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BOTANICAL MAGAZINE,

cceemreennaeiineninert tants COMPRIBING THE

Plants of tbe we Gardens of Key

OF OTHER BOTANICAL ESTABLISHMENTS IN GREAT BRITAIN;

WITH SUITABLE DESCRIPTIONS ;

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

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

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OF THE THIE.D SERIES;

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cat MaGavtNE” more prominently due than to yourself, whether as the

distinguished head of the greatest botanical school in this kingdom,

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moreover contributed so much to the value and interest of this work.

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now nearly forty years ago.

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MACROZAMIA CORALLIPES,

Native of New South Wales.

Nat. Ord. CrcapEa.

Genus Macrozamia, Miquel ; (Prod. Syst. Cycad., p. 8 & 18).

Macrozamta corallipes ; caule subspherico, foliis suberectis tortis rigidis

linearibus pinnatis, petiolo inermi compresso, pinnis strictis distan-

tibus erecto-patentibus anguste lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis integer-

rimis luride viridibus in petiolulum brevem basi tumidum corallinum

angustatis, strobilis glaucis, masculo cylindraceo 6-8-pollicari, squamis

rhombeis basilaribus muticis mediis mucronatis superioribus cal-

care suberecto rigido ornatis, pollinis loculis globosis perplurimis

superficem totam inferiorem squame cuneiformis tegentibus, strobil

femineo fructifero pedunculo breviore crassiore: late ovoideo 4—5 poll,

longo, squamis: pedicellatis vertice incrassato et dilatato 14 poll. lato,

inferiorum in apicibus acutis, superiorum longe acuminatis, summorum _

in calcar erectum productis, seminibus globosis rubro-aurantiacis,

It has rarely been the good fortune of the Editor of the

Botanical Magazine, to be enabled to represent a new and

remarkable Cycadeous plant in both flowering and fruiting

condition ; such, however, is now the case, thanks to Mr.

Bull, F.L.8., who imported the subject of the accompanying

plate from New South Wales, and brought two specimens of

it to such high condition that both male and female cones

were produced during the present year, and within a few

weeks of one another. Unfortunately the male cones ripened

so long before the female were in good condition, that ferti- —

lization was not possible by these. Mr. Bull has, however,

used the pollen of Macrozamia spiralis for this purpose, and —

fully formed seeds have been produced, but it remains to be —

seen whether these contain an embryo, or only albumen; it _

being a well-known fact that Cycadee freely form, without __

fecundation, seeds which are to all appearance perfect, but

JANUARY Ist, 1872.

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which have no trace of embryo. The genus Macrozamia is

confined to Australia, where it inhabits both the tropical

and temperate zones, extending to the Swan River settlement

in the extreme south-west of the continent. Six species are

cultivated at Kew: 4. spiralis, Frazeri, Preissii, Macleayi, Mac-

donellii, and Paulo Guilielmi, to none of which does this bear |

any resemblance at all, nor does it coincide with the characters

of the two other species, described in Miquel’s monograph

of the order: IZ. Peroffkyana, and Oldfieldic.

Drscr. Trunk subspherical, with a truncate base, eight

inches in diameter. Leaves six to ten inches, forming a very

contracted crown, diverging below, then suberect, rigid,

twisted and flexuous, linear, pinnate; petiole deep green,

smooth but not polished, reddish-brown towards the base,

where it is slightly and bluntly 2-edged; pinne about fifty

pairs, opposite and alternate, five to seven inches long,

one-third inch broad, very narrow linear-lanceolate, acute but

hardly pungent, base contracted, nearly three-fourths of an

inch apart in the middle of the rachis, closer above, more

distant below, the lower not shorter but with a very few

undeveloped ones forming short spinous processes on the

petiole; dark green but not shining above, pale, and

8 to 10-nerved beneath; petiolule bright red, rather swollen,

not twisted, but obliquely inserted in the rachis by an

oblong subdecurrent pulvinulus. Male cone on a stout

smooth peduncle three inches long, glaucous-green, seven

inches long by nearly two broad, narrow oblong; scales

cuneate, shortly pedicellate; terminal boss dilated, trans-

versely rhomboid in front, with a similar central raised area,

which bears a mucro on the lower scales, and an erect spine

half an inch long on the upper scales ; pollen-cells globose,

covering the whole under-surface of the scale. Female cone

also glaucous-green, on a very much stouter peduncle (one

inch in diameter) than the male, broadly oblong, when in fruit

four and a half inches long by three and a half broad,

scales about sixty, suborbicular with a short stout pedicel ;

terminal boss transversely oblong, one and a half inches

across, tumid, with a prominent transverse central ridge

that gives rise to a triangular mucro in the lower scales, and —

an erect spine in the upper. Seeds (perfect?) orange-red,

subglobose, three-quarters of an inch in diameter, contiguous .

—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Male and female plants :—reduced ; 2, portion of leaf ; 3, male, and

4, female cones; 5 and 6, male scales; 7, pollen-cell; 8, seeds on scale -—

all but 7 of the natural size.

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GLADIOLUS PURPUREO-AURATUS.

Native of Natal.

Nat. Ord. Intnea.—Tribe, GLADIOLE&.

Genus GuiapioLus, Linn. ; (Endl. Gen. Plant., p. 168).

GLADIOLUS purpureo-auratus ; caule elato gracillimo, foliis scapo multoties

brevioribus breviter ensiformibus acuminatis strictis erectis, scapo

simplici v. diviso, racemo laxifloro inter flores nudo, floribus fere

bifariis, bracteis lanceolatis tubo perianthii longioribus pallide viridibus,

perianthii subhorizontalis tubo brevi, limbi equali late campanulati

segmentis late obovato-spathulatis apicibus recurvis obtuse acuminatis

aureis, interioribus angustioribus, 2 anticis disco late purpurato, stigma-

tibus lineari-spathulatis emarginato-2-fidis.

The Natal Colony appears to be the head-quarters of the

handsomer and more varied species of this fine genus; only

last year the contrast was pointed out between the lurid,

snake-headed flowers of @. dracocephalus (Tab. nost. 5884), and

the vivid colouring of G. Saundersi (Tab. nost. 5873) ; to these

must be added the most gorgeous of its race, G. cruentus (‘Tab.

nost. 5810), and now, in the present plate, one of the most

graceful and delicate, which is further remarkable for the pale

golden-yellow of its flower, a very unusual colour in the

- genus. Mr. Baker, who has paid special attention to this

genus, informs me that it is undescribed, and is not identifi-

able with any species in the Herbarium at Kew, but that it is

nearest to G. hirsutus (Tab. nost. 574) and G. Gondavensis,

Hort. ; the former of which is a hairy pink-flowered species,

and the latter a yellow one. G. aurantiacus, Klatt, another

yellow flowered species, has a much longer perianth-tube.

Gladiolus purpureo-auratus was imported from Natal by Mr.

Bull of Chelsea, to whom I am indebted for the specimen

JANUARY Ist, 1872.

here figured, which flowered in his establishment in August —

of the present year. q

Drscr. Quite glabrous. Stem very slender, with the

scape three to four feet high. Leaves short for the size of the —

plant, six to nine inches long, by three-quarters of an inch ©

broad, acuminate, dark green, stout, erect. Scape simple —

or divided, very slender, 10 to 15-flowered, terete, quite

naked between the flowers, from the bracts not sheathing the

internodes. Spike eight to nine inches long. lowers almost

bifarious ; bracts one to one and a half inch long, lanceolate,

acuminate, exceeding the perianth-tube, pale green. Perianth-

tube a quarter of an inch long, concealed by the bracts;

limb broadly campanulate, one and a half inch in diameter,

nearly regular, pale golden-yellow with a large purple

irregularly elongated blotch which is broader at the apex, on

the disk of the two lower segments ; outer segments broadly ~

obovate, with slightly recurved subacute tips, inner narrower

and more spathulate. Stigmas linear-spathulate, recurved,

tips notched, almost 2-lobed.—/. D. H.

Fig. 1, Entire plant :—reduced ; 2, stamen; 3, stigma :—magnified.

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SENECIO (KLEINIA) PTERONEURA.

Native of Southern Marocco.

Nat. Ord. Composirm.—Tribe, SENECIONIDER.

Genus Kuernta, Linn. ; (De Candolle, Prod. Syst. Veg., vol. vi. p. 336).

Senecio (Kleinia) pteroneura; glaberrima, glauca, caulibus suberectis fru-

ticoso-carnosis laxe ramosis, ramulis erectis v. pendulis elongatis 3-%

poll. diametro carinis ternis ex quaqua folii cicatrice decurrentibus

ornatis, foliis in ramulis novellis paucis parvis elliptico-oblongis acutis

v. mucronatis, capitulis ad apices ramulorum 1-3 crassis pedunculatis

erectis 3-4 poll. longis, involucro cylindraceo elongato basi bracteolis

2-3 filiformibus acuto, squamis anguste linearibus ad apicem versus

contiguis acuminatis, floribus ad 30 omnibus hermaphroditis patentibus,

acheniis linearibus glaberrimis, pappo corolla breviore pilis tenuissimis,

styli ramis apice breviter conicis.

Kenta pteroneura, De Cand. Prod., vol. vi. p. 338.

The subject of the accompanying plate is an example of an

essentially South African group, inhabiting northern Africa,

and is further remarkable as forming a connecting link be-

tween the vegetation of the three very remote geographical

botanical districts of South Africa, the Canary Islands, and

Arabia. In so far as I am aware, no Senecio of this habit has

been found elsewhere in Northern, nor anywhere in Tropical

Africa. Like many outlying species of genera with restricted

limits, it departs a little from the characters of its immediate

congeners; in this case in its remarkably odorous flowers, whose

heliotrope-like scent is the chief merit the plant possesses as

an object of cultivation to any but the lover of the curious.

Senecio pteroneura is a native of rocky and sandy hills on

the Maroccan coast near Mogador, where it forms a lax

leafless shrub, that supports itself in thickets of Retama and

JANUARY Ist, 1872.

other shrubs; it was discovered there by Broussonet many

years ago, but only introduced into England last spring,

where it flowered in the Royal Gardens in the following

November.

The genus Kleinia, to which the species of Senecio with

small conical tips to their style-arms have been hitherto

referred, and which would have been a very natural one,

could it have been made to include only the plants with the

habit of 8. pteroneura, has been abandoned by Mr. Bentham in

his forthcoming revision of the order Composite for the

Genera Plantarum.

Drscr. Quite smooth, glaucous, glabrous. Sfems four to

eight feet high, lax, suberect; branches inarticulate, except

at the ramifications, cylindric, pale green, half to three-quar-

ters of an inch in diameter, nearly straight, obtuse, quite

smooth except for the three longitudinal ridges that run down —

the surface from the small transversely oblong distant leaf-

scars. Leaves only developed on the very young shoots,

elliptic or lanceolate, acute or mucronate, green, nerveless,

a quarter to three-quarters of an inch long. Heads solitary, or

two or three at the tips of the branchlets, erect, cylindric,

scarcely three-quarters of an inch long; contracted in the

middle, with a few filiform bracts at the base; peduncles

very stout, longer than the involucre, swollen upwards and

gradually passing into the base ef the involucre. Jnvolucral

scales twelve to fifteen, narrow-linear, convex at the back,

so close placed as to appear connate by their margins

nearly to the tips, which are scarcely recurved and acumi-

nate, green, brownish-red about the middle. Receptacle pitted.

Flowers about thirty, pale straw-coloured, much longer than the

involucre, all spreading. Corolla-tube narrow, slender; seg-

ments very short, obtuse. Sfyle-arms long, with conic tips.

Pappus hairs very slender, white, much shorter than the corolla.

Achene \inear, smooth.—/. D. H.

Fig. 1, Portion of involucre; 2, flower; 3, hair of pappus :—all magnified.

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KNIPHOFIA CAULESCENS.

Native of South Africa.

Nat. Ord. Liniacem.—Tribe, ALINE ®,

Genus Knipuoria, Mench ; (Endl. Gen. Plant., p. 148).

Kwirnoria caulescens ; trunco erecto cylindraceo, foliis glaucis longissime

subulato-ensiformibus ab ima basi ad apicem triquetrum sensim atte-

nuatis dorso alato-carinatis, marginibus et carina argute serrulatis, scapo

bracteolis parvis sparsis subulatis, racemo brevi fusiformi acuto, peri-

anthii recti 13-pollicaris lobis brevibus obtusis, filamentis longe ex-

sertis subequalibus, ovario obovoideo,

Knipnorta caulescens, Baker mss. in Hort. Kew et Wilson Saunders.

The accompanying figure is taken from a drawing made

by my friend, W. Wilson Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., who

flowered this fine species of Kniphofia in his garden at

Reigate, in June of the present year. It differs from all

other species known to me, in the distinctly caulescent

habit, in this respect approaching the arboreous Cape Aloes,

amongst which Linnzus included the genus to which it

belongs. From the well-known X. Uvaria this species further

differs in its small size, very glaucous habit, short racemes,

much smaller less curved flowers, longer more exserted

subequal filaments, and obovoid ovary.

K. caulescens is a native of South Africa, where it was

detected by Mr. Cooper, when collecting for Mr. W. Saun-

ders in the Storm Bergen mountains, which bound the

Albany district on the south, and border on British Caffraria;

though a sufficiently striking species, it will never re-

place the gorgeous K. Uvaria as an ornamental border-plant,

even if it is as hardy, which is very doubtful; as yet it has

‘not been tried out of doors that I am aware of.

JANUARY Isr, 1872.

A dozen species of this fine genus are known to me; they

are spread throughout Eastern and Southern Africa from

Abyssinia to the Cape district; severval of them are said to

grow in swamps, which is however not likely to be the case

with the caulescent species. Col. Grant found one (when

with Capt. Speke) in Tropical Africa, which he describes as

a great ornament to the swamps and having a powerful

honied smell, too sweet to be agreeable.

Descr. Trunk, in garden specimens six to ten inches high,

as thick as the thumb in our specimen, with short fleshy

roots. Leaves rather soft, very glaucous, spreading and re-

curved, two feet long, two and a half inches to two and three-

quarters broad at the base, from which they are gradually

narrowed to the fine triquetrous tip; keel acute, winged

in the later produced leaves, margin and keel serrulate ;

veins about fifty, obscure; upper surface concave. Scape six

to ten inches high, stout, erect, green, with many scattered

subulate bracts. Aaceme five to seven inches long, stout,

spindle-shaped. Flowers pendulous, very dense and numerous,

concealing the small subulate bracts ; pedicels one quarter inch

long. Perianth nearly one inch long, straight, nearly equal,

base rounded, deep blood-red when young, yellow after ex-

pansion ; lobes small, obtuse. Stamens more than half as

long again as the perianth, straight, nearly equal; anthers

small, yellow. Ovary ovoid.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Whole plant :—reduced ; 2 and 3, base and tip of leaf; 4, top of scape

and raceme :—o/' the natural size ; 5, flower; 6, ovary :—both magnified,

Tas. 5947.

SALVIA RUBESCENS.

Native of New Grenada.

Nat. Ord. Lapiata.—Tribe, MonarvEz.

Genus Satvia, Linn. ; (Benth. in DC. Prod., vol. xii. p. 262).

Satvia (Calosphace) rubescens ; erecta, fruticosa, canescens, foliis petiolatis

ovatis ovato-cordatisve acutis v. acuminatis crenatis subtus nervisque

supra canis, spicis pyramidatim paniculatis glanduloso-pubescentibus

glutinosis, verticillastris 4-8 floris distantibus, calycis purpurei labio

superiore late ovato subacuto, inferiore 2-fido, laciniis acuminatis,

corolla coccinea calyce duplo longiore glaberrima.

Satv1A rubescens, Humb., Bonpl. and Kunth, Nov. Gen. et. Sp., vol. ii. p. 301,

t. 154. Benth. in DC. Prod., vol. xii. p. 345.

S. boliviana, Planch, in Flore des Serres, t. 1148.

A beautiful Andean Sage, belonging to the great group of

Calosphace, which comprises most of the species of that im-

mense European and American genus. It is a native of New

Grenada, and was introduced into Europe first by M. Von

Warscewicz, who sent seeds from Bolivia to M. Van Houtte,

which flowered at Ghent in 1856, and from which the

drawing cited above was published as S. boliviana. More

recently Mr. Anderson Henry received seeds from Prof. Jame-

son of Quito, and raised plants, one of which being sent to

the Royal Gardens, flowered in 1862, and is here figured.

Descr. A tall branched shrub, with herbaceous branches,

more or less clothed with a pale hoary pubescence, most

conspicuous when dry. Sfems four-angled, with concave faces,

angles obtuse. Leaves very variable in size, four to ten —

inches long, three to five inches broad, long-petioled, ovate- —

cordate, crenate, acute or acuminate, puberulous on the upper

JANUARY Ist, 1872.

surface, hoary beneath; veins very numerous, especially

towards the base of the leaf, hoary on the upper surface;

petiole two to five inches long. Panicle a foot or more long,

pyramidal, leafless, ebracteate, densely studded with glan-

dular viscid hairs ; branches ascending ; whorls rather distant,

4 to 8-flowered, pedicels one quarter to halfinch long. lowers

horizontal or ascending, one inch long. Calya obliquely

campanulate, densely glandular-hairy, purple-brown; upper

lip short, broad, acute or mucronate, reflexed; lower de-

curved, longer, with two subulate segments. Corolla twice

as long as the calyx, perfectly glabrous, scarlet, tube slightly

ascending, of nearly equal diameter throughout, one-fifth inch

wide; upper lip short, elliptic, straight, convex ; lower deflexed,

with two short rounded lateral lobes, and a broad orbicular

crenate emarginate deflexed midlobe. Anther elliptic-oblong,

connective very long, flattened, slightly curved, ciliate-along

the outer edge. Dusk unilateral, very large, ovate-oblong,

Mee Style slender, hairy above; segments short, acute.

Fig. 1, Lateral, 2, front view of flower ; 3, anther; 4, ovary, disk and

style :—all magnified.

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PHILODENDRON rusro-runcratum.

Native of Brazil.

Nat. Ord. Arorpex.—Tribe, Pu1LopENDREz.

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

PmLopenpron (Polytomium) rubro-punctatum ; acaulis, foliis numerosis

petiolo 2-3 pedali costa longiore dorso cylindrico facie angusto an-

gulis obtusis, lamina 2-pedali ambitu ex ovato-cordato sagittata sinu

angusto fere clauso ad medium pinnatifida, lobis consimilibus curvis

approximatis obtusis terminali brevi acuto, lobis in auriculis posticis

5-6 infimis brevioribus, costa in sinu nuda, pedunculis brevissimis,

spatha 5-6 pollicari, tubo obovoideo ex albo virescente lamina, oblongo-

cymbiformi cuspidata alba punctis sanguineis remotis conspersa,

spadicis parte feeminea 3-pollicari basi postice spathe adnata, masculo

duplo longiore pallide sulphureo, ovariis albis 5-locularibus loculis

multi-ovulatis, stigmate 5-lobo lobis hemisphericis, antheris brevibus,

No task of its kind is more difficult than that of naming

_ tropical Aroids; they are very numerous, belong to a great

many genera, not all of them readily distinguishable without

complete materials, and no private establishment can afford

the means of cultivating plants occupying so great a space,

and requiring so much heat. Collections of Aroids are hence

pretty nearly confined to Royal Establishments and Botanic

Gardens. When grouped as they are in the Aroid House at

Kew, they serve more than perhaps any other family of the

vegetable kingdom, to convey some just idea of the rich

luxuriance, strange and varied forms, deep hues,and glossy ever-

green character of a tropical jungle. Second only to Kew is, (and

has been from the days of its late Director, Dr. Schott) the

Magnificent Aroid Houses of the Imperial Palace of Schen-

brunn near Vienna, whence, indeed, Kew derived many of

its treasures. Upwards of one hundred and thirty species of

Philodendron are described in Schott’s “ Monograph of Aroidez,

FEBRUARY Ist, 1872.

many of them indeed imperfectly, but all differing so materially

from this, that I have no hesitation in describing it as new;

it is further one of the few stemless species, and is con-

spicuous for the sprinkling of blood-coloured spots on the

spathe. It flowered in May, 1871, and was, we believe, sent

from the Blumenau Gardens in South Brazil by Victor

Geertner, in 1868.

Descr. Stem none, or a short stock, clothed with brown

fibrous sheaths that embrace the bases of the petioles. Petzole

two and a half to three feet long, swollen at the base,

cylindric except for about a quarter of the circumference,

which is concave, with obtuse, raised edges. Blade of the

leaf two feet long, broadly sagittate-ovate, bright-green and

glossy, pinnatifid half-way to the middle; lobes regular,

upeurved, linear, obtuse, rather broader than the obtuse

intervening sinus; auricles (or posterior lobes) about one

quarter as long as the blade, approximate or touching, with

a narrow obtuse included sinus, the nerve marginal on the

sinus, outer side cut like the rest of the blade into four or

five lobes ; cost of the lobes very strong, rounded ; nerves

slender, oblique, anastomosing within the margin. Spathes

crowded, almost sessile, five to six inches long, white sprinkled

with blood-red ; tube greenish, rather narrowly obovoid, one

and a half to one and three-quarters of an inch in diameter ;

blade longer, oblong, boat-shaped, abruptly acuminate, margins

hardly reflexed. Spadix as long as the spathe, female portion

three inches long, conical, three-quarters of an inch in diameter

at the base, which is obliquely adnate to the spathe; male

portion about twice as long, obtuse, pale dirty yellow. Anthers

sessile. Ovary broadly turbinate, 5-celled ; stigma of five

sessile lobes; ovules many in each cell.—/J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Reduced figure of entire plant ; 2, spathe; 3, spadix: both of the

natural size ; 4, ovary; 5, vertical, and 6, transverse section of the same; 7,

=m beige stamens from above the ovaries; 8, perfect stamens :—all mag-

nified.

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TRICHOPILIA HYMENANTHA.

Natwe of New Grenada.

Nat, Ord. Orcu1pex.—Tribe, VANDER.

Genus Tricnopitia, Lindl. ; (Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann, vol. vi. p. 679),

TricnopiL1a hymenantha ; rhizomate brevi; folio recurvo crasse coriaceo

6-8-pollicari elongato-ensiformi acuminato, utrinque angustato basi

tereti dorso convexo, facie canaliculato, racemo gracili brevi laxe

6-8-flore, floribus albis, sepalis petalisque lanceolatis subtortis, labello

sessili sanguineo-consperso late elliptico acuminato planiusculo, mar-

ginibus erosis, basi utrinqgue 2-calloso, columna apice galeata, gale

marginibus fimbriatis,

Tricuopitta hymenantha, Reichb. f. in Bonplandia, vol. ii. p. 90; Xen.

Orchid. p. 17, t. vii. f. L—11; Walp. Ann. vol. vi. p. 679.

Nearly a dozen species of the genus Zrichopilia have been

described by Reichenbach f. in Walper’s Repertorium, all of

them natives of Equatorial America, and limited to the area

comprised between Mexico, Caraccas, and Peru, where they in-

habit humid forests at moderate elevations; the species vary

a good deal in habit, and in the form of the leaf, but are

otherwise pretty well characterized by the celebrated Orchido-

logist above mentioned. 7. hymenantha is perhaps the

most delicate in the colour and texture of the flowers of any

species of the genus ; it was first described in 1854 from the

celebrated collection of Consul Schiller at Hamburgh, and

has since then been cultivated in several collections. The

drawing here given is from a beautiful specimen communi-

cated by Messrs. Veitch.

Descr. Rootstock short. Leaves tufted, six to eight inches

long, recurved, narrowly sword-shaped, one fourth to one

third of an inch in diameter, gradually narrowed to the

acuminate tip, terete at the base, thickly coriaceous, back

FEBRUARY IsT, 1872.

very convex smooth, face channelled, the sinus acute at the

base (¢.e., at the midrib) pale-green on both surfaces; basal

sheaths tight, brown, scarious, acute. Raceme three to four

inches long, almost sessile, 6-8-flowered, slender, drooping;

bracts short, ovate, acute. Flowers subsessile, nearly one and

a half inches in diameter. Ovary slender. Sepals and petals

nearly equal and similar, lanceolate, acuminate, slightly

twisted, white. vp sessile, broadly elliptic, abruptly acumi-

nate, nearly flat, membranous, margins erose, white speckled

with blood-red ; base with two short small conniving ridges,

and an obscure depression in front of them. Column white,

slightly bent backwards from about the middle, abruptly

terminated by a broad open obtusely trapeziform hood with

fimbriate margins; angles below the hood with a short

subulate recurved appendage on each side. Anthers small,

sunk in the hood.—/. D. H.

Fig. 1, Side, and 2, front view of column; 8, lip :—all magnified.

W. Fitch del et lith,

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Tas, 5950.

STYRAX sERRvuLatum.

Native of India and Japan.

Nat. Ord. Strracacea.—Tribe, StyRACER.

Genus Srrrax, Tourn. ; (Alph, DC. Prod. vol. viii. p. 259).

Stryrax serrulatum; ramulis gracilibus glabris v. puberulis, foliis ellipticis

v. elliptico-lanceolatis v. late et subtrapeziformi ovatis regulariter v.

irregulariter serratis interdum uno latere sinuato-lobatis acutis acumi-

natis v. obtusis in petiolum angustatis, utrinque glabris v. costa

superne puberula, cymis 3-6-floris terminalibus nutantibus, floribus

gracile pedunculatis, calyce hemispherico-turbinato v. campanulato

demum glabro obscure 5-dentato, petalis canis. a

SryRax serrulata, Roxb. Flora Indica, vol. ii. p. 415; Wall. Cat. n. 4402 ;

Alph. DC. l.c. 267. i

S. japonicum, Sieb. and Zuce. Fl. Jap. vol. i. p. 53, t. 23; Alph. DC. Le.

p- 266; Regel Garten Flora, vol. xvii. t. 583.

ara

A bush or small tree, common in Southern Japan, where it

is much cultivated on account of its ornamental appearance,

both in gardens and by roadsides. It was also found in the

straits of Corea by Wilford when collecting for the Royal

Gardens in 1859, and in the Loo-Choo Islands by the United

States North Pacific Exploring Expedition in 1854, and is

abundant in Eastern Bengal, from the Himalayas, the

Khasia Mountains, Chittagong, &c. to Penang. Itis curious

that so well-known and widely diffused a plant should not

have been described in Thunberg’s “ Flora of Japan,” or in the

earlier work of Kampfer. Siebold gives its native name as

Tsisjano-ki, and Oldham, who introduced the plant into Kew,

as Naats“gi.

The young shoots of this and other species of Styraw are

much infested by a gall-producing insect, that transforms the

young leaves into incurved club-shaped bodies covered with

FEBRUARY Ist, 1872.

stellate down, and which form rosettes on the branches of a

singular appearance. The same occurs on Himalayan and

Khasian specimens, which bear another gall that is branched

like a stag’s horn, and resembles somewhat that which occurs

on the Himalayan R/ws, and is imported and used in tanning.

The plant from which the accompanying drawing was

taken, flowered in the Temperate House of the Royal Gardens _

in June, 1871.

Drsor. A large shrub or small spreading tree; branches

slender, drooping, glabrous, the youngest sprinkled with

minute stellate down, as are the young leaves and calyces.

Leaves very variable in size and form, one and a half to

three inches long, usually elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, some-

times much broader and trapeziform-ovate, or almost

rounded, acute or acuminate, rarely obtuse or rounded at

the tip, base narrowed into the short slender petiole ; margins

usually regularly acutely glandular-serrate, sometimes ob-

tusely lobed on one side; surfaces quite glabrous; nerves

strong beneath; petiole one-third to one-half inch long.

Flowers three-quarters to one inch in diameter, in terminal

few (3—6)-flowered cymes, rarely solitary and axillary ; cymes

equalling or exceeding the leaves, drooping; peduncles and

_ pedicels slender. Calyx-tube turbinate or campanulate, —

green, with five obscure lobes or teeth. Pefals white, elliptic,

obtuse or acute, densely stellately pubescent outside. Stamens

with rather slender filaments and long linear anthers,

minutely pubescent. Style slender. Fruit one-third to one-

half inch in diameter, globose, subtended by the brown

membranous remains of the calyx, hoary. Seeds pale-brown.

—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Corolla laid open ; 2, stamens; 8, pistils :—all magnified ; 4, ripe

fruit :—of the natural size.

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LAR. ‘Omak,

APHELANDRA svuLPHUREA.

Native of Guayaquil.

Nat. Ord, Acantruacez.—Tribe, APHELANDREA.

Genus ArHetanpra, 2. Br. ; (Nees in DC. Prod., vol, xi. p. 295).

ApueLanprA sulphurea; caule teretiusculo, foliis breviter crasse petiolatis

late ellipticis abrupte acuminatis, costa crassa, nervis validis superne

lete viridibus subtus pallidioribus spica, sessili amentiformi elongato

stricto angusto cylindrico glaberrimo, bracteis pollicaribus arcte imbri-

catis ovato-lanceolatis acutis venosis apices sphacelatas versus pauci-

serratis viridibus, bracteolis parvis ovato-subulatis calycis lobis anguste

oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis $ brevioribus, corolla aureo-sulphuree

tubo curvo, labio superiore stricto angusto convoluto, inferiore amplo

3-partito, lobis lateralibus elliptico-lanceolatis subacutis, intermedio

majore et latiore. .

This is the second species of Aphelandra which has been

introduced within the last few years by the Messrs. Veitch,

from Guayaquil, the other being the far more showy A.

nitens, figured at Tab. 5741 of this work. As a species,

the present is more nearly allied to 4. aurantiaca, Lindl.

(Tab. nost. 4224), which differs in the orange-red flowers,

narrower lateral lobes of the lower lip, and long bracteoles

nearly equalling the calyx.

The Aphelandras, like other Acanthacee, are plants of easy

cultivation with those who will pay ordinary attention to

the requirements of their class, by giving them a proper rest,

while their neat habit, showy colours, and protracted period

of flowering render them admirably adapted for the shelf of

a hothouse. As it is, of the ten or twelve species that have

been introduced into England, few survive in cultivation,

chiefly owing to the indiscriminate use of the watering-pot.

Drscr. A perfectly glabrous, bright-green, erect, her-

baceous plant. Svem stout, terete, sparingly branched. Leaves

FEBRUARY 1st, 1872.

six to nine inches long, on short stout petioles, broadly-

elliptic or elliptic-ovate, abruptly acuminate, convex, bright-

green and glossy above, much paler beneath; midrib stout,

pale above ; nerves strong, much arched; petiole one-half to

three-quarters of an inch long. Spike five to eight inches

long, about three quarters of an inch in diameter, strict,

erect, sessile, cylindric, embraced at the base by two very

small sessile-appressed leaves, which are shorter than the

bracts. Bracts closely imbricate, nearly one inch long, elliptic-

lanceolate, acuminate, much-veined, green with a brown

tip, ciliolate, 2-3-toothed on each side towards the tip, not

keeled. Bracteoles subulate-lanceolate, equalling one-quar-

ter of the calyx. Calyx concealed by the bract ; segments

linear-lanceolate, acuminate, puberulous. Corolla dark or

golden sulphur-coloured, tube protruding half an inch beyond

the bract, curved; limb one and a quarter inch across;

upper lip erect, narrow, convolute ; lower with three seg-

ments of nearly equal length ; the lateral spreading, elliptic-

lanceolate, subacute; the middle one-third larger, broader,

obtuse, with a small orange-red spot at the base —J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Bract; 2, bracteoles, sepals, and style :—all magnified.

IIS?

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Tas. 5952,

AXTHIONEMA corrpirourum.

Native of Asia Minor and Lebanon.

Nat. Ord. Cructrer#.—Tribe, Lepipinrz.

Genus rutonema, R. Br. ; (Benth. and Hook. Gen. Plant., vol. i. p. 88).

AiTHIONEMA coridifolium ; multicaule, caulibus brevibus simplicibus cras-

siusculis, foliis crebris linearibus v. lineari-oblongis obtusis carnosulis

glaucis, racemis densifloris, floribus lilacinis, petalis spathulatis limbo

orbiculato emarginato v. bilobo, siliculis obovato-oblongis basi retusis

apice emarginatis, alis angustis modice inflexis integris v. obscure

dentatis, stylo sinu angusto multo breviore.

Airmonema coridifolium, DC, Syst., vol. ii. p. 561; Prod., vol. i.p. 209; Deless.

Ic, Select., vol. ii. t. 76 (silicula excepta); Boiss. Fl. Orient., vol. i. p. 347.

_ Lepipiem leiocarpum, DC. Syst., vol. ii. p. 563.

Inserts jucunda, Schott et Kotschy mss.

The similarity of this plant to the Dberidella rotundifoha,

figured at Tab. 5749 of this work, is very manifest, and is a

strong argument for reducing the genus Jberidella to dithio-

nema, as has indeed been done of late by M. Boissier, in his

“Flora Orientalis ;” the difference between them hes chiefly

in the capsule, which is broadly winged in dthionema, and

scarcely winged in Jéberidella. a

4. coridifolium is a native of rocky mountains in the East,

having been originally found by Labillardiere upon Mount

Lebanon, where it has subsequently been gathered, between

the village of Eden and the famous cedar grove, by Boissier ;

it has also been found in the Cilician Taurus by Kotschy, who

probably introduced it into the Botanic Garden of Vienna,

whence it was sent by M. Maly to Messrs. Backhouse, with

whom the specimen here figured flowered in May, 1871. It

is a most charming hardy perennial, well suited for rockwork,

and more likely to suffer from the damp than the cold of

FEBRUARY Ist, 1872.

our climate. Regel says that it forms an excellent and very” ;

beautiful border-plant, and is easily propagated from seeds, —

as indeed is the case with the specimen now at Kew, which —

seeded freely last autumn. a

Descr. Quite glabrous throughout. oot-stfock branching, —

perennial. Stems many, ascending, three to six inches long, —

leafy. Leaves pale green, glaucous, spreading, linear or —

linear-oblong, rather broader upwards, sessile, acute, or —

obtuse, two-thirds to three-quarters of an inch long, by one- —

eighth to one-sixth of an inch broad, nerveless, quite entire. —

Flowers in a very dense short oblong round-topped cylindric

raceme, which is one to one and a half inches long, and three _

quarters of an inch broad, pale rose-pink in colour; pedicels

short, quite concealed. Sepals linear-oblong, obtuse, erect.

- Corolla quite equal and regular, one-fourth to one-third of an —

inch broad; petals very broadly spathulate; blade rounded _

or broader than long, notched or 2-lobed. Filaments of the

larger stamens nearly equal throughout their length in our _

plant (dilated below the middle, and not toothed according —

to Boissier,—with a small tooth according to De Candolle); _

anthers short, yellow. Capsule obovate-oblong, concave, — :

notched at both ends; wing narrow, quite entire; style not

exceeding the notch._—/. D. H. 1

Fig. 1, Front, and 2, side view of flower; 3, petals; 4, stamens and ovary ; 4

5, ovary :—all magnijied. ‘

Tas, 5953.

STYLIDIUM spatuvuLatTum.

Native of King George's Sound.

Nat. Ord. StyLipicz.

Genus Srytipium, Swartz ; (Benth. Flor, Austral., vol. iv. p. 1).

Srytiprum spathulatum ; foliis radicalibus petiolatis dense rosulatis obovato-

v. elliptico-spathulatis obtusis acutisve integerrimis pubescentibus v.

glanduloso-pilosis enerviis, scapis gracilibus erectis glabratis, squamis

paucis subulatis, racemo simplici erecto laxifloro, pedicellis gracilibus

2-bracteolatis, calycis tubo subclavato, lobis liberis ovato-lanceolatis,

corollz pallide straminee segmentis 4 lineari-oblongis apice rotundatis

basi aurantiacis quinto minuto subulato recurvo, capsula obovoideo-

oblonga.

Sryuipium spathulatum, Br. Prod., p.569; DC. Prod., vol. vii. p. 33 ; Benth,

Fl. Austral., vol, iv. p. 17.

S. bellidifolium, Sonder in Plant. Preiss., vol. i. p. 876.

Comparatively very few species of the most curious genus

Stylidium have been cultivated in England, though it is one

of the largest in Australia, numbering in Bentham’s Flora

of that continent, eighty-three species; of these many are

very beautiful plants, and all remarkable for the irritability

of the column of the style and stamens, which remains curved

down from the perianth till touched at the bend, when it

Springs up with elastic force, scattering the pollen; an

arrangement doubtless intended to secure cross-impregnation,

by causing the insects which may visit one flower to carry

its pollen to another. Altogether some twenty species have

been in cultivation at one time and another, of which ten

have been figured in this work, but I very much doubt

whether more than three or four could now be mustered in

the United Kingdom, so little interest is shown by horticul-

turists in any but showy plants. 3

FEBRUARY Ist, 1872.

S. spathulatum is a native of South-western Australia,

which is the head-quarters of the genus, and was raised at

Kew from seeds sent home by Mr. Maxwell, a well-known —

horticulturist in that colony, and valued correspondent of —

the Royal Gardens.

Descr. ootstock short, with many tufted fibres, pro-

ducing a solitary rosette, rarely proliferous. Leaves very

variable in size, forming a dense crowded rosette two to four —

inches in diameter, three quarters of an inch to two inches

long, obovate or elliptic-spathulate, acute or obtuse, narrowed

into a petiole, glandular-pubescent or pilose, quite entire, coria-

ceous. MScapes few or many, four to ten inches high, very

slender, flexuous, more or less glandular-pubescent, scales

or scape-bracts few, scattered, erect, subulate. Raceme —

simple, two to ten inches long, lax-flowered. Vower half —

an inch in diameter, pale straw-coloured with an orange-red

spot in the centre; pedicels very slender, a quarter to half an

inch long, with a minute basal bract and two alternate

equally small bracteoles. Calyx-tube clavate, terete, twice as

long as the ovate-lanceolate acute lobes. Corolla-lobes five ;

four of them linear-oblong, tips rounded, each with a small

2-lobed .gland at the very base; the fifth very small,

subulate, recurved. Column about as long as the petals,

slender; anthers purple; stigma naked. Capsule narrowly

obovoid-oblong.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Leaf; 2, front and back view of flower :—all magnified.

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TODEA BARBARA.

Native of Temperate Australia and South Africa.

Nat. Ord. Fizices.—Subord. Osmunpacezr,

Genus Topra, Willd. ; (Hook. et Bauer, Gen. Fil., t. xlvi. B).

Topra barbara; candice subarborescente, fronde lanceolata pinnata vy. 2-

pinnata, pinnis coriaceis glabris v. subtus pilosulis erecto-patentibus,

pinnulis approximatis lineari-oblongis acutis crenato-dentatis v. lobulatis

superioribus confluentibus, soris densis globosis,

Tovra barbara, Moore Ind. Fil. ; Hook. et Baker Synops. Fil., 427.

Tovea africana, Willd. in Schrift. Acad. zu Erfurt, 1802, p. 14, t. 3, £1;

Swartz Syn. Fil. 162; Hook, and Bauer Gen. Fil. lc. ; Hook. f. FA.

Nov. Zeal., vol. iti. 48 and 338; Fl. Tasman., vol. ii. 153, t. 178;

Lowe's Ferns, 8, t. 67; Smith Ferns Brit. and For., 265.

Tove rivularis, Sieber ; Kunze Analect., 64.

Osmunpa barbara, Thunb. Prodr. Fl. Cap., 171; Flor. Cap. Ed. Schultes,

p- 752.

Osmunpa barbata, Brown Prodr. Fl. Aust., 163.

Acrosticuum barbarum, Zinn. Sp. Pl, p. 1529; Hort, Clifort., p. 496;

Amen, Acad., vol. i. p. 274.

Finix Arricana, &c., Plukenet Almag., p. 156, t. 181, f. 5.

Amongst the striking objects in the Great Temperate House

at Kew, none has of late attracted more notice than the

gigantic specimen of Zbdea barbara, or as it is there called

(from its affinity to our British Osmunda), the Australian

Fern Royal, sent by Baron Von Mueller, from the Victorian

Alps, in 1869. Huge specimens of this plant had previously —

been sent to Europe from Australia, and, after seeing —

four such exhibited at the St. Petersburg Horticultural

Exhibition in 1869, I wrote to my friend the Baron, and

begged him to procure for us the largest specimen he could ;

which with his wonted promptitude and liberality, he did at

MARCH Ist, 1872.

once, s6 that before the end of that same year, Kew was

possessed of the finest specimen in Europe,. transmitted

moreover free of cost for transport or voyage.

None of these St. Petersburg examples equalled that here

figured in bulk or weight; and owing to defective treatment,

their foliage was so starved, that they looked rather like

grotesque vegetable monsters, than the truly noble plants 4

which they would have been, had their natural wants been

supplied. As with almost all other Ferns, Zodea barbara

likes humidity and shade, and it is under these conditions

that, at the bottom of the dark gorges of the Australian Alps,

it attains its gigantic bulk and luxuriant crown of fronds,

growing out of steep banks, with its base often washed by a

torrent. Stuck upright in a tub, as usually planted in our

greenhouses, the roots which clothe the huge caudex soon

dry, and the fronds are imperfectly developed; but when set

upon a Shallow vessel of water, propped up between stones

in front, a mass of earth kept in place by cask-staves

behind, and when stones, earth, and caudex are clothed with

Lycopodium, it sends out fountains of fronds throughout the

year. The specimen here figured arrived at Kew in the

autumn of 1869, and weighed in its dry state, when taken

out of the box of sawdust in which it was packed, exactly

fifteen cwt.; it then had not a frond developed on it, now it

has some 30 crowns, and in all just 160 fronds, averaging

five feet in length. The reduced figure given on the accom-

panying plate, being taken from above the level of the plant,

gives no idea of its stateliness and effect.

Still larger specimens than the above have been since sent

to Europe by Baron Von Mueller, of which one, presented by

him to Mr. J. Booth, of Flottbeck, Hamburgh, weighed one

ton three ewt.,

high, seven feet nine inches wide, and three feet three inches

in its smaller diameter.

The genus Zbdea takes the place of Osmunda, in the

Southern hemisphere, and was united with it by R. Brown,

ast think with much reason. 7. darbara is a native of

Tasmania, S. and E. Australia, and South Africa, in which

latter country, however, it does not, in so far as I know, attain

the dimensions that it does in Australia. Linneus named

it Acrostichum barbarum, because of its African origin ; but it

is not a native of Barbary.—J. D. H.

its dimensions being five feet eight inches” :

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BULBINE Macken.

Native of Natal.

Nat. Ord. Lit1acrz.—Tribe, AsPHODELEA,

Genus, Butsine, Linn. ; (Harv. Gen. Cape Plants, p. 400).

Busine Mackenii ; radicibus et collo fibris brunneis intertextis dense vestitis,

foliis late ovato-oblongis obtusis v. subacutis patentibus glabris plani-

usculis enerviis, scapis gracilibus glaucis, bracteis minutis, racemis

multi-laxifloris, pedicellis pollicaribus patentibus, floribus } poll. diam.,

sepalis petalisque fere e basi patentibus subequalibus lineari-oblongis

obtusis aureis, filamentis perianthio paulo brevioribus gracilibus nudis,

antheris parvis.

This pretty plant does not accord with any genus as at

present described, but cannot I think be excluded from

Bulbine, alarge genus of South African plants, from which ‘its

beardless stamens alone distinguish it. The only alternative is

to place it in Bulbinella, from which it differs in the numerous

(not twin) ovules, and filaments all equal in length; or in

my genus Chrysobactron (Tab. Nost., 4062),which has also twin

ovules, and which differs from Bu/éine in no important par-

ticular. Upon the whole I am disposed to think that the

best plan would be to retain the Linnean genus Anthericum,

which he substituted for Bulbine, and to include in it species

with glabrous and bearded filaments ; subdividing it primarily

into those with twin ovules in each cell (Bulbine including

Chrysobactron), and species with several ovules in each cell,

which is again divisible into those with bearded and those with

beardless filaments. Endlicher (Gen. Pl., 148) has indeed

included Bulbine under Anthericum, but his character of the

latter genus excludes the 2-ovuled spevies, and attributes to

it a declinate style.

Bulbine Mackenii was transmitted from Natal by Mr.

McKen, the energetic superintendent of the D’Urban Botanic

MARCH Ist, 1872.

sift aaa al

Gardens ; it flowered in the Royal Gardens in July of last year, _

and of the previous one, the flowers opening after mid-day.

Descr. Root of tufted fleshy fibres, clothed, as is the neck

of the plant, with coarse matted red-brown filaments. Leaves

appearing with the flowers, two to three inches long, by

one and a quarter to one and a half inches broad, spreading

from the neck, ovate-oblong, obtuse or subacute, quite

glabrous, rather fleshy, smooth, nerveless, pale beneath ;

young convolute, with red margins. Scapes two (in our. |

specimen), a foot high, slender, cylindric, glabrous, green.

faceme six to ten inches long, 20-30-flowered ; pedicels

spreading almost horizontally, one inch long, with a minute

ovate acute bract one-eighth inch long at the base. Lower

jointed on the pedicel, half an inch in diameter, bright golden-

yellow. Perianth-segments \inear-oblong, obtuse, spreading :

almost from the base, 1-nerved, with green tips and keel at the

_ back. Stamens inserted at the base of the perianth-segments,

rather shorter than these, filaments slender, not flattened,

equal; anthers small. Ovary, sessile, broadly elliptic, truncate,

3-lobed; style straight, subulate, stigma minute ; ovules

about six in each cell. ‘Seeds woolly,” (Baker).—J. D. H.

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

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DEN DROBIUM rerraconum.

Native of Moreton Bay.

Nat. Ord. Orcuipace #,—Tribe, MaLaxipeEx.—Section, Denprosiem.

Genus, Denprosium, Swartz; (Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orchid., p. 74).

DeEnproxium tetragonum; pseudobulbis fasciculatis anguste elongato-clavatis

in stipitem gracilem basi tuberosum attenuatis acute 4-gonis articulatis,

foliis binis patentibus elliptico-lanceolatis acuminatis coriaceis undulatis,

racemis brevibus terminalibus 1-paucifloris sepalis elongatis anguste

lanceolato-subulatis, lateralibus pendulis tortis, petalis sepalis breviori-

bus et angustioribus, labello sepalis multo breviore ovato, lobis latera-

libus rotundatis, intermedio late ovato mucronato revoluto.

Denvrosium tetragonum, F. Muell. Fragm. Phytog., vol. i. p. 87.

A very distinct species of Dendrobe, a native of the

wooded islets in Moreton Bay, for which the Royal Gardens

are indebted to Messrs. Rollisson and Sons, of Tooting. It

‘is remarkable for the very long pendulous stems or pseudo-

bulbs, which hang in masses from the tree trunks, and are

terminated by a pair of waved leaves. The flowers are by no

means handsome, and its singular habit alone recommends

it for cultivation. The specimen here figured flowered in

the Royal Gardens in November of last year.

Drscr: Stems or pseudobulbs pendulous, densely fascicled,

five to sixteen inches long, acutely tetragonal, very narrowly

clavate, narrowed downwards into a very slender rigid terete

stalk, which suddenly dilates into a globose woody tuberous

ase that emits roots from its under surface, that attach it to

ark of the trees it grows on; tubers one-third inch

diameter, transversely scarred, persistent. Pseudobulbs

jointed on to the tuber, and at distant intervals throughout

MARCH Ist, 1872,

their leneth ; faces hollowed, sheathed towards the thickest

part, which is one-third to half inch in diameter; sheaths —

short, appressed, membranous, triangular, ovate, acute.

Leaves two to three inches long, in pairs at the end of the

pseudobulb, spreading, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, undu-

late, deep green, coriaceous, keeled at the costa beneath. :

faceme, with a very short, brown, rigid rachis, placed —

between the leaves, half to one inch long, bearing one or

few flowers; bracts very small, scarious; peduncle slender, —

yellow, half an inch long. ower four inches long from the

tip of the dorsal to that of the lateral sepals, pale dirty-yellow —

suffused with pink. Sepals equal, narrow-subulate, lanceolate, :

upper erect, straight ; two lateral twisted, pendulous, edged

with red. _ Pefals one-third shorter and proportionally _

narrower than the sepals. zp ovate in outline, whitish with —

transverse pink bars, very much smaller than the sepals; —

lateral lobes short, rounded ; mid-lobe broadly ovate, mu- —

cronate, revolute ; disk with two slender keels. Column very —

short.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Peduncle, ovary, and lip; 2, column; 3, front view of lip:—all —

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EXANTHEMUM patatirervm.

Native of Sithet.

Nat. Ord. AcanrHacez.—Tribe, EranTHEMEs,

Genus, Eranruemum, L. ; (Nees in A. DC. Prodr., vol. ii. p. 445).

Erantuemum palatiferum ; glabrum vy. puberulum, ramulis teretibus, foliis

lanceolatis obtuse acuminatis integerrimis v. subcrenatis glabris,

racemis (spicisve) terminalibus basi compositis recurvato-patentibus

multifloris, floribus fasciculatis sessilibus secundis, bracteis subulatis

calycisque segmentis linearibus glanduloso-pubescentibus, corolla

lilacina v. sanguinea, tubo gracili calyce multoties longiore, limbi

2-labiati explanati lobis 2 superioribus minoribus oblongis obtusis,

inferiore rotundato, lateralibus late oblongis, antheris ceruleis.

ErantuEmum palatiferum; Nees in A. DC. Prodr., vol. ii. p. 457.

Jusricra palatifera ; Wall. Pl..As. Rar., vol. i. p. 80, t. 92.

ERANTHEMUM crenulatum; Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar., vol. iii. p. 107; et

in A. DC. Prodr., vol. ii. p. 453; non Wall. in Bot. Reg., t. 879?

nec EH. crenulatum Zab. nost. 5440.

Very closely allied to, but much less handsome than ¥.

cinnabarinum, which was figured last year (Tab. 5921) in this

work, and differing remarkably in the form of the leaves,

which, curiously enough, are variegated in both species in

our stoves, suggesting a common origin for this sport or

disease. It is a native of the hilly regions of N.E. Bengal,

where it was discovered by a collector of the Calcutta garden,

Mr. F. de Silva, and well figured by Wallich as Justicia

padlatifera, from specimens introduced into the Calcutta

Botanic Garden in 1825. Singularly enough, no specimens

Occur under this name in Wallich’s Herbarium, where, how-

ever, this species is abundantly represented under &. crenu-

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latum, a rather common Indian hill plant, which I gathered

at Chittagong, and which extends thence to Java, and is

also found in Ceylon and the Madras Peninsula.

The history of Z. crenulatum* is obscure ; it first appearsin

the Botanical Register (Tab.'879) in 1825, as a ms. name of

Wallich’s, applied to a plant from Silhet, which he sent to

the Horticultural Garden in 1824, the very year in which he

received Ff. palatiferum in the Calcutta Garden; but the

described by Nees as &. crenulatum (Wall. Pl. As. Rar., i.

107), in having a small regular corolla with acute lobes, and

is probably an Asystasia in a starved state. 'T. Anderson, in

his enumeration of the East Indian Acanthacee (Journ.

Linn. Soc., v. ix. p. 524), throws no light on the subject.

Under these circumstances it appears to me best to retain

the name palatiferum, as being that which Wallich applied

to this plant, which he figures and describes well. It is

further to be observed that Nees errs in putting £ ciana-

barinum and this plant (his erenulatum) in the section of the

genus with the corolla limb equal, it being strongly bilabiate

in both; in so doing he has followed the Register plate, and

not the specimens he has so named.

The subject of our plate was sent to Kew from the Cal-

cutta Botanic Garden, and flowered in April of last year ; it

belongs to the var. glandulosum, in which the glandular

pubescence of the inflorescence extends to the upper branches,

and which inhabits the Malayan Peninsula.

Descr. A small erect shrub; branches terete, glabrous or

slightly glandular-pubescent. Leaves petioled, four to six

inches long, blotched in our plant with white, quite entire or

obscurely crenulate. pistes terminal, glandular-pubescent,

simple or branched at the base, recurved, four to seven-inches

long, many-flowered. F/owers subsecund, fascicled at regular

intervals ; bracts subulate, one-sixth to one-quarter of an inch

long. Calyx-segments linear-subulate, acuminate, one-third

inch long or more. Corolla-tube very slender, one inch long,

pale ; limb three-quarters to one and a quarter inches broad,

flat, 2-lipped, lilac or scarlet, with a yellow spot on the lower

lip; upper lip of two erect linear-oblong obtuse lobes ; lower —

- with one orbicular mid-lobe, and two broadly oblong lateral

ones, all rounded at the tip. Anthers blue.—J. D. H. .

* EXANTHEMUM crenulatum of this work (Tab. 5440) is a species of

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COSLOGY NE LENTIGINOSA.

Native of Moulmein.

Nat. Ord. Orcumacea:.—Tribe, MALAXIDEA.

Genus, Catoerne, Lindl. ; (Lindl. Fol. Orchid. Calogyne, p. 1).

Ca:Logyne lentiginosa ; caudice repente valido rigido, pseudobulbis erectis

sessilibus anguste ellipticis compresso-trigonis vaginis ovatis acutis

carinatis duplo longioribus, foliis lanceolatis petiolatis, racemo as-

cendente laxifloro, bracteis cymbiformibus ovaria superantibus, sepalis

petalisque conformibus pallide viridibus oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis

carinatis recurvis, labello albo croceo variegato, lobis lateralibus

brevibus rotundatis, intermedio breviter late unguiculato late trulli- —

formi apice recurvo marginibus crispatis disco anguste tri-lamellato.

CaLocrne fuliginosa, Lindl. Fol. Orchid. Caelogyne, p. 8

A very little known plant, though imported many years

ago from Moulmein by Messrs. Veitch, probably through their

indefatigable collector Thos. Lobb, and of which I find a few

dried flowers in Lindley’s Herbarium, dated December, 1848,

received from Messrs. Veitch. Describing it from the flowers

alone for his “Folia Orchidacea” in 1854, Lindley naturally

included it in his section of the genus Flaccide, with pendu-

lous racemes, whereas it really belongs to the much more

extensive section of Hrecte, with ascending or erect racemes.

The specimen here figured was communicated by Messrs.

Veitch, with whom it flowered in December of last year.

Descr. Stem very stout, creeping, as thick asa swan’s

d with rigid brown scales.

quill, rooting into the earth, clothe ;

Pseudobulbs close placed, sessile, erect, two to three inches long,

by two thirds to three-quarters of an inch wide, trigonous,

compressed, narrowly elliptic, truncate, green, smooth, edges

obtuse ; sheaths reaching about halfway up the pseudobulb,

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ovate, acute, keeled, brown, scarious, appressed. Leaves,

two at the top of the pseudobulb, six to seven inches long,

erect, recurved above the middle, acute, narrowed into a short

petiole, obscurely nerved, keeled at the costa beneath, bright

green ; articulate at the base with a globose joint or internode,

that persists in the old pseudobulbs. Laceme produced at

the base of the last-formed pseudobulb, ascending from its

base, where it bursts through the sheath; peduncle stout,

stiff, ascending, clothed with broad obtuse convolute green

scales ; rachis erect, slender, flexuous, floriferous from the

base upwards, about 5-flowered. Flowers one anda half

inch diameter, distichous; bracts two thirds inch long,

horizontal, cymbiform, exceeding the ovary, membra-

nous. Sepals and petals similar, linear-oblong or lanceo-

late, acuminate, recurved, keeled, pale yellow-green. Lip

rather longer than the sepals, white with a broad ochreous

blotch on the mid-lobe, the margins of the lateral

lobes brown and as well as the disk freckled with brown;

lateral lobes rounded; mid-lobe with a broad flat claw,

broadly trowel-shaped, tip acuminate recurved, margins undu-

late, disk with three slender crenate ridges, of which the middle

one is shortest. Column slender, narrowly winged.—/. D. H.

Fig. 1, Column; 2, lip :—both magnified.

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SENECIO PULCHER.

Native of Uraguay.

Nat. Ord. Compostr#—Tribe, SENECIONIDER.

Genus SENECIO, Linn. ; (De Candolle, Prod., vol. vi. p. 340).

SENECIO pulcher ; annuus, arachnoideus, caule cylindrico robusto simplici v.

ramoso, foliis crasse herbaceis oblongo-lanceolatis irregulariter lobulatis

lobulis crenato-dentatis radicalibus breviter petiolatis caulinis sessilibus

costa nervisque crassis, pedunculis bracteatis, capitulis maximis corym-

bosis, involucri latissime campanulati foliolis crassis oblongo-lanceo-

latis subacutis omnino viridibus exterioribus numerosis interioribus

dimidio brevioribus, ligulis 20-30 latis purpureis disco aureo ter

longioribus.

Senico pulcher, Hook. and Arn. in Hook. Journ. Bot., vol. iii. (1841) p. 337.

Certainly the handsomest Groundsel hitherto discovered, —

and truly designated by its original describers, and this from

dried specimens that had lost all their beauty, as “a splendid

plant, one to four feet high, with flowers two inches and

more in diameter, the ray purple.” It was discovered at the

foot of the Sugar-Loaf Mountain, near Maldonado, and at

Aldoa, west of Portalegre, in S. Brazil, by that indefatigable

traveller and gardener, Tweedie, nearly forty years ago, and

there are also specimens in the Hookerian Herbarium,

gathered on grassy hills near Maldonado by Mr. Fox, late

British Minister in Uraguay. :

The introducer of the plant into England is Mr. J.

Tyerman, formerly of Kew, and for many years the skilful

and energetic Superintendent of the Liverpool Gardens ; now

of Penlee Tregooney, in Cornwall, where he raised it from

seed sent from Buenos Ayres, flowered it in November 1871,

and sent it to Kew for determination.

Duscr. Annual, very robust, one to four feet high, bright-

green, sparingly clothed with lax cobwebby wool, especially

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on the involucre. Stem simple or branched, cylindric, —

smooth, as thick as a swan’s quill. Zeaves four to ten inches —

long, thick and herbaceous, oblong-lanceolate, subacute, irre:

gularly lobulate, with crenate-toothed lobules ; radical shortly

petioled, cauline sessile, semi-amplexicaul, with slightly

decurrent bases, midrib and few principal nerves very —

stout, venules none or inconspicuous. Heads in branched a

corymbs, two to three inches in diameter, very bright red-

purple, disk golden. Peduncles bracteate, stout, spreading;

bracts one-half to one inch long, ovate-lanceolate, entire oF

toothed. Znvolucre broadly campanulate, bright green ; scales

numerous, oblong-lanceolate, subacute, thick ; outer (formimg

the calyculus), numerous, half as long as the inner. ay: .

flowers twenty to thirty, spreading and recurved, ray linear-

oblong, tip forked ; pappus as long as the tube; style-arms

truncate. Disk-flowers funnel-shaped, lobes short, erect;

pappus half as long as the tube. Achene unripe, glabrous,

terete, smooth.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower of ray; 2 ditto of disk; 3 pappus hair :—all magnified.

TAB. 5960.

CORYN OSTYLIS Hysantuus.

Native of Para.

Nat. Ord. Viotace&.—Tribe, VIOLEZ.

Genus, Corynostyuis, Mart. ; (Benth. and Hook. Gen. Plant., vol. i. p. 116).

Corrnostyiis Hybanthus ; caule fruticoso scandente, foliis alternis elliptico-

v. ovato-oblongis acuminatis integerrimis serratisve, floribus solitaris

racemosis v. corymbosis gracile pedicellatis, sepalis ovatis obtusis summo

minore, calcare compresso semitorto obtuso.

CorynostrLis Hybanthus, Mart. and Zucc., Nov. Gen. and Sp. Pl. Bras.,

vol. i, p. 26, t. 17, 18. Griseb. Fi. Brit. W. Ind. 26.

C. Benthami, Walp. Rep. i. 223.

C. albiflora, Linden ;—Moore in Florist, January, 1872, p. 9.

C. Carthagenensis et C. Guyanensis, Karst. Fl. Colomb., vol. ii. p. 53 et

127. :

Catyprrion Aubletii, et C. Berteri, Ging. in DC. Prodr., vol. i. p 289.

C. nitidum, Benth. in Hook. Jowrn. Bot., vol. iv. p. 106.

Viota Hybanthus, Aubi. Pl. Guyan., vol. ii. Pp. 811, t. 319; Maycock, Fl.

Esseq., p. 123 (non Willd.).

V. lauriflora, Smith in Rees Cyclopedia.

Ionmpium Aubletii, Roem. et Schultes Syst., vol. v. p- 397.

A stove shrub, imported by Mr. Linden from Para, very

attractive from its climbing habit, abundance of snow-white.

sweet-smelling blossoms, and bright glossy foliage. Though

belonging to the same Natural Order as the Violet, and closely

connected with that genus, its habit and the form of its flower

more resemble those of the racemose Indian Balsams. The

curious twist of the spur has been observed by Martius alone

in his careful description of this plant. It is a most variable

species, and I believe that all the so-called species the genus

contains, and which are hitherto described, are referable to

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one, which extends from the Amazon (which it ascends to the

junction of the Rio Negro), to Venezuela, Columbia, Guate-

mala, and St. Vincent ; but which, curiously enough, has not

been detected in Trinidad. The C. albiflora of the Morist

is clearly the same, with the articulation of the pedicels

and bracteoles omitted by the artist. The specimen here

figured flowered in January of the present year in Mr. Bull’s ©

establishment at Chelsea.

Descr. A slender, glabrous climber; branches terete,

spotted with white. eaves alternate, two to five inches

long, elliptic-oblong or ovate, or orbicular, obtuse or acute,

quite entire or serrulate, bright grassy-green, paler beneath,

nerves reticulate; petiole one quarter to half an inch long.

Stipules small, subulate, deciduous. Mowers usually in

axillary subcorymbose racemes, rarely fascicled or solitary ;

rachis of raceme half to one inch long, strict, erect, finely

pubescent; bracts minute, deciduous. Flowers two inches

long, pure white, odorous; pedicels three inches long,

capillary, jointed above the middle, 2-bracteolate. Sepais five,

small, ovate, obtuse, quite entire, ciliate, the upper smaller.

Petals five, two upper smallest, obovate, obtuse, ciliate, callous

_at the base; two lateral twice as large, spreading, obliquely

obovate ; lower very large; limb broader than long, obcor-

date; spur broad, obtuse, compressed, with a_half-twist.

Stamens five, the upper free, the four others connate in pairs,

each pair produced into a bearded appendage at the base on

the adjacent sides. Ovary, glabrous or pilose. Capsule one

and a half inches long, elliptic, acute-—/. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower with the lateral and lower petals removed ; 2, side stamens

and spur; 3, ovary; 4, transverse section of ditto :—all magnified.

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BOLBOPHYLLUM temniscatum.

Native of Moulmein.

Nat. Ord. Orcurpace#.—Tribe, DENDROBIEZ.

Genus, Botsopnytium Thouars ; (Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orchid., p. 47).

Botsopuytium lemniscatum ; pseudobulbis depresso-globosis grosse tuber-

culatis, foliis 2-3 e basi pseudobulbi enatis elliptico-lanceolatis, scapo

apice cernuo gracillimo supra medium vagina longissima subinflata

aucto, spica brevi pendula, floribus parvulis imbricatis, sepalis sub-

equalibus supra medium connatis ovato-rotundatis obtusis dorso infra

apicem appendice pendula gracillima clavata e lamellis 10 longitudina-

libus crenatis constante auctis, petalis minutis lineari-oblongis obtusis

columne utrinque rostrate appressis, labello brevi incluso lingueeformi

crasso obtuso convexo levi.

Bo.zoruyiium lemniscatum, Parish mss.

A more singular little gem of an Orchid than this cannot

well be imagined. Its curious glossy tubercled pseudobulbs,

its capillary scape with the long inflated upper sheath, its

pendulous spike of glistening minute flowers, and above all,

its slender appendages that hang one from the back of each

Sepal, and which are as curious in structure as beautiful in

colouring, together seem to mark it as the type of a new

genus. This I should have named JLemniscoa Parishii,

had not its discoverer seen reason to refer it to the hetero-

geneous genus Bolbophyllum, to which it 1s certainly very

closely allied, but which appears to me to want a redistribu-

tion of its species. The elaborate structure of the appendages

of the sepals deserves special notice. Each consists of a

narrow club-shaped very flaccid body, three to four times as

long as the flower, and is gradually narrowed into a fili-

form pedicel. On a superficial examination it appears to be

10-sided, but on a transverse section is proved to consist of a

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capillary axis, from which radiate ten longitudinal crenate

undulate plates, of equal breadth and extreme delicacy. The

whole organ is not more than one-sixth to one-fourth of an

inch long, of a brilliant red-purple colour transversely banded

with white. These appendages suggested the very appro-

priate name of /emniscatum (from lemniscus, a coloured ribbon).

Of their possible use I can form no conception; they fall off

as the flower expands.

The Rev. C. Parish discovered this plant flowering on an

old shingle roof at Zwakabin, in Moulmein, in November,

1868, and sent plants to the Royal Gardens in 1870, which

flowered in July of the present year.

Descr. Pseudobulbs a half to three-quarters of an inch in

diameter, depressed, tubercled. eaves in a tuft of three or

four, springing from the base of the pseudobulb, one and a

half to two inches long, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, deciduous. —

Scape also from the base of the pseudobulb, four to six

inches high, capillary, with two or three short sheaths below

the middle, and one very long slender slightly inflated one

above it. Spike pendulous from the curved tip of the scape,

three-quarters of an inch long, oblong; bracts small, sub-

ulate. Flowers one-twelfth to one-tenth of an inch long,

crowded, imbricate. Ovary short. Sepals dark purple, green

at the base, coriaceous, connivent, united below the middle,

setose, with long spreading hairs, orbicular-ovate, obtuse,

3-grooved (appendages described above). Petals small, in- —

cluded, linear-lanceolate, obtuse, rather longer than and

appressed to the column, white with a purple streak. Lip

broadly ovate, recurved, convex, very obtuse, quite smooth,

dark-blue purple. Column with a sharp decurved prominent _

beak on either side.—J. D. H. |

Fig. 1 and 2, flowers; 3, transverse section of appendage; 4, column,

petals and lip; 5, column; 6 and 7, pollen :—all magnified.

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MASDEVALLIA IGNEA.

Native of New Grenada.

Nat. Ord. Orcuipacrm.—Tribe, PLEUROTHALLIDER.

Genus, Maspevauuia, Ruiz and Pavon ; (Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orchid.,

p. 192).

MASDEVALLIA ignea; caulibus fasciculatis, foliis longe petiolatis ellipticis

obtusis coriaceis, scapis gracilibus folio longioribus, floribus decurvis,

sepalis basi in tubum subcylindricum eurvem gibbum connatis, dorsali

inter sinum lateralium deflexo e basi triangulari elongato-subulato,

lateralibus maximis ellipticis acutis marginibus recurvis, petalis parvis

lineari-oblongis obtusis, basi uno latere producto, labello unguiculato

linguwformi basi subcordato antice crenulato, columna exalata, andro-

clinio serrulato.

Maspevatuia ignea; Reichd. fil. in Gardener's Chronicle, Nov. 1871, p. 1482.

_ Avery near ally of MW. Veitchiana (Tab. nost. 5739), and of

as vivid a colour, but differing remarkably in the form of the

leaf, which is also long-petioled, and in the shape of the

Sepals and their disposition and curvature. According to

Reichenbach, fil. (who quotes Mr. Day for the information),

it was originally imported from New Grenada in March,

1870, and sold in Stevens’s sale-rooms. That learned Or-

chidologist describes it from specimens that flowered in

Messrs. Day’s, Branteghem’s, and Veitch’s collections. That

figured here is from a large flowered form which flowered in

Mr. Bull’s establishment in February of the present year.

The colour, though not so deep as that of the Veitchiana, is

quite as vivid, and more resembles that of cinnabar, or, as

Reichenbach says, a “dazzling scarlet mixed with orange-

scarlet, too dazzling to look at long.” It thus suggests a

transition from the red heat of Veitchiana to a white heat.

As in the latter species, this lustre—or water, as a jeweller

would term it—is due to the refractive power of the fluid

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contained in the superficial bladdery cells of the sepals, and is —

perhaps unsurpassed for brilliancy in the vegetable kingdom.

Dzscr. Stems densely tufted, rigid, erect, sheathed at the

base, each bearing a solitary leaf and flower. Leaf elliptic or

elliptic-obovate, obtuse or notched, very coriaceous, bright

deep green, pale beneath, blade three inches long, narrowed

into a channelled petiole one to one and a half inches long.

Scape slender, rigid, clothed at intervals with truncate sheaths,

of which the uppermost is one inch long, lower somewhat

spathaceous, compressed, and reaching nearly to the ovary.

Flower one and a half to two inches long from the base of the

ovary to the tips of the sepals, horizontal and decurved.

Ovary one-third inch long. Sepals united at the base into a

curved gibbous tube, half inch long by two-thirds inch in

diameter, pale orange-red outside, bright cinnabar-red inside ;

upper suddenly contracted from a triangular ovate base to a

long slender point, bent down into the fork between the

lateral sepals, than which it is rather shorter; lateral sepals

elliptic-oblong, acute, rather obliquely incurved, convex above

with recurved margins, 3-nerved. Pedals very small, wholly

included, appressed to the sides of the column, linear-oblong,

obtuse, base auricled in front, white, with a faint purple

streak. Lip equalling the petals, included, linear-cblong,

obtuse, recurved, cordate at the base, white, with a pale

purple blush. Co/wmn erect, margins not winged.—J. D. #.

Fig. 1, Flower with the sepals removed; 2, the same with the petals

_ removed; 38, pollen :—adl magnified.

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STAPELIA SORORIA,

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Nat. Ord. Ascteprapiex.—Tribe, SrareLien.

Genus, Srapgiia, Linn. ; (Decaisne in DC. Prodr., vol. viii. p. 652).

STAPELIA (Stapletonia) sororia ; caulibus erectis, ramis erectis v. divaricatis

4-gonis inter angulos dentatos depressis, dentibus remotis acutis in-

curvis, pedunculis solitariis v. binis ex ramulis junioribus provenien-

tibus decurvis dein adscendentibus, corolla ampla atro-purpurea 5-fida

fauce lobisque densissime et longe villosis, lobis acutis rugosis rugis

basin versus luteis.

STAPELIA sororia, Masson, Stap. Nov., p. 23, t. 39; Jacquim. Stap. Hort.

Vind. Descript. t. 22, 36,37. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 94. Decaisne in

DC. Prodr., vol. viii. p. 652.

One of the earliest-known species of the curious genus to

which it belongs, introduced into England by Masson, a col-

lector for Kew, though it nowhere appears in the first or

second editions of the Hortus Kewensis. Masson who first

described it, in 1796, states that it flowered in his garden at

the Cape of Good Hope in 1792, and in the Royal Gardens,

Kew, in 1797. The said Francis Masson was a gardener at

Kew, and was, at the instigation of Sir Joseph Banks, sent to

the Cape, to collect live plants for the King (George Tit.) :

he left England in 1772, and remained in South Africa till

1775, when he returned on leave to England, and spent his

vacation in publishing the beautiful drawings he had made

of Stapelias in a small folio work, dedicated to the King, with

figures and descriptions of forty-one species, all new to science,

(there having been but two previously published from that

country) and collected in the Karroo country chiefly by him-

self. In 1786 he returned to the Cape, and spent ten _more

years in collecting for Kew. Close upon ninety species of

Stapelia are described in Decaisne’s monograph of the genus,

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in De Candolle’s Prodromus, published in 1844, since which

time many more have been discovered, but few figured. In

1811, forty-four species were cultivated at Kew, where there

are now about thirty.

St. sororia varies much in robustness, size of flower, and in

the number and extent of yellow ridges on the petals.

Descr. Pale green, glabrous. Sfems six to ten inches high,

with erect or horizontal branches one-third to two-thirds of an

inch in diameter, rather depressed or channelled between the

angles, which are toothed at intervals of about one-third to

two-thirds of an inch, the teeth are soft and incurved.

Peduncles solitary or twin, from the young shoots at the

bases of the branches, decurved, with ascending tips, three to

four inches long. Flower three to four and a half inches in

diameter. Calyz-lobes triangular-ovate, acuminate. Corolla

clothed on the surface and margins with long hairs, which

are very dense towards the throat; lobes five, ovate, acumi-

nate, transversely rugose, dark vinous purple, the folds towards

the base bright orange-yellow. Processes of the column deep

purple, exserted.—J. D. H. :

Fig. 1, column :—magnified.

, Tas, 5964.

ARISEMA speciosum.

Native of the Eastern Himalaya Mountains.

Nat. Ord, Aromprm—S ArisAarE&.

Genus, Arismma, Mart. ; (Schott Prodr. Syst. Aroid., p. 24).

Ariszma (Trisecta) speciosum ; folio solitario 3-foliolato, petiolo variegato,

foliolis crassiuscule petiolulatis late ovato-cordatis caudato-acuminatis

rubro-marginatis, pedunculo petiolo breviore, spatha purpurea late

elliptico-ovata caudato-acuminata albo-vittata, appendice cylindracea

inferne paulo incrassata in stipitem brevem attenuata apice subrepente

in caudam longissimam capillarem flexuosam spatha pluries longiorem

producta ovoideo ovario, stigmate subsessili, ovulis 3 basilaribus.

ARIS EMA speciosum, Martius in Flora 1831, p. 458; Schott Prodr. Syst.

Aroid., p. 27.

The moist forests of the temperate regions of the Himalaya

abound in large, and even gigantic species of terrestrial Aroids,

chiefly belonging to the genus Arisema; of these, some

twenty inhabit the provinces of Nepal and Sikkim, flowering in

the spring, and exciting the attention of the most careless ob-

server by their brilliant colouring in some cases, and by their

curious forms in all. ‘Two were figured in last year’s volume

of the Magazine (4. curvatum, Tab. 5931, and A. concinnum,

Tab. 5914), both sent by Mr. Gammie (formerly of Kew, and

now superintendent of the Sikkim Cinchona Plantations).

To this energetic officer we owe the introduction of several

more, and amongst them, of that here figured, which flowered

in the Royal Gardens in March of the present year. Un-

fortunately, the genus is diccious, and no opportunity has

presented itself of fertilizing the females, which alone have

appeared. The tubers may, however, be kept in a cold frame

throughout the winter, like those of any other plant of

similar habits and constitution.

The wonderful flexuous tail to the spadix, which I have

MAY Ist, 1872.

usually found lying on the ground, is the most striking

feature of this and some closely allied species. Of its use,

only a guess has been hazarded—that it may lead wingless

insects into the spathe, and so to the stamens in one case,

and to the ovaries in another, and thus effect the fertiliza-

tion of the latter. 3 :

The great tubers are, as of allied species, used for food in

times of famine, after maceration and fermentation to dissipate

the acrid poisonous principle which they contain.

Drscr. Zuder the size of a large potato. Leaf solitary ;

petiole sheathed at the base, dirty green mottled with brown,

as thick as the thumb; leaflets three, petiolulate, six to eight

inches long, broadly cordate ovate, long-acuminate, strongly

nerved, deep green above with a blood-red edge, pale beneath;

petiolules half to two-thirds of an inch long, laterally com-

pressed, with blood-red edges and streaked sides. Peduncle

lateral, two to three inches long, paler than the petiole and

much more slender. Spathe five to six inches long; lower

convolute portion cylindric, upper elliptic-ovate concave,

with an acuminate recurved tip, deep purple inside, striped —

with white, greenish or paler purple outside. Spadiz cylindric,

contracted below into a short stipes, tip produced into a

twisted and flexuous filiform tip, which is twenty inches

long. Ovaries occupying about one to one and a half inches

of the spadix, flagon-shaped or ovoid ; stigma sessile, discoid;

ovules 3, basal, erect.—./. D. H.

Fig. 1, Spadix:—of the natural size ; 2, ovary ; 3, vertical and 4, transverse

section of ditto :—-all magnified.

Tas. 5965.

VERONICA ParvIFLORA, VAR. ANGUSTIFOLIA.

Native of New Zealand.

Nat. Ord. ScropHULARINEZ.—Tribe, VERONICES.

Genus, Verontca, Linn. ; (Benth. in DC. Prodr., vol. x. p. 458.)

Veronica (Hebe) parviflora ; frutex glaberrimus, foliis sessilibus lanceolatis

elliptico-lanceolatis v. linearibus erectis v. patenti-recurvis carinatis

acutis acuminatisve glaberrimis integerrimis, racemis foliis longioribus

strictis v. paulo curvis elongatis caudato acuminatis pedunculatis multi-

floris puberulis, floribus parvis breviter pedicellatis, calycis parvi lobis

ovatis oblongisve obtusis ciliolatis, corolla tubo lobis oblongis obtusis

equilongo, capsula parva sepalis paulo longiore septicida.

Veronica parviflora, Vah! Symb., vol. iii. p. 4; Benth. in DC. Prodr., vol. x.

p. a Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel., vol. i. p. 192; Handbook of N. Z. Flora,

p. 207.

Var. angustifolia ; foliis anguste linearibus patenti-recurvis.

V. angustifolia, A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel., p. 187.

V. stenophylla, Steud. Bot. Nomencl., Ed. ii.

A not uncommon New Zealand shrub, found throughout

the two main islands, and, like its shrubby compatriots,

varying excessively in stature, foliage, and colour of flower ;

apparently passing at one time into the still more common

V. salicifolia, and at others into the rarer V. macrocarpa and

ligustrifolia, Tt is best distinguished from both these latter

by the long slender racemes, short obtuse calyx-lobes and

small fruit. I have little doubt but that these and other

New Zealand species hybridize extensively in their own

country, and that when they are more copiously introduced

into this, the difficulty of naming them will prove insuperable.

The form of parvifolia here figured is that described by A.

Richard as V. angustifolia, and was procured from the Royal

Botanic Gardens of Edinburgh under the name of linarifolia 10

MAY Ist, 1872.

1870; it flowered in the temperate house at Kew in July

of 1871, and is a remarkably graceful greenhouse plant, of

easy cultivation. 8

Descr. A small glabrous shrub; branches slender, erect,

red-brown, as are the peduncle and the rachis of the racemes.

Leaves two to three and a half inches long, sessile, spreading

and recurved, narrow-linear, acute, keeled, quite entire, dark

green and channelled above, pale beneath. Racemes opposite,

axillary, spreading and recurved, longer (often twice as long) —

as the leaves, densely very many flowered, tapering to the

extremity. Flowers a quarter of an inch in diameter, shortly

pedicelled ; bracteoles minute. Calyzx-lobes very short, oblong,

obtuse, minutely ciliate. Corolla pale lilac; tube rather —

longer than the lobes, and much exceeding the calyx; lobes

spreading, dorsal largest, anterior smallest, almost orbi-

cular, all obtuse. Stamens much exserted ; anthers red-brown.

Style exserted ; stigma subentire —J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower; 2, calyx and style :—both magnified.

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Tap, 5966,

RESTREPIA ELEGANS.

Native of Caraccas.

Nat. Ord, Orcuipacra.—Tribe, MaLaxipem § PLEUROTHALLER.

Genus, Restrepra, Kunth ; (Lindl. Fol. Orchid., Restrepia).

Restrepra elegans ; caulibus cespitosis vaginis amplis imbricatis compressis

albis scariosis tectis, folio sessili late elliptico coriaceo apiculato, pedun-

culis axillaribus solitariis v. binis filiformibus folium eequantibus v.

superantibus, sepalo dorsali lanceolato in caudam elongatam apice cla-

vellatam producto albo purpureo-lineato, lateralibus in laminam amplam

oblongam apice emarginatam concavam flavam purpureo punctatam con-

natis, petalis minutis sepalo dorsali consimilibus, labello parvo panduri-

formi emarginato ultra medium eroso basi utrinque appendicula setacea

aucto.

Resrrerta elegans, Karst. Auswahl neuer und Gewdchse Venezuelas, p. 8,

t. 2; Lindl. Fol. Orchid., Restrepia, p. 2.

A lovely little Orchid, closely allied to, and indeed the Vene-

zuelan representative of the Andean 2. antennifera, a plant

which was long regarded as the only species of the genus, and

known only from the plate in Humboldt’s and Bonpland’s

“Nova Genera et Species” (vol. i. p. 293, t. 94) and which

has been cultivated by M. Linden, of Brussels, but not, as far

as I am aware, in this country (see Reichb. f. in Gard.

Chron., 1869). ;

Since that period a considerable number of species have

been discovered and described, most of them presenting the

curious antenna-like form of dorsal sepal and petals, and

all inhabiting the mountains of Venezuela and the Andes,

from Guatemala to New Granada. :

R. elegans inhabits mossy tree trunks at elevations of

5-6000 feet in the province of Caraccas, whence there are

ied specimens in the Hookerian Herbarium, collected

near the colony of Tovar, by Fendler. I am indebted to

Messrs. Veitch for the specimen here figured, which flowered

m February last. :

MAY Ist, 1872,

Drscr. Stems tufted, epiphytic, two to three inches high,

clothed with distichous, compressed, elliptic-oblong, obtuse,

pale, rigidly scarious scales. Zeaf one to one anda half inches

long, almost exactly elliptic, obtuse or subacute, deep green

above, pale beneath, very coriaceous, flat, smooth. Peduncles

usually in pairs, rather longer or shorter than the leaf, very

slender, erect, rigid, naked; bracts small, oblong, acuminate,

compressed, embracing the short ovary. /Vower one and a half

to two inches long from the tip of the dorsal to that of the

lateral sepals, horizontal. Dorsal sepal erect, lanceolate, pro-

duced into a straight tail as long as itself, which is yellow and

clubbed at the tip, white streaked with purple; lateral sepals

connate into an oblong emarginate concave blade, that subtends

the lip, yellow, spotted with purple. Petals like the dorsal se-

pal but only half the size, spreading. Lip half the size of the

connate lateral sepals, and of the same colour, but edged

with red ; oblong but contracted in the middle, and abruptly

at the base into a narrow claw; base concave, margins erose

beyond the middle, and furnished on each side towards the

base with a slender subulate auricle ; tip emarginate ; surface

echinulate. Column slender, arched, white streaked with

purple. Pollen-masses 4, sessile. —J. D. H.

Fig. 1 and 2, Flowers; 3, lip and column; 4, front view of lip; 5, column;

6, pollen :—all magnified.

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Tas. 5967.

SAXIFRAGA STRACHEYI.

Native of the Himalaya Mountains.

Nat. Ord. Saxirracace&,—Tribe, SAXIFRAGES.

Genus, Saxirraca, Linn. ; (Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. Pl., vol. i. p. 635).

SaxirraGa (Bergenia) Stracheyi; rhizomate crasso repente, foliis amplis

obovatis obovato-cuneatisve grosse crenatis basi angustatis v. cordatis,

petiolo basi dilatato, panicula glanduloso-pubescente, calycis lobi 5

rotundati, petalis spathulatis obovatis v. orbicularibus roseis.

Saxirraca Stracheyi, Hook. f, and Thoms. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond.,

1857, p. 61.

? S. ciliata, Lindl, in Bot, Reg., 1848, t. 65.

A near ally of the extensively cultivated S. Uigulata,

Wallich, of the Himalaya, and very probably a form of that

plant ; approaching it through the £ crliata of &. ligulata

(figured as S. ciliata in Tab. 4915 of this work) ; and in the

fact of our garden specimens having cordate leaves, which is

very rarely the case with wild ones of Stracheyi, but uniformly

so with both wild and cultivated ones of 8. liguata. Ina

living state there is, however, no difficulty in distinguishing

between the typical forms of Strachey, ciliata, and ligulata, of

which the former bears the palm for the fine bright pink hue

of its petals, and the deep red of the ovary.

S. Stracheyi is a native of the upper elevations of the Western

Himalaya and Western Tibet; ascending from 10-14,000

feet, and growing on moist rocky ledges. It varies greatly

M size, according to elevation and moisture. _

The specimen here figured has flowered in the Royal

Gardens, on an open rock-work, in March, during several years

past. The plant was raised from seed sent home by Captain,

now General, Strachey, F.R.S., from Kumaon, in 1851.

Descr. Rootstock stout, creeping, as thick as the thumb.

MAY Ist, 1872,

Leaves closely sheathing at the base, with orbicular stipular

sheaths, obovate or obovate-cuneate, three to six inches long,

narrowed into the short stout petiole or cordate at the base,

obtuse, bright green, margin irregularly toothed, ciliate.

Flowering-stem four to eight inches high, stout, succulent;

panicle much branched, drooping, more or less glandular-

pubescent; bracts deciduous. Mowers three-quarters to one

inch diameter. Calye-tube hemispheric ; lobes orbicular. Petals

obovate-spathulate or orbicular, pink. Stamens ten, red;

anthers primrose yellow. Ovary of three crimson carpels;

styles narrow, conical ; stigmas capitellate.—J. D. H.

Fig., Flower with the petals removed :—magnified.

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lith

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Tas. 5968.

DEN DROBIUM amernystoatossum.

Native of the Philippine Islands.

' Nat. Ord. Orcurpacem.—Tribe, MaLaxipex § DENDROBIER.

Genus, Denprosium, Swartz } (Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid., p. 74).

Denprosium (Pedilonum) amethystoglossum; caulibus fasciculatis strictis

erectis elongatis cylindraceis, foliis?, racemis alternis breviter pedun-

culatis pendulis oblongis dense multifloris, floribus imbricatis, bracteis

minutis, sepalis petalisque consimilibus late obovato-oblongis acutis

eburneis, sepalis lateralibus basi connatis postice in calear rectum

validum obtusum ovario longiore productis, labello oblongato anguste

Spathulato cymbiformi abrupte apiculato lete purpureo marginibus

lateralibus incurvis, basin versus supra unguem callo triangulari retrorso

aucto, column brevis auriculis obscuris erectis 2-dentatis.

Deyprosivy amethystoglossum, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1872, p. 109.

This remarkable Dendrobe presents the contrast of great

beauty of inflorescence and flower, with a singularly ugly

habit of growth. On the one hand, nothing can well be

uglier than the thick, clumsy, slightly flexuous, naked stems,

two to three feet long, that stick straight up from the tree-

_ trunk it inhabits, and which further present, after flowering,

the persistent naked remains of the old racemes, projecting

right and left from the internodes; on the other, it is difficult

to describe the ivory-whiteness of the sepals and petals, and

the lucidity of the amethystine purple on the lip.

D. amethystoglossum is a native of the Philippine Islands,

whence it was imported by Messrs. Veitch, through their

collector, G. Wallis, amongst a lot of D. taurinum ; it flowered

in February last, presenting three racemes on the stem at once.

Descr. Stems fascicled, two to three feet high, stout, one

inch in diameter, slightly flexuous, dirty green, obscurely

channelled, tapering to the apex ; internodes about two inches

long, clothed with appressed deciduous sheaths, Leaves not

MAY Isr, 1872.

seen. Lacemes three to five inches long, ovoid-oblong, obtuse,

pendulous from alternate nodes, shortly peduncled, very

many and dense-flowered, the flowers imbricating before

full expansion; peduncle and rachis green; bracts minute;

pedicels half an inch long. Yowers one and a half inches

in diameter, ivory-white except the amethystine purple end

of the limb of the lip. Sepals and petals nearly equal,

obovate-oblong, acute, spreading. Jip cymbiform, elongate

linear-spathulate in outline, with a short claw, tip apiculate,

margins incurved, except toward the apex; base beyond the

claw with a fleshy triangular appendage, that points back-

wards. Column short, the sides produced upwards into two

short toothed wings.—/. D. H.

Fig. 1, Lip, column, and ovary; 2, front view of lip; 3, front view of

column, &c.:—all magnified.

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Tas. 5969.

FRITILLARIA TULIPIFOLIA.

Native of the Caucasus.

Nat. Ord. Lintackea.—Tribe, Tutirex.

Genus, Frrmmiarta, Tourn.; (Kunth Enum. P1., vol. xiv. p. 246).

Fririuarta tulipifolia ; glauca, caule basi nudo sursum paucifolio unifloro,

foliis 3-4 sparsis ellipticis v. elliptico-lanceolatis subacutis supremis

angustis, flore solitario nutante non tessellato, perianthii segmentis

oblongis obtusis intus spadiceo-purpureis, exterioribus dorso glauco-

azureis, interioribus dorso fascia media glauca instructis, nectario lineari~

oblongo viridi, filamentis gracilibus antheris linearibus flavis duplo

longioribus, ovario cylindrico, stylo sursum lente incrassato, stigmate

3-lobo.

FrITiLuarta tulipifolia, M. Bieb. Flor. Taur. Cauc., vol. i. p. 270, Suppl., p.

263, e¢ Plant. Ross., vol. i. t. 21; Kunth Enum. Pl., vol. iv. p. 247.

F. caucasica, Adams in Web. and Mohr. Beitr., i. 51.

Tueresta tulipifolia, Klatt in Otto’s Hamburg Garten-und-Blumenzeit, vol. xvi.

p- 489 (eael, Syn.).

A very elegant little Fritillary, apparently common in the

mountains of Georgia and Armenia, and extending thence to

those of the Taurus in Asia Minor. It has also been de-

scribed as a native of Greece and Siberia, and even of the

Pyrenees, under the names of F. persica 8 pyrenaica, Sibth.,

F. racemosa, Miller, &c., but without living specimens to com-

pare, I dare not venture to unite these species of so difficult

agenus. Klatt refers F. obliqua, Gawler (Bot. Mag., tab. 857),

to the same series, but that is a racemose species with narrow

twisted leaves and violet coloured flowers,and has, I apprehend,

nothing to do with this, and is probably a form of F. persica

(Bot. Mag., tab. 1537.) ;

As a species F. tulipifolia is remarkable for its glaucous

blue hue, and the singular colour of the flowers, which re-

semble a tulip in shape, and have a chalky appearance outside.

According to native specimens, it varies greatly in stature

and in the size of all its parts. |

MAY Ist, 1872,

Our specimen flowered in the open border at Kew in —

March of the present year.

Duscr. Very glaucous throughout, except the inner sur-

face of the perianth-segments. Stem, in our specimens, four

to six inches high (two to eight in native ones), slender, leaf-

less below, but there clothed with appressed sheaths. Leaves

three to four on each stem, one and a half to two and a half

inches long, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, subacute, concave,

sessile, straight, sheath very short,nerveless, pale green ; upper

linear lanceolate. Flower solitary, very variable in size, three-

quarters to one and a quarter inches long, nodding, exactly

tulip-shaped. Perianth-segments subequal, oblong, obtuse

or obtusely apiculate, rusty brown purple within, not tessel-

lated; the outer dark glaucous blue streaked with the same

purple outside; the inner with a broad glaucous blue band

down the back ; nectary a linear-oblong green gland. Sta-

mens erect, filaments slender, twice as long as the narrow

linear obtuse yellow anthers. Ovary cylindric, sessile by a

broad base; style slender, gradually thickened upwards

to the obscurely three-lobed stigma. Capsule pyriform

erect.—/. D. H.

_Fig. 1, Bulb and 2, petal :—Joth natural size; 3, stamen and pistil; 4,

pistil; 5, transverse section of ovary :—all magnified.

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Tas. 5970.

CYPRIPEDIUM LONGIFOLIUM.

Native of Central America.

Nat. Ord. OrcuipE&#.—Tribe, Cypripepiez,

Genus Cyrripepium, Lindl. ; (Endl. Gen. Plant., vol. i. p. 220).

Cyprirepium (Selenipedium) longifolium ; foliis distichis elongato-ligulatis

longe attenuato acuminatis carinatis, scapo sparse puberulo multifloro

bracteato, bracteis spathaceis lanceolatis acuminatis ovarium superanti-

bus, sepalo dorsali ovato-lanceolato obtuso virescente, Jateralibus in

laminam late ovatam labello equilongam suppositam obtusam connatis,

petalis sepalis multo longioribus anguste elongato-lanceolatis virescen-

tibus albo-marginatis linea rubra intramarginali percursis, labello ob-

longo-ovoideo obtuso e viridi purpurascente, ore amplo antice emarginato,

Jateribus lobulatis, staminodio triangulari-cordato, lateribus tumidis

purpureo-villosis, ovario 3-loculari.

Cyprivepiom longifolium, Warsz. et Rchb. f. in Bot. Zeit. 1852,-p. 690.

SeLenrrepivum Jongifolium, Rchd. f. Xenia, Orchid., vol. i. p. 3; Beitr. Orchid.

Cent. Amer. p. 44; Gard. Chron. 1869, p. 1206. ea

By far the stateliest species of the genus hitherto dis-

covered, and an exceedingly handsome plant, though by no

means remarkable either for colour or form, as compared with

some of its congeners. Its three-celled ovary places it in

the genus Selenipedium of Reichenbach f.,and its habit in —

close affinity with C. caricinwm, (Pearcii, Hort.: Tab. nost.

5466); to which genus (which we are disposed rather to

regard as a subgenus,) also belong C. caudatum, Lindl., and

seven other species enumerated by Reichenbach, all of them

American. : ee

C. longifolium was discovered by M. Warszewicz, in the

Cordillera of Chiriqui, in Central America, at an elevation ot

5-8000ft, and introduced into Europe about ten years ago.

The superb specimen here figured was exhibited at the Horti-

cultural Society in January of the present year, by Mr. Bull,

F.R.S., of Chelsea, and kindly by him placed at the disposal

of the artist of the Botanical Magazine for figuring.

JUNE Ist, 1872.

Drscr. Leaves distichous, recurved, eight to twelve inches

long by two-thirds of an inch broad, narrow ligulate for two-

thirds of their length, then gradually tapering to an acumi-

nate point, sharply keeled, the lower third complicate, bright

green. Scape two feet high, stout, dark red-purple, sparingly

pubescent, bracteate; bracts cauline and floral two to four

‘al eas Sh i aegis

inches long, spathaceous, lanceolate from a short sheathing ~

base, yellow green with purplish edges, the floral exceeding

the ovary. Ovary very slender, 3-celled, dark red-purple.

Flower seven inches across the petals, and four from the tip

of the dorsal sepal to that of the lip. Sepals pale yellow-

green, faintly streaked with purple ; dorsal ovate-lanceolate,

obtuse; lateral connate into an ovate obtuse blade placed

under the lip and shorter than it. Peda/s spreading, very

narrowly lanceolate, slightly twisted, pale green, with a white

border and red intramarginal band. Zp two inches long,

oblong, green and dull purple, hairy within, tip rounded ;

mouth truncate and notched in front, its sides lobed and

auricled, the inflected margins yellow, with pale purplish dots.

Staminode broadly triangular-cordate, with raised purple-

villous sides.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Lateral, and 2, front view of column :—both magnified.

Tas. 5971.

GREVILLEA RosmMARINIFOLIA.

Native of New South Wales.

Nat. Ord. Proreacez,—Tribe, GreviLLem.

Genus Grevitiea, R. Br. ; (Benth. Fl. Austral., vol. v. p. 417).

GREVILLEA (Ptychocarpa) rosmarintfolia ; frutex erectus, rarnulis tomentosis,

foliis confertis suberectis lineari-subulatis lanceolatisve mucronatis

marginibus revolutis, subtus albo-sericeis, racemis brevibus subglobosis

densifloris terminalibus v. ramulis abreviatis lateralibus, rachi glabra,

perianthii brevis glabri coccinei tubo basi lato gibbo intus barbato,

limbo revoluto obliquo viridi, disci glandula semicirculari, ovario. sessili

glabro, stylo basi barbato, stigmate laterali, capsula angusta incurva.

GREVILLEA rosmarinifolia, A. Cunn. in Field's N. 8. Wales, p.328; R. Br.

Prodr, Suppl., p. 20; Meissn. in DC. Prodr., vol. xiv. p. 363; Sweet

Flor, Austral., t. 30; Lodd. Bot. Cab., t. 1479; Benth. Fl. Austral.,

vol. v. p. 445.

G. riparia, Sted. in Roem. and Schult. Syst., vol. iii., Mant., p. 278.

A robust ornamental evergreen, which, like the subject of

Tab. 5973, thrives admirably in the damp mild climate of the

West of England, but is only suited for a greenhouse or

Sheltered wall in the more Eastern counties. Living

Specimens in full flower were communicated by Dr. Wood-

man of the Exminster Nurseries (Messrs. Lucombe, Pince

and Co.) in February of the present year, where it formed a

luxuriant shrub three feet high, with deep green foliage

starred with blood-red racemes of flowers.

It was discovered by A. Cunningham on the north bank

of Cox’s River, N. S. Wales, in 1822, along with G@. su/phurea

and G. canescens (Tab. nost. 3185), and was probably in-

troduced into England shortly afterwards, for a weak and

Starved specimen is figured in Loddige’s Botanical Cabinet

as having flowered in the celebrated Hackney Nurseries.

Descr. An erect shrub, five to six feet high; branches

short, erect, tomentose. Leaves crowded, sub-bifarious,

JUNE Ist, 1872,

pointing obliquely upwards, one to two inches long, very

narrow linear-lanceolate, or almost acerose, narrowed at both

ends, almost pungent, margins revolute, above deep green

and glabrous or rather rough, silky and white beneath;

petiole very short. acemes short, terminal, and on very

short lateral shoots, subglobose, dense-flowered, about one

and a half inches long; rachis glabrous. Mowers deep

blood-red, with green tips, in pairs from a subulate bract,

pedicels very short. Perianth a quarter of an inch long,

turgid and gibbous at the base, suddenly contracted into the |

revolute green limb. Torus nearly straight; gland semicir-

cular, broad, thick. Ovary sessile, glabrous. Style twice as

long as the perianth, red-purple, witha tuft of hairs at the

base ; stigma oblique, discoid. —/. D. H.

Fig. 1, Leaf; 2, a pair of flowers and bracts; 3, stigma :—all magnified.

Tan, 5972.

ASTEROSTIGMA Luscuwarnranvm.

Native of Rio de Janeiro.

Nat. Ord. Aroipex,—Tribe, AsTrrosTIGMEx.

Genus Asterostiema, Schott. Prodr. Syst. Aroid., p. 337.

Asterostiama Luschnathianum ; scapo petioloque teretibus albis maculis ver-

ticalibus nigro-brumeis pulcherrime irroratis, folio pinnatisecto late

triangulari-ovato, segmentis 2 infimis deflexis pinnatilobatis, ceteris

e basi lata decurrente lanceolatis obtuse acuminatis irregulariter

sinuato-lobatis, spatha 2-4-pollicari cylindrica apiculata viridi purpureo- .

punctata spadicem vix superante intus reticulata, spadicis parte feminea

ad medium dorso spathe adnata cum mascula continua, staminibus

corallinis truncatis 3-12-poris, ovariis 3-5-locularibus, stigmatis lobis

cuneatis emarginatis.

Asterostiama Luschnathianum, Schott Synops. Aroid., vol. i. p. 126; Prodr.

Syst. Aroid., p. 340.

Arum Dracontium, Vellozo Flor. Flum., vol. ix. t. 103.

A very singular Aroid, belonging to a small Brazilian

genus never previously introduced into Europe, for tubers of

which the Royal Gardens are indebted to D. Hanbury, F.HS.,

who, received them from Senor Correa de Melho, an inde-

fatigable naturalist of Rio de Janeiro. ‘I'wo specimens

flowered simultaneously in the propagating pit at Kew, in

February of the present year, of which one bore a flowering

spike alone, the other both a flower and a leaf. Neither

was so large as the specimen represented in the “ Flora Flumi-

nensis,” which has, moreover, a more acute spathe produced

further beyond the spadix. These two specimens further

differed, in that one (bearing the name of var. porphyrosticta)

had more purple in the spots of the petiole and scape; the

other (var. chlorostica) had greener spots. These differences

disappeared with age. The leaf of the latter was of a paler

green, with broader closer-set segments. The colour of the

petiole, scape, spathe, and male portion of the spadix are very

curious and striking.

JUNE Ist, 1872.

Duscr. Tuber the size of a tolerable potato, oblate, smooth,

brown, with many stout branching rootlets from the crown.

Leaf one to two feet long, deep green, broadly ovate in out-

line, pinnatifid ; two lower segments deflexed, deeply cut into

three to five lanceolate acuminate lobes ; remaining segments

four to six pairs, sessile, remote (contiguous in Vellozo’s

figure), lanceolate, acuminate, irregularly sinuate-lobed or

quite entire, broadly decurrent ; petiole six to twelve inches

long, cylindric, whitish, closely striate or irrorate, with short

vertical black-purple streaks, that are obliquely confluent

above. Scape similar to the petiole. Spathe two to four

inches long, erect, cylindric, acute, with a narrow opening

above and recurved edges, deep green externally and speckled

with brown, reticulate internally. Spadiz cylindric, upper

half male, lower or female half very obliquely adnate for half

its length to the back of the spathe. 4zthers scarlet, trun-

cate, with a circle of three to twelve pores. Ovaries white

with green stigmas, seated on a cushion consisting of im-

perfect anthers, 3-5-celled; stigmatic rays three to five,

cuneate, notched.—/. D. H.

Fig. 1, Spadix :—of the natural size ; 2, anther ; 3 and 4, transverse sections

of ditto :—all magnified.

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OLEARIA pEnNTATA.

Native of New South Wales.

Nat. Ord. Composir#.—Tribe, AsTEROIDEd.

Genus, OLEaRIA, Mench.; (Benth. Fl. Austral., vol. iii. p. 463).

Oxrarta (Dicerotriche) dentata; frutex robustus, ramulis foliisque subtus

dense fulvo-tomentosis, pilis stipitatis furcatis, foliis alternis petiolatis

crassiusculis ovatis ellipticis orbiculatisve obtusis sinuato-crenatis

supra scaberulis, capitulis majusculis in corymbos irregulares ter-

minales dense fulvo-tomentosos dispositis, pedunculis bracteatis, bracteis

parvis oblongis, involucri hemispherici squamis multiseriatis extimis

brevibus suberectis, ligulis numerosis 3-pollicaribus apicem versus

roseis, disci corollis involucrum vix superantibus, antheris ecaudatis,

styli ramis brevibus obtusis, pappi setis 2-seriatis exterioribus breviori-

bus, acheniis pilosis.

Oxearia dentata, Mench. Suppl., p. 254; Nees Aster., p. 184; DC. Prodr.

vol. v, p. 271; Benth. Fl. Austral., vol. iii. p. 472.

Ourarta rotundifolia, DC. Prodr., vol. v. p. 271.

Aster dentatus, Andr. Bot. Rep., t. 61.

AsTER tomentosus, Schrad. in Wendl. Sert. Han., vol. viii. p. 24.

Aster ferruginens, Wendland in Flora 1819, p. 676.

Diporappus rotundifolius, Lessing in Linnea, vol. vi. p. 116.

This is one of the beautiful Daisy-trees of the Australian

colonies, a genus of plants many of which would thrive well

and form great ornaments in the gardens of the mild part of

Western England, and some of which stood for several

winters in sheltered water at Kew, but were killed during

recent cold winters. |

The present species forms a fine bush in the Scilly Isles,

where it was introduced by Augustus Smith, Esq., into his

garden at Tresco Abbey, St. Mary’s, it is believed from Kew,

a good many years ago. I had the pleasure of visiting these

gardens about fifteen years ago, with my late friends Prof.

Harvey, of Dublin, and Veitch (the grandfather and founder of

the firm), when we were al] astonished and delighted with the

luxuriance and variety, especially of the Cape and Australian

JUNE lst, 1872.

vegetation they displayed. Since that period, Mr. Smith

has added many hundred species to his collection, and I

have the pleasure of receiving every early spring a hamper

of cut flowers of rare (with us) greenhouse plants cultivated

in the open air, when the snowdrop and the winter-aconite

are the only plants to be seen flowering in our open borders.

Olearia dentata is a native of various localities in the Kast

coast of Australia, from Port Jackson, the Blue Mountains,

and Illawarra, southward to Twofold Bay.

Descr. A stout shrub; branches, leaves beneath, and in-

florescence clothed with a dense rusty-brown tomentum of

rigid forked hairs. eaves petioled, very variable, one and

a half to two and a half inches long, elliptic ovate or

cordate-ovate, obtuse, obtusely-sinuate crenate, scabrid above ;

petiole one-third to one-half inch long. Heads one to one

and a quarter inches in diameter, in terminal erect or spreading

corymbs; peduncles with oblong buff tomentose bracts.

Involuere hemispheric; scales many, subacute. Ligules

numerous, rosy, notched. <Axnther-cell without appendages.

Style-arms short, obtuse. Pappus-hairs 2-seriate, outer

much the shortest. Achene hairy.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Floret of ray; 2, style-arms; 8, floret of disk; 4, stamens;

5, style-arms of disk floret :—all magnified.

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CROTALARIA HEYNEANA.

Native of Malabar.

Nat. Ord. Lecuminos#.—Tribe, GEnisTE&.

Genus Crorararia, Linn. ; (Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. Pl., p. 479).

Crorararta (simplicifolia) Heyneana ; fraticulus erectus, subglober ramulis

teretibus, foliis ellipticis v. elliptico-lanceolatis acuminatis breviter

petiolatis subtus appresse pubescentibus, stipulis transverse lunatis re-

curvis, racemis terminalibus et axillaribus multifloris, bracteis minutis

subulatis reflexis, pedicellis calyce appresse puberulo subeequilongis medio

2-bracteolatis, calycis brevis lobis 2 superioribus acutis, 3 inferioribus

__ paulo longioribus subulato-ovatis,vexillo suborbiculato albo basi ceruleo-

striato, alis obtusis dimidiatim czxruleis, carine petalis connatis, ovario

villoso, legumine lineari-oblongo tumido pubescente. :

- Crorarania Heyneana, Graham in Wall. Cat. n. 5414; Wight Cat. n, 701;

Wight and Arn. Prodr. Fl. Penins. Ind. Or., vol. i. p. 188; Benth. in

Hook, Lond. Journ. Bot., vol. ii. p. 560.

Of the great tropical genus Crotalaria, numbering some one

hundred and twenty known species, very few are as yet in

cultivation, though many are extremely handsome plants,

easily grown, and possessing seeds which, like those of most

Leguminose, retain their vitality for a long period. C.

Heyneana is a native of the Western coast of the Indian

Peninsula from Canara to Travancor, but is apparently rare.

It was discovered in the early part of the century by the

botanist and missionary, Heyne. ‘The specimen here

figured was raised from seed sent to the Royal Gardens in

—:1868 by our excellent correspondent, Major Beddome, F.L.S.

of the Madras Forest Department: it flowered in the Palm

House in March of the present year.

Descr. An undershrub, one to two feet high. Stem

slender, sparingly branched; branches subcylindric, tips and

young leaves pubescent. Leaves 1-foliolate, very shortly

petioled, three to five inches long, membranous, elliptic-

SUNE Isr, 1872.

lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous above, sparsely and minutely —

puberulous beneath, nerves slender. Stipules small, trans-

versely lunate, recurved and half embracing the branch.

facemes axillary and terminal, many-flowered, suberect, about

equalling the leaves, puberulous; bracts minute; pedicels

slender, a quarter to one-third of an inch long, about equalling

the calyx, 2-bracteolate at the middle, bracteoles minute.

Calyx hemispheric, excrescent, 2-lipped ; two upper lobes

triangular, ovate, acute; three lower longer, more subulate. —

Corolla two-thirds of an inch in diameter ; standard erect,

shortly clawed, suborbicular, entire, base truncate, white —

with blue streaks at the very base; wings oblong, rather

dilated at the rounded end, upper half pale blue, lower white ;

keel-petals connate for half their length, broadly ovate, and

suddenly acuminate, base rounded, claw short. Ovary villous.

Pod two inches long, linear-oblong, rather broader towards

the acute end, tumid, hairy—J. D. H.

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

5, ovary :—all magnified ; 6, pod: —of the natural size.

Tas. 5975.

MUSA SANGUINEA.

Native of Assam.

Nat, Ord. Musacem.—Tribe, Musra.

Genus Musa, L.; (Endl. Gen, Pl. vol. i. p. 228).

Musa sanguinea ; truncis 3—4 pedalibus confertis gracilibus coloratis 1 poll.

_ diametro, foliis petiolatis lineari-oblongis acutis basi rotundatis v.

cordatis subtus non glaucis, petiolo sub rufescente, scapo erecto breviter

pedunculato, pedunculo rachique sanguineis, spica sub 6-pollicari

erecto ovoideo, bracteis longitudine spice ovato-lanceolatis cymbifor-

mibus subacutis sanguineis 3-floris demum revolutis caducis, ovarlis

sessilibus, perianthii aurantiaci ovario subequilongi foliolo exteriore

apice 5 lobo lobis orbiculatis exterioribus dorso sub apice corniculatis,

foliolo interiore exteriore «quilongo apice truncato crenato, antheris

subacutis, fructu oblongo turgido obtuse 3-4-angulato flavido rubro

variegato, seminibus irregulariter cubicis tuberculatis.

This beautiful species so closely resembles the well-known

M. ornata, Roxb., of Pegu (M. rosacea, Ker in Bot. Reg.

t. 706, not Jacq.) in every particular of the floral organs,

that I long hesitated before concluding that it was new; but

besides the remarkable difference in the colour of the bracts,

which in J. ornata are pale lilac, the stems of this are much

more slender and redder, the leaves are subacute, and

the fruit is turgid, with larger, more cubical seeds than those

represented in Roxburgh’s drawing.

Musa sanguinea flowered in the Palm House of Kew in

January of the present year ; it is a native of forests on the

banks of the Booree Deling river in Upper Assam, where e

-was discovered, in 1869, by our valued correspondent, Mr. G.

Mann, of the Forest Department of India, so well known for

his West African discoveries. Three species of Muse inhabit

these forests, of which there is, besides that here figured,

another at Kew, which has not yet flowered. My friend, the

JULY Ist, 1872,

Rev. Mr. Parish, informs me that a very similar species to

M. sanguine inhabits the forests of Birma, and was cultivated

by himself at Moulmein. -

Descr. Zrunks, several from the root, three to four feet high, »

erect ; about as thick as a stout cane, reddish, leafy upwards.

Leaves not collected in a terminal crown, petioled, blade two

to two and a half feet long, linear-oblong or oblong-lanceolate,

acute, rounded or cordate at the base, bright green above,

not glaucous beneath ; petiole of the upper one to two feet

long, slender, reddish. Scape scarcely protruded beyond

the leaf-sheath. Spike six inches long, erect, narrow ovoid

before expansion, rachis stout, bright red. Bracts as long as

the head, ovate-lanceolate, acute, boat-shaped, bright blood-

red, striate, revolute, caducous, 3-flowered. Lower flowers

all hermaphrodite, about two inches long. Ovaries about

one-third shorter than the perianth, green, obtusely trigonous.

Perianth orange-yellow, trigonous ; outer segment with five

small orbicular lobes, of which the outer are horned at the

back below the tip; inner perianth-segment as long as the

outer, membranous, truncate, obtusely toothed. Stamens as

long as the perianth; anthers as long as the filaments, acute.

Siyle stout; stigma capitate. rwit two and a half inches

long, pale yellow-green, variegated with red, smooth, turgid,

obtusely 3-4-angled, many-seeded. Seeds irregularly cubi-

cal, tubercled, black.—J. D. aT.

Sma

Fig. 1, Reduced figure of entire plant; 2, head of flowers of the natural

size; 3, hermaphrodite flower ; 4, perianth laid open ; 5, tranverse section of

ovary :—all magnified.

5916.

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Tas, 5976.

CALOCHORTUS etxcans.

Native of California.

Nat. Ord, Littacem.—Tribe, Tunirem.

Genus CaLocuortus, Pursh ; (Endl. Gen. Plant., vol.i. p. 140).

Catocuortus elegans ; foliis gramineis 7-10 poll. longis }—3 poll. latis flores

superantibus, floribus subumbellatis, scapis gracilibus flexuosis, spathis

brevibus v. elongatis, pedicellis gracilibus, perianthii segmentis exterio-

_ ribus elliptico-lanceolatis acuminatis viridibus, interioribus unguiculatis

orbiculatis acutis dorso basin versus gibbo subacuto auctis, intus longe

filamentoso-barbatis albis, macula basin orbiculata purpurea cum zona

purpurea circumdata, antheris pallide ceruleis ovato-lanceolatis acutis,

stigmatibus sessilibus brevibus recurvis.

CaLocnortus elegans, Pursh, Fl. Bor, Am., vol. i. p. 240; Hook. Fl. Bor.

Am., vol. ii. p. 183.

Cyctozornria elegans, Dovgl. in Trans. Hort Soc., vol. vii. t. 9.

Discovered by Lewis, the early explorer of the Rocky

Mountains, at the head waters of the Kooskoosky, a feeder

of the Columbia River, early in the present century, and sub-

sequently gathered by Douglas in 1826, in the recesses of the

Rocky Mountains, near the regions of perpetual snow, in the

same country, by whom it was introduced into England, and

flowered in the Horticultural Society's Garden in about 1834.

It has been also gathered in various localities considerably

south and west of the above, but always on the western water-

shed of the Rocky Mountains, extending as far south as the

Sacramento Mountains and the Sierra Nevada. Geyer, who

also collected it, describes it as growing amongst grass, which

it scarcely overtops with its solitary erect leaf. The imner

perianth segments are of a woolly whiteness, but vary much | - =

i size, and in the colour and form of the purple lilac or blue

markings towards their base. :

_ For the re-introduction of this lovely plant we are indebted

to Max Leichtlin, of Carlsruhe (who also introduced the C.

JULY Isr, 1872. ;

Leichtlinii, (Tab. nost. 5862), and who sent a coloured sketch

of it for figuring in April of the present year ; it arrived almost

simultaneously with another specimen from Mr. William

Saunders, who had received the bulbs from M. Leichtlin.

The position of Calochortus amongst Liliacee is hardly

settled. Though placed by Endlicher in the tribe Zulipee

of Liliaceae, it differs most markedly from them in the sepaline

outer perianth - segments, and three almost free stigmas,

which resemble those of Melanthacee. The dehiscence of the

anthers is, however, absolutely lateral.

Descr. Zuber ovoid, clothed with brown fibrous coats.

Scape four to ten inches high, simple, slender, flexuous, leafy.

Leaves grassy, seven to ten inches long by a quarter to half

an inch broad, striated, bright green and shining above,

glaucous beneath, much exceeding the inflorescence. owers

corymbose, three to six or more, the peduncles arising from

sheathing bracts that are short and cymbiform, or elongate

and grassy; pedicels half to one and a half inches long.

Perianth one to almost two inches in diameter ; outer seg-

ments much the smallest, sepaloid, elliptic-ovate, acuminate,

pale green, quite glabrous; inner shortly clawed, nearly orbi-

cular, apiculate, concave towards the base, the concavity

answering to a subacute dorsal gibbosity ; whole inner sur-

face clothed with a chalky-white filamentous beard; at their

base is an orbicular blue lilac or purple spot, which is sur-

rounded by a concentric band of the same colour. Filaments

reddish ; anthers acute, pale blue, with marginal dehiscence.

Ovary nearly elliptic-oblong, longitudinally 3-lobed, the

lobes acute at the back; stigmas three, short, recurved.

Capsule two-thirds to one and a third of an inch long, mem-

branous, shining, three-winged, wings or valves transversely

striate.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Apex of pedicel, stamen and pistil ; 2, inner perianth-segment :—

both magnified.

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Tas. 5977.

MILLA porrironta,

Native of Chili.

Nat Ord, Littacea:.—Tribe, AGAPANTHES,

Genus Minua, Cav. ; (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc., vol. xi. p- 378).

| Mitta (Hesperocordium) porrifolia ; foliis seapum equantibus v. superantibus

anguste linearibus obtusiusculis supra concavis dorso convexis, spathis

angustis membranaceis, pedicellos graciles subsquantibus, perianthio

campanulato ex albo virescente ad medium 6-fido, lobis oblongis acutis

lente recurvis costa gracili viridi.

Mitta porrifolia, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., vol. xi. p. 386.

TriTeLerA porrifolia, Pupp. Fragment. p. 10; Papp. and Endl. Nov. Gen. et

Sp., vol. ii. p. 28, t. 189; Gard. Chron., 1868, p. 990; Kunth Enum.

Plant., vol. iv. p. 468; Gay Flor. Chili, vol. vi. p. 118.

A native of grassy places in Chili, where it was discovered

at Concan by Peeppig, the author of the species, and more

recently collected by Philippi on the Cordillera of Santiago,

It was first introduced into Europe by our indefatigable

friend, Max Leichtlin, of Carlsruhe, who communicated bulbs

to the Royal Botanic Gardens of Edinburgh; and I am in-

debted to Mr. McNab for the specimen here figured, which

Was accompanied by a description by Dr. Balfour anda sketch

by Mr. Caird. The flowers are described as violet by Poeppig,

ut there was scarce a trace of that colour in the cultivated

Specimen. Milla porrifolia is probably as hardy as M.(Zriteleia)

uniflora, and if it forms as handsome tufts and proves as

amenable to both pot culture and the border as that plant,

it will be an acquisition to the horticulturist. In one =

Tespect it possesses a great advantage over the J. uniflora in

ing inodorops when bruised, the alliaceous smell of the

r rendering it unfit for use as a cut-flower. :

The genus 7riteleia, together with Lesperocordium, has

Jury Isr, 1872, ;

been recently united with A/illa by Mr. Baker, with much

reason, and I have followed him in the nomenclature of this

species.

Descr. Bulb ovoid, one inch long, clothed with broad brown

membranous scales. Sheaths very membranous, white, fra-

gile. Leaves five to seven inches long, narrow linear, one

quarter to one-third inch broad, obtuse, bright green, concave

in front, back convex, fleshy. Scape equalling the leaves or

shorter than them, 4—8-flowered. Spathes two, lanceolate,

membranous, equalling or shorter than the pedicels, white;

pedicels very slender, half to one inch long, strict or curved.

Hlowers inclined or nodding, one inch long. Perianth campanu-

late, with six green slender keeled ribs, which terminate in the

tips of the segments, white with faint violet streaks above,

suffused with green below, divided to the middle; segments

oblong, acute, slightly recurved. Stamens near the bottom of —

the tube; filaments flattened, subulate; anthers yellow.

Ovary narrowly obovoid ; style rather longer, stigmas three,

short, recurved ; ovules 2-seriate.—J.D. H.

Fig. 1, Perianth laid open; 2, pistil; 3, transverse section of the ovary:

—all magnified.

Tas. 5978.

PITTOSPORUM CRASSIFOLIUM.

Native of New Zealand.

Nat. Ord. PirrosporE®.

Genus Pirrosrorum, Banks. ; (Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. Pl, vol. i. p. 151),

PirtosporuM crassifolium ; ramulis foliis subtus petiolis et inflorescentia to-

mento albo y. fulvo appresso dense obtectis, foliis alternis in petiolum

angustatis obovatis lineari-obovatis oblongisve obtusis integerrimis

crasse coriaceis marginibus recurvis, floribus umbellatis fasciculatis sub-

solitariisve terminalibus, bracteis ad basin pedunculi oblongis, sepalis

lineari-oblongis tomentosis, petalis angustis purpureis, capsula nutante

subglobosa 2—4 loba 2—4 valvi pubescente.

Pirrosporvm crassifolium, Banks and Sol. ez A. Cunn. in Ann. Nat. Hist.,

vol. iv. (1840) p. 106; Putterl. Monog. Pittosp. p. 12; Hook. f. Foy fae

New Zeald., vol. i. p. 23; Handbook of N. Zeald. Flora, p. 20.

A not uncommon bush or small tree in the Northern

Island of New Zealand, where it affects the immediate neigh-

bourhood of the coast ; but it does not cross Cook’s Straits to

the larger or Southern Island, a fact that is sufficiently

curious, seeing that the climate of Scilly, from whence the

specimens here figured were procured, is certainly more

inclement than that of the New Zealand provinces of Canter-

bury and Nelson. It is one of the plants called “ Karo ” by

the natives, a name apparently applied to several species of

the genus, and is recommended for extensive planting in the

Islands, on account of its hardihood and power of with-

standing the sea winds. My friend, Mr. Augustus Smith, of

Tresco Abbey, Scilly Islands, informs me that the plant

which he received from Kew thrives in his garden, and that

nothing can exceed the vigour and robustness of the flowering

branches which he sent me last March. In Eastern Eng-

land it requires the protection of a wall, and is not unfre-

quently cut off by frost. :

Dxscr. A bush or small tree, four to ten feet high,

JULY Ist, 1872.

dense and ramous ; branches erect ; branchlets, petioles, leaves

beneath, peduncles and sepals densely clothed with a white or

buff appressed thick tomentum. Leaves one and a half to

three inches long, narrow-obovate, oblong-obovate, or oblan-

ceolate, always narrowed into the petiole, obtuse or subacute,

coriaceous, convex and bright green above, margins recurved;

petiole one-quarter to three-quarters inch long. lowers

variable in size and arrangement, terminal, sometimes solitary,

but usually in nodding peduncled umbels, or becoming

fascicled through the shortening of the peduncle, one-third

to two-thirds inch long; peduncle and pedicels. slender ;

bracts sheathing the base of the peduncle, oblong, obtuse,

imbricate, caducous. Sepals elliptic, variable in breadth,

white, about half the length of the petals. Petals narrow

linear oblong, recurved beyond the middle, dark chocolate-

purple, edges puberulous. Filaments glabrous ; anthers linear.

Ovary pubescent, obovoid, densely pubescent, usually 3-celled.

Capsule very variable in size and thickness, one-third to two-

thirds inch in diameter, 2-4-valved, tomentose; valves

usually woody. Seeds numerous, black.—/. D. H.

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

magnified ; 9, fruit :—of the natural size.

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GREVILLEA PULCHELLA.

Native of South-Western Austraha.

Nat. Ord. Proreace®.—Tribe, GREVILLER.

Genus GrevitiEa, R. Br.; (Benth. Fl. Austral., vol. v. p. 417).

GreviLLEA (Conogyne) pulchella ; frutex ramulis foliisque glanduloso-pilosis,

foliis lineari-oblongis pinnatifidis, segmentis 7—11 cuneatis 2—3-fidis,

lobis trjangularibus pungentibus, racemis terminalibus axillaribusve

sessilibus v. breviter pedunculatis, rachi pubescente, bracteis parvis

ovatis caducis, pedicellis brevibus, perianthii glabri stricti limbo ovol-

deo, toro recto eglanduloso, ovario stipitato glanduloso, stigmatis cono

angusto basi dilatato. .

GREVILLEA pulchella, Meissn. in Plant. Preiss., vol. i. p- 553, et in DC.

Prodr., vol. xiv. p. 389; Benth. Fl. Austral., vol. v. p- 484,

Awapenta pulchella, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc., vol. x. p. 1675 Prodr. p.

374.

A native of Western Australia, near the Swan River, where

it was discovered by Robert Brown, and has been collected

by many succeeding investigators. It forms a very elegant

evergreen bush, well suited for green-house culture, ae uh

in early spring and continuing in flower for several et 8.

The specimen figured was raised from seed sent to Mr. Wilson

ats from Australia, and wee in the Temperate

House of the Royal Gardens in April last.

Derscr. A dietdse spreading shrub, two to three Sane 2

more or less sparsely hairy, the hairs often glan -

Branches very slender, zigzag, terete, leafy. Leaves py )

three inches long, sessile, spreading, rigid, linear-oblong,

pinnatifid or almost pinnate; pinnules seven to thn Let

cuneate or oblong quadrate, inserted by @ broad decurre :

base, 2-3-fid at the apex,: lobes triangular, pungent, re

or less hairy, rigid, margins recurved, dark green * Vi

paler beneath, upper quite entire, lowest pat close

JULY Ist, 1872.

stem. acemes terminal or subterminal, cylindric, obtuse,

one and a half to two inches long, shortly peduncled ; rachis

hairy. Flowers one-third to half an inch long, crowded,

white, shortly pedicelled, glabrous. Perianth slender; tip

ovoid, subacute, terete. Zorvs naked, straight, without a

gland. Ovary glandular-pubescent, subglobose, on a rather

slender glandular stipes ; style sigmoid, glandular, terminating

in an oblong papillose head that suddenly dilates into a glan-

dular stigma, furnished with a narrow central cone.—

fDi.

Fig. 1, Pair of flowers on rachis; 2, top of pedicel, ovary and its stipes:

—both magnified,

Vincent Brooks Day&5on, Imp

Tas. 5980.

ONCIDIUM SUPERBIENS.

Native of New Grenada.

Nat. Ord. OrcnipE#.—Tribe, VANDEZ,

Genus Oncipium, Swartz ; (Endl. Gen. Pl, vol. ii. p. 203).

Oncipium (Microchila) superbiens ; pseudobulbis elongato-ovatis compressis,

foliis distichis elongatis lineari-oblongis acutis coriaceis carinatis, pani-

cula maxima effusa, ramis flexuosis, bracteis cymbiformibus subacutis,

sepalis trulliformibus unguiculatis undulatis obtusis, postico cordato

apice reflexo lateralibus longius unguiculatis, petalis breviter late un-

guiculatis cordato-oblongis recurvis crispato-undulatis, labello parvo e

basi breviter unguiculato ovato lingueformi revoluto undulato, callo in

disco elevato tuberculato basi utrinque dente erecto instructo, columne

alis parvis falcatis.

Onctpium superbiens, Reichb f. in Linnea, vol. xxii. Pp. 843; Lindl. Fol.

Orchid. Oncid. p. 5.

A native of the forests of Venezuela and New Grenada,

where it was discovered at about the same time by Finck

and Schlim, in 1847, near Pamplona, and by Purdie in the

province of Ocana, at elevations of 89000 feet above the sea,

flowering in January.

The specimen figured was communicated by Messrs. Veitch,

in whose magnificent establishment it flowered in the spring

of the present year; it is clearly allied to several other species

of the same section and country, all of thent remarkable for

the smallness of the lip.

Descr. Pseudobulbs three to four inches long, elongate-

ovate or ovate-lanceolate, much flattened. Leaves eget =

fourteen inches long, one and a quarter to one and a

. : : a

inches broad, linear, acute, keeled, coriaceous, deep gree

i i inches

above, pale beneath, sheathing portion two to four inch

long, tis flattened. Panicle two to three feet gant

clined, lax, flexuous, much branched, 90—-30-flowered, -

three-quarters of an inch long, boat-shaped, subacute, pale

JULY 1st, 1872.

green, coriaceous; pedicel and ovary one and a half inches

long, the latter very slender, deeply grooved. Mowers two —

and a half inches in the longest diameter, which is the antero-

posterior. Sepals clawed, the claw one-third the length of

the blade, broad; upper trulliform with a cordate base and

recurved tip, much crisped and waved; two lateral, more

ovate, obtuse, less crisped, all chocolate brown, with yellow

tips. Petals rather smaller than the sepals, with shorter,

broader claws, and narrower, much recurved or revolute, and

more wrinkled lamin, bright yellow, with chocolate bars

toward the base and claw. Zip not half the size of the petals,

revolute, trulliform, auricled, shortly clawed, with a raised

_tubercled yellow fleshy crest towards the base, and a pro-

minent acute tubercle on each auricle. Column with short

rounded auricles on each side of the middle, and a small

faleate obtuse ascending auricle on each side of the stigma.—

J.D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower with the sepals and petals removed; 2, pollen:—both

magnified,

Tap. 5981.

XIPHION tinarranoum.

Native of Marocco.

Nat, Ord. Tripacex.—Tribe IRIDEX

Genus Xipuion, Tournef.; (Baker in Seem. Journ. Bot, 1871, p. 14.)

Xiputon tingitanum ; bulbo ovoideo membranaceo-tunicato, caule firmo

2-3-pedali flexuoso folioso 2—3-floro, foliis distichis }—3 poll. latis com-

plicatis dorso acutis subfalcatis caulem longe superantibus, spathe

valvis lanceolatis basin limbi attingentibus, pedicello ovario subequi-

longo, tubo perianthii ultra ovarium 1-)4 pollicari, limbo letissime

purpureo-violaceo, segmentis exterioribus 3-34 pollicaribus, lamina

late ovato-rotundata erosa apice 2-fida medio disco plaga aurea notata,

ungue subpanduriformilamina duplo longiore, interioribus spathulato-

oblanceolatis erectis exterioribus paulo brevioribus, stigmatis crista pro-

funde biloba segmentis interioribus equilonga et lata.

Xiruion tingitanum, Baker in Seem. Journ. Bot. 1871, p. 13.

Ints tingitana, Boiss. et Reut.-Pugill. Pl. Afr. Bor. et Hisp. Austr. p. 118

(1852).

This magnificent Iris was discovered by Salzmann in

meadows near Tangier, in 1825, and considered by him to

be Iris Xiphion, Lu. (Xiphion vulgare, Miller), from which it

differs signally in the tube of the perianth being produced

above the ovary, and in the broad leaves and much larger

flower. It approaches much closer the 4. filifolium (Tab.

nost. 5928), but that has also very narrow convolute leaves,

a smaller paler flower with a deep azure border round the

golden blotch of the outer segment. Iris Fontanesit, Godron,

a native of Oran, in Western Algiers, is another ally of these ;

it is referred to X. tingitanum by Mr. Baker; 1t has obi

as large as tingitanum, and leaves intermediate im breac

between those of that plant and X. filifolium, thus id g

these species to a considerable extent, and ek ord "30

as we can judge without living specimens, no very oer

AUGuUsT Ist, 1872.

distinctive characters. If to these facts be added that the —

much damper climate of Marocco would probably favour

breadth of leaf, it would not be surprising that all three were

proved to be referable to one species.

During my late visit to Marocco with Messrs. Ball and

Maw, we first saw Zris tingitana on the dinner-table of His

Excellency Sir J. Hay, at Tangier, where it was a most

striking object. The specimens were from his garden, and

we were informed that it was found wild not nearer than ten —

miles S.W. of Tangier, near Laraisch. Thither one of our

party (Mr. Maw) made two excursions, the first one in vain,

but the second with success. Specimens, both from this

source and from Sir J. Hay’s garden, were sent to Kew,

which flowered in May of the present year. It is singular

that Salzmann’s locality of “meadows near Tangier” should

never have been verified by subsequent collectors, nor be

known to residents at Tangier, who. were well acquainted

with the plant.

Descr. Bulb ovoid, coated with brown membranous scales.

Stem two to three feet high, stout, firm, flexuous, leafy :

Leaves exceeding the stem, often three-quarters of an inch

broad at the base, tapering thence to a fine point, dis-

tichous, complicate, keeled but hardly acute, smooth, bright

green. Spathes lanceolate, bright green, not membranous, ex-

ceeding the perianth-tube. Perianth four to five inches

across, of a brilliant violet-purple; owter segment with a sub- —

panduriform claw, traversed dorsally by a stout green midrib ;

limb broadly ovate-orbicular, 2-toothed, serrate, disk with a

raised oblong bright golden-yellow centre; inner segment

oblanceolate-spathulate, erect, serrated, purple throughout.

Crest of stigma 2-lobed, each lobe broadly semi-ovate, acuml-

nate, serrate.—J. D. H.

598

Imp

Day &Son,

rooks,

Vincent B

Tas. 5982.

MUNTINGIA CALABURA.

Native of New Grenada.

Nat. Ord. Tittacks.—Tribe Titizz.

Genus Muntinaia, Linn. ; (Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 236).

~Montiveta Calabura ; arbor parva, ramulis pedicellis foliisque subtus

molliter velutino-tomentosis pilosisque, pilis interdum glandulosis,

foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis dentatis basi oblique cordatis supra

puberulis subtus canis, petiolo brevi, stipulis angustis, pedicellis 1-2-

pollicaribus, sepalis lanceolatis apice filiformibus, petalis obovatis

sepala excedentibus, toro piloso, bacca globosa.

Montineia Calabura, Linn. Sp. Pl. n. 728. Jacq. Amer. Pict. t. 107.

Tuss. Fl. Antill. p. 4, t. 21. Decourlitz Fl. Med. Antill. 5, t. 368. Gert.

Fruct.1,t.59. DC. Prodr. vol. i. p. 514. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. p. 98.

Karst. Fl. Columb. vol. ii. p. 55, t. 128.

__ Avery common American tree or bush from Mexico and

Jamaica, and through many of the West Indian Islands, to

Trinidad, Venezuela, and Peru, inhabiting both dry hills

and river banks. An infusion of its leaves is used as tea in

Caraccas. In Jamaica Purdie found the bark stripped off

the trees in quantities, and used (as he was told) by the

Negroes in cases of difficult parturition, under the name of

“Guasem.” Dr. M‘Fadyen, however, in his excellent, though

fragmentary Flora of Jamaica, makes no allusion to this or

_ any other use of the plant; whence probably Purdie was im

error, the bark being used, like that of many other Tihacee,

as cordage, as is the case in St. Domingo, where the wood

also is used for staves. :

Muntingia is a handsome stove plant, raised by I. eae h

Henry, Esq., from seeds sent by Dr. Jameson, of Quito, w a

— flowered at Hay-lodge, Trinity, Edinburgh, in. July, me rr

arsten figures two supposed species of this genus, foun

AvGUsT Ist, 1872.

on differences in their villosity and glandularness, and on the

size and shape of the petals; all characters far too variable

for specific purposes.

- Descr. A small ¢ree or bush, not exceeding thirty feet high,

with spreading branches ; branchlets, leaves beneath, petioles,

and peduncles clothed with soft tomentum, and hairs which

are often glandular. eaves distichous, shortly petioled,

oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, rather irregularly serrate-

toothed, slightly pubescent above, white and densely velvety-

tomentose beneath, triple-nerved at the very obliquely cor- | 4

date base, of which the upper lobe is produced and rounded;

petioles a quarter to half an inch long. Stipules very slender,

as long as the petioles, caducous. Flowers fascicled in the

axils of the leaves, three-quarters to one and a quarter inches

in diameter, white with yellow anthers; peduncles much ex- :

ceeding the petioles. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, green, pubes-

cent, ending in a setaceous soft point. Pefals five to seven,

longer than the sepals, broadly obovate, variable in breadth

and length. Torus hairy. Stamens erect, filaments slender ;

anthers small, yellow. Ovary shortly stipitate, elliptic, cou-

tracted into a very short, stout style, 3-6-celled; stigma

shortly conical, lobed; ovules: very minute, crowded upon

pendulous placentas. Berry small, globose. Seeds minute,

buried in pulp.——/. D. H.

Fig. 1, Torus and ovary ; 2, vertical and 3, transverse section of ovary; 4,

young fruit :—all but jig. 4 magnified. :

W Fitch del et lich

Vincent Brocks Day ° :

Tas. 5983.

LIN ARIA MAROCCANA,

Native of Marocco.

Nat. Ord. ScRoPHULARINEX.—Tribe ANTIRRHINER.

Genus Linarza, Lina. ; (Benth. in DC. Prod. vol. x. p. 265).

Lryarta (Linariastrum) maroccana ; annua, erecta, ramosa, superne Viscoso-

pubescens, foliis in surculis verticillatis, caulinis sparsis anguste lineari-

lanceolatis linearibusve subacutis planis, racemis multifloris, pedicellis

calycem superantibus, sepalis anguste linearibus obtusis, caleare elongato

recto corollam late purpuream pedicellumque longe superante, labio

superiore erecto bipartito, lobis apice rotundatis, inferiore truncato 2-lobo

lobis parvis rotundatis intermedio minore, palato prominente 2-lobo

aureo intus villoso, seminibus subcylindraceis transverse rugosis.

The Spanish peninsula abounds in representatives of this ele-

gant genus, many of which reappear on the plains and moun-

tains of Marocco, whilst others are replaced by allied but very

different species. This remark applies not only to the annual

Species like the present which chiefly affect the cultivated

fields, but to the perennial, which affect, some the hedge-

tows, others rocky river banks, and still others the jofty

region of the great Atlas, which they ascend to 9000 an

10,000 feet of elevation. During my excursion to that

country with Messrs. Maw and Ball, we collected paar

_ than twenty species of this genus, amongst which the o yec

of the present plate was conspicuous in one district me its

abundance and brilliant colour, adorning the cornfie : “

profusion in the province of Sectana, which skirts the

So oe ee ; : ccana belongs to a

greater Atlas in Lat. 31° N. JZ aly “allied to L. reticulata,

large section of the enus, and is clos |

Desf., of Portugal aA N. Marocco. The seeds pone a

germinated freely and flowered in the Royal Gardens in

of the present year.

AuGuUsT Ist, 1872,

Dzscr, An erect annual, branched from the base, ten to —

eighteen inches high, slender, glabrous below, viscid-pubescent —

above. Leaves on the short primary shoots whorled, elliptic. —

lanceolate, on the stems and branches one to one and a half

inches long, narrowly linear, rather broader towards the

middle; subacute, l-nerved, pale green. acemes very many-

flowered, two to six inches long, much elongated in fruit;

pedicels very slender, quarter to one inch long; bracts narrow

linear. lower with the spur one and a half inches long.

Sepals green, narrow-linear, obtuse, glandular, recurved.

Corolla bright violet-purple, with a small yellow patch which —

is not streaked with purple, on the centre of the palate; —

upper lip erect, 2-lobed to below the middle, lobes rounded

at the top; lower lip very short, broad, truncate, 3-lobed,

lobes rounded, the middle one rather the smallest; palate very

prominent, 2-lobed, smooth, hairy within; spur often half as

long again as the flower or pedicel, slender, gradually narrowed

to a very fine point, purple. Capsule one-fifth inch long, tur-

gid, as long as the appressed persistent sepals, glabrous, cells

opening by two terminal pores, at length 5-valved. Seeds

subcylindric, obtuse at both ends, transversely furrowed.—

J. D. id.

Fig. 1, flower :—magnified.

Vincent Brooks Day & Sonam

JIG

Tas. 5984.

GAULTHERIA FRAGRANTISSIMA.

Native of the Himalaya.

Nat. Ord. Ericem,—Tribe, ARBUTER.

Genus Gautrueria, Linn. ; (DC. Prodr., vol. vii. p. 592).

GavuLTuERIa fragrantissima ; arbuscula, inflorescentia puberula ceterum

glaberrima rarius foliis subtus sparse strigillosis, ramulis validis, foliis

breviter petiolatis elliptico-ovatis oblongis lanceolatisve apice glanduloso-

apiculatis acuminatisve crenato-serrulatis subtus punctatis crasse

coriaceis, racemis axillaribus strictis multifloris, floribus bracteatis et

2-bracteolatis concavis acutis, sepalis ovatis acuminatis, corolle globose

ore parvo, lobis parvis fere orbiculatis erecto-patulis, capsula calyce

accrescente cyaneo inclusa.

GavLTHerra fragrantissima; Wall. in Asiat. Researches, vol. xiii. p.207, t. 12;

Cat. n. 765; Wight Ic. t. 1196; DC. Prodr. vol. vii. p. 993 ; Thwastes

‘ Enum. Pl. Ceyl. p. 170.

_ G. fragrans, Don Prodr. Fl. Nep. p. 151.

-G. Leschenaultii, DO. Prodr. vol. vii. p.5933 Wight Ic. t. 1195 ; Ill. t. 141 ©.

G. ovalifolia, Wall. Cat. n. 1523.

ANDROMEDA flexuosa, Moon Cat. Ceylon Pi.

A. Katagherensis, Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 246.

Levcoruor? Katagherensis, DC. Prodr. vol. vii. p. 606.

A charming and very fragrant shrub or small tree, native

of the mountains of India, from Nepal eastward to Bhotan in |

the Himalaya, between 5000 and 8000 feet; 1m the Khasia_

ranges at 5000 to 6000; in the Nilgherries, and on Adam's

Peak in Ceylon ascending as high as 8000 feet. Ritioadine

bright evergreen, and is loaded in summer with white or

Tose-coloured blossoms, which are succeeded by beautiful blue-

__-purple racemes of fruit.

__ G. fragrantissima is a greenhouse plant, and should siete

greater favourite than Clethra arborea, which it somewha

AuGusT Ist, 1872.

resembles in general effect, from its profuse flowering. The —

specimen here figured flowered with I. A. Henry, Hsq., in

April, 1869, and was considerately communicated to us for

figuring.

Descr. <A large dush or small tree, everywhere glabrous

except the pubescent racemes, or in some Ceylon states

having the under surface of the leaves sparsely covered with

short stiff appressed bristles, occupying the position of the small

brown dots that occur on all the forms of the plant. Branches

stout, obtusely angled, shining. eaves two and a half to

three and a half inches long, sometimes two and a half

inches broad, very variable in shape, elliptic, ovate, obovate

or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, tip apiculate and glandular,

margin obtusely serrulate, very coriaceous and _ reticulate ;

nerves very obliquely arched; base acute,rounded or subcordate; _

petioles one-eighth to one-quarter inch long, stout. Racemes

axillary, strict, erect or inclined, shorter than the leaves,

many-flowered, pubescent. Mowers secund, drooping, shortly

pedicelled; bracts and bracteoles concave, acute. Calya 5-fid

to the middle ; lobes ovate, acuminate, green. Corolla globose,

or broadly ovoid, one-third of an inch long, white or pale

pink; mouth small; lobes rounded. Filaments dilated,

puberulous; anther-cells with long forked recurved tips.

Ovary 5-lobed, pubescent. Fruit a capsule, enclosed in the

accrescent fleshy blue-purple calyx.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower, pedicel, and bracteoles; 2, stamens; 3, calyx and ovary:

—all magnified. a

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Vincent, Brooke Davy &Son.lmp-

Tas. 5985.

ZAMIOCULCAS Loppiacssi1.

Native of East Tropical Africa.

Nat. Ord. Arowraz.—Tribe, ORoNTIEA.

Genus Zamiocutcas, Decne. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, vol. xvii. p. 321.

‘Zamocuicas Loddigesii ; foliis imparipinnatis, foliolis 6—8-jugis alternis

elliptico v. obovato-lanceolatis acutis brevissime petiolulatis v. sessili-

bus, nervis laxe reticulatis, petiolo tereti basi clavato infra foliola

nodoso-incrassato, scapo perbrevi, spathe tubo subgloboso lamina

cymbiformi dorso infra apicem cornuta.

Zamiocutcas Loddigesii, Schott. Prodr. Syst. Aroid. p. 214; Decaisne in

Bull. Soc. Bot. France, vol. xvii. p. 322.

CaLapium zamizfolium, Loddiges’ Bot. Cabinet, t. 1408.

Decaisne has well remarked of this most curious genus, in

a letter addressed to the President of the Botanical Society

of France, that it is not only singular in the family of plants

to which it belon gs, but in the whole class of Monocotyledons,

in having a genuine pinnated leaf, with articulated caducous

leaflets, as in various Dicotyledons. To this peculiarity may

be added the singular clavate form of the base of the petiole, and

the thickened false articulation, like that of a Maratha frond,

about halfway between the lowest pinnule and base of the

petiole. M. Decaisne describes the flowers in the lower half of

the spadix as female and of the upper as male; in the plant I

d both stamens and pistils throughout the spadix, but the

stamens appear perfect only on the lower half and the pistils on

the upper ; furthermore, whilst the pistils of the lower half

_ are flaggon-shaped, with a short style, and a basal anatropous

9 campylotropous ovule in each cell, those m the upper

having oblong ovaries, with sessile stigmas, sunk below

€ tips of the perianth-segments (hence concealed), and

AUGUsT Ist, 1872.

ovules adnate almost throughout their length to the

septum. a

The genus Zamioculcas is confined to eastern tropical Africa.

Z. Loddigesii was introduced into the Horticultural Garden

before 1828, probably by Forbes, and figured with a most

imperfect description, by Loddiges, who supposed it to be

a native of Brazil. Nothing more was known of it till rt was

introduced from Zanzibar into the Jardin des Plantes at

Paris, where it flowered in 1869, and was subsequently de-

scribed and published by M. Decaisne, together with another,

also Zanzibar, species, Z Boiviniz, which exists in the Paris —

Herbarium and has bipinnate leaves. Our plants were re- —

ceived from that indefatigable naturalist Dr. Kirk, ELS. 4

now H.B.M. V.-Consul at Zanzibar in 1870, and flowered —

in June, 1872. q

Rhizome short; horizontal, giving off large white sessile

tubers, the size of a potato, from the crown of which proceed

very stout fleshy simple fibres. Zeaves all radical, springing _

from the axil of an ovate-lanceolate brown membranous sheath

that soon withers ; petiole about two feet long, terete, clavate —

at the base, with a thickened false articulation some way below

the leaflets, green, faintly marked with darker transverse bars;

leaflets six to eight pairs, three to six inches long, alternate, de-

ciduous, the uppermost sometimes appearing terminal, as if the

leaf were imparipinnate, obovate- or elliptic-lanceolate, acute —

or acuminate, subsessile or shortly petioled, bright green and

shining above, nerves laxly reticulated, pale beneath ; mid-

rib stout. Scape very short, stout. Spathe green, thick,

lower part embracing the lower half of the spadix, blade

about two inches long, boat shaped, with a dorsal horn below |

the apex. Spadix one and a half to two inches long, stout,

cylindric, obtuse, constricted at the middle. Vowers most —

densely crowded. Perianth-segments cubical or cuneate, very

thick, coneave in front and closely embracing the pistil.

Stamens with subclayate flattened ‘filaments and minute

anthers that burst by longitudinal slits.—J. D. H.-

Fig. 1, Plant :—reduced ; 2, portion of ditto:—natural size ; 3, portion

of petiole and leaflet ; 4, spadix; 5, flower from lower part of the spadix;

6, vertical section of young ditto; 7, perianth, leaflet, and ovary of ditto;

8, vertical section of female flower and perianth :—all magnified.

Tas. 5986.

TRECULIA AFRICANA.

The “ Okwa tree” of West Tropical Africa.

Nat. Ord. ArtocarPeE®.—Tribe, MorEz.

Genus, Trecutia, Decne. ; (Trecul in Ann. Se. Nat. sér. 3, vol. viii. p. 108).

TRECULIA africana ; glaberrima, ramulis validis, foliis breviter et crasse

petiolatis oblongo-ovatis v. lanceolatis obtuse acuminatis integerrimis

crasse coriaceis supra nitidis basi acutis v. suboblique, cordatis, nervis

validis, amento florifero globoso, bracteis orbiculatis crasse corlacels

suffulto breviter et crasse pedunculato.

Trecutta africana, Decaisne in Trecul Monog. sur les Artocarpées in Ann.

Se. Nat. sér. 3, vol. viii. p. 109, t. 3, f 86-90; Walp. Ann. vol. i. p. 658.

Myrtorextis edulis, Welwitsch Mss.

Awenpoas DE Disanna, Welwitsch, Synopse Explicativa, p. 54 (No, 142),

A very singular West African tree, closely allied to

Artocarpus (which includes the bread-fruit and Jack -fruit of

tropical Asia), but differing in having three stamens instead

of one, in the form of the perianth, in the embryo, and ac-

cording to Trecul in the male and female flowers being mixed

in the same head, which, however, is not the case in our

specimen in which the heads are all male.* :

Treculia appears to inhabit the whole western coast of

tropical Africa, from Senegambia, where it was discovered by

Heudelot, to Angola, whence it was brought by Dr. Wel-

witsch, who states in his Synopse Explicativa that the fruitis

called “ Amendoas de Disanha” by the Portuguese, and “Isa”

in the Island of St. Thomas. Specimens have also been sent. by

Dr. Kirk from the west shore of Lake Nyassa, gathered during

ne Trecul describes the genus as diccious, no doubt a lapsus re ae

re hak as he proceeds to say that the male and female flowers are mixed 1n the

me head.

AUGUST Ist, 1872.

Livingstone’s expedition in 1861. The fruit is a foot or

more in diameter, globose, and full of small elliptical nuts,

with an eatable embryo, which are collected by the Negroes

and ground into meal. Barter who also collected it during

Baikie’s Niger Expedition, describes it as a tree eighty

feet high, ranging for thirty miles up the Niger river from

its mouth, with fruits weighing eighteen to thirty pounds,

full of seeds the size of a haricot bean. Dr. Welwitsch pre-

sented this interesting plant to Kew, in 1864, where it

flowered for the first time in September of last year, and

where it has borne the Mss. name of Ficus Welwitsch,

Miquel.

Descr. A free sixty to eighty feet high, everywhere

glabrous. Branches very stout; bark brown. Leaves alternate,

very shortly petioled, thickly coriaceous, six to fourteen inches

long, sometimes seven to eight inches broad, oblong-ovate

or lanceolate, rather abruptly obtusely acuminate, base acute

or more often cordate, sometimes obliquely, shining and

polished above, opaque beneath; nerves and costa very stout ;

nervules strongly reticulate ; stipules one inch long, caducous.

Flower-heads globose, shortly peduncled, two inches in dia-

meter, all male in our plant, subtended by six to eight closely

imbricating coriaceous orbicular green bracts ; composed of a

mass of male flowers and stipitate bracteoles with broad

peltate green discoid tips, all crowded in two or three series

on a globose fleshy receptacle. Male perianth tubular, three-

to four-cleft, lobes obtuse ciliated. Stamens three, exserted,

filaments stout erect ; anthers shortly oblong. Female flowers

not seen (perianth 3-leaved or 0, leaflets elongate, ciliate;

ovary lenticular, style slender, stigmas two, subulate, hor-

zontally spreading, papillose all over. Zvecul). Fruiting-head

one foot and more in diameter, with three to five irregular

series of achenes buried in the circumference, each three

quarters of an inch long, concealed amongst the remains of the

perianth and bracteoles. Achenes crustaceous, smooth. Seed

pendulous, exalbuminous. Cofyledons unequal, the larger

recurved embracing the smaller ; radicle superior.—J. D. #.

Fig. 1, Flowering head ; 2, flower and peltate bracteoles ; 3, top of stamen

4, section of fruiting head; 5, achenes:—all but 1 and 4 magnijied.

Vincent Brooks Day & 5

Tas. 5987.

AMOMUM me tecueta, VAR. MINOR.

Native of Western Tropical Africa.

Nat. Ord. Zrnziperace&.—Tribe, Amoma.

Genus, Amomum, Linn. ; (Endl. Gen. Pl. p. 223).

Amomum melegueta ; caulibus gracilibus, foliis 4—6 pollicaribus anguste

lineari-ellipticis longe attenuato-acuminatis glaberrimis, ligula brevi,

vagina gracili, scapo 1-floro, bracteis 6—10 sub-appressis oblongis cuspi-

datis, perianthio exteriore spathaceo acuminato, interioris foliolo dorsali

oblongo concavo obtuso, lateralibus e basi lanceolata angustis sensim

acuminatis recurvis, labelli limbo amplo orbiculato margine eruso,

filamenti processubus lateralibus subulatis, anthere connectivo apice

late subtriangulari integro dentato v. 2-fido, angulis lateralibus sub-

ulatis, ovario glabro, staminodiis liberis elongatis angustis.

Amomum melegueta, Roscoe Monand. Plants, t. 98; Pereira in Pharm. Journ.

vol. vi. p. 412; Mat. Med. vol. ii. p. 1131, f. 235-241; Guibourt Hist.

Nat. des drogues simples, vol. ii. p. 222; Hook. f. in Kew Journ. Bot.

vol. vi. p. 293.

Var. minor, omnibus partibus minor, bracteis appresse convolutis, labello

orbiculato. Tab. nost, 5987. (an species diversa ?)

Apparently a small form of the plant which produces the

famous Grains of Paradise of our shops, and perhaps the—

indigenous state of that plant, of which I have seen no other

specimens identical with Roscoe’s figure, but what were cul-

tivated in French Guiana and Demerara, which differ from

this in the larger size, longer leaves, more robust scape,

larger looser bracts, larger flowers, and more obovate lip.

The fruit, which I have received from Sierra Leone, but not

With the plant here fieured, is fleshy, very variable in form

and size, hal{-clothed with the upper bracts, more or less

ellipsoid or ovoid, glabrous, with fleshy pulp, and the seeds

are one-sixth of an inch long, aromatic and pungent, with a

aig rather rough testa, and usually a conical areole at the

lum.

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1872.

The only other single-flowered species of the genus is A.

arundinaceum, Oliver and Hanbury (Journ. Linn. Soe. vol.

viii. p. 109), which agrees with this in size and the orbicular

lip, but has a more slender Scape and a very different fruit

and seed from 4. melegueta. ie

The Grains of Paradise are imported from all parts of

Western tropical Africa, from Sierra Leone to the Congo, but

whether from wild or cultivated plants is not known. The

specimen here figured was sent, in 1869, from Sierra Leone

by M. Bockstadt, an excellent correspondent of the Royal

Gardens, and flowered in May of the present year.

Descr. Root-stocks creeping. Leafy slems one to two feet

high, slender. Zeaves four to six inches long, spreading,

distichous, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, one inch broad,

rounded or subacute at the sessile base; ligule very short,

obtuse ; sheath slender. Scape radical, two to three inches

long, curved, terete, densely clothed with imbricate appressed

convolute oblong cuspidate bracts, which are coriaceous and

dull green with red margins and tips. lower solitary,

two to three inches long, very pale pink suffused with

yellow towards the centre. Outer perianth spathaceous,

acuminate; inner with the dorsal segment boat-shaped,

suberect, obtuse ; lateral segments elongate-subulate from a '

lanceolate base, recurved ; lip oblong with an orbicular erose —

horizontal blade two inches in diameter. Filaments with the

lateral processes erect, subulate; anther with a triangular

terminal lobe, entire erose or 2-fid at the tip, the lateral

angles acute. S/aminodes erect, free, linear, truncate. Stig-

matic lobes small.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Base of perianth, anther, and style; 2, staminodes and base of

style :—both magnified.

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Tas. 5988.

MONANTHES MURALIS.

Native of Marocco and the Canaries.

Nat. Ord. CRASSULACES.

Genus, Monantues, Haw. ; (Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 660).

Moyaytues muralis ; humilis, perennis, fruticulosa, ramis confertis v. e collo

diffusis, nudis apicibus adscendentibus dense foliosis succulentis, foliis t

poll. longis spathulato-obovoideis crasse carnosis subsessilibus glabris

sordide viridibus inferioribus purpureo variegatis, pedunculis subter-

minalibus }-pollicaribus 3—6-floris glanduloso-pubescentibus, floribus

6-meris, pedicellis glandulosis, calycis tubo late hemispherico segmentis

acutis, petalis ovato-acuminatis aureis dorso sub apice rubro-punetatis,

filamentis calycem subequantibus, antheris rubris, squamis recurvis

lamina spathulata crassiuscula emarginata flavis, carpellis semi-ovoideis

viridibus apicibus rubris in stylum brevem subulatum attenuatis.

Prerkopyes muralis, Webb. mss. Walp. Ann. vol. vil. p. 931.

The genus Monanthes (or Petrophyes of Webb), consists of

six species, all natives of the Canary Islands, and supposed

to be confined to that singular group, till one of these, the

present species, was discovered in the Greater Atlas by my

fellow traveller, Mr. Ball, F.R.S., growing on moist rocks at

7000 to 8000 feet elevation on Mount Tezi, south-west of

the city of Marocco. As far as I can discover, the Maroccan

is identical with the Canarian form, though had I the latter

alive to compare it with, differences would, no doubt, :

observable ; in the colour, and perhaps in the form of some 0

the organs. ;

Monanthes is perhaps, too, closely allied to Sempervivum,

differing in the much more developed scales _ opposite

the carpels, and in the somewhat peculiar habit. mee

figure is taken from Mount Atlas specimens, brought by

myself in June, 187], which flowered in the Royal Gardens

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1872.

in April of the present year. In the Canary Islands this

species has been found in the Isles of Ferro and Teneriffe,

usually on walls but sometimes on rocks.

Descr. A small tufted nearly glabrous shining succulent

perennial. Stems branched from the base ; branches prostrate,

one to three inches long, cylindric, naked below, bearing a

densely imbricate rosette of twenty to thirty leaves towards the

apex. Leaves about one-sixth of an inch long, subsessile, spathu-

late, quite entire, obtuse or emarginate or retuse, succulent, dark

green and shining. Yowers subsolitary and in short few-

flowered subterminal peduncled glandular cymes, a quarter

to one-third of an inch in diameter, shortly pedicelled.

Calyx-tube broadly hemispherical; lobes six, triangular-

ovate, acute. Petals six, elliptic-ovate, acuminate, golden

yellow, speckled with red on the back beneath the tip,

which is keeled, twice as long as the calyx, recurved. Sta-

mens twelve, filaments dilated; anthers dark-red. Scales

spathulate, fleshy, yellow, limb recurved, notched. Carpels

semi-ovoid, turgid at the base, narrowed into short slender

red erect styles. Ovules three to four in each carpel,

ascending from the ventral suture near the base—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Portion of stem and leaf; 2, flower; 3, ditto open ; 4, base of

calyx, scales, and carpels; 5, petal; 6, stamen; 7, scale and transverse

section of carpel ; 8, vertical section of carpel :—all magnified.

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Tan. 5989.

BRODIAA MULTIFLORA.

Native of California.

Nat. Ord, Litiacez.—Tribe, MILLEx.

Genus, Bropiza, Smith ; (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xi. p. 375).

Bropixa multiflora ; bulbo fibroso-tunicato 1-poll. diametro, foliis scapum

superantibus lineari-elongatis 1—2-pedalibus 3-5 poll. latis _carnosulis

subacutis supra concavis subtus convexis, scapo gracili fragili, bractels

plurimis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis, foribus subcapitatis sessilibus v.

pedicellatis, perianthio 4-2 poll. longo ceruleo, tubo ventricoso, lobis

tubo subbrevioribus oblongis apice obtusis subincurvis, staminodiis

brevibus latis obtusis, antheris sessilibus 2-cuspidatis, ovarlo sessill,

seminibus loculis paucis oblongis. no

Bropiaa multiflora, Benth. Pl. Hartweg, p. 8389; Baker in Journ. Linn.

Soc. vol. xi. p. 377.

B, parviflora, Torr. and Gray, Bot. Pacif. Railw. Exped. p. 125; Wood in

Proc. Acad. Philad. 1867, p. 172.

A charming Californian bulb, discovered by Hartweg 1n

1848, and more recently gathered by Fremont, Bridges,

Lobb, and various other collectors in the Sacramento valley,

Utah, and elsewhere. It belongs to the section Lubrodiaa

of the genus, as reformed by Baker, which genus now

Includes five species, all natives of America west of the

Rocky Mountains. Of these B. grandiflora is figured in this

work at Tab. 2877 ; and the beautiful B. coccimea at

Tab. 5857. For the opportunity of figuring B. multifiora L

am indebted to W. Wilson Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., who

flowered it in May of the present year, from bulbs commu-

hicated by Max Leichtlin, of Carlsruhe.

Descr. Bulb one inch in diameter, depressed-globose,

clothed with a finely reticulated coat. Leaves few, ones

two feet long, one-sixth to one-third of an inch broad,

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1872.

rather fleshy, bright green, acute, concave in front, convex

at the back. Scape shorter than the leaves, slender, fistular,

brittle, quite smooth. Bracts six or eight, shorter than the

flowers, membranous, ovate-ianceolate, acuminate. Flowers

in a subglobose head, crowded, subsessile or on pedicels one-

sixth to half an inch long. Perianth bright blue; tube

ventricose and obscurely lobed, half an inch long ; lobes

rather shorter than the tube, oblong, subacute, tips slightly

incurved, spreading, nearly flat. Staminodes short, erect,

broadly triangular-ovate, obtuse. Anthers sessile, oblong,

2-cuspidate. Ovary elliptic, sessile ; style included, stigma

3-lobed; ovules numerous, 2-seriate in each cell. Capsule

elliptic-oblong, enclosed in the membranous perianth-tube.

Seeds few in each cell, linear-oblong.—/. D. H.

: Fig. 1, Flower; 2, perianth laid open; 3, ovary ; 4, transverse section of

ditto :—all magnified.

Tas. 5990.

MASDEVALLIA Linpent.

Native of Central America.

Nat. Ord. Orcumem.—Tribe, PLEUROTHALLIDE.

Genus, Maspevatiia, Ruiz and Pavon ; (Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orchid.

: p. 192).

Maspevatiia Lindent; caulibus fasciculatis, foliis longe petiolatis crasse

coriaceis anguste obovato-spathulatis enervibus retusis in petiolum

antice profunde sulecatum longe attenuatis coriaceis, scapis gracilibus

folio longioribus flexuosis, floribus decurvis, sepalis sanguineis inferne

in tubum subcylindricum decurvum stramineum basi equabile connatis,

dorsale e basi triangulari elongato-subulato reflexo erecto lateralibus

maximis semi-ovatis attenuato-acuminatis, petalis parvis lineari-oblongis

emarginatis basi uno latere auriculatis, labello unguiculato lingueforme

basi cordato integerrimo, columna exalata, androclinio integerrimo.

Maspevantia Lindeni, André in Jllust. Hortic. vol. xvii. p- 226, cum Ie.

This is another of that remarkable group of Masdevallias

which have attracted so much attention amongst botanists

and horticulturists of late, from the singular form and

colouring of their sepals, and of which J. Veitchiana

Reichb, f. (Tab. nost. 5739) and J. igaea (Tab. nost. 5962)

are examples. All these present a wonderful similarity in the

form and structure of the petals, lip, and column, which are

Concealed in the tube of the perianth, and appear as if

reduced in size and suppressed as to function in favour of

the three outer sepals, which, by their gorgeous colouring,

if not by their form also, no doubt attract insects to fecun-

date the species by cross fertilization. Of this type many

More species have yet to be imported, especially from N ew

Grenada. Altogether upwards of fifty species of this sin-

gular. genus exist in our. Herbaria at Kew, | the genus

extending from Cuba and Mexico to Rio de Janeiro.

SEPTEMBER Isr, 1872.

M. Lindeni was flowered at the Glasnevin Gardens by

Dr. Moore, F.L.S., who obligingly transmitted it for figuring,

in June of the present year. It was supposed to have been

received by him amongst a batch of Central American

Orchids, collected by Roezel; but André states that it was

introduced by G. Wallis from New Grenada in 1869.

Duscr. Stems tufted. Leaves six to ten inches long ;

petiole three to four inches long, stout, deeply grooved in

front with a single long basal sheath; blade nerveless or ob-

scurely nerved, narrow, obovate, retuse, narrowed and acutely

channelled at the base, very dark green, thickly coriaceous,

keeled at the back. Scape one foot long and upwards,

flexuous, with three or four distant appressed sheaths an

inch long, green variegated with dull red; upper sheath or

bract distant from the flower. Flower three inches long.

Ovary short, straight, deeply grooved. Perianth blood-red ;

sepals connate below into a decurved yellow tube, which is

rounded and hardly gibbous at the base; dorsal sepal very

long, almost filiform from a triangular base, recurved, sub-

erect, flexuous ; lateral sepals connate to below the middle,

deflexed, semi-ovate, tapering to the acute approximate tips.

Petals linear-oblong, retuse, auricled in front at the base.

Lip linguiform, nearly as long as the column, base cordate.

— Column not winged, quite entire—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower with the sepals removed; 2, column and lip; 3, column;

4, lip :—all magnified.

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Tas. 5991.

SALVIA TARAXACIFOLIA.

Native of the Greater Atlas.

Nat. Ord. Lastar&—Tribe, MonaRDEz.

Genus, Saryia, Linn. ; (Benth. in DC. Prodr. vol. xii. p. 262).

Satvia (Eusphace) taraxacifolia; caule e basi adscendente erecto inferne

foliisque subtus albo-lanatis superne simplici acute 4-gono piloso, foliis

pinnatifido-lobatis v. pinnatisectis lobis lateralibus parvis variis term1-

nali magno ovato obtuso v. cuspidato sinuato-dentato, floralibus parvis

sessilibus ovatis concavis, racemis simplicibus, verticillastris multifloris,

floribus breviter pedicellatis v. subsessilibus, calycibus oblongis cylin-

draceo-campanulatis tomentosis et pilosis, dentibus triangulari ovatis

longe rigide setaceo-acuminatis fere rectis, corolla calyce subduplo

longiore, tubo inflato glabro, intus basi annulo piloso, labio superiore

breviusculo compresso dorso villoso, labio inferiore trilobo, lobis

brevibus lateralibus deflexis intermedio quadrato 2-lobo, connectivo

arcuato antice porrecto apice anthera castrata aucto.

SaLvia taraxacifolia ; Cosson mss.

A native of the lower slopes of the Greater Atlas, where it

Was discovered by the botanical traveller M. Balansa during

adventurous journey from M ogador to Marocco in 1867,”

and whose collections, now in the possession of M. Cosson, of

Paris, have not yet been published. It was again collected

by Messrs, Maw, Ball, and myself in 1871, growing on

tocks and shingle in beds of rivers along the base of _the

Greater Atlas, at elevations of 2000 to 3000 feet, sometimes

forming broad patches, and presenting a very beautiful

appearance. |

Salvia taravacifolia belongs to the first section of the genus

(Eusphace), to which the gigantic S. interrupta of Maroeco also

longs, but it is not very closely allied to any of its con-

” (April, 1868).

* See “ Bulletin de la Société de Geographie de Paris

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1872.

geners. Itis a very ornamental rock-work plant, but pro-

bably requires protection in the winter of this country. It

was flowered from our specimens simultaneously (in July) by

Mr. Maw at Brosely, Mr. Niven at the Hull Botanic Gardens, -

and in the Royal Gardens, Kew ; Mr. Niven’s being con-

siderably the finest specimen.

Descr. Root-stock woody, branched, perennial. Stems nu-

merous from the stock, ascending, then erect, six to eighteen

inches high, robust, quite simple, 4-angled, clothed below

with soft snowy cotton, above with lax soft spreading hairs.

Leaves two to four inches long, pinnatisect, sessile or petioled ;

lower lobes few or many, broad or narrow, close-set or dis-

tant; terminal one to one and a half inches long, ovate,

obtuse or cuspidate, irregularly sinuate-toothed ; all clothed

below with snow-white cottony tomentum, softly tomentose

above ; floral sessile, ovate, aristate, shorter than the flowers.

Whoris (false) 6-10-flowered. Flowers very shortly pedicelled.

Calyx half an inch long, tubular-campanulate, tube densely

appressed tomentose and clothed with spreading hairs ; lips

nearly straight, upper 3- lower 2-lobed; lobes triangular-

ovate, subulate-aristate, nearly straight, rigid, veined, by dee

slightly up-curved. Corol/a nearly twice as long as the calyx ;

pale pink with a yellowish disk to the lower lip, and purple

speckled prominent pilose palate; tube ventricose, villous

near the faux and on the short galeate compressed upper lip ;

and with a ring of brown hairs near the base within ; lower

lip deflexed, 3-lobed; lateral lobes small, decurved; mid-

lobe quadrate, 2-lobed. Connective arcuate, lower arm pro-

jecting, terminated by a deformed adnate empty anther-cell.

Style-arms subulate.—J D. H. :

Okc as

Fig. 1, flower ; 2, calyx, style, and stigma ; 3, top of filament and anther :-—

all magnified.

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Tas. 5992.

LACHENALIA TRICOLOR, VAR. AUREA.

Native of South Africa.

Nat. Ord. Lin1ace#,—Tribe, Hyacintuex.

Genus, Lacuenatta, Jacq. ; (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xi. p. 401).

LacHENALIA (Eulachenalia) tricolor ; foliis binis 6—9 pollicaribus }-} poll.

latis lineari-oblongis loratisve subacutis herbaceis concoloribus v.

maculatis, scapo foliis longiore, racemo stricto 6-18-floro, floribus laxis,

bracteis parvis deltoideis, pedicellis inferioribus }-} poll. longis, peri-

anthio 3-1 poll. longo xquali tubuloso basi gibbo, foliolis exterioribus

in tubum connatis dorso infra apicem obtusum gibbis, interioribus

exterioribus duplo longioribus e basi lineari-spathulatis staminibus

inclusis, :

LACHENALIA tricolor, Thunb. Flor. Cap. Prod. p. 64; Flor. Cap. p. 827;

Bot. Mag. t. 82; Redouté Lil. t. %; Kunth. Enum, vol. iv. p. 290;

Baker in Journ, Linn. Soc. vol. xi. p. 404.

: quadricolor, Jacq. Ic. t. 396; Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 148; Bot. Mag. t. 1704.

L. luteola, Jacg. Ic. t. 395; Redouté Lil. t. 297.

Puorarum aloides, Linn. Suppl. p. 205.

Yar. aurea; foliis maculatis, scapo gracili rubro purpureo-variegato,

floribus aureis cereaceis. L. aurea, Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1856, p. 404,

et 1872, p. 290, Ze. n. 109.

A singularly graceful and bright-coloured plant, well de-

Scribed in the Florist and Pomologist, whence an extract is

Siven in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, signalling Mr. Barrons

_ Success in cultivating this and other species of this lovely

genus. L. tricolor, according to Mr. Baker’s determination,

18 a very variable plant, and includes as forms Z. quadricolor,,

L. luteola, Jacq., and L. aurea, Lindl., of which the last, that

how figured, is by far the most elegant, and is further re-

Markable for its bright colour and the waxy texture of its

flower. Tt flowered in the Royal Gardens in March of the —

Present year from bulbs.

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1872,

Upwards of thirty species of Zachenalia are described in

Mr. Baker’s enumeration, of which fifteen have been intro-

duced into European gardens. ;

Descr. Bulb spherical. Leaves twin at the base of the

scape ; sheath long or short; blade recurved, six to twelve

inches long, one to two and a half inches broad, subacute,

dark green, uniformly coloured, or speckled or spotted with

darker spots. Scape six to ten inches high, reddish, varie-

gated with darker red or purple. Raceme 10-18-flowered,

slender, long, erect, bracts small, deltoid-subulate; pedicels one

quarter to one-third inch long,slender. Perianth golden yellow,

waxy, one inch long, tubular; base rounded, rather gibbous ;

outer segments connate to or below the middle, obtuse, with

a gibbous dorsal boss below the tip; inner almost twice as

long as the outer, pale yellow, spathulate, slightly spreading,

tip rounded or obtuse. Stamens included, nearly as long as

the outer perianth segments. Ovary oblong, 3-lobed, style

very slender, stigma simple.—J. D. H. ,

Fig. 1, Pistil :—magnified.

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Tas. 5993,

ODONTOGLOSSUM Se

Native of Equador.

Nat. Ord. OrcupEx.—Tribe VanpEa.

Genus OpontoaLossum, H. B. & K.; (Lindl. Fol. Orchid. Odontoglossum).

OpontoaLessuM (Isanthium) pardinum ; pseudobulbis 2-3-pollicaribus ovatis

compressis, foliis 6—8-pollicaribus anguste lineari-oblongis acutis, pani-

cula ampla multiflora foliis longiore laxe ramosa, bracteis cucullatis

acuminatis, floribus aureis maculis paucis aurantiacis ocellatis, sepalis

lanceolatis acuminatis, petalis paulo latioribus ovato-lanceolatis acumi-

natis undulatis, labello breviter unguiculato subpanduriformi acuto,

criste lamellis lateralibus argute dentatis spina erecta anteposita, inter-

media tumida, columna aptera.

OponroGLossum pardinum, Lindl. in Sert. Orchid. Sub. t. 25; Fol. Orchid.

No. 49. Walp. Rep., vol. vi. p. 841.

An inhabitant of the Andes of Equador, where it was dis-

covered by the veteran botanical explorer of that region, Dr.

Jameson, late Professor of Botany and Chemistry in the

University of Quito, who, after a residence of nearly fifty

years at an elevation of 10,000 feet above the level of the

sea, is now returned upon a brief visit to his native country.

Dr. Jameson having finally left Quito, took sea to Valparaiso

and thence crossed the Andes to the Argentine Republic,

where he was attached to the University of San Juan for

a short period, and cellected many of the curious plants of

that dry region, of which very little is known botanically

since Gillies collected there half a century ago. From

thence Dr. Jameson crossed the plains of La Plata to Monte

Video, whence he sailed for England, which he will shortly

leave to return to Valparaiso. |

Odontoglossum pardinum belongs to a section that contains

many very closely allied species, and which abounds in New

OCTOBER Ist, 1872.

Granada, Peru, and Equador. The fine specimen here figured

flowered in the nurseries of Messrs. Backhouse of York, in

December, 1867.

Descr. Pseudobulbs two to three inches long, ovate, com-

pressed, green, smooth. eaves six to eight inches long by

one to one and a quarter broad, narrow elliptic-oblong, acute,

keeled, narrowed at the base, bright green. Panicle two to

three feet long, broad, branched, spreading largely, many-

flowered. Bracts half an inch long, boat-shaped, acuminate,

membranous. Flowers two inches in diameter, pale golden

yellow, with a few orange-red ocellated spots on the petals

and lip. Sepals spreading, lanceolate, acuminate, slightly

undulated. Petals rather shorter and broader, incurved,

ovate at the base, much undulated. Lip shortly clawed,

oblong panduriform, acute, sides entire. Crest of two lateral

wings, with an erect spine in point of the distal end of each ;

intermediate ridges tumid, smooth. Column not winged,

rather short, smooth.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Front view of lip and column; 2, side view of d’tto :—magnified.

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CIENKOWSKIA KIRKII.

Native of Eastern Tropical Africa.

Nat. Ord. ScrraMINEZ.—Tribe ZINzIBERz.

Genus Crenxowsk1a, Solms Laubach ; (Schweinfurth Beitrag Flor, AEthiop.,

p: 197, t-.1).

Crexxowsria Kirkii ; foliis 3-5 distichis elliptico-ovatis acuminatis suberectis

floribus coetaneis, scapo gracili adscendente vaginato multifloro, spathis

$-pollicaribus cymbiformibus subacutis, ovario glabro, perianthio externo

brevi ovario subequilongo infun dibulari-campanulato truncato margine

eroso 8-corniculato, petalis 3 exterioribus oblongo-lanceolatis acutis

concavis antheram vix superantibus, interioribus in labellum amplum

3-lobum connatis, lobo intermedio latiore emarginato, connectivo in

laminam late oblongam apice obtusam recurvam producto, staminodiis

parvis conicis obtusis.

errs ae

The genus Cienkowskia was established by Solmes Laubach

(Sitzungsbericht der Ges. naturf. Freunde, July, 1863) on a

Zinziberaceous plant of Abyssinia, which differs from

Kempferia in the inner perianth lobes being united so as to

form one 3-lobed lip, split to the base posteriorly. ‘This

character appears to be overlooked in Solmes Laubach s

description of the genus quoted above (in Schweinfurth's

Beitrag), which disagrees in no respect from the character of

Kempferia ; it is however accurately pourtrayed in the

figure of the original species, C. Aithiopica, given in the same _

work. A third staminode is, according to this figure, em-

bedded in the summit of the ovary, half way between the

top of the cells and insertion of the outer perianth ; this I

regret to say was not searched for in the plant here figured ;

but I find it in a careful drawing of another species, made

during Livingstone’s second expedition by Dr. Kirk.

e genus Cienkowskia extends from N atal to Abyssinia

and Nubia, and across the continent to the Niger river an

OCTOBER Ist, 1872.

Senegambia, and there appear to be several species, some of

which flower with the leaves, others not. M. Gerard, the

discoverer of the Natal species, describes the flowers as uni-

sexual. Our drawing was taken from living plants sent by

Dr. Kirk from the coast opposite Zanzibar, in 1871, and

which flowered in the Royal Gardens in May of this year.

Duscr. Roots of tuberous fibres emitted from a fleshy stock.

Stem short, three to four inches high, formed of the sheathing

petioles of the leaves, surrounded by a few erect green acute

sheaths. Leaves distichous, six to eight inches long by three

to three and a half broad, elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, acumi-

nate, with eight to ten oblique nerves, and narrow translucent

margins, deep. green above, paler beneath. Scape three to

four inches long, appearing with the leaves, slender, erect,

with two to three long subacute tubular green sheaths, and

a many-flowered conical inflorescence. of boat-shaped green

bracts half an inch long. Flowers two to two and a half

inches across the lip. Outer perianth tubular-campanulate,

truncate, with three remote teeth. Inner perianth 2-seriate,

three outer petals oblong-lanceolate, acute, subequal, connate

into a short tube at the base, white; three inner connate into

a broad rounded expanded 3-lobed lip, split to the base next

the axis, connate below to the filament, pale rose-purple, with

a bifid golden spot opposite the anther, mid-lobe notched.

Filament short, broad ; connective expanded and tumid, very

much broader than the anther-cells, and produced above into

an oblong recurved membrane, rounded at the tip. Ovary

glabrous, crowned by two small conical obtuse staminodes.

Style very slender, stigma flabellate.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower with lip removed; 2, ovary, staminodes, and base of

style :—both magnified.

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LITANTHUS pvusitwvs.

Native of South Africa.

Nat. Ord. Lin1acez.—Tribe ALLIEA.

Genus Liranraus, Harv. ; (Harv. Gen, S. Afric. Plants, ed. 2, p. 399).

Litanraus pusillus ; perpusillus, bulbo spherico albo, foliis 2-nis 2—4~polli-

caribus filiformibus obtusis superne concavis dorso convexis, basi vagi-

hatis, vaginis membranaceis, scapis a bulbis aphyllis egredientibus foliis

brevioribus capillaceis 1-2-floris, bracteis 2-nis minutis oblongis pel-

tatis membranaceo-marginatis, floribus nutantibus albidis, pedicello

curvo, perianthio cylindraceo-campanulato breviter 6-loho deciduo lobis

Totundatis, antheris inclusis connectivo apice producto 2-dentato, ovario

Sessili, stylo simplici, stigmate truncato, capsula subglobosa.

Litanravs pusillus, Harv. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. (1844) vol. iii.

Pp. 314, t.9. Gen. S. Afric. Plants, ed. 2, p. 899.

_ Perhaps the smallest known Liliaceous plant, with leaves

like green threads and pearly-white nodding flowers, always

arising from leafless bulbs, whence probably the bulbs bear

leaves and flowers in alternate years. It was discovered in

1843, by Zeyher, amongst rushes in thickets, near the

4Zwartkops river, Uitenhage; and later in Caffraria by H.

owker and Mrs. Barber. Our specimens were received, in

1870, from Mr. Harry Bolus, an excellent South African

botanist ; they were planted in light soil and placed in a

warm house, where they flowered freely in August of the

present year.

Drscr. Bulb the size of a hazel-nut, white, coats very fleshy,

with a few slender fibres at the very base, and at the top either

a pair of leaves or a solitary scape, in either case sheathed at

the base with a few appressed convolute tubular membranous

town scales, those of the scape very short, of the leaves

longer. Leaves two to four inches long, in pairs, erect, fili-

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form, deep green, obtuse, concave in front, convex on the

back. Scape solitary, always from a leafless bulb, capillary,

about half the length of the leaves, erect, rather rigid.

Flowers one or two, one-sixth to a quarter of an inch long,

solitary or twin, nodding or drooping ; bracts two, very

minute, elliptic, peltate, green with broad white membranous

margins. Perianth cylindric, campanulate, white with a

green streak down the back of each lobe; lobes six, almost

orbicular. Stamens inserted on the throat of the corolla :

filaments very short, dorsifixed; anthers erect, linear-

oblong ; cells parallel, introrse, bright yellow ; connective pro-

duced, 2-toothed at the apex. Ovary sessile, 3-lobed; style

short, straight, broader upwards, included, stigma truncate ;

ovules several, 2-seriate in each cell. Capsule suberect,

subglobose, loculicidally 3-valved, several-seeded.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Apex of leaf ; 2, top of scape, bracts and flowers; 3, perianth cut

open; 4 and 5, back and front view of stamens; 6, transverse section of

ovary; 7, capsule :—all magnified.

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PELARGONIUM OBLONGATUM.

Native of South Africa.

Nat. Ord. GeraniacEH.—Tribe PELARGONIER.

Genus Petarconium, L’her. ; (Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 273).

PeLarcontum (Hoarea) oblongatum ; caudice erecto tuberoso fusiformi brun~

neo, apice stipulis lanceolato-subulatis stellatim patentibus coronato,

foliis precocibus coriaceis glabris longe v. breviter petiolatis, petiolis

glabris, late ovatis obtusis integris margine lobulatosubdentato v. pinnato-

multifidis, scapis crassiusculis ramosis calycibusque patentim pilosis,

bracteis radiantibus subulato-lanceolatis, calycis tubo 1-3-pollicart

gracili, limbo lobis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis, petalis flavis superiori-

bus longe unguiculatis spathulatis purpureo venosis, ceteris minoribus

anguste obovato-spathulatis enerviis, staminibus 5 declinatis.

PELARGONIUM oblongatum, E. Meyer in Herb. Drege ; Harv. and Sond. Fl.

Cap., vol. i. p. 263.

A very singular species, belonging to a desert form of the

genus, SiatkaNle for the thick nae fleshy root-stock, which

stands a few inches above the ground, and bears leaves before

the flowers appear. The curious root-stocks of this tribe

appear to have the power of throwing off thick layers of the

outer bark from the upper part. The calyx-tube is

much longer than the limb, and being very slender

and adnate to the slender pedicel to its base, it 1s apt to

escape observation. The length and comparative breadth

of the sepals and petals varies much.

P. oblongatum is a native of the dry district of N; epee a

Land, where it was discovered by Burchell im Lege an

erwards gathered by Drege, in whose collection 1 _

named by E. Meyer, but not described till ene up i

Harvey in the Flora Capensis in 1860. A plant of it —

with Mr. Wilson Saunders, at Reigate, in July of the Le!

year, which was sent from Namaqua-Land by Mr. W. S. Rucker;

OCTOBER Ist, 1872,

that here figured flowered with the late Walter Beck of Isle-

worth, a zealous and accomplished horticulturist and most

estimable man, whose recent decease is mourned by a large

circle of naturalists. In both cases the leaves appeared some

weeks before the flowers.

Descr. Root-stock the size of a small carrot, base buried,

erect, rich brown in colour, with flaking bark, crowned with a

whorl of lanceolate-subulate spreading stipules a quarter to

half an inch long. Leaves glabrous, fleshy, on long or short

petioles, broadly ovate, obtuse or subacute, pale green, paler

below, margins lobulate and obscurely irregularly toothed,

sometimes multifid ; petiole long or short. Scapes one or

two, dichotomously branched, three to six inches high, rather

stout, and as well as the calyces clothed with scattered very

fine spreading soft hairs. Bracts like the stipules, spreading

and whorled at the joints and base of the peduncles. ~ZVowers

umbelled, numerous, one and a half to two inches in diameter,

pale yellow. Calya-tube and pedicel together one to three

inches long, very slender, strict, hairy ; lobes half to three-

quarters of a inch long, lanceolate-oblong, acuminate. Petals

widely spreading ; two upper spathulate, retuse, long-clawed,

with purple veins; three others smaller, narrow, without

veins. Stamens five, declinate ; anther orange.—J. D. H.

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CHRYSANTHEMUM (Pyreturum) Mawt.

Native of the Greater Atlas.

Nat. Ord. Composira#.—Tribe ANTHEMIDEZ.

Genus Curysantuemum, L. ; (Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. Pl., vol. ii. incl.).

Curysantuemum (Pyrethrum) Mawii; perenne, gracile, laxe tomentellum

ramosum, ramis erectis teretibus subflexuosis apice nudis 1-cephalis,

foliis sparsis ambitu ellipticis v. rhombeis triangulari-ovatis pinnatifidis,

segmentis angustis incisis acutis, summis linearibus integerrimis, capi-

tulis 1-14 poll. diam., involucri hemispherici squamis omnibus con-

similibus lineari-oblongis acutis tenuiter marginatis viridibus ecarinatis,

floribus radii ad 20 subbiseriatis, ligula late lineari-oblonga tridentata

extus rosea intus alba, floribus disci brunneis, pappo in membranam

unilateralem obtusam basi tubulosam tubum flosculi subaquantem v.

superantem producto, acheniis teretiusculis glabris sulcatis costatis.

A very singular half-shrubby species of the Pyrethrum

section of Chrysanthemum, but referable to no known sub-

section of that extensive group, though in certain respects

allied to C. Myconis (Myconia Chrysanthemum) of the Mediter-

ranean region, a yellow flowered species with achenes and

pappus different in the ray- and disk-flowers. Amongst the

Canarian forms where it might have been expected that the

allies of the Maroccan should be found, there are none refer-

able to the same sub-section as this, which may be called

Scaphopappus, in allusion to the auriculate pappus, and be

characterized by the costate achenes and auriculate very large

Pappus, being similar in the ray- and disk-flowers, and by the

white, or pink, or purplish ligules, and the brown disk

flowers. Several other closely allied species to this inhabit

the higher ranges of the Atlas at 6-10,000 feet elevation, none

of which are described.

Chrysanthemum Mavwii is a native of

OCTOBER Ist. 1879.

the lower range of the

Greater Atlas, south of the city of Marocco, where it was dis-

covered by Messrs. Maw, Ball, and myself, in May, 1871, on

dry rocky places near Mouli Ibrahim, at 4-5000 feet elevation

in the Reraia valley. The specimen here figured was flowered

from roots brought by Mr. Maw, and grown in his garden

at Broseley. They flowered August of the present year. A

smaller and more slender variety of it occurs commonly at

elevations of 5-6000 feet on the Atlas.

Duscr. Root-stock woody, branched ; branches ascending,

twelve to eighteen inches high, sparingly divided, terete,

rigid, naked at the top and terminated by a solitary head,

clothed sparsely, as are the leaves, with soft lax rather woolly

hairs. Leaves scattered, about an inch long, variable in out-

line, from almost triangular to oblong, pinnatifid to the base,

into three or more variable slender incised lobes ; uppermost

linear, quite entire. Head about one to one anda half inches in

diameter, solitary, rather long-peduncled ; peduncle gradually

swelling upwards. nvolwcre hemispherical, scales numerous,

all similar, imbricate, linear-oblong, acute, green, with very

narrow scarious borders. Ray-flowers about twenty, sub-

2-seriate, tube short ; ligule broad linear-oblong, obtusely 3-

toothed, white, rose-coloured at the back. Disk-flowers brown,

tubular. Pappus alike in the ray and disk, tubular at the

base, produced into a unilateral concave oblong obtuse or

erose-tipped hyaline auricle, exceeding the tube of the ray-

flower and equalling that of the disk-flower. Achene of ray

and disk similar, cylindric-oblong, strongly ribbed.—/. D. H.

eg 1, Ray-flower; 2, disk-flower; 3, stigma of ray-flower :—all mag-

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BROWNEA BIRSCHELLIT,

Native of La Guayra.

Nat. Ord. Leauminos#.—Tribe AmnerstTIEZ.

Genus Browne, Jacq. ; (Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. Pl., vol. i. p. 577).

Browne Birschellii ; glaberrima, foliolis 4-jugis obovato- v. elliptico-lanceo-

latis abrupte caudato-acuminatis infimis ovato-oblongis basi rotundatis

cordatisve, floribus racemosis, racemis foliolis 2 sessilibus ovato-cordatis

stipatis, rachi brevi, bracteis caducis, pedicellis floribusque roseis, bracteo-

lis in spatham anguste infundibuliformem apice fissam calycem involu-

crantem connatis, ealycis tubo elongato cylindraceo 14—2-pollicari,

segmentis anguste spathulatis obtusiusculis, petalis calycis segmentis

duplo longioribus obovato-spathulatis acutis subqualibus, filamentis in

tubum elongatum cylindraceum connatis superne breviter liberis

alternis brevioribus, antheris 10 corollam non superantibus, ovario

-apicem versus tubi calycis affixo breviter stipitato pubeseente, stylo

filiformi stricto.

Of this plant I know nothing further, than that it is

identical with one collected by Mr. Birschel (formerly a

young gardener at Kew) in Caraccas, whither he had been

sent as a botanical collector in 1854; and that it closely

resembles a species from the Pacific sea-coast of New

Grenada, at Esmeraldes, collected by Colonel Hall, and pre-—

served in the Hookerian Herbarium. In his notes accom-

panying the specimen, Mr. Birschel describes it as a tree

twenty feet high, very common on the Quebrada del Rio

de La Guayra and Quebrada de los Hermanos, flowering in

April. In all probability the specimen, from which the

accompanying figure was taken, was sent by Mr. Birschel,

who contributed many valuable plants to this establishment.

It is now about ten feet high, and flowered for the

first time in July of the present year. It was named B,

racemosa, Jacquin, by M. Triana, and may be the species

described under that name by Kunth, in the “ Nova Genera

NOVEMBER Ist, 1872.

et Species Plantarum” of Humboldt and Bonpland (vol. vi.

312), but differs from Jacquin’s (a native of the same

country) in the more copious inflorescence, much larger

leaflets, longer pedicels and flowers, glabrous bracteoles and

calyx, and other characters. It is remarkable that so con-

spicuous a species, and coming from so well-known a country,

should be hitherto undescribed. I have named it after its

very intelligent and active discoverer, who well merits being

associated by name with so handsome a plant.

Dezscr. Small glabrous tree, with terete glabrous extre-

mities. eaves equally pinnate; rachis four to six inches

long, slender, subterete ; leaflets in three or four pairs, upper

larger, broadly oblanceolate, abruptly acuminate, nar-

rowed to the base, about six inches long ; lowest pair ovate-

lanceolate acuminate, three to four inches long, all shortly

petiolulate. Racemes terminal, subsessile, drooping, half a foot

long, many-flowered ; bracts and flowers deep rose-coloured,

or calyx scarlet on first emerging from the bract. Pedicels

slender, minutely puberulous, one half to three-quarters

of an inch long. Bracteoles connate in a tubular 2-lobed

_involucre sheathing the calyx-tube, one to two inches long.

Calye with a narrow cylindrical tube equalling the involucre ;

limb 5-fid, lobes oblanceolate-linear, sheathing the corolla,

with the tube two to three inches in length. Petals five,

oblanceolate or spathulate, gradually narrowed into a long

claw, considerably exceeding the calyx, varying to two and a

half inches in length. Stamens ten, monadelphous, alternately

shorter. Ovary, narrow, puberulous, tapering into the long

style; gynophore adnate to the ealyx-tube.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower, the calyx-lobes and petals removed; 2, pistil :—both

magnified,

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DIGITALIS LEVIGATA.

Native of Austria and Greece.

Nat. Ord. ScropHuLARIACERZ.—Tribe DIGITALEA.

Genus Diarrauis, Linn. ; (Benth. in DC. Prodr., vol. x. p- 449).

Dierrauis levigata ; perennis, glaberrima foliis radicalibus oblongo- v.

obovato-lanceolatis, caulinis oblongo- v. obovato-lanceolatis integerrimis

Vv. serrulatis, racemo elongato laxifloro, bracteis inferioribus foliaceis,

calycis segmentis late oblongis acutis dimidium tubi corolle eequantibus,

Vv. brevioribus, corolla glaberrima aurantiaca, tubo superne ventricoso,

labio superiore brevi recurvo 2-fido lobis rotundatis, inferioris lobis

lateralibus brevibus obtusis intermedio adscendente porrecto multo

longiore concavo obtuso pallide flavo, intus piloso et venoso, venis

aurantiacis.

Dierraris levigata, Waldst. and Kit. Pl. Rar. Hung., vol. ii. p- 171, t. 158;

Lindl. Monog. Digit., t. 10; Reichb. Iconog. Crit., t. 155; Ic. Fl. Germ.,

Vol. xx. t. 1692 ; Benth. in DC, Prodr., vol. x. p. 450.

A very rare European plant, hitherto found only in

Croatia, on Mount Taygetus in the Morea, and a few other

places in Greece ; though Jong lost to the country, it was

formerly cultivated in England and is exceedingly well-

figured in Lindley’s monograph of the genus Digitalis from

4 specimen which flowered at Kew.

The plant here figured was sent me by the Rev. M. J. Berke-

ey, who raised it from seeds sent from near Fiume by Mrs.

- Smith (née Glennie), and which flowered in August of

the present year. It is a very handsome plant, two to three

feet in height, and would make an admirable rock-work

ornament. It grows on dry limestone rocks in its own >

country.

Descr. An erect, wholly glabrous perennial, two feet or

more in height. Radical eaves, often withered at flowering,

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oblanceolate or obovate- oblong, gradually narrowed into a

long winged petiole, varying to one foot in length. Cauline

leaves linear or narrow-oblanceolate acute, entire or nearly

so. aceme erect, simple or branched at base, many-flowered,

varying to one foot or more in length; bracts herbaceous,

linear, the lower exceeding the flowers. Calyz-/obes \inear-

lanceolate, acute, subequal. Corol/a orange-yellow, about one

inch long, lower lip much larger than the upper, concave,

ascending, pale and orange-streaked within.—/. D. H.

Fig. 1, Calyx and pistil; 2, corolla laid open :—both enlarged.

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CROC US SauzMannt.

Native of Maroceo.

Nat. Ord. Inez, —Tribe Ix1em.

Genus Crocus, Zourn. ; (Klatt in Linnea, vol. xxxiv. p- 647).

Cxoous Salzmanné ; bulbi tunicis extrafoliaceis exterioribus basi in annulum

persistentibus, interiore basi demum in fibras liberas soluto, petiolo

inferiore longe infra medium tuber affixo, foliis synanthiis margine

Costaque levissimis, spatha unica, perigonii fauce pilosa albida, tubo

elongato, laciniis elliptico-oblongis acutis pallide violaceis striatis,

stigmatibus erectis multifidis antheras superantibus, filamentis glabris.

Crocus Salzmanni, Gay in Ferussac Bull. Se. Nat., vol. xv. p. 220.

. C. tingitanus, Werbert in Bot. Mag. sub. t. 3868.

An autumn and winter-flowering Crocus, belonging to the

Same section of the genus with the Portuguese C. serotinus,

Salish. (Lab. nost. 1276), and so near to it specifically, that

I doubt its proving more than a variety of that plant; its

Principal distinctions from Klatt’s characters of serotinus, lie

ithe margins and midrib of the leaf being perfectly smooth,

in the fibrous coats of the bulb not being strongly reticulate,

and in the pale yellow blotch at the throat of the perianth being

Scarcely apparent. These are, however, all of them very vari-

able, and indeed obscure characters; the amount of reticulation

_ Of the coats of the bulb is‘an inconstant one ; in Gay’s beautiful

unpublished drawings of C. serotinus in my possession, a

Cross section of the leaf as magnified shows no scabridity,

nor do I find any in authentic specimens of serotinus ; lastly,

the yellow spot at the base of the outer perianth-segments

of C. serotinus, though described by Klatt, is not visible in

the Botanical Magazine figure, or in Gay’s drawings.

Gay’s character, drawn from the insertion of leaf on the

tuber, isa most obscure one. C. Clusii, Gay, is another form

NOVEMBER Ist, 1872.

of C. serotinus, also from Portugal, distinguished by its author

by the white throat of the perianth, and the lower insertion

of the petiole. It should be observed that both C. Clusii and

C. Salzmanni are omitted in Klatt’s monograph; and that the

figure of C. serotinus in the Botanical Magazine represents the

tuber deprived of its coats. All three are probably western

forms of C. longifforus, Raf., an Italian species that extends into

Sicily and Dalmatia. Crocus Salzmanni is a native of clayey

fields about Tangiers, flowering in November and December.

The bulbs, which I brought from Tangiers in 1870, flowered

in October, and were in full leaf in the following January.

Descr. Bulb ovoid, with the outer tunics at first uniform

and unbroken, finally splitting up to some extent into vertical

fibres, the outer ones persistent in a basal ring. Lower-

leaf inserted below the middle of the bulb; /eaves half-

developed at the same time as the flower, quite smooth on

the edges and midrib. Spathe solitary. Perianth pale

violet with a long tube ; the divisions oblong-spathulate, sub-

acute, whitish and pilose at the throat. Sfigmas orange-yel-

low, overtopping the anthers, multifid, but the divisions con-

tiguous and much fewer than in C. nudiflorus and C. speciosus.

Filaments glabrous.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Transverse section of a leaf ; 2, stigmas :— magnified.

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MESOSPINIDIUM VULCANICUM.

Native of Hastern Peru.

Nat. Ord. Orcu1pEm.—Tribe EripenDREz.

« Genus Mesosprnipium, Fchb. f.; (Walp. Ann., vol. vi. t. 856).

Mrsosprntpium vulcanicum ; pseudobulbo ovoideo v. obpyriforme compresso

ancipiti marginibus subacutis, foliis radicalibus petiolis late vaginantibus,

lamina parva v. evoluta oblonga, caulinis ad apicem pseudo-bulbi

geminis, late ligulatis carinatis subacutis, pedunculo gracili elongato,

bracteis parvis sparsis vaginantibus acutis, floralibus pedicellis gracili-

bus roseis multo brevioribus, racemo inclinato, multi-laxifloro, flori-

bus roseis, sepalis petalisque consimilibus oblongo-lanceolatis acumi-

natis, mento brevissimo, labelli 3-lobi ungue et disci bast column

adnatis, lobis lateralibus obtusis.decurvis erosis, intermedio deflexo

breviter late unguiculato subrotundato, marginibus decurvis subcre-

natis, disco callo 4-carinato, carinis puberulis 2 intermediis longioribus, —

columna apice dentata.

Mesosprnipium vulcanicum, Rchd. f. in Gard. Chron. 1872, p. 393.

A charming little Orchid, with the habit and appearance

of an Epidendrum, but with very different pollen-structure.

It appears to be undoubtedly the same with a plant in the

Hookerian Herbarium, discovered by Mr. Spruce in the vol-

canic mountains of the Tunguragua district of the Upper

Amazons, where it was flowering in April, 1860; and which

Was named I. vulcanicum by Dr. Reichenbach himself. That

learned author’s description in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, quoted

above, is probably drawn up from imperfect or faded specimens, —

as the flowers are described as purplish, whereas they are in our

specimen of a vivid rose-red, as described by Spruce— Flores

Speciosi, rubri roseive,”—as also in the shape of the mid-lobe |

of the lip, which is not linear and 3.toothed, but rounded,

2-lobed, and broadly clawed. IJ am indebted to Messrs.

NOVEMBER lst, 1872.

Veitch for the specimen here figured, which flowered in

autumn of the present year.

Duscr. Pseudo-bulb ovoid or obpyriform, compressed, and

more or less two-edged, one and a half to two inches long,

about one inch broad. Leaves oblong or broadly linear, cari-

nate, at least below, rather obtuse, three to five inches long,

one-half to three-quarters of an inch broad. Raceme 8-10-

flowered, unilateral on a slender erect peduncle, one-half to

one foot long, closely sheathed by several scarious empty

bracts ; upper bracts ovate-lanceolate, conduplicate, half as

long as the ovary. Sepals subequal, divergent, narrow-oval

acute, the two lower united at the base in a minute mentum,

deep rose or crimson. Petals equalling the sepals, and simi-

lar in form and colour, divergent. Zabellum three-lobed,

lateral lobes rotundate ; median larger, emarginate, denticu-

late, crimson excepting the pale or white 4-ridged disk, and

yellowish base of the lateral lobes. Column white at apex.—

J. 2). #7,

Fig. 1, Column and labellum ; 2, labellum, front view :—Jloth magnified.

6002

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Tas, 6002.

SARCOSTEMMA Brunonianum.

Native of the Peninsula of India.

Nat. Ord. AscLeptapE®.—Tribe, ASCLEPIADEH VERA.

Genus Sarcostemma, R. Br. ; (Dene. in DC. Prodr., vol. viii. p. 537.)

SarcostemMa Brunonianum ; volubile v. dependens, caulibus gracilibus

cylindraceis glabris, fasciculis florum lateralibus, pedicellis calycibusque

cano-pubescentibus, calycis lobis triangulari-ovatis acutis, corollz

laciniis ovato-oblongis obtusis glabris, corona staminea exteriore sub-

plicata 10-crenata, interiore antheris breviore, stigmate apiculato

subintegro.

Sarcostemma:Brunonianum, Wight et Arn. Contrib, p. 59; Wight Ie. t.

1282; Dene. in DC. Prodr., vol. viii. p. 537.

This very singular plant is a native of Ceylon, and is also

common in arid jungles of the Madras Presidency, where it

forms great masses, climbing over shrubs, tree-trunks and

stones, 2abounding in an acid milky juice, and hence eaten by the :

natives as a salad, and sucked by travellers to allay thirst,

thus forming a remarkable exception to the usually poisonous —

nature of the Asclepiadeous juices. Unfortunately it fre-

quents the jungles in which the poisonous and acrid Luphor-

bia Turiculli grows, and indeed it often spreads over that plant,

whose leafless branches so closely resemble those of the

Sarcostemma, that if care is not used one may be mistaken

for the other, the consequences of which might be serious.

Of a very closely allied species a curious use is made; bundles

of its branches are cast into the wells from which sugar-cane

fields are watered, together with a bag of salt, the result of

which is that the white ant is expelled from the field. _

Sarcostemma Brunonianum grows freely in a pot in a

warm greenhouse, where its branches hang down in masses

NOVEMBER Ist, 1872.

_ several feet long, and when covered with the deliciously sweet-

scented white blossoms, have a very elegant appearance.

The specimen here figured flowered in the Cactus House at

Kew, in July of the present year.

Descr. Branches leafless, long, slender, glabrous, about

the thickness of a goose-quill, remotely forking, pendulous

or loosely climbing. /owers greenish-yellow, one-third of

an inch in diameter, in close 8—12-flowered sessile lateral um-

bels. Pedicels equalling or exceeding the flower, hoary-

pubescent. Calyx very small acutely 5-toothed. Corolla

rotate, lobes ovate-oblong glabrous. Outer corona 10-cre-

nate, inner of five fleshy erect segments shorter than the

anthers. Stigma obtusely apiculate—J. D._H.

Fig. 1, Reduced view showing general habit of the plant; 2, flowering

branch :—nat. size ; 8, flower ; 4, gynostegium and corona; 5, pollen masses :

—magnified.

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BATEMANIA Burtt.

Native of Costa Rica.

Nat. Ord. OrncuipeEx.—Tribe Denprobicw § MaAxILLaRied.

Genus Batemanta, Lindl. ; (Bot. Register, tab. 1714).

— Baremania Burtii ; subacaulis, foliis sessilibus elongato elliptico-oblongis

acutis basi subdistiche imbricatis planiusculis carinatis nervis obscuris,

pedunculis unifloris robustis suberectis, bracteis vaginatis viridibus

appressis obtusis, floribus amplis 3 poll. diam., sepalis petalisque con-

similibus late ovatis acuminatis rufo-brunneis maculis ochreis rotundatis,

petalis basi purpureo pictis, labelli ungue auricula transversa 2-loba

fimbriata aucto, lamina trulliformi apiculata, basi subcordata, ultra

medium rubro-fusca maculis saturatioribus conspersa, columna cucullata,

alis marginibusque erosis.

Baremania Burtii, Endres 5 Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1872, p. 1099.

‘The genus Batemania, named by Lindley in 1835 after the

- distinguished orchidologist James Bateman, F.H.S., consists of -

_half-a-dozen species of tropical Eastern, South American, and

‘Spanish-Main plants, as enumerated by Reichenbach in the

sixth volume of Walper’s “Annales.” Some of these had

been long known, but previously referred in books or col-

lections, some to Huntleya, some to Zygopetalum, and some to

Galeottia. The species here figured is a native of Costa Rica,

where it was discovered by M. Endres in 1867, and is re-

garded by Reichenbach as very closely allied to B. meleagris,

‘Rechb. f. (Bonplandia, vol. iii. p. 217), a native of Brazil, but

differing in the colour of the flower and form of the curious

ciliated appendage on the claw of the lip. It isa magnificent

Orchid, whether as regards the luxuriance of the foliage or

the form and colour of the flower. I am indebted to Messrs.

Veitch for the opportunity of figuring it their specimen was

procured through W. Burnley Hume, Esq. ; 1 flowered in

August of the present year.

DECEMBER Ist, 1872.

case of B. Colleyi, Bot. Reg. t. 1714). Leaves all radical,

nearly distichous, narrowly elliptic-oblong, acute, eight to

fourteen inches long, by one and a half to two inches broad,

bright green, nerves faint. Flowers three inches broad ; pe-

duncles radical, stout, cylindric, erect, with several appressed

green obtuse sheathing bracts. Ovary straight, one inch

long, deeply grooved. ‘Sepals and petals nearly equal, spread-

ing, ‘broadly elliptic-ovate, acute, fleshy, undulate, rich red-

brown, with yellow rounded spots and yellow bases; the

petals rather the shortest and broadest, and having dark

purple confluent streaks above the base. ip white, except

the distal half of the blade, which is dull brownish purple,

with darker spots; claw white, with a transverse, semilunar,

2-lobed, white auricle, that is cut into slender incurved purple

setiform teeth. Column hooded, white, tip green, dorsally

keeled, margins and narrow wings jagged.— J. D. H.

del etlith

W. Ritch

Tas. 6004.

SALVIA DICHROA.

Native of the Greater Atlas.

Nat. Ord. Lasiara#.—Tribe Monarne&.

Genus SALVIA, Linn. 3 (Benth. in DC. Prodr., vol. xii. p. 262).

Satvia (Plethiosphace) dichroa; glanduloso-pubescens, caule erecto 4-gono

angulis incrassatis pilosis, foliis sinuato-crenatis inferioribus petiolatis

ovato-oblongis obtusis pilosis, caulinis sessilibus oblongis obtusis,

supremis seu floralibus parvis ovatis acuminatis, racemis simplicibus,

rachi robusto, verticillastris paucifloris, floribus pedicellatis, calycibus

obovato-campanulatis glandulosis, labio superiore 3-dentato dente medio

minore, inferiore 2-fido lobis triangulari-subulatis porrectis, corolla

calyce triplo longiore, tubo glabro non inflato intus annulo piloso

instructo, labio superiore elongato compresso obtuso pubescente inferiore

superiori subequilongo 8-lobo, lobo intermedio suborbiculari pendulo

albo, lateralibus decurvis brevibus, connectivis elongatis antice breviter

porrectis apicibus tumidis, coherentibus.

A near ally of Salvia bicolor, Desf. (Tab. nost. 1774) and 8S.

alyeriensis, Desf., the former a native of Northern Marocco,

and the latter of Algiers; but very distinct from both in

the form of the leaves, and from the latter in the much.

greater size of the lower lip, which, as in S. bicolor, nearly

_ equals the upper. Of the two it is very much nearest to

_ 8. bicolor, and but for the very different form of the radical

leaves, and the nature of their lobing, I should have been

_ disposed to regard it as a variety of that plant; the radical

and lower leaves of S. dicolor are deeply cordate sinuate-

toothed and much cut, the teeth and lobes spreading ; the

_ analogous leaves on S. dichroa are oblong, acute at the base,

_ and irregularly cut at the margin into large obtuse lobules.

that point towards the apex of the leaf. In the description

of §. bicolor under Tab. 1774, it is stated that the under-lip,

Which at its first expansion is snow-white, almost immediately

' DECEMBER Isr, 1872.

begins to fade to rusty-brown, a change I have not observed

in this species, but which may occur.

Roots and leaves of this plant were collected by Mr. Maw

at the base of the Greater Atlas, south of the city of Marocco,

at about 2000 feet elevation below Tasmeroot, in May 1871,

which flowered in his garden, at Broseley, in August of the

present year. It is an exceedingly. handsome species, the

colours much resembling those of Collinsia verna.

Descr. Stem two to three feet high, erect, quadrangular,

with obtuse thickened yellowish angles, that are clothed with

reverted hairs. Leaves, radical petioled, six to eight inches

long, oblong-ovate or ovate-lanceolate obtuse, narrowed into

the petiole, obtusely and very irregular sinuate-serrate with

rounded lobules, pubescent, lower cauline short-petioled ;

upper sessile, oblong or elliptic-oblong; floral ovate, long

acuminate, reflexed. Raceme a foot long and more, stout,

obtuse, many-flowered ; false-whorls of two opposite fascicles

of two to three pedicelled flowers, pedicels erect, half an inch .

long. Calyx three-quarters of an inch long, subcampanulate,

2-lipped to the middle, glandular-pubescent, strongly ribbed,

green; upper lip with three small teeth, the mid one

smallest ; lower with two subulate lanceolate straight teeth..

Corolla one and a quarter inches long ; upper lip bright blue,

obtuse, arcuate, oblong, much laterally compressed, pubescent ;

lower lip as long as the upper, 3-lobed, lateral lobes pale blue,

oblong, recurved; mid-lobe orbicular, concave, white, pendu-

lous. Connectives very long, lower arm short projecting for-

ward, irregularly capitate and lobed.—J. D. fT.

Fig. 1, Radical leaf, of the natural size; 2, calyx; 3, anthers; 4, disk

and ovary :—all magnified.

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Tas. 6005.

LILIUM concotor, VAR. sINICUM.

Native of China.

Nat. Ord. LiL1acez,—Tribe TULIPEZ.

Genus Litium, Linn. ; (Baker in Gard. Chron., 1871).

Litium (Isolirion) concolor; caule }-3-pedali apicem versus paucifloro

subpubescente, foliis sparsis supremis subverticillatis anguste oblongo-

lanceolatis subacutis margine erosis subtus puberulis, floribus sub-

‘corymbosis ad 3 poll. diam. miniato-rubris concoloribus v. punctis

.luridis conspersis, perianthii basi campanulati foliolis patentibus

3~# poll. latis basin versus medio suleo pubescente exsculpto epappil-

losis, filamentis pollicaribus et ultra, antheris 4-pollicaribus, polline

rubro, ovario anguste clavato infra apicem intrusum contracto profunde

3-sulcato, stylo brevi stigmateque crasso 3-lobo rubris.

Liv concolor, Salish. Hort. Parad. t. 47; Bot. Mag. t. 1165 ; Ait.

Hort. Kew. Ed. 2, vol. ii. p. 241; Kunth, Enum. vol. iv. p. 259 et 673 ;

Koch, Wochenschrift, 1870; Baker in Gard. Chron. 1871, p. 1034;

Duchartre, Obs. sur le genre Lis, p. 1 25.

Var. sinicum ; perianthii foliolis erecto-patentibus vix recurvis, pedunculis

longioribus. L. sinicum, Lindl. in Pact. Fl. Gard. vol. ii. Mise.

p- 115, t. 198; Lemaire Ill. Hort. t. 100; Van Houtte, Flore des

Serres, t. 1206.

Though maintained as a species by Koch in his valuable

- revision of the genus Lilium, quoted above, and apparently

by Duchartre also in his admirable observations on the

genus, I think that no one can compare Lilium concolor and —

sinicum, whether by figures or as specimens, without becom-

ing convinced that Lindley’s original suspicions were

grounded, and that Mr. Baker is right in regarding them as _

__ Specifically identical; though they may perhaps be grige

ently distinguishable as varieties or forms. Not only “4

they come from the same country, but both are known only

in ivati ith spotted and spotless flowers ;

a between them is, that

DECEMBER Ist, 1872.

the perianth segments of Z. sinicum are less revolute than

those of Z. concolor. |

* The original Z. sivtcum was introduced into England early

in the century (1806), from China, and is described as

scentless, but very ornamental; the var. siaicum, which Mr.

Baker does not consider to be entitled to rank even as a

variety (in which I am almost disposed to agree), was im-

ported also from China in 1850 by Mr. Fortune, though not

for the first time; it having been introduced by the Horti-

cultural Society as early as 1824. The specimen here

figured was communicated by Messrs. Osborne and Sons, —

with whom it flowered in June of the present year. It varies

very much in stature, and we are informed that a very pretty

small variety, about six inches high, has been exhibited by

Mr. Bull at the Horticultural Society.

Descr. Bulb scaly. Stem erect, one-half to three feet high,

green, covered with a slight sub-cottony pubescence, as are

the undersides of the leaves. eaves scattered, two to four

inches long, one-half to three-quarters of an inch broad;

narrowly elliptic oblong or lanceolate, sessile, subacute, dark —

green, faintly nerved, somewhat pubescent beneath. /owers

few, subcorymbose towards the top of the stem, about three

inches in diameter, scarlet, with or without small blackish

spots on the throat. Perianth-segments spreading, narrowly

ovate-lanceolate, conniving at the base, tips villose at the

back and base externally, median line with a pubescent furrow

towards the base within. Filaments about one inch long, and

anthers red. Ovary green, deeply three-grooved, subclavate,

with three terminal knobs; style short, clavate, and large

3-lobed stigma red.—J. D. H. :

Fig. 1, Petal; 2, germen :—both magnified.

Tab. 6006.

UVARIA Kirk.

Native of Zanzibar.

Nat. Ord. Anonace®.—Tribe Uvarire.

Genus Uvaria, Linn. ; (Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i, p. 23).

Uvaria Kirkii ; ramulis foliisque junioribus subtus ferrugineo-pilosis, foliis

breviter petiolatis oblongis obtusis v. subacutis basi rotundatis v. cor-

datis marginibus planis v. undulatis, costa tenui nervisque obscuris

subtus demum glabratis, floribus 24-3 poll. diam. axillaribus solitariis

breviter pedicellatis, bractea parva, sepalis ovato-rotundatis infra

medium connatis stellato-tomentellis, petalis exterioribus ovato-rotun-

datis acutis interioribus ellipticis paulo longioribus, staminibus omnibus

perfectis, ovariis 10-20, ovulis 10-12 2-seriatis, carpellis maturis ? poll.

longis oblongis 5-6-spermis breviter stipitatis.

Uvaria Kirkii, Oliver Mss.

It is seldom that the opportunity occurs in England of

_ figuring plants of the large tropical family of Anonacee from

a living plant, these being for the most part trees or branch- —

ing shrubs, requiring room, great heat, and moisture; and

having little to recommend them to horticulturists, they are

banished from the stove in favour of handsome and freer

flowering things.

Uvaria Kirkii was discovered by Dr. Kirk, formerly the

companion of Livingston during his second expedition into

Central Africa, and now H.B.M. Vice-Consul at Zanzibar,

from whence he has transmitted many valuable plants to the

Royal Gardens, including the singular Zamiocu/cas figured at

Tab. 5985 of this volume. About fifteen species of Uvaria

are known from Africa, and many more from India. The

_ present forms a low shrub of three to four feet high at Quiloa

on the Zanzibar eoast, with very yellow green foliage, and

large dingy yellow flowers. Seeds of it were transmitted

to England by Dr. Kirk, in 1868, and the plant here figured

flowered in October last.

DECEMBER Ist, 1872.

Descr. An undershrub, three to four feet high; branch-—

lets and young leaves beneath clothed with ferruginous hairs.

Leaves one and a half to five inches long, young elliptic-

oblong and very rusty beneath, old oblong, obtuse or acute,

glabrous beneath, or with scattered hairs on the midrib, apex

usually obtuse or rounded, rarely acute, base rounded or

minutely cordate, yellow-green and concolorous, midrib

slender, nerves diverging distant obscure ; petiole very short.

flowers three inches in diameter, solitary, axillary and sub-

terminal, very shortly pedicelled ; pedicel with a small sub-

median bract. Calyx small, of three broadly triangular-ovate

stellate-pubescent sepals united below the middle. Petals

very large, flat, thin, pubescent, externally pale dirty straw-

colour suffused with verdigris green throughout the lower

third; three outer broadly ovate-orbicular, acute; inner elliptic,

subacute. Andricewm small, globose, one-third inch in

diameter, pale yellow ; anthers uniform, with a small convex

or orbicular pubescent connective. Carpels about ten to

twenty, cylindric, densely pubescent ; stigma subsessile,

capitate ; ovules ten to twelve, 2-seriate. Ripe carpels six to

eight, about an inch long, cylindric-oblong, apiculate, tomen-

tose, granulate, 3-6-seeded; stipes one-sixth inch long.—

vd). He

Fig. 1, Flower with the petals removed ; 2, vertical section of torus; 3,

stamen; 4, ovary; 5, ripe carpels; 6, longitudinal section of ripe carpel :—

all but Jigs. 5 and 6 magnified.

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DENDROBIUM cHrysocrepts.

Native of Moulmein,

Nat, Ord. Orcnipe#.—Tribe Denpropic® §$MALAXIDER,

Genus Denprosiun, Swartz ; (Lindl, Gen. & Sp. Orchid. p, 74),

Denprosium chrysocrepis ; caulibus fasciculatis inferne tenuibus compressis

superne dilatatis internodiis } poll. latis compressis paucifoliis, foliis

anguste elliptico-lanceolatis acuminatis coriaceo-carnosis, pedunculis

ad nodos caulium vetustorum lateralibus 1-floris, bracteis minutis, flori-

bus aureis labello subochraceo, sepalis apiculatis dorsali petalisque

consimilibus obovatis, lateralibus oblique ovatis, mento recto obtuso,

labello calceiformi villoso apice retuso antice infra orem fisso, ore sub-

quadrato marginibus utrinque lobulatis incurvis, intus pilis crispato-

incurvis rubris infra orem onusto, columna brevissima antice villosa, ~

Denprosium chrysocrepis, Parish and Reichb, 7. mss.

A very curious species of Dendrobe, discovered by the

indefatigable Mr. Parish in Moulmein, and communicated by

him to the Royal Gardens in 1871, where it flowered. in

March of the present year, and was examined by Professor

Reichenbach, who has obligingly communicated the following

note upon it, together with a diagnosis: “ Near D. euphlebium,

Reichb. f. (Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc., 1859, p. 7), but widely —

differing in the flattened stem and form of the lip. The re-

markable character of the stem developes in this species as

much as it does in D. crassinode (Tab. nost. 5766), but at a

later period. The young stem is homomorphous, with wide

leaf-sheaths ; as the stem gets older, the upper leaf-bearing

internodes flatten, and lateral shoots appear, which root im-

mediately.” ;

Descr. Stems tufted, six to ten inches long, slender, rigidly

flexuous, obscurely compressed below, with the internodes an

inch long, contracted in the middle, and surmounted by a _

short truncate brown sheath ; above, the stem dilates into a

DECEMBER Ist, 1872.

uarrowly elliptic flattened leafy pseudo-bulb two to five

inches long, of two or more leafing internodes ; this part is

green, and attains nearly half an inch in diameter, in this

early state it is flowerless. Leaves distichous, two to three

inches long, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, bright

green, rather fleshy, nerves faint. Mowers borne upon

the old stems, in which the Jeaves are gone, and their sheaths

brown ; golden-yellow, with a deeper, more orange-coloured

lip, one to one and a half inches in diameter ; peduncle very

slender, with one or two minute obtuse bracteoles. Ovary small

and slender. Dorsal sepal and petals similar, concave, obovate-

cuneate, rounded and apiculate at the top; lateral sepals

more spreading or reflexed, obliquely ovate. Jp pyriform,

slipper-shaped, ventricose, velvety with fimbriate flattened

processes ; mouth oblong, truncate at the distal end, with a

fissure extending thence halfway towards the apex ; margins

of mouth inflexed, lobulate, inner surface below the mouth

densely clothed with crisped reddish hairs. Colwmn very

‘Short, villous below the rostellum.—/J. D. 7.

Fig. 1, Flower; 2, lip; 8, column; 4, pollen :—all magnified.

Tas. 6008.

BOWENIA spEcTABILIS ; FEMALE PLANT.

Native of Iropical Australia.

Nat. Ord. CrcapEa&.—Tribe ZAMIEZ.

Genus Bowens, Hook.; (Bot. Mag. t. 5398).

BoweEnta spectabilis; amentis foemineis masculis multoties majoribus et

crassioribus subsessilibus oblongo-globosis apice rotundatis, squamis

sub-6-seriatis fere superpositis crassis transverse elongatis hexagonis

peltatis vertice depresso rugoso, subtus utrinque 1-ovulatis, ovulo

recto ellipsoideo apice mammillato, semina ovoideo-globosa, testa

crasse crustacea, albumine duro, embryone albumine circiter triente

breviore, radicula in filum contortissimum prelongum tenuissimum

contracta, cotyledonibus 2 brevissimis.

Bowenta spectabilis, Hook. l.c.; F. Muller, Fragm. Phyt. Austral. vol. v.

pp. 171 and 215.

The first account of this most remarkable plant, the only

known Cycad with bipinnate fronds, was that given in

this work in the year 1863, when the male cone alone was

known. Since that period specimens have at various times

been received from Mr. Hill, the energetic superintendent of

the Brisbane Botanic Garden, and amongst them female

plants, of which one flowered at Messrs. Veitch’s and another

at Kew, during the present year. Unfortunately, no male

flowers were procurable at the same time, so that there was

no chance of fertilization ; the ripe seed has, however, been

well described by F. Miiller, whose description I find to be

correct.

The tuberous stem of Bowenia has the property of remain-

ing dormant for years, and resisting all excitements to growth.

A small cylindrical specimen, about three inches by about

two-thirds of an inch in diameter, received at Kew in the

year 1864, and which arrived with a healthy leaf, soon lost

it, and remained for four years leafless, making very little

root, and developing no bud; it was plunged into strong

DECEMBER 1st, 1872.

bottom heat for months; and again kept moderately cool for

as long ; it was kept dry at one time and copiously watered

at another, but all to no purpose; at last it made a push

and produced a fine frond, and subsequently a male cone,.-

» with considerable rapidity.

The largest specimen now at Kew has a frond five feet in

diameter, with the individual pinnules four inches long ; its

graceful, glossy foliage is very ornamental, and the plant is

remarkably free from the attacks of insects. In some dried

specimens there is a strong tendency in the leaflets to become

laciniate at the apex. The ripe fruiting cone is very curious,

and quite unlike any other Cycadeous fruits which I am

acquainted with; it is about the size of a human fist, and .

consists of about twenty broadly ellipsoid nuts, one inch in

long diameter, adhering in pairs to the shrivelled scales, and

these to the axis in a very irregular manner, the scales having -

shrunk so much that the seeds are completely exposed, and

point in various directions, seldom retaining their original

position which is inwards or towards the axis. :

Tn addition to the habitats already known for this plant,

of Endeavour River, where it was discovered by Allan Cun-

ningham, and Rockingham Bay, whence Hill sent it to

England, and where it grows in company with Macrozamia

Denisonii, Mueller enumerates those of bushy hills near the

McKay River, and the summit of Mount McAllister ; he

further observes that it differs from Zncephalartos only in the

compound leaves, and he reduces Hucephalartos itself to a

subgenus of Zamia—J. D. H. :

Fig. 1, Reduced view of female plant; 2, base of the same and female

cone of the natural size; 3, 4, and 5, views of an ovuliferous scale :—slightly

magnified.

| INDEX

To Vol. XXVIII. of the Tuirp Serizs, or Vol. XCVIIL. of

the Work.

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5952 Aithionema coridifolium. 5595 Litanthus pusillus.

5987 Amomum melegueta, var. || 5943 Macrozamia corallipes.

minor. 5962 Masdevallia ignea.

5951 Aphelandra. sulphurea. 5990 Masdevallia Lindeni.

5964 Arisema speciosum. 6001 Mesospinidium vulcanicum.

5972 Asterostigma Luschnathianum. || 5977 Milla porrifolia.

6003 Batemania Burtii. 5988 Monanthes muralis.

5961 Bolbophyllum lemniscatum. 5982 Muntingia Calabura.

6008 Bowenia spectabilis. 5975 Musa sanguinea.

5989 Brodiwa multiflora. 5993 Qdontoglossum pardinum.

5998 Brownea Birschellii. 5973 Olearia dentata.

5955 Bulbine Mackenii. 5980 Oncidium superbiens.

5976 Calochortus elegans. 5996 Pelargonium oblongatum.

5997 Chrysanthemum (Pyrethrum) || 5948 Philodendron rubro-punc-

Mawii. tatum.

5994 Cienkowskia Kirkii. 5978 Pittosporum crassifolium.

5958 Calogyne lentiginosa. 5966 Restrepia elegans.

5960 Corynostylis Hybanthus. 6004 Salvia dichroa.

6000 Crocus Salzmanni. 5947 Salvia rubescens.

5974 Crotalaria Heyneana. 5991 Salvia taraxacifolia.

5970 Cypripedium longifolium. 6002 Sarcostemma Brunonianum,

5968 Dendrobium amethysto-glos- | 5967 Saxifraga Stracheyi.

sum. 5959 Senecio pulcher.

6007 Dendrobium chrysocrepis. 5945 Senecio (Kleinia) pteroneura.

5956 Dendrobium tetragonum. 5963 Stapelia sororia.

5999 Digitalis levigata. 5953 Stylidium spathulatum.

5957 Exanthemum palatiferum. 5950 Styrax serrulatum.

596Y Fritillaria tulipifolia. 5954 Todea barbara.

5984 Gaultheria fragrantissima. 5986 Treculia africana.

5944 Gladiolus purpureo-auratus. 5949 Trichopilia hymenantha.

5979 Grevillea pulchella. 6006 Uvaria Kirkii.

5971 Grevillea rosmarinifolia. 5965 Veronica parviflora, var. an-

_ 5946 Kniphofia caulescens. gustifolia.

5992 Lachenalia tricolor, var. aurea. || 5981 Xiphion tingitanum.

6005 Lilium concolor, var. sinicum. | 5985 Zamioculcas Loddigesii.

5983 Linaria maroccana. ;