CURTIS’S

BOTANICAL MAGAZINE,

COMPRISING THE

Plants of the Ropal Gardens of Kew

AND

OF OTHER BOTANICAL ESTABLISHMENTS IN GREAT BRITAIN;

WITH SUITABLE DESCRIPTIONS ;

BY

JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER, M.D., C.B., F.R.S., L.S., &e.

D.0.L, OXON., LL.D. CANTAB,, CORRESPONDENT OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE,

PO

nace

VOL: XRVEE

OF THE THIRD SERIES;

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

Since flowers have their allotted hour,

When all their charms must fade away,

Art must exert her skill and power

To save their beauty from decay.—F. H. H.

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LONDON:

Li REEVE & CO., 5, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

1871. “

Mo. Bot: Garden,

1397.

TO

ISAAC ANDERSON HENRY, ESQ,, F.LS,

My Dear Sir,

Your frequent contributions to the “ BoranicaL Maca-

ZINE,” especially of Andean plants raised by yourself from seeds

communicated by our indefatigable friend, Professor Jameson (late

__.of Quito), your well-known skill as a Horticulturist, and your

liberal patronage of that art, render it no less a duty than it is a

pleasure to offer you the dedication of a volume of this work.

Believe me,

My dear Sir,

Most faithfully yours,

JOS. D. HOOKER.

Royat Garpens, Kew,

Dec. 1st, 1871,

W. Fitch del. et hth. Vincent Brooks, Day &3on Imp

Tap. 5878.

ONCIDIUM ticrinum, VAR. SPLENDIDUM.

Native of Mexico.

Nat. Ord. OrcHIDEZ.—Tribe VANDE.

Genus Oneipium, Swartz ; (Endl. Gen. Pl., vol. i. p. 2038).

Oncipium (Homeeantha) tigrinum ; pseudobulbis ovatis ovato-rotundatisve

compressis 2-phyllis, foliis oblongo-linearibus obtusis basi angustatis,

_ racemo elongato volubili, bracteis parvis appressis, floribus amplis,

sepalis liberis petalisque lineari-oblongis recurvis undulatis flavis

brunneo-fasciatis, labelli flavi lobis lateralibus parvis $-orbicularibus

intermedio amplissimo breviter late unguiculato transverse late oblongo

emarginato, ungue basi bituburculato v. 2-carinato cum crista brevi

intermedia elongata, columne alis patentibus obtusis,

Oncipium tigrinum, Llav. et Lex. Orchid. Mex., p. 36. Lindl. Gen. and

Sp. Orchid., 203. Fol. Orchid., n. 157.

Oncipi1um Barkeri, Lindl. in Bot. Reg., 1841. Mise. n. 174. Sert. Orchid.

t. 48. Pazt. Mag., vol. xiv. p. 97. Lemaire, Ill. Hortic., 1854, t. 2.

OponToaLossuM tigrinum, Lindl. in Fol. Orchid., n. 157.

Var. splendidum, major, floribus amplissimis, labelli lobo intermedio 1}-

poll. lato, lateralibus vix } poll. latis.

Oncipium splendidum, A. Rich. ex Duchartre in Journ. Soc. Imp, Hort.

Paris, 1862, p. 50. Flore des Serres, t. 1825.

I see no reason whatever for regarding this splendid plant

as other than a slight variety of the original 0. tigrinum ; whose

variations, including var. unguiculatum, Lindl. (O. tonosmum,

Hort.) are very far within the limits reached by other species

of the genus. It is a native of the Irapan mountains, near

Valladolid and Paracho, and of Mechoacan, both in Mexico ;

and, according to Van Houtte (Flore des Serres) of Guatemala.

The magnificent variety here figured flowered in the splendid

collection of Lord Londesborough, in February, 1870, and

bore twenty flowers on a branched raceme, supported by a

peduncle two feet long. It is, without doubt, the finest

Oncidium hitherto discovered.

Duscr. Pseudo-bulbs crowded, two to three and a-half inches

long, younger pear-shaped, older more orbicular, muc

ganuary Ist, 1871.

compressed, with obtuse edges, green, young concealed by

large sheathing scales. Leaves a foot long by two feet and a-

half broad when fully developed, dark green, narrowly linear,

oblong, obtuse, somewhat contracted at the folded base.

Peduncle two feet long, bearing a branched, many-flowered

raceme half as long; bracts appressed; pedicels green, in-

cluding the ovary, one inch to one and a half Jong. Sowers

three inches long from the tips of the upper sepal to the base

of the lip, two inches across the tip. Sepals and petals

subequal, linear, acute, recurved or revolute, much waved,

yellow, transversely blotched with rich chesnut brown. Jip

all yellow, nearly flat, lateral lobes reduced to small

half-orbicular auricles; mid-lobe transversely oblong,

notched at the tip, subcordate at the base ; disk of lip with

two small, short, abrupt ridges at the very base, and a

longer central one produced on to the mid-lobe. Column

very short, with oblong spreading wings.—/.D.H.

Fig. 1, Column and base of lip, slightly magnified.

W. Fitch, delet lith.

Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Imp.

Tas. 5879.

PAULLINTA ruHaticrreironia.

Native of Brazil.

Nat. Ord. Saprinpace#.—Suborder, SAPINDEs.

Genus Pauuiinia, Linn. ; (Benth. and Hook. F., Gen. Plant., vol. i. p. 394).

PavLuinia thalictrifolia ; ramulis pubescenti-tomentosis, foliis pubescentibus

subbipinnatis, pinnis 3-8 jugis, foliolis subsessilibus oblique obovatis

superoribus integris v. 1-3 crenatis intermediis paucicrenatis v. lobulatis,

infimis 3-lobis v. 3-sectis, rachibus ultimis compressis, stipulis

deciduis, pedunculis axillaribus spiralibus foliis multo brevioribus

simplicibus v. ramosis multifloris, pedunculis robustis, floribus parvis

subsessilibus, calycis lobis obtusis petalis triplo brevioribus, filamentis

basi carinatis, stylo alte 3-fido, capsula a basi 3-alata, alis sursum

dilatatis apice divaricatis.

Pavuuimta thalictrifolia, A. Juss. in Ann, Mus., vol. iv. p. 347, t. 66, f. 1.

DC. Prod., vol. i. p. 605.

P. bipinnata, Poiret, Encycl., vol. iv. p. 37.

P. fluminensis, Velloz. Flor. Flum., vol. iv- t. 37.

It is seldom that a woody Tropical climber of the natu-

ral family to which the subject of the present Plate belongs,

affords a subject of much horticultural interest: and this

owes its exceptional character to the beautifully feathery

foliage, which, accompanied by its scandent habit, gives it

when in a young state the habit and appearance of a climbing

Davillia, or allied Fern. In this condition it flowers very

sparingly ; and herbarium specimens, gathered from full-

grown plants in Brazil, have a coarse woody habit and much

larger leaflets. The plant is a native of the Rio de Janeiro

province of Brazil, whence it was imported by Messrs. Veitch —

of the Royal Exotic Nurseries, King’s-road, Chelsea, with

whom it flowered in October, 1870.

Duscr. A woody climber, probably many feet high. Stem

terete, slender, and branches densely clothed with a velvety

JANUARY Ist, 187].

tomentum. Leaves four to ten inches long, deltoid-ovate

in outline, 3-ternately-pinnate, pubescent, main rachis an-

gular, partial flattened, or obscurely winged ; pinne in six

to eight pairs, narrow-ovate, upper linear ; pinnules four to

— eight pairs, one-third to two-thirds of an inch long, rather

coriaceous . terminal obovate-cuneate, usually 3 - crenate,

lateral obliquely obovate, contracted at the base or ob.

scurely petiolate, upper 2- to 3-crenate or lobulate, lower 2-

to 3-lobed, or 3-sect. Racemes short, axillary, many-

flowered, densely pubescent, simple or branched ; rachis short.

Mowers in small clusters, one-eighth of an inch in diameter,

very shortly pedicelled. Sepals small, oblong, obtuse, two-

thirds shorter than the petals, green. Petals obliquely

obovate, very pale pink, concave; inner with a large irregu-

larly shaped appendage, which is ciliate on one side. Stamens

erect; filaments connate at the base; anthers small. Ovary

3-gonous, pubescent; style 3-partite, stigmas simple.—

4D. i. :

Fig. 1, Flower; 2, the same with two petals removed; 8 and 4, inner

petals; 5, stamens and pistil , 6 pistil :—all magnified,

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ARISTOLOCHIA DvucHARTREI.

Native of the Upper Amazons.

*

Nat. Ord. AristoLocutace#.—Tribe ARISTOLOCHIER.

Genus AristoLocuta, Linn. ; (Duchartre, in DC. Prod., vol. xiv. p. 432).

AnristoLocut1a (Gymnolobus) Duchartrei ; suffruticosa, scandens, cortice

suberoso, foliis coriaceis longe petiolatis late reniformi-cordatis abrupte

acuminatis 5-7-nerviis basi leviter cordatis v. truncatis, superne glabris

glaucescentibus, subtus pallidis nervis pubescentibus, floribus numerosis

in racemos axillares breves dispositis, pedicellis curvis, perianthio majus-

culo, tubo subcylindrico basi intruso abrupte in limbum refractum

oblique campanulatum concavum attenuato, limbo expanso ambitu

ovato cordato extus pallido costato et reticulato inter nervos lacunoso,

intus flavo purpureo-maculato, maculis substellatis, ore pallido, stylo

lobis 6 ovato-lanceolatis,

<\rtstoLocnta Duchartrei; André in Le mouvement horticole de 1867, p. 61.

Revue Hortic. 1867, p. 383. Ill. Hortic. 1868, p. 97, and 1870, p. 1.

Masters, in Gard. Chron. 1868, p. 516, cum ic. xylog.

A curious and showy species of Aristolochia, discovered by

M. Wallis on the Upper Amazons, whilst collecting for Mr. —

Linden of Brussels in 1866, and named by M. André in

honour of M. Duchartre, the eminent Paris botanist, and

author of the “ Monograph of Aristolochia” in De Candolle’s

“ Prodromus.” As a species it is allied to the 4. /euconeura

(Tab. Nost. 5420), but has much handsomer flowers, which

are abundantly produced during a good part of the year.

The specimen here figured flowered in the Royal Gardens

in January, 1868, and was received from Mr. Linden. :

Descr. Stem climbing, as thick as the little finger, brown,

grooved, corky. Branches annual, slender, glaucous. Leaves

long petioled, four to five inches in diameter, coriaceous,

shining, broadly reniform-cordate, suddenly acuminate, dark-

green and glaucous above, pale below, palmately five to seven-

_ JANUARY Ist, 1871.

nerved ; nerves beneath pubescent, reticulated. Flowers from

the old wood, in short almost sessile racemes; rachis or

peduncle one to two inches long; pedicel curved, one inch

long; ovary as long, tomentose. Perianth with a cylin-

dric pale tube, half to one inch long by half to two-

thirds of an inch in diameter, which is truncated and introrse

at the base, beyond this the perianth is suddenly contracted,

refracted on itself, and expands into a broadly oblique funnel-

shaped limb, with an ovate-cordate, concave mouth, two and

a half to three inches in diameter ; basal part or tube whitish,

with pale: brown streaks ; limbs strongly ribbed and veined,

externally, pitted between the veins, pale brownish-red,

clouded with darker blotches; inner surface cream-coloured,

with large stellate or irregularly mottled purple blotches,

throat cream-coloured. Column short, with six anthers, and

as many ovate-lanceolate erect stigmatic lobes.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Column, magnified.

588.

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HAMANTHUS renvirrorvs, VAR. COCCINEUS.

A Native of Abyssinia.

Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDEA.— Tribe AMARYLLEM.

Genus Hamantaus, Linn. ; (Endl. Gen. Pl., vol. i. p. 177).

Hamantnus tenuiflorus ; bulbo ovoideo, foliis serotinis cylindraceo-

vaginantibis ellipticis in petiolam vix angustatis, vagina exteriore basi

purpureo-maculatis, inflorescentia precoci, scapo stricto viridi com-

presso, bracteis lineari-oblongis inequalibus patentibus pallidis, floribus

numerosissimis, pedicellis pollicaribus, corolle tubo} poll. longo, laciniis

anguste-linearibus 3 poll. longis erecto-patentibus filamentisque cocci-

neis, antheris aureis.

Hezmantuvs tenuiflorus; Herbert, in Bot..Mag. t. 3870. Kunth, Enum. vol. v.

p- 587.

Var. coccineus ; floribus coccineis.

a

A native of Abyssinia, where it was collected by the

Honble. R. Leslie Melville, who accompanied the Abyssinian

Expedition, in 1868, and who presented the plant to the

Royal Gardens. It appears to be specifically identical with

the H. tenuiflorus of Herbert, of which a pale-flowered variety

(var. Mozambicensis) is figured in the 67th volume of this

work, from a specimen flowered by Mr. Herbert himself, at

Spofforth. Coming as it does from Abyssinia, I was at first

disposed to refer it to the unknown JZ. abyssynicus, Herb.

(Amaryll. p. 232), but that species is described as having

many purple reflexed spathes, and very small flowers. In his

_Temarkable work on the Amaryllidacee (which abounds in

curious and very often highly philosophical discussions), Mr.

Herbert states in his remarks at the end of Hemanthus

(p. 239), that the species of his first section “flower with the

leaves in vigour, instead of before their appearance,” and he

includes in this section his H. delagoensis (Amaryll. p. 233),

4 species which he subsequently (Tab. Nost. 38 70), refers to

JANUARY Ist, 1871.

;

ae

fenuiflorus, which again he himself figures as in full flower

with the leaves not yet developed. |

Hemanthus tenuiflorus appears to have a very wide range

in latitude; we possess specimens from various localities, from

Delagoa Bay to the White Nile; it differs from the W. African

H. multiforus (Tab. Nost. 961 and 1995), in the less dense

head of flowers ; and in their appearing before the leaves.

Descr. Bulb ovoid, coated with brown scales. Leaves

three to five, autumnal, four to five inches long, elliptic, with

long tubular sheathing bases, which together form an erect

cylindric stem two to four inches high, and as thick as

the little finger, green, spotted purple at the base. Scape

vernal, erect, green, compressed, four inches long, half an inch

in diameter. Spates one inch to one and a half long,

linear-oblong, spreading, subacute, pale-green and purplish.

Flowers very numerous but not very dense, in a depressed

subspherical head; peduncles one to one and a half inch

long, pale. Ovary small, green. Perianth scarlet; tube

one-quarter of an inch long ; lobes two-thirds of an inch long,

very slender, spreading, with upturned hooded points. F/a-

ments scarlet; as long as the perianth-segment; anthers

small, yellow. Style scarlet.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower; 2, pistil; 3, transverse section of ovary :—all magnified.

5882.

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ASYSTASIA VIOLACEA.

Native of the Peninsula of India.

Nat. Ord. Acanruacea.—'Tribe ASYSTASIER,

Genus Asysrasra, Blume ; (Endl. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 701.)

Asystasta violacea; caule glaberrimo ascendente obtuse 4-gono, foliis

breviter petiolatis ovatis acutis v. acuminatis, superioribus subsessilibus

basi rotundatis, utrinque _hirtellis glabratisve, racemis terminalibus

solitariis v. geminis strictis erectis remotifloris, bracteis 3 minutis, pe-

dicellis brevissimis, calycis laciniis lineari-lanceolatis subacutis hirtellis

tubo corolla multo brevioribus, corolla violacer pollicaris extus glan-

dulose tubo medio constricto, fauce ampliato, limbi sub 2-labiati

laciniis ovatis obtusis patentibus albo-limbatis, capsula glandulosa

clavata longe unguiculata.

Asystasta violacea, Dalzell, in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot., vol. ii. p. 189 (1850).

A native of the Concan Provinces of the Western Peninsula

of India. I refer it with some hesitation to the Asystasia violacea

of Dalzell (a plant omitted in the late Dr. T. Anderson’s valu-

able monograph of Indian Acanthacee published in the Linnean

Society’s Journal, vol. ix. p. 139), the calyx appearing smaller

than in authentic dried specimens of A. violacea received from

Mr. Dalzell himself; the lower lip of the corolla being not so

prominent as he describes it, and no notice being taken in his

description of the broad white margins of the corolla-lobes. ‘,

From the common Ceylon and Peninsular Indian /. chelo-

niordes, of which it may be a form, it differs in the simple

raceme, short petioles, and subsessile flowers. 4. Coromande-

hana, Nees, a very common Indian plant, has much larger

flowers, and also long-petioled leaves. Our specimens were

raised from seeds sent by Dr. Anderson, of the Calcutta

Botanic Gardens, under the name of A. chelonioides, of which,

as before observed, it may be a form.

Duscr. Stem slender, one to two feet high, decumbent at

JANUARY 1st, 1871. 3

the base, sparingly branched, glabrous; branches obtusely

4-angled. Leaves one to three inches long, shortly petioled,

ovate, broadly-ovate, or ovate-lanceolate, acute or acumi-

nate, with an obtuse tip, deep green, minutely hairy on both

surfaces, upper usually very rounded at the base. Aacemes

solitary or two together, rarely three, from the tips of the

branches, two to four inches long, strict, erect. Flowers

secund ; pedicels very short, 3-bracteate at the base; bracts

minute, subulate. Ca/ya small, one-quarter of an inch long,

somewhat pubescent ; segments subulate-lanceolate, suberect.

Corolla three-quarters to one inch long; tube half an inch,

rather slender, inflated at the base within the calyx, whitish ;

throat as long as the tube, subcampanulate, violet-purple,

striped with white; segments five, nearly equal, ovate, obtuse,

violet-purple, with a broad white limb, the lower segments

rather larger and deeper coloured. Anthers small, included.

rer glandular ; style slender, stigma minutely bifid. —

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Fig. 1, Corolla laid open; 2, stamens; 3, calyx and pistil; 4, ovary

and disk ; 5, vertical section of do.—all magnified.

W. Fitch, del. et lith

Tas. 5883.

AMARYLLIS RAYNERI.

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Native of Brazil.

Nat. Ord, AMARYLLIDACEH.—Tribe AMARYLLIDER.

Genus Amary.uis, Linn. ; (Endl. Gen. Pl., vol. i. p. 176).

AmarYLLIs (Hippeastrum) Rayneri ; bulbo elongato-ovoideo v. lageneformi.

foliis distichis falcato-arcuatis 14-2 poll. latis ensiformibus apice at-

tenuato obtuso firmis creberrime striatis viridibus fulvo marginatis,

scapo valde compresso ancipiti viridi fistuloso 1-14-pedali diametro

pollicis, floribus 2-3, bracteis viridibus membranaceis, 3 exterioribus

lanceolatis, 3 interioribus linearibus, pedicellis 14-pollicaribus, floribus

5-6-poll longis, ovario obovoideo, perianthii foliolis oblanceolatis acutis

supra medium recurvis undulatis pallide purpureis medio albis, 3 exte-

rioribus sub apice cucullatis, staminibus declinatis incurvis, antheris

flavis, stigmate 3-lobo.

A very stately plant, remarkable for the broad and sickle-

shaped, buff-edged leaves, and large size of the pale, purple

flowers ; its bulbs were sent by Mr. Williams of Bahia, a

gentleman who has introduced many fine plants from Brazil,

to Dr. Rayner of Uxbridge, who flowered it in November,

1870, and whose merits as an ardent and successful culti-

vator, I venture to commemorate by giving his name to this

superb plant.

Of the described species of the Hippeastrum section of

Amaryllis, I find none that agree with this in most of its

characters, though in the form of the faleate leaves it re-

sembles 4. calyptrata, Ker, (Bot. Reg., vol. ii. t. 164), also a

native of Brazil, from whence indeed the majority of the

genus hitherto introduced into European gardens have been

derived.

I have followed Endlicher, and the majority of botanists,

in treating Hippeastrum as a section of Amaryllis, keeping it

sectionally distinct on account of the hollow scape: how

far this character coincides with that drawn from the seeds,

FEBRUARY Ist, 1871. _

and relied upon by Herbert and others, is not yet satisfac-

torily ascertained. Amaryllis, according to these latter

authors, should have fleshy seeds, and Hippeastrum angular

seeds, with a black seed-coat, characters which have not been

sufficiently investigated, because of the rarity of fruiting

specimens of either genus (or section) in herbaria or gardens.

Drscr. Bulb ten inches long, narrow-ovoid or flask-shaped,

covered with pale membranous scales. Leaves distichous,

sixteen to twenty inches long, remarkably sickle-shaped, all

curling in the same direction, two to two and a half inches

diameter, narrowed to an obtuse point, coriaceous, densely

striate, flat except at the concave base, deep green, with a

narrow buff margin. Scape one to one and a half feet high,

short, erect, much compressed, 2-edged, green, hollow.

Spathes about six, two to three inches long, membranous ;

outer lanceolate, convolute, subacute; inner linear, very narrow.

Flowers two to three, horizontal; pedicels one to one and a

half inch long. Ovary short, obovoid. Perianth five to six

inches long, four to five inches diameter across the tips of the

segments, funnel-shaped ; segments pale purple, with whitish

tips and median band, oblanceolate, striated externally,

acute, margins waved, upper one-third recurved, the outer

with thickened hooded tips. Filaments pale, approximate,

declinate, with arched upcurved tips ; anthers oblong, yellow.

Style slender, tip upcurved ; stigma 3-lobed.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Diminished view of the whole plant; 2, stigma :—both magnified.

Vincent Brooks, Day & Son,Imp.

AW Fitch del.etlith

Tas. 5884.

GLADIOLUS pracocepHauwts.

Native of the Natal Colony.

Nat. Ord. In1p—Ea.—Tribe GLADIOLEz.

Guapiotus (Hebea) dracocephalus ; scapo 2-3-pedali, foliis elongato-ensifor-

mibus 3-14 poll. latis acutis costa media valida, spica laxiflora, floribus

secundis, bracteis tubo perianthii longioribus anguste oblongo-lanceolatis

acuminatis viridibus, perianthio horizontali v. subdecurvo sub 2-labiato,

segmentis 8 superioribus majoribus obovato-ellipticis sordide flavis

purpureo creberrime striolatis, 2 lateralibus erectis apicibus recurvis,

postico fornicato decurvo, segmentis 3 inferioribus multo minoribus

deflexis revolutis oblongo-obovatis obtusis viridibus punctis purpureis

conspersis, stigmatibus brevibus linearibus.

At Tab. 5873 was figured a new species of Gladiolus,

communicated by Mr. Wilson Sanders, remarkable for the

vivid colouring of its flowers; and we have now from the

same gentleman, another, and also a new species, no less re-

markable for the contrast it affords in the lurid hues of its

flowers, which are wholly unlike those of any of its congeners

known to me. :

It was discovered at the foot of the Drachenberg Mountains,

in the West of the Natal Colony, by Mr. Cooper, Mr. Wilson

Saunders’ successful 8S. African collector, and was flowered in

the Hillfield Gardens, Reigate, in August of last year. Mr.

J. G. Baker, who fortunately for science and horticulture

has taken up the study of the long neglected petaloid mono-

cotyledons, informs me that it is certainly not described in

Klat’s monograph of Gladiolus (Linnea, v. 3), but belongs to

that author's section Hesea, and further remarks, that with

the very broad leaves of G. Papilio (Tab. Nost. 5565), it has

the perianth of G. viperatus (Tab. Nost. 688), which also

belongs to the two-lipped division, but differs widely in habit

and the form of the perianth-segments. The publication of

FEBRUARY lst, 1871.

two new Gladioli, within so short a period, and from localities

inhabited by Europeans, shows how much there is still to be

done in the way of introducing new plants from well-known

and very accessible quarters of the globe.

Descr. Roots not seen. Leaves numerous, six to twelve

inches long, by one to one and a half broad, pale green,

ensiform, acute, uni-costate. Scape or stem sixteen to

eighteen inches high, stout, terete. Spike erect, 5- to 7-

flowered ; flowers secund. Bracts large, two to three inches

long, lanceolate, convolute, acuminate, erect, green, much

exceeding the perianth-tube, half of which they enclose.

Perianth about two inches long, and as broad across the tips

of the segments, 2-lipped, three upper segments yellowish,

closely striated with dull red purple, elliptic-obovate, shortly

clawed, two outer wing-like, spreading, with acute recurved

tips ; posterior one arched and hooded, projecting horizontally

between the lateral; two lower segments much smaller, de-

flexed, recurved or revolute, linear-oblong, bright green,

spotted with purple. Stigmas three, linear, revolute.—

1). H,

Fig. 1, Tip of filament and anther; 2, tip of style and stigma :—both -

magnified.

5885

W. Fitch, del. et lith. Vincent Brooks, Day &Sonlmp:

Tas. 5885. :

CIRSIUM Granamt.

Native of New Mexico.

Nat. Ord. Composira.—Suborder CyNAROCEPHALE.

Genus Cirsium, Tourn. ; (Endl. Gen. Pl., vol. i. p. 477).

Cirsium Grahami ; caule 3-5-pedali apice parce ramoso, ramis monocephalis,

foliis subtus cano-lanuginosis supra leviter arachnoideis mox nudis lan-

ceolatis sinuatis v. subpinnatifidis spinuloso-ciliatis lobis dentibusve

breviter spinosis, caulinis semi-amplexicaulibus hand decurrentibus,

involucro ovoideo-globoso basi nudo v. bracteolis paucis parvis instructo,

Squamis coriaceis appressis glabratis lanceolatis spinula brevi terminatis,

corollis intense incarnatis. :

Cirsium Grahami, A. Gray in Plant. Wright, Nov. Mecz., p- 102.

The brilliant colouring of the flower-head of this thistle,

together with its snow-white stems branches and under-

face of the leaves, render it a very striking border plant in

the garden. The seeds were sent to the Royal Gardens,

Kew, from New Mexico, by Dr. Walker (late surgeon and

naturalist of the Arctic Searching Expedition, under Captain

Sir F. L. McClintock, R.N., which found the Franklin

remains), and who is now travelling in N.W. America. It

was discovered by the indefatigable botanical collector, Mr.

Charles Wright, in 1851, when accompanying Col. Graham

on the U.S. Boundary Commission, in low grounds of valleys

between the Soniota and San Pedro, Sonora.

As a species it comes very near to C. undulatum, Spreng.,

(C. Douglasii, DC.), and C. Hookerianum, Nutt., both natives

of N.W. America, if indeed all these be not forms of one

wide-spread and not very variable plant: it differs mainly in

the more glabrous involucre, with much shorter, less recurved

Spinulose tips to the bracts.

FEBRUARY lst, 1871.

Dzscr. A rather slender, sparingly branched herb, pro-

bably biennial. » Stem three to five feet high, erect or decum-

bent at the base, angular, densely clothed with white cottony

wool, as are the underside of the leaves and the peduncles

of the flower-heads. eaves lanceolate, six to fifteen inches

long, acute, sinuate lobed or pinnatifid, lobes or segments

very unequal, and unequally pungently toothed, upper sur-

face at first cobwebby, at length glabrate, rather dull green ;

upper leaves sessile, oblong or lanceolate, less toothed and

lobed. Heads few, terminating the branches, about two

inches long, on stout, erect, or inclined peduncles. Jnvolucre

broadly ovoid, three-quarters of an inch to one inch diameter,

naked at the base, or with afew small, leaf-like bracts ; scales

ovate, acuminate, with short, suberect, pungent tips, densely

imbricate, coriaceous, green, with a white streak down the

back. Florets much exceeding the involucre, very numerous,

vivid blood-red, outer spreading and incurved. Segments of

the corolla very narrow-linear, suberect. Style blood-red,

much exserted, slender; tip narrow, 2-fid. Achene small,

almost glabrous. Paypus hairs numerous, very unequal, and

rather rigid, shining, sparingly feathery.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Floret removed from the involucre; 2, base of the pappus :—

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POGOGYNE Doveu.asn.

Native of California.

Nat. Ord. Lasiata.—Tribe MELISSINA.

Genus Posoerne, Benth. ; (DC. Prod., vol. xii. p. 248).

Pogoerne Douglasii ; annua, caule erecto glabro v. puberulo superne sub-

fastigiatim ramoso, foliis petiolatis oblongis obovatis v. spathulato-

obovatis obtusis integerrimis v. inequaliter sinuato-dentatis utrinque

viridibus, floralibus consimilibus, spicis oblongis, bracteis linearibus

acutis flores equantibus v. longe superantibus pilis albis rigidis longe

ciliatis, staminibus corolla brevioribus, dentibus calycinis inferioribus

tubo longioribus, corolla purpurea albo-maculata.

PoaoeyneE Douglasii, Benth. Lab. p. 414, et in DC. Prod., vol. xii. p. 243,

The genus Pogogyne was established by Bentham for three

Northern Californian plants (apparently varieties of one),

allied to Calamint, and discovered by the late David Douglas.

All are very aromatic, and more recommendable for this

quality than for their beauty; for except in the sparkling

colour of their dark-violet corollas spotted with white, they

have little to recommend them to the horticulturist.

The specimen here figured was raised in the Royal Gardens,

from seeds sent by our excellent correspondent Mr. Bolander,

of the State Survey of California, a very active botanist and

collector, to whom the Royal Gardens are indebted for many

interesting plants: it isan annual, and quite hardy. ©

Dzscr. A slender, strict, upright, aromatic annual, simple or

fastigiately branched above, six to eighteen inches high. Stems _

tetra-gonous, nearly glabrous, shining. Leaves three-quar-

ters to one and a half inches long, including the slender petiole,

into which they are gradually narrowed, oblong or narrow-obo-

vate or spathulate, obtuse, entire or unequally sinuate-toothed,

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glabrous or the upper ciliate towards the base ; floral similar,

but more ciliate. Spike one to three inches long, stout,

cylindric, dense-flowered. Bracts linear, acute, shorter or

longer than the flowers, ciliate with long rigid white bristles ;

bracteoles linear-lanceolate. Flowers half an inchlong. Calyx

cleft to the middle or below it into five subulate ciliate

teeth, of which the two lower are much the longest, and as

long as, or much exceeding the tube. Corol/a-tube twice as long

as the calyx, pale; limb deep purple; upper lip short, sub-

erect, arched, obtuse ; lower lip broad, 3-lobed, spotted with

white ; lobes obtuse. Authers purple. Stigmas subulate.—

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CYRTAN THERA cHRYSOSTEPHANA.

Native of Mezico.

Nat. Ord. AcANTHACEZ.—Tribe APHELANDREZ.

Genus Cyrrrantuera, WV. ab E.—(DO. Prod., vol. xi. p 328).

CYRTANTHERA chrysostephana ; caule obtuse tetragono, foliis petiolatis ovatis

v. ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis basi acutis, supra puberulis subtus

glaberrimis, costa superne nervisque subtus rubris, inflorescentia e

cymis paucis terminalibus breviter pedunculatis multifloris in corym-

bum brevem coroniformem subverticillatis, floribus 2-pollicaribus

breviter pedicellatis aureis, bracteis calyce brevioribus lanceolatis

acuminatis, bracteolis linearibus ciliatis, calycis infra medium 5-fidi

laciniis subulatis laxe ciliatis, corolla glaberrima leviter incurva tubo

angusto angulato, labio superiore oblongo lanceolato concavo subacuto,

inferiore deflexo obtuse 3-lobo, stigmate minuto.

A new and very distinct species of the ae American

genus Cyrtanthera, less showy indeed than catalpafolia,

Nees (Tab. Nost. 4444), or C. aurantiaca, Nees (Tab. Nost.

4468), but of a more elegant habit than either of these, and

conspicuous for the vivid red colour of the midrib and nerves

of the leaf beneath. The flowers, instead of being disposed

in a dense thyrsus, or in axillary cymes, as in most species

of the genus, are collected into a crown-like corymb at the

tips of the branches, and are of a bright golden yellow.

C. chrysostephana is a native of Mexico, from whence it was

imported by Mr. Bull of Chelsea, and it flowered in his stoves

in December of last year.

This species is allied to the Mexican C. aurea, Nees, but

differs in the leaves not being decurrent on the petiole, in the

inflorescence, and in the short bracts.

Descr. Stem herbaceous, green, obtusely 4-gonous, glabrous

or minutely puberulous on the upper part. Leaves five to

six inches long, on petioles half an inch to one inch long,

FEBRUARY Ist, 1871.

ovate, or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate,* acute at the base,

upper surface covered with minute hairs, dark green, with a

_ red midrib, under surface glabrous, pale-green, with red mid-

rib and veins. Flowers erect, golden-yellow, two inches long,

crowded in short, terminal, very shortly peduncled cymes, so

that the inflorescence resembles a golden crown. Pedicels

very short. Bracts dark-green, linear-lanceolate, rather

broader at the base, acuminate, shorter than the calyx, spar-

ingly ciliate ; bracteoles narrow, obtuse or acute. Ca/ya dark-

green, one third of an inch long, cleft to below the middle

into five subulate, sparingly ciliate segments. Corolla narrow,

perfectly glabrous, slightly incurved, of nearly equal diameter

and uniform colour throughout ; tube angular ; limb 2-lipped;

upper lip narrow, oblong-lanceolate, laterally compressed,

vaulted, subacute; lower lip reflexed, oblong, obtusely

3-lobed. _Anther-cells nearly straight, glabrous. Stigma

minute.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Calyx, bracteoles, and style; 2, ovary and disk :—both magnified.

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BELOPERONE ciara;

Native of Peru and New Grenada.

Nat. Ord. ACANTHACEH.—Tribe APHELANDREZ.

Genus Be.oprrone, Nees; (DC. Prod., vol. xi. p. 413).

BeELoperone ciliata ; herbacea, annua, caule obscure 4-gono puberulo, nodis

tumidis, foliis petiolatis ovato-lanceolatis acutis glabris raphidibus

farctis, floribus, in fasciculos axillares et terminales sessiles v. breviter

pedunculatos aggregatis violaceis, bracteis aciculari-subulatis ciliatis

calycem superantibus, calycis 5-partiti segmentis lanceolato-subulatis

ciliatis corolle tubo cylindrico ? poll. longo dimidio brevioribus,

corolle labio superiore parvo breviter oblongo recurvo 2-lobo, inferiore

dilatato late 3-lobo, lobis ovato-rotundatis obtusis, palate albo, anthere

loculis breviter linearibus ecalcaratis basi divergentibus, connectivo

latiusculo, stigmate minute 2-lobo.

JACOBINIA ciliata; Seem. Bot. Voy. Herald, p. 178; Masters in Gard.

Chron., 1870, p. 1567 ; and Nees in DC. Prod., vol. xi, p. 331?

A very pretty winter-flowering stove-plant, the nomencla-

ture of which is involved in doubt. It was examined by Dr.

Martius in November last, and proved identical with a plant in

the Hookerian Herbarium, collected by Dr. Seemann in Panama,

and referred by him to Jacobinia ciliata, Nees, and was hence

published under that name in the Gardener's Chronicle. I am

unfortunately unable to ascertain whether Seemann’s Panama

plant is really Nees’ /. ciliata, which comes from a widely

different country, St. Jago de Chili; the original specimen

of Tweedie, upon which Nees founded the species, having

been misluid since the comparison of the specimens in

November. All I can say is, that this, which certainly is

identical with the Panama plant, differs altogether both from

Nees’ generic character of /Jucobinia and from his specific

one of J. ciliata; and it is further to be observed, that when

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Nees studied the Acanthacee of the Hookerian Herbarium, he

had under his eye indifferent specimens of this plant, col- —

lected in Peru by Matthews, which he surely would have

referred to his Jacobinia ciliata had he thought it the same.

I am indebted to Prof. Oliver for pointing out the close

affinity of this plant with the Beloperone violacea, Planch.

(Tab. Nost. 5244); <Adhatoda Carthaginensis, Nees, in DC.

Prod., v. ii. p. 403; and to Messrs. Veitch for the specimen

here figured, which was raised from Venezuelan seeds. It is

also a native of Panama and Peru.

Duscr. Stem slender, branched, herbaceous, one to two

feet high, geniculated at the base; branches obscurely

4-gonous, upper puberulous; nodes tumid. Leaves shortly

petioled, two to three inches long, ovate or ovate-lanceo-

late, acute, membranous, green, glabrous, but so full of

raphides, as, when dried, to appear to be covered with

appressed hairs. Sowers axillary and _ terminal, sessile

in shortly peduncled fascicles. Bracts and bracteoles narrow,

subulate, rigid, erect, exceeding the calyx, ciliate. Calyx

5-partite, segments rigid, erect, subulate-lanceolate, ciliate,

about half the length of the corolla tube. Corolla

violet, with a white palate; tube three-quarters of an inch

long, cylindric; upper lip very small, concave, recurved,

2-lobed ; lower lip one to one and a quarter inch diameter,

broader than long, deeply 3-lobed, lobes orbicular-ovate,

obtuse, flat. Stamens not exserted, filaments short; anther-

cells linear-oblong, diverging below, not spurred, connective

rather broad. Disk annular. Overy glabrous ; stigma minute,

2-lobed. Capsule compressed; upper half ovoid, acute,

lower much contracted.— J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Bracts, bud, and style; 2, calyx and style; 3, stamens; 4, disk

and ovary; 9, vertical section of ditto :—all magnified.

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SAXIFRAGA (arzoonIA) LONGIFOLTA.

Native of the Pyrenees.

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Nat. Ord. SaxtrraGacea.— Tribe SAXIFRAGER.

Genus Saxirraaa, Linn. ; (Benth. and Hook. J. Gen, Pl., vol. ii. p. 635).

SaxirraGa (Aizoonia) longifolia ; scapo foliis junioribus et inflorescentia

glanduloso-pubescentibus, foliis 1-3 pollicaribus densissime rosulatis

patentibus rectiusculis anguste lineari-oblongis spathulatisve obtusi-

usculis cartilagineo-marginatis, scapo valido recto & basi florifero,

inflorescentia confertiflora pyramidato-cylindrica, ramis perplurimis

patulis basi bractea foliacea instructis, pedicellis basi bracteolatis, calycis

lobis ovato-rotundatis tubum hemisphericum subequantibus, petalis

orbiculatis patentibus albis brunneo-punctatis, seminibus ovato-triquetris

tenuissime rugulosis.

SaxirraGa longifolia, La Peyr. Flor. Pyr., p. 26, t. xi.; Sternberg Revis,

Saz., p. 1, t. i.; DC. Prod., vol. iv. p. 19.

SaxirraGa lingulata, var. a; Don in Trans. Linn. Soc., vol. xiii. p. 391.

Cuonprosea longifolia, Haw. Enum. Saxtf., p. 11.

A very striking species, commonly cultivated on the Con-

tinent, but very rarely in England, where, however, it

succeeds admirably in the open air, or in a partially shaded

rock-work, forming brilliant green rosettes of leaves, four to

six inches in diameter, and sending up in midsummer a truly

glorious pyramidal nodding thyrsus, a foot high, of white

flowers, that lasts for several weeks. It is a native of the

higher valleys of the Pyrenees, at the Baths of Luchon, and

elsewhere, at elevations of 2000 to 7000 feet above the sea.

The specimens figured flowered in the Royal Gardens in

July last.

Dxscr. Plant forming convex bright-green rosettes, three

to seven inches in diameter ; young leaves, scape, and inflo-

rescence covered with a viscid glandular pubescence. Leaves

MARCH Ist, 1871,

most densely rosulate, spreading, the outer rather recurved,

one to three inches long,one-quarter to one-third of an inch

broad, narrow linear-spathulate, very coriaceous, obtuse, with

white cartilaginous margins, which are obscurely crenulate,

especially when dry. Scape one to one and a half feet high,

stout, loaded throughout with flowers, the inflorescence

forming an obtusely conical, subcylindric, nodding mass, five

to seven inches in diameter; primary branches horizontal,

two to four inches long, floriferous towards their tips; bracts

at their bases foliaceous, one-half to one inch long, linear,

obtuse, glandular, not margined. Pedicels very variable in

length, with small. bracteoles at the base. Mowers three-

quarters of an inch in diameter. Calyx-/obes rounded-ovate,

about as long as the hemispheric tube. Pefa/s orbicular,

white, with a few minute red-brown dots on the disk.

Filaments subulate; anthers small, yellow. Styles rather

short, recurved.—/J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Reduced view of whole plant: 2, leaf; 3, young leaf; 4, top of

thyrsus, all of the natural size: 5, flower without the petals ; and 6, a petal:

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XIPHION JUNCEUM.

Native of Algiers.

Nat. Ord. Ir1tpacem.—Tribe IrRipEx.

Gen. Char.—Perianthium corollinum, regulare, tubo supra ovarium breve

v. elongatum, limbi segmentis exterioribus obovato-spathulatis v. cuneatis

imberbibus, interioribus oblanceolatis v. linearibus sepe multo minoribus

erectis v. patulis. Stamina 3, ad basin limbi segmentorum exteriorum in-

serta, perianthio breviora, filamentis filiformibus; anther lineares. Ovarium

obtuse 3-gonum, 3-loculare; stylus perianthii tubo adnatus, stigmatibus

3 petaloideis; crista 2-loba, lobis lanceolatis dentatis, Capsula coriacea,

apice loculicide 3-valvis, loculis polyspermis. Semina subglobosa. Herbe

regionis Mediterranex, Abyssinie, et Orientis incole ; radice bulboso. Folia

pum graminea. Flores pauci, speciost, solitarii v. pauct, cwruleo-violacei v.

avi.

XIPHION junceum ; bulbo ovoideo membranaceo-tunicato, caule ¢-1} pedali

1-2-floro, foliis caulinis 4-6 angustissime lineari-ensiformibus +45 unc.

latis erectis inferne convolutis sursum filiformibus, spathe valvis 2-3-

pollicaribus leviter ventricosis lanceolatis acutis tubum perianthii

equantibus v. superantibus, perianthii aurei 3-poll. diametro breviter

pedunculati tubo gracili pollicari, segmentis exterioribus longe ungui-

culatis late obovatis retusis, interioribus brevioribus erectis oblongo-

spathulatis stigmatibus xquilongis et paulo angustioribus, stigmatis

lobis late semi-ovatis recurvis acutis.

XiPHION junceum, Klatt in Linnea, vol. xxiv. p. 570. Baker in Seem. Journ,

Bot. 1871, p. 41. Parlatore Flor, [tal., vol. iii. p. 304.

Ints imberbis, Poiret, Voy. Barb., vol. ii. p. 85.

Irs juncea, Desf. Flor. Atlant., vol. i. p. 39, t. 4. Boiss. Voy. in Esp.,

vol. ii, p. 703. Munby, Fl. Alger., p. 6.

Iris mauritanica, Clusius Cur. post., 24.

Diapuane stylosa, Salish. in Hort. Trans., vol. i. p. 305.

A native of dry hills near the town of Algiers, where it is

a great ornament, and from whence bulbs were sent to the

Royal Gardens by Madame Bodichon, which flowered in the

MARCH Ist, i871.

open air in July, 1869. It is alsoa native of Tangiers in’

Morocco, of Genoa and Sicily. ;

I have followed Mr. Baker, who has published a careful

monograph of this genus, in separating Xiphion from Iris,

chiefly on the ground of its totally different habit of growth ;

the true species of Jris having creeping root-stocks, those of

Xiphion coated bulbs.

Descr. Bulb ovoid, one and a half to two inches long,

covered with dark brown membranous coats that are pro-

duced into a torn tube surrounding the base of the stem.

Stem erect, slender, rigid, flexuous, two-thirds to one and a

half feet high. Leaves 5-6 on the stem, convolute at the

base, terminating in a very slender rigid flat limb not one-

twelfth inch broad. Flowers solitary or two together, three

inches in diameter, golden yellow, with brownish veins. Spathes

two, ventricose, as long as or exceeding the perianth-tube,

lanceolate, acute. Pedicel short, lengthening in front. Peri-

anth-tube slender, one and a half inch long ; outer segments

with an obovate retuse limb as long as the cuneate claw ;

inner segments erect, spathulate-lanceolate, rather shorter

_ than the outer. Stigmatic lobes broadly half-ovate, acute,

as broad as the inner perianth segments.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Ovary, and perianth tube; 2, stigmas:—both magnified.

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MASSONITA (ASTEMMA) ODORATA.

Native of South Africa,

Nat. Ord. Lit1aca.—Tribe HyactntHeEx.

Genus Massonia, Linn. ; (Kunth. En. Plant., vol. iv. p. 29).

Massonia (Astemma) odorata; bulbo ovoideo pallido, caule brevi 2-foliato,

foliis 3-5 pollicaribus erectis anguste lanceolatis concavis obtusiusculis,

scapo brevi, corymbo subcapitato, floribus 2-6 brevissime pedicellatis

2-3 poll. longis albis odoris, bracteis obsoletis, perianthii tubo cylin-

drico fauce paulo ampliato, limbi lobis subequalibus revolutis, corona

0, staminibus fauci insertis 2-seriatis, filamentis brevibus, antheris

parvis purpureis, ovario angusto, stylo filiformi recto glaberrimo,

stigmate punctiformi, ovulis numerosis adscendentibus.

A deliciously sweet-scented little Cape bulb, sent in 1866

to the Royal Gardens, by D. Arnot, Esq., a valued corre-

spondent, who resides in the remote district of Colesberg, under

the 32nd parallel of N. latitude, bordering the Griqua terri-

tory and Orange Free States, whence he has transmitted many

rare and curious plants to Kew. It flowered in a cool house

in October of last year.

The affinity of Massonia with Hyacinthus was pointed out

so long ago as in 1802, by Gawler, in this magazine (under

M. ensifolia, t. 554); and again in 1843, by Kunth, who

observes that these genera differ in the insertion of the

stamens, which in MJassonia are higher up in the perianth-

tube ; to this may be added the numerous ovules of Massonia,

the usually longer stamens, and the filaments being in

almost all the species, though not in this, dilated at the base,

or connected intoa cup. Taking habit into consideration with

other characters, it is possible that MWassonia may ultimately

MARCH lst, 1871.

be broken up into two genera, corresponding to Endlicher’s

sectional divisions of Massonia proper and Astemma.

Descr. Bulb ovoid, three-quarters to one and a quarter

inch long, covered with smooth pale scales; root fibres few,

very slender. Sem half to one and a half inches high, formed

of the short scape and leaf-sheaths. Leaves two, three to five

inches long, suberect, very narrow lanceolate, one-third to

two-thirds of an inch in diameter, rather obtuse, concave,

deep green, somewhat thick. FVowers six to ten, in a sub-

corymbose head at the base of the leaves, white, very much

scented. Bracts very small or obsolete. Perianth very

shortly pedicelled ; tube two-thirds of an inch long, cylindric,

slightly dilated at the tip; limb with six subequal, revolute,

obtuse’ segments, which are much shorter than the tube.

Stamens inserted on the bases of the perianth-segments, fila-

ment short, subulate, not dilated nor connected at the base,

the alternate longer ; anthers small, purple. Ovary narrow,

style erect, very slender, glabrous, stigma simple; ovules

many in each ceil, ascending.-—/. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower; 2, the same, with the perianth cut open; transverse

section of ovary :—all magnified.

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TILLANDSIA (PITYROPHYLLUM) IONANTHA.

Native of Brazil.

Nat. Ord, Brometiacea#.—Tribe TILLANDSIER,

Genus Tittanpsia, Linn. ; (Endl. Gen. Plant, p. 183).

TiLLanpsia (Pityrophyllum) ionantha; cespitosa, subacaulis, surculosa,

sparse albo-furfuracea, foliis 24-pollicaribus subulato-lanceolatis erecto-

recurvis coriaceis antice infra apicem pungente acuminatis canalicu-

latis margine ciliolatis, summis bracteiformibus erectis roseo-kermesinis

flores subequantibus, floribus paucis sessilibus immersis, bracteis lan-

ceolatis, sepalis lineari-lanceolata subequantibus, petalis 14-pollicaribus,

pallide violaceis ungue elongata lineari, lamina ovato-spathulata obtusa,

filamentis filiformibus, antheris parvis exsertis oblongis, stylo exserto,

stigmatibus 3 parvis cuneatis truncatis.

TILLanpsIA ionantha, Planch. in Flore de Serres, t. 1006.

TILLANDsIA erubescens, Hort. Herrenhausen.

PiryropHyLium erubescens, Beer, die Fam. der Bromel., p. 79.

I refer this charming little plant, with some hesitation, to

Planchon’s Zillandsia ionantha, which I know only from the —

plate cited above, and the illustrious French botanist’s deserip-

tion, which he is careful to say is drawn up from the figure

prepared for the “ Flore de Serres ;” he not having had access

to the specimens. The Belgian plate in question represents

a larger plant than that here figured ; five inches high, with

rather more obtuse points to the leaves, deeper coloured

violet flowers, and less exserted and smaller anthers ; in all

other respects the plants seem identical. Should they prove

distinct however, I would suggest the name of 7 Scopus tor

this, in allusion to its brush-like habit.

The plate here given was executed from a specimen

MARCH Ist, 1871,

flowered by W. Wilson Saunders, F.R.S., at Reigate, which

was procured by him from Mr. Marshall of Enfield; that

figured in the “ Flore de Serres” was in Mr. Van Houtte’s

collection at Ghent, and supposed to have come from

Brazil. ;

Descr. A small tufted epiphyte, three to four inches high,

forming squarrose masses, dull green, sparingly covered with

silvery scurfy scales. Leaves numerous, closely imbricate, two

to two and a half inches long, recurved, subulate-lanceolate,

very coriaceous, concave above, with a terete, sub-pungent tip,

margins ciliate, dark green, paler towards the base : upper

leaves more erect, of a bright rose colour, rather exceedin

the inflorescence, at length wholly green. Flowers sessile,

crowded at the tips of the branches. Bracts lanceolate,

acuminate, keeled, equalling the sepals, which are subulate.

lanceolate, and half as long as the claw of the petals. Petals

pale violet, convolute by their linear broad claws, into a

slender tube, limb short, spathulate, concave, suberect,

obtuse. Stamens exserted, filaments very slender; anthers

small, yellow. Ovary oblong, 3-gonous ; style very slender,

stigmas three, small, cuneate, truncate.—/J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Leaf; 2, flower; 3, petal and stamen ; 4, pistil :—all magnified.

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AGAVE IxtrLiorpes.

Native of Mexico?

Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDE&.—Tribe AGAVE.

Genus Acave, Linn.; (Endl. Gen. Plant., p. 181).

AGAVE irtlioides ; acaulis, foliis ad 30 14-2 ped. longis medio 24-3} poll.

basi } poll. latis lineari-lanceolatis in apicem pungentem brunpeam

sensim attenuatis immarginatis, infra medium planis supra medium

concavis, junioribus intense glaucis, spinis parvis 4-4 poll. distantibus

falcatis adscendentibus brunneis, scapo 8-10-pedali, bracteis laxis

erectis, panicule ramis 8-10 patentibus, floribus laxe corymbosis, peri-

anthii tubo 1 poll. longo viridi segmentis lineari-oblongis obtusis flavo-

viridibus subequi longis, filamentis robustis, antheris magnis linearibus

stramineis, stylo robusto staminibus multo breviore, stigmate subdila-

tato obtuso.

AGAVE ixtlioides, Ch, Lemaire in Hamburg Garten und Blumenzeit. vol. xxii.

p- 214 (1866). :

Agave fourcroydes; Lemaire, I’Illust. Hortic. vol. xi. p. 65 (1864) non

Jacobi.

Of all cultivated plants none are more difficult to name

accurately than the species of Agave, partly because of the

imperfection of the published descriptions, and more from the

impossibility of fixing their characters by words. The species

before us is one that has long been in cultivation at Kew, but

never flowered till January of the present year, when it threw

up a scape twelve feet high. It agrees with the meagre

character of the foliage (all that is described) of 4. ixtlovdes,

itself a species of confused synonymy, and hardly distinguished

by words from 4. fourcroydes Jacobi; as which, according to

Major-General Jacobi, it was first described by Lemaire. In

other words, according to Jacobi, who is the great authority

on this genus, this plant was first described by Lemaire as

A. fourcroydes (LI). Hortic., xi. 65), a name for which Jacobi

MARCH Ist, 1871.

subsequently substituted that of cat/ioides (Hamburg Gar-

tenflor., xxii. 214), with the sanction of Lemaire, under whose

authority it stands, stating at the same time as his reason

for this, that it differs from his fowrcroydes. The true four-

croydes of Jacobi is described by himself (Hamburg Garten-

flor., xxi. 167) ; and to it is referred as a synonym Z. iatly, C.

Koch, not 4. ivtly of Haworth; and in Jacobi’s general enu-

meration of Agaves (Regel Gartenflor., xvii. 8348) 4. ixtlioides

and fourcroydes stand next one another in one section, whilst

A. ivtly is placed in another; but judging from the descrip-

tions all three may well belong to one species.

Dxscr. Stem very short; constricted above the root.

Leaves thirty to forty, forming a spreading rosette one to

two feet across, dull green, very glaucous when young,

eighteen to twenty inches long, two and a half to three and

a half inches broad in the middle, thence narrowed upwards

to a hard brown point, and downwards to a contracted base

one and a half inches in diameter ; upper surface of the upper

half concave, of the lower half’ flat ; spines small, brown,

curved upwards. Scape ten to twelve feet high, slender,

strict, sparingly covered with great bracts. Panicle two feet

long, with about ten spreading branches a span long, each

bearing towards its extremity a corymb of pale yellow-green

sessile flowers; bracts at the base of the branch broadly

ovate, acute, brown, one inch long; bracteoles much smaller

and broader. lowers two inches long. Perianth-tube

cylindric-oblong, green, rather shorter than the oblong yel-

lowish green perianth limb ; segments linear-oblong, obtuse,

very thick. i/aments very stout, pale, twice as long as the

perianth segments; anthers one inch long, yellow. Style

short, clubbed at the rounded stigmatic end.—/. D. H.

Fig 1, Plant; 2, leaf, reduced; 3, portion of leaf; 4, portion of panicle:

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COSTUS MALORTIEANUS. 7

Native of Costa Rica,

Nat. Ord. ScrraAMINEz.—Tribe CostEa,

‘Genus Costus, Linn. ; (Endl. Gen. Plant., p. 225).

Costus Malortieanus ; tota hirsuta, caule robusto, foliis apicem versus caulis

subconfertis amplis late obovatis breviter petiolatis coriaceis supra atro-

viridi zonatis, subtus glaucescentibus, vaginis brevibus longe ciliatis,

spica brevi ovoideo-globosa, bracteis ad 15 latissime ovatis latioribus

quam longis obtusis arcte appressis subcarinatis viridibus, floribus

magnis, perianthio exteriore brevi campanulato breviter inaqualiter

obtuse 8-lobo, interioris tubo flavo pubescente, laciniis 3 exterioribus

oblongis obtusis flavis concoloribus, labelli laciniis aureis rubro fasciatis,

3 anticis oblongo-cuneatis recurvis postico dilatato breviusculo 3-lobo

lobis rotundatis crenato-dentatis, filamento magno lineari-oblongo medio

dilatato apice obtuso recurvo, antheris parvis, stigmate parvo.

Costus Malortieanus, Wendland in Hamburg Garten-und Blumenzeit.

Vol. xix. p. 80 (1863).

Costus elegans, Hort.

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if

This was regarded by its discoverer, Wendland, as the

finest of the many remarkable plants he obtained during his

travels in Northern Costa Rica, in 1857; it was introduced

by him into the Royal Gardens of Herrenhausen, in

Hanover, whence a plant was sent to Kew, where it flowered

in September, 1862. It is allied to C. spicatus, Roscoe, and

C. pictus, Don (Bot. Reg. t. 1594) ; and still more to an un- — 4

named Panama species collected by Fendler (n. 447), but

differs abundantly from them all. :

The genus Costus is a very large and little known one, it

abounds in the humid districts of tropical America and

Africa, but is rarer in Asia, where however the C. spe-

ciosus is a great ornament of the low forests of Bengal.

It contains many species well worthy of cultivation.

Dezscr. Whole plant, except the flowers, hirsute, with soft

-APRIL Ist, 1871.

hairs. Stem one to three feet high, robust, terete, as thick

as the finger, clothed above with foliage. Leaves very

large, handsome, spreading, eight to twelve inches long, five

to nine inches broad, obovate, acute, narrowed into a short

petiole, deep green above, with darker bands between the’

ribs, glaucous below; sheaths short, green, with long cilia

at the appressed mouth. Spike subsessile, two to three

inches long, broadly ovoid, obscurely 5-angled, bright green.

racts about fifteen, one inch long, closely imbricate and

appressed, broader than long, subacute, keeled towards the

tip. lowers two and a half inches long, one and a half

inches across the lip, golden-yellow, with close-set, orange-

red, broken bands following the courses of the nerves on

the expanded lobes of the lip. Ovary short, broadly obovoid,

white. Outer perianth a small campanulate red cup, with’

three unequal rounded lobes. Juner perianth with a short,

yellow, hairy tube, and three narrow oblong, obtuse, erect, con-

cave leaflets surrounding the lip. ip convolute, with three.

small, recurved, subspathulate lobes in front, and one large,

3-lobed, recurved, dorsal lobe. Filament erect, broadly linear-

oblong, concave, dilated in the middle, obscurely 3-lobed at

the recurved tip, fleshy ; anther very small, oblong. Stigma

transversely-oblong, ciliate.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower with three of the perianth segments removed; 2, ovary,

outer perianth, filament, anther, style, and stigma :—both magnified.

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GILIA LINIFLORA.

Native of California.

Nat. Ord. PoLEMONIACER.

Genus Gina, Ruiz and Pavon ; (A. Gray in Proc. Amer, Acad.,

June, 1870, p. 261).

Gita (Dactylophyllum) /iniflora; annua, gracilis, erecta, divaricatim ra-

mosa, parce pilosa, foliis sessilibus 3-7-palmatisectis caulinis oppositis,

segmentis anguste linearibus v. acicularibus, floribus sparsis v. sub-

cymosis, pedicellis filiformibus, calyce campanulato dentibus triangulari-

subulatis tubo brevioribus v. equilongis, corolla alba fere rotata lobis

obovatis calycem tersuperantibus, filamentis summo tubo insertis

gracilibus basi pubescentibus.

Gix1a liniflora, Benth. in Bot. Reg., sub. t. 1622; et in DC. Prod., vol. ix.

p- 315. <A. Gray l. ¢., p. 263.

One of the many interesting discoveries of the late David

Douglas, in 1826; introduced into cultivation by Mr. W.

Thompson, of Ipswich, who sent flowering specimens to Kew,

in July, 1869, from which the accompanying figure was

made. It isa perfectly hardy annual, and very free flowerer,

in habit resembling a white-tlowered flax, with the leaves of a

Spergula.

The genus Gilia, as recently reformed by Asa Gray in the

Proceedings of the American Academy of Science, contains

sixty-five temperate N. American species, and there are be-

sides a few in subtropical S. America ; one of these, the Chilian

G. pusilla, being very closely allied to, if not identical with

the N. American G. pharnaceoides, which Gray has reduced

to a variety of Jinifora. As thus reconstructed Glia includes

Leptosiphon, of which a species was figured last year in this

Magazine (Tab. 5863), and various other genera, most of

which had indeed been previously brought under Gilia by

APRIL Ist, 1871.

Bentham, when monographing the Polemoniacee for De Can-

dolle’s. Prodromus, in 1845.

Descr. A slender annual, six to eighteen inches, tall, glabrous,

or slightly pilose, excessively branched upwards, the branches

divaricating. Leaves opposite, except in the flowering

branches, sessile, scaberulous, green, palmately divided into

three to seven linear, almost acicular, subacute segments, one-

third to one inch long, with recurved margins. Pedice/s almost

capillary, terminal and from the forks of the flowering branches.

Flowers erect, three-quarters to one inch in diameter, white,

or with a faint purple tinge. Ca/yr one-third shorter than the

corolla, campanulate, with five triangular subulate lobes which

are as long asthe tube or shorter. Corolla subulate, tube very

short, with a hairy ring at the throat: segments obovate,

erose, very delicate. Stamens inserted in the throat of the

corolla, filaments unequal, hairy at the very base; anthers

linear-oblong, yellow. Disk annular. Ovary ovoid, glabrous,

obtuse ; style slender, stigmas three, linear, rather short;

ovules many in each cell.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Leaves; 2, flowers; 3, corolla laid open; 4, calyx and stigma;

5, disk and ovary ; 6, transverse section of ovary :—all magnified,

5896.

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NOTHOSCORDUM avrevm.

Native of California.

Nat. Ord. Littacem.—Tribe AspHODELEA.

Genus Noroscorpum, Kunth ; (Enum. Plant., vol. iv. p. 457).

Nornoscorpum aureum; folio solitario e basi angustato elongato lineari

pedali 4 poll. diam. apice attenuato scapum gracillimum superante,

spatha parva membranacea 2-valve, floribus numerosis aureis gracillime

pedicellatis, pedicellis basi bracteolatis, perianthii foliolis lineari-

oblongis obtusis dorso apice viridibus et rubro-marginatis, filamentis

erectis e basi quadrata carnosa puberula filiformibus alternis longioribus,

antheris parvis virescenti-azureis, ovario elliptico, stylo filiformi, ovulis

numerosis.

Buoomerra aurea, Kellogg in the Hesperian, p. 437, cum tone.

The first notice of this plant that I have met with is

in a Californian publication, for which I am indebted to Dr.

Masters, F.R.S.; and where it is described by Dr. Kellogg as

a new genus, Bloomeria, in honour of Mr. H. G. Bloomer, the

Botanical Curator of the Californian Academy of Sciences,

who cultivated it from bulbs discovered in New Idria by Dr.

J. A. Veatch. The specimen here figured was raised from

bulbs communicated to the Royal Gardens by Dr. Bolander,

of San Francisco, an old and valued correspondent, in 1569,

and which flowered in July of the same year.

As a genus, Bloomeria does not seem to me to differ from

Nothoscordum, itself perhaps too near Allium, to which it is

reduced by Asa Gray and others, but from which it may be

distinguished by its numerous ovules. The other species

of Nothoscordum are chiefly South American. There 1s one

United States species which has been considered identical

with a common South American, and which, if so, extends

from Virginia to Philadelphia—a very unusual range for a

plant of this family; this is the Allium striatum, Jacq.

APRIL Ist, 1871.

(Tab. nost. 1035 and 1524). Another Species, much more

closely allied to WV. aureum, is the N. maritimum, Torrey, of Cali-

fornia, which differs in its much smaller size and numerous

leaves. Lastly, in most of the Nothoscorda the filaments are

merely dilated at the base ; but in WV. aurea and NV. maritima

they are suddenly dilated into quadrate fleshy bodies.

Duscr. Bulb small, about the size of a hazel-nut, pale green.

Leaf solitary, a foot long, very narrow, about one-third of an

inch in diameter in the middle, narrow-linear, attenuate at

both ends, green, rather fleshy, concave, convex on the back,

obscurely nerved. Scape very slender, about as long as the

leaf. Spathes two, small, membranous, enclosing numerous

membranous bracteoles. Mowers in a spreading many-flowered

umbel. Pedicels unequal, very slender, curved, one inch to

two inches long. Perianth rotate, one inch in diameter,

golden-yellow ; segments linear-oblong, obtuse, with a short

green dorsal rib towards the tip on the back, where the

margins are reddish. Filaments erect, filiform above the

quadrate fleshy glandular base ; anthers small, greenish-blue,

oblong. Ovary elliptic, obtuse, 3-furrowed ; style filiform,

stigma obscurely 3-lobed; ovules numerous, in two series in

each cell.— J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower; 2, stamen; 8, ovary; 4, transverse section of ditto:—

all magnified,

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BEGONTA crinita.

Native of Bolivia.

Nat. Ord. BEGoNIACEA.

Genus Brgonta, Linn. ; (Benth. and Hook, f. Gen. Pl., vol. i. p. 841).

Brconta crinita; caule erecto folioso petiolisque rubris pilis elongatis

patentibus laxe crinitis, foliis valde obliquis dimidiatis ovato-cordatis

acuminatis margine lobulatis et argute dentatis viridibus pilosis subtus

pallidioribus v. purpurascentibus, petolis rubris, stipulis ovato-lanceolatis

recurvis viridibus, cymis erectis dichotomis, bracteis viridibus oppositis

latis concavis ciliatis, floribus roseis nutantibus subternis intermedio $

longius pedicellato ; fl. g perianthii foliolis 4, 2 exterioribus late ovatis

obtusis, 2 interioribus multo angustioribus obovato-oblongis, staminibus

in capitulum confertis, filamentis brevibus, antheris late obovoideis,

fl. Q perianthii foliolis 5 subequalibus obovato-oblongis, stigmatibus

3—2-lobis, ramis brevibus tortis fascia papillosa basi continua cinctis,

placentis 2-partitis undique ovuliferis, capsula 3-alata, ala dorsali

triangulari acuta. .

Beeonta crinita, Oliver in Herb. Hook.

_ Specimens of this very elegant Begonia were sent by Messrs.

Veitch, to the Herbarium of the Royal Gardens, in July, 1866,

and again in 1867, and determined to be new by Professor

Oliver, who gave it the above name. It was introduced by

Messrs. Veitch’s able South American collector, the late

Mr. Pearce, from the Bolivian Andes, it is supposed; but

as that energetic traveller visited various parts of the

Cordillera, absolute confidence cannot be placed in the

reputed habitat. There is a remarkable tendency in the

branches to develop hairs on that surface only which faces

the petiole of the leaf inserted below it, the petiole itself being

hairy all round. ee

I know of no very close ally of this species, which is not

clearly referable to any of A. De Candolle’s sections of this

extensive and very difficult genus. The specimen here

APRIL Ist, 1871.

figured is from Mr. Wilson Saunders’s rich collection. Those

from Mr. Veitch’s nursery were much stouter in the stem,

and had deep rose-coloured flowers.

Descr. A foot high, stout or slender, branched, leafy.

Stems and branches terete, vivid red, more or less covered

with long white, spreading, rather stiff hairs. Leaves two

to five inches long, dimidiate, ovate-cordate, very oblique,

acuminate, margin lobulate, and acutely toothed, dark

green and shortly hairy above, glabrous except on the ribs

of the under surface, which is pale green, or faintly purplish ;

petioles terete, red, and hairy, like the stems. Stzpu/es ovate-

lanceolate, recurved, green. /Vowers one and a half inches in

diameter, dark or pale rose-red, in terminal lax dichotomous

cymes, horizontal or nodding, usually in threes, the central

longer pedicelled and male. dale flower :—perianth 4-leaved ;

two outer leaves broadly ovate, obtuse; two inner smaller,

obovate-oblong. Stamens many, in a globose head, filaments

short; anthers short, obovoid, obtuse. Female flower:

—pertanth of five obovate oblong-obtuse leaves. Styles

three, stigmatic arms short, with a continuous twisted

papillose band; ovules very many, on all surfaces of a

bipartite placenta. Young fruit 3-gonous, with 2 rounded,

and one triangular acute wing.—J/. D. H.

Fig. 1, Stamen; 2, female fiower, with perianth removed; 3, transverse

section of ovary :—all magnified.

Tas. 5898.

CHLOROCODON WBHITEII.

“* Mundi-root” of Natal.

Nat. Ord. AscLEPIADEa.—Tribe PERIPLOCES.

Gen. Char.—Calycis 5-partiti segmenta late ovata acuta. Corolla

5-partita, rotato-campanulata, herbacea, segmentis triangulari-ovatis, tubo

basi corona carnosa depressa undulata 5-loba aucto, lobis corone emarginatis

dorso processubus totidem erectis lineari-ligulatis apice 2-fidis gynostegium

superantibus instructis. Anthere sessiles, triargulari-ovate, in conum con-

niventes stigmati adnate, glabre; corpuscula (v. bursicule polline replete)

glandule ovate affixe, teretia, apice 2-fida, dorso longitudinaliter sulcata,

antice fissa ; pollen e granulis 4-compositum. Stigma depresso-conicum.—

Frutex Natalensis, volubilis, alte scandens, ramulis teretibus glabris. Folia

opposita, breviter petiolata, late ovati-oblonga, abrupte acuminata, basi cordata,

supra setulis minutis appressis conspersa, subtus minute pubcrula. Petioli

vagina herbacea margine recurva dentata connati. Flores majuscult, virescentes,

intus basi purpurascentes, in cymas axillares ramosas dispositi.

CHLoRocopon Whiter.

In 1867 I received from the Rev. Dr. Brown, late Colonial

Botanist at the Cape of Good Hope, a letter addressed to

him by A. 8. White, Esq., of Fundisweni, Natal, concerning

a plant, the aromatic roots of which are extensively col-

lected and sold by the native tribes as “ Mundi” or “ Mindi,

and used by them as a stomachic. So largely indeed was it

sought that the plant had become rare in that district, and it

was with difficulty that Mr. White procured the roots, which

Dr. Brown transmitted to Kew, but which unfortunately

arrived in a lifeless state. Mr. White further described the

Mundi as climbing to the tops of the loftiest trees, with

roots spreading amongst rocks and stones to a distance of

fifteen to twenty feet from the stem; adding that it was

never found more than a few miles from the sea, and

that the nearer the sea it grew the sweeter and better was

the flavour of the root. On a future occasion Mr. White

APRIL Ist, 1871.

sent me a bundle of the roots, which resembled liquorice-

root, but had lost all flavour and virtue; and in 1869 I had

the pleasure of receiving from ‘him living roots in a Ward’s

case, which grew vigorously, and the plant being trained up

the rafters of a moderate sized warm greenhouse, was soon

thickly covered with leaves, and flowered in August 1870.

As far as I can determine, the Mundi belongs to a very

distinct genus of Asclepiads from any hitherto published,

though allied to the Indian Brachylepis, to which I have —

given the name of Chlorocodon, in allusion to the bell-like

green flowers. It is to be hoped that experiments on the

properties of the root will be instituted in Natal, and the

results made known.

Descr. A tall, leafy, twining, deep green climber. Stems

terete, glabrous, or nearly so. Leaves opposite, shortly

petioled, six to ten inches long, broadly oval-oblong, abruptly

acuminate, cordate at the base, minutely setulose on both

surfaces ; midrib with often a few erect short bristles on the

upper surface. Pedioles short, joined by a thick short stipule-

like sheath with reflexed and toothed edges. Flowers three-

quarters of an inch diameter, in axillary corymbose many-

flowered cymes ; pedicels stout, with small bracts at the base.

Calyz-lobes small, ovate, acute. Corolla between rotate and

campanulate, leathery, green; segments ovate, acute, purple

towards the base internally, where there is a thickened ring,

swelling into 5-notched lobes that are opposite the sepals ;

at the back of each lobe and adnate to it, is a slender, erect,

flat, notched process. Anthers triangular ovate, meeting in a

cone over the capitate stigma. Pollen contained in five

slender brown burse, that open in front, are bifid at the point

and grooved down the back, and attached at the base to an

ovate gland.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower, with the corolla cut away; 2 and 3, pollen pouches :—

both magnified,

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PHILODENDRON WILLIAMsIr,

Native of Brazil.

Nat. Ord. AromwE#,—Tribe PHILODENDREA.

Genus Puopenproy, Schott; (Prod. Syst. Aroid., p. 219).

PHILODENDRON Williamsii ; trunco crasso suberecto cicatricato, foliis longe

petiolatis 2-3-pedalibus sagittatis acutis lobis posticis oblongo-

ovatis obtusis, costis venisque subtus luride rubro-purpureis, costis

loborum posticorum basin versus sinus marginalibus, venis patenti-

bus, venulis numerosissimis, petiolo elongato terete levi supra cana-

liculato, pedunculis solitariis axillaribus spatha viridi intus flaves-

cente pedali oblongo-cymbiformi basi subequali attenuato, spadice

cylindrico spatham subequante obtuso basi dorso spathe breviter

adnato, infra medium paulo constricto, parte supra constrictionem

inclinato lateraliter protruso, antheris elongato-cuneatis apice truncato

trapezoideo, poris minutis, ovariis 4-gonis multilocellatis, vertice late

intruso, stigmatibus numerosis adnatis breviter decurrentibus, ovulis

in loculis numerosis.

This noble Aroid has been for years a well known

ornament of the aquarium near the Palm House at Kew,

growing in a pot the base of which is immersed, and

forming a crown of bright green foliage, six feet in diameter,

and four to five feet in height. It was sent to Kew by Mr.

- Williams, of Bahia, many years ago, flowers annually, and

would have been published in this Magazine ere this, but

for the difficulty of naming the plants of this genus, which em-

braces upwards of one hundred and fifty species, many of them

most imperfectly described. As however it agrees with none

of those contained in Schott’s excellent monograph (1860), _

has not since been figured in any publication accessible to

me, and has not been recognised by the many continental

botanists and horticulturists who have seen it at Kew, I

ani emboldened to describe it as new, and give it the name

MAY Ist, 1871.

of the highly valued correspondent who contributed it to our

collections.

Descr. Trunk two to four feet high, two to three inches in

diameter, branched, brown, covered with suborbicular leaf

scars, emitting numerous cylindric brown roots half an inch

in diameter. Leaves numerous, one to two and a half feet

long, sagittate, bright green, with pale veins above, paler

beneath, with dull purple midrib and veins, coriaceous, acute

or cuspidate, anterior portion obscurely lobed, with five to

six pairs of spreading principal veins and innumerable inter-

mediate ones; posterior lobes oblong-ovate, obtuse, costa of

these marginal at the base of the sinus only; petiole two to

two and a half feet long, slender, terete, grooved above,

thickened at the base but not at the top, quite smooth,

green. Peduncle axillary, solitary, as thick as the thumb, as

long as or shorter than the spathe, green, cylindric. | Syathe

a foot long, convolute, then gaping and boat-shaped, obtuse,

apiculate, very thick and herbaceous, green, much thickened

but not inflated at the base, where it merges into the pe-

duncle, bright green, paler and yellowish internally. Spadiz

about equalling the spathe, stout, cylindric, obtuse, cream-

coloured, constricted below the middle, the long upper male

portion lolling laterally out. of the spathe; lower female part

stouter, base oblique and dorsally adnate to the spathe. Az-

thers elongate-obpyramidal, with truncate tips and minute

pores. Ovary obtuse, 4-angled, columnar, many-celled, deeply

hollowed out at the top, which is covered with adnate stigmas

that are reflected and decurrent on the surface ; ovules nume-

rous in each cell.— J. D. H.

Fig. 1, imperfect stamens; 2, perfect ditto; 3, ovary; 4, vertical, and 5,

transverse section of ditto :—all magnified.

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BAPTISIA LEUCOPH@A,

Native of the United States.

Nat. Ord. Leguminos#.—Tribe Popa.yriz&.

Genus Baptista, Ventenat ; (Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. P1., vol. i. p. 466).

Baptista leucophea ; herba humilis, plus minusve pilosa v. pubescens, ramis

_divaricatis flexuosis, foliis subsessilibus palmatim 3-foliolatis, foliolis

anguste oblongo-obovatis-oblanceolatis v. subspathulatis, stipulis

bracteisque magnis foliaceis ovato-lanceolatis persistentibus, racemis

elongatis reclinatis, floribus secundis pallide flavidis, pedicellis elongatis

gracilibus, ovario villoso, legumine ovoideo longe acuminato.

Bartisia leucophea, Nutt. Gen. Pl. N. Am., vol. i. p. 282. DC. Prod., vol. ii.

p- 100. ZYorr. and Gr. Fl. N. Am., vol. i. p. 385, A. Gray, Bot. N.U.

States, p. 107. Chapman, Bot. S.U. States, p. 112. .

_ Baptista bracteata, Muhl. Cat. ew Elliott's Sketch, vol. ii. p. 468. DC. lc.

A hardy herbaceous plant, very ornamental, a native of

dry woods and open places throughout the United States,

from Michigan and Wisconsin to Texas and Georgia. It

was introduced into England by Edward Leeds, Esq., of

Longford Bridge, Manchester, to whom I am indebted for

the specimen here figured, which was raised by him from seed

collected in Iowa State, and which flowered in July 1870.

Baptisia is wholly a North American genus, containing

fourteen species, of which all are supposed to be hardy, and

many are certainly well worthy of cultivation ; two are figured

in this Magazine as Podalyrias, P. alba, tab. 1177, and P.

linctoria, tab. 1099, which yields a coarse indigo ; and a third

(tab. 3121) is the highly curious B. perfoliata, with simple

sub-orbicular perfoliate leaves and solitary flowers; all have

gone out of cultivation.

Descr. A low perennial herb, one to two feet high, very

variable in amount of pubescence, sometimes glabrous when

May Ist, 1871.

old. Stems stout, zigzag, almost horizontal, leafy. Leaves

nearly sessile, trifoliolate ; leaflets sessile, one to three inches

long, very variable in length and breadth, obovate, oblan-

ceolate, or obovate-spathulate, acute, reticulately veined, turn-

ing black when dry, as do the stems. Stipules very large,

leafy, ovate-lanceolate, acute. Racemes often a foot long,

very-many-flowered. lowers crowded, subsecund, pedicels as-

cending, one to one and a half inches long ; bracts large, leafy,

ovate-lanceolate, acute, spreading and reflexed. Calyx tube

subcampanulate ; lobes four, short, subacute. Corolla yel-

lowish-white ; standard orbicular, clawed, notched, reflexed ;

wings oblong, notched at the base, claw slender; keel boat-

shaped, equalling the wings, also with a slender claw. Fila-

ments glabrous ; anthers small. Ovary slender, villous ; stigma

simple. Pod large, ovoid, turgid, hoary, long pointed.—

# D, H.

Fig. 1, Flower with petals removed; 2, standard; 3, wing; 4, keel;

5, ovary :—all magnified.

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N ERINE pupica.

Native of S. Africa.

Nat. Ord. AmaryLLipe#.—Tribe AMARYLLER.

Genus Nerine, Herbert; (Amarillydacee, p. 283).

NERINE pudica ; bulbo elongato-ovideo, foliis lineari-elongatis obtusis con-

cavis, scapo gracili, spathis subulato-lanceolatis rubris, ovario sub-

horizontali, perianthio subcampanulato fere regulari, foliolis oblan-

ceolato-oblongis apiculatis non undulatis candidis medio roseo-tinctis,

genitalibus declinatis, antheris inclusis purpureis, stigmatibus patulis.

I fail to find either a description answering to this plant,

or a specimen in the Kew Herbarium; it flowered in the

Royal Gardens in October, 1868, but I am unaware of its

precise native locality, or of its introducer: its nearest ally

is IV. flecuosa (Bot. Reg. .t. 172), which differs in the more

irregular perianth, whose segments are narrower and much

undulated. Besides the shape of the flower, WV. pudica is dis-

tinguished from all other Werizes known to me by the purity

of the white perianth segments, delicately streaked with

crimson down the centre.

The Nerines form a most beautiful group of bulbous plants,

and were great favourites amongst cultivators half a century

ago. The Rev. Mr. Herbert, in his excellent remarks on the

genus, observes that they require a vigorous autumnal

growth of leaf, under warmth enough to excite, but with air

enough to prevent their growing weak ; as with their con-

gener, the Guernsey Lily, they are autumn flowerers, and

should be allowed a three months’ rest and drought, between

May and September.

Descr. Bulb one and a half to two inches long, narrow

ovoid or flaggon-shaped. Leaves six to eight inches long by

May int, 1671,

a quarter to one-third inch broad, narrow linear, obtuse,

concave, not keeled or ribbed. Scape slender, exceeding the

leaves, bright green. Spathes scarious, one to two inches

long, gradually narrowed from a broad base, pink. Flowers

six to eight, nearly horizontal, one and a half inches long ;

pedicels one to two inches long, green, slender. Ovary

nearly horizontal, of three subglobose lobes, green. Perianth

campanulate, pure white, with a red streak down the centre

of each leaflet on both surfaces, most strongly marked

towards the base on the inner surface, and towards the tip

on the outer; leaflets half an inch broad, oblanceolate,

apiculate, spreading, not waved, nearly equal and re-

gularly disposed, the four outer slightly upeurved. Fila-

ments shorter than the perianth, declinate, three shorter than

the others, tips upcurved; anthers linear-oblong, purple.

Style slender, declinate ; Stigma shortly linear.—/. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower with

perianth removed; 2, transverse section of ovary :-—

both magnified.

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EPIDEN DRUM eEvectum.

Native of New Grenada ?

Nat. Ord. Orcuipez.—Tribe EpipENDREz.

Epwenprum, Linn. ; (Lindl. Fol. Orchid., part 2, p. 1).

Epipenprum (Amphiglottium) evectum ; caulibus gracilibus valde elongatis

teretibus ramosis radicantibus, ramis apices versus foliosis, foliis distichis

4-5-pollicaribus oblongo-lanceolatis obtusis emarginatis planiusculis,

racemo brevi densifloro, bracteis parvis subulatis, floribus patentibus

1}-1} poll. diam. lzte roseo-purpureis, sepalis petalisque anguste

obovatis obtusis, labello column adnato 3-lobo, lobis profunde laceris,

lateralibus brevibus quadrato-cuneatis, intermedio 2-fido lobis divari-

catis sinu acuto, disco callo obtuse triangulari sublobulato et basi

(inter lobos laterales labelli) tuberculis 2 parallelis elongatis instructo.

I advance this fine plant as a new species with great hesi-

tation, though supported by the authority of Reichenbach f.

himself, who has kindly taken great trouble to identify it

with the numberless closely allied species in the sub-section,

(Schistochila tuberculata,) to which it clearly belongs. It has

been’ cultivated in Kew for many years, flourishing in the

cool end of an “intermediate” Orchid house, where it forms

@ very conspicuous feature, from the great length of the

stems, the bright purple of its flowers, which last for a long

time, and its branching, rooting habit. Its nearest ally

appears to me to be LZ. Lindeni, Lindl., from which it differs

in the longer leaves, and more deeply laciniate lip, with the

midlobe divided into two spreading segments, like a black-

cock’s tail. There is, however, very little to distinguish it

from the descriptions of F. fastigiatum, Lindl., dichotomum,

Presl., Jamesoni, Rchb. f., ellipticum, Graham, and others, of

which the West Indian F. elongatum, Jacq, (Tab. nost. 611), is

the first published type, and which all differ by very variable

May Ist, 1871.

characters (especially those of the disk and toothed margins

of the lip). As it is, #. evectum is by far the handsomest

form of the section that has hitherto flowered in England,

(with the exception of those with branched racemes), and

from its free growth and facility of cultivation, will always

prove an acquisition in the cool Orchid house. It was pro-

bably sent by Purdie from the New Grenadan mountains,

but all record of its origin has long been lost.

Descr. Stems fascicled, swollen at the base, three to five

feet long, flexuous, branched, as thick as a swan’s quill, leafy

towards the tips. Leaves four to six inches long by one and

a half to two inches broad, sessile, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse,

emarginate, coriaceous, plane, sheaths rather short. Peduncle

long, slender, clothed with distant, appressed scarious bracts,

the lower of which are sheathing with subulate points, the

upper small subulate without sheaths. Raceme four to six

inches long, by three to four inches in diameter, lax, subcy-

lindric, many-flowered ; bracts small, subulate; pedicels spread-

ing and recurved, with the slender ovary one to one and

a half inches long. Perianth one and a quarter to one and

a half inches in diameter, bright rose-purple. Sepals and

petals similar, narrow obovate, obtuse. Zp adnate to the

column, rather longer than the sepals, 3-lobed nearly to the

base, lobes all deeply cut and fringed; lateral reflexed,

cuneate-quadrate; middle lobe larger, divided into two wide

spreading, lacerate, subquadrate lobes, with an acute sinus

and apiculus between them ; disk with. an obtusely triangular,

obscurely-lobed callosity, and two linear parallel tubercles at

the base.—/J. D. H.

Fig. 1, column and lip :—magnified.

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HAMANTHUS pezrormis.

Native of Natal.

Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDEH.—Tribe AMARYLLEZ.

Genus Hamantuvus, Linn. ; (Herbert's Amaryllidacee, p. 232).

Hzmantuvs deformis ; bulbo compresso crasso humili depresso flavo-vire-

scente, foliis ad 4 late obovato rotundatis sessilibus patenti-recurvis

3-4 poll, latis supra hirsutis subtus pubescentibus immarginatis

brevibus, scapo brevissimo, bracteis ad 6 obovato-oblongis obtusis

totis albis ciliatis, floribus numerosis candidis, perianthii laciniis erectis

linearibus obtusis, antheris exsertis pallidis, stigmate breviter 3-lobo,

- ovulis pendulis.

A very singular and indeed grotesquely ugly Cape bulb,

with nothing but its curious form to recommend it for

culture ; but to those who delight in contemplating every

adaptation of their form and structure to environing con-

ditions that plants present, or who seek to illustrate the

botanical features of a country by cultivating groups of its

plants, such a one as this presents many points of great in-

terest. Dean Herbert remarks that there are two sections

of Hemanthus, one with cylindric sheathing petioles, and

consequently ovoid cylindric bulbs, which flower and leaf at

the same time (see Tab. nost. 961, 1995, 1315, 4745, 5314,

5378); and another with sessile broad-based leaves, that do

not sheath, and which consequently have compressed bulbs ;

these flower before the leaves are fully produced (Tab. nost.

1075, 1239, 1618, 3373, 5532). To these has since been

added a third section with cylindric bulbs, that flower before

the leaves are fully developed (Tab. nost. 3570 and 5881). To

me it appears that the genus may be better divided into those |

with spreading, and those with erect perianth segments, a

character to which Mr. Herbert gives secondary value ;

MAY Ist, 1871.

whilst of the latter there are again two sections, one with

terete bulbs and usually petioled more or less plaited leaves ;

the other, with compressed bulbs and distichous thick flat

leaves, to which the present and a.few other species belong.

Hemanthus deformis is a native of Natal, and was sent to

the Royal Gardens in 1869, from those of Natal, by their

zealous superintendent, Mr. M‘Ken, and it flowered in March,

1871; its similarity in habit to certain species of the

liliaceous genus Massonia is very striking. :

Descr. Bulb very broad, low, green, four to five inches in

diameter, slightly compressed, yellow green. Leaves about

two pairs, three and a half to four inches long and broad,

spreading and recurved, distichous, orbicular or obovate-

orbicular, scarcely sheathing, not undulate nor margined,

dark green, smooth, hairy above, pubescent beneath. Scape

very short, sessile amongst the leaves. Head compressed,

parallel to the bulb, two inches high, one and a half inch in

its longest diameter. Involucral spathes about six, equal, erect,

obovate-oblong, obtuse, ciliate, pure white. H/owers numerous,

pure white, shorter than the involucre. Perianth-tube shorter

than the erect linear obtuse lobes. Stamens exserted; anthers

pale yellow. Ovary obovoid ; style slender ; stigmas three,

small, acute.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower; 2, perianth lobe, and stamens; 3, ovary, with style and

stigma; 4, transverse section of ovary :—all magnified.

5904.

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DRYMODA picta.

Native of Moulmein.

Nat. Ord. Orcuipem.—Tribe VANDER?

Genus Drymopa, Lindl. (Sert. Orchid. t. 8 C.).

Drrmopa picta ; aphylla, pseudobulbis depresso-planis orbiculatis cortice,

appressis, scapo solitario 1-flore filiformi basin versus squamis 2

hyalinis instructo.

Drymopa picta, Lindl. lc. Walp. Ann. vol. vi. p. 467.

One of the smallest and most curious of Orchids, hitherto

only known from a drawing made by the late William

Griffith in Mergui in the Malayan peninsula, in 183 a, and

forwarded by him to Dr. Lindley, who published it in his

magnificent ‘“Sertum Orchidaceum,” in 1838, whence the

description was copied into Walper’s Annalen, as quoted above.

I have in vain sought amongst Griffith’s published posthumous

papers for any notice of this plant, as also amongst his draw-

ings and MSS., which are preserved in the library at Kew.

His original sketch, accompanied by his specimens, is in

Dr. Lindley’s Orchid collection, also now at Kew; but I

found no specimens amongst Griffith’s general collections

which have been incorporated with the Kew Herbarium.

This however is easily accounted for by the fact, that many

of the Griffithian collections, and especially the Burmese,

were destroyed by damp and vermin in the cellars of the old

India House, where they lay in open chests for many years

before being transferred to Kew.

The specimen of Drymoda here figured formed part of a

JUNE Ist, 1871.

very valuable miscellaneous collection of Orchids sent by the

Rev. C. Parish, from Moulmein, in 1870, and flowered in

February and March of the present year. From a comparison

with Griffith’s figure, it will be seen that the latter is re-

markably correct, the only differences I perceive are, that

in Griffith’s figure the flower is represented in an inverse

position, and much yellower, the scape also is stouter, red,

and bears several sheaths, which I do not observe in his

specimens. ;

Descr. Pseudobulbs clustered, or in a series, discoid, appressed

to the bark, dull green, one-third to one-half inch in diameter,

with a minute central mamilla, from which springs the scape,

subtended by an exceedingly small ovate-subulate scale, that

is the only representative of the leaf; surface covered with

minute white scales. Scape capillary, one to oneand a half inch

long, with one or more appressed sheaths near the base, greenish

yellow. Flower solitary, two-thirds of an inch long from the .

dorsal sepal to the lip, inclined or horizontal. Dorsal sepal

_very small, ovate, acute, yellow green ; /ateral sepals forming

wings at the apex of a long curved semiterete green purple-

spotted stipes, which projects from the base of the column,

carrying the lip and lateral sepals far from the column and

petals, spreading and recurved, obliquely ovate-lanceolate,

concave, with gibbous incurved margins, yellow-green with

dull purple bands. Petals very minute, spreading on each

side the column, suborbicular, green. Jip ascending between

the lateral sepals from the apex of the aforesaid stipes, deep

purple, pedicelled, much smaller than the lateral sepals, ovate,

3-lobed, subacute, convex and hairy on the disk. Column very

short, with two long projecting oblong-obtuse yellow purple-

spotted wings that are half as long as the stipes of the

conjoined lateral sepals and lip. Anther small, convex, purple-

topped. Pollen-masses connate into a 4-lobed mass, which is

sessile on an exposed orange-yell bet :

as themselves.—/. D. H. ge-yellow subglobose gland as big

Fig. 1, whole plant; 2 front, and 3, lateral vie

3 2, w of flower; 4, column

and base of ovary ;5, front, and 6, lateral view of pollen:—all a. agnified.

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RHODODENDRON srnensz.

Native of Japan and N. China,

Nat. Ord. Ertcea.—Tribe RHODODENDRES.

Genus Ruopopenpron, Linn. ; (Mazximowicz in Mem. Acad. Imp. Sc. Petersb.,

vol. xvi. No. 9, p. 13).

RuopopenprRon (Azalea) Sinense; ramulis petiolis pedunculisque setoso-

pilosis, foliis obovato-v. oblanceolato-oblongis obtusis glanduloso-apicu-

latis pilosis hirsutisve nervis utrinque coste ad 10 patulis parallelis,

floribus 5-10 subprecocibus’ umbellatis longe pedunculatis, sepalis

brevibus ovatis ciliatis, corolla infundibulari-campanulata extus

puberula ad medium 5-loba, lobis elliptico-ovatis, stamihibus 5 stylo

vix brevioribus, capsula ovoideo-oblonga profunde sulcata parce setosa

lucida. :

RuopopENDRON sinense, Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard., vol. iii. t. 290. Mazximowice. lc.

RuopopenDroN molle, Sieb. and Zucc. Fl. Jap. Fam. Nat., part 2, p. 181.

Azauea sinensis, Lodd. Bot. Cab. vol. ix. t. 885.

AZALEA mollis, Bl. Bijdr. 853. Regel Gartenfl. 1867, p. 289, t. 556.

AZALEA japonica, A. Gray, in Mem. Amer. Acad. Sc. vol. vi. p. 400.

Botanists are now pretty well agreed in considering that

Azalea can no longer be considered a distinct genus from

Rhododendron ; the characters taken from habit, foliage, form

of corolla, number of stamens and ovarian cells, which have

hitherto been used to distinguish Azalea, all reappearing,

singly or several together, in many of the numerous species

of Rhododendron that have lately been discovered in Northern

India, the Malayan Islands, China, and Japan. I have there-

fore followed the eminent Japanese traveller and botanist,

Maximowicz, who published only last year a most elaborate

monograph of the Rhododendree, in assuming Sweet's old

name of Rhododendron sinense for the Azalea mollis of more

recent authors.

JUNE Ist, 1871.

R. sinense is a native of Alpine shrublands in Japan, and is

also cultivated both in Japan and China, whence it was intro-

duced into England first in 1824, and again by Fortune in 1845.

It is however still a very scarce plant in English gardens.

The specimen here figured was communicated by Mr. Bull,

F.L.S., and flowered in his establishment in Chelsea in March

of last year. The flowers vary much in colour, from a dull,

almost greenish-yellow, to orange-yellow, or bright orange-

red.

Descr. A small rigid shrub, with spreading naked branches,

the younger more or less clothed with soft hairs, as are the pe-

tioles, peduncles, calyx, and both surfaces of the leaves. Leaves

spreading, one and a half to two inches long, membranous,

shortly petioled, obovate- or oblanceolate-oblong, obtuse, with

a glandular apiculus, ciliate, hairy on both surfaces, nerves

about ten on each side of the midrib, spreading ; petiole one-

quarter to one-third of an inch long. Jowers five to ten

in an umbel; pedicels one to two and a half inches long.

Calyx-lobes small, obtuse. Corolla between funnel and bell-

shaped, 5-lobed to the middle, lobes ovate-oblong obtuse,

varying in colour from pale dirty yellow to orange-red.

Stamens five, filaments pubescent towards the base ; “anthers

small, yellow. Ovary hairy, 5-celled; style slender, pubes-

cent below, stigma small. rit (described by Maximowicz

oe Bene nere: deeply grooved, shining, sparingly hairy.—

Fig. 1, Stamen; 2, calyx, ovary, style, and stigma; 3, transverse section

of ovary :—all magnified.

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ANDROSACE cCaARNEA, VAR. EXIMIA.

Native of the Auvergne Alps.

Nat. Ord. Primutacea&.—Tribe PRIMULE.

Genus Anprosace, Tourn.; (Endl. Gen. Plant., p. 730).

ANDROSACE carnea ; laxe cespitosa, caulibus brevibus suberectis, foliis dense

confertis patenti-recurvis linearibus v. subulato-linearibus subacutis

- planis enerviis sparse ciliatis v. ciliatis et puberulis, pedunculo stellatim

tomentello, floribus capitato-umbellatis roseo-purpureis, calyce cam-

panulato 5-fido, lobis acutiusculis tubum corolle equantibus.

Awnprosace carnea, Linn. Sp. Pl., 204. Duby in DC. Prod., vol. viii. p. 51.

Reich. Ic. Crit.t. 580. Flor. Germ. vol. xvii. t.1112. Gren. and Godr.

fl. France. vol. ii. p. 456.

AnprosaceE Halleri, Gmel. bad. vol. iv. p. 151. t. 8. ;

Aretia Halleri, Linn. ;—Hall. Helv. t. 17. Plukenet Almag. t. 108. f. 5.

Var. eximia, laxius et latius cespitosa, foliis laxioribus minus rigidis valde

recurvis longioribus linearibus sparse puberulis, floribus majoribus 3

poll. diametro. Ic. nost. t. 5907.

A comparison of this form of Androsace carnea, with the

usual state of that plant as it occurs in Dauphiny, the Py-

renees, Savoy, and Switzerland, shows it to be characterized

by its greater size, looser cushion-like tufts, longer, more linear

and uniformly recurved leaves, with sparse pubescence, and

much larger flowers, of a very fine rose purple colour ; so

great indeed are these differences, that when pots of living

specimens of this and the ordinary form are placed side by

side, it is hard to believe that they are not specific ; but the

comparison of an extensive suite of herbarium specimens, shows

so many intermediate forms, together with so many other

varieties, that I believe it will be found impossible to separate

them by any certain character. Fortunately too I have been

able to submit the flowering specimens to _Cosson, of Paris,

JuNE Ist, 1871.

and Mr. J. Ball, both accomplished European botanists, who

recognise it as a variety of caruea, and one which they have

met with both in the Pyrenees and Auvergne.

The Royal Gardens are indebted for this lovely Alpine to

Mr. G. Maw of Brosely, who collected it in the Pic de

Sancy, Mont Dore, in 1870, and who presented us with a

fine plant of it in the early spring, from which this figure

was taken. :

Drscr. Tufts six to twelve inches and upwards broad, of a

lively green, formed of numerous almost globular inclined

rosettes, one inch in diameter. eaves one-half to three-

quarters of an inch long, close set, uniformly recurved, linear,

subacute, plane, ciliate on the edges, laxly pubescent on both

surfaces, with simple or forked hairs, hardly dilated at the

base. Scape short or almost suppressed, lengthening in fruit,

robust, clothed with stellate pubescence, as are the bracts,

pedicels, and calyces, about 5-flowered ; bracts erect, oblong,

subacute, gibbous at the base, equalling or shorter than the

pedicels. Calyx campanulate, turbinate at the base, segments

ovate-oblong, subacute, green. Corolla rose-purple, with a

yellow eye, one-third of an inch in diameter; lobes obovate,

rounded at the tip; throat closed by short folds or scales. -

Ovary depressed, globose, glabrous. Capsule ovoid. — Seeds

black, oblong, granulate.—/. D. ZH.

Fig. 1, Leaf; 2 and 3, flowers; 4, corolla laid open ; 5, ovary, style, and

stigma :—all magnified.

5907,

Tap. 5907.

FUCHSIA ssssinironta.

_ Native of the United States of Colombia.

Nat. Ord. ONAGRARIE.

Genus Fucusta, Linn. ; (Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. Pl., vol. i. p. 790).

Fucusta sessilifolia; ramulis ultimis puberulis, ceterum glaberrima, foliis

sessilibus oppositis et 3-4-natim verticillatis elliptico- v. oblongo-lanceo-

latis acuminatis remote denticulatis basi acutis, floralibus minoribus,

floribus breviter pedicellatis racemoso-paniculatis pollicaribus, ovario

elliptico, calycis tubo rubro basi paulo inflato viridi, segmentis anguste

lanceolatis petala parva ovata obtusa sanguinea superantibus, genitali-

bus breviter exsertis, stigmate globoso 4-lobo, bacca oblonga poly-

sperma.

Fuonsta sessilifolia, Benth. in Plant. Hartweg, p. 176. Walp. Rep., vol. v.

p. 667.

Discovered by Professor Jameson, of Quito, in 1835, in

woods near Pernello in the valley of Pasto, amongst the

Andes of Colombia; and subsequently gathered by Hartweg,

in 1842, in wooded valleys of Guyan, on the western slopes

of Pichincha, from whose collections it was first described

by Bentham. There are also specimens in the_ Hookerian

Herbarium, collected by Jervoise in Antioquia, and by

Triana at an elevation of 7000 ft. in the forests of Quindiu,

so that it has probably a pretty wide range in the Colom-

bian Andes. It is a greenhouse plant, and only reeently

introduced into this country by Mr. Isaac Anderson- Henry,

F.L.S., Hay Lodge, Edinburgh, who raised it from seeds

sent by Professor Jameson in 1865. I am indebted to that

gentleman for the specimen here figured, which flowered in

June, 1866. As a species it is abundantly distinct, and may

be recognised by its pendulous habit, bright red 4-angled

stems, sessile usually whorled leaves, and crowded sub-

panicled inflorescence.

JUNE Ist, 1871.

Descr. A leafy bush, three to six feet high, quite glabrous

except the youngest parts, which are slightly hairy ; branches

bluntly 4-angled, red. Leaves sessile, rarely opposite, usually

whorled in threes and fours, three to five inches long, lanceo-

late or elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, acute at the base,

toothed, bright green and shining with a red mid-rib, often

bullate between the many depressed veins. Flowers about

one inch long, in terminal pendent crowded leafy panicled

racemes ; bracts or floral leaves a quarter to three-quarter

inch Jong, lanceolate, sessile ; pedicels shorter than or

equalling the ovary. Calyzx-tube narrow, slightly swollen

at the green base, red above and funnel-shaped ; lobes much

shorter than the tube, triangular-lanceolate, acute, spreading,

greenish. Petals shorter than the calyx-tube, broadly

ovate, obtuse, blood-red. Stamens included. Ovary green,

elliptic ; stigma globose, 4-lobed. Berry oblong, half an inch

long, 4-grooved. Seeds obliquely cuneate.—/. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower :—magnijied.

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DORSTENTA MaAnnNI. '

Native of the Bight of Biafra.

Nat. Ord. Morex.

Genus Dorstenta, Plumier ; (Endl. Gen. Pl., p. 278).

Dorstenta Mannii; caule erecto rigido subnodoso simpliciusculo tomen-

__ toso, foliis petiolatis elliptico-obovatis acuminatis integerrimis v. sinuato-

subdentatis utrinque glabrisad basin angustatam obtusis subcordatisve,

stipulis minutis subulatis, pedunculis rameis tomentosis, receptaculis

orbicularibus convexis margine processubus tentacula simulantibus

elongatis ornato, alveolis masculis et femineis sparsis, perigonio 0.

Discovered on the river Old Calabar, in 1863, by Mr.

Gustav Mann, then the intrepid collector for the Royal

Gardens, now a Forest officer serving in the Bhotan province

of India, and by whom living plants were sent to Kew,

which flowered in November, 1865. It has also been col-

lected in the same locality by the Rev. W. Thomson, the

discoverer of Clerodendron Thomsone and many other fine

plants.*

The genus Dorstenia is common in Tropical Africa, whence

Mr. Mann has sent dried specimens of several species, but of

these the present is the most singular, because of the long

green processes slightly thickened towards the tips that

fringe the receptacle, and pointing in different directions,

resemble the tentacles of a sea-anemone ; in some herbarium

specimens these are one and a half inch long, and much

-Inore clubbed at the tip.

* I may here state that Aristolochia Thwaitesii, Hook. (Tab. nost. 4918),

supposed to have been sent by Dr. Thwaites from Ceylon, proves to be a

native of Old Calabar, whence living plants have been sent by Mr. Thomson

to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, and communicated to me by its curator,

Mr. Bullen.

JUNE Ist, 1871.

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Drscr. Stem six to ten inches high, terete, rather flexuous,

erect, somewhat swollen at the scars of the fallen leaves,

densely rather scabridly, but shortly tomentose. Leaves four

to eight inches long, two and half to four inches broad, rather

membranous, elliptic or obovate, acute, narrowed at the small

obtuse or subcordate base, dark green, pale beneath, obscurely

sinuate-toothed, or quite entire, glabrous but opaque on both

surfaces. Petiole one quarter of an inch to one inch, pubescent.

Stipules minute, subulate, persistent. Receptacle on the stem

at the scars of old leaves, peduncled, orbicular, about one inch

diameter, green, pubescent on the back, very convex ; margin

with ten to fifteen slender, stiff, unequal processes one-half to

two inches long, which are thickened towards the tip, radiate

outwards and backwards, and point in different directions ;

peduncle half an inch long; surface of receptacle nearly smooth,

green. Stamens and pistils scattered promiscuously in cavities

of the disk, without any perianth—/. D. H.

Fig. 1, Vertical section through the receptacle ; 2, portion of ditto, showing

stamens and pistil :—both magnified.

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CURCUMA ALBIFLORA.

Native of Ceylon.

Nat, Ord, Scrrammnraz.—Tribe ZmnGIBerez.

Genus Curcuma, Linn. ; (Endl. Gen. Pl., p. 223).

Curcuma albiflora ; glaberrima, foliis floribus coetaneis petiolatis ellipticis

ovato-oblongisve acuminatis basi acutis concoloribus, scapo brevi, spica

3-5-pollicari, bracteis oblongo-lanceolatis obtusis 2-pollicaribus erectis

apice paulo recurvis viridibus superioribus gradatim minoribus omnibus

floriferis, perianthio albo, exteriore spathaceo ore obliquo 2-fido, inte-

riore subeampanulato, laciniis 3 exterioribus lineari-oblongis obtusis

erectis, 2 interioribus obovato-oblongis, labello suborbiculari recurvo

albo disco flavo apice emarginato, ovario gibbo, glandulis epigynis

lineari-elongatis oblique truncatis, anthere loculis basi calcaratis,

calearibus incurvis.

Curcuma albiflora, Thwaites, Enum. Ceylon Pl., 316.

A very anomalous species of a large Indian genus, native

of Ceylon, whose roots were sent by its describer and dis-

coverer, Dr. Thwaites, F.R.S., to the Royal Gardens in 1862,

which flowered in July of the following year. Though

belonging to the genus which contains the cultivated

Turmeric and Zedoary, and various wild species of which are

used in Oriental cookery, I am not aware that the roots of

the plant here figured have ever been so used. a

The genus Curcuma comprises plants of very distinct habit,

and of these the true Turmerics, of which Curcuma longa, L., is

the type, flower at the same time with the leaves, and have the

lower bracts connate, so that the flowers appear to grow out

of pouches in the spike; to this also belongs the beautiful

C. australasie (Tab. nost. 5620) and the Zedoary, C. Zedoaria

(Tab. nost. 1546); in all these moreover the upper bracts are

free, flowerless, and usually very brightly-coloured. This group

is divisible into two, according as the scapes are lateral or

JUNE Ist, 1871.

terminal. In the other section, of which C. albiflora is the only

species known to me, the bracts are green, free, or nearly so,

and all floriferous. In the Enumeration of Ceylon plants,

C. albiflora is described as having a radical spike, but in our

cultivated specimen the spike is sessile amongst the upper

leaves and at a considerable distance from the root.

Drscr. Roofs tuberous and fascicled. Stem none, but the

_ sheathing bases of the petioles which surround the scape,

together form a compressed green stem one inch in diameter

at the base. eaves long-petioled, glabrous, five to seven

inches long, elliptic or ovate-oblong, or elliptic-lanceolate,

acuminate, acute at the base, somewhat plaited parallel to the

nerves, deep green above, paler beneath ; petiole slender, two

to three inches long, exclusive of the sheathing portion, which

is as long. Spike sunk amongst the uppermost leaves,

oblong, cylindric; bracts all green, loosely imbricate, two

inches long, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, the upper rather

longer, all flower-bearing. Vowers white. Outer perianth

spathaceous, half as long as the tube of the inner, obliquely

split at the mouth, and 2-fid at the tip; inner perianth

campanulate, 6-lobed, 3 outer lobes oblong, obtuse, suberect ;

two inner broader and larger; lip suborbicular, waved at

the edge, notched with overlapping lobules, disk yellow.

Epigynous glands linear, obliquely truncate. Anther short

subquadrate ; cells with short incurved spurs. Ovary 3-

ribbed, gibbous.—/. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower ; 2, ovary and outer perianth; 3, lip, anther, and stigma ;

4, ovary, epigynous glands and base of style :—all magnified.

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ERIA ee ma cent.

Native of Birma.

Nat. Ord. Orcumacez.—Tribe MaLtaxipE&.—§ DENDROBIEZ.

’ Genus Erta, Lindl. (Gen. et Sp. Orchid., p. 65).

Eria extinctoria; aphylla, pseudobulbis aggregatis depressis orbiculatis,

scapo terminali solitario v. geminato erecto filiforme unifloro, sepalis

_lateralibus posticis basi longe in ecalcar extinctorii-forme productis,

labelli tricarinati unguiculati limbo trilobo lobo centrali latiore bifido.

DenprosiuM extinctorium, Lindl. Bot. Reg., sub tab. 1756, No. iv.; Walp.

Annales, vol. vi. p. 308.

Erta capillipes, Parish MSS. in Herb. Kew.

Like Drymoda picta, figured in our last number (Tab. 5904),

we have here another singular little leafless Birmese Epiphy-

tal Orchid, first collected by the late Mr. Griffith, by whom spe-

cimens were transmitted to Dr. Lindley, who briefly described

it ina note in the Botanical Register cited above, referring it

to the genus Dendrobium. This reference to Dendrobium must

be attributed to some oversight in the examination of the

pollinia, for these are clearly eight in number, as pointed out

first by the Rev. Mr. Parish, to whom we are indebted for our

specimens, which flowered in the Royal Gardens in April last.

From the same gentleman we have a careful drawing and |

analysis, dated 1870, to which he has appended the note :—

“This little plant answers so remarkably to the description of

Lindley’s Dendrobium extinctorium that I long assumed it was

it, but on examination I find it is an ria!

The specimens sent originally to Dr. Lindley were insuffi-

cient for complete examination, hence his error as to the

pollinia. Specimens are in the Kew Herbarium gathered by

Mr. Griffith and by Dr. Falconer.

JuLY Ist, 1871.

Descr. Pseudobulbs clustered, subglobose, truncate or de-

pressed above, one quarter to half an inch in diameter; from

the centre of the depressed disk rises the slender filiform

scape (or pair of scapes) from a minute scaly mammilla. Scape —

one and a half to two and a half inches long, purplish or

crimson below, with one or two minute sheathing squame.

Flower solitary, half to two-thirds of an inch long. Posterior

sepal ovate, acute, white, or tinged with rose ; lateral sepals ob-

liquely ovate, acute, equalling the posterior sepal, produced

below and adnate to the column, forming an extinguisher-like

obtuse or retuse, slightly curved, greenish-tipped spur.

Lateral petals oblong or oblanceolate, nearly equalling the

sepals, white or faint blush. Zadellum narrowed below into

a distinct claw, with three subprominent, papillose, longi-

tudinal ridges, more or less orange below and on the median

line, transversely blotched with rose-purple above; lateral

lobes broadly rounded, median lobe bifid, with rounded

segments. Free apex of the column very short; anthers

convex, rose or purple. Podlen-masses eight, in two opposed

parallel pairs of four each, connate at the base.—D. O.

Fig. 1, Side, and 2, front view of flower; 3, labellum; 4, column; 5 and

6, lateral and front view of pollinia:—all more or less enlarged.

d/l.

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PASSIFLORA CINNABARINA.

Native of Australia.

Nat. Ord. PassirLorEm.

Genus PasstrLora, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl., vol. i. p. 810).

Passtrtora (Disemma) cinnabarina ; glabra, foliis trilobis palmatisve lobis

ovatis v. ovato-ellipticis acutiusculis, petiolis eglandulosis, corona

interiore ore contracto filis in membranam integram plicatam pilosulam

concretis, exteriore interiorem superante filis uniseriatis distinctis.

Passtriora cinnabarina, Lindl. in Gard.Chron., 1855, p. 724 (cum te. aylog.).

DisemMa coccinea, Belgique Horticole, vol. xv. (1865), p. 289, tab. 18.

This elegant climber was first introduced by Sir Thomas

Mitchell fifteen to twenty years ago. It is very nearly allied

to Passifiora Banksit, Benth. (“ Flora Australiensis, iu. 3] 2),

the Disemma coccinea of De Candolle, differing in the absence

of glands on the petiole, and in the relatively much shorter

inner corona, which consists of a continuous deeply plicate

membrane, closely contracted at the mouth around the gyno-

phore. The only specimen in the Kew Herbarium was

presented to Sir W. J. Hooker by Mr. Backhouse, who

received it from Sir W. Macarthur. It is not localized, and

neither Dr. Lindley nor the Belgique Horticole gives the

precise region whence the plant was introduced. Our figure

is from a plant flowered last March in the Temperate House

of the Royal Gardens, Kew, grown from seeds presented by

Mr. Grant Duff, M.P., Under-Secretary of State for India,

and which had been procured from the Melbourne Botanic

Gardens by Evelyn Sturt, Esq., who brought them to

England.

Dzscr. A slender glabrous climber. Branches terete, of

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the thickness of a crow-quill. eaves usually deeply trifid,

occasionally 5-lobed, base subcordate or distinctly cordate

with a wide sinus; lobes ovate or ovate-elliptical, entire, or

the median lobe with a broad obtuse lateral tooth on each

side, acute or broadly pointed, glabrous, membranous, one

and a half to two and a half inches long and broad. Petiole

rather shorter than the blade, eglandular, glabrous. Stipules

subulate. Flowers axillary, solitary, widely spreading, scarlet,

about two and a half inches in diameter ; peduncle one inch

more or less, with a few scattered subulate bracteoles.

Sepals 5, narrowly oblong or linear-oblong, obtuse, one inch

long. Petals one-third to half as long as sepals, oblong.

Outer corona of a single series of slender erect filaments.

Inner corona vouch shorter than the outer, membranous,

deeply plicate, contracted at the mouth, shortly softly villous,

like the outer pale yellow or whitish—(I have not fresh flowers

for examination, but Mr. Fitch represents an intermediate

series of short filaments in the corona, fig. 1). Gynophore

exserted, three-quarters of an inch long.—D. 0.

Fig. 1, Transverse section of corona and base of gynophore :—enlarged.

5912.

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MILLA Sabrina

Native of California.

~ Nat. Ord. Livtace®.—Tribe Mites.

Genus Mitta, Cavanilles ; (Kunth. Enum. Plant., vol. iv. p. 478).

MiLta capitata ; bulbo ovideo prolifero tunicato, foliis anguste linearibus

elongatis acuminatis, scapo gracili elongato, spathe valvis pluribus

elliptico-lanceolatis violaceis floribus brevioribus, perianthio cerules-

centi-violaceo, submarcescenti 6-fido, lobis ovatis obtusis erectis, stami -

nibus inclusis filamentis 3 alternis basi dilatatis complanatis inappendi- —

culatis, 38 utrinque lamina lanceolata antheram superanti instructis,

capsula inclusa.

Mitta capitata, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc., vol. xi. p. 381.

Bropiza capitata, Benth. Pl. Hartweg., p. 339.

DicuELostemMa capitata, Wood in Proc. Acad. Philad., 1868, p. 173.

For the opportunity of figuring this charming bulb we are

indebted to our excellent correspondent, Max Leichtlin, of

Carlsruhe, who transmitted fresh flowering specimens from

his garden in May last. It was originally described by Mr. |

Bentham, in the “ Plante Hartwegiane,” and has long been

known to us in the Herbarium from specimens collected in

California by Douglas, Coulter, and others. Mr. Baker, in his

valuable Monograph of the Gamophyllous Capsular herba-

ceous Liliacew (Journ. Linn. Soc., vol. xi. p. 349), on the ground

of technical convenience, refers our plant to the genus Milla,

established by Cavanilles for his M. d7fora, including under

Brodiga only triandrous species, in which the alternate

stamens are reduced to staminodia. Unfortunately this

generically separates species, which in every other ae 8

appear congeneric, while it associates others, which certainly

look generically distinct. ‘The alternative, however, seemed

JULY Ist, 1871.

to be to reduce all (Moriea, Milla, Dichelostemma, Triteleia,

Hesperoscordum, Calliprora, and allies) to one genus.

Descr. Bulé one half to three: quarters inch diameter,

ovoid or subglobose, proliferous, sheathed by fibrous scales.

Leaves usually two from each flowering ‘bulb, . elongate,

narrowly linear, glabrous, tapering above, one foot long or

more, one-eighth to one-sixth inch broad. Scape tall and

slender, one to two feet or taller, glabrous. Unméels several-

or many-flowered, compact, about one and a half inches in

diameter. Valves of spathe several, ovate or elliptic-lan-

ceolate, acute, falling short of the flowers, deep violet.

Pedicels one fourth to one half the length of the flower.

Perianth infundibuliform, sexfid, blue-violet, lobes ascending,

ovate, obtuse, one half to three-fourths inch long. Stamens six,

inserted at mouth of tube, alternately rather unequal ; three

opposite to the three outer segments of perianth with short

unappendaged filaments complanate and dilated at base ; three

opposite to the inner segments with each side of the very

short filament adnate to a lanceolate membranous erect scale,

which overtops the linear anther. Ovary narrowed above

and below. Capsule many-seeded, included in the marcescent

perianth.—D. 0,

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RHYNCHOSIA Curysocras.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Nat. Ord. Leguminosa#.—Tribe PariLionace”,

Genus Ruyncuosia, Lour. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl., vol. i. p- 542.)—

§ Chrysocias,

Ruyncuosta Chrysocias ; volubilis, ramis pubescentibus tomentosisve, foliis

pinnatim 3-foliolatis breviter petiolatis, foliolis oblongo-lanceolatis

obtusiusculis supra sparse hirtellis glabratisve subtus pubescentibus v.

tomentosis, stipulis ovato-ellipticis obtusis, floribus umbellatis peduncu-

latis, pedicellis flore xquilongis v. brevioribus, calyce tomentoso-piloso

5-fido (labio superiore bipartito), corolla aureo-flava.

Ruyncuosta Chrysocias, Benth. in Harv. et Sond. Flora Cap., vol. ii. p. 248.

Curysocias grandiflora, EZ. Mey. Comm., 139.

Gurcrne erecta, Thunb. Fl. Capensis, p. 592 (fide Harv. i.c.).

Cyuisra lancifolia, Eckl. et Zeyh. Herb., No. 1690 (fide Harv, l.c.).

It ‘is remarkable that this beautiful climber should not

have earned a coloured plate long ago, at a time when Cape

plants were more generally and specially cultivated than they

are at present. It flowers very copiously in spring, trained

up the rafters of a greenhouse. Our figure is from a plant

flowered last May in the Royal Gardens, Kew. This species

is very nearly allied to Rhynchosia Leucoscias, differing tech-

nically in the deeper division, into two linear-lanceolate

teeth, of the upper lip of the calyx. _

Descr. Branches flexuose or twining from a woody base,

slender, terete, closely pubescent or shrubby tomentose.

Leaves pinnately trifoliolate, thinly pubescent above, more

closely pubescent or tomentose beneath; leaflets oblong-

lanceolate, rather obtuse or subacute, entire ; one to one and a

half inches long, five to eight lines broad ; lateral leaflets on

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petiolules of one line or less, terminal scarcely or but

slightly exceeding the lateral at an interval of one-sixth to

one-fourth inch. Stipules ovate-elliptical, obtuse or broadly

pointed, pubescent or shortly tomentose, one-third inch long.

Peduncles axillary, varying to about three inches in length,

pubescent. Pedicels equalling or shorter than the calyx,

somewhat glandular-pilose ; involucral bracts elliptical,

pubescent, ciliate, deciduous. lowers two-thirds to three-

fourths of an inch; calyx green, pilose or tomentose ; corolla

golden yellow. Calyx deeply 5-fid, lobes linear-lanceolate,

rather obtuse, much exceeding the tube, nearly as long as

the corolla, two upper lobes the shortest. Vead//um erect,

rotundate, emarginate; a/e and carina subequal, obtuse.

“ Legumes not much larger than the calyx, pilose.” —D. 0.

Fig. 1, Calyx and stamens, the corolla removed; 2, vexillum; 3, carina;

4, one of the ale , 5, pistil:—all somewhat enlarged.

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ARIS ARMA concrinnoum.

Native of Sikkim Himalaya.

Nat. Ord. AromEa.—§ ARISAREA.

Genus ArtsaMma, Martius ; (Schott. Prod. Syst. Aroid,, p. 24).

ARISEMA concinnum ; tubere subspherico superne radiculoso, scapo solitario

folio breviore, basi vaginato unifoliato, folio digitatim, 9-11-foliolato,

foliolis elongato-ovalibus utrinque attenuatis v. apice caudato-acumi-

natis, spatha inferne tubulosa fauce aperta lamina longe acuminata

decurva longitudinaliter (masc.) ex albo et cerulescenti purpureo vel

(fem.), viridulo striata, spadice subincluso apice truncato vix clayato

_ subcapitato.

ARISEMA concinnum, Schott in Bonplandia, 1859, vol. xxvii.; Prod. Syst.

Aroid., p. 50.

“Nearly allied to Arisema papillosum, Schott, figured in the

Botanical Magazine (Tab. 5496), but a more elegant species,

and technically belonging to a different section, marked by

the form of the appendix of the spadix, which is clavate in

A. papillosum, and scarcely thickened upwards in our plant.

The spathes, purple and white in the male plant, green and

white in the female, are graceful in form and attractive in

colour. They expand in spring, our figure being from a

specimen which flowered last April in the Royal Gardens,

introduced by Mr. Gammie from the Sikkim Himalaya, where

this species was discovered by Dr. Hooker in 1845, growing

in forests at an elevation of 6-10,000 feet. The colour of

the spathe and the spadix of the male plant are taken from a

drawing made under the late Mr. Cathcart’s superintendence,

which has been authenticated by Dr. Schott.

Descr. Leaf solitary; petiole erect, one to two feet

long, sheathing the scape below, and sheathed at the base

by two or three successively longer, membranous, closely

JuLY lst, 1871.

applied scales ; leaflets elongate, oval, gradually narrowed to

each end, often very finely tapering above, glabrous, mem-

branous, paler beneath, varying to nearly one foot in length,

one inch to two and a half inches in breadth. Scape con-

siderably shorter than the petiole, erect, glabrous. Spathe

convolute, tubular below ; tube two to three inches long, half

to three quarters inch in diameter; lamina’slightly recurved

at the mouth, gradually narrowed above into a long taper-

ing pendent appendix; the spathe of the male plant striated

white and dark blue-purple; of the female white and green

longitudinally, paler outside ; appendix of spathe varying to

nearly six inches in length in the female, shorter in the male.

Spadi« but slightly exserted, appendix hardly thickened

above, subcapitate, truncate, not clavate.-—D. 0.

Fig. 1, Entire plant, much reduced; 2, two leaflets and their attach-

ment, with the apex of the peduncle; 8, female, and 7, male inflorescence,

enclosed by spathe; 4, spadix of female; 8, of male plant; 5, ovary; 6,

same laid open; 9, stamen :—the analyses magnified.

5918.

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GREVILLEA macrosrvy.is.

Native of West Australia.

Nat. Ord. Proreacez.

Genus Grevitiea, R. Br. (Endl. Gen. Plant., p. 340).—§ Leiogyne.

GREVILLEA macrostylis ; frutex, ramulis subvelutinis, foliis subsessilibus

ovatis basi cuneatis trifidis lobo centrali trilobato, lobulis pungente

acutatis supra glabratis subtus sericeis, floribus terminalibus v. axilla-

ribus subumbellatis, perianthii basi dilatati limbo revoluto, stylo

longissime exserto glabro.

GREVILLEA macrostylis, ¥. Muell. Frag. Phyt. Austr., vol. i. p.137; Benth.

Fl. Austr., vol. v. p. 428.

A valuable addition to our hard-wooded Australian collec-

tion, with neat compact habit, and close somewhat rigid

foliage ; flowers freely at or near the end of nearly every

twig in spring and early summer. Our figure is from a

specimen flowered last April in the Royal Gardens, Kew,

where it was introduced in 1868 from seeds transmitted

by our highly valued correspondent, Dr. Ferdinand von

Mueller, from the rich Botanical Gardens of Melbourne. It

is a native of East Mount Barren, in Western Australia.

Descr. Branches terete, closely puberulous. Leaves sub-

sessile or very shortly petiolate, ovate, trifid, base cuneate,

lobes entire, pungent-pointed or central lobe with a lateral

triangular tooth on each side, upper surface early glabrous,

at first with minute subdistant appressed hairs, minutely

sericeous beneath, one inch to one anda half inches long and

broad. lowers fascicled or umbellate, few together, in the

JULY Ist, 1871.

upper axils or terminal and overtopping the leaves; pe-

duncle very short or none ; pedicels one-sixth to one-fourth

of an inch long, silky. -Perianth one-half to two-thirds of

an inch long, thinly silky-pubescent externally, obtuse or

rounded at base, limb revolute. Style elongate curved, one

and a half inches long more or less.—D. O.

Fig. 1, Two flowers detached :—enlarged.

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Tas. 5916.

PRIMULA sapontca.

Native of Japan,

Nat. Ord, Primutace®.—Tribe PrimuLee.

Genus Prrwua, L. (Hndl. Gen. Plant., p. 731).

PrimuLa japonica ; glabra, foliis vix petiolatis obovato-oblongis v. spathu-

latis argute dentatis vy, duplicato-dentatis venosis efarinosis, scapo elato,

- floribus numerosis_ verticillatis, involucri bracteis lineari-subulatis

inappendiculatis integerrimis pedicello multo-brevioribus, calyoe

ovoideo-campanulato, lobis triangulari-subulatis, tubo intus farinifero

equilongis, corolle purpure» tubo oe longe superante lobis

obcordatis, capsula globosa vertice nuda denum irregulariter rupta.

PrimuLa japonica; A. Gray in Mem. Amer. Acad. Seience, vol. vi. p. 400.

Respecting the discovery of this superb plant, I have been

favoured with the following note, by Mr. Fortune ; it is dated

April 26th, 1871, and states that “it was met with by me, in

full flower, in gardens near Yedo, in May, 1861. I saved

its seeds at the time, and sent them home to England, but

they failed to vegetate. Plants also were lost on the voyage.

Since that time I have made many efforts to introduce it into

England, but only last year succeeded in getting seeds to

vegetate. For these seeds I am indebted to W. Keswick,

Esq., of Hong Kong, and Messrs. Walsh, Hall, and Co., of

Yokohama, which gentlemen have thus the honour of intro-

ducing a very lovely plant into English gardens. It is per-

fectly hardy in England, and is now, April 26th, in full

bloom in Mr. Bull’s establishment at Chelsea; there are

several varieties, all beautiful, and no doubt we soon shall

have many more.”

The only previous notice of this plant I can find, is A.

Gray’s description quoted above, and which was drawn up

AugusT Ist, 1871.

from specimens collected near Hakodadi, by Charles Wright,

who discovered it in 1855, and which was published in 1859.

As a species it is very closely allied to P. prolifera, of the

Khasia mountains, in East Bengal, discovered by Wallich’s

collectors, previous to 1830, and which we have collected,

but not in flower, inhabiting marshy spots at an elevation of

5000 feet on that range. It is also most closely allied to the

yellow flowered P. imperialis, Junghuhn (Cankrienia chry-

santha de Vriese), of the mountains of Java (4—9000 feet

elevation), and possibly all may prove varieties of one species.

P. japonica has been collected also by Maximovicz, at

Yokohama, and by Consul C. P. Hodgson, near Hakodadi.

The splendid specimen here figured flowered in Mr. Bull’s

establishment, at Chelsea, in April of the present year; it

bears far more flowers than the indigenous ones.

Descr. Glabrous, without pubescence or powder, or with

a very spare sprinkling of atoms on the leaf beneath. Leaves

subsessile, three to six inches long, one to three inches broad,

obovate-oblong or subspathulate, obtuse, finely singly or

doubly toothed, convex above, wrinkled and veined. Scape

one to one and a half feet high, stout, strict, erect, bearing

three to six spreading whorls of six to eighteen fine clear

purple flowers an inch in diameter. Pedicel as long as the

flowers. Calyz-tube sub-hemispheric, inner surface coated with

yellow powder, lobes triangular-subulate. Corolla-tube nearly

three times as long as the calyx, lobes obcordate. Style

slender. Capsule subglobose, hardly exceeding the calyx-

teeth, bursting irregularly into 5 valves.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower, with coroll

a removed; 2 tyl d stigma :—all

magnified, > #, OVary, style, and stigm

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TAB. OGL ,

ABUTILON Darwinu.

Native of South Brazil.

Nat. Ord. Matvacez.—Tribe MALveR.

Genus AsuTILon, Gertn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl., vol. i. p. 204).

Asvutiton Darwinii; frutescens, molliter velutino-tomentosum, foliis petio-

latis basi cordatis 5-9-nerviis, inferioribus late palmatim 5-fidis

superioribus 3-fidis supremis integris ovatis, lobis triangularibus acu-

minatis crenulatis v. denticulatis, floribus in axillis solitariis v. 2-3-nis

gracile pedunculatis nutantibus subsanguineo aurantiacis, nervis satu-

ratioribus, calycis tomentosi tubo hemispherico, lobis triangulari-ovatis

acuminatis enerviis petalis obovato-orbiculatis subdimidio brevioribus,

carpellis numerosis (15—-20) vesicularibus.

I received flowering specimens of this plant from my friend

Mr. Darwin, in April last, with the information that he had

raised it from seed transmitted by the learned German

zoologist, Fritz Mueller, of Itzigahy, in St. Catherines, 8.

Brazil, and that it forms a large, erect, handsome bush,

loaded with flowers, and is very ornamental; also that it

possesses the peculiarity of being, during the early part of its

flowering season, absolutely sterile with its own pollen but

fertile with the pollen of any other individual (of the same

species); whilst later in the season it is capable of self-

fertilization. :

Referring to the Herbaria, I find beautiful dried specimens

communicated by Dr. Fritz Mueller in 1869, with flowers

fully two and a half inches diameter, (much larger than in the

cultivated plant), and others gathered at a long antecedent

date, namely, in 1836, by Tweedie, who found it in shady

woods at the summit of St. Joveir. Dr. Mueller’s specimens

are labelled as from Capivari, a locality presumably in the

AvauUstT Ist, 1871.

province of St. Catherines, where Dr. Mueller resides, though

the only place of that name which I find in the maps is in

the province of Rio de Janeiro, and E.N.E. of the capital.

Where St. Joveir (as I read it, for Tweedie’s writing and

spelling are equally bad) is I cannot tell,—the only place of

that name I find is in Bolivia, far from the scene of Mr.

Tweedie’s travels, which extended over an immense tract of

country chiefly to the southward and westward of Brazil

proper, extending into Tucuman, Banda Oriental, &e. |

It is with hesitation that I have advanced this as a new

species of a genus already numbering some seventy to eighty

species, many of them Brazilian. Its allies are 4. Bedfordi-

anum, Hook. (Tab. Nost. 3892), 4. virens, St. Hil., and

A. pictum (Tab. Nost. 3840), which all differ abundantly.

Descr. A large, branching shrub, copiously covered with

dense short velvety tomentum. Branches terete, slender.

Leaves petioled, four to six inches long, by two to four broad,

all deeply cordate at the base, the lower broad and palmately

5- to 7-lobed to near the middle, the upper 3-lobed, the

uppermost entire and ovate-cordate ; lobes of all triangular,

ovate, acute, minutely toothed and crenate; nerves three to

nine, palmately spreading from the top of the petiole, which

is one and a half to two inches long, slender and terete.

Flowers one to three in the axils of many of the leaves, one

and a half to two and a half inches in diameter, broadly cam-

panulate, drooping, dark orange-red, with blood-red veins

and bases of the petals; peduncles slender, one half to one

inch long. Calyx densely velvety-pubescent, tube hemi-

spheric, lobes triangular-ovate, acuminate, quite entire, about

one-third as long as the petals. Pefals orbicular-obovate,

concave. Stamens very numerous, column of anthers oblong,

dark orange-red. Carpels numerous, ten or more, hairy ;

styles filiform, stigmas capitate. F-wit vesicular, small (ripe

not seen).—/. D. H.

Fig. 1, Ovary, style, and stigmas :—magnified.

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DEN. DROBIUM sBarpatuuom.

.

Native of Western India,

Nat. Ord. Orcuipacem,—Tribe MaLaxipea.—f Denprosira,

Genus Denprosium, Swartz; (Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid., p. 74).

Denprosium barbatulum ; caulibus pedalibus juniorbus undique foliosis cito

aphyllis teretibus basi modice incrassatis simpliciusculis, foliis anguste

lanceolatis membranaceis, racemis lateralibus laxifloris strictis v. curvis

pedicello rachique gracillimis, floribus secundis lacteis, sepalis ellipticis

acutis petalis lanceolatis latioribus, labelli lobis lateralibus parvis sub-

acutis intermedio obovato-spathulato apice integerrimo subacuto, caleare

viridi longiusculo.

Denprosium barbatulum, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. No. 2013; Gen. et Sp.

Orchid., 84. Lindl. and Paxt. Fl. Gard. vol. iii. p. 118, cum ite. aylog.

non Wight. Ic. Pl. Ind. t. 910, que D. chlorops ; nee hujus operis t.

0444, que D. Fytcheanum).

This is a species which, though discovered as long ago as

the beginning of this century, and published by Lindley

about 1830, has since been misunderstood, partly because

Wight figured another and closely allied species (D. ch/orops)

for it; and still later a third plant, a Moulmein one (D.

Fytcheanum, Batem.), has been figured as D. barbatulum in

this magazine (Tab. 5444). As it is, the true D. darbatulum

may be known from D. chlorops by its larger pure white

flowers, with more elliptic acuminate sepals, and much nar-

rower petals; and from D. Fytcheanum by the sepals not

being orbicular, by the totally different lip, and colourless

column, as also by the swollen base of the stems. A much

closer ally is the D. Heyneanum (Lindl. in Wall. Cat.,

n. 1995, et Gen. et Sp. Orchid., p. 90; Wight. Tc. t. 909) ;

but this is a very much more slender plant, with smaller

flowers, and other differences.

AuGUsT Isr, 1871.

D. barbatulum is, however, a very variable plant, as a

comparison of our figures 3, 4, and 5 shows ; and other forms

are no doubt forthcoming. The Royal gardens are indebted

to Mr. Woodrow, the able Curator of the Poona Botanic

Gardens, for plants of the true JD. barbatulum, which

flowered in March of the present year. It is a native of

forests in the Concan and other mountains in the Western

Peninsula of India, whence there are specimens in the

Hookerian Herbarium from Heyne, Wight, Gibson, Law,

Stocks, and Dalzell. It has long been in cultivation in Eng-

land, and is well figured by Lindley in Pawton’s Magazine,

as far as the woodcut is concerned.

Descr. Sfems tufted, curved, suberect, rather stiff, about a

foot long, terete from a swollen base, gradually tapering to a

point ; joints about an inch apart, clothed with membranous

sheaths. Leaves on the young shoots only, three to four

inches long, by one-half to two-thirds of an inch broad,

narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, membranous, deciduous.

Racemes lateral, together with the graceful, almost filiform,

slightly-curved peduncles four to ten inches long, many-

flowered. Flowers secund, almost pure white, with a green

spur; buds pale green, narrow, acuminate ; perianth spread-

ing, one and a quarter to one and a half inches in diameter ;.

pedicels one-quarter to one-half of an inch, slender. Sepals

elliptic, acuminate or subobtuse. Pefa/s much narrower,

gradually narrowed from the base to the acuminate or obtuse

tip. ip about as large as the sepal; lateral lobes very

small, ascending, acute, striated with pink; mid-lobe large,

obovate-spathulate, acute, or obtuse, with an obscure. yellow

villous spot at the very base, a short raised mesian ridge.

Spur conical, straight, subacute, about half as long as the

sepals. Column very short indeed. Anther hemispherical.—

Fs DoiH.

Fig. 1, Column base of lip and spur; 2, lip; 3, 4, and 5, varieties in me

form of the flower :—all but 4 and 5 magnified.

W Ritch del et ith,

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Tas. 5919.

GREVILLEA INTRICATA,

Native of Western Australia.

Nat. Ord. Proreacea.—Tribe GREVILLES.

Genus Grevitiea, R. Br. ; (Benth. Fl. Austral,, vol. iv. p. 417).

GREVILLEA intricata ; fruticosa, ramulis gracilibus, novellis floribusque sparse

sericeis ceterum glaberrima, foliis elongatis gracilibus bis terve 3-natim

divisis, segmentis remotis divaricatis lineari-subulatis v. filiformibus

teretiusculis rigidis acutis sulcatis, racemis terminalibus et lateralibus

gracile pedunculatis, pedicellis filiformibus, perianthio gracili revoluto,

limbo (inaperto) globoso, toro recto eglanduloso, stylo recto, stigmate

conico.

GREVILLEA intricata, Meissn. in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot., vol. vii. p. 745 et in

DC. Prod, vol. xiv. p. 8387. Benth. Fl. Austral, vol. iv. p. 481.

A very slender plant, native of the warmer parts of South-

Western Australia, at the Murchison river and Champion

Bay, where it was discovered in 1855 by T. Drummond, and

found later by Messrs. Oldfield and Burges ; the former of

whom describes it as a bushy white-flowered shrub, six to

ten feet high, growing in rocky places. In its wiry habit,

curious foliage, small flowers, and pale colour, it little re-

sembles the species of Grevil/ea in ordinary cultivation, and

affords a conspicuous instance of those great differences in

habit, and those variations in foliage and inflorescence, &c.,

that all the large Australian genera present. The hooked

tips of the young leaf-segments, which spread like bird’s-

claws, would suggest that this plant was a climber; and

though there is no evidence of this, it is quite conceivable

that, under special circumstances, it might become so, since,

though described as a rigid, erect shrub in its dry, rocky,

native soil, it assumes a lax growth, with pendulous branches,

auGust Ist, 1871.

in the damper, cooler atmosphere of the Temperate House at

Kew.

* Grevillea intricata was introduced into the Royal Gardens

by seed received from Mr. Burges, which flowered in May

of the present year.

Descr. An erect, rigid, much-branched, glabrous shrub,

six to ten feet high, becoming lax, with pendulous branch-

lets in a cool damp greenhouse; branches terete ; branchlets,

young shoots, and inflorescence sparingly silky. Leaves

spreading, four to six inches long, consisting of a slender,

rigid, wiry petiole and rachis, with two to four pairs of

distant, rigid, wiry, twice or thrice 3-chotomously-forked

segments, that stand at right angles to one another;

segments terete, pungent, grooved on the upper surface,

young hooked at the tip. Racemes one to two inches long ;

axillary and terminal, dense, conical or ovoid, many-flowered,

erect from curved ascending slender peduncles, white, with

pale lemon-coloured buds, pedicels solitary or in pairs, one-

sixth to one-fourth of an inch long, slender. Mowers small,

one-sixth of an inch long. Perianth glabrous, strongly revo-

lute, the closed tips of the lobes forming in small spheres.

Style stout, nearly straight, swollen below the middle ; stigma

ovoid, angled, obtuse. Capsule shortly stipitate, one-half to

three-quarters of an inch long, obliquely obovoid, woody,

brown, smooth, somewhat rugose when old.—/J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Tip of leaf; 2, a pair of flowers:—both magnified ; 3, fruit, of the

natural size.

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Tas. 5920.

DARLINGTONIA Catirornica.

Native of California.

Nat. Ord. SARRACENIACE.

Genus Dartinetonta, Torr. ; (Benth. and Hook. f., Gen. Pl., vol. i. p. 148).

Daruinetonta Californica.

Daruinetonta Californica, Torvey in Smithsonian Contributions, vol. vi. p. 4,

t.12; Walp. Ann., vol. iv. p.169; Flore des Serres, vol. xiv. tt. 1440,

1441; Belgique Horticole, vol. v. t. 18.

The following information regarding this most singular

plant, which has been flowered by Messrs. Veitch in April of

the present year, is compiled from a letter addressed to us by

Mr. W. Robinson (who visited its native country in October,

1870), and to whom the Royal Gardens are indebted for fine

specimens. It is published in the “ Gardener’s Chronicle”

for January 14th, 1871.

The Darlingtonia grows in spongy sphagnum bogs, with

Rushes.and Sundew, on the Sierra Nevada of California,

at five thousand feet above the sea, where the pitchers

resemble a cluster of Jargonelle pears, ten to twenty-four

inches high, surrounding flowering stems of three to three and

a half feet high, which at the fruiting season bore capsules

as large as walnuts. The top of the pitcher is turned over,

forming a dome, which together with the whole upper part

of the leaf, is of a ripe-pear yellow colour. All the pitchers

are spirally twisted, especially above, and contain at the

bottom two to three inches depth of closely-packed insects,

of all sizes, from little beetles to large moths. By what

means the pitcher attracts these insects is not clear; but it

1s easy to see how it disposes of them when enticed inside. Its

imner surface is smooth for a short way down, when isolated

hairs appear; and, lower down, the whole chamber is lined

with sharp slender transparent rigid needle-like _ hairs,

directed downwards at an acute angle. Towards the base of

AUGUST Ist, 1871.

the pitcher the hairs converge, and the insects, which are at

first guided downwards by the direction of these hairs, finally

become entangled by their converging points, and struggling

to escape, are killed by mutual pressure or confinement, or

perhaps by drowning in the putrid mass.

In a younger state than that described above the leaves

are singular objects, from the tessellated dark-green markings

on the polished upper part of the pitcher, and the pendu-

lous lobe with two diverging flaps, that hangs down from

its aperture; most likely this singular flap plays an impor-

io part, as an insect trap, or decoy, in the economy of the

plant.

Descr. Rootstalk horizontal. Leaves tufted, ten to twenty-

four inches high, spirally twisted above, forming long

narrow curved conical pitchers, one to one and a half

inches diameter at the top below the mouth, the summit of _

which is inflated and turned over, leaving a very narrow

curved aperture directed upwards. The surface of the pitcher

is veined ; a narrow wing runs down its ventral surface, and

another along the crest of the top, whilst a bifid, dull-red,

pendulous appendage, with oblong obtuse lobes, hangs down

in front of the aperture; these lobes divaricate in young

leaves, but are pendulous in old ones. Scape strict, erect,

six to eighteen inches high when in _ flower, clothed

with linear-oblong, obtuse, erect, concave, green, half-am-

plexicaul bracts. Flower solitary, pendulous, three inches

diameter. Sepals 5, linear-oblong, spreading, concave, pale

green. Petals much shorter than the sepals, converging, one

to one and a quarter inches long, yellow-green, with dark

red-brown broad veins, linear-oblong, concave, contracted

above the middle, and again dilated into a smaller terminal,

obtusely concave appendage. Sfamens 1-seriate, numerous,

hypogynous; filaments short, anthers linear-oblong. Ovary

subcylindric below, dilated into a broad orbicular 5-lobed

top, which is deeply depressed in the centre, 5-celled ; style

stout, short, in the centre of the depression ; stigmas 4, ra-

diating, stout, tips papillose; ovules very many and minute,

on large axile spongy 2-lobed placentas. Seeds obovate-

clavate; testa membranous, with squarrose sete; albumen

granular and floury; embryo small basal, cotyledons very

short, radicle cylindrie.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Petal; 2, stamen and pistil; 3, transverse section of ovary :—all

magnified.

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ERANTHEMUM crnnaBaRINuM, VAR. OCELLATUM.

Native of Moulmein.

Nat. Ord. AcanrHaceE#z.—Tribe ERANTHEMER.

Genus Erantuemum; L. (Mees in A. DC. Prod. vol. ii. p. 445.)

Erantuemum cinnabarinum ; glabrum v. minute puberulum, ramulis teretibus,

foliis petiolatis ovatis v. oblongo-lanceolatis subcaudato-acuminatis,

racemis terminalibus basi compositis recurvato-patentibus multifloris,

ficribus fasciculatis subsessilibus secundis, bracteis filiformibus, calycis

segmentis subulatis, corolla coccinea, tubo gracili calyce multoties

longiore, limbi explanati lobis 2 superioribus minoribus oblongis

obtusis, lateralibus oblongo-rotundatis, inferiore orbiculato, antheris

ceruleis.

ERanTHEMuM cinnabarinum, Nees in Wall. Plant. As. Rar., vol. i. p. 20, t.

21; et in A. DC. Prod., vol. ii. p. 453.

Var. ocellata, foliis maculatis, maculis irregulariter orbiculatis oblongisve

stramineis roseo-ocellatis.

A native of Martaban, where it was discovered in 1827 by

Wallich, at the foot of the hills at Trogla, and figured in his

magnificent “Plante Asiatic Rariores.” N othing further

was known of it till, some forty years later, it was discovered

by the Rev. Mr. Parish, on an expedition to Na-Toung, in

Birma. From that gentleman seeds have been received at

Kew, produced by plants grown in his garden at Moulmein,

and it is to the produce ot these that the accompanying plate

is due. The curious ocellate blotching of the leaf does not

occur in the original specimens of Wallich and Parish, and

is no doubt a deformity; it may find favour in the eyes of

many horticulturists, but, to my eye, such discolorations

too much resemble eruptive skin-diseases to be objects of

admiration ; they are not of the same nature as the ornamen-

tation of Anectochilus leaves, or the spots and bands on the

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1871.

foliage of the Indian Cypripedia, or of Episcia Chontalensis,

figured in this number, which are consistent with healthy

action of the cuticle and tissues of the leaf.

Descr. A tall slender undershrub, sometimes six feet

high, of slender habit, with large deep- green smooth —

spreading leaves (blotched in the form here figured). Branches

cylindric, slender, green, slightly tumid at the nodes. Leaves

four to ten inches long, elliptic- or oblong-lanceolate, long

acuminate, entire or obscurely crenulate, minutely pube-

rulous on both surfaces, deep-green above, paler beneath ;

petioles one and a half to three inches long, slender. Racemes

terminal, naked, spreading and secund, compound at the

base, four to eight inches long; rachis terete, pubescent,

slender. lowers fascicled at intervals, subsessile; bracts

filiform, equalling the calyx. Calyx one-third inch long,

puberulous, segments subulate. Corolla tube one inch long,

three to four times as long as the calyx, pale red; limb one

and a quarter inches in diameter, deep vivid red, with a

small white eye and darker blotch at the base of the lower

lobe ; two upper lobes smaller, oblong, rounded ; two lateral

larger than the upper; lower lobe orbicular, rather larger

than the others. Anthers exserted, blue. Ovary puberulous ;

style capillary, stigma notched.—/. D. 4.

Fig. 1, Calyx, style, and stigma; 2, ovary and disk :—both magnified.

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Tas. 5922.

CYPRIPEDIUM xrveow.

Native of the Malayan Archipelago.

Nat. Ord. OrcuipeEm.—Tribe CypriPEDIE&.

Genus Cyprirepium; L. (Zndl. Gen. Pl., vol. i. p. 220).

CYPRIPEDIUM niveum; acaule, foliis 4-6 patentibus distichis oblongis acutis

v. emarginatis basi arcte imbricatis canaliculatis supra luride viridibus

albo-maculatis una cum scapo unifloro et ovario pubescente luride pur-

pureis, bracteis parvis ovario elongato multoties brevioribus, floribus

candidis, sepalo postico suborbiculato acuto, lateralibus in unum

ovatum emarginatum superiore multoties minus connatis, petalis late -

oblongis patentibus apice rotundatis punctis sanguineis conspersis,

labello saccato parvo subsessili ovoideo ore contracto, staminodio

transverse oblongo apiculato.

CYpRIPEDIUM niveum, H. Reichenbach in Gard. Chron. 1869, p. 1038.

This very singular plant was originally described by

Professor H. Reichenbach in the Gardener's Chronicle, who

correctly points out its affinity with the Burmese C. concolor

(Tab. Nost. 5513), whilst keeping it distinct, an opinion in

which I entirely concur. Wide as are the limits of variation

in Orchidee, these less concern the Cypripedia than many

other genera, and in this case the points of discrepancy

between C. niveum and concolor affect many parts of the

structure;—thus in C. niveum the bracts are much smaller

and of a different form; the ovary is longer; the upper or

dorsal sepal far broader; the lateral sepals are combined into

one remarkably small notched blade, not one-fourth the size

of the upper sepal; the petals are considerably broader ; the

lip much smaller, of a wholly different shape, with a con-

tracted instead of an expanded mouth ; and the staminode

is broader than long ;—to these structural differences must

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1871.

be added the long slender scape, different coloration of the

leaves, which are spotted with oblong white blotches, whose

axis is parallel to the length of the leaf; and lastly the striking

difference in the colour of the flowers.

C. niveum is a native of the Tambelan Islands, a small

group midway between Singapore and the coast of Borneo ;

whence, Mr. Bullinforms me, he first imported it in 1870;

adding, that he had since received it from the West Coast of

Siam. The beautiful specimen here figured flowered in his

nursery in June of the present year.

Descr. Stemless ; leaves beneath, scape, and ovary of a dark

lurid purple colour. eaves coriaceous, four to six inches

long, distichous, bases closely imbricating, acute or notched

at the tip, keeled, dark dull green above, with oblong

greenish-white spots. Scapes several, six inches high, strict,

slender; bracts two, sheathing the base of the ovary, one-

half to three-quarters of an inch Jong, oblong, obtuse, purple

with yellow edges. Ovary two inches long, slender, pubes-

cent. lowers three to three and a half inches in diameter,

snow-white. Dorsal sepal orbicular, cuspidate, streaked with

scarlet at the back; two lateral combined into one ovate

notched blade placed under the lip and smaller than it.

Petals spreading, slightly deflexed, broadly oblong, rounded

at the tip, distinctly spotted with red-purple from the base to

the middle. zp one inch long, pure white, exactly ovoid,

with a contracted mouth. Staminode transversely oblong,

apiculate, white, with an irregular yellow disk.—/J. D. H.

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UTRICULARIA montana.

Native of the West Indies.

Nat. Ord. LENTIBULARIEA.

Genus Urricutaria; Linn. (A. DC. Prod., vol. viii. p. 3.)

Urricutarta (Orchidioides) montana ; radicibus e tuberibus oblongis pedi-

cellatis fibrillisque filiformibus, foliis radicalibus petiolatis lanceolatis

acutis 3-nerviis nervis secundariis paucis, scapo erecto 1-5-flore brac-

teato, bracteis linearibus remotis, floribus amplis cernuis pedicellatis,

sepalis ovato-cordatis obtusis, corolle labiis amplis planiusculis undulatis,

superiore orbiculato basi truncato, marginibus recurvis, inferiore duplo

majore transverse oblongo, palato prominente genitalia occludente

calcare robusto incurvo labio breviore.

Urricu.aria montana, Jacq. Amer., vol. vii. 6 ; Poiret, Encycl., vol.viii. p. 268;

A. DG. Prod., vol. viii. p. 23; Griseb. Flor. Brit. W. Indies, p. 390.

Urricutaria alpina, Linn. Sp. Pl., 25; Vahl. Enum., vol. i. p. 194 (Eael.

Syn.) ; Hook. Exot. Fl., t. 198.

Urricutaria grandiflora, Pers. Synops., vol. i. p. 18.

Urricunaria uniflora, Ruiz. and Pav. Fl. Peruv., vol. i. p. 20, t. 31, f. 6.

To many who have seen this singular plant for the first

time in cultivation, it will be a matter of surprise to be in-

formed that it is a member of the same genus as the Bladder-

worts of our ponds; and departs from the habits of most of

its congeners chiefly in being terrestrial, developing hollow

tubers on the fibrils of its roots, at the base of its stem, and

minute imperfect bladders. The occurrence of these bladders

is a singular instance of the presence of organs, typical of its

family, in a member of it that can make no use of them.

.U. montana is an epiphyte, growing on wet mossy trunks of

trees in the mountains of the West Indian Islands, where it

has been detected in Montserrat, Dominica, St. Vincent,

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1871.

Grenada, and Trinidad, of the British Islands. It also in-

habits Martinique ; and on the Main the Isthmus of Darien,

Venezuela, Guiana, New Grenada, and Peru, advancing in

the latter country to Huanuco in 10 degrees South. It is

curious that a plant spread over so wide an area should not

hitherto have been found in Jamaica.

The Royal Gardens are indebted for this singular plant to

Mr. Ortgies of Zurich, who received it with a collection of

Orchids from the Spanish Main. It flowered in a tropical

stove in July of the present year.

Derscr. Roots of ovoid stalked hollow green tubers, one-

third to half an inch long, which are formed on filiform, wiry,

tortuous fibrils, that also bear at intervals, beyond the tubers,

- minute deformed transparent utricles. Leaves four to six

inches long, erect, elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse or acute, nar-

rowed into slender petioles, dark-green on both surfaces,

smooth, 3-nerved ; lateral nerves faint, joined to the central

by faint oblique venules; petiole terete, jointed above the

base. Scape much longer than the leaves, erect, slender,

wiry, terete, with one or several erect linear bracts. Flowers

one to four; very large, one and a half inches in diameter,

drooping ; pedicels one-half to three-quarters of an inch long ;

with a small obtuse bract at the base. Calyx-lobes pale green,

ovate-cordate, obtuse. Corolla white, with a yellow palate

and disk to the lower lip; upper lip one inch in diameter,

orbicular, with a truncate base, horizontal, with recurved

edges; lower lip transversely oblong, twice as large as the

upper, palate high and very prominent, closing the throat ;

spur a stout horn, shorter than the limb, incurved. Stamens

with clavate filaments, and vertical, two-celled anthers.

Seeds fusiform.—/J. D. H.

~°Fig. 1;. Lower sepal and upper lip; 2, lower lip and spur; 8, ovary

and stamen :—all magnijied.

5924,

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Tas, 5924,

SEDUM GLANDULOSUM,

Native of Sardinia.

Nat. Ord. CrassuLAceazi.

Genus Sepum, L. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl., vol. i. p. 659).

Sepum glandulosum ; annuum, humile, glanduloso-pubescens, foliis erecto-

patentibus sparsis lineari-oblongis obtusis cylindricis facie obscure

complanatis, floribus breviter pedicellatis axillaribus et in cymas

breves simplices v. bifidas dispositis purpurascentibus, sepalis late ovatis

subacutis, petalis ellipticis acutis, filamentis gracilibus, antheris purpu-

reis, carpellis turgidis, erectis.

Sepum glandulosum, Moris Stirp. Sard., El. i. p. 203 Flor. Sard., vol. iv.

p. 121, t. 73, f. 3; Bertoloni Fi. Ital., vol. iv. p. 717.

It is partly in the hope of reviving a taste for the cultiva-

tion of a class of plants that were highly deserved favourites

with our grandfathers, that the Botanical Magazine devotes

an occasional plate to such a neglected group as the smaller

European succulents,—a taste that is being most commend-

ably and energetically encouraged by Mr. W. Robinson,

whose works on the cultivation of rock, alpine, and hardy

plants have given a new direction to the energies of those

lovers of horticulture who have little time, space, or means

for gardening. Such plants possess all the attractions of

variety, beauty of form, brightness of colour, rarity (if that

be one), and curious structure, and afford far more real grati-

fication to the cultivated amateur and intellectual gardener,

than can gaudy carpets and hearth-rugs of Geraniums, Calceo-

larias, and Verbenas scattered over grass lawns, and gay only

for a few weeks of the year. e : i

Sedum glandulosum forms a beautiful object in a pot, is of

easy cultivation, and seeds freely ; it isa very rare and little

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1871.

known species, a native of the mountains of Sardinia, to

which it was long assumed to be confined. The specimens

here figured were, however, supposed to be raised from seeds

gathered by G. Maw, Hsq., in the Escorial in Spain (as he

believes), and kindly communicated by him to the Royal

Gardens, where they produced plants that flowered in June

last, and were named by Mr. Baker. I state that this is

Mr. Maw’s impression regarding the origin of this plant;

but knowing, as I do, the danger there is of the seeds of

annuals becoming mixed, there may be room for doubt.

Unfortunately my friend is now on a horticultural tour in

the Pyrenees, so that I cannot refer my suspicions to him.

Descr. Whole plant covered with minute gland-tipped

hairs. Roof annual, of slender fibres. Stems two to six

inches high or long, suberect, decumbent or ascending,

simple or forked. Leaves scattered, sessile, one-third to two-

thirds of an inch long, linear-oblong, obtuse, cylindric,

rather contracted upwards ; base quite simple. /Vowers one-

third of an inch in diameter; usually alternate on short

recurved simple or forked terminal cymes, pale-red purple ;

pedicels slender, about as long as the flower. Sepals broadly

ovate, subacute. Petals twice or thrice as long as the calyx,

elliptic, acute, keeled. S¢amens rather shorter than the petals ;

filaments slender; anthers minute, purple. Carpels erect;

many seeded; style slender, one-twelfth of an inch long;

stigma minute. Seeds oblong, smooth, striate.—/J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Leaf; 2, flower; 3, ditto, with the petals and stamens removed :—

all magnified.

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Tas. 5925.

, EPISCIA: CHONTALENSIS,

Native of Central America.

Nat. Ord. Gresnerracee.—Tribe BEsLeRIeer.

Genus Episcra, Mart. ; (Hanstein in Linnea, vol. xxxiv. p. 246).

Kpiscia chontalensis; molliter hirsuta, caule suberecto robusto, foliis ob-

longo- v. elliptico-ovatis utrinque obtusis crenatis convexis nervis

impressis supra lete viridibus late purpureo limbatis, floribus axilla-

ribus solitariis v. geminis, pedicellis petiolo subsquilongis, calycis lobis

spathulatis recurvis, corolla deflexa pallide lilacina tubo_hirsuto |

anguste infundibulari basi gibbo deorsum protruso, limbi plani obliqui

lobis rotundatis margine crispato-dentatis.

Cyrtoprrra chontalensis, Seemann in Gard. Chron., 1867, p. 655; Flore des

Serres, vol. xviii. p. 165, t. 1924.

A beautiful plant, first described by its introducer, Dr.

Seemann, in the Gardener's Chronicle, as a species of Cyrto-

deira, one of Hanstein’s many genera, established in 1853

(Linneea, vol. xxvi. p. 206) amongst the Besleriee ; and which

he had the wisdom and candour to abandon in 1865 (Linnea,

vol. xxiv. p. 233), referring the species of Cyrtodeira to Martius's

genus /iscia. Under this view, which is, I think, a cor-

rect one, Apiscia consists of the Besleriee with a prominent

gland at the base of the ovary, straight short anther cells,

free calyx segments, and a rather narrow tube to the corolla.

It thus includes, besides other plants, Centrosolenia glabra

(Tab. nost. 4552), C. dractescens (Tab. nost. 4675), Drymonia

punctata (Tab. nost. 4089), and Achimenes cupreata (Tab.

nost. 4312), to which latter, a native of New Grenada, the

LE. chontalensis is most closely allied. All are natives of

tropical America, and chiefly of countries between Mexico,

Venezuela, and New Grenada.

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1871.

Lpiscia chontalensis is a brilliantly coloured herbaceous

plant, a native of the Chontales region of Nicaragua, where

it was found in shady groves by the bank of a rivulet, near

the Javali gold mine. It was procured for Mr. Bull, of

Chelsea, to whom the Royal Gardens are indebted for a

specimen, which flowered profusely in June of the present

year, shortly after the accompanying drawing had been made

from one of Mr. Bull’s plants.

Descr. A succulent, softly hirsute, herbaceous plant.

Stems stout, terete, decumbent or ascending, dark red-purple,

six to ten inches long. eaves opposite and irregularly

whorled, petioled, three to four inches long, oblong-ovate or

elliptic-oblong, crenate-serrate, obtuse, base rounded or sub-

cordate, very convex on either side of the depressed midrib,

and between the much-sunk veins; margins recurved; upper

surface reticulated, bright emerald-green in the centre, with a

broad dark purple limb, the purple advancing towards the

midrib between the veins, under surface pale with prominent

veins. lowers solitary and geminate; pedicels equalling

the petioles, hirsute. Calyx small, green or red, segments

linear-spatheolate, recurved, entire or toothed towards the

tip. Corolla very pale lilac, deflexed; tube one inch long,

slightly upcurved, with a prominent rounded sac projecting

backwards beyond the calyx; limb flat, oblique, one and a

half to two inches in diameter, lobes orbicular with toothed

margins. Stamens included. Ovary minute, with an erect

dorsal hypogynous gland. Séy/e filiform, stigma 2-lipped,

included.—/. D. H.

Fig. 1, Calyx, style, and stigma; 2, ovary and hypogynous gland :—both

magnified.

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LITHOSPERMUM Gasront.

Native of the Pyrenees.

Nat. Ord. Boragine®.—Tribe LirHospeRME.

Genus Lirnospermum, L. ; (A. DC., Prod. Syst. Veg., vol. x. p. 78).

LitHosrermum Gastoni; sparse et subadpresse pilosum, caule herbaceo 6

basi ramoso, ramis erectis rigidulis, foliis sessilibus confertis ovatis

ovato-lanceolatisve sensim acuminatis basi obtusis subtus glabriusculis,

floribus paucis axillaribus solitariis, lobis calycis lanceolatis extus

villosulis pedicello glabriusculo duplo longioribus, corolla extus velu-

tina, tubo gracili longitudine calycis lobis triplo brevioribus.

Lirnosrermum Gastoni, Benth. in A. DC. Prod., vol. x. p. 83; Gren. et Godr,

Fil. de France, vol. ii. p. 519.

One of the rarest of European plants, confined to a few

spots in the Pyrenees, where it was gathered by Mr. Bentham

and Pastor P. Gaston in 1839, growing in clefts of almost

inaccessible rocks, above Eaux-Bonnes, at the Pic de Gers ;

since which period it has been collected in the Pic d’Anie

and Col de Tartes, all in the Basses Pyrenees. It is a singu-

larly beautiful plant, with much larger though not more

brilliant flowers than the common JL. purpuro-ceruleum, to

which it is closely allied. The specimen here figured was

imported by Mr. Backhouse, and flowered in his Nurseries

at York, in May of the present year. - :

Descr. A short dwarf leafy perennial, covered with minute

appressed hairs. Séem branched from the base ; branches

erect, simple, four to ten inches high, densely leafy. Leaves

one to three inches long, spreading and recurved, ovate-

lanceolate, tapering to a fine point, sessile, base rounded,

keeled, bright green, paler and almost glabrous beneath.

Flowers few, axillary, crowded towards the tips of the branches

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1871.

into a short leafy corymb that does not elongate in fruit,

overtopped by the leaves, two-thirds of an inch in diameter ;

pedicels almost equalling the calyx, angular, thickened at

the top. Calyx velvety, short; segments lanceolate, acute,

lengthening a little in fruit. Corol/a deep-blue, with a white

eye, and white or pale purplish raised pubescent bands down

the centre of each segment; tube short ; lobes broadly ovate,

mouth pubescent, throat with five broad pubescent lines.

Stamens small, inserted in the lower part of the tube ; anthers

elliptic, apiculate. Ovary depressed, 4-lobed. Style very

short; stigma 4-lobed, included. Ripe fruit of yellowish

shining subglobose nuts, acuminate, irregularly covered with

little pits.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower; 2, corolla laid open; 3, ovary :—all magnified.

Vincen'L Brooks Day & Son, Imp

W-Hitch del et. lith

Tas. 5927.

BOMAREA CHONTALENSIS,

Native of Nicaragua.

Nat. Ord, AMARYLLIDER.—Tribe ALSTREMERIER.

Genus Bomarra, Mirbel ; (Herbert Amaryllid., p. 109).

Bomarea chontalensis ; caule volubili cylindrico velutino, foliis sparsis

' summis subverticillatis lanceolatis ellipticisve acuminatis glabris subtus

glaucis, umbellis pubescentibus, pedunculis elongatis, floribus numerosis

laxe racemosis pendulis, perianthii equalis foliolis 3 exterioribus

obovatis obtusis roseis, 3 interioribus spathulatis integerrimis pallidis

brunneo maculatis, ovario triangulari.

Bomarea chontalensis, Seemann in Gard. Chron. 1871, p. 479.

A native of the margins of woods in the Chontales

mountains of Nicaragua, where it was discovered by its de-

scriber, at elevations of 2000 to 2500 feet above the sea, and

whence roots were sent to Mr. Bull’s establishment at

Chelsea, where the plant flowered in August of the present

year. Asa species it is closely allied to B. edulis, Tussac

(Alstremeria Salsilla, Tab. nost. 1613, not of Feuillet), a native

of St. Domingo, the tubers at the end of the root-fibres of

which are boiled and eaten as potatoes, under the name of

Topinambours blancs: that plant has however fewer and less

brightly-coloured flowers, and its inner perianth-segments

are spotted with green; the size of the flower is the same in

both.

B. chontalensis is a very handsome stove climber, and is no

doubt easily cultivated, and increased by the removal of the

tubers at the proper season. Gai:

Discr. Stem several feet high, climbing, cylindric,

velvety, rich red-brown, as thick as a goose-quill. Leaves

OCTOBER ist, 1871.

scattered, except the three to five upper, which are whorled,

three to five inches long, lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate,

acuminate, base acute, seven-nerved, bright dark green ;

petiole short, twisted. Umbel pendulous, of about four un-

equal, long, slightly spreading, pubescent four to six-flowered

peduncles, each five to ten inches long; bracts lanceolate or

ovate-lanceolate, one quarter to three quarters of an inch long,

green, spreading ; pedicels spreading, one inch long, green.

Ovary turbinate, trigonous, with three thick ribs. Perianth .

one and a half inches long, subcampanulate, obtusely tri-

gonous ; outer segments thick, fleshy, waxy, rose-red with a

few brown spots round the margin at the tip, obovate,

obtuse, very convex, obscurely keeled at the back, with a

thick rib towards the tip ; inner segments a little shorter and

much narrower, spathulate, obtuse, apiculate, quite entire,

pale yellow blotched with brown, claw concave at the base in

front. Anthers dark-purple. Style columnar; stigmas 3,

short, spreading.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Ovary, style, and stigma; 2, outer, and 3, inner perianth-seg-

ment :—all magnified.

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Tas. 5928,

, XIPHION ritirouium.

Native of Southern Spain and Marocco. ,

Nat. Ord. Irntpacez.—Tribe Inwem.

Genus Xipuion, Tourn. ; (Tab. nost. 5890.)

XIPHION filifolium ; foliis valde elongatis setaceo-filiformibus flexuosis scapum

l-rarissime 2-florum longe superantibus, spathis elongatis acuminatis

striatis margine membranaceis, perianthii violacei tubo limbum di-

midium superante, laciniis exterioribus supra medium angustis dein

obovato-rotundatis, disco vitta lutea azureo-limbata truncata notatis,

interioribus obovato-lanceolatis supra medium erosis apice 2-dentatis,

capsula obtusa acute 3-gona.

_ Xuputon filifolium, Klatt in Linnea, vol. xxxiv. p. 571; Baker in Seem. Journ.

Bot. (1871), vol. ix. p. 14.

Tris filifolia, Boiss. Voy. in Esp., vol. ii. p. 602, t. 170; Willk. et Lange,

Prodr. Fl. Hisp., vol. i. p. 142. — -

Now that the cultivation of hardy herbaceous plants is

coming prominently into vogue, many beautiful novelties

will be annually added to our beds, borders, and frames, for

many years to come, and amongst them few are more desi-

rable than the species of Jris and Xiphion, because of their

facility of treatment, their rapid multiplication, varieties of

gorgeous colouring, and comparatively early season of

flowering.

The species of Xiphion inhabit, for the most part, dry

exposed places in the Mediterranean region, flowering from

March to May, a month or two before they arrive at per-

fection in this country. X. flifolium is a native of Southern

Spain, where it was discovered by Boissier, in sandy calcareous

rocks on the Sierra Bermeja, at an elevation of 3000 to

4000 feet (French) ; it probably also inhabits Marocco, where

OCTOBER Ist, 187].

the magnificent X. ¢angitanum grows, a much larger plant, with

darker more maroon-coloured flowers. lowering specimens

of this latter gorgeous plant were given me at Tangiers by

Sir J. Drummond Hay, apropos of which Miss Hay informed

me that a similar smaller flowered kind grew in the vicinity

of Tangiers, which most probably is X. filifolium.

The specimen of X. filifolium here figured was brought by

Mr. Maw from the rock of Gibraltar in 1869, and flowered

in Benthal Gardens in July of the present year. In Gibraltar

it flowers in April. .

Descr. Bulb from the size of a hazel nut to a walnut, with

a brown fibrous coat. Stem slender, one to two feet high,

terete, leafy. eaves sometimes twice as long as the stem,

glabrous, filiform, flexuous, convolute, keeled, dilated at the

base into a slender sheath. Spathes two to three inches long,

compressed, narrow lanceolate, acuminate, green, pale brown

when dry, deeply striated, margins and tip broadly mem-

branous. Flowers one, rarely two, of a fine violet purple,

one and a half to two and a half inches in diameter; tube

of perianth slender, half an inch long, enclosed in the

spathes ; segments about twice as long as the tube; outer

with a narrow claw, which rather suddenly expands into a re-

flexed orbicular obovate lamina, that bears on its disk a

golden-yellow truncate stripe bordered with blue ; inner seg-

ments obovate-lanceolate, erose above the middle, tip notched.

Stigmas deeply two-lobed ; lobes lanceolate, acute, erose. Cap-

sule one to one and a half inches long, linear, trigonous, acute

at both ends.—J/. D. H.

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Tas. 5929,

EPIDEN DRUM PsevupeprEenprvm.

Native of Central America.

Nat. Ord. OrcuipEa.—Tribe EpipENDREZ.

Genus Epwenprom, L. (Lindl. Fol. Orchid., Epidendrum.)

Epipenprum (Amphiglottium) Pseudepidendrum ; caulibus cespitosis validis

teretibus simplicibus basi modice incrassatis, apicem versus foliosis,

foliis distichis lineari-oblongis acuminatis coriaceis enerviis, racemo

terminali laxo paucifloro, pedunculo compresso spathaceo, pedicellis .

ovariisque gracilibus, bracteis parvis, floribus majusculis viridibus,

labello columnaque miniato-aurantiacis, sepalis 14-pollicaribus anguste

spathulatis acutis, petalis sepalis equilongis angustissimis apice dilatato

elliptico, labello fere orbiculato retuso serrulato, disco carinis 5 percurso,

callo basi lobato.

Kpipenprum Pseudepidendrum, Reich. fil, Xen. Orchid., vol. i. p. 160, t. 53,

PsEUDEPIDENDRUM spectabile, Reich. fil. in Mohl. and Schlecht. Bot. Zeit.,

vol. x. p. 733.

A very curious species, remarkable for the singularity of

its colouring, discovered by Warscewicz, growing on a species

of Ficus, in the Cordillera of Chiriqui, at an elevation of

4000 feet, flowering in January and February. For this

information I am indebted to Reichenbach’s “ Xenia,” quoted

above, where the plant is figured and ‘coloured from a

drawing made by its discoverer. ; :

The district of Chiriqui is in the peninsular portion of

New Grenada, westward of Panama, and bordering Costa

Rica on the East; it is a hot and humid climate, where the

Cordillera reaches no great elevation. The specimen here

figured flowered in Messrs. Veitch’s establishment in the

King’s Road, Chelsea, in July of this year. It was oblig-

ingly sent for figuring in the Botanical Magazine.

OCTOBER Ist, 1871.

Drscr. Stems two to three feet high, tufted, stout,

cylindric, smooth, tumid at the base, rather distantly jointed,

nodes not swollen, upper part amongst the leaves dark

brown. Leaves confined to the top of the stems, five to

seven inches long by two-thirds to three-quarters of an inch

broad, distichous, suberect, narrowly linear-oblong, acumi-

nate, coriaceous, obscurely nerved at the back, deep green,

back keeled, margins recurved; sheaths short, obscurely

compressed. Aaceme terminal, few-flowered; peduncle very

slender, compressed, clothed with appressed acute sheathing

membranous brown spathes; bracts one-eighth of an inch

long, acute. Ovaries and pedicels very slender, together —

. one and a half inches long. Perianth two and a half inches

in diameter, bright green, except the lip and upper part

of the column, which are of an orange vermilion colour,

contrasting singularly with the green. Sepals narrow or

elliptic-spathulate, subacute, rather concave, less than half an

inch at the broadest part. Petals as long as the sepals, very

slender, with small lanceolate acute tips, ascending and in-

curved. Column connate, with the base of the lip into one

‘subclavate, laterally compressed rather slender body. Lip

(the free portion) suborbicular, retuse or emarginate, from the

lip being recurved, margin erose and obscurely lobed ; disk

with three to five parallel smooth ridges, and a three-lobed

callus atthe base. Column (the free portion) very short, stout,

narrowed upwards. Anthers small, hemispheric.—/. D. H.

Fig. 1, column and lip :—magnified.

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ECHIDNOPSIS crreirormis.

Native of South Africa.

Nat, Ord. AscLer1aDEm.—Tribe SraPELIER.

New Genus Ecuipnopsts.

Gen. Cuar. Calyx 5-fidus, lobis triangularibus acutis valvatis. Corolla

hemispherico-rotata, 5-loba, lobis ovato-rotundatis acutis. Corona

staminea 0. Anthere erecte, incurve, late elliptico-ovate, apicibus

membranaceis horizontalibus. Pollinia erecta; masse globose, lateribus

contiguis compressis rectis pellucidis, corpusculo parvo ope stipitis brevis

compressi cum margine pellucido continui affixe, Fructus... .

—Herba perennis, carnosa, succulenta, aphylla. Caules elongate,

cylindric, obtusi, cernui v. penduli, hic illic constricti, longitudinaliter

8-sulcati, jugis obtusis transverse constrictis, in areolas quadratas v.

hexagonas medio papilla alba notatas divisis. Flores parvi, flavi, in sulcis

Jasciculati, sessiles.

Ecurwnopsis cereiformis, Nobis—Tab. nost. 5930.

A very curious new genus of plants, belonging to the same

tribe of Asclepiadee as Stapelia and its allies, but very dif-

ferent from any of them in the structure of all its parts. It

has been for a long time cultivated in the Royal Gardens and

is not unknown in other collections under the name of

Stapelia cylindrica, a genus with which it differs most widely.

The native country of this singular plant is altogether un-

known, and on reference to Mr. Wilson Saunders, from

whose fine collection of succulents we have lately received

specimens, he tells me, that though he has cultivated it for

many years, he is equally ignorant of its native country.

Treated like a Cereus or Stapelia, this plant thrives in the

warm end of the succulent house at Kew, and flowers from the

month of June to October. It would probably thrive well in

a hanging pot.

OCTOBER Ist; 1871.

Duscr. Roots fibrous. Stems tufted, one to two feet long,

suberect or pendulous, one-half to three-quarters of an inch

diameter, simple or here and there producing a short side-

shoot, cylindric, slightly constricted at irregular distant

intervals, eight-grooved and ridged, the ridges divided by

shallow transverse depressions into tetragonal or hexagonal

prominent areoles, each with a white central papilla (the

remains of an undeveloped leaf), of a uniform bright green,

firm consistence, and minutely granular surface. Buds from

the transverse depressions on the ridges. Mowers small, pro-

duced in the ridges towards the ends of the branches, fascicled,

sessile, bright yellow, a quarter to one-third of an inch

diameter. Calyx tube, hemispheric; lobes 5, triangular,

acute, spreading and recurved, valvate. Corolla very broadly

rotate-campanulate, the short open hemispheric tube ex-

panding into 5 orbicular acute spreading lobes. Staminal

crown 0; anthers forming a minute depressed five-lobed body

in the centre of the flower, connate at their bases and

coherent at their membranous tips with the small five-gonal

stigma ; each broadly elliptic, inflexed from about the middle,

smooth. Pollen masses erect, globose, yellow; their con-

tiguous surfaces produced into a vertical transparent mem-

brane, that is continuous with the very short cuneate stalk,

which again is fastened to the.small brown gland.—/. D. H.

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ARISAUMA curvatum.

Native of the Himalaya.

Nat, Ord. AroipEa.—Tribe ARISARE,

Genus Arisama, Martius ; (Schott. Prod. Syst. Aroid., p. 24).

ArIsHMA curvatum ; foliis 1-2 pedatis, foliolis 8-18 sessilibus v. breviter petio-

latis lanceolatis acuminatis v. caudato-acuminatis integerrimis, spathe

tubo viridi cylindrico obscure albo-vittato, fauce aperta, lamina forni-

cata elliptica acuminata dorso brunnea tubo subequilonga, spadice e

fauce procurvo ultra laminam longe producto, organis neutris 0, ap-

pendice gracili arcuatim retrocurva cylindrica a basi ad apicem sensim

attenuata.

ARISEMA curvatum, Kunth. Enum. Plant., vol. iii. p. 20. Schott. Prod.

Syst. Aroid., p. 37.

Arisa helleborifolium, Schott. Synops. Aroid., p. 29; Prod. l. c., p. 36.

_ArismMa, Wall. Cat., n. 8927.

ARuUM curvatum, Roxb. Fl. Ind., vol. iii. p. 506.

A very common plant in the humid forests of the Himalaya,

from Bhotan to Simla, at elevations of 7000 to 9000 feet;

first described by Roxburgh from a specimen from Nepal,

which flowered in the Calcutta Botanic Gardens. It is also

found in the Khasia mountains, at elevations of 5000 to

7000 feet, growing amongst rank herbage ; and a similar, if

not identical species inhabits the mountains of the Concan,

in the Peninsula of India.

The tuberous roots of this and allied species of Arisema

are used for food in times of scarcity by the Lepchas of

Sikkim ; they are prepared by burying them in masses in

the ground, until acetous fermentation sets in, when they

are dug up, washed, and cooked. By this means the

poisonous properties of the root are in part dispersed, but

OCTOBER Isr, 1871.

not altogether, and violent illnesses often follow a hearty

meal of “Tong,” as this food is called. The nutritious

starch, with which these tubers are filled, might be easily

separated by grating and washing, and an aliment as good

as Portland Island arrow-root (the starch of Arum maculatum)

be thus procured in quantities.

The Royal Gardens are indebted for tubers of this plant to

Mr. Gammie, formerly a gardener at Kew, and now the intel-

ligent superintendent of the Sikkim Cinchona plantations ; it

flowered in a cool greenhouse in May of the present year.

Duscr. Zuber as large as a nut or walnut, with many

fleshy fibres. Leaves usually two, sheathing the back of the

Scape, and surrounded by two or three appressed sheaths at

the base, which, as well as the petioles, are blotched with

dull purple ; petiole six to ten inches long, cylindric; lamina

‘six to twelve inches in diameter, orbicular in outline ; pedate ;

leaflets eight to eighteen, distant, spreading horizontally and

drooping, four to eight inches long, sessile or shortly petioled,

lanceolate, acuminate or caudate at the tip, bright green, quite

entire, membranous, obscurely three-nerved. Scape two to

four feet high, terete, erect. Spathe erect, four to seven

inches long; tube cylindric, green, obscurely striped with

white, half the length of the whole spathe; edges hardly

overlapping ; blade elliptic, vaulted, arching forwards, with

an acute, often erect tip, green inside, green or brown-purple

outside. Spadix one-third to twice as long as the spathe ;

flowering portion included in the tube of the spathe; naked

portion exserted, cylindric, arching forwards and upwards,

smooth, green, tapering from the flowering portion to the

slender suberect tip. Stamens scattered, filament columnar ;

anther capitate, three to four-lobed. Ovaries scattered,

flaggon-shaped ; style very short, stigma papillose ; ovules

three to four, basal. Fruit a globose mass of fleshy red

berries.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Reduced figure of whole plant; 2, leaf and portion of scape; 3,

spathe; 4, portion of spadix :—all of natural size; 5, anthers; 6, stamen;

7, ovary; 8, vertical, and 9, transverse section of do. :—all magnified.

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MERYTA LATIFOLIA.

Native of Norfolk Island.

Nat. Ord, Aratiacee.—Series PANACER.

Genus Meryta, Forst. ; (Benth. and Hook. f., Gen. Plant., vol. i. p. 933).

Meryta latifolia ; foliis 1-3-pedalibus elongato-obovatis vy. subpanduri-

formibus basi angustata subcordata, petiolo crassissimo breviusculo,

thyrso florum hermaphroditorum terminali oblongo erecto, capitulis

bracteatis compositis cylindraceo-oblongis secus rachim crassissimam

spicatis, floribus sessilibus flavis densissime confertis, calycis tubo

oblongo utrinque truncato, limbo 6-lobo reflexo, staminibus stylisque

6, ovario 6-loculari.

Meryra latifolia, Seemann in Bonplandia, 1862, p. 295; Flor. Viti, p. 119.

Borryopenpron latifolium, Endl. Prodr. Flor. Ins. Norfolk., p. 62; Walp.

Rep., vol. ii. p. 433.

ARALIA macrophylla, Cunningham, ex MSS.

The noble foliage of this very curious plant renders it a

conspicuous ornament in a stove large enough to show it off

to advantage, where it should be placed so as to tower above

the surrounding vegetation; under which circumstances it

rivals the Grias caulifiora figured at Tab. 5622 of this work.

It is a native of Norfolk Island, where it was discovered by

F. Bauer during Flinders’ voyage to Terra Australis, and by

whom careful drawings were made on the spot, which are

deposited in the Imperial Herbarium of Vienna, and from

which Endlicher’s description was drawn up. Since that

period it has been collected by Allan Cunningham, during

his visit to Norfolk Island, when superintendent of the

Botanic Gardens of Sidney, and who sent living plants to

the Royal Gardens, Kew, about thirty-five years ago. One of

NOVEMBER Ist, 1871.

these is still flourishing, and flowered for the first time in

the great Palm House in March, 1866.

The genus Meryta is confined to. the Pacific islands. It

was discovered first by G. Forster, during Captain Cook’s

Second Voyage; since which time two species have been

found in Norfolk Island, one in the Isle of Pines (New

Caledonia), and one in the islets off the east coast of New

Zealand. (See Seemann’s Flor. Viti, p. 119.)

Duscr. A tree, with a slender erect trunk, fifty to sixty

feet high, branched at the top. Leaves two to three feet -

long, crowded at the ends of the branches, spreading,

narrow-obovate or somewhat fiddle-shaped, acute or obtuse,

base cordate, bright-green, coriaceous; petiole short, very

stout. Mowers male, female, and hermaphrodite (according

to Endlicher’s description taken from Bauer’s drawings); in

our plant hermaphrodite, with imperfect anthers, most

densely crowded into oblong compound heads which are two

to three inches long, and formed of innumerable clusters of

about six sessile flowers, seated ona thick erect green rachis ;

bracts at the base of the heads one to one and a half inches

long, ovate-lanceolate, with a dorsal tooth. Calyx nearly

one-half inch long, oblong, subcylindrie, truncate, girt with

a low cupular bracteole at the base; lobes or teeth six,

triangular-ovate, acute, reflexed. Samens six ; filaments very

short ; anthers ovate-oblong, imperfect. S/yles six, stout,

subulate, recurved, grooved and papillose along the inner

face. Ovary six-celled.

Fig. 1, Reduced figure of whole plant; 2 and 8, portions of leaf and (4)

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DIASCIA BARBERS.

Native of South Africa.

Nat. Ord. ScropHuLARIACEa.—Tribe HemIMerIDER.

Genus Diascta, Link and Otto ; (Benth. in DC. Prodr., vol. x. p. 256).

Diascta Barbere ; erecta, foliis petiolatis ovatis apice rotundatis crenato-

serratis supremis sessilibus, racemo stricto erecto terminali glanduloso

bracteato, floribus majusculis, bracteis late ovatis, calycis segmentis

lineari-oblongis obtusis, corolla rosea, lobis rotundatis, supremis parvis,

lateralibus majoribus, inferiori multo majore subangulato, calcaribus

cylindricis decurvis obtusis corolle lobis subsquilongis, filamentis

crassiusculis glandulosis, ovario glaberrimo.

The pretty Cape genus Déascia, which, like Satyrium

amongst Cape Orchids, is remarkable for its two spurs, com-_

prises some thirty species, of which but one had previously

been figured from living specimens in Europe, and this in a

German work. Most of them are inconspicuous-flowered

plants, and little worthy of cultivation for their beauty.

Hitherto nothing is known of the economy of their two-

spurred flowers; the spurs are, no doubt, :illed with nectar, and

their function is to attract insects for the purpose of effecting

cross-fertilization, towards which operation the curious ocel-

lated green spot on the throat of the corolla may be expected

to be further subservient. It is to be hoped that this curious

subject will be taken up by some of the intelligent botanical

observers of South Africa, who should watch the flower for

the visits of insects, and carefully scrutinize the operations of

these in their search for honey. oe.

The Royal Gardens are indebted to their highly-valued

NOVEMBER Ist, 1871.

correspondent, Mrs. Barber, for seeds of this plant, which

arrived in 1870, and flowered in July of the present year.

As aspecies D. Barbere agrees best with the description of

D. macrophylla, Benth. (of which I have seen no specimen),

but it differs in being apparently perennial, stout habit,

and glandular raceme and filaments.

‘Duscr. Root perennial ? Stem ten to sixteen inches high,

strict, erect, square, glabrous, green. Leaves one to one and a

half inches long, petioled, ovate, rounded at the tip, obtusely

serrate, suddenly narrowed into the rather stout petiole, gla-

brous, bright green on both surfaces; upper leaves sessile,

smaller; petiole one-half to three-quarters of an inch long.

Racemes terminal, strict, erect, four to six inches long, many-

flowered, simple, bracteate ; bracts one-sixth to a quarter of

an inch long, ovate, obtuse; pedicels slender, one-half to

three-quarters of an inch long, glandular. Ca/ya a quarter of

an inch in diameter, divided nearly to the base into five sub-

equal linear-oblong obtuse or subacute segments. Corol/a one-

half to two-thirds of an inch in diameter, bright rose-pink

with a small yellow spot on the throat between the bases of

the two upper petals, which spot has two green dots in its

centre ; two upper lobes small, suborbicular ; two lateral about

twice as large, and nearly of the same shape; lower lobe as

large as all the others put together, obscurely four-angular ;

spurs as large as the lower corolla lobe, diverging, cylindric,

decurved, blue-purple towards their rather swollen tips.

Stamens with short curved cylindrie glandular filaments, and

small oblong anther-cells. Ovary quite glabrous.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, ovary :—all magnified.

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PRUN US CERASIFERA.

Native country unknown.

Nat, Ord. Rosace#.—Tribe Prunes.

Genus Prunus, Linn. ; (Benth. and Hook. f., Gen. Pl., vol. i, p. 609).

Prunus cerasifera ; ramis inermibus, ramulis glaberrimis, foliis elliptico-

obovatis acutis serrulatis subtus glabris, floribus subsolitariis v. in

ramis abbreviatis fasciculatis pedunculatis, pedunculo glaberrimo,

calycis lobis lanceolatis v. ovatis reflexis, petalis obovato-oblongis orbi-

' culatisve, drupis globosis basi intrusis rubris, carne flavo putamine

ovoideo acuto adherenti.

Prunus cerasifera, Ehrhart Beitrage, vol. iv. p.17; Willd. Sp. Pl., vol. ii.

p- 997; Porret, Dict., vol. v. p. 678; Persoon Synops., vol. ii. p. 35;

Grenier et Godron, Flore de France, vol. i. p. 514; Koch, Dendrologia,

vol. i. p. 97.

Myrozpatan, Duham. Arbr., vol. ii. p. 111, t. 20, f. 15.

Prunus Mirobalana, Loiseleur, Nouveau Duhamel, vol. iv. p. 184, t. 57, f. 1,

et p. 198, t. 5.

Prunus domestica, var. Myrobalana, Linn., Sp. Pl., No. 680; Loudon,

Arboret. Britt., vol. ii. p. 688, ii. and vi. tab. 93.

The beautiful Cherry Plum, or “ Myrobalan” Plum, the

“Cerisette” of the French and “Kirschpflaume” of the

Germans, fruits very rarely indeed in England; ripe fruit

was, however, sent to Sir W. J. Hooker, in July, 1864,

which was drawn for the Botanical Magazine by Mr. Fitch,

but unfortunately no note was attached to the drawing, either

of the place where it grew or the person who communicated

it. Under these circumstances, [I procured, early in the

present year, flowering specimens from the named collection

in the Royal Horticultural Society’s Gardens at Chiswick,

which herewith accompany the figure of the fruit. It will

be remarked however, that whilst the lower (fruiting) spe-

cimen has solitary fruits, and consequently had solitary

_ flowers in all probability, the flowers of the upper specimens

are fascicled on abbreviated branches. All descriptions of

Prunus cerasifera agree in attributing to it solitary or rarely

NOVEMBER Ist, 1871.

geminate flowers, but in Herbarium specimens communti-

cated by Seringe, a very good authority, I find them fascicled

as in our figure. Loiseleur, after Duhamel, also an excellent

authority, describes the sepals as lanceolate, and petals oval-

oblong, which also is not the case in the specimen figured.

Lastly, in “ Miller’s Gardener's Dictionary,” the Myrobalan

is kept distinct from the Cerisette, and described as having a

blue-purple fruit.

The exact affinity of the Myrobalan ‘plum is equally

doubtful. Linnzus referred it as a variety to the common

Plum, P. domestica, from which it is readily distinguished

by the glabrous peduncles, globose fruit intruded at the

base,. acute almost beaked stone, and by its very early

flowering. From the Bullace, P. insititia, it differs in its

glabrous branchlets and leaves, and in the flowers appearing

before the leaves. Loudon refers it to P. domestica, and

further considers domestica to be a cultivated form of P. ins?

titia, from which last he says the Myrobalan plum appears

to him “ to be the first remove.” In his figure of the fruit

the stone is represented as rounded at the summit, which is

contrary to the character given by other authors and to our

specimen. Lastly, Koch refers to it the beautiful P. divar-

cata of Siberia, the most showy of the spring flowering

plums, which, however, differs exceedingly in habit, in the

leaves appearing much sooner after the flowers, and in the

oblong yellow fruit, which is not intruded at the base. My

own opinion is, that both P. cerasifera and domestica are cul-

tivated states of P. insititia.

The native country of the Myrobalan is unknown (except,

indeed, we accept Koch’s opinion, and refer it to P. divari-

cata, which inhabits the Caucasian provinces) ; the earlier

authors, down to Duhamel, ascribed it to North America,

where, however, Pursh says that it is found only about

houses, and all later ones mention it as to be seen only in

European gardens. Cosson and Germain, in their “ Flora of

Paris,” state that it is naturalized on the banks of the Seine,

near the Park of Saint-Maur, but specimens from this locality

in Gay’s “Herbarium” are marked with a doubt, and

appear to me to be referable to P. insititia, having a nearly

orbicular stone, and leaves very pubescent beneath.

The Myrobalan plum well deserves cultivation for its

early flowering, though on this account it seldom fruits,

being generally injured by the frost. The fruit is acid and

flesh firm.—J. D. H.

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PLAGIANT HUS Lyatuu.

Native of New Zealand.

Nat. Ord. Matvace&#.—Tribe MALvEz.

Genus Pracrantuvs, Forst.; (Benth. and Hook. f., Gen. Pl., vol. i. p. 202).

Praciantuus Lyallii ; arborea, ramulis floribus foliisque subtus stellato-

pubescentibus, foliis ovato-cordatis acuminatis profunde duplicato-

crenatis, floribus axillaribus paniculatis albis, pedunculis 1-floris

ebracteolatis petiolos subequantibus, calyce late campanulato, petalis

oblique obovato-cuneatis, filamentis basi connatis, ovario sub 10-locu-

lari; stylis intus apicem versus stigmatosis, fructu spherico, carpellis

membranaceis compressis exalatis.

Pracianravus Lyallii, Hook. f., Handbook of the New Zealand Flora, p. 30.

Houerta Lyallii, Hook. f., Fl. Nov. Zel., Vol i. p. 31,4. FL

A beautiful small tree, native of the mountainous districts

of New Zealand, at an elevation of 2000 to 4000 feet, where

it was discovered by Dr. Lyall, R.N., naturalist to H.MS.

Acheron, when on the coast survey of that island, under the

command of Captain Stokes, R.N. Though unknown in

the northern island, it appears to be very abundant in the

middle one, and I have received specimens from all the —

provinces, from Nelson to Otago. It flowers in January,

and from its copious flowering forms conspicuous white

belts round the margins of the dark Beech forests. In

autumn again it is no less conspicuous for the golden colour

of its fading foliage, it being one of the few deciduous trees

of the New Zealand forests. Not that it is altogether a

deciduous tree either, for Dr. Haast informs me that trees ©

growing in the Canterbury district above 3000 feet shed

NOVEMBER Ist, 1871.

their leaves ; but that those growing below that elevation

retain them ; a very singular fact, which I should be glad to

have verified by observations in other provinces.

Living plants of Plagianthus Lyallii were received at the

Royal Gardens from Dr. Haast, and flowered in July of the

present year. The flowers are subdimorphic, some having

much shorter styles than others.

Drscr. A small branching tree, twenty to thirty feet high,

with the young branches, inflorescence, petioles and leaves

beneath more or less clothed with a fine white stellate pu-

_ bescence. Leaves two to four inches long, ovate-cordate,

acuminate, basal sinus open or closed, shallow or deep, margin

deeply doubly-crenate, upper surface bright green, gla-

brous, under pale or white; petiole one to one and a half

inches long. lowers one to one and a quarter inches in

diameter, numerous, drooping, in axillary fascicles of three to

five, pure white with pink styles; peduncles one to one

-and a half inches long, slender, ebracteate. Ca/ya one-third

of an inch in diameter, broadly campanulate, 5-lobed, lobes

triangular. Petals obliquely obovate, retuse on one side

. towards the apex, concave, spreading. Stamens very numerous,

filaments slender, connate at the base, obscurely connected

into five bundles; anthers minute, yellow. Ovary broadly

ovoid, about ten-celled, pubescent; styles very slender, con-

nate below the middle, filiform, shortly stigmatose on the

inner face and tip. Fruit one-half to three-quarters of an

inch in diameter, globose, about ten-furrowed, of as many

much-flattened membranous carpels that are not winged.

Seed much compressed.—-/. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower of the short styled form; 2, pistil; 3, fruit:—all but 2

of the natural size,

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MEGACLIN IUM purpPuratum.

Native of Western Tropical Africa.

Nat. Ord, Orcnipex,—Tribe DenprosieR.

Genus Mecactixium, Lindl. ; (Endl. Gen. Plant., 191).

MEGACLINIUM purpuratum ; pseudobulbo obtuse costato, foliis binis lineari-

oblongis obtusis, rachi ensiformi cuspidato margine undulato curvato,

bracteis late oblongis purpureo crebre conspersis marginibus flavo-

viridibus, floribus pallide flavo-virescentibus purpureo conspersis, sepalis

consimilibus late ovatis aristato acuminatis recurvis, petalis falcato-

linearibus, labello ovato obtuso recurvo marginibus infra medium

denticulatis.

MEGAcLINIUM purpuratum, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc., vol. vi. p. 128,

The singular genus Megaclinium, is apparently confined to

tropical Africa, whence four described species are known to

me: viz., the original WM. falcatum, Lindl., introduced in

1822, and figured in the Botanical Register (t. 989), M.

maximum, Lindl. (Tab. nost. 4028); M. orypterum, Lindl.,

with very acutely angled pseudo-bulbs, but which is in other

respects so very near this, that I suspect they may prove to

be varieties of one plant; all these are from Sierra Leone,

Besides these, Reichenbach, who with good reason refers the

genus to a section of Bolbophyllum (in Walper’s Annales,

vol. vi. p. 257), enumerates J. colubrinum, Rchb. f. (native

country unknown), J/. velutinum, Lindl., from Cape Coast

Castle, and MW. Bufo, Lindl., from Sierra Leone; to these

must be added from the Hookerian Herbarium a small

Natal species, WM. Sandersoni, (Oliv. mss.) ; and two Zambesi

species, one (MZ. Melleri, Hk. f.), with loose spathaceous bracts

on the scape, and (when dry) three to five winged pseudo-bulbs,

NOVEMBER lst, 1871,

found by the late Dr. Meller on roots and trees on the

Manganja range of mountains (Zambesi river), and another

also found on the same range, which is in too imperfect a.

state for description, making eight in all.

M. purpuratum was described by Lindley from dried

specimens collected in 1854, by Barter, near Brass, at the

mouth of the Nun river, when accompanying Baikie’s Niger

Expedition; the specimen here figured, flowered in the

garden of T. B. Horsfall, Esq., MP., Bellamour Hall, Rugeley.

Drscr. Rhizome as thick as a goose-quill, creeping, woody.

Pseudo-bulbs sheathed at the base, one and a half to two and

a half inches long, ovate-oblong, compressed, obtusely three

to four ribbed, bright green, with two scarious basal sheaths.

Leaves in pairs at the top of the pseudo-bulb, linear-oblong,

obtuse, keeled, dark green. Scape five to nine inches long,

stout, flexuous, pale green, streaked with purple; sheaths

short, obtuse, closely appressed to the scape. achis includ-

ing the connate bracts, flattened, four to six inches long, by

three-quaiters to one inch broad, linear, much compressed,

margin undulated, keeled down the middle in front ; era-

dually narrowed below into the Scape; tip acute, with a

stout mucro; colour a pale dirty yellow-green, sprinkled with

red-purple, except along the borders of the bracts. Flowers

a quarter inch long; buds acuminate. Sepals nearly equal,

all broadly ovate, narrowed suddenly into long acuminate re-

curved tails, streaked and speckled with purple. Petals rather

shorter and much narrower, linear, acute, faleate, edged with

purple. Jip ovate, obtuse, cordate at the base, recurved,

mobile ; edges toothed from the base to the middle. Column

short, wings triangular.—J/. D. H.

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CRINUM sracuynema.

Native of Bombay.

Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDEZ.—Tribe. AMARYLLEA.

Genus Crinum, Linn.; (Herbert Amaryllid., p. 242).

Crinum brachynema ; bulbo late ovoideo fere globoso, foliis erecto-recurvis

latissime loriformibus obtusis concavis ecarinatis glaberrimis viridibus,

umbella multiflora, pedunculis brevibus, bracteis filiformibus, ovario

tenui, floribus precocibus odoris, perianthio albo, tubo gracili polli-

cari, limbo late infundibulari, segmentis patulis elliptico-oblongis

apiculatis, filamentis antheris linearibus flavis brevioribus, stylo fili-

formi tubo multo breviore.

Crinum brachynema, Herbert in Bot. Reg. 1842, Misc., p. 36; Kunth. Enum.,

vol. v. p. 581.

A native of Bombay, whence bulbs were sent to the Royal

Gardens in 1870, by Mr. Woodrow, late of Kew, now of the

Botanic Gardens, Poona, which flowered in May of the

present year. It is remarkable that so tine and sweet-scented

a plant from so well explored a country, should not have

found a place either in Roxburgh’s Flora Indica, or in Gibson

and Dalzell’s Bombay Flora; and it shows how much still

remains to be done in the long hunted field of British

India.

Except in the shorter pedicels of the flowers, and in

the characters of the style, this plant agrees well with

Herbert’s description of @. drachynema, which was imported

by the Messrs. Loddiges from Bombay, and flowered at

Spofforth in 1842; but as the author of that species says

nothing of the form or size of the leaf (no doubt from the fact

that the leaves. are produced long after the flowers) this

identification must remain doubtful. The leaves of the

DECEMBER Ist, 1871.

Kew plant were not developed till three months after the

flowers. With regard to the style, which Herbert describes

as purplish, with a shortly lobed white stigma, it differs

from that of the plant here figured, though agreeing in the

more important character of the remarkable shortness of that

organ, which is perhaps imperfect.

Drscr. Bulb as large as the fist, nearly globose, crown

short, conic, straw-coloured. eaves produced long after the

flowers, erect, then recurved, one and a half to two feet long,

three to three and a half inches broad, linear-oblong, or very

broadly strap-shaped, obtuse, concave, not furrowed keeled

or margined, bright green, quite glabrous and smooth.

Scape eight to twelve inches high, hardly compressed, 15- to

20-flowered. Spathes green, reddish at the tips; bracts

subulate or filiform. Mowers subsessile, drooping, pure white,

fragrant. Ovary half an inch long, slender. Perianth-tube

one to one and a half inches long, curved, slender, white ; limb

two and a half to three inches in diameter ; segments spread-

ing, but not widely, equal, elliptic-oblong, apiculate, one and

a half inch long, by three quarters of an inch broad. Stamens

very shortly exserted ; anthers linear, yellow, one third of an

inch long, twice as long as the subulate, white filaments.

ane ay slender, included; stigma shortly 3-lobed.—

Fig. 1, Tube of perianth, ovary, and stamens :—magnified,

dIBE.

Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Imp

W. Fitch, del et lith.

Tap, 5938.

SPHARALCEA MINIATA,

Native of La Plata,

Nat. Ord, Matvacea,—Tribe, MaLvea.

Genus Spamracea, St. Hil.; (Benth. and Hook,, Gen. Pl., vol. i. p. 204),

SPHERALCEA miniata ; fruticosa, tomentosa, foliis trilobis grosse ineequaliter

crenatis lobo intermedio productiore oblongo acuto lateralibus brevibus

patentibus obtusis, stipulis subulatis persistentibus, petiolo lamina

breviore, cymis axillaribus paucifloris, pedicellis calyce subsquilongis,

bracteis setaceis, calycis 5-lobi lobis acutis, corolla ampla miniata.

SPHHRALCEA miniata, Spach, Hist. Nat. Veg., vol. iii. p- 852.

SpH#RoMA miniatum, Garcke in Bot. Zeit. 1853, p- 847; Walp. Ann.,

vol. iv. p. 801.

Matva miniata, Cav. Ic., vol. iii. p. 40, t. 278; Jacq. Fragm., t. 132;

DC. Prod., vol. vi. p. 484; Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard., ser. 2, vol. ii. t.

120; Wiilld., Sp. Pl., vol. iii. p. 783; Ait. Hort. Kew., vol. iv. p. 214.

The “ Painted Mallow” of Hortus Kewensis was introduced

into England in 1798 by the Marchioness of Bute, and was

extensively grown at one time both as a greenhouse ornament

and shrubby plant, being regarded, according to Sweet

(writing in 1831), as of great importance to the decoration of

shrubberies in the months of October and November, at

which time it is profusely clothed with fine vermilion-coloured

blossoms. It is added, however, that it is apt to be killed in

Severe winters if left without protection ; this, no doubt, has

led to its disappearance from our borders, though why it

should be neglected in the greenhouse does not appear.

The native country of 8. miniata was for many years

unknown. Aiton (Hortus Kewensis) gives South America

for its habitat. Cavanilles, who first figured and described

it, did so from a plant which flowered in the Madrid

DECEMBER Ist, 187].

Botanic Garden in July 1795; whence, in all probability, the

plant was introduced into Kew in 1798 by M. Thouin,

from whom there is a dried specimen in Bentham’s Her-

baria (now at Kew). De Candolle and Sweet both say that

the native country is unknown; but there are plenty of wild

specimens in the Kew Herbarium, gathered by Gillies near

Mendoza, growing in uncultivated fields at an elevation of

two thousand five hundred to three thousand feet; as also by

Tweedie, in the Argentine Republic, and by C. Darwin at

Bahia Blanca. For its re-introduction we are indebted to

our old correspondent, Professor Jameson, formerly of Quito, |

who after his removal to Chili sent seed from the neigh-

bourhood of San Juan to his friend, Isaac Anderson

Henry, Esq., F.L.S., who communicated the flowering speci-

mens here figured in June of the present year.

Descr. A branching undershrub two to four feet high,

uniformly clothed with a soft white tomentum. eaves one

to two inches long, longer than the petioles, 3-lobed and

coarsely unequally crenate-toothed ; mid-lobe longest, ovate

or oblong, acute, lateral spreading, obtuse ; stipules subulate,

persistent though withering. Flowers vermilion-red, one

to one and a quarter inch in diameter, in axillary few-

flowered cymose racemes; peduncle and short pedicels

slender; bracts beneath the calyx three, subulate. Calya

hemispherical, 5-lobed to the middle, lobes acute. Pedals

obcordate, claw purplish. “Stamens with rather short fila-

ments. Ségmas very numerous.—/. D. H.

Fig. 1, Ovary; 2, ventral section of a cell of do. :—both magnified.

5939.

W. Fitch delet lith.

Vincent Brooks Day &Son,mp.

oe:

Tas. 5939,

GILIA acHILLesronra.

Native of California.

Nat. Ord. PoLEmonrace.

Genus Gitta, Ruiz and Pav. (A. Gray in Proc. Amer. Acad., 1870, p. 261).

GixtA achilleefolia ; erecta, caule glabriusculo ad nodos sublanato, foliis bi-

tri-pinnatisectis segmentis anguste linearibus patenti-recurvis acumi-

natis, cymis in globum longissime pedunculatum densissime congestis,

corolla calyce lanato unicolore Jongiore, calycis Jobis triangularibus

acutis tubo multo brevioribus.

Gita achillesefolia, Benth. in Bot. Reg, sub. tab. 1662, et in DC. Prod., vol.

ix. p. 811; A. Gray in Proc, Amer. Acad., June, 1870, p. 277.

A native of California, where it was discovered by David

Douglas in 1833, and where it has been since collected by

many travellers and botanists. As a species it comes very

near to 4. capitata (Tab. nost. 2698), having the same

Scabious-like ; habit but this isa much handsomer plant, with

brighter blue flowers of a larger size, and collected into per-

fectly spherical heads. These and their immediate allies are

considered by Asa Gray, as together forming the type-section

(Zugilia) of the genus, which he divides into twelve such sec-

tions, including sixty-five species, of which all but two are

natives of North America, West of the Rocky Mountains.

G. achilleefolia is a hardy annual, introduced by Messrs.

Veitch, of the Royal Exotic Nurseries, King’s Road, Chelsea, to

whom I am indebted for the fine specimens now figured,

which flowered in August of the present year. It must not

be confounded with the plant figured under the same name

in Tab. 3440 of this work, as also in the Botanical Register

(Tab. 1681), and Sweet's British Fl. Garden (iii. t. 180),

which is G. multicaulis, Benth., a totally different species.

DECEMBER Ist, 1871.

Derscr. A slender erect annual, with the habit of a

Scabious, glabrous, or more or less pubescent, especially at

the nodes, which are usually woolly. Leaves scattered,

spreading, three to five inches long in garden specimens,

often only one to two inches long in dwarf native ones, laxly

2—3-pinnatisect, with spreading and recurved narrow-linear

acuminate, or almost aristate lobes one-twelfth to one-eighth

inch broad. Flower-heads one anda half inches diameter,

globose, of a uniform fine cobalt blue, covered with large

projecting stamens, formed of innumerable few-flowered,

densely-packed cymes. Calyx woolly ; tube obvoid ; teeth five,

triangular-acuminate, erect. Corolla-tube funnel-shaped, rather

longer than the calyx ; limb half an inch diameter ; lobes five,

oblong, obtuse, spreading. Fi/aments inserted at the mouth

of the corolla, as long as its lobes, erect; anthers oblong.

Style slender, exserted; stigmas three.—J/. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower :—magnified.

d940.

W. Fitch delet. lith.

Tap, 5940,

AGAVE BessEeRrana.

Tropical America.

Nat. Ord, AMARYLLIDEZ,—Tribe, AGAVER.

Genus Agave, Linn, ; (Endl. Gen, Plant., p. 181).

Agave Besseriana ; subcaulescens, foliis 3—6-pollicaribus anguste elliptico-

lanceolatis crassissimis rigidis rectis viridi-glaucescentibus, supra

lente subtus valde convexis, spina terminali valida elongata margina-

libusque remotis uncinatis brunneis, vagina semilunari lamina latiore,

bracteis parvis sparsis triangulari-ovatis acutis scapo valido multoties

angustioribus inferioribus e basi lanceolata subulatis, floribus paucis

racemosis erectis 2-pollicaribus viridibus, perianthii tubo subcylindrico

Jobis lingulatis erectis obtusis crassis longiore, antheris perianthii

segmentis subequilongis exsertis erectis aurantiacis, stigmate obscure

lobato,

Acave Besseriana, Jacobi in Hamburg Garten-und-Blumen-Zeitung, 1865,

p. 155.

The Botanical Magazine has no higher function than that

of figuring such plants as are rarely known to flower in this

country, and are so difficult of preservation for scientific

purposes, or for future identification, that but for good

coloured plates they can scarcely ever be recognised. This

remark applies especially to Agaves, of which fifteen species

have now been illustrated in this work, a very small pro-

portion of the number supposed to exist in European

collections. Of these upwards of one hundred are enumerated

by Major General Jacobi’s “Versuch zu einen systema-

tischen Ordnung der Agaveen’’ (Ottos Hamburger Garten-

und-Blumenzeitung, 1864), of which, however, comparatively —

few have been described from flowering specimens, and many

may consequently prove to be mere forms.

A. Besseriana flowered in spring of the present year, in the

unique collection of W. Wilson Saunders, Hsq., at Hillfield,

DECEMBER Ist, 1871.

Reigate, who has kindly communicated his own drawings,

notes, and analysis for insertion in the Magazine; its native

country is unknown, but probably Mexico. It was procured

from Belgium under the name of 4. Besseriana hystrix, and

agrees with Jacobi’s description in every detail.

Descr. Stemless. Leaves thirty to forty in a dense rosette,

five to six inches long, two thirds to three-quarters of an

inch broad about the middle, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate,

gradually contracted into a rigid brown spine an inch

long, contracted at the base, and suddenly dilated into a

broad semilunar sheath, upper surface slightly convex

except towards the tip, under very convex; colour pale

glaucous-green; marginal spines one-twelfth to one-tenth of an

inch, upeurved, distant, brown. Scape two feet three inches

high, stout, stiff, sparsely bracteate; lower bracts erect, one

inch long, subulate from a lanceolate base, upper triangular,

acute, small; all much narrower at their base than the scape.

Flowers about ten, two to two and half inches long excluding

the large anthers, solitary or geminate ; peduncle half an inch

long, with two or three minute bracteoles, and a triangular basal

bract. Perianth-tube one and a half inches long, terete, narrowly

urceolate, 6-furrowed at the top, dark green; lobes erect,

half an inch long, narrowly tongue-shaded, obtuse, convex, con-

tracted at their insertion; green on both surfaces, tinged

with brown towards the tips. Fi/aments yellow-green, subulate,

erect, rather longer than the perianth-lobes ; anthers linear,

rather shorter than the filaments, orange-yellow.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Whole plant:—reduced ; 2, leaf and 3, inflorescence:—of the

natural size.

594],

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W. Fitch del.ctlith — =

an Vincent Brooks Day &Son, imp.

Tas. 5941,

OPHRYS LUTEA.

Native of Southern Europe and N. Africa.

Nat. Ord. OrcuipE#.—Tribe. Opurypex.

Genus Opurys, Linn. (Lindl., Gen. and Sp. Orch., p. 872).

Opurrs lutea ; foliis oblongis, sepalis ovato-oblongis obtusis viridibus incur-

vis, petalis lineari-oblongis obtusis glabris, labello ambitu obtuse sub-

quadrato convexo basi subcuneato 3-lobo lobis aureis planiusculis latis

intermedio 2-lobo lobulis rotundatis, lateralibus rotundatis, disco fusco-

purpureo medio fascia violacea 2-cruri notato.

Opnrys lutea, Cav. Ic., vol. ii. p. 46, t. 160; Lindl., Gen. & Sp. Orchid.,

p. 872; Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard., vol. iii. t. 206; Hook., Exot. Fl., t. 10;

Reich, Pl. Crit., t. 857; Ic. Fl. Germ., t. 446; Moggridge Contrib.

Flor. Mentone, t. 46; O. insectifera, var. y Linn., Sp. Pl., p. 949.

Naturalists, no less than Horticulturists, must regret the

withdrawal of that magnificent collection of. European

Orchidez from the grounds of H. R. H. the Comte de Paris at

Twickenham, to which allusion has been made under tabs.

5844 and 5712 of this work, and selections from which have

been exhibited for several years past at the Horticultural

Exhibitions of London. To this source we are indebted for

the specimen of the singular Opsrys here figured, which,

though it has been flowered at Kew and elsewhere in England,

at various times, has nowhere else been brought to anything

like the perfection that it attains at Twickenham. Not that

the cultivation of the European tuberous orchids presents any

real difficulty ; all that is wanted to ensure success being care

and common sense. Sweet indeed, so long ago as 1827, said of

this very species, “it succeeds well in a warm border by the

side of a wall in a southern aspect; the soil to be sandy

loam, and if a little pounded chalk be mixed with it, all the

better ;” he adds that worms are its chief enemy, which toss

DECEMBER Ist, 1871.

the tubers above ground ; for this the simple remedy is lime-

water, which is otherwise advantageous to this class of plants.

Ophrys lutea is a native of Southern Europe, extending

from Portugal to Crete and Smyrna, and of the opposite

shore of the Mediterranean from Marocco almost to Tunis;

it varies much in the breadth of the golden margin of the

lip, which is sometimes reduced to a mere border, or al-

together disappears, when the species becomes O. fusca, Tenore,

us well illustrated in Mr. Moggridge’s beautiful “ Flora of

Mentone” (tab. 46), where the question of the specific value of

the characters of the genus Ophrys, is treated with scientific

care, and illustrated with artistic skill, tending as it does to

favour Linneus’s sagacious conclusion, that all the European

species are referable to one, his O. insectifera. —

Dzscr. Leaves spreading, linear-oblong, obtuse or subacute,

pale-green, one and a half to two anda half inches long. Scape

four to seven inches tall, stout, many-flowered. Bracts erect,

sheathing, oblong, subacute, appressed. Fowers three-quarters

to one inch in diameter. Sepals equal, oblong, obtuse,

incurved, green. Pefads much smaller, linear-oblong, obtuse

or truncate, yellow or yellow-green, Lip nearly quadrate,

golden-yellow with a purple disk, and a contracted base,

convex, three-lobed towards the tip; mid-lobe with two

rounded lobules, lateral also rounded, rarely oblong; disk

velvety, maroon-purple, with a forked polished blue or violet

centre like that of O. Speculum, but smaller ; the tip varies

extremely in shape, lobing, and the disposition and extent of

these coloured bands.—/. D. H.

_ Figs. 1, 2, and 3, spikes from different plants :—natural size ; 3, flower

from fig. 1 :—magnified.

J94 2.

W. Fitch, del. et lith.

Yincent Brooks, Day &Son,imp.

Tas, 5942,

LITHOSPERMUM PETRAUM,

Native of Dalmatia.

Nat. Ord. Boracinea.—Tribe. Lirnospermem.

Genus Lirnosrermum, Linn. (A. DC. Prodr., vol. x. p. 78),

Tirtosperuum petreawm; fruticulus diffusus ramosus pilis brevissimis

adpressis incanus, foliis lineari-oblongis linearibusve obtusis v. subacutis

marginibus recurvis subtus incano-sericeis, racemis cymosis junioribus

subcapitatis, calycis sericei lobis subulato-lanceolatis, corolla glabra

tubo cylindrico calyce duplo longiore, lobis brevibus obtusis erectis,

antheris exsertis, nuculis ovoideo-attenuatis brevissimis.

Littiosrermum petreum, A. DC. Prodr., vol. x. p. 82; Regel Gartenfl. vol.

iii. p. 104.

L. rosmarinifolium, Reichb. Fl. Excure., vol. i. p. 837 (non Tenore).

Ecutum petreum, Urattenich ex Visiani Fl. Dalmat., p. 84; Host. Pl. Aust.,

vol. i. p. 241 (evel, syn. Tourn.); Lindl. Bot. Reg., 1843, t. 26.

A perennial hardy herbaceous rock-plant, native of

Dalmatia, whence it was originally introduced into England

by General Baron Von Welden, and flowered in a cool green-

house of the Royal Horticultural Gardens in April and May,

1845. There Dr. Lindley describes it as ‘‘ the gayest little

a possible, with neat green leaves, stiff stems, and pale

lue flowers, which are pink before they open.” The figure

in the Botanical Register represents a much broader-leaved

at than that here figured, which was grown in Mr.

ackhouse’s Nursery at York, and precisely accords with

native specimens, in the Kew Herbarium, collected by Dr.

Alexander Prior, F.L.S., near Ragusa, in 18438, and others

from Professor Visiani, collected in 1832. Owing, no doubt,

to its easily damping off, it had long disappeared from culti-

vation in England, till re-introduced through those inde-

fatigable horticulturists, the Messrs. Backhouse, to whom

DECEMBER Ist, 1871.

I am indebted for the specimen figured here, which flowered

in June, 1871. It would no doubt succeed under the same

treatment as Cape Heaths, if provided with a stiffer soil,

plenty of stones in the pot, and kept cool in winter. The

English autumn and winter are probably far too damp to

admit of its being cultivated out of doors with success.

Dzscr. A small much branched undershrub, six to eight

inches high, hoary with appressed short close-set hairs.

Stem woody below, soon dividing into numerous stiff erect

slender simple leafy branches. Leaves one to one and a half

inches long, by one-twelfth to one-sixth inch broad, narrow-

linear or linear-oblong, obtuse or subacute, green above, silkily

hoary below, margins recurved. Flowers in simple, forked

or branched short revolute terminal dense cymes, shortly

pedicelled, one third of an inch long. Calyw 5-partite, hoary,

segments subulate-lanceolate. Corolla glabrous, deep violet-

blue, pinkish-purple in bud, tubular; tube twice as long as

the calyx; lobes short, erect, rounded. Stamens with large

exserted anthers. Style very slender, exserted.—J/. D. H.

Fig. 1, flower ; 2, ovary, style, and stigma:— magnified.

INDEX

ae Vol. XVII. of the Tuirp Srrizs,-or Vol. ROVE of the

Work,

Pl. : eae

5917 Abutilon Darwinii 5884 Gladiolus dracocephalus

5940 Agave Besseriana 5919 Grevillea intricata

5893 ixtlioides 5915 ,__———. macrostylis

5883 Amaryllis Rayneri - 5903 Heemanthus deformis

_ 5906 Androsace carnea, var. eximia || 5881 ———-—— tenuiflorus, var.

5914 Arisema concinnum coccineus

5931 curvatum | 5926 Lithospermum Gastoni

5880 Aristolochia Duchartrei 5942 ——— petreum Be.

5882 Asystasia violacea 5891 Massonia (astemma) odorata

_ 5900 Baptisia leucophea 5936 Megaclinium py

_ 5897 Begonia crinita || 5932 Meryta latifolia

5888 Beloperone ciliata 5912 Milla capitata

5927 Bomarea chontalensis 5901 Nerine pudica

5898 Chlorocodon Whiteii | 5896 Nothoscordum aureum ae

- 5885 Cirsium Grahami - || 6878 Oncidium tigrinum, var. es

_ 5894 Costus Malortieanus : didum

_ 5937 Crinum brachynema » 5941 Ophrys lutea

_ 5909 Curcuma albiflora 5911 Passiflora cinnabarina ~

< -B0ee. Cypripedium niveum _ 5879 Paullinia thalictrifolia

ee 5887. Cyrtanthera chrysostephana_ 5899 Philodendron Williamsii

5920 Darlingtonia californica — 5935 gc he doa

5918 Dendrobium barbatulum —

_ 5933 Diascia Barbera

5908 Dorstenia Mannii

5904 Drymoda picta ‘

5930 Echidnopsis cereiformis

om 5902 Bpdendraty evectum -—| 58:

--§929 — pseudepidendram a

5925 Episcia chontalensis ‘59

5921 Eranthemum rahi onc

a ee var, ocellatum oe

5910 Eria extinctoria

5907 Fuchsia sessilifolia —

—§939 Gilia schillenfaie at

5895. tition, ge