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HIBISCUS Maninor.

Native of China and Japan.

Nat. Ord. Matvacex.—Tribe Hrstsce2.

Genus Hisiscus, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 207).

Hisiscus (Abelmoschus) Manihot; herba annua vy. 2-3-ennis, erecta, robusta,

sparse pilosa, caule simplici v. ramoso, ramis erectis, foliis amplis palmatim

5-7-lobatis lobis lineari-oblongis lanceolatisve grosse dentatis serratis v.

lobulatis, petiolo robusto, stipulis lanceolatis, bracteis parvis pinnatifidis

deciduis stipulis persistentibus instructis, pedicellis robustis florentibus

deflexis, involucelli bracteolis 4-6 ovatis v. ovato-lanceolatis hirsutis

persistentibus, calyce spathaceo 5-dentato basi circumscisso hispido,

corolla 2-53 poll. diam. sulphurea fundo purpurea, tubo staminifero

undique laxe v. confertim antherifero, stigmatibus clavatis decurvis

a ig apice dilatatis retusis, capsula oblonga acuminata pentagona.

hispida.

H. Manihot, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 696. Cav. Diss. vol. iti. p. 172. Thunb. Fl. Jap.

p. 272. Ait. Hort. Kew. Ed. ii. vol. iv. p. 229. Bot. Mag. t. 1702, et t.

3152 (var. 8). DC. Prodr. vol.i. p. 448. Franch, et Sav. Enum. Pl.

Jap. p. 64, Mig. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. vol. iii. p. 19. Masters in

Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. i. p. 341; in Gard. Chron. 1897, vol. ii. p. 249, fig. 74.

W. Wats. in The Garden vol. liii. (1898) p. 127, cum ic.

H. palmatus, Cav. Diff. p. 168, t. 63, fig. 1.

H. papyriferas, Salis. Prodr. p. 38+.

H. pentaphyllus, Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 52; Fl. Ind. vol. iii. p. 212.

H. pungens, Hort.

H. fol. palmato-digitat., &c., Linn. Hort. Upsal. p. 206. Hort. Cliff. p. 300.

Bamia Manihot, Wall. Cat. n. 1926.

Abelmoschus Manihot, Medic. Malvenfam. p. 46.

Ketmia, fol. Manibot., &c., Dill, Hort. Eltham. p. 189, t. 156, fig. 189.

Alcea, fol. Manihot., &c., Pluk. Amalth. p. 7, t. 155, p. 2.

The specimens of II. Manihot, from which the figures

published on Plates 1702 and 3152 of this work were

taken, give no idea of the size and beauty of the flowers

as here represented. It is a native of China and Japan.

Linneus and, following him, Cavanilles and De Candolle,

ive India as its native country, overlooking the testimony

of the * Flora Japonica” and other works. It is, indeed,

commonly cultivated in Indian gardens, having been intro-

duced, according to Roxburgh, from China. The roots,

which are large and soft, yield a mucilage used for stiffening

Janvany Ist, 1901.

paper in Japan, on which account Salisbury unjustifiably

rejected Thunberg’s name for that of papyriyerus.

H. Manihot must have been introduced into England

before the year 1782, when Dillenius described it as a bi-

triennial, growing in Sherard’s garden at Eltham, Aiton

mentions its being cultivated in the Chelsea Garden in

1812, whence a specimen was sent to the Royal Society as

one of the fifty plants claimed annually by the Society as

a condition under which that garden was held by the

Society of Apothecaries (sce Phil. Trans. n. 333, p. 417,

n. 64). The specimen here figured is from a plant in the

Mexican compartments of the Temperate House of the

Royal Gardens, which made in three months shoots nine

feet high, flowered for two consecutive months, and

ripened seed.

Deser.—A tall, erect, stout, sparsely hairy, annual or

bi-triennial, four to nine feet: high; branches terete, erect.

Leaves up to a foot in diameter, orbicular or orbicular-

ovate in circumscription, palmately five- to seven-lobed,

lobes linear-oblong or lanceolate, acuminate, coarsely

toothed serrate or lobulate, dark green; petiole stout,

about as long as the blade; stipules lanceolate or subulate.

Bracts at the base of the pedicels small, pinnatifid, stipu-

late, deciduous, except the stipules. Flowers two to five

and a half inches in diameter, pedicels deflexed when

flowering, erect in fruit. Involucel of four to six ovate-

or ovate-lanceolate, acute, persistent, hirsute, bracteoles

half an inch to an inch long. Calyx rather longer than

the involucel, spathaceous, five-toothed, circumsciss at

the base. Corolla pale yellow, purple at the base, lobes

rounded. Staminiferous column loosely or closely covered

with anthers, Stigmas decurved, purple, tips dilated,

retuse. Capsule oblong, acute, one to two inches long,

acuminate, hispid.—J. D. H.

‘Fig. 1, portion of carpels and of staminal tube with style and stigmas;

2 aud 3, anthers; 4, seed (nat. size); 5, seed :—All but fig. 4 enlarged.

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LHOTSKYA Errcores.

Native of King George's Sound.

Nat. Ord. Myrtacex.—Tribe CHAMALAUCIE,

Genus Luortskyra, Schau.; (Benth. & Hook, f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 699.)

Luotsyka ericoides; fruticulus erectus, foliosus, ramulis erectis virgatis

glanduloso-pilosulis, foliis }-pollicaribus erecto-patentibus subconfertis

anguste linearibus fere acicularibus teretibus strictis obtusis vel apicalatis

glaberrimis, floribus axillaribus sessilibus secus ramulos confertis in

fasciculos cylindraceos dispositis 2-bracteolatis, bracteolis subulatis

calycis tubum elongatum 6-costatum costis scaberulis subzequantibus,

calycis lobis parvis ovato-rotundatis, petals calyce fere duplo longioribus

lineari-lanceolatis acutis, staminibus numerosis petalis equilongis,

antheris minimis flavis.

L. ericoides, Schauer in Lindl. Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. Ed. ii. p. 439; in

Linnea, vol. x. (1835-6) p. 809; im Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. vol. xix.

Suppl. IL. (1841) p. 285; Plant. Preiss. vol. i. p. 103. Benth. Fl. Austral.

vol. iil. p. 55.

L. seabra, Zurez.in Bull. Soc, Nat. Mosc. 1862, vol. ii. p. 324,

L. hirta, Rege?, Gartenfi. vol. xii. (1863), p. 337, t. 415; iz Trans. Hort. Soe.

Russ. 1863, t. 141 ic. it.

Lhotskya is a genus of eight species, natives of South

and Western Australia, from Victoria westwards, of which

L. ericoides is confined to the King George’s Sound and

the adjoining district. The genus is so closely allied to

the much larger one of Calythriz (see tab. 3323), differing

only in the absence of a bristle terminating each calyx-

lobes, that it might well be regarded as a section of the

latter. The name it bears is that of Johann Lhotsky, a

traveller and naturalist who collected in Madeira (where I

met him in 1839), Brasil, Australia, and Tasmania. He

was author of a paper on the Botanical Geography of New

Holland, published in ‘ Hooker’s London Journal of

Botany,” vol. ii. (1843), p. 135.

The specimen here figured was raised from seeds col-

lected in Australia by Mr. James Veitch in 1898, and was

presented by him to the Royal Gardens, Kew, where it

flowered in a cool house in June, 1900. It was then about

two feet high.

Descr.—A. small, erect, nearly glabrous shrub, with

slender, strict, erect branches, covered with needle-like

JaNvuARY lst, 1901,

leaves; branches sparsely glandular-hairy. Leaves about

half an inch long, erecto-patent, strict, very narrowly

linear, almost acicular, terete, obtuse or apiculate, bright

green, quite glabrous. Flowers small, axillary, solitary

from each leaf axil, but together forming cylindrical

fascicles about the middle of the leafing branchlets, sub-

sessile, bibracteolate. Bracteoles subulate, about as long

as the calyx-tube. Calyzx-tube narrow, cylindric, five-ribbed,

ribs scaberulous; lobes very small, orbicular. Petals

about twice as long as the calyx-tube, subulate, acuminate,

white or nearly so. Stamens very many; filaments rather

longer than the petals; anthers minute, very pale yellow.

Style very slender.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, portion of branch and leaf; 2, flower and bracteoles; 3, the same

with the petals removed ; 4 and 5, anthers :—Ali enlarged,

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SARCOCHILUS titacinos.

Native of the Malayan Peninsula and Islands,

Nat. Ord. Orcu1DE&.—Tribe VANDEX.

Genus SarcocuHi.vs, Br.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 575.)

Sarcocuitus (Cuculla) lilacinus; glaberrimus, caule scandente subrobusto

elongato basi decumbente, radicibus elongatis vaginas folioruam perforan--

tibus, foliis carnosulis alternis oblongis v. ovato-oblongis patenti-recurvis

apicibus subacutis recurvis basi cordatis amplexicaulibus dorso carinatis

enerviis pallide viridibus, pedunculis 8-10-pollicaribus robustis vaginis

2-3 obtusis ornatis, racemo 1-8-pollicari pauci- v. multifloro, rhachi

crassa compressa, bracteis distichis ovatis obtusis carnosis, floribus breviter

pedicellatis ad 14 poll. latis pallide roseo-lilacinis, sepalis petalisque

patulis late ovatis subacutis, labello sepalis dimidio breviore stipitato

saccato, lobis lateralibus brevibus incurvis terminali rotundato, disco callo

truncato pubescente instructo.

S. lilacinus, Griff. Notul. vol. iii. p. 3384; Ic. Pl. Asiat. t. 320, f£.2. Hook.f. Fl.

Brit. Ind vol. vi. p. 40. Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. per. ii. vol. iii.

(1893) p. 371.

S. lilacinus & amplexicaulis, Heichd. f. in Walp. Ann. vol. vi. p. 499.

Dendrocolla amplexicaulis, Blume Bijdr. p. 288.

Airides amplexicaule, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. p. 239,

Orsidice amplexicaulis and lilacinus, Reichd. f. in Bonplandia, vol. ii. p. 93.

Eig aoe amplexicaule & T. lilacinum, Reichb. f. Xen. Orchid. vol. ii,

p. 121.

Sarcochilus lilacinus is a native of swamps in the

Malayan Peninsula, from Perak southward to Singapore ;

also of Java, where it was described by Blume in 1825,

Its habit of growth, climbing amongst bushes, is very

unusual in the Order to which it belongs. The specimen

figured was sent to the Royal Gardens, Kew, from

Singapore by Mr. H. N. Ridley, M.A., F.L.S., Director

of Forests and Gardens, Singapore. It flowered in a

warm house in June, 1900, the individual flowers lasting

only one day.

Descr.—Stem about as thick as a crow-quill, decumbent

below, then ascending and more or less scandent, by aid

of the long vermiform white roots, which perforate the

tubular, closely appressed leaf-sheaths. Leaves alternate,

one and a half to two inches long, oblong or ovate-oblong,

Janvaky Isr, 1901,

base cordate and amplexicaul, tip sub-acute, recurved,

pale green, keeled beneath. Peduncles eight to ten inches

long, erect, bearing two or three tubular, appressed, obtuse

sheaths. .Raceme one to eight inches long; rhachis very

stout, compressed, few- or many-flowered; bracts dis-

tichous, ovate, obtuse, fleshy. lowers very shortly pedi-

celled, about an inch and a half broad, pale rose-lilac.

Sepals and petals sub-equal, ovate, sub-acute. Lip much

shorter than the sepals, shortly clawed, saccate ; lateral

lobes short, obtuse, incurved, terminal much broader,

rounded; disk with a broad, linear, truncate, pubescent

callus. Pollinia two perfect, oblong, each with an imper-

fect, much smaller one, adnate to it, seated on a lobulate

gland.— J. D. H.

Fig. 1, lip; 2, vertical section of same; 3, column ; 4, anther; 5 and 6, pollinia:

—All enlarged.

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PYRUS TIANscHANICA.

Native of Central Asia,

Nat. Ord. Rosacem.—Tribe Powrs.

Genus Pravs, Linn. ; (Benth, & Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 626.)

Pruxvs (Sorbus) tianschanica; arbor — foliis impari-pinnatis glaberrimis

(novellis tomentosis), foliolis 6~7-jagis lanceolatis acuminatis serrulatis

basin versus integerrimis subcoriaceis supra saturate viridibus opacis

subtus pallidis, nlis lanceolatis branneis caducis, paniculis corymbo-

sis axillaribus givasbale laxifloria, floribus ad } poll. diam. breviter

cellatia, bracteis minutis subvlatis caducis, calycis pubescentis lobis

triangularibas acutis, petalis albis, carpellis 5 hireutis, fructu

globoso § poll. diam.

P. tianschanica, Franch. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. vi. vol. xvi. (1883) p. 287.

P. thianschanica, Rupr. ex Regel, Gartenfl. vol. xl, (1891) p. 7, f. 4.

Sorbus tianschanica, Rupr. Sert. Tiansch. p. 46.

The Mountain Ash here figured is the close ally and

Central Asiatic representative of the European P. Aucu-

it wvered by Baron Osten Sacken and Dr.

gel, during their expedition to the Tianschan

7. It has also been collected in about the same

latitude, but much further east, in the mountains of the

Chinese Province of Kansu (north of the Gobi desert), by

Przewalski.

The specimen figured is from a small tree in the

Arboretum of the Royal Gardens, Kew, which was pur-

chased in 1896 from Messrs, Transon Bros., Orleans,

France, which flowered in May, 1900, and fruited in the

following July.

Descr.—A small tree, with the habit of P. Aucuparia,

young shoots tomentose. Leaves about six inches long,

shortly petioled, impari-pinnate ; leaflets six to seven pairs

and a terminal, two inches long, lanceolate, acuminate,

serrulate, quite glabrous, rather thick in texture, upper

Jaxvant Ist, 1901.

surface dark green, not shining, tender, pale green.

Stipules half an inch long, lanceolate, pale brown, cadu-

cous. Panicles axillary, together forming a terminal

corymb, loosely many-flowered, quite glabrous. Bracts

minute, subulate, deciduous. Flowers shortly pedicelled,

three-fourths of an inch in diameter. Calyx pubescent,

lobes. broadly triangular, acute. Petals white. Carpels

five, hirsute. Berries globose, one-third of an inch in

diameter, bright right.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, flower; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, carpel :—All enlarged.

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ALLIUM Ostrowsktanum.

Native of Western Turkestan.

Nat. Ord. Litiacra.—Tribe ALLIEA.

Genus Atiium, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 802.)

ALLIUM (Schenoprasum) Ostrowskianum; bulbo subgloboso, tunicis tenuibus

integris, foliis 2 supra-basilaribus umbellam superantibus ad 3 poll. latis

linearibus acuminatis concavis flaccidis glaucis, spathee valvis ovatis

acaminatis pedicellis filiformibus pollicaribus multoties brevioribus, um-

bella globosa multiflora capsulifera, perianthii segmentis basi connatis

ellipticis subacutis ad } poll. longis late roseis interioribus majoribus,

filamentis supra basin segmentorum insertis ima basi connatis exteriori-

bus triangularibus brevissime mucronatis interioribus angustioribus,

antheris oblongis apiculatis, ovario substipitato late ovoideo trilobo,

stylo brevi, stigmate minuto 8-lobo.

A. Ostrowskianum, Regel in Act. Hort. Petrop. vol. vii. (1880) p. 545;

Gartenfl. vol. xxxi. (1882) p. 225, t. 1089.

The very handsome Allium here figured was discovered

in Western Turkestan by Mr. Fetisow, who sent bulbs of it

to the Imperial Botanical Gardens of St. Petersburg,

where it was described by the monographer of the genus,

Dr. Regel. It bears the name of the Russian Minister of

Imperial Domains, Michael Nicolajewitsch von Ostrowski, a

liberal promoter of science. It has long been in cultivation

in the Royal Gardens, Kew, where it flowers annually in

an open border, but the specimen figured was communicated

by the Hon. Charles Ellis, of Trensham Hall, Haslemere,

in June of last year.

Descr.—Bulb sub-globose, outer seeds thin, entire.

Leaves two, a foot and a half to two feet long, by two-

thirds of an inch broad, linear, acuminate, concave above,

flaccid, pale green, glaucous. Scape much shorter than

the leaves, slender, terete. Umbel globose, laxly many-

flowered, about three and a half inches in diameter.

Spathes two, very short, ovate, acuminate. Pedicels an

inch long, very slender. Flowers cup-shaped. Perianth-

seyments half an inch long, bright rose-red, with a green

median nerve, elliptic, sub-acute, connate at the base,

inner much smaller. Stamens half the length of the

Janvaky Ist, 1901.

perianth-segments, inserted above the bases of the seg-

ments; filaments connate at the very base, of the outer

stamens triangular, with a minute, subulate tip, of the

inner much narrower; anthers small, oblong, apiculate.

Ovary shortly stipitate, broadly ovoid, three-lobed ; style

very short, stigma minutely three-cleft.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, three perianth-sezments and stamens; 2, ovary.

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AGAVE Pracocku.

Native of Central Mevico.

Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDEX.—Tribe AGAVEX.

Genus AcavE, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 738.)

Agave (Littza) Peacockii; acaulis, foliis densissime rosulatis in catervam

subhemisphericam 4 ped. diam. congestis extimis patulis intimis erectis

omnibus ensiformi-oblanceolatis coriaceo-carnusis medio 4 poll. latis

apice in spinam rigidam fere pollicarem brunneam productis basin

versus angustatis saturate viridibus medio versus pallidis, marginibus non

corneis, spinis marginalibus inequalibus irregulariter subdistanter insertis

brunneis majoribus e basi elongata nunc fere 3 poll. longa repente

incurvis pungentibus, scapo cum inflorescentia 14 ped. alto viridi inferne

bracteis lanceolatis sparsis aucto, inflores entia valde angusta subspice-

formi stricta e fasciculis innumeris crasse pedunculatis 3-5-floris constante,

pedicellis brevibus crassis, bracteis 1-3-pollicaribus subulato-lanceolatis

bracteolisque minoribus brunneis membranaceis, floribns 2-22 poll. longis

erectis, ovario fusiformi terete saturate viridi, perianthii segmentis ovario

paullo brevioribus lineari-oblongis obtusis medio crasse coriaceis dorso

viridibus sanguineo punctatis marginibus membranaceis, filamentis seg-

mentis fere duplo longioribus robustis pallide viridibus, antheris magnis

3 poll. longis viridibus, stylo robusto filamentis longiore, stigmate clavato.

A. Peacockii, Croucher in Gard. Chron. 1873, p. 1400, fig. 283. Baker, Handé.

Amaryll. p. 171.

The flowering of a previously unfigured Agave is a satis-

factory event, because without good figures made from

specimens in a flowering condition, the determination

by descriptions alone of the species of this large and econo-

mically important genus is never satisfactory. As re-

gards A. Peacockii such a figure was especially needed,

for the original description, made from a young flower-

less specimen, is quite insufficient for the identification

of the species. Fortunately there can be no doubt as

to the Agave here figured being that to which the

name Peacochkii is given, for it is the type specimen pur-

chased by the Royal Gardens at the sale in 1889 of the

rich collection of Succulents formed by the late Mr.

Peacock, of Hammersmith. It flowered in the Palm House

of the Royal Gardens in December, 1899, having thrown

up a scape which, with the inflorescence, was fourteen and

Feprvuary Ist, 1901.

a half feet hich. It is a native of the province of Tehua-

can, in Central Mexico, whence it was imported by Mr.

Roezl. |

Deser.—Stemless. Leaves densely rosulate, forming a

_gub-hemispheric cluster nearly four feet in diameter, the

outermost spreading horizontally, the innermost erect, all

about two feet long by four inches broad above the middle,

oblong-ensiform or oblanceolate, contracted above the base,

terminated by a rigid brown, strict spine an inch long,

thickly fleshy, strict, rigid, slightly convex above, more

so beneath; upper surface very dark green, paler to-

wards the centre; margins not cartilaginous in an old

state, beset rather distantly and irregularly with unequal,

short, brown spines, the largest of which consist of an

elongate base, sometimes half an inch long, suddenly con-

tracted into an incurved, pungent tip. Scape with the

very narrow, spiciform panicle, fourteen and a half feet

high, strict, erect, clothed below with distant subulate-

lanceolate bracts. Inflorescence of innumerable very short,

stout, sub-erect, green, bracteate peduncles, bearing clusters

of three to five bracteolate, shortly, stoutly pedicelled,

sub-erect, green flowers two to two and a half inches long.

Bracts one to three inches long, and smaller bracteoles

subulate-lanceolate, membranous, brown. Ovary fusiformly

cylindric, green, smooth. Perianth-segments not as long

as the ovary, linear-oblong, obtuse, thickly fleshy, green

with blood-red spots, margins rather broadly winged,

membranous, pale green. Filaments about twice as long

as the perianth, very stout, erect; anthers half an inch

ce we rather longer than the stamens, stigma clavate.

. Fig. 1, upper third of leaf; 2, cluster of flowers, both of nat. size; 3, leat

half nat. size; 4 and 5, stamens: 6, ti sti #

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NEILLIA Torrey.

Native of the Rocky Mountains.

Nat. Ord. Rosacea.—Tribe Srir#eEa,

Genus Neri, D. Don; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. i. p. 612.)

Nuitura (Physocarpus) Torreyi; frutex humilis, ramis robustis cortice nigro

tectis, foliis ad 14 poll. latis breviter petiolatis orbiculari-ovatis apice

rotundatis basi profunde cordatis breviter trilobis crenulatis glabris vel

sparse puberulis supra saturate viridibus nervis impressis subtus pallidis

nervis prominulis, stipulis linearibus petiolo paullo brevioribus, floribus

in corymbos fere globosos terminales breviter pedunculatos congestis

brevissime pedicellatis, calycis stellato-tomentosi tubo hemispherico lobis

ovatis obtusis intus glabris, petalis orbicularibus calycis lobos vix superan-

tibus, staminibus ad 30 triseriatis petalis brevioribus, carpellis 2 stipite

brevi insidentibus stellato-tomentosis connatis apicibus liberis in stylos

filiformes attenuatis, maturis coriaceis ventro dehiscentibus, oligospermis,

seminibus obovoideo-oblongis, testa pallida nitida.

N. Torreyi, S. Wats. in Proc. Am. Acad. vol. xi. (1876) p. 186. Brew. &

Wats. in Bot. Calif. vol. i. p. 171 in note.

N. malvacea, Greene in Pittonia, vol. ii. (1889) p. 30.

N. monogyna, var, malvacea, Jones in Zoe, vol. iv. (1893-4) p. 43.

Spiresa monogyna, Torrey in Ann. Lye. N. York, vol. ii. (1828) p. 194. Katon

& Wright, N. Am. Bot. p. 441.

8. opulifolia, var. y. Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. vol.i. p.171. Torr. & Gray, Fl. N.

Am, vol. i. p. 414. Porter, Fl. Colorado, p. 33 (var. parvifolia.)

S. pauciflora, Nutt. in Torr. & Gr. Le.

Physocarpus Torreyi, Maaim. in Act. Hort. Petrop. vol. vi. (1879) p, 221.

— Man, Bot. Rocky Mount., p. 78. S. Wats. in Bot. Calif. vol. ii.

p- *

Opulaster malvacea, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. vol. ii. p. 949.

Epicostorus montanus, Rafin. At/ant. Journ. 1832, p. 144.

Neillia Torreyt ranges over a considerable area of North

America, from British Columbia, along the Rocky Moun-

tain region, at elevations of six thousand ft. to ten

thousand ft., to New Mexico. I collected it when travel-

ling with Dr. Gray in 1879, at La Veta, in Colorado, at

above nine thousand ft. elevation. It forms, with other

American species and a Manchurian (N. amurensis) a very

distinct section of Neillia with corymbose flowers and

other characters, regarded as a genus and named

Physocarpa by Rafinesque, altered to Physocarpus and

retained as a genus by Maximovicz and others.

FEsrvary Ist, 1901.

A plant of N. Torreyi was received by the Royal

Gardens, Kew, in 1897, from Professor Sargent, of the

Arnold Arboretum, near Boston, which now forms a bush

about three feet high, which flowered in the Arboretum

in July, 1900.

Deser.—A robust shrub; bark black. Leaves one to one

and a half inches long, orbicular-ovate, shallowly three-

lobed, lobes and tip rounded, crenate, base deeply cordate,

sinus narrow, sparsely stellately pubescent, dark green

above, with deeply impressed nerves, pale beneath, with

prominent nerves; petiole much shorter than the blade.

Stipules linear, nearly as long as the petiole. Flowers —

about half an inch broad, in dense, terminal, shortly

peduncled corymbs, one to one and a half inches

in diameter, shortly pedicelled, white. Calyx stellately

tomentose ; tube hemispheric ; lobes ovate, obtuse, glabrous

within. Petals orbicular, as long as the calyx-lobes.

Stamens about thirty, triseriate. Carpels two, on a short

stipes, turgidly oblong, united at their ventral sutures 60

above the middle, narrowed into filiform styles, mature

dehiscing. Seeds not numerous, obovoid, pale, smooth,

polished.—J, D. H, °

Fig. 1, unexpanded flower; 2, section of calyx with stamens and carpels j

3, ripe carpels; 4, stellate hairs of the flowers; 5, seeds :—all enlarged.

Postscript.—As this sheet was passing throngh the press I received from

my friend Mr. B. L. Robinson, Keene af ie Ont Fechaciam, Harvat

University, U.S.A., to whom I had appliel for information as to the specific

validity of WV. malvacea as distinct from N. Torreyi, a-note to the effect, that

Mcsty the distinctions between them do not sound very strong, there seems

little difficulty in distinguishing them.” The characters of each which

he gives me are :—

N. malvacea; carpels 2-3, leaves finely pubescent upon both surfaces,

usually becoming tawny in drying.

- dV. Torreyi ; carpels 1-2, leaves smaller,

adds that the two forms have a pretty definite range, IV, malvacea, from

Oregon and tke northern Rocky Mountains, Washington, and Idaho, to Utah,

Nevada and Western Texas; N. Torreyi from S. Dakota Wyoming, and wes

Rocky Mountains of Colorado, to New Mexico, :

From this it may be concluded that the fi

N. malvacea, though the leaves are

puberulous with deciduous hairs be

essentially glabrous. Mr. Robinson

gure here given is of the form

glabrous ahove and only very sparsely

neath.—J.D.H., January 25th, 1901.

Tap. 7759.

VERONICA atavca.

Native of Greece.

Nat, Ord. ScropHULARINEZ.—Tribe DiGiITALER.

Genus Veronica, Linn.; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 964.)

Veronica (Veronicastrum) glauca; annua, suberecta, ramosa, caule ramisque

oppositis gracilibus subbifariam laxe pubescentibus, foliis breviter

petiolatis late ovatis obtusis crenato-dentatis basi rotundatis vel subcor-

datis supra glabris subtus pilosulis, floralibus bracteiformibus parvis

angustis 2-3-lobatis supremis integris, racemis laxifloris, pedicellis filifor-

mibus calyce 3-5-plo longioribus fructiferis patulis apice recurvis, calycis

segmentis ellipticis obtusis pubescentibus paribus valde inzequalibus

longioribus corolla brevioribus, corolla lobis subequalibus ceruleis basi

albis, capsula orbiculata trancato-subretusa glabra v. parce pilosa, loculis

6-7-spermis, seminibus cyathiformibus concavo-convexis,

V. glauca, Sibth. & Sm. Fl. Gree. i. p. 6,t. 7. Benth. in DO. Prodr. vol, x.

p. 484. Boiss, Fl. Orient. vol. iv. p. 461.

V. greeca, Sprun. Pl. Greec. exsice. ew Boiss, l.c.

V.ameena, Heldr. Herb. Norm, ex Nym. Consp. p. 548, non Stev.

Bentham, in De Candolle’s ‘‘ Prodromus,” doubts JV.

glauca being specifically distinct from V. amena, Bieb.

This arises from imperfect knowledge of the latter plant,

which he confounds with V. greca, Sprun., and hence

erroneously describes it as having pedicels twice or thrice

as long as the calyx. The fact is that V. greca is

a synonym of V. glauca. V. amena has very short

pedicels, and further differs from V. glauca in its small

size (two to three inches high), glandular hairs, lanceolate

sepals, and native country (Armenia). V. peduncularis,

Bory & Chaub. (non Bieb.), also cited in the ‘* Prodromus ”

under V. amena, differs both from that plant and from

V. glauca in the glabrous capsule two-lobed to the middle.

Veronica glauca is a native of sandy fields in Attica,

where it was discovered by Sibthorp, on Mount Hymettus,

near Athens, and it has also been collected in Crete. The

specimen figured here was raised from seeds presented to

the Royal Gardens, Kew, by the Hon. Charles Ellis, of

Frensham Hall. It flowered in June in the Herbaceous

ground, and is an annual. The flowers are smaller than

Fepruary Ist, 1901.

in the native specimens, in which, according to Boissier,

the corolla is three times as long as the calyx.

Descr.—A slender, much-branched annual, branches

opposite, loosely subifariously pubescent. Leaves one half

to three-fourths of an inch long, shortly petioled, broadly

ovate, obtuse, crenate-toothed, glabrous above, puberulous

beneath ; floral bracteiform, smaller, narrower, two to

three-lobed, uppermost entire. Pedicels half to one inch

long, very slender, fruiting spreading, tips recurved.

Calyx one-third to half an inch long, pubescent, divided to

the base into two very unequal elliptic pairs of segments.

Corolla three-fourths of an inch in diameter ; lobes bright

blue, white at the base, three upper orbicular-ovate, lower

rather longer, spathulately obovate. Filaments shorter

than the corolla-lobes. Capsule sub-orbicular, retusely

truncate. Seeds concavo-convex.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, calyx; 2, corolla and stamens; 3, ovary; 4, capsule :—AJ enlarged.

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ECHIDNOPSIS BeNtTII.

Native of Southern Arabia,

Nat. Ord. AscLePIADEm#.—Tribe CEROPEGIE.

Genus Ecurpnorsis, Hook. f.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 781 )

Ecutpnorsis, Bentii; caulibus fuscis 7-8-costatis costis mamillatis, mamil-.

lis uniseriatis folio minuto ovato cuspidato concavo coronatis, floribus

apices versus ramorum binis breviter pedicellatis, calycis segmentis del-

toideo-ovatis glabris, corolla vix 34 poll. diam. extus viridi-purpureo

maculata intus velutina saturate purpurea, tubo brevi campanulata, limbi

patentis lobis late ovatis apiculatis marginibus revolutis, corona exteriore

cupulari pentagona truncata purpurea angulis acutis parum productis,

interioris lobis erecto-conniventibus breviter clavatis obtusis basi fundo

exterioris adnatis.

E. Bentii, N. ZL. Brown in Kew Bulletin, ined.

The genus Hehidnopsis was established in this Magazine,

tab. 5930, on a South African species, H. cereiformis, of the

same habit as H. Bentii, but much larger, of a bright green

colour, with yellow flowers. Recently other species have

been added to the genus, one of which, #. Dammanniana,

a native of Arabia, is, according to Mr. N. E. Brown,

closely allied to H. Bentii, differing in the corona.

EH. Bentii was found in Southern Arabia, the exact

locality unknown, by the intrepid traveller whose name it —

bears. It was sent to Kew by him shortly before his

death, together with fragments of other plants collected

during his last expedition, probably in the Hadramaut

district, to the East of Aden. It flowered in a warm

house of the Royal Gardens, Kew, in June, 1899.

Descr.—Whole plant at present five to six inches high,

consisting of a short stem, with ascending branches of a

pale brown colour. Stem and branches one-half to three-

quarters of an inch in diameter, the latter narrowing

upwards, seven to eight-ribbed, each rib consisting of a

single series of mamille, each of which is crowned by a

minute, ovate, concave, cuspidate leaf, about one-twentieth

of an inch long. Flowers in pairs towards the tips of the

branches, very shortly pedicelled, half an inch in diameter.

Calyx-segments ovate-lanceolate, acute. Corolla with a

Fesrvaky lst, 1901.

short, campanulate tube, and five spreading lobes, exter-

nally green, spotted with purple, internally velvety, of a

rich, deep, vinous-purple colour; lobes ovate, apiculate,

margins revolute, Outer corona cupular, acutely five-

angled, truncate, purple; inner of five erect and conniving,

shortly clavate lobes, which are adnate at the base to the

base of the outer corona.—.J. D. H.

Fig. 1, portion of a mamilla and leaf; 2, back, and 3, front view of flower}-

4, corona; 5, pollinia :—All enlarged.

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ROSA Serapuini.

Native of Italy.

Nat. Ord. Rosacra.—Tribe Rosza.

Genus Rosa, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 625.)

Rosa (Rubiginosee) Seraphini; frutex humilis, erectus, ramosissimus, ramis

ramulisque crebre armatis, aculeis insequalibus faleato-decurvis compressis

basi dilatatis, foliis 1-2 _ longis, petiolo brevi rhachique gracili,

foliolis 7 parvis orbicularibus late ovatisve glanduloso-dentatis supra

saturate viridibus, snbtus pallidis — inter nervos paucis, stipulis

linearibus acuminatis, floribus solitariis ad 1} poll, diam., pedunculo

brevi tuboque calycis ellipsoideo glaberrimis, sepalis petalis paullo breviori-

bus patentibus parce glandulosis post anthesim reflexis appendicibus

anguste oblongo-lanceolatis, petalis lete roseis, ovariis sericeo-pilosis

pisiformibus rubris demum nigris sepalis persistentibus coronatis,

R. Seraphini, Viviani, Fl. Corsic. Sp. Nov. p. 8; Fl. Inyb. Spec. p. 67

(Serafini). Bertol. Fl. Ital. vol. v. p. 194. DU. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 625

(Serafinti). Gussone Fl. Sic. Prodr. vol. i. p. 574; Fl. Sic. Synop.i. p. 564.

Moris, Fl. Sardoa. vol. ii. p. 40. Arcang. Compend, Fl. Ital. p. 226.

Crepin in Compt. Rend. Soe. Roy. Bot. Belg. 1892, p.88. Pojero, Fl. Sic.

vol. i. pars II. p, 187.

R. apennina, Woods, Tourist’s Flora, p. 123.

R. cretica, var. Serafini, Wallr. Ros. Pl. Gen. p. 145.

R. glutinose, Sibth. & Sm. forma, Parlat. Fl. Ital. vol. x. p. 26.

R. graveolens, var. y. corsica, Gren. & Godr. Fl. Fr. vol. i. p. 561.

R. parvifolia, Sanguin. Cent. Fl. Rom. p, 70 (ex Moris, l.c.).

Rk. Seraphini is a dwarf rose of peculiar habit, closely

allied to R. agrestis, Savi, which differs from it in habit,

in the leaves narrowed to the tip, with many glands

beneath, and in the eglandular reflexed caducous sepals.

It was published as Seraphini and Serafini in the same

year by its author, of which names the former is that

usually adopted, though, according to a note by J. Gay in

the Kew Herbarium, Serafino is that of the botanist after

whom the species is named, The habitats recorded for it

by Arcangeli are stony places above one thousand six

hundred ft. elevation in the Apuan Alps, Corsica, Sar-

dinia, and Sicily; and, for two varieties, the Maritime

Alps.

The specimen figured is from a plant raised from seed

received at the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1894, from the

Feprvaey Ist, 1901.

Innsbriick Botanical Gardens, which flowered in June, 1900,

in the Arboretum, it being then a foot high.

Descr.—A low, densely branching and leafing bush, with

spreading or deflexed branches, closely covered with un-

equal, hooked, flattened prickles. Leaves one and a half to

two inches long; petiole and rhachis slender; leaflets

seven, orbicular, or very broadly ovate, tip rounded or

acute, acutely toothed, lateral about half an inch long,

terminal larger, all dark green, sparsely glandular beneath ;

stipules narrow, acuminate. lowers solitary, shortly

peduncled, about an inch and a ‘quarter in diameter ;

peduncle and ellipsoid calyx-tube quite smooth. Sepals

rather shorter than the bright, rose-coloured petals, margins

Sparsely glandular; appendices oblong-lanceolate. Fruit

pisiform, red, at length black, crowned with the persistent

sepals.—J. D. H.

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HYMENOCALLIS SCHIZOSTEPHANA.

Native of Brazil.

Nat. Ord. AMaryLurpEa#.—Tribe AMARYLLE&,

Genus Hymenocattis, Salish.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 734.)

HymeEnocatuis schizostephana; bulbo ovoideo, foliis ad 8 distichis oblongo-

lanceolatis 1-14 ped. longis 24-34 poll. latis in petiolum latum concavum

angustatis late viridibus costa subtus crassa, nervis numerosis nervulis

oblique trabeculatis, ecapo terminali ultrapedali valido compresso pallide

viridi, umbella multiflora, spathis extimis 8-10 lineari-lanceolatis obtusis

1-2 poll. longis membranaceis albis, interioribus paucis wquilongis

linearibus, floribus sessilibus, perianthii tubo 2-24-pollicari viridi, seg-

mentis 3-pollicaribus loriformibus albis, staminum corona 34 poll. longa

infundibulari 6-fida v. -partita, lobis edentatis, filamentis gracilibus,

antheris linearibus 4 poll. longis, stigmate capitellato.

Hf. schizostephana, Worsley in Gard, Chron, 1899, vol. i. p. 386.

A very distinct species of a genus numbering upwards

of thirty species, natives of the New World, and chiefly

tropical. It is a near ally of H. tubiflora, Salish. (Pancra-

tium guianense, Gawl. in Bot. Reg. t. 265), a native of

Demerara, from which it differs in the paler leaves with

trabeculate nervation, in the compressed not two-edged

scape, in the more numerous, shorter, white spathe-valves,

in the much shorter perianth-tube and segments, and in

the shorter six-fid or six-partite corona. It is also closely

allied to H. angustwm, Herb. (Pancratium angustum,

Gawl. in Bot. Reg. t. 221, referred to H. caribea, Herb.,

by Baker), in which the corona has triangular lobes between

the stamens, and which has more slender filaments, a

shorter perianth-tube, and narrower perianth-segments.

A bulb of H. schizostephana was presented to the Royal

Gardens, Kew, by A. Worsley, Esq., of Mandeville House,

Isleworth, the possessor of a fine collection of bulbous

plants and of drawings of the same. It flowered in

a warm greenhouse in June, 1899. The flowers are

fragrant.

Deser.—Bulb ovoid. Leaves about eight, distichous,

twelve to eighteen inches long by two and a half to three

and a half inches broad, oblong-lanceolate, narrowed into

Marcu Ist, 1901,

a broad petiole; nerves trabeculate. Scape about a foot —

high, stout, compressed. Umbel many-fild.; outer spathes

eight to ten, one to two inches long, linear-lanceolate, |

obtuse; inner as long, narrower ; flowers sessile. Perianth-

tube two to two and a half inches long, green; segments

rather longer, loriform, white. Staminal crown infundi-

bular, half an inch long, six-fid or -partite, edentate; —

cele slender; anthers linear. Stigma capitellate.—

ei. Te

Fig. 1, staminal crown; 2 and 3, anthers; 4, top of style and stigma :—a

enlarged ; 5, reduced view of whole plant.

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MODECCA sENENSIS.

Native of Mozambique and Delagoa Bay.

Nat, Ord. PassirLorea.—Tribe Mopxccea,

Genus Movecoa, Lam.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 818.)

Mopxrcca (Microblepharis) senensis ; glaberrima, caule gracili ramoso scandente

tereti, foliis ambitu late ovatis palmatim 5-partitis supra saturate

viridibus subtus glaucis, segmentis lateralibus paribus oppositis dispositis

sessilibus lineari-oblongis obtusis integerrimis, terminali majore trilobo

basi cuneato in petiolulum canaliculatum angustato lobis oblongis

obtusis, petiolo lamina breviore canaliculato apice utrinque glandula magna

instructo, stipulis minutis subulatis caducis, cymis axillaribus dichotomis

laxifloris cirrhiferis, bracteis minutis sparsis, floribus masce. pollicaribus,

calyce anguste campanulato in pedicellum brevem articulatum attenuato

stramineo breviter 5-lobo basi intus puberulo et glandulis 5 stipitatis

ornato, lobis ovato-oblongis obtusis recurvis, petalis medio tubi insertis.

parvis lineari-oblongis inclusis, filamentis in tubum apice 5-fidum

conpatis, antheris lineari-oblongis.

M. senensis, Mast, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. ii. p. 513.

Clemanthus senensis, Klotzsch in Peters Naturwiss. Reise in Mossambig. Bot.

p. 143.

Modecca is a genus of tropical African Asiatic, and

Australian plants, containing nearly forty known species.

It is almost unknown in cultivation, only one having

hitherto been figured in any English Horticultural work,

the M. lobata, Jacq. (Bot. Reg. t. 433), also a tropical

African species. All are unisexual climbers.

M. senensis was discovered in Mozambique by the late

Professor Peters, of Berlin, when engaged in his scientific

exploration of that unhealthy district. More recently it

has been found at Delagoa Bay, whence seeds were sent to

the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1884, by Mrs. Monteiro, from

which plants were raised that flowered in 1899. The

specimen from which the figure is taken is that of a

male plant which climbs the rafters of the Succulent House

of the Royal Gardens, Kew. The flowers are fragrant.

Deser.—A tall, slender, perfectly glabrous, rather

glaucous climber, Stem and branches terete. Leaves

broadly ovate in circumscription, three to four inches long,

palmately five-partite, pale green, glaucous beneath ;

lateral segments in opposite pairs, sessile, linear-oblong,

Marcu Ist, 1901,

obtuse, quite entire, the basal pair smallest; terminal

segment much larger, three-lobed, base cuneate, narrowed

into a channelled petiolule; lobes oblong, tips rounded;

petiole shorter than the leaf, deeply channelled in front,

and with two large, oblong glands, one on each sidejof the

apex. Cymes axillary, dichotomous, few-fld., with a

slender tendrilin the fork. Male flowers shortly pedicelled,

an inch long. Calyx narrowly campanulate, pale yellow,

five-lobed ; lobes spreading and recurved, ovate, sub-acute ;

tube pubescent within, and with stipitate glands at the

very base. Petals very small, linear-oblong, inserted half

way down the tube of the calyx. Filaments united in a

slender tube, bearing five linear anthers.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, base of leaf and apex of patiole showing the glands; 2, vertical

section of male flower; 3 and 4, stamens :—all enlarged. :

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CQSLOGYNE Verrcuit.

Native of New Guinea.

Nat. Ord. Oncurpr.x.—Tribe ErmpenpREs.

Genus Catocynek, Lindl.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 518).

Catocyne (Eucwlogyne) Veitchit; pseudobulbis fasciculatis 3-4-pollicaribus

oblongo-fusiformibus nudis profunde sulcatis demum alte costatis

diphy]lis, surculis vaginis brunneis tectis, foliis 5-9-pollicaribus elliptico-

lanceolatis acutis subcoriaceis 3-nerviis supra saturate viridibus basi in

etiolam brevem brunneum angustatis, scapo basi vaginato cum racemo

acs multifloro pendulo 1-2-pedali, rhachi gracili, bracteis 3-3} poll. longis

obloagis acutis convolutis brunneis diu persistentibus, pedicellis cum

ovario bracteis wquilongis, perianthio subgloboso 43 poll. diam. albo,

sepalis petalixque erectis concavis incurvis, sepalo postico oblongo-

lanceolato acuto lateralibus connatis, petalis sepalis minoribus lanceolatis

demum reflexis, labello sepalis paullo longiore trilobo basi rotundato lobis

lateralibus obtusis colamnam velantibus terminale late ovato acuto

revoluto, disco basi 3-carinato, columna brevi apice dilatata et crenata.

C, Veitchii, Rolfe in Kew Bulletin, 1895, p. 282.

A very distinct species of a genus of which nearly

a hundred species are now known. Mr. Rolfe indicates

the absence of markings on the lip, which bears three

rather obscure basal keels, and the short column as

characters quite different from those of any known con-

geners. It was introduced from western New Guinea by

Mr. Burke, collector for Messrs. Veitch & Sons, who pre-

sented the specimen here figured to the Royal Gardens,

Kew, where it flowered in a hot-house in August, 1900.

The anthers bore no pollinia.

Descr.—Lseudobulbs three to four inches long, oblong-

fusiform, green, naked, when old deeply grooved and

strongly ribbed, two-leaved, emitting from the base stout

surculi, clothed with red-brown imbricating scales. Leaves

five to nine inches long, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, rather

coriaceous, narrowed at the base into a stout brown

petiole, dark green above, with three impressed nerves,

paler and three-ribbed beneath. J?aceme terminal, pendu-

lous, with the scape one to two feet long, laxly many-

flowered ; rhachis slender. Pedicels with the ovary one

Manrcn Ist, 1901,

half to three-fourths of an inch long, slender. Bracts as

long, oblong, acute, convolute, pale red-brown, very per-

sistent. Perianth white, nearly globose, the sepals and

petals being incurved and dorsally very convex, about two-

thirds of an inch in diameter. Sepals oblong-lanceolate,

acute; lateral connate. Petals smaller than the sepals,

lanceolate, acuminate, at length recurved. Lip rather

longer than tlie sepals, three-lobed; base rounded, hardly

saccate; lateral lobes concealing the column, obtuse; —

terminal short, very broadly ovate, revolute, disk with

three obscure basal keels. Column short, with an orbicular,

dilated, crenate summit.—J. D. H,

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| Tas. 7765.

KALANCHOE Benti.

Native of Southern Arabia.

Nat. Ord. CRAsSULACE.

Genus Katancuor, Adans,; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 659.)

Katancnor Bentii; frntex erectus, glaberrimus, caule elongato simplici tereti

foliisque fusco-viridibus, foliis glancis decussatim oppositis sessilibus 3-6-

poll. longis patenti-recurvis pugioniformibus crasse carnosis a latere

compressis dorso rotundatis facie sulcatis ima basi tumidis semi-amplexi-

caulibus medio ad 4 poll. latis dein sensim ad apicem acutam attenuatis,

paviculw, ramulis subcorymbosis multifloris, bracteis bracteolisque

angustis carnosis, floribus erectis pedicellatis, sepalis 4 patulis ovato-

lanceolatis 3-$ poll. longis carnosulis luride viridibus, corolla albs tubo

1} poll. longo subtetragono a basi tumido virescente 3 poll. diam. sensim

attenuato, limbi lobis } poll. longis patenti-recurvis ovatis albis iotus

papillosis alabastro roseis, disci squamulis filiformibus, antheris minutis

oblongis, carpellis angustis in stylos graciles attenuatis.

K. Beutii, 0. H. Wright mss.

Kalanchoe Bentii was raised from seeds collected by the

late Mr. Theodore Bent in the Hadramaut district of

Southern Arabia in 1894, and sent to the Royal Gardens,

Kew. It flowered in June, 1900. As a species it differs

from all others in the form of the leaves.

Descr.—Sitem in the specimen figured quite simple, three

feet high, erect, slender, one inch in diameter, scarred at

the closely set internodes, leafy for the upper third, terete,

smooth, dull olive-green; upper internodes about an inch

long. Leaves decussately opposite, thickly fleshy, three to

six inches long, spreading and recurved, dagger-shaped,

gradually contracted from the middle to the tumid, sessile,

semi-amplexicaul base, and to the acute tip, laterally com-

pressed, about half an inch thick in the middle, dorsally

rounded, deeply grooved on the upper surface, margins

rounded, dirty olive-green in colour, and glaucous. Panicle

erect, many-fid., eight inches high; rhachis, branches and

branchlets erecto-patent, terete; pedicels short; bracts

and bracteoles linear, fleshy. Flowers sub-corymbose on

the branches of the panicle, erect, an inch and a half long,

white, with pink unexpanded corolla-lobes. Sepals ovate-

lanceolate, a quarter to half an inch long, spreading, olive-

Marcu list, 1901,

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green, fleshy. Corolla-tube obscurely four-angled, about

one-sixth of an inch in diameter in the middle, gradually

dilating downwards to the tumid base, which is one-third

of an inch diam.; lobes ovate, half an inch long, spread-

ing and recurved. Anthers minute. Disc-scales filiform,

Carpels slender, narrowed into almost filiform, erect styles,

with minute capitate stigzmas.—J. ]). H.

Fig. 1, transverse section of leaf; 2, corolla laid open; 3 and 4, anthers;

» carpels ; 6, stigmas :—all enlarged ; 7, reduced view of whole plant.

Biante

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MASDEVALLIA peorsem.

Native of New Grenada.

Nat. Ord. Orncuipem.—tTribe ErrpEnpres&.

‘Genus Masprvatiia, Ruiz & Pav.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii.

: p- 492.)

Maspevatiia (Coriaces) deorsum; caspitosa, acaulis, pendula, folio 10-13

pollicari oblanceolato obtuso coriaceo enervi medio suleato supra viridi

marginibus rufescentibus junioribus subtus rubro adspersis, pedunculo

foliis breviore robusto pallido rubro-punctato medio vagina oblonga

concolore instructo, perianthii aurei rubro maculati tubo brevi 4 poll.

diam. basi gibbo, sepalo dorsali reflexo e basi brevi late ovato repente in

caudam 24 poll. longam constricto, lateralibus ovato-lanceolatis in caudas

cauda dorsali breviores sensim angustatis, petalis parvis spathulato-

obovatis pallidis, labello oblongo-obovato obtuso supra ultra medium

papillis, elongatis sanguineis villoso, basin versus maculis luteis ornato.

M. deorsa, Rolfe in Orchid Rev. vol. viii. (1900) p. 255. Gard. Chron. 1900,

vol. i. p. 395, fig. 121, and p. 419.

A very remarkable species of a genus abounding in

curious forms, distinguished from all others, in so far as

at present known, by its strictly pendulous habit, likened

by Mr. Rolfe to that of Cattleya citrina, Lindl. (tab. 3742).

‘Several plants of it were imported from New Grenada in

1894 by Consul Lehmann, of Hamburg, of which two

flowered in 1900, one at Glassnevin, with Mr. Frederick

Moore, A.L.S.; the other in Sir Trevor Lawrence’s unique

Orchid collection at Burford Lodge, Boxhill. The figure

here given is from the latter specimen, kindly forwarded

to me by Sir Trevor for the purpose in November last.

Deser.—Whole plant pendulous, tufted. Leaf ten to

thirteen inches long, oblanceolate, obtuse, coriaceous,

bright green above, with pale rufous margins, when young

copiously dotted beneath with red. Peduncles one-flowered,

much shorter than the leaf, stout, sprinkled with red spots,

bearing an appressed sheath about the middle. Flower

very large, yellow, blotched with bright red. Tube of

perianth one-third of an inch in diameter, base rounded.

Dorsal sepal broadly ovate, very short, reflexed, suddenly

contracted into a slender tail two and a half inches long.

Lateral sepals ovate-lanceolate, an inch and a half long,

Marcu Ist, 1901.

gradually narrowed into slender tails shorter than those —

of the dorsal sepal. Petals obovate-spathulate, obtuse,

pale greenish-yellow. Lip obovate-oblong, densely villous

from beyond the middle to the tip with blood-red, elongated

papille.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, petals and lip; 2, lip; 3, column; 4, anthers; 5 and 6, pollinia:—

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CLADRASTIS ‘incrorta.

Native of the Western United States.

Nat. Ord. LEcuminos™.—Tribe SorpHore.xs.

Genus Craprastis, Raf. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 554.)

~ Ciaprastis tinctoria ; arbor 50-60-pedalis, fere omnino glabra, cortice levi, ligno

flavo, ramulis pendulis lenticellatis glabrescentibus, foliis impari-pinnatis

8-12 poll. longis, rbachi gracili basi tumido cavo alabastrum claudente,

foliolis 7-13 ovatis oblongisve 3—4 poll. longis apice rotundatis basi acutis,

stipulis obsoletis, racem's paniculisve terminalibus 12-14 poll. longis

pendulis laxifloris, rhachi gracillimo, bracteis minutis caducis, floribus

expansis ad 1 poll. longis pedicellatis albis, calyce 5-dentato, vexillo

rotundato reflexo, alis oblique oblongis, carine petalis liberis dorso arcte

imbricatis, staminibus fere liberis, legumine lineari plano-compresso,

semiuibus oblongis compressis estrophiolatis.

C. tinctoria, Raf. Fl. Kent. 1824 (er S. Wats. Bibl. Ind. N. Am. Bot. p. 210) ;

Neogenyt. (1825); Med. Fl. vol. ii. p. 210; New. Fl. N. Am. vol. iii. p. 83.

Torr. & Gr. Fl. N. Am. vol. i. p. 391. Chapman, Fl. 8. U. St. p. 118.

A. Gray Man. Bot. N. U. States, Ei. 1880, p. 143.

C. lutea, Koch, Dendrol. vol. i. p.6. Sargent, Gard. & Forest, vol. ii. p. 375 ;

Silv. N. Am. vol. iii. p. 57, t. 119, 120.

Virgilia lutea, Miche. fil. Hist. Arbr. Am. Sept. vol. iii. p. 266, t. 3; Pursh

_ Fl. Am. Sept. p. 309. Nutt. Gen, N. Am. Pl. vol. i. p. 284. Loitsel.

Herb. Gen. de V Amat. t. 197. D.C. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 98. Spach. Hist.

Veg. vol. i. p. 163. Eaton, Man. Bot. N. Am. Ed. 6, p. 395. -Haton

& i oa N. Am. Bot. Ed. 8, p. 480. Loud. Arboret, Brit, vol. ii.

p- 565.

Cladrastis tinctoria, the ‘‘ yellow” or ‘‘ Gopher” wood

of N. America, is one of the rarest trees of the United

States, being confined to the western bases of the Alle-

ghany Mts. in Kentucky, Central Tennessee, and N. Carolina.

It is remarkable for its silvery closely appressed bark, like

that of the Beech, pendulous brittle branches, and pro-

fusion of delicately fragrant white flowers. Only two

other species of the genus are known, C. amurensis, Benth.

(see tab. 6551) a native of Manchuria, and C. sinensis,

Helms., of China. It is remarkable as one of the most

striking evidences of the affinity of the Flora of N.E. Asia

with that of N.H. America (to the exclusion of both Japan

and W. America). According to Eaton the bark yields a

yellow dye. According to Loudon it was introduced into

England in 1812 by John Lyon, a Scotchman, who

Aprit Ist, 1901.

travelled in Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, returning twice

to England with large contributions to our gardens. He

died in 1818, in America.

The Gopher wood is not uncommon in plantations in

various parts of Europe, flowering abundantly in the

warmer climates, but rarely in the northern. There is a

Jarge tree of it in the Royal Gardens, Kew, which flowered

in June, 1900, and from which the foliage and panicle of

the accompanying figure was taken.

Descr.—A tree fifty to sixty feet high, with smooth bark,

yellow wood and glabrous branches, foliage and flowers.

Leaves eight to twelve inches long, impari-pinnate; petiole

short, much thickened at the base, and there enclosing an

axillary bud; rhachis slender, terete; leaflets seven to

thirteen, three to four inches long, shortly petiolulate,

ovate or oblong, obtuse, rather thin, terminal largest, with

a longer petiolule ; stipules 0. Panicles or racemes twelve

to fourteen inches long, terminal, pendulous, laxly very

many flowered; rhachis and branches slender; bracts

minute, caducous; pedicels slender. lowers white, with a

yellow speckled spot at the base of the standard. Caly«

obtusely five-toothed, green. Standard orbicular, reflexed.

Wings obliquely oblong. Keel-petals free, concave. Stamens

nearly free. Ovary hairy. Pod three to four inches long,

linear, flattened. “Seeds oblong, compressed.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. calyx laid o i ; :

a : pen and stamens ; 2, wing-petal; 3, keel-petal ; A, ovary

all enlarged ; 5, legume; 6, seed: both of sy size,

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AMORPHOPHALLUS teonensts.

Native of Western tropical Africa.

Nat. Ord, Arotpes.—Tribe PytHoyrex,

Genus AmorruoruaLius, Blume; (Benth. §& Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 970.)

AMORPHOPHALLUS (Corynophallus) leonensis; tubere oblato, folio hysterantho,

petiolo 3-33 pedale, lamina ampla trisecta, segmentis primariis dichotumis

1-2-pinnatifidis ultimis 6-8 poll. longis elonguto-lineari-oblongis acutis

acuminatisve, pedunculo crasso 2-8 poll. longo vayinis 2-4 poll. longis

basi instructo, spathw crasse 4—6-pollicaris campanulate tubo 1}-poll.

diam. brevi pallidoio laminam inflatam apice rotundatam atro-purpuream

albo-striatam et maculis paucis rutundatis ornatam ampliato, ore lamina

obliquo marginibus saturate purpureis incurvis, spadice spathw sub-

wqnilongo breviter crasse stipitato, infl. fem. $ in, longa, mase. latiore et

paullo longiore, appendice magna crasse stipitata obovoidea apice

rotandata 4 poll. longa 8 poll. diam. flavo-brunnea cancellata, staminibus

dense confertis, antheris quadratis, ovariis lageniformibus in stylum

attenuatis, stigmate capitato, baccis oblongis 4 pull. longis oblengo-

obovoideis flavidis.

A. leonensis, Lemaire in Hort. Van Houtte, fase. i. p. 1, t. 3, fig. 2, A e¢ 2B;

ex. Fl, des Serres, Ser. J. vol. ii. (1846), t. 161.

Corynophallus leonensis, Engl. in DO. Monogr. Phan. vol. ii. p. 326.

C. Afzelii, Schott in CEstr. Bot. Wochenbl. 1857, p. 389; Gen. Aroid. t. 32;

Prodr. Arvid. p. 132. Masters in Gard. Chron. 1872, p. 1619, fiz. 343

(sphalm. quoad spadicem).

Hydrosme Jeonensis, Eng]. Jahrb. vol. i. (1881) p. 187. Durand et Schinz,

Comp. Fl. Afr. vol. v. p 474. ee

Aram aphyllum, Hook, in W. Gray, Travels in Western Africa, p. 386, t. A.

Amorphophallus leonensis was discovered in Sierra

Leone by Dr. Afzelius, afterwards Professor of Botany at

Upsala. It was first introduced into Europe by Van Houtte

in 1845, Tubers were sent from Sierra Leone to the Royal

Gardens, Kew, by Mr. Walter Haydon, Curator of the

Botanic station in that colony, early in 1899, which

flowered in a tropical house in March of the same year,

and matured their leaves in the following May. It has

also been collected in Senegal and Gambia. Dr. Masters

describes four varieties of it as occurring in cultivation,

namely, a. spectabilis, in which the petiole is marked with

obscure Jinear-oblong spots; 8. elegans with a green

petiole, bipinnatisect Jeaf-segments, the ultimate of which

are very narrow, and y. /afifolia, in which the petiole is

Arnis Ist, 1901,

green, the leaf-sezments pinnatisect, the ultimate broader

and confluent.

Descr.—Tuber oblate. Leaf solitary, appearing after the

flowering ; petiole stout, about three feet high ; blade about

a foot across, trisect; primary segments spreading, pinna-

tifid or bipinnatifid; ultimate narrowly linear, acute or

acuminate. Peduncle three to eight inches high, very

stout. Spathe erect, six inches high, pyriform; tube cam-

panulate, an inch and three-quarters in diameter, white,

gradually dilated into the concave limb, which is convolute

from its lower half, three and a half inches broad about

the middle, rounded at the top; mouth oblique, dark

purple, streaked with dirty white, and marked with a few

orbicular spots of various size; lips almost black purple,

incurved. Spadix shortly stoutly stipitate, gradually

broader upwards for about two inches, when it suddenly

develops into the large, stoutly stipitate, pyriform, pitted,

brown, mottled appendix, the rounded top of which reaches

to the top of the spathe, and is about two and a half

inches in diameter. Fem. infl. about half an inch long, of

many, green, flagon-shaped, one-celled, one-ovuled ovaries,

each narrowed into a style with a capitate stigma. Male

infl. as long as the fem., but broader, of crowded, sub-

quadrate anthers. Berries yellow, oblong-obovoid, half an

inch long—J, D. H. 2

a, 1, section of tube of spathe with base of spadix, about twice the nal.

size; 2, stamen; 8, ovary; 4, vertical section of do.: all greatly enlarged.

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KALANCHOE FARINACEA.

Native of Sucotra.

: Nat. Ord, CRASSULACE,

Genus Katancuor, Adans.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant, vol. i. p. 659.)

Katancuor farinacea ; fruticulus robustas, 6-12-pollicaris, canle crasso erecto

v. basi decumbente subtereti transverse ruguloso, foliis 14-2-pollicaribus

confertis decussatim oppositis sessilibus obovatis apice rotundatis hasi

angustatis crasse carnosis pallide virescentibus albo-pruinatis utrinque

concoloribus marginibus subroseis, floribus in paniculas pedunculatas

terminales subcorymbosas dispositis breviter pedicellatis, calycis minuti

segmentis triangularibus, corollw 4-poll. longew tubo tereti infra medium

Havo dein lobisque oblongis obtusis recurvis flammeis, filamentis brevibus,

antheris parvis seriei superioris vix exsertis, disci sqoamulis lineari-

oblongis obtusis, carpellis angustis tubum corolla squantibus in stylos

graciles attenuatis, stigmatibus minutis.

K, farinacea, Balf. fil. in Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinb. vol. xi. (1882) p. 512; et in

Trans, vol. xxi. (1888) p. 91.

K. farinacea is one of the many new and interesting

plants discovered in Socotra by Dr. I. B. Balfour,

during his exploration of that island in 1880, where he

describes it as being common in crevices of limestone rocks,

_It is one of four species found there by him, of which

three were new to science. More recently, in 1897, seeds

of it, from which the specimen here figured was raised,

were sent to the Royal Gardens, Kew, by the late Mr.

Theodore Bent. It flowered in a greenhouse in August,

1900, and continued flowering for two months.

Descr.—A stout, erect, sparingly branched, succulent

shrub, with mealy white branches, leaves, and panicle.

Leaves crowded towards the ends of the branches, sessile,

spreading, one and a half to two inches long, obovate,

narrowed at the base, concave, quite entire, tip rounded,

very thick, pale green beneath the thin covering of mealy

pubescence, margins faintly rosy. Panicle terminal, sub-

corymbiform; rhachis and branches stout; bracts small,

oblong, fleshy. Flowers shortly pedicelled, erect, one-half to

three-quarters of an inch long. Calyx minute, obtusely

four-lobed, Corvlla narrowly campanulate; tube about

Arnrit Ist, 1901.

half an inch long, terete, yellow below the middle, bright

scarlet above it, as are the ovate, sub-acute, spreading lobes.

Stamens small, the upper series hardly exserted ; filaments

very short; anthers broadly oblong. Scales of the disk

small, linear-oblong. Carpels narrowed into slender styles

with minute stigmas.—J.D.H.

Fig. 1, portion of leaf with mealy pubescence ; 2, calyx; 3, corolla laid open ;_

4, scales of the disk and carpels :—all enlarged.

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ROSA FEpTsCHENKOANA.

Native of Turkestan.

Nat. Ord. Rosacea.—Tribe Rosea.

Genus Rosa, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 625.)

Rosa (Cinnamome) Fedischenkoana; frutex erectus, vage ramosus, ramis

ramulisque crebre armatis, aculeis stipularibus rigidis rectis v. recurvis

bisin versus paullo dilatatis et compressis ceteris setiformibus rectis, foliis

glaucescentibus 5-7-foliolatis, rhachi gracili sparse setaceo, foliolis polli-

caribus ellipticis acutis simpliciter serrulatis terminali paullo majore,

stipulis acuminatis petiolo adnatis apicibus liberis floribus solitariis v.

2-4-nis albis malodoris, pedunculis ovariis ellipsoideis sepalisque glandu-

loso-pilosis, sepalis lanceolatis apicibus linearibus apice simplicibus v.

paullo dilatatis, petalis sepalis bis terve longioribus, carpellis stylisque

jilis longis sparse hirsutis, fructibus ellipsoideis v. subpyrformibus setulosis

rubris sepalis persistentibus coronatis.

R. Fedtschenkoana, Regel. Del. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 1876, p. 36; et in Acta

Horti Petrop, vol, v. (1877) p. 314.

A very handsome white rose, with almost black bark on

the older branches, red brown on the younger. It was

discovered in the Turkestan and Kokan regions of Central

Asia, by the Russian travellers, Fedtschenko & Korolkow,

by whom it was introduced into the Imperial Botanic

Gardens of St. Petersburgh. A plant of it was procured

for the Royal Gardens, Kew, from Mr. T. Smith’s Nursery

at Newry, in 1890, which has developed into a rambling,

very glaucous shrub of free growth, and flowered in June,

1900, fruiting in the following September.

According to Dr, Regel it is a variable plant, of which

he describes four forms, differing from one another chiefly

in the amount of glandular hairs in the calyx, and in the

form of the fruit, from globose to lageniform. The scent

of the flowers is uupleasant.

Descr.—A free-growing, very glaucous, much-branched,

closely prickly shrub ; stipular prickles straight, or slightly

recurved, compressed, and somewhat dilated at the base,

other prickles on the branches reduced to bristles, glandular

hairs none. Leaves four to five inches long; rhachis

slender, sparsely setose ; leaflets five to seven, an inch long,

elliptic, acute, simply serrulate, glaucous; stipules adnate

Aprit Ist, 1901.

to the petiole, their acuminate tips only free. Flowers

solitary, or two to four on a _ peduncle, large white;

peduncles and ellipsoid ovaries more or less glandular-

hairy. Sepals lanceolate, tips linear or slightly dilated.

Petals twice or thrice as long as the sepals. Carpels and

styles sparsely hirsute. fruit ellipsoid or ‘sub-pyriform,

crowned with the persistent sepals, red.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, bud; 1 and 3, anthers; 4, carpels :—all enlarged—i, fruit of the

natural size,

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STAPELTA nosittts.

Native of South Africa.

Nat. Ord. Ascrmptapea.—Tribe STapEnie x.

Genus Srapetia, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii, p. 784.)

Srareria (Tridentea) nobilis; caule decumbente basi ramoso tetragono

_ ohereaag angulis dentatis faciebus concavis, foliornm rudimentis

entibus insertis >; poll. longis erectis ovatis acutis puberulis, floribus

solitariis binisve basin versus ramulorum insertis, pedunculo crasso polli-

cari velutino, sepalis } poll. longis ovato-lanceolatis acutis velutinis,

corolla ampla extus rubro-purpurea puberula intus ochracea pilis longis

laxe villosa et lineis sanguineis trabeculata, tubo campanulato 14 poll.

diam., lobis 23 poll. longis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis reflexis pilis

purpureis ciliatis, coronz exterioris brunneo-purpuree lobis } poll. longis

ascendentibus linearibus 3-dentatis glabris, interioris lobis insqualiter

bipartitis segmentis subulatis triquetris suberectis.

S. nobilis, N.#. Br. mas.

Mr. N. E. Brown, from whose description of this plant,

prepared for the forthcoming part of the Kew Bulletin,

‘the above is taken, says that it is closely allied to

S. gigantea (tab. 7068) ; differing in the stems not being

so stout, and their angles much less compressed. The

flowers are similar in colour, but those of S. nobilis are

much smaller, have a distinctly campanulate tube, and are

more hairy within.

The plant here figured was sent to the Royal Gardens,

Kew, in 1897, by Mr. T. G. Griffiths of Port Elizabeth,

Cape Colony, but of its exact native habitat I have no

information. It flowered in the Succulent House in May,

1900.

Deser.—Stem decumbent, branched at the base, about two-

thirds of an inch in diameter, pubescent, four-angled; angles

toothed, their faces concave. Leaves rudimentary, erect,

inserted on the teeth of the angles, about one-twelfth of

an inch long, ovate, acute, puberulous. Flowers solitary,

or two on the lower part of the branches; peduncle an

inch long, stout, velvety. Sepals about one-fourth of an

inch long, ovate, acute, velvety. Corolla large, red-purple

externally, internally villous with long hairs, ochraceous,

Aprit Ist, 1901.

trabeculate with blood-red cross-lines ; tube campanulate,

half an inch in diameter; lobes two and three-quarters of

an inch long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, reflexed, ciliate

with purple hairs. Outer corona purple-brown, glabrous;

lobes a quarter of an inch long, linear, ascending, three-

toothed. Inner corona with unequally bipartite lobes.—

J.D. H.

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WYETHIA mottts,

Native of Californta.

Nat. Ord. Comrosit.x.—Tribe HettantHOIDEe’.

Genus Wretuia, Nutt.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii, p. 374).

Wrest (Alarconia) mollis; herba 2-3-pedalis, erecta, robusta, floccose-

tomentosa, demum glabrescens, radice crasso, caule simplici v. parce

ramoso, foliis inferioribus pedalibus ovatis oblongis v. lineari-oblongis

acutis v. apice rotundatis basi rotundatis cuneatis vel in petiolum crassum

angustatis coriaceis nervis numerosis patalis nervulis reticulatis superiori-

bus ovato-lanceolatis, petiolo 2-4 poll. longo, capitulis pancis amplis

inferioribus longe superioribus breviter pedicellatis, pedicellis crassis,

involucri cupularis pollicaris bracteis 10-12 oblongo-'anceolatis subacutis

herbaceis, receptaouli bracteolis lineari-oblongis, floribus aurantiacis radii

10-15 ligula if poll. longa j poll. lata patenti-recurva apice bidenticulata,

achesniis linearl-oblongis compressis marginibus ciliolatis, pappi setis

brevibus subulatis rigidis scabridis lateralibus sepius longioribus.

W. mollis, A. Gray én Proc, Amer. Acad. vol. vi. (1865) p. 544; Synopt. Fl.

NV. Am. Gamopet. p. 208; et in Bot. Calif. vol. i. p. 349.

Wyethia, a genus confined to Western North America,

_ Consists of about a dozen species, It is nearly allied to

Helianthus, differing in having fertile ray-flowers and in

the pappus. A. Gray describes the species as having a

balsamic odour, adding that the thick roots and the seeds

were used as food by the Indians. The name is a tribute by

Mr. Nuttall to the memory of Nathaniel J. Wyeth, who

collected the species upon which the genus was.founded,

and who subsequently accompanied its founder in one of

the first journeys made across the whole continent of

North America,

The sectional name of Alargonia is adopted from De

Candolle (Prodr., vol. v. p. 537), who gave it as a

generic one to a species, W. heleniotdes, previously described

by Nuttall. It is dedicated to the memory of Fernando

de Alargon, a noble Spanish navigator, who, in 1540,

first visited and carefully surveyed the coast of California,

W. mollis is a native of the Sierra Nevada, especially on

the eastern side, from Sierra Valley to Virginia city in

Nevada, thence westward to the Yosemite and other valleys

of the Sierra in California.

May Ist, 1901,

For the specimen here figured I am indebted to my

friend the Rev. Canon Ellacombe, of Bitton, in whose rich

collection of hardy plants it flowered in June, 1900.

Descer.—A stout, perennial herb, one to three feet high,

covered with a white, floccose tomentum. Leaves few,

coriaceous, radical a foot long, ovate- or linear-oblong,

acute, obtuse or rounded and apiculate at the tip, base

acute, rounded or narrowed into the stout petiole, upper

leaves ovate or lanceolate, acute. Heads few, shortly

stoutly pedicelled, four to five inches in diameter. Invo-

lucre cupular; bracts ten to twelve, narrow, acute, erect.

Ray-flowers ten to fifteen ; ligule an inch and a half long

by a quarter of an inch broad, spreading and recurved,

golden-yellow, as are the disk-flowers. Scales of the

receptacle linear. Achenes linear-oblong, compressed,

margins ciliolate. Pappus of a few unequal, rigid, seabrid,

persistent bristles.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. bract of involucre ; 2, ray-flower ; 3, disk-flower ; 4, stamens; 5, “a

arms of disk-flowers :—all enlarged.

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PYRUS a.niro.a.

Native of Japan and China.

Nat. Ord. Rosacra.—Tribe Pomea.

Genus Prrvs, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 626.)

Pyrus (Sorbus) alnifolia; arbor parva, ramis lenticellatis cortice fusco _

vestitis, foliis breviter petiolatis ovato-rotundatis acutis vel acuminatis

argute duplo-triplicato-serratis basi rotandatis cordatisve submembrana-

ceis glabris penninerviis, nervis numerosis parallelis supra impressis

subtus gracilibus prominulis, nervulis tenuissimis, corymbis breviter

dunculatis multifloris, pedunculi ramis pedicellisque brevibus puberu-

is, floribns ad 4} poll. diam. albis, calycis tomentosi lobis obtusis,

talorum ungue barbato, fructibus ellipsoideis v. subglobosis 4 poll.

ongis basi et apice rotundatis rubris.

P. alnifolia, Franch. & Sav. Enum, Pl. Jap. vol. ii. p. 350.

Sorbus alnifolia, C. Koch in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. vol. i. (1864) p. 249.

Maxim. Mel. Biol. Dec. ix. (1872) p 173.

Cratzgus alnifolia, Sieb. & Zucc. in Abhandl. Akad. Muench. vol. iv. pars IT.

(1843) p. 180. Miguel, Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. vol. iii. p.40. Franch.

& Sav. le. vol. i. p. 141.

Aria tiliwfolia. Decne. in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Par. Sér. 1. vol. x. (1874) p. 166.

A. alnifolia, Deene. l.c.

Pyrus alnifolia is @ small tree, first described from

Japan, where it was discovered by Siebold. It inhabits

the upper limit of the forest region in many parts of the

Archipelago, including that of the celebrated mountain

Fudji-yama. Maximovicz found it in Eastern Manchuria,

and Dr. Henry at elevations of seven thousand feet to nine

thousand five hundred feet in the Hupeh province of

China proper.

The specimen here figured is from a plant which flowered

in the Arboretum of the Royal Gardens, Kew, in May,

1900. It was purchased from Mr. L. Spiith, Nurseryman

of Berlin, in 1896.

Descr.—A small tree, glabrous except the corymbs.

Leaves two to three inches long, shortly petioled, broadly

ovate or almost orbicular, acute or acuminate, sharply,

doubly or trebly serrate, base rounded or cordate, bright

green above, with many parallel immersed nerves, which are

prominent, but very slender on the pale under surface,

Mar lst, 1901,

very thin in texture ; petiole one half to three-fourths of an

inch long, slender. Corymbs two to three inches in diameter,

shortly peduncled; peduncle, branches and_ pedicels

puberulous. Flowers white, about half an inch in diameter.

Calye tomentose; lobes short, obtuse. Petals with a

bearded claw. Styles three. Fruit about half an inch

long, ellipsoid or subglobose, bright red.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, unexpanded flower; 2, vertical section of calyx with stamens and

2 styles :—both enlarged; 3, fruit, of the natural size.

ret Imp

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LONICERA PYRENAICA,

Nutive of the Pyrenees.

Nat. Ord. Caprironiaceaz.—Tribe LonicEREs.

Genus Lonicera, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 5.)

Lonicera (Xylosteum) pyrenaica; frutex dumosus, erectus, glaberrimus,

ramulis patentibus, foliis apices versus ramulorum fasciculatis sessilibus

obovato-cuneatis oblanceolatisve acutis giaucis caducis, pedunculis foliis

dimidio brevivribus, bracteis 2 foliaceis, bracteolis 4 minutis ovatis,

ovariis subglobosis basi tantum connatis, calycis dentibus minutis,

corullz pallide rosez tubo $ poll. longo basi gibboso lobis ovato-rotundatis,

genitalibus breviter exsertis, stylo villoso, baccis pisiformibus fere liberis

rubris,

L. pyrenaica, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 174. Duham. Arb. vol. ii. t. 110; Ed.

II. vol. i. t. 15. DC. Fl. Fr. vol. iv. p. 272; Prodr. vol. iv. p. 335.

Ait. Hort. Kew, Ed. II. vol. i. p. 379. Benth. Cat. Pl. Pyren. p. 97.

Allioni, Fl. Pedem. vol. i. p. 128. Poll, Fl. Veron. vol. i. p. 285. Reichb,

Ic. Fl. Germ, vol. xvii. t. 1175, fig. 2. Parlat, Fl. Ital. vol. al 127.

Willk. & Lange, Prodr, Fl. Hisp. vol. ii. p. 353. Gren. § Godr. Fl.

de France, vol. ii. p. 11.

Caprifolium pyrenaicum, Lam. Fl. Fr. vol. iii. p. 366.

Lonicera pedunculis bifloris, &c., Royen, Fl. Leyd. Prodr. p. 238.

Xylosteon pyrenaicum, Tournef. Instit. p. 609. Magnol. Hort. Reg. Monsp,

p- 209, cewm Ic. Rand, Hort. Med. ls. ed. 1739, p. 211.

a vel Xylostaeum Pyrenaicum, Ray, Hist, Pl. vol. iii.; Dendrol.

p- *

Lonicera pyrenaica is a very old garden plant, having,

according to Philip Miller, been in cultivation in England

since 1793. It is a native of the Eastern Pyrenees,

and of the larger Balearic Islands, at elevations in the

latter of twelve hundred feet to fourteen hundred feet.

In the Royal Gardens, Kew, it forms a small shrub in

the Rock garden, flowering profusely in May and June.

Descr.—A small, much-branched, glabrous shrub, with

close-set, short branchlets. Leaves crowded towards the

ends of the branchlets, sessile, spreading, about an inch

long, oblanceolate or cuneiformly obovate, acute, glaucous,

deciduous. Peduncles about half as long as the leaves,

each bearing two bracteate sessile flowers, shortly united

by the bases of their ovaries. Bracts leaf-like, spreading ;

bracteoles two to each flower, minute. Ovary sub-globose.

Calyz-teeth minute, triangular. Corolla pale rose-coloured

May Ist, 1901.

or nearly colourless; tube half an inch long, gibbous at the

base ; lobes shorter than the tube, orbicular-ovate. Stamens

very shortly exserted. Style slender, tomentose. Berries

pisiform, nearly free, brick-red.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, peduncle bracts bracteoles and two flowers, one unexpanded, the

other with the corolla removed; 2 and 3, anthers:—all enlarged; 4, berries

of the natural size,

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MESEMBRYANTHEMUM catamirorMe.

= Native of South Africa.

Nat. Ord. Ficoipemz.—Tribe MeseMBRYER.

Genus MesempryantHemum, Linn.; (Benth, & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i.

p. 853,

MrsEMBRYANTHEMUM (Calamiformia) calamiforme; glaberrimum, caule brevi

robusto lignoso, foliis 6-8 oppositis basi lata insertis 2-3 poll. longis

cylindraceis obtusis mucronulatisve carnosis ad } poll. diam. subglaucis

tenuissime punctatis, floribus psendo-terminalibus solitariis 2-24 poll.

latis breviter crasse pedunculatis, calycis tubo brevi crasso lobis 5 inequa-

libus 3 majoribus crasse carnosis marginibus dilatatis quasi bialatis alis

truncatis apice producto obtuso v. acuto, 2 minoribus submembrana-

ceis, petalis numero~issimis sepalis 2-3-plo longioribus sub 3-seriatis

linearibus angustissimis albis apicibus pallide roseis, filamentis inzwqui-

lonugis petalis multo brevioribus 6-8-seriatis pallidis, antheris parvis

aurantiacis, ovario conico, stigmatibus 5-8 erectis cuspidatis intus

barbatis, capsula polysperma.

M. calamiforme, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 481. Haw. Obs. Gen. Mesemb. p. 140; Misc.

Nat. p. 26; Syn. Pl. Suce. p.208: Revis. Plant. Suce.105. DC. Pl. Grasses,

t. 5; Prodr. vol. iii. p. 424. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2 vol. iii. p. 215. Salm.

cL Monogr. Mesembr. § 10, fig. 1. Harv. & Sond, Fl. Cap. vol. ii.

p- ' °

_M. calamiforme, &¢., Dil/en. Hort. Elth. p. 228, t. 186, fig. 228. .

Ficoidea capensis, humilis, &c., Bradley, Hist. Pl. Succ. Dee. ii. p. 10, fig. 19.

The genus Mesembryanthemum holds an important place

in the history of Horticulture. Dillenius, who treats of

the species known to him at great length, gives an interest-

ing account of the successive introduction of those known

to his predecessors. Of these he says 15 were known to

Bobart (1648); 20 to Breyn (1680); 39 to Ray (1686) ;

23 to Herman (1687); 2L to Plukenet (1696); 30 to

Bradley (1716); 36 to Tournefort. Dillenius himself

describes and figures 47 species, all cultivated in Sherard’s

garden at Eltham in 1732. Following Dillenius, Linneus

in the “ Hortus Cliffortianus” (1737) gives 30 species ; and

in the ‘* Species plantarum” (1758) 85, where he reduces

some of Dillenius’s species to varieties. Coming down to

later times, Aiton’s ‘‘ Hortus Kewensis” (ed. I. 1789)

contains 70 species, and Ed. II. (1811) 175. Haworth’s

**Revis. Plant. Succ.” (1821) describes 310. Harvey &

May lst, 1901.

Sonder’s ** Flora Capensis” 293, exclusive of imperfectly

known species. In the ‘‘ Index Kewensis” (1895) 375

Species are enumerated, of which 113 were, in 1899, in

cultivation in the Royal Gardens, Kew. Lastly, 25 are

figured in this Magazine.

The specimen of M. calamiforme here figured was re-

ceived in 1898, with other interesting plants, from Mr.

Chalwin, Superintendent of the Cape Town Botanical

Gardens, with the information that it is a native of the

Karroo district. It flowered in a greenhouse of the Royal

Gardens in June, 1900.

_Descr.—Glabrous. Stem short, stout, woody. Leaves

six to eight, opposite, sessile by a much-thickened base,

two to three inches long, cylindric, obtuse, about one-third

of an inch in diameter, sub-glaucous. lowers solitary,

terminal, very stoutly peduncled, two to two anda half

inches in diameter. Calyz-tube short; lobes five, unequal,

two larger, fleshy, broadly winged, wings truncate; tp

elongate, acute or obtuse; two smaller thinner. Peta

innumerable, sub-triseriate, very narrow, white with pink

tips. Stamens much shorter than the petals; anthers

small, yellow. Ovary obconic, stigmas five to eight, erect,

cuspidate.. Capsule many-seeded.—.J OH

all. Dies of the large sepals; 2, stamen; 3, ovary, style and stigmas *~

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MANE TTIA wBreonor.

Native of Brasil,

Nat. Ord, Rupracea#.—Tribe CincHone®.

Genus Mayertta, Matis; (Benth. & Hook, f. Gen, Plant, vol. ii. p. 37.)

Manettta (Heterochroa) bicolor; frutex scandens, gracilis, ramosus, ramulis

teretibus puberulis, foliis 2-6 poll. longis breviter petiolatis ovatis ovato-

lanceolatisve acuminatis supra subscaberulis subtus pallidis nervis

tomentellis, stipulis parvis late ovatis, floribus axillaribus et terminalibus,

pedicellis corolla subsequilongis puberulis, calycis tubo parvo turbinato

cinereo-tomentoso, lobis } poll. longis ovatis oblongisve acutis reflexis

viridibus extus puberulis, corolla sepalis bis longiore cylindracea tereti a

medio ad basin sensim ampliata setulis rigidis hispida coccinea apicem

versus nuda aurea intus basin versus annulo pilorum instructa, ore

paullo dilatato 4-fido lobis parvis triangularibus patulis, antheris lineari-

oblongis infra medium tubi insertis, disco pulvinari, stylo gracili

stigmatibus 2 linearibus, capsula globoso-pyriformi tomentosa. :

M. bicolor, Paxt. Mag. Bot. vol. x. (1843) p. 27. Flore des Serres, vol. ii.

p. 445, t. 6. Dietr. Fl. Univers. t.14, Rev. Hort. Belg. vol. xxi. (1895)

p. 49.

M. luteo-rubra, Benth. in Linnaea, vol. xxiii. (1850) p. 445. Schumann in Mart,

Ft. Bras. vol. vi, pars vi. p. 174.

M. filicaulis, Wawra in Uistr. Bot. Zeitschr. vol. xxxi. (1881) p. 281; in Bot.

Reis. Pr. Sax Coburg, p. 118, t. 17.

M. pubescens, partim, Cham. & Schlecht. in Linnaea, vol. iv. (1829) p. 170.

M. seabra, Herb. Pohl.

Guaguebina luteo-rubra, Vel/, F/. Flum. vol. i. t. 121; tewtu Ed. Netto, p. 46.

The beautiful and now well-known stove-climber here

figured was imported into Europe from the Organ Mts. in

Brasil by Mr. James Veitch, grandfather of the partners in

the celebrated firm of that name, and founder, I believe, of

the business, which was then carried on at Mount Radford,

near Exeter. This was about sixty years ago, when

William Lobb, then collecting for his firm in Brasil,

sent home seeds. It appears to have a very wide range

of distribution, for there are specimens in the Kew

Herbarium from Uruguay, Paraguay, St. Catherine,

Rio de Janeiro, and Minas Geraes all in Brasil. In the

Royal Gardens, I am informed that it is never out of

flower.

The genus Manettia is a very large one, consisting

of upwards of thirty species, spread over tropical America,

May Ist, 1901,

Only one has previously been figured in this work, M. cordi-

folia, Mart. t. 3202, for M. micans, Poepp. & Endl. t. 5495, 7

is only a robust form of that species. “4

Desey.— A slender, much-branched, more or less puberu-

lous climber. Leaves two to six inches long, shor

petioled, ovate or oyate-lanceolate, acuminate, sub-scah

lous and bright green above, paler beneath, with

tomentose nerves; stipules very small, broadly ovat

Flowers axillary and terminal, tetramerous ; pedicels about:

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CRINUM RHODANTHUM.

Native of Ngami Land.

Nat. Ord. AmaryLuipe#.—Tribe AMARYLLEA.

Genus Cainum, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 726.)

Crinum (Stenaster) rhodanthum; bulbo ovoideo 4 poll. diam., foliis 12-15

bipedalibus ad 2 poll. latis distichis loratis carnosulis fragilibus glauces-

centibus enerviis apice rotundatis marginibus angustissime scariosis erosis,

pedunculo brevi lato valde compresso, spathis 1—-2-pollicaribus deltoiJeis

acuminatis, umbella hemispherica fere 2-ped. diam, multiflora, pedicellis

14-2 poll. longis, perianthii tubo 3-pollicari fere rect» angusto cylindraceo,

limbi saturate rosei segmentis patenti-revolutis loratis 2} poll. longis,

filamentis erectis perianthii segmentis equilougis, antheris 3 poll. longis

fuscis, stylo gracili recto filamentis «2 quilongo, stigmate capitellato.

C. rhodanthum, Baker in Dyer, Flora of Tropical Africa, vol. vii. p. 397.

The term Ngami Land indicates the country around a

lake of that name, situated in the heart of Africa, in

about lat. S. 20°, and approximately half way between the

Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Though long known by

reports from the Bechuana tribes of S. Africa, it was

not visited by Europeans till 1849, when the intrepid

travellers, Oswell and ,Livingstone, reached it after a

perilous crossing of the desert intervening between it and

Bechuanaland. |

Though situated within the tropics, the vegetation of

Ngami Land is South African, as exemplified by a most

beautifully preserved herbarium made there by Lieut. (now

Capt.) and Mrs. Lugard, and presented to Kew, of which

an account will be communicated to the Linnean Society

by Mr. N. E. Brown. This herbarium is rich in novelties,

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in point of execution and scientific accuracy, and of which

that lady has kindly allowed copies to be taken for the

Kew collection of botanical drawings.

The exact locality of the Crinum is Mt. Kwebe, situated

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JuNE Ist, 1991.

as being conspicuous for the number of Baobab trees

growing upon it. The bulb was presented by Mrs. Lugard

to the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1899, where it flowered

in a tropical house.

Descr.— Bulb four inches in diameter, ovoid. Leaves

twelve to fifteen, distichous, lorate, two feet long by two

inches broad, glaucous ; rather fleshy, brittle, tip rounded ;

margins narrowly scarious, erose. Peduncle short, flat-

tened, an inch broad. Spathes two, deltoid, acuminate,

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many-flowered, nearly two feet in diameter; pedicels

half to one inch long. Perianth-tube three inches long,

very slender, cylindric, nearly straight, pale red ; segments

of limb spreading and revolute, two and a half inches long

by one-sixth of an inch broad, lorate, obtuse, bright red.

Filaments about as long as the segments of the limb, red,

very slender; anthers one-sixth of an inch long, brown.

Style as long as the filaments, very slender, red; stigma

capitellate.—J. D. H.

Tab. 7777, umbel with top of peduncle and spathe of nat. size.

Tab. 7778, reduced view if whole plant ; fig. 1, portion of margin of leaf; 2and

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BESCHCORNERIA Waicatt.

Native of Mexico?

Nat. Ord. AMaRYLLIDEX.—Tribe AGAVEZ.

Genus Bescuornerta, Kunth; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. iii. p, 738.)

Bescuornerta Wrightit; trunco robusto, foliis ad 60 dense confertis patenti-

recurvis ensiformibus 4~5 ped. longis crasse coriaceis medium versus

2-poll. latis basi dilatatis crassissimis margine denticulatis apice in

acumen brunneum elongatum angustitis utrinque lete viridibus dorso

costa lata percursis, pedunculo brevi robusto foliis paucis abbreviatis

erectis instructo, panicule 8-pedalis pyramidalis rhachi ramulisque

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lineari-spathulatis viridibus marginibus flavidis apicibus patulis intus

flavis, antheris linearibus apicibus exsertis.

Beschorneria Wrightii is much the largest species of the

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this work (tabs, 4642, 5203, 6641, 6091, 6768). Of these

it is most nearly allied to B. Dekosteriana, C, Koch,

Wochenschr. vii. (1864), 187 (B. Decosteriana, Baker, tab.

6768), which differs in the quite glabrous flowers. Of its

native country, or the date of its introduction into the

Royal Gardens of Kew, where it bore the erroneous name

of Furcrea Bedinghausii ? a very different plant, there is

no record. With the exception of a Texan species

(B. dubia), Mexico is the native country of the genus. I

have given it the name of Mr. Charles H. Wright, A.L.S.,

Assistant in the Kew Herbarium, who had examined and

distinguished it from its congeners. It flowered in the

Mexican division of the Temperate House of the Royal

Gardens in June, 1900.

Deser.—Stem (of the specimen figured) eighteen inches

high, six inches in diameter. Leaves about fifty, densely

crowded, spreading and recurved, ensiform, coriaceous,

four to five feet long by two inches broad about the middle;

tip narrowed into a brown, dagger-like tip; base dilated,

June Ist, 1901.

very thick, bi-convex; margins very narrowly scarious,

denticulate. Peduncle short, stout, bearing a few short,

erect leaves. Panicle pyramidal, eight feet high ; rhachis.

stout ; branches and branchlets spreading or recurved, quite

glabrous; bracts and bracteoles scarious, white, streaked with :

red. lowers fascicled on the branchlets, shortly pedicelled, ©

nodding, green, pubescent. Ovary three-fourths of an inch

long, cylindric. Perianth-tube rather longer and broader

than the ovary; segments erect, linear-spathulate, green,

with broad, yellow margins, yellow within; tips obtuse,

spreading. Anthers linear, tips only exserted. Stigma

capitellate, three-lobed.—/J/. D. H.

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CALANTHE mapacascariensis.

Native of Madagascar.

Nat. Ord. OxcupEx.—Tribe EPIDENDRE,

Genus CatantuE, Br. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 520.)

Catantue (Veratrifolia) madagascariensis; foliis paucis ad basin caulis con-

fertis sessilibus v. petiolatis ellipticis v. ovato-oblongis acuminatis

marginibus undulatis inter-nervos profunde impressos sublacunosis,

edunculo 6-12 poll. longo erecto robusto puberulo vaginis paucis laxis

instructo, racemo brevi erecto laxe multifloro, bracteis lanceolatis acutis

pedicellis paullo brevioribus viridibus, floribus 1-1} poll. latis, sepalis

petalisque patentibus concoloribus albis margines versus purpureo suffusis,

sepalis ellipticis acutis apicibus dorso viridibus, petalis paullo minoribus

subacutis, labello sepalis paullo breviore plano trilobo ad 34 poll. longo et

lato aureo lilacino v. purpureo 3-lobo, lobis lateralibus divaricatis oblongis

v. lineari-oblongis apice rotundatis terminali late obsordato lobulis

divaricatis, disco basi aureo tuberculis 2 majusculis veruccisque minoribus

aucto, calcare gracili incurvo.

C. madagascariensis, Rolfe mss.

C. sylvatica, Rolfe in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxix. (1891) p. 52, non Lindl.

_ Calanthe madagascariensis is a near ally of C. veratrifolia,

Br. (tab. 2615) a species of very wide distribution, from

North and South India to Japan and Australia. It differs

from that plant in size, in the undulate leaves, in the much

broader sepals and petals, and in the more verrucose disk

of the lip with two large tubercles. The flowers vary

much in colour; a prevalent variety has white sepals and

petals, clouded with pink, and a rose-purple lip; others

have pure white sepals and petals and a yellow lip.

Mr. Warpur, a Belgian collector, was the introducer

into Europe of C. madagascariensis. The Royal Gardens,

Kew, are indebted to him for the specimen here figured,

which flowered in a warm house in August, 1890. There

are others in the Kew Herbarium from the East Betsileo

district, collected by the Rev. R. Baron, and from Fort

Dauphin by Mr. Scott Elliot, M.A., F.L.S.

Descr.—Pseudobulbs small, clustered, cylindric, annulate.

Leaves few, crowded, all radical, spreading and recurved,

three to five inches long, sessile or shortly petioled,

elliptic or oblong-ovate, acuminate; margins undulate;

June Ist, 1901

upper surface raised between the nerves and pitted ; under-

surface deeply pitted. Peduncle six to twelve inches high,

robust, puberulous, bearing a few lax sheaths. Saceme

short, erect, many-flowered ; bracts lanceolate, recurved,

green. lowers an inch or more in breadth. Sepals and —

petals alike, spreading, elliptic-ovate, acute; petals rather

smaller, and more obtuse. Lip adnate to the top of

the column, rather shorter than the sepals, flat, deeply

three-lobed ; lateral lobes spreading, oblong, tips rounded ;

terminal broadly obcordate, with spreading, rounded

lobules, and an acute sinus; disk yellow, with two large

tubercles, and many globose warts at the base ; spur longer

than the flower, slender, incurved. Ovlumn short, broad.

—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, base of lip and column; 2, anther; 3, pollinia :—all enlarged.

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NYMPHAHA Fravo-vIRENs.

Native of Mexico?

Nat. Ord. Nymenxaceaz.—Tribe NymPuxe.

Genus Nrmruza, Linn.; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 46.)

Nyrmeuza flavo-virens; foliis natantibus orbiculatis ad 10 poll. diam. grosse

sinuato-crenatis basi sagittatis segmentis acutis, sinu clauso v. aperto

supra laete viridibus unicoloribus v. nigro maculatis subtus pallidioribus

brunneo suffusis v. atro-sanguineis, pedunculo longe emerso, floribus 5

poll. diam. suaveclentibus, sepalis oblongo-lanceolatis obtusis extus

viridibus, petalis numerosis sepalis equilongis v. paullo longioribus

anguste lanceolatis subacutis, staminibus sab 38-seriatis, filamentis

exterioribus lineari-oblongis, antheris fere pollicaribus longiuscule appen-

dicnlatis aureis, stigmatibus 12-14 conicis obtusis demum patentibus.

N. flavo-virens, Lehm. Ind. Sem. Hort. Hamb. 1852, p. 9, et in Ann, Se. Nat.

Ser. IIT. vol. xix. (1853) p. 361.

N. mexicana, Hort., non Zuce.

Nymphexa flavo-virens is a near ally of the Mexican

N. gracilis, Zuce., differing from that plant in its larger

size, in the segments of the leaf being pointed, in the

narrower, sub-acute (not acuminate) petals, in the fila-

ments not being so dilated at the base, and in the more

numerous stigmas. It has been long in cultivation in

Europe, having been first described in 1852, from a plant

that flowered in the Botanical Garden of Hamburg, and

in July last a specimen was sent to be named by Mr.

Moore, A.L.S., Keeper of the Glasnevin Botanical Garden.

There is a specimen of it in the Kew Herbarium from

the Hamburg Garden, named by Professor Caspary, who

made a special study of the genus. This specimen

has black blotches on the leaves, and the species is

described as having the under surface of the leaves of a

blood-red colour. In the Kew plant the leaves are very

pale green beneath, clouded with brown; in Mr. Moore’s

they are also pale, but pure green.

The native country of N. flavo-virens is unknown, but is

probably Mexico, both because of its affinity with J.

gracilis, and because the Kew plant was received from

W.N. Pike, of the Floral Park, New York (in 1892) as

June lst, 1901,

‘« N. mexicana true.” This last statement is an error, for

N. mexicana belongs to a section of the genus with

muticous anthers, and has, according to a description in

the “ Wiener Illustr. Gartenzeit.,” 1889, p. 413, yellow

flowers.

Descr.—Leaves orbicular, six to ten inches broad, —

coarsely sinuate-crenate, bifid at the base nearly to th

centre; segments with pointed tips, sides parallel or divari.

cate, bright green above, paler beneath. Flowers fi

inches broad. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, external!

yellowish green, white within. Petals narrowly lanceolate,

tips sub-acute. Stamens nearly an inch long; filaments of ©

the outer oblong; anthers longer than the filaments, narrow,

terminated by an acute elongation of the connectiv:

golden-yellow. Stigmas twelve to fourteen, conical, obtuse.

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RHODODENDRON ommcatyx.

Native of China.

Nat. Ord. Extcacka.—Tribe Ruopores.

Genus RuopopEnDRON, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii, p. 599.)

RuopopEnpRon (Hurhododendron) ciliicalyx; arbuscula, foliis coriaceis 3-4

poll. longis ellipticis v. obovato-lanceolatis utrinque acutis supra pallide

viridibus subtus glaucescentibus squamulis minutis brunneis lepidotis,

junioribas basi ciliatis, nervis utrinque 6-8 subtus prominulis, petiolo

revi robusto lepidoto pilis deviduis hirsuto, floribus 3-10 corymbosis mox:

cernuis, bracteis parvis cymbiformibus ciliatis brunneis, pedicellis brevi-

bus calycibusque dense lepidotis, calycis cupularis 4 poll. longi lobis

rotundatis erectis longe setoso-ciliatis, corolla 4 poll. lata alba v. roseo

suffusa e basi breviter tubulosa aperte campanulata extus inferne parce

lanuginosa 5-6-loba, lobis rotundatis marginibus undulatis, staminibus

10-12, filamentis leviter declinatis basin versus pilosis, ovario oblongo-

ovoideo 5-loculari dense lepidoto, stylo gracili glabro, stigmate capitato.

R. ciliicalyx, Franch. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, vol. xxxiii, (1886) p. 233,

Hemst, in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. xxvi. (1889) p. 21,

The plant here figured is closely allied to the Indian

Rh. formosum, Wall, (see tab. 4457), and may indeed have

to be considered as a form of that plant. In the absence

of fruit, however, it would be premature to pronounce

upon a species established by so excellent a botanist as the

late Mr. Franchet. The most prominent characters of

R. ciliicalyx, as distinguished from I. formoswm, are, its

robust habit, larger flowers, and the long bristle-like cilia

on the lobes of the calyx. Unfortunately the calyx of Mt.

formosum is an exceedingly variable organ in development,

and in being glabrous, hairy, or hirsute; and there is

in the Kew Herbarium a robust form of it, collected by

Dr. Watt in Muneypore and the Naga Hills, at elevations

of six thousand to nine thousand feet, and called by

him BR. Johnstoneanum, in which the calyx is represented

by a ring of bristles, like those of the calyx-lobes of J.

cilticalye.

Rh, ciliicalyxz is a native of the Teechapo mountains of

Yunnan, near Mo-so-yn, at an altitude of seven thousand

four hundred feet, where it was discovered by the Abbé

Delavay, who sent seeds of it to the Jardin des Plantes,

Jury Ist, 190),

Paris. From these plants were raised and distributed,

one of which, received in 1892 at the Royal Gardens, Kew,

from the late Prof. Max Cornu, flowered in the Himalayan —

division of the Temperate House in May, 1900, being then

three feet high. -

Deser.—A nearly glabrous shrub, or small tree, with

robust branches. Leaves coriaceous, three to four inches ~

long, elliptic or obovate-lanceolate, acute at both ends,

pale green and smooth above, beneath glaucous, and

covered with scattered, minute, broad, lepidote scales ;

petioles short, stout, and often the leaf-base also, ciliate,

with long hairs. Flowers three to ten, in a terminal, very

shortly peduncled corymb; bracts short, oblong, brown,

ciliate; pedicels short, lepidote. Calyx about one-sixth

of an inch long, cupular, five-lobed, lepidote; lobes

rounded, ciliate, with long, erect, unequal bristles. Corolla

with a short tube, dilating into an infundibular campanu-

late, five- to six-lobed limb, which is four inches broad across

the lobes, white, or suffused with pale rose ; lobes rounc

‘margins undulate; base externally more or less woolly. »

Stamens sub-declinate, hairy from below the middle to the

base. Anthers small. Ovary densely lepidote, five-celled ;

style glabrous. Stigma capitate.

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ovary; 8, scale from do.; 4, and 5, stamens :—adl enlarged.

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CHELON OPSIS mosonata.

Native of Japan and China.

Nat. Ord. Lasrata2.—Tribe StacuypE#.

Genus Cuenonorsis, Mig. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1204.)

CuHELonopsis moschata; herba moschum spirans, rhizomate lignoso, caule

subsimplici ascendente annotino 4-gono puberulo, foliis 3-6 poll. longis

breviter petiolatis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis serratis supra saturate

viridibus marginibus purpureis floralibus conformibus, verticillastris

pauci-laxifloris, bracteis bracteolisque linearibus, floribus 14 poll. longis

atulis, calyce inflato campanulato breviter bilabiato 5-dentato puberulo

ructifero accrescente dentibus erectis, corolla calyce triplo longiore

roseo-purpurea, tubo fere a hasi ampliato tereti labiis brevibus patulis

postico retuso anticique lobis lateralibus pallide flavidis, antici lobo

terminali ceteris multo majore roseo, filamentis gracilibus erectis basin

versus hirsutis, antheris parvis fasciculis stellatis 3 pilorum ornatis

quorum uno ad apicem antheres duo ad basin loculorum sitis disco

postice tumido, styli glaberrimi lobis inequalibus subulatis, nucalis basi

ealycis aucti campanulati sessilibus oblongis lata alatis atris.

C. moschata, Mig. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. vol. ii. (1865) p. 111. Masim.

Mel. Biol. Dec. ix. p. 443. Franch. & Sav. Enum. Pl. Jap. vol. i. p. 378.

Hemsl. in Journ. Linn, Soc. vol. xxvi. (1890) p. 298.

The genus Chelonopsis consists of two species, that here

figured and C. Benthamiana, Hemsl., a native of China.

It is allied to the beautiful Melittis Melissophyllwm (the

Bastard Balm of the British Flora) which it resembles in

its lax axillary inflorescence and large flowers, but from

which it differs in the lobing of the calyx, which is greatly

enlarged in fruit, and contains nutlets and seeds of a very

different character from those of Melittis. The singular

tufts of stellate hairs on the anthers of C. moschata do

not occur in the European genus.

C. moschata is a native of the mountains of the interior

of Japan, at elevations of two thousand to seven

thousand feet, and of those of Ningpo in China. It is

described by Mr. Hemsley as very variable in the shape

and toothing of the leaves. The specimen figured was

raiséd from seeds sent to the Royal Gardens, Kew, in

1898, by A. K. Bulley, Esq., of West Kirby, which

flowered, when two feet high, in October, 1900, in the

Temperate House, but did not mature seed.

Jury Ist, 1901.

Deser.—A perennial herb, with musky odour. iootstock

woody. Stem ascending, four-angled, puberulous. Leaves

three to six inches long, shortly petioled, ovate-lanceolate,

acuminate, finely or coarsely serrate, green, with purple

mareins; floral leaves like the cauline, but smaller.

Flowers few, in loose, false-whorls. Bracts and bracteoles

linear. Calyx campanulate, shortly two-lipped, 5-toothed,

puberulous, much enlarged, and thinly coriaceous

in fruit. Corolla an inch and a half long; tube terete,

ventricose from the base upward; tips short, spread-

ing, the posticous and lateral lobes of the anticous lip

pale yellow, terminal much the largest, rose-purple-

coloured. Filaments slender, erect, hirsute towards the

base ; anthers small, with a star-like fascicle of hairs

at the top, and one at the base of each cell. Fruiting

calyx one half to three-fourths of an inch long, oblong-

campanulate, coriaceous, striate. Nutlets one-third of an

iuch long ; produced upward into a coriaceous wing. Seed

orbicular, compressed, black.—J. D. H. ;

Fig. 1, calyx ; 2, base of corolla and stamens; 3 and 4, front and back views

of anthers ; 5, disk and pistil :—all enlarged.

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TRIS curysantua.

Native of Persia ?

Nat. Ord. Intpra.—Tribe Morzxe2.

Genus Iris, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 686.)

Iris (Pogomiris) chrysantha; rhizomate breviter repente, foliis linearibus

crassis erectis pedalibus glaucescentibus margine stramineis, pedunculo

elongato monocephalo, spathe valvis magnis lanceolatis acuminatis

chartaceis pallide viridibus, perianthii magni pallide lutei tubo

cylindrico pollicari, segmentis exterioribus oblongis emarginatis e basi

recurvatis deorsum conspicuo barbatis, segmentis interioribus latioribus

erectis obovatis, ovario magno clavato distincte stipitato, styli ramis latis

cristis quadratis integris.

This fine species of Iris belongs to the section Pogoniris,

and is easily distinguished from the species already known

by its narrow leaves, long peduncle with a single cluster

of flowers, large spathe-valves and large, pale yellow

flower, with a short tube. Its native country is rather

uncertain. Kew received it from Mr. R. I. Lynch of the

Cambridge Botanic Garden, with whom it flowered last

June. He received it from Mr. C. G. Van Tubergen, Jr.,

of the Zwanenburg Nurseries, Haarlem, under the name

of Oncocyclus, species. Mr. Van Tubergen has not himself

flowered it, and it seems likely that it was introduced

accidentally, along with a fine new species of the Onco-

cyclus section, which he has lately distributed under the

name of Jris urmiensis, and which was collected in the

neighbourhood of Lake Urmiah, in North-west Persia.

Descr.—Rhizome shortly creeping. Leaves linear, a foot

long, erect, glaucescent, thick and firm in texture, with a

narrow, pale margin. Stem slender, as long as the leaves,

bearing a single terminal cluster of flowers. Spathe-valves

lanceolate-acuminate, four inches long, pale green, charta-

ceous. LPertanth pale yellow, with a cylindrical tube above

the ovary, nearly an inch long; outer segments oblong,

emarginate, three inches long, reflexing from near the

base, furnished in the lower half with a bright yellow

beard ; inner segments erect, obovate-cuneate, as long as

Juuy lst, 1901.

the outer, and rather broader. Ovary distinctly stipitate,

clavate, narrowed gradually to both ends, not distinctly

ribbed ; style-branches convex, an inch broad, the same

colour as the perianth; crests large, quadrate, entire.—

J. G. Baker.

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CYANOTIS arrsura.

Native of Abyssinia,

Nat. Ord. Commnrinace#®.—Tribe TRADESCANTIER.

Genus Cranoris, D. Don.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 851.)

Cyranotis (Hucyanotis) hirsuta; tuberibus globosis, caulibus erectis ramosis

foliisque laxe villosis v. glabratis, foliis 2-12 poll. longis #-# poll. latis

linearibus ciliatis, spicis densifloris terminalibus et axillaribus sessilibus

v. breviter pedunculatis, bracteis foliaceis lineari-lanceolatis ciliatis spicas

spissime longe superantibus, bracteolis oblongis falcatis acutis viridibus

ciliatis, calyce ad medium 3-fido lobis ovatis acutis, petalis roseis unguibus

basin prope connatis lamina fere orbiculari 4 poll. diam., filamentis

usque ad apices pilis azureis dense barbatis, antheris minutis aareis,

ovario oblongo styloque villoso, capsula clavata 3-loba glabra valvulis

placente unitis axi centrali 0, seminibus. quadrato-pyramidatis obscure

foveolatis et rugosis,

C. hirsuta, Fisch. Mey. § Avé-Lall. Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. vol. viii. (1841)

p. 57. Clarke in A. & C. DO. Monog. Phan. vol. iii. p. 254, et in FI.

Trop. Afr. vol. viii. ined.

C. abyssinica, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. vol. ii. p. 344, tab. 98. Hassk. Commel.

Ind. p. 139.

Commelina hirsuta, Hochst. in Herd. Abyss. Schimp. n. 14, non aliorum.

‘“ygomenes abyssinica, Hassk. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Athiop. p. 211.

Cyanotis hirsuta was discovered on Mt. Chiré, near

Adoa, in Abyssinia, in about 1840, by Schimper, who

describes it as having eatable tuberous roots, about the

size of a chestnut, called Burko by the natives. Tubers

were presented to the Royal Gardens, Kew, by A. B.

Wylde, Esq., the Abyssinian traveller, who collected them

at a high elevation, where the plant is said to be abundant.

The species is very variable in size, and in the length and

breadth of the leaves. It flowered almost throughout the

year in a greenhouse.

Descr.—Tubers globose, an inch or more in diameter.

Stem erect, a foot or more high, branched, and leaves and

bracts villous, with soft hairs. Leaves two to twelve

inches long by a quarter to three-fourths of an inch

broad, linear, flaccid. Spikes terminal and axillary, sessile,

or shortly peduncled, much shorter than the leaf-like bracts ;

bracteoles densely imbricate, oblong, falcate, acute, green,

ciliate. Calyx 3-lobed to the middle; lobes ovate, acute.

Juty ist, 1901.

Petals with long, nearly free claws; blade orbicular, rose-

coloured, half an inch broad. laments densely bearded

throughout their length with articulate azure hairs;

anthers minute, golden-yellow. Ovary oblong; style

villous. Capsule clavate, three-lobed, valves confluent

with the placentas leaving no free axis where the capsule

dehisces. Seeds pyramidal, four-sided, obscurely pitted.—

J.D. A,

Fig. 1, bract with spike after the fall of the corollas and stamens; 2, calyx;

3, stamen ; 4, pistil; 5, hair from stamen; 6, seed :—all enlarged,

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IMPATIENS curysantHa.

Native of the Western Himalaya.

Nat. Ord. Geranrace%.—Tribe BALSAMINE®, q

Genus Impatiens, Linn.; ( Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 277).

Impatiens chrysantha; annaa, glaberrima, caule crassiusculo ramoso, foliis

alternis ovato-oblongis-lanceolatisve acuminatis serratis crenatisve basi

in petiolum angustatis, glandulis stipularibus tuargidis, pedunculis

apices versus ramorum subcorymbosis erectis, floribus majusculis um-

bellatis aureis, bracteis 4 poll. longis verticillatis ovatis subacutis

herbaceis, pedicellis 3-2 poll. longis, sepalis lateralibus 2 ;';-3 poll. longis

late ovatis vix cuspidatis, postico (labio) saccato v. late infundibulari in

caleem incurvum abrupte attenuato, petalo antico (vexillo) orbiculari y.

transverse oblongo apice retuso cuspidato dorso gibbo incrassato,

lateralibus (petalis) rubro striolatis, lobo basilari superne in lobulum

faleatum patenti-recurvum producto, terminali oblongo obtuso, auricula

dorsali rotundata, capsulis 1-1}-pollicaribus linearibus erectis, seminibus

2-1 poll. longis obovoideis oblongisve levibus fuscis.

The genus Impatiens abounds in the temperate and sub-

_ tropical regions of the Himalaya, and contains many

' singularly beautiful species that have not been brought

under cultivation in England. Amongst these is JL.

chrysantha, which inhabits forests at elevations of five

thousand to eight thousand feet, from the district of

Pangi, on the Sutlej river, north of Simla, to Kashmir, and

westward to Mirza, in Chitral, where it was collected by

Colonel (now General) Gatacre, K.C.B.

It is a variable plant as to the margins of the leaves,

which are coarsely crenate, with lateral or basal cusps on

the crenatures, or serrate with terminal cusps. It varies

also in the form of the lip, and size and form of the seeds

A closely allied species is I. Hdgeworthii, Hook. f., &

Thoms., a native of Kulu (a province bordering on

Kashmir), which differs in the much larger lateral sepals,

- with the midrib thickly keeled dorsally.

I, chrysantha was raised from seeds collected in Pangi,

and sent from the Saharunpore Gardens to Kew by Mr.

Duthie early in 1900, plants raised from which flowered

profusely in the Herbaceous ground in October of the

same year, and fruited abundantly.

JULY Ist, 1901.

Deser.—An annual, glabrous herb, two to three feet

high, with rather stout, branched, terete, succulent stems.

Leaves alternate, three to six inches long, acute or acuminate,

crenate with terminal or lateral cusps on the crenatures, or

serrate with terminal cusps ; petiole of lower leaves long, of

upper short; stipular glands globose. Pedwncles numerous,

corymbosely disposed towards the tips of the stem and

branches, naked below, terminated by short racemes, of

which the flowers are often more or less whorled, or sub-

umbellate ; bracts ovate or ovate-lanceolate ; pedicels one

half to one and a half inches long. Flowers golden-yellow.

Sepals small, ovate or sub-orbicular, one-tenth to one-

eighth of an inch long, obtuse or obtusely cuspidate.

Standard orbicular, two-lobed, costa dorsally thickened or

subalate. Wings with basal lobe produced upwards as

a third lobe or lobule, terminal dolabriform ; dorsal auricle

rounded. Lip two-thirds of an inch long, exclusive of the

imeurved spur, infundibular or saccate. Ovary with a long

beak, Capsules an inch to an inch and a half long, sub-

erect, linear, obtuse, torulose, few- or many-seeded.

Seed obovoid-oblon : 4 j

smooth—J. D, H . orbicular, compressed, nearly

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BULBOPHYLLUM eranprrtorvm.

Native of New Guinea.

Nat. Ord. OrncntpE“,—Tribe ErPrIpENDRE.

Genus Butsoruyiium, Thou. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 501.)

ButsornyituM (Eubulbophyllum) grandiflorum; caudice valido repente,

pseudobulbis distantibus prismaticis monophyllis, folio 5-10 poll. longo

1-2 poll. lato elliptico v. lineari-oblongo apice emarginato basi in

petiolum brevem angustato crasse coriaceo supra saturate viridi Iucido

costa subtus obtuse carinata, scapo folio breviore robusto unifloro vaginis

paucis laxis instructo, bractea pollicari spathacea, flore ad 8 poll.

longo, pedicello robusto cum ovario bractea_ subduplo _longiore,

sepalis maximis multinerviis internervos plagis pallide brunneis albisque

tessellatis, dorsali late ovato-oblongo obtuso arcuatim incurvo lateribus

recurvis, lateralibus lineari-oblongis obtusis deflexis ultra medium incurvis,

petalis minimis triangularibus, labello minuto trilobo, lobis lateralibus

orbiculatis, terminali lingueformi crasso profunde sulcato sanguineo

punctato marginibus basin versus longe ciliatis, columna crassa antice

truncata apice contracta, anthera hemispherica, polliniis 4, 2 dimidiato-

oblongis, 2 minutis facie interiore majorum adnatis.

B. grandiflorum, Blume, Rumphia, vol. iv. p. 42 (non Rehb. f.); Rolfe in

+ Rev. vol. iii. p. 104; in Gard. a 1895, vol. i. p. 422, fig.

B. burfordiense, Hort. ex Orchid Rev. vol. iii. p. 135.

Ephippium grandiflorum, Blume, |.c. t. 195, fig. 3 and t. 199, fig. B.

The gigantic Bulbophyllum here figured was discovered

in New Guinea by Zippel, a naturalist who, in 1828,

accompanied an expedition consisting of two ships (the

Triton and Iris), which was commissioned by the Dutch

Government, under the command of Dr. Marklot, to

establish a civil and military settlement in that Archi-

elago. It is remarkable for the colouring of the sepals,

the contrast between the size of these and the minuteness

of the petals which are only a small fraction of an inch

long and broad. The pollinia are peculiar, though perhaps

not normally developed in the cultivated plant; they are

four in number, two large, oblong and strongly com-

pressed, and two very minute attached to the inner faces

of the larger. Its only near ally is B. Cominsti, Rolfe, a

native of the Solomon Islands, the flower of which is much

smaller.

Aveust Ist, 1901.

B. grandiflorum was introduced into cultivation before

1895, when a flowering specimen was exhibited at the

Royal Horticultural Society by Sir Trevor Lawrence. The

specimen here figured was purchased for the Royal

Gardens, Kew, in 1898, from Messrs. F. Sander & Co. It

flowered in a tropical orchid house in October, 1900, and

the flower lasted for three days.

Descr.—Rootstock creeping, as thick as a small goose-

quill, nodes with short sheaths. Pseudobulbs prismatic,

two to three inches long, sheathed. Leaf seven to ten

inches long by one to two broad, very coriaceous, obtuse,

tip emarginate, base narrowed into a short petiole, bright _

green and shining above, costa dorsally obtusely keeled.

Peduncle six to eight inches long, suberect, stout, bearing

two to three broad sheaths, one-flowered. Pract one and

a half inch long, spathaceous, obtuse, green; pedicel with

ovary three inches long. Perianth about eight inches

long. Sepals very broad, many-nerved, tessellated with

alternating large pale brown and yellow spots, which are

orbicular quadrate or oblong and placed between the nerves.

Dorsal sepal broadly ovate-oblong, obtuse, arcuate, and

incurved (sickle-shaped), sides reflexed, keeled dorsally ;

lateral sepals deflexed, linear-oblong, incurved and con-

niving beyond the middle. Petals very minute, triangular.

Lip minute, three-lobed, lateral lobes orbicular, terminal,

linguiform, deeply channelled above, spotted with red,

margins ciliate towards the base. Column short, stout.

Anther hemispheric.—J, D. /7.

Fig. 1, flower with the se

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pollinia :—all greatly enlarged. Cres 2 petal; 8, anther

Tab. 7788,

PAON TA Lute.

Native of China.

Nat. Ord. Ranuncunace2.—Tribe Pmonizsz.

Genus Pasonta, Linn.; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 10.)

Pxonta lutea; suffrutex glaberrimus, caule brevi lignoso, foliis ternatisectis

coriaceis valide nervosis subtus glaucescentibus, segmentis obovato-

oblongis basi cuneato-decurrentibus petiolulatis vy. confluentibus supra

medium varie incisis et lobulatis, floribus ad apices ramulorum solitariis

2-4 poll. latis, sepalis extimis foliaceis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis

intimis orbicularibus valde concavis longe cuspidatis flavo-virescentibus,

petalis 6-10 orbiculatis concavis aureis integris v. extimis irregulariter

crenatis, filamentis brevibus, antheris lineari-elongatis aurantiacis, disco

crasso lobato, carpellis 3 turgidis glaberrimis, stylis brevibus recurvis,

carpellis maturis 4 poll. longis dehiscentibus cymbiformibus, seminibus

ovoideis angulatis brunneis.

P. lutea, Franch. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, vol. xxxiii. (1886) p. 382. Henry

in Le Jardin, 1897, p. 216 cum ic.; in Journ. Soc. Nat. d@ Hortie. Ser. ILI.

vol. xiv. p. 320, et xv. p. 274. Gard. Chron. 1909, vol. i. p. 404 in

nota.

Paonia lutea is an interesting species on account of its

woody stem and yellow flowers, both rare characters in the

genus. In the first of these it resembles the Chinese

P. Moutan, Sims (tab. 2175), and in the second only P.

Wittmanniana, Stev. (tab. 6645), the yellow in the petals

of which latter is, however, more inclined to white.

The figure of P. lutea here given was taken from a

plant sent from the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, by the late

Professor Cornu to the Royal Gardens, Kew, where it

flowered in the Himalayan division of the Temperate

House in June, 1900. It is a native of the mountains of

Yunnan, where it was discoved by the Abbé Delavay in

1882. Single and double flowers occur in both native and

cultivated specimens. |

Deser.— Quite glabrous. Stem short, woody. Leaves

ternatisect, coriaceous, strongly nerved, glaucous beneath ;

segments obovate-oblong, petiolulate or confluent below,

incised or lobulate beyond the middle. Flowers terminal,

solitary, two to four inches broad. Sepals, outer

foliaceous, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, inner orbicular,

Aveust Ist, 1901.

concave, cuspidate, yellowish green. Petals six to ten,

orbicular, concave, golden yellow, entire or the outer

crenate. Anthers linear, yellow. Carpels three, turgid,

glabrous, cymbiform after dehiscence. Seeds ovoid,

angular, brown.—J. D. H.

_Figs. 1 and 2, stamens enlarged; 3, disk and imperfect carpels of natural

size.

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HELICHRYSUM Gutizimt.

; Native of Eastern Tropical Africa.

Nat. Ord. Comrosira.—Tribe INULOIDER.

Genus Heticurysum, Gertn.; (Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p, 809.)

Heuicurysum (Xerochlwna) Gulielmi; herba perennis, robusta, foliosa

lanuginosa, foliis 3-5 poll. longis sessilibus oblongo- v. lineari-lanceolatis

obtusis inferioribus recurvis superioribus patulis, costa subtus crassa,

capitulis corymbosis pedicellatis 1-14 poll. latis, pedicellis robustis

_bracteatis, involucri bracteis numerosis multiseriatis albis v. extus roseis

intus albis exterioribus brevibus lanceolatis patulis interioribus grada-

tim longioribus 4-3 poll. longis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis patenti-

incurvis, receptaculo latiusculo 4 poll. lato planiusculo glabro nudo,

disci latiusculi aurei floribus extimis paucis foemineis anguste tubulosis,

ceteris masculis numerosis breviter 5-dentatis, antheraram caudiculis

aN pappi setis sigillatim deciduis scaberulis, acheniis brevibus

glabris.

H. Gulielmi, Engler, Ueber die Hochgebirgsflora des trop. Afrik. p. 426

(1892). Gumbleton in Gard. Chron, 1900, vol. ii. p. 333, fig. 103.

The very handsome plant here figured is a conspicuous

member of the flora of Kili-manjaro in German East

Africa, where it is found with two other species at elevations

of 5000 to upwards of 9000 ft. The genus Helichrysum

is characteristic of the vegetation of the loftiest moun-

tains of tropical Africa, several inhabiting the Cameroon

mountains in the Gulf of Guinea, one of which, H. Mannit,

is figured on Tab. 5431 of this work. Others are found

on Mt. Kenia in British East Africa, and a considerable

number may be expected to occur on the lofty and snow-

capped range of Ruwenzori in Uganda.

Tam indebted to W. Gumbleton, Esq., of Belgrove, Co.

Cork, for the specimen here figured of H. Gulielmi, which,

together with the two other species from the same

locality, he raised from seeds which were collected by Dr.

Hans Meyer of Leipsic, and distributed by Mr. Max

Leichtlin. Mr. Gumbleton informs me that it attains a

height of two feet, one specimen bearing six branches,

each with fourteen to eighteen flower-heads, to be followed

by others. It flowered in a greenhouse, in October, 1900,

Aveust lst, 1901.

and continued to flower for about three months. The

name it bears is that of the German Emperor.

Desev.—A robust, leafy, branching, perennial herb,

about two feet high, covered, with the exception of the

flower-heads, with white wool. eaves three to five inches

long, sessile, linear-oblong or -lanceolate, obtuse, lower

recurved, midrib stout, beneath. lower-heads corym-

bose, an inch to an inch and a half broad; pedicels stout,

bracteate. Involucre hemispheric ; bracts in many series,

linear, outer short, spreading, inner linear-lanceolate, an

inch to an inch and a half long, spreading and incurved,

white or rose-red on the outer surface. Receptacle half an

inch broad, glabrous. Jlorets all tubular, outer series few,

female, the rest male. Anther cells with ciliate tails.

po ge hairs scaberulous. Achenes short, glabrous.—

Fig. 1, inner involucral bract; 2, male flower; 3, pappus-hair; 4, anthers ;

5, style-arms of female flower :—all enlarged.

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STROBILANTHES GOSSYPINUS.

Native of the Nilghiri Hills.

Nat. Ord. AcantHacer.—Tribe RvELLIEA,

Genus StropitaNntuEs, Blume; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 1086.)

STROBILANTHES (Endopogon) gossypinus; frutex erectus, tomento fulvo dense

lanuginoso, ramis tetragonis, foliis subcoriaceis 3-7 poll. longis ovatis

ellipticisve acutis v. acuminatis supra demum glabrescentibus, nervis

utrinsecus 10-13 confertis subtus validis, petiolo 1-14 poll. longo robusto,

spicis apices versus ramorum paniculatis brevibus oblongis 3-6-floris,

bracteis 3-}-poll. longis ellipticis obtusis, bracteolis lineari-oblongis,

calycis 4-poll. longi segmentis erectis lineari-lanceolatis inwqualibus intus

glabris, corolla }-poll. longa oblonga oblique ventricosa basi in tubum

brevem curvum angustata intus postice fascia decurrente pilosa instructa,

lobis patulis subsqualibus pallide cceruleis, staminibus 2 inclusis,

filamentis laxe pilosis, ovario glabro apice piloso, stylo glaberrimo,

stigmate lineari decurvo.

S. gossypinus, 7. Anders. in Journ, Linn, Soc. Bot. vol ix. (1867) p. 466.

Clarke in Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. iv. p. 434. Bedd. Ie. Pl. Ind. Or. p. 45,

tab. 198.

Though a native of so long and well known an Indian-

botanical station as Sisparah Ghat, in the Nilghiri Hills,

Strobilanthes gossypinus seems to have escaped the notice of

Wight and all collectors, till Thos. Lobb found it at the

above locality, and sent dried specimens to Messrs. Veitch,

which are now preserved in the Kew Herbarium, It

appears to be a rare plant, for except from Col. Beddome,

who published an excellent figure and description of it in

his ‘** Icones,” cited above, there are no other specimens at

Kew. That botanist gives “common about Sisparah, at

4-5000 ft.,” as the one localized habitat, though adding

that he “has specimens from other localities in our

Western Mountains.”

As with others of its congeners, a plant of S. gossypinus

flowers only once in its lifetime, on reaching its maturity,

which in its native country takes six or seven years, and

then dies. Col. Beddome mentions 1869 as one such year,

The specimen here figured is from a plant now four feet

high and wide growing in the Mexican division of the

Temperate House of the Royal Gardens, Kew.

It was

Aveust Ist, 1901.

raised from seed sent by the late Mr. Jamieson, of

Ootacamund, in 1887, and flowered for the first and last

time in November, 1900. It has hence, according to Col.

Beddome’s estimate, taken twice as long a period to

mature at Kew as it would have done had it grown in the

Nilghiri Hills.

Deser,—An erect shrub, covered with a matted fulvous

tomentum. Branches four-angled. Leaves three to seven

inches long, ovate or elliptic, acute or acuminate, at length

glabrous on the upper surface; nerves about twelve

pairs, arched, close-set; petiole stout. Spikes panicled

towards the ends of the branches, oblong, few-flowered ;

bracts elliptic, obtuse; bracteoles linear-oblong. Calyz

half an inch long, segments unequal, linear-lanceolate,

erect. Corolla about three-quarters of an inch long,

gibbously ventricose, contracted below into a short curved

tube; lobes subequal, spreading, pale blue. Stamens 2,

filaments sparsely hairy; anthers included. Ovary and

style glabrous ; stigma linear, decurved.

Fig. 1, calyx with style and stigma; 2, corolla laid open showing stamens ;

3 and 4, anthers; 5, disk and ovary :—all enlaryed.

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GLADIOLUS SULPHUREUS.

Native of the Transvaal.

Nat. Ord. Intpra.—Tribe Ixina,

Genus GuapioLus, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iil. p. 709.)

GuapioLus (Eugladiolus) sulphureus; caule 1-12 pedale, foliis 14-2-pedalibus

ensiformibus medio ad 1 poll, latis firmis pallide viridibus nervis prominalis

ineequalibus costatis, floribus 6-8 suberectis secundis pallide aureis viridi

tinctis, spica erecta, rhachi valido, spathz valvis exterioribus 14-2 poll.

longis lanceolatis erectis viridibus, perianthii tubo 1}-pollicari anguste

infundibulari paullo’ decurvo, limbi segmentis tubo zwquilongis oblongis

obtusis apiculatisve patenti-recurvis interioribus paullo minoribus, stami-

nibus tubo corollz longioribus, antheris fere } poll. longis linearibus

arcuatis sulphureis, stigmatibus clavellatis recurvis.

G. sulphureus, de Graaf ex Molkenb. in Jaarboek Tuinboww, 1850, p. 89, ewm

ic. color. (non Baker).

G. Adlami, Baker in Gard. Chron. 1889, vol. i. p. 233; Handb. of Irid. p. 219;

in Dyer, Fl. Capens, vol. vi. p. 156.

The publication of this very distinct species of Gladiolus

in the Jaarboek Tuinbouw so long ago as 1850, has been

overlooked hitherto by all succeeding authorities, though it

was accompanied by an excellent coloured figure. If

does not appear in the “Kew Index,” the periodical in

which it is described being so very rarely occupied with

the description of new species of plants that it was not

consulted during the laborious search for names involved

in the preparation of the “ Index.” There is, however,

an excellent specimen of the plant bearing the above

name in the Kew Herbarium, presented in 1893 by Mr.

Max Leichtlin, which was raised from Cape seed twenty

years earlier.

Mr. Molkenboer, the author of the article in the Jaar-

boek, who cites de Graaf as the author of the species,

regards it as a hybrid between G. floribundus and natalensis,

alluding no doubt to the floribundus of the Dutch gardens

(= G. flabellifer, Tausch.) and natalensis, Remw., which is

a synonym of G. psittacinus. That this is an error is now

clear.

In the description in “ Flora Capensis” of G. Adlami,

Aveust Ist, 1901.

the upper perianth-segment is said to be “ granulated all

over with minute red dots.’ ‘These were not observed

in the specimen here figured, though a red spot may be

seen at the junction of the segments.

G. sulphureus is a native of the Transvaal. Corms of it,

from one of which was produced the specimen here figured,

were obtained by the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1900, from

Mr. Max Leichtlin. It flowered in a cool house in July of

the same year.

Deser.—Stem a foot to a foot and a half high. Leaves

one and a half to two feet long, about an inch broad in the

middle, ensiform, erect, strict, firm, strongly mnerved.

Flowers six to eight, subsecund, pale golden yellow faintly

tinged with green; rhachis of spike stout, erect; spathe-

valves lanceolate, acuminate, green. Perianth-tube slightly

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apiculate, spreading and recurved. Filaments longer than

the perianth-tube ; anthers about half an inch long, linear,

eee Style decurved ; stigma recurved, clavellate.—

Figs. 1 and 2, stamens; 3, stigma; both enlarged.

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EPIDENDRUM osmantHom.

Native of Brazil.

Nat. Ord. Orcnipra.—Tribe EPrpenpReat,

Genus Errpenprvm, Linn. ; (Benth, & Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 528.)

Ermenprum (Encyclium) osmanthum; pseudobulbis 3-5 poll. longis obpyri-

formibus teretibus 2-phyllis vaginis scariosis tectis demum nudis, felis

8-18 poll. longis 1}-poll. latis sessilibus loriformibus apice rotundatis

corinceis enerviis medio sulcatis costa subtus gracili, scapo gracili fusco-

viride roseo maculato laxe paniculatim ramoso ramis elongatis apices

versus paucifloris, bracteis brevissimis triangularibus late scariosis, —

ovario cum pedicello 1}-pollicari viridi, perianthio 13-2 poll. lato

. explanato, sepalis petalisque equilongis carnosis incurvis concavis apici-

bus rotundatis flavis rubrolineatis, sepalis obovato-oblongis, petalis

orbicularibus unguiculatis unguibus luteis, labello submembranaceo

sepalis triente longiore unguiculato trilobo, ungue columnam amplec-

tente, lobis lateralibus explanatis rotundatis grosse crenatis albis roseo

suffusis, terminali late obcordato crenato lateribus deflexis albo roseo

. lineato, disco breviter costato, colamna aurea apice auriculis 2 quadratis

porrectis instructa, anthera depressa.

E. osmanthum, Rodrig. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. Nov. vol. ii, (1882) p. 134. Rolfe

'. tm Orchid Rev. vol. iv. (1896) p. 291. Cogniaur in Martius Fl. Bras.

vol. iii. pars V. p. 64, t. xix. fig-2. eee.

E. Godseffianum, Rolfe in Gard. Chron. 1892, vol.i. p. 136. DL. Orchidoph, 1892,

p- 289. Rolfe in Orchid Rev. vol, ii. (1894) p. 323. -

E. Capartianum, DL. Lind, in Lindenia, vol. vii. p. 93, tab. 333; in Journ. des

Orch, vol. vii. (1896) p. 209; Orchid. Hxot. p. 758, .

The Brazilian species of Hpidendrum have quite lately

been described in detail by Cogniaux, in a monograph

of the Orchidex of that country, now appearing as a

volume of Martius’s * Flora Brasiliensis.” This admirably

executed work will undoubtedly prove, when finished, the

most valuable contribution to American Orchidology that

has hitherto appeared, and it has the best wishes of all

botanists for its completion. The Brazilian species of

_Epidéndrwm (of which there are one hundred and forty-one)

are grouped under five sections, to one of the largest of

which, Eneyclium, FE. osmanthum is referred It ir » native

of forests in the pruvinces of Minas Geraes, and of Pernam- —

buco, from which latter province it was introduced by

Messrs. Sander & Co.in 1899, from whom the fine

specimen here figured was purchased for the Royal

SEpremBer Ist, 1901.

Gardens, Kew. It flowered in: the Cattleya House in

October, 1900; the flowers, which are odoriferous and

aromatic, last about two months.

- Descr.—Pseudobulbs obpyriform, two-leaved, three to

five inches long, smooth. Leaves eight to ten inches long

by one and a half inches broad, loriform, tip rounded,

deeply channelled in the middle, coriaceous, sides convex,

nerves obscure, costa beneath slender. Peduncle with

sparingly branched panicle two feet long, slender, greenish

speckled with red; branches spreading, few-flowered ;

pedicels with ovary an inch and a quarter long, spreading,

green ; bracts minute, triangular. lowers one and a half .

to two inches broad. Sepals and petals widely spreading —

_ and incurved, concave, fleshy, yellow streaked with red ;

_ sepals linear-oblong; petals as long, orbicular, clawed.

Ip one-third longer than the sepals, rather membranous,

three-lobed,, claw sheathing the column; side-lobes sub-

orbicular, spreading, crenate, white suffused with rose;

~ midlobe much larger, broadly obcordate, sides deflexed,

white with crimson streaks, coarsely and irregularly

crenate; disk shortly ribbed. Column two-auricled at

the top, auricles quadrate, projecting forward.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, front wa side views of the column; 3, anther; 4 ollinia :—all

enlarged; 5, reduced view of whole plant. ee Saee nies

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TRIS Taunt.

Native of Asia Minor,

Nat. Ord. Intpex#.—Tribe Morma.

Genus Iris, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 686.)

Iris (Juno) Tauri; bulbo ovoideo 3-floro, tunica extima pallide brunnea, radici-

bus crassis, foliis 6-7 per anthesin tubo floris multo brevioribus demum

elongatis late viridibus 3-5 poll. longis ad } poll. latis linearibus acumi-

natis apice obtusis marginibus scaberulis, spathe valvis subherbaceis,

flore 3 poll. expans., perianthii tubo 4-pollicari violaceo, limbi segmentis

exterioribus 2-poll. longis obovato-spathulatis ultra medium reflexis

lateribus erectis extus sordide viridibus intus saturate violaceis striis

latis albis utrinque coste ornatis, crista aurantiaca albo marginata,

interioribus pollicaribus patenti-reflexis obovato-spathulatis undulatis

violaceis, styli ramis segmenta perianthii superantibus oblongo-obovatis

crispato-undulatis violaceis, filamentis liberis.

J. Tauri, Siehe ex G. B. Mallet in Gard. Chron. 1901, vol. i. p. 190, fig. 74, et

p- 313

According to a note in the Gardener’s Chronicle (I.c. p.

313) by Mr. Siehe of ‘‘ Hortus Orientalis,” Mersina (near

Tarsus), the discoverer of this beautiful little species, it is

a native of alpine pastures in the Eastern Taurus, at six

thousand five hundred feet elevation, and of the upper

forests of Juniperus excelsa at four thousand five hundred

feet, where it flowers, on the melting of the snow at the

end of February and the beginning of March. As stated

under J. stenophylla, Hausskn. (tab. 7734), Mr. Siehe was

the discoverer of that plant also, and in the article cited

he gives as its exact habitat (of which I had previously

no information), ‘‘in undergrowths of Pinus Laricio,

var. Bruttia, especially preferring dry, overgrown, hilly

slopes of fine red loam.” A third Iris of the same

section discovered by Mr. Siehe, is [. Bolleana, Siehe,

Gard. Chron. \.c. a hitherto undescribed species, except

in so far as that the leaves are said to be narrow and

curled, with white, membranous margins, and the flowers

clear yellow. It inhabits limestone rocks near the sea at

elevations of six hundred and fifty feet to nine hundred

and fifty feet.

A plant of [. Tauri was received at the Royal Gardens,

SEPTEMBER lst, 1901.

Kew, in 1900, from Mr. Siehe, in a batch of bulbs of

I. stenophylla. It flowered in a frame in January of the

present year.

Descr.—Bulb ovoid, three-flowered; outer coat pale

brown; roots very long, stout. Leaves six to seven, very

short at flowering time, at length three to five inches long

by half an inch broad, linear, narrowed to an obtuse tip,

bright green. Spathe-valves sub-herbaceous. Perianth-

tube four inches long, violet ; segments obovate-spathulate,

outer two inches long, reflexed from beyond the middle,

sides erect, dark violet, with broad streaks of white; crest

orange-yellow, bordered with white; inner segments an

inch long, spreading and reflexed, undulate, violet. Style-

branches longer than the perianth-segments, oblong-obovate,

crisped and undulate, violet.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1 and 2, anthers; 3, portion of style-arm and stigma :—all enlarged.

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OXALIE pispar. ao es

Native of British Guiana. ea

Nat, Ord. Gerantacea.—Tribe OxaLIDEs.

Genus Oxauis, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 276.)

Oxauis (Thamnoxys) dispar; fruticulus cano-tomentellus, ramulis gracilibus

teretibus, foliis longe petiolatis pinnatim 3-foliolatis, foliolis 25-3 poll.

longis lateralibus sessilibus oppositis terminali petiolulato ovato-lanceo-

latis acutis supra puberulis subtus molliter tomentellis basi cuneatis

6-10-nerviis nervis fere rectis, a 3-4 poll. longis, petiolulo 3 poll.

longo gracili, pedunculis axillaribus gracilibus pubescentibus apice

breviter bifidis 5-10-floris, floribus subcapitatis brevissime pedicellatis

foliolis parvis suffultis, sepalis erectis 3 poll. longis oblongo-lanceo-

latis obtusis eglandulosis puberulis, petalis }4-polJ. longis obovato-

rotundatis aureis marginibus basin versus coalitis et puberulis, filamentis

basi connatis edentatis interioribus pilosis, ovario glabro stylis 5 brevibus

glabris recurvis, stigmatibus capitellatis, capsula 5-cornuta, 15-costata

costis 5 primariis puberulis.

O. dispar, V.E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, ined.

The genus Ovxalis, of which upwards of four hundred

and fifty species are known, is largely represented in Brazil

and Guiana, from which countries more than one hundred

species are described by Prognel in the second volume of

Martius’ “ Flora Brasiliensis.” Amongst the latter, the

nearest (and very near) ally of O. dispar is O. Laureole,

Progn., which has shorter petioles and leaflets, much

smaller, more racemose flowers, and filiform, pilose styles.

Another near ally is O. Noronhe, Oliv. (in Hook. Ic. PI.

t. 1226), a native of Fernando de Noronha, a small group

of oceanic islands which lie two hundred and ten miles

N.-E. of Cape St. Roque, the easternmost point of Brazil.

A description of this group, the largest island of which is

a penal settlement, is to be found in the “ Naturalists’

Voyage” of Mr. Darwin, who was, I believe, the first man

of science that ever landed on it, and make a collection

of its plants. O. Noronhex differs from O. dispar in its

shorter, broader leaflets, small flowers, slender styles, and

glabrous filaments.

0. dispar was obtained for the Royal Gardens, Kew,

from Messrs. F. Sander & Co., of St. Albans. It flowered

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1901,

freely all the year round in a stove. It is a native of

Guiana.

_Descr.—A small, softly-pubescent undershrub, about two

feet high, woody at the base, with slender, spreading

branches. Leaves alternate, long-petioled, trifoliolate.

Leaflets two and a half to three inches long, ovate-lan-

ceolate, acute, base cuneate; lateral opposite, sessile ;

terminal rather larger, petiolulate, all puberulous above,

finely tomentose beneath ; nerves six to ten pairs, nearly

straight, prominent beneath. Petiole three to four inches

long, very slender; petiolule two-thirds of an inch long.

Flowers an inch across, golden-yellow, crowded at the bifid

top of the peduncle, very shortly pedicelled, sub-tended by

a few small leaflets; peduncle about as long’as the petiole,

and as slender. Sepals half an inch long, lanceolate,

pubescent. Petals orbicular-obovate, connate above the

base by their margins. Inner filaments pilose. Styles

short ; stigmas capitate.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, calyx; 2, bases of three petals; 3, disk, stamens, and stigmas;

4, ovary :—all enlarged.

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IMPATIENS Tuomsoni.

Native of the Himalaya Mountains.

Nat. Ord, Gerantace#.—Tribe BALSAMINE®.

Genus Impatiens, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 277).

Impatiens Thomsoni; annua, glabra, caule simplici v. ramoso erecto superne

tetragono angulis remote muriculatis, foliis alternis 3-5 poll. longis

ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis cuspidato-serratis basi acutis supremis

sessilibus inferioribus petiolatis, glandulis stipularibus magnis, pedun-

culis apicem versus caulis subcorymbosis strictis erectis paucifloris,

floribus inter minores in racemos breves terminales dispositis roseis,

bracteis 1-3 poll. longis e basi angusta lanceolata linearibus acuminatis

v. in cornu attenuatis apice glandulosis, pedicellis 4-? poll. longis

fructiferis apice decurvis, sepalis 2 lateralibus 3-1} poll. longis oblique

ovatis falcatisve obtuse cuspidatis herbaceis, postico (labello) saccato v.

late infundibulari in calcar incurvum abrupte attenuato, petalo antico

_ (vexillo) orbiculari basi et apice retuso costa vix incrassata apice apiculato,

petalis lateralibus (alis) bilobis lobo basilari oblongo rubro-punctato

angulo superiore acuto terminali subequilongo oblongo v. dolabriformi

apice rotundato, auricula dorsali obscura, capsulis pollicaribus pendulis

lineari-clavatis 5-gonis subacutis polyspermis, seminibus }-} poll. longis

oblongis levibus fasts brunneis.

I. Thomsoni, Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soe. Bot. vol. iv. (1860) p. 128; Fl. Brit.

Ind. vol. i. p. 469.

I. Thomsoni is one of the commonest sub-alpine species

of the genus in the Western Himalaya, at elevations of

eight thousand feet to twelve thousand feet, from Kumaon

to the Indus River, It also occurs rarely in Sikkim,

and no doubt inhabits the intermediate ranges of Nepal,

though it has not hitherto been collected there. It is a

very attractive plant, from the abundance of its rose-

coloured flowers amongst the deep green foliage, followed

by the red, drooping pods.

Seeds of I. Thomsoni were received at the Royal

Gardens, Kew, from Mr. Duthie, in 1900, plants raised

from which flowered in the Herbaceous Ground in August

of the same year, and continued flowering till October.

Descr,—A perfectly glabrous, erect annual, eight to

twelve inches high. Stem simple or sparingly branched,

four-angled towards the top with muricate angles.

Leaves alternate, crowded towards the top of the stem,

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1901.

three to five inches long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate,

cuspidately serrate, base acute, dark green, upper sessile,

lower petioled; stipular glands large, shortly stipitate,

globose. Peduncles axillary, sub-corymbosely crowded at

the top of the stem, stout, erect, naked, unequal in height,

bearing terminal, short, few-flowered racemes; bracts

narrowly lanceolate, very variable in length and breadth,

one-tenth to one-fourth of an inch long; pedicels about

twice as long. Flowers half to three-quarters of an inch

long, pale rose-coloured, Sepals obliquely ovate, cuspi-

date, green. Standard erect, orbicular, notched at the

base and apex. Wings twice as long as the standard ;

basal lobe acute, yellow, speckled with red, terminal dola-

briform, deep rose-coloured. Lip rather longer than the -

wings, broadly funnel-shaped-or saccate, suddenly narrowed

into a slender, incurved spur. Capsule three-fourths

of an inch long, narrowly sub-clavate, five-angled, pendu-

lous from the decurved apex of the pedicel, many-seeded.

Seeds about an eighth of an inch long, linear-oblong,

smooth.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, portion of top of stem with stipular glands; 2, portion of margin of

leaf; 3, bract; 4, wing-petal ; 5, stamens :—all enlarged,

MS.del, JN Fitchlith

Tas. 7796.

ARCTOTIS GumsBreront.

Native of Namaqualand,

Nat. Ord. Comrosit2.—Tribe ARCTOTIDER.

Genus Arctotis, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 458.)

Axctotis (Euarctotis) Gumbletoni; tota capitulis exceptis tenuiter albo-

lanata, caule brevi folioso, foliis 8-12-pollicaribus erectis petiolatis

angustis pinnatifidis v. pinnatisectis lobis ad 1 poll. longis oblongis apice

rotundatis integris terminali latiore crenato v. lobulato, pedunculo

robusto nudo cavo, involucri hemispherici bracteis herbaceis rigidis

extimis brevibus deltoideis in acumen setaceum pubescentem angustatis

intermediis apice ala brevi scariosa rotundata terminatis intimis longe

alatis, receptaculo lato plano setifero, fl. radii tubo brevi glabro, ligula

pollicari saturate rubro-aurantiaca basin versus maculis linearibus dis-

tinctis v. confluentibus rubro-brunneis ornata, fl. disci tubo pilis paucis

articulatis instructo, loborum apicibus incrassatis trigonis violaceis

demum atris, acheniis (immaturis) radii discique extimis uno latere

lanatis et basi pilis sericeis longe barbatis, pappi paleis 3-seriatis extimis,

brevibus laceris, intimis oblongis hyalinis.

I have in vain endeavoured to identify this beautiful

plant with any of the numerous species of Arctotis, whether

described in published works, or preserved in the Her-

barium of the Royal Gardens, Kew, but the descriptions

are so imperfect, and the herbarium specimens, in many

cases, so unsatisfactory, that it is not without hesitation

that I describe it as new to science. About thirty species

of the genus are described in Harvey & Sonder’s “ Flora

Capensis,” but as I find characters which have been over-

looked by authors, I feel convinced that the whole genus

needs a searching analysis. In the meantime I have the

pleasure of naming this beautiful plant after my friend,

W. Gumbleton, Esq., of Belgrove, Queenstown, Ireland,

who raised and flowered it, and to whom horticulture in

general and the Botanical Magazine in particular are in-

debted for procuring and liberally distributing mauy new,

rare, and interesting plants.

There are two characters of the disk-flowers in Arctotis

which deserve notice; one is the curious, almost purple-

black, thickened, pendulous tips of the corolla-lobes; the

other the irritability of the style, which protrudes the

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1901.

stigmatic arms above the anthers for the purpose of fer-

tilization by the pollen from other flowers, which being

effected, the arms are withdrawn to their former position.

This latter fact was, I believe, first made known by

Lindley in a note under his description of A. awreola (Bot.

Reg. t. 82). The singular, dark, finger-like marks at the

bases of the ligules are not peculiar to the species here

ficured.

A. Gumbletoni is a native of Namaqualand, whence

seeds of it were sent to Mr. Gumbleton by Mr. Ayres.

It is a very free grower, and keeps flowering for months

in a cool house.

Descr.—Stem very short, clothed, as are the leaves and

peduncles, with a thin, white, densely-matted tomentum.

Leaves basal, six to twelve inches long by one to one anda

half broad, long-petioled, pinnatifid or pinnatisect ; lobes

oblong, tips rounded, quite entire or obscurely crenate,

sinus rounded; lower lobes small, distant, and often

decurrent ; terminal broader, ovate lobed or lobulate.

Peduncle eight inches to a foot high, stout, striate. Head

three inches in diameter. Jnvolucre hemispheric, two-

thirds of an inch in diameter; outer bracts green, coria-

ceous, broadly ovate, cuspidate or tips setaceous, closely

appressed, tips hairy; intermediate longer, acute or

obtuse, herbaceous, with scarious tips and margins ; inner

twice as long, base green, terminating in a broad, scarious

wing, rounded at the tip. Ray-flowers deep orange-red,

tube very short ; ligule with finger-like red-brown marks

at the base. Achenes short, hairy; outer pappus scales

short, lacerate, inner much longer, oblong.—J. D. H.

Fig. I, outer bract of involucre ; 2, ray-flower with part of ligule removed ;

3, base of inner ray-flower with imperfect stamens; 4, disk-flower; 5, top of

corolla-lobe of disk-flower; 6, stamens; 7, tip of style of disk-flowers with

the style-arms appressed :—al/ enlarged.

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HXORRHIZA Wenptanprana.

Native of the Fiji Islands.

Nat. Ord. Parma.—Tribe ARECEX,

Genus Exorruiza (Beccari in Ann. Jard. Buitenz. vol. ii. (1885) p. 128.)

Exorruiza Wendlandiana ; trunco excelso erecto stricto annulato basi radicibus

epigewis spinulosis sustentato, foliis breviuscule petiolatis lineari-oblongis

10-12 ped. longis patenti-recurvis pinnatisectis petiolo rhachique dorso

rotundatis facie acute angulatis, segmentis 2-pedalibus squidistantibus

anguste lineari-lanceolatis costatis 8-10-nerviis, nervo marginali 0,

spadice longe infra-foliaceo erecto breviter crasse pedunculato pedali

ovato-oblongo stricto confertim ramoso, ramis 8-10 pollicaribus erecto-

patulis strictis albis basi abrupte in globum pollicem diam. incrassatis,

laxifloris fructiferis kermesinis, floribus bracteatis et 2-bracteolatis ternis

2 g,intermedio ?, superioribus in ramis solitariis ¢, spathis 2 oblongis

crasse coriaceis diu persistentibus, fl. ¢ symmetricis ovoideis, sepalis

3-gonis, petalis oblongis obtusis valvatis, staminibus 6, filamentis petalis

brevioribus subulatis, antheris lineari-oblongis, pistillodio ovoideo apice

trifido, fl. 2 multo minoribus subglobosis, sepalis maris persistentibus,

petalis orbicularibus imbricatis, ovario oblongo 1-loculari stigmate crasso

ovoideo coronato, ovulo solitario parietali, fructu globoso 3 pull. diam.

levi, stigmate laterali, albumine wquabili.

E. Wendlandiana, Beccavi, l.c.

Kentia exorhiza, H. Wendl. in Bonpland. vol. ‘x. (1862) p. 191 (excel. deser.

Sruct.) etin Seem. Fl. Vitiens. p. 269, t. 73.

Areca ? exorhiza, H. Wendl. in Bonpland vol. ix. (1861) p. 260 (nomen).

Exorrhiza Wendlandiana is a native of the Fiji Islands,

where it was discovered by Dr. Seemann, when accom-

anying Col. Smythe in his mission to that archipelago in

1860-1. It appears to bea very local Palm, its only known

habitat being in humid forests, at a considerable elevation

on the mountains of Somososo, in the islet of Taviuni. In

his account of Col. Smythe’s Mission, p. 370, Dr. Seemann

mentions Kentia ? exorrhiza as being also a native of New

Caledonia ; but this is an error, the palm alluded to being

probably Cyphosperma Vieillardit, Benth. & H.f.; so also

with regard to Tonga, as another habitat, there is no

evidence whatever of the palm alluded to being a Fiji one.

For living plants of Hzorrhiza Wendlandiana the Royal

Gardens, Kew, are indebted to the late Sir J. B. Thurston,

K.C.M.G., who, when Governor of the Fijis in 1881, sent

to Kew living plants in a Ward’s case, one of which,

OctoxseR Ist, 1901.

that here represented, flowered in the Palm House in

February, 1901. Its height to the bases of the leaves is

sixteen feet, to the top of the crown twenty-four.

Descr.—A noble palm, attaining, in its native country,

sixty feet in height, with a straight annulate trunk, two

to three feet in girth towards the base, where, above

ground, it emits stout, spinous supporting roots. Leaves

ten to twelve feet long, shortly petioled, linear-oblong,

spreading and recurved, pinnatisect ; leaflets very many,

close-set equidistantly, two feet long by about two and a

half inches broad, narrowed from the middle to the acumi-

nate tip, costate, and eight to ten-nerved, bright green

above, pale yellow-green beneath; petiole and rhachis

sub-trigonous, with a flattened upper surface and rounded

under. Spadiz maturing several nodes below the lowest

leaf, shortly peduncled, erect, ovoid; branches close-set,

eight to ten inches long, slender, strict, erecto-patent,

suddenly swollen above the base into a gibbus an inch in

diameter, white, scarlet when fruiting. Spathes two, oblong,

much shorter than the spadix. Flowers sessile, scattered in

threes along the branches of the spadix, each three con-

sisting of two males, about an eighth of an inch long, and

an intermediate minute female ; upper flowers on the branch

solitary, male. Bracts and bracteoles minute. Male fl.

symmetric, sepals minute, trigonous ; petals oblong, obtuse,

valvate; stamens 6; pistillode trifid. Fem. jl. ovoid;

sepals of male; petals imbricate ; ovary ovoid, one-celled,

crowned by a sessile ovoid stigma; ovule solitary, parietal.

Fruit globose, half an inch in diameter, stigma lateral.—

J.D. H.

Fig. 1, portions of spatne and spadix with ¢ and 9 flowers; 2, stamens;

3, pistillodium ; 4, 2 flower with calyx removed; 5, ovary ; 6, vertical section

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HABENARIA LuGARDI.

Native of Bechuanaland,

Nat. Ord. OncHIDEZ.—Tribe OPpHRYDER.

Genus Hasenania, Willd.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. iii. p. 624.)

Hasenanrta (Ate) Lugardii; foliis 2 radicalibus sub-oppositis terre appressis

sessilibus orbicularibus 6-8 poll. diam. carnosis fragilibus breviter acutatis

multinerviis, scapo robusto vaginis paucis lanceolatis pollicaribus

instructo, racemo 1-2 ped. longo 4-10 poll. diam. multi-laxifloro, bracteis

3-11 poll. longis lanceolatis, pedicellis 1}-2 poll. longis arcuatis, floribus

albis, sepalo dorsali } poll. longo erecto ovato acuto concavo, lateralibus

erecto-patentibus dorsali paullo longioribus ovato-lanceolatis acutis,

petalis bipartitis segmento postico oblongo falcato erecto sepalo dorsali

cohwrente, antico fere filiformi pendulo pollicari, labello ad basin 3-

partito segmentis filiformibus 1% poll. longis pendulis intermedio breviore,

caleare 5-6 poll. longo, stigmatis processubus elongatis apicibus spathu-

latis porrectis viridibus, staminodiis minutis pyriformibus granulatis

aureis, rostello prominulo acuto, antherarum tubulis brevibus, polliniis

anguste oblongis caudiculis paullo brevioribus, glandula parva orbicu-

lari.

H. Lugardii, Rolfe in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afric. vol. vii. p. 228. W. Wats. in

Gard. Chron. 1900, vol. ii. p. 322.

In habit and in the orbicular leaves appressed to the

earth, this stately Habenaria resembles two Indian

species, H. platyphylla, Spreng., and H. plantaginea, Lindl.,

from both of which it differs in the form of the petals, which

are cleft to the base into very narrow segments, a character

which refers it to the genus Ate of Lindley (reduced by all

recent authors to Habenaria). It was discovered by Major

Lugard, with Crinum rhodanthum_ (tab. 7777) and other

bulbous plants in Botletle Valley, Ngamiland. Tubers of

it were presented by that distinguished traveller to the

Royal Gardens, Kew, in February, 1899, one of which

flowered in the tropical Orchid House in October of the

following year, and is here figured.

Descr.—Leaves two, radical, sessile, appressed to the

ground, orbicular, four to six inches in diameter, fleshy,

fragile, bright green, base amplexicaul, very many-nerved.

Scape stout, with a few lanceolate acuminate sheaths.

Raceme six to twelve inches long, very many-flowered, six

inches in diameter ; rhachis stout, acutely angled; bracts

OctoBerR Ist, 1901.

about an inch long, lanceolate, acuminate, white or

greenish. Flowers white, with green stylodes and yellow

anther and staminodes ; pedicel with beaked ovary one and

a half inch long, twisted, green. Sepals ovate, acute,

dorsal erect, half an inch long; lateral rather longer, sub-

erect. Petals cleft to the base into two slender segments,

one of which is erect and coheres to the dorsal sepal,

the other is an inch long and pendulous. Lip cleft nearly

to the base into three filiform pendulous segments an inch

and a half long, and with two projecting spathulate green

stylodes at its base; spur five to six inches long, pendulous,

very slender. Anther-cells linear, tubes short, upcurved ;

pollinia linear-oblong, rather shorter than their caudicles.

Stylodes (or stigmatic processes) very large, spathulate,

green.—.]. D. H.

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CINERARIA pentacrina.

Native of South Africa ?

Nat. Ord. Composirz.—Tribe SENECIONIDER.

Genus Cineranrta, Linn, ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. ii. p. 445.)

Cinzraria (Eucineraria) pentactina; glaberrima, caule gracillimo scandente

ramoso, ramis ramulisque santatia pallide rubris, foliis parvis gracile

petiolatis semi-orbiculatis # pol]. diam. breviter 5-lobis basi truncatis

pallide viridibus, lobis late triangularibus 3-crenatis obtusis, paniculis

elongatis ascendentibus laxifloris ramis ramulis distantibus pedunculisque

gracillimis pallide rubris, pedicellis squamulis sparsis minutis subulatis

instructis, involucri cylindracei } poll. longi ecalyculati bracteis 6-10

linearibus acuminatis v. lineari-oblongis acutis 3—5-nerviis marginibus late

hyalinis, receptaculo parvo convexo, floribus ra‘lii 5, ligulis lineari-oblongis

% poll. longis apice rotundatis aureis, floribus disci aurantiacis, acheniis

radii minutis vix ~; poll. longis late oblongis compressis brunneis

marginibus longe villosis, disco medio pubescente, pappo albo achznio vix

duplo longiore, pilis margine cupule persistentis insertis mollibus

scaberulis caducis.

The native country of Cineraria pentactina is unrecorded,

though it may with little doubt be regarded as South

Africa, from its close affinity with C. lobata, L’Herit.

(Sert. Angl. t. 34) which has a wide range of distribu-

tion in the southern districts of Cape Colony. From that

plant C. pentactina differs chiefly in its very slender climb-

ing habit, less divided leaves, and lax paniculate inflores- _

cence, with very long branches, peduncles, and pedicels.

It is a very elegant plant, as seen climbing a pillar of the

greenhouse in the Royal Gardens, Kew, of which it is

a very old inhabitant, flowering profusely in the summer

months.

Descv.—Quite glabrous. Stem very slender, about as

thick as a sparrow’s quill and branches dull red; branch-

lets pendulous. Leaves alternate, distant or fascicled on

short lateral shoots, semi-orbicular in outline, three-fourths

of an inch in diameter, shortly, broadly five-lobed, base

truncate, pale green on both surfaces; petiole slender,

about as long as the blade, base not auricled. Flowers in

lax, ascending, terminal panicles ; peduncles and pedicels

very slender, pale red; bracts on the pedicels minute,

OcroBeR Ist, 1901.

distant, subulate, green. Jnvolucre cylindric, about a third

of an inch long, ecalyculate ; bracts six to ten, linear,

acute, or acuminate, three- to five-nerved, green, with

scarious margins. Lay-flowers five, golden-yellow ; ligule

half an inch long, linear-oblong, tip minutely three-toothed.

Disk-flowers orange-yellow. Achenes minute, broadly ob-

long, compressed, red-brown, margins densely villous, disc

pubescent in the middle. Pappus-hairs inserted in the

mouth of persistent cup, rather longer than the achene,

white, scaberulous, caducous.—/. D. H.

Fig. 1, ray- and 2, disk-flowers ; 3, hair of pappus; 4, stamens; 5, stigmas of

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CALORHABDOS cavroprera.

Native of China.

Nat. Ord. ScropHULARINE#.—Tribe DIGITALEZ.

Genus Catornanpos, Benth.; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 963 (ex

parte.)

CaLorHaspos cauloptera: herba erecta, fauce corolle excepta glaberrima,

caule gracili subsimplici anguste tetraptero, foliis alternis breviter petio-

latis ovate-lanceolatis acuminatis argute serrulatis basi acutis, racemo

spiciforme terminali erecto 6-8 poll. longa multi-densifloro, rhachi tetra-

gona, floribus brevissime pedicellatis unibracteatis bractea ovato-lanceolata

calyce subequilonga, calycis ¢ poll. longi segmentis Janceolatis erecto-

patulis, corolla deflexa 4 poll. lata ad medium 5-loba rubro-purpurea,

fauce annulo lato villoso aucto, lobo postico late ovato depresso apice

bidenticulato, ceteris minoribus ovatis acuminatis patulis, staminibus 2

erectis, antheris didymis aureis, capsula calyci squilonga ovvidea

bisulcata polysperma loculicida, valvis bipartitis, seminibus ovoideis.

C. cauloptera, Hance in Trimen Journ. Bot. vol. xv. (1877) p. 298. Hems!. in

Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. xxvi. (1890) p. 195; in Hook. Ic. Pl. vol. xxvii.

sub t. 2669.

The genus Calorhabdos was founded by Bentham on a

Nepalese plant closely allied to Veronica, C. Bruno-

niana (see Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 2669), to which was

subsequently added a Chinese and Japanese, C. avillaris.

Of these the latter has been regarded as the type

of a distinct genus (Botryoplewron) by Mr. Hemsley,

differing from C. Brunoniana in habit and in its axillary

spikes. Three additional species of Botryopetalum,

all Chinese, have since been discovered, confirming

the validity of the genus (see Hemsley, l.c. t. 2670);

and the Nepalese C. Brunoniana has been found by the

Abbé Delavay in the province of Yunnan, in China, though

in no intermediate locality, and a second species of Calor-

habdos, the subject of this plate, has been added to it.

CG. cauloptera is a native of the provinces of Ichang and

Kwangtung. Seeds of it were sent to the Royal Gardens,

Kew, in 1896, by Dr. Henry, plants raised from which

flowered in a greenhouse in August, 1900. It is remarkable

for its four-winged stem and four-angled rachis of the

spike ; those organs in C. Brunoniana, and in all the species

of Botryopleuron being perfectly terete.

OctToser lst, 1901.

Descr.—A slender, erect herb, everywhere glabrous,

except on the throat of the corolla. Stem unbranched,

narrowly four-winged. Leaves very shortly petioled, alter-

nate, three to five inches long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate,

acutely serrulate, with the serratures inflexed, base acute,

deep green above, beneath pale, with prominent nerves.

Inflorescence terminal, shortly peduncled, spiciform raceme

from six to eight inches long, very slender, half an inch

broad, densely many-flowered ; bracts lanceolate, about as

long as the calyx, green. Flowers very shortly pedicelled.

Calyz about an eighth of an inch long, divided nearly to

the truncate base into five sub-equal, lanceolate, acuminate

lobes. Corolla defiexed, tube short, limb about one-third

of an inch broad, five-lobed to the middle, dark red-

purple; posticous lobe largest, depressed, broadly ovate,

tip two-toothed ; lateral lobes spreading, ovate, acuminate ;

mouth with a broad ring of purple matted hairs. Stamens

2, exserted; anthers oblong, didymous, yellow. Ovary

compressed, two-celled ; style shorter than the filaments,

erect; stigma minute.—J. D. A.

Fig. 1, portion of margin of leaf; 2, flower; 3, calyx and bract; 4, corolla

laid open and stamens; 5, ovary :—all enlarged,

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RUBUS patmatus.

Native of Japan and China.

Nat. Ord. Rosacex.—Tribe RuBEea,

Genus Rusus, Linn; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 616.)

Ruzvus palmatus ; frutex fere glaberrimus, ramosus eglandulosus, ramis elonga-

tis gracilibus scandentibus, aculeis sparsis rectis, foliis in ramulos abbre-

viatos fasciculatis supremis solitariis longe graciliter petiolatis ambitu

orbicularibus et palmatim 5-fidis vel late ovatis pinnatifido-5-7-lobis

subcaudato-acuminatis leete viridibus lobis segmentisve ovatis v. lanceo-

latis acuminatis inciso-serratis subtus pallidis, petiolo 1-2 poll. longo

distante setoso v. aculeolato, stipulis supra-basilaribus lineari-lanceolatis

obscure denticulatis, floribus axillaribus solitariis, pedicellis gracilibus

sparse setulosis, calycis glabri v. pilosuli tubo hemispherico lobis lan-

ceolatis acuminatis parce serratis intus glabris, petalis patentibus sepalis

vix duplo:longioribus ellipticis obtusis albis, antheris aureis, carpellis

summo toro cylindraceo confertis glaberrimis, stylis elongatis filiformibus

erectis stigmate capitellato, fructu globoso flavo sapido,

R. palmatus, Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 217; Ic. Pl. Jap. Dec. iv. tab. 6. Sieb. &

Zuce. Fl. Jap, Fam. Nat. face. i. p. 18. Mig.s Ann. Mus. Bot. Imgd.

Bat. vol. iii. p. 35; A. Gray, Bot. Japan, p. 387, pro parte. Maxim. in

Bull. Imp. Acad: Sc. Petersb. vol. xvii. (1872) p. 154; (Mel. Biol. viii. p. 334).

Franch. & Sav. Enum. Pl. Jap. vol. i. p. 126. Hemsl. in Journ. Linn.

Soc. Bot. vol. xxiii. (1886-8) p. 234.

R. coptophyllus, A. Gray, Bot. Perry Exped. Japan, p. 311.

Ttubus palmatus is a very elegant species, differing from

the typical forms of the genus in the elliptic shape of its

white spreading petals. It has several allies in Japan and

China with similar flowers, especially 2. incisus, Thunb.,

which differs in its leaves being only 3-lobed, and in the

tomentose inner surface of the calyx-lobes. Thunberg’s

figure of palmatus is excellent; De Candolle has doubtfully

referred it to Lt. microphyllus, Linn. f., also a native of

Japan, which has recurved prickles, and a villous calyx.

‘The plant of £. palmatus, from which the accompanying

figure was made, was obtained from Messrs. Veitch & Sons,

of Chelsea, in 1899. It is now twenty feet high, trained

against a pillar in the Himalaya wing of the Temperate

House of the Royal Gardens, Kew, where it flowered in

April of this year. There are specimens of it in the

Kew Herbarium from Yokohama, N agasaki, and the

central mountains of Japan, ascending to seven thousand

OctoBER Ist, 1901.

feet ; also from Corea, and from Chekiang in China. It

has so far proved hardy in my garden near Sunningdale,

as to have survived without injury the winter of 1900-1.

Descr.—A glabrous, much branched, eglandularshrub, with

slender, climbing branches. Prickles scattered, straight,

compressed. Leaves one to three inches long, orbicular

and palmately five or six-lobed, or broadly ovate and sub-

pinnatifidly lobed, base sub-cordate, lobes ovate or lanceo-

late, acuminate, inciso-serrate, bright green above, pale

‘beneath ; petiole one to two inches long, bearing a few

scattered minute bristles; stipules inserted above the

base of the petiole, linear, acuminate, sparingly denti-

culate. lowers solitary, axillary, one to one and a half

inches in diameter; pedicels very slender, sparsely setose.

Calyz-tube hemispheric; lobes linear-lanceolate, about half

as long as the petals, acuminate, sparingly serrate. Petals

elliptic, obtuse, pure white. Jilaments slender, erect,

anthers yellow. Carpels crowded on the top of a short, -

cylindric column, oblong, smooth; style very slender.

Fruit globose, nearly an inch in diameter, yellow, succu-

lent.—J. D. H,

Fig. 1, base of petiole and stipules; 2, base of calyx, stamens, and carpels;

3, carpel :—all enlarged.

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MUSA o.eracza.

Native of New Caledonia.

Nat. Ord. Sciraminra.—Tribe MusEx.

Genus Musa, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. Ff. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 655.)

Musa (Eumusa) oleracea; tubere subterraneo magno napiformi pluricauli,

caudice mediocri viridi-violaceo glaucescente, foliis petiolatis 1-2-pedalibus

oblongis acuminatis basi rotundatis supra saturate viridibus subtus

pallidis glaucescentibus, nervis primariis distinctis subremotis impressis,

arcnatis petiolo pedali crasso, spica cernua ad 8 poll. longa breviter

et crasse pedunculata, pedunculo rhachique viridi, bracteis paucifloris

inferioribus 6 poll, longis linearibus v. lineari-oblongis obtusis recurvis

extus fusco-purpureis glaucis intus flavo-rubris clathratim rubro striatis

apice viridibus, ovario teretiusculo viridi, perianthio 1 poll. longo, calycis

flavidi fusco picti nervosi lobis 2 exterioribus oblongis obtusis dorso infra

apicem calcaratis, interioram lobis lateralibus dorso infra apicem

calcaratis intermedio latiore ecalcarato, corolla calyce triente breviore

quadrata pallide purpurea margine superiore medio ligula instructa

v. abrupte acuminata, stigmate clavato apice lobulato.

M. oleracea, Vieill. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Sér. LV. vol. xvi. (1861) p. 46.

M. sapientum, Linn. var. oleracea, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1894, p. 250.

Poiéte incol.

Musa oleracea is a very interesting species, being, as far

as is known, unique in the genus in haying a very large

underground tuber, replete with starch, which is boiled,

toasted, or baked as an article of food by the natives

of New Caledonia, its flavour, according to M. Vieillard,

resembles that of the yam. The tuber has “eyes” like

a potato, and the plant may hence be propagated by

division,

From M. paradisiaca, M. oleracea is easily distinguished

by the tuber, the short leaves glaucous beneath, with very

well defined arching primary nerves, about three-quarters

of an inch apart, and impressed on the upper surface ; the

short spike with very few-flowered, long, narrow bracts,

which are glaucous purple externally, and red within, tho

much shorter calyx, which is dull yellow stained with

pale brown or purple, and the colour of the corolla.

It is said by M. Vieillard never to flower in New Caledonia,

where it perhaps is known only as a cultivated plant. It

did not ripen fruit at Kew.

Novemser Ist, 1901,

M. oleracea was received at the Royal Gardens, Kew,

from Mr. W. Souter, Superintendent of the Gardens of the

Brisbane <Acclimatization Society. It flowered in the

Mexican wing of the Temperate House in August, 1900,

but did not ripen fruit.

Deser.—Sitem four to seven feet high, rising from a

large underground turnip-shaped corm, green and violet,

glaucous. Leaves one to two feet long, rather shortly

stoutly petioled, oblong, acuminate, base rounded, dark

green above, pale and glaucous beneath; lateral nerves

very distant, about three-quarters of an inch apart,

arching. Spike decurved, shortly peduncled; rhachis

stout, dark green. Bracts few-flowered, lower remote,

six inches long, linear or ligulate, dull purple, and very

glaucous, externally bright pale red within, somewhat

tessellately mottled with darker red, tips obtuse, green.

Calyx about an inch long; segments strongly nerved, dull

yellow, suffused with pale, dirty purple or brown. Corolla

about one-third shorter than the calyx, quadrate, abruptly

cuspidate, or with the cusp sometimes produced into

ligule, pale dull purple.—J. D. HH.

Fig. 1, hud; 2, flower; 3, corolla; 4 and 5, stamens; 6, top of style and

stigma :—all enlaryed.

Tas. 7803.

SENECIO maentricts.

Native of Australia.

Nat. Ord. Composit..—Tribe SENECIONIDE™.

Genus Senecio, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f Gen, Plant. vol. ii. p. 446).

Srexucio (Radiati) magnificus; suffrutex glaberrimus, glaucus, caule erecto

rubusto ramisque teretibus foliosis, foliis grosse subremote dentatis

acutis ad }-pedalibus obovato-oblongis oblanceolatisve basi angustatis,

superioribus minoribus lanceolatis semi-amplexicaulibus, costa subtus

rominula, nervis obscuris, capitulis longe pedunculatis in corymbos

axos aphyllos dispositis, pedunculis bracteis subulatis auctis, involucri

2 poll. longi cylindracei basi obscure calyculati bracteis linearibus obtusis

herbaceis, receptacnlo plano leevi, fl. radii 8-12 ligulis 3 poll. longis lineari-

oblongis apice obtusis obscure crenatis aureis, styH ramis fuscis, fl. disci

numerosis involucro paullo longioribus aureis, achzeniis puberulis, pappi

albi setis scaberulis.

S. magnificus, F’. Muell. in Linnea, vol. xxv. (1852) p.418; Key Syst. Vict. Pl.

vol. i. p. 340. Sonder in Linnzea, l.c. p. 526. Benth. Fl. Austral. vol. iii.

p- 666.

Though hardly meriting the grandiose specific name

given to this plant by the late Baron Mueller, it is a very

conspicuous member of the enormous genus of groundsels,

and in this respect heads the list of the twenty-eight

Australian species. It is a mountain plant, native of the

Grampians in Victoria, and of the Flinder’s ‘Range in

South Australia. Seeds of it were received at the Royal

Gardens, Kew, in 1899, from Mr. Maiden, F.L.S., Director

of the Botanic Gardens of Sidney, from which plants were

raised which flowered in the Temperate House in October,

1900. 3

Descr.—A tall, stout, quite glabrous, glaucous, erect,

sparingly branched under-shrub, stem and branches terete,

leafy. Leaves rather coriaceous, coarsely sub-crenately

toothed, lower about six inches long, oblong-lanceolate or

oblanceolate, narrowed at the base; upper smaller, lan-

ceolate, semi-amp'exicaul, costa thickened beneath, nerves

obscure. Heads in loose, peduncled, leafless corymbs ;

pedicels slender, bearing scattered subulate bracts. Jn

volucre half an inch long, cylindric, green, base obscurely

ealyculate ; involucral bracts linear, obtuse, herbaceous,

NoveMBeER Ist, 1901.

green. Receptacle flat, smooth. Ray-flowers eight to

twelve, ligules two-thirds of an inch Jong, linear-oblong,

golden-yellow, tips obscurely crenate; style-arms pale

brown. WDisk-flowers very many, rather longer than the

involucre, five-toothed. Achenes short, smooth, puberulous.

—/, D. H,

Fig. 1, ray-flower with portion of ligule removed ; 2, disk-flower; 3, hair of

pappus; 4, anthers; 5, arms of style:—al/ enlarged.

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LIPARIS trroatrosa.

Native of the Malay Peninsula and Sulu Archipelago.

Nat. Ord. Oncu1pEa.—Tribe Eprpenprea.

Genus Liraris, Rich.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 495.)

Liraris (Mollifolia) ¢ricallosa; caule brevi vix pseudobulboso, foliis 3-5

sessilibus 4-8 poll. longis ellipticis v. oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis

5-7-nerviis membranaceis pallide viridibus marginibus undulatis nervisque

subtus rubris, pedunculo rhachique racemi’ elongati laxe-multiflori

angulatis rubris, bracteis parvis ovato-lanceolatis, pedicellis cum ovario

1-14 poll. longis rubris, sepalis pollicaribus loriformibus obtusis citrinig.

lateralibus infra labellum positis, petalis sepalis paullo brevioribus recurvis,

ob margines revolutos filiformibus rubris, labelli breviter unguiculati

lamina suborbiculari subacuta plana deflexa 2 poll. lata aurea lineis

saturate rubris creberrime picta, ungue tricalloso, callis lateralibus

reniformibus intermedio minuto globoso, colamna minuta incurva

marginibus supra medium dilatatis, capsula ellipsoidea.

L. tricallosa, Rchb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1879, vol. i. pp. 225, 684 e¢ 1901, fig. 85.

Ridley in Journ. Linn, Soe. Bot. vol. xxii. (1886) p. 275.

L. venosa, Ridley |.c. vol. xxiv. (1888) p. 350, e¢ vol. xxxii. (1896) p. 224.

A very well-marked Liparis, discovered by Mr. Bur-

bidge, F.L.S., Curator of the Trinity College Botanic

Gardens (author of “The Gardens of the Sun’’), in the

Sulu Archipelago ; and more recently found in the Malay

Peninsula, at Perak, Johore, and Singapore. The sepals

vary in colour, being lemon-yellow in the specimen here

figured. ‘The petals and striations of the lip are lake red,

rather than carmine as described by Mr. Ridley in his

L. venosa, which is unquestionably conspecific.

L. tricallosa was introduced into cultivation by Mr.

Bull, who in 1879 flowered a plant of it received from

its discovereyx, which was described by Reichenbach as

cited above.* The specimen here figured was presented to

the Royal Gar@ens, Kew, by the Right Honourable Joseph

Chamberlain, Sécretary of State for the Colonies, in full

flower, in June, 1900.

Descr.—Stem short, stout, hardly pseudobulbous. Leaves

three to five, sessile, four to eight inches long, elliptic- or

oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, five to seven-nerved, mem-

branous, margins waved, and nerves beneath red. Raceme

NovemsBeR Ist, 1901.

peduncled, six to eight inches long, loosely many-flowered,

rhachis acutely angled, red; bracts small, lanceolate ;

pedicel and ovary together one to one and a half inches

long, slender, twisted, red. Sepals an inch long, strap-

shaped, obtuse, lemon-yellow, two lateral placed under the

lip. Petals rather shorter than the sepals, arched, re-

curved, filiform, red. Lip deflexed, sub-orbicular, flat,

three-fourths of an inch broad, golden-yellow, closely

striped with red, claw very short, with two lateral

reniform calli, and a minute, globose, intermediate one.—

wot, Fy.

Fig. 1, claw of lip; 2, side, and 3, front view of column and anther;

4, anther; 5, pollinia :—al/ enlarged.

7805 —

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Tas. 7805,

TREVORIA Cnanorts.

Native of the Andes of Colombia.

Nat. Ord. Orcuipea.—Tribe VanpEx.

Genus T'revorta, (F. C, Lehm. in Gard. Chron. 1897, vol. i. p. 345.)

Trevorta Chloris; pseudobulbis fasciculatis cylindraceis v. elongato-pyri-

formibus ecostatis 1-foliatis infra medium vaginis lanceolatis brunneis

rigidis obtectis, folio subsessili oblongo-lanceolato licato, pedunculo e

basi pseudol-ulbi robusto decurvo flexuoso vaginis oiliaantaae lanceolatis

brunneis striatis ornato, spica pendula pauciflora rhachi robusta, bracteis

triangularibus brevibus cucullatis cuspidatis, floribus ad 24 poll. latis

viridibus, ovario brevi, perianthio subcampanulato, sepalis columnz basi

oblique insertis late ovatis subacutis concavis carnosulis, petalis sepalis

multo angustioribus oblongo-lanceolatis patenti-recurvis pallidis, labello

carnoso basi columnz adnato sepalis breviore 3-lobo, lobis lateralibus

auriculiformibus erectis disco processu linguzformi columne supposito

revoluto aucto, terminali stipitato ovato medio 5-sulcato, stipite tumido

obtuso callo bilobo instructo non articulato, columna brevi crassa

clinandrio terminali, anthera parva hemispherica 1-loculari, polliniis

pyriformibus apicem versus caudicul elongate affixis, glandula orbiculari

demum longe extrusa, stigmatis fovea transversa.

Trevoria Chloris, F. 0. Lehm. in Gard. Chron. 1897, vol. i. p. 345, fig. 128.

: Rolfe in Orchid, Rev. vol. viii. (1900) p. 335.

The very remarkable Orchid here figured was discovered

by Mr. F. C. Lehmann in moist woods at four thousand

eight hundred feet to five thousand five hundred feet

elevation on the western slope of the Andes of Colombia,

near Popayan, flowering in September and November.

Its nearest but not very close ally is, according to Mr.

Rolfe, Coryanthes, from which it differs conspicuously in

the structure of the lip. The name Trevoria recalls the

great services rendered to horticulture, and especially to

a knowledge of Orchids, by Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart.,

M.P., President of the Royal Horticultural Society of

London, to whom I am indebted for communicating the

specimen from which the accompanying figure was made,

Deser.—Pseudobulbs tufted, three inches long, cylindrie,

one half to one inch in diameter, smooth, green, one-

leaved ; sheaths brown, rather rigid, striate. Leaf oblong-

lanceolate, acuminate, plicate, seven-nerved, narrowed into

a very short petiole, bright green above, yellowish-green

Novenper Ist, 1901,

beneath, with strong nerves. Pedunele from the base of

the pseudobulb, four to five inches long, decurved, very

stout, flexuous, green, with brown-streaked sheaths, of

which the lower are short, appressed, the upper nearly an

inch long, loose, lanceolate. Spike pendulous, few-fid. ;

rhachis stout, flexuous, green; bracts like the upper

sheaths of the peduncle. Ovary short, curved, green.

Perianth sub-campanulate, about two and a half inches

broad, base rounded. Sepals inserted in the base of the

column, broadly ovate, obtuse, concave, fleshy, green.

Petals as long as the sepals, but much narrower, oblong-

lanceolate, obtuse, spreading and recurved, pale yellow-

green. Lip adnate to the base of the column, rather

shorter than the sepals, very thick, fleshy, nearly white,

three-lobed ; lateral lobes short, ear-shaped, erect, with a

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thick, green. Anthers hemispheric, with an upcurved

beak ; pollinia pyriform, on a long inflexed strap; gland

orbicular.—J, D, H

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CYRTOPODIUM patmirrons.

Native of Brazil.

Nat. Ord. Orncutpea#.—Tribe VanpEx,

Genus Cyrtopopium, Br.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p, 541).

Cyrrtoropium palmifrons; caulibus 2-pedalibus fasciculatis suberectis com-

pressis infra medium vaginis citrinis purpureo marginatis imbricatis arcte

adpressis velatis dein foliatis (folium pinnatum referentibus) foliis 6-8 poll.

longis distichis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis 3-nerviis basi angustatis

laete viridibus subtus pallidis, vaginis caulinis consimilibus, pedunculis

basilaribus caulibus brevioribus adscendentibus vaginis distichis oblongis

acutis coloratis imbricatis laxe tectis, panicula ampla 15 poll. longa 10

lata oblonga nutante multiflora, rachi ramisque gracilibus viridibus,

bracteis axillaribus floralibusque oblongis v. ellipticis albis roseo mar-

ginatis caducis his 3-} illis $-1 poll. longis, floribus ad 1 poll. latis

Lreviter pedicellatis, sepalis suborbiculatis apice rotundatis labelloqne

-citrinis roseo maculatis, petalis paullo latioribus citrinis, labello sepalis

breviore geniculatim unguiculato subeequaliter 3-lobo, lobis lateralibus

erectis reniformi-rotundatis, terminale 2-lobulato lobulis margines versus

dixcoque basi callis globosis confertis instructo, columna parva, anthera

antice appendiculata, polliniis oblongis caudicula lata sessilibus.

C. palmifrons, Reichb. f. et Warm. in Ot. Bot. Hambd. fase. ii. p. 88. Warm. in

Vidensk. Med. Nat Foren. Kjobenh. 1884-7, p. 87, t. 6, £.3; Symb. ad FI.

Bras. Centr. vol. xxx. p. 850, t. 6, f. 3.

This very remarkable Orchid was discovered growing

on trees in the forests of Lagoa Santa, in Central Brazil,

by the Danish traveller and botanist, J. EH. B. Warming.

For the beautiful syecimen here figured, which flowered

in a tropical house in April, 1901, the Royal Gardens are

indebted to Dr. E. A. Heath, of Eaton Square. The

specific name palmifrons is in allusion to the resemblance

which the leafing stem bears to the leaf of an Arecoid

Palm, the leafless part of the stem answering to the petiole,

and the distichous narrow leaves to the pinnules of the

palm.

Deser.—Stems tufted, ascending, about two feet high,

straight or curved, compressed, closely invested by the

short, uniform sheaths of fallen leaves, each sheath is

about half an inch long, lemon-coloured, with purple

margins, the latter giving the effect of a zigzag purple

December Ist, 1°01,

line running up thestems. Leaves six to eight inches long,

distichous ; blade sessile on the sheath, linear-lanceolate,

acuminate, narrowed at the base, bright green. Peduncle

basal, stout, ascending, branching into a spreading, in-

clined, many-flowered panicle fifteen inches long by ten

inches broad. Bracts, axillary and floral elliptic or oblong,

membranous, caducous, white with rose-coloured margins,

floral one-third of an inch to half an inch long, axillary

much larger. Flowers about an inch broad, shortly pedi-

celled. Sepals sub-orbicular, lemon-coloured, spotted with

rose-pink, Petals rather broader, lemon-coloured. Lip

colour of the sepals, geniculately clawed, three-lobed ;

lobes sub-equal, lateral erect, broadly reniform, terminal

broadly bilobulate ; disk and margins covered with globose

calli. Column very short.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, portion of panicle of nat. size; 2, side view, and 3, front view of

column and lip; 4, anther; 5, pollinia:—all enlarged; 6, reduced view of

whole plant.

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Tas. 7806.

SYRINGA oprata.

Native of North China.

Nat. Ord. OLeacem.—Tribe Syrince®.

Genus Syrinea, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 675.)

Syrinea (Eusyringa) oblata; frutex fere glaberrimus, 8-10-pedalis, foliis sub-

hysteranthiis 2-33 poll. latis subcoriaceis rhombeo-ovatis orbicularibusve

acrtis v. subcuspidatis basi rotundatis v. late cordatis supra lete viridibus

marginibus spe roseo tinctis subtus pallidioribus demum rufescentibus,

petiolo 3-1 poll. longo, thyrso breviter pedunculato globoso v. oblongo

dense-multifloro, ramis ramulis calycibusque puberulis, floribus breviter

pedicellatis pallide lilacinis, calyce 7 poll. longo ad medium inequaliter

4-fido, lobis ovatis v. ovato-lanceolatis acutis, corolla tubo } poll. longo

nndo v. subglanduloso, limbi 3 poll. lati lobis orbiculatis v. late ellipticis

planis v. subconcavis.

S. oblata, Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1859, p. 868. Fortune, Le. 1860, p. 170.

Naud. in Fl. des Serres, vol. xiii. (1858, in 1860 public.) p. 126 (sub Asculo

indica) Dippel, Handb. Laubholz. vol. i. p. 113. Sargent, Gard. & For.

vol. i. (1888) p. 221, fig. 39. Decne in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris. Sér. U1.

vol. ii. p. 40. Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. xxvi. (1889) p. 83.

Franch. Pl. David, p, 205.

8. ay Bunge in Mém. Sav. Etr. Pétersh. vol. ii. (1835) p. 116 (non

illd.).

Syringa oblata is so closely allied to S. vulgaris, t. 183,

that Prof. Sargent (Gard. & Forest, l.c.) who has given a

good vesumé of the characters of the Chinese species of

the genus, says that it is, perhaps, a geographical variety

of that plant. He points out as differences, its thicker

leaves, its flowering twelve days later, and the leaves

turning a dark russet-red in autumn. Before, however,

accepting this view, it is necessary to compare the fruits

and seeds of the two plants, of which those of S. oblata

are as yet unknown to me.

Fortune was the introducer of S. oblata into Kurope.

He found it in a garden at Shanghai. Some years later

the Abbé David procured specimens from a garden in

Peking; and more recently it has been collected in a wild

state in Western Kansu by Potanin, and at Moukden, in

Shingking, by the Rev. J. Webster. A plant of it was

obtained by the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1899, from Mr,

Lemoine’s Nurseries of Nancy. It flowered in the

Temperate House in April of this year. 3

Novemser Ist, 1901.

Descr.—A nearly glabrous shrub, eight to ten feet high.

Leaves not fully developed till flowering time, rhomboidal-

ovate or orbicular, two to three and a half inches in dia-_

meter, cuspidately acute or acuminate, rather coriaceous, ;

green, with often reddish margins, base rounded or openly —

cordate, russet red on maturing; petiole one half to one —

inch long. flowers in a shortly peduncled, broadly oblong

or globose, dense-flowered thyrsus, very shortly pedicelled, -

branches, pedicels, and calyces puberulous. Calyx one-—

tenth of an inch long, cleft nearly to the middle into four |

unequal, ovate-lanceolate, acute lobes. Corolla pale lilac, —

tube about half an inch long, glabrous or slightly

glandular ; limb two-thirds of an inch broad; lobes flat —

or slightly concave, orbicular or broadly elliptic. Fruit |

unknown.—J. D. H,

Fig. 1, calyx, style, and stigma; 2, section of corolla; 3, pistil:—all en-

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EUCALYPTUS GUNNI,

Var. MONTANA.

Native of Tasmania and Victoria.

Nat. Ord. Myrtack#.—Tribe LeprosPpERME.

Genus Eucatyrtus, L’her. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 707.)

Evucatyrtus (Strongylanthera) Gunnit; arbor altitudine varia nunc valde

elata, glaberrima, trunci cortice fragili inferne ruguloso superne ramo-

rumque levi, ramis patulis, foliis alternis petiolatis ovatis v. ovato-

lanceo!atis acuminatis rectis rigidis utrinqne pallide viridibus basi

acuminatis cuneatisve, nervis glandulisque obscuris, primariis oppositis

sessilibus rotundatis pruinosis, umbellis axillaribus lateralibusque

3-pluri-floris subsessilibus v. pedicellatis, calycis tubo ad 3—-} poll. longo

obovoideo v. turbinato, margine acuto, operculo tubo maulto breviore

hemispherico vel conico et umbonato, filamentis 3-7 poll. longis alabastro

inflexis, antheris brevibus oblongis obovatisve rimis elongatis dehiscenti-

bus, stylo brevi, capsula pyriformi truncata ore paullo constricta tereti

3-5-loculari margine angusto, valvis brevibus deltoideis leviter immersia,

seminibus inappendiculatis.

Var. montana; arbor parva, foliis ad 2 poll. longis, umbellis paucifloris,

E. Gunnii, Hook. f. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vol, iii. (1844) p. 499 ; FI.

Tasman. vol. i. p. 134, t. 27. Benth. Fl. Austral. vol. iii. p. 246. F,

Muell. Fucalyptogr. Dec. iv.; Key Syst. Vict. Pl.i. 240. E. ligustrina,

pe in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. vol. iv. (1859) p. 134 (non D.C.). ‘Lab. nostr.

Var. elata ; arbor elata, foliis longioribus, umbellis plurifloris. EB. Stuartiana,

F. Muell. ex Mig. lc. vol. iv. (1859) p. 131; Hucalyptogr. Dec. iv. 1.

persicifolia, Mig. l.c. p..137 (non Ivdd.). HE. Baneriana, Mig. lc. p. 137

(non Schau.) K. falcifolia, Mig. lc. p. 136 (partim.) E. acervula, Hoo.

f. Fl. Tasman. vol. i. p. 135 (non Sieh). E. Gannii, F. Muell. Fragment.

vol. ii. p. 62 (non Hook. f.).

The species of Hucalyptus are notoriously variable, and

difficult of discrimination. . Gunnit forms no exception,

and has given rise to a difference of opinion as to its

limits of variation between Mr. Bentham and Baron

Mueller, both able monographers of the genus. The

species was discovered by myself in 1840, forming a

forest of small trees in a swampy soil at elevations of

three thousand to four thousand feet in the centre of

Tasmania, where it was known to stock-keepers as yielding

abundantly an agreeable sap; and hence called cider-tree

or swamp-gum. This Tasmanian mountain form was sub-

sequently found in the Victorian Alps, on the summit of the

' DecemBer lst, 1901,

Baw-Baw mountains, by Mueller, at an elevation of five

thousand feet. It is characterized by its small stature,

leaves about two inches long, and three- to four-flowered,

shortly peduncled umbels. In 1859 Miquel published an

allied species, H. Stwartiana, inhabiting low levels, charac-

terized by its great size, attaining two hundred and

fifty feet in height, longer leaves, more slender pedun-

cles, with more numerous flowers in the umbels. It is

the H. Gunnti of Mneller’s Fragmenta cited above, the

E. acervula of my “ Flora Tasmanica ” (not of Sieber), and

has other synonyms. Bentham retains both species, but

Mueller, being informed by Mr. Abbot, of Tasmania, a

very competent observer, that H. Gunnii, in descending

from the mountains to low levels, passes gradually into

ff. Stuartiana, has united the two, and in so doing has

greatly added to the geographical range of the species,

for the Stuartiana form not only ranges over Tasmania,

but from Lake Bonney and Quichen Bay, in South

Australia, to Gipp’s Land in Victoria, and to Bathurst

Plains and Two-fold Bay in New South Wales.

E. Gunnii is the only species that has withstood the

climate of the east of England. A small tree of it

(formerly misnamed L. polyanthemos) stood for many years

on a mound by the pond opposite the Palm House, in the

Royal Gardens, Kew, where it was cut almost to the

ground by severe cold in several winters, but as often sent

up from the trunk one or more branches from ten feet to

twenty feet high. A specimen in my garden, near Sun-

ningdale, at an elevation of about two hundred feet, is

now thirty feet high. It has suffered severely by frosts,

but has survived them. In the West of England and of

Scotland it is quite hardy. As a species it is remarkable

for the obscure development of oil glands, and faint odour

of the foliage, which is hence browsed upon in Australia

by cattle and sheep. Mueller gives several Colonial names

for it, besides that under which I knew it, as Red gum-

tree of Tasmania, Gumtop-tree of Sealer’s Cove, and

But-But, or Apple-scented Gum. The specimen here

figured is taken from the plant that flowered in the

Temperate House at Kew.

Descr.—A rather slender tree, variable in height, from

twenty feet to thirty feet in the mountains of Tasmania,

to two hundred and fifty feet in the low levels ; bark rather

rough, flakeing. Leaves or young plants opposite, sessile,

ovate, very glaucous ; on old plants petioled, ovate-oblong

to lanceolate, three inches to four inches long, acute,

coriaceous, pale green on both surfaces; base acute, with

the sides equal, or nearly so; nerves and oil glands very

obscure. Peduncles solitary, axillary, short, stout, sub-

terete, one- to three-flowered in the mountain form,

longer, and four- to ten-flowered in the lowland. Calya-

tube urn-shaped, turbinate or obovoid, tapering at the

base, one-sixth to one-fourth of an inch long. Oper-

culum much shorter than the calyx-tube, hemispheric

or conical and umbonate. /ilaments about as long as

the calyx-tube, inflexed in bud; anthers short, with long

slits. Style short. Capsule pyriform, terete ; mouth trun-

cate, slightly constricted, margins acute; three- to five-

celled; valves short, deltoid, incurved. Seeds inappendi-

culate.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1 and 2, calycine cup and operculum: enlarged; 3, umbel with

unexpanded flowers, and 4, with expanded flowers of var. elata, of nat. size.

M.S.del,J:N. Fitch hth. Vincent Brovke,Day &Son itdinp

Tas. 7809.

IMPATIENS psrrractna.

Native of Burma.

Nat. Ord. GerantacEz.—Tribe BaLtsaMINEx.

Genus Impatiens, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 277.)

Impatiens (Uniflore) psittacina; annua, erecta, foliosa, ramulis teretibus

coloratis, foliis alternis breviter petiolatis ovatis argute serrulatis, dentibus

eglandulosis, basi rotundatis subtus ad insertionem petioli glandulis 2

clavellatis erectis instructis, petiolo basi eglanduloso, floribus axillaribus

solitariis 2 poll. longis pallide lilacinis roseo et kermesino pictis, pedi-

cello pollicari decurvo basi v. supra basin bracteolis 1 v. 2 minutis

subulatis instructo, sepalis 2 herbaceis oblongo-rutundatis, vexillo orbicu-

lari 3 poll. lato emarginato concavo ecostato pallide roseo, alis 14 poll.

longis lobo basilari rotundato concavo erecto terminali paullo longiore

recurvo oblique oblongo apice rotundato roseo fasciato, labello amplo

incurvo conico-campanulato albo dorso kermesino basi in calear breve

uncinato-incurvum kermesinum abrupte constricto, filamentis elongatis

gracilibus decurvis antheris brevibus, ovario elongato.

The Cockatoo Balsam.

In the absence of fruit, which did not ripen in the plant

at Kew, I am unable to determine the affinity of this

strikingly beautiful Balsam. It is described by Mr.

Hildebrand, its discoverer in the Shan States of Upper

Burma, as a pretty, compact plant, from one and a half

feet to two and a half feet high, covered with flowers

which resemble a Cockatoo suspended bya string from the

shoulders, whence its name. I find no specimen at all

resembling it in the Kew Herbarium, or in that of the

Herbarium of the Royal Gardens, Calcutta, of which the

Balsams have been entrusted to me for study and verifica-

tion. Unfortunately good collections of the Balsams of

Burma have never been made, and those that have been col-

lected (about twenty species are known to me) are mostly

dried without sufficient care. Sir Dietrich Brandis, who

spent much time on forest duties in Burma, tells me that

the genus swarms in that country, and that a rich harvest

remains for a botanist who will devote his attention to

them.

I, psittacina was raised from seed presented to the Royal

DecemBER Ist, 1901.

Gardens in 1899 by A. H. Hildebrand, Hsq., C.I.E.; it

flowered in a stove in October, 1900. The flowers assume

a blue colour on fading.

Descr.—An erect, much-branched, leafy herb. Stem

and branches rather stout, terete, coloured. Leaves two

to three inches long, ovate, acuminate, serrulate, base

rounded, with two clavate, erect glands on the under-

surface at the point of attachment of the petiole which is

eglandular. Flowers axillary, solitary, two inches long,

pendulous from an arching peduncle an inch long, which

bears one or two minute setaceous bracteoles, near, or

above the base. Sepals two, orbicular-oblong, obtuse,

green. Standard orbicular, concave, pale rose-coloured,

two-thirds of an inch broad. Wings one and a half inches

long ; basal lobe orbicular, concave, erect ; terminal longer,

obliquely oblong, recurved, suffused and streaked with

red. Lip as long as the wings, conico-campanulate, in-

curved, narrowed at the base into a short, hooked spur,

white with an irregular dash of bright carmine on the

convex surface towards the base; mouth large, with an

obtuse apex.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, undersurface of base of leaf, showing the glands; 2, wing-petal;

8, stamens; 4, young pistil :—all enlarged.

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SPIRAA MILLeFouium.

Native of California.

Nat. Ord. Rosacka.—Tribe Sprrmex.

Genus Srirxa, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 611.)

Srirza (Chamebatia) Millefoliwm; fruticulus foliosus, ereetus, ramosus,

totus petalis exceptis glandulosus et pilis stellatis pubescens, ramis

ramulisque robustis, foliis sparsis et versus apices ramulorum fasciculatis

subsessilibus linearibus lineari-oblongis v. ovato-lanceolatis 2-3 poll.

longis 3-1 poll. latis pinnatis, segmentis creberrimis lineari-oblongis

obtusis crenato-lobulatis supra saturate viridibus subtus pallidis,

stipulis linearibus integerrimis, floribus in paniculas terminales erectas

ramulosas densifloras dispositis breviter pedicellatis 4-3 poll. latis, brac-

teolis oblongis, calycis tubo hemispherico v. turbinato, lobis erectis

ovatis obtusis v. subacutis, petalis orbiculatis albis retusis calycis lobis

duplo longioribus, filamentis brevibus, carpellis 5 pilosis 6-8-ovulatis,

stylis gracilibus glabris, seminibus ;',—-4 poll. longis.

8. Millefolium, Torr. in Pacif. Rail. Rep. vol. iv. (1856) p. 83, t. 5. Coulter

in Hayd. Rep. 1872, p. 764. S. Watson, Pl. Wheeler, p. 8. Brew. §

Wats. Bot. Calif. vol. i. p. 170. W. J. B. in Gard. Chron. 1897, vol. ii,

p. 237, fig. 72. Micheli in Rev. Hortic. 1900, p. 514, fig. 233. Sargeant,

Gard. & For. vol. ii. (1889) p. 508, fig. 137. ;

Chamebatiaria Millefolium, Maxim. in Act. Hort. Petrop. vol. vi. (1879)

p- 225. Ooulter, Man. Bot. Rocky Mt. Region, p. 78.

Chamebatia (Sphalm. pro Chamebatiaria) foliolosa, Newberry in Pacif. Rail.

Rep. vol. vi. (1873) p. 73.

The Spirxa here figured differs much in habit from its

congeners, and is remarkable for emitting an odour of

creosote. It was discovered in West Arizona, in 1853,

by Dr. J. M. Bigelow, and has since been collected on

the Sierra Nevada of California, at ten thousand feet

elevation, in latitude 36° 30’ N., in 8. Utah, and as far

north as W. Wyoming Territory, but does not appear to

extend further north on the Sierra Nevada, or south along

the Rocky Mountains of Colorado than the positions

here given. Its resemblance in foliage to Chamebatia

foliosa, Benth., t. 5171, also a native of California, is very

striking.

The specimen of S. millefolium here figured, which is

from a bush three feet high, was raised in the Royal

Botanic Gardens, Kew, from seeds sent by Professor

DecemBkR Ist, 1901.

Sargent from the Arnold Arboretum, near Boston, U.S.A.,

in 189]. It flowered in the open air in July, 1901.

Deser.—A stout, erect shrub, covered with glandular

hairs and a minute stellate pubescence. Leaves two inches

to three inches long, scattered or crowded towards the

ends of the branchlets, sessile, linear-oblong or ovate-

lanceolate, very closely pinnatisect, rhachis stout ; pinnules

linear, obtuse, very dark green above, pale beneath, pinna-

tifid; lobes short, obtuse, pale green beneath. Stipules

linear, quite entire. Flowers crowded in erect, terminal,

branching panicles, the lower branches of which are sub-

tended by leaves, very shortly pedicelled, one half to

two-thirds of an inch broad. Calyz-tube hemispheric or

turbinate; lobes ovate, obtuse or sub-acute. Petals orbi-

cular, white. Filaments short, anthers yellow. Carpels

hairy, with glabrous styles, six- to eight-ovuled. Seeds

about one-tenth of an inch long.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, unexpanded flower and bracteoles ; 2, stellate hairs; 3 and 4, stamens ;

5, pistil :—all enlarged,

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ME GACLINIUM tevcornmacuts.

Native of Lagos.

Nat. Ord. OrcHipEz.—Tribe EpIpENDRE.

Genus Mxcaciinium, Lindl.; (Benth. §& Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 505.)

Mucaciinium leucorhachis; rhizomate valido repente, pseudobulbis 2-3-polli-

caribus ovoideo-oblongis compresso-4-gonis levibus 2-foliatis, foliis 4-7

poll. longis 1-1} poll. latis linearibus v. anguste oblanceolatis obtusis

crasse coriaceis lete viridibus rubro marginatis, pedunculis ascendentibus .

subfalcatis 4-6 poll. longis vaginis remotis spathaceis appressis 4

poll. longis brunneis instructis, rhachi florifera 3-5-pollicari falcata

ensiformi 4-3 poll. lata leviter compressa alba multiflora, inter-

nodiis ad ; poll. longis, bracteis distichis } poll. longis patenti-

reflexis late ovatis acutis membranaceis brunneis persistentibus, floribus

distichis breviter pedicellatis 4 poll. longis decurvis velutinis croceis,

sepalo dorsali erecto lineari-lanceolato, lateralibus brevioribus oblique

late ovatis subacutis, petalis sepalo dorsali equilongis linearibus

erectis falcatis, labello parvo lingueformi recurvo basin versus utrinque

fimbriato, columna latiuscula apice angustata bidentata.

M. leucorhachis, Rolfe in Kew Bulletin, 1891, p. 198; et in Dyer Fl. Trop.

Afr. vol. vii. p. 37.

The genus Megaclinium is wholly African; it is closely

allied to Bulbophyllum, differing chiefly in the dilated,

flattened rhachis of the inflorescence, distichous flowers,

and in the dorsal sepal being much longer than the lateral.

Twenty species are described in the “Flora of Tropical

Africa,” of which three have been previously figured in this

work, namely, M. maximum, Lindl. Gen. § Sp. Orch. p. 47 ;

(M. purpuratum, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. vi. p.

128, tab. nostr. 5936) in which the lateral sepals are nearly

as long as the dorsal, M. Lindleyi, Rolfe (M. maximum,

Lindl. in Bot. Reg. tab. 1959, tab. nostr. 4028, and M.

minutum, Rolfe (tab. nostr. 7314). All are natives of

West Tropical Africa.

M. leucorhachis was sent to the Royal Gardens, Kew, in

1896, from Lagos, in the Gulf of Guinea, by Mr. H.

Millen, Curator of the botanical station in that colony.

It flowered in a tropical house in April of this year.

Descr.—Rootstock stout, creeping. Pseudobulbs two

inches to three inches long, obovoid-oblong, compressed,

DreemBer Ist, 1901,

smooth. Leaves two, four to seven inches long, one to

one and a quarter inch broad, linear or narrowly oblanceo-

late, obtuse, coriaceous, bright green, margined with red.

Peduncle ascending, bearing brown, distant, appressed,

spathaceous bracts, half an inch long. Spike three to five

inches long, by a third to half an inch broad, falcate,

- compressed, many-flowered, white ; internodes one-sixth of

an inch long. Bracts a quarter of an inch long, spreading,

and reflexed, broadly ovate, acute, membranous, brown.

Flowers one-third of an inch long, shortly pedicelled,

decurved, velvety, yellow. Dorsal sepal erect, linear-

lanceolate, lateral shorter, broadly ovate, sub-acute.

Petals as long as the dorsal sepal, erect, linear, falcate.

Lip small, tongue-shaped, recurved, fimbriate towards the

base.—J, D. H.

Fig. 1, flower; 2, lip and column; 3, front view of column; 4 and 5, pol-

linia :—adl enlarged.

INDEX

To Vol. LVII. of the Tatrp Serins, or Vol. CXXVILI. of

the whole Work.

7757 Agave Peacockii. 7769 Kalanchoe farinacea.

7756 Allium Ostrowskianum. 7753 Lhotskya ericoides,

7768 Amorphophallus leonensis. 7804 Liparis tricallosa.

7796 Arctotis Gumbletoni. 7774 Lonicera pyrenaica.

7779 Beschorneria Wrightii. 7776 Manettia bicolor.

7787 Bulbophyllum grandiflorum. 7766 Masdevallia deorsum.

7780 Calanthe madagascariensis. 7811 Megaclinium leucorhachis.

7800 Calorhabdos cauloptera. 7775 Mesembryanthemum calami-

7783 Chelonopsis moschata. forme.

7799 Cineraria pentactina, 7763 Modecca senensis.

7767 Cladrastis tinctoria. 7802 Musa oleracea.

7764 Coelogyne Veitchii. | 7758 Neillia Torreyi.*

7777 Crinum rhodanthum. 7781 Nymphea flavo-virens.

7778 ~— do. do. 7794 Oxalis dispar.

7785 Cyanotis hirsuta. 7788 Peonia lutea,

7807 Cyrtopodium palmifrons. 7773 Pyrus alnifolia.

7760 Echidnopsis Bentii. 7755 ~=,,_~_‘tianschanica,

7792 Epidendrum osmanthum. 7782 Rhododendron ciliicalyx.

7808 Eucalyptus Gunnii. 7770 Rosa Fedtschenkoana,

7797 Exorrhiza Wendlandiana, 7761 _~=—«s,_:~—«sSeraphini.

7791 Gladiolus sulphureus. 7801 Rubus palmatus,

7798 Habenaria Lugardii. 7754 Sarcochilus lilacinus.

7789 Helichrysum Gulielmi. 7303 Senecio magnificus.

7752 Hibiscus Manihot. 7810 Spirea Millefolium.

7762 Hymenocallis schizostephana. | 7771 Stapelia nobilis.

7786 Impatiens chrysantha. 7790 Strobilanthes gossypinus,

7809 » Psittacina. 7806 Syringa oblata.

7795 = Thomsoni. 7805 Trevoria Chloris.

7784 Iris chrysantha. _ 7759 Veronica glauca.

7793 ,, Tauri. 7772 Wyethia mollis.

7765 Kalanchoe Bentii. |

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