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By SAMUEL CURTIS, F. L. S.

THE DESCRIPTIONS

By Srr WILLIAM JACKSON HOOKER, K. H.

LLD. F. R. A. and L. S. and Regius Professor of Botany in the

University of Glasgow.

VOL. XIII.

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THE COLLECTIONS OF ORCHIDEZ AND CACTEA:,

IN THE GARDENS

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Giascow, April 1, 1840.

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CATTLEYA INTERMEDIA ; var. angustifolia, Narrow-

LEAVED INTERMEDIATE CATTLEYA.

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Class and Order. +

Gynanpria Monanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—OrcuiveEz. )

Generic Character.

Sepala membranacea vel carnosa, patentia, equalia.

Petala sepius majora. Labellum cucullatum, columnam

involvens, trilobum vel indivisum. Columna clavata, elon-

gata, semiteres, marginata, cum labello articulata. Anthera

carnosa, 4-locularis, septorum marginibus membranaceis.

Pollinia 4, caudiculis totidem replicatis—Herbe epiphyte

(Americane ) pseudo-bulbose. Folia solitaria v. bina cort-

acea. Flores terminales, speciosissimi, sepe e spatha magna

erumpentes. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Cartteya intermedia ; foliis oblongis emarginatis cauli equa-

libus, sepalis petalisque lineari-oblongis subequalibus

subundulatis obtusiusculis, labello trilobo Jamellis plu-

ribus in medio carnosis cristato, laciniis lateralibus

ovatis planiusculis intermedio crispo rotundato denti-

culato. Lindl.

(a.) flore toto intense roseo.

Carrierya intermedia. Grah. in Bot. Mag. t. 2851.

(6.) floribus subalbis rubescentibus, disco labelli sangui-

neo.

(y.) foliis angustioribus, floribus pallide roseis, labelli lobo

paced usque ad marginem sanguineo. (Tab. nostr.

3711. \

Carrieya Perinnii? Lindl. Bot. Reg. ¢. 2.

A native of Brazil, and sent to the Glasgow Botanic

Garden, under the name of Carrieya crispa : but that plant,

VOL. XIII, B

as represented by Dr. Linney, is so very different, that we

cannot consider the two to be the same. From C. inter-

media, figured at t. 2851, the present will be found to differ

in no essential particular, and we are disposed to consider

it a variety of that species, sufficiently distinguished, how-

ever, both from « and 8, to render it worthy of cultivation

in every collection of Epiphytes, and equally meriting a

place in this work. ,

I am indeed by no means clear about the limits of the

species of Carrieya; I mean particularly the large purple

kinds resembling the original C. labiata. To me the Genus

appears, like so many other of the epiphytal Orchidee, sub-

ject to great variation in the size and form of the flower,

and the relative length and breadth of the leaves.

Fig 1. Column and Germen. 2. Anther-case, 3. Pollen-masses:—

magnified.

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OnciIDIUM RANIFERUM; var. major. Froe-

FLOWERED OncipiUM ; larger var,

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Class and Order. |

GynanpriA Monanpria.

( Nat. edd. Outro )

Generic Character.

Perianthium explanatum. Sepala sepius undulata : late-

ralibus nunc sub labello connatis. Petala conformia. La-

bellum maximum, ecalcaratum cum columna continuum,

, basi tuberculatum v. cristatum, Columna

libera, semiteres, apice utrinque alata. Anthera semibilo-

cularis, rostello nune abbreviato, nunc elongato rostrato.

Pollinia 2, postice sulcata, caudicula plana, glandula ob-

longa.—Herbe epiphyte nunc pseudo-bulbose. Folia cori-

acea. Scapi paniculati vaginati, rarius simplices. Flores

speciosi, lutei, sepius maculati, raro albi. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Oncipium me: at ; pseudo-bulbis ovatis sulcatis diphyl-

lis, foliis lato-linearibus acutis scapo paniculato brevi-

oribus, sepalis petalisque oblongis acutis patulis, labelli

Jaciniis lateralibus triangularibus intermedia cuneata

emarginata, crista depressa media constricta, dimidia

posteriore quadrata basi utrinque callosa medio tuber-

culata anteriore triangulari apice emarginata utrinque

foveata, alis columne integris. Landi.

Oncipium raniferum. Lindl. Bot. Reg. fol. 1920. et N. S.

t. 48.

(8.) major ; labelli lobo medio subintegro. (Tab. nostr.

3712.)

je This sprightly little Orchidaceous plant inhabits Brazil,

and seems to have been first imported by Mr. Knieut of the

King’s Road Nursery. It has since been found in the

Organ

Organ Mountains, as observed by Professor Linptey, (in

No. 637 of his Brazilian Collection,) and plants were sent

over to his subscribers, both in a living and dried state.

The dried specimens above referred to, belong to our va-

riety here represented, having much longer leaves than the

plant figured in the Botanical Register, a scape a foot and

a half high, large and more numerous flowers, with a lip

scarcely at all emarginate at the apex. The smaller state

has also been sent living to this country by Mr. Garpner,

but even there the lip is almost entire at the apex.

Descr. Pseudo-bulbs clustered, oblong, but tapering

upwards, compressed, deeply furrowed, bearing two leaves

at the summit, from five to six or eight inches long,

linear-strap-shaped, scarcely coriaceous. Scape from the

base of the peduncle, from six inches (as in one state of the

plant) to a foot or even a foot and a half high, as in the

specimens from which this figure is taken, slender, graceful,

somewhat pendent, branched in a paniculated manner.

Flowers small, but lively yellow. Sepals and petals soon

reflexed, oblong, nearly equal : the latter with deep orange

spots. Lip three-lobed: lateral lobes linear-oblong, pa-

tent, intermediate one broadly obovato-cuneate, nearly

entire at the apex :—the base of the lip tuberculated in a

very remarkable manner, and orange-coloured.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Anther-case. 3. Pollen-masses :—magnified.

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MaARiIcA GRACILIS. SLENDER-STEMMED

Marica.

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Class and Order.

TrranpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Irivez. )

Generic Character.

Involucrum 2-valve ; Spathe 1-valves, 1-flore, incluse.

Corolla hexapetaloideo-sexpartita, lacinie intima minores.

Filamenta discreta, styli angulis opposita, antheris breviora,

disco glanduloso corolle insistentia. Stigmata 3, rectissima,

turbinato-divergentia (sepius in compagem alato-trique-

tram et 3-canaliculatam cujus angulis anthere affiguntur

altius breviusve coalita) summatim hiantia vel breviter fissa

et subbilabiata, stylo longiora. Capsula columnariter elon-

gata, tereto-trigona, polysperma, apice latius denudata.

Gaul.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Manica gracilis ; spatha communi foliacea ultra-pedali, pe-

dunculis gracilibus, spathe valvis elongatis, flore mo-

dico. W. Herb. |

Marica gracilis. W. Herb. MSS.

This beautiful plant was received at the Glasgow Botanic

Garden from the noble collection at Woburn, where it has

been some time cultivated. Mr. Forses imported the spe-

cies from Brazil, and grows it in the greenhouse.

The drawing was submitted to the inspection of the Hon.

and Rev. Witt1am Herzert, who considers it new, and truly

distinct from the well-known Marica Northiana figured at

t. 654 of this work. It is much slenderer in every part ;

the partial spatha particularly long, narrow, and acuminat-

ed, the flower smaller, and the outer sepals narrower. Mr.

HERBERT

Herzert further observes, that the: drawing exhibits three

erect lobes to each division of the stigma ; whereas, Mr.

Ker represents and describes M. Northiana as having only

two erect lobes to each.

Fig. 1. Flower deprived of the Sepals. 2. Section of the Germen :—

magnified.

The following remarks belong to PHatoca.uts plumbea, t. 3710.—

Dr. Linpiey perceived, in the flowers of this plant, “ three sterile awl-

shaped stamens of the length of the filaments.’ There was not the

slightest attempt to produce any such processes in the specimens which

flowered at Spofforth; and, as the filaments are thick and cohere, ex-

cept at their points, it is difficult to understand how such processes

could be inserted between them. There is a purple streak on the side

of each filament, which deceives the eye with the appearance of a dark

shadow and longitudinal division of the filament, and it requires the use

of a magnifier in a strong light to satisfy the beholder that it is an opti- |

cal delusion. Either Dr. Linpiey was thus deceived, or the processes

which he describes must have been an accidental exuberance. The

word Cipure in the article Puatocatuis plumbea, is an error of the press

for Ciypura. The purple lateral streaks, anc Ting round the base of the

filaments, should have been coloured in the dissection No. 1.—W. H.

We beg to correct an error at fol. 3690, where it is said that the

pretty Merenpera Caucasica was introduced to this country by the

Glasgow Botanic Garden. It was, we believe, first cultivated in this

country, and continues to be so very successfully by Mr. Gotptr, at

his Nursery in Ayrshire. By him it was received from St. Peters-

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TROPXOLUM TUBEROSUM. LARGE-ROOTED

InDIAN-CRESS.

Class and Order.

OcranpriaA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—TRorrotez. )

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-partitus, lobo sup. calcarato. Pet. 5 ineequalia,

3 inferiora minora aut evanida. Stam. 8 ab ipsa basi libe-

ra. Carpella 3 monosperma suberosa, reniformia, indehis-

centia hinc sulcata rotundata.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Tropzotum tuberosum ; foliis peltatis 5-lobis basi transver-

sim truncatis glabris lobis rotundato-cuneatis trunca-

tis, petalis calycem vix excedentibus integerrimis.

Tropzoium tuberosum. Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Per. ». 3. p. 77.

t. 314. f.6. Humb. et Kunth, Nov. Gen. Am. 2. 5. p.

251. De Cand. Prodr. v.1. p. 684. Spreng. Syst.

Veget. 0.2. p. 226.

This interesting species of Indian Cress, of which the

large tuberous roots are abundantly eaten by the Peru-

vians (according to Ruiz and Pavon), and, indeed, form a

daily article of food, was first known to me by specimens

transmitted from Peru, by Mr. Marnews. They are No.

402 of his Peruvian Collection. In 1836, my friend, Joun

M‘Lean, Esq., sent the esculent tubers to Mr. Murray of

the Glasgow Botanic Garden, by whom the species has been

largely distributed. It proves quite hardy, but our summers

are scarcely long enough, without a little previous forcing,

to perfect the flowers before the frosts come on ; so that its

blossoms have been produced only in few collections. —

The |

The specimen here figured was sent from the Belfast Bo-

tanic Garden in 1838, by Mr. Frereuson, late the head gar-

dener at the Glasgow Botanic Garden, but now, fortunately

for the Belfast Institution, the very excellent Curator of

its beautiful garden.

Descr. Root an almost obconical, or somewhat pear-

shaped tuber. Stem long, twining, branched, terete, suc-

culent, glabrous, as is all the rest of the plant. Leaves on

very long, cirrhiform petioles, without stipules, dark-green

above, pale and glaucous beneath, peltate, rotundato-cor-

date, five-lobed, transversely truncate at the base, the lobes

broad, roundish-cuneate truncate, and frequently furnished

with a mucro or minute point at the apex. Calyx orange-

red, deeply five-lobed, almost five-partite, the lobes oval, the

upper one prolonged into an attenuated straight spur, geni-

culated at the point. Petals five, a little longer than the

calyx, obovate, two of them a little shorter and less ungui-

culated, all of a full orange-colour, with black veins. Sta-

mens eight, unequal; filaments red: anthers roundish:

pollen yellow. Germen, in our specimen, of four rounded

lobes. Style thick, white, yellow above. Stigma irregu-

larly jagged.

Fig. 1, Flower. 2, Pistil:—magnified.

Pub by 3.Curtis Glaxenwood Essex. Mar 1 1839.

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3 Class and Order.

Dipynami1a ANGIOSPERMIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Scropuutarineg. )

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= Calyx tubulosus plicatus, apice obliqtte 5-de

ntatus vel

Generic Character.

“

superiore bifido, inferiore trifido, laciniis subplanis, Sta-

mina fertilia 4, didynama, 2 superiora brevia filamentis

integris, 2 inferiora ad basin labii inferioris inserta filamen-

tis elongatis arcuatis, basi appendice dentiformi vel filiformi

auctis. Anthere per paria coherentes vel approximate,

biloculares, loculis divergentibus divaricatisve apice conflu-

entibus. Stylus simplex, stigmate complanato bilamellato

vel simplici (?). _Capsula oblonga, calyce brevior, bivalvis,

valvulis integris margine_planis, dissepimento: parallelo

placentifero demuam libero.—Herbe ramose, glabre vel

villose, basi diffuse. Folia opposita, sepius dentata. Flores

axillares, oppositi vel Jasciculati, interdum racemosi. Benth.

Specific Character and. Synonyms.

Torenta cordifolia; foliis ovatis, pedunculis axillaribus

subfasciculatis, corollis calyee ovato basi rotundato

subduplo longioribus. Benth. ~ :

Torenta cordifolia. Roxb. Corom. Pl. v. 2. p, 32. f. 161.

Ibid. Fl. Ind. v. 3. p. 95. Pers. Synops. v. 2. p. 167.

Benth. Scrophul. p. 39.

Corosinam. Rheede, Hort. Malab. v. 9. t. 68.

_ This little annual, which, we learn from Dr. Roxsuren,

'S a rare native of the moist pastures about Samulcottah ee

the Northern Circars, flowering in the cold season, blos-

somed in the stove of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh,

in October, 1838. The seeds were sent by my friend Mr.

Fatconar, from Saharampoor.

Descr. Root annual. Stem (four to eight inches high)

erect, square, acutely angled or slightly winged, green,

with spreading cilie on the angles; branches opposite,

decussating, spreading widely, resembling the stem. Leaves

petiolate, cordato-ovate, simply inciso-serrate, bright green

and distantly hairy above, paler and glabrous below, where

the mid-rib, and oblique little divided veins, are promi-

nent, but channelled above. Petioles channelled above,

ciliated, shorter than the leaves. Peduncle at first about as

long as the petiole, afterwards elongated, exceeding the

leaves, four-sided and ciliated, resembling the branches.

Flowers subumbellate at the extremity of the branches,

arising from the axils of leaves which are crowded, in effect

resembling an involucre. Calyx bilabiate, the upper lip

three-toothed, the lower more deeply bifid, green, ovate, —

with fine ciliated wings, the upper wing only not being ©

produced in form of an acute angle along the peduncle,

teeth acute. Corolla pale lilac, one-third longer than the

calyx ; tube clavate, slightly curved downwards, glabrous ;

limb bilabiate, spreading, the upper lip crenate, slightly

emarginate, the lower tripartite, the lobes rounded. Sta-

mens four, didynamous, shorter than the upper lip; fila-

ments arched laterally; anther-lobes divaricated. Pistal

as long as the longer stamens; sizgma bilabiate, lobes

spreading, hairy upon their inner surface ; style compressed,

enlarging upwards ; Germen green, ovato-conical, furrowed

on each side, placed on a small thin light coloured disk

which is broadest on the upper side ; ovules very numerous,

fixed to large central placente. Capsule bivalvular, bilo-

cular, shorter than the persisting calyx with which it is

covered. Graham.

Fig. 1. Pistil :—magnified.

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( 3716 )

DRACOPIS AMPLEXICAULIS. STEM-CLASPING-

LEAVED DracopPlis.

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Class and Order.

SyNnGENESIA F’RUSTRANEA.

( Nat. Ord.—Composir2. )

Generic Character.

Achenium pappo calloso coroniformi coronatum, sectione

transversa orbiculari areola laterali. Corolla disco subcy-

lindraceo, dentibus reflexis. Anthere incluse. Stylus disci

ramis appendiculo lineari terminatis.—Herba perennis ; foliis

cordato-lanceolatis, alternis amplexicaulibus, levibus, inte-

gris ; capitulis terminalibus, solitariis, radio luteo, disco ob-

scuro, rachide conica (bracteata). Less.

Specific Name and Synonyms.

Dracopis io ae

Dracoris amplexicaul

i@ Cass. Dict. Sc. Nat. 0.85. p. 273. »

Less. Compos. p. 226. De Cand. Prodr. v. 5. p. 558. .

Drum. Coll. N. Orl. n. 188. Ej. Texas IID. n. 213.

Rupsecki amplexicaulis. Vahl. a .

R. amplexifolia. Jacq. Ic. Rar. v. 3. p. 592. Pursh, Fl.

Am. v. 2. p. 573.

~(8.) minor; foliis fere omnino integerrimis. Tab. nostr.

3716. (excl. f. A.) id

Rupsecksa perfoliata. Cav. Ie. v. 3. p. 27. t. 252.

In its perfectly glabrous and amplexicaul leaves, with

their cartilaginous margin, this plant differs strikingly

from the other species of Ruppeckia with which it was

united by most Botanists. Cassini first separated it, but

rather as a sub-genus, and Lessine has established it as a

Genus, founding the character chiefly on the different form

of the fruit, as seen in a transverse section of the tubular

florets, and of the styles.

Dracoris amplexicaulis, the only individual of the Genus,

has been long known as a native of Louisiana, but we be-

lieve that few specimens have come to Europe till those of

Mr. Drummonp, from N. Orleans, were distributed. That

collection, however, possessed the state of the plant with

strongly serrated leaves, and such as is figured by Jacquin

in the work above quoted, and similar to what we have re-

presented at the letter A. ; but in Texas, about San Felipe

de Austin, Mr. Drummonp gathered the entire-leaved vari-

ety, precisely according with the Rupsecxia perfoliata of

CAVANILLEs: and having sent seeds, as well as specimens,

to this country, we have the opportunity of giving a figure

of it. It is a hardy annual (?) and blossoms in J uly and

August.

Descr. Stem branched, varying much in height, gla-

brous, striated. Leaves alternate, oblong, amplexicaul, and

cordate, almost auriculate at the base, in «. deeply and

coarsely serrated, in @. almost wholly entire, the margin

cartilaginous and rough with elevated points. Peduncles

terminal, single-flowered, slightly thickened upwards, and

furrowed. -Involucre double ; outer of a few rather small

lanceolato-acuminate leaves, inner ones short, blunt. Ra

of few, from five to seven, broadly oval, obscurely three-

toothed, deep yellow corollas: tube scarcely any, at its top

is often an awn-like appendage. Germen small, abortive.

. Florets of the disk tubular, somewhat infundibuliform, pale

below, dark, almost black ; purple above, with a reflexed

five-toothed limb. Anthers a little protruded, black. Seg-

ments of the stigma subulate, hairy. Achenium oblong-

obtuse, tapering at the base. Pappus none, excepta slightly

elevated border. Receptacle oblong. Scales obovate, acute,

reddish-purple, keeled, greenish and slightly hairy above.

_Fig. 1, Floret of the Ray. 2. Ditto of the Disk. 8. Scale. 4. Ache-

mum. 5. Portion of a Leaf:—magnified. :

W Fitch da’ Pub y Sturtis Glagenwood Essex. Apr 1. 18.39,

(BTM 2)

EpirepHytitum Russetuianum. THe Duke

oF Breprorp’s EpirpHyLLUM.

KEKE EEK ERE EK KEEEER EER EEE

Class and Order.

IcosanpRIA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Cacrez. )

| Generic Character.

Sepala calyciformia, ovario nudo adnata, exteriora bre-

via, media longiora reflexa, intima petaliformia in tubum

concreta, orificio obliquo (vel equali). Stamina filiformia

(circa 100) medio breviora receptaculo, exteriora longiora

tubo affixa, limbo multolongiora. Stylus filiformis, stigma-

tibus paucis, vix expansis. Bacca et germinatio ignote.—

Frutices carnosi articulati, articulis alatis subtruncatis, sub-

imermibus, apice tomentoso interdum spinuloso, ramosis et

floriferis. Flores speciosi hiemales, forma singulari. Recep-

taculum pyriforme in sepala 8 vera brevia imbricata virenti-

rubella abiens ; sequuntur sepala 5 vivide colorata, petali-

formia, reflexa, tubi basi affixa. Orificium tubi obliquum,

(vel equale) ex 9 petalis compositum, quorum 4 suprema

suberecta, 5 inferiora maxime reflexa. Pfeiff.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Epreuytium Russellianum; suberectum, articulis obovatis

truncatis utrinque obtusissime 1-dentatis dentibus fas-

ciculatim pilosis, corolla petalis equaliter patentibus,

ovario 4- (5) alato, staminibus seriei interioris basi

monadelphis.

Cereus Russellianus. Gardner MSS.

This beautiful species of Eprpayzitum is common on the

stems of trees, and occasionally upon rocks on the Organ

Mountains of Brazil. Its nearest affinity is to Erienytitum

truncatum, that favorite ornament of our stoves, the habit

and

VOL, XIII. c

and general appearance of the two plants being quite simi-

lar ; but besides the minor differences mentioned below, the

present is abundantly distinct as a species, having a straight

and regular (not oblique irregular) flower, and a four-winged

(not wingless) ovary; thus affording a good example of

closely allied species, representing each other in different

regions or elevations. The E. truncatum 1 have never

observed growing at a greater height on the mountain than

about four thousand five hundred feet ; while above that

line, and to an elevation of nearly six thousand feet, nothing

but E. Russedlianum is to be found.

The brilliant flowers are produced in the month of May,

and had not my visits to the Organ Mountains been fortu-

nately made at that season, I certainly should have passed

by this species as E. truncatum. G. Gardner.

(We can readily participate in the pleasure Mr. Garpner

must have experienced in discovering this beautiful Epi-

phyllous plant and dedicating it to his distinguished patron,

the Duke of Bedford, a nobleman, who, in the short time

of Mr. Garpner’s absence (scarcely three years) has amass-

ed such a collection of Cactoid Plants at Woburn Abbey,

as must be seen to be appreciated, and with which none in

the kingdom, that I know of, can be compared, except it

be that of Harris, Esq., of Kingsbury, near Hendon.

In the stoves at Woburn, the great columnar kinds of

Crrevs, thirty feet high, (and, especially the noble speci-

mens of C. senilis two of which have attained to twelve

feet, and are clothed with long, pendent white hairs) con-

_ trast admirably with the strangely broad and depressed

forms of the Metocacrus and Ecuinocactus group, beset,

too, as these are, with spines of every shape and size and

colour :—again, the latter kinds present a most curious

difference of aspect from the flattened and jointed stems of

the Opuntiz and Epipnyrta; while the magnitude and fra-

grance of the blossoms of some, and the brilliancy of colour

in others, are surpassed by few vegetable productions.

The arrangement and high health and vigour of the plants

at Woburn reflect the utmost credit on the able gardener,

Mr. Forses.*

* While writing the above, information has just been received from Mr.

Parkinson, Her Majesty's Consul General in Mexico, of the despatch of

another valuable addition to His Grace's princely collection; including

among other things, specimens of CEREUs senilis, still larger than those

‘ above

Of the Errenyiivum here represented, we have received an

excellent drawing, made by Mr. Garpner’s kind friend,

Mr. Miers, in Brazil, aud that gentleman did not fail to

observe all the characters which specifically distinguish

this handsome plant from its congeners; especially the

imner circle of monadelphous stamens figured at No.1 of

our plate. Its discovery is thus alluded to in a letter from

Mr. Garpner.

« Through dense masses of large bamboos, with stems

often more than half a foot thick, and sixty or seventy feet

high, we had to cut our way up the Organ Mountains, till

we came, after a toilsome day’s journey, to a small water-

fall, where we encamped for the night. On the trunks of

the larger trees, growing near this spot, I saw abundance

of Errenyiium truncatum beautifully in ower, and higher

up on the mountain, the next morning, I found a lovely

new species, belonging to the same group as E. truncatum,

and much resembling it in many points ; equally large, but

with a more graceful mode of growth, and brighter-coloured

blossoms. The stamens too are uniformly pink, and not

white, as in E. truncatum.

«Tam sure you will be delighted with it, and I do trust,

if ever 1 am spared to return to England, that I shall see it

there as universally cultivated, as the species to which it is

so nearly allied. It gives me great pleasure to dedicate

this discovery to my liberal patron, His Grace the Duke of

Bedford; and I hope you will agree with me in thinking

that its beauty renders it worthy to bear such an illustrious

name. In my list you will find it marked Cerrus Russell-

zanus.””

The description which follows is from Mr. Garpyer’s

pen, who drew. it up from living specimens on the spot.

WJ. H.)

Descr. Plant an Erienyre, from one to three feet high,

usually growing on the mossy stems of trees. Root of sev-

eral large, divaricating branches, which gradually se

muc

above mentioned, and two allied kinds, doubtless new species, one being

described as downy and the other spinous. The collection also contains a

most remarkable MAMMILLARIA, of such extraordinary dimensions, as to

weigh 2 cwt.; and which it required the united strength of eight Indians to

convey to the waggon, on which it was brought from a distance of one hun-

dred miles to Mexico. The flower is yellow, and after being placed on the

waggon, it showed several opening buds. The fruit of this gigantic species

is well flavoured, but slices of the green plant itself are made into a sweet-

meat, which has much of the taste of preserved citron.

much divided, and run in all directions round the trunk of

the tree to which the plant has attached itself. Stem, of the

largest individual which I have met with, four inches and a

half in circumference, round, jointed ; joints about an inch

in length, a little thicker at their extremities than in the

middle, covered by a grayish-brown epidermis. Branches

also composed of oblong, leaflike joints, from an inch to an

inch and a half in length, those at the lower part being

thicker and of a more woody texture than the upper ones.

Joints with two serratures on either side, from each of which

arises a small fascicle of hairs. The upper margin is rounded

at the corners, and truncated; in the young branches fur-

nished with small fascicles of hairs. Flower regular, arising

from the truncated extremities of the branches, two inches

and a half long, of a delicate deep pink colour. Sepals nume-

rous, imbricated; the lower ones small, ovate, the upper lan-

ceolate, their united bases forming a pink-coloured tube,

the upper half spreading. Stamens numerous, a little lon-

ger than the calycine tube, arising in two distinct series from

the top of the ovarium—those of the external row attached

for nearly half of their length to the tube of the calyx,—the

internal row united at their bases by a short membrane,

which forms a tube round the style. Filaments filiform, of

the same colour as the flower. Anthers oblong, two-celled

of a deep pink colour before bursting, at maturity yellowish,

as is also the pollen. Ovarium inferior, obovate, short,

four-winged, smooth, of a pale green colour : style filiform,

straight, of the same hue as the flower, a little longer than

the stamens: stigma clavate, consisting of seven short,

connivent segments (five cohering by a glutinous juice into

a kind of cup. Miers). Ripe fruit 1 have not seen ; in the

Steen state it is one-celled, many-seeded ; the seeds attached

to parietal placente. G. Gardner.

ima and inner circle of Stamens, 2. Section of the Germen :—

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RvuELLIA CILIATIFLORA. FRINGE-FLOWERED

RUELLIA.

Class and Order.

DipynamiA ANGIOSPERMIA.

( Nat. Ord.—AcanTHAce®. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 5-partitus, equalis. Corolla infundibuliformis,

limbo 5-fido ms tae patente. Anthere 2-loculares. Cap- —

sula polysperma, dissepimento adnato.

Specific Name and Character.

Ruewua ciliatiflora ; herbacea, foliis petiolatis ovatis ine-

qualiter serratis pubescenti-hirsutis, panicula termi-

nali aphylla, calycis inaequalis pubescenti-glandulosi

laciniis subulatis, corolla tubo angulato curvato limbo

obliquo undulato lobis subrotundis dentato-ciliatis.

The seeds of this very handsome Ruetxia were sent to

the Glasgow Botanic Garden by Mr. 'T'wrepte from Buenos

Ayres; but whether it is a species of that neighbourhood,

or brought by that Collector from some country in the

interior, as I rather suspect, is not stated. It bloomed with

us in the stove, and is certainly a very desirable plant for

cultivation. It flowers in September.

Descr. Our plant scarcely exceeded a foot and a half

in height: the stem herbaceous, pubescenti- scabrous.

Leaves opposite, oyate, petiolate, the margin unequally

serrated, more or less hairy, especially the lower ones, which

are also much the largest. Panicle terminal, leafless ; the

branches short, simple or divided, bearing at the extremity,

in a sort of small head, from two to four or six flowers, large

and handsome, purplish-blue, only one in each capitulum

1G expanding

expanding at a time. Pedicels bracteated at the base.

Calyx long and narrow, pubescenti-glandulose, the seg-

ments long, subulate, unequal, one a good deal more elon-

gated than the rest. Corolla an inch across; the tube

about the same length, much longer than the calyx, curved,

enlarged upwards and angular: the limb spreading, ob-

lique, cut into five deep, roundish and retuse, broad, close-

ly-placed, waved, and veiny lobes, the margin beautifully

dentato-ciliate. Stamens within the tube, four, didynamous.

Anthers large, oblong, yellowish-white. Germen ovato-

oblong, glandular, seated on a yellowish, fleshy disk ; Style

white : Stigma subulate, oblique.

Fig. 1. Calyx, including the Pistil. 2. Stamens. 3. Pistil :—magnified.

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CALLICHROA PLATYGLOSSA. GOLDEN

CALLICHROA.

SERRE EK KEKE KEE RE REE EE

Class and Order.

SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA.

( Nat. Ord.—Composira. )

Generic Character.

Involucrum roultiflorum heterogamum, radiatum : Squame

(20 circiter) erectz, biseriate ; seriei exterioris achenia flos-

culorum femineorum obtegentes. Flosculz disci hermaph-

roditi, 5-dentati. Flosculi radii ligulati, fertiles, uni- vel

sub biseriati. Achenia fusiformia, subcompressa, apice

truncata: flosculorum hermaphroditorum pubescentia pap-

po coronata; femineorum glabra, calva. Sete pappi nume-

rose, uniseriate, serrulato -scabre, persistentes. Recep-

taculum planum, pubescens, margine squamosum (e squa-

mis seriei interioris involucri. Hook.). Fisch. et Mey.

Specific Name and Synonyms.

Catxicuroa* platyglossa.

Catticuroa platyglossa. Fisch. et Mey. Ind. Sem. Hort.

Petersh. 1835. p. 31.

Drawn in September, 1836, from plants which flowered

in the open border of the Glasgow Botanic Garden. The

seeds were received from Dr. Fiscuer, who founded the

Genus (a native of Ross, in New California) in the work

above quoted. Its affinities, according to that author, are

with Hetenrum, Buerapnorappus, Picrapenia, LasTHenta,

and, in some respects, with Doronicum : but it is suffici-

ently distinct from all.

Descr.

* uadnros, beautiful, and xox, colour, in allusion to its bright yellow flowers.

Descr. Annual. Stems weak, branched, and, as well

as the foliage, slightly hairy. Leaves alternate, linear, the

lowermost ones dentato-pinnatifid, the upper ones gradu-

ally becoming entire. Flowers terminal, solitary, large.

Involucre hairy, with the scales in two series ; outer ones

larger, lanceolate, the extremjties reflexed, as many as there

are radical florets, each of which has its germen surrounded

by the base of one of these scales ; inner scales smaller,

about twice as many as there are outer. Receptacle naked.

Florets of the ray ten to twelve, ligulate, the limb cuneate,

three-lobed, yellow. Germen oblongo-fusiform, compress-

ed, glabrous, destitute of pappus. Florets of the disk

tubular, five-toothed, yellow. Anthers exserted, black,

branches of the stigma linear-recurved, hairy. Germen

oblongo-fusiform, silky, crowned with a pappus, in a single

series of paleaceous, hispid hairs. :

Fig. 1. Floret of the Ray, with the scale of the Involucre. 2. Germen

of ditto. 3. Floret of the Disk. 4. Hair of the Pappus :—magnified.

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BEGONIA PARVIFOLIA. SMALL-LEAVED

Beconia ; or Elephant’s Ear.

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Class and Order.

Monaeecia Poryanpris.

( Nat. Ord.—Beconiacez. )

Generic Character.

Masc. Cal. 0. Cor. polypetala, petalis plerumque 4,

inequalibus. Fam. Cal.o. Cor. petalis 4—9, plerumque

inequalibus. Styli 3, bifidi. Caps. triquetra, alata, trilo-

cularis, polysperma.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Beconia parvifolia ; suffruticosa glabra, foliis ineequaliter

cordatis Jobatis lobis acutis undulatis sparse serratis

subglaucescentibus, fructibus trialatis.

Beeonta parvifolia. Schott. Sprengel, Syst. Veget. c. p.v. 4.

p. 408. Graham in Ed. Journ. of Sc. Dec., 1837.

We received at the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, this

species, with many other scarce plants, from the noble and

always liberal establishment at Berlin, in 1836. It flowered

profusely in the collection of Dr. Nerx at Canonmills, and

at the Botanic Garden in May, and throughout the summer.

The great and long-continued succession of flowers which

it produces, and its neat foliage, render it a desirable spe-

cies for cultivation.

Descr. Whole plant glabrous. Stem suffruticose: branches

red, transparent. Petvoles (one to two inches long) spread-

ing, at length divaricated, channelled above. Leaves short-

er than the petioles, oyate, unequally cordate at the base,

delicate green above, pale and crystalline below, with pro-

minent reddish veins, lobed; lobes subacute, distantly ser- _

. rated,

rated, with a minute bristle in the base of each fissure.

Corymbs axillary, on peduncles which are longer than the

petioles, forked, bearing a male flower in the cleft, and one

male and one female upon each division. Bractee subro-

tund, greenish-white. Flowers white ; male flowers of two

subequal entire and kidney-shaped petals, very rarely with

a small one between these; stamens numerous, attached

only at the base, filaments slender, connective obovato-

elliptical, anthers small, lateral: female flowers of five obo-

vate, unequal petals ; styles short and stout, expanded

at the apex, and contorted; stigmas marginal upon the

extremity ; germen with three unequal, irregular, large,

crenate wings. Graham.

Fig. 1. Female Flower :—magnified.

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Class and Order.

DianpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—TuymMeteaz. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium \iberum, tubulosum, coloratum ; limbo 4-

fido raro 5-fido, zstivatione imbricata. Corolla o, sed in

quibusdam squamule fauci inserte. Stamina definita, fauci

tubove inserta, sepius 8, nunc 4, rariusve 2, dum laciniis

perianthii numero equalia aut pauciora iisdem opposita.

Anthere biloculares, loculis medio longitudinaliter dehis-

centibus. Ovariwm simplex, monospermum, ovulo pen-

dulo. Stylus 1. Stigma indivisum. Pericarpium nuca-

mentaceum, v. drupaceum. Albumen nullum v. tenue, car-

nosum. Embryo rectus, inversus. Cotyledones plano-con-

vexe. Radicula brevis, supera. Plumula inconspicua.—

Caulis fruticosus (rarissime herbaceus ) cortice tenact. Folia

exstipulata, alterna v. opposita, integerrima. Flores capi-

tati, spicati, terminales v. axillares, nune solitarii. Br.

Specific Name and Character.

Pimeea Hendersoni ; involucro tetraphyllo, foliolis ovatis

utrinque-glabris ciliatis capitulum congestum equan-

tibus, perianthii tubo dimidio inferiore hispido, supe-

riore sericeo, foliis oppositis lanceolato-linearibus.

The species, which seems to be quite distinct from any

one hitherto described, must be placed between P. decussata

and P. rosea. It is a native of King George’s Sound, and

was raised by Messrs. Eacie and Henperson from seed sent

to them by Capt. Cueyne in May, 1837, and when about

eighteen

eighteen inches high, and covered with flowers, was exhib-

ited in the Experimental Garden of the Edinburgh Horti-

cultural Society, in July, 1838. It will be found one of

the most ornamental species of the Genus.

Descr. Shrub erect ; bark brown; branches erecto-pa-

tent, green towards their apex. Leaves linear-lanceolate,

or linear-spathulate, glabrous on both sides, recurved, mu-

cronulate, middle rib strong, with obscure diverging veins.

Head of flowers terminal, hemispherical, many - flowered,

dense. Jnvolucre four-leaved ; leaflets broadly ovate, gla-

brous on both sides, ciliated, as long as the flowers, which

are rose-coloured and handsome. Perianth with long,

spreading hairs upon the lower half of the tube, silky in

the upper segments of the limb, ovate. Stamens and pistils

as in the other species of this Genus :—as the plant isa very

rare one and not my own property, I only felt myself at

liberty to dissect two flowers. In one of these, from the

outer edge of a capitulum, I found the germen bilobular,

and the style terminal between the lobes. It is probable,

however, that this is an accidental deviation from the

normal structure, and that it will not be found common.

Graham.

Fig. 1. Flower :—magnified.

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-BRASSAVOLA CUSPIDATA. SPEAR-LIPPED

BRASSAVOLA.

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Class and Order.

GyNANDRIA MoNANDRIA.

( Nat. Ord.—OrcuipeEz, )

Generic Character.

Sepala et petala subequalia, libera, acuminata. Label-—

lum cucullatum, integrum, columnam involvens. Colwmna

marginata, clavata, stigmate infundibulari, clinandrio pos-

tice tridentato. Pollinia 8, subequalia, quibusdam aliis

parvis interjectis. Anthera 4-locularis, septis marginatis,

loculis semibipartitis.—Herbe caulescentes, epiphyte, apice

folium unicum v. alterum, semicylindraceum, carnosum,

supra sulcatum, apice subulatum, gerentes. Flores termi-

nales, magni, speciost. Lindl.

Specific Name and Character.

Brassavoa cuspidata ; caule unifloro, labello trilobo, lobis

lateralibus rotundatis parce fimbriato-dentatis inter-

medio longissimo cuspidato-subuliformi integerrimo,

sepalis petalisque longe acuminatis.

From the collection of Joun Moss, Esq., of Otterspool,

Liverpool, which, partly owing to that gentleman’s ex-

tensive South American correspondents and connexions,

and partly to the skill of his gardener, Mr. James, bids

fair to rival some of the many Collections of Orchideous

plants of which the country may well be proud. The plant

was sent from Trinidad with about fifty others of the same

family by Rozerts, Esq., Otterspool. Five species of

Brassavota have been described by Professor Linptey.

The present is a sixth, evidently most nearly allied to B,

cucullata, Br. (KripENDRUM cucullatum, Bot. Mag. t. rae

te eS : at

That species, however, has the middle lobe of the lip much

broader at the base and deeply fimbriated for the greater

part of its length, having the apex alone entire. In our

plant the lobe in question is subulate and almost quite

entire.

Descr. Root? Stem slender, rounded, jointed. Leaf

terete, subulate, flattened above, and there furnished with a

deep groove for its whole length, a span long. From the

base of this leaf, and at the bottom of the groove arises a

short peduncle, (enclosed in a membranous sheath or bractea )

about half an inch long, rounded, bearing a single flower.

Germen terete, thickened at the base : or rather this thick-

ened base is alone the germen, all above is the tube of the

periauth, which is slender, pedunculiform, and less green

than the germen. Sepals lanceolate, very much acuminate,

soon reflexed, cream-coloured, tinged with red. Petals

similar in shape and size to the sepals, but a little narrower

and white. Lip white, three-lobed, the base involute, the

lateral lobes spreading, rounded, and dentato-fim briate, the

middle lobe very long and narrow, forming a long, straight,

cuspidate point. Colwmn nearly as long as the lateral

lobes of the lip, and surrounded by its base, white, rounded

at the back, presenting in front two longitudinal, marginal.

wings, dilated upwards, and ending in two teeth, one on _

each side the anther, to which they are appressed : a third

tooth arises from the back of the column, and is appressed

to the back of the anther. Anther-case hemispherical,

white. Pollen-masses with four larger and four smaller

lobes.

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GALACTODENDRON UTILE. Pato DE VACA;

or Cow Tree of the Caracas.

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Class and Order.

>” (The Flowers unknown.)

( Nat. Ord.—Unrrices. )

Generic Character.

Fructus facie drupe juglandis, globosus, subcarnosus,

viridis, fetus nuce monosperma. Arbor lactescens, preser-

tim truncus ; Jac copiosum, album, glutinosum, haud acre,

potabile, odorem balsameum redolens, contactu aeris coa-

gulans ; ramuli teretes, glabri; juniores angulati, tenuissime

canescenti-puberuli. Gemme terminales, subulate, convo-

lute, sericeo-pubescentes. Folia alterna, petiolata, ob-

longa, utrinque rotundata, apice brevissime acuminata, in-

tegerrima, reticulato-venosa, venis primariis transversis,

paulo approximatis nervoque medio subtus prominentibus,

subcoriacea, glaberrima, exsiccata, supra viridia, subtus

aureo-fusca (?), 2—10-pollicaria, 3—4 pollices lata. Petz-

oli crassi, canaliculati, glabri, 8—9 lineas longi. Stipule

petiolares nulla. Kunth.

Specific Name and Synonyms.

Gaxacropenpron * utile. ae cae ® :

Gatacropenpron utile. H. B. K. Gen. et Sp. Pl. Gq. v.

7. p.16. Kunth, Syn. 4. p. 198. es

Gaxactropenpron Humb. Relation Hist. 2. p. 106, &c.

Paro pe Vaca. Humb. in Ann. du Mus. v. 2. p. 180.

Boussing. et Rivero, in Ann. de Chimie, v. 23. p. 219.

Murray, Deser. Acc. of the Palo de Vaca, with a

Jigure.

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I have here the pleasure of giving figures of the Cow

Tree ; the general representation (Tas. 3723) being copied

from a very clever sketch taken on the spot and sent

to me by Sir Rozerr Ker Porter, H. B. M. Consul Gen-

ral at La Guayra; that of the foliage done from a living

plant, in the Glasgow Botanic Garden; and of the fruit,

procured for me, (together with several bottles of the milk

and living plants, which latter, unfortunately, perished in

the voyage,) by my obliging friend, Marrnew Pearce, Esq.,

of this city. Our live plant, however, is but a small one,

and as yet shows no sign of flowering : the seeds were dried

and injured; yet, we think that a representation, taken

from these portions, though very imperfect, of a vegetable

production, than which few have excited a more general

interest in the Botanical world, cannot but be acceptable

to our Subscribers ; and should we be hereafter so fortunate

as to procure flowering and fruiting specimens, we shall not

fail to render our account of this tree more complete than

it is now in our power to do.

M. de Humeotopr was the first to bring the Cow Tree of

Caracas into notice. ‘ We returned,” he says in his valu-

able “ Relation Historique, v. 2. p. 106, * from Porto

Cabello to the valley of Aragua, stopping at the plantation

of Barbula, through which the new road to Valencia is to

pass. For many weeks, we had heard a great deal of a tree

whose juice is a nourishing milk. The tree itself is called

the Cow Tree, and we were assured that the negroes on the

farm, who are in the habit of drinking large quantities of

this vegetable milk, consider it as highly nutritive ; an asser-

tion which startled us the more, as almost all lactescent

vegetable fluids are acrid, bitter, and more or less poison-

ous. Experience, however, proved to us during our resi-

dence at Barbula, that the virtues of the Cow Tree, or Palo

de Vaca have not been exaggerated. This fine tree bears

the general aspect of the Star-Apple Tree (CuRYsoPHYLLUM

Cainito) ; its oblong, pointed, coriaceous, and alternate

leaves are about ten inches long, and marked with lateral

nerves, that are parallel, and project beneath. The flower

we had no opportunity of seeing; the fruit is somewhat

fleshy, and contains one or two kernels. Incisions, made

in the trunk of the tree, are followed by a profuse flow of

gluey and thickish milk, destitute of acridity, and exhaling

avery agreeable balsamic odour. It was offered to us in

calabashes, and though we drank large quantities of it,

both at night before going to bed and again early in the

morning,

morning, we experienced no uncomfortable effects. The

viscidity of this milk alone renders it rather unpleasant to

those who are unaccustomed to it. The negroes and free

people who work in the plantations, use it, by soaking

bread in it made from Maize, Manioc, Aropa, and Cassava ;

and the superintendent of the farm assured us, that the

slaves become visibly fatter during the season when the

Palo de Vaca yields most milk. When exposed to the air,

this fluid displays on its surface, probably by the absorption

of the atmospheric oxygen, membranes of a highly animal

nature, yellowish and thready, like those of cheese ; which,

when separated from the more watery liquid, are nearly as

elastic as those of caoutchouc, but in process of time ex-

hibit the same tendency to putrefaction as gelatine. The

people give the name of cheese to the curd which thus sepa-

rates when brought into contact with the air, and say that

a space of five or six days suffices to turn it sour, as I found

to be the case in some small quantities that I brought to

New Valencia. The milk itself, kept in a corked bottle, had

deposited a small portion of coagulum, and far from becom-

ing fetid, continued to exhale a balsamic scent. When

mingled with cold water, the fresh fluid coagulated with

difficulty ; but contact with nitric acid produced the separa-

tion of the viscous membranes.

«This wonderful tree appears peculiar to the Cordillera

of the shore, especially from Barbula to the Lake of Mara-

caybo. Some individual Cow Trees are also said to exist near

the village of San Mateo, and (according to M. BrEDEMEYER,

whose expeditions have added so greatly to the treasures

contained in the noble hothouses of Schénbrunn and Vien-

na,) likewise in the valley of Caucagua, three days’ journey

to the East of Caracas. To this naturalist, as to us, the

vegetable milk of the Palo de Vaca appeared to be highly

agreeable in flavour, and to possess an aromatic smell.

At Caucaguea, the natives call the tree which yields this

nutritive fluid, Milk Tree (Arbol de leche) ; and pretend to

discriminate, by the thickness and hue of their foliage,

those trunks which contain most sap, as a cowherd would

know, by outward signs, the best milch cow in his

herd.

«| own that amid the great number of curious pheno-

mena which offered themselves to my notice during my

travels, there was hardly one which struck my imagination

so strongly as the sight of the Cow Tree. Every thing

which relates to milk—all which regards the Cerealia, in-

‘ spires

spires us with an interest, which relates not solely to the

physical knowledge of things, but seems to be allied to an-

other order of ideas and feelings. We can hardly suppose

that the human race could exist, extensively, without some

farinaceous substances, any more than the protracted weak-

ness of the human nurseling can be supported without the

nutritive fluid of its mother’s breast ; and to this conviction

is attributable the religious kind of reverence with which

the amylaceous matter of the Cerealia has been regarded by

people, both in ancient and modern times, as also the feel-

ings with which we gazed upon the stately tree that I have

now described. Neither the noble shadowy forests, nor the

majestic current of rivers, nor the mountains hoary with

sempiternal snows,—none of these wonders of tropical

regions, so rivetted my gaze as did this tree, growing on

the sides of rocks, its thick roots scarcely penetrating the

stony soil and unmoistened during many months of the

year by a drop of dew or rain. But dry and dead as the

branches appear, if you pierce the trunk, a sweet and

nutritive milk flows forth, which is in greatest profusion at

day-break. At this time, the blacks and other natives of

the neighbourhood hasten from all quarters, furnished with

large jugs to catch the milk, which. thickens and turns

yellow on the surface. Some drink it on the spot, others

carry it home to their children: and you might fancy you

saw the family of a cow-herd gathering around him and

receiving from him the produce of his “ kine.”

Incited by this interesting narrative, by the chemical

analysis published by Messrs. Rivero and Boussineavutt,

and by the fact that M. de Humpotpr’s own specimens were

very incomplete, I have spared no pains to collect materials

for a more correct history; but hitherto not with that

success I had anticipated. My original specimens were dried

ones from Mr. Locxuartr, who had imported the plant

from the Spanish Main to Trinidad, and my first con-

signment of Tree milk was from his Excellency Sir Raueu

(OODFORDE, Governor of that beautiful island. Some of

the latter was submitted to our distinguished Professor of

Chemistry, Dr. Tuomson, who discovered in it a new sub-

stance he calls galactine, which he has arranged among the

solid oils in his recent elaborate work on Vegetable Che-

mistry. “The milk” he says, “is white and opaque and of

the consistence of cream. It had a sour smell, and reddened

vegetable blues; its specific gravity was 1-01242. It

contained a small quantity of acetic acid, to which it owed

sr é its

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its acidity. It contains a peculiar substance which Bous-

sINGAULT and Mariano de Rivero considered as fibrous ; but

I found its characters very similar to those of cork. When

the milk of the Cow Tree is evaporated to dryness by a -

gentle heat, and the dry residue digested in alcohol, a sub-

stance is dissolved which constitutes by far the most

abundant ingredient in the milk. When the alcoholic

solution cools, it becomes white and opaque, and deposits

abundance of snow-white flakes. These if collected on

a filter and dried, constitute galactine. The ultimate

analysis of this is given at p. 1045 of the same work, to

which I must refer for a more copious account of the che-

mical properties of the milk of the Cow Tree, as well as to

Mr. Murray’s pamphlet above quoted.

Sir Rogert Ker Porrer’s drawing was accompanied by

well dried specimens of the foliage, and by the following

interesting particulars in a letter, dated Caracas, June 8,

1837. ‘I had the pleasure of acknowledging the receipt

of your letter of August (1836) on the 16th of the following

November ; but from great occupation in my official busi-

ness, I had not a single day to spare that might enable me

to satisfy yourself, and two or three other lovers of botany,

relative to the Milk Tree. I have, however, made an

excursion into the mountains, some fifty miles distant from

this city, (about three leagues from the coast,) not far from

the town of Coriacco, and after extreme pedestrian labour

up the steep forest-covered face of the mountain, reached

the spot where the Palo de Vaca grows. I assure you that

the sight of this extraordinary tree fully repaid me for the

fatigue and severe wetting I experienced. The close of

last month was the period of my visit; but, unfortunately,

it did not prove that either of its flowering or fruit ; how-

ever, I have sent you a bottle of the milk ; some specimens

of the leaves (as well preserved as circumstances would

permit); a piece of the bark, and a sketch copied from

that which I took at the time. I should think the elevation

above the level of the sea where this tree grows, cannot be

less than four thousand feet, and the temperature at eight

o’clock under its spreading branches was 70° Fahr. The

forest was so densely thick and untravelled, that the people

who accompanied us were obliged, at almost every step, to

cut a way for us through it with their sword-like knives,

while the excessive steepness and slippery state of the

mountain rendered our advance both tedious and dan-

gerous. However, after a couple of toiling days, we _.

Se reached

reached the group of sought-for trees, surrounded in all directions by

others no less wonderful to look upon than themselves. The natives

Jost no time in making a deep incision into the bark of one, down to the

very wood, from which burst forth the Milk, white and limpid as that of

the cow, sweet to the palate and accompanied by an aromatic smell,

but leaving a strong clammyness on the lips, and, upon the tongue, a

slight bitter. In a quarter of an hour, we filled two bottles with the

produce of a couple of trees ; for as our visit happened to be made during

the wane of the moon instead of its increase the lacteal fluid did not

flow so freely as it is said to do when drawn during the latter-named

stage.”

” The trunk of the Palo de Vaca from which the drawing was made,

measured somewhat more than twenty feet in circumference at about

five feet from the root. This colossal stem ran up to a height of sixty

feet, perfectly uninterrupted by either leaf or branch; when its vast

arms and minor branches, most luxuriantly clothed with foliage, spread

on every side, fully twenty-five or thirty feet from the trunk, and rising

to an additional elevation of forty feet, so that this stupendous tree was

quite a hundred feet high in all. I saw others still larger ; but the

state of the weather drove us from our position. The leaves, when in

a fresh state, are of a deep dark and polished green, nearly resembling

those of the Laurel tribe, from ten to sixteen inches long, and two or three

inches wide. The specimens sent, will enable you to form a botanical

description of the foliage, as the portion of bark will do of that

part of the tree; the wood, forming the body of the trunk, is white, very

close-grained and hard, resembling the box-wood of Europe. The soil

which these trees inhabit is dark and rich, and must be damp or very

‘wet all the year round.” 3 aia

“T have been promised by one of the Indians who accompanied me,

that he would keep a look out for the fruit of the tree and send me

some, when I shall have the satisfaction of forwarding a few specimens

to you. But, with regard to the flower, or the flowering season of the

tree, I have made enquiries over and over again, from persons who

reside in the vicinity of other trees of the kind, in different parts of

Venezuela ; but they tell me that no one ever saw or heard of the Cow

Tree flowering.”

The imaginary statement of the tree not flowering may be accounted

for by the nature of the blossoms, being in all likelihood small and incon-

spicuous, as in so many of the Urticex, to which Nat, Order it is pro-

bably correctly referred; though whether it be a true Brosimum as Mr.

Don is inclined to Suppose, or a new Genus, as Humsotpr has suggest-

ed, must yet remaina doubt. The leaves are large and handsome, and of

a rich and somewhat velvety green hue. The Jruit had the outer coat

so much broken, that I will not venture to describe what is as faithfull

Tepresented as the nature of the specimens would allow. The bark of

the larger branches is singularly yellow, as shown in our figure. ;

Tas. 3723. A landscape, in which the Cow Tree forms a remarkable

feature, from a drawing by Sir Ropert Ker Porter.

Tas. 3724. Fig. 1. Portion of a large Branch, and f. 2, portion of a lesser

Branch with foliage from the living plant in the Glasgow Botanic Garden,

nat. size.—3. Fruit. 4, The same laid open. fig. 5. Seeds laid open, nat.

size; received from MarTHEWw Pearce, Esq.

(3725)

GESNERIA ELONGATA; var. GESNERA

elongated var.

KEKE KEKE KK EEEEREREE

Class and Order.

DipynAmiA GYMNOSPERMIA.

( Nat. Ord.—GeEsneERIACEZ. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 5-partitus, pleramque germini adnatus. Corolla

tubuloso-campanulata, limbo bilabiato ; labio superiore bi-

inferiore trifido. Stigma bilobum. Capsula bilocularis,

2-valyis, placentis parietalibus. —

Specific Character and Synonyms.

GesneriA elongata ; foliis ovato-oblongis acutis serrulatis

supra strigosis subtus lanato-tomentosis, pedunculis

elongatis 4-floris, corolle tubulose fauce constricta.

GesneriA elongata. Humb. Gen. et Sp. v. 2. p. 318. t. 192.

Spreng. Syst. Veget. 2. p. 838. <

GrsneriA elongata, var. fruticosa, pubescens ; ramosa ; foliis

oppositis, lanceolato-ovatis, acuminatis, longe petio-

latis basi inequalibus, subequaliter serratis supra

pubescentibus, subtus molliter tomentosis ; — umbellis

axillaribus, 4-floris folio brevioribus ; corollis villosis

tubulosis fauce parum constrictis. (Tab. nostr. 3725.)

We received this plant at the Botanic Garden, Edin-

burgh, in September, 1836, from the Messrs. Youne, Nur-

serymen, Epsom, under the name of G. oblongata, perhaps

by an error in the transcriber. It flowers most freely, ex-

hibits a long succession of blossoms, and is therefore very

desirable in cultivation. It differs from G. elongata of Hum-

BoLpT in its much shorter peduncles, in the more obtuse

base of the leaves, in its less angular branches, in the

colouring of the veins and lower surface of the leaves —

rally,

rally, and in the subulate segments of the calyx. In these

respects, it more nearly agrees with Grsnerta mollis, but

from this it differs again, and agrees with G. elongata, by its

four-flowered umbel and much shorter pedicels, and the

bractee opposite at their origin,—the length of the pedun-

cle being intermediate between its state in these two

species. There are very many forms of Gesneria from

the tropical parts of America, but I cannot think they

ought all to be considered as species. This opinion is

strengthened by the figures and descriptions of Humsoxpr,

and the inspection of our present plant, which leads me to

suspect that it may connect together as varieties G. mollis

and G. elongata.

Descr. Whole plant villous. Stem (five feet high)

shrubby, much branched ; branches ascending, Leaves

(three to six inches long, one and a quarter to two and a

quarter broad) opposite and decussating, petiolate, lanceo-

late, acuminate, neatly and subequally serrated, somewhat

harshly pubescent and bright green above, white with soft

tomentum below. _Umbels four-flowered, villous, shorter

than the leaves; peduncle shorter than the petiole; pedicels

about two-thirds of the length of the peduncles ; bractez

two, opposite, lanceolate, at the subdivision of the umbel.

Flowers unilateral. Calyx with small, spreading, ovato-

subulate segments. Corolla (one inch long, half an inch

across) tubular, clavato-ventricose, dilated and somewhat

fleshy at its base. Stem contracted, and after being dilat-

ed, again slightly contracted at its mouth; villous on the

outside, glabrous within ; limb spreading, lobes subequal,

rounded, crenate. Stamens inserted into the base of the

corolla, and rising to the throat ; filaments pubescent ; an-

thers divaricated at the base, where the connective is dilat-

ed, cucullate and fleshy, fifth stamen rudimental. Pristil

pubescent ; stigma minute, truncated ; style bent at its base,

compressed ; germen more than half imbedded in the ad.

hering calyx, and surrounded at its free apex with five

glands. Ovules numerous, and minute. Graham.

Fig. 1. Flower: magnified.

72 2 cy ; - s : Ga

Lub by S Curtas Glazenwood. Essex May 118599 SHAM

( 3726 )

CIRRHAA FUSCO-LUTEA. YELLOW-BROWN

CirRRHAA.

KKK KKK KKK KEE EERE

Class and Order.

GynanpriA Monanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—Orcuivez. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium patens. Sepala libera, zqualia. Petala

multo angustiora, linearia, flexuosa. Labellum longe ungui-

culatum, columna continuum, tripartitum ; laciniis angus-

tis intermedia minore. Columna erecta, clavata, teres ;

stigmate subquadrato, horizontali! rostello cirrhato. An-

thera dorsalis! membranacea, sub-unilocularis. Pollinia 2,

parallela, oblonga, compressa, elastice prosilientia ; cau-

dicula brevi cornea; glandula incurva.—Herbe epiphyte,

pseudo-bulbose. Folia plicata. Racemi penduli, multiflorr,

radicales. Flores maculati. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Crrruza* fusco-lutea ; foliis lato-lanceolatis, petalis li-

neari-lanceolatis, labelli lobo medio ovato concavo,

lateralibus lineari-oblongis reflexis hirsutis.

Crrruza fusco-lutea, Lindl—Herb. Hook. in Gen. et Spec.

Orchid. p. 144. |

From the collection in the Glasgow Botanic Garden,

where it was received from Messrs. Loppices. It flowers

in June, and is a native of Brazil.

Descr.—Pseudo-bulbs ovate, deeply furrowed, par-

tially sheathed with membranous scales, and having a

terminal,

* «The flowers are remarkable for what is called the rostellum being

prolonged in the form of a small tendril or cirrhus.” Lindi.

terminal, solitary, broadly lanceolate leaf, about eight to

ten inches long, striated, and slightly plaited. Peduncle

springing from the base of a bulb, pendent, red, brac-

teated ; flowers racemose, pendulous. Sepals lanceolate,

pale dingy brownish-yellow, reflexed. Petals linear-lance-

eolate, yellow, spotless. Labellum greenish-yellow, on a

long stalk or unguis, three-lobed, the lateral lobes very

long, lineari-oblong, obtuse, directed downwards ; middle

lobes ovate, short, very concave, blotched with purple.

Column nearly as long as the lip, clavate, rounded on the

back, flat in front. Stigma yellow at the apex. Anther-

case on the back of the column above the stigma, ovato-

lanceolate, yellow. Pollen-masses two, linear, with a long,

pedicellated gland.

Fig. 1. Column and Lip. Fig. 2. Pollen-mass :—magnified,

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( 3727)

CooPpERIA PEDUNCULATA. PEDUNCULATED

CoopERIA.

Class and Order.

Hexanpria Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—AmaryLLIDEz. )

Generic Character.

Scapus cavus. Germen erectum. Perianthium tubo

erecto cylindrico ore ampliato, limbo albo regulari 1%

unciali sub sole patente. Filamenta decurrentia, sube-

qualia, apice ad faucem tubi libera. Anthere subulato-

lineares (dein lineares), erecta, non versatiles, a tertia parte

inferiore dorso affix. Pollen difforme (quod in Sephyran-

the acute ovale). Stigma crassum trilobum vix trifidum.

Semina complanata testa tenui nigra. W. H.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Cooreria pedunculata ; bulbo depresso, foliis glaucis subses-

quipedalibus + unc. latis, scapo superne attenuato uni-

floro, spatha apice bifida, pedunculo unciali, perianthio

21 unciali, limbo antheras unciam superante ; tu

circiter unciali, antheris 4 uncialibus subsessilibus pe-

talinis sepalina vix quarta parte superantibus, stylo ¢

unc., stigmate suberecto incluso. 4; & :

Zeruyrantues Drummondi. Don, App. Sweet Br. Fl. Gard.

‘ Ser. Il. 0. 2. t. 328.

Sceprrantaus Drummondi. Graham, Edin. New Phil.

Journ. 40. 413. A. D. 1838.

« Having had an opportunity of minutely inspecting Dr.

Granawm’s specimen of this plant, I can pledge myself for

the accuracy of the particulars given in the Specific Cha-

racter, and I am quite satisfied that it belongs to one Genus

with Cooreria Drummondi figured in the Bot. Reg. t. 1835 4

ana

and I think it will be found that like that plant it remains

expanded at night and begins to close early the first morn-

ing. The peduncle, and the less length of tube, which

induced Dr. Graunam to refer it to a new Genus, are both

variable features even in Zepuyrantues, which is the most

nearly allied to it, Z. verecunda having sessile flowers, and

tubispatha and Atamasco pedunculated ones. The non-ex-

Fansion, which was the only other feature of difference noted

by Dr. Granam, was, I suspect, owing to its not having

been watched in the night time. The angular pollen

observed by him is precisely that of Coorerta. I have

also had the benefit of examining Mr. M‘Nas’s drawing,

in which the tube is absolutely erect, and the limb almost

white, agreeing with the specimen, which the figure in

“ Sweet’s Flower Garden” does not. Mr. Don did not

see the specimen, and formed his opinion of the plant from

the figure, which has no dissection, and certainly not a very

correct outline. Mr. M‘Nan’s drawing has precisely the

same attitude of the tube as CooprriA Drummondi, both

the tube and peduncle being quite erect. Cooperta

Drummondi is a most variable flower. Three bulbs sent

by Drummonp and supposed to be different, flowered at

Spofforth ; one with the stigma between the anthers, one

inclosed in the tube, one exceeding the anthers; but one

of these bulbs, having sent up four successive scapes in

about five months, exhibited all those diversities, and much

variability of colour also ; so that C. chlorosolen can only

be looked upon as a variety, and almost a variation of C.

Drummondi. It is not improbable that this plant may have

a like variable habit. C. Drummondi expands late in the

afternoon, continues stellate all night, and begins to close

for ever early the next morning, though it remains some

time, and even days, in a half expanded state. The dis-

section I have made from Dr. Granam’s specimen is pre-

cisely double the natural size in all its parts.” W. H.

The plant is a native of Texas, and was sent from thence

in 1835 to this country. It has since flowered in several

collections: firstly, at Dr. Netnx’s; also at Messrs. Dickson’s,

from whose specimens the accompanying figure was made

in March, 1836, at the Glasgow Botanic Garden, and at

Mr. Herserr’s of Spofforth, who has kindly communicated

some further information, in September, 1836. “It is,”

he says, “ like the other Cooperiz, a decidedly nocturnal

flower ; that is, its expansion takes place about an hour

or half an hour before sunset. My flower did not expand

perfectly

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perfectly, but its first attempt was just before sunset ; and in

that posture it remained till the same hour the second day,

when it opened, and on the third day still wider, but not

fully, and on the next morning it began to shrivel and to

grow red on the outside of the sepals, as C. Drummondi

does. It has the same primrose-like fragrance as that

species. Its petaline filaments are a little prolonged. J

have been puzzled about the capricious non-expansion of

the Cooreriss; but I think I now understand them. En-

creased temperature does not aid it, but prevents it, and

probably would of any nocturnal flower: the thing neces-

sary for its expansion seems, on the contrary, to be the de-

crease of the mean temperature. The requisite is, there-

fore, a given mean temperature, and the decrease which oc-

curs in the evening. In the stove, or greenhouse, unless

the sun shines all day, there is not that decrease of the tem-

perature at sunset which causes it to open, and therefore

its expansion is sluggish and imperfect : and it so happened

that the weather was very cloudy and cold, and when the

lights were shut, the house in which this bulb stood was

warmer than it had been in the day. The second day was

warmer, and the third still more so, though all cloudy, there-

fore there was a greater difference in the pat which

caused those three efforts of the flower, If I had placed

the plant in the open air the day before its expected expan-

sion, I am confident that it would have opened flat. C.

Drummondi, set out of doors before expansion, opened flat

at night, and continued so three days. In the stove in cold

weather it never opened at all, because there was no de-

crease of temperature.”’ nh he

Fig. 1, 2. Section of the Flower showing the situation of the Stamens

and the length of the Style from Dr. GRaHAM’s SCEPTRANTHUS Drum-

mondi, from a sketch by the Hon, and Rev. W. Herbert :—magnified to

twice the natural size.

( 3728 )

CALADIUM PETIOLATUM. LONG-STALKED

CALADIUM.

KKK KKK EE EEE EERE

Class and Order.

Monaecia MonanpriA.

( Nat. Ord.—Arorpez. ) ;

Generic Character.

Spatha monophylla, cucullata, basi convoluta. Spadix

ad apicem staminifer, mucrone quandoque nudo; medio

glandulosus ; basi ovariis tectus. Anthere peltate, sub

Ita ad ambitum multiloculares. Glandule (stamina ste-

— obtuse. Stigma umbilicatum. Bacca monosperma?

Specific Name and Character. —

Caxapium petiolatum ; folio ternatim composito longissime

petiolato, foliolis pinnatifidis laciniis ovatis ‘acutis inte-

gris v. divisis, scapo petioloque infra muricatis, spatha

oblonga acuminata spadicem longe superante, germi-

nibus ovatis subattenuatis reflexis tuberculatis.

Tubers of this singular plant were dug up in the Island

of Fernando Po, by Mr. Boutses, Jun., and sent to his

father, Josep Bourrsee, Esq., Springtield, Knowle, Bir-

mingham, in whose stove they blossomed in 1832, and who

kindly transmitted me a drawing and a tuber, which latter

has flowered readily in the Glasgow Botanic Garden.

The tubers, being in a dormant state, were believed to be

those of a kind of Potato, said to grow in that island ; but

the mistake was soon after discovered, when, on being

given as food to some of the live stock on board ship, these

supposed Potatoes occasioned their death. With us the

flowering season of this plant is June.

ae Descr.

Descr. Tuber of an oval-oblong shape, horizontal,

partly rising above the ground, marked with rings, appa-

rently showing its annual progress, and with scars, whence

the old leaves and flower-stalks have fallen. Petiole erect,

three feet high, rounded, green blotched with purple, espe-

cially below, where it is sparingly muricated : above, it di-

vides into three branches or large leaflets, spreading like

an umbrella, each of these is stalked and deeply pinnatifid,

the segments very acute, entire or divided. From the base

of the petiole arises the scape, a foot in height, in form and

spinules resembling the petiole; clothed at the base with

large sheathing scales: spatha half the length of the scape,

oblong, much acuminated, concave, below convolute, of a

dark purple colour, very intense and black purple within,

Spadix not half so long as the spatha, thick and obtuse; its

upper-half covered with large, polygonous, peltate, fleshy,

whitish or cream-coloured anthers: the lower, except at the

very lowest part, with numerous recurved, dark-purple pis-

tals: these are ovate, smooth at the base, attenuated above

and there clothed with short spines or tubercles. Stigma

blunt.

_ Fig.l. Anther. 2. Pistil, 3, The same with the Germen cut through

_vertically :—magnified,

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( 3729)

ScHOMBURGKIA MARGINATA ; var. petalis sepalisque

immarginatis. MarGiInepD SCHOMBURGKIA ; var.

SKK KKK KKK EEE EEE EEEE RK

Class and Order.

GynanpRIA MonanprRIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Onrcuivez. )

Generic Character.

Sepala et Petala conformia, patentia, omnius libera, basi

equalia. Labellum difforme membranaceum, trilobum,

cucullatum, basi cum margine columne connatum, supra

basin tumidum (intrusum); venis lamellatis. Colwmna

marginata. Pollinia 8.—Rhizoma repens, nudum, annula-

tum, pseudo-bulbigerum. Folia coriacea. Scapi terminales

vaginati. Bractee spathacee. Flores speciosi, racemosi,

congesti, Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Scuompurexia* marginata; petalis sepalisque undulatis

obtusis, labelli lobo medio subrotundo acuto.

Scnompurexia marginata: Lindl. Sert. Orchid. Tab. X.

(in text) and Tab. XII. bss

(G). sepalis petalisque marginibus concoloribus. (Tab.

nostr. 3729.)

This fine and very rare Orchideous plant, a native of

Surinam, was obligingly communicated from the collection

of Tuomas Brocxtenurst, Esq., of the Fence, Manchester,

in the month of December, 1838. That gentleman justly

observed, that it was nearly allied to the Schompurexia

* So named by Professor LrnpLey, and in honor of Dr. ScHoMBURGK,

a distinguished Naturalist and Googe: who has been for many years

engaged in exploring the interior of British Guiana.

crispa

VOL, XIII. E

crispa of Dr. Linney above quoted, the chief difference

consisting in the reddish colour and more acute lobe of the

lip in the flowers of our plant. Shortly after, in Part III.

of Dr. Linptey’s “ Sertum Orchidaceum,” appeared, from

a drawing made in Surinam, a second species of the Genus

S. marginata, having flowers, which in their hue and middle

lobe of the lip nearly resemble the present: but the margin

of the petals and sepals is of a yellow colour, and the lip is

less waved. ‘To this, however, I find in Prof. LinpiEy’s

Miscellaneous notices (Bot. Reg., Feb. 1839,) that Mr.

Brockxenvrst’s plant is unquestionably referred ; an opin-

ion in which I readily acquiesced : but seeing how liable

the colour of the inflorescence is to vary, it may admit of

doubt how far the only two species yet described are really

distinct.

Descr. The specimen from which our figure was taken

has twenty pseudo-bulbs, similar to those here represented,

oblong, furrowed, stipitate and sheathed with pale brown

scales, each bearing, at the summit, two or three large ob-

long lanceolate, coriaceous leaves. From the base of the

upper leaf arises the flower-stalk, a foot, or a foot and a half

high, rounded, bracteated, bearing a broad raceme, or, rather,

corymb of flowers, each blossom subtended by a reflexed,

linear-lanceolate, membranaceous bractea. Sepals oblong,

spreading, remarkably crisped or undulated, of a dull brick-

red colour. Lip nearly white, tinged with pink, and yellow

at the base, oblong-ovate, waved, but less so than. the

petals, three-lobed, the disk elevated and marked with

about five raised, waved lamelle, the side-lobes short, ob-

tuse, the terminal one cordate, rather acute. Column semi-

cylindrical, parallel with the lip. Anther hemispherical,

yellow.

Fig. 1. Column. 2. Lip :—magnijfied.

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( 3730 )

HoLOGYMNE GLABRATA. GLABROUS

HoLoGyMne.

KEKE EK EE EEE EEK EEE EERE

Class and Order.

SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA.

( Nat. Ord.—Composirz. )

Generic Character.

Capitulum multiflorum radiatum, ligulis feemineis exser-

tis. Involucrum gamophyllum campanulatum 8—15-den-

tatum. Receptaculum conicum papillosum. Flores disci

hermaphroditi, corolla limbo campanulato, Anthere in-

cluse. Achenia conformia lineari-oblonga compressa gla-

bra levia calva. Bartling.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Hotocymne* glabrata; glaberrima, foliis integerrimis yel

subdentatis, involucris turbinatis.

Hotoermye glabrata. Bartl. Ind. Sem. Hort. Gétteng. 1837.

in Linnea, 1838. p. 81.

Lasrnenia glabrata. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1780. De Cand.

Prodr. ». 5. p. 665.

Lastuenta Californica? Lind. Bot. Reg. t. 1823.

Bartiine has certainly done right in separating this

Californian Lasruensa from the original Chilian L. 0}-

tusifolia, Cass., and this view Dr. Arnorr and myself have

adopted, in the Eighth Part of the Botany of Brrcuey’s —

Voyage now in the press. Of the Californian Lastueniz,

two species detected by Mr. Dovexas are taken up both

by Dr. Linptey and Professor De Canpo.te ; but there

* From cass, whole, or entirely, and yours, naked : I presume in allusion

to the entirely naked akenia.

is in the Prodromus of the latter some confusion about

them which we cannot unravel. L. glabrata was first

described by Professor Linptsy, and he correctly defines

and figures it as “ glaberrima:” but De Canpotte’s plant

of that name is slightly downy, and seems to be the

Californica of Linvt. Bot. Reg. p. 1823. Yet Dr Can-

DOLLE is quoted as authority for that plant, which in the

Prodromus he calls “ Lasta. glaberrima,” and distin-

guishes by the presence of a pappus of five chaffy scales.

Both the species of Linp.ey, however, are destitute of pap-

pus, and are, perhaps, not specifically distinct. H. gla-

brata has been distributed by the Horticultural Society

to various gardens, in which it forms a lively hardy annual,

flowering during the summer months,

Descr. Root annual, fibrous. Stems somewhat decum-

bent, flexuose, a foot long, branched, rounded, fistulose,

glossy, glabrous, as is every part of the plant. Leaves

opposite, lanceolate, acuminated, carinated, quite entire in

our specimens, dilated and connate at the base. Flowers

rather large, golden-yellow, solitary on terminal peduncles.

Involucre broadly campanulate, cut into twelve to fifteen

spreading, acute teeth, each tooth corresponding with a

floret of the ray. Florets of two kinds: those of the cir-

cumference ligulate ; ligule oblong-oval, spreading, two- or

three-toothed at the apex ; tube narrow, cylindrical, elon-

gated, glandular. Germen oblong, broader upwards, com-

pressed : pappus none. Style scarcely so long as the tube

of the corolla: Stigma of two linear branches. Central

florets: Corolla tubular, campanulate above, five-toothed,

the teeth fimbriated at the back ; the base contracted, glan-

dular: Anthers yellow : Germen oblong, compressed, a little —

broader upwards: Pappus none. Style a little longer than

the anthers: branches of the stigma clavate, hairy on the

back at the extremity. Receptacle conical, covered with

numerous little, elongated papillz, upon each of which a

floret is situated.

Fig. 1. Floret of the Ray. 2. Stigma of ditto. 8. Floret of the Disk.

4. Section of the Involucre, showing the Receptacle :—magnified.

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BEGONIA SINUATA. SINUATED BEGONIA;

or ELEPHANTS Ear.

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Class and Order.

MonazcrA Ponyanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—Begoniacez. )

Generic Character.

Masc. Cal. 0. Cor. polypetala, petalis pleramque 4,

inequalibus—Fam. Cal.o. Cor. petalis 4—9, plerum-

que inequalibus. Styli 3, bifidi. Caps. triquetra, alata,

trilocularis, polysperma.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Beconi sinuata ; caulescens, ramosissima, ubique glaber-

rima, foliis inequalibus cordatis lobatis acutis obtuse

dentatis nitidis subtus pallidis venis coloratis, floribus

masculis dipetalis, staminibus subliberis, foemineis 5-

-petalis inequalibus, capsule alis subequalibus acutis,

pedunculis bifidis, ramis bifloris. Graham.

(6.) sinuata. Graham in Ed. Journ. of Sc. 1837.

The number of species in cultivation of this beautiful

Genus has been greatly increased of late years, and a large

proportion through the often-mentioned Garden at Berlin,

from whence this was sent to the Botanic Garden, Edin-

burgh, and to Dr. Nerzx in 1836, under the name here

adopted. In both these establishments it flowered in the

end of May and in June. The country from which it was

originally obtained was not stated to us. x

Descr. Whole plant glabrous and shining. Stem thick,

short, much branched ; branches erect, tumid at the joints.

Stipules attenuated at the apex, dilated at the base, and

sometimes half-sagittate, marcescent. Petioles (2—3 inches

long)

long) suberect, channelled above. Leaves shorter than the

petioles, unequally cordate, lobed, shortly and bluntly

toothed, slightly waved, bright green above, paler below,

where the veins are deep red, especially on the older leaves.

Cymes axillary ; peduncle about as long as the petiole,

slightly compressed, dichotomous, with a male flower im the

fork, and one male and one female flower on each division.

Male flowers dipetalous, white, petals equal and subrotund,

stamens united only at the base of the filaments. Female

flowers with five unequal petals. Germen with three sub-

equal, acute wings, slightly rose-coloured at the edges near

the base when young. Graham.

Fig. 1. Young Fruit:—magnijied.

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GERANIUM CRISTATUM. CRESTED-SEEDED

CRANE’'s-BILL.

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Class and Order.

MonapeELrPHiA DEcANDRIA.

( Nat. Ord.—GERANIACEE. )

Generic Character.

Sepala 5 equalia. Petala 5 equalia. Stamina 10 fer-

tilia alterna majora. Glandule nectarifera ad basin stami-

num majorum. Carpellorum ariste imtus glabre, demum

elastice a basi ad axeos apicem circinnatim revolute.—

Herbe rarissime suffrutescentes, foliis palmato-lobatis, pe-

dunculis 1—2-floris. D ©.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Geranium cristatum; caule flaccido hispido, foliis renifor-

mibus 7-lobis, lobis cuneiformibus trifidis laciniis tri-

dentatis, pedunculis elongatis calycibusque hispidis,

petalis emarginatis, fructibus rugoso-cristatis. Meyer

Pl. Caucas. p. 208.

Geranium cristatum. Stev. Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. Mosc. v.

A. p.50.t.5. De Cand. Prodr. ». 1. p. 643. Spreng.

Syst. Veg. v. 3. p. 73.

Geranium Albanum. Bieb. Fl. Taurico-Caucas. v. 2. p-

137.

A very pretty and showy species of GERANIUM, received

at the Glasgow Botanic Garden from St. Petersburgh. It

is a native of Wakari and J ucharibusch in Iberian Albania,

where it was first detected by STEVEN ; and it has since been

found by Dr. CHaRtes Anr. Meyer, in the province of

Talusch, inhabiting not only the borders of the Caspian

Sea, but growing in the mountain-districts, at an mapa!

equ

equal to 3,600 feet above the level of the sea. It flowers in

the open border in July : but I regret that I have not been

able to give a figure of the fruit, which affords one of the

most striking characters of the species, and from whence

the specific name is derived.

Descr. Stems weak, prostrate, herbaceous, rounded,

_clothed with spreading hairs, not much branched. Leaves

on long, slender, hairy, wavy petioles, especially the radical

ones, reniform, or more usually approaching to orbicular,

deeply seven-lobed, strongly veined, the lobes cuneate,

trifid, the segments two or three-toothed. Peduncles long,

slender, two-flowered, hairy, bracteated at the forking of the

peduncle. Flowers rather large, handsome, of a bright red

purple colour, marked with redder veins. Calyx-veins oval,

spreading, clothed with spreading hairs, mucronate. Petals

broadly obovate, emarginate, hairy near the base. Stamens

ten, as in the Genus; five inner ones longer, more erect, and

having the anthers dehiscent sooner than the outer ones,

purple-red ; pollen almost blue. Style and stigmas shorter

‘the inner stamens.

Fig. 1. Flower, from which the Petals are removed. 2. Petal —magnified.

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Onciprum ; broad-bordered var.

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Class and Order. »

GynanpriA MonanpDRIA.

( Nat. Ord.—OrcHiDE#. )

Generic Character. i

Perianthium explanatum. Sepala sepius undulata ; late-

ralibus nunc sub labello connatis. ‘Petala conformia. La-

bellum maximum, ecalcaratum, cum columna continuum,

varie lobatum, basi tuberculatum v. cristatum. Columna

libera, semiteres, apice utrinque alata. Anthera semibilo-

cularis, rostello nunc abbreviato, nunc elongato rostrato.

Pollinia 2, postice sulcata ; caudicula plana; glandula ob-

longa.—Herbe epiphyte, nune pseudo-bulbose. Folia cort-

acea. Scapi paniculati vaginati, rarius simplices. Flores

speciost, lutei, sepius maculati, raro albi. Lindl. «

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Oncip1um Papilio; pseudo-bulbis subrotundis compressis

rugosis monophyllis, foliis oblongis coriacels obtusis_

maculatis, seapo perennante debili ancipiti articulato

apice paucifloro, sepalo supremo petalisque linearibus

longissimis basi angustatis, sepalis lateralibus oblongis

revolutis undulatis labello longioribus, labelli lacinia

intermedia emarginata subrotunda ecrispa basi valde

angustata lateralibus rotundatis, cristae elandulis for-

mam rane cubantis referentibus, column alis serratis.

Lindl. in Gen. et Sp. Orched. p. 203.

Oncip1um Papilio. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 910. Hook. Bot.

Mag. t. 2799. k oe

(s.) labelli lobo medio flavo late ferrugineo-marginats.

( Tab. nostr. 319 y ya Gere on ae

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No figure has yet given any adequate idea of this singular

and beautiful Oxcipium : whose blossoms have, at first sight,

oe eee . more

more the appearance of some strange lepidopterous insect

than any flower we know. Some specimens, are, however,

much more brightly coloured than others, and we have here

selected one of the best defined of those that have so fre-

quently appeared in the stove of the Glasgow Botanic

Garden, where bulbs are often imported from Trinidad.

This variety is distinguished by the clear yellow or ground

colour of the blossom, the distinctness of the rich ferrugin-

ous blotches, and the broad uninterrupted margin of the

same reddish-brown hue which adorns the middle lobe of

the lip. We refer our readers to Tab. 2795 of this Work

for a full specific description of this plant.

Fig. 1. Column and lower portion of the Lip :—magnified.

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LEPTOTEs BicoLor ; var. glaucophylla. Two-

coLourED Leptotes; glaucous-leaved var.

MMM EME EEE EEE EKER

Class and Order.

GynAnpRIA MonaANDRIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Orcuipe. )

Generic Character.

Sepala et Petala \inearia, subequalia, patentia. Label-

lum posticum, trilobum, cum. columna parallelum, laciniis

lateralibus nanis circa columnam convolutis, intermedia

oblonga marginibus reflexis. Columna brevis, crassa, se-

miteres. Anthera (hemispherica, bifida.) Pollinia 6, in-

cumbentia, quorum 2 superiora pyriformia obliqua com-

pressa, 4 inferiora ineequalia tenuiora, anterioribus duplo

minoribus.—Caules breves, teretes, squamis vaginatt. Folia

teretia. Lindl.

Specific Name and Synonym.

Lerrores * bicolor.

Lerrores bicolor. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1625.

(8.) foliis elaucescentibus. (Tab. nostr. 3334.)

This pretty plant was sent by Mr. Garpner from the

Organ Mountains to the Woburn Gardens, where it blos-

somed in February, 1839. Its very glaucous foliage and

white lip at first induced me to consider it distinct from the

Leprotes bicolor of Professor Lixptey :—but it is perhaps

more correct to describe it as a variety of that species. The

anther-case is bifid, resembling the hoof of some ruminating

animal ; and the pollen is exceedingly curious in structure.

Descr. Rhizoma short, rounded, bearing several short

stems, or cylindrical pseudo-bulbs, each terminated by a

nearly

* From arwros, slender, in allusion to the slender foliage.

nearly cylindrical, fleshy, acuminated, recurved leaf, with

a groove on the upper side, of a glaucous green colour.

From the base of this leaf arises a short bracteated peduncle,

with a solitary flower, and a very long, glabrous, cylindrical,

pedunculiform germen. Sepals and petals pure, white,

linear-oblong, spreading, rather acute, about an inch and a

half long. Lp spreading, acute, white, three-lobed, the

two lateral lobes ovate, greenish, the middle one very long,

the sides a little reflexed, the disk with a purple blotch

near the base. Column short, thick, deeply furrowed in

front. Anther-case hemispherical, deeply two-lobed in front,

two-celled, dark purple, the lobes membranous, brownish.

Pollen-mass of six flat yellow lobes, two forming the base,

the four superior in two pairs.

Fig. 1. Lip. 2. Column. 3. 4. Anther-cases. 5. 6. Pollen-mass :—

magnified,

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EpwarpsiaA MacnaBiANA. Mr. MaAcnaps’s

EpWARDSIA.

KKK EK EEE EK EERE EE EE

Class and Order.

Decanpria Monoeynta.

( Nat. Ord.—Leeuminos2. )

Generic Character.

Calyx obliquus 5-dentatus, latere superiore fisso. Petala

5 distincta conniventia in corollam papilionaceam, carina

longa. Stamina 10 filamentis (ex Salisb.) deciduis toro

decangulari cyathiformi insertis. Legwmen moniliforme |-

loculare bivalve tetrapterum polyspermum.—Frutices aut

Arbuscule. Folia impari-pinnata multijuga exstipulata

tarde decidua. Flores aurei axillares, breviter spicato-race-

most.

- Specific Character and Synonym.

Epwarpsia Macnabiana ; foliolis 20-jugis elliptico-obova-

tis supra glabris subtus villosiusculis, vexillo rotundato

amplo alis breviori basi subcordato, carina_petalis

hiantibus ala longioribus marginibus inferioribus re-

flexis. Graham. ieee

Epwarpsia Macnabiana. Graham MSS.

This strikingly handsome shrub has been for many years

in cultivation at the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, having

now a stem which measures eleven inches in circumference ;

but when, or whence, it was introduced we do not know,

_ though we have never observed it in any other collection.

Some doubt may be entertained whether the present plant

is not a seedling variety of E. grandiflora; but it is in-

stantly distinguishable from the ordinary form of that spe-

cies, by its nearly equal petals, by the wide separation of

the petals of the keel, and by its flowering when in full

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VOL. XIII. FE *

leaf. Every year till the present, (1838,) it had thriven

well and blossomed profusely upon a South wall, and it had

also lived, though it did not thrive, or blossom, as a

standard. In the last and memorable winter, memorable for

the ruin it effected among shrubs more than half hardy, this

beautiful plant suffered much less than E. grandiflora or E.

microphylla, individuals of which, about the like size and

age as E. Macnabiana, and occupying parts of the same wall

with it, were killed to the ground, while the present species

was only a good deal cut, and it did not flower this year.

Mr. Macnaz feels more confident than I do of its being a

species, and to him, therefore, I have dedicated it.

Descr. A large Shrub, or small Tree, with brown,

warted bark : the young branches covered with appressed,

silky, rufous pubescence. Leaves with about twenty pairs

of elliptico-obovate leaflets ; glabrous above, as well as the

channelled common petiole, slightly hairy below, hairs

appressed, rufous. Flowers produced upon the plant at the

same time as the foliage, in lateral racemes, pedicelled.

Calyx cylindrical, abruptly truncated at both extremities,

toothed, shortly but densely pubescent. Corolla bright

yellow ; vexillum about three times as long as the calyx,

rounded, subcordate at the base, somewhat shorter than the

other petals; ale curved, elliptical, cordate at the base ;

claw linear, bulging outwards; Keel longer than the wings,

dipetalous : Petals elliptical, semicordate on the upper side,

spreading and revolute at the lower margin, so as, in the

space left between them, to expose the stamens to their

base ; claws longer than those of the ale and straight. Sta-

mens as long as the keel ; filaments subulate, glabrous,

spreading at their apices. Anthers small. Pistil as long as

the stamens ; Germen covered with silky, appressed, rufous

hairs, and marked externally by the numerous ovules ;

Style subulate, nearly straight, almost glabrous ; Stigma

minute. Legume moniliform, four-winged, wings approach-

ing in pairs aboveand below. Seeds roundish, of a yellow-

ish-brown colour. Graham.

Fig. 1. Flower of E. Macnabiana, natural size.

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BuietTiA Parkinsont. Mr. ParkInson’s

BLeETIA.

KKK EEE EE KEE EEEEEREK

Class and Order.

GyNANDRIA MonaANnDRIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Orcuinez. )

Generic Character.

Sepala patentia, equalia. Petala nunc patentia, nunc

conniventia, sepalis subequalia. Labellum cucullatum,

cum columna articulatum, nunc basi saccatum, trilobum,

disco sepius lamellato vel tuberculato. Colwmna elongata

semiteres. Anthera carnosa, 8-locularis. Pollinia 8, equa-

lia, eaudiculis 4 pulvereis coherentia.—Herbe subterrestres,

foliis ensiformibus plicatis, scapis racemosis multifloris, flori-

bus sepius speciost. Lindl.

Specific Name and Character.

Buetia Parkinsoni ; scapo simplici longissimo, sepalis peta-

lisqué lanceolato-linearibus erectis, labello oblongo

trilobo lobis lateralibus brevibus incurvis intermedio

ovali crispato, disco lineis elevatis 5 undulatis.

This very distinct species of Bieria was sent by Mr.

Parkinson, H. M. Consul-General at Mexico, from that

country, to the rich collection at Woburn Abbey, where it

flowered in the month of January, 1839. It has the nar-

rowest flowers of any species with which we are yet ac-

quainted, much more so than those of Brera reflexa,

Linpt., Bot. Reg. t. 1760, which is perhaps its nearest affin-

ity, though the two plants are abundantly distinct. These

flowers are in our species of a lively rose-colour, the lip and

column beautifully variegated with yellow and purple.

Descr. Bulb terrestrial, subglobose, but gibbous. Scape

two feet and more long, slender, jointed, with brownish,

sheathing

sheathing bracteas at the joints. Raceme seven to ten-

flowered. Flowers rather more than an inch long, spread-

ing. Sepals, petals, and lip erect or closed, the two former

equal, linear-lanceolate, rather acute than acuminate, deep

rose colour. Lip rather longer than the sepals, and almost

enclosed by them, oblong, yellow, three-lobed, the two side

lobes short, obtuse, incurved, purplish, the middle one oval,

reflexed, crisped, blotched at the margin with deep purple ;

the whole disk marked with five elevated, waved lines.

Column enclosed by the lip, grooved in front. Anther-case

purple. Pollen-masses eight, yellow.

Fig. 1. Column and Lip. 2. The same, the Lip bent back, 3. Anther-

case. 4, Pollen-masses :—magnified,

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GRINDELIA INULOIDES. FLEA-BANE-LIKE

GRINDELIA.

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Class and Order.

SyNGENESIA SUPERFLUA.

( Nat. Ord.—Composir2. )

Generic Character.

—Capitulum multiflorum tetragonum, fi. radii 1-seriatis

ligulatis (in unica spec. nullis), disez tubulosis 5-dentatis

hermaphroditis. Receptaculum foveolatum. Involucrum

basi hemisphericum, squamis pluriserialibus imbricatis.

Anthere basi nude nec caudate. Achenia obovata aut

subangulata, glabra. Pappus pauci -aristatus deciduus,

aristis crassis rigidis —Suffrutices aut Herbe Americane ad

apices et presertim ad involucra glutinifere. Folia alterna

serrata aut integra, radicalia sepius spathulata, caulina

sessilia aut semiamplexicaulia. Capitula ad apices solitaria.

Flores flavi. DC.

| Specific Character and Synonyms.

Grinpewia inuloides ; caule basi suffruticoso, foliis glabris

radicalibus spathulatis, caulinis subovatis serratis basi |

latioribus subamplexantibus, pedunculis pubescenti-

bus, involucris glabris. Dun.

~ Grinversa inuloides. Willd. Mag. Nat. zu Berl. 1807. p.

261. Enum. p. 894. Dun. in Mem. du Mus. ». 5. p-

50. t. 15. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 579.

Dont inuloides. Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. v. 2. p. 29.

(A.) foliis pubescentibus. as

GrinveEwia inuloides. Bot. Reg. t. 243. —

I have reason to think that the individuals of the Genus

GrinveEtA are liable to very considerable variation, so that

I have sometimes found it difficult to draw the line of dis-

tinction

tinction between G. inuloides, glutinosa, and ciliata. The

present may, I believe, be safely referred to the former of

these species. It is a much taller and ranker growing

plant than G. squamosa, and has less rigid and less spinous

teeth, and is a much shyer flowering plant : but the flowers

are considerably larger and handsomer. In regard to the

Genus, Mr. Brown has expressed his opinion that GrinpELIA

and Donia ought to be united. Lessine has kept them sepa-

rate, and even placed them in a distinct subsection of his As-

TEREE ; the one chiefly distinguished by the caudate anthers,

including Donia glutinosa, (to which he adds as a conge-

ner D. Canariensis,—Burutuatmum, Brouss.,) while Grin-

DELIA is referred to a division whose anthers are destitute of

awns. But as this proves to be the case also, according to

Mr. Arnorr, with D. glutinosa,so the D. Canariensis ought

alone to remain in Donia.

This plant was detected in Texas by Mr. Drummonp, and

from seeds sent by him our specimens were raised, which

flowered in the open border of the Glasgow Botanic Garden

in September, 1835.

Descr. Stems two feet and more high, much branched

and slightly downy, especially above. Leaves alternate,

the lower ones somewhat spathulate, the rest oblong, semi-

amplexicaul, the uppermost ones broader at the base and

linear, inclining to ovate, all of them of a somewhat mem-

branaceous texture, glabrous, sharply toothed at the mar-

gin. Flowers large, terminal, solitary, yellow. Involucre

hemispherical, viscid, of numerous, subulate, squarrose

scales. Receptacle convex, naked. Ligulate florets entire

at the apex ; those of the disk, with included anthers: ger-

mens of both obovate, compresso-triquetrous, with one or

two long, flexible, very caducous bristles.

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GESNERIA sTRIcTA. Upricut Gesneria.

SEEKER KEKE KKK EEK EK KREE

Class and Order.

DipynamiA ANGIOSPERMIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Gesnerizz. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 5-partitus (plerumque germini adnatus). Corolla

tubuloso-campanulata, limbo bilabiato ; labio superiore bi-

inferiore trifido. Capsula bilocularis, bivalvis, placentis

parietalibus.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Gesneria stricta; elata pubescenti-tomentosa, foliis terna-

tim verticillatis (inferioribus oppositis) elliptico-ovatis

obtusis crenatis sessilibus, panicula terminali laxa, pe-

dicellis bracteisque ovatis ternatim verticillatis, corolle

elongate curvate compress hirsute labio superiore

bifido inferiore trifido duplo longiore, laciniis undulatis,

glandulis hypogynis 5, stylo basi geniculato.

Gesnerta stricta. Hook. et Arn. Contr. to S. Am. Bot. in

Hook. Bot. Journ. p. 280. .

Our flowering plant of this handsome Gesweria is nearly

five feet high ; the flowering portion extending to a foot and

more. Roots were sent of ib as well as dried specimens, by

Mr. Tweepie from Rio Grande in South Brazil, and the

blossoms were produced in the stove of the Glasgow Botanic

Garden, in July, 1835. In habit, it resembles G. Sceptrum

of Martius; but the flowers are very different in shape; the

corolla having a remarkable curvature on the upper side,

and following its direction, the style is singularly geniculat-

ed at its base : the upper lip too ts much longer : the style

and anthers exserted.

Descr. Stems simple at the base and weak, branched

| above,

above, and there very rounded, hairy, the hairs pointing

upwards. Leaves below in opposite, remote, pairs ; above,

in whorls of three, all of them oblong-ovate, or nearly ellip-

tical upon so short a stalk, that they can scarcely be called

petiolated, obtuse, hairy on both sides, and beneath very pale-

coloured, but not woolly, two to three inches long :—these

gradually become smaller, and pass into small, ovate ses-

sile bracteas, equally whorled, and three ina whorl. In the

axis of each bractea is a pedicel, two or more inches long,

curved, hairy, bearing asingle, large, handsome, red flower.

Calyx almost globose, hairy, gibbous above, divided nearly

half way down into five triangular, sharp lobes. Corolla

two inches long, with a remarkable double, inflated gibbo-

sity at the base above, the twbe curved, flattened at the sides,

hairy, the mb unequally two-lipped: upper lip straight,

bifid, twice as long as the lower, which has three short,

slightly patent lobes, all of them a little waved. Stamens

curved. Anthers, as well as the style, protruded. Hypo-

nous glands five, yellow ; two upper ones the largest,

and united for nearly their whole length. Germen ovate,

hairy. Style reddish, green below, suddenly curved up-

wards at the base.

Fig. 1. Pistil and Hypogynous Glands :—magnified.

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TRICHOPILIA TORTILIS. ‘'TWISTED-PETALED

TRICHOPILIA.

SKK KKK KKK KKK KKEKE

Class and Order.

GynanpriA Monanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—OrcuipeEz. )

Generic Character.

Sepala et Petala equalia, patentia, angusta. Labellum

magnum, petaloideum, convolutum, cum columna paralle-

lum, trilobum, lobo intermedio subbilobo planiusculo,

intus nudum. Columna teres, clavata. Clinandrium cu-

cullatum, 3-lobum, villoso-fimbriatum. Anthera 1-locularis,

compressa, antice convexa. Pollinia 2, postice sulcata,

caudicule tenui cuneate adherentia ; glandula minima.—

Pseudo-bulbi carnosi, vaginis maculatis supertecti, mono-

phylli, coriacet. Flores solitari, axillares. Lindl.

Specific Name and Synonym.

Tricuoprinia* tortilis.

Tricuopia tortilis. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1863.

A Mexican Genus, lately established by Professor Linp-

LEY, On a specimen which flowered in the stove of GrorcE

Barker, Esq., of Springfield, near Birmingham. The in-

dividual plants here represented were sent to the Woburn

Collection, by Mr. Parkinson, where they produced their

blossoms in January, 1839. These blossoms-differed in no

respect from those figured in the Botanical Register, except

* From nz, spyos, a hair, and ww, a cap: the anther of this Genus is

concealed Ke Bt surmounted with three tufts of hair. Lzndi.

-in having the colours less bright, and the interior of the

lip spotted to the very base.

Descr. Pseudo-bulbs oblong, somewhat curved, com-

pressed, scarcely striated, clothed with membranous sheaths,

which are covered with small brown spots. Leaves oblong,

acute, somewhat coriaceous, smooth, solitary at the apex

of the younger bulbs. Peduneles, from the base of the

bulbs, solitary, single-flowered, shorter than the leaves.

Flowers drooping, large, handsome. Sepals spreading,

horizontal, narrow-lanceolate, spirally twisted, yellow-

green, blotched with dingy purple ; two and a half to three

inches long. Lip equalling the sepals in length, yellowish-

white, within spotted with rose-colour, and blotched with

yellow, the lower half convolute about the column, the rest

spreading, three-lobed ; lobes broad, obtuse, the middle

lobe the largest, and itself two-lobed. Column nearly cy-

lindrical, green, broader upwards, and bearing a beautiful

white, fimbriated crest at the back of the anther. Pollen-

masses two, pyriform, on a long caudicle, which has an

ovate gland at its base. :

Fig. 1. Column. 2. Pollen-masses :—magnified.

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CEROPEGIA VINCEFOLIA. PERIWINKLE-

LEAVED CEROPEGIA.

De ee ee

Class and Order.

Pentanpria Dieynia.

( Nat. Ord.—AscuepiaDE2. )

Generic Character.

Corona staminea exterior abbreviata, 5-loba ; interior 5-

phylla, foliolis ligularibus indivisis. Masse pollinis basi

affixe, marginibus simplicibus. Stigma muticum. Folliculi

cylindracei leves. Semina comosa. Br. !

Specific Name and Character.

Crropeeia vincefolia ; volubilis pubescens, foliis late ova-

tis acuminatis brevi-petiolatis, pedunculis patenti-hir-

sutis 4—6-floris, corolla tubo brevi inflato-globoso

superne dilatato, limbi segmentis oblongis erecto-con-

niventibus intus hirsutis, lobis corona staminee exterj-

oris brevibus emarginatis, interioris linearibus erectis

apice recurvis subemarginatis.

Received from Bombay at the Glasgow Botanic Garden,

by favor of J. Nimmo, Esq. It is an extremely handsome

plant, with large and copious flowers, which are produced

in the stove in the month of September. I do not find any

described species that corresponds with it.

Descr. Stem very long, the thickness of a crow-quill,

_ twining, slightly downy, branched. Leaves opposite, ovate,

generally broadly so, acuminate, slightly downy above and

below, ciliated at the margin: petioles rather short and

thick. Peduncles an inch or more long, clothed with pa-

tent hairs, bearing a cyme of from four to six flowers. ~

Calyx-segments and bracteas subulate. Corolla greenish-

white, variously sheathed and spotted with brown, the upper

part

part of the segments of the limb deep brownish-purple :

the tube inflated and globose below, dilated above: the

_ limb of five erecto-connivent, oblong segments, internally

hairy, the margins reflexed. Column varied with tawny

and deep chocolate-brown, outer series or ray of five short,

erecto-patent, emarginate, fleshy lobes, tipped with long

hairs: inner of five erect, linear, compressed segments, the

apex recurved and obscurely emarginate.

Fig. 1. Column :—magnified.

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BAUHINIA FORFICATA. ForcipaATED

BavuuInNIA,

KEK KEKE KEKE EEE KEE EERE

Class and Order.

Decanpria Monoeynta.

( Nat. Ord.—Leeuminosz. )

Generic Character.

ala 5 irregulariter concreta in calycem 5-fidum aut

lateraliter fissum membranaceum. fPetala 5 patula oblon-

ga subinequalia, superiore a ceteris sepé distante. Sta- -

mina 10, nunc 9 sterilia monadelpha, decimo libero antheri-

fero, nunc im basi submonadelpha omnia aut 5 aut 3 fer-

tilia. Ovarium pedicellatum longum. Legumen |-loculare

2-valve polyspermum. Semtna compressa ovalia, endo-

pleura tumida. Embryo rectus, radicula ovata, cotyledo-

nibus planis.—Frutices. Folia biloba, nempe constantia

foliolis 2 apici petiolr sitis 2—}5 nerviis, nunc omnino liberis,

nunc omnino concretis sepius plus minus margine interiort

nerviformi connatis, in sinu aristatis. Flores racemost.

DC.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Bauninta* forficata ; ramis flexuosis aculeatis, foliis glabris

basi cordatis, foliolis ad tertiam partem coalitis acumi-

natis porrectis 3—5-nerviis, petalis patentibus (albis)

lanceolatis costatis, staminibus 10 ascendentibus lon-

gitudine petalorum.

Bauurnra forficata. Link, Enum. Plant. Hort. Berol. 1. p.

404. Link et Otto, Hort. Berol. t.36.p.79. De Cand.

Prodr. 2. p. 514.

* So named after the two brothers, Joun and GasPaR BAvUHIN, distin-

guished Botanists of the sixteenth century, whose united labours are com-

memorated in the twin leaves of this remarkable Genus.

VOL, XIN, > G

A fine plant of this species of Baunint, with its long,

pendent branches, has long been cultivated in the stove of

the Glasgow Botanic Garden, but it has only lately, in July,

1837, for the first time, produced its large, showy, white

flowers. It is a native of Brazil, and it appears to have

been introduced into Europe by the Prince de Nreuwien,

who sent seeds to the Royal Garden of Berlin.

Descr. Stems long and straggling ; the branches pen-

dent. Spines in pairs at the base of the petioles, scarcely

two lines long, subulate. Leaves on rather long, slender

footstalks, more or less cordate at the base, broadly ovate,

consisting of two semiovate leaflets united for about one-

third of their length at the base, three to five-nerved, acu-

minated, the points standing forward, and quite entire. Pe-

duncles very short, axillary, one to three-flowered. Calyx

of five long, linear-lanceolate, pale green, more or less com-

bined, deciduous sepals. _ Corolla of five white, spreading, .

lanceolate petals, about three inches long, obtuse, costate,

- and with a few obscure oblique veins, somewhat unguicu-

late. Stamens about equal in length with the corolla,

ascending, the lower ones the longest. Filaments white,

combined at the base. Anthers linear, yellow. - Style rather

shorter than the stamens ; stigma thickened.

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CATTLEYA CITRINA. YELLOW-FLOWERED

CATTLEYA.

Class and Order.

GyNnaAnpRIA MonanpriA.

( Nat. Ord.—Orcuipez. )

Generic Character.

Sepala membranacea vel carnosa, patentia, equalia. Pe-

tala sepius majora. Labellum cucullatum, columnam in-

volvens, trilobum vel indivisum. Colwmna clavata, elon-

gata, semiteres, marginata, cum labello articulata. Anthera

carnosa, 4-locularis, septorum marginibus membranaceis.

Pollinia 4, caudiculis totidem replicatis—Herbe epiphyte

(Americane ) pseudo-bulbose. Folia solitaria vel bina cori-

acea. Flores terminales speciosissimi, sepe e spatha magna

erumpentes. Lindl.

lata elevata, lobo medio ovato acu late

Carrieya citrina. Lindl. Gen. et. Sp. Orchid. p. V1

Soprauia citrina. Llave, Nov. Veg. Descr. 2. ah

Plants of this very fine and singular CarrLeya were sent

by Rosert Smiru, Esq., of Oaxaca, Mexico, in 1838, to the

noble collection at Woburn Abbey, where they blossomed

in April, 1839. The bulbs and foliage are remarkable for

their very glaucous, or sea-green hue ; and the fine flower,

when seen in such a manner that the labellum is not brought

into

into view, has, at first sight, so very much the appearance,

not only in regard to form, but to size and colour, of the

wild éulip of our country, (Turipa sylvestris,) that we were

for a moment deceived by it. These flowers are scentless.

The plant is of easy growth, and is undoubtedly a most

valuable addition to our ornamental stove plants. It does

not appear to have been hitherto known to European Botan-

ists either in a living or dried state: but in Mexico its

beauty seems to have attracted the attention of the natives,

and it has, according to HernanpeEz, received a vernacular

name, which it would be difficult for us to pronounce.

Descr. Pseudo-bulbs small, clustered, scarcely so big as

a pigeon’s egg, clothed with a pale scariose membrane,

bearing two leaves at the summit, five to six inches long,

between strap-shaped and lanceolate, acute, somewhat cori-

aceous, very glaucous. Peduncle short, bracteated, from

between the two leaves, single-flowered. Germen long,

pedunculiform, thickened upwards, curved downwards,

Flower large, handsome, except the lip of a uniform full

yellow tint. Petals and sepals erect, or very slightly ex-

panded, thick and fleshy, oblong-elliptical, the former

somewhat broader, especially upwards. Lip a little longer

than the rest of the flower, large, three-lobed, the side-

lobes involute, and indistinctly waved; the intermediate

one spreading, ovate, acute, waved, orange-coloured, the

rest of the lip yellow: a broad slightly-elevated line runs

through the centre of the lip, of the same deep color as the

middle lobe. Column not half the length of the lip, con-

cave in front, somewhat winged upwards, at the apex three-

toothed. Anther sunk in a cavity above the stigma, four-

celled. Pollen-masses four, stipitate.

Fig. 1. Lip. 2, Column. 3. Pollen-masses :—more or less magnified.

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CLETHRA TOMENTOSA. Downy CLETHRA.

Seok eR KEKE KEE KEE EK

Class and Order.

DecanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Enicine. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 5-fidus. Petala 5. Stigmata 3. Capsula 3-locu-

laris, placentis liberis in quovis loculo. Spreng.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Cierura tomentosa ; foliis cuneato-obovatis acutis superne

serratis subtus albo-tomentosis, racemis simplicibus

bracteatis pubescenti-tomentosis.

Crerara tomentosa. Lam. Encycl. 2. p. 46. Pursh, Fl.

Am. v. 1. p. 301. Elliott, Carol. v. 1. p. 502. Spreng.

Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 315.

Crerura alnifolia, var. tomentosa. Mich. Am. ». 1. p. 260.

Whether or not this be a species really distinct from the

Cxiernra alnifolia may admit of a doubt: but it is quite

certain that it is the C. tomentosa of American authors,

which they seem universally to consider a genuine species.

Yet to me they appear only to differ in the almost entire

absence of down on the C. alnifolia, whilst the kind before

us has the leaves, young branches, under-side of the leaves,

peduncles, pedicels, and calyx clothed with hoary down.

C. alnifolia inhabits the middle and northern States of

America, while our plant is confined to the southern, and

was sent to the gardens of this country by the late Mr.

Drummonp, from New Orleans. It forms with us a small

handsome shrub, bearing copious racemes of fragrant, white

flowers in the latter end of the summer.

Descr. A low shrub, with straggling branches, slightly

tinged with red, and clothed with short, white, fasciculated

. tomentum,

tomentum, especially on the younger shoots. Leaves upon

very short footstalks, two to three inches long, obovato-

cuneate, acute, serrated towards the extremity, glabrous,

dark green and even shining above, beneath hoary with

down. Racemes axillary and terminal, long, handsome,

nearly erect. Pedicels simple, about as long as the linear,

acute, downy bracteas. Calyx pale yellow-green, cup-

shaped, five-cleft ; segments erect, acute. Petals five, obo-

vate, unguiculate, concave, white, erecto-patent. Filaments

ten, white, erect, much longer than the corolla. Anthers

forked upwards, opening by two pores, tapering at the

lower extremity into a sharp spur. Germen globose, green,

hairy. Style shorter than the stamens. Stigma three-cleft.

Graham.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Stamen. 3. Pistil —magnified.

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GESNERA Marcnait. Mr. Marcn’s GEsNeERA.

Class and Order. “ty

Dipynam1a GyMNOSPERMIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Gesnerieg. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 5-partitus (plerumque germini adnatus). Corolla

tubuloso-campanulata, limbo bilabiato; labio superiore bi-

inferiore trifido. Stigma bilobum. Capsula bilocularis,

2-valvis, placentis parietalibus.

Specific Name and Character.

Grsnera Marchii; molliter pubescenti-tomentosa, foliis

ternis petiolatis ovatis crenatis, verticillis numerosis

terminalibus subaphyllis, pedicellis flore longioribus,

corolle subcylindracez vix curvate basi superne insig-

niter gibbose limbo subequali quinquelobo, stylo

staminibusque corollam subequantibus, glandulis hy-

pogynis 5, 2 superioribus in unicam magnam unitis.

Gesnera Marchii. Wailes, MSS.

This handsome and very distinct Gresnera is named,

as my valued friend, Mr. Wartes of Newcastle, informs

me in his letter, “ in remembrance of an old school-

fellow, Gzorce Marcu, Esq., to whom I am indebted for

the plant, which was collected on his estate in the Organ

Mountains of Brazil, and whose kindness * to the various

Botanical Collectors in that distant country, entitles him ro

the

* It will be seen in Mr. GARDNER’S interesting ‘‘ Account ofa journey to,

and a residence of six months in the Organ Mountains, with remarks on their

vegetation,” that it was at that gentleman’s (Mr. Marcn’s) facienda there,

that Mr. GARDNER took up his residence, and from whence he made his

excursions that proved so productive of new and rare plants.

the compliment.” This Gesnera was at the same time

accompanied by a great number of Eprpnyrss, and above

thirty bulbs of AmMaryiuipem, which Mr. Waites cultivates

with many other rarities in his well-kept garden near

Newcastle ; the flowering season is October.

Descr. “ The root is a large roundish, depressed, uneven

tuber, measuring more than three feet in circumference, and

about an inch and a half thick. The stems are herbace-

ous, numerous, erect, about two feet and a half high: the

branches short, not bearing flowers: they and the leaves

are ternate.” ‘The latter (except the upper ones, which

suddenly pass into bracteas) are petiolate; all of them

ovate, rather obtuse, crenate, thickly downy, velvety above

and dark green, pale beneath. Pedicels about an inch and

three-quarters long, slender, simple, villous. Calyx short,

cut into five ovate, hairy segments. Corolla downy, rich

scarlet, shorter than the pedicels, forming a nearly straight

cylindrical tube, the limb a little spreading, of five, very

obtuse, nearly equal lobes, the base dilated, very gibbous

above. Style and Stamens about equal in length to the

corolla, Germen with five yellow, hypogynous glands, the

ree lower small, the two upper combined into one large

gland.

Fig. 1. Pistil with hypogynous Glands —magnified.

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( 3745 )

Epimepium Musscu1anum. WHuitTeE-

FLOWERED BARREN-WORT.

SRK KK KK KK EEK KK RK EKER

Class and Order.

Hexanpria Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Berserivez. )

Generic Character.

Sepala 4 extus basi bibracteolata. Petala 4 intus appen-

dice discolore aucta. Capsula siliculeformis multisperma.

Semina oblique transversim sita, unilateralia.—Herbe pe-

rennes, folits radicalibus petiolatis multisectis, foliolis serrato-

aristatis. DC.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Erimepium Musschianum ; foliis ternatis, floribus squalide

albidis, petalis calycem superantibus, stylo filiformi

subcentrali, stigmate sublobato. ‘

Ermepium Musschianum ; Morren et Decaisne, Ann. Sc.

Nat. 2 Ser. Tom. 2. p. 353.

Wereceived this plant at the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh,

from Mr. Youne, of Epsom, in 1838. It flowered for the,

first time in the green-house, in March, 1839 ; but will,

without doubt, bear cultivation in the open border. It is

one of the many acquisitions from the Flora of Japan, which

European botanists owe to M. Von Sizsoxp.

Descr. Petioles suberect, trifid, swollen at the point of

subdivision, as well as the branches round ; barren ones (in

the specimen described) glabrous and naked at the base,

their subdivisions monophyllous, half as long as the petiole ;

leaflets cordate, glabrous, seven-nerved, bright green above,

subglaucous below; flower-bearing ones twice as long as the

others, sheathed at the base by several equitant, inflated,

glabrous, coloured, three-nerved stipules, loosely porn

ss ‘ wit

with spreading tomentum, most abundant at its subdivision,

and at the origin of the panicle; branches unequal, the

central the longest, but less than half as long as the petiole,

three-foliolate ; leaflets very hairy on the lower side, at least

when young. Peduncele (two and a half inches long) arising

from the petiole (about an inch) below its subdivision, ra-

ther less hairy than the petiole or its branches, suberect,

bearing the pedicels, which are subglabrous, secund, and

often bipartite near its apex. Bractee small, subulate, ad-

pressed, solitary below the origin of the pedicels and their

subdivisions, and six imbricated, adpressed upon the sides

of the calyx, sprinkled with red spots, deciduous. Flowers

white, drooping, the upper expanding before the lower.

Calyx spreading or subreflexed, sepals rhomboideo-lanceo-

late, marked obscurely on the back by several parallel

colourless ribs. Petals erect, blunt, involute in the edge,

together forming a short cylinder in the centre of the flower,

each having a short, spreading, subulate, compressed apex

reaching to about the middle of the sepal. Stamens yellow,

erect, half as long as the petals ; filaments very short ; an-

thers elongated, subulate, two-lobed, opening by lateral

valves rolling up from the base ; connective pointed. Pistil

scarcely longer than the stamens; germen oblong ; style

lateral, about as long as the germen, green ; sti cupped,

fringed. Graham. eee

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HIETEROTROPA ASAROIDES. ASARABACCA-

LIKE HeETEROTROPA.

KK KKK KKK KEKE KEKE KEE

Class and Order.

DopecanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—ArisToLocHiEs. ) :

Generic Character.

Perianthium ventricosum coloratum trilobatum, fauce

plicata introflexa, introrsum reticulato-venosum, venis ver-

ticalibus prominentibus. Stamina 12: 6 exteriora stigma-

tibus opposita, filamentis triangularibus adnatis ; anther

basi fixe subintrorse : 6 alterna sessilia ; anthere evidenter

extrorse. Styli 6 concreti, stellatim expansi singulis ob-

cordatis, parte inferiore stigmatifera. Stigmata ovato-atten-

uata papillosa. Ovariwm 6-loculare, liberum.—Herba

perennis habitus Asari. Folia bina, profunde cordata obtusa

albo-maculata (illorum Cyclaminis referentia). Flores j—

2 breviter pedicellati, basi folio abortivo bracteati, perianthii

sinubus fauce albis—Morr.

Specific Name and Synonyms.

Hererorropa * asaroides. *

Hererorropa asaroides. Morr. et Decaisn. Fl. Jap. in Ann.

Sc. Nat. 2nd Ser. v. 2. p. 315. t. 10.

Asarum Virginicum. Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 190.

This very remarkable and rare plant was brought to

Europe by M. von Sirzoxp, from Japan, and the Edinburgh

Botanic Garden is indebted for the specimen here figured,

to Mr. Youne, of the Epsom Nursery. It blossoms in the

er mate towards the end of February, and its curious

wers continue for many days in great perfection. No

one

* So called by Messrs. MorREN and DECAISNE, from érsgos, alter and

Teme, verto, ob stamina diverse sita.

one can question its close affinity with Asarum. It is

separated from that Genus by the authors just mentioned,

chiefly on account of the arrangement of its stamens, and

structure of the anthers, and also because of the nearly

superior position of the ovary.

Descr. Stem very short. Leaves two, petiolate ; petiole

(three and a half inches long) coloured, glabrous, deeply

channelled above, round below; lamina deeply cordate,

blunt, slightly waved and reflected at the edges, from the

blunt auricles to the apex longer than the petiole, dull-

green, and irregularly blotched with lighter-coloured spots

on the upper surface, where also it is slightly pubescent,

especially towards the edges, glabrous, shining, and having

purple veins and blotches below. Bractea solitary, large,

embracing the base of the flower on its upper side, cucul-

late, adpressed, ovate, keeled on its outside toward the

apex, coloured and ciliated, but otherwise sub-glabrous

and shining... Flower perfumed somewhat like a ripe apple,

sessile, as large as a walnut, cartilaginous ; tube spheroid,

glabrous on the outside, of a dull-purple colour, blotched

with gray ; limb of darker purple, three-partite, reflected,

segments large, rounded, undulate, above transversely

wrinkled, hairy, becoming glabrous towards the throat,

where the wrinkles are drawn up into thin edges of brighter

purple, waved, and the outer ones crested with white ;

throat half closed by a transverse plate of the same struc-

ture, having a triangular opening in the middle ; Inner sur-

face ribbed, with honeycomb reticulations between the ribs.

Stamens twelve ; filaments coloured, very short, reduced

almost to a lanceolate connective, projecting beyond the

anther, which consists of two distinct cells, placed on the

outside and bursting along their outer face ; pollen white,

granules minute, spherical. Stigma sessile, petaloid, deep

purple, six-lobed ; lobes obovate, spreading, covering the

anthers, nearly flat above, keeled below, and above each of

these prominent angles is placed an erect, ovate, acuminate,

stigmatic surface, witha cucullate space between. Germen

half-inferior, six-locular, the cells being placed immediately

under the stigmatic surfaces, the dissepiment of course un-

der the cucullate spaces. Ovules about ten, in two rows in

each loculament, projecting horizontally from central pla-

cente. Granam. |

Fig. 1. Vertical section of a Flower :—nat. size. 2. Portion of the inside

of the Tube of the Perianth. 3. Pistil cut through vertically, showing also

ee the insertion of the Stamens. 4. Two of the Stamens —magnified.

itd by S Curtis GlazenwoodE ssex Sep? 1 1834 { } Swans

( 3747)

CorRYANTHES MACULATA; var. Parkeri. Spor-

TED-LIPPED CoryYANTHES; Mr. Parker’s var.

SRI ISH

Class and Order.

GynanprRIA MonaAnpDrRIA.

( Nat. Ord.—OrcuivEs. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium patentissimum. Sepala dilatata, flexuosa,

conduplicata: lateralibus maximis, basi distinctis. Petala

multo minora erecta. _Labellum unguiculatum, maximum,

galeatum, cum basi columne continuum, nullo modo arti-

culatum, tridentatum, in medio unguis appendice poculi-

formi circumdatum. Colwmna teres, basi bicornis, elongata,

apice recurva, bialata. Stigma rima transversa. Anthera

bilocularis. Pollinia 2, compressa, postice sulcata, caudi-

cula lineari arcuata, glandula lunata apicibus approximato-

recurvis.—Herbex epiphyte, pseudo-bulbose. Yolia striata.

Racemi penduli. Flores maximi. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Coryantues maculata; bulbo elongato, foliis lato-lanceo-

latis, racemis multifloris nutantibus, labello intus pur-

pureo-maculato. \

Coryanrnes maculata. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3102. Lindl.

Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 159, et in Bot. Reg. t. 1793.

(8.) appendice purpureo-fusco. (Tab. nostr. 3756.)

My excellent friend, C. S. Parker, Esq., kindly sent me

the beautiful specimen here figured, which he imported

from Demerara, hoping that it might prove a_ species

distinct from that figured at t. 3102 of this work. The

marking of the flower is indeed very different : but not

more so than Dr. Linptey’s figure of the same species ; nor

than we find to exist in many other genera of Meco

VOL. XI. . H

The cup-shaped appendage to the labellum is here much

larger than we have ever seen it before: its colour is a

dingy brown-purple, which tint extends a good deal over

the lip itself, which has, moreover, smaller and more indis-

tinct spots than is common to the species.

Fig. 1. Column, Lip, and Appendage, nat. size. 2. Column. 3. Upper,

re underside of an Anther-case, 5. Pollen-masses: magnified.

Mr. Herserr has requested us to add the following re-

marks to his account of Cypuonema Loddigesianum. (See

No. 3710, p. 3. of text.)

Scapus autumnalis. Folium vernum, unicum, utrinque

attenuatum, subpedale, ultra 4 unc. latum, viride, basi et

margine ortu rubrum, subinde virescentius. Patria Africa

meridionalis.—The rise of the leaf of this plant has shown

its identity with another bulb, received from the Cape of

Good Hope by Messrs. Loppices. The supposition that

they were mistaken, is, therefore, clearly confirmed, There

are many bulbs of this plant in their nursery ; but no in-

stance of their producing more than one leaf W. H.

Whitch dal*

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Class and Order.

DecanpDRIA PENTAGYNIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Oxanipez. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 5-sepalus, sepalis liberis aut basi coalitis. Petala

5. Stamina 10, filamentis basi breviter monadelphis 5 ext.

alternis brevioribus. Styli 5 apice penicilliformes aut capi-

tati. Capsula pentagona, oblonga aut cylindracea.—Her

perennes, caulescentes, stipitate, aut acaules, foliis variis sed

nunguam abrupte pinnatis. D C.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Oxauss Barrelieri; suffruticosa erecta ramosa, foliis trifoli-

olatis glabris, foliolis rhombeo-ovatis lateralibus brevi-

intermedio longé-petiolatis acutis, pedunculis axillari-

bus solitariis longitudine foliorum apice bifidis plu-

rifloris, calycibus glanduloso-pilosis, stylis stamina

superantibus.

Oxauis Barrelieri. Jacg. Ox.n.4.t. 3. De Cand. Prodr.

v. 1. p. 690. Barrel. Ic. t. 1169.

Those who have been only in the habit of seeing the

annual and herbaceous species of Wood-Sorrel of our own

country with their uniformly obcordate leaflets, can form

but a very imperfect idea of the striking variety presented

by the numerous species of this Genus inhabiting the

Southern hemisphere ; some with no leaves, but with leaf-

like petioles, as in O. bupleurifolia ; some with simple

leaves, or unifoliate; some with their leaves peltate, and

three to fifteen-foliolate; some with cuneate leaflets cut at

the extremity in a crescent-shaped manner; some with

chrystalline

chrystalline points on their foliage like those of Mrsrmnry-

ANTHEMUM Chrystallinum ; and, lastly, some with shrubby

stems, of which, the species here represented is one ex-

ample. This came to the Glasgow Botanic Garden from

Messrs. Boor of Hamburgh, as a native of Brazil, under

the name we have here adopted, although it differs in some

slight points from the original plant so called by Jacquin ;

chiefly, however, in the relative length of the stamens and

styles, and in the colour of the flower, here yellow, there,

according to Jacguin, “ albo-incarnatus.” Tt is, however,

unquestionably, the O. polymorpha of Zuccarint, of which

I possess an authentic specimen from the Berlin Herbarium,

and judging from various samples I have received from

Brazil, the plant varies much in the size and breadth of its

foliage. It requires the heat of the stove, and flowers with

us in March and April.

Descr. Stem eight or ten inches to a foot high, woody

below, and there as thick as a writing-pen, clothed with

brown, glabrous bark: the young shoots herbaceous, and

slightly downy. Leaves spreading ; leaflets three, droop-

ing, rhombeo-ovate, glabrous, the lateral ones smaller and

on short petioles, the terminal one on a long petiole :—

petioles and peduncles slightly downy. Peduncles solitary,

axillary from the upper leaves, about as long as the leaves,

erect, bifid at the extremity, each branch bearing several

Jlowers ; there is a solitary one between them, which opens

first; then one on each branch expands, so that I find on

every peduncle either one flower or two only open at a

time : pedicels short. Calyx of five erect, ovato-lanceolate,

erect, glanduloso-pilose, green sepals, without any glands.

Petals five, obcordato-cuneate, united by their claws, yel-

low, with two orange spots at the base of each lamina.

Stamens ten, monadelphous, five long and five short. Style

longer than the stamens : Stigmas capitate.

Fig. 1. Calyx with Stamens and Pistil. 2. The same, with the Calyx

removed :—magnijied,

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TourrReTTIA LAPPACEA. Bur-FRUITED

TourRETTIA.

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Class and Order.

Dipynamia ANGIOSPERMIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Bienontacea. )

Generic Character.

Calyx bilabiatus. Corolla unilabiata. Labium superius

concameratum., Stam. 4, quorum 2 breviora, Capsula

turgida, 4-locularis. Semina pauca, imbricata, marginata.

Specific Name and Character.

Tourrettia lappacea.

Tourrettia lappacea. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 3. p. 263.

Domseya lappacea. L’ Hérit. Stirp. p. 33. t. 17.

This singular plant, a native of Peru, was there found by

the celebrated Botanist and Traveller, Domsey, and consti-

tuting, as it did, a new Genus, he named it in honour of a

Botanist of Lyons, M. de la Tourrerre, author of a

** Chloris Lyonaise,” and a Voyage au Mont Pilatus, and to

whom J. J. Rousseau addressed several of his botanical let-

ters. The present is the only known species of the Genus,

and is remarkable for the very curious structure of its

flowers, and for the bright vermillion-red of the calyx

before the full expansion of the blossom, and which then

becomes green. The corolla resembles that of a Pepicu-

Laris deprived of its lower lip. The germen is clothed

with deflexed, red tubercles, and is succeeded by a pretty

large membranous, inflated capsule, clothed with long but

softish prickles, strongly hooked at the extremity. The

plant was long ago introduced to the Paris Garden My

Domzeyr, but appears to have been soon lost to Europe, ti

in 1837, Joun M‘Lean, Esq., of Lima, sent it from that

neighbourhood

neighbourhood to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, where, in

the greenhouse, it flowers in the autumnal months, and

continues blossoming till the gloomy days of winter hasten

the destruction of the plant.

Descr. The plant is annual, climbing and supporting

itself by c’rrhz, succulent and brittle, four to five feet high.

Stem square. Branches opposite, axillary. Leaves oppo-

site, horizontal, petiolate, ternately compounded. Leaflets

petiolate, reflexed, ovate, acute, serrated, slightly hairy.

Cirrht occupying the place of a portion of the leaf, much

branched. Spikes of Flowers terminal, but frequently hav-

ing a branch rising from each side, erect, few-flowered,

glanduloso-pilose. Calyx tubular, two-lipped : upper-lip

lanceolate, lower one much larger, oblong, obscurel y three-

toothed, each of them has a projecting arch or tooth, which,

in the young state, quite encloses the flower-bud :—the

colour is at first bright red, gradually becoming green.

Corolla longer than the calyx, tubular, one-lipped : or the

lower lip is only represented by a small tooth: the upper

arched, compressed, dark purple, streaked, the tube green.

Stamens four, inserted near the upper part of the tube, and

concealed within the upper lip. Germen oblong, green,

clothed with reflexed, red tubercles, and inserted into a

membranous, four-lobed cup. Style shorter than the co-

rolla. Stigma trifid. Fruit a capsule, nearly two inches

long, ovato-lanceolate, membranous, bluntly four-angled,

inflated, clothed with long, spreading, hooked spines of

unequal lengths. The dissepiment is four-winged, so as to

constitute four cells (except at the summit), and the endo-

carp separates from the sarcocarp at the angles, thus leaving

spaces which resemble four other cells :—the four internal

ones only bear a few broad, winged seeds at the inner angle.

_ Fig. 1. Flower and Bractea. 2, Corolla. 3. Corolla laid open, 4. Pis-

til. 5. Capsule, all more or less magnified,

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PLATYSTEMON LEIOCARPUM. SMOOTH-FRUITED

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Class and Order.

PoryanpriA PotyeyniA.

( Nat. Ord.—Paraveracez. )

Generic Character.

Sepala 3, ovata, caduca, pilosa. Petala 6. Stamina nu-

merosa. Filamenta dilatata, membranacea, obcordata.

Anthere \ineares, biloculares, lateraliter dehiscentes. Ova-

ria plurima (10 et ultra) linearia, stigmate sessili lineari ter-

minata. Capsule totidem distincte, torulose, articulate,

transversim multiloculares, extus piloso-hispide. Semina

in quoque loculo solitaria pendula. Benth.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Priarystemon leiocarpum ; ovariis fructibusque glaberrimis.

Puatystemon leiocarpum. Fisch. et Meyer, Ind. Sem. Hort.

Petrop. p. 22.

Seeds of this Puatystemon were received by Dr. Fiscuer

of the Imperial Petersburgh Garden, from the Russian

Colony of Ross in New California : and finding the ovaries

and seed-vessels to be constantly glabrous, he distinguished

it as a species from P. Californicum, figured at t. 3579, of

our work. The same author observes, as another point of

distinction, that the flowers are ochroleucous ; whereas they

are represented as yellow in the Botanical Register figure

of P. Californicum. As cultivated in our garden, however,

the colour of the inflorescence is alike in both species, and

the hue is probably liable to eet for in our living plants

of P. Californicum we find the flowers quite as pale as in

the individual now represented. Our plants of P. letocarpum

are from the Glasgow Botanic Garden, where they were

raised in 1836 from seeds sent by Dr. Fiscuer. It flowered

im August and September.

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EpIMEDIUM VIOLACEUM. PurpLe BARREN-

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Class and Order.

HexanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—BeErBERIDEZ. )

Generic Character.

Sepala 4 extus basi bibracteolata. Petala 4, intus appen-

dice discolor aucta. Capsula siliculeformis multisperma.

Semina oblique transversim sita, unilateralia—Herbe pe-

rennes, foliis radicalibus petiolatis multisectis, foliolis serrato-

aristatis. DC.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Erimepium violaceum; foliis subtriternatis, floribus viola-

ceis, pedicellis subindivisis, petaloram calcaribus sepa-

lum vix superantibus, stylo subclavato laterali.

Epimepium violaceum. Morren et Decaisne, in Ann. Scienc.

Nat. 2de Ser. Tom. 2. Botanique, p. 354.

This, certainly the handsomest species of the Genus, was

imported into Europe from Japan by M. von Srezoxp, and

blossomed very freely in the open border under a hand-

glass in Mr. CunninGHam’s Nursery, Comely Bank, Edin-

burgh, in the beginning of April, 1839, and continued long

in flower.

Descr. Barren petioles filiform, wiry, at length glabrous,

trifid, smaller at the joint, subdivisions nearly as long as

the petiole, swollen at their apices, spreading wide, each

supporting one, less frequently three, cordate, subacuminate

leaves, at length glabrous on both sides, spinuloso-ciliate.

Fertile petioles reddish-brown, nearly twice as long as the

others, clothed with spreading hairs both above an a

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the origin of the peduncle, twice trifid, and each primary

branch much longer than the space below to the origin of

the peduncle, each ultimate division supporting three cor-

date, acuminate leaflets, of which the lateral ones are

oblique, the central equal, glabrous above, hairy below,

three to five-nerved, reticulate. Peduncles of unequal

length, solitary, arising (about an inch and a half) below

the primary division of the petiole, and sometimes as long

as the leat, generally shorter, round, glabrous. Flowers

violet-coloured, large and handsome, subtended by several

unequal, deciduous bracteas, racemose on the upper half of

the peduncle, cernuous; the lower pedicels occasionally

subdivided, the others simple. Sepals four, ovato-lanceo-

late, acute, spreading wide, undulate. Petals imbricated,

rounded, erect, cucullate, inflected in the edge, each with

a subulate ascending spur rather longer than the petal.

Stamens erect, shorter than the limb of the petals ; filaments

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ONCIDIUM? CONCOLOR. ONE-COLOURED

ONCIDIUM.

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Class and Order.

GynanpriA Monanprta.

( Nat. Ord.—Gynanpria, ) |

Generic Character.

Perianthium explanatum. Sepala sepius undulata ; late-

ralibus nune sub labello connatis. Petala conformia.

Labellum maximum, ecalcaratum, cum columna continuum,

varie lobatum, basi tuberculatum vel cristatum. Colwnna

libera, semiteres, apice utrinque alata. Anthera semibilo-

cularis, rostello nunc abbreviato, nunc elongato rostrato.

Pollinia 2, posticé sulcata ; caudicula, plana; glandula ob-

longa.—Herbe epiphyte, nunc pseudo-bulbose. Folia

coriacea. Scapi paniculati vaginati, rarius simplices.

Flores speciosi, lutet sepius maculati, raro albi. Lindl.

Specific Name and Character.

Oncip1um concolor ; bulbo ovato, foliis binis ligulato-lan-

ceolatis, scapo radicali racemoso, sepalis lateralibus

fere ad medium unitis, labello trilobo basi bilamel-

lato lobo medio bifido.

An extremely beautiful plant, an inhabitant of the Organ

Mountains of Brazil, where it was found by Mr. Garpner

in 1837, and whence it was sent by him to the Woburn

collection. Of the Genus itself to which it should be

referred I feel rather doubtful. In some respects, it agrees

with Mirron1a of Linptey (see Bot. Reg. sub t. 1992), but

that should have an entire lip. ‘ The Genera Brassia,

Mirronia, Cyrrocuitum, Opontoc Lossum, and Oncipium are

closely related,” Dr. Linptey observes, “‘ and no doubt

form the nucleus of a group of Vanpea, the limits of which

remain to be ascertained.”

Descr.

Descr. Bulb small, oval-oblong, compressed, slightly

furrowed, with large brown, sheathing scales. Leaves two,

from the summit of the bulb, between ligulate and lanceo-

late, with a costa, but not distinctly nerved. Scape a foot

or more high, arismg from the base of the bulb, slender,

bearing a raceme of large, handsome, bright lemon-coloured

flowers. Upper sepal and the two petals obovate, the two

lateral sepals combined for half their length underneath the

labellum and smaller than the upper sepal. Lap twice the

length of the perianth, narrow at the base, thin, broad, and

three-lobed, the middle lobe bifid: at the base of the lip

are two longitudinal lamelle. Column more than half the

length of the petals, with two projecting wings above,

tipped with orange. Anther hemispherical, acuminate.

oes ee? with a long caudicula and a small gland at

e base.

Fig. 1. Flower, from which the Lip (fig. 2.) is removed. 3. Anther-case.

4. Pollen-masses :-—magnified. ne.) 3

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NELUMBIUM LUTEUM. YELLOW NELUMBIUM.

6 Cia ant Order:

PotyanpRIA Potyeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Nymrnzacem.—NELUMBIACEE. Lindl., Torr.

et Gr. )

Generic Character.

Carpella_plurima, distincta, 1—2 sperma, monostyla,

toro elevato obconico superne profunde foveolato immersa.

Semina in quoque carpello solitaria exarillata exalbumi-

nosa. — De Cand.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Nexumeium * lutewn; corolla polypetala, antheris ultra

loculos in appendicem linearem productis. DC.

Netumeium luteum. Willd. Spec. Pl. p. 1259. De Cand.

Syst. Veget. v.1. p. 114. Torr. et Gray, Fl. N. Am.

1 peoe:

Cyamus luteus. Nutt. Gen. 2. p. 5.

Cyamus flavicomus. Salisb. Ann. of Bot. v. 2. p. 45. Pursh,

Am. v. 2. p. 398.

Nympnza Nelumbo. Walt. Carol. p. 155. Linn. Sp. Pl.

p. 750 (var. B.).

This noble flower, larger, says Nurratt, than that pro-

duced by any other plant in North America, except that of

Magno macrophylla, was sent to me last month, (July,

1839,) by the kindness of Epwarp SYLVESTER, Esq., of

Chorley, Lancashire. ‘That ecntleman received the seeds

some years ago from Mr, ANDERSON of the Apothecaries

Garden at Chelsea, and, by the skilful management of his

gardener,

gear enc

* From Nélumbo, the name of the Indian species in Ceylon.

VOL. XIII. i

: +

gardener, the plant produced its blossoms, as far as I know,

for the first time, in a state of cultivation. NoramI aware,

that a figure exists in any Botanical work. From the repre-

sentation which we are thus privileged to give, it will be at

once seen how very closely this species is allied, both in its

flower and fruit, to the classical Netumprum speciosum of

the East Indies : the chief, if not the only differences, being

in the colour of the blossom and the appendage to the

anthers. The present is, however, exclusively an inhabit-

ant of the still waters of North America, where it is called

Water Chinquepin, and it chiefly abounds in the southern

and western States: extending, however, as far north as

Philadelphia, Kentucky (Dr. SHort), Connecticut, and

Lake Ontario. There seems reason to think, therefore,

that this splendid aquatic might come to perfection in favor-

able situations in our own climate. The N. pentapetalum

(Watr.), and the N. reniforme of American authors, are

probably mere forms of the present species.

Mr. Sytvesrer has obligingly communicated to me the

following particulars respecting the blossoming of the

Yellow Nelumbium in his collection :-—<« Its flowering, I

believe to have been the consequence of an accidental cir-

cumstance, which I shall mention. I had hitherto treated

it like the Red, or eastern species, from an impression that

it was confined to the most southern and warmest portion

of North America ; the pots of both being plunged in a

cistern of water, kept at a heat of about 85 degrees, and as

the plants grew very vigorously and appeared to be in

health, I did not try any other situation, | They had never

shown any disposition to bloom until the present season,

when, in consequence of the gardener having left a smaller

opening than usual in the flue which passes under the

cistern, and which is entirely closed in the winter, the water

remamed at about 70 or 75 degrees, and the house was

altogether cooler than in previous summers. Under these

circumstances, while the Red species threw up a number of

flower-buds, none of which came to maturity, two out of

the three plants of the Yellow-blossomed sort flowered and

are ripening seeds. The house and the water have since

been warmer, and N. speciosum is now, though later in the

Season, coming into bloom. I have no doubt that, like

ot of the aquatic plants of North America, Hypropextis,

: e Nympuzas, &c., which grow (and occasionally bloom

he NG avery fine summer) in a shallow pot in this garden,

ELUMBiuM will be found sufficiently hardy to bear our

winters,

cel

winters, if the roots be plunged in water, deep enough to

protect them from the frost, and raised near to the surface

during summer. But I am not very sanguine in hoping

that it will be brought to flower in the open air, or in

water, warmed only by the sun, as those plants which are

above the water, such as Ponreprria cordata, Hiptscus

palustris, &c., appear to require a greater degree of heat for

this purpose than our summers afford. My experience,

however, is confined to this county (Lancashire), where

the climate is inferior to that of our eastern and southern

counties.”

Descr. The root, according to Nurratt, “ consists of

tubers, resembling those of the Sweet Potato, connected by

running fibres, and which are, when boiled, as farinaceous

and agreeable as the Potato, and are employed for food by

the Osage and other western Indians.”” The petioles (four

feet long,) and peduncles are frequently slightly muricated,

but as often smooth. Leaves large, a foot and a half, to

two feet broad, peltate; a very small one only is here repre-

sented. Flower, in its general structure, precisely the same

as that of N. speciosum: the anthers, however, are tipped

with a yellow, falcate appendage. Fruit (here taken from

specimens gathered by Mr. Drummonp in Louisiana,) con-

sisting of a large, obconical receptacle, or torus, with

numerous cells at the flattened top, in which the achenia,

resembling small acorns, lie quite loose, and rattle when

the entire fruit is shaken.

Fig. 1. Stamen, magnified. 2. Fruit, nat. size.

ANGELONIA GarpDNERI. Mr. GaARDNER’S

ANGELONIA.

KKKKEREEKEREEERE EEE EK

Class and Order. *

DipxnaAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Scropuunarin&. )

Generic Character.

‘Cal. 5-fidus v. 5-partitus. Cor. tubo brevi, fauce forni-

cata, limbi subbilabiati plani labio superiore obtusissimo

bilobo, inferioris trilobi lobo medio basi saccato longiore

rotundato. Anthere loculi divergentes. Capsula globosa,

bivalvis, valvulis integris medio septiferis. Sema mem-

brana laxa inclusa.—Herbe Austro-Americane, erecteé v.

procumbentes. Folia‘opposita v. superiora alterna. Pedun-

culi uniflori, solitari, axillares v. racemost. Benth.

Specific Name and Character.

Aneexonra* Gardneri ; suffruticosa pubescenti-glandulosa,

foliis lanceolatis acuminatis serratis floralibus basi lati-

oribus bracteiformibus pedicellos superantibus.

This beautiful species of Ancetonta is No. 1086 of the

Brazilian Collection of the indefatigable Mr. Garpner, by

whom it was found in rather dry, open places in the pro-

vince of Pernambuco. Seeds were sent to the Glasgow

Botanic Garden in 1838, and the plants raised from them

flowered in the stove in May, 1839.

Descr. Stem erect, suffruticose, about three feet high,

the branches, foliage, and peduncles clothed with copious,

glandular

* So called by HumBotpt, from Angelon, the native name of one of the

species.

glandular, and viscid pubescence. Leaves opposite, lance-

olate, sessile, acuminate, regularly serrated, nerved: those

of the flowers much smaller and broadest at the.base ; they

might rather be considered bracteas. Flowers handsome,

in long, terminal, leafy or bracteated racemes. Pedicels

solitary in each bractea, and shorter than it. Calyx of five

deep segments, the two lower ones deeper and larger than

the rest, glanduloso-pilose. Corolla (as in the Genus) pur-

ple, white in the centre, dotted with red. Stamens includ-

ed: Anthers with the cells divaricated. Pistil pyramidal,

hairy : Germen globose, green, tapering into a white style.

Stigma an acute point.

Fig. 1. 2. Flowers. 3, Calyx. 4. Stamens. 5, Pistil :—magnified.

( 3755 )

Lepismium Myosurvus. Movse-TaiL Lepis-

MIUM. :

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Class and Order.

IcosanpRiA Monoeyntia.

( Nat. Ord—Cacrez. )

Generic Character.

Sepala ovario subnudo pyriformi adnata, in tubum bre-

vissimum concreta: ext. 4—95 subimbricata ; int. 5—7 peta-

liformia, lanceolata, acuta, recurvo-patula, alba v. rosea.

Stamina filiformia, pluriserialia, externa longiora, petalorum

basi adnata; antheris minutis reniformibus. Stylus crassi-

usculus, columnaris, staminibus intimis longior. Stigma

4A—}-radiatum. Bacca subglobosa, levis, calyce marces-

cente coronata. Semina in pulpa nidulantia. Cotyledones

late, acuminate, foliacee. Pfeiff.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Lerismium* Myosurus ; diffuso-suberectum subarticulatum,

articulis elongatis gracilibus 3—4-gonis, marginibus

acutis crenulatis purpureis, crenulis subremotis albo-

pilosis, squamula foliacea suffultis. Pfezff-

Lerismium Myosurus. Pfeiff. Enum. Cact. 1. 139.

Cereus tenuispinus. Haw. m Phil. Mag. 1827.

Cereus Myosurus. Salm-Dyck in De Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p.

Cacrus tenuis. Schott.

A native of Brazil, according to Dr. Preimrrer. It flow-

ered in July of the present year, in the collection of

T. Brock1e-

lili aadimermcnesninin—e ae en - on

* Aims, a scale: so named, I presume, from the little scale at the crena-

tures.

T. Brocxienurst, Esq., of the Fence, near Macclesfield ;

and was communicated by the intelligent gardener there,

Mr. J. Appresy, with the following remark :—« The plant

had been for some time in a greenhouse, and was thence

removed to the Orchideous house. In conveying it thither,

a portion of about half the length broke off, and as we had

no room for more than oue plant, the branch herewith sent

was laid unintentionally upon some other large pots with

plants in them, and in that situation it has, to our astonish-

ment, thrown out abundance of flowers, while the parent

‘stock still remains barren.” It is indeed well known, with

regard to the Cereus group, that bending or slightly injur-

ing a branch favours the blossoming.

Descr. Stems weak, several feet in len gth, much branch-

ed, throwing out copious roots, jointed, the joints elongated,

varying in length from three or four inches to a foot, and

in width from half to three quarters of an inch, sharply

three, rarely four-angular, the angles compressed, often

edged with brown or purple, and remotely crenate : a scale

at the crenatures, and a long slender tuft of white hairs.

Flowers rather small, from within the scale at each crena-

ture; yellow, tinged with red (rose-coloured, according to

Preirrer). Stamens erect, Style as long as the stamens.

Stigma of three spreading, woolly rays.

Fig. 1. Flower :—magnified,

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ARISTOLOCHIA CILIATA. FRINGE-FLOWERED

ARISTOLOCHIA.

SERRE KKK KEKE KEKE ER

Class and Order.

GynanpriA HexanpriA.

( Nat. Ord.—ArisToLocHiEz. )

Generic Character.

Calyx corollinus, superus, basi ventricosus, limbo vario.

Anthere biloculares, stigmatis lateribus insculpte. Cap-

sula infera, 6-locularis, polysperma. Spr.

Specific Name and Character.

Aristotocuia ciliata; caule erecto flexuoso subsimplici,

foliis sublonge petiolatis, reniformi-cordatis obtusissi-

mis subtus glaucis, pedunculo axillari solitario uniflo-

ro, perianthii tubo curvato basi inflato, limbo unilate-

rali subrotundo obtuso picto pilis longis succulentis

apice glandulosis ciliato.

A native of Buenos Ayres, according to Mr. T weenie, to

whom I am indebted for dried specimens, and who also

sent seeds, which, under the judicious care of Mr. Moore,

have, at the Glasnevin Botanic Garden, produced the flow-

ering specimens here represented. The very singular struc-

ture and colour of their flowers, with the long marginal

fringe, render this species particularly worthy of cultiva-

tion in the greenhouse, or in a favourable situation, it may

be found able to bear the open air of our climate.

Descr. Stem weak, yet not climbing, slender, zigzag,

glaucous, apparently simple. Leaves on slender petioles,

an inch and an inch and a half long, cordato-reniform, very

obtuse, with a deep sinus at the base, glaucous beneath.

Peduncles shorter than the petioles, single-flowered. Tube

of the perianth green, much curved like a hunting horn,

swollen

swollen at the base, above expanding into a one-sided large

(about an inch in diameter) cordato-rotundate limb, exter-

nally greenish-brown, internally deep purple-brown, with

yellow reticulations, the margin beset with long succulent

hairs, each tipped with a gland. Germen clavate (young

fruit pyriform). Style thick, fleshy, crowned with a stigma

of six erect lobes. , Anthers linear, corresponding with the

lobes of the stigma.

Fig. 1. Portion of the Pistil with Stigma and Anthers :—magnified.

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ErysimumM PerorskiaNum. Derrp ORANGE-

FLOWERED ‘TREACLE-MUSTARD.

KKK KEKE KEKE EEE EEK

Class and Order. :

TETRADYNAMIA SILIQUOSA.

( Nat. Ord.—Crucirere. )

Generic Character.

Siliqua tetragona. Semina immarginata. Cotyledones

incumbentes. Stigma capitatum, nunc emarginatum lobis

patentibus. Cal. erectus. Br.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Erysimum Perofskianum ; annuum vel bienne setis bipar-

titis scabrum, caule simplici, foliis lanceolatis remote

denticulatis, pedicellis calyce duplo brevioribus, peta-

lorum ungue calycem vix superante, siliquis setis

bipartitis scabris stylo teretiusculo pedicelloque quin-

tuplo longioribus.

Erysrmum Perofskianum. Fischer et Mey. Ind. quartus

Semin. Hort. Petropolit. Ann. 1837.

Seeds of this very pretty plant, which belongs to De

CAnpo.ze’s second Section, “ Cuspiparia,” were received at

the Royal Botanic Garden *, Edinburgh, in May, 1838,

from

* It is much to be regretted, that more of the history of this ornamental

plant is not known to us. Since Dr. GRAHAM’S communication arrived, I

have received fine specimens of the same plant through the kindness of Lady

Mary Cartucart, of Cathcart, who received the seeds direct from Caboul,

but accompanied by the information, that the plant was a native of Persia.

This lady remarks, that the plants grow slowly and languidly in pots; but

the moment they are transferred to the open border, free from all restraint,

they become as vigorous as the common Wall-flower, and put up many

flower-heads in succession. Ei .

from Dr. Fiscuer, as a native of Caboul, and the plants

raised that season, flowered in a cold frame in May, 1839,

and will probably ripen seed.

Descr. Stem ascending, weak, angled, simple. Leaves

of nearly uniform green on both sides, scattered, lanceolate,

remotely denticulate, attenuated at the base, recurved at the

apex, with bipartite adpressed hairs ; middle rib prominent

behind, two to four lateral, obscure nerves. Spike race-

mose, terminal, many-flowered ; pedicels spreading. Calyx

pale greenish-yellow, erect, deciduous ; sepals unequally

bulging, and distant at the base, keeled at the apex, espe-

cially the two which are longer and narrower. Corolla of

uniform orange colour ; lamine of the petals suborbicular,

spreading at right angles, at first slightly concave, after-

wards reflected, shorter than the slender, wedge-shaped

claws, which are scarcely longer than the sepals. Stamens

distinctly tetradynamous, the shorter equal to the claws of

the petals. Hypogynous-glands dark green, indented by

the claws of the petals, secreting much honey. Pistel

longer than the stamens; germen spreading, four-sided,

slightly pubescent, having many ovules in one row ; style

less than half the length of the germen ; stigma capitate,

cleft across the vertex. Siliqua compressed, four-sided,

rough with bipartite adpressed hairs, crowned with the

persistent style, which is nearly as long as the pedicel, and

from four to six times shorter than the siliqua. Graham.

Fig. 1, Petal. 2. Stamens and Pistil. 3, Pistil magnified.

( 3758 )

BurRRIELIA GRACILIS. SLENDER BuRRIELIA.

KEE KEE EEE EER ERE

Class and Order.

SyNGENESIA SUPERFLUA.

( Nat. Ord.—Composrrz-SENECIONIDEZ. )

Generic Character.

Capitulum multiflorum heterogamum, fl. radii ligulatis

‘foemineis obovatis, disci plurimis tubulosis 5-fidis hermaph-

roditis aut interdum abortu sterilibus. Involucri patenti-

campanulati sqguame ovales acuminate disco paulo lon-

giores uni-aut biseriales subalterne equales. Recept.

epaleaceum. Cor. disci lobis extus tenue barbellatis. Styli

disci rami cono brevi terminati. Achenia gracilia lineari-

subtetragona, radii fere obcompressa pappo longe bi- seu

triaristato, disci pappo 3—4-phyllo, paleis lanceolato-aris-

tatis corollam longitudine subeequantibus. De Cand.

Specific Name and Character.

Burrieia* gracilis; ligulis et involucris (8) -10— 12.

DC.

Burrietsa gracilis. De Cand. Prodr. ». 5, p. 664. Hook.

et Arn. Bot. of Beech. Voy. p. 354.

A Genus, of which the present and two other species

were discovered in California by Mr. Dovexas, nearly

allied to Lastuenta, but readily distinguished by the differ-

ent structure of the involucre: and, indeed, the present

species is often cultivated in our gardens under the name of

Lastaenta Californica. It is a hardy annual, flowering -

the

* So named by Dz CANDOLLE, in honour of JOHN Mark Burriet,

who published, in 1758, the journey of VENEGAS into California, a coun-

try of which all the species of this Genus are natives.

the summer months, and recommending itself by its copi-

ous lively yellow blossoms.

Descr. Root fibrous, annual. Stem weak, more or less

procumbent, very much branched, with the branches oppo-

site, slender, hairy, from the axil of almost every leaf.

Leaves opposite, connate, linear-lanceolate, tapering, en-

tire, hairy, especially above, and ciliated. Flowers solitary,

upon rather long slender, terminal peduncles. Involucre

of several, lanceolate, downy, equal leaves, in a double

series. Florets all yellow: those of the circumference

ligulate, the limb oval, two to three toothed ; the tube

narrow, elongated, glandular, greenish. Germen oblong,

a little broader upwards, compressed, glandular. Pappus

sometimes wanting, sometimes present ; in the latter case,

consisting of three, four, or more, usually five, subulate,

chaffy, rough scales, which persist till the fruit is ripe.

Style a little longer than the tube : branches of the stigma

linear, glabrous. Florets of the disk tubular : corolla bell-

shaped at the mouth, which is five-cleft. Germen and pap--

pus as in the radial florets. Style exserted : branches of

the stigma recurved, clavate, hairy on the back at the apex,

Receptacle conical, papillose.

Fig. 1 Floret of the Ray. 2. Ditto of the Disk. 3. Scale of the Pap-

pus. 4. Floret destitute of Pappus. 5. Section of the Involucre, to show

the Receptacle : magnified,

( 3759 )

RuHODODENDRON CAMPANULATUM. BELL-

FLOWERED RHODODENDRON.

SKK KEE EEK ERE EEEEE

Class and Order.

DecanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Enricez. )

Generic Character.

Cal, 5-partitus. Cor. infundibuliformis, 5-lobus, anthe-

ris apice biporosis. Caps. 5-locularis, 5-valvis, ab apice

dehiscens, valvarum marginibus inflexis, dissepimenta for-

mantibus. Receptaculum centrale. Semina membrana

involuta.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Ruopopenpron campanulatum ; decandrum, foliis peren-

nantibus elliptico-oblongis mucronatis subtus ferrugi-

neis basi subcordatis, corolla campanulata lobis planis

emarginatis, ovariis 6-locularibus glabris. Don.

Ruopopenpron campanulatum. Don, in Wern. Trans. v.

3. p. 410. Sw. Br. Fl. Gard. t. Al. Wall. Cat. n.

"56. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1944.

This superb plant has, we believe, very rarely produced

‘ts blossoms in this country. Mr. Francrs Dickson, of the

Upton and Newton Nursery Grounds near Chester, most

obligingly communicated the noble specimen here repre-

sented in the month of April, 1839. The plant from which

it was cut, that gentleman remarks, ‘“ has stood out of

doors for the last seven years, and during the unusually

severe winter of 1838 remained uninjured. In consequence

of removing to a new Nursery Ground, the plant was lifted

in November 1838 and placed in a large tub in the green-

house, where it produced its truly splendid blossoms the

following

VOL. XIII. K

following spring. The plant is four feet and a half high,

and from nine to ten feet in the circumference of its

branches.” It is a native of Cossaingthan, and was intro-

duced to our gardens by Dr. Watuicu.

Descr. Stem arborescent: but of smaller size at all

times than the R. arboreum. Leaves elliptical, coriaceous,

cordate at the base, the margins reflexed ; the upper side

dark green, below ferruginous, in the old individuals :—for

the young foliage is described as being purplish beneath,

then milk-white, afterwards rust-coloured. Flowers large,

handsome, delicate rose-coloured, the corolla dotted with |

darker rose-colour, or purple, within the upper side of the

tube. Filaments decurved, their apices curved up, white :

Anthers brownish-orange, opening by two pores: at the

apex of the cells. Style longer than the stamens. Stigma

- capitate.

Pub, by §

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( 3760 )

HAKEA DACTYLOIDES. FINGER-LEAVED

HAKEA.

KEKE KK KEE KEKE EEK EEE EEE

Class and Order.

TETRANDRIA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Proreacez. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium 4-phyllum, irregulare, foliolis secundis, api-

cibus cavis staminiferis. Anthere immerse. Glandula

hypogyna unica dimidiata. Ovarium pedicellatum, disper-

mum. Stigma subobliquum, e basi dilatata mucronatum.

Folliculus unilocularis ligneus, pseudo-bivalvis, loculo ex-

centrico. Semina ala apicis nucleo longiore. Br.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Haxea dactyloides ; foliis integerrimis triplinervibus ve-

nosis obovato-oblongis lineari-lanceolatisve aversis,

ramulis angulatis, pedicellis pilosis ; perianthiis glabris,

capsulis ecalcaratis, cortice verrucoso. Br.

Haxea dactyloides, 8, foliis lanceolatis, marginatis, basi

longe attenuatis, recentibus obscure siccis conspicue

venosis; cortice vix verrucoso, quoad cetera ut in «.

Haxea dactyloides, 6. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 10. 187.

Ibid. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. 386. Roem. et Schult. 3.

AAA.

This plant was raised at the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh,

from seeds sent by the late Mr. Fraser from New Holland,

in 1827, and flowers most profusely in the greenhouse in

April. It is an exceedingly ornamental species in cultiva-

tion. This form is so extremely unlike the other variety

of H. dactyloides, that 1 should have considered it speci-

ically distinct, but for the authority of Mr. Brown as

quoted.

-Descr.

Descr. Shrub erect (with us about six feet high, and

still making long and vigorous shoots), branches ascending,

brown, streaked but scarcely warted, towards the extre-

mities green, and while in flower shortly pubescent in

continuous lines. Leaves (three inches and a half long,

seven lines broad) spathulato-lanceolate, much attenuated

at the base, tumid at the point of their insertion, where

three fasciculi of vessels enter, two going along the mar-

gins forming somewhat cartilaginous borders, and meeting

the third, the central rib at the apex, where they together

form a short, stout, sphacelated mucro ;—central rib giving

off on each side, at unequal distances from the base, a

lateral rib; all the nerves and the cartilaginous edges

having reticulated branches, which with the nerves them-

selves are immersed, and little conspicuous in the recent,

but prominent and very apparent in the dried plant. Fas-

eveulr axillary, shortly stalked, with many ovate, flesh-

coloured, imbricated, deciduous bracteas. © Flowers very

numerous, giving the whole of the preceding year’s shoots

the appearance of a leafy, interrupted spike. Pedicels

lax, hairy. Perianth glabrous, shorter than the pedicel,

like it, and every part of the flower, except the anthers,

white, perfumed slightly. Hypogynous gland minute. An-

thers yellow, sessile in’ the apices of the perianth ; pollen

granules triangular. Pistil longer than the perianth ; stigma

conical ; style filiform ; germen glabrous. Graham.

Fig. 1. Floret: magnified.

ITO6L

Fab by Slartis Glaunwood Essex Now 17832.

( 3761 )

BrassAvoLtA Perrinit. PErRRIN’S

BRASSAVOLA,

Class and Order.

GyYNANDRIA Monanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—OrcnipeEz. )

Generic Character.

Sepala et petala subequalia, libera, acuminata. Label-

lum cucullatum, integrum, columnam involvens. Coluwmna

marginata, clavata, stigmate infundibulari, clinandrio pos-

tice tridentato. Pollinia 8, subequalia, quibusdam aliis

parvis interjectis. Anthera 4-locularis, septis marginatis

loculis simibipartitis——Herbe caulescentes, epiphyte, apice

folium unicum v. alterum, semicylindraceum, carnosum,

supra sulcatum, apice subulatum, gerentes. Flores termi-

nales, magni, speciosi. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Brassavota Perrinii ; flore solitario, labello cordato-acumi-

nato integerrimo, petalis sepalisque linearibus obtusis

glabris, dentibus lateralibus clinandrii integris postico

serrato, caule ramoso, folio tereti-compresso subulato

linea canaliculato.

Brassavoua Perrinii. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1561.

A native of Brazil, whence plants were sent to the Glas-

gow Botanic Garden. Besides a difference in the flower,

this species may be further known from B. nodosa and B.

cordata, by its much slenderer leaves, branching stem, and

blossoms appearing solitary.

Descr. Stem much branched, and clothed with sheath-

ing membranaceous scales, throwing out thick, whitish,

cylindrical roots, and each ultimate branch terminated by

a fleshy, tereti-compressed, subulate, pungent leaf; with a

groove, or channel, on one side. From the base of this

leaf, and within the uppermost stalk, arises a solitary pedun-

cle, much shorter than the leaf, and bearing a single large

flower. At the top of the peduncle, at the base of the

very long, reddish-yellow pedunculiform germen, is a pair

of small, subulate bracteas. Sepals and petals uniform,

spreading, narrow, linear-lanceolate, of a pale yellow-green

colour. Jip large, pure white, cordate, acuminate, entire

at the margin. Column semicylindrical, broader, and

winged on each side upward, the apex fimbriated above

the anther, which is sunk into a cavity below the apex.

Fig. 1. Front view, and fig. 2, side view of the Column.

Swan Sé

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( 3762 )

Eutroca Menziesir. Mr. Menzies’

EutToca.

KEK KKK KEKE EEK EER EE

Class and Order.

PentanpriA Monoeyni.

( Nat. Ord.—Hypropay1tea. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 5-partitus sinubus edentulis. Capsula polysperma.

—Herbe annue, pubescentes, eglandulose. Folia alterna

sepius pinnatifida, nunc indivisa. Racemi terminales et

quandoque e summis alis, secundi, ebracteati, novell spira-

liter revoluti. Br.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Euroca Menziesii ; erecta foliis linearibus lanceolatisve in-

tegerrimis quandoque trifidis pinnatifidisve, placentis

20-multi-ovulatis. Benth.

Euroca Menziesii. Br. in App. to Frankl. Voy. ed. 2. p.

51. Benth. in Linn. Trans. v. 17. p. 278. Hook. Fi.

Bor. Am. v.2. p.79. Hook. et Arn. Bot. of Beech.

Voy. p. 373.

Evroca multiflora. Dougl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1180.

A native of California, where it was first detected by the

excellent and venerable Naturalist whose name it bears,

and also of the interior of the Columbia, growing in sandy

situations. The seeds were sent to the Horticultural Society

by Mr. Dovexas in 1826, and the plant is now met with as

a frequent annual in our gardens, blossoming during the

summer months. The leaves are very variable, sometimes

almost all entire, sometimes in part trifid, and sometimes

pinnatifid, even deeply so, as represented in the figure of

the Botanical Register. Its copious flowers, of a delicate

purple

purple colour, render it a desirable plant for our flower

borders.

Descr. An erect, herbaceous, much branching plant,

more or less downy in every part of the stem and branches.

Leaves hairy, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, sessile, entire

or trifid, or sometimes, more especially below, pinnatifid.

Flowers about the size of those of Potemonium ceruleum,

arranged in dense, terminal, secund, circinnate racemes or

spikes. Calyx in five, deep, linear, hairy segments. Corolla

rotato-campanulate, veined, purple, waved at the margin.

“a springing from the base of the corolla, Style

ifid.

( 3763 )

LEPISMIUM COMMUNE. ComMMON LepIsMIUM.

ERE ERE KEKE KEE EKER EK

Class and Order.

IcosanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Cactes,. )

Generic Character. a

Sepala ovario subnudo pyriformi adnata, in tubum bre-

vissimum concreta, exteriora 4—5 subimbricata, interiora

5—7 petaliformia, lanceolata, acuta, recurvato-patula, alba

vel rosea. Stamina filiformia pluriserialia, externa longiora,

petalorum basi adnata, antheris minutis reniformibus.

Stylus crassiusculus columnaris, staminibus intimis longior.

Stigma 4—5-radiatum. Bacca subglobosa, levis, calyce

marcescente coronata. Semzna in pulpa nidulantia. Coty-

ledones \ate, acuminate, foliacez.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

LepismiuM commune ; articulatum erectum subradicans lete

viride 3—angulare, costis valde compressis repando-

crenatis ad crenas squama ovata-acuta pilisque nume-

rosis albis instructis. D C.

Lerismium commune. Pfeiff. “ in Otto, Gz. 1835. n. 40.”

Enum. Cact. p. 138.

Cereus squamulosus. Salm, in D C. Prodr. 2. 3. p. 469.

Cereus elegans. Hort.

The Glasgow Botanic Garden owes the possession of this

plant to Mr. Hrrcusy, a well-known and highly-successful

cultivator of succulent plants, who probably received it

from the Prince de Saum Dyk. It is said to be a native of

Brazil. Its flowering season is October. As a Genus, I

fear the characters are very slight. The flowers seem to

me to be altogether those of Rurpesauis, and the habit very

similar to R. alatus, Preirr. (Cactus alatus, Bot. Mag. t.

2820), only that the latter plant is compressed or two-

angled ; as is indeed the Lerismium paradoxum, Preirr.

Descr. The stem, in our plant, is about two feet long,

articulated, branched, the joints elongated, very unequal,

below small, scarcely three-fourths of an inch in the greatest

diameter, whereas the upper and younger shoots measure

two inches across: all of them are elongated, but various

in length, tri-angular, full green, the angles much com-

pressed and deeply sinuato-serrate: at the apex of the ser-

rature, or tooth, is a membranous point, or scale ; and within

it a cavity filled with a tuft of erect, protruded bristles. In

the lower and older parts of the stem, the serratures and

scale are less distinct, the hairs or bristles are fewer, more

_protruded and black. In the cavities, thus situated, of the

younger and large articulations, the flowers appear: these

are small and partly immersed. Germen minute, inferior,

naked. Sepals small, petaloid, uniting into a very short

tube, gradually passing into the large, oblong-lanceolate,

slightly reflexed petals, of a greenish-white colour slightly

pinches alien purple. Stamens numerous, unequal, shorter

than the petals. Style as long as the petals. Stigma four-

partite.

Fig. 1. Flower, magnified. 2. An Areola, whence a Flower has been

removed, magnified.

Essex Now! 21830

Glaxern wood

———

_ nearly glabrous,

( 3764 )

CENOTHERA BIFRONS. HEART-LEAVED

EvenING-PRIMROSE.

Class and Order.

OcranpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Onacrariz. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 4-fidus tubulosus. Petala 4, calyci inserta. Cap-

sula 4-locularis, 4-valvis, infera. Semina comosa.

Specific Character and Synonsim.

(Enornera bifrons ; erectiuscula ramosa parce pilosa, foliis

semiamplexantibus subdentatis inferioribus ovatis acu-

minatis superioribus (seu bracteis) exacte cordatis,

floribus inter majores (flavis), tubo calycino longis-

simo, petalis plicatilibus, capsula (immatura) cylin-

dracea sulcata pilosa.

(Enotuera bifrons. Don in Sw. Fl. Gard. v. 4. p. 386.

Another and very distinct species of Evening Primrose,

discovered by the late Mr. Drummonp in Texas, and intro-

duced to our gardens, is that here figured. It may be at

leaves, of which the

once known by its semiamplexicaul

upper, gradually passing into bracteas, are remarkably

broad and exactly cordate. It is quite hardy, and a very

free flowerer, each panicle, and, indeed, branch of a panicle,

bearing a great number of buds, which open in succession.

With us, in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, it has flowered in

August and September, and bids fair to continue blossom-

ing till the frosts destroy the plant.

Descr. Annual? Stems nearly erect, rounded, slightly

hairy, green, often tinged with purple. Leaves alternate,

semiamplexicaul, the lower ones ovate,

acuminate,

acuminate, the upper smaller, (and usually bearing

flowers in the axils, seem gradually to become bracteas)

decidedly cordate; all of them more or less toothed.

Flowers sessile, solitary from each of the upper leaves or

bracteas. Germen short, cylindrical, slightly furrowed,

hairy. Tube of the calyx an inch and a half or more long,

slender, yellow-green, enlarged upwards : its limb reflexed,

Separating into four segments, or combined. Corolla large,

yellow, handsome : petals roundish, much puckered. Style

longer than the stamens. Stegma of four rays.

Fig. 1. Part of the Calyx laid open. 2. Pistil :—magnified.

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EpIDENDRUM CEPIFORME. ONION-ROOTED

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Class and Order.

GyNANDRIA Monanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—OrcniwE2. )

Generic Character.

Sepala patentia, subequalia. Petala sepalis equalia, vel

angustiora, rarius latiora, patentia vel reflexa. Labellum

cum marginibus column omnino vel parte connatum,

limbo integro vel diviso, disco sepius calloso, costato, vel

tuberculato ; nunc in calcar productum ovario accretum et

cuniculum formans. Columna elongata: clinandrio mar-

ginato, seepe fimbriato. Anthera carnosa, 2—4-locularis.

Pollinia 4, caudiculis totidem replicatis annexa.—Herbe

(Americana ) epiphyte, caule nunc apice vel basi pseudo-bul-

boso, nunc elongato apice folioso, Folia earnosa rarissime

venis elevatis striata. Flores spicati, racemosi, corymbost

vel paniculati, terminales vel laterales. Lindl.

Specific Name and Character.

Ermwenprum (Encycrsa) cepiforme ; pseudo-bulbo globoso

Jevi diphyllo, foliis lineari-lingulatis crassiusculis,

panicula maxima amplissima effusa, petalis sepalisque

uniformibus patentibus spathulatis acutis, labello libero

trilobo, lobis lateralibus oblongis incurvis columnam

involventibus, medio cordato acutiusculo.

This is another of the new Orchideous plants for which

the Woburn Collection is indebted to Joun Parkinson,

Esq. H. B. M. Consul at Mexico, who sent it from that

country in May, 1838. Its large, globose, smooth pseudo-

bulbs and its ample panicles, four of which, each about

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three feet high, arose from one tuft of the plant in the same

pot, will readily distinguish this plant from every other

with which we are acquainted. Its nearest affinity perhaps

is with E. oncidioides (Linpt. Bot. Reg. t. 1623).

Descr. Pseudo-bulbs remarkable for their almost exactly

globose form, as large as a good-sized. peach, smooth on

the surface, the younger ones partially clothed with a mem-

branaceous sheath. Leaves two, from the apex of the

oe: eight to ten inches long, and an inch wide,

inear-ligulate, rather obtuse, somewhat coriaceous, one-

nerved. Panicle from the top of the pseudo-bulb between

the two leaves, including the peduncle three feet and more

high, with copious, spreading branches, and numerous

flowers. Sepals and petals uniform, spreading horizontally,

spathulate, acute, all of the same uniform tawny-orange

colour. Lip broadly-oblong, channelled, three-lobed, the

two side-lobes elliptical, embracing the column, the middle

one cordate, acute, a little waved at the margin. Colour

pale yellowish-green, beautifully streaked with red veins ;

and at the base within is a large, oblong, white, fleshy disk,

grooved in the centre. Column shorter than the lip, green-

ish, bordered with red. Anther terminal, hemispherical,

yellow.

Fig. I: Column and Lip; the latter bent back from its natural position.

2. Lip:—magnified,

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LASIANDRA PETIOLATA. PETIOLATED

LASIANDRA.

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Class and Order.

Decanpria Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—MEtastomacez. )

Generic Character.

Calyx limbo quinquefido, tandem deciduo. Petala quin-

que, patentia. Stamina decem, subequalia, connecticulo

basi introrsum varie biauriculato, antheris uniporosis (fila-

mentis sepe villosis). Ovarium setis coronatum. Capsula

calyce velata, ab eo sublibera, quinquelocularis, superne

quinquerimosa. Semina numerosa, hilo basilari, reniformi-

oblonga, punctulata—Frutices vel arbores plus minus se-

tosi vel strigillosi, ligno molli fragili. Caules et rami

cathedri. Folia integerrima, 3—5-nervia, opposita aut ver-

ticillata. Panicule terminales, floribus speciosis violaceis,

roseis rubris aut puniceis, singulis part bracteatum conca-

varum mox deciduarum ante anthesin inclusis. Martius.

Specific Name and Character.

Lasranpra* petiolata ; ramis compressis pilosis pilis patulis,

foliis oppositis oblongo-lanceolatis basi subcordatis,

floribus ad apices ramorum in pseudo-paniculis amplis

dispositis, calycibus setoso-pilosis. Graham.

We received, in 1836, at the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh,

from the Botanic Garden, Berlin, a plant of this species

-— under

* So named by Dz CaNnDOLLE from Aacws, hairy, and amp, avdpos, a an

here to the stamens : in allusion to the tuft of hairs on the filaments of some

species.

under the name here adopted. It has been freely propa-

gated by cuttings, and flowered abundantly in June and

July, 1839, in stove heat. We have no account of the

country from whence it was introduced into Europe.

(To me this species does not appear to differ from Last-

anpRA Maximiliana, Marr. Nov. Gen. Brasil. p. 94. t. 240

and 241, a native of the provinces of Saint Paulo and Saint

Sebastian, Brazil. W.J. H.)

Descr. Shrub (five feet high) erect, bluntly tetragonous.

Branches compressed, long, weak, pendulous, when young

densely covered with spreading nearly white hairs, which

soon become fulvous. Leaves (two and a half to three

inches long, an inch and a half to two inches broad,) oppo-

site, ovato-oblong, blunt, or subcordate at the base, petio-

late, entire, divaricated, densely pubescent on both sides,

on the upper and on the back of the nerves and partly on

the secondary veins, the pubescence is long and suberect,

on the lower side between the nerves closely covered with

short tomentum. Peduncles axillary, once or often divid-

ed, they and each of their subdivisions spreading at right

angles, collected at the extremities of the branches into

large panicles. Bracteas caducous, solitary at the subdivi-

sions of the peduncles, and in pairs, opposite, at the base of

the calyx. Flowers (an inch and a half across) lilac, nume-

rous, handsome, Calyx covered with harsh, unequal hairs,

which on the oblong tube are deflected and ascending at the

apex, on the back of the limb nearly straight ; limb deeply

five-cleft, segments lanceolate, unequal, oblique, ciliated,

glabrous on the inner surface, half as long as the tube.

Petals five, obovato-cuneate, emarginate, ciliated, glabrous

on both surfaces. Stamens ten, inserted into the throat of

the calyx ; Jilaments declined, having a few glandular hairs,

sprinkled chiefly in a line along their outer side ; anthers

armed, ascending, cells approximated along the upper side,

compressed laterally, undulate, opening by a single pore at

the apex ; connective biauriculate at the base. Pistil as

long as the stamens, and declined in the opposite direction

from them ; stigma small, entire, blunt, greenish; style

purple, slightly tapering towards the stigma, having a few

glandular hairs towards its base, articulated with the ger-

men; germen green, oblong, with ten prominent angles,

free or partially adhering to the calyx-tube at the angles,

crowned by a tuft of erect hairs, five-locular ; placent@ cen-

tral, covered with many ovules. Graham.

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Ca@LOGYNE.

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Class and Order.

GyNANDRIA Monanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—Orcuipez, )

Generic Character.

Sepala conniventia, vel patentia, libera, equalia, peta-

loidea. Petala nunc sepalis conformia, nunc linearia. La-

bellum cucullatum, sepius trilobum, lineis disci elevatis vel

cristatis, nunc integerrimum ecristatum (in Paniscd). Co-

lumna erecta, libera, margine alata, apice dilatata, nunc

cucullata, stigmate bilabiato. Anthera bilocularis, septo

medio non partibili; infra apicem columne inserta. Pol-

linia 4, libera, incumbentia, nunc basi materia granulosa

coherentia.—Herbe supra arbores et saxa vigentes, foliorum

basibus in pseudo-bulbos dilatatis, rhizomate nunc crasso

squamoso, nunc obsoleto. Folia coriacea sepius venis dis-

tinctis equalibus, nunc quibusdam crassioribus costata vel

plicata.” Racemi terminales vel radicales, e squamis (brac-

teis sterilibus) corneis erumpentes. Flores speciost sepe

odorati. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Caocyne* ocellata ; pseudo-bulbis ovatis caspitosis sub-

angulatis squamis nitidis vestitis, foliis lanceolatis acu-

minatis petiolo angustatis, racemis strictis equalibus,

bracteis deciduis, sepalis petalisque oblongo-lanceola-

tis, labelli lobo intermedio ovato ad_ basin utrinque

lamella abbreviata interrupta, disco lineis tribus lamel-

Jatis, columna obsolete triloba. Lindl.

Ca@LOGYNE

* Derived, I presume, from xoios, hollow, and yvvn, in allusion to the

cavity of the cucullate column.

Catoeyne ocellata. Lindl. in Wall. Cat. n. 1953. Gen.

et Sp. Orchid. p. 40.

CatoeyyeE punctulata. Lindl. Collect. p. 33.

From the Collection of Joun Aticarp, Esq. of Stratford

Green, where Epiphytes, and more especially exotic Ferns,

are cultivated with a degree of success that I have rarely

witnessed elsewhere. The present beautiful species of

CaLoeyne, we are informed by Dr. Watuicu, is a native of

Silhet and of the Sermore mountains of the East Indies,

and was first introduced into this country by Mr. Loppices.

The pure white of the petals and sepals and the clear orange

spots of the labellum render the flowers extremely hand-

some and ornamental.

Descr. Pseudo-bulbs ovate, acuminated, wrinkled ; at

first green, afterwards purple ; while young, partly sheathed

by large brown scales. Leaves two, a span long, ligulate,

one-nerved, somewhat coriaceous. Peduncle from between

the leaves, clothed with long sheathing scales. Raceme erect,

or drooping towards the upper end, shorter than the leaves,

with four to six large flowers. Sepals spreading, oblong,

obtuse, pure white. Petals similar to them but narrower,

also spreading. Lip applied to the column, oblong, three-

lobed, lateral lobes obtuse, erect and incurved, the middle

lobe ovato-cordate, obtuse, the colour is white tinged with

yellow, and veined with orange: within each lateral lobe is

a large ocellated orange spot, and there are three smaller

ones at the base of the terminal lobe. The disk of the lip

has three longitudinal, waved lamelle. Column long,

slender, white, the margin and disk in front yellow. Anther-

case green, surrounded by the obscurely three-lobed margin

of the top of the column. Pollen-masses yellow.

_Fig. 1. Side view, and f. 2. Front view of the Lip. 3, 4. Front and Side

view of the Column. 5. Inside view of an Anther-case. 6. Pollen-masses:

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CEREUS.

Class and Order.

IcosanpRIA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Cactez. )

Generic Character.

Sepala numerosissima imbricata, basi ovario adnata, in

tubum elongatum concreta, exteriora breviora calycinalia,

media longiora colorata, intima petaliformia. Stamina nu-

merosissima cum tubo concreta. Stylus filiformis, apice

multifidus. Bacca areolata, sepalorum reliquiis squamata

aut tuberculosa. Cotyledones acuminate.—Frutices car-

nosi, subglobosi vel elongati, stricti, articulatt vel repentes,

axi ligneo interne medullifero donati, angulis verticalibus,

spinarum fasciculos gerentibus vel inermibus, irregulariter

sulcati. Anguli seu ale nunc plurime, nunc paucissime,

rarius due tantum, et tunc rami compresso-alati inermes.

Flores ampli e spinarum fasciculis lateralibus trunci aut

ramorum vetustiorum, aut crenis angulorum orti, Fructus

oviformes, plerumque anno sequente maturescentes, edules.

Pfeiffer.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Cereus Martianus ; suberectus ramosus 8-angularis sinubus

latiusculis, costis vix prominentibus, areolis approxi-

matis in criste tuberculis positis, aculeis exterioribus

6—8 setiformibus albidis (nascentibus rubris) radian-

tibus, centralibus 2—3 fuscis vix majoribus.

Cereus Martianus. “ Zucc.’—Pfeiff. Enum. Cact. p. 110.

The specimen of the Cereus here represented was oblig-

ingly sent from the noble Collection at Woburn, in April,

1839, bearing both flowers and young fruit. In Prerrrer’s

** Enumeratio Cactearum,” it is placed next to the well-

known Cereus flagelliformis (that frequent ornament of

cottage windows), but may readily be known by its differ-

ent mode of growth, its deeply furrowed stem, and much

slenderer hair-like aculei. It is a native of Mexico, and

flowers readily and copiously in the spring months.

Descr. Stem nearly erect, but weak, branched, terete,

obtuse, about three-fourths of an inch in diameter, about

eight-angled, the angles obtuse : studded with areola about

half an inch asunder, each containing a small white tuft,

whence arise six to eight hair-like aculei. Flowers large,

handsome, of a deep-red rose-colour. Calyx of several

narrow-lanceolate, acuminated scales, gradually enlarging,

and passing into numerous spreading petals. Germen sub-

globose, and, as well as the elongated tube of the flower,

beset with tufts of hair-like aculei. Young fruit globose,

green, larger than a hasel-nut, and partially clothed with

the persistent tufts of hairs.

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ARISTOLOCHIA CAUDATA. LiviID-FLOWERED

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Class _and Order.

GyNANDRIA HEXANDRIA.

( Nat. Ord.—AnrtsToLocHIEz. )

Generic Character.

Corolla 1-petala, ligulata, basi ventricosa. Capsula 6-

locularis, polysperma, infera.

Specific Character and Synonym.

AristoLocuiA caudata; caule volubili, foliis inferioribus re-

niformibus triangularibus v. leviter trilobis, superi-

oribus tripartitis laciniis apice angustatis, calycibus

cylindraceis infractis basi ventricosis sexcalcaratis,

labio cordato cuspidato lamina tubo multo breviore

cuspide filiformi torto calyce multoties longiore. Lindl.

Arisrotocuta caudata. Booth, in Bot. Reg. t. 1453.

From the hot-house at Woburn Abbey, where this plant

flowered in high perfection in May, 1839. It is a native of

Brazil, and was first raised in the garden of Sir Caartes

Lemon, at Carclew, Cornwall, by Mr. Boorn, from seeds

received from Lieut. Wrient, of H. M. Packet-ship, Hope.

The extraordinary length of the tail and the smaller upper

lip in relation to the tube of the corolla, will distinguish

this from the A. trilobata, L., figured in the Botanical

Descr. Perennial, climbing. Leaves cordate, through-

out the greater part of the plant, deeply three-lobed, almost

three-partite, the lobes oval-oblong, obtuse: petioles an ~

inch and a half to two inches long, rounded. Stipules large,

somewhat cordate, acute, wavy. Petioles from the axils of

the

the leaf-stalk, solitary, much curved upwards. Tube of the

perianth pitcher-shaped, and curved like a syphon, the lower

half much inflated, the upper narrow below, gradually

widening upwards, of a dingy brownish-green colour;

coarsely nerved and reticulated, the mouth with its under-

side truncated, and waved, scarcely forming a lip, the upper

portion expands into a large, rich, blackish-brown coloured,

broadly cordate lip, of which the apex is suddenly atten-

uated into a slender variously twisted tail, in our specimens

a foot and a half long.

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Liparis WaLkeErRI&Z. Mrs. CoLoney

Watker’s [Liparis.

KEKE KK EK EEE KK KEK KEKE

Class and Order.

Gynanpria Monanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—Orcuinea. )

Generic Character.

_ Sepala patentia libera; lateralia basi equalia sepius

breviora. Petala sepalis angustiora, raro equalia, linearia _

vel filiformia. Labellum ascendens vel erectum, basi cum —

columna paululum accretum, supra basin sepius bitubercu-

latum integrum nunc mucronibus aliquot sed lobis nullis.

Columna elongata, semiteres, Imcurva, apice marginata.

Anthera bilocularis. Pollinia 4, collateralia.—Herbe fer-

restres vel epiphyte, foliis basi in pseudo-bulbum concretis,

nunc membranaceis plicatis, nunc subcoriaceis venis minus

distinctis. Scapus teres vel angulatus, vel anceps. Flores

parvi, herbacei, racemosi, raro lutei vel albi. Lindl.

Specific Name and Character.

Liparis Walkeria; foliis 2—3 subrotundo-ovatis acutis,

petiolatis plicatis basi obliquis cucullatis, spica erecta

multiflora brevioribus, pedunculo angulato, labello sub-

rotundo reflexo crenulato, sepalis patentibus oblongis,

marginibus revolutis, germine petalisque filiformibus

equalibus. Graham.

We received this plant at the Royal Botanic Garden

Edinburgh, in June 1834, sent by Mrs. Colonel Wa LKEr,

from Ceylon. It has since flowered twice in the stove, and

although it must certainly yield in beauty to many of the

donations received from the same liberal and zealous culti-

vator of botany, yet it is not without interest. It ought to

stand in the arrangement of the species between L. purpu-

rascens

-rascens and L. atropurpurea, and is distinguished from the

former by its spike, and from the latter by its acutely

angled, almost winged stem.

Descr. Terrestrial. Pseudo-bulbs conical, sheathed by

about three scales, (the bases of abortive leaves) dark pur-

ple. Leaves two to three, with striated petioles, which are

sheathing at the base, subrotundo-ovate, cucullate, acute,

oblique at the base, plicate, about eleven-nerved, lurid-

green above, paler below. Stalk terminal, acutely angled.

Spike many-flowered, cylindrical, longer than the leaves.

Rachis green, with many waved acute angles or wings.

Bracteas ovato-deltoid, acute. Germen purple, longer than

the bracteas. Sepals dark purple, oblong, oblique, revolute

in the edges, spreading at right angles to the germen to

which they are equal, at first nearly equidistant, afterwards,

when beginning to decay, the two lower ones project

downwards parallel and in contact below the lip, the third

upwards behind the column. Petals equal to the sepals,

slender, filiform, spreading laterally and afterwards reflexed.

Lap subrotund, bituberculate on the upper side near the

base, reflexed, dark purple in the middle, yellow and cre-

nulate at the edges. Column erect, slightly curved forwards,

about half as long as the sepals, purple below, colourless

above where there is a conical tooth projecting along each

side of’the stigma. Anther-case hinged at the apex, with

two rounded cells, containing the sessile, yellow, hard

pollen-masses. Graham.

Seen eres ee sepals atipediitoncnsc bib. elisa biuii

Fig. 1. Front view of a Flower. 2. Lip. 3. Column :—magnified.

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HIppEASTRUM SOLANDRIFLORUM. SOLANDRA

FLOWERED HIPPEASTRUM.

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Class and Order.

HexanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Amary.uipEd. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium declinatum, tubo infra abbreviato, mem-

brana fasciali non annulari, limbo quater dispare. Scapus

spathaceus cavus. Capsula trivalvis. Semina testa nigra.

Herb.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Hirreastrum solandriflorum ; 2—4-florum, perianthio in-

fundibulari subregulari, tubo gracillimo intus nudo

limbo multo longiore, stigmate obtuse trilobo. Lindl.

Hiprrastrum solandriflorum. Herb. Amaryll. p. 136.

Amarytus solandraeflora. Lindl. Collect. t. 11. Spreng.

Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 51.

(8.) striatum ; flore 2—10-unciali, extus obscure rubro-

lineata, tubo 3—44 uncia longo. Bot. Mag. t. 2573.

Herb. l. c.

(y.) rubritubum ; flore viridescenti-albo, tubo purpureo-ru-

bro. Herb. l. c.

(d.) conspicuum ; tlore 104 uncias longo, extus obscure ru-

bro-striato, tubo purpureo-rubro. Herb. L. ¢.—8. vit-

tata. Bot. Reg. t. 876.

Among the many interesting plants sent by Mr. Sctom-

surcK to our gardens from British Guiana, were bulbs of

the present truly noble plant, which were gathered in his

late adventurous voyage up the Berbice, and received by

his Grace the Duke of Beprorp. They flowered in the

stove at Woburn, in May, 1839, and proved to be the

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VOL, XIII. M

very same form of Hippeasrrum solandriflorum which is

figured by Dr. Linptey in his “ Collectanea Botanica.”

Mr. Herserr, indeed, considers that the leaves are nar-

rower and the stigmas shorter and smaller, but on com-

paring the two figures very little difference will be found.

Descr. Bulb broadly ovate, brown. Leaves rather nar-

row, ligulate, keeled below, blunt at the apex, about a

foot long. Scape two feet high, terete, somewhat angled

above, in our specimen two-flowered. Spatha of two acu-

minated leaves, soon withering. Pedicels short, curved.

Flowers drooping, very large. —Perianth eight to ten inches

long. Tube very long, slender, pale green ; the limb some-

what spreading : the segments oblong, rather acute, dingy

sulphur, or cream-coloured, greenish at the middle of the

back, Stamens rather unequal, shorter than the style.

Filaments arising from the top of the tube, monadelphous

at the base, white. Anthers oblong, yellow. Germen oval,

triangular. Style shorter than the stamens. Stigma small,

of three obtuse lobes.

Fig. 1. Tube of the Perianth laid open to show the insertion of the Sta-

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GARDOQUIA MULTIFLORA. MANY-FLOWERED

GARDOQUIA.

SSIS oisiskakak

Class and Order.

DipynamiaA GYMNOSPERMIA.

( Nat. Ord.—LasziaT2. )

7. Gen ie Character.

Calyx tubulosus, 13-ne us, subincurvus, ore equali vel

obliquo dentibus brevibus rectis subequalibus vel subbila-

biatis. Corolle tubus longe exsertus rectus vel incurvus,

intus nudus; imbus bilabiatus, labium superius erectum

subplanum emarginatum, inferius subpatens lobis planis

medio latiore. Stamina 4, subdidynama, inferioribus lon-

gioribus, laxe adscendentia, apice subdistantia, superiora

subinde sterilia. Filamenta edentula. _Anthere biloculares,

loculis distinctis parallelis yel subdivergentibus. Styl lobi

subequales. Achenia sicca, levia.—Suffrutices fruticesve

ramosissimi foliosi, sepe procumbentes. Flores pulchri,

sepius coccinet. Benth.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Garvoguia* multzflora ; fruticosa“subglabra, foliis, petio-

latis ovatis obtusiusculis subcrenatis basi rotundatis

viridibus subtus pallidis, floralibus conformibus, verti-

cillastris laxis subsecundis, cymis pedunculatis vix

dichotomis, calycis glabriusculi dentibus acutis, fauce

intus nuda corollis calyce triplo longioribus. Benth.

Garpoguia multiflora. Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Peruv. et Chil.

ined. 4. t. 495. f. a. Benth. Lab. p. 398.

Rizoa ovatifolia. Cav. Ie. vol. 6. p. 56. t. 578 (male oom

* Named by Ruiz and Pavon in compliment to D. Disco GaRDoaut,

Minister of Finance to CuarteEs IV., king of Spain.

This very ornamental plant was received at the garden of

the Caledonian Horticultural Society, from Chili. It pro-

duced in the greenhouse a succession of flowers during

nearly the whole summer and autumn of 1839. It very

much resembles Garvoguta grandiflora, but may be distin-

guished from this especially by its foliage being perfectly

glabrous even when young, by its patent not erect branches,

and by its shorter style. 2

Descr. Shrub erect, much branched, four-sided, branches

spreading, bark cracked. Leaves petiolate, ovate, reflected

in the edges, glabrous on both sides, of lively green above,

dotted and rather paler below, where also the middle rib

and oblique veins are prominent. Peduncles (three lines

long) axillary, solitary, collected towards the extremities

of the branches, three-flowered, glabrous; pedicels rather

longer than the peduncle, the lateral ones having a small

adpressed bractea on their outer side at the base, and two

opposite ones below their middle, the central one without

any bractea. Flowers handsome, pendulous. Calyx (one-

fourth of an inch long) slightly curved, green, sprinkled

with glands, and very obscure pubescence, teeth erect,

nearly equal, the uppermost rather the smallest. Corolla

five times as long as the calyx, red purple; tube clavato-

funnel-shaped, slightly compressed laterally, slightly pubes-

cent on the outside, hairy within, especially on the lower

side and toward the limb ; limb two lipped ; upper lip slightly

reflected, of two rounded teeth ; lower lip of three more

recurved, linear segments. Stamens exserted, straight, dis-

tant, the two longer projecting forwards from the centre of

the flower, the two shorter parallel to and above them ;

Jilaments colourless, adherent to about the middle of the

tube, above which they are free, and at the point of sepa-

ration the corolla projects in little external, corresponding

eminences ; anthers dark lilac, of two, much divaricated

lobes, opening along the vertex ; pollen white. Pistil equal

to the longest stamens, pale lilac towards the top; stigma

bifid, segments nearly equal, subulate, curved outwards ;

germen-lobes erect ; placed upon a fleshy disk, which is

longer than the lobes. Graham.

Fig. 1. Flower laid open: magnified.

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PassirtorA MoorrdAna. Mr. Moore's

PASSION-FLOWER.

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Class and Order.

MonapDELPpoHiA PENTANDRIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Passirtorez. )

Generic Character.

Calycis tubus brevissimus, faux corona filamentos4 mul-

tiplici ornata. Bacca sepius pulposa, rarius submembra-

nacea. D.C.

Specific Name and Character.

Passirtora Mooreana ; glaberrima scandens cirrhifera, foliis

brevissime petiolatis (petiolo grosse biglanduloso)

cuneatis palmato-trifidis obscure serratis smubus glan-

dulosis subtus stipulisque magnis ovato-acuminatis

cordatis utrinque glaucis, pedunculis unifloris bracteis

magnis ovatis serratis involucratis longitudine floris,

corona filamentosa triplici exteriore petala equante.

This handsome Passion-flower, along with many other

rarities sent by Mr. T'weepie of Buenos Ayres from various

and often very remote parts of the interior, has been most

successfully cultivated by Mr. Dueatp Moore at the Royal

Dublin Society’s Botanic Garden of Glasnevin. To him I

wish to dedicate this new species of Passtrtora, which Mr.

Moore observes will probably bear the open air as well as

Passrriora cerulea, which its flowers a good deal resemble;

but which has the advantage of being very fragrant. The

nearest affinity, however, of this plant is with P. Tueuma-

nensis (Bot. Mag. t. 3636), but the nearly sessile, very

differently-shaped leaves and glands, and smaller flowers,

besides other characters, abundantly distinguish it. bse

see

seeds were regeived in 1837, and the plants flowered in

July, 1839.

Descr. Stems long, climbing, cirrhiferous, glaucous.

Leaves almost entirely sessile, three to five inches long,

cuneate, deeply palmato-trifid, obscurely serrated, oblong,

dark-green above, very glaucous; there are a few sessile

peziziform glands in the sinuses, and a large one of the

same character on each side the very short petiole. Sti-

pules large, ovate, serrated, glaucous on both sides, un-

equally cordate at the base. Peduncles one-flowered, half

as long as the leaves, bearing a little below the flower a

large, three-leaved involucre, the leaves ovate, cordate at

the base, and a good deal resembling the stipules. Calyx-

tube very short : the limb of five oblong segments. Petals

white. Filamentous crown with the outer ray nearly as

long as the petals, blue ; variegated below with white and

darker blue ; intermediate one very short, and deep blue,

inner-one red-purple, erect. Staminal tube yellow, spotted

with orange.

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NEMOPHILA ATOMARIA. SPOTTED-FLOWERED

NEMOPHILA. —

Class and Order.

PenranpriA Monoeynta.

( Nat. Ord.—Hypropnytiez. )

Generic Character.

Calyx inferus, persistens, 10-fidus ; laciniis alternis re-

flexis. Corolla campanulata, 5-loba; lobis emarginatis.

Nectarium foveole 10 ad marginem faucis. Stamina bre-

via: Anthere lunate. Capsula unilocularis. Semina unum

supra alterum receptaculis duobus parietalibus inserta.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Nemoruita atomaria ; foliis oppositis pinnatifidis basi in

petiolum angustatis, lobis subrotundatis indivisis, ca-

lycis sinubus minimis reflexis, pedunculis axillaribus

corollisque hirtis, ovariis multi-ovulatis. Lindl.

Nemopuita atomaria. Fisch. Cat. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 1835.

Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1940.

A native of California, whence it was introduced by the

Horticultural Society of London to our gardens, by the

indefatigable Mr.. Davin Dovetas. It is a hardy annual

and flowers through the autumnal as well as summer

months, braving unharmed some of our early frosts. Dr.

Arnorr and myself, from an investigation of dried spe-

cimens alone, had been led to ae an opinion that this

was not really distinct from the N. insignis, or rather, as it

ought to be called, N. Menziesit (Hook. et Arn. in Bot. of

Beechey’s Voyage, p. 152 and 372). An examination of

recent specimens has satisfied us of our mistake. Inde-

pendent of the curious spotting of the flower, (dark choco-

late

late on a white ground,) the corolla is smaller, more

rotate, and densely hairy at the bottom within. The leaves

too are less deeply pinnatifid, and the lobes more entire.

Descr. A straggling, much branched, annual plant,

with succulent, brittle stems. Leaves petiolate, pinnatifid,

the lobes ovate, nearly entire, slightly hairy, smaller up-

wards. Peduncles solitary, single-flowered, hairy. Calyx

hairy, the sinuses prolonged into deflexed spurs. Corolla

rotate, white, very hairy at the base within, the lobes

marked with dark brown, oblong spots, indistinct on the

underside. Anthers sagittate, dark purple-brown, on fila-

ments which are much shorter than the corolla. Germen

ovate, hairy, with a five lobed, hypogynous, fleshy ring at

the base. Style deeply bifid. Stigmas obtuse.

Fig. 1. Calyx, including the Pistil. 2. Portion of the Corolla. 3. Pistil:

magnified.

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EpAcRIS OBTUSIFOLIA. BLUNT-LEAVED

EPaAcris.

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Class and Order.

PentanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Epacriwez. )

Generic Character.

Calyx coloratus multibracteatus, bracteis textura calycis.

Corolla tubulosa, limbo imberbi. Stamina epipetala ;

antheris supra medium peltatis. Squamule 5 hypogyne.

Capsula placentis columne centrali adnatis. — Fruticuli

ramosi, sepius glabri. Folia sparsa petiolata vel basi

simplicit. Flores axillares in spicam foliatam sepius digest?,

albi vel purpurascentes. Br.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Epacris obtusifolia ; floribus nutantibus, foliis lanceolatis

erectis subimbricatis apice calloso obtusiusculo, caly-

cibus obtusis longitudine tubi, staminibus inclusis.

Br.

Epacris obtusifolia. Sm. Exot. Bot. p. 77. t. 40. Br.

Prodr. Fl. Now. Holl. p. 551.

This pretty Epacris is a native of Port Jackson, New

South Wales, and was introduced to this country through

the Royal Gardens of Kew, whence our plants were received

at the Glasgow Botanic Garden. It flowers in October,

and occasionally ripens its seeds with us.

Descr. Plant shrubby, from two to three feet high,

branched, slightly downy in the younger branches. Leaves

alternate; generally erect and more or less appressed, on

short reddish petioles, elliptic-lanceolate, glabrous, rigid,

very obtuse, and callous at the tip, grooved or concave,

and

and smooth above, convex and longitudinally striated

beneath. Flowers longer than the leaves, axillary, solitary,

drooping, pointing to one side, on short bracteated stalks ;

bracteas small, ovate, imbricated, larger upwards, and, as

it were, gradually passing into the five leaves of the calyx.

These last are slightly downy, ovato-lanceolate, eréct.

Corolla white or cream-colour, the segments of the limb

Spreading, rather acute. Stamens included. Capsule

small, membranaceous, pale brown, included within the

persistent calyx, bursting open between the dissepiments

into five valves, containing many chaffy seeds, and crowned

with the lengthened red style and rather large capitate

stigma. :

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. The same, with the Corolla laid open, showing the

Stamens and Pistil :—magnified,

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THRIFT.

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Class and Order.

PenTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA.

( Nat. Ord.— PLumBaeineEg. )

Generic Character.

Flores spicato-paniculati. Calyx 1-phyllus, plicatus,

subscariosus. Petala 5, subconnata. Stamina basi peta-

- lorum inserta. Utriculus 1-spermus, calyce inclusus.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Sratice arborea; caule arborescente, foliis ovatis obtusis

mucronatis basi angustatis, panicula composita termi-

nali, ramis panicule alato-ancipitibus. R. e¢ S,-

Sratice arborea. Willd. Enum. 1. p. 337. Roem. et Sch.

v. 6. p. 797. Lindl. Bot. Reg. N. Ser. t. 6.

This very handsome and showy plant flowered in the

noble Conservatory of His Grace the Duke of Beprorp, at

Woburn, in May 1839, where the accompanying figure

was made. It is exclusively an inhabitant, according to

P. B. Wess, Esq., of a few rocks of Burgado on the coast

of Teneriffe, and has been, by that gentleman, introduced

to our gardens. Professor Linpiey informs us, that there

was “ a specimen of this species exhibited at the London

Horticultural Society, from the Nursery of Messrs. Luc-

come, Prvce, and Co., six feet high, and covered with large

clusters of flowers; for which a gold medal, an unusual

mark of distinction, was awarded.” It is too tender to

bear constant exposure to the open air in this country.

Descr. Stem truly woody, four to six feet high, and two

to three inches in diameter, bearing above.a crown of large

oblong-

oblong-ovate, petiolated, quite entire, very glaucous leaves ;

while the rest is marked with the scars arising from the

fallen foliage of preceding years. Peduneles arising from

the axils of the leaves, tall, angled, branching upwards

into large, copiously-flowered panicles, with spreading or

recurved, primary branches ; the secondary ones secund, and,

as well as the ultimate ones, on pedicels, broadly winged

on both sides. Calyx large, spreading, purple. Petals

nearly white, and forming a remarkable contrast with the

coloured calyx.

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Catasetum Russetuianum. Tue Deke or

Beprorp’s CATASETUM.

Class and Order.

GynanpRIA MonanpriA.

( Nat. Ord.—Orcuivez. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium sepius globosum, nunc explanatum. Sepala

et petala subeequalia. Labellum crassum, carnosum, nudum,

ventricosum v. explanatum, fimbriatum, sub apice saccatum _

obsolete trilobum. Colwmna erecta, aptera, libera, apice

utrinque cirrhosa. Anthera subbilocularis, antice truncata.

Pollinia 2, postice biloba v. sulcata, caudicula maxima

nuda demum elastice contractili, glandula cartilaginea

subquadrata.—Herbe terrestres v. epiphyte, caulibus brevi-

bus fusiformibus vestigiis foliorum vestitis. Folia basi vagi-

nantia, plicata. Scapi radicales. Flores speciose, racemost,

virides, nunc purpureo-maculati. Lindl.

Specific Name and Character.

Carasetum Russellianum; pseudo-bulbo elliptico magno,

foliis lato-lanceolatis, racemo amplo, labello submem-

branaceo antice inflato ore contracto margine anteriore

producto undulato fimbriato disco membrana cristato,

columna nuda (ecirrhosa.)

This, together with the subject of the following plate,

were the last Orchideous plants that were communicated to

me from Woburn Abbey during the life of its late noble

possessor. They were sent from the gardens on the same

day that His Grace. was attacked with his alarming illness,

and ere they could reach me, the news had arrived of his

lamented death. In him Science and the Arts have lost a

steady

VOL, XIII, N

steady friend, and a munificent patron: and Botany and

Horticulture in particular have seldom had a more devoted

admirer, The Tribes of Plants, which, as is well known,

have been especially cultivated and fostered by His Grace,

are the Grasses, the Willows, the Heaths, the Pines, the

Orchidee, and, above all, the Cactee ; in nearly the whole

of these families the Woburn Collection has stood unri-

valled. May his name long be perpetuated among the

votaries of that Science which he so much delighted to

honour in the present new and remarkable species of Cara-

SETUM: a species indeed so distinct, that it can hardly be

assimilated with any other yet known to us. It was sent by

Mr. Skinner from Guatemala in 1838.

Descr. Pseudo-bulb large, elliptical, greyish - green,

transversely marked with rings, the traces of fallen leaves.

Leaves, in our specimen, arising from the young and smaller

bulb, about six, the lower ones small and almost abortive ;

the larger ones about a foot long, broadly lanceolate, acute,

_Many-nerved, tapering at the base, membranaceous. Ra-

_ ceme ample, of numerous large, crowded, pale greenish-

white flowers. Sepals and petals nearly uniform, but slight-

ly spreading, concave, striated, ovate, acute. Lap large,

very much inflated and below projecting forward (like the

lip of our Cypripepium Calceolus), of a thin, membranaceous

texture, almost transparent, striated with darker green :—

the orifice is contrac

tracted, the margin much projecting for-

ward and spreading, thin, almost white, waved and fimbri-

ated: on the disk is a somewhat three-lobed, conspicuous,

membranous crest, the lobes acute and a little toothed ;

the middle one the longest. Column shorter than the

perianth, broader and winged upwards, the apex, or clinan-

drium, acute (not acuminated), beneath which, in a hollow,

the anther-case is situated - this is roundish, with a long,

barrow acumen. Pollen-masses two, ovate, cleft, waxy,

deep yellow, attached to a very broad elastic stalk, which

itself is situated upon a large, viscid gland.

Fig. 1. Lip and Column. 2U . : ;

arias: 4. 5. Su % pper portion of the Column: front view. 3.

t perior and inferior view of the Pollen-masses, with

their Stalk and Gland: all more or less magnified, ;

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EPrIDENDRUM PARKINSONIANUM. Mr. Par-

KINSON S EPIDENDRUM.

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Class and Order.

GynanprRiA Monanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—Orcuwez. )

Generic Character.

Sepala patentia, subequalia. Petala sepalis equalia y.

angustiora rarius latiora, patentia v. reflexa. Labellum cum

marginibus columnz omnino vel parte connatum, limbo

integro vel diviso, disco sepius calloso, costato v. tubercu-

lato ; nunc in calear productum ovario accretum et cunicu-

lum formans. Columna elongata; clinandrio marginato

sepe fimbriato. Anthera carnosa 2—4 locularis. Pollinia

4, caudiculis totidem replicatis annexa.—Herbe (Ameri-

cane) epiphyta, caule nunc apice v. basi pseudo-bulboso,

nunc elongato apice folioso. Folia carnosa, rarissime venis

elevatis striata. Flores spicati, racemost, corymbosi vel

paniculati, terminales vel laterales. Lindl.

Specific Name and Character.

Epiwenprum Parkinsonianum; caule ramoso parce folioso,

foliis inferioribus lineari-lanceolatis obtusiusculis cras-

sissimis superiore coriaceo longissime attenuato basi

carinato dein arctissime complicato, floribus 2—3 ex

axillo superiore bractea longe acuminata suffultis,

petalisque conformibus lanceolatis acuminatis, labelli

trilobi lobis lateralibus amplis semicordatis suberosis

intermedio lineari-acuminato.

One of the many beautiful Orchideous plants (and these_

are even far exceeded by the Cactrz) for the possession of

which His Grace the late Duke of Beprorp was indebted to

Joun Parkinson, Esq., F. L. S, a gentleman who spared no

pains,

pains, while holding the office of H. B. M. Consul General

at Mexico, to enrich our gardens and herbaria with the

choicest vegetable productions of that interesting region.

This, the finest of the very tine Genus Epipenprum, we

wish to bear his name, in testimony of his botanical exer-

tions, and we know that, could the late noble possessor of

the gardens at Woburn express his mind, it would at once

respond to our wishes and sanction its adoption.

Descr. Siem elongated, rounded, branched, partially

sheathed with a greyish, delicate membrane. Leaves three

on our specimen : of which the lowest is a span or more

Jong, in shape linear or oblong-lanceolate, remarkably

thick, (one-fourth of an inch in thickness,) between fleshy

and coriaceous, rather obtuse at the apex, on the upper

side having a depressed, central line, and a fainter one of

the kind on the underside. The middle leaf is a little

longer than this, somewhat acuminated, the acumen cari-

nated and grooved: the upper leaf is almost a foot and a

half long, the base (for about four inches) deeply carinated,

the rest with the sides closely complicated and tapering

into a long and very narrow point. The base of this leaf

ives rise to a large, membranous, sheathing bractea, and

within this is a short stalk bearing two to three large and

very handsome but scentless flowers, nearly four inches

across, Sepals and petals similar, linear-lanceolate, much

acuminated, spreading, dingy or brownish-green. Lap

combined with the column, deeply three-lobed, orange, the

lateral lobes half-cordate, slightly erose, the middle one

longer than they, linear or lanceolate and acuminate. At

the base of the lip are two conspicuous, parallel glands.

The column is short, dilated upwards: the anther-case

hemispherical, four-celled. Pollen-masses four, flattened,

each doubled upon its own short stalk.

Fig. 1., Column, from which the free portion of the lip is removed, just

above the two glands. 2. Anther-case. 3, Pollen-masses :—magnified.

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Class and Order.

Hexanpria Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Iriwacez. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium limbo regulari subequali semipatente basi

annulato ; filamenta monadelpha partibilia ; anthere in cy-

lindro sessiles erect latera versts dehiscentes ; stylus fili-

formis stigmate trilobo ; capsula obovata trivalvis superne

suturis semidehiscens ; semina angularia superne truncata

infra attenuata ; pollen minutum oblongo-ovale ; folia pli-

cata. W. H.

Specific Name and Character.

GeELASINE azurea ; folits sesqui- bi-pedalibus (vel ultra) un-

ciam (vel infra) latis viridibus acutis, bracteis quatuor

caulem bipedalem axillarem arcté amplexis 2—4-unci-

alibus (e quibus una foliiformiter acuminata) spathé

~ sesquiunciali pluriflora pedunculis bracteatis breviore,

perianthio ultra 3-unc. annulo ad basin albo laciuiis

saturaté azureis maculé inferne alba nigro circum-

punctat4, antheris superne sensim minoribus, stigmate

breviter trilobo, bulbo elongaté ovato tunica membra-

nacea brunnea. ,

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A bulb of this plant flowered in the spring of 1838 in the green-

house at Spofforth, and ripened its seed, having been sent there by

J. W. Boorr Esq. from Boston in North America, where it had been

received from the Banda Oriental. Specimens occur amongst Twer-

piz’s plants, in the Herbarium of Sir W. J. Hooker, gathered in the

Banda Oriental and stony places near RioGrande. The seedlings grow

rapidly, and will probably flower at a year and a half old, and promise

to be hardy with the protectionof few leaves, and to retain their foliage

in part at least through the winter. In the greenhouse the leaves con-

tinue growing throughout the winter, and, the stalk proceeding as in

Puatocatis and Cypetta from the axil of the outer leaf, the vegeta-

tion of the plant does not terminate necessarily with the inflorescence.

The capsule is obovate, gaping at the upper part of the sutures; the ~

seeds angular, flat at the top, attenuated at the base. Blue or violet

appears to be the prevailing colour of the Genus, which is closely allied

to Nemostyuis of Nurratt, Flora of Arkansas, in Amer. Phil. Trans.,

read 1834, p. 157.“ Cor. hexapetala patens, tubo nullo, laciniis suba-

qualibus, stamina libera, stigmata 6 filiformia, capsula oblonga truncata,

radix bulbosa, folia ensiformia plicata ; caulis uni- aut pauci-florus, flores

geminati, spatha bivalvis.” Under the above character he unites Ix1a

acuta of Barton, under the name of N. geminiflora, which has roundish

seeds, with Ixia ce@lestina of Bartram which he states to have angular

seeds. The name acuta must be preferred to geminiflora, for the plant

is occasionally triflorous, and celestina, which he calls one-flowered,

varies with a two-flowered stalk, as in Bartram’s drawing at Mr.

Lamserr’s. Nourraut states in the character that the filaments are

free, but Barton asserts, that those of acuta, which I consider the type

of the Genus, are united at the base. Nemosrytis is named from the

stigmas being deeply bifid, with filiform lobes. If that feature did not

urnish a sound generic distinction, the name N EMOSTYLIS, which is

limited to it, would, of necessity, be superseded. Perfect and fresh

Specimens must be examined, to ascertain whether celestina differing

from acuta in seed is a genuine species of Nemosrvuis.

The following species of Grtasine are described from specimens in

Sir W. J. Hooxer’s rich Herbarium.

2. G. Purruchucana, Var. 1. princeps ; spec. Mathews (n. 784)

Apr. ex Purruchucé Peruvize. Caule ultrapedali, bracteis foliiformibus

circiter 7-floram (vel infra) superantibus, floribus modicis SuCCeSssiVis

violaceis, seminibus ut in G. azured,

V. 2. simplex ; Spec. Mathews ex eodem loco. Caule graciliore,

spatha terminali, bracteis filiformibus angustioribus ;4;——5. une. latis

sterilibus, floribus violaceis minoribus.

3. G. grandifiora ; spec. Jameson (n. 57) ex collibus Peruvie

prope Perucho, 7,500 ped. alt. m. Maio. Foliis circiter binis 4 unc.

lis acutis ultra Sesquipedalibus utrinque valde attenuatis, bracteis 2

amplexicaulibus (quarum inferior acumine biunciali libero munita est)

caule simplici multoties brevioribus, spatha subbiunciali pedunculis

bracteatis breviore, perianthio conspicuo laciniis circ. 1} unc. latis

uncialibus laeté violaceis. Semina non visa.

= G, Punctata ; spec, Andrieux Pl. Mex. (n. 79.) inter Tehuan-

tepec et mare Pacificum in ditione Oaxacana m. Aug. lectum, Foliis

circiter 15-uncialibus VIX 75 unc, latis, bracteis 1—2-superioribus spa-

ue torm tohiformi sterili caulem gracilem amplexis, ramulis 1—2

tera. breviore pedunculos Superantibus, perianthio subsemunciali et

Secundum Andrieur MSS, violaceo-punctato, Capsula obovata.

GeLasine. (Derir, gelasinus, a smiling dimple.) Species dubia.

5.7 G. nuda ; spec. Tweedie ex planitid aridi prope Maldonado, et

oh Monte Video orientem versus, autumnale foliis nondum exortis,

Julbo parvulo ovato sub terra pedis alt. repdsto. Caule dodrantali

6.! G. Texana ; spec. Drummond ex Galveston Bay, Texas, Coll.

3 (n. 415) Nem. acute affinis. Foliis sesquipedalibus circ. 53, unc. vel

infra latis, bracteis (inferiore foliiformi ramulum nudum aliquando brac-

teatum amplexa, superiore breviore) caulem (ramulis nudis equifurca-

tum) superantibus, spathis circiter sesquiuncialibus acutis bifloris pedun-

culos subequantibus, perianthio ceruleo «quali unciali, antheris stigma

tenuiter et suberecté (ni fallor in sicco) trilobum superantibus. Fila-

menta in sicco libera.

Nemosryuis; Vuttall. (Quoad in sicco vidi.) Perianthium limbo

regulari subeequali patente basi coherens ; filamenta libera vel basi con-

nata; stylus tenuis stigmate trilobo lobis tenuiter bifidis; anther@ basi

affixee suberecte ; capsula oblonga operculo modico dehiscens; semina

subangularia rugosa basi attenuata; folza plicata.—Filamenta cylindra-

cee connata incertum esse generis inter Iridaceas indicitum monet Ixia

monadelpha, certé Ixia et vix aliter inter species dignoscenda.

1. N. acuta. Ixia acuta; Barton. N. geminiflora ; Nuttall. Pe-

rianthio conformi acuto, Nomen a véww distribuo et cvaog stylus.

“Species dubia.

— 2.7 N. purpurea: V.1. major, spec. Drummond, Texas Coll. 2.

(n. 260). Caule bipedali vel ultra, bracteis binis foliiformibus ramulos

suberectos (inferiorem subpedalem medio bracteatum, superiorem sub-

sexuncialem nudum) tertia biunciali acuminata furcam subsexuncialem

eequalem amplexis, spatha bifloré sesquiunciali acuminata (valva ex-

terna breviore) pedunculos superante, perianthio (in sicco purpureo)

sepalis latioribus obtusis, capsula ultra # unc. longa } latA, seminibus

subfuscis rugosis raphe ad basim attenuata.

V.2. minor ; spec. Drummond Texas Coll. 3. 413; inter Brazoziam

et S. Philippum lectum. Caule simplici vel furcato, bracteis foliiformi-

bus angustioribus sterilibus. '

3.1 N. celestina, var. tenuis. Hartweg Zacatecas Mexic. (n. 229).

Foliis tenuibus caulem subequantibus vel superantibus, bractea in cau

medio foliiformi spatham subuncialem (valva externa breviore) superante,

perianthio ceruleo 12—11 longo sepalis latioribus obtusioribus,—

Celestine Caroliniane (Ixia, Bartram) caulis 1- (rard 2-) florus est

perianthio obtuso. — > d

Axoputa ; Herbert. Perianthium dispar ut in Cypellé ; stylus trique-

ter superne sensim incrassatus; séigma trilobum lobis bifidis subulatis

recurvis ; filamenta brevia erecta (ipse non vidi), anthere (stigmatis

lobis opposite ?) basi affix loculis latera versiis dehiscentibus connec-

tivo media parte angustiore summa latiore; folia plicata. Nomen ab ¢

non et rAoQoc crista.

1. A. Drummondiana. Cypella Drummondi, Graham, Ed. N. Ph.

Journ., 1836, spec. Drummond, Rio Brazos (n. 68) et (v. minor forsan)

San Felipe, 3.414, Caule tereti simplici bifloro, foliis angustis, pedun-

culo apice curvato, perianthio laminis violaceis unguibus luteis purpureo-

et brunneo-punctatis, sepalis dimidio petala superantibus obcordatis

medio pubescentibus, petalis naviculatis medio compressis, capsula

oblonga breviter operculata.

Trirurcia ; Herbert,’ Perianthium valde dispar ; filamenta cylindra-

ceé connata; stylus tenuis; stigma divaricaté trilobum lobis tenuiter sub-

ulatis superne divaricaté bifidis; anthere obtusé subulate in cylindro

sessiles divaricaté stigmatis lobis agglutinate et fissure opposite; folia

plicata. Nomen a stylo trifurcato,

| ae

1. T.cerulea, Foliis angustis circiter 5-uncialibus viridibus, scapo

3—4 unciali, spatha pedunculos equante, germine erccto, sepalis acu-

minaté obovatis lamina 3 unc. lat& violaceé macula inferne saturatiore

triangulari ungue albo violaceo-punctato, petalis parvulis acutis violaceis

macula inferne oblong’ acuta saturatiore, genitalibus lutescentibus, cap-

sula oblonga operculo dehiscente. Species Texana a Drummond lecta

floruit Spofforthie. Genus Herbertia affine.

Beatonia. Herbert. Perianthium valde dispar feré ut in Tigri-

did ; filamenta cylindraceé connata; anthere obtuse subulate subincur-

vate divaricate stigmatis lobis alternantes; stylus tenuis; stigma trilobum

_ bifidis subulatis incurvatis; (caulis quoad vidi, extrafoliaceus) folka

picata.

B. purpurea. Caulem simplicem 5-uncialem bractea liber ad basim

amplex4, bracte& semifoliaceA in caule Superne sita, spatha 24-unciali

(valva externa breviore) pedunculos vix equante, germine recto, peri-

anthio laminis roseo-purpureis unguibus crateriformibus albis roseo-

purpureo-punctatis, sepalis oblongo-obovatis maculA ad lamine basim

saturaté medio albé punctata, petalis lamina acut& minore deflexi apice

resurgente—Floruit apud dom. T. Harris ex ditione Mexicana allata,

curante hortulano perito D. Beaton. Vivam inspexi.

AMARYLLIDACES.

Cyrtanthus Smithianus. Cyrtanthus Smithie. Watt, MSS. Bulbo

ovato modico foliis angustis erectis viridibus acutis glabris spiralibus

circiter dodrantalibus, scapo bifloro, spatha bivalvi pedunculos ineequales

gequante, germine ovali, perianthio circiter 4-unciali albo sexstriato striis

latis leté roseis, tubo incurvato inferne tenui superne subventricoso,

stigmate trifido tubum superante, filamentis petalinis tubum superantibus

parti superiori sepalinis brevioribus medio regionis subventricose adna-

tis, A domina Smith in Caffraria lectus. Bulbi a dominis Watt et

vey missi nondum in Europa floruerunt. Flos ex tabula picté de-

scriptus ad Gastronema vergit ideoque accuratiiis investigandus est.

Habranthus Cearensis. Spec. Gardner (n. 1858) in sylvis siccis

apertis Ceare Braziliensis m. Nov. lectum. Scapo unifloro tenui 4—5-

unc. spath apice biloba, pedunculo unciali vel ultra breviore, germine

pees, perianthio sesquiunciali (in sicco pallidé rubescente). Folia

ysteranthia ignota ; filamenta tria longiora stigma vix superantia.

Hyv'tine. Herbert, Perianthium verticale laciniis angustis extu-

batum basi integrum; filamenta cum stylo tenuia; germen oblongum rec-

tum; ovula in capsula immatura oblonga (ut videtur, superne foliaceo-

alata?) folia non Vaginantia, plana. Genus Crino affine. NV. ab"vhy sylva.

+H: Gardneriana. Folia subpedalia viridia glabra utrinque attenuata,

scapus 14-uncialis, spatha bivalvis bracteata circiter triflora pedunculos

circiter unciales superans, germen $-unc, limbus albus laciniis angustis

6-uncialibus stigma minutum obtusum superantibus.—Spec. in sylvis

siccis Ceare Braziliensis a Geo. Gardner lectum. Bulbus ovatus modi-

eus vomnitorius et catharticus nondum in Europ floruit. W. H.

The attention of Collectors should be called to a fine Tigridia-like

plant, perhaps a Rigidella, found by Anprievx near the ice-house on

the summit of the mountain San Felipe, in Oaxaca. W. H. 7

_ Fig. 1. Inner, and f. 2, outer Sepal. 3. Pistil and Stamens. 4. Pollen. 5. Style.

6. Capsule, f. 7, Seeds, nat. size :—the rest more or less magnified.

Which

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CoB#A MACROSTEMA. LoNG-STAMENED

CoBAA.

Class and Order.

Penranpria Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Poxemon1acez.—Copziacez. Don. )

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-partitus amplus. Cor. subcampanulata, limbo 5-

lobo. Stigma 3-fidum. Caps.-3-valvis dissepimento tri-

quetro, angulis valve adversis. Semina biseriata.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Copza* macrostema ; foliolis obovatis basi ciliatis calycis

segmentis lanceolatis ciliatis, corolla subhypocrateri-

formi segmentis acutis nervosis, staminibus styloque

longissime exsertis.

Cozpza macrostema. Pavon MSS. (fide Don.)

Cosma lutea. Don, in Ed. Phil. Journ. 1824. p. 112.

Conma acuminata. De Cand.

Among some seeds which Mr. Sxiyner had been so kind

as to send me from Guatemala in the spring of the present

year (1839), were those of the most interesting plant here

firured. The seedlings grew during the summer and

autumn with considerable vigour: but it was not till No-

vember of the same year that they produced blossoms,

which, no less than the leaves, proclaim the plant to bea |

Cozaa, not, indeed altogether new to our Herbaria (though

there 1 believe of very rare occurrence: but new to our

greenhouses and conservatories, where, and probably in the

open air, it promises to be as valuable a climber as =a

well-

* See Bot. Mag. t. 851, for an explanation of the name.

well-known C. scandens. Mr. Don gives it as a native of

Guayaquil *, through which country, we believe, Mr. Sxin-

NER had recently passed previously to his despatching our

box of treasures from Guatemala; so that probably that

gentleman, ever on the alert to collect plants that may be

useful to us, there gathered these seeds. The flowers bear

a considerable resemblance to those of PeripHragmos.

Descr. Stems climbing, several feet long, and much

branched, angular, glabrous. Leaves alternate, each con-

sisting of three pairs of obovate, shortly petiolated nearly

opposite leaflets, the base somewhat unequally two-lobed,

so that the shape is almost panduriform, the lower margin

fringed with long, delicate hairs, the rest with extremely

short and minute hairs scarcely visible to the naked eye:

elsewhere the leaflets are glabrous ; the apex of the young

leaflets comes to a sharp, recurved point, that of the older

ones is obtuse ; the lowest pair is so close to the base of the

petiole, as to resemble stipules ; the petiole itself terminates

im a much branched, slender, very spiral gendril. From the

axil of a leafarises a flower-branch bearing two nearly oppo-

site leaves, and from between these a long, decurved pedun-

cle supporting asingle flower. Calyx in five, deep, spread-

ing, broadly-lanceolate segments, the margins recurved

and ciliated with long, slender hairs. Corolla nearly two

inches long, yellow-green. The tube rather long and

straight, the limb of five spreading, acute, nerved lobes.

Stamens with their filaments arising from the very base of

the corolla, at their origin very hairy, more than twice as

long as the corolla, moderately inclined to one side, and

curved upwards, yellow-green below, upwards reddish :

Anthers linear-oblong, versatile. Style as long as the

stamens : Stigmas three, long, slender, twisted.

_ * Since the above was printed, Professor Don has been so kind as to

inform me that this has been lately described by De CanDoLLE under the

name of C. acuminata; and that he has reason to think that the plant

wae bed by him (Mr. Don) came from Mexico, rather than from Guay-

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Pub, by SL Cratis Gluzerimvod

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BouvARDIA SPLENDENS. SPLENDID

BouvaRDIA.

Class and Order.

TerranpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Rvsiscez. ) ij

Generic Character.

Cal. tubus globosus, limbus 4-partitus, lobis lineari-subu-

latis, dentibus interdum interjectis. Cor. infundibuliformis

tubulosa elongata extus velutino-papillosa, fauce nuda,

limbo 4-partito patente brevi. Staminum filamenta tubo

inferne adnata a medio circiter libera, anthere lineares

incluse. Stigma bilamellatum, exsertum. Ovarw pars

superior nuda. Capsula membranacea globoso-compressa

bilocularis loculicido-dehiscens, valvis semiseptiferis. Pla-

centeé orbiculares. Semina in quoque loculo plurima com-

pressa, deorsim (ex icon. Salish.) seu sursum (ex icon.

Cavan.) imbricata, ala membranacea cincta.—F rutices Mex-

teant. Folia opposita aut verticillata. Stipule anguste

acute petiolis utriusque adnate. Pedunculi terminales tri-

flori aut trichotomi corymbosi. D C.

Specific Name and Character.

Bovuvarp1A* splendens ; foliis ternis raro oppositis lanceo-

latis acuminatis utrinque scabris, stipulis: laciniato-

subulatis; ramis trigonis subglabris, stylo exserto;

corollz tubo intus barbato.

There is no doubt great similarity between this and the

triphylla of Botanical Magazine, but its freer growth, the

much

* So named by Mr. SatisBuRyY in honor of CHarLEs BouvarD, M. D.

formerly Superintendent of the Botanic Garden at Paris,

much greater splendour of its vermillion colour, the nar-

rower, more lanceolate, more acuminate, more scabrous

leaves, the greater length of its stipules, and its exserted

style, seem to justify the separation of it from any variety of

that species. It was obtained from the Chiswick Gardens

by Mr. James M‘Nas, in September, 1838, and flowered

very freely in the greenhouse of the garden of the Caledo-

nian Horticultural Society in July and August. Mr. J.

M‘Nas does not know whence it was introduced. He has

made many attempts, always unsuccessful, to propagate it

by cuttings of the branches, but has found it very easily

increased by slips from the roots not half an inch long,

and covered so as to leave the upper extremities only ex-

posed and level with the surface. He has distributed many

plants obtained in this way under the name which I have

adopted. There is scarcely any thing in cultivation more

brilliant than a large specimen covered with clusters of its

pot splendid flowers. The seeds are formed and will pro-

y ripen.

Descr. Shrub with long, slender, diffuse branches, gray

and cracked when matured, when young trigonous, sub-

glabrous, coloured on the upper side, green on the lower.

Stipules subulate, occasionally cut, elongated, adpressed.

Leaves ternate, rarely opposite, lanceolate, acuminate,

strongly veined, scabrous on both sides, bright green above,

pale below. Corymb terminal, with three lateral branches

and a leading stalk, which is once or oftener divided in a

similar way. Calyx green, slightly scabrous ; tube adher-

ent; limb four-parted, segments subulate, diverging towards

the apex, and having minute, intervening teeth at the base.

Corolla of uniform very bright vermillion colour, acquiring

a faint lake tint, slightly scabrous : tube of equal diameter

above and below, bluntly four-angled, nearly five times

longer than the calyx, bearded near its base within ; limb

four-parted, segments ovate, spreading, subacute. Stamens

four, included ; anthers sessile, attached by their middle to

the corolla, at about three-fourths of its height, pollen

yellow. Stigma bifid, fleshy, glandular, segments oblong,

slightly divaricated at the apex. Style central, filiform,

glabrous, exserted at the apex. Germen inferior, bilocular,

shortly elliptical, or obovate, compressed ; placente large,

central ; ovules numerous, imbricated, winged all round,

resembling concave scales. Graham.

Fig. 14 Corolla laid open. 2. Calis and Pasi] 3. Deanchlet of Snut

Gets 1 Cre cil ee

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BrASSAVOLA CORDATA. HEART-LIPPED

BRASSAVOLA.

Jeskesheokeske sk seokcokeokbocokeakesk acolo aed

Class and Order.

GynanpriA MonanpriA.

( Nat. Ord.—OrcuipeEz. )

Generic Character.

Sepala et petala subzqualia, libera, acuminata. Label-

lum cucullatum, integrum, columnam involvens. Columna

marginata, clavata, stigmate infundibulari, clinandrio pos-

tice tridentato. Pollinia 8, subequalia, quibusdam alliis

parvis interjectis. Anthera 4-locularis, septis marginatis,

loculis semibipartitis—Herbe caulescentes, epiphyte, apice

folium ». alterum, semicylindraceum, carnosum, supra sul-

catum, apice subulatum, gerentes. Flores terminales,

magni, speciosi. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Brassavora cordata ; labello» cordato-acuminato longitu-

dine unguis, petalis sepalisque linearibus acuminatis

elabris, dentibus omnibus clinandrii integerrimis, cau-

libus basi nodosis.

Brassavora cordata. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1914.

A species, introduced from Brazil by Messrs. LoppieEs

according to Professor Lixpiey: but our plants were re-

ceived by Mr. Murray from Mr. Tuomas Cowan, Over-

seer on the White River Estate, Jamaica :—so that the

species would seem to have a widely extended range. It

is very closely allied to B. nodosa, (Bot. Mag. t. 3229,) a

species from which Dr. Lanptey distinguishes it by the

owers being only half the size, with a cordate labellum,

and a yery different clinandrium ; but these are probably

variable

variable characters. The B. nodosa, figured in the Bota-

nical Register, t. 1465, is a specimen with unusually large

flowers.

Descr. This plant has a sort of creeping and branching

caudex, from which arise several short, rounded, striated

and jointed stems, clothed with membranous sheaths singu-

larly swollen at the base, each bearing at the apex a long,

thick, semiterete, fleshy, subulate, pungent leaf, six inches

to a foot in length, with a deep groove on the anterior side.

From the base of this groove, and from the top of the stem,

appears a short peduncle, bearing three or four moderately

large, drooping flowers. Sepals and petals uniform, linear-

acuminate, spreading, pale green. Lip cordate, acuminate,

waved, white, suddenly contracted into a greenish claw,

equal in length with the lamina, and which completely en-

folds and conceals the short column. Column semiterete,

greenish-white, having at the apex three large, entire teeth,

two of them lateral and one dorsal, extending much beyond

the anther, which is thus concealed. Anther-case hemi-

spherical, eight-celled, containing two pairs of yellow

pollen-masses.

Fig. 1. Lip. 2. Side view of the Column. 3, Froiit view of ditto. 4

Anther-case. 5. Pollen-masses magnified. ront view of di 7

( 3783)

PHLOGACANTHUS CURVIFLORUS. CURVED-

FLOWERED PHLOGACANTHUS,

Class and Order.

DianpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Acanrnacegz, )

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-partitus, equalis. Cor. oblique bilabiata, labio

superiore latiore et longiore bifido, inferiore trifido ; tubo

trigono. Stam. 2. Anthere bilocellate, locellis parallelis

contiguis demum hastato-divergentibus muticis. Stami-

num duorum sterilium rudimenta exilia in quibusdam ob-

servantur. Stigma simplex, acutum. Capsula compressa,

bilocularis, loculis superius tetraspermis. Retinacula sem-

inibus subjecta.—Inflorescentia: racemus terminalis v. late-

ralis, simplex v. triplex, spiciformis, floribus verticillato-

quaternis, bractea bracteolisque binis conformibus angustatis

elongatis. Corolla speciosa, lutea aut fulva. Folia supra

minute papulosa. Nees.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Putogacanraus* curviflorus; caule erecto quadrangulari

striguloso-tomentoso, foliis amplis ellipticis utrinque

acutis repando-dentatis glabris, corolla elongata. Nees

in Wall. Pl. Asiat. Rar. 2. 3. p. 99.

Justicia curviflora. Wall. Pl. Asiat. Rar. v. 2. p. 9. t. 112.

Wall. Cat. n. 2429. a. 6.

Dr. Watch communicated living plants of this fine

plant, which Nees von EsEnseck justly characterizes as

: *« Speciosi

_ * So named by Professor NEES von EsENBECK, from gag, a flame, and

axevboc, Acanthus, the type of this family; on account of the long spike of

yellow or flame-coloured flowers.

VOL. XIU, 0

“« Speciosi generis planta speciosissima,”’ to the noble Col-

lection at Woburn, where they flowered in November,

1839, when Mr. Forses kindly communicated to me the

specimen here represented. It inhabits the mountains

bordering on Sylhet, and was thence introduced by Mr.

De Sitva to the Calcutta Botanic Garden, where it flowers

at nearly the same season as in the stove in our country.

Descr. The plant forms a Shrub of from four to six

feet high, branched, the branches obsoletely quadrangular,

downy. Leaves opposite, large, eight to ten inches and

even a foot or more in length, petiolated, elliptical, acute

at both extremities, entire, or sometimes obsoletely crenat-

ed, glabrous, with the midrib (which is reddish as well as

the young branches) prominent beneath. Floral leaves, or

bracteas, resembling these but infinitely smaller, scarcely an

inch long, soon deciduous. Raceme erect, terminal, com-

pound, almost a compact thyrsus, six to eight inches long.

Pedicels short. Calyx hairy, ovate, cut into five equal,

linear-lanceolate, erect segments. Corolla reddish-yellow,

villous or downy ; the tube very long, curved, the limb

two-lipped : upper lip ascending, bifid; lower patent, with

three lanceolate lobes. Stamens two, perfect, and the rudi-

ments of two others. Filaments glabrous, a little exserted.

“sawn linear-oblong. Germen ovato-oblong. Style in-

Fig. 1. Portion of the Corolla, with the Stamens, 2, Calyx and Pistil.

3. Ovary —magnified.

Which Delf

Phi, by 5. Curtes (lazenwood Hever Marl 78FO

Petes kee

Sacer Se

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( 3784 )

LoBELIA HETEROPHYLLA. VARIOUS-LEAVED

LoBELIA.

KKK KKK KK EE KEKE KK ER EEE

Class and Order.

PentranpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Lospe.iaceg, )

Generic Character.

Cor. tubo hinc fisso (raro integro) ; limbo 5-partito. An-

there connate. Stigma bilobum (nunc indivisum). Cap-

sula bilocularis (raro trilocularis), apice supero bivalvi. Br.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Losewia heterophylla; glabriuscula, caule angulato sim-

plici, racemo secundo, foliis crassiusculis, inferioribus

dentato-pinnatifidis, superioribus-lanceolatis integer-

rimis, corolle labii inferioris lacinia media obcordata,

lateralibus dimidiatis.

Losers heterophylla. Labill. Nov. Holl. v. 1. p. 52. t. 74.

Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 564. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t.

2014.

A species of great beauty, from the very brilliant colour

of the flowers. The Glasgow Botanic Garden owes the

possession of the plant to Mr. Lowe of the Clapton Nursery.

The blossoms, we allow, are not so large as those repre-

sented in the Botanical Register; but they are equally

large with those of the specimens sent to us from Edin-

burgh, and with those figured by Lasritarpiere from native

specimens. The species inhabits the southern extremity of

New Holland and of Van Diemen’s Land. With us, in the

greenhouse, it flowers in the autumnal months.

Descr. Herbaceous and nearly glabrous ; below more

or less downy, erect, branched, one to two feet high. Leaves

very

very variable in different parts of the stem: the lower ones

more or less pinnatifid, with few, linear-oblong segments,

some of them again divided or. incised, which, however, is

by no means the case in all our specimens: the upper ones

gradually more entire, and at length altogether linear-lan-

ceolate. The flowers form lax, terminal racemes: the

pedicels are slender. . The calyx-tube.is cylindrical, taper-

ing at the base: the éeeth as long as the tube of the corolla,

subulate, straight. Corolla, brilliant, purplish-blue: the

upper lip of two small, reflexed, subulate, hairy teeth ;

lower of three large lobes, of which the middle lobe is much

the largest, obcordate: the lateral ones spreading, dimidi-

ato-obovate. Anthers included, all of them bearded.

Fig. 1. Flower:—magnified.

ie SS

_eties of L. speciosum.

( 3785 )

Lixuium speciosum; albiflorum. Crimson

JAPAN Lity; white-flowered var.

KKK KEKE KK EEE EERE EE

Class and Order.

Hexanpria Monoeynta.

( Nat. Ord.—Littacex. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium campanulatum, 6-sepalum, regulare, sulcis

nectariferis in sepalis. Capsula 6-sulca, valvis reticulo

fibroso connexis. Sema compressa.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Litium speciosum ; caule erecto ramoso glabro, foliis spar-

sis ovato-oblongis nervosis petiolatis, ramis unifloris,

flore cernuo reflexo, corollis revolutis intus papilloso-

barbatis. ‘ Morren Notice sur un Lis du Japon, p. 2.”

(«.) Kempferi; flore pulcherrime roseo.

Latium speciosum. Thunb. in Linn. Trans. v. 2. p. 332.

« Siebold Fl. Jap. cum Ic.” Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 2000.

Kasbiako vulgo Konokko Juri. Kempf. Amen. 871.

Banks, Ic. Kempf. t. 47.

(8.) Tametomo ; flore albo, papillis roseis. (Ts. nostr.

3785.)

Not having had the opportunity of seeing the Flora

Japonica of Dr. SreBop, I gladly take advantage of an

extract from that work relating to this plant, given by Pro-

fessor LinpLey under Liusum Thunbergianum, 10 Bot. Reg.

1839, t. 38. “ Among more than twenty kinds of Lily

brought by me,” says Dr. SreBop, * from Japan to Europe,

and deposited in the Botanic Garden of Ghent, are two vari-

To that with flowers rose-coloured,

blotched with purple, I give the name of L. speciosum

Kempfert,

Kempferi, because it was the indefatigable Botanist Kamp-

FER who first made it known to Kuropeans. For the

second, with pure white flowers, 1 preserve the Japanese

name Tametomo, which it bears in its own country, in

consequence of its having been first brought by that hero

from the Loo Choo islands, as the Japanese assert. The

beauty and fragrance of the flowers of these two kinds rank

them amongst the most magnificent of their Genus.”—

“The variety Tametomo, although it has pleased some

Botanists to make a peculiar species of it, under the name

of L. eximium, differs, nevertheless, only in its flowers being

quite white, and the leaves rather more distinctly stalked.

According to some of the Japanese Botanists, it is found

wild, not only in the Loo Choo islands, but in the North of

Japan ; but it has, perhaps, been confounded with L. Japo-

micum, which is often wild in those countries.”

Our variety is undoubtedly the Tametomo of the Japan-

ese. I was much struck with its beauty and fragrance in

the dining room of W. Wextts, Esq., of Redleaf, Kent,

where it was standing at the window. At my request, Mr.

Wetts most obligingly allowed the flowering portion to

be taken and sent to Glasgow to be figured. It is consid-

ered a half-hardy bulb, and when more plentiful, it may be

found advisable to try it in the open air. It is treated

by Mr. Wetts’s gardener in the same manner as the larger

Cape bulbs.

( 3786 )

GonoLogus HIsPIDUS. Hisp1p GONOLOBUS.

Class and Order.

Pentanpria Dieynia.

( Nat. Ord.—AscLePiapDE®. )

Generic Character.

Cor. subrotata, 5-partita. Corona staminea scutellifor-

mis lobata. -Anthere transversim dehiscentes, membrana

terminate. Masse pollinis extremitati exteriori respectu

loculi affixe, stigmate tect. Stigma planiusculo-depres-

sum. Folliculi ventricosi, subcostati. Semzna comosa. Br.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Gonoosus* hispidus; foliis cordato-ovatis acutis nervis

caule petiolis pedunculisque hispidissimo-hirsutis, flo-

ribus umbellatis, corollis coriaceis, intus basi tubercu-

losis.

Gonoxosus hispidus. Hook. et Arn. Contrib. towards S.

Am. Bot. in Hook. Bot. Journ. t. 295.

This singular asclepiadeous plant, no less remarkable for

its dark, lurid-purple-coloured flowers, ofa peculiarly thick

and coriaceous texture, than for its powerful fragrance, resem-

bling more that of freshly ground roasted peas, but highly

concentrated, than any thing else to which we can compare

it, is a native of dry situations among withered grass at

Entre Rios, South Brazil, and was sent by Mr. T weenie to

the Glasnevin Botanic Garden in 1837. In July, 1839, Mr.

Moore communicated the fine flowering specimen from

which the accompanying figure is taken, and observes upon

it,

* From ywna, an angle, and aceos a pod ; from the ribs or angles of the

elongated fruit.

it, “ Itis a half-herbaceous plant, and I should think will

stand the winter of this climate (Dublin) if placed at the

bottom of a sheltered wall, and if so, it will be a particu-

larly desirable plant, its very dark, glossy flowers contrast-

ing singularly with the gayer colours of others that may be

placed near it. The main stem is now four feet high, and

covered with these blossoms.”

Descr. Stem suberect, scarcely climbing, yet weak,

terete, clothed, as are the petioles and peduncles and the

nerves and margins of the leaves, with long, rather soft,

patent, and somewhat tawny hairs. Leaves on petioles

about an inch long, cordato-ovate, membranaceous, acute.

Peduncles axillary, hardly so long as the petioles, bearing

an umbel of five to ten flowers, bracteated at the base.

Pedicels scarcely an inch long, thick. Calyx with five

acute lobes. Corolla rotate, very concave, singularly thick

and leathery, dark, glossy brown-purple, at the base within

beset with small raised points: lobes broadly ovate, acute,

quite glabrous. Nectary of five, erect, dark purple, fleshy,

bifid scales, from the base of the corolla. Within this

are the five stamens, united into a very short, thick stipes.

Between the anthers are two small, diverging lobes or seg-

ments. Retinaculum brown. Pollen-masses yellow. Pis-

tils two. Germens broadly ovate, rough. —

Fig. 1. Portion of the Corolla. 2. Nectary and Stamens. 3. Stamens.

4. Pollen-masses. 5. Pistil :—magnified.

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GESNERIA COCHLEARIS... SPOON-LEAVED,,

GESNERIA.

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Class and Order.

DipyNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

( Nat. Ord.—GesneERIACEz. )

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-partitus, (plerumque germini adnatus). Cor. tu-

buloso-campanulata, limbo bilabiato ; labio superiore bi-

inferiore-trifido. Stigma bilobum. Capsula bilocularis,

2-valvis, placentis parietalibus.

Specific Name and Character.

Gesneria cochlearis; herbacea, foliis oppositis sublonge pe-

tiolatis cordato-ovatis concavis venoso-rugosis tomen-

tosis acutis crenatis, racemis simplicibus terminalibus,

pedicellis elongatis oppositis subverticillatisque, corol-

lx tubo subtus inflato, limbo 5-lobo obliquo aquali,

elandulis hypogynis 2 oppositis ineequalibus. vali.

An inhabitant of the Organ Mountains, whence the roots

were sent by Mr. GARDNER in 1837, and these flowered in

the stove of the Glasgow Botanic Garden in June, 1839.

Its large, thick, concave leaves on rather long petioles, the

simple terminal raceme, and moderately large flowers with

a nearly equal, spreading limb, will readily distinguish the

present from any other species of this numerous Genus with

which I am acquainted. Cea

Descr. Root large and tuberous. Stema foot or a foot

and a half high, simple, stout, herbaceous, rounded, woolly.

Leaves large, opposite, petiolate, broadly cordato-ovate,

reticulated and wrinkled with the copious nerves, woolly on

both sides, the margin crenated : petioles stout, two to three

inches long. Raceme terminal, leafless, bracteated ; brac-

teas

teas small, lanceolate. Pedicels elongated, slender, oppo-

site or whorled, single-flowered. Flowers nearly two

inches long. Calyx 5-partite. Corolla red ; tube swollen

at the base, and upwards moderately inflated ; the limé

slightly oblique, of five spreading, nearly equal, obtuse

lobes. Stamens included. Germen broadly ovate, clothed

with long, silky hairs. Hypogynous glands two, opposite :

one large, deeply emarginate, the other small and linear.

Style included.

Fig. 1. Pistil, with its Hypogynous Glands :—magnified.

Milt Det? Pb by S.Curtis Ghasenwood EsseeeMarL1820,

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BARNARDIA SCILLOIDES. CHINESE

BarNARDIA.

KEKKEKEE KEKE ERE

Class and Order.

Hexanpria Monoeynta.

( Nat. Ord.—AsPHopELEz. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium hexapetalo-partitum, patens, equale, per-

sistens. Stamina 6, filamentis basi dilatatis. Ovarium tri-

loculare, 3-spermum: ovulis solitariis erectis. Stylus sub-

ulatus, continuus. Stigma simplex. Fructus—?

—Herba Chinensis. Bulbus tunicatus. Folia linearia

canaliculata. Flores carnei, racemosi. Lindl.

Specific Name and Synonym.

Barnaropta * scilloides. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1029.

A peculiar habit in this plant and the colour of the

flowers, in conjunction with the solitary, erect seed in each

cell of the fruit, fully authorise the constituting a new Genus

by Professor Linpuey. It is a native of China, and seems

to have been first imported by Mr. J. D. Parxs from the

neighbourhood of Macao. Our plants in the Glasgow

Botanic Garden were received from Holland by favour of

Mr. M‘Coy.

Descr. Bulb small, ovate, tunicated. Leaves long,

linear, channelled, flaccid, tapering at both extremities.

Scape erect, a foot high, rounded, terminating in a dense

raceme,

* So named by Professor LrypLEy in compliment to Epwarp Bar-

-NarD, Esq., F. L. S, and H.S. and Vice Secretary of the Horticultural

‘Society of London.

raceme, the lower flowers only being rather lax. Pedicels

short, with a very minute, membranaceous bractea at the

base. Perianth rose-colour, tipped with green, of six

spreading, obovate, concave pieces. Stamens nearly erect,

subulate, much dilated at the base, arising from the base

of each segment of the perianth. Anthers broadly ob-

long; yellowish. Ovary subglobose, tapering gradually

into the style, which is about equal in length with the

stamens, tipped with rose-colour. Stigma a mere point.

Fig. 1. Flower: magnified.

BSD.

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CEREUS MULTIPLEX. PROLIFEROUS

CEREUS.

KEKE RK KEKE KEE KEKE ERK

Class and Order.

IcosanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord. —Cacrez. )

Generic Character.

Sepala numerosissima imbricata, basi ovario adnata, in

tubum elongatum concreta, exteriora breviora calycinalia,

media longiora colorata, intima petaliformia. Stamina

numerosissima cum tubo concreta. Stylus filiformis, apice

multifidus. Bacca areolata, sepalorum reliquiis squamata

aut tuberculosa. Cotyledones acuminate.—Frutices car-

nost, subglobosi vel elongati, stricti, articulati vel repentes,

axi ligneo interne medullifero donati, angulis verticalibus,

spinarum fasciculos gerentibus vel inermibus, regulariter

sulcati. Anguli seu ale nunc plurime, nune paucissine,

rarius due tantum, et tunc rami compresso-alati inermes.

Flores ampli e spinarum fasciculis lateralibus trunci aut

ramorum vetustiorum, aut crenis angulorum orti. Fructus

oviformes, plerumque anno sequente maturascentes, edules.

Pfeiff-.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Cereus multiplex ; obclavatus viridis e lateribus copiose

prolifer basi lignea attenuatus, vertice umbilicato,

sinubus latis, costis 13 verticalibus acutis, areolis ova-

libus tomentosis flavo-griseis, aculeis rigidis aciculari-

bus, centralibus 4, basi et apice nigricantibus, infimo

longissimo, exterioribus 9—10 brevioribus flavescen-

tibus, irregulariter radiantibus, summis et infimis bre-

vissimis. Pfetff.

Cereus multiplex. ‘“ Hort. Berol.”—Pfeiff. Enum. Cact.

p. 70.

Ecurnocactus multiplex. “ Hort.” ‘

VOL, XIII. P

A native, according to Prrirrer, of South Brazil. Our

drawing was kindly made by Mrs. Srannarp from a flow-

ering plant in the rich collection of Messrs. Mackie of Nor-

wich. The great size of the flower in proportion to that

of the plant, and the delicacy and richness of colour of the

petals, render this a most desirable plant for cultivation in

every collection of succulents. Not having had the oppor-

tunity of seeing the specimen itself, our description is neces-

sarily taken from the drawing, which certainly represents

the spines somewhat different from what they are described

to be by Preirrerr.

Descr. Plant somewhat globose, but gradually taper-

ing into the woody, irregularly wrinkled base, so that its

shape is broadly pyriform (Preirrer calls it obclavate).

The height is about six inches, and the diameter, in the

broadest part, about five. Our specimen does not exhibit

the proliferous appearance, whence the name has been de-

rived. The surface is deeply marked with about thirteen

deep furrows, and of course as many ridges which are pro-

minent, acute, somewhat sinuated at the keel, and there

beset with thickly downy, oval areole, about two lines

long, and placed about an inch asunder. Spines ten to

twelve, the central one longer and stronger than the rest,

especially in the upper areola, where they are represented

ofan uniform, deep, tawny colour, while those on the sides

are more regular in size and variegated with dark brown

and white. Flower six or eight inches long and almost as

much across when fully expanded. Tube long, clavate,

thickly clothed at the base with short tufts of dense, white

hairs, while the rest of the tube is beset with longer and

dark-coloured ones. Petals numerous ; outer ones narrow-

lanceolate, gradually becoming shorter and broader, so

that the innermost ones are almost ovate and acuminate, all

of a most delicate rose-colour, deeper towards the apex.

Stamens numerous, inserted at the mouth of the tube. Fila-

ments white. Anthers rounded, yellow. Style as long as

the tube, white. Stigma of six or seven linear rays.

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OSBECKIA CANESCENS. HoARY-LEAVED

OSBECKIA.

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Class and Order.

OcranpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—MeEtasromacez. )

Generic Character.

Calycis tubus ovatus, sepius setis stellatis aut pube stel-

lat4 vestitus ; lobi 4—5 persistentes aut decidui; appendices

inter lobos extus orte, forma et magnitudine varie. Petala

4—5. Stamina 8—10, filamentis glabris, antheris sube-

qualibus brevi-rostratis connectivo basi breve biauriculato.

Ovarium apice setosum. Capsula 4—5 locularis. Semina

cochleata.—Herbe aut sepius suffrutices Americane, Afri-

cane, aut Asiatice. Folia integerrima 3—5 nervia. Flores

terminales. D C.

Specific Name and Character.

Osgecx1a canescens ; caule fruticoso, erecto ; foliis cordato-

ovatis, obtusis, utrinque tuberculatis, subtus incanis :

paniculis terminalibus axillaribusque ; bracteis ovatis,

caducis ; floribus erectis; calycibus ovatis, 5-fidis,

tuberculato-incanis ; petalis obovatis, glabris; stami-

nibus 10 fertilibus, connectivis inequalibus. Graham.

This is an extremely handsome plant, and flowers very

freely in moderate heat in July and August. We received

it at the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, from Berlin, under the

name adopted ; but I have not seen any account of it pub-

lished ; nor was its native country communicated to me.

Descr. Stem (seven feet high) weak, requiring support,

four-sided, rough, hoary :_ branches erect. Leaves (three

inches long, an inch and three quarters broad) shortly

petiolate,

petiolate, opposite, decussating, subcordato-ovate, blunt,

five to seven-nerved, spreading, deflected when old, tuber-

cular on both sides, bright green above, hoary below. Pe-

duncles axillary and terminal, often divided, many-flowered ;

flowers in panicles at the extremity of the branches. Bractee

solitary at the origin of the pedicels, concave, ovate, cadu-

cous, articulated at the base. Calyx on the outside like

the pedicels and the greater part of the plant, hoary, within

glabrous; tube ovate ; limb five-partite, segments ovato-

deltoid, spreading, with alternate, external,. filamentous,

erect appendages. Flowers (an inch and a half across)

very numerous, very handsome ; petals obovate, scarcely

emarginate, cuneate towards the base, glabrous, reddish-

lilac above, paler below, inserted into the throat of the

calyx. Stamens ten, all fertile, declined ; Jilaments gla-

brous, about half as long as the petals, inserted into the

throat of the calyx ; anthers purple, compressed laterally,

undulate along the face, nearly straight, opening by a pore

at the apex ; connective bright red, in five, (in which the

anthers are erect,) having a sessile, emarginate, yellow au-

ricle at the base; in the other five, twice as long as the

anthers and ascending, the auricle being elongated, sub-

emarginate, and yellow. Pistil about as long as the

longest stamens ; stigma blunt, small, greenish ; style gla-

brous, declined in the opposite direction from the stamens,

very slightly tapering upwards, articulated at its base ;

Germen hoary, naked and blunt at the apex, included

within the calyx-tube, of five blunt lobes, adhering to the

calyx at the angles only, five-locular, dissepiments alter-

nating with the lobes ; placente central ; ovules numerous.

Graham.

Fig. 1. Calyx. 2. Stamens. 3. Pistil :—magnified.

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EPIDENDRUM DENSIFLORUM. CLUSTER-FLOW-

ERED: E\PIDENDRUM.

KKK KEE KEKE KEE EK EK EEE

Class and Order.

GynanpriA Monanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—Onrcuipex. )

Generic Character.

Sepala patentia, subequalia. Petala sepalis equalia

vel angustiora, rarius latiora, patentia vel reflexa. Label-

lum cum marginibus column omnino vel parte connatum,

limbo integro vel diviso, disco sepius calloso, costato vel

tuberculato ; nunc in calcar productum ovario accretum et

cuniculum formans. Columna elongata; clinandrio mar-

ginato, sepe fimbriato. Anthera carnosa, 2—4 locularis.

Pollinia 4, caudiculis totidem replicatis annexa.—Herbe

(Americane) epiphyte, caule nunc apice vel basi pseudo-

bulboso, nunc elongato apice folioso. Folia carnosa, raris-

sime venis elevatis striata. Flores spicati, racemosi, corym-

bost vel paniculati, terminales vel laterales. Lindl.

Specific Name and Character.

Epipenprum densiflorum; caule elongato tereti folioso, foliis

ellipticis coriaceis acutis, pedunculo terminali ramoso,

floribus densissime spicatis, petalis anguste spathulatis,

labello orbiculari trilobo, lobo medio brevissimo bilobo

laciniis ovatis acutis patentissimis.

A very fine new Ermenprum, native of Mexico, whence

it was sent by Mr. Parxginson to the Woburn collection,

where it blossomed in great perfection in September, 1839.

Its elongated, rounded stems, its very long, branched pedun-

cle, densely spiked flowers, narrow petals, and peculiar

shape of the labellum, will readily distinguish this from

every species of the Genus hitherto described.

Descr.

Descr. Stem a foot and more high, sending out fleshy,

vermicular roots from near the base, about as thick as one’s

finger, terete, bearing several alternate, coriaceous, ob-

longo-elliptical, rather acute leaves, from four to nearly

six inches long. ‘This stem bears at its apex a long,

branched peduncle, distinctly furrowed, the branches (ex-

cept the terminal one) deflexed, all of them clothed with

dense, spiked flowers of a greenish-brown colour; the lip

and column alone being almost white. Perianth spread-

ing. Sepals oblongo-obovate, rather obtuse. Petals rather

shorter than the sepals, very narrow, spathulate. Lp with

its lower part united to the clavato-cylindrical column, the

upper part projecting beyond the column, large, orbicular,

three-lobed, the middle lobe very short, and again two-

lobed, the lobes or segments ovate, acute, spreading : at

the base are two oval tubercles immediately beneath the

apex of the column.

Fig. 1. Portion of a Flower. 2. Pollen-masses :—magnijied.

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STEVIA BREVIARISTATA. SHORT-AWNED

STEVIA.

KEKE EERE EEE EREEERE

Class and Order.

SyNGENEsIA AUQUALIs.

( Nat. Ord.—Composirz. )

Generic Character.

Capitulum 5-florum. Involucrum cylindricum squamis

5—6 acutis acuminatisve subequalibus. Receptaculum

nudum. Achenium striato-nervosum angulatumve elon-

gatum. Pappus paleis 1-serialibus nunc in iisdem aut

sepius in diversis individuis omnibus scariosis planis parvis,

nunc aliis scariosis, aliis (pler. alternis) in aristas 1—5 rigi-

dis margine scabras abeuntibus, nunc omnibus (pler. 5—

20) in aristas mutatis. D C.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Srevia * breviaristata ; glabriuscula, foliis ovatis seu ovato-

lanceolatis trinerviis grosse obtuse serratis in petiolum

attenuatis, corymbis dense capitatis, involucro pubes-

centi-viscoso, pappiaristis tribus quarum duabus subu-

latis corolla tubo 4-plo brevioribus tertia minutissima.

Srevia breviaristata. Hook. et Arn. Contrib. towards a Flora

of S. Am. in Hook. Comp. to Bot. Mag. ». 1. p. 238.

This very pretty Srevia is an inhabitant of Tucuman in

South America, where it was found among other rarities by

Mr. Tweepie, and whence specimens and seeds were sent in

1836.

* So named by CAVANILLES in memory of PrERRE JACQUES EsTEVE,

a Spanish Physician of the sixteenth century, who wrote a ‘‘ Dictionary of

the Plants of the Kingdom of Valentva.”

1836. Flowering plants appeared in the stove of the Glas-

gow Botanic Garden in July, 1837. The description of the

pappus is by no means so accurate as it ought to be in the

work above quoted. ‘The awns are three, it is true, and

short ;—but one is always very much smaller than the

other two,

Descr. Plant two to three feet high, branched. Branches

downy ; flowering ones opposite. Leaves opposite, nearly

glabrous, ovate acuminate, three-nerved, coarsely serrated,

attenuated, but not petiolated at the base, pale beneath,

upper ones lanceolate. Capitula collected into very dense

pedunculated heads. Involucre cylindrical, of about five to

six narrow-lanceolate leaflets, in a single series, clothed with

glutinous down, five or six-flowered ; flowers much exserted.

Corolla beautiful rose colour: tube long, clavate, slender,

downy ; limb of five deep, spreading, oblong segments.

Anthers almost wholly included within the tube, yellow.

Branches of the style very long, wholly exserted, filiform,

but slightly attenuated at both extremities and downy.

Achenia (black when ripe) long, narrow, four-sided, with

the angles margined and scabrous, as long as the involucre.

Pappus of three rather strong, rigid awns, of which two are

subulate, about one-fourth the length of the achenium ; the

third very small, short, broad and acute, all of them smooth.

ig. 1. Capitulum, 2. Flower. 3. Scarcely mature Achenium :—mag-

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MILTONIA CANDIDA; var. flavescens. Wuitr-

LIPPED Mitton ; yellow var.

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Class and Order.

GyNANDRIA Monanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—OrcuipeEz: )

Generic Character.

Perianthium explanatum ; sepala lateralia, patula, libera,

petalis conformibus. Labellum sessile, integrum, explana-

tum vy. cucullatum, apice rotundatum, venis baseos pluries

tuberculato-lamellatis. _ Colwmna nana semiteres aurita.

Pollinia 2, caudicule adnata—Herbe epiphyte, pseudo-bul-

bose. Flores speciosissimi. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Mirronta * candida ; pseudo-bulbis ovatis apice angustatis

diphyllis, foliis angustis racemo brevioribus, bracteis

ovatis membranaceis concavis squamzformibus, sepalis

petalisque oblongis equalibus, labello subrotundo

crispo circa columnam convoluto basi 5-lamellato, co-

lumna pubescente basi biauri, clinandrio crispo mem-

branaceo-marginato utrinque in alam decurrente.

Lindl.

Mixtonia candida. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. Misc. n. 29. Ser-

tum Orchidaceum, p. 21.

(8.) columna labelloque flavescentibus. (Tab. nostr. 3793.)

For the specimen of this charming plant, I am indebted

to Mr. Moore of the Glasnevin Botanic Garden. It is a

native

‘ Sumatera

: * -* So named by Dr. Lrnpiey in honor of the Right Hon. Lord Frrz-

_ WILLIAM, a distinguished cultivator of Orchideous plants.

native of Brazil, whence the pseudo-bulbs were originally

imported by the Earl of Arran, who has been indefatigable

in introducing rare plants to the gardens of this country:

and to whom we had dedicated the species just before its

appearance in Dr. Linptey’s splendid work on Orcuipace&

above quoted. There can be no doubt, I think, of the two

plants being the same, though the colour of the lip from

which the specific appellation is derived is at variance with

its name :—here being yellowish with a tinge of purple.

The column, on the other hand, in our plant, is white, or »

pale yellowish-white, in Linpiey’s plant purple. Both states

are very beautiful, and highly worthy of a place in every

— collection of Orcuipem. It flowered in October,

Descr. Pseudo-bulbs oblong, broader at the base, even

on the surface, partially sheathed below by two leaves, and

bearing two leaves at the apex. ‘These leaves are linear-

oblong or ligulate, nerveless, shorter than the scape, which

arises from the axil of the leaves at the base of the bulb, and

is a foot and a half to two feet high, bearing a raceme of

large, handsome flowers, each subtended by an ovato-lance-

olate, appressed, squamiform bractea. Sepals and petals

nearly uniform, spreading horizontally, oblong, rather acute,

waved, bright yellow, with large, ferruginous blotches.

Lip standing forward, broadly-obovate, subrotundate, ob-

scurely lobed, waved and crisped, the base convolute about

the column, bearing five small lamellz, the rest spreading ;

the colour yellowish, with a faint blotch of purple. Column

short. Margin of the stigma reddish; this issurrounded by

the membranous apex of the column (or clinandrium) which

is crisped, with two teeth or little ears at the base, and den-

ticulate at the extremity. Anther-case hemispherical, yel-

low. Pollen-masses two, with a caudiculus, and an oblong,

brown gland. :

Fig. 1. Lip. 2. Front view, and f. 3, side view of the Column. 4

Anther-case. 5,5. Pollen-masses, anterior and posterior view :—magnified.

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Brassta LANCEANA: var. viridiflora. Mr.

Lance's Brassia; green-flowered var.

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Class and Order.

Gynanprit_ Monanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—Orcuipeg. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium explanatum. Sepala et petala angusta,

libera, equalia; his nune minoribus. Labellum planum,

indivisum, ecalcaratum, columna continuum, basi bi-cris-

tatum. Columnu libera, aptera, nana. Anthera 1-locularis.

Pollinia 2, postice sulcata, caudicula brevi, glandulé crassa.

—Epiphyte pseudo-bulbose. Folia pergamenea. Scapi

radicales vaginati. Flores speciosi, spicati. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Brassta Lanceana ; sepalis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis,

labello oblongo-acuminato undulato sepalis latera-

libus duplo breviore. Lindl.

Brassta Lanceana. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1754. Hook. Bot.

Mag. t. 3577. =:

(s.) floribus viridibus, petalis sepalisque longioribus angus-

tioribusque. (Tab. nostr. 3794.)

Communicated by C. S. Parger, Esq., from his col-

lection at Annesley, near Liverpool. That gentleman

imported the plant from Demerara, and it blossomed in

his stove in September, 1839. In the opinion of many

Botanists this would, probably, be taken up as a new

species ; but experience has shown me that there is no set

of plants so liable to vary in cultivation, and probably also

in their native climate, as the tropical Orcuipem. I would

rather be disposed to consider this as a connecting link to

unite

unite B. Lanceana with B. caudata: but I am by no means

prepared to say that such is the fact. It is, like the original

B. Lanceana and B. caudata, deliciously fragrant.

Descr. Pseudo-bulbs oblong, compressed, obscurely

furrowed, with generally a large, leafy scale at the base on

each side, and bearing two oblong-lanceolate leaves at the

extremity, striated above, but beneath the strie are ob-

solete. Scape, from the axil of a leaf at the base of this

pseudo-bulb, a foot or more high (including the raceme),

green, tinged with deep purple. Flowers six to eight on

the scape, large, fragrant; the ground colour yellowish-

green. Upper sepal the longest, lateral ones and petals

equal, all linear-lanceolate, much acuminated, marked with

large brown blotches. Zip, in regard to shape, as in

B. Lanceana, but the acuminated apex is more reflexed,

and it is dotted with small brown spots.

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PNIDE x

In which the Latin Names of the Plants contained if the Thirteenth

Volume of the New Serisgs, (or Sizty-sizth of the Work) are

alphabetically arranged.

rt.

3754 Angelonia Gardneri.

3769 Aristolochia caudata.

3756 —————— ciliata.

3788 Barnardia scilloides,

8741 Bauhinia forficata.

3720 Begonia parvifolia.

3731 - sinuata.

3736 Bletia Parkinsoni.

3781 Bouvardia splendens.

3782 Brassavola cordata.

3722 —-_———- cuspidata.

3761 Perrinii.

3794 Brassia Lanceana; var. viridi-

flora.

3758 Burrielia gracilis.

3728 Caladium petiolatum.

3719 Callichroa platyglossa.

3777 Catasetum Russellianum.

8742 Cattleya citrina.

3711 - intermedia, var. an-

gustifolia.

3768 Cereus Martianus.

3789 multiplex.

3740 Ceropegia vincefolia.

8726 Cirrhea fusco-lutea.

3743 Clethra tomentosa.

83780 Cobea macrostema.

3767 Cologyne ocellata.

3727 Cooperia pedunculata,

3747 Coryanthes maculata, var. Par-

keri. :

3716 Dracopis amplexicaulis.

3735 Edwardsia Macnabiana.

3775 Epacris obtusifolia.

3765 Epidendrum cepiforme.

3778 Parkinsonianum.

3791 densiflorum.

3745 Epimedium Musschianum.

3751 | — violaceum.

3717 Epiphyllum Russellianum.

3757 Erysimum Perofskianum.

3762 Eutoca Menziesii.

3723 Galactodendron utile.

3724 Ibid.

3772 Gardoquia multiflora.

3779 Gelasine azurea.

3732 Geranium cristatum.

+—

Fe 3

3744 Gesneria Marchii.

3787 — cochlearis.

3725 elongata, var.

3738 stricta.

3786 Gonolobus hispidus.

3737 Grindelia inuloides.

3760 Hakea dactyloides.

3746 Heterotropa asaroides.

3771 Hippeastrum solandriflorum.

3730 Hologymne glabrata.

3766 Lasiandra petiolata.

3763 Lepismium commune.

3755 —————- Myosurus.

3734 Leptotes bicolor, var. glauco-

phylla.

3785 Lilium speciosum; var. albi-

florum.

3770 Liparis Walkeriz.

3784 Lobelia heterophylla.

3713 Marica gracilis.

3793 Miltonia candida; var. flaves-

cens.

3753 Nelumbium luteum.

3774 Nemophila atomaria.

3764 CEnothera bifrons.

3752 Oncidium ? concolor.

3733 ———— Papilio, var. limba-

tum. *

raniferum, var.

3712

major.

3790 Osbeckia canescens.

3748 Oxalis Barrelieri.

3773 Passiflora Mooreana.

3783 Phlogacanthus curviflorus.

3721 Pimelea Hendersoni.

3750 Platystemon leiocarpum.

3759 Rhododendron campanulatum.

3718 Ruellia ciliatiflora.

3729 Schomburgkia marginata, var.

petalis sepalisque immargi-

natis.

3776 Statice arborea.

3792 Stevia breviaristata.

3715 Torenia cordifolia.

3749 Tourrettia lappacea.

3739 Trichopilia tortilis.

| 3714 Tropeolum tuberosum.

PND EX,

In which the English Names of the Plants contained in the Thirteenth

Volume of the New Series (or Sixty-sixth of the Work) are

alphabetically arranged.

rai

3754 Angelonia, Mr. Gardner’s.

8756 Aristolochia, fringe-flowered.

$788 Barnardia, Chinese.

3751 Barren-wort, purple.

3745 white-flowered.

3741 Bauhinia, forcipated.

3720 Begonia, small-leaved; or

Blephant’s Far.

3731

sinuated; or Ele-

phant’s Ear.

3769 Birth-wort, livid-flowered.

3736 Bletia, Mr. Parkinson’s.

3781 Bouvardia, splendid.

3782 Brassavola, heart-lipped.

thse — Perrin’s.

22 -————-—_ spear-lipped.

3794 Brassia, Mr. ‘aes | green-

flowered var,

3758 Burrielia, slender.

3728 Caladium, long-stalked.

3719 Callichroa, golden,

3777 Catasetum, the Duke of Bed-

ford’s.

3711 Cattleya, narrow-leaved, inter-

mediate.

3742 yellow-flowered.

3768 Cereus, Von Martius’,

3789 proliferous.

3740 Ceropegia, periwinkle-leaved,

3726 Cirrhea, yellow-brown.

3743 Clethra, downy.

3780 Cobea, long-stamened,

3767 Ccelogyne, eyeletted.

3727 Cooperia, pedunculated,

3747 Coryanthes, spotted-lipped ;

Mr. Parker’s var.

3723 Cow Tree, or Palo de Vaca.

3732 Crane’s-bill,; crested-seeded.

3716 Dracopis, stem-clasping leaved

3735 Edwardsia, Mr. Macnab’s.

8775 Epacris, blunt-leaved.

3765 Epidendrum, onion-rooted.

3778 Mr. Parkinson’s.

3791 — cluster-flowered.

3717 Epiphyllum, the Duke of Bed-

ford’s.

3762 Eutoca, Mr. Menzies’.

3764 Evening Primrose, heart-

leaved.

3772 Gardoquia, many-flowered.

3779 Gelasine, azure.

i, af

Fi,

3744 Gesneria, Mr. March’s.

3725 elongated var.

3787 spoon-leaved.

3738 upright.

3786 Gonolobus, hispid.

3737 Grindelia, flea-bane-like.

3760 Hakea, finger-leaved.

3746 Heterotropa, Asarabacca-like.

8771 Hippeastrum, Solandra-flow-

ered.

3730 Hologymne, glabrous.

3714 Indian-Cress, large-rooted.

3766 Lasiandra, petiolated.

3763 Lepismium, common.

3755 mouse-tail.

3734 Leptotes, two-coloured ; glau-

cous-leaved var.

3785 Lily, crimson Japan; white-

flowered var.

3770 Liparis, Mrs. Col. Walker’s.

3784 Lobelia, various-leaved.

3713 Marica, slender-stemmed.

3793 Miltonia, white-lipped; yellow

var.

5753 Nelumbium, yellow.

3774 Nemophila, spotted-flowered.

3733 Oncidium, butterfly; broad-

bordered var.

ooo frog- flowered ;

larger var.

3752 — one-coloured.

3790 Osbeckia, hoary-leaved.

3723 Palo de Vaca; or Cow Tree of

the Caracas.

3724 Ibid.

8773 Passion-flower, Mr. Moore’s.

3783 Phlogacanthus, curved-flowered.

3721 Pimelea, Mr. Henderson’s.

3750 Platystemon, smooth-fruited.

3759 Rhododendron, bell-flowered.

3718 Ruellia, fringe-flowered.

3729 Schomburgkia, margined var.

3792 Stevia, short-awned,

3776 Thrift, gigantic Canary.

3715 Torenia, heart-leaved.

8749 Tourrettia, burr-fruited.

3757 Treacle-Mustard, deep orange-

’ flowered.

3739 Trichopilia, twisted-petaled.

3748 Wood-Sorrel, Barrelier’s

shrubby.

3712