CURTIS'S

BOTANICAL MAGAZINE,

ILLUSTRATING AND DESCRIBING

Plants of the Ropal Botane Gardens of Kelv,

AND OF OTHER BOTANICAL ESTABLISHMENTS ;

EDITED BY

SIR WILLIAM TURNER THISELTON-DYER, LL.D., Sc.D.,

KCNCG,, OL. Bs Rss SoS. Bre.

LATE DIRECTOR, ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW.

A1(S 3 Fame = =

OF THE FOURTH SERIES.

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

Now, did I not so near my labours end,

Strike sail, and hastening to the harbour tend,

My song to flowery gardens might extend—

To teach the vegetable arts, to sing

The Pestum roses, and their double spring.

‘I'be late narcissus, and the winding trail

Of bear’s-foot, myrtles green, and ivy pale.

DrypeEn’s ViIRGIn.

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IN ENRICHING THE KEW COLLECTIONS

WITH

RARE AND NOVEL PLANTS.

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ASPARAGUS SPRENGER],

Natal.

Littacea. ‘T'ribe ASPARAGER,

Asparacus, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 765; Baker in

Journ, Linn, Soc, vol. xiv. 594.

4. Sprengeri, Regel in Acta Horti Petrop. vol. xi. p. 302, et in Gartenfl.

1890, p. 490, fig. 80; Baker in Thiselton-Dyer, Fl. Cap. vol. vi. p. 271;

A, faleato, Linn., proximus, phyllocladiis linearibus et bracteolis lan-

ceolatis acuminatis differt.

Frutex scandens. Caulis teres, sulcatus, ramosissimus. Foliorwm aculei

1-2 lin, longi, decurvi. Phyllocladia solitaria vel 2-4-natim aggregata,

plana, linearia, recta vel leviter curvata, glabra, apice pungentia, ad 1}

poll. longa, et 1 lin. lata. Flores racemosi, 3 lin. diam.; racemi solitarii

vel geminati, 14 poll. longi; pedicelli medio articulati; bracteas lanceolate,

acuminate, pedicellis dimidio breviores. Perianthium dilute carneum ;

segmenta obovato-oblonga, interiora apice denticulata. Filamenta

complanata, perianthii segmentis dimidio breviora; anther ovales,

aurantiace. Ovarium oblongum, basi constrictum.—A. sthiopicus, var.

ternifolius, Baker in Saunders, Refug. Bot. t.261. A. ternifolius, Hook. f.

in Bot. Mag. t. 7728.

An opportunity has here been taken of depicting the

fruiting state of a plant, whose flowers were represented in

t. 7728 under the name of A. ternifolius, Hook. f., a plant

which is of as great decorative value when in fruit as in

flower. It was first described by Regel from plants im-

ported from Natal by Messrs. Dammann & Co., of Naples,

from whom the Kew plant was originally obtained. It

was also found in Natal by Mr. Thomas Cooper, who sent

plants to the late Mr. Wilson Saunders, in whose collection

it flowered.

This species has been confused with A. falcatus, Linn.,

and A. xthiopicus, Linn. The former is a much more

robust plant, which at Kew attains a height of thirty feet,

while A. Sprengeri rarely exceeds four feet ; its phyllocladia

also are broader and more rigid. From the latter it is

distinguished by its usually less numerous phyllocladia

and larger flowers with shorter filaments. The Indian

A. gonocladus, Baker, is also closely allied, but its inner

perianth-segments are not denticulate at the apex.

Descr.—A climbing shrub, Stem terete, suleate, much-

JANUARY Ist, 1906,

branched. Leaf-spines one to two lines long, decurved.

Phyllocladia solitary, or in clusters of two to four, flat,

linear, sometimes slightly curved, glabrous, pungent at

the apex, an inch to an inch and a quarter long, about a

twelfth of an inch wide. Flowers a quarter of an inch in

diameter, in solitary or geminate racemes about an inch

and a half long; pedicels articulated near the middle;

bracts half as long as the pedicels, lanceolate, acuminate.

Perianth-segments obovate-oblong, the inner denticulate at

the apex, pale pink. Jilaments flattened, about half as

long as the perianth-segments ; anthers oval, orange-

colour. Ovary oblong, constricted below. Fruit glovose,

3 lin, in diam., crimson.—C. H. Waicat.

Fig. 1, portion of stem bearing three racemes; 2, a node, showing the

insertion of the phyllocladia and racemes; 3, fruit :—all enlarged.

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CYNORCHIS compacta.

Natal.

OrcHipaces. Tribe OpHRYDE.

Cyrnorcuis, Thouars; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 628.

Cynorchis compacta, Reichb. f. in Flora, 1888, p. 149 : species distinctissima,

ab affinibus floribus albis rubro-punctatis differt.

Herba terrestris, tuberifera. Tubera ovoidea vel fusiformia, subterranea, $-1

poll. longa. Oaulis validus, brevis, monophyllus, basi vaginis laxis

obtectus. Folia ovato-oblonga, szpissime breviter acuminata, suberecta,

membranacea, circa 2-3 poll. longa. Scapus solitarius, erectus, 4-7 poll.

altus; racemus multiflorus. Flores albi, labelli disco roseo-punctato.

Bracteze lanceolate vel ovato-lanceolate, acuminate, 2-6 lin. longa.

Pedicelli 4~9 lin. longi. Sepalum posticum erectum, ovatum, obtusum,

2 lin, longum; sepala lateralia patentia, obliqua, ovata, obtusa, 2% lin.

longa. Petala ovato-oblonga, obtusa, subobliqua, 2 lin. longa. Labellum

patens, trilobum, 4-5 lin. longum, lobis orbiculari-obovatis crenulatis ;

discus obscure bilamellatus; calcar clavatum, arcuatum, 1} lin. longum.

Columna brevissima.

Cynorchis is a small, exclusively African genus nearly

allied to Habenaria, but separated by common consent on

account of the broad, more or less concave or galeate

rostellum. About thirty species are known, the majority

being from the Mascarene Islands, seven others Tropical

African, while the present is the only known representative

in extra-tropical South Africa. Four have already been

figured in this Magazine, namely, C. lowiana, Reichb. f.

(t. 7551), at that time thought to be synonymous with

C. purpurascens, Thouars ; C. grandiflora, Kidl. (t. 7564) ;

C. villosa, Rolfe (t. 7845), remarkable for its very hairy

flowers; and C. purpurascens, Thouars (t. 7852). These

species are very diverse in appearance, and several of the

others have much smaller flowers. Unlike Habenaria, the

predominating colour of the flowers is purple, in which

respect the present species is exceptional.

C. compacta, Reichb. f., was originally discovered by

Mr. John Sanderson, in Natal, about the year 1869, and a

drawing was sent to Kew, from which the species was

ultimately described. In 1895 it was rediscovered by Mr.

J. M. Wood, on rocks near Emberton, at about 2000 feet

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altitude. The plants figured were presented by Messrs.

Sander & Sons, St. Albans, in 1899, and they flower

annually in a cool orchid house, from February to about

April, the flowers lasting about two months. Grouped in

pans, this little terrestrial orchid is very pretty.

Descr.—A dwarf terrestrial herb, bearing ovoid or

fusiform subterranean tubers from about half to an inch

long. Stems very short, rather stout, bearing one fully

developed leaf, and one or two loose tubular sheaths, the

upper having occasionally a short, free limb. Leaf ovate-

oblong, usually shortly acuminate, suberect, membrana-

ceous, about two to three inches long. Scape solitary,

erect, four to seven inches high; raceme many-flowered.

Flowers white, disc of the lip spotted with red. Bracts

lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, two to six lines .

long. Pedicels four to nine lines long. Dorsal sepal

erect, ovate, obtuse, two lines long; lateral sepals spread-

ing, oblique, ovate, obtuse, two and a half lines long.

Petals ovate-oblong, obtuse, slightly oblique, two lines

long. Jip spreading, three-lobed, four to five lines long ;

lobes obovately orbicular, somewhat crenulate; disc bear- :

ing a pair of longitudinal thin ridges; spur clavate,

somewhat curved, a line and a half long. Colwmn very

short.—R. A. Rotrs.

Fig. 1, flower; 2 and 3, column seen from the side and front; 4, a

polliniam :—all much enlarged.

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OXALIS apENOPHYLLA.

Chili.

Greraniacez. Tribe OXALipEs.

Oxauis, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 276.

Oxalis adenophylla, Gill. in Hvok. Bot. Misc. vo). iii. (1833) p. 165; Gay Fi.

Chil, vol. i. (1845) p. 458; species ex affinitate O. enneaphyllx, Cav. sed

caudice bulbiformi non rhizomatoso et floribus roseis diversa.

Herba caule brevissimo. Bulbus 1-1} pol]. diam., extus squamis lineari-

lanceolatis glabris intus foliorum basibus persistentibus longe-ciliatis com-

_positus. Folia glabra; foliola 12-22, aeboaasttine obcordata, basi attenu-

ata, lobis glaucis laxe cellulosis carnosis ; petiolus 2-5 poll. longus ; petiolali

brevissimi, incrassati, leviter pilosi, nigro-violacei. Pedunculi petiolis

gequilongi, 2-3 flori, 2-bracteolati. Flores heterostyli, 14-2 poll. diam.

Sepala lanceolata, subacuta, ciliata, fere 3 lin. longa. etala obovato-

obcordata, patula, intense rosea, basi purpurea, circa 1 poll. longa.

Stamina 10, quorum 5 longiora stylos superantia, approximata, omnium

filamentis basi incrassatis coalitis. Stylz 5, stamina breviora exceden-

tia, stigmatibus capitatis. Capsula oblonga.—O. Bustillosii, Phil. in

Linnea, vol. xxviii. (1856) p. 614.

O. adenophylla is closely allied to O. enneaphylla

(B. M. t. 6256) from Fuegia and the Falkland Islands. It

differs mainly in the bulb-like rootstock, which in the

latter is a horizontal rhizome.

In Reiche’s Flora of Chili (1896), where eighty-eight

species of Oxalis are enumerated, the genus is divided into

two sections, Palmatifolia and Trifolia. 'The two species

in question belong to the Palmatifolia group, which

comprises only two others, namely, O. laciniata and

O. squamoso-radicosa.

The specific appellation, gland-leaved, evidently refers to

the dark-coloured petiolules, which, however, are non-

secretive. O. adenophylla, like some other members of the

genus, possesses heterostyled flowers, one form, that here

figured, having mid-styled flowers; but both long and

short-styled flowers have been observed.

The plant from which the drawing was made was

presented to Kew in 1902 by Mr. H. J. Elwes, F.R.S., who

collected it in Chili, near San Martin, at an elevation of

— six thousand feet, growing by rivulets above the tree

ine.

January Ist, 1906.

It requires the same treatment as 0. enneaphylla, and

will no doubt prove equally suited to cultivation in the

rockery. For the present the precaution is taken of

wintering it in a cold frame.

Descr.—An acaulescent herb. Bulb one to one and a

half inches across, composed externally of linear-lanceolate

glabrous scales, and internally of the persistent bases of

the petioles bearing long bristles. Leaves glabrous, with

twelve to twenty-two subsessile, obcordate leaflets, at-

tenuate at the base; lobes slightly fleshy, and glaucous; _

petiole two to five inches long; petiolule short, thickened, —

slightly hairy, and of a deep violet colour. Peduneles two- _

to three-flowered, bearing two bracteoles, of the same

length as the petioles. Flowers heterostyled, one and a

half to two inches across. Sepals lanceolate, subacute,

ciliate, nearly three lines long. Petals obovate-obcordate,

spreading, deep rose-coloured, with a purple base, about

one inch long. Stamens ten, alternately long and short,

erect. Stigmas capitate. Capsule oblong.—L. Farmar.

Fig. 1, leaflet and petiolules ; 2, flower with petals removed ; 3, stamens and

pistil; 4, pistil :—all enlarged.

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COLCHICUM CROCIFLORUM.,

Turkestan.

Lintaces. Tribe CoLtcHIcEs.

Cotcatcum, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 821; Baker in

Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xvii. p. 423.

Colchicum crociflorum, Regel in Acta Hort. Petrop. vol. vii. p. 385, nec

Sims, nee Schott et Kotschy; Gartenfl. 1881, p. 33, t. 1035, figg. 1 et 2,

a C. luteo, Baker, foliis hysteranthiis et perianthii colore differt.

Cormus ovoideo-oblongus, 2 poll. longus, 10 lin. diam, siccitate calcarius,

tunicis castaneis. Folia linearia, obtusa, minute denticulata. Flores

2-4 fasciculatim dispositi. Perianthii tubus 3-4 poll. longus, cylindricus,

apice leviter dilatatus, albus; lobi oblongi, obtusi, 1 poll. longi, 3-4 lin.

lati, albi, extus late purpureo-striati. Filamenta brevia, ad sinum

anthers affixa; anthera erects, lineares, basi sagittatez, lute. Styli 3,

quam stamina paullo longiores.—Synsiphon crociflorus, Regel in Acta

Hort. Petrop. vol. vi. p. 491; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 821.

Regel originally described this plant as generically

distinct from Colchicum, on the ground that the styles

were united. On the receipt of better material Regel

found this not to be the case, and reduced his genus

Synsiphon to Colchicum. The present species, however, is

the most distinct in the genus. Owing to the great

superficial resemblance of Colchicum to Crocus, it is not

surprising that three species of the former have been

named crociflorum. Of these, one described by Sims

(B. M. t. 2673) is a form of C. autumnale, Linn.,

another described by Schott & Kotschy, is reduced to

C. montanum, Linn., while the present plant, although the

last described, is the one for which the name crociflorum

must be retained.

Most species of Colchicum have the perianth either

uniformly coloured or chequered outside, but in this case

the pure white ground of each lobe is relieved by the

broad central band of pink, which gradually becomes dark

purple.

The plant figured flowered in the Alpine House at Kew

in January, 1905, and was raised from corms imported

He Kokan by Mr. C. G. Van Tubergen, jun., of Haar-

em.

JanvaRy 1st, 1906.

Deser.—Corm ovoid-oblong, two inches long, ten lines in

diameter, chalk-like when dry; tunics chestnut-colour.

Leaves very short at time of flowering, afterwards linear,

obtuse, minutely denticulate. Flowers from two to three

from each corm. Perianth-tube three to four inches long,

cylindrical, slightly dilated at the apex, white; lobes

oblong, obtuse, one inch long, three to four lines wide,

white with a central band of purple outside. Filaments

short, inserted in the basal sinus of the anther; anthers

erect, linear, sagittate at the base, yellow. Styles 3, a

little longer than the stamens.—C. H. Wricut.

Figs. 1-2, stamens; 3, upper part of one style; 4, corm:—1-3, enlarged ;

‘4, natural size,

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WITTMACKIA .inevnata.

West Indies.

BROMELIACE2. Tribe BRoMELIER.

-Wirrmacktia, Mez in Mart. Fl. Bras. vol. iii. IIT. p. 275.

Wittmackia lingulata, Mez l.c. et in DC. Monogr. Phan. vol. ix. p. 140; a

speciebus reliquis floribus longioribus differt.

Folia circa 10, rosulatim disposita, rigida, lorata, apice rotundata, breviter

cuspidata, circa 2 ped. longa, 23 poll. lata; aculei breves, basi dilatati,

atri, 3 lin. imter se distantes. Scapus primum floccosus, demum

glabrescens; vaginz lanceolata, integre vel paucidentatz, circa 12 poll.

longe ; bracteze lanceolate, membranacex ; panicula pinnatim ramosa;

flores numerosi, sessiles. Sepala alba, ovata, aristata. Petala ovata, e

basi oblonga, lutea. Stamina interiora ad petala affixa, iisque multo

breviora; filamenta prope apicem antherarum mucronatorum affixa.

Ovarwwm glabrum, subcylindricum.—Bromelia lingulata, Linn. Sp. Pl.

ed. 1, p. 285; Mill. Gard. Dict. ed. 8,n.2; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, vol. ii.

p. 201. Hoplophytum lingulatum, Beer, Bromel. p. 139. Chevalliera

lingulata, Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. p. 591. Aichmea lingulata, Baker in

Journ. Bot. 1879, p. 164, et Handb. Bromel. p. 45, partim. Bromelia

ramosa vel racemosa, foliis arundinaceis serratis, Plum. Nov. Gen. PI.

p. 46, t. 8 (1703). B. foliis serratis spinosis, etc., Burm. Pl. Amer. Plum.

p. 53, t. 64, fig. 1 (1755).

This plant was described as long ago as 1703 by

Plumier (l.c.) as an American plant, and in 1759 Philip

Miller enumerated it in the 7th edition of his Dictionary

as in cultivation, having been received by him from St.

Christopher’s (now St. Kitt’s). It appears never to have

become commonly cultivated, and has rarely been sent

home by collectors, although Grisebach states that it grows

in several of the West Indian islands. The plant figured

was grown in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, and

communicated by Mr. F. W. Moore, A.L.S.

From the above cited synonmy it will be seen that this

species has been placed in several different genera; that

in which it is now included differs from Aichmea in its

petals being destitute of ligules, and from Hohenbergia in

the ovules being umbonate or obtuse, not caudate, at the

apex. Besides the present plant, three species have been

described, viz.—W. odora, Mez, W. Glaziovii, and W.

patentissima, Mez, all of which are natives of Brazil, while

the first named extends into Guiana and the West Indies.

W. odora was cultivated at Glasgow by Sir W. Hooker

JanvuaBy Ist, 1906,

There are wild specimens in the Kew Herbarium from

Trinidad, St. Vincent, St. Lucia, Martinique, and St.

Thomas, and it is described as growing on trees, and in

fissures of rocks.

Descr.—Leaves about ten in a rosette, firm, lorate,

rounded, shortly cuspidate, about two feet long, two

inches and a half wide; spines short, broad-based, black,

about three lines apart. Scape floccose when young, glab-

rescent in age; sheaths lanceolate, entire, or sparingly

toothed, about an inch and three-quarters long; bracts

lanceolate, membranous; panicle pinnately branched ;

flowers numerous, sessile. Sepals white, ovate, bearing

an awn nearly one line long. Petals ovate from an

oblong base, yellow. Stamens much shorter than the

petals; filaments inserted near the apex of the mucronate

anthers, the three inner adnate to the petals. Ovary

glabrous, subcylindric.—C. H. Wricur.

Fig. 1, a flower; 2, petal; 3, stamen; 4, stamen showing the insertion of

the filament; 5, style-arms; 6, inflorescence :—1l-5, enlarged; 6, one-third

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KULOPHIA NUDA.

India and China.

Orcuipaces. 'l'ribe VANDER.

Kuxornia, R. Br.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 535; Rolfe in

Thiselton-Dyer Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. vii. p. 47.

Eulophia nuda, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. p. 180; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind,

_ vol. vi. p.5; inter species asiaticas sectionis Oyrtoper labello subintegro

distincta.

Herba terrestris rhizomate tuberifero. ‘Tubera depresso-globosa, angulata,

13-3 poll. lata, approximata. Swrculé 2-3-phylli, basi vaginis imbricati.

Folia lanceolata ve) elliptico-lanceolata, acuminata, plicata, basi angus-

tata, petiolata; limbus 4-12 poll. longus, }-23 poll. latus; petiolus 4-9

poll. longus; vagine lanceolate, acuminate, striate, 4-4 poll. longe.

Scapi erecti, in avxillis vaginarum orti, 1-2 ped. alti, basi vaginis

lanceolatis obtecti; racemi laxi, multiflori. Bractez lineari-lanceolate,

acuminate, }$-14 poll. long. Pedicelli 1-14 poll. longi. Flores speciosi,

purpurei, pallide rosei vel subvirides; labelli discus aureus. Sepala

erecta, oblongo-lanceolata, acuta, 1-1} poll. longa. Petala incurva, cum

columna galeam formantia, elliptico-oblonga, obtusa vel apiculata, 3-1

poll. longa. Labellum subintegrum, recurvum, obtusum, undulatum,

petalis longius ; calcar conicum, acutum vel subobtusum, 3-9 lin. longum.

Columna clavata, arcuata, 5-7 lin. longa, apice bicornuta, basi in pedem

producta.—Eulophia bicolor, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. vol. iii.

p. 343. Cyrtopera fusca, Wight Ic. t. 1690; C. plicata, Lindl. Gen. & Sp.

Orch. p. 190. OC. nuda, Reichb. f. in Flora, 1872, p. 274. OC. mysorensis,

Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. iii. p. 32.

Kulophia nuda, Lindl., is a widely diffused and very

variable orchid, if all the above-named forms are correctly

referred to a single species, as was done by Sir Joseph

Hooker in the ‘‘ Flora of British India.” It ranges from

Nepal to Ceylon and Burma, and thence to the province of

Yunnan, in Western China, and the differences of colour

are remarkable, from rose-purple to delicate pink and

very pale green. It was assumed, when the example here

figured first flowered, that the Burmese and Chinese plant

could he separated from the Indian, on account of its

longer spur, but one Burmese example (that coloured

yellow-greenish on the plate) is as short as in the Indian

forms, and as both show the same range of variation m

colour, it seems best to regard them as belonging to a

single polymorphic species.

The forms here figured are selected from plants pre-

sented to Kew in 1902 by H. H. Hildebrand, Ksq., O.LE.,

late Superintendent of the S. Shan States of Upper

FEBRUARY Ist, 1906. :

Burma. They flowered in a warm house in April and

May, 1905, and showed various shades of colour between

the extremes represented on the plate.

The genus, which is now held to include Cyrtopera,

Lindl., is widely diffused through the tropics, and is

nearly allied to Lissochilus, but the species are generally

less showy, and are not much cultivated. Six others,

however, have been figured in the Botanical Magazine,

namely :—H_ virens, Lindl. (t. 5579), H. macrostachya,

Lindl. (t. 6246), H. sanguinea, Hook. f. (Cyrtopera san-

guinea, Lindl., t. 6161), EH. euglossa, Reichb. f. (t. 5561),

Hi. Geyheri, Reichb. f. & Sond. (t. 7330), and H. Woodfordii,

Rolfe (Cyrtopodium Woodfordit, Sims, t. 1814).

Descr.—A. terrestrial herb, with thickened tuber-bearing

rhizomes, the tubers depressed-globose, and somewhat

angled. Shoots bearing two or three leaves, surrounded

by several tubular protecting sheaths, having a lanceolate,

acute apex. eaves lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate,

acuminate, plicate, narrowed at the base into the petiole ;

blade from about four to over twelve inches long, half to

two and a half inches broad, bright green; petioles four

to nine inches long. Scape appearing from the lower |

sheath together with the leaves, one to about two feet

high, with several lanceolate spathaceous sheaths towards

the base; racemes lax, many-flowered. Practs linear-lan-

ceolate, acuminate, half to one and a quarter inches long.

Pedicels an inch to an inch and a half long. Flowers very

variable in colour, ranging from rose-purple to pink, and

even yellow-green. Sepals erect, oblong-lanceolate, acute,

an inch to an inch and a quarter long. Petals incurved,

forming with the column a hood over the tip, elliptic-

oblong, obtuse or apiculate, three-quarters to an inch long.

Lip nearly entire, recurved, obtuse, and somewhat undu-

late, longer than the petals; disc bearing several dwarf

linear keels ; spur conical, acute, or somewhat obtuse, from

a quarter to nearly three-quarters of an inch. Column

clavate, and somewhat curved, about half an inch long;

anther-case two-horned at the apex, base produced into a

foot.—R. A. Rotrg.

Fig. 1, flower with the greater part of the segments removed; 2, anther

case; 3, pollinarium; 4, whole plant; 5, pink-flowered form; 6, green-

flowered form :—4, much reduced ; the rest enlarged.

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SAXIFRAGA scarpica.

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Balkan Peninsula.

Saxrpracacea. Tribe SaxIPRaGE®.

SaxrrraGa, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 635.

Saxifraga scardica, Griseb. Spicil. Fl. Rumel. vol. i. p. 332; Engel. Monogr.

Sawifraga, p. 261; Halicsy, Consp. Fl. Grec. vol. i. p. 598; W. L. in The

Garden, 1904, p. 323; ab affini S. rocheliana, Sternb., foliis oblongis

magis minusve acutis recedit.

Planta czspitosa, caudiculis densissime foliatis. Folia basalia patula,

oblonga, acuta vel subacuta, 3-3 poll. longa, rigida, supra leviter con-

cava, foveolis intramarginalibus 5-15, subtus convexa, siccitate carinata,

margine cartilagineo, usque ad vel ultra medium ciliata. Caules florifert

erecti vel ascendentes, usque ad 3 poll. longi, 1-11-flori, glanduloso-

pilosi, floribus corymbosis. Folia cauline sparsa, oblonga, basin versus

angustata, acuta vel apiculata. Calyx presertim infra medium glandu-

loso-pilosus; Jobi ovati, acutiusculi vel obtusi, 14 lin. longi. Petala

obovata, basi cuneata, 44 lin. longa, irregulariter 5-7-venia. Filamenta

stylos paullo superantia.—Sazifraga Sartorii, Heldr. in Boiss. Fl. Or.

Suppl. p. 248.

The plants figured were purchased from F. Sindermann

of Lindau im Bodensee, Bavaria, and flowered in the

Alpine House at Kew in March of last year. J’. scardica

is also grown in the Rock Garden, where it is quite hardy,

and flowers freely during March and April. It may be

expected to supersede, to some extent, the well-known

S. burseriana, L., in popular favour, as it is more showy,

and stands damp weather better. ’. scardica, as cultivated

at Kew, has obtuse sepals and less acute leaves than the

type, and in these respects approaches 8S. rocheliana,

Sternb., which may be distinguished from its allies by its

spathulate leaves. We have little hesitation, however, in

retaining the Kew plant under S. scardica, since Halacsy

has recently extended the limits of that species by in-

cluding in it 8. Sartorit, Heldr., which has obtuse sepals

and relatively broad leaves. If we accept Halaesy’s views,

the distribution of the species is as follows :—Mt. Scardus

(Shar Dagh), Albania, Mts. Olympus and Ossa, Thessaly,

Mt. Delphi, Euboea, Mt. Parnassus, Phocis, and a purple-

flowered variety (var. erythrantha, Haldcsy) on Mt. Kyllene,

Achaia.

The little pits inside the margin on the upper surface of

Fesrvary Ist, 1906,

the leaves in 8. scardica and many other Saxifrages are

pores for the excretion of water. ‘The passage of water is

rendered possible by the pits being lined with a tissue of

very thin-walled cells. The water excreted contains car-

bonate of lime, which is left behind by evaporation, and

forms a white scale covering the pit. In dry weather the

scale closes tightly down over the pit, and acts as a

stopper, preventing the drying-up of the leaf, while in wet

weather it is loosened, and readily admits of the passage of

water underneath it.

Deser.—A tufted plant. Leaves crowded on the vegeta-

tive stems, rather spreading, oblong, acute or subacute, a

quarter to half an inch long, rigid, slightly concave above,

convex below, keeled in the dried state, ciliate up to or

beyond the middle, upper surface with a row of five to

fifteen pits inside the cartilaginous margin. Flowering

stems erect or ascending, the largest three inches long,

one- to eleven-flowered, clothed with gland-tipped hairs.

Cauline leaves oblong, narrowed towards the base, acute or

apiculate. Calye glandular-hairy, especially the lower

half; lobes ovate, obtuse, or rather acute, one and a half

lines long. Petals obovate, wedge-shaped at the base,

four and a half lines long, irregularly five- to seven-veined,

Filaments slightly exceeding the styles.—T. A. Spracun.

Fig. 1, leaf; 2, calyx and pistil; 3, anther :—all enlarged.

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TRIS steHRaNa.

Asia Minor.

Tripex. Tribe MormeEz.

Tris, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 686.

Iris sieheana, Lynch in Gard. Chron. 1904, vol. i, p. 282; The Garden,

1905, vol. Ixvii. p. 192; I. persice proxima, foliis rigidioribus et perianthii

colore differt.

Bulbus ovoideus, 6 lin. diam., tunicis brunneis. Folia circa 6, e basi 6 lin.

lata ad apicem attenuata, 34 poll. longa, rigida, marginibus incurvis

albis cartilagineis. Scapus brevis, uniflorus; spathz 13 poll. longa;

flores 23 poll. diam. Perianthii tubus tenuis, 1 poll. longus; segmenta

exteriora subpanduriformia, 2 poll. longa, grisea, rabro-purpureo striata,

apice rubro-purpurea, crista lutea albo-marginata purpureo-maculata ;

segmenta interiora oblanceolata, 9 lin. longa, 3 lin. lata, grisea, rubro-

purpureo striata. Styli rami erecti; cristz suborbiculares, 7 lin, diam.—

T. Haussknechtii, Siehe in Gard. Chron. 1901, vol. i. p. 313, non Bornm.;

I. persica, var. magna, Sieke, |.c.

Apart from colour, there is very little to separate this

plant from Iris persica, Linn, (Bot. Mag. t. 1), which,

however, has the inner perianth-segments toothed. The

peculiar colour of the flowers of the present plant is

difficult of definition, and has been compared with that of

the soil on which the plant grows. It is produced by a

silvery-grey ground being covered with a large number

of fine, closely-placed, reddish lines. This species was

introduced from Asia Minor by Mr. W. Siehe about 1901,

and distributed as J. Haussknechtti, a name which had

been previously given by Bornmiiller to a plant belonging

to the section Apogon. At Kew this species commences

flowering in a south border in February, and produces a

succession of flowers for several weeks.

Of the various species, besides I. persica, figured in the

present work belonging to the section Juno (characterized

by the small spreading inner perianth-segments), the

present approaches nearest to J. rosenbachiana, Regel

(t. 7135), which differs in having broader leaves and

larger, acute crests. The latter is found in Turkestan, at

an elevation of from 6,000 to 9,000 feet. This section

occurs chiefly in Asia Minor and Western Asia, but one

species, I. Aitchisoni, Boiss., is found in Afghanistan and

Feprvuary Ist, 1906.

the Punjab, and another, J. alata, Poir. (Bot. Reg. t. 1876),

as far west as Portugal and Algeria.

Descr.—Bulb ovoid, six lines in diameter, tunics brown.

Leaves about six, three inches and a half long, gradually

tapering from a base six lines wide, rigid, margins in-

curved, white and cartilaginous. Scape short, one-flowered ;

spathes an inch and a quarter long; flowers two inches

and a half in diameter. Perianth-tube slender, an inch

long; outer segments almost pandurate, two inches long,

silvery-grey, closely striped with reddish-purple, apex

entirely reddish-purple; crest yellow, on a white ground

spotted with purple; inner segments oblanceolate, three-

quarters of an inch long, and a quarter of an inch wide,

silvery-grey, closely striped with reddish-purple. Style-

arms erect; crests suborbicular, about two-thirds of an

inch in diameter.—C. H. Wricur.

Figs. 1 and 2, anthers ; 3, part of a style-arm :—all enlarged,

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LONICERA pinata.

Central and Western China.

CaPRIFOLIACE&. Tribe LoNIcERm.

Lonicera, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 5.

Lonicera (§ Isika) pileata, Oliver in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1585; Rehder in Rep.

Missouri Bot, Gard., 1903, p. 76; a DL. ligustrina, Wall., differt imprimis

foliis obtusioribus minoribus. ‘

Frutee ramosissimus, circa 1 ped. altus, ramis ramulisque horizontalibus

tenuibus teretibus puberulis. Folia disticha, brevissime petiolata, oblongo-

lanceolata, obtusa, glabra, sempervirentia, supra intense viridia, subtus

pallidiora, 3-1 poll. longa, 3-5 lin. lata. Flores geminati. Pedunculi

4 lin. longi. Bractexe herbacew, lanceolato-subulate, basi plicis duabus

instructs, 1 lin. long; bracteole cupulatim connate, ovaria includentes

glandulose. Calycis dentes breves, obtusi, marginibus glandulosis ;

tubus superne duobus annulis cinctus in vaginam reversam supra bracteo-

larum cupulam calyptratim productus. Corolla pallide flava, extus

pilosa ; limbus subsqualis, patens, quam tubus gibbosus dimidio brevior;

lobi ovato-rotundati. Stamina exserta, filamentis sabsqualibus pilosis.

Stylus staminibus equilongus, pilosus. Ovaria glabra inter se libera.—

L. ligustrina, var. pileata, Franchet in Journ. de Bot. x. p. 317.

This Lonicera belongs to Rehder’s sub-section, Pileatx,

which comprises two other species, viz. the Chinese

L. gynochlamydea, Hemsl., and the Indian L. ligustrina,

Wall. They are readily distinguished from all other

members of the genus by a peculiar downward cap-like

production of the calyx over the connate bracteoles.

L. pileata is singular among cultivated Honeysuckles in

having evergreen foliage, and in its habit, which is dwarf

and spreading like that of Cotoneaster horizontalis.

The plant from which the figure was drawn was pre-

sented to Kew in 1902 by Messrs. James Veitch & Sons,

who raised it from seed collected by Mr. E. H. Wilson.

It is quite hardy, and flowers appear in April.

The variety yunnanensis of Rehder differs only in the

very small, suborbicular to broadly ovate, rather thick

leaves.

Descr.—A much-branched, low, horizontally spreading,

evergreen shrub, about one foot high. Branches slender,

terete, puberulous. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, obtuse,

glabrous, dark green above, pale beneath, half to one inch

Fepruary Isr, 1906.

long, three to five lines broad, shortly petioled. Flowers

in pairs, almost sessile. Bracts herbaceous, lanceolate-

subulate, one line long, with two basal folds. Calyx

encircled by two rings, with a cap-like downward pro-

duction at the base; teeth short, obtuse, glandular on

the margins. Corolla pale yellow, pilose outside; limb

almost equal, spreading, about half as long as the

gibbous tube; lobes ovate-rotundate. Stamens exceed-

ing the corolla, about as long as the style; stamens and

style pilose. Ovaries glabrous, free from each other.—

L. Farmar.

Fig. 1, a pair of flowers : 2, the same, from which the corollas and bracteolar

cupule have been removed; 3, bracteolar cupule; 4 and 5, front and back of

anther ; 6, longitudinal section of ovary :—all enlarged.

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PRUNUS trios.

2. a

China.

Rosaces#. Tribe PRUNE.

Prunus, L.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 609.

Prunus triloba, Lindl. in Gard. Chron. (1857), p. 2&8; Fortune in Gard.

Chron. (1860), p.170; Lemaire in Il], Hort. (1861), t. 308; Maaimowicz

in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mose. (1879), p. 15 et Mél. Biol. xi. p. 665; a-P, persica

imprimis putamine levi vel obscure rugoso distincta.

Frutex vel arbuscula ante folia evoluta florens. Rami vel elongati, virgati,

cortice brunneo tecti, glabri, rarius apice primum pilosuli, vel admodum

abbreviati, foliorum fasciculos gerentes. Folia cbovata, ovata vel ellip-

tico-lanceolata, raro subtrilobata, apice acuta vel acuminata, basi acuta,

simpliciter vel duplo argute serrata, 13-2 poll. longa, j-1 poll. lata,

matura tenuia, primum in dorso (imprimis ad nervos) adpresse pilosa,

seepe glabrescentia et demum fere glabra; petioli graciles, circiter 3 lin.

longi, stipula subulate vel filiformes, seepe bifida, 2-3 lin. long, per-

sistentes. Flores solitarii e gemmis propriis secundum ramos elongatos

dissitis vel hincinde in glomerulos approximatis orti, pedicellati ; pedicelli

ad 5 lin. longi vel primum brevissimi. Receptaculwm semiglobosum,

extus glabrum. Sepala ovata, obtusa, fere 1 lin. longa, glabra nisi intus

ad basin sericeo-pubescentia. Petala rosea, suborbicularia, brevissime

tenuiterque unguiculata, 5-6 lin. longa. Stamina ultra 30. Ovarium

albo-tomentosum ; stylus glaber, 3 lin. longus. Drupa subglobosa, circiter

7 lin. longa, 6 lin, diametro, uno latere obscure sulcata, tenuiter pubes-

cens, aurea, rubro-suffusa, carne tenui subsicca facile a putamine soluta ;

putamen 5 lin. diametro, apiculatum, leve vel obscure rugosum, ventre

leviter sulcatum, charte scriptorize crassitudine.—Amygdalus peduneu-

lata, Bunge, Enum. Pl. Chin. bor. p. 22, non Pall. Amygdalopsis

Lindleyi, Carriére in Rev. Hort. (1862), p. 91 cum icone, et in Fl. des

Serres (1863), t. 1532. Prunopsis Lindleyr, Andr. in Rev. Hort. (1883),

p- 369. : ;

Prunus triloba has been grown as an ornamental shrub

in gardens in the North of China for a long time.

According to Bretschneider, the Chinese name for it is

yu-ye-mei, that is “ elm-leaved Prunus,”’ a very appropriate

designation. It was introduced into Europe by Fortune

from Shantung about the middle of the last century.

Whether it has ever been observed in the wild state is

doubtful. The specific name ‘‘triloba” is little appro-

priate, as the lobing of the leaves is of a comparatively

rare occurrence, and never very marked.

Prunus triloba is perfectly hardy in England. At Kew,

it flowers in March, whilst the leaves are not fully

developed before May. So far it has not produced here

FresrvuARY Ist, 1906.

mature fruits. There is a single- and a double-flowered

variety, and a sport producing flowers with several pistils,

instead of only one, gave rise to the creation of a distinct

genus, Amygdalopsis, Carriére.

From Maximowicz’s observations it appears that it is

also somewhat variable in the amount and persistence of

the tomentum of the leaves, and in the shape and size of

the fruits. This is, as far as the hairiness is concerned,

certainly supported by the specimens in the Kew Her-

barium.

P. Petzoldii, Koch, seems to be a state of P. triloba,

distinguished by a hard, bony, and more rugose stone,

and, in this character, probably represents the wild stock.

The plant figured here was raised at Kew from seed

received in 1890 from Prof. Sargent, Arnold Arboretum,

- Harvard, who in turn had grown his specimens from seed

communicated to him by Dr. Bretschneider, then at

Peking. The double-flowered form has long been cul-

tivated at Kew on a south wall, where it is a striking

object when in flower. The secret of this is to cut it in

hard immediately the flowers have faded. :

Descr.—A shrub or small tree, flowering before the

leaves. Branches of two kinds, either elongated, glabrous,

rarely slightly pubescent at the tip, covered with a dark-

brown bark, or very much shortened, and bearing a

fascicle of leaves. Leaves obovate, ovate, or elliptic-lan-

ceolate, rarely slightly three-lobed, acute at both ends, or

with acuminate tips, simply or doubly and sharply serrate,

one to two inches long, three-quarters broad, rather thin

when mature, adpressedly hairy, particularly on the nerves

below, when young, usually soon glabrescent, and some-

times ultimately almost entirely glabrous ; petioles slender,

about a quarter of an inch long; stipules subulate or

filiform, often bifid, about a quarter of an inch long,

persistent. Flowers solitary, scattered along the elongated

branches, or here and there clustered, pedicelled ; pedicels

very short, or lengthening out to nearly half an inch. Re-

ceptacle semi-globose, glabrous outside. Sepals ovate, ob-

tuse, almost 1 lin. long, glabrous. Petals pink, suborbicular,

minutely clawed, about half an inch long. Stamens over

30. Ovary covered with white tomentum; style glabrous,

about a quarter of an inchlong. Drupe subglobose, about

half an inch long, slightly grooved on one side, finely

pubescent, yellow, tinged with red, flesh easily separating

from the stone, thin, scanty; stone apiculate, smooth or

obscurely wrinkled, slightly grooved ventrally, shell not

thicker than writing paper.—OrtTo Star.

Fig. 1, flower, with the petals removed ; 2, pistil :—both en/arged.

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ARACHNANTHE anvnamensis,

Annam.

OrcHIDACEs. Tribe VaANDEA.

ARacHNANTHE, Blume; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 572.

Arachnanthe annamensis, Rolfe in Gard. Chron. 1905, vol. i, p. 391; aff.

A. moschiferz, Blume, foliis longioribus, labelli lobis lateralibus multo

minoribus, lobo intermedio elongato facile distinguitur.

Herba epiphytica, erecta, circa 1} ped. alta, basi radices robustas emittens.

Folia disticha, patentia vel recurva, lineari-oblonga, apice brevissime

bilobata, 9-11 poll. longa, 1 poll. lata, coriacea. nflorescentia circa 1 ped.

longa; racemus circa 6-florus. Bracteze ovato-oblonge, obtuse, 5 lin,

long. Pedicelli circiter 12-14 lin. longi. Flores speciosi, rafo-brannei,

striis irregularibus flavis ornati, sepalis petalisque marginibus revolutis.

Sepalum posticum spathulato-oblongum, subobtusum, circa 2} poll.

longum, apice 5 lin. latum; sepala lateralia breviora, falcata, apicibus

approximatis. Petala spathulato-oblonga, subobtusa, faleata, 13 poll.

longa, apice 4 poll. lata. Labellum mobile, 3-lubum, circa 10 lin. longum ;

lobi laterales triangulares, acuti, incurvi, 6 lin. longi, apicibus approxi-

matis ; lobus intermedius carnosus, compressus, carinatus, basi utrinque

auricalis oblongis instructus, apice inzequaliter bifurcatus, dente infero

1 lin. longo supero subulato acuto 3 lin. longo; crista erecta, oblonga,

compressa, 2 lin. longa, utrinque angulata. Colwmza lata, 5 lin. longa.

This very striking novelty is a near ally of Arachnanthe

moschifera, Blume, the musk-scented Spider-Oretid, which

is very seldom seen in cultivation. It was introduced

from Annam by Messrs. Sander & Sons, through their

collector, W. Micholitz, and flowered at the Royal Botanic

Garden, Glasnevin, in June, 1905. It is a member of a

small genus, now estimated to contain about seven species,

natives of the Malayan Archipelago, the adjacent peninsula,

and the Himalayas, and characterized. among other things,

by the possession of an articulated and mobile lip, in which

respect it differs from Ienanthera. Three other species —

have been figured in this work, namely, A. Lowi, Benth.

(t. 5475) a Bornean plant remarkable for producing two

kinds of flowers, of which the significance is still un-

known; A. Cathcartii, Benth. (t. 5845), a Himalayan plant

which is seldom met with in cultivation at the present

day; and A. Clarkei, Rolfe (t. 7077), another Himalayan

species which is also rarely seen. It may be added that

Marcu Isr, 1906.

the species were formerly referred to Vanda, under which

the two former were figured.

Descr.—A stout, erect plant, about eighteen inches high,

- producing stout roots below. Leaves distichous, recurved,

linear-oblong, somewhat bilobed at the apex, coriaceous,

nine to eleven inches long by an inch broad, bright green,

Inflorescence over a foot long, six-flowered in the upper

half. Bracts ovate-oblong, obtuse, nearly half an inch long.

Pedicels about an inch long, suffused with light pink,

Flowers large and handsome, ground colour bright red- |

brown, with numerous irregular, mostly transverse, yellow

bands. Dorsal sepal subspathulate-oblong, subobtuse,

over two and a quarter inches long by nearly half an

inch broad at the apex; lateral pair similar, but rather

Shorter, strongly falcate and approximate at the apex.

Petals spathulate-oblong, sub-obtuse, faleate, an inch and

a half long by half an inch broad at the apex. Lip

mobile, strongly three-lobed, about three-quarters of an ~

inch long; side lobes triangular, acute, incurved, nearly

meeting at the apex, over half an inch long; front lobe

fleshy, compressed and keeled, with an oblong auricle

over a line long on either side of the base, bifurcate at the

apex, the lower tooth short and fleshy, the upper subu-

late, acute, suberect, quarter of an inch long; crest

consisting of an erect, oblong, dorsally-compressed callus,

Situated at the base of the front lobe, and terminating

in a short, acute tooth at either angle. Column very

stout.—R. A. Rorrr.

Fig. 1, lip; 2, the same, with one side lobe removed ; 3, column; 4, anther-

cap; 5 and 6, pollinarium, seen from the back and front; 7, whole plant

(from a photograph) :—fig. 7, much reduced, the rest enlarged.

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ERICA terMinatis.

Southern Europe.

Ericacea. Tribe ERIcEx.

Erica, Linn,; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 590.

Erica terminalis, Salish. Prodr. Stirp. in Hort. Chap. Allert. Vig. (1796),

p- 296; habita foliis et inflorescentia /. australi simillima, sed sepalis

anguste ovatis, corolla ellipsoideo-urceolari et antherarum cristis obsolete

serrulatis differt.

Frutex usque ad 5 ped. altus; ramuli erecti, stricti, rarius diffusi, dense foliati,

juniores pubescentes. Folia seepissime quaterna, patentia vel rare

adscendentia, lineari-oblonga, 23-4 lin. longa, vix acuta, subtus canalica-

lata, primum parce puberula, cito glabrescentia. Flores 4-20, rarius

30-40, in apicibus ramulorum umbellatim dispositi. Pedicelli circiter

2 lin. longi, puberuli, bracteolis 3 linearibus instructi. Sepala anguste

ovato-acuminata, 1 lin. longa. Corolla ellipsoideo-urceolaris, 2% lin.

longa, rosea, glabra, lobis 3 lin. longis obtusis apice recurvis. Antherze

incluse, basi cristis divergentibus obsolete serrulatis instructs. Ovarium

subglobosum, pilis albis adpressis dense vestitum; stylus inclusus vel

breviter exsertus.—Z. stricta, Donn, Hort. Cantab. ed. 1 (1796), p. 45, ex

Willd. Sp. Plant. vol. ii. (1799), p. 366; Andr. Heaths, t. 134, et Heathery,

t. 92. EH. pendula, Wendl. Bot. Beobacht. p. 48, et Eric. Icon. vol. i.

fasc. 10, p. 13, cum tab. col., non Lodd. 2. multicaulis, Salisb. in Trans.

Linn. Soc. vol. vi. (1802), p. 369. H. corsica, DC. Fl. Franc. vol. iii,

p- 677, et Ic. Plant. Gall. Rar. p. 6,t.17. H. ramulosa, Viv. Ann. Bot,

vol. i. pars 2, p. 169, et FI. Ital. Fragm. p. 4, t. 7, non Bartl.

It is unfortunately necessary to substitute an almost

forgotten name for that under which this Heath has long

been familiar. Erica stricta, though first published in 1796,

was a nomen nudum till 1799, when Willdenow, taking up

the name from the first edition of “* Donn’s Hortus Canta-

brigiensis,” supplied a description. Salisbury, in 1802,

regarded Donn’s name as inapplicable, for he says of the

material which he happens to have seen, “ caules undique

diffusi, nequaquam stricti,” and called the plant /. multi-

caulis. He had, however, in 1796, published a diagnosis of

a species unmistakably identical with H. stricta, under the

name of LJ. terminalis. A type specimen of this is pre-

served in the Kew Herbarium, with a label in the hand-

writing of Salisbury, who had crossed out ‘‘ terminalis,”

and substituted ‘ multicaulis,” though the former was the

earlier name.

E. terminalis is a native of Corsica, Sardinia, Southern

Marcu Ist, 1906,

Italy and Spain. A specimen in the Kew Herbarium from

the ‘‘ North of Ireland, 1834, Dr. Lloyd,” is referred to in

the second edition of the “Cybele Hibernica”’ as being

“either mislabelled, or gathered in a garden.” It is

correctly named.

This Heath was at first thought to be a Cape species,

and greenhouse treatment was recommended for it.

Afterwards Portugal was given as its native country.

It has been in cultivation at Kew for many years, is

hardy, and flowers from July to September. As J. stricta,

it was included in the second edition of Aiton’s “* Hortus

Kewensis,” where it is stated that it was. first introduced

about the year 1765.

Descr.—A shrub up to five feet high. Branches erect,

straight, more rarely diffuse, densely leafy, the younger

pubescent. eaves usually in fours, spreading or rarely

ascending, linear-oblong, a quarter to a third of an inch

long, scarcely acute, channelled on the under side, at

first sparingly pubescent, afterwards glabrescent. Flowers

four to twenty, rarely thirty to forty, in umbel-like in-

florescences at the ends of the branches. Pedicels about a

sixth of an inch long, furnished with three linear bracteoles.

Sepals narrowly ovate-acuminate, a twelfth of an inch

long. Corolla ellipsoid-urceolate, barely a quarter of an

inch long, rose-coloured, glabrous; lobes very short,

obtuse, recurved at the apex. Anthers included, furnished

at the base with divergent, obsoletely serrulate crests.

Ovary subglobose, densely pubescent. Style included or

shortly exserted.—S. A. Sxan.

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LONICERA TRAGOPHYLLA.

“ China.

CaPRIFOLIACER. Tribe LoNICERER.

Lonicera, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 5.

Lonicera tragophylla, Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxiii. p. 367 ; Rehder

in Rep. Missouri Bot. Gard. vol. xiv. (1903), p. 193, et in Sargent, Trees

& Shrubs, p. 91, t. 46; Gard. Chron. 1904, vol. ii. p. 151, cum fig. ;,

L. stabiane, Pasquale, proxima, floribus multo majoribus et corolla tubo

intus pubescente differt. . aes

Frutex scandens, fere undique glaber. Caules teretes, leves, ramulis floriferis

gracilibus 6-9 poll. longis. Folia, paribus supremis connatis rotundatis

vel deltoideis exceptis, breviter petiolata vel sessilia, papyracea, oblonga,

21-4 poll. longa, #-13 poll. lata, rotundata, obtusa vel acuta, integra,

supra viridia, subtus glauca et secus costam pubescentia, interdum pur-

pureo-marginata et -costata. Flores 10-20 in capitula breviter pedunculata

ramulos terminantia aggregati. Calycis dentes minuti, persistentes.

Corolla 2-3 poll. longa, vivide aurantiaca vel lutea, labio postico extra

inconspicue rubro-lineato ; tubus angustus, curvatas, limbo circiter triplo

longior, extra glaber, intus pubescens; limbus bilabiatus, labio postico

erecto vel apice paulam reflexo breviter 4-lobato, antico anguste oblongo

incurvato. Stamina etubo longe exserta, glabra. Sty/us stamina equans

vel paulum superans. Baccx cocciner, subglobose.

This handsome Honeysuckle, originally described from

material sent to Kew by Dr. Henry, has been brought

into cultivation by Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, having

been sent to them from China by their collector, Mr.

E. H. Wilson. It flowered for the first time in this

country at the Coombe Wood Nursery in 1904. The

specimen figured, which flowered in June, 1905, was

supplied by Messrs. Veitch, who have informed us that

the plant is quite hardy at Coombe Wood, and a very

rapid grower.

Mr. Wilson found this Lonicera fairly common in

Hupeh, climbing over bushes on mountain sides at altitudes

of between 4,000 and 7,500 feet. He ascertained that it is

known to the Chinese as the Ta-chin-yin-hua (Great Gold

and Silver Flower). Specimens have been collected in

Szechuen by Farges and Rosthorn, and in Kansu by

Potanin.

Geographically it is peculiarly isolated. According to

Rehder it is the only representative of the subsection

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Eucaprifolia in Central or Eastern Asia, and its nearest

ally is the Italian LZ. stabiana, which, however, is very

closely related to L. Caprifolium, a species extending from

France to the Caucasus and Asia Minor. LL. tragophylla is

the largest-flowered species of the subgenus Periclymenum,

and Mr. Wilson regards it as the most showy of all the

Chinese species.

Descr.—A scandent, nearly glabrous shrub. Stems

round, smooth; flowering branches slender, six to nine

inches long. Leaves shortly stalked or sessile, papery.

oblong, two and a half to four inches long, three-quarter

to one and a third inches broad, rotundate, obtuse

acute, entire, glaucous below, and pubescent along the

midrib; one to three of the uppermost pairs connate,

rounded or deltoid. lowes ten to twenty, in shortly

stalked heads terminating the branches. Calya-teeth

minute, persistent. Corolla bright orange-coloured or

yellow, faintly streaked with red on the back of the uppe

lip, two to three inches long; tube slender, curved, about

three times as long as the limb, glabrous outside, pubescent

inside. Limb two-lipped; upper lip erect or somewha

reflexed at the apex, shortly four-lobed ; lower lip narrowly

oblong, incurved. Stamens exserted, glabrous. Style

long as or slightly longer than the stamens, glabrot

Berries scarlet, subglobose.—S. A. Sxan, a

Bee?

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POLYGALA apoperana.

Lower California.

PoLYGALACER.

Poryeata, Linn.; Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 136; Chodat,

Monographia Polygalacearum, pars ii.

Polygala (§ Hebeclada) apopetala, 7. S. Brandegee in Proc. Calif. Acad.

Sci., ser. 2, vol. ii. p. 130; and in Zoe, vol. i. p. 4; Chodat in Engl. &

Prantl, Pflanzenfam. vol. iii. pars 4, p. 332; Bailey, Cycl. Amer. Hortic.

p. 1391; ab affini P. floribunda, Benth., arillo multo minore, ovario

subsessili recedit.

Frutex vel arbuscula, 2-15 ped. alta, ramis rectis gracilibus minute appresse

cinereo-pubescentibus. Folia satis remota, alterna, lanceolata, obtusa,

minute apiculata, in petiolum 1-2 lin. longum attenuata, 13-3 poll. longa,

5-14 lin. lata, integra, glabrescentia, venis venulisque inconspicuis.

Racemi usque ad 8 poll. longi, bracteis subulatis caducissimis, pedicellis

gracilibus 4—6 lin. longis. Sepala exteriora 3, cymbiformia, 2 lin. longa,

dense albo-ciliata, quorum 2 antica fere ad apicem in unum connata;

alze petaloideze, suborbiculares, 6 lin. diametro, minute ciliate. Petala

postica ligularia, 5 lin. longa, extrorse revoluta, ut lateralia et carina,

basi cum tubo staminali connata; lateralia ovata, obtusiuscula, vix } lin.

longa; carina unguiculata, late cymbiformis, ecristata, exappendiculata,

6 lin. longa. Stamina 8, tubo filamentorum ad margines posticos ciliato,

partibus liberis glabris; antherze oblonge, ¢ lin. longe. Ovarium

glabrum, subsessile, basi disco circumdatum, stylo apice recurvo, triente

superiore postice barbato, stigmate terminali. Capsula elliptica, latior

quam longa. Semina ovoidea, paullo compressa, pubescentia, arillo

minuto, vix lobato.

P. apopetala is the only species of Polygala that is

known to attain the dimensions of a tree. It was first

discovered in 1889 at Comundu, Lower California, by Mr.

T. S. Brandegee, who describes the locality as follows :—

**Comundu is a settlement nine miles in length, along a

little brook in a narrow cafion, three to five hundred feet

high, with its steep slopes crested by a line of perpendicular

cliffs. It was at the hase of these cliffs that the interesting

Lopezia clavata and Polygala apopetala were found.” In

the following year Mr. Brandegee found that P. apopetala

was “abundant in the Sierra de Laguna, a range of

mountains near Todos Santos in Lower California, that

reach an altitude of nearly 5,000 feet. In the cafions at

the base of the range this handsome species acquires its

greatest development, and becomes a small tree, having a

trunk and spreading top, and equalling in height the

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surrounding Acacias and Lysilomas. ‘The finest example

seen was fifteen feet high or more, with the ends of the

branches terminated by racemes of flowers in full bloom.

.... It is found growing as a bush about the high

altitudes of the mountains, and during my visit withstood

slight frosts, proving that it is somewhat hardy, and

would grow in a more northern climate, and perhaps be

capable of becoming an ornament to the gardens of San

Francisco.”

Our plate was prepared from specimens communicated

by Sir Thomas Hanbury, K.C.V.O., La Mortola, Venti-

miglia, in July, 1905. At La Mortola, P. apopetala is a

shrub, three to five feet in height.

Descr.—A shrub or small tree, two -to fifteen feet high.

Branches straight, slender, minutely appressed-pubescent.

Leaves alternate, lanceolate, obtuse, minutely apiculate,

attenuate into the petiole, one and a half to three

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

entire, glabrescent; veins inconspicuous. liacemes eight

inches long or less; bracts subulate, very caducous;

pedicels slender, one-third to half an inch long. Outer

sepals three, the two anticous ones connate nearly to the

apex, boat-shaped, a sixth of an inch long, densely ciliate ;

wings petaloid, suborbicular, half an inch in diameter, ~

minutely ciliate. Petals adnate to the staminal tube at

the base, the posticous ones strap-shaped, nearly half an

inch long, revolute; lateral petals ovate, obtuse, scarcely

a twenty-fourth of an inch long; keel clawed, broadly

boat-shaped, half an inch long, not crested nor appen-

daged. Staminal tube ciliate on the posticous margins,

the free part of the filaments glabrous; anthers oblong.

Ovary glabrous, subsessile; style recurved at the apex,

the upper third bearded on the inner side; stigma ter-

minal, Capsule elliptic, broader than long. Seeds ovoid,

slightly flattened, pubescent; aril minute, scarcely lobed.

—T. A. Spracor.

Fig. 1, flower with the two lateral sepals removed ; 2, stamiual tube; 3 and

4, anthers, before and after dehiscence; 5, pistil :—adl enlarged.

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CEROPEGIA rosca,

Grand Canary.

ASCLEPIADACE A,

Crropget, Linn.; Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 779.

Ceropegia fusca, C. Bolle in Bonplandia, vol. ix. (1861), p. 51; affinis

presi oe a qua caulibus crassioribus albidis et floribus rubro-brunneis

iffert.

Planta succulenta, e basi ramosa,subaphylla. Caules vel rami 14-6 ped. longi,

6-9 lin.‘ crassi, cylindrici, articulati, glabri, albidi, Folia paucissima,

$-13 poll. longa, 1-2 lin. lata, lineari-lanceolata, acuminata, Flores ad

nodos fasciculati, erecti, breviter pedicellati. Sepala 1 lin. longa,

deltoideo-attenuata, glabra. Corolla 14 poll. longa, extra glabra, rubro-

brannea; tubus 10-11 lin. longus, inferne leviter inflatus, superne infun-

dibularis, intra parce hirtus, albidus; lobi 7 lin. longi, e basi deltoideo-

lanceolata 24 lin. lata lineari-attenuati, apice connati vel demum liberi.

Corona lutea, glabra: lobi exteriores 3 lin. longi, breviter bifidi, lobis

interioribus adnati; lobi interiores 1 lin. longi, filiformes, erecti, conni-

ventes. Folliculi 6-6} poll. longi, ¢ poll. crassi, erecti, teretes, superne

attenuati, obtusi, glabri, olivacei, fusco-punctati.

The odd-looking plant here figured bears so little

resemblance, in its stems and habit, to the majority of the

species of Ceropegia, that when out of flower it might

easily be mistaken for a Huphorbia. The only other species

of Ceropegia with which it can be compared is the nearly

allied C. dichotoma, which is also a native of the Canaries,

and C. stapelioides, a native of South Africa, both of which

have long been in cultivation.

C. fusca is a native of Grand Canary, where it was

originally discovered by Carl Bolle about the year 1860.

Since that time it does not appear to have been collected,

and nothing more was known of it until 1904, when Mr.

Walter Ledger, of Wimbledon, who is much interested

in this genus, was instrumental in its rediscovery. He

furnished Mr. Alaricus Delmard, a botanist resident in

the Canary Islands, with its recorded habitat, and that

gentleman soon succeeded in finding this interesting

species, and early in 1905 sent the living plant, here

figured, to Kew, where it flowered in June. Mr. Ledger

writes that, according to Mr. Delmard, the goats have

nearly exterminated the plant in its native locality. It

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grows in a dry district, and requires similar treatment to

that given to C. stapelixformis.

Descr.—A bushy succulent, with many stems from

the base, almost leafless. Stems erect, and about a foot

and a half high, but according to Mr. Delmard some-

times six feet, simple or repeatedly forked, half to three-

quarters of an inch thick, jointed, cylindric, glabrous,

whitish. Leaves very few, only occasionally developed,

three-quarters to one inch and a half long, linear-lan-

ceolate, acuminate, dark green. Flowers in fascicles at

the nodes, produced for two or more years in succession,

erect. Bracts minute, deltoid-ovate, acute, glabrous.

Pedicels a sixth of an inch long, glabrous. Sepals very

small, acute, glabrous. Corolla about an inch and a third

long, dull reddish-brown, glabrous outside; lobes and

mouth of the tube glabrous within, with a faint purple

bloom; tube thinly hairy inside, and white or very pale

yellowish, nearly an inch long, a sixth of an inch in

diameter at the swollen base, slightly bent and cylindric

above, widening into a funnel-shaped mouth; lobes above

half an inch long, deltoid-lanceolate, tapering into slender,

linear tails, at first connate at the tips, sometimes more

or less free and spreading. Corona light yellow; outer

lobes very short, adnate to the base of the inner lobes,

subquadrate, shortly bifid, glabrous, inner lobes twice

as long, filiform, connivent at the base over the anthers

and style-apex, glabrous. follicles about six inches long,

a quarter of an inch thick, terete, tapering from about

the middle to a blunt point, glabrous, light olive-green,

speckled with brown.—N. E. Brown.

Fig. 1, apex of a young stem with leaves, from Mr. Delmard’s drawing;

2, flower-bud ; 3, corona; 4, corona with one lobe removed and the side ones

pushed back a little to show the anthers, which are opposite the corona-

lobes; 5, pollen-masses :—figs. 2-5, enlarged.

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NEPENTHES Puaytiampnora.

Eastern Tropical Asia and Western Polynesia.

NEPENTHACES.

Nerentuss, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 115.

Nepenthes Phyllamphora, Willd. Sp. Pl. vol. iv. pars 2, p. 874; Korthals

in Verh. Nat. Gesch. p. 28, t. 15; Hook f. in DC. Prodr. voi. xvii. p. 97;

non N. Phyllamphora, Bot. Mag. t. 2629, nec 2798, que est N. khasyana,

Hook. f. loc. cit. p. 1023 ab omnibus speciebus mihi cognitis foliis margine

ciliolatis vel minute denticulatis recedit.

Suffrutex robustus, paucipedalis, novellis puberulis. Folia demum coriacea,

cum petiolo 6-18 poll. longa, et usque ad 3$ poll. lata, oblonga vel

lanceolata, utrinque attenuata, rarius rotundata, margine ciliata, ciliis

nonnumquam evanidis; cirrhus gracilis. Ascidia, 3-7 poll. longa, sub-

cylindrica, infra medium leviter ventricosa, extus viridia vel rubro-

viridia, intus a basi usque ad medium, vel interdum ultra, glandulis

minutis fere innumerabilibus obsita, supra medium nada, lubrica, viridia

vel violacea; costz duz antice alate vel apters, fimbriate vel integra;

costa postica apice juxta operculum in calear breve debile integrum vel

bifidum producta. Operculwm fere orbiculare, intus glandulis melliferis

orbicularibus vel oblongis marginatis crebre conspersum. Peristomiwm

angustum, margine interiore pectinatum, dentibus minutis numerosissi-

mis, inter dentes uniporosum uniglandulosum. Flores utriusque sexus

laxe racemosi, racemis erectis longe pedunculatis folia excedentivus.

Perianthium 4-partitum, segmentis extus tomentosis intus glandulosis.

Capsula cana.—Phyllamphora mirabilis, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. p. 606.

Cantherifera, Rumph. Herb. Amb. vol. v. p. 121, t. 59. N. macrostachya

et JV. fimbriata, Blume, Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. vol. ii. p. 7; Mig. Ill. Fl.

Arch. Ind. pp. 3 et 5, tt.2 et 6. WN. kennedyana, F. Muell. Fragm. vol. v.

p. 154; Benth. Fl. Austral. vol. vi. p. 40 (Kennedy?) ; Bailey, Queensland

Ficra, part 4, p. 1278, t.46; Beccari, Malesia, vol. ii. p.11. NV. distillatoria,

Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, vol. v. p. 420; Hemsl. ‘lhe Garden, vol. lxvii.

p- 269.

I have followed Sir Joseph Hooker in the synonymy of

this Nepenthes, as far as he goes, and Beccari as to

including N. kennedyana; but I am not quite satisfied

that some of the specimens, including N. macrostachya, B1.,

are correctly referred here. Miquel states that N. macro-

stachya is very different, though he fails to give the

distinctions, except that the pedicels are more than one-

flowered. ‘he same author claims that N. fimbriata, BL.,

differs from N. Phyllamphora iu having ciliated leaves.

Beccari makes two species, including N. jimbriata under N.

macrostachya, and N. kennedyana under N. Phyllamphora;

but he had seen no specimens either from China or Cochin

China. In most of the Chinese specimens the pedicels are

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free from each other; occasionally two are connate, so this

character is not absolute.

Whatever view we take of the limits of the species, that

figured appears to be the one described by Loureiro, and

must therefore bear the name Phyllamphora. It is the

only one known from South China and the country imme-

diately to the south; and it is the species that was first

cultivated at Kew, having been introduced, according to

Aiton, by Sir Joseph Banks in 1789. There is an undated

specimen at Kew from the Herbarium of Bishop Good-

enough, labelled: ‘* Nepenthes distillatoria, Kew ;” and it

is recorded by Aiton under this name, and as a native of

China and Ceylon. There was further confusion in the

names of the species cultivated during the first half of the

last century, and it may be worth while repeating the

corrected synonymy here :—N, distillatoria, Ait.=N. Phyl-

lamphora, Willd.; N. distillatoria, Loddiges Bot. Cab.

vol. xi. 1825, t. 1017 = N. khasyana, Hook. f.; N. Phyl-

lamphora, Bot. Mag. t. 2629 = N. khasyana ; N. distillatoria,

Bot. Mag. t. 2798 = N. khasyana. Loddiges’ figure was

the first of a cultivated Nepenthes in this country, and

the accompanying plate is the first of the true N. Phyllam-

phora.

As limited by Sir Joseph Hooker, it has the widest

range of any species of the genus, ranging from Mount

Ophir, in Malacca, South China, the Philippines, and

Pelew Island, through the Malay Archipelago to New

Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago and North-eastern

Australia It differs apparently from most other species

in not having two kinds of pitchers. In all the numerous

Specimens examined, both wild and cultivated, the pitchers

have a wide conductive or glandless zone; there are no

pitchers in which the whole interior is covered with

secreting glands. There are, however, considerable differ-

ences in the size and colouring; the female plant having

them more highly coloured than the male. N. Phyllam-

phora is also remarkable for the smallness and number of

its digestive glands. My colleague, Mr. Cotton, and I,

have carefully counted the number ina square line, several

times over, and we make it from ninety to a hundred,

which gives the enormous total of 13,000 to 14,400 glands

to the square inch !

The accompanying illustration was made from a plant

sent to Kew by Mr. C. Ford, I.8.0., from the Hong Kong

Botanic Garden, in 1894, with the information that it was

obtained from the Island of Hainan.

The plants cultivated at Kew, under the name of

N. obrieniana, are not specifically distinguishable from

N. Phyllamphora, but it is also true that they do not

resemble the highly-coloured figure of the original in the

* Illustration Horticole,”’ vol. xxxvi. p. 109, t. 116.

Descr.—A vigorous species. Stems stout, hairy when

young. Leaves becoming leathery, oblong or lanceolate,

including stalk six to eighteen inches long, and as much as

three or four inches broad, ciliate on the margin when

young. Pitchers three to seven inches long, nearly

cylindrical, slightly inflated below the middle, green,

or green and red outside, glandular inside up to the

middle, or higher, the smooth zone usually coloured and

glaucous, sometimes green; anterior ribs winged or wing-

less; wings entire or fringed; posterior rib produced at

the top into a soft spur. id densely glandular inside.

Collar very finely pectinate; teeth about eighty to the

inch, alternating with deeply seated honey glands.—

W. Borrinc HEMSLEY.

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GLADIOLUS carminets.

South Africa.

Inipace®. Tribe Ixtem.

GuanioLvs, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 709; Baker, Handb.

Iridex, p. 198.

Gladiolus carmineus, C. H. Wright; ex affinitate G. ramosi, Paxt., sed

spathis longioribus antherisque luteis differt.

Caulis erectus, circa 1} ped. altus, gracilis, basi vaginis ad 2 poll. longis

vestitus. Folia linearia, acuminata, post anthesin ad 8 poll. longa et 4

lin, lata, glabra, costa crassa. Spatha exterior elliptica, acuminata, 2 poll.

longa, interior similis, sed 1} poll. longa. Flores circa 3 poll. diam. ;

perianthii tubus anguste infundibuliformis, apice 6 lin. diam., extuas

pallidus ; lobi ovati, acuminati, 9 lin. lati, carminei, duo interiores basi

macula pallidiore sanguineo-marginata instructi. Anthere oblong,

curvate, dilute lute. Sty/i rami 3 lin. longi, lineares.

The affinity of this species is with G. hirsutus, Jacq., a

native of Cape Colony, of which the variety roseus has

been figured in this Magazine, t.574. That species differs,

however, in having the stem and leaves hairy and the

perianth-tube more curved. Bulbs of the present plant were

received at Kew in 1903 from Hon. Sir C. Abercrombie

Smith, Controller and Auditor General, Cape of Good

Hope, who found it ‘‘ at Hermanus, a small village on the

Southern Coast of South Africa, on the sandstone cliffs

from 40 to 80 feet high which skirt the sea.” Flowers

were produced at Kew in September last. At first sight

this plant recalls some of the forms of G. ramosus, Paxt.,

which is a hybrid between G. cardinalis, Curt. (B. M. t. 135)

and G. oppositiflorus, Herb., but differs in its much more

lax habit, in addition to the characters mentioned in the

diagnosis above. In the almost regular form of the

perianth it also approaches G. blandus, Soland. (B. M.

t. 1665), which, like G. ramosus, has blue anthers, and

sometimes is blotched on two (not three) of the perianth-

lobes. The tropical African G. corneus, Oliv., has the

perianth-tube curved in the upper part, but otherwise

resembles G. carmineus.

Descr.—Stem erect, slender, about a foot and a half

high, clothed at the base with several sheaths, the longest

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being about two and a half inches. Leaves produced later,

linear, acuminate, eight inches long, and a third of an

inch wide, glabrous, midrib thick. Spathes elliptic, acumi-

nate, the outer two inches long, the inner an inch and a

half long, herbaceous. Flowers about three inches across ;

perianth-tube narrowly funnel-shaped, half an inch in

diameter, almost white outside; lobes ovate, acuminate,

' three-quarters of an inch wide, carmine, two of the inner

with a paler spot at the base surrounded by a darker border.

Stamens reaching rather more than half way up the perianth-

lobes; anthers oblong, pale yellow. Style-branches a

fourth of an inch long, linear.—C. H. Wricar.

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LIGUSTRUM stroncyLopuy.Lium.

China.

Oveacesz. Tribe OLEINER.

Licgustrum, Tourn.; Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 679.

Ligustrum strongylophyllum, Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxvi. p. 93;

species foliis parvis swpe orbicularibus coriaceis crassiusculis distincta.

Frutex vel arbor parva sempervirens, diffuse ramosa. Ramuli juniores

graciles, dense minuteque puberuli. Folia breviter petiolata, coriacea,

crassiuscula, fere glaberrima, orbicularia, elliptica, late ovata vel obovata,

6-12 lin. longa, 4-8 lin. lata, integerrima, supra nitida et saturate

viridia, subtus pallidiora, rotundata, obtusa vel acuta, sepe minute

mucronata, marginibus paulum revolutis. Flores breviter pedicellati in

paniculas terminales usque ad 34 poll. longas basi 3 poll. Jatas dispositi.

Calyx cupularis, sepius inconspicue 5-dentatus, 3—-} lin. longus, glaber.

Corollz albe tubus infundibularis, 1-2 lin. longus; lobi ovato-oblongi,

crassi, subacuti, tubo paulum breviores. Stylus e corolle tubo brevissime

exsertus. Hructus primum globosus, maturitate obovoideus, circiter 4 lin.

longus,

The specimen of the Ligustrum here figured was fur-

nished by a plant which was purchased from Messrs. James

Veitch & Sons in 1897, and which flowered for the first

time in July, 1905. Though quite hardy at Kew, it

appears to succeed best when afforded some slight pro-

tection. A plant is growing freely trained on a wall in

the Herbaceous Department, and has now reached a height

of about six feet, but so far it has by no means proved

floriferous.

The species is one of Dr. Henry’s discoveries. Specimens

were also collected for Messrs. Veitch by Mr. H. H.

Wilson, who informs us that the plant grows on the cliffs

of the glens and gorges of the Yangtse, west of Ichang, in

the province of Hupeh, and extends westward as far as

Mount Omi, in Szechuen. In the Tung Valley, still

further west, it is replaced by another small-leaved species,

Li. Prattii, Koehne. Li. strongylophyllum was found grow-

ing, in company with Lagerstremia indica and Gardenia

jlorida, plants which require greenhouse treatment in our

climate.

Three Privets have hitherto been illustrated in this

work :—L. lucidum, Ait. (t. 2565), L. nepalense, Wall. B

Apri Ist, 1906,

glabrum, Hook. (t. 2921), and L. coriaceum, Carr. (t 7519).

‘he first is especially interesting, on account of its being

one of the two plants on which the Insect white wax of

the Chinese is deposited. Frawinus sinensis is the other.

See Kew Bulletin, 1898, p. 85.

Descr.—An evergreen, diffusely branched shrub, or

small tree. Branchlets slender, densely and minutely

puberulous. Leaves shortly petiolate, thick, coriaceous,

almost quite glabrous, orbicular, elliptic, broadly ovate or

obovate, a half to one inch long, a quarter to two-thirds of

an inch broad, entire, shining and dark green above, paler

beneath, rounded, obtuse, or acute, often minutely mucro- ©

nate, somewhat revolute on the margins. Flowers shortly

pedicellate, arranged in terminal panicles, the largest about

three inches and a half long and three inches broad at the

base. Calyx very small, cup-shaped, often obscurely 5-

toothed, glabrous. Corolla white; tube funnel-shaped, one-

twelfth to one-sixth of an inch long; lobes ovate-oblong,

thick, subacute, slightly shorter than the tube. Style very

shortly exserted. Fruit at first globose, obovoid when

mature, about one-third of an inch long.—S. A. Sxan.

Fig. 1, portion of branch; 2, flower; 3, vertical section of calyx showing

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CY PRIPEDIUM TIBETICUM.

Eastern Tibet and Western China.

Orcuipaces. Tribe CypRiPEDIEs.

Cyprirepium. Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 634, ex parte ;

Pfitzer in Engl. & Prantl. Pflanzenf. vol. ii. 6, p. 82.

Cypripedium tibeticum, King ex Rolfe in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xxix. p. 320;

vol. xxxvi. p. 66; Franch.im Journ. de Bot. 1894, p. 250; King & Pantling

in Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Cale. vol. viii. p. 341, t. 447; Rolfe in Orch. Rev.

1905, p. 194; aff. C. macrantho, Swartz, sed segmentis reticulato-venosis,

et staminodio late cordato-ovato nec trulliformi differt.

Herba terrestris, }-1} ped. alta. Oaules erecti, pubescentes, 3—4-phylli, basi

vaginis 2 vel 3 inzequalibus obtecti, apice uniflori. olia ovata vel ovato-

oblonga, acuta vel subobtusa, membranacea, plicata, puberula et ciliata,

subsessilia, 2-5 poll. longa, }-2% poll. lata. Bractese ovate, acute vel

acuminate, concave, foliacese, 13-3 poll. longw. Flores magni, rubro-

purpureo-striati et reticulati, labello et staminodio atro-purpureo

suffusis. Sepalwm posticum late ovatum, acutum, concavum, 1j-1? poll.

longum ; sepala lateralia connata, quam posticum minora. Petala ellip-

tica vel ovato-lanceolata, acuminata, 13-2 poll. longa. Labellum ventri-

cosum, globosum, 1}-2 poll. longum, ore semicirculari. Colwmna ? poll.

longa; staminodium late ovatum, obtusum, convexum, 6-7 lin. longum.—

ne macranthon var. ventricosum, Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. vi. p. 170, non

arriere.

This handsome Cypripedium was discovered as long ago

as 1879, at Pitzala, in the province of Chumbi, by a native

collector of Sir George King, when it received the manu-

script name now adopted. It was, however, not published,

and for about thirteen years the plant was regarded as a

form of the Siberian C. macranthon, Swartz, before its

differential characters were pointed out. At this time it

was shown that a Himalayan species had also been included

under ©. macranthon, to which the name C. himalaicum,

Rolfe, was given. Both were subsequently collected by

Pantling, Pratt, and Wilson, while one or the other has

also been obtained by other collectors. The first-named

was successfully introduced to cultivation by Mr. E. H.

Wilson, Collector for Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, who

brought home plants from Tachienlu, in Western Szechuen,

near the Tibetan border. These arrived in April, 1905,

aud flowered with the importers in the following June,

when the accompanying plate was prepared. Mr. Wilson

remarks that the species is very common on the mountains

ApRiL Ist, 1906.

around Tachienlu, at elevations between 10,000 and 12,000

feet, and that the flowers are usually very much darker in

a wild state than here shown.

Notwithstanding the evident distinctness of this species

from C. macranthon, Swartz (B. M. t. 2938), it is not easy

to put the distinction into words, beyond the very obvious

difference in colour and the shape of the staminode, but the

lip of C. macranthon is corrugated round the mouth. Mr.

Wilson, who has collected both species and seen them

growing in enormous quantities, states that they are very

distinct, both geographically, and in their morphological

characters. The difficulty is that some of these characters

become obliterated in the process of drying for the

Herbarium.

The species will doubtless succeed under similar cultural

treatment to that given to C. macranthon.

Descr.—A terrestrial herb from ahout half to a foot and

a quarter high. Stems erect, pubescent, bearing three to

four leaves, and at the base two or three reduced more or

less tubular sheaths. Leaves ovate or ovate-oblong, acute

or subobtuse, membranaceous, plicate, puberulous, and

ciliate, subsessile, two to five inches long, three-quarters

to two and three-quarter inches broad. SBracts ovate,

acute, or acuminate, concave, more or less leaf-like, an

inch and a half to three inches long. Flowers solitary,

terminal, nearly four inches across, striped and reticulated —

with reddish purple on a paler ground, staminode and

front of lip suffused with dark purple. Dorsal sepal

broadly ovate, acute, concave, one and a quarter to one

and three-quarter inches long; lower sepal rather smaller.

Petals elliptical or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, an inch

and a half to two inches long. Lip ventricose, globose,

an inch and a quarter to two inches long; mouth semi-

circular. Colwmn three-quarters of an inch long; stami- —

node broadly ovate, obtuse, convex, about half an inch

long.—R. A. Rove.

Fig. 1, vertical section of lip; 2 and 3, column seen from the front and

side, showing the staminode, stamens and stigma :—2, natural size, the rest

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CALLOPSIS Vorkensit.

German East Africa.

AROIDEZ.—Tribe ZOMICARPEE ?

Cattopsis, Engler in Notizblatt Kénigl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, vol. i. p. 27.

Callopsis Volkensii, Hngler loc. cit. et in Pflanzenw. Ost-Afr. vol. C, p.

131; N. £. Brown in Dyer, Flora of Tropical Africa, vol. viii. p. 186;

species unica.

Herba acaulis glabra. Foliorum petiolus 1}-5 poll. longus, supra canalicu-

latus; lamina 33-53 poll. longa, 2-3} poll. lata, elongato-ovata vel

oblongo-ovata, obtusa, apiculata, basi cordata. Peduneuli 3-3} poll.

longi, erecti. Spatha e basi expansa, 1-1} poll. longa, 2-1 poll. lata,

elliptica, apiculata, alba. Spadia quam spatha brevior, lutea parte

feminea spathe adnata. Flores unisexuales, nudi: feminei 3-12, sub-

biseriati; ovarium oblique conoideum vel anguste elongato-ovoideum in

stylum brevem attenuatum, uniloculare, uniovulatum; stigma parvum;

ovulum subbasilare, anatropum, erectum: masculi in spicam cylindricam

obtusam dense conferti; anther sessiles, subquadrate.

The interesting plant here figured was discovered by

Dr. Volkens growing at the foot of trees in the forest on

Mount Msasa, between Nderema and the River Sigi in

German East Africa. It was first introduced into the

Royal Botanic Gardens at Dahlem, near Berlin, whence a

plant was received at Kew in 1905, and it commenced to

flower in September, and continued for over three months.

Probably it will prove of considerable value from a

horticultural point of view, on account of the persistence

of its pure white spathes, which are freely produced, and

contrast well with the dark green foliage. It requires

stove treatment, similar to that given to the various species

of Schismatoglottis.

Dr. Engler places Callopsis in the tribe Pothoidex, but

as its floral structure is very similar to that of Zomi-

carpella, except the inappendiculate spadix, I think it

would be placed better next in the same tribe, or as a

distinct monotypic tribe of its own, based on its non-

tuberous habit and absence of anappendix. In the totality

of its characters it is intermediate between the tribes

Zomicarpexe and Philodendreex.

Descr.—A stemless perennial herb, with a short branch-

Aprit Ist, 1906

ing underground rootstock, quite glabrous in all parts.

Leaves several to a shoot; petiole one and a half to five

inches long, channelled down the face; blade spreading

about three to five inches long, two to three inches broad,

elongated, ovate, or oblong-ovate, obtusely pointed, apicu-

late, cordate at the base, bright dark green, paler beneath ;

basal lobes about three-quarters of an inch long, rounded.

Peduncles between three and four inches long, erect.

Spathe about an inch long, three-quarters to one inch

broad, open to the base, but with the sides approximate

below, elliptic, obtuse, apiculate, more or less decurrent on

the peduncle, pure white. Spadix much shorter than the

spathe, monoecious, yellow; female part adnate to the

spathe, unilateral; male part shortly separated from the

female, terete, obtuse. Flowers without a _perianth.

Ovaries 3-12, in about two series, obliquely conoid, or

narrowly elongated, ovoid, tapering into a short, thick

style, one-celled, with a solitary subbasal ovule; stigma

small, discoid. Anthers sessile, quadrate, densely crowded.

—N. KE. Brown.

Fig. 1, spadix and part of the spathe; 2, anther; 3, ovary; 4, longitudinal

section of the same; 5, ovule:—all enlarged.

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LILIUM Ducnartret.

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Western and Central China.

Litiacea. ‘Tribe Tutirez.

Luium Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 816.

Lilium Duchartrei, Franch. in Nowv. Arch. Mus. Par. 2me sér. vol. x. p. 90,

et in Journ. de Bot. vol. vi. (1892), p. 316; O. H. Wright in Journ. Linn.

Soe. vol. xxxvi. p. 180; L. Leichtlinii, Hook. f., affine, quod perianthio

luteo purpureo-maculato segmentis basi carinato-cristatis recedit.

Herba tripedalis. Bulbi parvi, ovoidei; squame lanceolate, acuminate,

ciliates. Caulis teres, glaber, rubro-striatus, apice 1-7-florus. Folia

alterna, lanceolata vel lineari-lanceolata, acuminata, basi attenuata, 2

poll. longa, 6 lin. lata, trinervia, subtus glauca. Flores subcernui, circa

3 poll. diam., albi, extus roseo-tincti, intus roseo-maculati; perianthium

basi breviter campanulatum ; segmenta oblonga, recurva, exteriora acuta,

interiora obtusa, intus basi lineis papillosis instructa. Stamina wqualiter

divergentia, perianthio breviora; filamenta alba; anthers lute. Stylus

staminibus wquilongus; stigma capitatum.

Thirty-two lilies are now recorded from China. Of

these, seventeen are confined to that country, while five

extend into India, seven into Japan and three into

Northern Asia. ‘The present species was discovered in

June, 1869, by the late Abbé Armand David during his

journey in the district of Moupine; since then it has been

found in other parts of Szechuen, in Kansuh and in Yunnan.

Our plant was raised from bulbs collected in moist meadows

at an altitude of from 8,000 to 9,500 ft. at Tachienlu, in

Szechuen, by Mr. E. H. Wilson for Messrs. Veitch & Sons,

of Chelsea. It flowered at Kew in July last, and seems to

thrive under cultivation, as in a wild state it rarely

produces more than three flowers on one stem.

Li. polyphyllum, D, Don, figured in Elwes’s Monograph

of the Genus Lilium, tab. 48, resembles L. Duchartret in

habit, but the perianth has a long tubular base, and is

greenish outside.

Descr.—A herb about three feet high. Bulbs small,

ovoid; scales lanceolate, acuminate, ciliate. Stem terete,

glabrous, striped with reddish-purple, one- to seven-

flowered. Leaves alternate in the upper part of the stem,

lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acuminate, tapering towards

May Ist, 1906.

the base, two inches and a half long, half an inch wide,

three-nerved, glaucous beneath. Flowers nodding, about

three inches across, white, tinged with rose outside, and

finely spotted with rose inside, except towards the tips of

the segments ; perianth shortly campanulate at the base;

segments oblong, recurved, the outer acute, the inner

obtuse, bearing lines of papillze near the base. Stamens

equally spreading, rather shorter than the perianth;

filaments white; anthers yellow. Style as long as the

stamens ; stigma capitate.—C. H. Wricar.

Figs. 1 and 2, anthers; 3, pistil:—all enlarged.

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PRIMULA cocxsornrana.

China.

PrimuLacea.—Tribe PrimvuLex.

Primuta, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 631.

Primula cockburniana, Hems/. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxix. p. 313; Gard.

Chron, 1905, vol.-i. pp. 331 e¢ 345, fig. 137; Paw.et Knuth in Engl.

Pflanzenr., Primulacez, p. 126; species floribus saturate aurantiaco-rubris

- in verticillos superpositos dispositis distinctissima.

Herba perennis, preter inflorescentiam plus minusve farinosam fere omnino

glabrescens. Folia szepe longe petiolata, membranacea, anguste obovato-

oblonga, petiolo incluso 2-5 poll. longa, supra medium 3-1} poll. lata,

obscure lobulata, minute denticulata, apice rotundata, deorsum sensim

attenuata, presertim subtus paulum pulverulenta. Scapus gracilis,

erectus, 4-12 poll. altus, floribus in verticillos 2-4 superpositos dispositis ;

verticilli 2-7-flori. Bractew lineari-triangulares, 1-14 lin. longew. Pedi-

celli ascendentes, 6-9 lin. longi. Calyx anguste campanulatus, circiter

2 lin. longus; lobi ovato-deltoidei, vix 1 lin. longi, erecti, acuti, intus

dense farinosi. Corolla saturate aurantiaco-rubra, glabra; tubus cylin-

dricus, apice paulum ampliatus, vix 4 poll. longus; limbus patens, 6-7

lin, diam., lobis obovatis apice cordatis vel retusis. Capsula oblonga,

3 lin. longa, 14 lin. lata.

This Primula lacks the vigour of constitution and large

size of flower of some of the allied species previously

brought into cultivation, but the remarkable colour of the

corolla gives it a unique position in the large and deservedy

popular genus to which it belongs,

For the opportunity of figuring it we are indebted to

Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, who supplied a plant which

flowered with them in the open air in June, 1905. It is

one of their numerous introductions from China, whence

seeds and dried specimens were sent by their collector,

Mr. K. H. Wilson, who met with it in moist or marshy

alpine meadows at elevations of from 9,000 to 11,000 feet,

to the immediate west of Tachienlu, West Szechuen. It

was very abundant in this locality, but Mr. Wilson did not

see it elsewhere.

P. cockburniana is included by Pax and Knuth in the

section Cankrienia, which comprises species possessing,

amongst others, the following characters :—Plant without

stolons. Leaves membranous or papery, not, or scarcely

distinctly lobed, toothed. Calyx not accrescent. Flowers

May Ist, 1906.

pedicellate, in superposed verticils. Other species of this

section already figured in the Botanical Magazine are:

P. japonica (t. 5916), P. prolifera (t. 6732), P. Poissont

(t. 7216), and P. imperialis (t. 7217).

Descr.—A perennial herb, almost glabrescent, except the

more or less farinose inflorescence. Leaves often long-

petioled, membranous, narrowly obovate-oblong, two to

five inches long, including the petiole, three-quarters to

one inch and a quarter wide above the middle, obscurely

lobed, minutely toothed, rounded at the apex, gradually

narrowed towards the base, somewhat pulverulent, espe-

cially on the underside. Scape slender, erect, four to

twelve inches high, with the flowers in two to four super-

posed verticils, each two- to seven-flowered. Bracts linear-

triangular, a twelfth to aneighth of an inchlong. Pedicels

ascending, half to three-quarters of an inch long. Caly«

narrowly campanulate, about a sixth of an inch long; lobes

ovate-deltoid, scarcely a twelfth of an inch long, erect,

acute, densely farinose inside. Corolla a rich orange-red,

glabrous ; tube cylindric, somewhat enlarged at the apex,

searcely half an inch long; limb spreading, about half an

inch in diameter; lobes obovate, cordate or retuse at the

apex. Capsule oblong, a quarter of an inch long and an

eighth of an inch broad.—S. A. Sxay.

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LISTRO STACHYS namata,

Tropical West Africa.

_C RCHIDACE. Tribe VaNDE&.

Listrostacuys, Reichb. f. in Bot. Zeit. 1852, p. 930; Benth, et Hook. f. Gen.

Plant. vol. iii. p. 583, sab Angrzeco.

Listrostachys hamata, Rolfe; inter species hujus generis hucusque cognitas

labelli calcare apice hamato facile distinguenda.

Herba epiphytica, robusta, circa 1 ped. alta. Folia recurva, oblonga, oblique

et inaqualiter biloba, coriacea, circa 6 poll. longa, 1} poll. lata, lobis

obtusis. Scapi axillares, arcuati, penduli, circa 6 poll. longi, multifiori.

Bractez late ovate, obtusee, conduplicate, nitide, brunnesw, 5-7 lin.

longer. Pedicelli 1-14 poll. longi. Flores albi. Sepala recurva,

lanceolato-linearia, acuminata, circa 14 poll. longa; lateralia apice

breviter bidentata. Petala sepalis minora, circa 1} poll. longa. Label-

lum a basi triangulari longe acuminatum, recurvum, circa 1} poll.

longum; calear pendulum, arcuatum, validum, basi subinflatum, apice

subito recnrvam, hamatum, minute bidentatum, circa 13-2 poll. longum,

viride. Columna crassa, brevissima; rostellum subulatum, subobtusum,

columna duplo longius ; anthera apiculata.

This is a very distinct species of the Listrostachys

arcuata group, more nearly allied to the 8. African

L. arcuata, -Reichb. f. than is DL. Monteire, Reichb. f.,

figured at t. 826 of this work, and differing from all others

in the remarkable hooked character of the apex of the

spur. So anomalous is this character that at first the

flower was suspected to be abnormal, but it extended

uniformly to every flower of the raceme, and is invariably

repeated when the plant flowers, so that it evidently

represents the normal structure of the species. Apart from

this and the shorter spur, the species is comparable with

L. chailluana, Reichb. f., which was figured at t. 5589,

under the name of Angrezeum chailluanum, Hook. f. The

group is also represented in Hast Africa by two species,

L. Sedeni, Reichb. f., and L. Whytei, Rolfe, both known in

cultivation. The majority, however, are Western, and

some half dozen species are at present only known from

dried specimens.

Listrostachys hamata was received at Kew in 1899,

among a small collection of Orchids from Lagos, presented

May Ist, 1906.

by Mrs. W. T. Martin, and first flowered (and subsequently)

in December, 1900, in a tropical house.

Descr.—An erect, stout, epiphytic herb, under a foot

high. Leaves recurved, oblong, obliquely and unequally

bilobed, with obtuse lobes, coriaceous, about six inches

long by an inch and a quarter broad. Scapes arching, and

ultimately pendulous, about six inches long, many-flowered.

Bracts broadly ovate, obtuse, conduplicate, about half an

inch long, smooth, dark brown. Pedicels an inch to an

inch and a half long. Flowers white, with a green spur.

Sepals recurved, lanceolate-linear, acuminate, about an

inch and a half long; the lateral pair shortly bidentate at

the apex. Petals smaller than the sepals, otherwise

similar, about an inch and a quarter long. Lip recurved,

long acuminate from a triangular base, about an inch and

a quarter long; spur curved, pendulous, rather stout,

somewhat indated at the base, suddenly recurved, hooked, —

and minutely toothed at the apex, about an inch and

three-quarters to two inches long. Column very short

and stout, with a subulate, obtuse rostellum, about twice

as long as the column, and an apiculate anther.—R. A.

Roure.

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the rostellam and anther; 4 and 5, pollinarium, seen from front and back :—

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GENISTA paLMatica.

North-Western Balkan Peninsula.

Lreuminos%.—Tribe GENISTEX.

Genista, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 482.

Genista dalmatica, Bartl. in Bart]. & Wendl., Beitr. Bot. pars ii. p. 74;

Reichenb. Pl. Crit. vol. iv. p. 61, tab. 383; G. sylvestri, Scop., maxime

affinis, spinis divaricatis rigidis, foliis magis redactis distincta.

Suffrutea rigidus, parvulus, a basi multiramosus, subpulvinatus; rami erecti

vel ascendentes, preter ramulos spinigeros simplices vel ima basi tantum

divisi, 3-4 poll..longi, pilosi; ramuli spinigeri numerosissimi quasi folia

divaricato-pinnata referentes, aphylli vel foliis minutis subulatis mox

deviduis, spinis tenuibus rigidis acutissime mucronatis ad 3 lin. longis.

Folia pauca, imprimis in partibus ramorum inferioribus, sessilia, patula,

linearia vel lineari-lanceolata, acuta, 24-5 lin. longa, lete viridia, pilosa.

Facemi terminales, densiusculi, 1-14 poll. longi; bracteze foliis similes

sed angustiores, calycibus paulo breviores; pedicelli brevissimi ; bracteole

bine, subulatze, calyci adpress eius tubo equilonge. Calyx turbinato-

campanulatus, 2 lin. longus,’ pilosulus, laciniis subulatis rectis tubo

zequilongis. Corolla aurea, 4-5 lin. longa; vexillum late ovatum, breviter

uvguiculatum, quam carina brevius; ale carina duplo breviores; carina

obtusa, dorso sericeo-pubescens. Ovarium pilosum. Legqumen patens,

globoso-ovoideum, compressum, acumine brevi ascendente, 5-6 lin. longum,

monospermum.—Cytisus sylvestris, var. pungens, Vis. Fl. Dalm. vol. iii.

p. 269.

Genista dalmatica is a characteristic element of the

xerophytic vegetation of Dalmatia, Herzegovina, and the

Illyrian islands. It forms part of the underwood of the

pine forests, and the shrubby vegetation of the ‘* Karst”’

region ; but also enters into the composition of the ever-

green ‘* macchie”’ (bush) of the islands. It is so closely

allied to G. sylvestris, which takes its place in the flora of

Istria and Carniolia, that the two might be considered as

geographical races of one species. So far, however,

G. dalmatica has maintained its peculiarities in cultivation,

even in the moister climate of this country, where it

flowers in June and July.

Descr.—A small, rigid shrub, forming dense tufts of

numerous spinous hairy branches, three to four inches

long; branches almost undivided, except at the base, but

having spine-bearing branchlets, which resemble divari-

cately pinnate spinescent leaves, the spines being rigid,

very pungent, and up to one-fourth of an inch long, with

May Ist, 1906,

or without minute deciduous leaves at their bases. Leaves

few, mainly in the lower part of the branches, sessile,

spreading, linear, or linear-lanceolate, acute, from about

a sixth to half an inch, bright green, hairy. Racemes

terminal, rather dense, an inch to an inch and a half;

bracts resembling the leaves, but narrower, somewhat

shorter than the calyx; pedicels very short; bracteoles

two, subulate, adpressed to the calyx, reaching to the

mouth of the calyx-tube. Calyx turbinate-campanulate,

one-sixth of an inch, minutely hairy; segments as long as

the tube, subulate, straight. Corolla bright yellow, a third

of an inch or more; standard broad-ovate ; shortly clawed,

shorter than the keel; wings half the length of the keel;

keel obtuse, silky-pubescent on the back. Ovary hairy.

Pod spreading, globose-ovoid, shortly beaked, somewhat

compressed, about half an inch, one-seeded.—Orvo Srapr.

Fig. 1, calyx cut open; 2, stamens and pistil; 3, ovary in longitudinal

section; 4, ovule:—al/ enlarged.

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EUPHORBIA topHocona,

Madagascar.

Evrnorpiace&. Tribe EuPHoRBIER,

Evruorsia, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 258.

Euphorbia lophogona, Lam. Encyel. vol. ii. p. 417 ; Boiss. in DC. Prodr. vol.

xv. li. p. 78; DC. Pl. Grass. tab. 124, non Lodd.; inter species sectionis

Goniostematis caulium angulis late lacerato-cristatis distinctissima.

Fruticulus erectus, pédalis, glaberrimus. Caulis basi lignescens, superne succu-

lentus, parceramosus, pentagonus, angulis obstipulas persistentes verticales

subconfluentes laceratas late lacerato-cristatus. Folia in apice caulis

ramorumque congesta, obovato-spatulata vel oblanceolata, longe in

petiolum attenuata, apice obtusa vel subacuta, apiculata, apiculo szpe

plicato et recurvo (unde lamina emarginata) ad § poll. longa, 1-2 poll.

lata, carnosa, saturate viridia, subtus medio parpurascentia; petiolus

brevis vel brevissimus. Cymz dichotomez pedunculo 2 poll. longo

suffulte. cyathia 8-10 gerentes; bracteze ad ramulorum bases, minute,

summe 2 cyathia fulcrantes petaloidew, suborbiculares, cuspidulate, 4-5

lin. diam., albze vel roseo-suffuse. Cyathiwm urceolare, vix 2 lin.

diametro. IJnvolucrum 5-lobum, lobis rotundatis inflexis fimbriatis,

glandulis breviter stipitatis ellipticis 4 lin. longis centro depressis.

Florum masculorum bracteole lineari-subulate, ciliate. Anthere lutes.

Ovarium globosum, sub-3-lobum; styli ad medium connati; stigmata

bifida, linearia, revoluta. Capsula ignota.

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This very pretty and quaint species was originally dis-

covered by Commerson in woods near the village of

kéchousamenti, in Madagascar. According to Boissier, it

was also collected by Boivin in the island of St. Marie. It

was for some time in cultivation in the Jardin des Plantes

at Paris, but seems to have disappeared long ago. It was

rediscovered by Mr. Scott Elliot in woods near Fort

Dauphin in 1889, and subsequently introduced into France

from the same locality by M. Godefroy-Lebeuf, who

communicated a specimen to Kew, where it flowers annually

in the Succulent House.

Descr.—A small, erect, glabrous shrub, Stem woody at

the base, otherwise succulent, simple, or very sparingly

branched, five-angular, the angles crested by the large

vertical almost confluent deeply lacerate persistent —

stipules. Leaves in tufts at the ends of the stem and

branches, obovate-spathulate or oblanceolate, long at-

tenuated at the base, obtuse at the apex or subacute,

apiculate, with the apiculus folded and recurved (hence

May Ist, 1906.

the leaves apparently emarginate), the largest eight inches

long, by one to two inches broad, fleshy, deep green, often

purplish beneath in the upper part; petiole short, or very

short. Cymes dichotomous, of eight to ten cyathia, on

an erect peduncle, two inches long; bracts at the base of

the branchlets quite small, the uppermost pair forming an

outer involucre to the ecyathium, petaloid, suborbicular,

cuspidulate, about a third of an inch in diameter, white or

pinkish. _Cyathiuwm urnshaped, scarcely a sixth of an inch

in diameter. Involucre five-lobed, lobes rotundate, fim-

briate, inflexed, glands shortly stipitate, elliptic, depressed

in the centre, a twelfth of an inch long. Male flowers

with subulate ciliate bracteoles between them. Ovary

globose, somewhat three-lobed; styles connate to the

middle ; stigmas bifid, linear, revolute. Capsule unknown.

—Orvo Starr.

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MAGNOLIA unxypotruca,

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Japan and China.

MaGnoLiackz.—Tribe MaGNouies.

Maenoiia, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 18.

Magnolia hypoleuca, Sieb. et Zucc. Fl. Jap. Fam. Nat. sect. i. p. 79; K. Ito,

Koishikawa Shokubutsuyen Somoku Dsusetsu, vol. i. tt. 14 et 15; Sargent

in Garden and Forest, vol. i. (1888), p. 304, f. 49; Henry, Notes on the

Economie Botany of China, p. 27; Useful Plants of Japan, p. 132, f. 533;

Shirasawa, Iconogr. des Essences Forest. du, Japon, vol. i. p. 70, t. 39, ff.

13—29; HB. H. Wilson in Gard. Chron. 1906, vol. i. p. 234; Kwa-wi, Arb.

vol. ii. fol. 2; Honzo Zufu, vol. lxxxii. fol. 8 recto; species distincta

habitu M. Uméreile, Desr. similis, foliis deciduis magnis obovatis, floribus

foliis submaturis coztaneis flavescenti-albis vel albis, fructu strobiliformi

elliptico.

Arbor magna, sepe 50-80 ped. interdum 100 ped. alta, trunco usque ad 2-3

ped. diam.; rami late patentes, longi, novelli sericei, cortice Jevi

brunneo conspicue lenticellato tecti. Folia decidua, sepius in apicibus

ramorum subverticillata, breviter petiolata, obovata vel elliptico-obovata,

seepe 8-15 poll. longa et 6-8 poll. lata, supra atro-viridia, glabra, subtus

glauco-viridia, plus minusve prasertim ad venas primarias pilosa, rotun-

data vel rarius breviter cuspidata, basi cuneata vel interdum paulum rotun-

data; venw laterales primariz utrinque 18-24. Flores cum foliis sub-

maturis cowtanei, Havescenti-albi vel albi, gravissime fragrantes, 6-8 poll.

diametro. Sepala et petala obovato-spathulata, coriacea, rotundata vel

paulum cuspidata. Staminwm filamenta vivide rabro-purpurea. Fructus

strobiliformis, ellipsoideus, 5-8 poll. longus, erectus, usque ad maturi-

tatem ruber; carpella ultra 100, truncata.—M. glauca a, Thunb. Fl. Jap.

p- 236, non Linn.

This Magnolia is widely spread in Japan, but it is in the

damp rich forests covering the low hills of Yezo that it is

to be seen at its best. It was only here, Professor Sargent

informs us, and on the high mountains in the extreme

northern part of the main island that he saw it of large

size. Shirasawa observes that on the plains it grows with

Quercus glandulifera, species of Carpinus, &c., and on the

mountains with Fagus japonica and species of Acer and

Betula. It is found at altitudes up to 5,600 feet.

In Western and Central China the tree is common

around dwellings at elevations between 2,500 and 4,500 feet,

but Dr. Henry and Mr. E. H. Wilson, who have collected

specimens in China, never met with it in an undoubtedly

wild state. Mr. Wilson sent seeds to Messrs. Veitch, who

now have the Chinese plant growing in their nursery at

JUNE Ist, 1906,

Coombe Wood. It is known to the Chinese as the “ Hou

p’o.” <A valuable drug, which is distributed to all parts of

the Empire, is prepared from its bark and flowers.

The wood of Magnolia hypoleuca is light, soft and com-

pact, and is easily worked. The Japanese use it for

making tools, spinning-wheels, engraving-blocks, pencils

and numerous objects for lacquering, while its charcoal

furnishes an excellent metal-polish. It is the most valuable

of all the Japanese Magnolias. Its native name in Japan

is ** Honoki.”

This species has been in cultivation in the United States

since 1865, and its flowering there was recorded in 1888.

The specimen figured was from a Kew plant raised from

seeds received from a Japanese nursery in 1890. It is

now about 14 feet high, and first flowered in June, 1905.

Karlier in the same month a plant in the garden of B. H. C.

Chambers, Esq., of Haslemere, obtained from Yokohama

in 1884, also flowered for the first time, producing twenty -

five flowers.

Descr.—A large tree often fifty to eighty feet, and some-

times a hundred feet high, with a stem up to two or three

feet in diameter; branches widely spreading, long, silky-

hairy on the young growths; bark smooth, brown, with

conspicuous lenticels. Leaves deciduous, usually in tufts

at the ends of the branches, shortly petioled, obovate or

elliptic-obovate, frequently eight to fifteen inches long and

six to eight inches broad, dark green and glabrous above,

glaucous-green below, and more or less pilose, especially

on the principal veins, rounded, or more rarely shortly

cuspidate, cuneate, or sometimes rounded at the base;

primary lateral veins eighteen to twenty-four on each side

of the mid-rib. Flowers creamy-white or white, highly

fragrant, six to eight inches in diameter, produced when the

leaves are nearly full-grown. Sepals and petals obovate-

spathulate, leathery, rounded, or slightly cuspidate. Fila-

ments bright reddish purple. Fruit cone-like, ellipsoid,

five to eight inches long, erect, red till mature; carpels

more than a hundred, truncate.—S. A. SKAN.

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GONIOSCYPHA svcomorpEs.

Hastern Himalaya.

Littaces. '‘l'ribe AspIDISTREA.

Gontoscypna, Bak,; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p, 773.

Gonioscypha eucomoides, Bak. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xiv. p. 581, tab.

xix.; NV. HE. Brown in Gard. Chron. ser. ii. vol. xxvi. p. 744; Masters in

Gard. Chron. ser, iii. vol. xx. p. 748, fig. 129.

Species unica.

Herba perennis, subacaulis, glabra, rhizomate brevi :adices crassas tomentosas

emittente. Folia pauca basalia, elliptica vel elliptico-oblonga, magis

minusve acuminata, basi breviter in petiolum attenuata, 10-16 poll. longa,

5-8 poll. lata, firma, viridia, costa superne evanescente, nervis secundariis

utrinque circiter 8, tertiariis plerumque 3 interjectis, venis transversis laxis;

petiolus latus, 3-4 poll. longus. Spica pedunculata, cylindrica, densa,

3-5 poll. longa, #-1$ poll. diametro, comoso-bracteata; pedunculus nudus,

7-9 poll. longus; biactezs subulatae, 4-2 poll. longs, patule, summ2

steriles in comam densam congeste. Perigonium carnosum, circiter 4 lin,

longum, luride viride; tubus cylindricus 3 lin. longus; lobi subpatuli,

concavi, rotundi, margine crispi, subcucullati, 17-14 lin. longi. Antherz

in ore sessiles, oblong, obtusz, 1 lin. longa, lave. Ovarium globoso-

ellipsoideum, 3-loculare, loculis 3-ovulatis; stylus clavato-cylindricus,

superne triangularis, ad 2 lin. longus; stigma minute 3-lobum. Bacca

globoso-ellipsoidea. 3 poll. longa, exsiccando fuscescens, subpruinosa,

monosperma. Semen ovoideum 5 lin. longum, embryotegio depresso

orbiculari supra medium sito; endospermum osseum. Hmbryo cylindricus,

ab embryotegio u!tra seminis centrum porrectus.

This plant was discovered by Thomas J. Booth, who

collected Khododendrons in the Eastern Himalaya for his

uncle, Thos. Nuttall, the well-known American botanist.

Gonioscypha as well as the Rhododendrons, sixteen of which

were described as new by Nuttall in Hooker’s Journal of

Botany of 1853, are generally put down as natives of

Bhotan. But it must be understood that this is not the

Bhotan of our days. From letters by Nuttall to Sir

William Hooker, and from Nuttall’s publication mentioned

above, it appears that Booth collected in the Daphla and

Aka Hills late in 1850. It has since been collected again

in the same region by Mr. J. L. Lister in 1874, who quotes

as locality: ‘‘ Daphla Hills, on the top of Yearsi, 4,500 feet.”

It was first introduced into cultivation by Mr. W. Bull,

of Chelsea, who, about 1886, sent a specimen to Kew,

JUNE Ist, 1906.

where it has frequently been in flower. Here, as in its

home where Booth found it flowering on November 2nd,

it produces the flowers very late in the year.

Deser.—A perennial and glabrous herb with a short

rhizome producing stout tomentose roots. Leaves few in a

rosette, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, more or less acuminate,

shortly narrowed into the petiole, ten to fifteen inches

long, five to six inches broad, firm, green, mid-rib dis-

appearing in the upper part, secondary nerves about eight

on each side with three tertiary nerves between them and

scanty transverse veins; petiole broad, three to four inches

long. Spike peduncled, cylindric, dense, three to four

inches long, three-quarters to over one inch in diameter ;

peduncle naked, four to nine inches long; bracts subulate,

one-half to three-quarters of an inch long, horizontally

spreading, the uppermost barren and gathered into a

dense terminal tuft. Perigone somewhat fleshy, about one-

third of an inch long, lurid green; tube cylindric, one

quarter of an inch long; lobes rather spreading, con-

cave, rounded, almost hooded, not quite half as long as

the tube, with crisp margins. Anthers sessile in the

throat of the corolla, oblong, a twelfth of an inch long,

yellow. Ovary globose-ellipsoid, three-celled, with three

ovules in each cell; style clavate-cylindric, triangular in

the upper part, a sixth of an inch long; stigma minutely

three-lobed. Berry globose-ellipsoid, half an inch long,

dark brown, when dry, slightly pruinose, one-seeded.

Seed ovoid, not quite half an inch long ; endosperm bony.

Embryo cylindric, extending obliquely from the small

depressed circular embryotegium through the centre of the

seed.—Orrto Srapr.

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GERBERA avrantiaca.

A native of Natal and the Transvaal,

Composit#:—Tribe Moristacea.

GERBERA, Gronov.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 497.

Gerbera aurantiaca, Sch. Bip. in Flora, vol. xxvii. p. 781; Harv. & Sond.

Fl. Cap. vol. iii. p. 523; affinis G. Jamesoni, Bolus, differt foliis integris et

foribus radii numerosioribus pulchre sanguineis.

Herba acaulis; rhizoma collo densissime sericeo-villoso. Folia radicalia,

adscendentia, 5-10 poll. longa, 1-2 poll. lata, oblanceolata vel elongato-

oblongo-lanceolata, acuta, basi in petiolum $-2 poll. longum longe an-

gustata, integra, obscure denticulata vel crenata, supra plus minusve

pubescentia, subtus araneo-albo-tomentosa vel fere glabra. Pedunculus

solitarius, 44-16 poll. longus, araneo-albo-tomentosus. Capitulum 2-3

poll. diam. ; involucri squaamz numerose ; interiores 7-9 lin. longs, exte-

riores breviores, lanceolate, acuminate, albo-tomentose. H/ores omnes

bilabiati; flores radii lobo ligulato 1-1} poll. longo 1-2 lin. lato lineari

lanceolato, acuto vel 2-3-dentato sanguineo subtus luteo, lobis 4 minimis

linearibus tortis sanguineis; flores disci 5 lin. longi, lobis 2 liberis, 3

connatis linearibus revolutis fusco-purpureis. Anthere caudate, lutex.

Stigma exsertum, subclavatum, bilobum, luteum, Achznia puberula.

Pappi sete violaceo-purpures.

This pretty plant is allied to the better-known G.

Jamesoni, figured at t. 7087, differing from that species

in its entire leaves and the rich blood-red colour of its

more numerous and more crowded ray florets. G. awran-

tiaca is a native of Natal and the Transvaal, where it

grows at an elevation of 3,000 to 5,000 feet above sea-

level. It was originally discovered by Krauss on a hill

near Pietermaritzburg, where .subsequent collectors have

also found it, and it is remarkable that such a beautiful plant

should not have been introduced from such a frequented

locality into cultivation long ago. This species and noe

Jamesoni appear to be the only two of the genus intro-

duced into European gardens, although there are about 50

known natives of South and Tropical Africa, Madagascar,

and Temperate and Tropical Asia. The plant figured was

purchased from M. Max Leichtlin, who states that it was

introduced from Natal by a daughter of Baron Saint Paul,

and it flowered at Kew in June, 1905. It is probably

half-hardy, but as the region in which it grows has a very

JuNE Ist, 1906,

small rainfall during the winter, it requires greenhouse

protection with very little water during that season.

Descr.—Rootstock very densely white-woolly at the crown.

Leaves all radical, ascending, five to ten inches long, one

to two inches broad, oblanceolate to elongated oblong-

lanceolate, acute, tapering from above or below the middle

into the three-quarters of an inch to two inches long

petiole, entire or obscurely denticulate or slightly crenate,

thinly or densely pubescent above, more or less cobwebby-

white-tomentose or nearly glabrous beneath. Peduncle

one to each growth, four and a half to sixteen inches long,

white-tomentose. lower-head solitary, two to three inches

in diameter; involucre-scales numerous, the inner about

half to three-quarters of an inch long, the outer shorter,

lanceolate, acuminate, more or less cottony-white on the

back. Flovets all bilabiate, those of the ray with four very

small linear curled segments and one linear-lanceolate

spreading segment one to one and a third of an inch long

and one-twelfth to one-sixth of an inch broad, acute or

two to three toothed at the apex, bright blood-red, yellow

beneath; disk florets nearly half an inch long, with one

broad and two slender linear revolute segments, brownish-

purple. Anthers tailed, yellow. Stigma exserted, somewhat

clavate, shortly two-lobed, yel'ow. Achenes puberulous,

with violet-purple pappus.—N. E. Brown.

Fig. 1, a ray-flower, the broad lobe of the corolla cut off at the middle; 2, a

bristle of the pappus; 3, a disk-flower; 4, anthers; 5, whole plant, reduced :—

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GLADIOLUS priuurinus.

Tropical Africa.

Irmpea. Tribe Ixigz,

GuapioLus, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 709.

Gladiolus primulinus, Baker in Gard. Chron. 1890, vol. ii. p. 122, et Handb.

Iridex, p. 222; G. quartiniano, A. Rich., valde affinis, perianthii colore

recedit.

Cormus globosus, plusquam 1 poll. diam. Folia circa 3, ensiformia, circa

1} ped. longa, ad 1 poll. lata, subcoriacea, rigide costata. Scapus ad

3 ped. altus. Spica 3—5-flora, laxa, secunda; spathez valve lanceolate,

exteriores ad 1 poll. longw. Perianthium primulinum, immaculatum ;

tubus 1 poll. longus, parte superiore valde curvatus ; segmenta superiora

ovata vel obovata, cucullata, acuminata, 2 poll. longa, 1} poll. lata;

segmento intermedio genitalia tectante; segmenta inferiora quam superiora

multo minora, deflexa. Stamina quam perianthii segmenta dimidio

breviora. Stylus quam stamina multo longior.

While this plant has been regarded by Mr. J. G. Baker

(Thiselton-Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. iii. p. 371) as a form of

(i, quartinianus, A. Rich., the distinctive clear primrose

colour of its flowers, without any tendency to become

spotted or striped, warrants its retention as a species for

horticultural purposes. 2

It was discovered in the Usagara Mountains in 1887 by

Mr. J. T. Last, who sent corms to Kew, where flowers were

first produced in 1890, Since then it has been sent from the

“Rain Forest,” opposite the Victoria Falls, by Mr. Francis

Fox, engineer of the bridge over the Zambesi, who re-intro-

duced it into cultivation and flowered it at Wimbledon, and

later by Mr. C. E. F. Allen, Forester to the Rhodesia Rail-

ways Co., who describes its habitat as ‘‘ one of the wettest

parts near the Falls,—a perpetual deluge.” He also states

that the upper perianth-lobes “‘form a kind of umbrella for

the inside of the flower.”” The plant figured was forwarded

to Kew by Mr. C. F. H. Monro, of Bulawayo, and flowered

in a frame in September last. It appears to thrive under

cultivation, and its exquisite clear yellow flowers make it a

desirable addition to the cultivated species of this genus.

Descr.—Corm globose, more than an inch in diameter.

Leaves about three produced, ensiform, about eighteen

JUNE Ist, 1906.

inches long and up to an inch broad, almost coriaceous,

nerves very prominent when dried. Inflorescence up to

three feet high; spike three- to five-flowered, lax, secund ;

spathe-valves lanceolate, the outer up to an inch and a half

long. Perianth uniformly primrose-yellow; tube an inch

long, much curved above; three upper segments ovate or

obovate, cucullate, acuminate, two inches long, an inch

and a quarter wide, the central one entirely covering the

genitalia; three lower much smaller, deflexed. Stamens

about half as long as the perianth-lobes. Style much

longer than the stamens.—C. H. Wricur.

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RHODODENDRON Vaseyr.

North and South Carolina.

Ericacez. Tribe Ruoporex.

RuopopenEon, Lina.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 599.

Rhododendron Vaseyi, A. Gray in Proc. Amer. Acad. vol. xv. (1880), p. 48.

in Coulter's Bot. Gaz. vol. vill. p. 282, et Syn. Fl. N. Amer, vol. ii. pt. i.

(ed. 2), p. 398; J. Donnell Smith in Bull. Torr. Bot. Club. vol. xv. p. 164;

C. 8. 8S. in Garden and Forest, vol. i. (1888), p. 376, f. 60; Gard. Chron.

1896, vol. ii. p. 71, f.14; 2. rhombico, Miq., valde affine, sed fere omnino

glabratum, foliis angustioribus et longioribus, floribus minoribus, stamini-

bas 4-7, capsula angustiore et longiore haud setosa differt.

Frutex usque ad 18 ped. altus, ramulis gracilibus primum breviter pubescentibus

demum glabrescentibus. Folia breviter petiolata, membranacea, vivide

viridia, primum parce vel interdum infra dense pubescentia, mox fere

glabrata, obovato-oblonga vel oblongo-lanceolata, 23-5 poll. longa, 7-1

poll. lata, utrinque acuta vel acuminata. Fores precoces, inodori, 4-8 in

apicibus ramulorum umbellatim dispositi. Pedicelli circiter 5 lin. longi,

post anthesin recurvati, cum calyce parvo truncato glandulis stipitatis

instructi. Corolla vivide rosea vel purpurea, interdum fere alba, lobis

posticis intus basi rubro-punctatis, glaberrima, rotato-campanulata,

subbilabiata, circiter 1 poll. longa et 14 poll. in diam.; lobi oblongi vel

oblongo-obovati, 3 postici 7-9 lin. longi, anticis late patentibus paulum

breviores. Stamina 5 vel 7, rare 4, inzequalia, longiora ut stylus corollam

paulum superantia. Ovariwm glandulis stipitatis dense instructum.

Capsula anguste oblonga. vel oblongo-ovoidea, circiter 4 poll. longa,

reliquiis glandularum scabriuscula, basi styli coronata.

While possessing many of the qualities of a valuable

plant for cultivation in our gardens, Rhododendron Vasey

is botanically of considerable interest as an illustration of

the relationship between the flora of the South-Eastern

United States and that of China and Japan. The plant

here figured is known only from North and South Carolina.

It is totally different from all the other American Rhodo-

dendrons, while it has a good deal in common with species

confined to Japan. Asa Gray, in describing f. Vaseyi,

states that ‘‘The American Azaleas previously known

consist of one aberrant species, R. Rhodora, and of a

well-marked group (to which R, ponticum also belongs)

characterized by a long-tubed funnel-form corolla and

long exserted stamens and style. But the Hast Asiatic

species of the same true Azalea subgenus have campanulate

JUNE Ist, 1906.

or rotate-campanulate corollas, and some of them very

deciduous perulz to the separate flower-buds.” &. Vaseyt

‘is one of that group, and it thus adds another to the now

very numerous cases of remarkable relationship between

the Chino-Japanese and the Alleghanian floras.” It is

closely allied to R. Albrechtit, Maxim., and perhaps nearer

still to R. rhombicum, Miq. (t. 6972), and BR. dilatatum,

Mig. (t. 7681) ; all Japanese species.

Rk. Vaseyi was first discovered by Mr. G. R. Vasey in

1878 on Balsam Mountain, Jackson County, North Caro-

lina. It was afterwards found on Grandfather Mountain,

Caldwell County, in the same State, and in Cashier’s

Valley, South Carolina. Mr. S. T. Kelsey informs us

that on Grandfather Mountain it was growing everywhere

in clumps and patches on the southern and south-eastern

slopes at 4,500 to 5,500 ft. elevation, but most abundantly

and vigorously in moist situations. It is associated with

Rk. maeimum, EF. catawbiense, and Kalmia latifolia.

Professor Sargent mentions that Mr. Faxon, the author

of the figure in the Garden and Forest, noticed that the

upper or posterior lobe of the corolla is exterior in the

expanded flower, a peculiarity not detected in any other

Rhododendron. The same lobe is innermost in estivation.

The Kew plants which furnished the material for the

accompanying plate were raised from seed received from

the Arnold Arboretum in 1891. They are perfectly hardy,

and flower annually early in May.

Descr.—A shrub attaining a height of eighteen feet;

branches slender, at first shortly pubescent, afterwards

glabrescent. Leaves shortly petiolate, membranous, bright

green, at first sparingly or sometimes on the underside

densely pubescent, soon almost glabrous, obovate-oblong

or oblong-lanceolate, two and a half to five inches long,

three-quarters to one and three-quarters of an inch broad,

acute or acuminate at both ends. F lowes precocious,

odourless, four to eight in an umbel-like inflorescence at

the ends of the branches. Pedicels scarcely half an inch

long, recurved after flowering, covered, as well as the

small truncate calyx, with stalked glands. Corolla bright

rose or purple, sometimes almost white, red-spotted inside

at the base of the upper lobes, quite glabrous,. rotate-

campanulate, two-lipped, about one inch long and one inch

and a half in diameter; lobes oblong or oblong-obovate,

the three upper rather more than half an inch to three-

quarters of an inch long, slightly shorter than the lower

widely spreading ones. Stamens five or seven, rarely four,

unequal, the longer ones and the style slightly exceeding

the corolla. Ovary densely covered with stalked glands.

Capsule narrowly oblong or oblong-ovoid, about half an

inch long, rather scabrid with the remains of the glands,

crowned by the persistent base of the style-—S. A. Sxran.

Fig. 1, calyx and pistil; 2 and 3, anthers with part of filaments attached :—

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EUPHORBIA procuMBENS.

South Africa.

Evrnorsiacez. Tribe HurHorBie&.

Evrnorsia, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 258.

Euphorbia procumbens, Miller, Dict. ed. 8, no. 12, non auctorum aliorum,

ex affinitate EF. Caput-meduse, Linn., a qua glandulis involueri integris

differt.

Herba succulenta 3-6 poll. alta, inermis, glabra, Caulis crassissimus,

cylindricus, tuberculatus, 2-4 poll. diam., apice truncatus et ad marginem

disci stellatim multiramosus. Rami patentes vel subdeflexi, usque ad

6 poll. longi, 3-4 poll. crassi, leviter curvati, teretes, tuberculati; tubercula

subrhomboidea, decurrentia. Folia carnosa, 3-3 poll. longa, patentia,

linearia, acuta, supra leviter concava, subtus convexa. Cyathia pedun-

culata, in caulis truncati et ramorum interiorum apicibus disposita,

glandulis inclusis 3 poll. diam., hemispherica, 5-loba ; lobi late rotundati,

fimbriati, erecti; glandule transverse oblongz, obtus, integra, lutew,

demum rubescentes. lores masculi numerosi, pedicellis superne pubes-

centibus. Ovariwm trigonum, pubescens ; styli connati; stigma trilobum,

lobis late cuneato-obcordatis.—F. pugniformis, Boiss. in DC. Prodr.

vol. xv. 2, p. 92; Saunders, Ref. Bot. vol. iii. t. 161. H. Caput- meduse,

var. 6, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i, p. 452. Medusea procumbens, Haw. Synop.

Pl. Suce. p. 134. Euphorbium humile, procumbens, ramis simplicibus

coptosis, caule crassissimo, tuberoso, Burman, Pl. Afr. p. 20, t. 10, f. 1.

Of all the dwarf succulent South African Huphorbie

this is undoubtedly the most striking from the mass of

flowers and the contrast of their brilliant colours. It

appears, however, to be a rare species, though cultivated

in England before 1768 ; but neither Miller, who described

it at that date, nor Haworth, forty-four years later, makes _

any mention of the flowers, which were apparently unknown

to them. Subsequently it died out of cultivation, and was

re-introduced by Mr. T. Cooper about 1860. The specimen

here figured is an old and well-grown plant in the

possession of Mr. Justus Corderoy, Blewbury, Didcot,

which flowered in July, 1905. Mr. Corderoy is remark-

ably successful in the cultivation of succulents, and has

had the present plant in flower many times. 7. procumbens

is allied to the better known H. Caput-meduse, which

differs in having green flowers with the glands of the

involucre 3-toothed. The two previous figures, quoted

above, represent much younger plants than the one here

JuLy Ist, 1906.

depicted, for with age the stem thickens, and the branches

become more numerous and longer. Burman’s figure is

an excellent representation of the plant as I saw it between

thirty and forty years ago in Mr. Cooper’s collection.

Descr.—A dwarf, glabrous succulent, three to six inches

high, with a spread of from five to twelve inches. Stem

very thick, cylindric, tuberculate, truncate, and forming a

disk two to four inches in diameter at the top, from which

spring stellately spreading or slightly deflexed branches in

few or many series according to age. Branches slightly

curved, up to six inches long, one-third to one-half of an

inch thick, terete, tuberculate, bright green; tubercles

rhomboid, decurrent. Leaves one-eighth to one-third of an

inch long, spreading, fleshy, narrowly linear, slightly con-

cave above, convex beneath, green. Flowers (inflorescences)

very numerous, covering the disk-like top of the stem and

tips of the short, inner branches, pedunculate. Pedunecles

up to half an inch long, bracteate, with a few oblong or

elliptic obtuse fimbriate scales at the top, green. Involucre

cup-shaped, including the glands, about one-third of

an inch in diameter, five-lobed; lobes erect, broadly

rounded, fimbriate ; glands spreading, transversely oblong,

obtuse, entire, yellow, changing ‘to orange and bright red.

Male flowers (stamens) numerous, pedicels pubescent on

the upper half. Female flower (ovary) three-angled, pubes-

cent; styles connate; stigma three-lobed, lobes broadly

cuneate-obcordate, recurved at the apex at maturity.—

N. KE. Browy.

Fig. 1, an inflorescence; 2, the same in section; 3, part of the involucre

with glands and lobes (the latter should be erect) ; 4, pedicel of a male flower

from which the stamen has fallen; 5, male flower; 6, sketch of the whole

plant, reduced:—figs. 1-5 enlarged.

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DEUTZIA Witsont.

W. China.

SaxirraGaces#, 'l'ribe HypRaANGER.

Deutzia, Thunb.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 642.

Deutzia Wilsoni, Duthie (sp. nov.); ex affinitate, D. discoloris Hemsl., sed

foliis scabrioribus, pedicellis robustioribus, calycis lobis latioribus, et

staminum alis angustioribus edentatis.

Rami rubro-brunnei, cortice cito deciduo. Folia 3-4} poll. longa, 1-1} lata,

discoloria, oblongo-lanceolata vel elliptica, acuta vel breviter acuminata,

basi rotundata vel cuneata, crebre calloso-serrulata, utrinque (subtus

densissime) squamis minutis stellatis vestita, venis primariis subtus

elevatis hispidulis, petiolo 2-4 lin. longo superne profunde sulcato.

Flores albi, 10 lin. diametro, laxiuscule paniculati; inflorescenti ramulis

quadrangularibus flavo-brunneis. Bractex circa } poll. longee, lineares

vel lineari-lanceolatew, deciduze, marginibus ciliatis. Pedicelli 2-3 lin.

longi, squamigeri, Calya 3 lin. longus; tubus hemisphzricus, squamis

albis stellatis dense indutus; lobi persistentes, tubum squantes, ovato-

oblongi, obtusi vel obscure mucronati, intus glabri, marginibus ciliati.

Petala obovata, extra puberula, marginibus undulata, apice cucullata.

Stamina decem, alterna breviora, filamentis petaloideis longioribus

sursum sensim attenuatis brevioribus abrupte angulatis haud bilobis;

anther minute pilosm. Styli tres, persistentes. Capsula hemispheerica,

3-locularis, calycis lobis persistentibus coronata.

A very handsome shrub, resembling in general appear-

ance D). discolor. It may, however, be distinguished by its

more hairy and scabrous foliage, and by its more robust

branchlets and pedicels ; also the calyx-lobes are shorter

and broader, the corolla, when fully expanded, is flatter,

and not cup-shaped, and the winged filaments are much

narrower, and not bilobed towards the apex. It was

discovered in Western China by Mr. HE. H. Wilson. The

drawing and description were prepared from fresh material

supplied by Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons last year, during

the month of June.

Descr.—Branches reddish brown, bark soon peeling.

Leaves three to four and a half inches long, and about

one to one and a half inches broad, oblong-lanceolate or

elliptic, acute, or shortly and obliquely acuminate, rounded

or cuneate at the base, scabrous on both surfaces, with

stellate hairs, paler beneath, and with the midrib and veins

hispidulous, teeth of serrate margins with callous tips;

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petiole one-sixth of an inch to one-third of an inch long,

deeply channelled above. Flowers five-sixths of an inch

across, almost flat when fully expanded, pure white,

arranged in rather open trichotomous panicles; primary

branches of inflorescence, quadrangular, yellowish brown ;

bracts deciduous, half an inch or less, falcately linear-

lanceolate, margins ciliate ; pedicels one-sixth of an inch to

a quarter of an inch long, rough with stellate hairs. Calyx

a quarter of an inch long; tube hemispheric, densely

_ clothed outside with scattered groups of minute white,

stellate hairs; lobes as long as the tube, ovate-oblong,

obtuse or obscurely mucronate, glabrous, and dark green

within, margins ciliate. Petals obovate, puberulous out-

side, margins undulate, tip cucullate. Stamens alternately

long and short. The longer ones one-third of an inch

long, the winged filaments tapering gradually upwards;

short stamens a quarter of an inch long, the wings

abruptly angular upwards, not bilobed; anthers minutely

pilose. Fruiting-calyx one third of an inch across, lobes

spreading or reflexed. Styles 38, persistent. Capsule

hemispheric, three-celled.—J. F. Duture. :

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PAPHIOPEDILUM auaccopnaytium.

Java.

OrcHipaces. Tribe CyprirPEpIE®.

PaPHioreDiLuM, Pfilzer Morphol. Stud. Orchideenbl. p.11 (char. emend.) ; Rolfe

in Orch. Rev, 1896, p. 363.

Paphiopedilum glaucophyllum, J. J. .Smith in Bull. Inst. Bot. Buitenz.

vol. vii. (1900), p.1; Je. Bogor. vol. ii. t. 101, fig. A; Orch. Jav. p. 22;

Orch. Rev, 1905, pp. 29, 208, fig. 44; aff. P. Chamberlainiano, Pfitzer,

=; foliis latioribus concoloribus glaucescentibus et petalis pubescentibus

iffert.

Herba terrestris, cespitosa. Folia oblonga, obtusa, glaucescentia, 6-9 poll.

longa, 13-2} poll. lata. Scapi erecti, pubescentes, 1-13 ped. longi, diu

persistentes et florentes, apice recurvi. Bractew late cymbiformes,

obtusx, 3-1 poll. longs, dorso pubescentes. Pedicelli circa 2 poll. longi,

pubescentes. Flores seriatim evoluti, speciosi. Sepalwm posticum sub-

orbiculare, obtusum, subundulatum, circa 1} poll. latum, viride, pallide

lateo-marginatum; sepala lateralia connata, valde concava, postico minora.

Petala patentia, subhorizontalia, lineari-oblonga, obtusa, spiraliter torta

et undulata, ciliata, circa 12 poll. longa, alba, purpureo-maculata.

Labellum circa 12 poll. longum; saccus inflatus, roseo-purpureus, punc-

tulatus, viridi-marginatus ; lobi laterales angulati. Staminodium ovatum,

obtusum, convexum, purpureum, basi viride, pilosum.— Cypripedium

gaucophyllum, Gard. Chron. 1903, ii. p. 405, fig. 161, cum ic. pict.; Rev.

Hort. Belg, 1904, p. 193, cum ic. col.

There is a very natural section of the genus Paphiopedi-

lum, differing from all others in having a persistent in-

florescence, which gradually elongates, producing bracts

and flowers in succession for a long period. It contains

three species, two of which, both natives of Sumatra, and

having marbled leaves, have already been figured in this

work. The original species, P. Chamberlainianum, Pfitzer

(t. 7578), has an inflated lip, and the dorsal sepal and

petals striped, and P. Victoria-Mariz, Rolfe (t. 7573), has

a more elongated lip, without brown stripes. That now

figured completes the group, and, though quite similar in

habit, is markedly different in its glaucous, unmarbled

leaves, and very hairy petals, blotched with red-purple,

though the dorsal sepal is without stripes, in this respect

most resembling P. Victoria-Mariz.

P. glaucophyllum, J. J. Smith, is a native of Hast Java,

and was discovered by Mr. J. J. Smith, of the Buitenzorg

JuLy Ist, 1906.

Botanic Garden, near Turen, and described in 1900. Soon

afterwards it was met with by M. Rimestad, a collector of

Orchids in Java, who sent a drawing to Europe, and

ultimately living plants, one of which was exhibited at a

meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society in September,

1903, by Messrs. Charlesworth & Co. ‘The plant figured

was purchased by Kew from Messrs. Sander & Sons, and

began to flower in a Tropical House in October, 1905,

continuing for a long period. At the present time another

inflorescence is following the same course.

Descr.—A terrestrial, tufted herb. Leaves oblong, obtuse,

glaucous, six to nine inches long, one and three-quarters to

two and a quarter inches broad. Scape erect, pubescent,

with dull brownish green hairs, gradually elongating and

producing flowers in succession for a long period, recurved

at the growing apex, ultimately a foot and a half or more

long. Dorsal sepal suborbicular, somewhat undulate, an

inch and a quarter across, yellowish green with a primrose

yellow margin; lateral sepals united into a concave oblong

body, rather narrower than the dorsal, hirsute. Petals

spreading, nearly horizontal, linear-oblong, obtuse, spirally

twisted and undulate, strongly ciliate, about an inch and

three-quarters long, white, with numerous bright red-

purple blotches. Lip about an inch and a half long; the

pouch inflated, light rose-purple, with darker dots, and a

light green margin; side lobes angled. Staminode ovate,

eae convex, pilose, purple, with a green base.—R. A.

OLFE.

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GURANIA manacopuytua.

Upper Amazons.

CucurBITAcExZ. ‘Tribe CucUMERINER.

Gurania, Cogn. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belgique, vol. xiv. p. 239; DO. Monogr. —

Phanerog. vol. iii. p. 678.—Anguria, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i.

p- 833, partim.

Gurania malacophylla, Barb. Rodr. Pl. Nov. Jard. Rio de Janeiro, fase. iv.

p- 10, t. 3; ab affini G. sylvatica, Cogn., calycis segmentis latioribus

reflexis et petalis angustioribus recedit.

“ Planta alte scandens, ramulis cylindraceis, junioribus viridi-pilosis, adultis

glabriusculis, suberoso-sulcatis.” Folia juniora late ovata, seniora plus

minus alte triloLata vel interdum subquinquelobata, omnia breviter acu-

minata, basi satis profunde emarginata, 4-8 poll. longa, 3-6 poll. lata,

margine minute denticulata, supra breviter, subtus longe villosa ; petiolus

teres, 1-8 poll. longus, longiuscule villosus, supra canaliculatus. Flores

mascult apice pedunculi 6-16 poll. longi, longe villosi, globoso-capitati.

Calycis tubus extra dense villosus, intus ellipsoideus, 2 lin. longus; lobi

lineari-lanceolati, sub anthesi reflexi, circa 7 lin. longi, 1-1} lin. lati, extra

dense villosi, intus sparsiuscule pubescentes. Petala erecta, obtuse

lineari-subulata, 2 lin longa, $ lin. lata, breviter pubescentia, basi intus

pilis longioribus moniliformibus munita. Axnthere suborbiculares, inferne

replicate, connectivo lato mutico. Flores feminet et fructus ignoti—

rs eriantha, E. André in Revue Horticole, 1904, p. 388, cum tab., non

ogn.

The figure is from a specimen communicated in December

last by Mr. Ed. André. As the plant has been referred to

G. eriantha, it seems desirable to mention the chief differ-

ences between the two species. The inflorescence of G.

ertantha is spicate; that of G. malacophylla is capitate.

The petals of G. eriantha are destitute of moniliform hairs,

and are only slightly shorter than the suberect sepals ;

whereas those of G. malacophylla have a tuft of moniliform

hairs at the base, and are rather less than one-third as long

as the reflexed sepals. :

Most, if not all, of the species of Gurania are dicecious,

and it is a curious fact that whereas the male plant is

known in all the fifty-seven described species, the female

plant is known in no more than nine, or less than one-sixth.

It seems probable that the male plants are much more

numerous than the female, though the relative incon-

Spicuousness of the female flowers may, no doubt, often

cause them to be overlooked.

The genus Gurania has not hitherto been represented

Juty lgr, 1906.

in this Magazine. It was separated from Anguria by

Cogniaux, on account of the linear or narrowly triangular

fleshy petals, which are shorter than the sepals, and erect

or connivent. The petals of Anguria are membranous and

suborbicular, and are much larger than the sepals. A good

idea of the differences between the two genera may be

obtained by comparing t. 5304, Anguria Warscewiczii, with

the present figure.

Descr.—A tall climber. Stem terete, villous in a young

state, afterwards nearly glabrous. Leaves broadly ovate,

or more or less deeply three-lobed, more rarely five-lobed,

shortly acuminate, rather deeply emarginate at the base,

four to eight inches long, three to six inches broad,

minutely toothed, villous on both surfaces ; petiole terete,

channelled above, one to three inches long, villous. Male

flowers in a globose head; peduncle six to sixteen inches

long, villous with long hairs. Calyx-tube densely viilous

outside, the cavity ellipsoid, one-sixth of an inch long;

lobes linear-lanceolate, reflexed, over half an inch long,

one-twelfth to one-tenth of an inch broad, densely villous

outside, rather sparsely pubescent inside. Petals erect,

linear-subulate, one-sixth of an inch long, one-thirtieth of

an inch broad, shortly pubescent, with a tuft of longer,

moniliform hairs at the base. Anthevs suborbicular, repli-

cate below; connective broad, muticous. Female flowers

and fruit unknown.—'l’. A. Spracuz.

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3, hair from calyx; 4, longitudinal section of flower with calyx removed,

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GENISTA crnzRza.

Western Mediterranean Region.

Lecuminoss#. Tribe GENISTER.

Genista, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 482.

Genista cinerea, DC. Fl. Frane. vol. iv. p. 494; Reichenb. Ic. Fl. Germ.

vol. xxii. tab. 41, fig. 1 et 2; G. ramosissime, Poir., affinis, sed indumento

novellorum et foliorum (subtus) tenuiore adpresso sericeo et pedicellis

distinctis diversa.

Frutee 1-3 ped. altus, ramosissimus, ramis virgatis sulcato-striatis gracilibus

junioribus magis minusve argenteo-sericeis adultis glabratis ob foliorum

pulvinulos persistentes tuberculatis tandem cortice fusco-cinereo tectis.

Folia sessilia, unifoliolata, sparsa in macrocladiis, dense congesta quasi

fasciculata in brachycladiis floriferis, illa lanceolata vel lineari-lanceolata,

acuta, circiter } poll. longa, } poll. lata, haec (fasciculorum) multo breviora,

oblonga vel obovato-oblonga, obtusa, omnia facie glabra, dorso magis

minusve sericea; stipule obscure. Flores plerumque 2, rarius 1 vel ad 4,

approximati ad brachycladiorum apices, secundum macrocladia quasi in

racemos longos dispositi, 2-bracteolati; pedicelli 1-1} lin. (in cultis ad

2 lin.) longi; bracteolz subulatz, minutz. Calyx persistens, circiter 2 lin.

longus, sericeus, labio supero ad basin in dentes triangulari-lanceolatos fisso

tubum squante vel paulo superante, labio infero quam supero longiore

breviter 3-dentato. Corolla aurea, marcescens, fere semipollicaris ;

vexillum subrotundum, emarginatum, abrupte in unguem contractum, in

dorso medio parce sericeum vel totum glabrum; alew glabre ; carina obtusa,

alis paulo longior, sericea. Legwmen lanceolato-oblongum, breviter acute

acuminatum, 4-3 poll. longum, sericeum vel sericeo-villosum, 2—5-spermum.

Semina reniformi-ovoidea, spadicea vel fusca, nitida.—Spartiwm cinereum,

Vill. Prosp. F. Dauph. p. 40.

Genista cinerea is a characteristic constituent of the bush

vegetation and the underwood of the forests of the western

Mediterranean region. In France it has its northern limit

approximately at 45° N. Lat. In Spainit ascends to 6,000

feet in the Sierra Nevada. It has been in cultivation for

a very long time, although it does not seem to have received

the attention it deserves on account of its copious brilliantly

yellow flowers. It flowers at Kew in June.

Descr.—A shrub one to three feet high, with very

numerous erect slender grooved branches; all the young

parts more or less silvery-silky; old branches tubercled

from the persistent leaf-cushions, at length covered with

greyish-brown bark. Leaves sessile, unifoliolate, scattered

on the long-shoots, densely fascicled on the short-shoots

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(foliar spurs) which bear the flowers; those of the long-

shoots lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, acute, about half an

inch long, an eighth of an inch broad, those of the short-

shoots much shorter, oblong or obovate-oblong, obtuse, all

glabrous above and more or less silky-pubescent below ;

stipules obscure. lowers usually two, rarely one or up to

four, terminal from the short-shoots, bibracteolate; pedicels

one-twelfth to one-eighth (in cultivated specimens to one-

sixth) of an inch long; bracteoles subulate, minute.

Calyx persistent, about one-sixth of an inch long, silky;

upper lip divided to the base into two acute triangular-

lanceolate teeth; lower lip slightly longer, shortly three-

toothed. Corolla brilliant yellow, persistent and drying

up, almost half an inch long; standard subrotund, emar-

ginate, abruptly contracted into the short claw, silky along

the middle or quite glabrous ; wings glabrous ; keel obtuse,

slightly exceeding the wings, silky. Pod lanceolate-oblong,

shortly and acutely acuminate, one-half to two-thirds of

an inch long, silky or almost villous, 2—5-seeded. Seed

reniform ovoid, brown, shining.—Orto Srapr.

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RHODOSTACHYS PITCAIRNII FOLIA,

Chili. ©

BromeE.iacez®. Tribe BRoMELIE.

Ruopostacuys, Phil.: Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 662.

Rhodostachys pitcairniifolia, Benth. in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant.

vol. iii. p. 662; Baker, Handb. Bromel. p. 28; R. andine, Phil. (Bot. Mag.

t. 7148) affinis; hzec vero foliis angustioribus, petalis carneis differt.

Caulis brevis, apice ramos breves nonnullos gerens. Folia plura, dense

conferta, e basi ovato-triangulari ensiformia, circa 1 ped. longa, basi 1 poll.

lata, primum albo-lepidota, demum fere glabra, in marginibus spinis

incurvis 4 poll. distantibus instructa, intima facie superiore splendide

rubra. Flores in capitulo centrali sessili circa 2 poll. diametro dense

conferti. Sepala anguste lanceolato-acuminata, fere 1 poll. longa,

primum extus dense albo-lepidota. Petala ccerulea, quam sepala paulio

longiora, oblonga, obtusa, erecta, basi intus callis duobus parvis_in-

structa. Stamina quam petala paullo breviora; filamenta basi dila-

tata; anthers lineares, lutew, circa 5 lin. longe; pollinis granule leves,

50 mp diam. Ovarium oblongum, plano-convexum, parte superiore

pubescente ; stylus basi incrassatus, quam anthers dimidio brevior; stig-

mata tria, brevia.—Bromelia pitcairnitfolia, C. Koch, Wochenschr. 1868,

p- 325, and 1870, p. 149. B. Joinvillei, Morren in Belg. Hort. 1876,

p- 161, tt. 10-11. Hechtia pitcairniifolia, Verlot in Rev. Hort. 1868,

p- 211,cumicon. Billbergia Joinvillei, Van Houtte, Catal. 1871, n. 138.

Pourretia Joinvillei, Hort. ex Chatin in Journ. Soc. Centr. Hortic.

France, 1871, p. 360. P. flewilis and P. mexicana, Hort. ex Morren in

Belg. Hort. 1876, p. 161. Fascicularia pitcairniifolia, Mez in DC.

Monogr. Phan. vol. ix. p. 10.

The plant figured flowered for the first time in November

last, in the collection of Major W. L. Harvey at Tredarvah,

Penzance, having been originally brought from Germany

by the late Mrs. Harvey over thirty years ago. There are

numerous large plants at Kew, one of which, on the

authority of Mr. W. Watson, the Curator, flowered ten to

fifteen years ago, but not since. Plants sent from Kew to

Tresco are stated by Mr. Dorrien-Smith to flower there

annually in the open air. The species first flowered

in cultivation in 1866 in M. Luddemann’s garden in

Paris ; since then it has done so at several places on the

continent.

As can be seen from the above quoted synonymy, Rhodo-

stachys pitcarniifolia has been placed in several different

genera. Mez (in Mart. Flor. Bras. vol. iii. pars 11. p. 627)

constitutes for it a new genus, Fascicularia, of which he

gives as diagnostic characters, “‘ petalis ligulatis pollineque

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insigne,” but these appear to us of insufficient value for

generic rank,

When in flower, the contrasted colours of the flowers,

together with that of the surrounding leaves, make it

highly decorative; at other times its densely caespitose

habit and easy cultivation make it a desirable plant in a

collection.

Descr.—Stem short, thick, bearing several short branches.

Leaves numerous and crowded, ensiform from an ovate

triangular base, about one foot long, one inch wide at the

base, almost glabrous when adult, thinly white-lepidote on

both sides when young, margins with short, upcurved

spines about four lines apart, the innermost bright red on

the basal part of the upper surface. Flowers in a dense

central sessile head about two inches in diameter. Sepals

nearly an inch long, at first densely white-lepidote outside,

narrowly lanceolate-acuminate. Petals blue, a little longer

than the sepals, oblong, obtuse, erect, bearing two small

calli near their base on the inner side. Stamens slightly

shorter than the petals; filaments dilated below; anthers

yellow, linear, about five lines long; pollen subglobose,

smooth. Ovary oblong, plano-convex, hairy in the upper

part ; style thickened below, reaching to the middle of the

anthers ; stigmas three, short.—C. H. Wricat.

Fig. 1, bracteole; 2, flower; 3, section of flower; 4, a petal with calli and

bases of stamens; 5, apex of style; 6, ovule:—all enlarged.

Vincent Brociss, Day & San Lt*lmp

H.T.D.del, J.N.Fitch lith.

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BULBOPHYLLUM Enrtossontr.

Jeet ‘

Malay Archipelago.

Orcuipaces. ‘l'ribe EPIpENDRE.

Bu.Borpnyiium, Thouars; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 501.

Bulbophyllum Ericssoni, Ardnzl. in Gard. Chron. 1893, vol. ii. p. 522;

1897, vol. i. p. 61, fig. 16; a B. Pahudi, Reichb. f., sepalis multo latioribus

insigniter maculatis differt.

Herba epiphytica, rhizomate repente valido. Pseudobulbi distantes, lineari-

oblongi, monophylli, basi vaginis membranaceis obtecti, circa 3} poll.

longi. Folia petiolata, elliptico-oblonga, obtusa, subeoriacea, circa 5-6

poll. longa, 2-23 poll. lata. Scapi suberecti, apice decurvati, circa 6-7

poll. longi, vaginis spathaceis obtecti. ores speciosi, umbellati, virides,

purpureo-maculati. Bracteze ovato-lanceolate, acuminate, 4-3} poll.

longs. Pedicelli 6-8 lin. longi. Sepalwm posticum late lanceolatum,

caudato-acuminatum, 23-3 poll. longum, 5-7 lin. latum, apice sepe

spiraliter recurvum; sepala lateralia triangularia, apice caudata et

spiraliter recurva, 23-3 poll. longa, basi 5-7 lin. lata. Petala basi

triangularia, dein longe caudato-attenuata, apice spissime torta, 1}

poll. longa, basi circa 4 lin. lata. Labellum cordato-triangulare, acutum,

recurvum, lateraliter subcompressum, cirea 7-8 lin. longum, auriculis

rotundatis. Columna latissima, circa 3 lin. longa; basi in pedem attenua-

tum, circa 9 lin. longum extensum ; dentes oblongi, obtusi.

Bulbophyllum Ericssoni, Kriinal., is a member of a very

small but striking group which, so far as our knowledge

extends, is limited to the Malay Archipelago and Penin-

sula. It was discovered by Mr. Ericsson, a traveller for

Messrs. Sander & Sons, and was described from dried

specimens in 1893. The flowers were not inaptly com-

pared with those of a large Chimeroid Masdevallia, tor the

general shape, combined with the green ground colour and

purple spotting, is more comparable with that group than

with anything in its own genus. The habitat, as 1s too

often the case, was not recorded, and although when it

flowered some four years later, in the collection of the

Hon. Walter Rothschild, M.P., and was figured in the

Gardener’s Chronicle, with the remark that, ‘it is probably

a native of New Guinea,” we cannot learn that the remark

was more than an inference. he plant here figured

flowered in the collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart.,

Burford, Dorking, in October, 1899. Mr. White, Sir

Trevor’s Orchid grower, observed that, ‘the flowers

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close partially at night, and open again in the morning,”

which has not been noticed in any other species of

Bulbophyllum.

The other known species of the group are B. Pahudia,

Reichb. f. (Fl. des Serres, t. 2268), B. Binnendijhii, J. J.

Smith, both natives of Java; B. virescens, J. J. Smith

(Ic. Bogor. vol. ii. t. 119, fig. A.), a native of Amboina,

and B. maximum, Ridl., from Malacca. Of these only

B. virescens is known to be in cultivation. It has light

green, unspotted flowers, of about the same size as those

of B. Hricssoni.

Descr.—An epiphytic herb, about a foot and a half high,

with a stout, creeping rhizome. Pseudobulbs distant,

linear-oblong, about three and a half inches long, with

large, membranous sheaths at the base, one-leaved. Leaves

petioled, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, subcoriaceous, five to six

inches long by two to two and a quarter inches broad.

Scapes suberect, about six to seven inches high, with a

few spathaceous sheaths below, somewhat decurved near the

apex. Flowers umbellate, large, green, spotted with

purple-brown, and with some red-brown markings in front.

Bracts ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, half to three-quarters

of an inch long. Pedicels half an inch or more long.

Dorsal sepal broadly lanceolate, acuminate, two and three-

quarters to three inches long, ahout half an inch broad,

often spiraliy curved at the apex; lateral sepals triangular

at the base, with a long, caudate, spirally curved apex, as

long as the dorsal sepal, by about half an inch broad at

the base. Petals narrowly triangular at the base, caudate-

attenuate above, and often somewhat twisted, an inch and

a half long, by a third of an inch broad at the base. Lip

triangular from a broadly cordate base, somewhat com-

pressed laterally, and with an acute, strongly recurved

apex, over half an inch long. Oolwmn very broad, about

a quarter of an inch long; base attenuated into a narrow

foot, about three-quarters of an inch long ; teeth oblong,

obtuse.—R. A, Roure.

Fig. 1, flower from which the sepals and petals have been removed;

2, column attached to pedicel; 3, lip; 4, petal; 5, anther; 6 und 7, pollinia

seen from front and side ;—all enlarged,

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BORONTA Fastiarata.

Western Australia.

Rutacea. Tribe Boroniem.

Boronia, Sm..; Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 291.

Boronia fastigiata, Baril. in Pl. Preiss. vol.i. p. 167; Regel, Gartenfl. 1857,

p- 147; Benth. Fl. Ausir. vol. i. p. 326; a speciebus ceteris sectionis

Pedunculate foliis parvis obovatis distincta.

Frutex erectus, usque 6 ped. altus, superne fastigiato-ramosus. Folia sessilia,

obovata, 3-6 lin. longa, 14-3 lin. lata, apice rotundata vel apiculata,

rarius paullo retusa, basi obtuse cuneata vel rotundata, minute denticu-

lata vel subintegra, glabra. Cymz corymbose, pluriflore; pedicelli sub-

angulati, superne incrassati, circa } poll. longi. Sepala late ovata,

breviter acutiuscule acuminata, circa 2 lin. longa, 1-14 lin. lata, intus

minute pubescentia. -Petala imbricata, obtuse rhomboidea, 3 lin. longa,

23 lin. lata, rosea, stria dorsali purpurea. Stamina subconformia, epi-

sepala paullo majora; filamenta applanata, ad apicem sensim angustata,

circa 1 lin. longa, longe patenter ciliata, superne dorso glandulifera, ultra

insertionem anthers breviter producta; anther oblongw, mutics, }-3

lin. longee. Ovaria ultra } lin. longa, stylis propriis brevissimis, stylo

communi circa 3 lin. longo, apice paullo incrassato. Cocci truncati,

elevato-punctati.—B. hypericifolua, Hort. ex Regel, Gartenfl. 1857, p. 152.

Boronia fastigiata is a charming greenhouse plant, which

has been in cultivation for at least half a century, but has

not hitherto been adequately figured. Planted out in a

bed in the Temperate House, it has formed a bush six feet

high and four feet through, which was covered with

flowers in April, 1905. It was grown at Kew fifteen years

ago under the name Boronia polygalifolia, and the plant

from which our figure is taken was raised from seed

received from the Sydney Botanic Gardens in 1899

under the same name. The two species are, however, not

very nearly related.

An interesting morphological character of Boronia is

that the four ovaries are free from each other, though the

styles are united for the greater part of their length. It

recalls in this respect the structure of Asclepiadacex,

where the two carpels are, however, united only at the

apex of the styles.

Descr.—An erect, fastigiately branched bush, six feet high

or less. Leaves sessile, obovate, one-quarter to half an inch

long, one-eighth to one-quarter of an inch broad, rounded

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or apiculate at the apex, occasionally slightly retuse,

obtusely wedge-shaped, or rounded at the base, minutely

denticulate or nearly entire, glabrous. Cymes corym-

bose, several-flowered; pedicels rather angular, thickened

towards the apex, about halfan inch long. Sepals broadly

ovate, shortly acuminate, about one-sixth of an inch long,

one-twelfth to one-eighth of an inch broad, minutely

pubescent on the inner surface. Petals imbricate, obtusely

rhomboid, one-quarter of an inch long, one-fifth of an inch

broad, rose-coloured, with a purple band on the back.

Stamens nearly uniform, those opposite the sepals slightly

larger; filaments flattened, gradually narrowed to the

apex, about one-twelfth of an inch long, long-ciliate, pro-

duced for a short distance above the insertion of the

anther, the upper part covered with wart-like glands on

the back; anthers oblong, muticous. Ovaries rather over

a twenty-fourth of an inch long; styles free for a very

short distance at the base, the common portion about a

twenty-fourth of an inch long, slightly thickened at the

apex. Cocci truncate, dotted.—T. A. Spracuz.

Fig. 1, flower from which the petals have been removed; 2 and 3, stamens;

4, pistil ; 5, section of pistil :—all enlarged.

M.S.del, J.N Bitch tith.

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CODONOPSIS TancsuHen.

China.

CaMPANULACER. Tribe CAMPANULEZ.

Coponorsis, Wall.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 557.

Codonopsis Tangshen, Oliv.in Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 1966; C. lanceolate, Benth.

et Hook. f. affinis, sed petiolis longioribus, foliis tenuioribus plus minusve

pubescentibus basi rotundatis, Horibus longius pedunculatis et calyce

profundius partito vix basi ovario adnato differt.

Herba perennis radice sat longa valde incrassata. Caules volubiles, graciles,

usque ad 10 ped. longi, laxe ramosi, glaberrimi vel juxta nodos parce

pubescentes. Jolia membranacea, ovata vel ovato-lanceolata, 14-25 poll.

longa, 3-1} poll. lata, obtusiuscula, basi rotundata vel rare subcuneata,

remote crenato-serrata, plus minusve minute setuloso-pubescentia, rarius

fere omnino glabrata; petioli gracillimi, sape 3-$ poll. longi. Peduneuli

usque ad 2% poll. longi, foliis oppositi vel extra-axillares vel flores ramulos

breves terminantes. Calyx profunde partitus, fere omnino liber, per-

sistens, segmentis oblongo-lanceolatis 6-10 lin. longis 2-3 lin. latis

acutis vel obtusiusculis. Corolla campanulata, 14-1$ poll. longa,

viridescens, intus purpureo-punctata et purpureo-lineata; “lobi 5, late

deltoidei, acuti, circiter ¢ poll. longi. Capsula subglobosa, 1 poll. diam.,

basi calyce deflexo appendiculata.

Codonopsis includes eighteen species, all Asiatic, and

chiefly natives of the Himalayan region, where ten are

found. OC. rotundifolia, Royle, was figured at t. 4942 of

this work, and the variety grandiflora at t. 5018. C. cor-

data, Hassk. (t. 5372) is now referred to Campanumea,

which chiefly differs from Codonopsis in having a baccate

instead of a capsular fruit.

The species here figured is of interest on account of its

root yielding a drug in very common use as a tonic among

the Chinese, to whom the plant is known as the “ T‘ang-

shén’’ (Bastard Ginseng). Mr. E. H. Wilson, who col-

lected seeds and specimens for Messrs. James Veitch &

Sons, states that it is common in thickets on the mountains

of Hupeh and Szechuen, between 5,000 and 8,000 feet.’

It is found also in Shensi and Shansi. The annual exports

of the drug from Hankow to other parts of China amount

to some 9,000 piculs—about 1,200,000 lbs.

The figure was prepared from specimens received from

Messrs. James Veitch & Sons in August, 1903. <A plant

Auveust Ist, 1906.

obtained from the same source is growing in the Rockery

at Kew.

Descr.—A perennial herb with a rather long, much-

thickened root. Stems twining, slender, up to ten feet

long, loosely branched, quite glabrous, or sparingly pubes-

cent near the nodes. Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, an

inch and a quarter to two inches and a half long, half an

inch to an inch and a quarter wide, rather obtuse, rounded,

or rarely somewhat cuneate at the base, remotely crenate-

serrate, more or less minutely pubescent, rarely becoming

quite glabrous ; petioles very slender, usually half to three-

quarters of an inch long. Peduncles up to two inches and

three-quarters long, opposite to the leaves or extra-

axillary, or the flowers sometimes terminating short

branches. Calye deeply cleft, almost quite free, persis-

tent; segments oblong-lanceolate, half to about three-

quarters of an inch long, a sixth to nearly a third of an

inch wide, acute, or somewhat obtuse. Corolla campanu-

late, an inch and a quarter to an inch and a half long,

greenish, purple-spotted and -striped inside ; lobes broadly

deltoid, acute, about a quarter of an inch long. Capsule

subglobose, an inch across, appendaged at the base with

the deflexed calyx.—S. A. San.

Fig. 1, section of the flower with the corolla removed; 2 and 3, anthers;

4, stigma :—all enlarged.

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Tas. 8091.

HEDYSARUM MULTIJUGUM, var. aptcunarem.

Central Asia.

f

LecuMminosm. Tribe HEpYsareR.

Hepysarum, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol.i. p. 510; Fedisch. in

Bull. Herb. Boiss. Ser. i. vol. vii, p. 254.

Hedysarum multijugum, Mawim. in Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Pétersh. vol. xxvii.

p- 464, var. apiculatum, Sprague, var. nov.; a typo foliolis paucioribus

apiculatis supra glabris recedit.

Frutex usque 4 ped. altus,e basi ramosus, ramis ascendentibus basi 1 poll.

diametro vel ultra, ramulis fastigiatis gracilibus flexuosis leviter costatis

ut folii rhachi et inflorescentia minute appresse pubescentibus. Folia 3-6

poll. longa, 8-13-jnga, rhachi supra excavata ; foliola elliptico- vel ovato-

oblonga, acute apiculata, 2-9 lin. longa, 14-4 lin. lata, supra glabra,

subtus minute appresse pubescentia. Stipule deltoidew, acuminate,

2-3 lin. longee. Racemi 3-1 ped. longi, 9-25-flori; pedicelli 1 lin. longi;

bractezx subulate, extra pilosee, circa 1 lin. longse ; bracteolz bracteis con-

formes, minores. Ca/yx postice ultra medium spathaceo-fissus, extra minute

appresse pubescens, cirva 3 lin. longus; dens anticus usque ad 1 lin.

longus, ceteri ei subaquales vel obsoleti. Veail/um suborbiculare, retu-

sum, circa 7 lin. diametro, ungue 1 lin. longo, Alz inzequales, ad apicem

attenuate, 3-43 lin. linge. Carinez sezmenta 5 lin. ionga, vix 3 lin. lata,

unguibus 3 lin. longis exclusis. Vagina staminalis circa 6 lin. longa.

Ovarium sericeo-pubescens, stipite circa 3 lin. longo.

The variety apiculatum has been grown at Kew for

many years, and its origin is now unknown. It differs in

several respects from the typical wild form represented in

the Kew Herbarium. The leaflets are fewer and larger ;

they are apiculate, instead of being obtuse or retuse, and

are glabrous on the upper surface. ‘he calyx is more

distinctly spathaceous, and sometimes has only the anti-

cous tooth clearly developed, the remaining ones being

obsolete. Finally, the ovary is longer stipitate than in the |

typical form.

There is a fine bed of H. multijugum, var. apiculatum,

close by the Refreshment Pavilion. Owing to the’ fasti-

giate character of the branching, a large number of

racemes are often produced at the same level on a single

bush, and the result is very effective. Flowering com-

mences in June, and lasts into July.

Descr.—A shrub, four feet high or less. Branchlets

fastigiate, slender, flexuous, very slightly ribbed, minutely

Avcust Ist, 1906.

appressed-pubescent, ag are also the leaf rhachis and

inflorescence. Leaves up to six inches long. with from

eight to thirteen pairs of leaflets; leaflets elliptic-oblong

or ovate-oblong, sharply apiculate, one to three-quarters of

an inch long, one-eighth to one-third of an inch broad,

glabrous on the upper surface, appressed-pubescent on

the lower. Stipules deltoid, acuminate, up to one quarter

of an inch long. facemes six inches to one foot long,

bearing from nine to twenty-five flowers. Bracts and

bracteoles subulate, the former about one-twelfth of an

inch long. Calyx spathaceously split at the back, about

one-quarter of an inch long, appressed-pubescent outside,

the anticous tooth one-twelfth of an inch long cr less, the

remaining ones more or less reduced. Standard suborbi-

cular, retuse, rather over half an inch in diameter, the

claw one-twelfth of an inch long. Wing-petals unequal,

equalling or but little exceeding the calyx. Keel-petals

two-thirds of an inch long, hardly one-quarter of an inch

broad. Ovary more or less silky-pubescent, stipitate about

one-quarter of an inch.—T. A. Sprague.

Fig. 1, flower with petals removed ; 2, wing and keel-petals ; 3, pistil:—all

enlarged. ;

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Tas. 8092.

FICUS KRISHNA.

India.

Urticace#. ‘l'ribe ARTOCARPE.

Ficus, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 367. .

Ficus Krishne, C. DC.; species F. (Urostigmati) bengalensi, Linn., proxima,

stigmate tamen majore, perigonii phyllis obtusis, antherarum connectivo

obtnso, stipulis longioribus extus villosis, foliis subtus minute velutinis

differt ; foliorum laminis hypoascidiformibus insignis.

Arbor parva. Ramuli hirtelli. Folia longe petiolata; stipule oblongo-

triangule, apice acute acuminate, extus pubescentes, usque ad 2 poll.

longee ; petiolus teres, parce hirtellus, usque ad 3°5 poll. longus; limbus

circiter 5 poll. longus, 3 poll. latus, hypoascidiformis, id est in ascidium

faciem dorsalem limbi includens conformatus, labro superiore basi 7-nervio

ejusque nervo centrali nervos laterales subadscendentes utrinque 3

mittente, labro inferiore quam superiore multo breviore integro vel varius

emarginato 5-nervio. Receptacula axillaria, sessilia, geminata, androgynia,

bracteis 3 rotundatis et basi cordatis fulta, globosa, velutino-puberula,

diametro fere 71. crassa. Flores masculi pedicellati, monandri; perigo-

nium 3-phyllinum, phyllis ellipticis apice obtusis; anthera subsessilis,

ovata, phyllis paullo brevior, counectivo supra thecas producto obtuso

subacutove. Flores feminei sessiles vel interdum pedicellati; perigonium

4-pbyllinum phyllis ovato—oblongis superne lacinulatis et apice acutis ;

ovarium ovatum vel subglobosum ; stylus gracilis, ovariam sequans, apice

stigma fere aequilongum tenuiter membranaceum oblongo-ellipticum basi

subpeltatum et apice acutum gerens.—Vulgo Krishna Bor.—C. DE

CaNDOLLE.

This striking plant was brought to the writer’s notice

ten years ago by anative of Bengal. The branch submitted

for inspection came from a private garden in the neighbour-

hood of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta. An attempt

to obtain rooted cuttings from this branch did not succeed.

'’he owner of the tree would not say whence it came or

how old it was, and there was a difficulty as to securing a

second branch. ‘This was at length overcome, and two

cuttings were eventually reared. One of the resulting

plants was placed in the public collection in the Calcutta

Garden; the second was employed in propagating examples

for distribution.

The plate is from one of these which reached Kew in

1902, where it has been grown in a Tropical House. It

formed receptacles for the first time in 1905. Another,

sent from Calcutta to Mr. C. de Candolle, at Geneva, also

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formed receptacles in 1905 at Vallon, near that city.

From this the diagnosis now provided by Mr. de Candolle

was prepared. One of the plants in the Calcutta Garden

formed receptacles for the first time in 1903.

Mr. de Candolie has already discussed very fully the

history and the morphology of this plant. The peculiarity

of its leaves has led those natives of India who have seen

it to invest the tree with a sacred character, and to provide

more than one circumstantial legend in explanation of its

appearance. Various localities have been suggested by

them as its original home; these localities have always

been some well-known place of pilgrimage. Inquiries on

the spot have, however, hitherto failed to produce evidence

that the tree exists in any of them; its original habitat is

therefore as yet unknown. |

One Indian view is that the tree is a Bor or Banyan

(Ficus bengalensis) miraculously modified by Rama. The

tale has been told by Mr. de Candolle in the Archives des

Sciences Physiques et Naturelles, ser. iv. vol. xii., for

December, 1901. But apart from the peculiar form of the

leaves, the differences as regards the tomentum, the

stipules, the perianth, the stamens and the stigma are too

great to admit of the identification with Ficus bengalensis.

Expecting to find in this plant no more than a modified

form of some already described species, Sir G. King, Mr. de

Candolle and the writer, after a careful search in the

herbaria of Kew, Geneva and Calcutta, have been unable

to refer I’. Krishne to any species of Ficus with normal

foliage. The native Indian view has, however, this to be

said for it; I’. Krishnz, like I’. bengalensis, belongs to the

section Urostigma, and is more nearly allied to F. bengalensis

than to any other species in that section. What is perhaps

as interesting as the accuracy of native intuition with

regard to the natural affinities of the plant, is the fact that

the Rama legend alluded to above, though first in the

field, failed to satisfy every one, and a second legend, asso-

ciating the tree, still as a Banyan or Bor, with Krishna,

soon obtained a wider circulation than the other. This

story has also been told by Mr. de Candolle in the Bulletin

de V Herbier Boissier for 1902, p- 760. The first legend, it

may be remarked, originated after the two original cuttings

had become established in the nurseries of the Calcutta

Garden, but before either had been placed in the public

collection. The second legend became current after one of

the two was planted out. Although cup-shaped leaves are

occasionally to be met with in other plants, the inside of

the cup is in these formed by the upper side of the leaf;

F. Krishne is the only species so far known in which the

converse condition prevails,

Descr.—A. small tree, with grey bark. Branchlets pube-

rulous, Leaves cup-shaped with the upper surface of the

leaf outside, the limb of the cup irregular with its upper

side, containing the midrib which gives off 4-5 pairs of

lateral nerves looping some way from the obscurely

undulate margin, thrice as long as the 5-nerved entire or

emarginate lower side; length 3°5 in., width across limb

8 in., petiole terete sparingly pubescent as is the inside of

the cup (lower side of leaf); stipules oblong-triangular,

sharplyacuminate, externally sparsely pubescent, 2°5—3°5 in.

long. Receptacles axillary, sessile, geminate, androgynous,

with 3 rounded slightly cordate bracts, globose, velvety-

puberulous; diam. 6-7 lin. Male flowers pedicellate ;

perianth segments 3, elliptic, obtuse; stamen solitary,

anther subsessile ovate rather shorter than perianth-

segments; connective slightly produced obtuse or subacute

at the tip. Female flowers sessile or occasionally pedicellate ;

perianth segments 4, ovate-oblong lacinulate above and

acute at the tip; ovary ovate or subglobose ; style slender

as long as the ovary ; stigma terminal almost as long as

the style, thinly membranous, oblong elliptic, subpeltate at

the base and acute at the apex.—D. Prain.

Fig. 1, portion of under surface of leaf; 2, ditto, upper surface; 3 and 4,

receptacles ; 5, section of a receptacle; 6, a male flower and two gall-flowers ;

7, an anther :—all enlarged.

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CATASETUM GaterituM, var, PACHYGLOSSUM.

Brazil.

Orcuipacke®. Tribe VANDEX.

CatasETuM, Rich.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 551; Rolfe. in

Journ. Linn, Soc. vol. xxvii. p. 206.

Catasetum galeritum, Peichd. f. var. pachyglossum, Reichb. f. in Gard.

Chron. 1889, vol. i. p. 73; Cogn. in Mart. Fl. Bras. vol. iii. pars 5, p. 398 ;

ab typo labelli lobo intermedio orbiculari vel fere quadrato obtusangulato

et crassissimo differt.

Herba epiphytica, cespitosa. Pseudobulbi ovoideo-oblongi, 3-5 poll. longi,

vaginis imbricatis membranaceis tecti. Folia petiolata, oblongo-lanceolata

breviter acuminata, plicata, 6-12 poll. longa, 1-1} poll. lata. Scapi sub-

erecti, apice arcuati, circa 1 ped. longi, circa 8~[2-flori. lores, masculi

solum noti, speciosi. Bractese ovato-lanceolate, acuminate, 4~-5 lin.

long. Pedicelli 3-1 poll. longi. Sepala lanceolata. acuminata, circa 1-1}

poll. longa, viridia, purpureo-maculata, posticum erectum, lateralia

patentia. Petala suberecta, lanceolata, acuminata, viridia, purpureo~

maculata, cum sepalo dorsali subconniventia, et ei equilonga. Labellum

inferum, trilobum, crasse carnosum, 1-1} poll. longum; lobi laterales

oblongi, erecti, lobus intermedius orbicularis vel fere quadratus, obtusus,

crassissimus ; saccus oblongus, antice productus et conicus, obtusus.

Columna, clavata, rostrata, circa 1 poll. longa; antenne graciles, incurver,

in saccum descendentes.

Catasetum galeritum, Reichb. f., is a very rare species

which was introduced from the Upper Amazon region by

the late Mr. E. S. Rand, of Para, and was described in

1886 by Reichenbach. Three years later the variety

pachyglossum, Reichb. f., was described, from a plant which

flowered in the collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart.,

at Burford, Dorking. It was said to differ from the type

in having the front lobe of the lip nearly square, exceed-

ingly thick, and obtuse-angled, with very thick borders

underneath, leaving a groove in the middle. This plant

is, fortunately, still alive, and from it the annexed plate

has been prepared, from materials sent by Sir Trevor in

February last. The type we only know from description

and a figure (Lindenia, vol. ii. t. 67), showing the flowers

to be much less blotched with brown, and the lip less

distinctly three-lobed, conical and pointed in front.

Nothing further is known about its history, but pre-

sumably it was introduced from the same region as the

type.

SEPTEMBER Ist; 1906.

The female flowers, as in so many other species of this

remarkable genus, are unknown, though they might appear

at any time on the same plant, as in the case of allied

species.

Descr.—A tufted epiphytic herb, about a foot and a half

high. Bulbs ovoid-oblong, three to five inches long,

clothed with membranous imbricating sheaths. Leaves

stalked, oblong-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, plicate, six

to twelve inches long by an inch to an inch and a half

wide. Scape nearly erect at the base, arching above,

about a foot long, with about eight flowers, of which the

males only are known. Sracts ovate-lanceolate, acuminate,

over a third of an inch long. Pedicels slender, nearly an

inch long. Sepals lanceolate, acuminate, about an inch to

aninch and a quarter long, green blotched with purple,

the upper erect, the lateral pair spreading. Petals nearly

erect, lanceolate, acuminate, green blotched with purple,

about as long as the dorsal sepal and connivent with it.

Lip three-lobed, very thick and fleshy, an inch to an inch

and a quarter long; side lobes erect, oblong, rounded at

the base, deep red-brown at the margin, green spotted

with brown underneath; front lobe orbicular or nearly

quadrate, obtuse and very thick, bright yellow; sac oblong,

produced in front into a conical obtuse apex. Column

club-shaped, an inch long, with a pair of slender curved —

cirrhi (‘ antenue”’) descending into the sac.—R. A.

Roure,

Fig. 1, part of the lip; 2, anther-cap; 3, pollinarium; 4, sketch of whole

plant:—1, 2 and 3 enlarged ; 4 much reduced.

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RIBES visurniFrouivum.

Lower California and Sunta Catalina Island.

SaxIFRAGACE&. Tribe RIBESIEa.

Rives, Linn.; Benth. e¢ Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol.i. p 654.

Ribes viburnifolium, A. Gray in Proc. Amer. Acad. vol. xvii. p. 202; species

distinctissima, sempervirens, resinoso-punctata, foliis ovato-orbicularibus

vel ovato-ellipticis nee cordatis nec plicatis coriaceis, floribus parvis et

calyce brevissimo.

Frutex sempervirens, diffuse ramosus, dense resinoso-punctatus, novellis parce

pilosis. Folia sat conferta, petiolata, coriacea, nitida, ovato-orbicularia,

vel ovato-elliptica, 3~1? poll. longa, 3-14 poll. lata, utrinque rotundata,

supra medium breviter dentata vel rarius leviter lobata, interdum subtus

basi parce pilosa ; petioli 3-3 poll. longi, graciles, breviter pilosi. Racemi

terminales, corymbiformes, 1-1} poll. longi, laxiflori, breviter pilosi;

bractez et bracteole scariose, caduce ; pedicelli filiformes, circiter 2 poll.

longi. Calycis rosei tubus primum turbinatus, demum ellipsoideus, basi

parce pilosus; limbus patens, lobis suborbicularibus circiter 1 lin. diam.

Petala minima, viridescentia, late obovata vel subquadrata. Stamina 5,

calycis lobis breviora, ut petala margini disci lati plani inserta. Stylus

staminibus paulum brevior, 2-fidus. Baccse rubrex, ellipsoides, circiter

; poll. longze, ¢ poll. late, parce resinoso-punctatez.

This well-marked species was originally described from

material collected near All Saints’ Bay (Todos Santos

Bay) in the northern part of Lower California. It is “so

peculiar,” Gray says, that the acute collectors did not

recognize the genus. Yet the flowers have all the

characters of the tibesia section, and the conspicuous

glands of the leaves, young shoots, pedicels, &c., are just

like those of R. nigrum.” In the Kew Herbarium are

specimens from Santa Catalina Island, Southern California,

collected by Mrs. Blanche Trask, who states that the species

is frequent on moist slopes and in canons.

The Kew plant which supplied the material for the

accompanying plate was raised from seeds collected in

Santa Catalina Island, and received from the Harvard

Botanic Garden in 1897. It is trained on a south wall in

the Herbaceous Department, and has now reached a height

of 7 feet. It flowers early in March. The berries persist

to the succeeding year.

Descr.—A straggling evergreen shrub, densely resin-

dotted, sparingly pubescent on the young branches.

SepremMBeEr Ist, 1906.

Leaves somewhat crowded, petioled, leathery, shining,

ovate-orbicular or ovate-elliptic, three quarters to an inch

and three-quarters long, two-thirds to an inch and one-

third broad, rounded at apex and base, shortly toothed

or rarely slightly lobed above the middle, sometimes

sparingly pilose on the under side at the base; petioles a

sixth to a half inch long, slender, shortly pilose. Iacemes

terminal, corymb-like, an inch to an inch and a quarter

long, loosely-flowered, shortly pilose; bracts and bracteoles

scarious, caducous; pedicels slender, about a third of an

inch long. Calye rose-coloured; tube about a tenth

of an inch long, at first top-shaped, afterwards ellipsoid,

sparingly pi'ose at the base; limb spreading ; lobes sub-

orbicular, about a twelfth of an inch in diameter. Petals

very small, greenish, broadly obovate or subquadrate.

Stamens five, shorter than the calyx-lobes, inserted with

the petals on the margin of a broad flat disk. Style some-

what shorter than the stamens, bifid. Berries red,

ellipsoid, about a quarter of an inch long and a sixth of an

inch broad, sparingly resin-dotted.—S. A. SKAN. :

Fig. 1, portion of a leaf showing the under side; ?, flowers; 3, pistil:—all

enlarged.

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LIN OSPADIX Mrougonirzit.

New Guinea.

Patma. Tribe ARECER.

Linospapix, Beec.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 903.

Linospadix Micholitzii, Ridley in Gard. Chron. 1895, ii. p. 262; a speciebus

reliquis spicis unisexualibus differt.

Acaulescens. Folia dense conferta, longe obcuneata, 2-34 ped. longa, 7 poll.

lata, ad tertiam partem bilobata, lobis acutis, nervis lateralibus circa 14

prominentibus subtus brunneo-furfuraceis; petiolus plano-convexus.

Spadices graciles, nutantes, unisexuales; pedunculi 14-2} ped. longi.

Flores ¢: sepala vix 1 lin. longa, ovata, ciliata, carina minute denticu-

lata; petala oblonga, acuta, valvata, 2 lin. longa; filamenta subulata, e

basi incrassata; antherae dorsifixe. Flores 2? : sepala ovalia, obtusa,

ciliata ; ovarium 1-loculare; ovula solitaria, pendula; stigmata tria, lata,

recurvata. Fructus oblongus, ruber, 6 lin. longus; albumen album.

The genus Linospadix now contains 8 species, 7 of which

are natives of New Guinea, while the eighth, L. petrickiana,

Hort. Sander (Gard Chron. 1898, vol. ti. p. 298) is only

known im cultivation, To these are added in Engler

and Prantl’s Pflanzenfamilien, vol. i. 3, p. 67, the two

Australian species of Bacularia, which differ in having

premorse leaf-segments and basifixed anthers.

The present species is remarkable for having unisexual

spadices, instead of the flowers in groups of three with the

central one female and the lateral male, although sometimes

a rudimentary female is at the side of the male. It

was discovered by Mr. Micholitz in wet ravines on the

higher slopes of the mountains in New Guinea. Seeds

were sent to Messrs. Sander and Sons, of St. Albans, who

raised plants, one of which they sent to Kew in 1896,

where female flowers were produced in the Victoria House

in November, 1905; the males not appearing until January,

1906.

Descr.—A stemless palm. Leaves densely congested,

long obcuneate, two to three and a half feet long, seven

inches across at the widest part, bilobed about a third of

the way down ; lobes acute ; lateral nerves prominent, about

fourteen on each side, brown furfuraceous beneath ;

petiole plano-convex. Spadices slender, nodding, unisexual ;

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1906.

peduncles one and a half to two and a half feet long. Male

Jjlowers : sepals nearly one line long, ovate, ciliate, minutely

toothed on the keel; petals oblong, acute, valvate, two

lines long; filaments subulate from an almost globose

base; anthers dorsifixed. Female flowers : sepals oval,

obtuse, ciliate; ovary one-celled ; ovules solitary, pendu-

lous; stigmas three, broad, recurved. Fruit oblong,

bright red, half an inch long; endosperm white.—C. H.

Wricut.

Fig. 1, whole plant; 2, male inflorescence; 3, two flower buds; 4, male

flower; 5, female inflorescence; 6, female flower; 7, pistil:—1 reduced, 2 and

5, natural size, the others enlarged.

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CEREOS Scueerit,

Mexico.

Cactacem. Tribe EcHINOCACTER.

Cereus, Haw.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 849.

Cereus Scheerii, Salm-Dyck, Cact. Hort. Dyck, p. 190; Labouret Monogr.

Cact., p. 317; affinis C, cinerascenti, DC., sed rigidior, areolis vix elevatis

et magis confertis differt.

Planta'succulenta, laxe caespitosa, 6 poll. alta. Cawles erecti, 1-13 poll,

crassi, 6-7-angulati, recti vel torti, glaucescenti-virides; anguli acutati,

vix tuberculati; areole parva, conferte, minute tomentose; aculexe

rectze, exteriores 8-12, radiantes, interiores solitaris, porrectss. Flores

laterales ; tubus circa 23 poll. longus, pulvillis 50-60 setas albas 4-12

gerentibus instructus; limbus 3 poll. diam., pulchre kermesino-roseus ;

petala lanceolata, acuta. Stamina tubo subequilonga; filamenta pallide

lutea; anthers rubre. Stylus exsertus, viridis ; stigma 10-12 partitum.

Echinocereus Scheeri, Lemaire, Les Cact. p. 57; K. Schum. Monogr. Cact.

p. 253, fig. 48. H. Scheerii, Riimpl. in Férst. Handb. Cact. ed. 2, p. 801.

This pretty species belongs to the same group as the

well-known C. cinerascens, DC., C. procumbens (B. M. t.

7205), C. pentalophus (B. M. t. 8651) and C. mojavensis

(B. M. t. 7705), all of which are dwarf and more or less

tufted plants, with large brilliantly coloured flowers. (CO.

Scheerii was discovered by Mr. J. Potts near Chihuahua in

Mexico and sent by him to Mr. Frederick Scheer of Kew,

some time prior to 1850. ‘I'he plant here figured flowered

at Kew in 1900 and during the two succeeding years, but

subsequently died.

Descr.—Plant laxly tufted, about six inches high. Stems

erect, one to one and a quarter of an inch thick, six to

seven angled, straight or twisted, dull glaucous-green ;

angles acute; spine-cushions small, scarcely prominent,

closely placed, minutely tomentose ; spines short, straight,

the eight to ten outer radiating, one central directed out-

wards. Flowers produced at the side of the stems, bright

carmine-rose more or less flushed with mauve; tube about

two and a half inches long, with fifty to sixty spine-

cushions bearing four to twelve white bristle-like spines

scattered along it, but more crowded upon the ovary;

limb spreading, about three inches in diameter ; petals

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1906.

lanceolate, acute. Stamens about as long as the tube;

filaments pale yellow ; antherS red. Style exserted, green,

stigma ten to twelve partite—N. H. Brown.

Fig. 1, a spine-cushion, enlarged.

Notr.—Frederick Scheer was an independent botanist who for some time

resided at Kew and particularly devoted himself to the study of Cactacee. He

published in 1840 an excellent account of Kew under the title of “ Kew and

its Gardens.” This and other actions were largely effective in averting the

breaking up of the collections which had been contemplated, and in their being

taken over by the nation from the Crown. (See Kew Bulletin, 1891, pp.

— ir an obituary notice in the Journal of Botany, 1869, p. 268).—

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ODONTOGLOSSUM wavium.

Colombia.

Orcumacerz. Tribe VaNDEs.

Opontoetossum, H. B. et K.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 561.

Odontoglossum neevium, Lindl. in Part. Fl. Gard. vol. i. p. 87, t. 18; Fol.

Orch. Odont. p. 2 (excl. var. majus); Fl. des Serres, t. 594; Pescatorea,

t.13; Warn. Sel. Orch. vol. i. t. 7; Regel Gartenflora, t. 791; Batem.

Monogr. Odont. t. 9; aff. O. glorioso, Lind. & Reichb. f:, sed racemo

siete segmentis undulatis et labelli lobis lateralibus subhastatis

iffert.

Herba epiphytica, cespitosa. Pseudobulbi ovoideo-oblongi, subcompressi,

circa 2-3 poll. longi, apice diphylli, basi circa 4-phylli. Folia elongato-

ligulata, acuta, subcoriacea, 6-18 poll. longa, 3-3 poll. lata. Scapi

axillares, suberecti vel arcuati, circa 2-1} ped. longi, racemosi, multiflori.

Braclex ovato-oblonge, acuts, concave, circa 3 lin. longe. Pedicelli gra-

ciles, 3-1 poll. longi. Flores speciosi, albi, atropurpureo-maculati, labelli

disco flavo. Sepala patentia, anguste lanceolata, acuminatissima, incurva,

undulata, circa 14 poll. longa. Petala sepalis similia, paullo breviora.

Labelli unguis erectus, latus; limbus reflexus, hastato-ovatus, acumi-

natissimus, undulatus, incurvus, sepalis paullo brevior, basi velutious ;

crista bilamellata, lamellis erectis dentatis, Colwmna clavata, 4 lin.

longa, alis cirrhatis curvatis.

The history of this distinct and handsome species has

been sadly confused. It was originally figured and de-

scribed by Dr. Lindley in 1850 from a plant which was

exhibited at one of the spring meetings of the Horticultural

Society, and which is said to have been sent to England

several years before by Sir R. Schomburgk, but this is

very doubtful, considering its habitat. There is, however,

a flower and coloured sketch in Lindley’s Herbarium

labelled, ‘* Rollissons, June, 1847,” and this Lindley con-

sidered to be a variety, but he also added a specimen

collected by Funck & Schlim at San Lazaro and La Pena,

in the province of Truxillo, in Venezuela, having yellow

flowers spotted with crimson, which belongs to O. odoratum,

Lindl. Shortly afterwards he added a variety majus, from

a specimen collected by Linden at 8,000 feet altitude in

the province of Pamplona, Colombia, which belongs to

O. gloriosum, Lind. & Reichb. f. A similar confusion

of species occurs in “ Pescatorea,’’ where the species was

figured, though a note that it was met with by Mr. Schlim

OcToBer Ist, 1906,

in the mountains near Santa Martha, and that plants were

introduced to cultivation, gives a clue to the true habitat,

and it is from this locality that it was re-introduced to

cultivation, after being almost lost sight of for many

years.

The plant figured flowered in a Temperate Orchid

House at Kew in February last; its usual time of flowering,

though not constant, is during the winter and spring

months, |

Deser.—A tufted, epiphytic herb, a foot to a foot and a

half high. Bulbs ovoid-oblong, somewhat compressed,

about two to three inches long, with about four basal and

two apical leaves. Leaves elongate-ligulate, acute, some-

what coriaceous, about six to eighteen inches long by half

to three-quarters of an inch broad. Scapes axillary, erect

or somewhat arched, about nine to fifteen inches long,

racemose, many-flowered. Bracts ovate-oblong, acute,

concave, about a quarter of aninch long. Pedicels slender,

three-quarters to an. inch long. Flowers white, with

numerous dark purple blotches and a bright yellow disc

to the lip. Sepals spreading, narrowly lanceolate, very

acuminate, incurved, undulate, about an inch and a half

long. Petals very similar to the petals, but rather shorter.

Lip with a broad, erect claw; limb reflexed, hastate-ovate

and velvety at the base, very acuminate, undulate and

incurved at the apex, rather shorter than the sepals ; crest

consisting of a pair of nearly parallel, erect, somewhat

toothed plates. Colwimn club-shaped, about a third of an

inch long, with a pair of slender, curved wings.—R. A.

Rours,

Fig. 1, base of lip and column; 2,anther cap; 3 and 4, pollinarium, seen

from front and bazk :—all enlarged.

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ABIES Magiestr.

Japan.

ConrrFER&. Tribe ABIETINES.

Apres, Link: Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 441.

Abies Mariesii, Masters in Gard. Chron. Dec. 20th, 1879, p. 788, fig. 129;

et in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. (1881), 519 ic. repet.; Mayr Monogr. Abietin.

Japan. (1890), p. 40, t. 2, f.5. Species cum A. brachyphylla sociata, differt

tamen novellis fusco-hirsutis, canalibus resiniferis sub epidermide positis ;

strobilis cupiformibus, squamis integris, bracteis acuminatis demum

laceratis.

Arbor excelsa, coma pyramidali, ramis patentibus infimis decumbentibus

cicatricibus circularibus notatis, ramulis ferrugineo-hirsutis demum

glabrescentibus. Folia caulina conferta, appressa, ramea multiseriata,

horizontalia, lateralia patentia, mediana ramulis sterilibus appressa

apicem spectantia vel in ramulis fertilibus ascendentia, omnia glabra,

subtus glancescentia, lineari-oblonga, basi in petiolum brevissimum

tortum angustata, apice emarginata, costa superne depressa subtus

prominente, margines revolute; canales resiniferi duo sub epidermide

prope margines foliorum dispositi, Strobili violaceo-purpurei, cylindrati,

medio autem parum dilatati, apice obtusi. Sqguamz suborbiculares, in-

tegre, juventute ferrugineo-tomentose, basi cuneate. Bractex incluse,

squamis multo breviores, oblongo-obovatz, ad basin angustats, apice

breviter acuminate#, acumine demum delapso marginibusque laceratis.

Seminis ala cuneato-obovata, squamam fere zequans.

This handsome silver fir was first discovered in the

mountains of northern Japan by the late Mr. Charles Maries,

who introduced it to the nurseries of Messrs. James

Veitch and Sons of Coombe Wood. In the recently pub-

lished ‘‘ Hortus Veitchii’’ the tree is mentioned as occurring

on Mt. Hakkoda, near Aomori, at an elevation of 4,0U0-—

5,000 feet, and in Nikko at a greater elevation, but

sparingly. It is an “alpine tree with a comparatively

restricted habitat, occupying a geographical” position

between that of A. Veitchii and A. sachalinensis.” Mr.

Maries noted that the species grew in company with

A. Veitchii in shallow, peaty soil, overlying volcanic

debris. It differs from A. webbiana, to which it had been

conjecturally referred, in the hairy shoots, denser, shorter,

less horizontally spreading leaves, and the shorter, cask-

shaped cones.

The tree from which the figure was made is growing on

OcroBER Ist, 1906,

the estate of the Earl of Elgin, Dumphail, near Nairn.

The specimens were forwarded to Kew by Messrs. D.

Stalker & Son. It is believed to be the first occasion on

which this Japanese Silver Fir has produced cones in this

country.

Deser.—A tall, pyramidal tree, with robust, spreading

branches like those of A. nordmanniana; younger branches

covered with a coarse, brownish, hairy epidermis, which

peels off in chaff-like scales; older glabrous, marked with

circular scars, pulvini only slightly prominent. Leaves on

main branches multiseriate, appressed and evenly dis-

posed around the stem; pseudo-4-ranked on younger

sterile ones, lateral leaves spreading, those on upper surface

appressed parallel to the long axis of the shoot ascending

on the fertile shoots, and somewhat shorter than lateral.

Leaves about one inch in length, one-sixteenth of an inch

in breadth, linear-oblong, obtuse or slightly notched at

the apex, tapering and twisted towards the base, glabrous

above, with a depressed midrib, glaucous beneath, with a

raised midrib, and recurved margins. Hypoderm con-

tinuous, resin canals one near each corner of the leaf,

just beneath the epidermis. Male flowers unknown.

Cones clustered on the sides of the branches, erect, three

inches and a half to five inches and a half long, one and a

half to two inches wide, dull purple, cask-shaped. Scales

suborbicular, entire, wedge-shaped at the base, covered

with a reddish down when young. Bracts half the length

of the scales, and concealed by them, obovate-oblong,

retuse, with a small, deciduous central acumen, edge of the

bract finally jagged.* Seeds nearly as long as the scale ;

wing wedge-shaped, entire, somewhat truncate.—M. T.

Masters.

Fig. 1, section of leaf showing the position of the resin canals; 2, scale of

cone with bract ; 3, bract enlarged ; 4, 5, seeds :—all enlarged.

* As shown in the figure in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, but in Maries’ n. 73

the bracts are precisely as here figured.

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BLAKEA GRACILIS,

Costa Rica.

Metastomaces#. '‘l'ribe Buakem.

Brakes, Linn.; Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 770.

Blakea gracilis, Hemsi. Diag. Plant. Nov, p.13 et Biol. Cent. Amer. Bot.

vol. 1, p. 433, t. 23; Cogn. in DC. Monogr. vol. vii. p. 1073; B. spruceane,

Cogn., proxima, sed glabra, bracteis interioribus quam exterioribus multo

minoribus, petalis apice rotundatis vel retusis differt.

Frutex 9-13 ped. aitus vel interdum arbor parva, valde ramosus, glaber,

ramulis gracilibus teretibus patentibus. Folia subcoriacea, 5-nervia,

obovatc-elliptica vel elliptica, 24-4 poll. longa, 14-14 poll. lata, integer-

_ Yima, abrupte breviterque acuminata, basi cuneata, venis lateralibus

numerosissimis ; petioli 5-10 lin. longi. Fores axillares, solitarii vel rare

geminati, circiter 1} poll. diam., 4-bracteati; pedunculi, 3-2 poll. longi,

graciles; bractes trinervix, membranacex, 2 exteriores multo majores,

fere pollicares, foliis simillime, interiores obovato-spathulate. Calycis

tubus campanulatus, circiter } poll. longus; limbus membranaceus,

truncatus vel obscure 6-lobatus. Petala 6, albido-rosea, oblique et late

obovata, apice rotundata vel retusa. Stamina 12, wqualia; anthers

magne, oblong, filamentis crassis subduplo longiores. Stylus elongatus, .

stigmate parvo. Bacca late ovoideo-urceolaris, primum 12-costata, fere

5 lin, diam.

Cogniaux describes thirty-one species of Blakea in his

Monograph of the Melastomacee. Of these, nine are

native of Peru, eight of the Republic of Colombia, four of

Costa Rica, four of Venezuela, two of Brazil, one of

Guatemala, one of Ecuador, and two of the West Indies,

one of which is confined to Jamaica and the other to

several of the Windward Islands. B. guianensis, Baillon,

is undescribed and unlocalized.

Blakea gracilis was first described from material collected

by Endres for Messrs. James Veitch & Sons. It has

since been found in several localities in Costa Rica, grow-

ing in forests at elevations up to 5,570 feet. The Kew

plant, from which the accompanying drawing was made,

was purchased from Messrs. Lemoine & Sons, of Nancy,

in 1904, and flowered in a greenhouse in February of the

current year. At present it is scarcely more than a foot

high, but owing to the spreading habit of its branches it is

as much as two and a half feet across. Some of the leaves

have one or two small pouches near the midrib at the

Octopser Ist, 1906.

base on the underside which may be regarded as modified

“domatia.”’ Similar structures are present on the leaves

of several melastomaceous plants, and are particularly

well seen in Tococa lancifolia. (See Schimper, Plant

Geography, p. 132.] The domatia of Blakea gracilis, under

cultivation, are sometimes occupied by the troublesome

Mealy Bug, Coccus adonidum.

Blakea trinervia, the only other species yet introduced

into European gardens, is figured at t. 451 of this work.

B. quinguenervia, included in some horticultural diction-

aries, has been referred to Bellucia grossularioides, Triana.

Descr.—A glabrous, much-branched shrub, nine to

thirteen feet high, or sometimes a small tree; branches

slender, round, spreading. Leaves subcoriaceous, five-

nerved, obovate-elliptic or elliptic, two and a half to four

inches long, an inch and a quarter to an inch and a half

broad, quite entire, abruptly and shortly acuminate,

cuneate at the base; lateral veins very numerous; petioles

about half to slightly more than three-quarters of an inch

long. Flowers axillary, solitary or rarely geminate, about

an inch and a half across, four-bracteate ; peduncles three-

quarters to two inches long, slender; bracts three-nerved,

membranous, the two outer much larger, almost an inch

long, very similar to the leaves, the inner obovate-spathu-

late. Calywz-tube campanulate, about a quarter of an inch

long; limb membranous, truncate or obscurely six-lobed.

Petals six, whitish-rose, obliquely and broadly obovate,

rounded or retuse at the apex. Stamens twelve, equal ;

anthers large, oblong, nearly twice as long as the fila-

ments. Style elongated; stigma small Berry broadly

ovoid-urn-shaped, at first twelve-costate,. almost half an

-inch across.—S. A. SKaN.

_Fig. 1, base of leaf showing “ domatia” on the under-side; 2, calyx and

pistil ; 3 and 4, stamens :—all enlarged.

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CHLOR-ZA VIRESCENS.

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Chili.

OrcHIDACE&. Tribe NEoTTIER.

Cutor”a, Lindl.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 618; Krénzl. Orch.

Gen. et Sp. vol. ii. p. 42.

Chloreea virescens, Lindl. in Brand. Quart. Journ. Rov. Instit. vol. i. (1827),

p- 51; Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. p. 404; Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1845, t. 49 (exel.

svn.); Krdnzl. Orch. Gen. et Sp. vol. ii. p. 105, t. 11, figs. A, B; Orch.

Rev. 1903, p. 133; inter species sectionis Huchloree floribus flavis, labello

trilohe facie superiore papillis faleatis numerosis instructo basi 5-carinato

istincta.

Herba terrestris, circa 1-1} ped. alta. Folia cxspitosa, suberecta vel patentia,

oblonga, obtusa, lawvia, 3-6 poll. longa, #-1 poll. lata. Scapus erectus, cras-

siusculus, vaginis numerosis imbricatis acuminatis obtectus ; racemus 4-6

poll. longus, densiflorus. Bractexe oblongo-lanceolate, acute vel acumi-

nat, 3-13 poll. longa. Pedicelli 6-7 lin. longi. Flores speciosi, flavi,

viridi-venosi. Sepalum posticum erectum, elliptico-oblongum, obtusum,

10-12 lin. longum ; lateralia patentia, oblonga, obtusa, 10-12 lin. longa,

supra medium incrassata vel cristis carnosis instructa. Petala erecta,

elliptico-oblonga, obtusa, 8-10 lin. longa. Zabellwm recurvam, trilobum,

8-10 lin. longum, facie superiore papillis falcatis numerosis instractum ;

lobus intermedius late ellipticus, obtusus, crenulatus; lobi laterales angusti,

obtusi; discus basi 5-carinatus. Colwmna clavata, 6-7 lin. longa; anthera

apiculata ; pollinia oblonga, sulcata, pulvereo-granulosa.

Three striking species of the large South American

genus Chlorewa have been figured in this work, namely,

C. longibracteata, Lindl. (t. 7909), QO. erispa, Lindl.

(t. 7955), and a third, now known as C. Ulantha, Rolfe,

which appeared in 1830 (t. 2956), under the name of

Neottia ? grandiflora, Hook., but was afterwards made the

type of a new genus, and called Ylantha grandiflora, Hook.

(sub t. 2990). his remarkable plant is still only known

from the original example, which flowered in the Glasgow

Botanic Garden as long ago as the spring of 1829, and of

which only a single flower is preserved in Sir Wilham

Hooker’s Herbarium, now at Kew. The dried flower has

an expanse of over four inches. It is recorded as having

been received from the Rev. Lansdown Guilding, and,

although the locality is not mentioned, it has been con-

jectured to be the Island of St. Vincent, in the West

Indies, though probably not indigenous. From what is

now known of the distribution of the genus, this con-

OctoBer Ist, 1906.

jecture is open to question ; but in any case it is remarkable

that so striking a plant has not subsequently been met

with.

Chlorea virescens, Lindl., originally appeared in cul-

tivation in the Birmingham Botanic Garden, in 1845, when

it was exhibited at a meeting of the Horticultural Society,

and figured in the ‘‘ Botanical Register,’ but soon appears

to have been lost sight of. It was recently re-introduced

by H. G. Elwes, Esq., F.R.S., of Colesborne, Gloucester-

shire, who met with it on sandy flats near Coronel, on the

railway from Concepcion, Chili, in December, 1901, and

who sent plants to Kew, which flowered in a greenhouse, _

in April, 1903, and on two or three subsequent occasions. F

Descr,—A_ deciduous, terrestrial herb, a foot to a foot

and a half high. Leaves tufted, suberect, or the lower

spreading, oblong, obtuse, glabrous, three to six inches

long, three-quarters to an inch broad. Scape erect, stout,

bearing numerous acute, imbricating sheaths; raceme

dense, four to six inches long. Bracts oblong-lanceolate,

acute or acuminate, three-quarters to an inch and a

quarter long. Pedicels stout, about half an inch long.

Flowers large, yellow, veined with green. Dorsal sepal

erect, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, about an inch long; iateral

spreading, oblong, obtuse, about an inch long, thickened

towards the apex or bearing there a few fleshy, green .

tubercles. Petals erect, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, about

three-quarters of an inch long. Lip recurved, 3-lobed,

about three-quarters of an inch long, the veins of the upper

surface bearing numerous falcate papillae; front lobe

broadly elliptic, obtuse, crenulate; side lobes narrow and

obtuse; dise with five keels near the base. Column

clavate, about half an inch long; anther apiculate;

pollinia oblong, channelled down the middle, granular,—

R. A. Ronee.

Fig. 1, lip, with one side lobe removed; 2, column; 3, pollinia:—all

enlurged.

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PASSIFLORA punotata.

South America.

PassiFtornacE&. Tribe PassiFLoRFR.

Passtrtora, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 810; Mast. in

Trans. Linn, Soc, vol. xxvii. p. 629.

Passiflora punctata, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 957; Cav. Diss. p. 446, t. 269 ; Mast. in

Mart. Fi. Bras. vol. xiii. pars i. p. 593; planta nostra ab affinibus

foliorum maculis intercostalibus purpureis facile distinguitur.

Herba ope cirrhorum scandens. Caules compressi, sulcati, ut petioli minute

puberuli. Folia subsemicircularia vel fere lunata, paullo triloba, lobis

rotundatis mucronatis intermedio quam lateralibus minore, rarius biloba,

1-8 poll. longa, 24-4 poll. lata, basi rotundata vel subcordata, membrana-

cea, utrinque purpureo-maculata, supra glabra, subtus minutissime

puberula, glanduloso-punctata; petioli 4-1} poll. longi. Stipu/e falcato-

subulate, integra, 1-1} lin. longs. Peduneuli plerumque gemini, inter-

dum solitarii, petiolis equilongi vel iis paullo longiores, circa 1} lin. infra

apicem articulati, bracteis 2-3 lineari-subulatis 14-2 lin. longis. Recep-

taculum convexulum, vix ultra 4 poll. diametro, dimiaio exteriore

incrassato. Sepala lutea, ovato-oblonga, apice rotundata, 7-8 lin. longa,

medio 3 lin. lata, anthesi reflexa. Petala lutea, conformia, 4} lin. longa,

medio 2 lin. lata. Corona triseriata; segmenta extima lateraliter com-

pressa, triangulari-capitata, 3 lin. longa, lutea, apice violacea; segmenta

intermedia filamentiformia, pauca, inconspicua, circa 13 lin. longa;

segmenta intima fere ad apicem in annulum plicatum inflexum vix 2 lin.

latum connata. Axdrogynophorum 4 liv. longum, glabrum. Filamenta

3-3 lin. longa. Ovariwm subglobosum, minute pubescens ; styli crassius-

culi, 4 lin. longi.—Granadilla folio tricuspidi, obtuso et oculato, Feuill.

Journ. vol. i. p. 718, t. 1]. Passiflora foliis trilobis oblongis subtus

punctatis: intermedio minore, Linn. Amoen. Acad. vol. i. p- 224, t. 10,

f. 12.

Passiflora punctata was founded on the description and

figure given by Feuillé in his “Journal.” Feuillé de-

scribed the sepals as being greyish-green, the petals as

whitish, and the segments of the outer series of the corona

as violet with yellow points; and he stated that he found

the plant in a garden at Malambo, a northern suburb of

Lima, the capital of Peru. Almost the same form of the

Species was cultivated in the Palm House at Kew, pro-

bably about the middle of last century, and a specimen

was laid into the Hookerian Herbarium. The label gives

the following particulars :—Passiflora from Lima; sepals

green; petals small, greenish white; coronal filaments

light blue, outer row tipped with a creamy white. The

peduncles of the herbarium specimen are solitary in the

OctoBEr Ist, 1906.

axils, as described and figured by Feuillé. In both Feuillé’s

plant and the one grown at Kew, the leaves were pre-

sumably not variegated, as no mention is made of their

colour.

In the Flora Brasiliensis 1.c., Masters quoted specimens

of P. punctata from Peru, Ecuador and Brazil, including

forms with geminate peduncles. He described the outer-

most segments of the corona as scimitar-shaped. Some of

the specimens of P. punctata in the Kew Herbarium (e.g.

Lehmann’s No. 3049 from the Cauca Valley, Colombia),

have scimitar-shaped outer segments, but others, including

the “ Passiflora from Lima” in the Hookerian Herbarium,

have triangular-headed segments, as in the plant now

figured. Hardly any two specimens have the coronal

segments precisely similar.

The plant now figured has the segments of the middle

series fewer and less conspicuous than in any other

specimen we have examined. The leaves also differ from

the type in having purplish blotches between the veins. In

the leaves of P. trifasciata, which have a similar colora-

tion, the purplish bands coincide with the three main

veins,

The figure was drawn from a plant which was received

in 1904 from the State Botanic Gardens, Brussels, under

the name P. maculata, and which flowered at Kew in the

autumn of 1905. :

Descr.—An herbaceous tendril-climber. Stems com-

pressed, furrowed, minutely puberulous. Leaves nearly

semicircular or almost lunate, shallowly trilobed, the lobes

rounded and mucronate, the middle one smaller than the

lateral, more rarely bilobed, one to three inches long, two

and a half to four inches broad, rounded or subcordate at

the base, membranous, variegated with purple on both

surfaces, glabrous on the upper, gland-dotted and very

minutely puberulous on the lower; petioles from half to

one inch and a half long, minutely puberulous. Stipules

subulate-sickle-shaped, entire, a twelfth to an eighth of an

inch long. Peduncles usually two together, sometimes

solitary in the axils, as long as or slightly longer than the

petioles, jointed about an eighth of an inch below the

apex ; bracts two to three, linear-subulate, an eighth to a

sixth of an inch long. Receptacle slightly convex, rather

over half an inch in diameter, the outer half with an

annular thickening on the upper surface, terminating in a

raised rim surrounding the base of the gynophore.

Sepals pale yellow, ovate-oblong, rounded at the apex,

rather under three-quarters of an inch long, a quarter of

an inch broad at the middle, reflexed. Petals of similar

colour and shape, over a third of an inch long, a sixth of

an inch broad at the middle. Corona of three rows;

outer segments laterally compressed, triangular-capitate, a

quarter of an inch long, yellow, with a violet head; seg-

ments of the middle row filament-like, few and incon-

spicuous, half as long as the outer ones; segments of the

inner row connate almost to the apex into a much-folded

inflexed ring, about a sixth of an inch broad. Androgyno-

phore glabrous, a third of aninch long. Ovary subglobose,

minutely pubescent ; styles rather thick.—T. A. Spracus.

Fig. 1, base of leaf, showing under surface and glands; 2,a gland from

another part of the leaf ; 3, longitudinal section of flower; 4, a coronal segment

of the outermost row ; 5 and 6, anthers; 7, pistil :—all enlarged.

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LILIUM MYRIOPHYLLUM.

China.

Lintces. Tribe TULIPER,

Litium, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 816.

Lilium myriophyllum, Franch. in Morot, Journ. de Bot. vol. vi. p. 313; ex

affinitate L. Brownii, F. E. Brown, a quo foliis linearibus uninervils

perianthioque basi plus minusve saccato recedit.

Bulbus ovoideus, 3 poll. diametro, squamatus. Caulis 1-6 ped. altus, infra

nudus, supra dense foliatus, glaber, nonnunquam ad folicrum axillas bulbi-

ferus. Folia linearia vel lanceolato-linearia, acuminata, basi incrassata,

glabra, uninervia, 4 poll. longa, 3 lin. lata, marginibus paullo revolutis. _

Flores sepius 2, terminales, nutantes; pedicelli breves. Perianthiwm

circa 5 poll. longum, tubuloso-campanulatum, intus basi luteum, parte

superiore album, extus rubro tinctum, costis obscurioribus; segmenta

exteriora lanceolata, 1 poll. lata, interiora obovato-elliptica, 2 poll. lata ;

nectariam glabrum. Stamina perianthio paullo breviora; filamenta_ basi

minute puberula; anthers fere basifixe, semipollicares, aurantiace.

Stylus staminibus paullo longior; stigma trilobatum, viride. OC. H.

Wright in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxxvi. p. 138; Gard. Chron. 1905,

vol. ii. p. 328, cum icone. DL. Brownii, var. leuwcanthwm, The Garden,

April 28th, 1906, Suppl., non Baker.

This is a member of a group of very closely related

lilies, which cluster around LZ, Brownii, F. EH. Brown (ex Spae

in Ann. Soc. Agric. de Gand, vol. i. 1845, p. 487, t. 41), and

of which they are probably geographical forms. The type

specimen of L. myriophyllum (of which there is a tracing

in the Kew Herbarium) is destitute of a bulb, but shows

the so-called ‘rhizome,’ which Franchet relies on as one

of the diagnostic characters, to be merely an elongated

part of the stem bearing rootlets above the bulb. Similar

rootlets are developed in many species of lilies in early

summer to supply nourishment to the aerial parts of the

plant, while those at the base.of the bulb are formed in

autumn to perform the same function for that organ, as

was described by the late Dr. Wallace in the second edition

of his Notes on Inlies, p.4. A specimen bearing a bulb

has been received from Messrs. James Veitch & Sons.

L. myriophyllum was one of the numerous discoveries of

the late Pére Delavay, several of which have already been

figured in this work. He found it in July, 1888, flowering

amongst bushes in stony places at Mosoyn, in the pro-

NovEMBER Ist, 1906.

vince of Yunnan, and it has since been collected in North-

West Szechuen, by Mr. E. H. Wilson, who sent bulbs to

Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, to whom we are indebted

for the specimen here figured. The shape of the perianth

resembles that of L. japonicum, Thunb., which differs in

having broader, more membranous, shortly petiolate leaves,

with never less than three nerves. In typical L. Brownii

the perianth tapers gradually from a narrow, non-saccate

base.

Descr.—Bulb ovoid, three inches in diameter, sealy.

Stem from one to six feet high, naked below, densely leafy

above, glabrous, sometimes bearing bulbils in the axils of

the leaves. Leaves linear or lanceolate-linear, acuminate, in-

serted by a thickened base, glabrous, one-nerved, four inches

long, a quarter of an inch wide, margins slightly revolute.

Flowers usually two at the apex of the stem, nodding ;

pedicels short. Perianth about five inches long, tubular-

campanulate, white inside, yellow in the tube, flushed

with dull crimson on the outside, darker on the midribs ;

outer segments lanceolate, one inch wide; inner segments

obovate-elliptic, two inches wide; nectary wide, glabrous.

Stamens rather shorter than the perianth; filaments minutely

puberulous in the lower part; anthers almost basifixed,

half an inch long, orange. Style a little longer than the —

Stamens; stigma three-lobed, green.—C. H. Wricur.

Figs. 1 and 2, front and back views of an anther; 3, stigma :—all enlarged.

Nore.—Lilium Brownii, Poit.in Rev. Hortic. sér, I. ii. (1843-44) p. 496 is

L, japonicum, Thunb.—W. T. T.-D.

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LY CASTE pyeErtana,

Peru.

Orcuipacea., Tribe VANDER.

LycasteE, Lindl.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 547.

Lycaste dyeriana, Sander, ew Rolfe in Kew Bulletin, 1898, p. 195; Orch. Rev.

1898, p. 303; Gard. Chron. 1895, vol. ii. p. 49; a casteris speciebus habitu

pendulo et foliis glaucis differt.

Herba epiphytica, cespitosa, pendula. Pseudobulbi ovoideo-orbiculares, sub-

compressi, obscure angulati, circa 14 poll. lati, diphylli. Folia pendula,

lanceolata, acuminata, basi attenuata, glauca, 6-11 poll. longa, 1-1} poll.

lata. Scapi a basi pseudobulborum producti, penduli, medio vagina

spathacea obtecti, 3-5 poll. longi. Bracteze spathaces, late elliptico-

oblong, apiculate, glauce, 9-10 lin. longe. Flores pallide virides.

Sepalum posticam lanceolato-oblongum, subobtusum, 13-2 poll. longum,

7-9 lin. latum ; sepala lateralia oblonga, subobtusa, obscure carinata, 13-2

poll longa, 8-10 lin. lata. Petala oblonga, subobtusa, 12-12 poll. longa,

5-6 lin. lata. Labellum 1-1} poll. longum, obscure trilobum ; lobi laterales

suberecti, basi angusti, prope apicem dilatati et obtusi; lobo intermedio

elliptico denticulato convexo apice reflexo et obtuso ; discus canaliculatus ;

callus oblongus bilobus margine incrassato. Colwmna clavata, incurva,

8 lin. longa, alis anguste auriculatis. Mentum conicnm, obtusum, 4 lin.

longum.

Lycaste dyeriana, Sander, like Cattleya citrina, Lindl.

(Bot. Mag. t. 3742),* and Masdevallia deorsa, Roife

(t. 7766), in their respective genera, is quite anomalous in

habit, differing from its allies in having acquired a

pendulous habit, which extends to the entire plant,

pseudobulbs, leaves and flowers. A similar habit has been

acquired by the species of the small genus Scuticaria and

some other epiphytes, and it has been observed by Rodway

that such plants are usually found on the edges of the

branches of the trees on which they grow, while the centre

is occupied by erect and more robust epiphytes, and the

habit is regarded as adaptive, natural selection gradually

fitting them to their environment.

The species figured was introduced by Messrs. F.

Sander & Sons, St. Albans, and exhibited by them at the

Royal Horticultural Society on July 9th, 1895, when it

received a Botanical Certificate. A plant received at Kew

died, but another received in 1903 from the Royal Botanic

* By mistake, that plant is drawn erect and only the flower pendulous,

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Garden, Glasnevin, has flowered annually under green-

house treatment, being suspended in its natural position.

~Deser.—A tufted, epiphytic, pendulous herb. Bulbs

ovoid-orbicular, somewhat compressed and _ obscurely

angled, about an inch and a half long, diphyllous. Leaves

pendulous, lanceolate, acuminate, attenuate at the base,

glaucous, about half to a foot long, an inch to an inch and

a half broad. Scapes produced from the base of the bulbs,

pendulous, with a spathaceous sheath about the middle,

three to five inches long. Dracts spathaceous, broadly

elliptic-oblong, apiculate, glaucous, over three-quarters of

an inch long. flowers pale green. Dorsal sepal lanceo-

late-oblong, subobtuse, about two inches long, by nearly

three-quarters of an inch broad; lateral sepals oblong,

subobtuse, as long as the dorsal and slightly broader.

Petals oblong, subobtuse, rather shorter and narrower

than the sepals. Jip about an inch and a quarter long,

obscurely three-lobed ; side lobes suberect, narrow at the

base, dilated and optuse at the apex; front lobe elliptic, ©

convex, denticulate, reflexed and obtuse at the apex ; disc

channelled; crest oblong, two-lobed at the apex and

thickened at the margins. Column clavate, incurved,

nearly three-quarters of an inch long, with narrow, auri-

culate wings. Chin conical, obtuse, about a third of an

inch long.—R. A. Rourr.

Fig. 1, lip with one side lobe cut off; 2, column; 3 and 4, pollinarium, seen

from front and back :—all enlarged.

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COTYLEDON DEVENSIS,

Of garden origin.

CRASSULACER.

Corytepon, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 659.

Cotyledon (§ Echeveria) devensis, hybrida (glauca x gibbiflora ?) vel

forma stature insignite.

Planta succulenta, caule 13 ped. alto, 12 poll. crasso. Folia laxe rosulata,

8-10 poll. longa, 3-33 poll. lata, oblanceolata vel elongato-obovata, obtusa,

apiculata, glauco-virentia, basi roseo-purpureo tincta. Pedunculi duo,

5-7 ped alti, inferne foliis anguste oblanceolatis 34-44 poll. longis, $-]}

poll. latis laxe obtecti, superne nudi, rubescentes. Panicule 9 poll. long,

racemis recurvis 2-43 poll. longis composite. Flores pedicellati, bracteati.

Sepala 3-4 lin. longa, carnosa, lineari-lanceolata, albo-glauca, leviter roseo-

tincta. Corolla 6-7 lin. longa, rubra, glauca.

This plant is so remarkable among its allies for its great

stature as to be worth a place in this work. Unfortunately

its history is unknown, except that it was received at

Kew in 1902 asa hybrid between C. glauca, Baker, and

C. gibbiflora, Baker (better known in gardens as Echeveria

metallica), from Messrs. Dicksons, of Chester, who,

however, are unable to give any information as to its

origin. How or where it was raised, cannot be ascer-

tained. If a hybrid, it differs widely from those already

known in gardens between the same parents—Hcheveria

glauco-metallica and HH. metallico-glauca, which are stemless

plants with leaves in a dense rosette about nine inches in

diam., and flower-stems only one to one and a half feet

high, whilst this plant has a stout stem a foot high, and

flower-stems five to seven feet high. ‘hat it is derived in

some way from C. gibbiflora either as hybrid or chance

variation is probable. But it seems scarcely credible that

the small stemless C. glauca should be a parent of the

most gigantic form of the genus at present known.

Except in its giant stature it much resembles the form

figured as Hcheveria gibbiflora in Lindley’s Botanical

ftegister, t. 1247. The plant attracted considerable atten-

tion from cultivators of succulent plants when it flowered

at Kew in February and March of this year, and it is now

coming into flower again. It may be .conveniently dis-

NovemBer |Ist, 1906.

tinguished as OC. devensis from Deva, the Roman name of

Chester.

Descv.—A succulent perennial, with a simple stem

fifteen inches high, and one inch and a half thick, marked

with the transverse scars of fallen leaves, glaucous-green

above, becoming brown with age. Leaves laxly rosulate,

eight to ten inches long, three to three and a half inches

broad, oblanceolate or elongate-obovate, tapering into a

broad, short petiole, light green, tinged with light rosy

purple at the base, slightly glaucous. Flower-stems two,

one on either side of the plant, five to seven feet long,

half to three-quarters of an inch thick, erect, somewhat

flexuose, purplish or reddish on the upper part, green

below, glaucous, the lower half laxly covered with elongate,

oblanceolate, acute leaves, three and a half to four and a

half inches long, and three-quarters to one and a quarter

of an inch broad, tapering to the shortly spurred base,

light green, tinged with rosy-purple at the base, slightly

glaucous. Panicle about nine inches long, of several re-

curving racemes two to four and a half inches long.

Flowers pedicellate, bracteate. Sepals one-quarter to one-

third of an inch long, very spreading, fleshy, linear-

lanceolate, acute, whitish-glaucous, slightly rosy-tinted.

Corolla six to seven lines long, five-angled, with lanceolate,

acute segments, scarlet-red, paler towards the base, very

glaucous. Stamens included. Hypogynous glands trans-

verse, emarginate. Carpels whitish, tapering into short,

purple styles.—N. E. Brown.

Fig. 1, flower, with the corolla and stamens removed, showing the hypo-

gynous glands and carpels; 2, petal and stamen; 3, anther, side view;

4, whole plant :—tigs. 1—3, enlarged; fig. 4, greatly reduced.

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RIBES crvuentoum.

Western United States.

SaxirraGacex. Tribe Rrpzstex.

Ries, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p- 654,

Ribes (§ Grossularia) cruentum, Greene, Pittonia, vol. iv. p. 35; a R. amicto,

Greene, foliis et calyce fere omnino glabratis preecipue differt.

Frutew diffuse ramosus, novellis minutissime puberulis exceptis, glaber; aculei

subaxillares 3, stricti vel leviter curvati, <-4 poll. longi, medio lateralibus

longiori. Folia suborbicularia, 3- vel 5-lobata, 3-14 poll. diam., basi

distincte lobata vel interdum fere truncata; lobi breviter lateque crenati;

petioli gracillimi, circiter } poll. longi. Pedunculi solitarii, 1-flori, }-3 poll.

longi, bractea solitaria spathacea decidua ovarium fere omnino vaginante

instructi. Caly« circiter 3 poll. longus, glaber, saturate ruber, interdum

apice loborum pallide viridis ; tubus subcylindricus, circiter 2 lin. longus ;

lobi oblongi, 3-4 lin. longi, obtusi, primum patentes, demum reflexi.

Petala erecta, alba, late obovata, involuta, 2 lin. longa, apice 14 lin. lata,

ibidem minute denticulata. Stamina calycis lobos zequantia vel leviter

superantia; anther sagittato-oblongew, fere 2 lin. longee, apiculate.

Ovarium aculeis pallidis cum glandulis sessilibus vel breviter stipitatis

mixtis dense vestitum. Stylus staminibus paulum longior, bifidus. Bacca

subglobosa, rubra, circiter 3 poll. diam., aculeis patentibus 2-3 lin, longis

armata.

The specimen figured, which was obtained from a plant

purchased from Mr. L. Spiith, of Rixdorf, Berlin, in 1899,

differs, in some particulars, from the wild specimens pre-

served in the Kew Herbarium. The most noteworthy is,

that in the cultivated plant the petals are much broader

and less conspicuously denticulate at the apex. It is also

described as “wholly glabrous,” but in the cultivated

Specimen a minute, but rather dense, pubescence may be

found on the younger branches and leaves. Beyond this

there is little to distinguish it from R. amictwm, of which

the pubescence is very marked. :

R. cruentum, according to Prof. Greene, is common in

the Californian Coast Range, from Sonoma County north-

ward into Southern Oregon.

The plant at Kew is growing in the Ribes Collection,

near the Temperate House, and is now about two feet

high and more than a yard across. It flowers in May.

Descr.—A dwarf, diffusely branched shrub, glabrous,

except the very minute pubescence on the younger parts ;

subaxillary spines three, straight or slightly curved, a

Novemper Ist, 1906.

quarter to half an inch long, the median longer than the

lateral. Leaves suborbicular, three- or five-lobed, two-

thirds to an inch and a half across, distinctly lobed or

sometimes almost truncate at the base; lobes shortly and

broadly crenate; petioles very slender, about a quarter of

an inch long. Peduncles solitary, one-flowered, a quarter

to a third of an inch long; bract solitary, spathaceous,

deciduous, almost entirely enveloping the ovary. Calyx

about half an inch long, glabrous, crimson, sometimes pale

green at the apex of the lobes; tube subcylindric, about a

sixth of an inch long; lobes oblong, a quarter to a third of

an inch long, obtuse, at first spreading, afterwards re-

flexed. Petals erect, white, broadly obovate, involute, a

sixth of an inch long, an eighth of an inch broad, and

minutely denticulate at the apex. Stamens as long as, or

slightly longer than, the calyx-lobes; anthers sagittate-

oblong, apiculate. Ovary densely covered with pallid

spines, mixed with sessile or shortly stalked glands. Style

slightly longer than the stamens, bifid. Berry sub-

globose, red, about two-thirds of an inch in diameter,

with spreading spines a sixth to a quarter of an inch

long.—S. A. SKan.

Fig. 1, peduncle and pistil; 2, bract ; 3, two of the petals and a stamen;

4, a stamen :—all enlarged.

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PLEIONE YUNNANENSIS,

China.

Orcuipacea. Tribe Epipenprex.

Pirtonr, D. Don Prodr. il. Nepal. p. 36; Benth. et Hook. JS. Gen. Plant.

vol. iii. p. 518, sub Coelogyne.

Pleione yunnanensis, Rolfe in Orch. Rev. 1903, p. 292; 1906, p. 81, fig. 10 ;

Gard. Chron. 1906, vol. i: p. 115; Journ. of Hort. 1906, vol. 1. p. 25], cum

1c.; a speciebus reliquis cultis pseudobulbis globoso-ovoideis et scapis

altioribus distincta.

Herba terrestris, exespitosa, rhizomate valido. Pseudobulbi ovoideo-globosi,

nitidi, circa 1 poll. lati, monophylli. Folia elliptico-lanceolata, acuta,

plicata, membranacea, circa 1 ped. longa, 13-1} poll. lata, basi vaginis

spathaceo-oblongis obtecta. Scapi erecti, 5-6 poll. alti, basi vaginis

spathaceis imbricatis obtecti, uniflori. Bractese spathacexw, oblong»,

obtuse, 1-1} poll. longw. Pedicelli 13-14 poll. longi. Flores speciosi,

roseo-purpurel, labello atropurpureo-maculati. Sepala patentia, oblongo-

lanceolata, subobtusa, 14-12 poll. longa, 4 lin. lata. Pelala subsimilia,

paullo angustiora. Labellum obovato-orbiculare, fimbriatum, 1-1} poll.

latum, lateribus incurvis et circa columnam convolutis, disci lamellis 5

denticulatis vel fimbriatis. Colwmna clavata, incurva, alata, 9-10 lin.

longa, apice 3 lin. lata, alis obtusis; pollinia 4, ovoideo-oblonga, basi

glandulze oblong affixa.—Cclogyne (Pleione) yunnanensis, Rolfe in

Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxxvi. p. 23.

Pleione is a small Indian and Chinese genus of Orchids

which was established by D. Don, in 1825, and after-

wards united with Celogyne, Lindl., though markedly

different in habit, in its annual pseudobulbs, thin, deci-

duous Jeaves, erect, one-flowered inflorescence and in

floral structure. At least eleven species are known, six

of which are natives of Northern India, and all have ap-

peared in cultivation, and been figured in the Botanical

Magazine. These are Pleione prxcor, D. Don (t. 4496),

P. maculata, Lindl. (t. 4691), P. lagenaria, Lindl.

(t. 5870), P. humilis, D. Don (t. 5674), P. reichenbachiana,

T. Moore (t. 5753), and P. hookeriana, T. Moore (t. 6388)

—all under the name of Celogyne. They are charming

little plants, and are often called Indian Crocuses. Two

of the five Chinese species have also recently been intro-

duced, but only this one has as yet flowered.

Pleione yunnanensis, Rolfe, was originally discovered by

Mr. W. Hancock, F.L.S., in mountain pastures at Mengtse,

November Ist, 1906.

in the province of Yunnan, at 6,000 to 7,000 feet elevation,

in March, 1895, and Dr. Augustine Henry, F.L.S., shortly

afterwards collected it in the same district, but at a slightly

lower elevation. Its introduction to cultivation came from

another source. At the Royal Horticultural Society in

February last a pan of several plants was exhibited by

Messrs. Sutton & Sons, of Reading, as ‘“ Orchid species

from China,” which I immediately recognized as a species

already described from dried specimens. Shortly after-

wards they forwarded flowers to Kew from which this

plate was prepared, the leaves, which appear later, being

added afterwards. Unlike several of those above men-

tioned, it is not an autumn-flowering species. Messrs.

Sutton received the bulbs from a correspondent in China

some years ago, but, having mislaid his address, cannot

trace its exact source. It is a very charming little plant.

Descr.—A terrestrial herb, with ovoid-globose, shining,

one-leaved bulbs, about an inch broad. Leaves elliptic-

lanceolate, acute, plicate, membranous, about a foot long

by an inch and three-quarters broad, with an oblong,

spathaceous, basal sheath. Scapes erect, about six inches

high, with several imbricating, spathaceous sheaths at the

base, one-flowered. Bracts spathaceous, oblong, obtuse,

over aninch long. Pedicels about an inch and a half long.

Flowers large, rose-purple, with numerous dark purple |

blotches on the lip. Sepals spreading, oblong-lanceolate,

somewhat obtuse, about an inch and a half long by a third

of an inch broad. Petals rather narrower, but otherwise

similar. Lip obovate-orbicular, fringed, about an inch

and a quarter long, the sides incurved and convolute

round the column; disc with five denticulate or fimbriate

keels. Column clavate, incurved, about three-quarters of

an inch long, winged, dilated at the apex to a quarter of

an inch broad, wings obtuse; pollinia four, ovoid-oblong,

affixed to a small, oblong gland at the base.—R A. Rorre.

Fig. 1, lip with one side removed ; 2, its marginal fringes; 3, column ; 4 and

5, pollinarium, seen from front and back :—all enlarged.

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ASCHMEA GIGAS,

Brazil ?

BRoMELIACE2. Tribe BRoMELIER.

‘EcumeEa, Ruiz et Pav.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 663.

4Echmea gigas, EH. Morren ex Baker, Handb. Bromel. p. 61; 4%. Lalindei,

Linden & Rodigas, affinis, bracteis inermibus recedit.

Planta acaulescens. Folia circa 16 rosulatim disposita, lorata, breviter

acuminata, basi vaginata, 3 ped. longa, 5 poll. lata, supra fere glabra,

subtus albo-furfuracea ; spines ad folioram medium rectee, inter se 3 lin.

distantes, inferiores decurva, superiores incurve. Pedunculus fere 1 ped.

longus, robustus; bractess dentate, inferiores imbricate, vagina elliptica

inflata purpurea laminaque ovata acuminata viridi, superiores rosulatim

congestse, ovate, purpures, 5 poll. longs, 2} poll. late, dentate ; spica

simplex, oblonga, 5 poll. longa, 2 poll. lata. Calyx rigidus, extus albo-

lepidotus ; lobi 4 lin. longi, suborbiculares, concavi, breviter aristati.

Corolla breviter exserta, dilute viridis; petala 7 lin. longa, 14 lin. lata,

anguste oblonga, emarginata, basi squamis duabus fimbriatis instracta.

Stamina ad corolle medium affixa; anthers oblong, mucronate, quam

filamenta duplo longiores. Stylus breviter trilobus. Fructus 3-6-angn-

laris, albo-lepidotus, infra viridis, supra dilute roseus, pyramidalis,

sepalorum mucronibus erecto-patentibus coronatus, 13 poll. longue.

The plant here figured was purchased from the widow

of the late Prof. E. Morren of Liége, and flowered in the

Victoria House at Kew for the first time in March last.

No description of the species was ever published by Prof.

Morren, but there exists amongst his drawings at Kew a

life-sized figure by P. Stroobant of a plant which flowered

in November, 1881. 4. Lalindei, Linden & Rodigas (Ii.

Hort. vol. xxx. t. 481), to which this species is united by

Mr. Baker, is a very close ally from New Granada, of

which perfect flowers are not known. Mez (in DO.

Monogr. Phan. vol. ix. p. 263) does not agree as to the

identity of these two species, but suggests that our plant

belongs to the section Chevallieria; it seems, however, to

connect that section with Pothuava, in having the in-

florescence of the latter without large bracts subtending

each flower, while the angular ovary is that of the former.

47. Mavriz-Regine, H. Wendl. (Bot. Mag. t. 6441) is

another allied species, but with a longer, narrower spike,

and narrower bracts.

Since flowering the plant at Kew has produced two

DecemBeEr Ist, 1906.

healthy offsets. The original plant was sent to Prof.

Morren by Dr. A. Glaziou of Rio Janeiro, and is presumably

a native of Brazil.

Descr.—Acaulescent. Leaves about sixteen in a tuft,

lorate, shortly acuminate, sheathing at the base, three feet

long, five inches wide, nearly glabrous above, white fur-

furaceous beneath ; spines at the centre of the leaf three

lines apart and straight, the lowermost decurved, the

uppermost upcurved. Peduncle nearly a foot long; bracts

dentate, the lower imbricate, with a crimson, elliptic, in-

flated sheath and a green, ovate-acuminate blade, the

uppermost rosulate, ovate, crimson, five inches long, two

and a quarter inches wide; spike oblong, five inches long,

two inches wide. Calyx rigid, white, lepidote outside ;

lobes four lines long, suborbicular, concave, shortly awned.

Corolla shortly exserted, pale green; petals seven lines

long, a line and a half wide, narrowly oblong, emarginate,

with two fimbriate scales at the base. Stamens inserted

about half-way up the corolla; anthers oblong, mucronate,

about twice as long as the filaments. Style shortly three-

lobed. Fruit three- to six-angled, white lepidote, green

below, pale rose and pyramidal above, an inch and a

quarter long, crowned by the spreading awns of the per-

sistent sepals.—C. H. Wricur.

Fig, 1, portion of calyx and pistil; 2, portion of corolla laid open ; 3, anther ;

4, apex of style; 5, whole plant :—1-4, enlarged ; 5, much reduced. fet.

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PONTEDERIA CORDATA, var. LANCIFOLTA.

Temperate America.

PoNTEDERIACER.

Ponreperta, Linn.: Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 837; Solms in

DC. Monogr. vol. iv. p. 531.

Pontederia cordata, Linz., var. lancifolia, Morong, in Mem. Torr. Bot.

Club, vol. v. p. 105 ; a typo foliis lanceolatis recedit.

Herba aquatica, 1-2 ped. alta. Rhizoma horizontale vel ascendens, abbre-

viatum, inferne radicibus dense obtectum. Caules florifert erecti, inter-

nodiis duobus superioribus elongatis. Folia longe petiolata, petiolis

inferne vaginantibus; lamina lanceolata, obtusa, basi rotundata vel

obtusa, 3-1 ped. longa, 1-24 poll. lata, glabra. Spatha angusta, tubulosa.

Panicula densa, spiciformis, 2-4 poll. longa. Perigonium czruleum,

glanduloso-pilosum, circiter 4 poll. longum; tubus antice fenestratus ;

lobi ovato-oblongi, tubo breviores; lobus medianus posticus macula flavo-

virente notatus. Achenium ovatum, leve, breviter apiculatum.—P. lan-

eifolia, Muhl. Cat. p. 34; Ell. Sketch, vol. i. p. 382. P. lanceolata, Nutt.

Gen. Am. vol. i. p. 216.

The small family of the Pontederiacex contains but five

genera, of which three have been figured in this Magazine,

namely :—Pontederia (t. 1156), in which two of the cells

of the ovary are abortive, and only a single ovule is

developed in the third cell; Hichhornia (t. 2932, sub Pon-

tederia, & tt. 5020, 6487), which differs from Pontederia in

having all three cells developed and containing many

ovules; and Heteranthera (t. 6192), which is noteworthy,

on account of having only three stamens.

One of the best known species is the ‘* Water hyacinth,”

Fichhornia speciosa, a native of Tropical South America,

which was introduced into the St. John’s River, Florida,

about 1890, and increased so rapidly as to become a serious

menace to navigation in 1897. A fullaccount of its spread

is given in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Division

of Botany, Bull. No.18. It is figured at t. 2932 under the

name Pontederia azurea.

The plant now figured was regarded as a distinct

species by Muhlenberg and Nuttall, but has been reduced

by more recent botanists, including Solms, who mono-

graphed the family, to a variety or form of P. cordata ;

the typical form of the latter is figured in t. 1156. The

DecemBeEr Ist, 1906.

variety lancifolia has been cultivated at Kew for many

years, and flowers annually in the Waterlily House.

Descr.—An aquatic herb, one to two feet high.

Rhizome short, horizontal, or ascending, giving off many

roots on its lower surface. Flowering stems erect, with

the two uppermost internodes elongated. Leaves long-

petioled ; petioles sheathing in their lower part; blade

lanceolate, obtuse at the apex, rounded or obtuse at the

base, six to twelve inches long, one inch to two inches and

a half broad, glabrous. Panicle dense, spike-like,“two to

four inches long. Perianth blue, glandular-pilose, about

half an inch long; tube with four longitudinal clefts in

front; lobes ovate-oblong, shorter than the tube, the

median posticous one with a greenish-yellow blotch.

Achene ovate, smooth, shortly apiculate.—T. A. Spraaur.

Fig. 1, a flower, and two young buds; 2, pistil; 3, ditto, longitudinal

section ; 4, ditto, transverse section :—all enlarged.

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VANDA Warsont.

Annam.

ORcHIDACERX. ‘Tribe Vanpen.

Vanpa, R. Br.; Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 578,

Vanda Watsoni, Rolfe in Gard. Chron. 1905, vol. i. pp. 82, 123, fig. 52;

Orch. Rev. 1905, p. 67; aff. V. kimballiane, Reichb. f., a qua differt

labello concavo fimbriato albo, basi saccato nec calcarato.

Herba epiphytica, gracilis, 1-14 ped. alta. Folia subteretia, acnta, gracilia,

supra leviter canaliculata, 6-14 poll. longa, 2 lin. lata, viridia; vaginee

membranaces, brunneo-maculate. Scapt suberecti, graciler, 3-1 ped.

alti, 10-12-flori. Bractex ovato-oblongse, obtuse, 2 lin. longe. Flores

albi; crista flava, purpureo-maculata. Sepala obovato-spathulata,

obtusa, 9-10 lin. longa; lateralia basi obliqua. Petala obovato-spathu-

lata, obtusa, 9 lin. longa, basi deflexa et torta. Zabellwm 3-lobum, 8 lin.

longum ; loli laterales incurvi, carnosi, truncati, margines dentibus

acutis binis instructi; lobus intermedius cordato-ellipticus, obtusus, con-

cavus, circa 6 lin. latus, margines fimbriati et basi incurvi; saccus

obtusus, 1} lin. latus, 2 lin. altus, intus flavus, brunneo-maculatus ;

callus erectus, 3-lobus. Columna clavata, 3 lin. longa, pede callo

truncato vel obscure 3-lobo instructo.

Vanda Watsoni, Rolfe, is a distinct and attractive

species, which was discovered in the interior of Annam

by Mr. W. Micholitz, a collector for Messrs. Sander &

Sons, by whom it was introduced to cultivation, and at

whose request it was dedicated to Mr. W. Watson, Curator

of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. It flowered at the

Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, early in 1905. It is

the third member of a curious little group, characterized

by having narrow or acute leaves and racemes of moderate-

sized flowers, all of which have now been figured in this

work. The two others are V. kimballiana, Reichb. f.

(t. 7112) and V. amesiana, Reichb. f. (t. 7139), both

natives of Upper Burma. A fourth species with terete

leaves has also been figured, namely, JV. teres, Lindl.

(t. 4114), but that has far larger flowers, which are

markedly different in structure.

The plate was prepared in February last from materials

furnished by Messrs. Sander, with the help of a living

plant in the Kew collection which had previously been

received from them. It flowers freely in winter under

tropical treatment.

DeEceMBER Ist, 1906.

Deser.—Plant almost identical with Vanda kimballiana,

Reichb. f., in habit, about a foot high. Leaves subterete,

acute, slender, slightly channelled on the upper side, six

to fourteen inches long, less than a quarter of an inch

broad, dull, dark green, spotted with brown on the mem-

branous sheaths. Scapes nearly erect, slender, about a

foot high, with ten to twelve white flowers, having the

crest and interior of the sac yellow, spotted with brown.

Bracts ovate-oblong, obtuse, under a quarter of an inch

long. Sepals obovate-spathulate, obtuse, about three-

quarters of an inch long; the lateral pair oblique at the

base. Petals similar to the sepals in shape, but rather

shorter, deflexed, and twisted at the base, so that the face

is turned underneath. Lip three-lobed, nearly three-

quarters of an inch long; side lobes incurved, truncate,

fleshy, with a pair of acute teeth on the inner margin;

front lobe cordate-elliptic, obtuse, concave, about half an

inch broad, with a fimbriate margin, incurved at the base

till the sides nearly meet; sac obtuse, under a quarter of

an inch deep, about half as broad, bearing inside an erect

three-lobed crest, yellow in colour, spotted with brown.

Column club-shaped, a quarter of an inch long, bearing a

truncate or obscurely three-lobed callus on the foot,

opposite to the crest of the lip.—R. A. Roure.

Figs. 1 and 2, column, with base of lip, seen from side and front; 3 and

4, pollinarium, seen from front and back :—all enlarged.

M.S.del IN.Fitchlith . Vincent, Brooks Day &Son LitImp

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COREOPSIS Grant.

Eastern Tropical Africa.

Composita. Tribe HELIANTHOIDEA.

Corxoprsts, Linn. ;. Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 385.

Coreopsis Grantii, Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xxix. p. 98, t. 65, et Fl.

Trop. Africa, vl. iii. p. 388; W. W. in Gard. Chron, 1906, vol. i. p. 162,

f. 64; The Garden, vol. xix. p. 161, cum figura ; C. Steppizx, Steetz, affinis,

foliis bipinnatifidis molliter pubescentibus, acheniis haud alatis, pappi

aristis quam acheenia multo brevioribus.

Herba perennis, erecta, 2-4 ped. alta, suffruticosa, ramosa, dense foliata,

ubique breviter et molliter pubescens ; rami patentissimi, subteretes vel

obscure angulati, validiores plus minusve semi-pollicares diametro.

Folia patentia, subsessilia vel longe petiolata, atroviridia, paulum viscida,

bipiunatifida, deltoidea, 1-6 poll. longa, basi 3-6 poll. lata ; lobuli ovati,

apice rotundati, terminalibus angustioribus acutis exceptis, minutissime

apiculati; petioli ad 1} poll. longi, ut rhachis anguste alati et supra

canaliculati. Capitula breviter pedunculata, 13-2 poll. diam., floribus

vivide luteis. Jnvolucri bractew exteriores herbacew, virides, pilose,

spathulato-oblongw, 23 lin. longs, acute, interiores majores, membra-

nace, oblonge, lute, extra pilosze. Flores ligulati seepissime 8, oblongi,

8-10 lin. longi, 3-4 lin. lati, apice denticulati. Receptaculi plani pales

anguste oblonge, achzniis leviter longiores. Achznia oblongo-linearia,

circiter 24 lin. longa, compressa, marginibus et facie interiore parce

setulosa. Pappus minutus, setoso-ciliatas, cum aristis duabus oppositis

acheenio 5-6-plo brevioribus.

Coreopsis Grantii is a herb of robust habit, elegant,

dark green foliage, with some resemblance to that of

Anthriscus sylvestris, and bright. yellow flower-heads, pro-

duced in the winter months. It is of very easy culture,

with treatment similar to that given to the Chrysanthe-

mum, and the protection of a cool house during the winter,

as it is not quite hardy. It commences to flower in

December, and reaches its best in February.

Coreopsis Grantii was first discovered by Capt. Grant

in Karagué, German East Africa, during the Speke and

Grant Expedition to the sources of the Nile in 1860-68.

It appears to have escaped the attention of all subsequent

travellers till Messrs. M. T. Dawe and EK. Brown, of the

Scientific and Forestry Department, Entebbe, collected it

in the district of Buddu, Uganda, where it is common at

elevations between 3,900 and 5,000 feet. It was grown

at Kew from seeds received from Mr. Dawe in 1905.

DecemBer Ist, 1906.

The type specimen is rather more hairy than the culti-

vated plant; its leaves are much smaller, and all are

subsessile, but only the upper ones are present. There

are variations, too, in the depth of the lobing of the leaves,

and in the breadth of the ultimate lobes.

Descr.—A perennial, subshrubby, branched herb, erect,

two to four feet high, densely leafy, everywhere shortly and

softly pubescent; branches very spreading, subterete or

obscurely angular, the stronger about half an inch in

diameter. Leaves spreading, subsessile, or long-petioled,

dark green, somewhat viscid, bipinnatifid, deltoid, one to

six inches long, three-quarters to six inches broad at the

base; ultimate lobes ovate, rounded at the apex, very

minutely apiculate, the terminal ones narrower and acute ;

petioles up to an inch and three-quarters long, like the

rhachis narrowly winged and channelled on the upper side.

Flower-heads shortly peduncled, an inch and a half to two

inches in diameter, with bright yellow florets. Outer

bracts of the involucre herbaceous, green, pilose, spathulate-

oblong, nearly a quarter of an inch long, acute; inner

larger, membranous, oblong, yellow, pilose outside. Ligu-

late florets usually eight, oblong, two-thirds to slightly

more than three-quarters of an inch long, a quarter to a

third of an inch broad, minutely toothed at the apex.

Receptacle flat, with narrowly oblong scales slightly longer

than the achenes. Achenes oblong-linear, about a fifth of

an inch long, compressed, setulose on the margins and on

the inner side. Pappus small, of short, setose hairs, and

two opposite bristles five or six times shorter than the

achene.—§, A, Sxan.

Fig. 1, part of ray-floret; 2, disk-floret and scale cf the receptacle ;

3, anthers ; 4, upper portion of style :—all enlarged.

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RHODODENDRON Forou.

China.

Ericacem®. Tribe RHODOREZ.

RHODODENDRON, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 599.

Rhododendron Fordii, Hemsl. in Kew Bull. 1894, p. 5; species exaffinitate

R. Fortunei, Lindl. (B. M. t. 5596) et R. brachyearpi, D. Don (B. M.

t. 7881), sed ab ambobus foliis minoribus basi cuneatis et floram colore

differt.

Frutex demum circiter 8-pedalis, ramulis floriferis tortuosis glabrescentibus

apice tantum foliiferis. Folia distincte petiolata, crassa, coriacea,

primum floccoso-tomentosa, fulva, cito glabrescentia, obovato-lanceolata,

2-3 poll. longa, apice rotundata, deorsum attenuata. Corymbi 4-6-flori;

bractese coriaceze, glutinosse, fulvee glabrescentes, lanceolatzw, acute,

exteriores gradatim minores; pedicelli ferrugineo-pubescentes, quam folia

breviores. Flores circiter 3 poll. diametro, intus albi, corolle lobo

superiore roseo maculoso, extus primum roseo-purpurei. Calyx parvus,

lobis triangularibus acutis. Corolla 5-loba, lobis rotundatis emarginatis.

Stamina szepius 10, insequalia, longiora corollam fere equantia, filamentis

infra medium puberulis; anther aurantiace. Ovarium pilis stellatis

vestitum ; stylus stamina paullo excedens, in parte inferiore pilis paucis

glandulosis preeditus. Capsula ignota.

The genus Rhododendron is spread all around the

northern hemisphere, extending southward to Florida and

California in America, and in the Hast southward to New

Guinea and North Australia, with the greatest concen-

tration of species in China, chiefly in the western provinces.

About 150 Chinese species have been described, and there

are probably not fewer than twenty-five undescribed species

in the Kew Herbarium. Considering the immense areas of

unexplored China in connection with the fact that many,

perhaps most of the species are quite local, the total

number of species inhabiting that country is probably not

under 250. &. Fordii is an eastern species, collected by a

native in Lantao Island, in 1889, for the Hong Kong

Botanic Garden. Lantao, it may be mentioned, is con-

siderably larger than, and lies a little to the west of

Hong Kong. Plants were raised at Kew from seeds sent

in 1894 by Mr. C. Ford, 1.8.0., F.L.S., at that time Super-

intendent of the Hong Kong Botanie Garden, and it has

been widely distributed to other gardens. It is a very

pretty species, the flower-buds being of a bright purple-

red, and the expanded flowers white inside, with a slight

DecEeMBER lst, 1906,

spotting of red on the uppermost lobe. The plant from

which the figure was made flowered in May in a green-

house, and it is not hardy at Kew.

Deser.—A tortuously branched, glabrescent shrub,

reaching a height of eight feet. Leaves clustered at the

tips of the branches, distinctly stalked, thick, leathery,

when young clothed, especially on the undersurface, with

pale brown felt, obovate-lanceolate, two to three inches

long, rounded at the tip, narrowed downwards. Coryibs

four- to six-flowered; bracts leathery, glutinous, lanceo-

late, acute, outer ones gradually smaller; pedicels clothed

with a rusty pubescence, shorter than the leaves. Flowers

about three inches in diameter. Calyx small; teeth

‘triangular, acute. Corolla five-lobed; lobes meahded,

notched. Stamens usually ten, unequal, the longer ones

nearly equalling the corolla; filaments slightly hairy

below the middle; anthers yellow. Ovary clothed with

stellate hairs; style slightly glandular in the lower part,

a little longer than the stamens. Capsule unkuown.—

W. Bortine Hemstey.

Fig. 1, portion of leaf, under surface; 2, hairs from the ovary : 3, calyx and

pistil; 4 ‘and 5, stamens :—all enlarged.

INDEX

To Vol. II. of the Fourtn Ssrigs, or Vol. CX XXII. of the

whole Work.

8098 Abies Mariesii.

8107 Adchmea gigas.

8062 Arachnanthe annamensis.

8052 Asparagus Sprengeri.

8099 Blakea gracilis.

8089 Boronia fastigiata.

8088 Bulbophyllum Ericssoni.

8071 Callopsis Volkensii.

8093 Catasetum galeritum var.

pachyglossum.

8096 Cereus Scheerii.

8066 Ceropegia fusca.

8100 Chlorzea virescens.

8090 Codonopsis Tangshen.

8055 Colchicum crociflorum

8110 Coreopsis Grantii.

8104 Cotyledon divensis. &

8053 Cynorchis compacta.

8070 Cypripedium tibeticum.

8083 Deutzia Wilsoni.

8063 Erica terminalis.

8057 Eulophia nuda.

8076 Euphorbia lophogona.

8082 on procumbens.

8092 Ficus Krishne.

8086 Genista cinerea.

8075 » dalmatica.

8079 Gerbera aurantiaca.

8068 Gladiolus carmineus.

8080 i primulinus.

8078 Gonioscypha eucomoides.

8085 Gurania malacophylla. .

8091 Hedysarum multijugum var.

apiculatum.

8059 Iris sieheana.

8069 Ligustrum strongylophyllum.

8072 Lilium Duchartrei.

8102 ~=~,,. myriophyllum.

8095. Linospadix Micholitzii.

8074 Listrostachys hamata.

8060 Lonicera pileata.

8064 a tragophylla.

8103 Lycaste dyeriana.

8077 Magnolia hypoleuca.

8067 Nepenthes Phyllamphora.

8097 Odontoglossum nevium.

8054 Oxalis adenophylla.

8084 Paphiopedilum glaucophyl-

lum.

8101 Passiflora punctata.

8106 Pleione yunnanensis.

8065 Polygala apopetala.

8108 Pontederia cordata var. lan-

cifolia.

8073 Primula cockburniana.

8061 Prunus triloba.

8111 Rhododendron Fordii.

8081 e Vaseyi.

8087 Rhodostachys pitcairniifolia.

8105 Ribes cruentum.

g094 ,, viburnifolium.

8058 Saxifraga scardica.

8109 Vanda Watsoni.

8056 Wittmackia lingulata,

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