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| BOTANICAL MAGAZINE,

COMPRISING THE

Plants of the Ropal Gardens of Kev,

AND

OF OTHER BOTANICAL ESTABLISHMENTS IN GREAT BRITAIN;

WITH SUITABLE DESCRIPTIONS;

. SIR JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER, M.D., C.B., K.C.S.1,

FR.S., F.L.S., Ere.,

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

ARARRARAAML

VOL. XLIII. (2)

| OF THE THIRD SERIES.

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Naught tellen you the beautie all,

Ne halfe the bountie therewithall.”—Caavcer.

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HEDYCHIUM Garpnerianum.

Native of the Himalaya.

Nat. Ord. ScrraminrExz.—Tribe ZINGYBERER.

Genus Hepycuium, Kenig ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 642.)

Hepycnium Gardnerianum; elatum, robustum, glabrum, caulibus fastigiatis,

foliis ellipticis v. elliptico-oblongis acuminatis subtus furfuraceo-glaucis,

bracteis convolutis 1-2-floris, floribus aureis, labello suborbiculato v. sub-

quadrato integro v. 2-lobo, filamento robusto longissime porrecto, fructibus

aurantiaco-coccineis.

H. Gardnerianum, Roscoe Monandr. Pl. t.62; Bot. Reg. t.774; Reichb. Ic. Erot.

t. 183; Wall. in Hook. Kew Journ. vol. v. (1853), p.369 ; Masters in Gard.

Chron. vol. iii. (1875), p. 461, figs. 92, 93.

H. speciosum, Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. Ed. Carey and Wall. vol. i. p. 13, and

Plant. As. Rar. vol. iii. p. 51, t. 285; Wall. Cat. Herb. No. 6550. |

H. aurantiacum, Wall. Cat. Herb. No. 6551.

This very striking plant was introduced about the year

1823 from India,where it was discovered by Wallich in Nepal,

in the Valley of Katmandoo. It has subsequently been

gathered in the Sikkim Himalaya by myself at elevations

of 4000 to 7000 feet, and in the Khasia Mountains at about

the same altitude. Dr. Wallich, in a valuable monograph

of the genus quoted above, justly commends it to cultivators

in the following terms :—*‘ This is the queen of the genus,

if not of the whole order, both as regards the general

aspect, the stature and the foliage, and the exquisite

elegance as well as fragrance of the ample inflorescence.

While I write this, several large patches of the typical form

are in full bloom at the Horticultural Society’s Garden at

Chiswick, thriving luxuriantly in a temperate glass-house,

without any extraordinary supply of water; and last year

I saw it in equal perfection. What can be the reason

that a plant so charming and desirable as this is not more

frequently seen in the stoves of the great and wealthy ?

Surely there exists not an Orchidea which exceeds it in

any respect, especially in facility of cultivation.”” It com-

memorates in its specific name one of Dr. Wallich’s most

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zealous contributors of living plants, of whom he says :-—

“During a number of years in which the Hon. Edward

Gardner (son of the late distinguished Admiral Lord

Gardner) lived in Nipal, as the Hon. Hast India Company’s

Resident at the Court of Katmandu, he contributed greatly

to the riches of the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, and

through it, to the gardens and herbariums of England. It

“was through his local influence, and afterwards also of the

late Mr. Robert Stuart’s, the officiating Resident, that I

was permitted to send permanent collecting parties into

that country, where they enjoyed his unceasing support

and encouragement; and afterwards to visit ‘it myself

during a whole year, which I spent under his friendly and

hospitable roof. Would that the cause of Natural History

could boast many such Meecenases in India and everywhere

else !’

_ Though a well-marked species, H. Gardnerianum is

subject to a good deal of variation in the form and size of

the lip, from orange to lemon colour, and almost white

with a pinkish centre. The specimen here figured flowered

in the Palm House of the Royal Gardens in August, 1885,

and fruited in the following February. In the Temperate

Phe: it also does well —J. D. H.

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SOLANUM Wenpranon.

Native of Costa Rica.

Nat. Ord. Sonranaczm.—Tribe SoLanen.

Genus Sotanum, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 888.)

: ciate Wendlandii ; fruticosum, scandens, glaberrimum, sparse aculeatum, foliis

longe petiolatis, superioribus simplicibus oblongis acuminatis basi cordatis, v

_ -vayie 3-lobis, v. 3-foliolatis, foliolis lateralibus nunc parvulis nune terminali

; st eg inferioribus multo majoribus 6-8 pollicaribus pinnatifidis v. basi

innatis segmentis pinnisve oblongis ellipticisve, cymis amplis, calycis parvi

Bon oblongis erectis ciliolatis apicibus rotundatis obtuse apiculatis, corolla

ampla pallide lilacino-purpurea, antheris linearibus erectis.

Living plants of this beautiful Solanwm were sent to

the Royal Gardens in 1882 by Dr. Wendland, Director of

the Royal Gardens at Herrenhausen, Hanover, with th.

information that it is a native of the cold regions of

Costa Rica, where it climbs trees. This habit it has

- retained at Kew, where it ascends to the rafters of the

- Water Lily House, and ‘flowers profusely. I can find

nothing like it deseribed, or in the Kew Herbarium, though

it clearly belongs to the same set as &. lanatwm, Dunal,

figured in “ The Botanist,” vol. it. tab. 58. That, however,

is an erect plant clothed with rusty tomentui, and has

- almost free lanceolate acuminate calyx-segment. The

corolla is exactly thé same in form, size and colour in both —

‘species.

OD. Wendlandii Bowersd3 in the touth of August at Kew,

and bears the name of the distinguished head of the long

and deservedly celebrated Botanical Gardens from whence

our specimen came, one who has himself, both by his

travels and writings, done so much for the Natural History

of Central America, and for the whole Order of Palms, of

which he is the sole master. ;

_ Descr. A climbing glabrous shrub, with terete green

stems and branches; prickles on the stems branches and

petioles few, scattered, short, hooked. Leaves very variable,

two to ten inches long by one and a half to four inches

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broad, uppermost simple, oblong, acuminate with a cordate

base, or three-lobed, with the lobes subequal or unequal,

and sometimes lobed at the sides, or trifoliolate, with

equal or unequal leaflets; lower leaves on the branches six

to ten inches long, pinnate below and pinnatifid above with

four to six pairs of lobes or leaflets which are ovate or

oblong, entire and acuminate; all bright green, rather

membranous and quite glabrous; petiole one to three

inches long, naked or with one or two prickles. Cymes

six inches across and more, terminating pendulous branches;

pedicels one-half to one inch long, terete. Calyx small,

five-lobed to the middle; lobes oblong, tip rounded,

ciliolate, and with an obtuse mucro. Corolla two’and a

half inches in diameter, very pale lilac-blue. Stamens

nearly erect, filaments very short ; anthers linear, yellow.

Frwit (unripe) globose.—J. D. H.

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AMASONITA CALYCINA.

Native of British Guiana.

Nat. Ord, Verpenacem.—Tribe VERBENER.

Genus Amasonia, Linn. fil. ; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 1147.)

Amasonra calycina ; foliis petiolatis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis grosse irregu-

lariter serratis dentatisve basi in petiolum angustatis glaberrimis, racemis

gracilibus elongatis nutantibus villoso-tomentosis foliaceo-bracteatis, bracteis

petiolatis elongato-lanceolatis acuminatis rubris, floribus breviter pedicellatis,

calycibus amplis rubris 5-partitis, segmentis 3-pollicaribus e basi lata lanceolatis

tenuiter acuminatis, coroll~@ extus laxe pilose flave tubo calyce ter longiore

subcylindraceo, lobis brevibus late ovatis obtusis recurvis, filamentis exsertis

basi pilosis, stylo piloso, bacca globosa calyce rubro suffulta.

A. punicea, Hort. non Vahl.

The genus Amasonia contains ten or a dozen imperfectly

characterized species of South American herbaceous or

suffruticose plants, chiefly natives of Brazil and Guiana,

though some extend to the Andean provinces of Peru, Bolivia,

and Equador. That here figured approaches nearest to an

Amazonian one collected by Spruce (No. 2030) on the Rio

Negro, and which is referred by Bentham to a variety of

A. angustifolia, Mart., but that differs from A. calycina in

having pubescent entire leaves, a much smaller calyx, and

bracts that widen upwards; its calyx and fruit too are very

much smaller. From A. punicea it differs in the very

differently shaped bracts and large calyx.

A. calycina was introduced by Messrs. Veitch from

British Guiana, whence it was sent by their collector, Mr.

D. Burke. Our drawing was made from a specimen pre-

sented by that firm to the Royal Gardens in 1885, which

flowered in Sept. 1886, and fruited, but did not ripen seed,

in the following November. It is a truly splendid plant,

and has the rare advantage of remaining in flower for two

months at a time.

Descr. A tall shrub or undershrub. Leaves six to

twelve inches long, elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate,

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coarsely irregularly toothed or sinuate, narrowed into a

petiole one to two inches long, quite glabrous except the

upper floral ones, which are often variegated with bright

red. Racemes six to ten inches long, nodding, copiously

leafy, softly tomentose with spreading red-purple hairs;

bracts or floral leaves pubescent, faleately recurved, petioled,

the lower often flowerless or with imperfect flowers ; in

some racemes all are bright red, one to one and a half inch

long and secund, in others they are all foliaceous and

narrowly lanceolate, long-acuminate, two to three inches

long, and green mottled with bright red, or scarlet tipped

with green. Flowers shortly pedicelled, drooping, one and

a half to two inches long. Calyw nearly an inch long,

pubescent, bright red; tube short, subglobosely campanu-

late ; segments lanceolate from a broad base, finely acumi-

nate. Corolla pale sulphur-yellow, subcylindric, slightly

recurved, sparsely hairy except the short contracted portion

of the tube within the calyx; lobes short, broadly ovate,

obtuse, recurved. F%laments exserted, then contorted, and

recurved, hairy at the base ; anthers oblong, yellow. Ovary

obovoid ; style slender, hairy; arms very slender. Fruit

globose, seated on the spreading scarlet calyx, three-

quarters of an inch in diameter; epicarp shining, papery ;

sarcocarp thin, enclosing two crustaceous pyrenes.—J. D. H. -

: Fig. 1, Calyx; 2, corolla and stamens; 3, base of corolla laid open, showing the —

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A. PRIMULA erosa.

. B. PRIMULA caprrara, var.

Natives of the Himalaya Mountains.

: Nat. Ord. PrrwvLacex.—Tribe. Primv.ex.

- Genus Parmuna, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 631.)

Parimvta erosa; glabra v. puberula, foliis floribus cowtaneis efarinosis patentibus

obovato-spathulatis v. oblanceolatis acutis v. obtusis in petiolum latum angus-

tatis marginibus erosis et denticulatis submembranaceis pallide viridibus retien-

latim nervosis, scapo gracili elongato, floribus umbellatis plus minusve farinosis

_ breviter pedicellatis, bracteis parvis appressis basi non gibbosis nec deorsuin

productis, calycis subcampanulati tubo brevi, lobis acutiusculis, corolla tubo

calycem excedente, limbo planiusculo, lobis obcordatis purpureis.

- P. erosa, Wall. Cat. Herb. No. 661; Regel in Bot. Zeit. 1853, p. 333, and in

_ Gartenfiora, vol. ii. t.51; Hook.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. iii. p. 486.

P. denticulata, var. erosa, Duby in DC. Prodr, vol. viii. p. 4.

P. capitata, var. crispa, Hort. ‘

P. erosa belongs to a common type of Himalayan

Primulas, that of which P. denticulata is the prevalent

form, and P. capitata the rarer. In their usual states they |

are distinguished as follows: P. denticulata by having

sparingly mealy or glabrous finely toothed leaves, that are

not fully developed till after flowering, and which are

surrounded at their bases by fleshy. scales, formed by the

arrested outer ‘leaves on the crown of the rootstock ; it

bears a large or small depressed globose head, the flowers

_of which are lilac or purple, and all open together. Plate

3959 of this work is an excellent representation of it,

showing well the fleshy arrested leaves on the crown of the

rootstock. The figure in the Botanical Register (1842,

t. 47) is also characteristic, though the arrested leaves are

concealed.

__ P. erosa differs from denticulata in its much slenderer |

habit, in always (except on young parts) wanting the meal —

mn the leaves, which are developed at flowering time, are

translucent with strongly erose and denticulate margins,

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and have a strongly reticulated surface, and the petioles

are often red; the umbels are loose or dense-flowered,

and the flowers in our garden specimens are of a far deeper

purple than is usual in denticulata.

P. capitata differs greatly in habit from both the above ;

it is confined to the Eastern Himalaya, has finely denticulate

leaves, often snow-white with meal beneath, but some-.

times not so, a tall also mealy scape and globose densely

crowded head of sessile flowers which open slowly, and

the uppermost unexpanded ones are depressed and imbri-

cate over one another like the tiles of a house. The corolla

is of a very deep purple blue, the tube and calyx both

short. Tab. 4550 of this work gives an excellent figure

of the extreme form of capitata.

Now, though these distinctions are so well marked in

extreme forms, they all disappear in innumerable inter-

mediate ones. As an instance I have figured on the same

plate (at B.) with P. erosa, a leaf and head of a form of P.

capitata, which happened to be flowering in the Royal

Gardens at the same time with it. Comparing this with the

figure at Tab. 4550, the difference will be seen to be very

great; the leaves indeed are similar, but the head is far looser,

the flowers three times as large; the calyx is nearly the same,

but the corolla-tube is much longer and inflated above the

middle. The herbarium shows many intermediates between

this form and that figured at Tab. 4550; and in like

manner there are many intermediate forms between P.

denticulata and erosa. Lastly, some of these forms of

denticulata appear to approach states of the Siberian and

Kuropean P. altaica, Lehm., and P. farinosa, L.

P. erosa is found throughout most parts of the Himalaya,

but I did not observeit in Sikkim. Itis known in gardens

as P. capitata, var. crispa. Both it and the P. capitata

here figured were raised from seeds sent by Dr. King, of

the Calcutta Botanical Gardens.—J. D. H.

Fig. A. P. erosa, of the natural size; Al, portion of leaf; A2, ealye: A3,

corolla laid open; A 4, ovary :—all enlarged.

Fig. B. Form of P. capitata; B1, leaf, of the natural size; B2, flower,

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NYMPHAiA FLAVA.

Native of Florida.

Nat. Ord. NympHmacEx.—Tribe NymPo xR.

Genus NyMPH&A, Linn; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 46.)

Nympxa flava ; rhizomate oblongo v. cylindraceo, foliis ellipticis late, oblongis

rotundatisve subtus rubris marginibus integerrimis v. subrepandis lobis ‘subacutis

obtusisve, floribus flavis, sepalis oblongo-lanceolatis petalis concoloribus intimis

sensim minoribus, filamentis exterioribus medio dilatatis antheris obtusis

multo longioribus, intimis linearibus brevioribus, stigmatis radiis 8 brevibus

incurvis obtusis inappendiculatis,

N. flava, Leitner in Chapman Flora of the Southern United States Suppl.

p- 604; W. Watson in “ The Garden,” vol. xxvii. (1885), p. 439 and 599.

This is a very rare plant, having been comparatively

recently made known to Botanists by the researches of Dr.

Leitner in Florida, though it was much earlier recognized

by a Naturalist; for, according to Chapman’s “ Flora,” it

is figured in Andubon’s great work on the Ornithology

of the United States, published upwards of half a century

ago. As a species it is quite unlike any other, though

belonging to the northern section Castalia, and not very

far removed from the American JN. odorata, from which the

colour of the flowers at once distinguishes it.

N. flava is a very elegant plant; it was flowered in the

Water Lily House of the Royal Gardens in July of this

year. The Kew plants were received from Prof. Sargent,

of Brooklin, Boston, in 1877, and again in 1880 from Mr.

‘Sturtevant. The plant flowered for the first time in the

Water Lily House at Kew in July, 1882. Mr. Watson, in

his excellent remarks on this species, notes especially the

form of the elongated rootstock, which becomes covered

with scale-like tubercles, and forms successive apical crowns

of foliage and flowers subtended by a ring of roots, whilst

the lateral tubercles develop stolons from which the plant

is reproduced. Mr. Watson further remarks that it has

JAN. Ist, 1887.

been established in ponds and lakes in Kent, and there

flowered freely for several years in succession.

The figure of the rootstock here given is taken from

Herbarium specimens collected in the St. John’s River by

Mr. Curtiss. It has also been found in the Miami by Mr.

Garber, and in a few other localities, all in Florida.

Desor. ootstock cylindric or oblong, apparently not

creeping. Peduncles and petioles dark green. Leaves two

to six inches in diameter, orbicular elliptic or broadly

oblong, green often blotched with dark red, margin entire

or waved; basal lobes subacute or obtuse, parallel, with a

narrow sinus. lowers four inches in diameter, pale

yellow, opening at noom and remaining expanded till sunset.

Sepals linear-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, subacute, rather

darker yellow than the petals, with a faint rosy tinge

externally towards the margin ; nerves very slender. Petals

of the same form as the sepals, but rather paler, the inner

shorter and broader. Stamens numerous, suberect ; filaments

of the outer dilated in the middle, and much longer than

_ the anther; of the outermost short, broad, concave, and

petaloid ; of the innermost narrower and linear; anthers

linear, connective hardly produced, tip rounded; cells

parallel. Stigmatic rays about eight, short, broad, obtuse,

incurved, inappendiculate.—J. D. H.

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SILPHIUM ALBIFLORUM.

Native of Texas.

Nat. Ord. Composirm.—Tribe HELIANTHOIDER.

Genus Sitpaium, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 350.)

Sizpnivm albiflorum ; robustum, scabridum, caule tereti simplici, foliis alternis

petiolatis ambitu late ovatis pinnatifidis v. bipinnatifidis rigidis, lobis linearibus

acutis v: pungentibus reticulatim venosis, floralibus ‘Jinearibus capitatis

amplis sessilibus v. crasse pedunculatis, involucri scabridi bracteis crasse

coriaceis e basi late ovata in rostrum recurvum productis infimis subfoliaceis,

floribus radii pollicaribus pallide stramineis, disci concoloribus, acheniis pubes-

centibus, alis superne productis.

8. albiflorum, 4. Gray in Proc. Amer, Acad. vol. xix. p. 4, and Synopt. Flora

of NV. Amer. vol. i, pt. ii. p. 242.

This is one of two species of the North American genus

Silphium which Gray includes under the ‘* Compass Plants,”’

and of which the original, 8. laciniatum, L., was figured at

Plate 6534 of this work. S. albiflorwm is not nearly so

handsome a plant as S. laciniatum, being comparatively a

dwarf, of robust rigid habit, with nearly white flowers. The

cultivated specimens are much less scabrid, as might be

expected, than the native, and have longer points to the

involucral bracts, giving a squarrose look to the unopened

heads; these latter, too, are much longer peduncled, and

indeed Mr. Thompson sends a specimen in which the

stem is terminated by a solitary long-peduncled flower-

head. There is a further difference in the achenes; those

of the native plant have the wings produced upwards into

somewhat triangular teeth which are often adnate to a pair

of subulate and more or less projecting rigid awns; in

the garden plant the upward continuation of the wings are

rounded at the tips, and there are no awns, in a young

state at any rate.

I am indebted for living specimens of this very interesting

plant to my old and valued correspondent, Mr. Thompson,

of Ipswich, who has for,so many years contributed objects

of value and interest to this work ; he sent it in September

FEB. lst, 1887, :

of last year, and informs me that his plants are seven or

eight years old. Its native country is Reverchon in Texas.

Drscr. Whole plant more or less scabrid, with short

white persistent prickles. Stem simple, two to four feet

high, very robust, terete, but channelled when dry. Leaves

alternate, lower long-petioled, sixteen inches long, broadly

ovate in outline, pinnatifid or bi-pinnatifid, coriaceous, bright

green, strongly reticulately nerved beneath when dry,

uppermost linear; lobes Jinear, two to five inches long by

one-half to three-quarters of an inch broad, tips acute and

pungent, when bi-pinnatifid the lobes are shorter, often

triargular ; petiole of lower leaves four to five inches long.

Heads sessile in the axils of the floral leaves or stoutly

peduncled, three and a half inches across the rays, the

terminal head often produced in a naked peduncle three to

four inches long. Involucre subglobose, one to one and a

quarter inch in diameter ; bracts very rigid, broad, scabrid © —

and ciliate, acuminate or produced into long rigid pungent

recurved beaks. ay-flowers twenty to thirty, ligules

narrowly oblong, two-fid, rather concave, pale straw-

coloured or cream-white, young tipped with red-brown ;

style-arms revolute. Disk-flowers very narrow, with a

long slender cylindric pubescent obscurely notched style.

_ Receptacle scaly, scales ciliate, outer oblong mucronate,

inner linear-spathulate. Achenes broad, flattened, broadly

winged, the wings produced upwards.—J. D. H. .

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GLADIOLUS WATSONIOIDES,.

Native of Mount Kilimanjaro.

Nat. Ord. IntpEa“.—Tribe GrapIoLex.

Genus Guaproxus, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 709.)

Guaptotvus Watsonoides ; foliis linearibus firmis glabris basalibus productis pedali-

bus vel sesquipedalibus, caule elongato foliis paucis reductis instructo, floribus

4-10 in spicam laxam unilateralem dispositis, spathe valvis lanceolatis foliaceis

magnis, perianthio splendide rubro tubo curvato anguste infundibulari, seg-

mentis oblongis acutis subconformibus tubo distincte brevioribus, staminibus

arcuatis perianthio brevioribus, styli ramis stigmatosis magnis patulis, capsule

valvis oblongis, seminibus late alatis.

G. Watsonioides, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxi. p. 405.

This is one of the most interesting of the petaloid mono-

cotyledons which have been discovered during the recent

exploration of the regions round Mount Kilimanjaro by

Messrs. Thomson and Johnston. In botanical characters

it is nearly allied to well-known Cape species, Gladiolus

Watsonius of Thunberg (figured Bor. Mac. tab. 450), but

it is quite different in leaf and stature. From Mr. Johnston’s

notes it appears to begin at a height of 8500 feet above

sea-level in ascending the mountain, and to continue in

considerable plenty up to 11,000 feet; and he collected at

a height of 13,000 feet a dwarfed form with smaller flowers

than in the type and narrow leaves with convolute edges.

The seeds (by means of which it was brought into cultiva-

tion) have a very broad wing. Our drawing was made ~

from a plant that flowered at Kew in June, 1886.

Duscr. Produced basal leaves about four, linear, erect,

firm in texture, glabrous, strongly ribbed, a foot or a foot

and a half long. Stem erect, terete, two or three feet long,

bearing about a couple of much-reduced leaves below the

inflorescence. lowers four to ten in a very lax unilateral

spike; spathe-valves curved, foliaceous, lanceolate, green

margined with red, the outer valve larger than the inner,

in the lower flowers two inches or more long. Perianth

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bright scarlet; tube curved, narrowly funnel-shaped, an

inch and a half long, a quarter of an inch in diameter at

the throat; segments oblong or ovate, acute, an inch long,

nearly uniform in shape, size, and direction. Stamens

arcuate, reaching half-way up the perianth-limb; anthers

lanceolate, sagittate at the base. Stigmatic lobes large,

oblanceolate, entire, spreading. Valves of the capsule

oblong, an inch long. Seeds discoid, brownish, with a

small nucleus and a very broad wing.—.J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, An anther; 2, apex of style, with stigmatic branches :—doth enlarged.

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HEMIPILIA catopHytta.

Native of Tenasserim.

Nat. Ord. OncuipEx.—Tribe OpHRYDER.

Genus Hemirrtia, Lindl. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 628.)

Hemrrrtt1a calophylia; folio sessili recurvo elliptico-oblongo v. rotundato acuto v.

acuminato brunneo marmorato, scapo gracili uni-vaginato, racemo erecto

paucifloro, floribus remotis breviter pedicellatis, bracteis triangulari-ovatis

lanceolatisve ovario brevioribus, sepalis triangulari-ovatis obtusis albis medio

pallide viridibus, petalis sepalis dimidio minoribus, labello purpureo oblongo-

quadrato v. subobcordato undulato utrinque unilobato apice emarginato v.

bifido, caleare brevi obtuso, rostello elongato uncinato adscendente, stigmatis

eruribus brevibus.

H. calophylla, Parish and Reichb. f. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vol. xii. (1874) p. 197 ;

Reichb. f. in Otia Bot. Hamburg. p. 38.

Hemipilia is a very curious little Indian genus, of which

only two species have hitherto been discovered, that here

figured, and the type, 1. cordifolia, Lindl., which was found

in Nepal by Wallich upwards of half a century ago, and has

since been collected in the North-Western Himalaya by

Falconer, Strachey and Winterbottom, and others, at an

‘elevation of 7000 feet; it differs from H. calophylla in the

subcordate base of the leaf, stout scape, more numerous

and more crowded flowers, with a longer spur and smaller

lip. The genus is closely allied to Habenaria, differing

however a good deal in habit, and remarkably in the long

upcurved rostellum.

H. calophylla is a native of Moulmein, in Tenasserim,

where it was discovered by Mr. Gilbert, whose specimens

were, however, too imperfect for determination and

description. The indefatigable Rev. C. Parish rediscovered

it in August, 1873, growing in limestone rocks, and for-

warded specimens and a drawing to Kew, which enabled

Prof. Reichenbach to refer it generically to the previously

monotypic Hemipilia, and to describe it with completeness.

Probably other species of the genus occur in the Kastern

Himalaya, for such plants, with lurid leaves and flowers,

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growing close to the ground amongst other herbage, in

jungles and forests, are with difficulty detected. Mr.

Parish observes that the flowers are sometimes wholly .

purple. The specimens here figured were sent to the

Royal Gardens by Mr. Peché of Moulmein, and flowered in

July, 1886.

Descr. Root a tuber. Leaf two to three inches long

by one and a quarter to one and a half inch broad, quite

sessile on the tuber, and with the acute base sunk in the

ground, from elliptic ovate to nearly orbicular, acute or ,

acuminate, membranous, very dark green mottled with

brown. Scape five to seven inches high, very slender,

green spotted with red-brown, naked except for one

narrowly lanceolate erect green and spotted sheath about

the middle. Raceme six- to eight-flowered ; flowers distant,

nodding, half an inch broad across the sepals and three-

quarters of an inch from the top of the upper sepal to that

of the lip. Sepals triangular-ovate, obtuse, white and

green, rarely purple. Petals similar, but much smaller.

Iip half an inch broad, dark vinous purple, puberulous,

from cuneately obcordate to quadrately oblong, with rounded

angles and a small rounded lobe on each side, and a notched

- or two-lobed tip. Spur shorter than the sepals, obtuse.

Column short, with short inflexed sides ; rostellum tongue-

shaped, upcurved, with reflected sides projecting as high |

as the top of the column, puberuious. Ovary slender,

decurved.—J. D. H.

Figs. 1 and 2, Side and front views of column and base of lip; 3 and 4, pollinia:

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ADESMIA BALSAMICA.

Native of Chili.

- Nat. Ord. Lrguminosa.—Tribe HepysarEx.

Genus Aprsm1a, DC.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Pl. vol. i. p. 517.)

Aprsmia balsamica; frutex diffuse ramosissimus glabrescens glandulosus, ramis

gracilibus, foliorum rache compresso denticulato, foliolis parvulis 10-13-jugis

ellipticis cuneato-obovatisve crassiusculis integris v. serrulatis rugulosis medio

canaliculatis, racemis copiosis terminalibus laxifloris, floribus longe gracile pedi-

cellatis, calycis tubo campanulato v. hemispherico dentibus triangulari-ovatis

patulis, corolla aurea, vexillo orbiculari, legumine 6-8-articulato puberulo,

A. balsamica, Bertero in Mem. Acad. Torin, vol. xxxvii. p. 59, t. x.; Hook. and

Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. 20, in note, excl. syn. Molini; C. Gay, Flor. Ghil.

vol. i. p. 180.

The genus Adesmia, though containing upwards of

eighty species of shrubs, has not hitherto found favour in

the eyes of horticulturists, and indeed the few species

hitherto figured in British horticultural works (Bot. Reg.

t: 1720; Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. Ser. 2, t. 222, 230, 322) _

have nothing to-recommend them to cultivators.. To these

the subject of our plate forms a striking contrast, for A.

- balsamica is both a graceful and very beautiful shrub; its

balsamic odour, delicate ramification and foliage, and

abundant golden flowers together render it a most attrac-

tive shrub for the green-house, if not for the open air, in at

any rate the milder parts of England and Ireland. It isa

native of Chili, and appears to be abundant on the hill-sides

near Valparaiso, from whence there are specimens in the

Herbarium from numerous contributors. Ciaude Gay

. describes it as the most valuable of all the Adesmias on

account of its exquisite balsamic odour, which in its native

country can be perceived at a great distance, and it is also

a reputed medicine.

Specimens of this beautiful plant were sent for figuring

in the Boranican Macazine by Sir George MacLeay,

_ K.C.M.G., who flowered it in his rich conservatory at

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Pendel Court, Kent, in March of last year. The balsamic

odour is very perceptible even when dry, but doubtless it

‘ is much more developed on hill-sides under the bright skies

of a Chilian summer, than in an English green-house in the

month of March. .

Desor. A nearly glabrous, excessively branched,

copiously-flowering shrub, covered with balsamic glands;

branches very slender, leafy. eaves one to one and a

half inch long, shortly petioled, pinnate, rachis flattened

and denticulate, leaflets ten to thirteen pairs, very small,

one-eighth to one-sixth of an inch long, sessile, dark green,

oblong or cuneately obovate, subentire or serrulate,

rugose and channelled down the middle. Racemes termi-

nating the branches, effuse, three- to eight-flowered, sparsely

puberulous; rachis and pedicels very slender, the latter

one-half to three-quarters of an inch long; bracts minute.

Flowers two-thirds of an inch in diameter, golden yellow.

Calyx-tube from broadly campanulate to subglobose,

minutely hispid, teeth small, triangular, acute. Standard

orbicular. Wings obtuse, rather shorter than the obtuse

keel. Ovary pubescent. Pod about one inch long, very

shortly stipitate, somewhat pubescent; joints six to eight, |

semicircular.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Portion of rachis and leaflets; 2, calyx and young pod; 3, wings; 4,

keel; 5, stamens ; 6, pod (from dried specimen) :—al but jig. 6 enlarged.

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STROBILANTHES COLORATUS..

Native of Assam and the Eastern Himalaya.

Nat. Ord. AcANTHACER.—Tribe RUELLIER.

Genus Srrositantues, Blume; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. vol. ii, p. 1086.)

SrropitanTues (Paniculate) coloratus; suffratex glabrescens, ramis teretibus,

foliis 4-7-pollicaribus ovatis ellipticisve acuminatis serratis, paniculis erectis

multifloris, bracteis ellipticis caducis, ramis gracilibus strictis, sepalis sub-

gequalibus linearibus obtusis glabris, coroll@ sesquipollicaris tubo ventricoso

‘ glabro pallide azureo-purpureo, lobis rotundatis, capsula late ovata acuta 4.

sperma, seminibus ovatis pubescentibus vix areolatis.

S. coloratus, 7. Anders. in Journ. Linn, Soe. vol. ix. -P: 481; Clarke in Hook. Fi.

Brit. Ind. vol. iv. p. 473.

Goldfussia colorata, ees 1x Wall. Plant, As. Rar. vol. iii. p. 89; and in DC.

Prodr, vol. xi. p. 176. :

Ruellia colorata, Wall. Cat. No. 2388.

This is a very. handsome species of the enormous

Asiatic genus Strobilanthes, of which there are upwards of

150 species in British India alone, and this is its head-

quarters, for indeed only one species has been found

beyond the limits of tropical Asia, and that one in tropical

Africa. S. coloratus is an ally of S. Wallichii, which was

ficured in this work under the name of Goldfussia Thomsoni

(Tab. 5119), which has, however, much fewer flowers, with

a curved deep red-purple corolla. S. coloratus is a native

of the Kastern Himalaya, at elevations of 2000 to 5000 feet,

in Sikkim and Bhotan, where it has been gathered by C. B.

Clarke, and it is abundant in the Khasia Mountains, south

of Assam, whence Wallich’s collectors first procured it, and

where I found it abundantly at elevations of 3000 to 4000

feet, attaining 10 feet in height, with a panicle two to

three feet long, and nearly as broad. The specimen here

figured was raised at Kew from seeds sent by Dr. King, of

the Royal Botanical Gardens, Calcutta, and flowered in

January of last year.

- Descr. A tall glabrous undershrub, four to six feet

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high, copiously branched, the branches ending in large erect

panicles. Stem and branches terete, green. Leaves five to

seven inches long, ovate or elliptic, seiiminate or produced

into a long tail, serrate, base very acute and produced on

the petiole, which is one to three inches long; nerves eight to

ten pairs, slender; upper surface dark green, under red-

purple. Panicles.six to twelve inches high, widely. spread-

ing, and profusely branched ; branches very slender, strict,

some forming filiform pedicels, others bearing two very

shortly pedicelled flowers; bracts elliptic, caducous.

Flowers one and a half inch long, pale blue purple. Calyzx

narrow, half an inch long, of erect linear obtuse green

sepals. Corolla with a ventricose tube and short rounded >

lobes, which are hardly wrinkled. Stamens small, included.

Capsule scarcely longer than the calyx, broadly or narrowly

ovate, acute, four-seeded. Seeds ovate, awa obscurely

areolate-—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Calyx; 2, corolla laid open; 3, ovary and disk :—all enlarged.

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XANTHOCERAS sorpirorta.

Native of North China.

Nat. Ord. SaprnDacEm.—Sub-order SaPINDEX.

Genus XanrHoceras, Bunge; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 408.)

Xanruoceras sorbifolia; frutex glaber, foliis deciduis alternis pinnatis, pinnis

multijugis lineari-oblongis lanceolatisve acutis inciso-serratis, floribus racemosis,

racemis axillaribus ramulosque terminantibus multifloris albis roseo-pictis,

fructibus magnis globosis v. pyriformibus tarde dehiscentibus, pericarpio crasso,

seminibus globosis.

X. sorbifolia, Bunge, Enum. Pl. Chin. Bor. p. 11; Hance in Journ. Bot. vol. viti.

(1870), p. 313; Franchet, Plant. David. p. 75; Flore des Serres, ser, 2,—

vol. viii. (1870), t. 1899; Rev. Hortie. 1872, p. 291, cum Ic.; Ill. Hortic.

vol. xxiv. (1877), t. 295; Gard. Chron, N.S. vol. v. (1876), p. 567, fig. 101,

and vol. xxvi. (1886), p. 204, fig. 42. .

This is one of the most attractive and interesting hardy

garden shrubs that has been introduced for many years,

and though introduced nearly twenty years ago, is rarely

seen except in the botanical establishments or the gardens

of those in search of novelties. It was discovered by the

now venerable Dr. Bunge, formerly Professor of Botany at

Dorpat, near Pekin, some sixty years ago, on the occasion

of his accompanying an overland mission to that capital

from St. Petersburg; but was not introduced till Father

David, the most laborious and successful of all explorers of

the Chinese Flora, sent seeds.to the Jardin de Plantes at

Paris about twenty years ago. According to a statement

in the “ Gardener’s Chronicle,’ Father David sent the plant

in 1868, and as it. flowered and was figured in the “ Flore

des Serres’? in 1872, it must have been transmitted to

Paris in a living state.

Xanthoceras sorbifolia is a beautiful free-flowering bush,

with the habit of the Bladder-nut (Staphylea pinnata), to

which it is allied. I am indebted to Mr. Lynch, of the

Cambridge Botanical Gardens, for the fine specimens here

ficured, with flowers of both sexes, and where it blossomed

in May, 1886, the females appearing a few days after the

MakCH Ist, 1887.

males. The leaves were fully developed in July. For the

fine fruits I am indebted to the kindness of continental

correspondents; the apple-shaped ones were received in

August of last year from M. Max Cornu, of Paris, and were

ripened in the Jardin de Plantes. The pyriform ones

were received in October from M. J. Van Volxem, of

Brussels. The seeds are described as being eaten by the

Chinese. .

Desor. A deciduous glabrous or puberulous shrub or

small tree, copiously leafy. Leaves opposite, eight to twelve

inches long, pinnate; petiole short and rachis slender,

nearly terete; leaflets alternate, sessile, linear-oblong or

oblong-lanceolate, acute, coarsely serrate, the tips of the -

leaflets and serratures apiculate, dark green above and glossy,

paler beneath. Flowers in copious lateral racemes, eight

to ten inches long, from shoots at the sides of the branches,

appearing before the leaves, at first suberect, then drooping ;

peduncle short; rachis stout; bracts oblong, obtuse or

subacute; pedicels a quarter to one-third of an inch long,

rather stout. Sepals five, oblong, obtuse, green. Petals

spreading and recurved, spathulately obovate, white with

blood-red streaks at the base. Disk with five cylindric

suberect obtuse horns that are curved outwards and alter-

nate with the stamens. Stamens eight, filaments slender,

erect ; anthers gland-tipped, oblong; in the female flower

they are shorter, imperfect, and surround the ovary.

Ovary in the female flower ellipsoid, narrowed into a short

grooved style with three connate stigmas, three-celled;

ovules about eight in each cell. Fruit a globose or pyri-

form capsule, with very thick walls, tardily splitting into

three valves, with a spongy white inner surface. Seeds

globose, of a fine purple-brown colour.—J..D. HH. .-

Fig. 1, Flower-bud; 2, male flower with perianth removed; 3, stamens; 4,

ovary ; 5, female flower with perianth removed ; 6, section of ovary ; 7, fruit from

the Jardin de Plantes; 8, fruit from M. Van Volxem ; 9, the same dehisced, showing

the seeds :—figs. 1-8 enlarged.

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LAPEYROUSIA GRanpiFrora.

Native of East Tropical Africa.

Nat. Ord, IrntprExz,—Tribe Ix1rx,

_ Genus Lapryrovsia, Pourr.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 705.)

Larryrovsta (Anomatheca) grandiflora; cormo parvo globoso tunicis fibrosis,

foliis 6-8 distichis subbasalibus confertis linearibus glabris membranaceis,

pedunculo elongato simplici vel furcato folio unico reducto instructo, spicis

4-10-floris laxis subsecundis, spathze valvis lanceolatis membranaceo-herbaceis,

perianthii tubo elongato cylindrico apice infundibulari, segmentis splendide

rubris oblengis vel oblongo-lanceolatis 3 superioribus ascendentibus 3 inferi-

oribus brevioribus deflexis basi rubro saturatiori maculatis, staminibus erectis

elongatis, stylo staminibus eminente ramis 6 divaricatis stigmatosis, fructu

parvo globoso,

Lapeyrousia grandiflora, Baker in Journ. Bot, 1876, p. 337; Journ Linn. Soc.

vol. xvi. p. 154.

The present plant is a native of the Zambesi country,

where it was discovered by Sir John Kirk, whilst travelling

with Dr. Livingstone in 1858. It has since been sent home

in a dried state by Dr. Meller and Mr. John Buchanan,

and in 1883 we received living corms from Mrs. Monteiro.

It is a near ally of the well-known Anomatheca cruenta of

Natal, but the flowers are much larger. Mr. Bentham has

now reduced Ker’s genus Anomatheca to Lapeyrousia, and

here again we get a large characteristically Cape genus,

represented in Angola and the mountains of Tropical Africa

by a few distinct specific types. Our drawing was made

from a plant that flowered at Kew in October, 1886.

Drscr. Corm small, globose; outer tunics formed of

fine brown nearly parallel fibres. Produced leaves six or

eight in a distichous nearly basal rosette, linear, mem-

branous, green, glabrous, half a foot or a foot long.

Pedunele, including the inflorescence, a foot long, simple or

forked, bearing only a single reduced leaf. Spikes lax,

subsecund, four- to ten-flowered ; spathe-valves lanceolate,

unequal, between membranous and herbaceous. -Perianth-

tube cylindrical, with a short funnel-shaped apex, an inch

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long, nearly white; limb bright scarlet, two inches in

diameter; segments oblong or oblong-lanceolate; three

upper ascending, concolorous ; three lower shorter, deflexed,

marked with a large spot of darker scarlet at the base.

Stamens erect, rather shorter than the perianth-segments ;

filaments filiform; anthers linear. Style overtopping the

stamens, bearing six divaricated stigmatose branches.

Capsule small, globose, umbilicate at the apex.—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, Front view of anther; 2, back view of anther; 3, style and stigmas; 4,

capsule :—all more or less enlarged.

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CORYDALIS Ko.pakowskIAna.

Native of Western Turkestan.

Nat. Ord. Parpaverace2£.—Tribe Fumariex.

Genus Corypatis, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 56.)

Corypatis (Bulbocapnos) Kolpakowskiana ; bulbosa, glaberrima, glauca, caule

ramoso gracili paucifolioso, foliis longe petiolatis bipinnatisectis, pinnis 2-3-

jugis petiolulatis late ovatis, pinnulis paucis cuneatis 2-3-sectis, lobis linearibus

obtusis pallide viridibus, racemo elongato laxifloro, bracteis oblongis mp

obtusis viridibus, floribus breviter pedicellatis, sepalis minimis, corolla labiis

subequalibus breviusculis ovatis explanatis, superiore emarginato, inferiore

basi gibbo calcare limbo fere duplo longiore leviter arcuato apice decurvo

obtuso, capsulis elliptico-oblongis pendulis. :

C. Kolpakowskiana, Regel, Gartenfl. vol. xxvii. (1878), p. 261, t. 948.

The expeditions sent by the Russian Government to the

regions of Central Asia have resulted in the discovery and

introduction into the gardens of St. Petersburg of an

astonishing number of hardy herbaceous plants, which have

been most liberally distributed to all European gardens ;

and to none of the intrepid explorers of these inhospitable

regions are we more indebted than to Dr. Albert de Regel,

the talented son of the excellent and able Director of the

_ Imperial Botanical Gardens of St. Petersburg. Amongst

these novelties the genus Corydalis holds a conspicuous

place, and as most of the species are early spring flowers,

when there is little else to grace the garden, they are

welcome to horticulturists. Dr. Regel, who describes

this plant in the ‘‘ Gartenflora,” says of it that it is

‘allied to C. longiflora, which latter may be distinguished by

the more simple stem, by the bracts equalling or exceeding

the pedicels of the flower, by the boat-shaped tips of the

corolla, which are not spread out, by the subulate acute

spur, and by the linear-oblong pods. 2

CO. Kolpakowskiana was found in 1877 by Dr. Albert de

Regel in Western Turkestan, near the town of Wernoje,

near the river Almatiuka, and is stated to vary in the

_ MaRcH Isr, 1887.

colour of the flowers from white to pale rose-colour,

variegated with purple, and a white throat. In the figure

given in the “ Gartenflora,” the flowers are represented of

a rather muddy rose-colour, much deeper than in the

figure here given, and a white flower is also represented.

The foliage, too, is far more luxuriant in the St. Petersburg

than in our specimen. The specific name is that of the |

Military Governor of the province where the plant was

found. Mr. Elwes gave me the specimen here figured,

which flowered in a frame with him in April, 1867.

Descr. A low glaucous, quite glabrous succulent tuber-

ous herb. Stem four to eight inches high, sparingly

branched from the base, and sparingly leafy. Leaves

alternate, pale green, four to five inches long, bipinnate ;

petiole long and rachis slender; pinne petiolulate, three-

quarters of an inch long, ovate in outline; pinnules cunei-

form, two-to-five lobed; lobes linear, obtuse. Racemes

four to six inches long, erect, slender, lax-flowered ; bracts

green, oblong, obtuse, shorter than the slender pedicels.

Sepals very minute and of irregular form. Corolla gibbous

at the base, three-quarters of an inch long from the tip of

the lips to that of the spur, white or pink with a purple

throat; lips short, equal, spreading, ovate, concave, but

with the margins expanded or slightly reflexed ; spur

ascending, slightly curved, about twice as long as the limb

of the corolla; tip more or less decurved, obtuse. Stigma

orbicular, stellately crenate. Capsule elliptic-oblong, pen-

dulous.—J. D. H.

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BEGONTIA oyciopHytia.

Native of South China.

Nat. Ord. Breconracex.

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

Beaonta eyclophylla; tuberosa, folio solitario amplo membranaceo rotundato-

cordato obtuso palmatim 7-9-nervi, lobis basi incumbentibus supra et infra ad

nervos reticulatis sparse hirtello, petiolo hirto, stipulis oblongis fimbriato-

ciliatis, scapo gracili, cyma pluriflora, floribus roseis odoris, masc. sepalis

rotundatis, petalis obovato-spathulatis, filamentis in columnam brevem connatis,

antheris capitatis parvis obovatis apice rotundatis, fl. fem. minoribus, sepalis

2 semicircularibus, petalo solitario multo minore oblongo concavo, stylis 3 2-

fidis, lobis fascia continua spiraliter torta circumdatis, capsula trigona 3-loculari

ala majore triangulari, minoribus linearibus.

I have advanced this as a new species with much hesita-

tion, because it was sent by Mr. Ford from the Hongkong

Botanical Gardens under the’ name of B. fimbristipula,

Hance (in Lond. Journ. Bot. 18838, p. 202), and because it

agrees with the character of that plant in so many particu-

lars that it appeared to me possible that it might be a

gigantic form of it, with characters acquired under cultiva-

tion. On referring, however, to the Kew Herbarium, I

find authentically named specimens of B. fimbristipula from

Lofaushan (on the coast opposite to Hongkong) which >

show it to be a diminutive very slender little species, two to

three inches high, with an ovate cordate acuminate sharply

doubly-toothed leaf of a deep red purple colour, and a one-

or two-flowered scape. The Lofaushan specimens agree

very well with Hance’s description, except that I do not

find the under surface of the leaf to be lepidote, and that

the outer male sepals are orbicular rather than oblong, and

that the petiole is sometimes longer than the limb of the leaf.

Specimens from Tingushan, on the Canton river, also in the

Kew Herbarium, and cited as B. jfimbristipula by Hance,

are many times larger than the above, with a branched

cyme as in B. cyclophylla, but the leaves are of the same

MARCH lst, 1887.

form and toothing as fimbristipula. Another difficulty 1s

to determine the section of the huge genus to which this

species should be referred. It agrees with none in De

Candolle’s monograph (Prodr. v. xv. pars. i.). According to

his Clavis (p. 403) it should fall into Dysmorphia, with two

Peninsular Indian species (B. crenata, Dryandr., and B.

canarana, Miq.); but these are described as having anthers

dehiscing by pores, four to five sepals in the female flower,

connate styles, and inflated capsules.

Hance supposes his B. fimbristipula (with which this

must go) to be most nearly allied to B. parruliflora, A. DC.,

which belongs to the section Parvibegonia, and which

should have four to five segments in the female flower, and

deciduous styles. According to the grouping of the species

sketched out in the “ Genera Plantarum,” it falls into the

fourth series, and would be included in an enlarged view of

Platycentrum (inclusive of Knesebeckia). Its nearest ally in

floral structure appears to me to be B. sinensis of A. DC.,

a caulescent species of very different habit, referred by

A. de Candolle to Knesebeckia.

A similar species to B. fimbristipula, of which leaves are

preserved in the Kew Herbarium, is extensively used by

the Chinese as a drug. ‘The leaves are of a brilliant red-

purple colour.

Our specimens were raised from tubers sent by Mr. Ford

from the Hongkong Botanical Gardens in 1885, and

flowered in April, 1886. The flowers are sweet-scented,

like roses. a

Descr. Loottuberous. Leaf solitary, attaining six inches

in breadth, orbicular-cordate with overlapping basal lobes, —

‘ obtuse or subacute, palmately seven- to nine-nerved, ob-

scurely denticulate, sparsely hirtellous on the upper surface

and on the nerves beneath, deep green above, pale inclining

_tored beneath; petiole rather stout, shorter than the blade,

sparsely hirsute; stipules oblong, fimbriately ciliate. Scape

six inches high, slender, glabrous, bearing a trichotomous

cyme of rose-coloured and -scented flowers. of both sexes ;

bracts at the fork like the stipules. Maru Fn. one to one

and a quarter of aninch in diameter. Sepals two, orbicular.

Petals two, obovate. Anthers small in a globose head on

a short slender column, obovate, tip rounded. Fem. Ft.

smaller than the males. Sepals two, semicircular. Petal:

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“one, very much smaller, oblong, concave. "Styles three,

each two-fid, with a twisted p v ueaseed band, persistent in

fruit. Capsule triangular-deltoid in outline, larger wing ©

_ trigonous, upper margin horizontal, smaller linear ;

— ie ses all surfaces seed- “bearing, “J: dD. A.

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CEROPEGIA Monrerroz.

Native of Delagoa Bay.

Nat. Ord. ASCLEPIADEZ.—Tribe CEROPEGIER.

Genus Ceropgcia, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 779.)

Crroprera Monteirce ; glaberrima, caule volubili, foliis carnosulis breviter petio-

latis ovato-oblongis A oat margine undulatis, floribus ad apicem pedunculi

crassi paucis erectis breviter crasse pedicellatis, sepalis parvis lanceolatis,

corolla 23-3 pollicari, tubo basi oblongo-inflato dein anguste infun-

dibulari, lobis abrupte in laminam inflexam basi ciliatam horizontalem

dilatatis laminibus in umbraculam convexam albam purpureo-maculatam 5-

suleatam connatis, corone staminee lobis exterioribus nullis, interioribus

elongatis incurvis in columnam 5-sulcatam conniventibus apicibus recurvis

obtusis.

Those who frequent the Succulent House at Kew have

_long been familiar with the Ceropegia Sandersonie (Bor.

Mac. t. 5792), which, growing in a pot, was trained up a

rafter on the left-hand side on entering, and which attracts

attention by its curious long green flowers, expanding into

the form of a trumpet, surmounted by a fringed green

spotted canopy, supported on five short legs. No second

species at all lke it of the extensive genus to which it

belongs was ever known till 1884, when the tubers of that

here figured were sent to the Royal Gardens by Mrs.

Monteiro, of Delagoa Bay, widow of that able naturalist

J. Monteiro, the author of the best books ever written on

the Natural History of Tropical Africa.*

C. Sandersonie, just referred to, is a native of Natal, and

was named in honour of a lady who, and whose husband

(the late J. Sanderson, Esq.), were active contributors to

the Royal Gardens. It seems, therefore, appropriate that

its near ally should bear the name of the lady to whom

the horticultural world is indebted for this singular plant.

C. Monteirow was received in 1884, and flowered in July,

1886. It comes from Delagoa Bay, a locality a good way

* “ Angola and the River Congo,” by Joachim J. Monteiro. 2 vols. —

Macmillan & Co. 1875.

MARCH Ist, 1887.

north of Natal, and the plant consequently requires tropical

heat, which C. Sandersonie does not.

Descr. A glabrous climber, probably attaining a con-

siderable height ; branches terete, as thick as a goose-quill,

white mottled with brown, in minutely warted patches.

Leaves opposite, two to three inches long, shortly stoutly

petioled, oblong-ovate, subacute or obtuse, succulent, pale

green with undulate margins that are purplish on the

extreme edges. Flowers about three, at the top of short

stout lateral peduncles one-half to two-thirds of an inch

long, shortly pedicelled; bracts minute. Sepals small,

erect, lanceolate, acute, glandular at the base within.

Corolla two to three inches long; inflated base narrowly

oblong, green, about two-thirds of an inch long; tuber

above the bulb narrowly funnel-shaped, dull green below,

striped white and dull brown above; mouth trumpet-shaped;

lobes five, clawed, claws separated by a semicircular sinus,

each lobe suddenly dilated into a broad triangular flat

plate that arches over the mouth of the corolla, white

spotted with purple brown, and with purple filaments at

the base on each side ; these five coalesce, and form a low,

pointed, five-angled, five-furrowed canopy over the opening

of the corolla, supported by the five claws. Column at the

base of the ‘bulb ; outer lobes none, the inner arching

inward and meeting form a five-grooved column, above

which three short free recurved obtuse tips spread out-

wards.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Portion of stem; 2, sepal seen from within; 3, base of corolla oe

staminal column ; 4, pollen- -masses :—all enlarged.

Tas. 6928.

CLAVIJA ErRnstit.

Native of Caraccas.

Nat. Ord. Myrsinem.—Tribe THEOPHRASTER.

Genus Cravisa, Ruiz & Pav.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 649.)

Cravisa Ernstii; glaberrima, caule robusto, foliis longe petiolatis coriaceis ellip-

tico-oblongis oblongo-lanceolatis v. oblanceolatis integerrimis basi acutis swepe

inzequilateralibus in petiolum decurrentibus, nervis perplurimis tenuissimis

horizontalibus, racemis brevibus axillaribus nutantibus multifloris, bracteis

minutis, floribus breviter pedicellatis, calycis tubo infundibulari-companulato

lobis orbiculatis integerrimis, corollz disco crasso radiato crenulato processubus

brevibus corolle lobis alternantibus instructo, antheris late ovatis, ovario

minuto.

Of the South American genus Clavija, some twenty-tive

species are described, but with none of them does the

plant here figured agree. It comes near to a Venezuelan

one collected in Ocafia (New Grenada) by Purdie, which

differs in the shorter petioles and strongly serrated reticu-

latedly veined leaves; and to the C. Hookeri, Alph. DC.

(C. spathulata, Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 140, not of R. and P.), of

Peru, which is a much more slender plant with very small

flowers. From all the three species already figured in this

Maceazine it differs widely; there are C. ornata, Don (Tab.

4922), C. fulgens, Hook. (Tab. 5626), and C. macrophylla,

Miquel (C. Riedeliana, Regel Gartenfl. t. 663) (Tab.

5829). ;

I ae named it after the excellent botanist who sent

seeds of it to Kew in 1879, Prof. Ernst, of Caraccas. Plants

raised from these flower annually in the Palm House in

July, where they have attained a height of sixteen to

twenty-four inches.

Desor. Trunk in native specimen four to five feet high,

very robust, as thick as the thumb, covered with brown

smooth bark, and with here and there a few short subulate

prickles. Leaves clustered at the ends of the branches, long-

petioled, coriaceous, twelve to sixteen inches long by four

— to six inches broad, bright green, paler beneath, elliptic-

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oblong or oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate, acute or sub-

acute, quite entire, base often unequal-sided, acute and

decurrent on the petiole; midrib beneath stout, rounded,

nerves very many, very slender, horizontal, inconspicuous,

petiole as thick as a goose-quill, three to six inches long,

terete, smooth, slightly thickened towards the base, green.

Racemes short, axillary, two to four inches long, drooping,

many-flowered ; peduncle short and rachis slender, yellow ;

bracts minute; pedicels very short; flowers pendulous,

three-quarters of an inch long, and nearly as broad.across

the corolla. Calyx campanulate, green; lobes orbicular,

quite entire. Corolla fleshy, lobes nearly orbicular, con-

cave, incurved disk apricot yellow, margins crenulate.

Disk (incorrectly figured) closing the mouth of the corolla,

broad, fleshy, ten-lobulate, with twenty radiating low

ridges, and five hemispheric low fleshy processes projecting

from under its margin and alternating with the corolla-

lobes. Stamens five, erect, mserted within the disk,

filaments very short, fleshy; anthers broadly ovate, con-

niving, connective thick, produced into an obtuse point.

Ovary minute, ovoid, narrowed into a short style with a

minute capitate stigma; ovules few, inserted in a whorl

round the base of the conical placenta.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower; 2, the same with the corolla-lobes cut off (disk incurved in both); .

3 and 4, stamens; 5, ovary ; 6, vertical section of ditto :—all enlarged.

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HEUCHERA sancuringa.

Native of New Mexico and Arizona,

Nat. Ord. SaxrrraGace®.—Tribe Saxirracen.

Genus Hevcuena, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 638.)

Hevcnera sanguinea ; gracilis, parce patentim pilosa, foliis longe petiolatis

orbicularibus profunde cordatis margine 5-7-lobatis lobis late crenato-dentatis,

scapo elongato gracillimo, panicula laxiflora glanduloso-pnbescente, floribus

breviter pedicellatis sanguineis.

H., sanguinea, Engelmann Bot. Wislizenus’s Expedition, p. 23; Gray Plant. .

Wright. pt. ii. p. 63; Walp. Ann. vol. iii. p. 897.

This, as Gray observes, is by far the handsomest species

of the genus, which is itself, I may add, a very unpretending

one, and in which so really pretty a plant as this was not

to have been expected, especially as, except in Hscallonia,

the bright reds are rare in the Order to which it belongs.

It is curious, and a further instance of the unattractive

features of the Heucheras, that though no fewer than fifteen

species, all North American, and all presumably hardy,

are enumerated in Watson’s ‘‘ Index of North American

Botany,” and though several have been cultivated in this

. country, one only had been, previous to this, figured in a

horticultural work; this one is H. cylindrica, Dougl.

(Botanical Register, t: 1924). The original species, how-

ever, the Linnean H. americana, appears in a plate of

Hill’s ‘Vegetable System,” vol. xii. t. 43, f. 1,.as the

Dingy Wellwood, published so long ago as 1761.

There is another species which from its specific name

may be supposed to deserve the attention of horticulturists;

it is the H. rubescens, Torrey, a native of California; its

flowers are described as pale pink. H. sanguinea isa native

of rocky places on the Pacific slope of the South-Western

United States of America, Arizona, and New Mexico. It

was introduced into Europe by Mr. Ware, of Tottenham,

and the specimen here figured flowered in the Rock

Garden at Kew in June, 1886,

apRin Ist, 1887.

Duscr. Rootstock stout, woody. Leaves sparsely pilose

_ with long spreading hairs, petiole three to six inches long,

very slender, hirsute towards the base; limb two to two and

a half inches in diameter,.membranous, orbicular, deeply

cordate at the base with’a narrow sinus and rounded lobes,

pubescent on both surfaces, margin shallowly five- to seven-

lobed, lobes with three to five very broad mucronate teeth,

deep green above, paler beneath. Scape twice as long as

the petioles or more, very slender, pilose below, glandular-

pubescent above, as is the panicle, naked or with a minute

narrow entire or pinnatifid leaf. Panicle with the top and

slender branches drooping and often secund ; bracts small,

the lower green and pinnatifid, the upper slender entire

and coloured. Flowers four to six at the ends of the

branches, half an inch long, pendulous from short slender

pedicels, scarlet, glandular-pubescent ; bracteoles slender,

linear. Calyx campanulate; lobes short, rounded, glandular-

pubescent without and within. Petals minute, almost

included, linear-spathulate. Stamens short. Ovary half-

superior; styles short.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Calyx laid open ; 2, petal ; 3 and 4, stamens; 5, ovary :—all enlarged.

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CRYSANTHEMUM mo ricavte.

Native of Algeria.

Nat. Ord. Compositz.—Tribe ANTHEMIDER.

Genus CuRysanTHEMUM, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 424.) |

CHRYSANTHEMUM (Glossopappus) multicaule; annuum, glabrum, multicaule,

carnosum, caulibus robustis ascendentibus suberectisve, ramis monocephalis,

- foliis breviter petiolatis aliis spathulatis grosse dentatis aliis pinnatisectis seg-

mentis paucis divaricatis anguste linearfbus acutis integris, involucri bracteis

oblorfgis extimis inappendiculatis intimis appendice orbiculari hyalina ter-

minatis, ligulis late chisegie aureis, acheniis radii obovoideis tubo hyalino

coronatis facie interiore 2-3 alatis, disci squama brevi rotundata ventrali

terminatis.

C. multicaule, Desfontaine Flor, Atlant. vol. ii. p. 182, t. 236; Pers. Synops.

vol. ii. p. 462.

Pyrethrum wmulticaule, Willd. Sp. Pl. vol. iii. p. 2158; Spreng. Syst. Veg.

vol. iii. p. 587; DC. Prodr. vol. vi. p. 61.

Coleostephus multicaulis, Durieuw in Duchart. Rev. Bot. vol. i. p. 364, and Bot.

Alger. t. 58, f. 7-10.

The vast genus Chrysanthemum, including as it now

does Pyrethrwm and a host of monotypic or oligotypic

genera, contains upwards of 120 nominal species, of which

Bentham considers that about 80 may be regarded as well

established. The dividing these into sub-genera and sections

is a great difficulty, founded as such divisions are chiefly on

the varying form of the pappus. The subject of the present

plate has been referred to Coleostephus, of which the type

is C. Myconis, L., and also to another genus Glossopappus,

which hardly differs. OC. multicaule is a native of various

parts of Algeria; it was first found in the Oran province

by Desfontaines, and has since been collected at Biskra

and elsewhere growing in sandy fields, &c. Judging from

a rather insufficient example, it extends to Marocco, whence

a specimen collected at Tangier by Broussonet is in the

Hookerian Herbarium at Kew.

I am indebted to Mr. Lynch, of the Cambridge Botanical

Gardens, for the fine specimen figured here, which is much

APRIL IsT, 1887. ;

larger, more branched and succulent than are native ones

in the Herbarium. It flowered in July and August.

Descr. A glabrous glaucous annual, with many simple

or branched stout, terete, erect or ascending stems six to

twelve inches high. Jeaves succulent, very variable,

sometimes linear-spathulate, one to three inches long and |

one-half to three-fourths of an inch broad, and coarsely

toothed or lobulate, at others much shorter and trisect or

pinnatisect with few very narrow linear acute entire seg-

ments about a line broad. Heads solitary at the ends of

the stems or branches, long-peduncled, one and a half to

two and a half inches broad, golden-yellow. Involucre

hemispheric, outer bracts oblong, green, with hyaline

margins, inner with very large rounded hyaline appendages.

Ray-flowers twelve to twenty, tube very short; limb very

broadly oblong, obscurely crenate at the tip. Disk-flowers

very numerous, outer shortly flagon-shaped, base almost

cordate, contracted at the minute five-toothed mouth,

innermost smaller, nearly tubular. Achenes of the ray

short, very broad, dorsally deeply furrowed, and with

three or four ventral thick wing-like ribs crowned by a

hyaline truncate and obliquely cleft tube;—of the disk

shorter, with two oblong parallel ventral swellings crowned

with a scale or annular corona.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower of the ray; 2, achene and corona of the same; 3, outer flower

of the disk ; 4, stamens; 5, style-arms ; 6, innermost disk-flower :—all enlarged.

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HEDYSARUM MICROCALYX.

Native of the Himalaya.

Nat. Ord. Lecuminos#.—Tribe HepysarEx.

Genus Hepysarum, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen, Pl. vol. i. p. 510.)

Hepysarvum (Eleutherotium) microcalyx ; glabrum, caule robusto ramoso folioso,

foliis pinnatis, pinnis 9-13-jugis obovato-oblongis v. ellipticis acutis, nervis

numerosis tenuissimis, stipulis membranaceis in unam 2-fidam connatis,

racemis longe pedunculatis puberulis multifloris, floribus breviter pedicellatis,

bracteis parvis linearibus membranaceis, calyce parvo hemispherico ore obliquo

minute 5-dentato corolla pluries breviore, vexillo anguste obovato-spathulato

apice 2-lobo, alis angustis vexillo equilongis apicibus recurvis basi longiuscule

calearatis, carina alis et vexillo multo majore dimidiato-oblonga obtusa,

er 2-articulato articulis oblongis late marginatis plano-compressis reti-

culatis.

H. microcalyx, Baker in Flor. Brit. Ind. vol. ii, p. 147.

This very handsome plant is a near ally of the common

Sainfoin, Hedysarum coronarium, L., but is a far more

beautiful species, a very free flowerer, and well adapted for

the climate of Great Britain. It is confined tothe Western

Himalaya, where it extends from Garwhal, the province

west of Kumaon, to Cashmere, at elevations of 11,000 to

13,000 feet. It was discovered by Falconer half a century

ago, but remained long unpublished. The plant was raised

from seed and flowers in June.

Descr. A tall nearly glabrous leafy shrub; branches

stout, herbaceous, fistular. Leaves a foot long and under,

rachis slender; pinne eight to ten pairs, three-quarters to

one and a half inch long, opposite, petiolulate, oblong or

ovate-oblong, obtuse or acute, when mature glabrous or

sparsely hairy beneath, young softly appressedly hairy,

nerves very many, slender; stipules connate in pairs, mem-

branous, sheathing; simple or bifid, the lobes sometimes

elongate, uppermost on the young shoots sometimes two

inches long, sheathing the young leaves and racemes.

_ Racemes axillary, a foot long and under, very long-

_peduncled, many-flowered ; bracts membranous, subulate ;

apni Ist, 1887.

flowers shortly pedicelled, an inch long, bright violet-red.

Calyx hemispheric, minutely bibracteolate, obliquely trun-

cate, five-toothed, the lower tooth rather the longest.

Standard narrowly oblong-obovate, emarginate, equalling

the narrow linear wings which have decurved points and long

spur-like basal lobes; keel-petals much larger and longer

than the wings and standard, dimidiate-oblong, obtuse.

Filaments glabrous; anthers minute. Ovary lanceolate,

stipitate, glabrous; style filiform; stigma minute. Pod

stipitate, biarticulate, joints quite flat, oblong, one-half to

two-thirds of an inch long, with a thin flat margin and

reticulately nerved faces; pericarp very thin. Seeds

flattened, reniform, much smaller than the cell.

Fig. . Calyx and bracteoles ; 2, standard; 3, keel-petals; 4, wings; 5, stamens —

6, ovary -—all enlarged.

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MOMORDICA INVOLUCRATA.

Native of Natal.

Nat. Ord. CucursiTacex.—Tribe CucUMERINE®.

Genus Momorpica, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 825.)

-Momorpica involucrata; glaberrima, caulibus gracillimis, foliis petiolatis ambitu

orbicularibus v. late ovatis palmatim 5-lobis, lobis iiandadintate dentibus

aristatis, pedunculis 1-floris, masculis elongatis apice bractea lata orbiculari

florem involucrante instructis, calycis segmentis rotundatis viridibus purpureo-

v. brunneo-striatis, corolle flavide tubo brevi, lobis obovato-rotundatis,

tribus basi atro-purpureis, pedunculis feemineis masculis brevioribus, infra

medium bractea parva instructis, ovario lageniforme subtuberculato, calycis

segmentis parvis ovato-lanceolatis, corolla maris sed minore maculis 3 basi

minutis, stylo columnari, stigmatibus 3 capitellatis, fructu coccineo rhombeo-

ovoideo tuberculis sparsis, testa extus carnosa.

M. involucrata, FE. Meyer in Herb. Drege; Harv. and Sonder Fl, Cap. vol. ii.

p- 491; Baker in Saunder’s Refug. Bot. vol. iv. t. 223.

This elegant climber seems to be a common plant in the

neighbourhood of Durban, where it was discovered by the

German collector Drege, and has since been found by_

many collectors. It was introduced into cultivation by

Mr. Thomas Cooper, a collector for the late W. Wilson

Saunders, HEsq., F.R.S., who raised it from seeds in his

celebrated garden at Reigate in Surrey about twenty years

ago, and figured the plant in his “ Refugium.”

The specimen here figured flowered in the Water Lily

House at Kew in July, 1886, and fruited profusely, forming

a very attractive feature in the house.

Drscor. An extensive glabrous climber; stem very

slender, copiously branched and festooning bushes and

buildings with its annual growths; branches almost filiform.

Leaves one and a half to two inches in diameter, nearly

orbicular in outline, or very broadly ovate with a deeply

cordate base, membranous, bright green, five-lobed, lobes

ovate with a rounded sinus and a few broad apiculate teeth,

the terminal lobe sometimes again three-lobed, petiole one-

fourth to one inch, slender; tendrils simple, capillary,

- sometimes six inches long. Male flowers solitary in all the

APRIL Ist, 1887.

‘upper axils; peduncle one to four inches long, slender,

bearing an orbicular white bract, one-half to an inch in

diameter, veined with green beneath the flower. Male

flower sessile in the bracts, nearly two inches in diameter.

Calyx-lobes orbicular, green. Corolla pale yellowish with

three broad greenish spots on the short tubes and extending

as broad veins on to the base of the five large orbicular

crenate rounded lobes. <Anther-head subsessile, anther-

cells sinuous, connective hairy. Female flowers few, axil-

lary, peduncle ‘shorter than the male, bracteate below the

middle. Calyx-tube (or ovary) narrowly pitcher-shaped,

muricate; lobes small, ovate, acute. Corolla an inch in

diameter, lobes revolute; epigynous glands green; style

columnar, with three short spreading arms which bear

capitate stigmas. Lruwit two inches long, rhomboidal

oblong, contracted at the base and apex, scarlet, fleshy ;

surface with a few soft low tubercles. Seeds oblong ;

testa brown, rough, covered with a thick fleshy scarlet

coat.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Male branch; 2, staminal column; 3, anther from ditto; 4, portion of

female branch and flower; 5, ovary and calyx; 6, branch with fruit; 7, seed with

axil; 8, seed removed from aril :—all but figs. 2, 3, and 5 of the natural size, the

rest enlarged, J

| Tas. 6933,

; XANTHORRHAIA Pruissu.

Native of South-Western Australia. :

Nat. Ord. Juncacex,—Tribe Xerorez. ete

Genus XantHorru#a, Smith; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen, Pl. vol. iii. p. 865.)

XanTHoRRHEA Preissii ; caudice arboreo, foliis e basi latiuscula longissimis

gracilibus 3-4-quetris levibus rigidulis junioribus fragilibus, scapo robusto

3-8 pedali, spica scapo equilonga elongato cylindracea obtusa basi zona

bractearum rigidarum instructa, bracteis extimis alabastra vix excedentibus,

bracteolis lineari-spathulatis v. lanceolatis perianthio paulo brevioribus, peri-

_ anthii segmentis exterioribus anguste oblongis concavis siccis 3-5-nerviis,

= gta paulo latioribus 5-7-nerviis apice obtusis membrana angusta

tis.

X. Preissii, Endlicher in Plant. Preiss. vol. ii. p. 39. Benth. Flor. Austral.

vol. vii. p. 117.

X. Brunonis, Endl. 7. ¢.

X. Drummondii ®Zar'v. in Hook. Kew Journ, Bot. vol. vii. 'p. 57.

X. pecoris, F. Muell. Fragment. Fl. Austral. vol. iv. p. 110.

This is the fourth species of the remarkable Australian

genus of “‘ Grass Gum-trees”’ that has flowered in the Royal

Gardens of Kew, and been figured in this Macaztng, the —

others being X. gradrangulata (Tab. 6075), X. hastilis (Tab.

4722), and X. minor (Tab. 6297). It is confined to the Swan

River Colony, and is the only species certainly known to

grow there, except X. gracilis, which differs in its flat

leaves and the broad wings at the tips of the inner

segments of the perianth. I say certainly, however, for.

Bentham, who includes under X. Preissii, X. Brunonis,

— Drummondii and pecoris, says, “‘ I may be wrong in uniting

the above supposed species, but I am quite unable to

distinguish them by dried specimens.” That he was

right, however, may be inferred from the fact that none of

them are taken up by Fred. Mueller in his last enumeration

of all known Australian plants. _

Of these three, X. Brunonis has no differential charac-

ters of importance assigned to it by its author. X. Drum-

+ mondit was described by Harvey, who supposed it to be

-— Mav-Ist, 1887. :

distinguishable from Preissii by the far less brittle and

square instead of rhomboidal leaves (a variable character).

He describes it as the finest of the genus, and producing

the most valuable gum. X. pecoris, again, was charac-

terized by the very fragile compressed tetragonal leaves

and shortness of the scape. It is described as attaining

fifeeen feet in height, with disagreeably scented flowers,

and as being of the greatest use in the colony from its

forming the principal food of the sheep and cattle through-

out a great part of the year. :

X. Preissii flowered in the Succulent House at Kew in

June of last year, the trunk being hardly formed, and not

reaching a foot above the ground; it was one of two

Specimens received in the same year from the West

Australian Commissioners of the Indo-Colonial Exhibition.

Other specimens had been previously received from the

same source, through the representations of Baron von

Mueller.

Dusor. Z'runk (in its native country) ten to fifteen feet

high, robust. Leaves three to four feet long,*very slender

from a short broad base, sharply three- to four-angled,

brittle when young, margins nearly smooth, light green.

Scape one to eight feet long; spike as long, and two to

two and a half inches in diameter, surrounded at the base’

by a zone of rigid lanceolate imbricating bracts half to

three-quarters of an inch long; outer bracts short, nob

produced beyond the fully developed flowers; bracteoles

shorter than the perianth, narrowly oblong or subspathulate.

Perianth one-third of an inch long; outer segments

narrowly linear-oblong, concave, acute; inner longer,

broader, with a narrow scarious wing round the tip.

Stamens about twice as long as the perianth. Capsule

half an inch long, valves acuminate.—J. D. H.

__ Fig. 1, Whole plant, reduced ; 2, leaf, nat. size; 3, section of leaf at one-third

distance from base; 4, ditto at two-thirds; 5, inflorescence, nat. size; 6, bracts ;

: flower ; 8, outer perianth-segment; 9, inner ditto; 10, stamen; 11, pistil; 12,

section of ovary; 13, fruit of nat. size; 14, fruit; 15, seed:—all but figs. 1, 2,

6, and 13 enlarged.

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ARISTOLOCHIA. rivicota.

Native of Brazil.

Nat. Ord. AntsToLocurEn,

Genus ArtstoLocuiA, Linn.; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 123.)

Anistotocnta (Gymnolobus) ridicula ; scandens, suffruticosa, caule gracili petiolis

_pedunculis perianthioque extus pilis elongatis patentibus hispidissimis, foliis

petiolatis membranaceis reniformi-rotundatis basi cordatis quintuplinerviis

supra laxe setulosis subtus tomentellis reticulatis, nervis gracilibus, pedunculis

axillaribus 1-floris, ovario gracillimo, perianthii flavi brunneo-irrorati utriculo

oblongo inflato, tubo curvo xquilongo cylindraceo, limbi ore rotundato, lobis

2 posticis lineari-oblongis deorsum spectantibus glandulis longe _stipitatis

submarginalibus ornatis, marginibus recurvis, fauce pilis inflexis farcta, antheris

6 linearibus lobis column oppositis, stigmatibus brevibus obtusis.

A. ridicula, VW. E. Brown in Gard. Chron, vol. xxvi. (1886), p. 360, fig. 73.

This most singular-looking plant was introduced from

the Brazils by Mr. Bull, and is well figured and described

by Mr. Brown in the ‘‘ Gardener’s Chronicle ” referred to

above. It belongs to alarge South American section of the

genus, of which 105 species are described by Duchartre in

De Candolle’s Prodromus, and to a hexandrous division of

it, to which Klotzsch gave the generic name of Howardia.

To the same division belong, of species figured in this

work, A. macrowra, Gomez (A. caudata, Booth., Tab. 3769),

A, anguicida, Lin. (Tab. 4361), and others; but none of

them have the grotesque disposition of the lobes of the

perianth that has suggested to Mr. Brown the apt trivial

name of A. ridicula. Its nearest ally, and it is a very

near one, is, as_ he indicates, A. eriantha, Mart. and Zucc.

(Nov. Gen. et Sp. vol. i. p. 78, t. 53), a widely distributed

Brazilian species, identical in foliage and size and general

form of flower, and differing chiefly in the spathulate tips

of the lobes of the corolla, to which the stipitate glands

appear to be confined. There is also a different dis-

position of the corolla-lobes, which spread forward hori-

zontally in A. eriantha, but backwards and downwards in

may lst, 1887.

A. ridicula. The species are otherwise so near, that as

regards the disposition of the corolla-lobes these may

represent an analogous case to that of the right- and left-

handed spiral of univalve shells.

I am indebted to Mr. Bull for the specimen here figured,

which flowered in September, 1886, in his establishment.

Dzscr. A very slender climber ; stem, petioles, peduncles

and surface of perianth clothed with stiffish very long

horizontally-spreading hairs. Leaves four to five inches in

diameter, membranous, orbicular-reniform with a cordate

base, bright green, pale beneath, pubescent above with

_ seattered short rather stiff hairs, finely tomentose, with

closely reticulate nerves beneath; nerves very slender,

pedately spreading, with a few stiff long bristles towards the

base ; petiole one to two inches long; stipular leaf orbicular,

recurved. lowers axillary, solitary, about two inches

long exclusive of the limb; sac at the base obliquely oblong

and tube of about equal length, the latter very slightly

swollen above the base upwards, pale yellow with broken

veins of dull brownish purple; limb with reflexed margins,

bright yellow spotted with red purple, produced dorsaily

into two divaricate deflexed linear-obtuse lobes about an

inch long and half an inch broad; these lobes bear scat-

tered clavellate glands on capillary stalks; mouth and

throat of the tube stuffed with deflexed white hairs; sac

within villous and with the mouth deeply inflexed.

Staminal column short, very shortly stipitate, produced

into six triangular obtuse stigmatic lobes, with thickened

margins, and bearing six linear anthers. Ovary very

slender—J.D.H.

Fig. 1, Portion of under surface of leaf ; 2, sac of perianth laid open; 3, staminal

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DISPORUM Lescuenavitianum.

Native of South India and Ceylon.

Nat. Ord. Liztacrz.—Tribe Uvunarrex.

Genus Disrorum, Salisb.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Pl. vol. iii, p. 831.)

Disporum Leschenaultianum; glaberrimum, caulibus dichotome ramosis acute

angulatis, foliis breviter petiolatis ellipticis utrinque acutis v. acuminatis

plicato-6-9-nerviis, floribus in axillis gr rence: 2-5-nis cernuis crassiuscule

pedicellatis albis, perianthii segmentis oblongis obtusis basi vix saccatis costa

crassiuscula subcarinatis, staminibus brevibus, antheris oblongis, ovario obo-

voideo, stylo erecto, stigmatibus revolutis, bacca depresso-globosa ccerulea

oligosperma, seminibus globosis.

D. Leschenaultianum, D. Don in Trans. Linn. Soe. vol. xviii. p. 528; Kunth

Enum. Plant. vol. iv. p. 207; Wight Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 2048; Baker in

Journ. Linn. Soc, vol. xiv. p. 590; Thwaites Enum. Pl. Ceylan. p. 338.

Uvularia Leschenaultiana, Wall. Cat. No. 5089; Royle Ill. Plant. Himal.

t. 96, £. 2.

D. ceylanicum and D, mysorense, Wight Ie. t. 1049.

The genus Disporwm offers a singular case of geographical

distribution. It contains only five described species, or

eight including Prosartes, which is doubtfully distinct, and

confined to Western North America. Of the five typical

species, one, D. smilacinum, A. Gray, is Japanese and

Eastern Siberian; a second, D. sessile, Don, is contined to

Japan ; a third, D. calcaratum, Don, is Eastern Himalayan ;

and the fourth, D. pullum, Salish. (Uvularia chinensis,

Bor. Maa. t. 916), extends from Japan and China to the

Central and Eastern Himalaya, Bengal, Sumatra, and

Java; whilst the fifth, the subject of the present plate, is

confined to the southern mountains of the Western Penin-

sula of India and of Ceylon. D. Leschenaultianum is a

native of the Nilghiri Hills, and probably of other

mountain ranges at the southern extremity of the Peninsula

of India, for it reappears in Ceylon, where it reaches an

elevation of 4000 to 7000 feet. :

The plant here figured was raised from seed sent to Kew

a good many years ago by the late G. H. K. Thwaites,

may Ist, 1887.

F.R.S., then Director of the Botanical Gardens of Pera-

denyia. It flowers annually in a cool greenhouse in the

spring months. It is a variable plant in the size and length

of the leaves, size of the flower, and length and acuteness

of the perianth-segments ; but the three species founded by

Wight on dried specimens of it depend on characters due

to withering or pressure rather than to natural ones.

Drscr. A rather rigid herb, one to two feet high; root-

stock creeping, stem dichotomously branched above, and

branches acutely angled ;. base of stem with broad sheath-

ing foliaceous scales; branches leafy. Leaves rather rigid,

one to four inches long by one to two inches broad,

narrowed into a distinct petiole, from elliptic to elliptic-

lanceolate and almost orbicular, cuspidate acute acuminate

or almost caudate, usually five-nerved and with as many

shallow folds; cross-nervules distinct. Flowers half to

three-quarters of an inch in diameter, subcampanulate,

white, from two to five together in the axils of the upper-

most leaves; peduncle one to one and a half inch long,

stout, angular, decurved. Sepals six in two series, oblong

or linear-oblong, obtuse or subacute, hardly saccate at the

three-ribbed base, rather thick, almost keeled by the mid-

rib. Stamens six, shorter than the sepals; filaments stout,

subulate, about equalling the oblong anthers. Ovary

obovoid; style stout, with three revolute stigmas. Berry

three-quarters of an inch in diameter, depressed globose,

dark blue, few-seeded. Seeds globose.—J. D. H.

: Fig. 1, Petal; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, pistil; 5, transverse section of ovary; 6,

ripe fruit; 7 and 8, seeds :—ald but figs. 6 and 7 enlarged.

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PLEUROTHALLIS instants.

Native of Caraccas ?

Nat. Ord. OncHIDACEH.—Tribe EpipENDRER. |

Genus PLEUROTHALLIS, Br.; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 488.)

PxLevroTHattis (Acuminate) insignis ; folio lineari-oblongo obtuso basi angustato

erase coriaceo, scapo 2-floro, sepalis 2 e basi ovato-oblonga concava in caudas

_ longissimas angustatis inferiore 4- superiore 3-nervi, petalis e basi parva oblonga

apice biloba cauda filiformi sepalis zquilonga instructis, labello trilobo, lobis

lateralibus falcato-incurvis obtusis hyalinis, intermedio lineari-oblongo brunneo-

purpureo apice barbato dimidio brevioribus.

P. insignis, Rolfe in Gard. Chron. Ser. 3, vol. i. p. 477.

P. glossopogon, Nicholson in Gard. Chron. vol. i. p. 283, not of Rehb. f.

A very near ally of P. glossopogon, Rehb. f., and at first

sight it resembles a gigantic form of that plant; but

besides the difference in size, which is more than double,

P. insignis wants the pubescence on the sepals, which is

even described by Lindley as velvetiness, though puberulous

appears a better suited term. Other characters are that

the leaf of P. glossopogon is described as narrowed at both

ends, the lip is narrower in proportion, and has three lines

of papillae. On the other hand the forms of the sepals,

petals, and lip are almost identical, and it is more than

probable, in my opinion, that intermediates between these

two species will be found to unite them.

The native country of P. insignis is not recorded, but it

may with much confidence be predicted to be Venezuela

P. glossopogon, biserrula and Sorine being all indigenous to

the Caraccas province of that country, at elevations of about

7000 feet. All, as Lindley remarks, are remarkable for

their large dull-coloured flowers, long sepals and weak

_ pristle-like petals.

The plant figured was received from Messrs. Veitch in

1884, under the name of P. glossopogon ; it flowered in the

Cool Orchid House in the month of February of this year.

_ Desor. Stems tufted. Leaf three-quarters by one inch,

may Ist, 1887. ; :

linear-oblong, narrowed at the base, obtuse with a recurved

tip, thickly coriaceous. Scape shorter than the leaf, stout;

bract sheathing with an obliquely truncate membranous

tip, two-fid. Flowers very large for the genus. Sepals

two, three inches long, dull creamy white with purple-

brown veins, lower (that at the back of the lip) formed of

two confluent sepals, base ovate-oblong concave, narrowed

into a tail three times the length of the base, which latter

has four coloured nerves ; upper sepal as long, but narrower,

with three coloured nerves. Petals creamy white, basal

part shortly oblong, a quarter of an inch long, three-nerved,

toothed at the tip, and with a filiform tail as long as the

sepals inserted between the teeth. ip three-quarters of

an inch long, three-lobed; lateral lobes basal, linear, as-

cending, and falcately incurved with obtuse hooked tips,

colourless and hyaline; midlobe twice as long as the

lateral, linear-oblong, red-brown, obscurely papillose,

grooved down the centre, bearded at the darker tip.

Column short, obtuse, with two tumid villous prominences

at the base in front. Ovary short, grooved.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Side view of column and lip; 2, front view of column; 3 and 4, front

and back view of anther; 5, pollen-masses :—all enlarged.

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BILLBERGIA pecora.

Native of the Amazon Valley. ~

Nat. Ord. Brometracrm.—Tribe BromeEtien.

Genus Briuprrara, Thunb. ; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen, Pl. vol. iti. p. 664.)

Bittperesa (Helicodea) decora ; acaulis, foliis 8-10 loratis dense rosulatis acutis

sae sesquipedalibus vel bipedalibus facie albo-lepidotis dorso fasciis albo-lepidotis

+ transversalibus percursis margine aculeis crebris parvis brunneis ascendentibus

- armatis, pedunculo cernuo subpedali furfuraceo, foliis bracteiformibus pluribus _

_magnis oblongo-lanceolatis rubellis, floribus 20-30 in spicam densam pendulam

aggregatis, ovario oblongo lepidoto sulcato, calycis segmentis parvis ovatis,

par elongatis lanceolatis viridibus spiraliter revolutis, staminibus petalis

brevioribus antheris linearibus basifixis, styli ramis stigmatosis linearibus

spiraliter contortis.

Billbergia decora, Poepp. et Endlich. Nov. Gen. p. 42, tab. 57; Beer Brom.

p. 124; EF. Morren in Belg. Hort. 1875, p. 221, tab. 13, 14.

B. Baraquiniana, Lemaire in Ill. Hort. 1864, tab. 421; K. Koch Wochen, 1865,

p. 141. |

This is one of the very finest for horticultural purposes

and most curious of all the Bilbergias. It belongs to the

subgenus Helicodea, which has green petals, which curl up

spirally soon after the flower expands. Its nearest ally is

B. zebrina, Lindl, (Bromelia zebrina, Herbert in Bor. Mae. |

t. 2686), which is well known in cultivation. The present —

plant differs from zebrina by its longer petals, much shorter

denser spike, longer coloured bracts and less deeply sulcate

ovary. It was first discovered by Poeppig in the year 1831 _

in the virgin forests of Yurimagues, but it was not intro- |

duced into cultivation until 1864, when it was sent by

M. Baraquin to M. Verschaffelt of Ghent. Our drawing

was made from a plant that flowered last January in the

collection of Sir George Macleay at Pendell Court, which

was forwarded to Kew for identification.

Duscr. Acaulescent. Leaves eight or ten in a rosette,

lorate, acute, one and a half or two feet long, two inches

broad at the middle, three inches at the dilated clasping

_ base, firm in texture, thinly mealy all over the face, furnished

with irregular transverse mealy bands on the back,

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margined with small close brown horny ascending spines.

Pedunele a foot long, cernuous, green, slightly furfuraceous;

lower bract-leaves distant, lanceolate; upper eight to

nine aggregated towards the base of the spike, large,

oblong-lanceolate, bright red. Spike dense, pendulous,

simple, three to four inches long, almost hidden by the

large bracts; rachis mealy. Ovary oblong, mealy, shal-

lowly sulcate, pale green, finally half an inch long; calyx-

segments small, ovate, greenish. Petals lanceolate, green,

two inches long, curling up spirally from the base. - Stamens

shorter than the petals; anthers linear, basifixed, yellow.

_ Style reaching to the tip of the anthers; ohana a forks

linear, twisted spirally. gy G. ~atiak

Fig. L Complete flower, life-size; 2, base of petal, showing the insertion of a

stamen; 3, anther and upper part of filament ; 4, stigmas and top of oe :—all

more or less enlarged.

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OXERA puULCHELLA.

. Native of New Caledonia.

Nat. Ord. VerBEnacex.—Tribe ViTIcEx.

Genus Oxera, Labill.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 1155.)

Oxera pulchella ; frutex glaberrimus scandens, ramis teretibus, foliis oppositis

breviter petiolatis oblongis v. ovato- v. oblongo-lanceolatis obtusis v. acutis

integerrimis v. grosse crenatis basi acutis v. obtusis, cymis axillaribus multi-

floris, floribus gracile pedicellatis pendulis, sepalis ellipticis acutis punctatis

ala viridibus trinerviis, corolla 2-pollicari alba infundibulari campanulata

obis late oblongis, staminibus longe exsertis, ovario 4-lobo disco crasso inserto,

: staminodiis brevibus filiformibus.

Oxera pulchella, Ladil?. Sertum Austro-Caledon. p. 23, t. 28; Schauer in DC.

Prodr. vol. xi. p. 676; Fenzl in Denksh. Naturf. Versamml. Bericht., 1843,

t. 2,3; Boquill Rev. Verben. p. 124, t. 19, and in Adansonia, vol. ii. p. 294,

and vol. iii. p. 220; Vieillard in Bull. Bot. Soc. Normand. vol. vii. p- 98.

Oncoma pulchellum, Spreng. Syst. Veg., Cur. Post. 18.

This very handsome climber is the type of Labillardiere’s

genus Oxzera, discovered in New Caledonia during the

Voyage a la Recherche de La Pérouse, and well described

and figured in that author’s ‘‘ Sertum Austro-Caledoniz.”

For many years it was the only species of the genus known

to exist, but the late French botanical explorations of their

penal settlement in the Pacific, have added nine others.

The genus is closely allied to Clerodendron, of the climbing

species of which it has the habit, but differs in having only

two stamens and a deeply-divided drupe. The genus is

confined to New Caledonia. O. pulchella was flowered by

‘Sir George McLeay, K.C.M.G., in his fine garden at Pendell

Court, Bletchingley, Surrey, in December of last year, and

he kindly forwarded to Kew the specimen from which the

accompanying drawing was made.

Drscr. A woody climber, quite glabrous; branches

slender, terete, smooth. Leaves two to five inches long,

opposite, peticled, bright green, upper on the branches

oblong obtuse or subacute, lower larger, oblong-lanceolate,

obtusely acuminate, quite entire or with broad shallow

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crenatures, finely reticulate beneath, base rounded or acute,

nerves six to eight pair, slender; petiole one-half to three-

quarters of an inch, terete. Flowers large, pendulous, in

sessile axillary branched many-fid. cymes; branches and

pedicels very slender, green, bracts minute. Calya of four

free or connate, elliptic, membranous, three-nerved, subacute,

pale green, punctate, sepals one-half to three-quarters of an

inch long. Corolla two inches long, between funnel- and

bell-shaped, pale yellowish or faintly greenish white, tube

curved terete, lobes broadly oblong. Stamens two, inserted

about the middle of the tube, filaments exserted for half

their length; anthers small, bright-yellow ; staminodes

between the stamens short, filiform. Ovary deeply four-

lobed, seated on a broad fleshy disk; style filiform, stigma

minute.—J. D. H.

_ Fig. 1, Portion of leaf; 2, section of calyx and ovary ; 3, corolla-tube laid open,

with stamens and staminodes; 4, anthers; 5, upper part of style and stigma:—

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AECHMEA myrtopuyLa.

Native of Tropical America.

Nat. Ord. BromeLiacex.—Tribe Brometiex.

Genus MicumEa, Ruiz et Pavon.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pi. vol. iii. p. 663.)

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cumea (Platyechmea) myriophylla ; acaulis, foliis 30-40 dense rosulatis ensi-

formibus rigidis faleatis bipedalibus et ultra facie obscure viridibus canaliculatis

dorso tenuiter albo-lepidotis, pedunculo centrali erecto rubello subpedali

deorsum foliis arcte imbricatis viridibus occulto, floribas permultis confertis

in paniculam Jaxam oblongo-deltoideam ramis multis brevibus patulis distichis

subsessilibus dispositis, bracteis late ovatis obtusis cuspidatis apice solum

liberis, ovario oblongo. calycis segmentis ovato-lanceolatis cuspidatis, petalis

oblongo-spathulatis rubellis calycis segmentis duplo longioribus, staminibus

styloque petalis brevioribus.

#. myriophylla, Hort, Morren.

This is a very distinct unpublished species of Bromeliad,

which belongs to a small section of the genus Achmea,

which is characterized by the distichous arrangement of the

flowers, a plan very common in the Tillandsiex, but very

unusual in the genera with an inferior ovary. The only

species of this series which has already been figured in the

Boranicat MaGazine is Aichmea distichantha, Lemaire (Bor.

Maa., tab. 5447), but besides these two, nine species are

now known, most of which inhabit the open tracts of the

southern provinces of Brazil. The flowers, though not

large, are bright in colour and remain in good condition

for a long time. Our drawing was made from a plant that

flowered at Kew in October, 1886, which was purchased

from the collection of the late Professor Morren. We have

no exact information as to its native country.

Descr. Acaulescent, densely cespitose. Leaves thirty

or forty in a dense rosette, ensiform, rigid in texture,

faleate, two or two and a half feet long, an inch broad at

the middle, tapering gradually to a long point, channelled

all the way down the dull-green face, thinly argenteo-

lepidote on the back, neither spotted nor banded, margined

with moderately close ascending brown horny prickles.

JUNE lst, 1887.

Peduncle erect, central, a foot long, bright red, hidden,

except at the top, by the erect imbricated green bract-

leaves. Panicle oblong-deltoid, bipinnate, half a foot long;

branches numerous, spreading, distichous, subsessile, an

inch or an inch and a half long; flower-bracts broad ovate,

pink, a quarter of an inch long, adnate to the rachis except

at the cuspidate tip. Ovary as long as the bract; calyx-

segments horny, ovate-lanceolate, cuspidate. Petals oblong-

spathulate, connivent, twice as long as the calyx-segments, ©

pink fading to lilac. Stamens and style not protruded

beyond the petals.—J. G. Baker. —

Fig. 1, An entire flower ; 2,a petal and stamen ; 3, back view of a stamen ;

4, pistil:—all more or less enlarged.

Tas. 6940,

CAREX SCAPOSA.

Native of South China.

Nat. Ord. CypErace®.—Tribe Caricex.

Genus Carex, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Pl. vol. iii. p. 1073.)

Carex scaposa; “glaberrima, foliis radicalibus longe petiolatis lanceolatis acuminatis

planis latissimis 1-1} poll. latis, culmo florigero subaphyllo elongato, pedunculis

axillaribus remotis apice composite corymbiferis, bracteis angustis erectis,

spicis subsessilibus densis multifloris apice masculis, utriculis ovoideis trigonis

glabris in rostrum cylindricum subito angustatis, stylo trifido."—C. B. Clarke.

The singular plant here figured is of more botanical

than horticultural interest, though a well-grown pot of it

may well compare with any of the Cyperi now so com-

monly grown for decorative purposes. Mr. C. B. Clarke,

who is now engaged upon the family of Cyperaceae, has

kindly named and given a diagnosis of it for this Macazinz.

He informs me that it belongs to a subsection ‘* Scapose”

of the huge genus Carex (which numbers upwards of 500

species), and of which the C. pandanophylla, Kurz, a

Burmese plant, was the first-known Indian representative.

There are, however; several American allies of the scapose

section, of which one has been long cultivated in gardens;

namely, the curious C. Fraseri, Andr. (Bor. Mac. t. 1391),

of the Southern United States. C. Fraseri, however, differs

notably from the Indian “ Scapose”’ in the characters of

the spike, which is simple. Unlike as C. scaposa and

pandanophylla are in habit to the ordinary Indian types of

Carex, Mr. Clarke informs me that in India, as in America,

there is a gradual transition from these to the leafy

culmed species, so that it is impossible to separate them

definitely. a

C’. scaposa is a native of the Lo-fau-shan Mountains on

the coast of China, opposite to the Island of Hong Kong,

where it was discovered growing at an elevation of 3200

feet by Mr. Chas. Ford, of the Hong Kong Botanical

JUNE Ist, 1887. i

Gardens, who sent living plants to Kew in 1883, which

flower in the winter months.

Duscr. LRootstock stout, short, creeping; young stolons

clothed with sheathing scales. Radical leaves a foot long

and upwards by one to two inches broad, elliptic-lanceolate,

acuminate at both ends, flat, striated and three-nerved,

quite smooth, bright green, narrowed into a distinct

petiole which is sometimes three to four inches long, at

others much shorter, margins, nerves, and slender midrib

perfectly smooth. Flowering scapes longer or shorter than

the leaves, stout, erect, obtusely trigonous, naked or with

one or more acuminate appressed sheaths bearing three or

more superposed erect peduncled rounded brown cymes

one to two inches broad, with divaricate branchlets ; bracts

very slender, erect, hardly sheathing below, longer or

shorter than the peduncles of the cymes. Spikelets one-

sixth to a quarter of an inch long, each with terminal male

flowers, and female flowers below, sessile on the short

branchlets of the cymes, divaricate; bract at the base

of the spikelet gibbously ampulliform, with a narrow neck

and small truncate mouth, smooth, terete, punctate.

Glumes ovate-lanceolate, subacute, nerves very faint, quite —

smooth. Stamens three; anthers slender, as long as the

filaments. ~Utricle elliptic - ovate, trigonous, perfectly

smooth, narrowed into a slender beak half as long as itself ;

mouth minute, truncate. Nut trigonous, rhomboidly ovate,

perfectly smooth; stigma filiform, as long as the slender

style-—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Section of scape ; 2, portion of cyme; 3, spikelets with bract; 4, glume

of tem, fl.; 5, male fl. and glume; 6, utricle and stigmas; 7, nut with style and

stigmas :—all enlarged.

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6941.

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Tas. 6941,

PULTENAIA ROSEA.

Native of Victoria.

Nat. Ord. Legum1nos#.—Tribe Popatyrizm,

Genus Puttenma, Sm.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 470.)

Pottrenza (Celophyllum) rosea; frutex ericoideus, ramulis virgatis, foliis con-

fertis patentibus anguste linearibus acutis rigidis aspero-tuberculatis dorso’

convexis marginibus incurvis supra canaliculatis, novellis sericeo-villosis,

-stipulis aciculari-subulatis, floribus roseis in capitula terminalia sessilia dis-

itis, bracteolis calyci appressis lineari-lanceolatis, calycis sericei lobis ovato-

neeolatis tubo eequilongis, corolla calyce duplo longiore, vexillo rotundato

unguiculato, alis oblongis apice rotundatis, carina alis paullo minore et

angustiore, ovario villoso, stylo filiformi, legamine acuminato.

P. rosea, F. Muell, Fragment. Fl. Austral, vol. ii. p. 15, and Plunts Indigenous

to Victoria, Suppl. Pl. xiii.; Benth. #1. Austral. vol. ii. p- 128; Masters in

Gard. Chron. N.S. vol. vii. (1887), p. 431, fig. 67.

Burtonia subalpina, F. Muel/. in Trans. Phil. Inst. Vict. vol. i. p. 39; and in

Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. vol. viii. (1856), p. 41.

The opportunity of figuring a species of Pultencea recalls

the fact that it belongs to a class of very beautiful

Australian flowering shrubs, that were, with the South

African, the staple furniture of the greenhouse in the early

part of the century. In evidence of this, it is only neces-

sary to turn to the first volumes of this Macazinr, wherein

no less than ten species are figured. These were all

published upwards of half a century ago; the first, P.

stipularis, Sm. (Tab. 475), in the year 1800; and the last,

P. cordata, Grah., a var. of juniperina, Labill. (Tab. 3443),

in 1835. Since the latter period none have appeared in

the Macazing, and not half-a-dozen in all other Kuropean

works dedicated to Horticulture. No doubt the time will

come when a corner, at any rate, of the greenhouse will be

devoted to plants of this class, and when this does come

there are few genera that can supply more ornamental

species than Pultenea, of which seventy-five species are

described in Bentham’s “ Flora Austrahensis.”

P. rosea is a native of the summit of Mount William, in

the Grampian range of Victoria, where it was discovered

JUNE lst, 1887.

by Baron von Mueller at an elevation of 5000 feet ; and to

that eminent Botanist the Royal Gardens are indebted for

the seeds from which the plant here figured was raised.

It is one of the very few species of the genus with rose-

coloured flowers, which appear in the month of April.

Descr. A heath-like shrub, with erect twiggy branches,

naked and searred below. Leaves close set, uniform in

size and form, spreading horizontally, about half an inch

long, sessile, narrowly linear, rigid, acute, bark convex and

rough with raised points, margins incurved, leaving a deep

channel on the upper surface; young leaves silkily villous ;

stipules minute, subulate or acicular. Flowers in a terminal

sessile head, of a bright rose-colour; bracts obscure;

bracteoles linear-lanceolate, appressed to the calyx. Calyx

five-lobed, silky, lobes ovate-lanceolate, twice the length

of the tube, acute, erect. Corvila twice as long as the

calyx; standard with rather a long claw, orbicular ; wings

oblong, rounded at the tip, about as long as the standard;

keel rather smaller and narrower than the wings. Ovary

lanceolate, silky; style filiform; ovules two.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Portion of branch and leaves seen on the upper side; 2, section of leaf;

3, calyx, stamens, and pistil; 4, standard; 5, wing petal; 6, keel; 7, pistil; 8,

section of ovary, showing the ovules; 9, ovule:—adl enlarged. =

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Tas. 6942.

IRIS (Xirwion) Varrant.

Native of Palestine.

Nat. Ord. In1pEx.— Tribe Morzex.

Genus Iris, Linn.; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 686.)

Iris (Xiphion) Vartani; bulbis anguste ovoideis dense czspitosis tunicis exteri-

oribus fibroso-cancellatis pallide brunneis, foliis rudimentariis paucis linearibus

scariosis, productis 2 tetragonis viridibus angulis acutis faciebus leviter

excavatis, pedunculo brevissimo hypogeo, spathe valvis lanceolatis mem-

branaceis pallidis inzequalibus, perianthio tubo pallido 23-pollicari, limbo

lilacino segmentis exterioribus oblongo-spathulatis multilineatis flore expanso

e medio patulis e basi supra medium crista lutea crispata praeditis, interioribus

paulo brevioribus erectis oblanceolato-unguiculatis, antheris lilacinis filamento

brevi, styli appendicibus pulchre lilacino lineatis lamina longioribus.

I. Vartani, Foster in Gard. Chron. N.S. vol. xxiii. (1885), p. 438.

This very interesting new bulbous Iris, which has lately

been introduced into cultivation from the north of Palestine

by Professor M. Foster, forms, with I. reticulata (Bor. Mac.,

tab. 5577) and J. Histrio (Bor. Mac., tab. 6033), a group

very different in habit and leaf from anything else. The

present plant is easily distinguished from the two species

known previously by the very large appendages of the

stigma, and by the outer segments of the perianth having

a distinctly-raised crisped carinal crest, like that of an

Evansia. It has not the delightful violet fragrance of

reticulata, and the colour is much duller. The bulbs were

sent to Dr. Foster about 1883, by Dr. Vartan, of the

Medical Mission stationed at Nazareth, after whom it is

named. A full account of it will be found in the paper in

the “‘ Gardener’s Chronicle” which I have cited. With Dr.

- Foster it has flowered in October. The plants from which

our drawing was made were sent up last Christmas by the

Rey. H. Ewbank, of Ryde.

Descr. Bulbs narrow ovoid, densely czspitose, sending

out copious root-fibres; outer tunics formed of parallel

fibres, with narrow areole between them; rudimentary

JUNE lst, 1887.

leaves linear, scariose. Produced leaves usually two to a

bulb, tetragonal, eight or nine inches long at the flowering

time, finally more than a foot, dark green, with raised

angles and slightly excavated sides. Peduncle very short,

hidden; spathe-valves lanceolate, pale, membranous, un-

equal. Perianth-tube nearly white, two inches and a half

long; limb one and a half or two inches long, very shortly

united at the base, pale slaty-lilac; outer segments oblong-

spathulate, half an inch broad, copiously veined with lilac

on a pale ground, spreading from about the middle when

the flower expands, furnished from above the middle down

to the base with a raised yellow crisped carinal crest ;

inner segments rather shorter, oblanceolate-unguiculate,

erect, a sixth of an inch broad. Anthers lanceolate, dark

lilac, longer than the filaments. Style cleft more than half-

way down; appendages acuminate and conspicuously

veined with lilac on a whitish ground.—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, Horizontal section of leaf ; 2, flower, complete, life-size ; 3, face of stamen ;

4, back view of stamen; 5, stigma and appendages of the style:—more or less

enlarged. .

6943

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Tap. 6943. :

LONCHOCARPUS Barreut.

Native of Tropical Africa.

Nat. Ord. Lecuminos%.—Tribe Datbercira.

Genus Loncnocarpus, HZ. B. et K.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pi. vol. i. p. 548.)

Loncnocarrus (Fasciculati) Barteri; alte scandens, foliis gracile petiolatis,

foliolis 5-7 elliptico-oblongis acuminatis glabris, racemis elougatis subpanicu-'

latis gracilibus tomentellis, floribus fasciculatis breviter pedicellatis roseis,

calyce hemispberico 5-crenato, vexillo orbiculari tenuiter sericeo breviter

unguiculato, alis carinaque rectiusculis, ovario sericeo, stylo brevi, ovulis 6-8,

y egumine lineari-oblongo acuto basi angustato, seminibus orbicularibus com-

_-~pressis. ;

L. Barteri, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. iv. Suppl. p. 99.

A very beautiful climber, belonging to a genus number-

ing nearly fifty species, all, with the exception of six

African, natives of Central and South America. It is

hence a representative in the Old World of a genus that is

characteristic of the New. Of this representation there

are various examples, of which the Cocoa-nut is the most

notable, all the other species of Cocos being confined to

South America, where C. nucifera is not known to be

indigenous. Derris, again, the very next genus of Legu-

minosee to Lonchocarpus, offers an example of the distribu-

tion in the opposite direction. It has five-and-thirty species,

all Asiatic except three tropical American; but what is

most curious in the case of Derris is, that it has not been

discovered either in Africa or Polynesia ; hence, in migrating

from Asia to America, it appears to have skipped over the

Dark Continent.

L. Bartert was discovered by Mr. Barter, an indefatigable

collector from Kew, who accompanied Dr. Baikie’s Niger

Expedition in 1856-7, and contributed a great number of

plants to the Garden and Herbarium at Kew. It is

probable, however, that Lonchocarpus Barteri was intro-

duced by Gustav Mann, also an éléve of Kew, and the

most successful of all botanical explorers of western tropical

' JULY Ist, 1887.

Africa; and who in the years 1860-63 contributed a

prodigious number of seeds and living plants to Kew, as

this Macazine testifies. The specimen from which our

drawing was taken is an immense climber in the Palm

stove, which never flowered till some of its shoots, getting

beyond the reach of the pruning-knife, reached the roof,

and there blossomed profusely in September of last year.

Descr. A tall slender climber, with filiform whip-like

extremities of the branches; branchlets finely pubescent.

Leaves a foot long or more, with two to three pairs of

leaflets and an odd terminal one; petiole and rachis very

slender, the former with a cylindric thickening at the base ;

leaflets four to seven inches long, shortly petiolulate,

elliptic-oblong, acuminate or caudate-acuminate, base

rounded, smooth and bright green above, paler beneath

with sometimes a few appressed hairs on the midrib and

nerves beneath; stipules small, broadly ovate. Raceimes

twelve to sixteen inches long, subpaniculate, or with one

or two long flowering branches at the base; rachis tomen-

tose, with two small recurved stipular bracts at the base.

Flowers in clusters of eight or ten, shortly pedicelled,

three-quarters of an inch long. Culyx hemispheric, red-

brown; mouth with five broad crenatures. Corolla rose-

pink; standard orbicular, shortly clawed, finely silky

externally ; wings dimidiate. oblong, obtuse, as long as the

linear-oblong nearly straight keel. Ovary pubescent, six-

to eight-ovuled ; style short, incurved. Pod two to three

inches long, linear-oblong, flat, acute, base narrowed,

tomentose, few-seeded. Sceds orbicular, compressed.—

J. D. i.

_Fig. 1, Filiform top of a branch ; 2, leaf; 3, inflorescence ;—ad/ of the natural

size ; 4, calyx and ovary; 5, standard ; 6, wing petal; 7, keel petal; 8, stamens;

9, section of ovary ; 10, pods; 11, seed :—all but figs. 1, 2, 3 and 10 enlarged.

Tas. 6944.

ALPINIA ZINcIBERINA:

Native of Siam.

Nat. Ord. ScrTaMINIEZ.— Tribe ZINGIBERER.

Genus Aupinia, Linn. ; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 648.)

ALPINIA zingiberina ; glaberrima, foliis breviter petiolatis lineari-oblanceolatis

apiculatis basi acutis, racemo suberecto contracto, bracteis brevibus latis

obtusis scariosis, floribus breviter pedicellatis parvis erectis, corollem tubo

cylindraceo calyce sequilongo, corolle lobis 3 pallide viridibus lineari-oblongis

obtusis, dorsali lateralibus paullo majore, staminodiis corniformibus patentibus

basi rubris, labello late ovato obtuso crenulato basi in unguem latam constricto,

disco undulato sanguineo striato, anthere loculis lineari-oblongis connectivo

dorso incrassato puberulo longioribus, ovario globoso puberulo, stylodiis erectis,

stylo filiformi puberulo, stigmate minuto.

In the ‘‘ Gardener’s Chronicle ” for July, 1886 (vol. xxvi.

i, p. 150), Mr. Watson, of the Royal Gardens, Kew, drew

attention to the fact of a so-called Ginger, a native of

Siam, having been exhibited in the Siamese department of

the Health Exhibition of 1884, and which differed altogether

from the ginger of commerce. At the close of that Exhi-

bition, the collection of Siamese fruits, &c., was presented

by the Commissioners for that Empire to the Museum of

the Royal Gardens, when it was observed that the rhizomes

sent as ginger were very much thicker and less branched

than those of the officinal plant of that’ name, and some

being so fresh as to warrant the hope that they would

grow, they were transferred to the propagating pits under

Mr. Watson’s care. These in July, 1886, produced flower-

ing stems five feet high, from one of which the accompanying

drawing was made. On being taken to the Herbarium it

was examined by Mr. Baker, who identified it with an

unnamed species of Alpinia sent by the late Sir Robert

Schomburgk from Siam, but without any reference to its

properties, or even to its being a cultivated plant. This is

really all that is known of the history of the so-called Siam

Ginger, and we are still in ignorance as to whether it is a

wild or cultivated plant, and if the latter, whether it is

JULY Ist, 1887.

cultivated (as A. Agallocha is in Siam) for its seeds, or

like the true ginger, for its rhizomes. ‘he latter are very

aromatic, and smell and taste a good deal like the officinal

plant; they are, however, very much larger, at least three

times as thick, are much more shortly and irregularly

branched, and the branches are thickened in the middle.

Duscr. Rhizomes an inch and more in_ diameter,

irregularly branched ; branches short, slightly flattened,

tumid in the middle ; internodes about half an inch apart,

colour pale yellowish-brown ; odour of common ginger.

Stems four to five feet high, about as thick as a swan’s

quill at the base, leafy throughout. Leaves ten to twelve

inches long by about three inches broad, oblanceolate-

cblong, narrowed from above the middle to the base, acute

and abruptly cuspidate, quite glabrous, perfectly smooth,

base acute, contracted into a very short petiole above the

sheath ; ligule of the sheath short, obtuse, ciliate; deep

green above with a pale broad midrib, yellowish-green

beneath. Panicle ten to twelve inches long, nearly erect ;

rachis green, puberulous; basal sheath very long and

narrow, equalling the panicle, rather persistent; side

branches erecto-patent, an inch long, three- to five-flowered;

floral bracts short, scarious; pedicels one-sixth to a quarter

of an‘inch long, puberulous. Flowers erect, an inch long

from the ovary to the stigma. Calyx cylindric, obtusely

three-lobed, as long as and appressed to the corolla-tube,

about one-third of aninch long. Corvlla with the lateral and

dorsal lobes linear-oblong, obtuse, concave, pale green, the

dorsal rather the largest. Lip as long as the lobes, broadly

ovate, obtuse, contracted into a short broad claw, crenate,

surface undulate transversely, white with crimson veins

radiating from a broad yellow-green midrib. Staminodes

of two horn-like processes, with scarlet bases projecting

at right angles from the base of the lip. Lilament

exserted, puberulous; anther-cells linear, rather longer

than the connective, which is thickened and puberulous at

the back. Ovary globose ; style very slender, puberulous,

stigma minute.—J. D. H,

Fig. 1, Flower-bud ; 2, lip and staminodes ; 3, side, and 4, front view of anther ;

ovary, stylodes aud style ; 6, transverse section of ovary ; 7, ovule :—all enlaryed.

6945

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Tan. 6945.

TILLANDSIA Joncuer.

Native of Brazil.

Nat. Ord. BromELIacE®.—Tribe TILLANDSIEZ.

Genus Tintanpsra, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 669.)

TILLaNnpstA (Vriesea) Jonghei ; acaulis, foliis 30-50 dense rosulatis loratis recur-

vatis pedalibus vel sesquipedalibus vix lepidotis facie viridibus dorso pallide

viridibus deorsum brunneo tinctis, pedunculo robusto subpedali foliis bractei-

formibus multis parvis ovatis imbricatis, floribus 12-20 magnis horizontaliter

_ patulis in spicam disticham dispositis, bracteis ovatis acutis calyce viridulo

glutinoso distincte brevioribus, sepalis oblongis obtusis, petalis albidis branneo

tinctis calyce subduplo longioribus, staminibus petalis brevioribus alternis basi

squamis magnis appendiculatis, stylo brevi, fructu calyce paulo longiori.

Tillandsia Jonghei, K. Koch in Wochen. 1868, p. 91; E. Morren in Belg. Hort.

1874, p. 291, t. 12, 13. :

Encholirion Jonghei, Libon; K. Koch in Berl. Allgem. Gartenzeit, 1857, p. 22.

Vriesea Jonghei, H. Morren in Belg. Hort. 1878, p. 257; Antvine, Brom. p. 24,

t.:16,

This has nothing whatever to do with the genus Eneho-

lirion of Martius, under which it and one or two of its

neighbours were originally published, and under which

they still usually appear in trade catalogues. Encholirion

is closely allied to Dyckia, and has long hard leaves, like

those of a Bromelia, with spiny edges. It belongs really

to Vriesea, which in the Genera Plantarum is classed as a

sub-genus of Yillandsia, from which it differs only by

having the petaloid stamens appendiculate with a pair of

scales at the base. By discoveries and introductions during

the last twenty years the number of species of Vriesea has

been largely increased, and now upwards of fifty are

known, most of which have been brought into cultivation. |

The present plant was sent from Central Brazil to Belgium

by M. Libon in the year 1856. Our drawing was made

from a plant that flowered at Kew last winter, which was

purchased at the sale of the collections of the late Professor’

Morren.

Dasor. Acaulescent. eaves thirty to fifty in a dense

rosette, lorate, flexible, glabrous, a foot or a foot and a

JULY Ast, 1887. . :

half long, an inch and a half broad at the middle, three

inches at the dilated base, deltoid-cuspidate at the apex,

plain green on the face, without either bands or spots, pale

green on the back, tinged, especially towards the base,

with claret-brown. Peduncle robust, a foot long ; bract-

leaves many, small, ovate, imbricated. Flowers twelve to

- twenty, arranged in a simple distichous spike, all spreading

- horizontally from the stout slightly flexuose rachis, which

is flattened laterally opposite each flower; flower-bracts

ovate, green, margined with claret-red, an inch long.

Calyz green, glabrous, glutinose, a little longer than the

bract. Corolla nearly twice as long as the calyx, petals

yellowish-white, more or less tinged with coppery-brown.

Stamens shorter than the petals, those opposite the petals

appendiculate at the base with a pair of large scales.

Style not much longer than the ampulleform ovary.

Capsule a little longer than the calyx.—.J/. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, Base of petal, showing the insertion of the filament and its scales ; 2, a

statuen ; 3, apex ot style, a/d more or less enlarged; 4, bract, calyx and young

capsule, life-size.

Tag; 6946,

CORYDALIS Lepgsouriana.

‘Native of Central Asia.

Nat. Ord. Papaveracem.—Tribe FuMARIER.,

Genus Corypatis, DC.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 55.)

Corypatis (Bulbocapnos) Ledebouriana; glaberrima, glauca, radice tuberosa,

'caule simplici medio 2-3-foliato, foliis irregulariter ternatim ‘v. biternatim

sectis segmentis obovatis obovato-oblongisve apice rotundatis v. mucronulatis

in petiolum brevem angustatis nervis obscuris, racemo multifloro, bracteis

_ magnis ellipticis flores sepe equantibus, sepalis minimis lobatis, petalis

brunn¢o-purpureis superiore vix carinato, inferiore concavo decurvo, calcare

magno flore multo longiore robusto recto v. recurvo obtuso, capsula elliptica

acuta.

C. Ledebouriana, Kar, and Kiril. Enum. Plant. Alt. No. 54, and En. Plant.

Songar. No. 56; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. vol. i. p. 745 ; Regel Gurtenfl. vol. xxviii.

(1879), p. 225, t. 981.

The exploring expeditions sent by the Russian Govern-

ment into Central Asia have richly endowed the gardens of

Europe with many new and rare hardy plants; and no

individual explorer has done so much in this respect as

Dr. Albert von Regel, the distinguished son of a dis-

tinguished father, whose name has long been an honoured

one in Horticultural circles. From the Himalaya to

Central Siberia the genus Corydalis is at home; upwards

of twenty-five species are known to inhabit the higher

regions of the Indian Alps, and but one, C. sibirica, crosses

that range to the southward, occurring oh the Khasia

Mountains in East Bengal. As many species, almost all

except the above-inentioned C. sibirica, different from the

Himalayan, are described in Ledebour’s ‘‘ Flora Rossica,”

published in 1842, and many must have been discovered

since in the same regions; so that, including the Kuropean

and American species, the genus Corydalis probably numbers

nearly one hundred species. ;

C. Ledebouriana was discovered by Karelin and Kiriloff

in Soongaria, an elevated district of North-Eastern

JULY lst, 1887.

-. Turkestan, with the climate and many types of the vegeta-

tion of Western Tibet (where, however, CU. Ledebouriana

has not hitherto been detected). It is a large rather

succulent species, with a tuberous root, and it must hence

be transferred to the section Bulbocapnos, from that of

Leontice, to which it has been hitherto referred, and in

which the root is fusiform. Iam indebted for the speci-

men here figured to Mr. Elwes, who received it from the

St. Petersburg Botanical Gardens, to which it was sent by

Dr. A. de Regel. The flowers generally precede the leaves,

and appeared in Mr. Elwes’ garden in the end of February;

the leaves of the Kew specimen followed the flowers in

April. There are, however, flowering specimens in the

Herbarium with fully formed stem-leaves.

Descr. Rather fleshy, quite glabrous, pale glaucons

green. ioot as large as an ordinary potato, depressed-

globose. Leaves long-petioled, irregularly ternately or

biterriately divided; petiole short or long; segments one-

half to one inch long, obovate, entire or one- to three-

lobed, lobes rounded, nerves very obscure. Flowering-stems

ascending, six to ten inches, soft, terete, pale, tapering to

the base, furnished about the middle with an opposite pair

of trisect leaves with narrow leaflets. Raceme four to six

inches long, lax-flowered; bracts large, leafy, broadly

elliptic, green with purple edges. Flowers shortly pedi-

celled, an inch long, purplish brown. Sepals very minute,

membranous, irregularly lobed. Lobes of the corolla dark

purple, small, subequal, subacute, upper straight, hardly

keeled, lower decurved. ~ Spur twice the length of the

Tesh a the corolla, cylindric, stout, obtuse, recurved, pale.

Fig. 1, Side view of flower ; 2, sepals ; 3, ovary, style and stigma :—all enlarged.

Tas. 6947. :

STROBILANTH ES FLACCIDIFOLIUS.

Native of India and China,

Nat. Ord. AcANTHACER.—Tribe RUELLIER.

Genus StropitantuEs, Blume; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pi. vol. ii. p. 1086.)

SrropitantuHeEs flaccidifolius; frutex erectus ramosus, ramis obscure incano-

puberulis, foliis oppositis elliptico-ovatis -lanceolatisve acuminatis serratis

glaberrimis basi sensim in petiolum angustatis, floribus in spicas breves

paucifloras v. subelongatas dispositis, bracteis foliaceis subspathulatis obtusis

_ eaducis, calycis puberuli segmentis 4 linearibus postico latiore lineari-oblongo,

corolla 2-pollicaris purpure tubo late infundibulari infra medium curvo, lobis

brevibus zqualibus 2-lobulatis, staminibus 4, ovario glabro, stylo puberulo,

capsula basi non constricta. :

-§. flaccidifolius, Wees in DC, Prodr..vol. xi. p. 194; T. Anders. in Journ. Linn.

Soe. vol. ix. p. 481; Clarke in Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. iv. p. 468.

S. Championi, 7. Anders. in Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 261.

S. flaccidus, Mann, Assam Forest Report, 1876-7, par. 135.

RvELLt4 indigofera, Griffith Journ. of Trav. in India, p. 237

R. indigotica, Fortune, Resid. in China, p. 158. -

R. Cusia, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 2386.

Goxtprvssra Cusia, Nees in Wall. Pl. As, Rar. vol. iii. p. 88, and in DC. 7. c.

175. ;

DIPTERACANTHUS ? calycinus, Champ. in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. vol. v. p. 133.

S. flaccidifolius is the plant which yields in India and

China the well-known blue dye called in the former

country Room and Assam Indigo. The best account of it

is Fortune’s, in the work cited above. His description is

far too long for being introduced in this work, and the

following are the most: important items of information

which it contains. In the province of Chekiang, and on

the mountains westward of Ningpo, and thence westward

to Assam and Bengal, the Strobilanthes is extensively

cultivated, but only as a summer crop in Chekiang, where

it is not hardy, being native of a more southern latitude in

China. It is planted when the spring frosts are over, and

it is cut down in autumn, after attaining eighteen inches

in height, when cuttings are taken for the following years’

crops. The leaves are then stripped from the stems, and

JULY 1st, 1887.

the latter tied up'in bundles and placed under protection

to be planted in the following year. The leaves and stems

reserved for dye-making are thrown into a water-tank,

where they partially decompose. Lime is then added, and

the watery infusion well mixed by beating the surface with

bamboo rakes. From greenish the fluid becomes yellow,

with a bright blue froth. A few drops of cabbage oil are

thrown on this froth, which thereupon immediately dis-

appears, and the colouring matter sinks to the bottom as a”

thick paste, which is collected and dried for the markets.

As with so many other plants yielding useful products,

S. flaccidifolius has received many names, in this case mul-

tiplied by the fact of its having an extended geographical

distribution, from Bengal eastwards through Assam and

Burma to South China, and which has led to its being

differently named in India and Hongkong. It further

belongs to an immense genus, numbering upwards of 120

species, which are exceedingly difficult to recognize from

descriptions alone. The Strobilanthes flaccidifolius was sent

to Kew from Hongkong by Mr. Ford, where it appears to

be indigenous, though scarce, and where its identity with

the Indian and northern Chinese dye-yielding plant was

not recognized.

Dxscr. A glabrous shrub, four to five feet high, branched

from the base; branches herbaceous, erect, smooth, green,

minutely hoary. Leaves two to five inches long, quite ©

glabrous, narrowed into a petiole half to one inch long,

ovate- or elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, serrate, bright

green above, bluish-green beneath. Flowers in spikes or

panicles, or reduced to two opposite and terminal ; bracts

leaf-like, half to one inch long, subspathulate, obtuse,

caducous ; bracteoles like the calyx-segments. Calyw half

an inch long, puberulous; four sepals linear, subacute,

dorsal longer and twice as broad. Corolla two inches long,

pale lilac-purple ; tube broadly funnel-shaped, bent below |

the middle; lobes five, equal, short, broad, two-lobed. —

Stamens four, filaments short; anthers linear-oblong.

Ovary glabrous, except at the tip; style very slender,

puberulous; stigma entire, curved.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Calyx and style; 2, tube of corolla and stamens; 3 and 4, anthers ; 5,

ovary and disk ; 6, vertical section of the same:—all enlarged.

G98.

Vincent Brooks Day & Son imp

MS dd JNFtchlith

Tas. 6948,

RHODODENDRON aranprg, var. RosEeuM.

Native of the Eastern Himalaya.

Nat. Ord. Ertcex.—Tribe RuoporEx,

_ Genus Roopopenpron, Linn, (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Pl. vol. ii. p. 599.)

Raopvopenpron grande, Wight Ic. Plant. Ind. Or. t. 1202; Clarke in Fl. Brit.

Ind, vol. iii. p, 464.

R. argenteum, Hook.f. Rhododendrons of the Sikkim Himalaya, p- 10, t. 9, and

in Journ. Hort. Soe. vol. vii. p. 76 and 91; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 5054; Flore

des Serres, vol. v. (1849), t. 473-476 (copied from Rhod. of Sikk, Himal.).

R. longifolium, Nuttall in Hook. Kew Journ, vol. v. (1853), p. 365.

R. Windsorii, var. y, Nuttall 1, c. p. 357, 358.

WaLpemaRIa argentea, Klotzsch in Reis. Pr. Waldem,. Bot. p. 99, t. 53, 54.

Var. rosea, floribus roseis.

The plant here figured is a remarkable instance of a

sudden change of colour of corolla in an individual long

under cultivation. Rhododendron grande, better known as

R. argenteum, was introduced by myself by seed from the

Sikkim Himalaya in 1849, and plants raised from those

seeds, now of great size, are still flourishing in the Tem-

perate House of the Royal Gardens. The colour of the

. corolla, as shown in my drawing made in Sikkim, and re-

produced in the ** Rhododendrons of the Sikkim Himalaya,”

is nearly white with a dark red purple lobed spot at the

base; in the drawing published in this Macazinz (Tab. 5054),

made from specimens that flowered in the Royal Gardens

in 1858, they are more cream-coloured, with a faint greenish

tinge, and the buds are a very pale rose-colour; and with

little variation the colours of all the specimens that have

flowered during the last thirty years, and these are very

many, have approximated very closely to those of the

above-mentioned plants, except that in one of the specimens

there has been observed a darker rose-colour of the buds.

In the present year the buds of the above individual have

been of a deep red, and the full-blown corolla a lively rose-

auGusT lst, 1887.

colour, with darker veins on the lobes, and obscure spots

on the tube within. It remains to be seen whether the

change of colour will prove permanent; such as it is, there

has been no alteration in the treatment of the plant that

would account for it, and so curious a case of coloration

appears worth a place in this Macazrne.

I need hardly observe that the species and even indi-

viduals of Rhododendrons vary greatly in colour, but the

sport is usually from a dark to a light colour, as in the

case of the rose-coloured and white variety of f. arborewm ;

these occur in nature, but I am not aware that the change

has occurred in one individual under cultivation.

It remains to observe that the specific name of argentewm

must give place to that of grande, under which the plant

was published in India, in 1848, by Dr. Wight, in his

* Tcones Plantarum Indiz Orientalis,” from dried specimens

collected in Bhotan by Dr. Griffith, that is, the year

previous to the publication in England of the ‘‘ Rhodo-

dendrons of the Sikkim Himalaya,” and before Dr. Wight’s

work had reached this country. The figure in the latter

work no doubt represents a starved state or variety, with

elliptic-lanceolate leaves, long slender petioles, a very

dense bracteate head of flowers only three inches in

diameter, and small quite regular corollas only one inch in

diameter.

I may further here remind horticulturists that R. Auck-

landit must bear the name of R. Grifithianum, and for the

same reason, as indicated under the figure of that plant in

Tab. 5065 of this Macazins. It was figured under the

latter name, also from Bhotan specimens, in the same part

of Wight’s “Icones” (Tab. 1203), a figure as little worthy

of the plant as is that of R. grande in the same work.—

le iat Ae

Fig. 1, Bract ; 2, stamen; 3, pistil and calyx; 4, transverse section of ovary :—

all enlarged.

5 del. TN. Fitch ith.

Vinoart, Brodls Day & Son ith

Reeve & C° Landon.

Tas. 6949.

ESCALLON IA REVOLUTA.

Native of Chili. 3

Nat. Ord. SaxrrraGace®.— Tribe EscanLoniem.

Genus Escationia, Linn. fil. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 644.)

Escattonia revoluta; ramis erectis pubescenti-tomentosis v. subvillosis, foliis

breviter petiolatis obovatis acutis v. cuspidatis supra medium argute in-

a Ne dentatis coriaceis marginibus recurvis utrinque puberulis v.

pubescentibus, racemis laxifloris simplicibus thyrsoideisve, floribus breviter

pedicellatis, calycis tubo subgloboso, limbi lobis tubo wxquilongis subulato-

lanceolatis, coroll~ albz petalis in tubum }-pollicarem cylindraceum dispositis,

ungue elongata lineari, limbo brevi breviter oblongo.

E. revoluta, Persoon Ench. vol. i. p. 235 ; DC. Prodr, vol. iv. p.5; Hook. and Arn.

Bot. Mise. vol. iii. p. 341; Remy in Gay. Fl. Chil. vol. iii. p. 55; A. Gray,

Bot. U.S. Expl. Exped. p. 564; Engler in Linnea, vol. xxxvi. p. 546.

E. affinis, Ruprecht in Herb, Acad. Petrop.

Stereoxylon revolutum, Ruiz and Pav, Fl. Per. & Chil. vol. iii. p. 15, t. 236.

A common Chilian shrub, occurring in ravines and by

watercourses at the level of the sea at Valdivia, and

gradually ascending the Andes in proceeding northwards,

where it attains the latitude of Concepcion, and perhaps a

higher one. The character of revolute leaves is usually

rarely apparent, though some of the dried specimens show

-it very strongly. The whole plant, and especially the

branchlets, vary greatly in amount of pubescence, the latter

being sometimes even villous. In the cultivated specimens _

when fresh the pubescence is hardly apparent to the naked

eye, and the lithographer (not the artist) has made the

foliage appear too hispid in the plate.

Escallonia revoluta was communicated by Mr. Lynch

from the Cambridge Botanical Gardens, where it forms a

robust shrub, flowering in September.

Descr. A shrub ten to twenty feet high, copiously

branched; branches woody; branchlets pubescent tomen-

tose or even villous, as thick as a crow-quill. Leaves three-

quarters to one and a half inch long, rather coriaceous,

obovate, acute or cuspidate, acutely irregularly toothed

AveusT Ist, 1887. : :

for the upper half, more or less pubescent on both

surfaces, convex above with rather recurved margins,

narrowed at the base into a petiole one-eighth to a quarter

of an inch long. Racemes or panicles terminal, sessile, erect,

simple or thyrsoid, dense or lax-flowered, leafy at the base,

and with smaller leaves at the base of the divisions. Flowers

three-quarters of an inch long, spreading, shortly pedicelled,

pedicels with a small bract at the base. Calyx-tube sub-

globose, hispid or tomentose; lobes subulate-lanceolate,

very acute, as long as the tube. Corolla white, quite

glabrous, tube cylindric ; petals with long straight linear

claw and short oblong rounded limb.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower ; 2 and 3, anthers; 4, ovary and base of calyx-tube; 5, transverse

section of ovary :—all enlarged. .

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Tan. 6950.

N ARCISSUS CYCLAMINEUS.

Native of Portugal.

- Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDER.—Tribe AMARYLLER.

Genus Narcissus, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 718.)

Narcissus (Ajax) cyclamineus ; bulbo parvo globoso tunicis pallidis, foliis 2-3

linearibus suberectis dorso late carinatis, scapo unifloro subtereti, pedicello

brevi. sepissime cernuo, perianthio tubo brevissimo obconico, segmentis

anguste oblongis citrinis valde reflexis, corona saturatiori segmentis equilonga

vel paulo longiori ore erecto crenato, staminibus rectis conniventibus corona

distincte brevioribus, fructu turbinato.

Ajax cyclamineus, Haworth Monogr. Narciss. p. 2.

“This very distinct Narcissus has had a remarkable

history. It is figured rudely in the “ Jardin du Roy trés

chrestien Louis XIII.” of Pierre Vallet, published at Paris

in 1623; and afterwards better in the anonymous

**Theatrum Flore,’ published at Paris in 1637, under the

name of “ Narcissus hispanicus minor luteus amplo calice

foliis reflexis.”” This latter work must not be confounded

with the well-known “ Theatrum” of our countryman

Parkinson. Then it appears to have been entirely lost

sight of for 250 years. Herbert locked upon it as an

“‘ absurdity that would never be found to exist.’’ Haworth,

who first named it cyclamineus in his monograph of 1838,

issued as a supplement to the fourth volume of Sweet's

British Flower Garden, knew it only from the excellent

figure in the ‘ Theatrum,” which is reproduced in a paper

by Mr. F. W. Burbidge in the “ Gardener’s Chronicle” of

December 19th, 1885 (page 789, fig. 185). Just about the

same time that this paper appeared, the plant was refound

in the neighbourhood of Oporto by Mr. Edwin Johnston,

and it has since been seen by Mr. A. W. Tait growing

plentifully in sandy loam on the banks of a stream at an_

altitude of 300 feet above sea-level. A full account of the

plant will be found in Mr. Tait’s recently-published “ Notes

-on the Narcissi of Portugal,” p. 4, 5; and as he has distri-

AavcustT lst, 1887.

buted bulbs of it freely to our principal English cultivators,

and it is found to seed freely, no doubt it will soon become

well known. Our drawing was made from plants flowered

by Mr. F. W. Burbidge, in the Botanic Garden of Trinity

College, Dublin, this present spring.

Descr. Bulb globose, half an inch in diameter; outer

tunics whitish. Leaves generally two, sometimes three to

a bulb, linear, suberect, greenish, deeply channelled down

the face, broadly keeled, and the keel margined with two

raised edges, down the back. Scape subterete, always

single-flowered, half a foot or a foot long ; pedicel almost

always cernuous, so short that the spathe is pushed back

by the reflexing segments when the flower expands. Ovary

turbinate ; perianth-tube very short, obconic; segments

narrow oblong, lemon-yellow, nearly an inch long, strongly

reflexed from the base. Corona as long asor a little longer

than the segments, rather deeper in colour, nearly equal

in diameter throughout; edge erect, distinctly crenate.

Stamens inserted at the throat of the tube, erect, connivent,

more than half as long as the corona. Style reaching

generally to the tip of the anthers. Capsule turbinate,

nearly an inch long.—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, Section of leaf; 2, a flower cut through vertically ; 3, two stamens; 4,

upper part of the style :—ad/ more or less enlarged.

6951

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Tas, 6951.

ALSEUOSMIA. mackopnytta.

Native of New Zealand.

Nat. Ord. Caprirot1acE£.—Tribe Lonicerex.

Genus Atsgvosmra, A. Cunn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 6.)

Atsgvosmia macrophy/la; frutex robustus, glaberrimus, ramis erectis, foliis 3-6-

_uncialibus elliptico-lanceolatis oblanceolatisve in petiolum brevem angustatis

integerrimis serratis v. sinuato-dentatis, floribus pollicaribus seepissime 5-meris,

corolle2 lobis grosse fimbriato-dentatis dentibus incurvis, disco tuberculatis,

baccis 2-locularibus polyspermis.

A. macrophylla, A. Cunn. in Ann. Nat. Hist. vol. ii. p. 209; Hook. f. Fl. New

Zeald. vol. i. p. 102, t. 23, and Handbook of the New Zealand Flora,

_ p. 109 and 731. ,

Alseuosmia is a genus confined to New Zealand and to

the northern of the two greater Islands, where one species

(A. Banksii) was discovered by Sir Joseph Banks on

the shores of the Bay of Islands, when accompanying

Captain Cook on his first Voyage of Discovery. It was

not, however, till 1826 that the genus was rediscovered by

the late Allan Cunningham, when he, being then Curator

of the Sydney Botanical Garden, visited New Zealand.

In 1889 the first description of it appeared by Allan

Cunningham in his “Specimens of the Botany of New

Zealand,” published in the Annals of Natural History, in

which work he describes eight species (now reduced to

four), all from the neighbourhood of the Bay of Islands,

and none have been added since. The name he adopted

was suggested by the powerful fragrance of the flowers

which scent the woods where it grows (evoopia, a grateful

odour, and ddgos, a grove). ‘The name is well deserved,

for I can bear testimony to their delicious fragrance, and

to this penetrating the dark woods of the Bay of Islands

to a considerable distance. This, and the affinity of the

genus with Lonicera, would suggest the English name of

New Zealand Honey-suckle for the genus.

My correspondents in New Zealand made _ repeated

auGusT Ist, 1887.

attempts to introduce this genus into Kew, but always

unsuccessfully. The seeds, however packed, invariably

perished during the voyage, owing to the rotting of the

copious fleshy albumen, and the minuteness of the embryo.

In 1884, however, that enterprising cultivator, E. Loder,

Esq., received a Ward’s case with living plants of the

species here figured, of which he was good enough to give

two plants to Kew, and of these one, that here figured,

flowered in February of the present year. Its flowers were,

as was to be expected, deliciously fragrant.

Duscr. A glabrous shrub, six to ten feet high ; branches

erect, woody; bark brown. Leaves three to six inches

long, elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate, acute, entire or

serrate, narrowed into a short petiole a quarter to one-

_ third inch long, bright-green and glossy above, yellow-

green beneath; nerves faint. Flowers in small axillary

clusters, drooping; pedicels one-eighth to a quarter of an

inch long, bracteate at the base; bracts subulate. Calyw-

tube oblong, lobes oblong-ovate, subacute. Corolla one

and a half inch long, dull red, or creamy-white, with dull

red streaks; tube cylindric, funnel-shaped above; lobes

ovate, recurved, obtusely subfimbriately toothed and muri-

cate on the upper surface; teeth incurved. Stamens at

the throat of the corolla, filaments very short; anthers

oblong, included. Ovary two-celled, cells four- to six-

ovuled, style slender, stigma capitate. J ruit ellipsoid,

fleshy, many-seeded.—J. D. H. ° ;

Fig. 1, Calyx and ovary; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, transverse section of ovary;

5, fruit :—all but fig. 5 enlarged. :

noeitt Brooks Day & Son tap

MS.del,J.N Fitch.

LReeve & C° London

Tas. 6952,

IPOMAZA Roserrstt.

Native of Queensland.

Nat. Ord. ConvoLtvuLacEx.—Tribe ConvoLvuLEs.

Genus Ipomma, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Pl. vol. ii. p. 870.)

Ipomma (Speciose) Robertsii ; tota pubescenti-tomentosa, caule gracili volubili,

foliis gracile petiolatis late ovato-cordatis acuminatis integerrimis utrinque

stellato- vy. squamuloso-tomentellis sinu lata, floribus solitariis, pedunculo

petiolo mquilongo, sepalis }-pollicaribus oblongo-rotundatis glabratis, corolla

3-pollicari infundibulari alba radiis 5 roseis tubo medio obscure ventricoso,

margine undulato, staminibus tubo inclusis, filamentis basi villosis, stylo parce

piloso, stigmatis 2-lobi lobis globosis.

A very beautiful and apparently undescribed species,

nearest to I. velutina, Brown, of the Gulf of Carpentaria,

but differing in the acute leaves which are stellately hairy

on the upper surface, in the flowers being always solitary

(though a joint about their middle suggests the possibility

of the peduncle being sometimes two- or more-flowered),

and in the much larger sepals. Seeds were sent to the

Royal Gardens in 1883 by Mr. G. F. Roberts (Nursery-

man of Kew, Melbourne), from which the plant here figured

was raised. It flowered in the Lily-house in July of last

year, and is perennial.

_Drscr. Stem very slender, twining, clothed as are the.

petioles and leaves with a soft subtomentose pubescence.

Leaves three to four inches long, membranous, broadly

ovate-cordate, acuminate, with a broad open sinus at the

base, dull green, pubescence more or less stellate on both

surfaces, and squamulose on the upper; nerves eight to

ten pair, spreading; petiole one and a half to two inches

long, slender, pubescent. Peduncles axillary, solitary, one-

flowered, jointed below the middle, the lower part pubescent,

the upper gradually thickened upwards, nearly glabrous.

Sepals broadly oblong or almost rounded, one-third to

half an inch long, obtuse, green with white margins, nearly

glabrous. Corolla three to four inches long; tube elongate,

funnel-shaped and slightly tumid below the middle, limb

avueust Ist, 1887.

three to three and a half inches in diameter, undulate,

nearly white externally with very pale pink striz ; limb

internally white, obscurely striate with pale pink, and with

five lanceolate rose-pink rays spreading from the tube to _

the circumference. Stamens included, filaments very —

slender, rather villous at the base ; anthers oblong. Ovary

two-celled, cells two-ovuled ; style very slender, sparsely

‘pubescent, stigma didymous BER D. Ht.

Fig. 1, Stellate scales from the upper surface of the leaf; 2 and 3, stamens; _

% ovary and style; 5, transverse section of ovary :—all but fg. 5 enlarged.

Tas, 6953.

HILLEBRANDIA sanpwicensis.

Native of the Sandwich Islands.

Nat. Ord. BeGontracex.

Genus HILLEBRANDIA, Oliver ; (Benth. et Hvok. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 843.)

HILLEBRANDIA sandwicensis ; herba succulenta, sparsim pilosa, erecta, ramosa, foliis

amplis oblique rotundatis profunde cordatis breviter-multilobatis lobis in-

zqualibus triangularibus acuminatis dentatis v. serratis, floribus in cymis

ramosis bisexualibus dispositis, sepalis 5 amplis, petalis totidem parvis cucullatis,

staminibus perplurimis, filamentis liberis, antheris oblongis, ovario apice libero

hiante, placentis 5 parietalibus, stylis 5 bifurcatis, cruribus spiraliter stigma-

tosis, capsula membranacea inter stylos dehiscente.

H. sandwicensis, Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xxv. p. 361, tab. 46; H. Mann.

_Enum. of Hawaiian Plants in Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts and Se. vol. vii.

p- 167; Sinclair, Indig. Flowers of Hawaiian Isds. tab. 37.

For upwards of a century the large genus Begonia was

supposed to have had no near ally, and from the date of

the establishment for it in 1802, by Trattenick, of the

Natural Order Begoniee, till 1865, that of the publication

of Hillebrandia by Oliver, the Order was represented by

but the one genus. It is true that the 350 to 400 species

constituting Begonia itself have comparatively lately been

arranged by some botanists under even as many as thirty-

five distinct genera, but this disruption of the old genus

has not been approved by more recent authors. Since

the publication of Hillebrandia still another genus has been

added to the Order, by the discovery of Pegoniella, Oliver

(Linn. Trans. vol. xxvii. p. 513, t. 41), in New Grenada,

a very remarkable plant, with the sepals united into a

campanulate cup. ;

Hillebrandia differs from Begonia in the presence of

petals, and in the ovary being free for its upper third;

in habit and all other respects it is a true Begonia. It

was discovered in the Island of Maui, one of the Hawaiian

Archipelago, by M. Baldwin, of Lahaina, and specimens

from it were sent to Kew in 1865, by Dr. Hillebrand,

after whom the genus is named. It has since been found

SEPT, lst, 1887.

in the mountains of Kauai. It is a native of the forest

region near waterfalls, and its native name, according to

Mrs. Sinclair, is “ Akaakaawa.” The Royal Gardens are

indebted to that lady for seeds, which were received in

1886. From these the plant here figured and others were

raised; and these flowered in May of this year. I have

further to observe that the colour of the flowers appears

to vary those of Mrs. Sinclair’s drawing being of a bright

red.

Descr. A tall branched succulent herb, three to four

feet high, everywhere sparsely clothed with long reddish

hairs. Leaves four to eight inches long and broad, obliquely

rounded and deeply cordate with a very narrow sinus, and

overlapping basal lobes; marginal lobes five to nine, very

unequal, triangular, acuminate, unequally toothed ; nerves

radiating from the petiole, which is stout and long, but

shorter than the blade. Peduwncles one-half to one foot long,

dichotomously branching and bearing bisexual cymes.

Bracts opposite, membranous. Flowers about half an inch

in diameter, white, with a rose tinge or more or less rosy ;

females two-bracteolate. Sepals ovate, subacute, outer

rather larger. Petals as many, much smaller, spathulate,

concave, membranous. Stamens many, free, represented

in the female by perigynous glandular staminodes; anthers

obtuse, flattened. Ovary hemispheric, terete, free above

and open between the styles, one-celled; styles five, short,

forked, arms spirally stigmatose; placentas five, parietal,

two-fid. Capsule hemispheric, membranous, about half an

inch in diameter, with a broad open vertex.—J. D. H.

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BARLERIA repens.

Native of Eastern Tropical Africa.

Nat. Ord. ACANTHACEER.— Tribe JusTICIER.

Genus Barteria, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 1091.)

BarLeria repens; caulibus procumbentibus diffuse ramosis obtuse angulatis basi

radicantibus cano-pubescentibus pilosisve, foliis ovatis obovatis v. ellipticis

obtusis acutisve in petiolum angustatis membranaceis utrinque pubescentibus,

floribus axillaribus solitariis sessilibus v. subsessilibus, bracteolis subulatis

calyce multo brevioribus, sepalis majoribus ovato-oblongis acutis integerrimis

reticulatis minoribus parvis lanceolatis, corolla rubra 2-pollicaris tubo elongato

infundibulari pilosulo lobis oblongis.

B. repens, Nees in DC. Prodr, vol. xi. p- 230; Z. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc.

Bot. vol. vii. p. 31.

The genus Barleria, though a large one, numbering

upwards of sixty species, has never met favour with horti-

culturists. Only three species have been figured in this

Macazine, B. cristata, Linn. (Tab. 1615), B. Gibsoni, Dalz.

(Tab. 5028), and B. Mackenii, Hook. (Tab. 5866). They

are, however, very handsome stove plants, as the above-

cited figures show, and the real reason for their neglect is

that they are weedy in habit, and their beautiful blossoms

are delicate and ephemeral.

_B. repens is apparently common in Eastern Tropical

Africa. It was first described from specimens collected

in Pemba and Raza Islands, near Delagoa Bay, by Forbes,

a collector for the Horticultural Society; and it has more

recently been found by the Rev. M. Wakefield at Mombesa,

and at Kilwa and Zanzibar by Sir John Kirk, to whom the

Royal Gardens are indebted for seeds that arrived in 1875,

and flowered in a stove in July of 1886,

Descr. A prostrate diffusely branching shrub or under-

shrub; stems one to two feet long, rigid, branched, rooting

at the base, pubescent with short rather lax hairs, obtusely

four-angled. Leaves opposite, and appearing as if fascicled,

for the abbreviated leafy branchlets at the nodes, one to

two and a half inches long, rather membranous, elliptic-

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ovate or obovate, rarely nearly orbicular, obtuse or acute,

narrowed into a petiole one-sixth to half an inch long;

pubescent on both surfaces. lowers axillary, solitary, ses-

sile or very shortly pedicelled ; bracteoles minute, subulate

or linear, much shorter than the calyx. Sepals four, two

outer one-half to three-quarters of an inch long, oblong-

ovate, ciliate, reticulate, quite entire; two inner very much

smaller, subulate-lanceolate, ciliate. Corvila two inches

long, pale rather dull rosy-red; tube puberulous, funnel-

shaped ; limb one to one and a half inches in diameter,

lobes five, oblong, tips rounded, upper half as large again

as the others, two lower rather smaller than the lateral.

Stamens four, two very long, far exserted, with white

filaments; two very small, included, with a _ subulate

staminode between them; filaments sparsely hairy at the

base. Ovary glabrous, style capillary.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Inner sepals and ovary; 2, base of corolla laid open and stamens; 3

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CUALOGYNE corymposa.

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Nat. Ord. OrcH1IDEZ.—Tribe EpIpENDRER.

Genus Cetoeyne, Lindl. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Pl. vol. iii. p. 518.)

Ca1LoGyne (Erect) corymbosa ; rhizomate robusto, pseudobulbis 1-1} pollicaribus

ovoideis compressis demum supra medium leviter costatis pyramidatisve, foliis

2-nis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis in petiolum brevem angustatis, corymbis

2-3-floris, floribus 3 poll. latis, sepalis oblongo- v. lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis

albis, labello trifido lobis lateralibus erectis antice rotundatis integerrimis v.

obscure denticulatis rubro striatis et plaga aurantiaca ocellata notatis, lobo

- medio trulliformi v. ovato-lanceolato acuminato carinis 2 crenatis a basi ultra

medium productis, disco plaga aurantiaca 2-loba notato, columna gracile apice

arcuata cucullata dentata.

C. corymbosa, Lindl. Fol. Orchid. Celogyne, p.7; Reichh. f. in Gard. Chron.

(1876), pp. 9,10; Rolfe in Gard. Chron. ser. 3, vol. ii. p. 73, fig. 15.

C. ocellata, var. maxima, Dean Floral Magaz. t. 365,

The Celogynes of the Eastern Himalaya threaten to give

rise to much controversy amongst both botanists and hor-

ticulturists, especially those species belonging to Lindley’s

section “ Erecte,’’ and amongst them C. corymbosa, brevi-

folia and ocellata are the most difficult to define. The

plant here figured is, I have no doubt, Lindley’s C. corym-

bosa, though it differs somewhat from the type, which is

described in “ Folia Orchidacea”’ from specimens and a

drawing of my own, made in Sikkim in 1848, In this the

leaves are small, three to five inches long, and broader in

proportion than in the plant here figured; the sheaths of

the peduncle are much more numerous and shorter. There

are, however, in both my Sikkim and Khasian collections,

specimens of the larger form, and others in all respects -

intermediate between these and the smaller. I have no

doubt that, as Mr. Watson has pointed out to me, the plant

long known in gardens as C. ocellata, maxima, is the same

species, though the plate in the *‘ Floral Magazine” quoted

above represents a raceme with eight flowers, whereas two °

or three are the normal number in corymbosa, or ‘very

sept. Ist, 1887.

rarely one or four. (C. ocellata, Lindl. differs only in the

shorter rounder obtuse mid-lobe of the lip. C. brevifolia

also differs in the rounded mid-lobe, and in the lip being

pubescent within. C. ochracea is a more delicate plant, with

smaller more delicate flowers, and a differently sculptured

mid-lobe of the lip.

Professor Reichenbach has published in ‘‘ The Gardener’s

Chronicle ” (1878), p. 8, a “ Calogyne heteroglossa, n. var.,”’

which he suggests may possibly be a mule between coryi-

bosa and brevifolia or ocellata, of which he says that the

flowers are larger than in corymbosa, of the same colours,

but the tips of the side lobe of the lip overlap the base of

the very broad (not narrow lanciform) mid-lobe, and there

are three membranous denticulate keels from the base of

the lip to that of the mid-lobe, and the areas between the

side lobes are brown, each brown one ending in a yellow

one; there is also a four-lobed angled deep yellow area in

the very base of the broad middle lobe with a dark brown

narrow border. Much of this description reminds me of

C. brevifolia, though there is nothing very foreign to

corymbosa in it.

C. corymbosa is a native of forests of the Sikkim and

Bhotan Himalaya, between 5000 and 8000 feet, and is

not uncommon in the Khasia Mountains. The specimen

figured was sent from the Kollong rock, Khasia Mountains,

by C. B. Clarke, Esq., F.R.S. It flowered in the Royal

Gardens in May of the present year. It is a very large-

flowered form.—J. D. H,

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PRIMULA opstustro.ia.

Native of the Himalaya.

Nat. Ord. PRIMULACEX.—Tribe PRIMULEX.

Genus Prrmvuta, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 631.)

Primvta obtusifolia; efarinosa v. foliis subtus et inflorescentia farinosis, foliis

membranaceis oblongis elliptico-obovatis oblanceolatisve obtusis v. acutis eroso-

dentatis rarius integris basi obtusis cordatis v. in petiolum angustatis, scapo

plurifloro, bracteis ovatis lanceolatisve pedicellis brevioribus La liberis v.

connatis, calycis campanulati lobis tubo subzequilongis v. brevioribus, corolle

sanguineo-purpures v. flave lobis planis patentibus obcordatis subcrenulatis

tubo longioribus v. equilongis, ore annulato, tubo calyce duplo longiore, ovario

globoso acuto vertice non incrassato, capsula globosa calyce inclusa, seminibus

_ subglobosis papillosis.

P. obtusifolia, Royle 11. Pi. Himal. p. 311, tab. 77, fig. 1; Duby in DC. Prodr,

- vol. viii. p. 42; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. iii. p. 489; Watt in Journ. Linn.

Soc. Bot. vol. xx. p. 7.

As with so many species of Primula, it is not easy to limit

the specific characters of this by words, so as to distinguish

it from its allies. In some respects it resembles P. prolifera,

which is a much larger plant, with superposed whorls of

flowers and a long narrow corolla-tube ; and it is still nearer

P. elongata, Watt, which has, like P. prolifera, a very

narrow corolla-tube, and which further differs in the more

deeply crenate corolla-lobes and want of a thickened ring

at the mouth. P. obtusifolia is remarkable for its usually

deep claret-coloured flowers. There are two varieties of

it, namely var. Roylet with subentire obovate-spathulate

leaves mealy beneath, and var. Griffithii with deeply-

toothed ovate-cordate leaves. Our figure represents a

form referable to var. Grifithii, but with more oblong

leaves. There is in the Kew Herbarium another variety,

represented by a single specimen, collected by Dr. Watt in

Sikkim, and which in all respects resembles this, except in

that the flowers are described as yellow; and in a MS.

note on obtusifolia Dr. Watt gives yellow as the colour

of its flower. Royle’s figure of P. chtusifolia represents

the corolla-tube as much too long and narrow, and its

colour as lilac.

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Seeds of P. obtusifolia were sent to Kew from Sikkim

by Dr. King, which flowered in a cool pit in June of the

present year. The species is a native of the alpine region

of the Himalaya throughout its length, from the Sutlej

river to Bhotan. In Sikkim it is confined to elevations

of 11,000 to 14,000 feet, and there abundant, flowering in

May and June. :

Descr. Rootstock stout, clothed with broad fleshy sheath-

ing scales. Leaves very variable, two to five inches long ;

in extreme forms some are ovate-cordate and petioled,

others have the blade so narrow, and so narrowed into the

petiole, that the whole organ is very narrowly spathulate,

tip usually obtuse, undersurface naked or mealy, nerves

prominent and reticulate. Scape six to ten inches, stout

or slender, usually brownish-green ; inflorescence naked or

more or less mealy; bracts a quarter to a third of an inch

long, ovate or subulate, free or connate at the base. Caly«

campanulate, cupular in fruit, cleft to the middle, lobes

ovate or oblong and subacute, or broadly oblong with

rounded tips, dark brown when not mealy. Corolla claret

or almost port-wine coloured, rarely yellow; tube about

twice as long as the calyx; mouth narrow, thickened,

orange-yellow; lobes broadly obcordate, flat, spreading,

obscurely crenulate. Ovary subglobose, tip not rounded

nor thickened. Capsule globose, shorter than the calyx.

Seeds papillose.—J. D. H.

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: IRIS Kineiana.

Native of Central Himalayas.

. Nat. Ord. Inrpem.—Tribe Morzez.

Genus Iris, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 686.)

Inis Kingiana; rhizomate breviter repente, foliis linearibus erectis subglaucis

semipedalibus, pedunculo brevissimo, spathis unifloris, valvis lanceolatis

viridibus magnis, perianthio tubo viridulo elongato, segmentis exterioribus

obovato-cuneatis reflexis saturate lilacinis maculatis unguibus cristé depressa

alba filamentis copiosis albidis luteo capitatis barbatis preditis, segmentis

interioribus oblongis unguiculatis pallide lilacinis, styli cristis deltoideis,

antheris pallide lilacinis filamento equilongis.

I. Kingiana, Foster in Gard. Chron. 1887, vol. i. p. 611.

This very interesting new species was discovered by Mr.

Duthie, in his recent exploration of British Garwhal, and

was first cultivated by Professor Foster, and named by him

after Dr. George King, Director of the Calcutta Botanic

Garden. It comes about midway between J. pumila and

I. tectorum, and forms a connecting link between the

sub-genera Pogonivis and Hvansia, in the former of which

the claw of the outer segments is furnished with a beard,

and in the latter with a more or less laciniated crest. Our

drawing was made from a plant that flowered in the Kew

collection at the end of May this present year.

Descr. Rootstock short-creeping. Leaves five or six to

a rosette, three elongated, linear, erect, rather glaucous,

about half a foot long at the flowering time; veins and

edges hyaline. Pedwncle very short. Spathes single-

flowered; valves lanceolate, greenish, unequal, the inner-

most one and a half or two inches long. Perianth-tube

greenish, cylindrical, two or two and a half inches long ;

limb bright lilac; outer segments obovate-cuneate, reflex-

ing, an inch and a half long, dark lilac, much mottled with

paler lilac, furnished with a beard down the claw composed

of white filaments with a yellow glandular tip, springing

from a depressed white crest; inner segments oblong-

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‘unguiculate, erect, paler lilac. Style an inch long, including

the short deltoid crests, lilac in the middle, paler.towards

the edge. Anther whitish-lilac, as long as the filament.—

J. G. Baker. :

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ANEMONE FANNINI.

Native of South Africa.

Nat. Ord. RanuncunacEx.—Tribe ANEMONE.

Genus AnEMonE, Linn. ; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 4.)

ANEMONE Fanninii; sericeo-villosa, foliis amplis longe petiolatis orbiculatis basi

profunde cordato-bilobis 5-7-lobis palmatinerviis superne subvelutinis, lobis

ovato-rotundatis duplicato-dentatis, scapis 2-3-pedalibus robustis 2-3-floris,

floribus amplis, sepalis numerosis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis extus sericeis,

carpellis villosis, stylo filiformi glabro,

A. Fanninii, Harv. mss. in Gen. So. Afric. Pl. Ed. ii. 2; Masters in Gard.

Chron. N.S. vol. xxv. (1886), p. 426, 432, fig. 84. :

This giant Anemone was discovered in 1863 at Dargle

Farm, Natal, by Mr. G. Fannin, who sent dried plants of

it to the late Dr. Harvey, and by him it was named in

manuscript after its discoverer. Specimens have sub-

sequently been received at Kew from Mr. J. M. Wood,

collected in 1883, on a grassy hill at Ismont, at an elevation

of 2000 feet; and still later Dr. Masters has communicated

specimens from Mr. A. W. Adlam, of Pieter Maritzburgh,

Natal, who found it in open grassy situations at 3600 to

4000 feet elevation, and sent seeds to England. Jn an

interesting botanical sketch of a tour in Natal (‘ Gard.

Chron.” l.c. 426) Mr. Adlam describes this Anemone as

owing five feet high with leaves two feet in diameter.

The distribution of the genus Anemone in the southern

hemisphere is very peculiar; beginning with the African

continent, one species (A. Thomsoni, Oliver) is found on

the equatorial mountain of Kilimanjaro, at an altitude of

9000 to 10,000 feet, its nearest congeners to the north

being two European species which occur in Algeria, for no

representative of the genus has been found in Abyssinia or

reached, where A. Fanninii appears; whilst still further

A. Fanninii), of Caffraria, and A. capensis, i which: =

grows on Table Mountain and other high ranges to the

westward. In South America the genus, though scantily =

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represented as to species, extends throughout the Andes

almost to Cape Horn itself, and is found also in South

Brazil. In Asia, south of the tropics, one species alone is

known, the A. crassifolia, Hook., of the Tasmanian Alps,

which belongs to a different section of the genus from the

African or American species. Its geographically nearest

allies are tropical and very remote indeed, namely, the

A. sumatrana of Sumatra, and unpublished species in the

Philippine Islands.

A. Fanninit, as observed above, is very nearly related to

A, Cajfra, and may indeed prove to be a gigantic form of

that species, from which it differs chiefly in its very much

larger size, and the more rounded lobes of the leaf. The

Specimen here drawn was received in June, 1835, from Mr.

J. Medley Wood, of the Natal Botanical Gardens, and

flowered in a cool pit at the Royal Gardens in April of the

present year. The flowers, which last about a fortnight,

are sweet-scented, and the petals green for several days

before expanding. In the open air the leaves attained

fifteen inches in diameter. It is quite hardy, plants having

stood out of doors at Kew all last winter.

Descr. Lootstock stout, woody. Leaves suborbicular,

eight to twenty-four inches in diameter, coriaceous, five-

to seven-lobed, velvety above, densely or laxly villous

beneath, with spreading subsilky hairs, palmatinerved ;

nerves very stout beneath; lobes rounded, obtuse, ir-

regularly toothed; petiole one to two feet long, silkily

villus with spreading hairs below and appressed ones

above, or appressed throughout. Scape two to five feet

high, very robust, clothed like the petiole two- rarely

three-flowered ; involucre of two rarely three linear bracts

one to three inches long, entire or with lobed tips, densely

silky externally. lowers three to four inches in diameter,

pure white, fragrant; pedicels eight to ten inches long or

more. Sepals very inconstant in number, twelve to thirty,

hnear-lanceolate, acuminate, silky externally. Stamens very

numerous, in many series, densely crowded round the

pistil. Carpels numerous, silkily villous, terminating in a

slender glabrous style of about twice the length of the

ovary, and which does not appear to lengthen after

flowering —J. D. H.

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STATICE Suworowt.

Native of Western Turkestan.

Nat. Ord. PLUMBAGINEZ.—Tribe StaTIcER,

Genus Statice, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 625.)

Statice (Psylliostachys) Suworowi; annua, foliis omnibus radicalibus mem-

branaceis oblongo-oblanceolatis obtusis integerrimis nervo excurrente mucro-

natis undulatis, scapo elato superne rachique spicarum pubescente, spicis

valde elongatis subpaniculatim dispositis densifloris, bracteis ovatis albo-

hyalinis cuspidatis, spiculis 2-3-floris bibracteolatis, bracteolis florum inferiorum

scariosis late ovatis nervo viridi cuspidatis, superiorum subulatis, parium

inferiore truncato-dentata, calycis tubo inferne glanduloso-piloso, lobis aristatis,

corolla tubo calyce duplo longiore, lobis rotundatis.

-§. Suwerowi, Regel Gartenfl. vol. xxxi. (1882), p. 289, tab. 1095, figs. 1,2; Gard.

Chron. N.S. vol. xx. (1883), p. 392, fig. 59.

This is one of the most beautiful Annuals introduced of

late into cultivation, and is fortunately perfectly hardy.

It belongs to an annual section of the genus Statice, with

terete spikes of flowers, all Oriental and Central Asiatic,

of which SN. spicata, Willd., which ranges from the Ural to

Palestine in the West, and Beluchistan in the East, is the

type. S. Swwerowi differs from that plant in its tall

stature, in its much greater size, quite entire leaves, and

very long drooping spikes. It was discovered by Dr.

Albert Regel near Dscham-Bulak in Western ‘Turkestan,

and is named in honour of Iwan Petrowitsch Suworow,

Inspector of Military ‘Hospitals, &c., in the Turkestan

forces. The Royal Gardens are indebted for specimens to

Dr. Masters, who raised plants from seeds received from

Messrs. Haage and Schmidt of Erfurt. The plants flowered

in July, 1886. Dr. Masters mentions a single specimen as

having remained upwards of two months in flower, and

says that by sowing in succession from February to April

it may be had in full bloom throughout the summer from

May till October. At Kew it has flowered both in a

conservatory and in the rockery, in the latter case attaining

a height of five feet, but with flowers paler than under

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glass. The plant figured was raised from seed communicated

by Dr. de Regel from the Imperial Botanical Gardens of

St. Petersburg.

Descor. A tall annual. Leaves all radical, six to eight

inches long, membranous, pale green, oblanceolate, obtuse,

mucronate by the excurrent nerve, narrowed into a winged

or naked petiole, midrib broad, nerves very slender. Scape

three to five feet high, stout, obtusely angled and grooved,

green, glabrous below, hairy above, bearing one very long

terminal drooping spike a foot long or less, and several

distant lateral ones four to six inches long. Spikes sessile or

nearly so, cylindric, obtuse, one-third to nearly one-half of an

inch in diameter ; rachis pubescent; flowers subsessile, one-

sixth of an inch long, most densely crowded, rose-coloured,

disposed in two- to three-flowered sessile bracteate spikelets,

bracts and bracteoles scarious with excurrent nerves,

shorter than the calyx. -Calyz-tube narrow, hairy at the

base; lobes triangular, awned. Corolla-tube twice as long

as the calyx, lobes rounded or very broadly oblong.

Stamens exserted. Styles capillary.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Reduced sketch of the whole plant; 2, leaves, and 3, portions of inflores-

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IRIS Sart, var. Luria.

Native of Asia Minor.

Nat. Ord. Intprx.—Tribe MormeEx.

Genus Irts, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 686.)

Tris (Oncocyclus) Sari, var. Zurida; rhizomate brevi obliquo, foliis ensiformibus

faleatis glaucescentibus semipedalibus, pedunculo monocephalo foliis equilongo,

spathe valvis lanceolatis ventricosis pallide viridibus, perianthio tubo bi-

pollicari, limbi segmentis orbicularibus copiosissime fusco-punctatis, exterioribus

reflexis diffuse barbatis, interioribus erectis, styli appendicibus brevibus rotun-

I. Sari, var. lurida, Boiss. Fl. Orient. vol. v, p. 131.

This curious new Iris belongs to the small section

Oncocyclus, and is closely allied to the well-known I. susiana

(Bor. Mac., tab. 91). Our drawing was made from a .

specimen sent by Mr. R. I. Lynch, of the Cambridge

Botanic Garden, with whom it flowered last May. We

have also had it this summer in the herbaceous ground at

Kew, received from Professor Foster. The species was

originally described in my synopsis of the genus Iris,

published in the “ Gardener’s Chronicle ’’ in the year 1876

(vol. v. p. 788), from material furnished by Max Leichtlin.

Desor. Rhizome short, oblique. Leaves about six, ensi-

form, falcate, glaucescent, half a foot long at the flowering

time, half an inch broad. Peduncle monocephalous, half

a foot long ; spathe-valves lanceolate, ventricose, pale green.

Perianth-tube two inches long; segments of the limb

suborbicular, two and a half or three inches long, copiously

striped and spotted with claret-purple on a claret-white

ound ; outer segments reflexed, darker in colour, furnished

with a diffused brown-black beard; inner segments paler,

erect. Filaments shorter than the anthers. Style dark

brown, an inch broad, furnished with two short quadrate

- appendages.—J. G. Baker.

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PRIMULA SAPPHTRINA.

Native of the Sikkim Himalaya.

PRIMULA Rett.

Native of the Kumaon Himalaya.

Nat. Ord. Primunacrz.— Tribe Primuten.

Genus Primvuta, Linn, : (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p- 631.)

Primvuta sapphirina; perpusilla, dense ceespitosa, foliis cespitosis subrosulatis

cuneato-spathulatis obovatis oblanceolatisve in petiolum latum angustatis,

pectinato- v. pinnatifido-dentatis, scapo gracillimo plurifloro, bracteis

minutis, floribus brevissime pedicellatis nutantibus, calycis parvi lobis brevibus

obtusis v. subacutis, corolle late infundibularis sapphirine v. violacew tubo

brevi tereti, lobis obovatis 2-fidis, capsula globosa inclusa.

P. sapphirina, Hook. f: and Thomson in Herb. Ind. Or., and in Flora of British

India, vol. iii. p. 492; Watt in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xx. p. 10, tab. 13C. —

Primvta Reidii ; foliis oblongis oblongo-oblanceolatisve obtusis grosse lobulato-

dentatis vel -crenatis in petiolum angustatis, supra convexis bullatis laxe sub-

sericeo-villosis, scapo ee plurifloro, bracteis latis, floribus brevissime

pedicellatis nutantibus, calycis ampli campanulati intus farinosi lobis brevibus

latis rotundatis glanduloso-ciliatis, coroll eburnex tubo calyce zquilongo lobis

late oblongis in globum conniventibus apice 2-lobis cum dente interjecto

ovario globoso, capsule globose valvis ad apicem membranaceis. :

C. Reidii, Duthie in Report on Saharumpore Bot. Gardens for 1885, and in

Gard. Chron. N.S, vol. xxv. (1886), p. 277 in note, and N. 8. vol. xxvi. (1886),

p- 691, fig. 136.

Of the two Himalayan Primroses here figured, P. sapphi-

ina was discovered by myself in June, 1849, in the alpine

regions of the Sikkim Himalaya, growing at elevations of

13,000 to 15,000 feet, where it starred the otherwise bare

soil and rocks, soon after the melting of the snow, with its

gem-like flowers. It has since been collected by Dr. King’s

native emissaries, by whom seeds were transmitted to

Calcutta, and thence to Kew. It is very similar in size

and habit to P. pusilla, Wallich, of similar elevations in

Nepal and Sikkim, but in which species the corolla is

salver-shaped and white, and the throat bears a tuft of

woolly hairs. The seeds were sown at Kew, March 30,

1886, and the plants raised flowered in a cold pit in May

of this year. .

oct. lst, 1887.

Primula Reidiv'is im some respects an even more singular

species than P. sapphirina, from its compact head of

rather large ivory-white flowers, the very large calyx, and

the limb of the corolla, which is, from the incurvation of

its broad lobes, almost globular. It is a very recent dis-

covery of Mr. Duthie, made when (in August, 1884), as

Superintendent of the Botanical Gardens of Saharumpore,

he officially visited the higher regions of the Western

Himalaya in the province of Kumaon (that bordering

Nepal on the west). In an interesting account of that

excursion, printed in the Annual Report of those gardens,

and reprinted in the ‘‘ Gardener’s Chronicle,”’ quoted above,

Mr. Duthie mentions the discovery of this Primula in the

Ralam valley on wet rocks near the glacier, at an elevation

of 12,000 to 13,000 feet, and describes it with the name

attached of his fellow-traveller, Mr. Reid. On a subsequent

excursion made in 1885 in British Garwhal, a province

immediately to the westward of Kumaon, Mr. Duthie again

met with Primula Reidii, and at the same elevation.

Seeds were taken from the Herbarium specimens sent by

Mr. Duthie, and the plants raised flowered in the Royal

Gardens contemporaneously with P. sapphirina, and under

like conditions.—J.D.H.

Fig. A. P. sapphirina ; 1, leaf ; 2, calyx; 3, corolla laid open; 4, ovary —all. *

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DENDROBIUM SULCATUM.

Native of Assam, or the Khasia Mountains.

Nat. Ord. OxcHrpEx.—Tribe Eprpenprex.

Genus Denprosium, Swartz; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 498.)

Deyprosivum (Dendrocoryne) sudcatwm ; caulibus fastigiatis clavatis leviter com-

ressis profunde sulcatis, foliis subterminalibus late ovatis acutis v. acuminatis

Enbas coriaceis, nervis numerosis obscuris, racemis lateralibus breviter

pedunculatis multifloris, bracteis minutis acutis, floribus fastigiatis aureis,

sepalis oblongis lineari-oblongisve obtusis, petalis sepalis zquilongis obovatis

apice rotundatis, labello late cuneato-obovato v. obcordato in unguem brevem

angustato hirsuto aurantiaco intus sanguineo striolato.

" D. suleatum, Lindl. Bot. Reg. vol. xxiv. (1838), tab. 65. 7

D. suleatum, var. polyantha, Rolfe in Gard. Chron. Ser, 3, vol. i. (1887), p. 607.

Dendrobium suleatum was first described and figured by

Lindley in the Botanical Register for 1838, from what

appears to me to have been a very poor specimen, that

flowered in the Duke of Devonshire’s garden at Chats-

worth. The plant itself is stated to have been received

from India, where it was collected by Mr. Gibson, a

botanical emissary of his Grace’s. Mr. Gibson collected in

the Khasia Mountains, and nowhere else in India that I

am aware of, whence he sent home a multitude of orchids

and fine plants of other Orders. The only other early

authority for D. sulcatum is a specimen (so named by

Lindley) in the Hookerian Herbarium, marked as from

Assam, Griffith; but as Griffith’s Assam and Khasia

collections were mixed, this specimen may also have been

from the Khasia. Lindley’s original drawing represents a

narrowly oblong leaf, described as three-nerved, but

figured as five-nerved, and a clavate stem, with three

racemes of three flowers each, characters so different from

those of the plant here figured, that Mr. Rolfe has, in the

‘ Gardener’s Chronicle ” (taking Lindley’s figure as the type

of D. sulcatum), described that here figured as var. polyantha.

A reference, however, to the native specimen, together with

the opinions of several experienced orchid-growers, leads

oct. Ist, 1887.

me to regard the form here figured as the typical state of

the plant, possibly improved a little by cultivation, and

Lindley’s figure as representing a very emaciated or

indifferently cultivated state of it. An examination of the

native specimen (though ill-preserved and mutilated) seems

to prove this; its leaves are intermediate in breadth

between Lindley’s and that here figured, and have many

nerves; and the raceme bears thirteen bracts, indicative

of the position of as many flowers, of which all but two

have fallen away.

D. sulcatum belongs to the section of the genus which,

as limited by Lindley, in his notes on the Orchidology

of India (Journal of the Linnzan Society, vol. iii. p. 5),

“must be confined to species with stems or pseudo-bulbs

bearing leaves at the apex only, and always of a thick

leathery texture.” Under D. chrysotoxrwm in the Register

(1847, t. 36), he calls these Club Dendrobes, and considers

them best. characterized by their fleshy angular stem with

two or more manifest articulations, one or more leaves at

the upper end, and a lip not broken up into a tuft of hairs

or fringes (the latter forming his section Desmotrichum).

Amongst the typical yellow-flowered Dendrocorynes figured

in this work are D. chrysotorum, Lindl., t. 50538, D. densi-

florum, Wall., t. 3418, D. Farmeri, Paxt.,t.4659,and the sub-

ject of the present plate. The white-flowered D. speciosum,

Sm., t. 3074, and its allies, together with D. tetragonum,

Cunn., t. 5956, all from Australia, are rather aberrant

members of the same section. The type may be regarded

as D. aggregatum, Roxburgh, which is the first described

of the Indian yellow-flowered Dendrobes.

Our specimen was received in 1886 from the Botanical

Gardens of Calcutta, and was said to have come from

Assam. It flowered in April, 1887, in the cool orchid-

house, which favours the supposition that it is a native of

the Khasia Mountains, rather than of Assam.—J. D. H.

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LANDOLPHIA rtoripa.

Native of Tropical Africa,

Nat. Ord. ApocynEx.—Twbe Carissen.

Genus Lanpotruta, Beauv.; (Benth, et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 692.)

Lanporrara florida; alte scandens, cirrhifera, glaberrima, foliis breviter petiolatis

amplis ovato-oblongis obtusis v. acutis integerrimis basi rotundatis v. subcor-

datis, nervis utrinque cost 6-8, cymis pedunculatis multifloris glabris pubes-

centibus tomentosisve, floribus breviter pedicellatis, bracteolis minutis ovato-

oblongis obtusis pedicello appressis, calycis parvi lobis oblongis, corolla tubo

gracili pollicari stramineo intus villoso, lobis tubo xquilongis lineari-oblongis

obtusis, ovario annulo piloso cincto, stigmate fusiformi apice 2-dentato.

L. florida, Benth. in Hook. Niger Flora, p. 444; Walp. Ann. vol. iii. p. 29;

Kotschy Plant. Tinn. t.13 A; Thomson in Appendix to Speke’s Journ. of

Discovery of Source of Nile, p.639; Grant in Trans. Linn. Soe. vol. xxix.

p- 107. Christy, New Commercial Products, N. i. p. 8, with a plate.

L. comorensix, Benth, in Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 693.

Vahea comorensis, Bojer Hort. Maurit. p. 207 ; DC. Prodr, vol. viii. p. 228.

Willughbeia cordata, Klotzsch in Peters Mosamb. Bot. p. 281.

This is the India-rubber producing tree of Tropical Africa,

a plant known to Botanists long before its commercial value

had attracted attention to it. The first notice of itis by the —

late M. Bojer, of Mauritius, who published it in 1836 under

the name of Vahea comorensis, from specimens cultivated

in the Mauritius Botanical Garden, and which were brought

from Johanna, one of the Comoro Islands. In 1848 it

was described by Bentham in the Niger Flora, from speci-

mens collected by the lamented Vogel, Botanist to the ill-

fated Niger Expedition of Captain Trotter. Bentham

recognized it as a true Landolphia, but coming from the

west coast of Africa, he could not have supposed that it

was referable to what was supposed to be another genus,

Vahea, and which was a native of the east coast. In 1863

it was published as Willughbeia cordata, by Klotzsch,

from specimens brought from Johanna Island, the locality

whence Bojer’s specimens were obtained. In 1867 it was

fioured by Kotschy in the account of the plants collected

by Madame Tinné in the Soudan, under its proper name

nov. lst, 1887.

of Landolphia florida. Lastly, when preparing the Apocynee

for the “Genera Plantarum,” Bentham recognized the

identity of Vahea of Lamarck with the earlier established

Landolphia of Beauvois, and referred V. comorensis, Bojer, to

the latter genus, but did not perceive its identity with L.

florida. This was no doubt due to the fact that whereas

the cymes of florida are, densely tomentose, those of co-

morensis are quite glabrous. Since its first publication L.

florida has been found in many places on both the east and

west coasts of Tropical Africa, from Guinea to Angola on

the west coast, and from the Soudan to Mozambique on

the east, occurring in forests near the coast as well as m

the interior, and varying with glabrous, pubescent or

tomentose cymes.

The first notice of the Landolphia yielding India-rubber

that I have found is by Col. now Sir J. A. Grant, in the

appendix to Speke’s Journal (p.639), repeated in an elaborate

account of his collections published in the Linnwan Society §

Transactions (xxix. 107). In this he says of Landolphia

florida, “A woody climber, named M’hoonga (Kis), found at

Madi, Derembe, in a shady spot by a rocky burn. Its

trunk travelled like a boa constrictor along the ground

tillit found a tree to climb up, and was twenty-five inches

in circumference ; ascending to the topmost branches, 1t

threw down pendants of foliage and clusters of lily-white,

scented flowers. The milk, if rubbed upon the skin, adheres

like birdlime, and can scarcely be rubbed off. . . . The

Wahiao people make playing balls from the juice, and con-

sider its rubber to be the most adhesive known.”

For living specimens of this interesting plant the

Royal Gardens are indebted to Sir John Kirk, from

whom they were received in 1878. ‘The plant, a spray of

which is here figured, after climbing to the roof of the

Palm House, flowered profusely, in the month of June of

this year, powertully scenting the air with its delicious

fragrance.—J. D. H.

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PHALAINOPSIS Manz.

Native of the Sulu Archipelago.

Nat. Ord. OrcHipEm.—Tribe Vanpex.

Genus Poatzunopsis, Blume (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, P. vol. iii. p. 573.)

PxHateznopsis (Stauroglottis) Marie; caule brevissimo, foliis oblongis v. late

lineari-oblongis apicibus acutis sape recurvis basi uno latere auriculatis, pani-

cula gracili longe pedunculata pluriflora, floribus 1} poll. latis, sepalis petalis-

~ subequalibus lineari-oblongis obtusis albis violaceo-fasciatis, labelli lobis

_ Jateralibus angustis corniformibus subrecurvis magnibus inflexis, intermedio

_oblongo purpureo albo-marginato basi 2-calcarato, disco villis erectis onusto,

_ ecolumna medio constricta, apice nuda, |

P. a a tr nad in Warner & Williams Orchid. Album, vol. ii. t. 80, and

su ;

Mr. Burbidge, the discoverer cf this species in the

Sulu Archipelago, when travelling for Messrs. Veitch, says -

of it in the work cited above, “ At first sight this plant,

both in its habit of growth and in its blossoms, is sug-

gestive of Phalaenopsis sumatrana, especially the beautiful

variety of that species known as lilacina; but in P. Marie

there is no apical lobe to the lip, nor is the apex of the

column fringed as in that species. The bold amethyst-

like blotches on the snow-white sepals and petals are

very lovely.”” Mr. Burbidge adds that it is a mountain

plant and of a singularly hardy constitution, and hence bears

the vicissitudes of transit better than many of its allies.

In the description accompanying the plate in the Orchid

Album, the specific name is, by an oversight, attributed to

Professor Reichenbach, an error which is corrected by Dr.

Reichenbach himself in a note appended to the description

of Plate 87 (Vanda tricolor, var.), where it is explained that

P. Marie was dedicated by Mr. Burbidge to his wife on

the spot where he found it, the main Island of Sulu. The.

specimen here figured was presented to Kew by Messrs.

Hugh Low, of Clapton, and flowered in June of the present

Nov. Ist, 1887.

Dusor. Stem very short. Leaves six to eight inches

long, by two to two and a half broad, linear-oblong,

acute, recurved towards the apex, channelled along the

centre, with convex sides, bright green, smooth, glossy.

Panicle with its peduncle much longer than the leaves,

slender, sparingly branched; flowers distant; peduncle

and rachis slender, dark green; bracts small, green.

Flowers one and a half inches in diameter, pedicel and

ovary together nearly an inch long, slender, pale. Perianth

white with four or five broad red-purple transverse bands

on each leaflet ; dorsal sepal oblong, tip rounded, lateral

rather broader and more elliptic; petals about the same

size as the sepals, but rather broader upwards, and sub-

spathulate. Lip small, shorter than the sepals; lateral

lobes narrow, erect and rather recurved, spur-like, their

tips pointing to the constriction in the column; midlobe

clawed with acleft recurved spur at the base; limb oblong,

obtuse, red-purple with a white margin, disk clothed thickly

with long erect villi. Colwmn with the sides constricted

in front about the middle, the edges inflected.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Column and lip seen sideways ; 2, front view of column; 3, anther

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POLEMONIUM rravom.

Native of New Mevico.

Nat. Ord. PoLEMoNIACEm.

Genus Potemonium, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 823.)

Po.temoniumM flavum; caule 2-3-pedali simplici v. corymbosim ramoso folioso

superne laxe tomentoso, foliis pinnatis, foliolis multijugis elliptico-lanceolatis

acutis, cymis corymbosis, pedicellis calycibusque pilis laxis flexuosis glanduloso-

tomentosis, calyce campanulato ultra medium 5-fido, lobis oblongo-lanceolatis

acuminatis, corolla flava infundibulari-campanulata glanduloso-puberula, lobis

late ovatis acutis calyce multo longioribus, filamentis lobis corollz brevioribus

ima basi villosis, capsula polysperma, seminibus obscure alatis.

-P. flavum, £. LZ. Greene in Coulter’s Bot. Gazette (Indiana, U.S., June 1881),

vol. vi. p. 218; Gray Synopt. Flora of N. America, Gamopetala, p. 412.

’

Mr. Greene says of this plant, when describing it in the

‘** Botanical Gazette,” “It is hard to establish, and some-

what hazardous to propose, new species of Polemonium.

The claim for specific rank for this very striking and

beautiful plant I base upon the shape and colour of

the corolla. No other species but P. confertum shows a

corolla whose limb is really funnel-formed, that is not at

all spreading; nor has any other form red-yellow flowers

which show no tinges of blue or purple or flesh colour, even

in fading. Its nearest ally is P.foliosissimum, while it

has more the look of P. carneum.” The chief of American

botanists, Dr. A. Gray, having admitted the claims of P.

flavum to specific rank, Mr. Grecne’s views are confirmed.

I must remark, however, that as cultivated at Kew

the corolla-lobes do spread, and show no trace of a tawny

red colour. With regard to P. carnewm, A. Gray, anative of

San Francisco, it agrees with P. flavum in habit, and has

a yellow-flowered variety assigned to it by Gray, but it has

rounded apices of the corolla-lobes. A third species that

much resembles P. flavum is P.incarnatum, A.Gray (Greene’s

Plants of California, No. 796), but that is more glabrous,

has obtuse calyx-lobes, a very large corolla with rounded

nov. lst, 1887.

lobes, and of a salmon colour, fading to purplish. P.

foliosissimum, A. Gray, is considered by Mr. Greene as the

nearest ally of flavum. I have gathered this species in the

Wasatch Mountains, Utah, in company with Dr. Gray; also

at La Veta, near the borders of New Mexico, at an elevation

of 9000 to 10,000 feet ; it has narrower leaves, smaller white

or blue flowers, and rounded corolla-lobes. None of the

above species have been figured in any horticultural pub-

lication.

P. flavum is a native of the highest slopes of the

Pinos Altos Mountains of New Mexico, where it grows

with Delphinum glaucum, Watson, and Hupatorium grandiden-

tatum, DC., and where it was found by Mr. Greene in flower

and fruit in September, 1880. The specimen figured here

was communicated to the Cambridge Botanical Gardens

by Mr. Lynch in July 1 of the present year. The species

has also been in cultivation, and flowered at Kew during

the last two years.—J. D. H.

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corolla and stamen; 4, ovary and disk; 5, vertical section of the same:—alé

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MORINA BETONICOIDES.

Native of the Sikkim Himalaya.

Nat. Ord. DirpsacEx,

Genus Morina, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 158.)

Mortna BETONICOIDES; caule pilis retrorsis pubescente, foliis linearibus v. lineari-

lanceolatis acutis integerrimis marginibus spinulosis, caulinis oppositis, capitulis

paucifloris, involucelli tubo brevi ore truncato spinis 12-20 erectis armato,

calycis subcampanulati obscure bilabiati lobis late ovatis spinescentibus ciliatis,

corolla rosea, tubo hirsuto calyce duplo longiore lente curvo, limbi fere

equalis lobis subsqualibus obcordato-rotundatis ore contracto, filamentis

brevibus inferioribus paullo brevioribus.

M. betonicoides, Benth. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1171; Clarke in Flora of British

India, vol. iii. p. 217.

The head-quarters of the genus Morina are, as far as is

at present known, the Himalaya Mountains, where it occurs

throughout the whole extent of the range, from Kashmir

eastward. A few species extend westward into Affghanistan,

and one into Persia, and probably a fair share will be

found in Western China. ‘There are two sections of the

genus, one with a deeply and subequally two-lipped calyx,

the lips two-lobed, to which belong M. persica, L. :

Wallichiana, Royle), M. longifolia, Wall. (Tab. nost. 4092),

and M. Coulteriana, Royle (Tab. 6734), remarkable for its

yellow flowers ; in the other the calyx is obscurely two-

lipped with spinescent lobes; to this belongs B. nepalensis,

a species hitherto only known from Wallich’s specimens

collected in Nepal, and the subject of the present plate,

which Mr. Clarke suggests may be a fully developed state

of nepalensis. oS

MM. betonicoides was first found by myself, in 1848, at

elevations of 10,000 to 13,000 feet in the Sikkim Himalaya,

and it has subsequently been gathered by Mr. Clarke in the

same country and at the same elevations. It isa beautiful

rock plant and quite hardy. ‘The specimen here figured

was raised from seed sent by Dr. Kurz, Superintendent

nov. Ist, 1887.

of the Royal Botanical Garden of Calcutta, in March 1883,

and the plant flowered in June of the present year.

Duscr. Stem erect or suberect, ten to eighteen inches

high, with a line of retrorse hairs down one side. Leaves

four to eight inches long, linear-lanceolate, acute, quite

entire, margins ciliate with long very slender prickles, nerves

parallel ; cauline opposite, shorter, broader towards the

base, recurved. Spikes subcapitate, subtended by oppo-

site bract-leaves tinged with red, few-flowered. luwers

sessile. Involucel with a short broad terete subcampanu-

late tube, membranous, hairy ; mouth truncate with twelve

to twenty erect unequal ciliate teeth or bristles, which

are shorter than the calyx-teeth. Calyx rather longer

than the involucel, tube terete ; mouth oblique, obscurely

two-lipped, five-lobed, lobes erect triangular ovate ciliate,

tips spinescent. Corolla one inch long, bright rose-red,

crimson at the bases of three or four of the lobes, tube hairy,

incurved, slender below, dilated under the flat nearly

regular limb, which is half an inch in diameter, with or-

bicular-obcordate subequal lobes. Stamens four, within

the corolla-tube, filaments very short, and anthers subequal.

Stigma discoid.—J. D. H.

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VICIA Dennsstana.

Native of the Azores Islands,

Nat. Ord. Leauminos®.—Tribe Vicrex,

Genus Vicra, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 524.)

Victa (Cracca) Denessiana ; perennis, scandens, sericeo-pilosa, caule sulcato sub-

tetragono, foliis sessilibus foliolis alternis et suboppositis ad 16-24 jugis

oblongis obtasis mucronulatis subtus sericeo-pubescentibus, stipulis semi-

sagittatis serratis, racemis foliis subzequilongis densifloris, pedunculo rachique

bitin, floribus pollicaribus versicoloribus, calycis dentibus tubo multo bre-

vioribus, vexillo abbreviato alis ultra medium subreflexis breviore, leguminibus

breviter stipitatis 2-pollicaribus lineari-oblongis acutis planis compressis,

seminibus parvis funiculo semilunari.

V. Dennesiana, Watson in Godman Nat. Hist. of Azores, p. 154.

V. Durneriana (erore pro Dennesiana), Drouet, Cat. Flore des Iles Agores, p. 90.

This is one of the very few plants endemic in and pecu-

liar to the Azores, and like the Campanula Vidalii (Tab.

nostr. 4748) it is most restricted as to area. The late

Mr. H. Watson, in his contribution to Mr. Godman’s

interesting work quoted above, says of it, “This is a

remarkable plant in itself, and in its history so far as is at

present known ; for chance alone seems to have saved it

from becoming an extinct species almost immediately after

it became known at all. It was found by Mr. Hunt

(British Consul for the Azores) on the mountains at the

east end of the Island of San Miguel, growing upon damp

earthy precipices, but in one spot only, from which it has

since disappeared through a landslip. At the time of

writing this page (Mr. Watson says) the letter from Mr.

Hunt which conveyed a more detailed account of the

discovery and disappearance of the Vicia has been itself

unfortunately lost or mislaid. Mr. Hunt unsuccessfully

sought for the plant elsewhere in the same neighbourhood,

and no other collector has found it in any of the isles.”

Mr. Watson goes on to say, that it has flowered with him

at his garden, Thames Ditton, Surrey ; and cultivated

specimens have been distributed to Botanists, labelled with

nov. Ist, 1887.

the manuscript name of Dennesiana, adapted from that of

Mr. G. E. Dennes, who was Honorary Secretary of the

Botanical Society of London at the time when some speci-

mens were sent by Mr. Hunt for distribution through that

: Exchange Club. Mr. Watson’s treatment of the plant was

to protect the seedlings in a frame in winter, and put the

grown up plants into the open garden ground in the

following summer to flower and seed. The severe frost of

May, 1867, in Surrey, proved almost fatal to the small stock

of plants that he possessed ; he, however, took up the roots

and repotted. them, when one alone flowered in the dry

summer of:'1868 in a weakly condition. This he hoped

might be available for the Boranican Macazin®, but he was

disappointed, and it is only after twenty more years that

an opportunity has occurred of carrying out Mr. Watson's

intention of having this very interesting plant figured in

the Magazine. The changes in the colour of the flower

are, as that author states, remarkable; the early buds are

of a fine purple, but as they expand they become of a dull

slate colour passing on to a dingy fawn and when dry a

sort of russet brown.

The source of the specimen here figured is a plant found

in Mr. Watson’s garden, after that lamented botanist’s

death, by Mr. Nicholson of the Royal Gardens, Kew, and

which he brought to Kew. This flowered in tho herba-

ceous pit in the end of May.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Leaf; 2, flower; 3, stamens; 4, pistil; 5, pod, and 6, seed, both of the

natural size ; 7, the same enlarged, as are Figs. 1-4.

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ANTHURIUM VEITCHII.

Native of Colombia.

Nat. Ord. Arorpez.—Tribe OronTieR.

Genus Antuurium, Schott; (Benth. et Hvok. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 998.)

Awnraurtum (Cardiophyllum) Veitehii; caudice brevi, foliis maximis lamina ab

apice petioli subequilongi pendula elongato-oblonga acuminata basi profunde

_ cordata, lobis rotundatis sinu angusto v. sese obtegentibus, nervis perplurimis

patentim arcuatis profunde depressis, lamina inter nervos convexa, basilaribus

retrorsum arcuatis, saturate viridibus supra lucidis, infra pallide e viridi

brunneis, petiolo tereti non canaliculato, geniculo incassalo pollicari, pedunculo

robusto tereti petiolis dimidio breviore, spatha libera pedali lanceolata caudato-

- acuminata basi subcordata, patenti-recurva, spadice sessili crassa obtusa

straminea, perianthii foliolis crassis subquadratis truncatis facie ventrali

concavis, ovario elongato-conico 2-loculari, stigmate minuto, loculis 1-ovulatis,

A. Veitchii, Masters in Gard. Chron. N.S. vol. vi. (1876), p. 772, fig. 143;

Engler Monogr. Araceae, p. 178; André Ill. Horticol. vol. xxviii. t. 406.

No Araceous plant surpasses the subject of this plate in

stateliness and beauty of foliage. <A full-grown plant of it

quite fills the end of the centre table of an ordinary stove,

and arrests the eye by its graceful habit, the gigantic size

of the pendulous leaves, which are four feet long in well

grown plants, the brilliancy of their green, and if placed

in a favourable position, the play of light on the numerous

polished symmetrically curved convexities that cross each

half of the blade from the tip to the base. The spadix

and spathe are very inconspicuous, the latter being pale

reen, and the former dull straw-coloured.

A hybrid raised by Mr. Bull between A. Veitchianum

and A. Andreanum, is A. chelseiensis, N.E. Br.-(in “ Gard.

Chron.” vol. xxiv. 1885, p. 650); it is no improvement

upon either parent. ie is

This beautiful plant was very appropriately named by

Dr. Masters after the most eminent of living cultivators,

who generously presented to Kew the specimen here

figured, and which flowered at Kew in June of the present

year. It isa native of Colombia, and was discovered by —

_ Mr. Waters, who suggested the specific name of his patrons

to Dr. Masters. In the description accompanying the

figure in the “‘ Gardener’s Chronicle” the peduncle of the

spathe is said to be hardly shorter than the petioles, and

our drawing would appear to confirm this; but I am

assured by Mr. Brown that the figure in the ‘* Chronicle”

which represents the peduncle as about half the length of

the peticle is its normal condition. It will be observed

that the reduced figure of the spathe in the plate 6968 is

not represented in situ.

Descr. Caudex short, erect, leafy in our specimen to the

base, and emitting roots from near the bases of the petioles.

Leaves disposed in a symmetrical crown four or five feet in

diameter, formed of eight or more leaves, whose petioles

rise almost perpendicularly from the caudex, then curve

outwards and bear pendent blades upwards of four feet

long by nearly a foot broad; petiole terete, not grooved,

with a swollen joint an inch long at the top; blade linear-

oblong, acute or acuminate, deeply cordate at the base,

with a narrow sinus or overlapping lobes, bright green and

shiny above, pale and suffused with brownish-green beneath ;

midrib and nerves deeply sunk, the latter very numerous,

forty or more pairs, curved with the concavity towards

the apex of the leaf, and with the leaf surface raised

between them in smooth symmetrical transverse semI-

lunar ridges. Peduncle about half the length of the

petioles, stout, terete, smooth below, ribbed under the

spathe. Spathe a foot long, horizontal, green, caudate at

the tip, dilated and subcordate at the base. Spadix six

inches long by one in diameter, erect, sessile, cylindric,

obtuse, straw-coloured. Perianth-segments nearly square

in outline, convex dorsally, concave ventrally, with truncate

rounded tips; filaments very broad; anthers erect. Ovary

elongate - conical, two-celled, cells one-ovuled; stigma

minute.—J. D. H.

Plate 6968 represents a plant of A. Veitchii reduced to one-fourth the natural

size, and a spadix with its spathe of the natural size. Fig. 1, Flowers in a

fragment of the spadix; 2 and 3, segments of perianth; 4 and 5, front and back

view of stamens; 6, ovary; 7, the same with one cell éut open, showing the ovule ;

8, transverse section of ovary ; 9, ovule:—all enlarged.

Tas. 6969,

HELICOPHYLLUM Atpertt.

Native of Bokhara.

Nat. Ord. Aro1pExZ.—Tribe ARINEX,

Genus HenicopHytium, Schott; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 968.)

HeticorpnytiumM Alberti; foliis longe petiolatis hastatis undulatis lobo postico

triangulari-lanceolato lateralibus patentibus obtusiusculis, anticis 2 postico

paullo brevioribus erectis angustis uno latere infra medium processu corni-

forme instructis, petiolo crassiusculo canaliculate, spathe breviter crasse

pedunculate intus levis tubo cylindraceo viridi lamina oblonga acuminata

intus atro-purpurea dimidio breviore, spadice gracili, inflorescentia mascula

brevi feminez subequilonga, interstitio pistillodiis pugioniformibus Jaxe obsita,

appendice gracile cylindracea atro-violacea, ovario 2—4-ovulato.

H. Alberti, Regel, Descript. Plant, Nov. fasc. ix. (1884), p. 43, t. ix.

Helicophyllum is a small genus of Oriental Aroids, natives

of Eastern Siberia, Asia Minor, Syria, and Persia, of which

three species are described in Engler’s Monograph of the

Aracee, published in 1879, and a few others have been

found since, including the subject of this plate, which,

coming from Eastern Bokhara, extends the previously known

geographical area of the genus considerably to the eastward.

It further modifies the generic character from our specimens

having four ovules, whereas its congeners are described as

having but two ovules, and they are so figured in the

drawing of H. Alberti from native specimens given by Regel.

A very similar species to H. Alberti has been brought

by Dr. Aitchison, F.R.S., from North-Western Afghanistan,

but in it both the lateral and anticous lobes of the leaf are

wanting.

The tubers of H. Alberti were sent from the Imperial

Garden of St. Petersburg in 1884, and flowered in May of

the present year in a sunny border of the Herbaceous

ground ; the inflorescence was offensively fetid. The

species is named after the intrepid explorer of Central

Asia, Dr. Albert Regel, the accomplished ‘son of Dr. de

Regel, the Director of the Imperial Botanical Garden of

St. Petersburg.

pEc, Ist, 1887.

Descr. Stemless; root sub-globose. Leaves of young

plants oblong-lanceolate, simple, narrowed into the petiole ;

of full-grown plants four inches long, with a petiole as

long; blade hastate, acuminate, undulate, concave at the

base, with two lateral spreading horn-like horizontal basal

lobes, and between them two long linear erect ones that

are nearly as long as the blade, and face it; these front

lobes have each on the outer margin below the middle a

curved horn-like process; the leaves are dark green above,

very pale beneath; petiole stout, channelled in front.

Spathe seven inches long, on a very stout short green

unspotted cylindric peduncle ; tube one and a half incbes

long by one broad, cylindric, faintly striate, pale green

without and within; lamina oblong, acuminate, very thick,

open, with rather recurved margins, dark maroon purple

within, pale green without, quite smooth without and

within. Spadizx five inches long, slender ; male and female

portions each about a third of an inch long; the inter-

vening portion as long as the male and female together,

loosely covered with dagger-shaped pistillodes; appendix

longer than the rest of the spadix, cylindric, smooth,

ragged at the tip, blue-black. Anthers red purple ; nearly

square, with rounded angles, adnate to a very short stout

filament; slits short, opening outward and upward.

Ovaries turgidly ovoid, truncate, crowned with a thickened

papillose ring, which surrounds a central short truncate

umho; ovules 4 (in this specimen), erect.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Spadix ; 2, 3, and 4, stamens; 5, ovary; 6, the same sliced vertically,

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RUB US ros#Fouivs.

Native of the Himalaya, Burma, and Java.

Nat. Ord. Rosacex.—Tribe Rupez.

Genus Rusus, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 616.)

Rusvs rosefolius ; erectus, ramosus, aculeis sparsis parvis recurvis, ramis gracilibus

tiolisque patentim pilosis hirsutis pubescentibus glabratisve interdum glandu-

osis, foliis pinnatis, foliolis 3-7-jugis ovato-lanceolatis acutis v. acuminatis

duplicato- inciso-serratis utrinque viridibus, stipulis subulatis v. linearibus,

floribus solitariis v. in paniculas paucifloras dispositis gracile pedicellatis,

sepalis caudato-acuminatis petala orbicularia v. subrhombea alba longioribus,

ovariis perplurimis in pistillum cylindraceum densissione congestis dorso pauci-

glandulosis ceterum glabris, a gracili, fructu oblongo-cylindraceo, drupis

perplurimis parvis globosis glabris rubris.

R. rosefolius, Smith Ic. Ined. fase. iii. p. 60, t. 60; DC. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 556;

Blume Bidrag. p. 1107 ; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. vol. i. pt. i. p. 375; Kurz

Fl. Brit. Burm. vol. i. p. 439; Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 349; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind.

vol. ii. p. 341; Baker Fl. Maurit. 96; Wall. Cat. No. 728.

R, rosefolius 8, coronarius, Sims Bot. Mag. t. 1733.

R. roseflorus, Roxb. Fl. Ind. vol. ii. p. 519.

R. pinnatus, Willd, Sp. Pl. vol. ii. p. 1081; DC. l.¢.; Ait. Hort. Kew, vol. iii. °

p. 270.

is javanicus, Blume, Bidrag. p. 1108.

R. asper, Don Prodr. Fl. Nep. p. 234; Wall. Cat. No. 741; DC. 1. c. 558.

R. pungens, Cambess. in Jacguem. Voy. Bot. p. 48, t. 59.

R. sikkimensis, Otto Kunze mss. .

R. paniculatus, Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xv. p. 140 (not of Smith.)

R. sorbifolius, Maxim. Diagn. vol. x. p. 390 (a very hispidly hirsute state.)

R. Commersonii, Poir. Encyclop. vol. vi. p. 240.

R. sinensis, Hort. “ é

It is somewhat singular that a plant so widely distributed,

so long and well known botanically, rejoicing in eleven

specific names, and well adapted for ornamenting a con-

servatory, should be seldom met with under cultivation.

Its native country was long unknown. It was first de-

scribed, in 1791, by Sir J. E. Smith, and figured in his

“‘Tcones Ineditz ” from specimens procured by Commerson

in the Mauritius ; where, according to Baker (Fl. Maurit.),

it was introduced from the Malay Islands by Commerson

about 1780. Willdenow described it in 1799 as Le. pinnatus,

& «pee. lev, 1687.

but without locality. Aiton, in the second edition of

“Hortus Kewensis,” says that it was introduced by Sir

Joseph Banks from the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena;

and [ gathered it myself, in 1840, abundantly in the latter

locality, where it is, however, undoubtedly introduced. In

1818, Sims figured a double-flowered state of it as var.

coronarius ; this was brought from Penang (Prince of Wales

Island) by a Mr. Evans, of Stepney, whose name should

be gratefully remembered by Horticulturists, for Mr. Sims

states that this gentleman “devoted almost the whole of

his income to the acquirement of new and rare plants,

which he generously distributed amongst other collectors.”

Mr. Sims adds that “ nurserymen usually call it R. sinensis,

but on what authority it 1s considered as coming from

China we know not.” The Botanica MacazinE was, how-

ever, the first publication in which the plant was described

from specimens which, though no doubt cultivated ones,

were brought from its native country, nor was it till much

later that its geographical limits were determined, Hyen

so late as 1840, the late Dr. Harvey sent to Sir W. Hooker

a figure of it from the Cape of Good Hope, which was

published in the “ Icones Plantarum,” with the remark that

it is perhaps a native of Table Mountain. The fact is that

the intercourse maintained by the ships of the East India

Company between India, the Cape of Good Hope and St.

Helena, sufficiently accounts for its introduction into those

countries ; and it has already spread from them into so

many others, that it promises to be a cosmopolite in the

warm countries of the globe. It is an undoubted native

of the Himalayan Mountains, the Malay Peninsula, Java,

China and Japan, in which latter country the double variety

figured in this Macazinn (t. 1733) is cultivated as a garden

shrub. Mr. Morris informs me that it is naturalized in

several of the West Indian Islands, and its fruit sold in

their markets under the name of ‘ Framboisier.”

As a species R. rosefolius is not likely to be confounded

with any other, though some Malayan species approach it

very nearly. Its chief attractions are its evergreen foliage,

the delicate white of the petals, and above all the fruit,

which is copiously produced in cultivation and charming

to the eye, though insipid to the taste.-—J. D. H.

Fig. 1 and 2, Stamens ; 3, young carpels :—all enlarged.

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ONCIDIUM microvogon.

Native of South Brazil ?

Nat. Ord. OrcH1pDEx.—Tribe VaNDER.

Genus OncipiuM, Swartz; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. vol. iii. p. 562.)

> SF

Oncip1um (Microchila) micropogon; pseudobulbis confertis brevibus ovoideis

compressis demum sulcatis, foliis 2-nis crasse coriaceis lineari-oblongis apice

rotundatis medio canaliculatis, racemo elongato flexuoso laxe plurifloro, bracteis

parvis, floribus 1} poll. latis, sepalis lineari-oblongis acuminatis subtortis

aureis brunneo pallide fasciatis, lateralibus basi connatis labello suppositis,

petalis sepalis subaequilongis sed multoties latioribus unguiculatis orbicularibus

apice emarginatis aureis ungue brunneo, labello petalis minore breviter

unguiculato subequaliter trilobo lobis aureis unguiculatis orbiculatis v. late

obcordatis, disco tumido echinato lateribus dentatis, columna brevi.

O. micropogon, Reichenb. f. in Bonplandia, 1854, p. 90, and Xen. Orchidac.

vol. i. p. 179, t. 63, f. ii.; Lindl. fol. Orchid., Oncid. 48.

O. dentatum, Klotzsch in Otto and Dietr. Allgem. Gartenzeit., 1853, p. 234.

The native country of this species seems not to be

exactly known ; it was first published by Dr. Reichenbach

from specimens that flowered in the famous Orchid Col-

lection of Consul Schiller at Hamburg; and a few years

later, in the “* Xenia Orchidacea,”’ it is mentioned as to be

found in various gardens in Germany. It is, however,

supposed to have come from St. Catherine’s in South

Brazil. The specimen here figured was contributed by

Messrs. Sanders, of St. Albans, in 1886, and flowered in

August of this year. :

Descr. Pseudo-bulbs sub-distichously imbricate on a

short rhizome, an inch long, broadly ovoid, compressed,

truncate, smooth, in age with a few broad shallow grooves

on each face. Leaves two at the top of the pseudo-bulb,

sessile, four to six inches long, linear-oblong, rounded at

the tip, thickly coriaceous, deep green and shining, chan-

nelled down the middle. aceme eight to ten inches long,

long-peduncled, rather stout, flexuous, pendulous; bracts

small, ovate, appressed to the pedicels. lowers one and a

half inch across the petals. Sepals linear-oblong, acuminate,

undulate and almost twisted, yellow with pale brown

pec. Ist, 1887.

~~ Dands, two lateral connate at the base and placed under the

lip ; each sepal is traversed on the back by a stout green

» costa. Petals ag long as, but much broader than the =

sepals, clawed, orbicular, notched and sometimes with wavy —

or subcrenate margins, golden-yellow with a deep red-_

brown claw. Lip smaller than the petals, shortly stoutly —

clawed, with three sub-equal spreading clawed orbicular

or broadly obcordate golden-yellow lobes; disk tumid,

covered with conical yellow and brown tubercles, margins _

_ expanded and pectinately toothed. Column short, stout.—

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RHODODENDRON RHOMBICUM.

Native of Japan.

Nat. Ord. Ertcacem.—Tribe Ruoporex.

Genus Ruopopenpron, Linz. ; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 599.)

Raopopenpron (Azalea) rhombicum; ramulis junioribus petiolis pedicellisque

hirsutis, foliis diu persistentibus breviter petiolatis rhombeis acutis eglandu-

losis, floribus ad apices ramulorum binis, una cum foliis paucis serius maturatis

e gemma terminata erumpentibus, gemmaram bracteis oblongis membranaceis

demum recurvis, floribus breviter pedicellatis, calyce parvo 5-dentato hirsnto,

corolla rose limbo sub-bilabiato, lobis oblongis tubo breviter campanulato

multoties longioribus obtusis concavis, staminibus 10, filamentis gracillimis 5

anticis quam posticis duplo longioribus declinatis, antheris minutis, ovario

parvo 5-loculari hirsuto, stylo gracili elongato, stigmate truncato.

R, rhombicum, Miquel Prolus. Fl. Jap. p. 96; Regel Gartenfl. 1868, p. 225,

t. 586 ; Maximov. Rhod. As. Or. p. 26.

R, reticulatum ? Don Gen. Syst. vol. iii. p. 846.

Tsurogone tsutsusi, Miguel Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. vol. i. p. 34.

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In his admirable memoir on the Asiatic species of

Ithododendree published in the “ Memoirs of the Imperial

Academy of St. Petersburg,’ Maximovicz has definitely

relegated Azalea to its right position as a section of

Rhododendron, and we have followed him in the ‘‘ Genera

Plantarum.” The characters once and still depended on for

separating Azalea were the eight stamens and deciduous

leaves; but the stamens are often ten, and as Maximovicz

points out, several species retain their leaves during

flowering and even after, as the subject of the present

plate instances. There is in fact no other character given

by Maximovicz in his conspectus of the sections of the genus,

whereby that of Azalea is distinguished from section

Eurhododendron, but the deciduous leaves.

R. rhombicum is a native of the Island of Niphon, where

it inhabits mountain forests, and its near ailies are all

Japanese and Chinese. The specimen figured flowered in

an azalea bed in the Royal Gardens in May, and leaves

were fully developed in June, but there are specimens in

peEc. lst, 1887.

the Herbarium with fully formed leaves and flowers

together on the same branch. ‘The leaves assume a bronze

hue late in autumu.

Dascr. A tall much branched shrub; branches slender,

stiff, glabrous, young strigosely tomentose; leaf buds

developed at the base of the pedicels of the flowers; bracts

oblong, obtuse, silky, at length spreading and recurved.

Leaves subconical, one and a half to two inches long,

young silky, rhombic-elliptic, acute at both ends, dull

green and sparsely hairy above; nerves three to four pairs,

subtrigose beneath ; undersurface finely reticulate; petiole

one-sixth to one-fourth of an inch long, tomentose.

Flowers usually in pairs; pedicel one-sixth to half an inch

in diameter, strigosely villous. Calyx minute, five-toothed.

Corolla one and a half to two inches across the lobes, sub

two-lipped, bright rose-coloured; tube very short, cam-

panulate; lobes narrowly oblong, obtuse or subacute,

concave. Stamens ten, five upper much the shortest, five

lower declinate and ascending; filaments very slender;

anthers minute. Capsule ovoid-oblong, villous.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Portion of undersurface of leaf; 2 and 3, anthers ; 4, calyx and ovary:—

all enlarged,

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6921 Adesmia balsamica, 6963 Landolphia florida.

6939 Aichmea myriophylla. 6924 Lapeyrousia grandiflora.

6944 Alpinia zingiberina. 6943 Lonchocarpus Barteri.

6951 Alseuosmia macrophylla. 6932 Momordica involuerata.

6958 Anemone Fanninii. 6950 Narcissus cyclamineus.

6968 Anthurium Veitchii. 6917 Nymphza flava.

6934 Aristolochia ridicula. 6971 Oncidium micropogon.

6954 Barberia repens. 6938 Oxera pulchella.

6926 Begonia cyclophylla. 6964 Phalenopsis Marie.

6937 Billbergia decora. 6936 Pleurothallis insignis.

6940 Carex scaposa. 6965 Polemonium flavum. —

6927 Ceropegia Monteiro. 6916 Primula, (a) erosa, (B) capitata,

6930 Chrysanthemum multicaule. var.

6928 Clavija Ernstii. 6956 Primula obtusifolia.

6955 Celogyne corymbosa. 6961 Primula, (A) sapphirina, (B)

6925 Corydalis Ko]pakowskiana. Reidii. :

6946 Corydalis Ledebouriana. 6941 Pultenea rosea.

6962 Dendrobium sulcatum. 6948 Rhododendron grande, var.

6935 Disporum Leschenaultianum. roseum,

6949 Escallonia revoluta. 6972 Rhododendron rhombicum.

6919 Gladiolus Watsonioides. 6970 Rubus rosefolius.

6913 Hedychium Gardnerianum. 6918 Silphium albiflorum.

6931 Hedysarum microcalyx. 6914 Solanum Wendlandii.

6969 Helicophyllum Alberti. 6959 Statice Suworowi.

6920 Hemipilia calophylla. 6922 Strobilanthes coloratus.

6929 Heuchera sanguinea. 6947 Strobilanthes flaccidifolius,

6953 Hillebrandia sandvicensis. 6945 Tillandsia Jonghei.

6952 Ipomea Robertsii. 6967 Vicia Denessiana.

| 6923 Xanthoceras sorbifolia.

6957 Iris Kingiana. 7

6960 Iris Sari, var. lurida. | 6933 Xanthorrhea Preissii.

6942 Iris (Xiphion) Vartani.