or, more correctly speaking, Assam

and Khasya Orchidee, sent to Europe by Mr. Simons, and

which are now the grace and ornament of our stoves. Elegant

as is our present plant, it cannot be considered as a species

distinct from the D. Falconeri above quoted, but the flowers are

smaller, the apices of the sepals and petals less acuminated, and

- ‘aelog spots are all smaller and almost obsolete on the apex

of the lip.

Dein. Stems or pseudobulbs aggregated, singularly long and

slender, articulated, jointed, the articulations very unequal in

length, often contracted in the middle, leafy only towards the

extremity. Leaves scarcely longer than one’s finger, subdistich-

ous, oblongo-lanceolate, rather finely acuminated and unequally

bifid at the apex, between membranaceous and coriaceous,

rather long-sheathed at the base. Powers very handsome, sub-

fasciculated at the joints of the long, pendent, leafless stems.

JULY Ist, 1858.

Bracteas membranaceous, oblong. ‘The ground-colour of the

rather large flowers is white. Sepals oval, oblong, acute, spread-

ing, tipped with purple. Pefa/s also spreading and equally

tipped with purple, broad-ovate. Zp cucullate, shortly spurred

at the base behind, scarcely three-lobed, broad; the disc rich-

yellow and pubescent, having a deep sanguineous spot near the

base and a small purple spot at the apex; the margin at the

base is fringed. Ovary slightly clavate, pedunculiform. Column

short, decumbent at the base to where the lip is jointed upon it,

bearing a tooth on each side at the top. Anther-case white,

hemispherical.

Fig. 1. Column and anther-case, magnified.

JOSS.

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Tas. 5059.

ILEX cornuvuta.

Horaed-leaved TTolly.

Nat. Ord. In1cINEZ.—TETRANDRIA MonoGyNIA.

Gen. Char. Flores hermaphroditi v. rarius polygami. Calyx parvus, urceo-

“latus, quadridentatus, rarius 5—6-dentatus, persistens. Corolla hypogyna, rotata,

4-partita, rarius 5—6-partita, laciniis obtusis estivatione imbricatis. Stamina

ime corolle inserta, ejusdem laciniis numero «qualia et alterna; jilamenta fili-

formia; anthere introrse, biloculares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovarium

sessile, 4-loculare. Ovuda in loculis solitaria v. interdum gemina, collateralia,

ex apice anguli centralis pendula, anatropa. Stigmata 4, sessilia, distincta v.

coalita. Drupa baccata, subglobosa, stigmatibus coronata, tetrapyrena, pyrenis

ossels venosis monospermis. Semina inversa, subtriquetra, testa tenuissime mem-

branacea. Hméryo in apice albuminis carnosi, sulco longitudinali bipartiti, mimi-

mus, subglobosus, bilobus; radicuda supera.—Arbuscule v. frutices in America

tropica et boreali, in Asia calidiore, et in insulis Canariis obvie, una species etiam

in Europa media et boreali-occidentali indigena ; foliis alternis, coriaceis, crenatis

. Paneer ; pedunculis azilaribus, uni-multifloris, bracteatis ; floribus aldis.

Rat. ¥

——

ILEX cornuta; foliis oblongis coriaceis marginatis basi obtusis apice truncatis, in

planta vegetiore grosse sinuato-dentatis spinosis in adultis tricornis integris-

que, umbellis axillaribus sessilibus, baccis tetrapyrenis. Lindl. et Pact.

Inex cornuta. Lindl. et Paxt. Fl. Gard. v. 1. p. 48. f. 27 (woodcut only).

Gard. Chron. 1851, p. 311. Walp. Ann. Bot. Syst. v. 2. p. 265.

This extremely handsome-leaved species of Holly was detected

by Mr. Fortune, when he was in the service of the Horticultural

Society, in northern China, somewhere in the vicinity of Shang-

hai, flowering in April; and, upon another visit, at a place called

Kin-tang. It was apparently on the latter occasion that this

fine evergreen was sent living to Messrs. Standish and Co.,

Bagshot Nursery, to whom the merit of its introduction is due.

It promises to be quite hardy ; but it is only our young plants

kept under glass, in a cool frame, that have shown any disposi-

tion to flower, and these flowers are produced in April.

Descr. Our flowering specimens are quite young and small, a

foot and a half high; but to what size the species ultimately

attains in its native country we have no information. In

JULY Ist, 1858.

its mode of ramification it resembles our common European

Holly ; but the foliage is extremely different, and very peculiar.

The /eaves are alternate, two to four inches long, very firm, cori-

aceous, and glossy, dark blackish-green above; the general out-

line is broad-oblong, almost a parallelogram, on short petioles,

truncated at the base and at the apex, bearing a strong spine on

each side near the base; the apex is dilated and furnished with

three larger and broader and very pungent spines, of which the

intermediate one takes a downward curvature, while the lateral

ones stand out horizontally, like two horns, and these have sug-

gested the specific name; the margin of the leaf between these

several spines is recurved. Vowers white, quite destitute of,

beauty, collected into sessile wmbels in the axils of the younger’

leaves. Peduncles short, glabrous. Calyz cup-shaped, half supe-

rior, the free portion cut into four, erecto-patent, rounded /odes.

Petals four, oblong, obtuse, horizontally patent. Stamens four,

erecto-patent. Filaments very long, stout, subulate. Anthers

ovate, obtuse. The ovary has four nearly sessile stigmas. The

berries are described as being large, globose, with four pyrene.

Fig. 1. Entire flower. 2. Calyx and pistil :—magnified.

e 50 60,

Mire 65 :

W. Fitch del ct lit

Vincent Brooks Imp

Tas. 5060.

RHODODENDRON vircatum.

Twiggy Rhododendron.

Nat. Ord. Exicea.—Drcanpria Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4336.)

RHODODENDRON virgatum ; erecta, ramis gracilibus, ramulis junioribus calyce

ovario petiolis foliisque subtus squamulis peltatis obsitis, foliis oblongis

acutis brevi-petiolatis subtus glaucescentibus, floribus axillis foliorum ter-

minalium singulo bracteato, bracteis amplis imbricatis, lobis ealycinis ro-

tundatis ciliatis, corollz tubo infundibuliformi dorso villoso, limbi paten-

tis lobis late ovatis, staminibus 8-10, filamentis inferne villosis, ovario

5-loculari.

RaopopenpRon virgatum. Hook. fil. Rhod. Sik. Himal. t.26 A. Journ. Hort.

Soc. Lond. v. 7. p. 81 (excluding the syn. of R. trifloram, Hook. fil.).

__ One of the many interesting Rhododendron discoveries of Dr.

Hooker in Sikkim-Himalaya, where it abounds in the skirts of

the Pine-forests in ravines at elevations of 8000 to 9000 feet of :

the Lachen Valley. Mr. Booth detected the same plant in simi-

lar localities in Bhotan, and the flowering-specimen here figured

is frém the garden of Mr. Lowe, of the Clapton Nursery, having

been raised from seeds sent by Mr. Booth to Mr. Nuttall. It

flowered in April, in a cool frame. Dr. Hooker was probably

im error in considering his R. triforum to be a yellow-flowered

variety of the present. ‘The leaves and inflorescence are consi-

derably different. ;

Descr. This may be reckoned among the dwarfish kinds of

the genus, not rising more than a foot and a half high, but with

graceful, slender, twiggy branches (whence the specific name),

the new shoots being covered with copious, orbicular, peltate

scales. Similar scales occur, aud equally copiously, on the under

side of the leaves, on the petioles, base of the calyx, and on the

ovary. Leaves scattered chiefly on the upper portions of most

of the branches, short, petiolate, or oblong-lanceolate, acute and

submucronate, rather coriaceous, dark full-green above, glabrous,

JULY Ist, 1858.

and wholly destitute of scales; very glaucous beneath, and, as

already observed, mealy with copious, orbicular, peltate but ses-

sile scales. Flowers axillary from the upper and more crowded

leaves, nearly sessile, one or sometimes two in each axil, these

when fully expanded forming a leafy head of flowers of a very

delicate rose-colour; and each individual flower is surrounded

by large, broad, oval, imbricated, coloured dracteas. Calyx short,

cup-shaped, with five, obtuse, rounded teeth or lobes ; the upper

half scaly at the back, the margin sometimes ciliated. Corolla with

the ¢ue funnel-shaped, slightly villous on the upper side ; Zimé of

five, spreading, ovate segments. Stamens generally ten, nearly

straight. Filaments hairy at the base. Anthers oblong, opening

by two large pores. Ovary oval. Style a little thickened up-

wards. Stigma with five short points.

Fig. 1. Portion of the under side of a leaf. 2. Stamen. 3. Calyx and pistil :

-—magnified. 4, Capsule burst, nat. size.

Tas. 5061.

POLYGONATUM puNCTATUM.

Spotted-stalked Solomon’ s-seal. ‘

Nat. Ord. SMILACINE®.—HEXxANDRIA MonoGyYNIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5049.)

PotyGonatum punctatum ; glabrum, caule angulato maculato, foliis subdistichis

carnosis ovato-lanceolatis obsolete striatis obtuse subacuminatis sessilibus,

pedunculis axillaribus bifloris, floribus erectiusculis, perianthio clavato-

cylindraceo, ore contracto, limbi lobis subpatentibus ovato-rotundatis alter-

natim minoribus, filamentis erectis glabris.

PotyconaTuM punctatum. Royle, Himal. Fl. v. 1. p. 38. Kunth, Enum. Plant.

v. 5. p. 142.

CoNVALLARIA punctata. Wall, Cat. n. 6183.

_We have lately figured one Indian species of Polygonatum,

viz. Polygonatum roseum (see our Tab. 5049), and we have now

to offer another rare Indian species of the same genus. Dr.

Wallich, its author, gives it as an inhabitant of Nepal, where

Dr. Hooker also found it at a later period, as well as at Sikkim,

at an elevation of 7,000 to 11,000 feet above the sea. Our fine

flowering specimens were communicated by Mr. Nuttall, from

the open ground of his garden at Nutgrove, Rainhill, Lanca-

shire, in April, 1858, having been introduced to his collection

by his nephew Mr. Booth, from Bhotan. This species is not

described (only named) by Wallich and Royle; and Kunth has

certainly erred in describing the leaves as opposite, for ours ne

clearly alternate, in which respect it differs remarkably from the

much better-known Polygonatum oppositifolium, Wall. bh

Descr. Root white, thick, tuberous, sending down stout, fleshy

fibres, and often truncated or premorse at the end, as In re

species of the genus, a circumstance that has given rise to ng e

English generic name of “ ‘Solomon’s-seal.” From this tuk :

one or more simple sfems arise, which are erect, about as. ae ;

as a goosequill, sheathed at the base with a few, large, 1mbri-

JULY lst, 1858.

cating, thin, membranaceous scales; the lower portion leafless,

throughout multangular, green, elegantly spotted with brown.

Leaves alternate, scarcely distichous, approximate, spreading,

ovato-lanceolate, sessile, obtusely acuminated, thick and fleshy,

obsoletely striated, more distinctly when dry, glabrous as in every

part of the plant. Peduacles short, erect, solitary, axillary from

almost every leaf, bearing generally two, erect or slightly droop-

ing flowers, about half an inch long, clavato-cylindraceous, with

six furrows, green above, the rest white, spotted with lilac; the

mouth contracted; the Zimés of SIX, moderately spreading, short,

ovato-rotundate Joses, the three inner ones smaller. Stamens

quite included. Filaments erect, glabrous. Ovary broad-ovate,

spotted. Style short, thick. Stigma three-lobed, papillose.

Fig. 1. Flower-stalk and one flower. 2. Pistil :—magnified,

W.Bitch dd et lith .

‘Vincent Broaks imp.

“Tan. 5062

THYRSACANTHUS Inpicus.

Indian Thyrsacanthus.

Nat. Ord. AcanrHace%.—D1anpRIA Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4378.)

Tuyrsacantuus Indicus; ramis tetragonis angulis levibus, foliis oblongo-lan-

ceolatis glabris acuminatis basi attenuatis in petiolum brevem decurrentibus,

racemis axillaribus brevibus in racemum terminalem plus minus thyrsoi-

deum subsecundiflorum abeuntibus, corolle subbilabiate laciniis brevibus,

filamentis sterilibus rectis. Nees.

THYRSACANTHUs Indicus. Nees, in De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p. 325.

A pretty Acanthaceous plant, but wanting in the richly-co-

luted fiotrets of Thyrs. nitidus, Th. strictus (see our Tab. 4378),

Th. bracteolatus (see our Tab. 4441), and some of the other

species of the genus, very few of which care known by figure.

The present is taken up in De Candolle’s ‘ Prodromus’ by the

late Nees von Esenbeck, entirely from specimens in the Hooke-

rian Herbarium derived from Assam (Mrs. Mack, Griffth,

Hooker) and from Khasya (Grifith, Hooker). From seeds sent

from Bhotan by Mr. Booth, our plants were raised by Mr.

Nuttall, and they flowered for the first time, in a warm stove, in _

April, 1858. a

Descr. A shrubby plant with the young shoots only he

ceous. Stem and branches tetragonal, angles rather —

smooth. Leaves opposite, about three inches long, oblong- an-

ceolate, pinnato-veined, acuminated, entire, dark-green, ester:

gradually at the base into a short petiole. Thyrsus ogre -

our plant. Peduncles and pedicels bracteated. Calya : as y

quinquefid ; the segments equal, erect. Corolla infundibuli pre

the mouth oblique ; colour white, with a few purple ge m

obscurely two-lipped, segments ovate, patenti-reflexed. famens

inserted at the top of the narrow tube, four, erect, didynamous ;

JULY Isr, 1858.

two fertile, with large, linear, oblong, acute, purple anthers ;

shorter ones with abortive anthers ; f/aments of both kinds glan-

dular. Ovary oblong-ovate, seated upon a large fleshy disc.

Style glandular at the base, as long as the perfect stamens. Stig-

ma bitid, the segments subulate.

Fig. 1. Base of the corolla, with stamens. 2. Pistil :—magnified.

Tas. 5063.

INDIGOFERA pecora.

Comely Indigo-plant.

Nat. Ord. Lecumtnos®.—D1apELPHIA DECANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx quinquefidus, lobis acutis. Vevil/um rotundatum, emar-

ginatum. Carina utrinque calcare subulato notata, demum spe elastice deflexa.

Stamina diadelpha. Stylus filiformis, glaber. Zegumen teretiusculum aut planum

aut tetragonum, polyspermum, bivalve, rarius oligospermum, ovatum, imo mono-

spermum, subglobosum. Semina ovata, utrinque truncata, isthmis cellulosis sepe

disjuncta.—Herbe aut suffrutices ; stipule a petiolo distincte, parve. Peduneuli

avillares. Flores racemosi, purpurei cerulei aut albi. Folia nunc simplicia (pin-

nata ad impar reducta), impari-pinnata aut digitata, foliolis swpe basi stipellatis.

Pili nunc omnes, nunc plerique strigosi, centro adfixi, adpressi. De Cand.

Inpicorera decora ; fruticosa glabra glaucescens, foliis pinnatis, petiolis 2-5-

jugis exacte ovatis obtusis cum mucrone subtus pilis sparsis peltatis obsitis,

racemis elongatis densis folia subequantibus, calyce hemisphzrico quin-

quedentato, carinse margine superiore villoso. Lindl, :

Inpigorera decora. Lindl. in Journ. of Hort. Soc. v. 1. p. 68. Bot. Reg

t. 22.

; o. Be.

A most lovely and ornamental greenhouse plant, by no means

so generally seen in our collections as it deserves to be ; a native

of China, and cultivated in the gardens of Shanghai, whence Mr.

Fortune introduced it to the Horticultural Society of London.

It flowers early in the season, and a cool greenhouse is rendered

quite gay with its blossoms, which are of a lively pink and rose-

colour, arranged in long, erect racemes; add to which the leaves

are pinnated and of the most delicate green.

Descr. A shrub, or small but straggling bush, the branches

needing support. Indeed it does best trailed against the wall,

or on a rafter, treated as a half-climber. Branches slender, terete,

tinged with red. Zeaves a span long, pinnated, with an odd

one. Pinne six to eight pairs, broad lanceolate, sie

drooping, slightly villous beneath, with hairs fixed by the middle ;

& pair of distinct s/ipules at the base of the petioles, and —

ones at the base of the short petiolules. Aacemes elongated,

axillary, solitary, as long as or longer than the leaves, bearing

JULY Ist, 1858.

numerous, patent or deflexed, pink and rose-coloured flowers,

almost an inch long. Calyx short, cup-shaped, five-toothed,

spreading. Sfandard oblong, rather obtuse, streaked with a

horse-shoe band near the base, strict (not patent or reflexed).

Ale@ \inear-lanceolate or spathulate, ciliated. Carina oblong-

lanceolate, very acute, ciliated at the upper edge. Stamens dia-

delphous. Anthers ovate, with a tuft or pencil of hairs at the

apex. Ovary linear-cylindrical. Style subulate. Stigma small,

capitate.

Fig. 1. Standard. 2. One of the wings. 3. Keel. 4. Calyx and stamens.

5. Pistil :—magnified.

. Vincent Brocks Ip.

W-Bitch delet lith .

Tas. 5064.

AZALEA ovata.

Ovate-leaved Chinese Azalea.

Nat. Ord. Ertcem.—Pentanpria Monoaynta.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4726.)

AZALEA ovata ; glaberrima, foliis coriaceis petiolatis ovatis ovato-subcordatisve

acutis emarginatisve, pedunculis glanduloso-hispidis unifloris ex axillis su-

premis, floribus 5-andris, sepalis ovatis membranaceis glabris subciliatis,

corolla rotata ad basin fere 5-partita, laciniis obovatis oblongisve obtusis,

filamentis infra medium pilosis, ovario glanduloso.

Var. a; floribus pallide purpureis. (Taz. Nostr. 5064.)

Var. 8; floribus pallide roseis.

AZALEA ovata. Lindl. in Hort. Soc. Journ. v. 1. p. 149. Fortune in Hort. Soc.

Journ. v. 2. p. 126, #. 2.

Var. y; floribus albis.

AZALEA myrtifolia. Champion in Hook. Bot. Mag. sub t. 4609. Benth. Flor.

Hongkong. in Kew Journ. Bot. v. 4. p. 298.

A very pretty little shrub, introduced from Northern China © .

by Mr. Fortune, and first described by Dr. Lindley, from both a

white- and pale-pink-flowered variety, in 1844. Our specimens

were received from the garden of the Horticultural Society, in

June, 1858. The same species was afterwards found in Hong- |

kong by the late Captain Champion, and, from differing in some

points from Lindley’s description, he named it 4. myrtifolia.

Descr. A half-hardy shrub or small tree, with few smal

shining green leaves towards the tips of the short branches, and

axillary, solitary, peduncled flowers. Zeaves about an inch long,

- ovate or ovate-cordate, acuminate or emarginate, glabrous. Pe-

duncles short, glanduloso-pubescent. Calya-lobes membranous,

oblong, blunt, subciliated. FVowers pale-purple, upper lobe of

corolla speckled with dark-purple. Corolla rotate, with broad

lobes. Stamens five, with filaments hairy below the middle.

Ovary glandular, five-celled.—/. D. H.

Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Calyx and pistil. 3. Ovary. 4. Transverse section of a:

ditto :-—all magnified.

_ AUGUST lst, 1858.

Cbd.

—

Peete, Ak ey, wee

Tas. 5065.

RHODODENDRON Garrritraianum, Wight ;

var. Aucklandn.

Lord Auckland’s Rhododendron.

Nat. Ord. Er1rce#.—DeEcaNDRIA MonoGyYNia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4336.)

RuopopenDRoN Griffithianum ; glaberrimum, foliis sublonge petiolatis lineari-

oblongis ovato-oblongisve utrinque acutis v. basi subcordatis subtus pallidis,

floribus corymbosis, ealyce lato disciformi margine crenato V. 5-lobo, co-

rolla campanulata 5-loba, lobis rotundatis bifidis, staminibus sub-16, an-

theris parvis, ovario sub-12-loculari glanduloso, capsula brevi obtusa.

Var. a; foliis 4-pollicaribus utrinque acutis, floribus 3 poll. latis.

RuopopEnpRon Griffithianum. Wight, Ic. Plant. Ind. Or. v. 4 & 1203.

Hook. fil. in Journ. Hort. Soc. v. 7. pp. 17; 98- sae

Var. B ; foliis 6-12-pollicaribus basi obtusis cordatisve, floribus 6-7 poll. latis.

Ruopopenpron Aucklandii. Hook. fil. Sikkim Rhod. t. 11.

This magnificent plant, which from the great expanse of its

snowy-white corollas is in some respects the finest of the genus,

was introduced by Dr. Hooker from the Sikkim Himalaya in

1849, and flowered at the nursery of Mr. Gaines, at Wands-

i igi d in

worth, in May of the present year. It was originally found,

Bhotan by iy Griffith, where ‘Specimens are however so inferior,

both in foliage and flowers, to the Sikkim ones, that the —

given of them by Dr. Wight in his invaluable ‘ Icones o

scarcely be recognized as belonging to the same speciée.

Sikkim, however, two states of the spectes occur, one Wi

much smaller flowers than the other, and it was at first doubted ©

by Dr. Hooker, whether the gigantic-flowere

and in his ‘Sikkim Rhododendrons, was Ra Gael —

case,

Such, however, appears not to be the d his specimen differs

plant produced abundance of pollen, an

Aveust Ist, 1858.

in no respect from Dr. Hooker’s plate, except.in the paler

anthers, greener petioles, and in wanting the rose-coloured hue

and spots on the calyx.

Descr. A shrub, four to eight feet high, branching from the

base. Zeaves spreading, six to twelve inches long, hnear-oblong, .

acute or acuminate, subcordate at the base, of a fine bright-

green edged with pale-yellow, coriaceous and firm. lowers

four to six, in terminal corymbose racemes, long-peduncled,

very large, sometimes seven inches across. Ca/ya discoid, coria-

ceous, obscurely lobed. Corol/a campanulate, with a short tube

and open limb, five-lobed; /odes bifid. Stamens about sixteen,

with glabrous filaments and small anthers. Ovary glandular,

about twelve-celled. Capsule short, blunt, woody.

Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Calyx and pistil. 3. Transverse section of ovary :—

all magnified.

I066.

- Tn

Vancent Brooks 1?

Tas. 5066.

SAXIFRAGA puRPURASCENS.

Purple Himalayan Saavfrage.

Nat. Ord. SAXIFRAGEEZ.—DEcANDRIA DIGYNIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4915.)

SaxtrraGa (§ Bergenia) purpurascens ; foliis obovato-rotundatis integerrimis

eciliatis glaberrimis, panicula subcorymbosa scapoque purpureo pubescenti-

glanduloso, floribus omnibus nutantibus, calyce profunde 5-lobo, petalis

longe late unguiculatis purpureis.

SaxirRaGa purpurascens. Hook. fil. et Thoms. in Linn. Soc. Journ. Bot. v. 2.

». 61.

This beautiful and hardy species was raised at Kew from

seeds sent by Dr. Hooker from the temperate regions of the

Sikkim Himalaya, where it was discovered growing in wet places,

at an elevation of 10,000 to 14,000 feet. Though closely allied ;

to the Himalayan S&S. ligudata, Wall. (Bot. Mag. t. 3406), S. c7-

liata, Royle (Bot. Mag. t. 4915), and the Siberian 8. crassifo- ..

lia, L. (Bot. Mag. t. 196), it is extremely different from, and far ae

more beautiful than, any of those species ; nothing, indeed, can oe

exceed the bright glossy green of its leaves, which are elegantly ea

margined with red, or the deep, bright, vinous red-purple of its oS.

scape and inflorescence. Rae

Drscr. A hardy perennial, with a stout, short, branching, —

prostrate rootstock. Leaves coriaceous, on short, thick, red pe-

tioles; 4/ade rounded, obovate, blunt at both ends, bright glossy

green above, paler below, with red midrib and margins. oe :

very stout, six to eight inches high, deep red-purple, ~~ , aS

is the inflorescence, with a short, glandular pubescence. vated

few in native specimens, more numerous and larger ra

ones, forming a dense, branched, subcorymbose panicle, all droop-

ing. Calye deeply five-lobed, lobes blunt. Petals oe : —

Soh corolla, broadly spathulate. Ovaries generally two.

#. DoH.

Fig. 1. Pistil, magnified.

AuGusT Ist, 1858.

J067.

W-Bitch del. et ith

Vincent Brooks Imp.

Tas. 5067,

ISMELIA Broussonetul.

Broussonet s Ismelta.

Nat. Ord. Composit#.—SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA.

Gen. Char. Capitulum multiflorum, heterogamum ; froribus radii uniserialibus,

femineis fertilibus lingulatis 8-10- (imo in J. carinata 12-14-) striatis, apice

rotundatis vel levissime et obsolete tridentatis (in J. carinata quandoque pro-

funde emarginatis) ; ¢ubo granulato hirto, pilis seepe glanduliferis, intime cum

achenio concreto (vel in J. carinata articulatim juncto) ; floribus disci innumeris,

hermaphroditis, tubulosis, quinquedentatis, punctis resinosis vel pilis glanduliferis

ice in appendicem

obsitis. Jnvolucrum hemispheericum, imbricatum ; sguamis ap

magnam scariosam expansis. Receptaculum nudum, elongato- vel depresso-coml-

cum (vel in J. carinata plano-convexum). Achenia difformia, concoloria ; radia

fertilia, crassa, turbinato-triangulari, alata, alis cum pappo coroniformi, margine

scarioso, quandoque rudimentario (imo in I. Broussonetic tantum dentibus paucis

robustis parte interiore) ; disci pleraque sterilia, compressiuscula, aneipitia, bi-

alata, alis lateralibus cum pappo coroniformi margine scariosis.—Suffratices

Canarienses et Mauritanici, glabri vel-hirti, foliosi, ramosi ; foliis pinnatifidis, in

petiolum integrum vel dentatum angustatis ; pedunculis elongatis, radio albo, disco

flavo (in I. carinata radio albo-flavescente, disco atro-purpureo). 0. HH. Schultz —

Bipont.

ee eecauenls

o-pedalis_ glaber vel hirtus, foliis

IsMELIA Broussonetii ; suffruticulus spithame ;

m dentatum, achenlis dis¢ch

obovato-oblongis profunde pinnatifidis in petiolu

striato-costatis bialatis. C. H. Schultz. |

IsmEtra Bronssonetii. C. H. Schultz Bipont. in Webb, Phytogr. Canar. P- 274. ,

t. 95. f. 3, 5, and 9 (Argvranthemum pinnatifidum, Webb, on plate).

Walp. Repert. Bot. v. 6. p. 202.

CHRYSANTHEMUM pinnatifidum. Brousson. Herb. (fide Webb).

CurysantuEemum Broussonetii. Balbis, Oat. H. Taur. (1850), p- 20- De Cand.

Prodr. v. 6. p. 66. a

Pyrerarum Broussonetii. Choisy in Buch. Canar. p- 149. Spreng. Syst. Peger

v. 3. p. 584.

Preerarum adauctum. Link in Buch. Canar. 19-181 (eacl. loco natal Madera,

Webb).

oS eee

: ‘no to the “Ox-eye ”

This Canarian plant, although belonging ch in the habit of

group of Composite, which we are too mu

looking upon as coarse weeds, is really a handsome rng ge

to our gardens, till we raised it from seeds at Kew, sen :

AvGusT Ist, 1858.

by M. Bourgeau, and which will probably prove hardy, though

at present we have kept it in a cool greenhouse. It is pecultar

to the Canary Islands, growing in the “ Laurel region” in the

mountain-ranges, elev. about 3000 feet above the sea-level. As a

genus it has vacillated between Pyrethrum and Chrysanthemum ;

but, if our figures be correct and Mr. Webb’s correct also, the

characters derived from the wings and pappus of the achenia are

not wholly to be depended upon. In the month of May the

flowers had quite a striking appearance in a conservatory.

Descr. Plant erect or ascending, branched, shrubby at the

base, glabrous, two to three feet high: a span to a foot in its

native country, so that the species seems to be greatly improved

by cultivation. Stem and branches striated, quite herbaceous

above. Leaves distant, ovate in circumscription, the superior

ones obovate, all deeply, nearly to the costa, pinnatifid ; the seg-

ments lanceolate, often again pinnatifid and toothed, decurrent to

the base of the petiole, which is dentato-pinnatifid. Peduncles

elongated, incrassated upwards. Jnvolucre of several green,

ovate scales, with broad brown scarious margins. Flowers three

inches across. Ray pale-lilac, tinged with yellow at the. base.

Disc at first dark-purple, golden-yellow when the florets are fully

expanded.

Fig. 1. Floret of the ray. 2. Floret of the disc :—magnified.

JOOS

W.Fitch del « lith

Vincent Brooks Imp

Tas. 5068.

CAMPANULA stricosa.

Strigose Bellflower.

Nat. Ord. CAMPANULACEZ.—PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx 5-fidus. Corolla apice 5-loba vel 5-fida, seepius campanu-

lata. Stamina 5, libera, filamentis basi latis et membranaceis. Stylus in pre-

floratione pilis collectoribus (excepta ima basi) tectus. Stigmata 8 vel 5, filifor-

mia. Capsula 3-locularis, valvis 3—5 lateraliter dehiscens. Semina ovata com-

planata vel ovoidea.—Herbe sepius perennes, nunc humiles et humifuse, nunc

2-3-pedales, erecta, multiflore ; foliis radicalibus, sepius forma diversis ; floribus

terminalibus vel axillaribus. Omnes in hemispherio boreali. De Cand.

CampanvuLa (§ Medium) s¢rigosa ; annua erecta flexuosa parce dichotomo-ramosa,

foliis oblongo-ovatis integerrimis sessilibus, floribus solitariis inter ramos

dichotomos vel folio oppositis, lobis calycinis apice longe apice subulatis

basi latis erectis corolla tubuloso-campanulata subbrevioribus (calycis) ap-

pendicibus insigniter deflexis ovatis ovarium totum tegentibus. rs

CAMPANULA strigosa. ‘“ Russel, Descr. of Alep.” (De Cand.). Alph. De Cand.

Monogr. Campan. p. 236. Vahl, Symbol. v. 8. p. 34. Reem. et Sch. Syst.

Veget.v. 5. p. 142 (et C. Russeliana, R. et 8.). De Cand. Prodr. 0. 7. p. 462.

Native of Syria, especially about Aleppo, where, according to

De Candolle, it was first detected and named by Russel ; and

it has since been gathered by Labillardiére and Aucher-Eloy,

and in the Taurus by Kotschy. Balansa collected it in Cilicia,

and seeds have been communicated to us by Professor Fenzl

from the Imperial Botanic Garden of Vienna. At present we

have only reared it in a pot in a cool frame, and its bright

flowers give a very gay appearance to a cluster of plants.

There can be little doubt that it would prove hardy enough for

a border annual, and perhaps for bedding out. Even in a pot

it has continued flowering for a month, without any abatement

in beauty.

Descr. Herbaceous, annual, everywhere, but especially the pe-

duncles and calyces, strigose with white, pellucid, patent hairs,

Stems erect, flexuose, four to five inches high, terete, patenti-

AUGUST Ist, 1858.

hispid, dichotomous at the summit only. Leaves remote, alter-

nate, ciliate, oblong-ovate, sessile, patent or reflexed, quite entire

at the margin. Peduncles terminal or in the axil of a fork, rarely .

lateral, single-flowered. Calya very large in proportion to the

flower, and very curious in structure, for at first sight it appears

to have an insertion inferior to the ovary: the free portion of

the calyx is five-parted ; segments ovate, hispid, terminated by a

subulate spreading apex, the base of each descends as it were,

and forms two ears or appendayes, which quite conceal the

ovary, which is small and turbinate. Coro//a campanulato-

infundibuliform ; the ¢uée yellowish-white, a little longer than

the calyx. Stamens, with the filaments, broad oval, bifid at the

apex, and between the two lobes the linear anther is inserted.

Style larger than the stamens, clavate. Stigmas three short

lobes.

Fig. 1. Flower deprived of the corolla. 2. The same, with the lobes of the

calyx removed :—magnified.

I069

‘Vincent Brooks Imp

_ Gustavia insignis. Linden Cat. 1855 (name only).

Tap. 5069,

GUSTAVIA INSIGNIS.

Showy Gustavia.

Nat. Ord. Myrracea#: Tribe BARRINGTONIER.—MONADELPHIA

PoLYANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Calycis tubus turbinatus, limbus integer aut 4—6-8-lobus. Pedala’

4-6-8, ovalia,subaequalia. Stamina numerosa, basi monadelphia unguibusque peta-

lorum subadnata. Ovarium 4—6-loculare, loculis polyspermis. Stylus brevis.

Stigma obtusum. Capsula ovata aut subglobosa, 3-6-locularis, coriacea, calycis.

vestigio umbilicata. Semina in quoque loculo pauca ovata, membrana coriacea

vestita, funiculo longo plicato columne centrali affixo suspensa. Zmédryo carno-

sus. Cotyledones 2, magne, subzequales, extus convexee, intus plane. Radicula

obtusa, vix prominens.—Arbores ; folia alterna, magna, impunctata, serrata aut im-

hang glabra. Racemi terminales, paucifiori. Flores bracteati, albi, speciosi. :

le Cand.

Gustavia insignis ; floribus 6-petalis, calyce 6-lobo, lobis rotundatis pedunculo-

que glaberrimo, ovario aptero, foliis obovato-lanceolatis acuminatis spinuloso-

serratis basi attenuatis, bracteis floralibus ad basin ovari.

Eight species of the fine tropical American genus Gustavia are

defined by De Candolle in the ‘Prodromus,’ and Mr. Bentham —

has since added a ninth, but none of these sufficiently accord with

the present plant to justify me in referring it to any one of them ;

So that if those species are accurately ch

characters are constant, our plant must be

allied Species are: (1) G. angusta, L., which has eight petals and

a truncated calyx ; (2) G. speciosa, De Cand. (Pirigara speciosa,

-K.), with a nearly entire calyx, a tomentose ovary and

peduncles, and entire leaves ; and (3) @. wreeo H thy

calyx entire. (@. angusta and G@. speciosa have, further, the pair

of bracteas remote from the flower, whereas in our plant they

are appressed to the base of the ovary. In other respects this

as the most perfect resemblance to G. urceolata, the figure and oe

description of which are given in the ‘ Mém. du Museum,’ v. 13, —

p. 156, t. 5. Here however we have a distinct, five-lobed calyx, —

and I think it safer to adopt the name by which it is circulated

| SEPTEMBER IsT, 1858.

aracterized, and if the ne

new. The most nearly

lata, Poir., with the — oe

from the Belgian gardens, and printed (without a word of

description or remark) in Linden’s Catalogue of 1855. It is

probably a native of Columbia or Guiana; and is certainly

possessed of great beauty both in the foliage and in the great,

Clusia-like flower. It blossomed with us in June, 1858.

Descr. With us, Gustavia insignis.constitutes a shrub three or

four feet high, a good deal branched. eaves a span and more

long, dark-green, glossy, obovato-lanceolate, acuminated at the

point, much attenuated at the base, and sessile or nearly so;

veins pinnated, rather strong: the margin towards the apex

coarsely and irregularly spinuloso-serrated, the base and apex

entire. Peduncles from the axils of the upper leaves, in our

plant a solitary and single flower (probably sometimes racemose

and few-flowered), stout, glabrous, terete, each two to four inches

long, with a few small, broad, ovate bracts at the base, and two

opposite ones at the base of the ovary. Calyx (with its inferior

. ovary) urceolate, almost like that of the Pomegranate, the éwde

turbinate, the dim of six, broad-ovate or rounded lobes, at first

(in bud) erect, at length spreading. Corolla very large, five to

six inches in diameter. Petals in our specimens six, broadly

obovate, cream-white, concave, spreading, externally tinged with

rose-colour. Stamens extremely numerous, in many series, com-

bined at the base only, hence monadelphous, arising as it were

from a fleshy ring. Filaments rose-colour towards the apex, and

there a little clavate. Anthers orange-colour, articulated on the

apex of the filament, two-celled. Ovary circular, turbinate, incor-

porated with the tube of the calyx, expanded and depressed at

the top. Stigma very small, short, crowned by a minute four-

lobed stigma.

Fig. 1. Portion of the staminal tube, with filaments and anthers, magnified.

2. Ovary and calyx. _8. Vertical section of ovary and calyx. 4. Transverse

section of ovary, showing the four cells and numerous ovules :—zaé. size.

JOT

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neent Brooke

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Tas. 5070.

GESNERIA Donx.aru.

Donklar’s Gesneria.

Nat. Ord. Gesnertacez.—DipyNaMIa GYMNOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4217.)

Gesnerta Donklarii ; elata ubique velutino-pubescens, foliis inferioribus amplis

cordato-rotundatis acutis duplicato-crenatis, superioribus sensim minoribus

ovatis acutis serratis omnibus petiolatis reticulatim venosis subtus purpu-

reis, paniculis pyramidatis multifloris, pedunculis plerisque trifloris, pedi-

cellis elongatis, floribus nutantibus, segmentis calycinis lanceolato-subulatis

patentibus, corolle (coccinez) tubo elongato paululum curvato inflatoque,

limbo subregulari 5-lobo fauce aperta, staminibus styloque inclusis.

Gesnerra Donklarii. Hort.

One of the handsomest of Gesneriaceous plants now in culti-

vation in our stoves. We are enabled to figure this plant from

the rich collection of Messrs. Veitch and Son’s Nurseries of os

Exeter and Chelsea, where it flowered in June of the present

year. It is probably a native of Columbia, a region so. rich in

species of this genus, but at present we only know the plant in 3

a state of cultivation. If the colours of the flowers are not so —

bright as those of many species of the genus, their size, and

the fine velvety foliage, dark-green on the upper surface, purple

beneath, amply compensate for that imperfection, =

Descr. Plant a foot and a half to two feet high in its perfect

flowering state, and then forming a pyramidal outline; the deaves

below very large, gradually smaller upwards, and they become

converted into bracts at the bases of the pseudo-whorls of the

Panicle. Stem stout, dark-purple throughout. Lower leaves a

span long, rotundate- or orbicular-cordate, acute, the margin

doubly crenate ; upper ones gradually smaller, ovate, rae

acuminate, rather coarsely serrated: all of them downy an

velutinous, strongly reticulato-venose, petiolate, dark uniform

Steen above, purple beneath. Panicle terminal, large, erect,

many-flowered ; peduncles, the lower ones at least, bearing three

flowers on long erecto-patent, dark-purple, downy pedicels, brac-

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1858. .

teated at the base. lowers large, drooping. Calyx purple, of

five, deep, subulate segments, closing upon the ovary when the

corolla has fallen. Corolla more than two inches long, red, but

of rather a dull hue; the ¢ude very slightly curved and mode-

rately inflated, gibbous at the base above ; Jimb spreading, a

little oblique, five-lobed, lobes rounded, equal or nearly so; the

mouth of the tube is open, yellow within. Stamens included.

Pistil also included. Ovary ovate, villous, with two erect, ap-

. pressed, oblong-ovate, fleshy glands at the base. Style and

stigma as in the genus.

Fig. 1. Pistil. 2. Ovary, showing the two glands :—magnified.

obsitus, appendice carens. Anthere singuli floris liberee. Ovarium multi- (5-15-)

loculare 3 loculis pluriovulatis; ovulis axi affixis, erectis.—Plantee 4mericane tro-

pce, succo decolori, rhizomate in caulem elongatum scandentem v. arborescentem

mutato, foliis remotis, vaginis petiolaribus brevissimis, stipularibus elongatis deci-

duis folio oppositis. Schott.

PHILODENDRON erubescens ; elata scandens, caule subsimplici ad nodos copiose—

PHILODENDRON erubescens. “@. Koch (App. 1854, p. 6).” Schott, Syn. An

the varied forms, the noble foliage, the peculiar inflorescence, witl

its occasional rich colouring and very often delicious fragrance

be considered. They constitute a very striking feature in tro-

Pical forests, and one stove at Kew is mainly devoted to a consi-_

derable collection of them. Amongst these, the present species —

"Sees conspicuous, with its glossy hg dark-purple boat- —

Shaped spathas, crimson within, and their a.

dices. We are indebted for the species of Péilodendron here

figured to the most learned of botanists in this family of plants,

Dr. Schott ; and receiving it with that name, we canno

its being the true P. erubescens of Koch and Schott (ll.cc.), —

Otherwise, the foliage being alone described, I should scarcely.

ave ventured to consider it identical. :

ood figures, it is very difficult to determine the genera and spe-

Cles of Aroidee. The present is certainly nearly allied to Arum

SEPTEMBER lst, 1858.

Tas. 5071,

PHILODENDRON ERUBESCENS,

fted-purple Philodendron.

Nat. Ord. Arorppm.—Monecia PoLyanpRIA.

Gen. Char. Spatha tota persistens, post florescentiam reclusa. Spadix dense

radicante, foliis pedalibus et ultra sagittato-cordatis acutis utringue nitidis

viridibus subtus pallide purpurascentibus vel cupreis, venis superne immersis,

petiolo tereti folii longitudine, pedunculis brevibus subterminalibus, spatha

cucullato-cymbiformi obtusa cum mucromulo carnoso firma extus atro-pur-

purascente intus kermesina, spadice spathe longitudine crasso dimidio infe-

Tore ovariis tecto, apice staminigero medio staminodiis tecto. ,

l. p. 88.

Aroideous plants are not so much cultivated as they deserve,

white columnar spa- : i

t doubt

But indeed, without

grandifolium, Jacq. (Hort. Schoenbr. t. 189; Hook. Bot. Mag.

t. 3345= Philodendron Hookeri, Schott), difiering however totally

in the colour of the spatha, white or cream-colour in P. gran-

difolium. ‘he native country is not known, probably the Ca-

racas.

Dxscr. Stem elongated, stout, flexuose, climbing, jointed, root-

ing at almost every joint; the lower roots very much lengthened

and penetrating into the ground; the others slightly attach

themselves to decayed wood, which is placed to afford support

to the plant. Leaves distant, alternate, large, a foot or more

long, on terete petioles of about the same length, with purple

sheaths at the base. ‘The blade or /amina of the leaf is between

cordate and sagittate, the /obes somewhat spreading, blunt ;

_ glossy on both sides, beneath of a coppery colour. The veins are

sunk in the upper side of the leaf, slightly prominent beneath.

Stipule long, sheathing, palish-purple, more or less acuminated.

Peduncle opposite the leaves, with a large sheathing dract or

stipule at the base, purple-green. Spatha large, conspicuous

by its size and colour, boat-shaped, thick and fleshy, convolute,

slightly contracted above the middle, the lower half and more

convolute, the apex blunt, with a mucro; the colour, without,

deep blackish-purple, scarlet within. Spadix equal in length to

the spatha, stout, obtuse, white or cream-colour; the lower half |

or nearly so is clothed with pistils; a circle of sessile anthers

occupies the middle portion, and the rest of the clavate upper

half is clothed with peltate stamens.

Our figures represent an entire plant on a very reduced scale, together with a

portion of a leaf and spadix and spatha, nat. size. Fig. 1. Spadix, also nat. size.

2. Pistils. 3. Staminodia. 4. Ovary, cut through vertically. 5. One cut through

transversely. 6, Stamens. 7. Single stamen, with two-celled anthers :—magnified.

5072

*Fincent Brooks tat :

W-Fitch, del ct lith.

Tas. 5072,

CCELOGYNE SCHILLERIANA.

Schiller’s Caelogyne.

Nat. Ord. OrncHIDER—GyYNANDRIA MoNANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tax. 5001.)

C&Locyne (Pleione) Schilleriana ; labelli tripartiti partitionibus posticis semi-

Ovatis antice acutangulis, partitione media a basi constricta transverse ob-

longa maxima marginibus revoluta, apice emarginata, limbo denticulato,

carinis ternis per diseum ad ortum partitionis mediw. Reichd. fil.

Ca os Schilleriana. Reichd. fil. in Berliner Allgem. Gartenceitung, June 12th,

858.

Of this tropical Asiatic genus, no Jess than forty-three species

are described by Dr. Lindley in the fifth part of his valuable

‘ Folia Orchidacea,’ published in 1853. Among the additions

that have been since made is the present one from Moulmein,

introduced by Messrs. Veitch and Son, of the Exeter and Chel-

sea Nurseries, through their collector, Mr. Thomas Lobb. It

flowered in J une, 1858. Iam indebted to Dr. Lindley for the —

hame of this plant, and for the extract of the specific character: -

a remarks of Dr. Reichenbach, from a publication to which I

ave not : ee

myself ready access bottle-shaped, clustered, une

Duscr. Pseudobulbs small or > folk :

cated when old from the falling away of the former years oliage,

New plants form by the side of the old bulbs, at first —

exhibiting an appearance of pseudobulbs; these are fully 2

veloped as the plant perfects itself. Leaves two, lanceolate, se \

Scurely nerved, between coriaceous and son ie inepegeaie “2 ~

ing, acute, tapering and narrowed very much into a petiole a 3 e

base, and there clothed with imbricated, herbaceous scales. Pe-

duncle arising from between the two leaves and shorter than el

erect, single-flowered (in our specimen). Hower large ree the

size of the plant ; its ground colour tawny-yellow, expan : ; z

perfection at the same time with the leaves. Sepa/s an inch an

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1858.

a half long, very patent, lanceolate, acute. Pefa/s much smaller

and quite linear, pendent like the two lower sepals. Zabellum

large, porrected, somewhat broad-lyre-shaped, three-lobed, Jateral

lobes oblong, incurved upon the column, middle lobe very large,

constricted at the base, nearly orbicular, waved and dentate at

the margin, tubercled on the surface, bifid at the apex : the disc

of the lip has three principal elevated lines extending from the

«base, beyond the centre, and several transverse, orange-coloured,

and the middle lobe blotched and spotted with orange. Column

semiterete. Anther-case conical, obtuse.

Fig. 1. Column and anther. 2. Front view of the labellum. 3. Pollen-

masses :—magnified.

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7°

Bap ke

ae :

“Vincent Brooks imap: =

Tas. 5073.

ISOTOMA seneciorpss; var. subpinnatifida.

Groundsel-leaved Isotoma ; subpinnatifid var.

Nat. Ord. LOBELIACE®.—PENTANDRIA Monoa@yNia.’

Gen. Char. Calyx 5-lobus, tubo turbinato vel elongato. Corolla hypocrateri-

morpha, ¢ubo integro, Jobis calycinis multo longiore, recto vel subincurvo, lobis

patentibus sequalibus vel paulo ineequalibus. ilamenta staminum tubo corolle

plus minusvé adnata. Anthere extra tubum corolla. inter se connate, 2 in-

ferioribus apice setaceo-aristatis.—Herbe sepius annue, pedicellis awillaribus,

floribus albis roseis vel ceruleis. De Cand.

Se re re

Isoroma senecioides ; subpubescens, caule erecto anguloso, foliis lineari-lanceo-

latis subdecurrentibus irregulariter pinnatifidis lobis alternatim brevioribus,

pedunculis axillaribus erectis gracilibus unifloris folio duplo triplove longio-

ribus, calycis tubo obconico, lobis lineari-acuminatis patentibus tubo coro

quadruplo brevioribus, laciniis corolle lanceolatis acutis duplo triplove bre-

vioribus.

Isoroma senecioides. De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p- 412.

LopELta senecioides.’ 412. Cunn. MSS. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2702.

Isoroma axillaris. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 964. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1508. Gaudich.

in Freyc. Bot. p. 455. t. 70.

B; foliis subbipinnatifidis. (Tab. NostR. 5073.)

A very pretty greenhouse plant, native of Bathurst, New South

Wales, where it was found by Allan Cunningham, and it was

afterwards gathered in the same locality by Mr. Fraser. Tsotoma

is a name given to a section of Lobelia by the learned ti

intended for his Lobelia hypocrateriforms, figured by us at *ad-

3075. This section has been adopted by Dr. Lindley as &

genus, and to this he has added the Lobelia senecioides of All .

Cunningham, of which the plant here figured is a variety, wit

oe leaves more compound, so as 2 ee =

is species has a different habit and a autete

from the original [sotoma. And with these M. De Candolle has

united the Caribean Lobelia longiflora of P

(Hippobroma longiflora, G. Don).

counter to such high authority; yet

genus does not appear to our eyes

sufficiently distinct from Lobelia.

SEPTEMBER lst, 1858.

The more usual form of the species having been fully described

at our Tab. 2702, we shall refer our readers there, merely ob-

serving that in the state here figured the lacinie of the leaves

are longer than in the ordinary form of the plant, and not unfre-

quently again pinnatifid.

Fig. 1. Pistil and calyx. 2. Column of stamens :—magnified.

Tas. 507A.

ORCHIS FoLiosa.

Leafy Orchis.

Nat. Ord. OxncHIDEHZ.—GYNANDRIA MonoeGyYNIa.

Gen. Char. Flores galeati. Sepala subsequalia; supremum cum petalis in for-

nicis speciem connivens ; lateralia nunc convergentia nunc reflexa. Petala erecta,

sepalo subeequalia. Ladellum anticum, calcaratum, integrum Vv. indivisum, cum

basi column connatum. -Anthera erecta, loculis contiguis parallelis. Glandule

polleniorum 2, distincte, cucullo communi (i.e. plicatura cucullata stigmatis &.

rostelli) inclusee.—Herbee éerrestres, radicibus tuberculiferis, foliis plerisque radi-

calibus tactu mollibus subsucculentis sepe maculatis. Lindl.

a es ae

Orcuts foliosa ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis laxe vaginantibus, spica

oblonga multiflora, sepalis ovatis acutis, labello latiore quam longo obsolete

trilobo plano, laciniis lateralibus emarginatis intermedia acuta multo ma-

joribus, calcare pendulo cornuto labello duplo breviore, bracteis herbaceis

acuminatis flore spe longioribus, tuberculis palmatis. Lindl.

Orcuts foliosa. Soland. MSS. in Herb. Banks. Lowe, Primit. Fl. Mader. p. 13.

Lindley, Bot. Reg. t. 1101; Sert. Orchid. t. 44.

De ES el ge

This fine Orchis is a good deal allied, it must be confessed,

to our Orchis latifolia, but nevertheless truly distinct ; differ-

ing, as Dr. Lindley assures us, in being larger 1m all its parts, ; 2

having a distinctly three-lobed, flat lip, instead of a lozenge-

shaped convex one, a shorter and more slender spur, and a

taller stem. It is a species peculiar to the island of Madeira,

and is found, according to the Rev. Mr. Lowe, from whom we

possess specimens, in rocky banks of Ribeiro Frio, amongst

grass and bushes of Spartium candicans, at an elevation upon

the hills of 3000 feet. Our roots were sent to us by Mr. Fraser,

of the Comely Bank Nursery, Edinburgh, in 1857, and the pre-

sent individual flowered in a cool greenhouse 10 1858. Mr

Lowe gathered one native specimen which measured two feet

seven inches in height. 2

Duscr. Zuders palmated. Stem and foliage resembling greatly

those of Orchis latifolia, spotless. Bracteas leafy among the

flowers, but generally shorter than they. Spike ovate or oblong-

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1858.

ovate, three inches broad, bearing numerous purple flowers.

Sepals erecto-patent, ovate, obtuse, nearly plane, palish-purple.

Petals similar in form, but narrower and smaller, nearly erect,

dark-purple. Zip pendent, very broad, rotundato-cuneate, three-

lobed, middle lobe the smallest: the colour purple, with darker

blotches of the same colour. Spur a good deal shorter than the

lip, purple, with darker blotches.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Column, anther, and base of the lip, with the spur :—

magnified.

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INGA MACROPHYLLA.

Large-leaved Inga.

Nat. Ord. Lecuminos£.—PoLYGAMIA Mona@cota.

Gen. Char. Flores hermaphroditi vel rarius polygami. Calyx tubulosus vel

campanulatus, 9-8-dentatus. Corolla tubulosa vel infundibuliformis. Stamina —

indefinita, seepius numerosa, corolla duplo vel pluries longiora, basi in tubum

coalita. Ovarium unicum. Legumen carnosum vel coriaceum, planum, tetragonum

vel subteres, rectum vel subincurvum, vix dehiscens, marginibus inerassatis vel

valde dilatatis et sulcatis. Semina pulpa dulci sepe nivea involuta.—Frutices vel

arbores Americe calidioris, inermes. Folia simpluciter abrupte pinnata ; petiolus |

inter juga foliorum sepe in alam expansus, alis semper ad nodos interruptis. Glan-

dule inter omnia paria scutellata, turbinate, vel stipitate, in speciebus perpaucis ob-

solete vel plane nulla. Foliola omnia opposita, paucyjuga, majuscula (1 nunc maxima),

—rarissime pollice minora,—sape pedalia, ee oblongo- vel lanceolato-ovata. Flores —

in umbellas, capitula, vel spicas oblongas vel rarius elongatas dispositi. Spice soli-

tarie vel sepius fasciculatim pedunculate, avillares vel ad apices ramulorum foliis

abortientibus paniculata. Flores sepissime albi. Benth. :

Pr Ge Snr ar ae ck aaa ith a, aD

Inga (§ Euinga) macrophylla ; ramulis tetragonis ferrugineo-villoso-tomentosis,

foliis junioribus parce hirtellis demum glabratis supra nitidis, petiolo ra-_

chique lato-alatis, foliolis 2-3-jugis subcoriaceo-membranaceis ovatis obo-

vato-lanceolatisve brevi-acuminatis villosis demum glabratis supra nitidis —

subtus venis prominentibus basi ‘obtusis vix subcordatis, stipulis lato-lan-

ceolatis, pedunculo axillari solitario monocephalo petiolo longiore, capitulo

globoso, floribus flavis sericeis, calyce tubuloso, corolla infundibuliformi ealy-

cem duplo excedente, staminibus longissimis.

Inca macrophylla. H.B.K. Gen. et Sp. Am. 0: 4. P- 1015. Benth. in Hook.

Lond. Journ. Bot. v. 5. p.410. Walp. Rep. Bot. v. 5. p. 638. we

Inca calocephala. Popp. et Endl. Nov. Gen. et Sp. Pl. Peru. ete. 0. 3. BE

(according to Bentham).

Notwi h of the genus Inga and

of the Mimosee generally of Mr. Bentham in th

quoted, I find the greatest difficulty in identifying the present

species. The living plant was received from Linden in 1849,

under the name of Jnga macrocephala, to which plant, of H.B.K.

at least, Mr. Bentham refers the I. calocephala of Poeppig and

Endlicher ; yet I find the characters given of the two somewhat

OCTOBER lst, 1858.

at variance, and that our plant agrees better with the latter

than with the former. They are probably all three mere varie-

ties of one species. Be that as it may, our species forms a hand-

some stove-shrub, which bore in April, 1857, for the first time,

its beautiful heads of yellow flowers, quite silky from the nume-

rous long filaments of the stamens.

Descr. Our plant of this forms a good-sized shrub, ten to

twelve feet high. Stems terete, glabrous, much branched; the

branches drooping, quadrangular, the younger ones clothed with

dense, ferruginous, woolly hairs. Leaves consisting of two or three

opposite pairs of /eaflets, which are sessile, varying in length from

four to eight or ten inches, coriaceo-membranaceous, glossy,

slightly villous, ovate or obovate, shortly acuminate, closely —

penniveined, and the veins united by obliquely transversely

parallel ones; paler beneath, where the veins are prominent.

Petiole broadly winged, so as to have an obovate form; rachis

too, between the two pairs, winged, giving a spathulate form,

terminated between the superior pinne with a long spinule, and

between the base of each pair of leaves is a large, scutellate,

sessile gland. Stipules lanceolate, rather large. Peduncle soli-

tary, axillary, villous, simple, twice the length of the petiole,

bearing a globose sessile Lead of yellow flowers. Calye cylindri-

cal, two-lipped, downy. Corolla infundibuliform, five-cleft, vil-

lous. Stamens twice ‘as long as the corolla, numerous. Azthers

very small, abortive? Ovary oblong. Style as long as the sta-

mens.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil :—magnified.

Tas. 5076.

OUVIRANDRA BERNIERIANA.

Bernier’s Lattice-leaf.

Nat. Ord. JuNCAGINE#.—HEXANDRIA Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4894.)

St gt ee ee

Ovvrranpra Bernieriana ; foliis submersis anguste oblongo-ligulatis planis vel

plerumque pertuso-fenestratis (parenchymate seriatiim porosis porls quad-

ratis), scapo superne inflato, spicis 3-5 fasciculatis gracilibus, floribus laxis

roseis.

Ovviranpra Bernieriana. Decaisne in Delessert Icones, 0. 3. p. 62. é. 100.

eS 5

Gratifying as it was to us to publish a figure, from a living

from the lakes of Ma-

plant, of the rare Ouvirandra Fenestralis

dagascar, it is no less so that we now publish a second species

of the genus, collected during a subsequent visit to the same —

island, and by the same gentleman that introduced the former,

on, of the Nursery,

the Rev. Henry Ellis. Messrs. Jackson and S

Kingston, have favoured us with the flowering plant here figured.

We refer it with little hesitation to the 0. Berniervana 0

fessor Decaisne, notwithstanding he describes the leaves as mat

up wholly of parenchyme (not fenestrate). We have shown, 1n

our account of the former species, that the leaves, ape

while young, are not pertuse, the sscees being a A be

= : $01 t we have seen

parenchyme : so in our present plant w ene

had the openings entirely filled up; but our most pe

the plant aawe the onrerclipiih to be rather copious, S° that the

areoles formed by the longitudinal and transverse veins are Per

forated as it were with small square oF four-angled opens e

largest next the costa, those next the margin al!

But this structure, so different from what is seen ID the perfect

foliage of O. fenestralis, is not the only difference, the ee ae

longer and much narrower in proportion, almost ligu x , i

reticulation smaller, the scape 1s inflated upwards ; the spikes

four or five in number, fascicled, slender, and the agi ri a

and distant on the rachis, and pale rose-colour. Bot ;

OCTOBER Ist, 1858.

Mr. Ellis observes, in his letter to us, grow in the same waters,

and he did not fail to note, on his last visit to Madagascar, that

“one of the two had longer and narrower and less fenestrate _

leaves than the O. fenestralis,” though, not seeing this in flower,

he did not at once recognize it as distinct.

Descor. Leaves all radical, tufted, submerged, from one and

a half to two feet long, including the petiole (from four to six

inches), oblong-ligulate, very slightly tapering at the base, obtuse

at the point, formed of longitudinal and transverse fibres, which

constitute a beautiful network on each side the costa; the areoles

sometimes closed with parenchyme, more generally partially

closed, leaving four-angled openings in the centre, of which the

larger are next the midrib, and square, becoming smaller and

forming transverse lines only near the margin. ‘The colour is

a brighter green than is exhibited by Ouvirandra fenestrals.

- Petioles subtriangular, channelled. Peduncle, or rather, scape,

radical, swollen above the middle, and contracted again just

below the inflorescence. Spikes three to five, forming a kind of -

umbel or fascicle of slender rachises, rather sparingly beset

with flowers. Bracts two, sometimes three, oblong-spathulate,

subtending each flower. Perianth proper, none. Stamens six ;

filaments stout, subulate. Anthers subglobose, two-celled. Ova-

ries three, apparently connected at the base, tapering into short,

thick styles ; stigma a depressed point.

_Fig. 1. Portion of a leaf in its usual-state. 2. Portion of a spike of flowers,

with bracts. 3. Pistil :—magnified.

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AESCULUS Cauirornica.

Californian Buck-eye.

Nat. Ord. Hrppocastane®.—Hepranpria Monocynta.

Gen. Char, Flores polygami. Cal. campanulatus vel tubulosus, quinquefidus

vel 5-dentatus, plus minus ineequalis. Corolle petala 5, v. antici abortu 4, hy-

pogyna, plus minus inzequalia et seepe dissimilia, unguibus erectis, Jaminis paten-

tibus. Discus annularis, integerrimus v. lobatus, seepe unilateralis. Stamina 6-

8, seepissime 7, hypogyna, libera ; _filamenta filiformia, adscendentia ; anther bilo-

culares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovarium sessile, triloculare. Ovula in locu-

lis gemina, augula centrali superposite inserta, inferius adscendens, superius appen-

sum. Stylus filiformis; stigma acutum. Capsuda coriacea, levis v. echinata, tri-

locularis v. abortu bi-unilocularis, loculicide dehiscens, valvis medio septiferis.

Semina in loculis abortu solitaria v. rarissime gemina; ¢esta coriacea, nitida ; wm-

dilico basilari lato, deraso, exarillato. Limbryonis exalbuminosi curvati cotyledones

mlaxime, carnosee, conferruminate ; radicula brevis, umbilico proxima ; plumula

diphylla.—Arbores v. frutices, in India boreali et in America Boreali calidiore

sponte crescentes ; foliis oppositis, petiolatis, exstipulatis, palmatim quingue-novem-

Joliolatis; foliolis sessitibus vel petiolatis, penninerviis, serratis ; floribus in racemos

vel paniculas terminales thyrsoideas dispositis. Dndl.

/EscuLus (§ Pavia) Californica ; staminibus corolla longioribus, petalis 4, obo- o

vatis brevi-unguiculatis sub:equalibus patentibus, calyce tubuloso bilabiato,

thyrso multifloro compacto, foliolis 5 ovato-lanceolatis basi subangustatis

rotundatis argute serratis glabris subtus pallidioribus.

Ascurvs Californica. Nutt. M8. Torr. et Gray, Fl. of N. Am. v. 1. p. 251.

Nutt. Sylva, v. 2. p. 69. t. 74. Newberry in Williamson's Route to Calif.

and Oregon, 1855; Bot. p. 20.f. 1.

' Catoturrsus Californica. Spach in Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 2. p. 62.

‘The Californian Horse-Chestnut was probably first detected by

Nuttall, at Monterey, and Drs. Torrey and Gray adopted his

Manuscript name. Seeds have been sent to Messrs. Veitch, from

the Exeter and Chelsea Nurseries, and their young trees pro-

duced fine thyrsi of flowers in July, 1858. Mr. Newberry (from

whom we have specimens by favour of Drs. Torrey and Gray)

found it abundant in the Sacramento Valley ; Mr. Bridges sends

it to us from the same country. It is described as a low, spread-

OCTOBER Ist, 1858.

ing tree; the tallest seen by Mr. Newberry not more than

twenty feet high. It has the merit of blossoming at an early

age, and is remarkable for the dense clusters of flowers, said to

be rose-coloured in the native country, but which are assuredly

white in our specimen. It seems to be considered hardy in

England. From the beauty of the flowers, and the long time

during which they continue to appear, it would be a highly va-

luable acquisition to the cultivators of ornamental shrubs in the

eastern States. The wood is soft, white, and brittle, like that of

the other species of the genus.

Descr. A small tree, with smaller leaves, if we may judge

from our specimens, both cultivated and native, than those of

our well-known sculus Hippocastanum, and of a firmer tex-

ture. Leaflets five, petiolulate, glabrous, ovato-lanceolate, mode-

rately acuminate, closely penniveined. /owers extremely nume-

rous, in very dense terminal thyrsi, a span to a foot and more

long. Calyr tubular, or between tubular and campanulate,

green, tipped with red, at length two-lipped ; /iys unequal, erect

or nearly so; upper one the largest, and three-toothed ; lower

one two-toothed. Corolla of four, nearly equal, obovate, slightly

undulate, shortly clawed, spreading petals, white in our speci-

mens; the two inferior ones are rather the largest, and more

apart than the two superior ones. Stamens five to seven, longer

than the petals. Anthers orange-coloured, ovate, bluntly apiculate,

prolonged at the base of each cell into a blunt spur. Ovdéry

oblong, attenuated at the base, where it is surrounded by an

oblique, fleshy, crenated, glandular cup; at the apex tapering

into a thick, subulate, villous style.

Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Calyx and pistil. 3. Pistil and hypogynous gland :—

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Tas. 5078,

CGENOTHERA BISTORTA ; Var. Veitchiana.

Luwisted-fruited Enothera; Mr. Veiteh’s var.

Nat. Ord. ONAGRARIEE®.—OcTANDRIA MonoeGyYnia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 3764.)

nein

(ENorHERA (§ Spheerostigma) bistorta ; pubescens ramosa viridis, caulibus her-

baceis erecto-decumbentibus, foliis ovato-lanceolatis acute dentatis inferiori-

bus _petiolatis supremis ovato-acuminatis sessilibus, floribus in racemum

foliosum (tune axillaribus) y. bracteatum terminalem dispositis, tubo ool

infundibuliformis lobis breviore, petalis obovato-rotundatis staminibus op )

longioribus, stigmate magno globoso velutino, capsulis quadrangularibus

emum insigniter tortis.

(EnorueR« bistorta. Nutt. MS.. Torrey and Gray, Fl. of N. America, v. 1. p-

- 508.

@Noruena heterophylla, Nutt, MS., not of Spach (Torrey and Gray).

Hotostiema Botte. Spach, Onagr. p. 16?

Var. Veitchii, floribus majoribus speciosis. (TaB. Nostr. 5078.)

We have here an GQnothera of South California, be go

by Messrs. Veitch, of the Exeter and Chelsea Nurseries, ; ee

San Gabriel, through Mr. William Lobb. ‘That it is the

Gnothera bistorta of Nuttall, of which we have authentic sare

mens in our herbarium, there can be, we think, no ~~ fe

is equally certain that, like other species of the genus, 1 th ae

to vary-much in form and clothing of the foliage, and a c Mr

and beauty of the flowers. Our native eee ae ‘5

Lobb (n. 416), of this very plant gives no idea of : Pp as a

cultivation, which, we think, promises to be one : fv be

any yellow-flowered plants for bedding out, the s a g :

humble stature, the flowers large and copious wit hoa tala

Succession on the racemes, and when fully mane t ; ia 7

exhibit a dark-orange or blood-coloured spot at the T ie

each petal, as in some of the Cistus tribe. — Spee - “ed

and Gray have already noticed one variety with the cap

OCTOBER Ist, 1858, |

completely coiled when mature; but on the same specimen we

often find every form of coiling, reminding one very much of the

appearance of a worm in various degrees of contortion. ‘The

species seems peculiar to South California; Nuttall found it at

San Diego ; yet the plant is perfectly suited to our summer cli-

inate, where it ripens its seeds, or may be increased by cuttings.

The curious stigma is characteristic of the section Spherostigma.

Dzscr. Annual, pubescent, but not hoary. Svems simple or

branched, subdecumbent, terete, green, tinged with red on one

side. Leaves rather distant, lower ones shortly petiolate, lanceo-

late, acuminate ; upper ones broader and sessile, gradually pass-

ing into bracts, all of them dentate, the upper ones more deeply so,

penniveined, /Yowers solitary in the axil of almost every leaf and

bract, short-pedicellate (but the slender ovary has very much the

appearance of a peduncle). Calya ; its long narrow four-angled

tube adherent with the ovary, except the apex, which is infundi-

buliform and free. Segments four, lanceolate, reflexed. Petals

_ broadly cuneato-rotundate, spreading, full yellow, with small,

deep blood-coloured spots at the base. Stamens cight, alternately

shorter, and the tallest much shorter than the petals. Style as

long as the stamens. Stigma very large, velvety, capitate, yellow.

Fruit \inear, four-angled, one and a half to two inches long, four-

angled, singularly contorted, and even twisted, as it advances to

maturity.

Fig. 1. Upper portion of the o ith cal t d stamens.

2. Single petal :—magnified. ied Sn semaine ae rena

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Tas. 5079.

TRADESCANTIA pisconor; var. variegata.

Purple-leaved Spiderwort ; variegated var.

Nat. Ord. Commetyne#.—Hexanpria Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. Flores regulares. Sepaila 6, libera, patentia; tria exteriora navyi-

cularia, persistentia ; tria interiora majora, petaloidea, breviter unguiculata, mar-

cescendo-persistentia. Stamina 6, subhypogyna, omnia fertilia. Filamenta libera,

pleramque barbata. Anthere conformes, loculis reniformibus, connexivo varia

forma distinctis, interdum tres sepalis exterioribus opposite robustiores, loculis

replicatis extrorse filamentisque brevioribus sustente. Ovarium sessile, trilocu-

lare; ovula in loculis 2, superposita. Stylus 1. Stigma simplex, obtusum, in-

fundibulare vel peltato-ampliatum. Capsula trilocularis, trivalvis; valvis medio

septiferis. Semina bina, superposita, angulata.—Herbee Americane, erecte vel oo

diffuse, sepe repentes. Folia indivisa. Vagine integra. Peduneuli axillares et

terminales, solitarii, gemini v. plures, apice umbellato-pauci-multiflori, sepe brevis- —

simi, subnulli, Solioque duplici involucrati. Kth.

TRADESCANTIA discolor ; aloidea, caule brevi erecto, foliis lanceolatis acuminatis

subtus violaceis, pedunculis axillaribus, bracteis insigniter equitantibus

compressis flores omnino involucrantibus. S. .: ,

TRapuscantra discolor. L’Hérit. Sert. Angl. v. 8. t. 12. Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 5. fe

p. 403. Smith, Ic. Pict. t.10. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 2. p. 18. Ker in Bot. —

Mag. t.1192. Red. Liliae. t. 168. Kth. Enum. Pl. 0. 4. p. 85.

TRapEscant1a spathacea. Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. v. 1. p. 607.

Var. variegata ; foliis supra flavo-vittatis. (Tas. Nosrr. 5079.)

TRADESCANTIA variegata, Hort.

We cannot say much in praise of the figure of the ordinary

State of this ee pesilit plant, published at Tab. 1192 - =

work, by Mr. Ker, and we are glad of an yen a

more justice to it, in representing a state of the oe t —

lately been cultivated in gardens, imported, we believe, a

Belgium, under the name of Zrad. variegata. It is aes ab

for the rich colour of the under side of the leaves, Be : e a

gated yellowish lines on the dark-green upper side. e spec

inhabits Mexico, where it is considered to ee Se Fes

it is cultivated in various of the islands in the ssi tore =

and in the East as well as the West Indies. It is eas

by cuttings, and this state of the plant especially is worthy of

— OoToBER 1s7,1858. ‘

cultivating in every stove or warm greenhouse. It flowers during

the summer months.

Duscr. Var. variegata. The rhizome, rather than stem, is

short and ascending. The /eaves are numerous from the sum-

mit of the rhizome, somewhat aloid, lanceolate, firm, rather

thick and fleshy, sheathing at the base, dark-green above, with

pale-yellow streaks running longitudinally, as in the well-known

“ Ribbon-grass,” but the lines are less distinct, the back of the

leaves has a blunt keel, and the colour is a rich purple. Peduncles

short, thick, axillary, not rising above the sheathing base of the

leaf, bearing three large dracte@, which are complicate, compressed,

the two upper ones opposite to each other, and completely equi-

tant, so as to form a compressed cup or ¢zvolucre, resembling a

bivalve-shell (some large Zéd/ina), of a purple colour, within which

the flowers appear, and which are but slightly, if at all, protruded :

these flowers are pure white. Calyx of three, ovate, spreading

sepals. Corolla of three, nearly cordate, spreading petals, larger

than the calyx. Stamens six. Filaments filiform, singular, tortuose,

bearing a tuft of long, jointed hairs below the middle. Axthers all

perfect, transversely oblong, subdidymous, yellow. Ovary globose.

Style subulate. Capsule small, subbaccate, three-celled, red.

Fig. 1. Flower-bud, _2. Flower expanded. 3. Stamen. 4. Pistil :—magni-

fied, 5. Capsule, nat. size. 6. Transverse section of ditto, magnified.

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NEPENTHES vizuosa.

, Villous Pitcher-plant.

Nat. Ord. NEPENTHACE®.—Dra@cia MonopeEcpuHtia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4285.)

NEPENTHES villosa ; Tufescenti-villosa, foliis petiolatis, ascidiis caulinis amplis-

simis cylindraceis antice lamellis duabus longitudinalibus longe fimbriatis,

oris insigniter elongati valde obliqui margine latissimo reflexo plicatim stri-

ato, operculo ovato demum erecto facie interiore punctata punctis copiosis

excavatis versus apicem majoribus basi medio carinato.

Neventuss villosa. Hook. fil. in Icones Plant. Rar. v. 9. t. 888.

Dried flowering specimens only, and unfortunately without

the perfect ascidia or pitchers, of what we believe to be the same

plant as that here figured, were sent by Hugh Low, Jun., Esq.,

gathered on Kina-Baloo, in Borneo, growing at an elevation of

about 8000 feet above the level of the sea. Mr. Thomas Lobb

was more fortunate in sending to Messrs. Veitch and Sons, ae

and Chelsea N ursery, living plants from mountains near Sarawak,

together with dried flowering specimens, from which our accom-

panying figures are taken. It as much excels J. ee in

the peculiarity of the ascidia, as that does all previously oar

Species. They are more than a foot long, and the vei a

margins to the sides of the elongated mouth resemble the gills

a fish in structure and size, and almost in colour.

Drscr. The figure of this curious plant will give a ren ee

of its general structure than any words can do. The p sy vil.

like it congeners, a climber, very hairy, and even ‘ding baie in

lous in its young state, but in age the copious sp aed ren

our specimens at least, are evidently more or ae acu

Leaves alternate, on rather long, sheathing petioles, expanding

d elongated d/ade, from

into the oval or more or less oblong pine? crak a

six inches to a foot long, spreading, an : :

coriaceo-membranaceous, erin farnished with a strong ni og

costa, nerveless ; this costa is continued for four : ak euehe

more or less, beyond the blade or lamina, and p pA par spet

pitcher (ascidium) at its extremity. The weight, 1t w a

NOVEMBER Ist, 1858.

of this pitcher, causes the prolonged costa and the upper half of

the blade of the leaf to descend, taking a downward direction ;

_ nevertheless, as the pitcher enlarges this has always an upward ten-

dency, and becomes quite erect, from a span toa foot long; in an

early stage closed by the lid, at which time the curious fringe at

the mouth, while covered with the lid, is very small, as would

appear from our young dried specimens ; but as our living speci-

men possesses only a perfectly formed pitcher, we shall confine

our present description to that. Its general form is cylindrical,

nine inches in circumference, somewhat ventricose or unequal-

sided, rather suddenly tapering below into the prolonged costa:

it is furnished in front for its whole length with two longitudinal

membranaceous wings, cut into long, simple, or bi- or tri-fid

segments ; the uppermost segments the longest and the most

divided. The su4stance of this pitcher is membranaceous, but

firm, the colour a pale fulvous-green, blotched with purplish-

_ brown, and the wings are of that colour: the surface is obscurely

reticulately veined, and is more or less hairy. The mouth or

opening is the most extraordinary portion of this pitcher ; it is

very oblique, its margin formed of a substance distinct in tex-

ture and colour from the rest of the pitcher, of considerable

breadth (two inches in the widest portion), of a fleshy nature,

recurved, orange-purple, beautifully plaited or radiated with ele-

vated lamellated lines, extending upwards to its narrowest por-

tion, where the lips of the margin meet, project in a keel-like

form, closing over that part of the mouth. The apex is termi-

nated by the /id. This, in its perfect state, stands nearly erect,

Is ovato-cordate, apiculate, downy, with a keel or crest at the

base beneath : its whole under side is impresso-punctate, with

dots which are quite visible to the naked eye. The colour is

green, margined and spotted with blood-colour. The lower part

of the mouth is thus alone pervious, and that very much con-

tracted. In the inside of the pitchers water is naturally col-

lected, and, as in other species of the genus, no doubt, is a

great provision of nature for decoying and for the destruction of

insects. ‘The petioles of the leaves are deeply channelled above.

Our dried flowering specimen affords a lateral pedunculated

raceme of downy male flowers. Perianth of four spreading

obovate sepals. Column of stamens bearing a few branched

hairs. Anthers six, arranged in a capitate whorl.

Our Plate Tepresents the young portion of a male plant with flowers (from

‘oe dried specimens), and a portion of Messrs. Veitch’s cultivated plant,

with a fully formed pitcher, natural size. 2. Single male flower, magnified.

Tas. 5081.

PLOCOSTEMMA LASIANTHUM.

Woolly-flowered Plocostemma.

Nat. Ord. ASCLEPIADE®.—PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA.

Gen. Char. PuocostemMa, Bl. Calyx quinquepartitus. Corolla quinquefida,

patens v. reflexa, intus ad basin stuposa. Corona staminea pentaphylla, gyno-

stegio subsessili adnata ; foliolis carnosis, erectis, compressis, subtus condupli-

catis, angulo interiore in dentem anther incumbentem producto. Anthere

membrana stigmati incumbente terminate. Pollinia basi affixa, erecta, oblonga,

compressa, hine marginata. Stigma apiculatum. Folliculi . . .—Frutices Archi-

pelagi Indici, volubiles ; foliis oppositis, coriaceis, subvenosis, glabris ; umbellis pe-

dunculatis, terminalibus v. interpetiolaribus, multifloris. Bl.

PiocostemMa lasianthum ; foliis ovalibus breviter cuspidato-acuminatis venosis,

umbellis longe pedunculatis pendentibus, corolla reflexa intus ad basin dense

stuposa. ud

PLocosremma lasianthum. Blume in Rumphia, v. 4. p- 30 ; Mus. Bot: Iugd.-Bat.

v. 1. p. 60. f. 14. ee

Hoya lasiantha. Herb. Korthals. (Blume).

We are favoured with this remarkable Asclepiadeous plant by

Mr. Low, of the Clapton Nursery, who imported it from Borneo.

It proves to be a genus of the family allied to Hoya which

Professor Blume has lately established in his ‘Rumphia, and

figured in his valuable ‘Museum Botanicum Lugduno-Batavorum,

differing from Hoya, but having the foliola of the staminal crown

erect, compressed, conduplicate beneath, and the corolla at the

base within densely woolly. The author characterizes two spe-

cies, both natives of the Malay Islands ; the present one peculiar,

as far as yet known, to Borneo. It flowers with us 1n July.

Descr. A long-stemmed, climbing shrub, with quite the habit —

of a Hoya ; the branches terete, dark-green, glabrous, as in every

part of the plant, save the corolla. Leaves opposite, petiolate, a

span long, oval, or rather ovate, subcordate at the base, apiculato-

acuminate, thick, fleshy, dark-green, especially above, with occa-

sionally a few pale blotches, veined ; principal veins very distinct

in the recent leaf. Petiole about an inch long, terete. Peduncle

NOVEMBER Ist, 1858.

interpetiolary in our specimen, long, pendent, thickened and

dilated at the apex, where it bears an wméel or rather a fascicle

of a considerable number of flowers, all hanging downwards, of

a tawny-orange colour. Calyx small, five-lobed. Corolla rotate,

of five ovate segments, which segments are strongly reflexed upon

the pedicel, and the margins are recurved ; the disc of the corolla

cushioned, as it were, with a dense cottony mass, mixed with

ei hairs. Staminal crown singularly large and as described

above.

Fig. 1. Staminal crown, magnified.

Vincent Brodks,imp-

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Tar. 5082.

THUNBERGIA NATALENSIS.

Natal Thunbergia.

Nat. Ord. AcantHacka®.—DIpYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Taz. 4119.)

THuNBERGtA Natalensis ; erecta basi frutescens glabriuscula, foliis subapproxi-

matis ovatis acutis sessilibus 3—5-nerviis margine sinuato-dentato, peduneulis

axillaribus solitariis unifloris folio subbrevioribus, bracteis ovatis subacumi-

natis 3-nerviis reticulatis, corolla tubo flavo bracteas superante, limbo czruleo,

calycis dentibus 5 latis triangularibus obtusis incurvis, antheris_bicornibus,

stylo superne dilatato glanduloso in stigmate concavo triangulari expanso.

Native of Natal, whence the Messrs. Veitch, of the Exeter

and Chelsea Nurseries, received seeds through Mr. Cuming, and

reared plants which flowered in the greenhouse in July, 1858.

Its nearest affinity is doubtless with Zhunbergia atriplicifolia of

E. Meyer ; like that, having sessile and angulately-toothed leaves :

but these leaves in our plant are almost quite glabrous and much

larger and broader ; and there is a peculiar character in the five

broad teeth or segments of the calyx, and very different from the

humerous spine-like segments of that of £. atriplicifolia,—a

native however of the same country, where it appears to be ex-

tremely plentiful, for we have received specimens from various

correspondents,—whereas our only acquaintance with the present

Species is through Messrs. Veitch’s cultivated specimens. Pro-

bably Mr. Bentham’s Meyenia erecta, from tropical W. Africa,

figured at our Tab. 5013, may be safely referred to Thunbergia.

[t has not a few points in common with the present plant, but

the anthers (supposing them to be correct as represented by our

artist) and the calyx are very different, as well as the stigma :

and the corolla is very inferior in point of colour.

Descr. Sfem erect, two feet or more high, somewhat shrubby

below, above herbaceous, green, quadrangular, glabrous except

NOVEMBER Ist, 1858.

at the internodes. Leaves opposite, the pairs rather approxi-

mate, sessile, ovate, acute or subacuminate, sinuato-serrate, with —

three primary veins, glabrous above, hairy on the costa and veins

beneath. Peduncles axillary, solitary, erect, single-flowered, much

shorter than the leaves. Flowers horizontally drooping, large,

handsome. Bracts ovate, nearly as long as the tube of the co-

rolla, to which they are appressed, three-nerved ;. zerves strong,

reticulated with lesser veins. Corol/a with the tube yellow, two

inches long, curved upwards ; /imd large, cut into five broad, ob-

cordate, nearly equal, horizontally spreading /odes. Calyx minute,

of six, small, triangular, incurved, apiculate teeth. Stamens four,

nearly equal in height. Anthers each two-horned. Ovary sur-

rounded by a large, fleshy disc. Style slender at the base, gla-

brous, gradually enlarged into a somewhat trumpet-shaped but

triangular concave stigma, with numerous glandular /acrs below

the stigma.

Fig. 1. Stamens. 2. Calyx and pistil. 3. Stigma :—magnified.

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Tas. 5083.

NAZGELIA MuLTIFLORA.

White-lowered Negela.

Nat. Ord. GrsNERAcE®,—DIpYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. Corolla oblique adnata, tubo ventre inflato, limbo ineequaliter

quinquelobo, fauce late hiante. -Annulus perigynus quinquecrenatus. Stigma

eapitatum. Reliqua ut Gesnerie.—Herbe stolonibus perennantes ; foliis oppo-

sitis ; floribus racemosis, ante anthesin revolutis. Regel.

N#GELIA multiflora; caulescens molliter pubescens glanduloso-villosa, foliis

(amplis) longe petiolatis cordatis crenatis, racemis elongatis multifloris,

coroll (albee) tubo elongato superne angulato apice sursum curvato vix

ventricoso limbi valde obliqui lobis patentibus subeequalibus, stylo glandu-

loso-piloso.

Guoxrnta? multiflora. Martens et Gal. En. Pl. Mex. Gesnera, p. 3. Herb. Gal.

nm. 19138.

Naeetia amabilis. Hort. .

Acuimenns (Negelia) amabilis. Dene. in FU. des Serres, for 1857, p. 1192. —

This plant is so closely allied to the well-known Gesnera zebrina

(see our Tab. 3940), that at first sight I was disposed to consider a

it a white-flowered state of that beautiful species. The nature | a

of the clothing, however, is different ; the form of the flower (as _

well as the colour) is different, and approximates to that of ow

Gloxinia tubifora (Tab. 3971). Dr. Regel, who has studied with —

great attention the whole Gesneraceous family, and given excel- on

lent figures of his genera, separates Gesnera zebrina from the ie

true Gesnere, under the name of Negelia. Whether or not —

the distinguishing marks are of sufficient importance to _

tute a valid genus, the present individual must rank ie -

Living plants have been received, from the Belgian Gar pie at

Kew, under the name of Negelia amabilis, but it appears 1den-—

tical with Martens and Galeotti’s Gloxinia? multiflora, a native

of the eastern Cordillera of Oaxaca, at an elevation of 2-3000 feet |

above the level of the sea. It flowers with us in the stove - 3

ah autumnal months. ie c

Escr. The general aspect of the Pp nae

_ of the foliage, ate. bear a iat resemblance to Wagelia (Gesnera) s

NOVEMBER Ist, 1858.

lant, the shape and tee

zebrina ; but here, besides the soft velvety clothing, there are

copious patent hairs generally tipped with a gland. Raceme

terminal, elongated. Pedice/s bracteolated at the base, erecto-

patent. Mowers drooping, shorter than the pedicels, white or

cream-colour. Calye almost hispid with glandular hairs. Co-

rolla with the tube scarcely ventricose, elongated, curved up-

_ wards, below the very oblique, rather large, spreading, five-

lobed, equal limb. Glandular ring nearly entire, crowning the

ovary ; from within, and from the apex of the ovary, arises a circle

of bristles. Style glanduloso-pilose. Stigma capitate, umbili-

cate. ;

Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Pistil. 3. Transverse section of the ovary :—*magnified.

dith.

N Pitch deLet

Tas. 5084,

CCELOGYNE panpurata.

Pandurate Celogyne.

Nat. Ord. OrcutpE.£.—GyNaNDRIA MoNnANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5001.)

CELOGYNE (§ Flaccide)* pandurata; foliis maximis multinerviis, racemo longo

pendulo, bracteis oblongis cucullatis distantibus persistentibus, petalis se-

palisque lineari-oblongis, labello basi concavo cordato-oblongo retuso cis

apicem crispo setaceo-acuminato (lateribus deflexis pandurato), lobis basilari-

bus nanis acuminatis, disco levi tricarinato utrinque crista alta duplici verru-

culosa aucto citra cristam copiose verrucoso.

Ca@Locrne pandurata. Lindley in Gard. Chron. Dec. 10, 1853; Folia Orchi-

dacea, part 5, Ceelogyne, p. 3.

This very fine Orchideous plant is so very unlike the hitherto

best-known species of Calogyne (generally showy and highly

ornamental, white or rose-colour, more or less mottled with yel-

low and dark-purple), that at first sight it would not he easily

recognized as belonging to the genus: yet it possesses all the

characters. Indeed it is rare for flowers of any genus to be so

truly green as in the present plant. It is a native of Borneo,

imported by Mr. Low, of the Clapton Nursery, and described by

Dr. Lindley in the works above quoted, from a flowering plant

in the possession of Messrs. Loddiges, Hackney Nursery, De-

cember, 1853. Although a native specimen from Mr. Low,

Jun., is in the Hookerian Herbarium, sent to us by Mr. Low,

Jun., from Borneo, we have not ourselves had the advantage of

seeing the living plant. The accompanying figure is from a =

specimen in the Orchideous House of — Butler, Esq., Par

Place, Woolwich. We therefore take advantage of Dr. Lindley’s

bats follows.

description in most of what follows her large, slightly com-

Descr. Pseudobulbs oblong-ovate, rat Oy

pressed. Leaves very large, broad-lanceolate, longitudinally

striated and plaited. Raceme about as long as the leaves (eighteen

* This section (Flaccida) is known by its long pendulous racemes.

NOVEMBER Ist, 1858.

or twenty inches). ‘ lowers about two inches apart, green, in

a pendent raceme, furnished with brown (green when young), cu-

cullate, deciduous éracts, as long as the peduncle, Each flower is

about four inches across if fully expanded, with pale-green sepals

and petals, and a singularly warted /ip, marked with deep broad

black veins and stams upon a greenish-yellow ground. ‘The

crests are two, deep, double-warted lines, on each side of a three-

ribbed, central disc ; these crests converge towards the middle

of the dp, where they lose themselves in a field of pallid,

rugged, irregularly situated, often two-lobed warts. The column

is green, slightly expanded into thin, rounded edges. The dip,

although really oblong, yet, in consequence of the manner in

which the sides are bent down, has much the form of a violin.

A memorandum (of Mr. Low, Jun.) in the Hookerian Herba-

rium states the flower to emit an agreeable perfume.” —Lindley.

Fig. 1. The lip, mat. size. 2. Thecolumn. 3. Pollen-masses :—magnified.

W Fitch delet lith.

_ Vincent Broeks, imp.

Tas. 5085.

OSBECKIA aspErRa.

Rough-leaved Osbeckia.

Nat. Ord. MELASTOMACE#.—OCTANDRIA MonoeyNIa.

Gen. Char. Calycis tubus ovatus, seepius setis stellatis aut pube stellata vesti-

tus; obi 4-5, persistentes aut decidui; appendices inter lobos extus orte, forma

et magnitudine varie. Petala 4-5; stamina 8-10, filamentis glabris, antheris

subsequalibus brevi-rostratis, connectivo basi breve biauriculato. Ovarium apice

setosum. Capsula 4—5-locularis. Semina cochleata—Herbee aut sapius suffru-

tices Americana, Africane, et Asiatice. Folia integerrima, 3-5-nervia. Flores

terminali. DC.

OsBeckta aspera; fruticosa, rami junioribus subquadrangularibus strigosis, fo-

subtus rigide pu-

liis petiolatis ovalibus acutis 3-5-nerviis superne strigosis sul i

bescentibus ad nervos hispidis, racemis terminalibus paucifloris, calycis tubo.

hemispheerico setoso superne squamuloso, squamulis longe rigide stellatim

setosis, staminibus 10, antheris uniformibus apice rostratis basi bitubercu-

latis, ovario longe setoso.

OspecKia aspera. Wight et Arn. Prodr. Fi. Penins. Ind. Or. p. 323. Wight,

Te. Plant Ind. Orn. 311. ¢. 311. Walp. Repert. v. 2. p. 581. Naudin,

Melast. p. 74.

MeLastoma asperum. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 560. De Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p 145.

AsTEROSTOMA asperum. Blume, Mus. Bot. Iugd.-Batav. v. 1. p. 50.

ars cultivated in the stoves of the

Royal Gardens of Kew, where, during the summer and autumnal

months, it makes a very handsome appearance, with its strongly

three-nerved leaves and its copious, large, rich purple-coloured

la of India, and

blossoms. It is a native of Ceylon and the peninsu

is well figured in Dr. Wight's * Icones Plantarum Indie Orien-

talis.” We are disposed to think that Wight and Arnott were

correct in referring hither the Osheckia glauca, Benth. in Wall.

Cat. n. 4073 (and in our herbarium), from Travancore and Trin-

comalee,—a plant, too, of Dr. Wight’s own gathering, but that

the accurate Naudin pronounces the two distinct, and describes

them as such accordingly; at least, he does so with Osheckia

glauca”’ of Wall. MSS., meaning probably thereby of his Cata-

DECEMBER Ist, 1858.

This has been for many ye

logue. References for this plant to Rheed. Hort. Malab. v. 4.

t. 43, and Rumph. Amboyn. v. 4. t. 71, are justly considered

doubtful.

Desor. A small shrud, one to two feet and more high; the

young éranches subquadrangular, strigose. Leaves opposite,

oval or approaching to ovate, acute, petiolate (petiole scarcely

half an inch long, generally red), strongly three- to five-nerved,

firm, subcoriaceous, entire; above, strigose with close-pressed

rigid short hairs or bristles ; beneath, coarsely downy and hispid

upon the prominent nerves. #/owers subracemose and terminat-

ing short branches, only one on each branch opening at a time:

these are very handsome. The calyzx-tube is between hemispherical

and bell-shaped, clothed with coarse bristles ; towards the upper

part and on the outside of the calyx-lobes are small scales, ter-

minated by long stellate bristles; Zimb of five lobes, spreading,

deciduous. Pedals five, large, obcordate, rich purple, spreading

horizontally, slightly waved. Stamens ten; filaments moderately

long, and nearly equal ; azthers uniform, linear, slightly spirally

twisted, beaked at the apex and opening by a pore, and at the

base having a small annulus, with a small two-lobed process in

front. Ovary crowned at the summit with copious long bristles,

which project beyond the mouth of the calyx ; style bent down

in a direction opposite to that of the stamens ; stigma obtuse.

Fig. 1. Calyx and pistil. 2. Stamen :—magnified.

5086.

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Tas. 5086.

MONSTERA Apansonlit.

Perforated Monstera.

Nat. Ord. ArnorpE#: Trib. Cattacrm.—HeptTanpria Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. Spatha hians, tandem decidua. Spadia sessilis, basi famineus.

Ovaria bilocularia, loculis biovulatis, ovudis infimee axeos parti affixis erectis.

Stylus brevis, manifestus. Stigma capitatum. Fructus: bacce connate, epi-

carpia tandem abjicientes—Americe tropice inxcole, caule scandente, foliis ovato-

oblongis integris v. perforatis, petiolis vagina latiuscula dilatatis, spatha ex albido »

flava, ovariis raphidophoris. Schott. .

Monstera Adansonii ; scandens, foliis oblongo-ovatis cordatis pertusis, spathis

cymbiformibus.

Monsrera Adansonii. Schott, Meletem. Bot. p. 21. Kunth, Enum. Plant. v. 3.

p. 60.

Dracontrum pertusum. Linn. Sp. Pl. 1372. Jacq. Hort. Schinbr. v. 2. p. 29.

#.184-185. Flora Flumin. v. 9. t. 117. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 2. p. 289.

Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 2. p. 336.

- Carta Dracontium. Mey. Esseq. p. 197.

Caza pertusa. Kunth, Syn. v. 1. p. 129.

Dracontium, foliis pertusis, caule scandente. Miller, Gard. Dict. v. 1; Ie. t.

296.

Arum hederaceum, amplis foliis perforatis. Plum. dmer. v. 40. ¢. 56-57.

The genus Monstera was established by Adanson upon this

plant, the Dracontium pertusum of Linnzeus, and adopted by the

distinguished writer on droidee, Dr. Schott, whose generic cha-

racter we have adopted, and who, in his ‘ Meletemata Botanica,

united with it the Arum ligulatum, Auct., and Pothos cannefolia,

Rudge. Afterwards, in his ‘ Synopsis Aroidearum, he separated

the two latter genera, and referred them to Philodeniron.

Pceppig and Endlicher, however, and Miquel and Gardner and

Liebmann, have each given a new species to Monstera : how far

all of them may correspond with Schott’s views of the genus, I

have no means of knowing. The plant is a native of tropical

America and the West Indian Islands, and has been intro-

duced into English gardens more than a century ago, namely,

in 1752, by Mr. Philip Miller.

Dzscr. It is a scandent plant, several feet in length, running

DECEMBER IsT, 1858.

up the trunks of trees, and attaching itself to their bark by

thick fleshy fibres. The main sfem or trunk is one or two inches

thick, but variable in size in different parts of the same stem,

ringed, as it were, with the scars formed by fallen leaves, more or

less branched; the éranches are narrowed at the base, leafy.

Leaves distichous, long-petioled, from a span to a foot long,

oblique at the base, acuminulate at the apex, somewhat waved

at the margin, dark-green, glossy, with stout costa, penni-

veined, entire or in the disc and between the veins more or less

perforated with large linear or oblong openings, one between

each pair of veins, at various and very uncertain distances from

the costa, lying parallel with the veins. Petioles grooved, with

a membranous and sheathing margin, auricled above. Bractee

elongated, boat-shaped, green, terminal from between the most

superior pair of leaves: from this bract the peduncle emerges,

thick, terete. Spatha cream-colour, deep cymbiform, ovate,

acute: in the inside the surface appears as if impressed with

the flowers of the spadix. Peduncle not much exserted beyond

the bractea. Spadix included, much shorter than the spatha,

cylindrical, thick, obtuse, clothed with white pistils for its whole

length, which are closely compacted ; those towards the base

without stamens, the rest surrounded by seven s/amens, which

are close-pressed. Filaments broad, plane, tipped with two-celled

anthers. Ovary turbinate, tapering upwards into a short style,

two-celled, four-seeded. Stigma minute, four-lobed.

Fig. 1. Single stamen. 2. Pistil from the upper part of the spadix, sur-

rounded by its stamens. 8. Vertical section of the pistil. 4. Transverse sec-

tion :—magnified.

Tas. 5087.

APTERANTHES Gussoniana.

Gussoni’s Apteranthes.

Nat. Ord. ASCLEPIADEZ.—PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx quinquepartitus. Corolla rotata, quinquefida ; Jacintis late

ovatis, apice pilosis. Gynosteginm faucem subeequans. Corona staminea simplex,

quinqueloba ; Jodis subtriangularibus, obtusis, stigmate incumbentibus, carnosulis,

basi et a latere globulis obtusis flavis stipatis. Anthere apice simplices ; masse

pollinis rotundatee, margine hine pellucidee. Stigma muticum. Follicult . «i

Herbee Stapelize habitu, in regione Mediterranea occidentali, ramis tetragonis denta-

tis, floribus umbellatis parvis rufo-fuscis transverse rugosis, ad faucem pilis raris

inspersis inodoris. De Cand.

APTERANTHES Gussoniana.:

Aprerantuzs Gussoniana. Mikan, Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. v. 17. p. 594. #. 41.

Gussoni, Notiz. 1832, n. 87, cum ic? De Cand. Prodr. v. 8. p. 649.

Cosson et Dur. Fl. Alger. t. 62. f. 1 (sine descript.).

Srapetra Gussoniana. Jacg. in Bot. Reg. t. 1731.

Srapenia Europwa. Guss. Act. Soc. Bord. v. 4. p. 81, et Suppl. p. 65. Flor.

Sicule, v. 1. p. 288. er

Brrcnerosta Munbyana, “ Decaisne in litt.” (ad cl. Mnnby), Menby, Fi. d Alger, —

p. 25.

Formerly, Asclepiadeous plants, with the habit of the well-

known genus S/apelia, were supposed to be peculiar to the

deserts of southern Africa; but we have now, of this group, the

genus Caralluma, of which two species ate peculiar to the Hast

Indies, one to Arabia ; Boucerosia, whose nine species are found

in the East Indies, Arabia, Senegambia; and Apteranthes, the

plant now under consideration, the most interesting of all in a

geographical point of view, inasmuch as it is the only represen-

tative of the group which extends to Europe. It was first, ——

1832, detected by Professor Gussonl, on the Sicilian island o

Lampedusa ; has since been found about Oran, in Algeria, by

an English botanist resident there, Mr. Munby ; and more re-

cently in saline places at Cape Gata, and at Almeria, in Spain,

by Mr. Webb. A solitary species only 1s known of the genus,

DECEMBER, Ist, 1858.

for “ Apteranthes Numidica, Durieu, Explor. Alger. t. 62,” of

Pritzel’s valuable ‘Iconum Botanicarum Index locupletissimus,’

should have been Campanula Numidica, which is the name

written and the plant referred to on the plate quoted. Our

greenhouse owes the possession of this rarity to Mr. Munby, |

believe its discoverer in North Africa, unless the Stapelia

hirsuta of Desfontaines, FI. Atlantica, vol. i. p. 213 ;—surely it

cannot be the South African Sf. hirsuta, Linn., although Des-

fontaines considered it as such. It flowers with us in Sep-

tember.

Descr. The entire aspect of the plant is that of a small-

flowered Stapelia ; the stems and more or less pendent branches

are quite leafless, about as thick as one’s finger, with from four

to six angles, more or less deeply channelled between the angles,

and these dentate, at intervals of nearly half an inch from each

other, with short, sharp, triangular ¢eetZ, which are convex below,

plane above. Flowers small, in wmée/s springing from the apex of a

branch, or from a little below the apex, five to seven or eight in an

umbel. Pedicels very short. Calyx quinquepartite ; segments

lanceolate, acute, spreading ; within, at each sinus, are five small

ovato-acute scales, only seen on removing the corolla. Corolla

scarcely three-quarters of an inch broad, rotate, fleshy, pale-

yellow, mottled and banded with dingy-purple, the five ovate

segments soon recurved, villous at the faux and at the margins.

Gynostegium sunk in the short tube of the corolla, . five-lobed

at the margin ; the lobes dark-purple, triangular, its apex two-

lobed, yellow: and there are two bright-yellow globose glands

at the base. These lobes are close-pressed upon the stigma.

Anthers simple at the apex. Stigma a depressed, obscurely five-

angled, large, peltate disc.

Vig. 1. Teeth, from the angles of the stem. 2, Flower. 3. Portion of calyx

and pistil. 4. Gynostegium :—magnified.

JOSE.

W Fitch, delt, et lith,

Vincent Brooks, imp.

Tas. 5088,

LOBELIA rrigonocauuis.

Triangular-stemmed Lobelia.

Nat. Ord. Lopeniacea’.—Prentanprra Monoeynia. .

Gen. Char. Calyx tubo obconico, turbinato v. hemispherico, cum ovario con

nato ; limbo supero, quinquefido. Corolla summo calycis tubo inserta, tubulosa,

tubo hine apice fisso; Jimbi quinquefidi uni-bilabiati Jaciniis tribus inferioribus

pendulis, duabus superioribus pendulis v. cum inferioribus couniventibus. Séa-

mina 3, cum corolla inserta ; filamenta et anthere, omnes v. saltim due inferiores

barbate, in tubum connate. Ovarium inferum, vertice brevissime exsertum, bi-

triloculare. Ovuda in placentis carnosulis, dissepimento utrinque adnatis v. e lo-

culorum angulo centrali porrectis, plyrima, anatropa. Stylus inclusus; stigma

demum exsertum, bilobum; Jodis divaricatis, orbiculatis, subtus pilorum annulo

cinctis. Capsula bi-trilocularis, ultra verticem exsertum, loculicido-bi-trivalvis,

Semina plurima, minima, scrobiculata. Embryo in axi albuminis carnosi ortho~

tropus; cotyledonibus brevissimis, obtusis; radicula umbilica proxima, centripeta.

—Herbee perennes, v. rarius annua, in regionibus tropicis subtropicisque totius or-

bis observate, in America e@quinoctiali imprimis copiose, in Europa media raris-

sime, habitu et inflorescentia admodum varie. Endl.

Losetia trigonocaulis ; glabra decumbens, caule ramoso trigono sulcato, foliis

ovatis nune subcordatis ineequaliter dentato-laciniatis subpinnatifidis in pe-

tiolum alatum aquilongum attenuatis supremis angustis, racemis terminali-

bus foliosis remotifloris, floribus declinatis, pedicellis filiformibus bracteatis,

calycis laciniis linearibus ovario longioribus, ‘capsulis maturis subglobosis

(‘‘ semiovatis’’) nutantibus.

Losetra trigonocaulis. F. Mueller, Fragm. Phytogr. Austral. v. 1. p. 19.

The genus Lodelia, though much diminished in number of

species by the separation of new genera from it, 18 eee

still very numerous in individuals. Of these Australia has its fair

proportion. The present is an addition to those already ve

and seems peculiar to North-east Australia. Dr. F. ree =

gives Brisbane river as the locality, on the authority of Mr. Hi

and himself. Messrs. Hugh Low and Son, of the Clapton _ oe

sery, possess living plants reared from seeds sent by a i

from Mount Lindsay, Moreton Bay, and these (from whic ' our

figure is taken) show it to be a very ornamental plant, an he

well calculated for “ bedding out” im open borders, where ue

flowers are such a desideratum. The brightness of the colour

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is here much enhanced by the large white spot on the lower lip

and the red tinge on the tube.

Drscr. A rather small, decumbent, herbaceous, glabrous

plant, with a perennial root (according to Dr. Mueller), and tri-

angular and furrowed stems and branches. Leaves rather dis-

tant, an inch to an inch and a half long, ovate, deeply toothed

and laciniated (sometimes almost cordate), tapering into a winged

petiole about equal in length with the blade; upper ones gradu-

ally smaller and narrower, and almost entire. Racemes terminal,

leafy ; pedicels distant, erect, filiform, bearing one or two linear

bracts. Flower declined, not inaptly resembling a Violet. Calyz-

segments linear, as long as the broad ovate ovary. Corolla blue,

variegated with white, and a red tinge upon the cleft tube above.

Capsule semiglobose, drooping.

Fig. 1. Front view of a flower. 2. Side view of ditto :—magnified.

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W-Fitch, delt et lith. Vincent Brooks, imp.

Tas. 5089.

FIELDIA avstRALIs.

Australian Fieldia.

Nat. Ord. CyrtaNDRACEZ.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus, persistens, Jobis lanceolato-linearibus, bractea

spathacea ovata acuta bifida lateraliter stipatus. Corolla tubuloso-ventricosa; limbo

quinquefido, zquali, subbilabiato. Stamina 4, fertilia, vix didynama, cum quinto

sterili dimidio breviore. Anthere globoso-didyname, biloculares, loculis parallelis.

Stigma bilamellatum. Bacea spongiosa, subcarnosa, ovata, 1-locularis,. loculis

parallelis. Placente dus, carnose, in laminas recurvas lateraliter productee.

Semina plurima, parva, nidulantia, ovato-oblonga, aptera.—Suffrutex radicans,

pseudo-parasiticus, ramosus, yamulis ferrugineo-velutinis. Folia opposita, valde

cujusque jugi inequalia, remota, breviter petiolata, basi cuneata, superne cuneato-

serrata. Pedicelli awillares, uniflori. Flores nutantes, ex albo subvirescentes.

De Cand.

Frevpra australis.

Freipta australis. 402. Cunn. in Field’s Mem. of N. 8. Wales, p. 364 (with a.

figure). Hook. Exot. Flora, p. 232. t. 232. De Cand. Prod. v. 9. p. 286. ,

Basyinoruyta Frederici-Augusti. F. Muell. 1st Rep. on the Bot. of Victoria,

p- 16.

This little-known and singular plant is a native of the Blue

Mountains of New South Wales, where it was first detected by

Mr. Caley, in 1804, and afterwards by Mr. Allan Cunningham,

who dedicated it to his excellent friend the late Barron Field,

Esq., Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. It was_

to the same gentleman that Gaudichaud afterwards, namely in

1826, dedicated another plant, one of the Orchidee.* Our plant

has also been gathered at Gipps’s Land_ by Dr. F. Mueller, at —

Shoal Haven, New South Wales, by Mr. Backhouse, and at

Fives’ Island, by Mr. Bynoe. We were so fortunate, n 1857,

as to receive living plants from Mr. Moore of the Sydney

Botanical Garden, which flowered copiously 10 the greenhouse

in September, 1858. Its habit is peculiar for a cba it i"

plant, and it has perhaps as strong @ claim to rank with the

* Vandalissochiloides, Lindl.

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Bignoniacee as with the Crytandracea, in which latter the

species are usually herbaceous.

Dzscr. This has a straggling, woody stem and branches, some-

what climbing, and rooting on the rough bark or among moss,

villous with short fulvous hairs, or more or less downy. Leaves

opposite, remote, unequal in size, a small one frequently being

opposed to the larger one, ovate or ovato-lanceolate, downy,

acuminate, shortly petiolate, coarsely serrated, entire at the base,

paler and more villous beneath. Veins pinnated, rather ob-

scure. Peduncles axillary, solitary, nearly an inch long, bearing

a solitary pendulous flower ; the apex, beneath the calyx, swollen,

and having a spathzeform dract on one side, deeply cut into two

equal lanceolate segments. Calyx deeply cut into five linear-

lanceolate, erect, downy segments. Corolla an inch and a half or

nearly two inches long, tubuloso-cylindrical, downy, pale yellow-

ish-green, the limb short, equal, cut into five, rounded, spreading

segments. Stamens four, arising from the very base of the tube.

Filaments as long as the tube of the corolla. Anthers subglo-

bose. There is a fifth small abortive stamen. Ovary ovate,

arising from a glandular anxnulus, two-celled, many-seeded. Style

as long as the corolla. Stigma small, unequally two-cleft.

Fig. 1. Corolla laid open, showing the stamens. 2. Stamen. 3. Pistil.

4, Transverse section of ovary :—magnified.

Tas. 5090.

BILLBERGIA Lrsonrana.

Libon’s Billbergia.

Nat. Ord. BroMELIACE®.—HEXANDRIA Monoeynia.

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

BrutBercra Liboniana ; surculosa, foliis radicalibus ligulatis acutis mucronatis

margine serrulatis supra lete yiridibus subtus obscure albido-furfuraceis,

bracteis subulatis appressis, spica laxa 6-10-floro,

scapo erecto bracteato,

floribus erectis, sepalis erectis rubris, petalis calyce duplo longioribus erectis

Ibidis intus laminis duabus

lineari-oblongis intense purpureo-ceeruleis basi a

elongatis apice dentatis instructis et ad basin squamis duabus obovatis longe

fimbriatis.

Bitiperera Liboniana. De Jonghe,

icone. Lem. Jard. Fleur. v. 3. p. 197.

p. 195, cum tc.

Journ. d’Hort. Prat. Mars, 1851, cum

Planch. Flore des Serres, v. 10.

Belgian gardens, where it is

stated to have been introduced from the vicinity of Rio de Ja-

neiro, by “le voyageur naturaliste Libon,” after whom 1t has

received its specific name. It is a plant of some beauty, and

is another plant added to those Bromeliacee which are highly de-

serving of cultivation in our hothouses. Where the collection of

these (in amount of species, we mean) 1S considerable, some or

other is in flower at all seasons of the year, and not a few in the

depth of winter. The drawing was taken from a plant in Kew

Gardens, which flowered in August, 1858.

Duscr. The species is small in stature, compared to many of

the Bromeliacee, scarcely more than a foot in height, indepen-

dent of the scape. The plant is sarmentose, and these runners,

by which the species is easily increased, are nearly half an inch

thick, terete, scaly with small, rigid, broad, subulate, spinescent,

abortive leaves. From these runners tufts of foliage arise, with

no visible stem: the lowest ones are squamiform, like those of

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Received at Kew from the

the runners; the inner become gradually larger, a foot long, li-

- gulate, the sides convolute, mucronately acuminate at the apex,

the margin spinescently serrated, the upper or inner side of the

leaf is dark-green, the outer paler from a whitish furfuraceous

substance with which it is more or less invested. Scape arising

from the centre of the foliage, and scarcely exceeding it in length,

erect or nearly so, rather slender, bracteated with long, subulate,

erect, rigid bracts, becoming shorter in the inflorescence. Spike

lax, of from five to twelve erecto-patent flowers. Seyals ob-

long, erect, appressed, imbricate, acute, red, with a paler streak.

Petals twice as long as the calyx, white below, the rest deep

purple-blue, linear-oblong, obtuse, erect, straight, the sides con-

volute, with two linear lamin within, almost as long as the

petals, toothed at the apex; and two small scales at the base,

long-fringed. Filaments inserted just above the laminze, two on

each petal. Ovary terete, inferior. Style shorter than the petals.

Stigma three-lobed.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Petal, with two stamens, lamin, and scales. 3. Pistil:

—magnified.