CURTIS’S

BOTAN ICAL MAGAZINE;

OR

Flower Garden Btsplaped:

In which the most Ornamental Fore1en Punts cultivated in the Open Ground,

the Green-House, and the Stove, are accurately represented and coloured.

- To which are added,

THEIR NAMES, CLASS, ORDER, GENERIC AND SPECIFIC CHARACTERS,

ACCORDING TO THE SYSTEM OF LINNA2&US;

Their Places of Growth, Times of Flowering, and most approved

Methods of Culture.

CONDUCTED

By SAMUEL CURTIS, F. L. 8.

By Str WILLIAM JACKSON HOOKER, K. H.

LL D. F.R.A. and L.S. Vice President of the Linnean Society, and

Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew.

VOL. XVI. 2

OF THE NEW “S858 8125;

Or Vol. tx1Xx. of the whole Work.

‘The Spleen is seldom felt where Flora reigns.”

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1843.

TO

MRS. SHERBOURNE,

OF HURST HOUSE, PRESCOTT, LANCASHIRE,

A ZEALOUS AND SUCCESSFUL COLLECTOR OF PLANTS,

AND ESPECIALLY

OF TROPICAL ESCULENT FRUITS,

THE PRESENT VOLUME IS DEDICATED,

WITH SENTIMENTS OF

GREAT RESPECT AND ESTEEM, BY

THE AUTHOR,

ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW,

Ocrozer 1, 1843,

Lub.by §. Curts Gldzenwood Essee Sep LIS#¢2

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BrROWNEA COCCINEA. SCARLET-FLOWERED |

BrownEa.

Class and Order.

MonapexpoiA DeEcANDRIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Lecuminos2. )

Generic Character.

Bracteole 2 connate vaginam bifidam constituentes.

Sepala 5 concreta in calycem 5-fidum coloratum, tubo per-

sistente, lobis longis sepe varie coherentibus. Petala 5

unguiculata. Stam. 10—15 in vaginam hinc longitudina-

liter fissam monadelpha. Ovariwm stipite calycis adnato

instructum, stylo filiformi. Leguwmen uniloculare poly-

spermum acinaciforme compressum. Semina ovata fibris

fungosis obvoluta.

_ Specific Character and Synonyms.

Brownea * coccinea ; foliolis 2—5-jugis ovali-oblongis acu-

‘minatis, floribus fasciculatis, ramis petiolisque gla-

bris. DC.

Brownea coccinea. Jacq. Amer. p. 194. t. 121. Willd.

Sp. Pl. v. 3. p. 715. De Cand. Prodr. ». 2. p. 477.

Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 75.

Few

* So named in compliment to Dr. Patrick Browne, an e

Naturalist, and Author of a History of Testes. Born in Ireland,

county of Mayo, in 1720, he was sent to Antigua when only sev

of age; but the climate disagreeing with him, he returned

less than a year’s time, and studied Physic, and especially Bot

Paris, afterwards in Leyden, where he took his Doctor’s degree,

an intimacy with Gronovius, and commenced a correspt wi

Liynus and other distinguished Naturalists. He then practised Medicine

for a short time in London, and went again to the West Indies, first to

Antigua, and afterwards to Jamaica, where he spent his time in ons

and preserving specimens of the plants, buds, and shells of that eee) a8" 4

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Few things can exceed the elegance or the richness of colouring in

the beautiful flowers of this shrub; but unfortunately they are rarely

produced in our stoves, and very quickly drop, scarcely lasting more

than twenty-four hours. The specimen described produced several

fasciculi in short succession, in February, 1842, in the Botanic

Garden, Edinburgh.

It is a native of Jamaica, and was introduced to our gardens so long

ago as 1793, by Admiral BiytH; but has never been recorded as

having flowered till now. Six other species are enumerated, all

inhabiting the continent of South America.

Descr. Trunk (in the specimen described, an old plant, ten feet

high) erect, brown and rough with the dark disquamating cuticle,

branched; branches pendulous, twigs glaucous and warted. Leaves

alternate, abruptly pinnated, pendulous: petiole (three to nine inches

long) slender, green, and shining; pinne in two to five pairs, subop-

posite, flat, oblong, acuminate, green and glabrous on both sides,

subcoriaceous, the most distant (six to eight inches long, two and a

half to three and a quarter inches broad,) the largest, gradually smaller

towards the plant, mid-rib prominent below, flat above, veins oblique,

curved and terminating before teaching the edges. Flower-bud large,

globular, terminal or subsessile in the axil of the petioles, incased with

large, round, rose-coloured scales which are villous on the outside,

shining within. Flowers fascicled, of uniform, brilliant vermillion-rose

colour, pendulous, the terminal ones expanding first, and the others in

Succession downwards. Calyx coloured like all the parts of the flower; _

the throat of the calyx, as long as th

emarginate or entire, nervation pinniform. Stamens inserted with the

phous and pubescent

on their outside to the middle, cleft to the base, free above the apices

of the calyx-limb; anthers versatile, small; pollen orange-yellow,

granules oblong. _Pistil shorter than the stamens; Stigma small,

capitate, dark; style straight, filiform, glabrous; germen densely

pubescent, stipitate, the footstalk adherent to the calyx-tube; ovules

numerous. Graham. x

which he gave to the world in 756, in his valuable ‘ Civil and Natural

History of Jamaica.” The copper plates were all burnt in a great fire in

Cornhill, in 1765, and the work never came to a second edition, although

various corrections and addition

S were i

rag Ta pin om made by the Author, which he sent

ne ee

Fig. 1. Flower, slightly magnified.

Witch delt Pubby SCurtis ta tenwood Lssex Sept l19492,

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ILtictum RELIGIOsuM. Sacrep ANISEED

TREE.

KEE KEKE EEE KEKE EE EEE

Class and Order.

PotyAnpriA Potyeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Maenousacez. )

Generic Character.

Carpella verticillatim disposita, rarissime abortu soli-

taria—Folia pellucido-punctata. De Cand.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

ILuicium* religiosum ; arboreum, sempervirens, totum gla-

brum, foliis ellipticis integerrimis utrinque attenuatis

“9 paps it staminibus 18—20, capsulis carnosis. Sie-

old.

Itucrum religiosum. Sieb. Fl. Jap. v. 1. p. 1. t. 1.

{uticrum Anisatum. Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 235. et reliquorum

auctorum, exclusis Loureiro Flor. Cochinch. p. 432. et

Gertn. Carp. 1. p. 338. t. 69.

Somo vulgo Skimi. Fanna Skimmi, &c. Kampf. Amen.

Exot. p. 880. cum icone.

queen

I am not aware that the sacred Aniseed Tree of the

Japanese has ever been cultivated in Europe, till it was

lately introduced into Holland by the distinguished Japan-

ese Traveller and Botanist, Dr. Srenonp. We are in-

debted to Mr. Maxoy of Liege for a fine young plant,

Which he presented to the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew,

and which flowered in great perfection in the greenhouse in

March,

——__

* Ab illiciendo, denoting an enticing plant, from its being very fragrant

and aromatic,

March, 1842. Dr. Sresotp has determined that there are

two species, one the I. Anisatum of Loureiro, the Chinese

kind ; and the other that here figured, the “ Fanna Skimmi

vel xo? °fox%v Fanna, i. e. Flos dicta,” of Kzmprer’s Ameni-

tates Exotice. It would appear that the two have been

confounded by most authors, and that Lourerro’s name of

Anisatum has been incorrectly given to the Japan kind.

By the Japanese this plant is held sacred ; they strew wreaths

of it and branches over the tombs of their friends, and their

priests burn the bark as a perfume upon the altars of their

deities. A singular use is made of the pulverized bark by

the public watchmen. Hollow tubes, graduated on the

outside, are filled with this substance, which is lighted at

one extremity, and burns gradually and uniformly : so that

when the fire has reached a certain mark, the watchmen

strike the hour upon a bell, and thus announce it to the

public.

Descr. Kamprer speaks of the trunk as attaining to the

height of a Cherry-tree : while our flowering plant is not

more than three feet high. It has rounded, glabrous stems

and branches: the latter, in their younger state, green,

more or less spotted with brown. Leaves alternate, ellip-

tical, coriaceous, entire, acute at both extremities, and

shortly petiolated; palish green, penninerved, but the

nerves are scarcely visible beneath. Flowers from the

axils of the leaves, solitary, or two together. Peduncle

short, issuing from a scaly bud. Flowers yellow green,

destitute of fragrance. Petals numerous, linear, the inner-

most ones very narrow. Stamens about twenty. Filaments

short, dilated.

Fig. 1. Flower, from which the Calyx and P :

the Peduncle surrounded by the scaly Bad Seance 7 been removed ;

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MAXILLARIA ACUTIPETALA. SHARP-PETALED

MAXILLARIA.

Class and Order.

GYNANDRIA MonanprIiA.

( Nat. Ord.—Orcuine. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium connivens, raro patens. Sepala lateralia

cum basi columne connata. Petala subconformia. Label-

lum trilobum, cucullatum, sessile, cum basi producta co-

lumne articulatum. Columna semiteres aptera. Anthera

subbilocularis. Pollinia 2, bipartibilia v. integra, caudi-

cula brevi, glandula transversa.—Epiphyte ( Americaneé ).

pseudo-bulbos@, acaules v. caulescentes. Folia spicati v.

coriacea. Pedunculi radicales, axillares v. terminales, uni-

v. multiflori. Lindl.

Specific Name and Character.

Maxintaria acutipetala ; pseudo-bulbis oblongo-ovatis an-

gulatis diphyllis, foliis lato-linearibus acutis, scapis

radicalibus uni- bifloris, sepalis petalisque oblongis

acutis patentibus subconformibus, labello oblongo tri-

loba centro striato basique lineis elevatis subquinque,

lobis lateralibus brevibus columnam involventibus in-—

termedio acuto reflexo. vale te

Allied, on the one hand, to M. tenuifolia, Linptey, Bot. —

Reg. 1839, t. 8, and, on the other, to M. picta, Hoox., Bot.

Mag. t, 3154, but abundantly distinct from both. It was

sent to the Royal Gardens at Kew by Mr. Barcray, their

Collector, in H. M. Surveying Ship, the Sulphur, from

Central America, and I am not aware of its being in any

other collection. It flowers in March and April, and the

very

very prettily marked blossoms render it a desirable plant in

every Orchideous stove.

Descr. Pseudo-bulbs clustered, oblongo-ovate, deeply

furrowed, with prominent angles ; the younger ones clothed

with brown, acuminated scales. Leaves two from the sum-

mit of the pseudo-bulb : linear-oblong, or almost ligulate,

acute, quite smooth. Peduncles from the base of the

pseudo-bulbs, clothed with sheathing scales, erect, shorter

than the leaves, one or two-flowered. Flowers pale orange

spotted and blotched with blood-colour. Sepals oblong-

acute, patent, an inch and a half long. Petals smaller,

but of nearly the same shape and colour, equally spreading.

Lip articulated on the base of the decurrent column, of a

paler color below, the rest coloured and spotted like the

petals and sepals, oblong, the lower half with its two lobes

embracing the column; the middle-lobe reflexed, acute.

Column deep red-purple. Anther-case of the same colour,

conical. Pollen-masses four, united by a horseshoe-shaped

gland.

Fig. 1. Column and Lip. 2 Anther-case.

nified. 8. 3, Pollen-masses: mag-

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OTHONNA FRUTESCENS. SHRUBBY OTHONNA.

KEKE KEKE EEE EE EEKEREKE

Class and Order.

SynGENEsIA NECESSARIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Composir2. )

Generic Character.

Capitulum radiatum, fl. radii ligulatis foemineis, radii

masculis tubulosis 5-denticulatis. Receptaculum convexum

subconicumve foveolatum, interdum pilosiusculum. Jnvol.

sqguameé uniseriales inter se lateribus plus minus concrete

ante explic. eximie valvate. Styli fl. masc. apice stigma-

tibus in cornu concretis. Achenia radii fertilia ovalia hirta

aut glabra papillosa pappo piloso multiseriali dense coro-

nata; disci abortiva cylindracea glabriuscula, pappo I-

seriali depauperato.—F rutices aut herbe capenses, Folia

varie incisa aut integra, carnosa aut membranacea, Capi-

tula ad apices pedunculorum solitaria, flava aut in paucissi-

mis cyanea. DC.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Ornonna * frutescens; fruticosa glabra erecta cicatricibus

fol. glabris, foliis subpetiolatis crassiusculis aveniis

glaucescentibus integerrimis dentatisve, infer. obovatis

ovalibusve, super. oblongis, summis ovatis grosse den-

tatis, pedunculis nudis aut foliola 1—2 gerentibus

erectis folio multo longioribus, involucro cylindraced,

Squamis circ, 8 concretis, ligulis 8 invol. duplo fere

longioribus, achzniis glabris. D C.

Ornonna frutescens. Linn. Mant. p. 288. Willd. Sp. Pl.

v. 3. p. 2381. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 625. De

Cand. Prod. v. 6. P.ATS. 4

Cinerarta Othonnites. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2. p. 1244.

Jacopza Africana frutescens, crassis et succulentis foliis.

Commel. Hort. 2. p. 147. t. 76.

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* Obowm, a linen cloth or napkin ; so called from the cottony clothing of

Some of the species. ‘

A handsome showy plant, a native of South Africa, with

a stout stem, singularly glaucous and fleshy leaves, and

copious handsome yellow flowers. It was grown in the

Dutch Gardens in the days of Commetinus (nearly two

hundred years ago), but does not appear to have been

cultivated in England till now, when we find it in the

Birmingham Botanic Garden. It is a greenhouse plant,

and flowers during the latter end of summer.

Descr. Stem erect, two or three feet high, nearly as

thick as one’s finger, suffruticose, but succulent, rounded,

glabrous, purplish-green. Leaves alternate, sessile, obo-

vate, acute, entire or obscurely angulato-dentate, and

somewhat thick and fleshy, glaucous-green. Panicles

terminal, many-flowered, bearing small leaves or bracteas

at the setting on of their branches, which are oblong-acute.

Involucre turbinate, of one leaf, thick and fleshy at the base,

cut into about eight equal, spreading, acute teeth. Ray of

about eight ligulate female florets, yellow, spreading much

longer than the breadth of the disk, obscurely three-toothed

at the apex. Germen oblong-obovate, furrowed as it ripens

into perfect fruit, downy towards the top, and bearing a

pappus of numerous scabrous hairs. Disk yellow, of many

tubular-male florets. Germen elongated, slender, abortive.

Pappus of few hairs.

Fig. 1. Involucre laid open, from which are removed all the Florets but

one tubular and one ligulate one. 2, Nearly mature Achenium with the

Corolla still attached to it. 3. Hair from th , =

magnified. Tom the Pappus, 4. Stigmas:

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BEGONIA HYDROCOTYLIFOLIA. PENNY-WoRT-

LEAVED BEGoNIA.

KEE KEKE KEKE KKK KKK KKEKE

Class and Order.

MonaeciA PoLyanpriA.

( Nat. Ord.—Becontracez. )

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 Synonym.

Brconta hydrocotylifolia ; pubescens, caule crasso brevi

repente squamoso, foliis. petiolatis cordato-rotundatis,

pedunculis axillaribus folio multoties longioribus, flo-

ribus racemoso-paniculatis omnibus dipetalis, fructus _

alis subeequalibus. oe

Beconra hydrocotylifolia. Hort. Berl.

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This is one of the many pretty Beeonias with which our

stoves have been enriched through the liberality of the

Royal Botanic Garden of Berlin. As far as my investiga-

tions will allow me to judge, it is not a species anywhere

described : and I give it under the name by which we have

received it from M. Orro. It flowers with us during the

suinmer season. é ; ‘

Descr. The stem is short, thick, succulent, but peren-

nial, creeping and throwing out fibrous radicles from be- _

heath; above, especially towards the apex, throwing up

Several leaves, which have petioles, two or more inches

long, thick and fleshy, hairy: the blade about two inches

across, rotundate cordate, entire, nearly equilateral, above

convex,

convex, shining and nearly glabrous, the margin and be-

neath pubescent. At the base of the petioles are membran-

aceous, fringed stipules, which soon become brown, and

give a scaly appearance to the stem. Peduncles axillary,

eight to ten inches to a foot high, clothed with spreading

hairs, and bearing a compound raceme or panicle at the

apex, pale red. Flowers, of both kinds, with two spreading,

deep rose-coloured, rounded petals. Stamens and styles,

as in the Genus. Fruit oval, triquetrous, with three mode-

rately broad, nearly equal wings.

Fig. 1. Male Flower. 2. Female ditto. 3. Transverse Section of a Cap-

sule :—magnified.,

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TRICHOCENTRUM FuscuM. BROWN-FLOW-

ERED ‘TRICHOCENTRUM.

KKK KEE KEK EEE EER EE

Class and Order.

GyNnANDRIA MonanpRIA.

( Nat. Ord.—OrcuIDEZ.)

Generic Character.

Perianthium patens, liberum, equale. Labellum sessile,

cum basi columne connatum, planum, bilobum, basi lamel-

losum. Columna nana, semiteres, crassa, utrinque alata.

Anthera bilocularis, mutica. Pollinia 2, complicata; cau-

diculé cuneata ; glandulé minuté.—Herbe epiphyte Ameri-

cane acaules ; foliis planis (aut nullis ?), floribus radicalt-

bus. Lindl. :

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Tricnocentrum* fuscum; foliis oblongis acutis oblique

tortis racemo longioribus, labello glabro bilobo basi

bilamellato venis quibusdam callosis, alis columne

serratis, Lindl.

Trichocenrrum fuscum. Lindl, Bot. Reg. t. 1951.

Acorpium fuscum. Lindl. in Hort.

A native of Mexico, and first introduced to our col-

lections, as it would appear, by Mr. Kyieurt of the King’s

Road, Chelsea. Our plant, here figured, flowered in the

Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, in September, 1841, and

we shortly afterwards received flowering specimens from

Mr. Moors of the Glasnevin Botanic Garden.

Descr.

_ * So named by Dr. Popria from Ops& rpixos, a hair, and xevrpov, a spur ;

i Consequence of the long and narrow spur of the Jabellum.

Descr. To this orchideous plant there is no stem nor

pseudo-bulb. The leaves spring, with a very short petiole,

directly from the fibrous roots, and are oblong-acute,spread-

ing, somewhat twisted, thick and leathery, the colour a

purplish-green, sprinkled copiously with minute dots. The

flowers are also radical, on short peduncles. The calyx

and petals are spreading, nearly alike in form and colour,

ovate, acute, purple-green. Labellum much longer than

the petals, porrected, somewhat cuneate waved, with a long

slender spur at the base. At the apex it is two-lobed and

white: lower down blotched with rose-colour and spotted

with red. Colwmn short, having on each side a broad,

obovate, acute, serrated wing, of a pale yellow colour,

dotted and tipped with red. Anther-case hemispherical.

Pollen-masses yellow.

Fig. 1. Flower, the Petals and Sepals being removed. 2. The Column

and Anther. 3, Anther Case, 4. Pollen-mass :—magnified,

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DENDROBIUM MACRANTHUM. LARGE-

FLOWERED DENDROBIUM.

EEE KEE E REE EK EEK ERE EE

Class and Order.

GynanpriaA Monanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—OrcuipeEz. )

Generic Character.

Sepala membranacea, erecta vel patentia, lateralibus ma-

joribus obliquis cum basi producta columnz connatis.

Petala sepalo supremo sepius majora nunc minora, semper

membranacea. Labellum cum pede columne articulatum

vel connatum, semper sessile, indivisum vel trilobum, sz-

pius membranaceum, nunc appendiculatum. Columna

semiteres, basi longe producto. Anthera bilocularis. Pol-

linia 4, per paria collateralia.—Herbe epiphyte, nunc cau-

lescentes, nunc rhizomate repente pseudo-bulbifero. Folia

plana, sepius venosa. Flores solitarii fasciculat, vel race-

mosi, speciost. Land.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Denprosium macranthum ; foliis ovato-oblongis obtusis

nervosis basi subcordatis, sepalis lanceolatis Jateralibus

basi productis, petalis oblongis acutis, labello pubes-

Seente convoluto denticulato subunguiculato ovato

callo baseos elevato transverso obsolete trilobo.

Denprogium macranthum. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. Misc. 1839,

p. 36. (sub nom. D. macrophylli).

justi lossoms of

No il can do justice to the beauty of the b S

this aces slat of which specimens and a 2

were kindly sent to me by Dittwyy tk es

Penllegar, in April of the present year, 1842.

: ; : e that of

that it has flowered in any other ee Messrs.

VOL. XVI. Cc

Messrs. Loppices, who appear to have introduced it to our

gardens from Manilla. 1 think there can be no doubt that

it is the Denprosrum “ macrophyllum” of Liypiey’s miscel-

laneous notices above quoted : but the name I suspect is a

misprint for D. macranthum; which I infer, not only be-

cause there is a Denprosium macrophyllum (from New

Guinea) of Ricnarp; but because LinprLEy speaks particu-

larly of the large size of the flowers ; “ they are nine inches

in circumference, and will probably be still larger when the

plant becomes more healthy.” The flowers of our plant

are full five inches in their extreme diameter.

Descr. Stems or pseudo-bulbs pendent, leafy. Leaves

alternate, oblong, acute, nerved, slightly cordate and semi-

amplexicaul at the base. Flowers solitary from the axils of

the leaves, large, very handsome. Sepals lanceolate, acu-

minate, spreading. Petals also spreading, oblong-acute ;

both sepals and petals of a delicate, rich lilac colour, with

darker nerves. Lip large, ovate, with the two side lobes

convolute, large, downy; the middle lobe broadly ovate,

downy towards the apex: the whole lip coloured like the

Sepals, except that there is a broad, deep blotch within the

side lobes. At the base of the lip is a callous, three-lobed

excrescence. Column short. Anther-case deep purple.

Pollen-masses as in the other species of the Genus.

Fig. 1. Column. 2. Upper part of ditto, with Anther-case, 3, Lip. 4.

Pollen-masses :—magnified.

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GLOXINIA TUBIFLORA. 'TUBE-FLOWERED

GLOXINIA

Ske HS EE SICSeek

Class and Order.

DipynamMiA ANGIOSPERMIA.

( Nat. Ord.—GeEsnERIACEz. )

Generic Character.

Calycis tubus imo ovario adnatus ; limbus 5-fidus aut 5-

partitus. Corolla infundibuliformis aut campanulato-sub-

ringens, hinc postice ad basin gibba, aut subcalcarata,

tubo ventricoso, limbo patulo subbilabiato, lobis 5 rotun-

datis. Stamina 4 didynama cum quinti rudimento. Anthere

coherentes. Glandule 5 perigyne. Stylus in stigma or-

biculatum concavum subinfundibuliforme abeuns. Cap-

sula 1-locularis bivalvis, placentis 2 parietalibus bilobis,

seminibus numerosis oblongis.—Herbe vel suffrutices, spe-

cies Australi-Americane, plereque Brasilienses. Folia oppo-

sita, interdum radicalia, petiolata, crenata. Flores ampli,

axillares, aut radicales, pedicellati, sepius nutantes. D C.

Specific Name and Character.

Groxin1a tubiflora; caulescens pubescens, foliis oblongis

subacuminatis brevi-petiolatis subcrenatis, panicula

terminali, pedicellis elongatis, corolla subhypocrateri-

formi, tubo elongato sursum curvato, lim o patente

lobis 5 subaequalibus, glandulis ad basin ovarii 4, unica

duplo majore.

This very fine and new plant seems to have nearly as

strong a claim to be considered a Gesneria as a GLOXINIA,

or, rather, it appears almost to unite the two Genera. It is

one of the many interesting novelties, reared by Mr. Moore

of the Glasnevin Botanic Garden from seeds, sent by Mr.

e nevin -

Tweepiz from Buenos-Ayres. I do not think, however,

the species inhabits any portion of the Argentine provinces,

at least I have never found it in any of the numerous collec-

tions I have received from Mr. Tweepie. It is probable he

obtained the seeds from South Brazil, or, it has been sus-

pected, from Paraguay.

Descr. Judging from the specimens sent to me, the stem

is short, leafy ; the leaves opposite, oblong, acuminate,

reticulated, downy, obscurely crenated, petiolated : petiole

short, thick. Panicle of several flowers. Pedicels oppo-

site, bracteated, two inches long.. Calyx half-superior,

with five nearly spreading, acuminated segments. Corolla

‘wal white, downy: the tube four inches long, a little en-

arged and curved upwards, at the base above, with a very

conspicuous, broad spur or gibbosity : the Jimb an inch and

a half broad, spreading, equally five-lobed. Stamens four,

didynamous, with the rudiment of a fifth. Anther united

into across. Germen downy, half-inferior, with four glands,

three (lower ones) equal in size, the fourth double as large

as the others. Style about the length of the tube, curved.

Stigma entire.

| Fig. 1. Base of the Corolla laid open, to show the St . 2, Pistil,

with the Gland at the base of the Gornen magnified, ase ge

BITS,

( 3972 )

MAMMILLARIA PYCNACANTHA. DENSELY-

SPINED MAMMILLARIA.

Class and Order.

_ Potyanpria Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Cacrez. )

Generic Character.

— Calycis tubus ovario adherens; lobi 5—6 colorati fruc-

tum juniorem coronantes. Petala 5—25 a calyce vix dis-

tincta, eo longiora et cum sepalis in tubum concreta.

Stamina filiformia pluriserialia. Stylus filiformis. Stigma

3—7-fidum radiatum. Bacca levis oblonga. Semina nidu-

lantia. Cotyledones minute, acuminate.—Suffrutices car-

nost, subrotundi aut cylindracet, lactescentes aut succo lim-

pido repleti, aphylli, tuberculis subconicis mammeformibus

spiraliter dispositis, apice spinulas radiantes et tomentum

demum deciduum gerentibus. Flores inter basin mammuil-

larum sessiles, sepius in zonam transversam dispositi. Bac-

ca obovata, edulis, calyce marcescente, demum deciduo, coro-

nata. Prfeiff.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

MaAmMMILLARIA pycnacantha ; subrotundo-cylindracea, mam-

millis latiusculis superne obscure bilobis, aculeis

12—16 pallidis patenti-recurvatis demum fuscatis seriet

interioris robustioribus, lana floccosa in axillis areolis-

que superioribus et circa flores.

Mammintaria pycnacantha. Mart.—Lehm. in Act. Nov. -

Cur. 0. 16. p. 325. t. 17. Pfeiff. Enum. Cact. p. 16.

From the collection in the Royal Gardens of Kew: a

native, it is said, of the neighbourhood of Oaxaca, Mexico.

The plant, figured by Leamann, in the work above quoted,

represents a young plant, more elongated than usual. In

P young Pp 8 pores

other respects it quite accords with our specimens. When

well grown the form is almost globose. It flowers copiously,

in July, from the summit, and numerous offsets are produc-

ed also from the apex, by which the plant may be easily

increased.

Descr. Plant about six inches high, and almost the same

in breadth, of a rounded form, but nearly straight at the

sides so as to be somewhat cylindrical. Mammille large,

nearly an inch broad at the base, hemispherical, but broader

than long, and obscurely two-lobed, dark green, slightly

glaucous: the axille, especially the upper ones, where they

are less crowded, filled with dense, white wool. Spines

12—16, woolly at the base, spreading and recurved, pale

brown. Flowers five or six, opening at a time, on the top

of the plant, and making a handsome appearance when

spreading under the influence of the sun, of a deep sulphur

yellow colour, two and a half or three inches in diameter.

Petals \inear-oblong, acuminated, serrated. Anthers orange-

coloured. Stigmas yellow.

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( 3973 )

SIPHOCAMPYLUS 'BETULZFOLIUs. Brircu-

LEAVED SIPHOCAMPYLUS.

SKK EK KEKE KKK KEKE EK

Class and Order.

Pentanpria Monoeyni.

( Nat. Ord.—Losetacez. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 5-lobus, tubo turbinato aut hemispherico. Corolla

tubo superne sepius ventricoso, pleruinque recurvo, integro

vel (rarissime) basi fisso et superne solum integro ; lobis

5 tubo brevioribus bilabiatis falcatis, duobus superioribus

spe majoribus supra faucem reflexis, inferioribus subbrevi-

oribus. Stamina connata, antheris 2 inferioribus apice bar-

batis, aut (rarius) omnibus hirsutis.—Frutices, suffrutices,

vel herb, ex America presertim meridionali, non nunquam

scandentes, caulibus ramisq. sepius erectis, foliis alternis aut

verticillatis, pedicellis axillaribus, floribus rubris vel sordide

albidis, corollis plerumque pubescentibus latere superiore

paulo majore, convexitas corolla sursum spectans. D C.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Sipuocampy.us* betulefolius ; caule ramoso tereti glabro,

foliis petiolatis ovato-acuminatis subcordato-triangu-

laribus subduplicato-acute serratis superne glabris

subtus nervo et petiolis tenuissime pubescentibus, pe-

dicellis folio longioribus glabris, tubo calycis glabri

obverse pyramidato lobis angustis acutis serrulatis tubo

sublongioribus corolla plus sexies brevioribus, corolla

subarcuata glabra superne dilatata lobis anguste lan-

ceolatis acutis, antheris glabris 2 inf. 7 agg barbatis,

capsula obverse pyramidata infera. D

S1PHOCAMPYLUS

* So named by Pout from ofr, a tube, and xapavdos, bent or curved, as

more or less characteristic of the tube of the corolla.

Sippocamprivs betulefolius. Don, Dict. 3. p. 704. De

Cand. Prodr. v. 7. p. 399. Gardn. Herb. Brasil. n.

463.

This elegant and very graceful plant, its flowers richly

varied with bright red and yellow, is another of the rarities

with which Mr. Garpner has enriched our collections from

Brazil. He detected the species in the Organ Mountains,

where Sexo, its original discoverer, had, probably, previ-

ously procured it. It flowered, for the first time in Europe,

in the Royal Botanic Garden of Kew, in July, 1842, and

continued for a long time in great beauty. It is easily pro-

pagated by cuttings, and will no doubt become a general

favourite in our stoves, and may probably, like the S. bicolor,

be found hardy enough to bear the greenhouse, or even, in

the summer months, the open border. :

Descr. Perennial. Stem woody at the base, branched,

two to three feet high; branches rounded. Leaves alter-

nate, petiolate, three to four inches long, cordate, acumi-

nated, doubly serrated, nearly glabrous. Peduncles soli-

tary, single-flowered, axillary, about as long as the leaves,

thickened upwards into the furrowed, inferior germen.

Calycine segments subulate, serrulate, with few and distant

serratures, Corolla two and a half to three inches long,

slightly curved, bright vermillion red, the limb deep yellow,

cut into five nearly equal segments. Stamens and style

a little exserted.

Fig. 1. Anther and Stigma :—magnified.

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ECHINOCACTUS CENTETERIUS. VARIEGATED-

FLOWERED EI\CHINOCACTUS.

KEKE KEE KK KKK KK KKK KEK

Class and Order.

Icosanpria Monoeyntia.

( Nat. Ord.—Cacrea. )

Generic Character.

Sepala numerosa, imbricata, basi ovario adnata; in tubum

brevissimum concreta, exteriora involucriformia, intima

petaliformia. Stamina numerosa, calyci affixa, inequalia,

intima brevissima, filiformia, antheris oblongis. Stylus

cylindricus, subfistulosus, apice multifidus. Bacca sepalo-

rum reliquiis subsquamata, rarissime levis. Cotyledones

parvule.—Frutices s¢mplicissimi carnosi, ovati aut globosi,

melocactoidei aut mammillarieformes, aphylli, costati aut

tuberculati, costis tuberculis confluentibus quasi formatis,

dorso aculeorum fasciculos gerentibus. Flores e fasciculis

aculeorum ad apicem costarum orti, similes floribus Cerei,

_ sed tubo vix supra receptaculum elongato. Prfeiff:

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Ecutnocactus centeterius ; subglobosus obscure viridis tu-

berculatus apice vix umbilicatus, tuberculis in series

15 subverticales dispositis confluentibus oblongis infra

areolam acuato-prominentibus (gibbosis), areolis ova-

libus cano-tomentosis, aculeis exterioribus 1O—12 gra-

cilibus rectiusculis bifarie patentibus, centralibus 4

decussatis validioribus nigrescentibus tandem fusco-

cinereis. Pfeiff: ;

Ecuinocacrus centeterius. ‘ Lehm.”—Pfeiff. Enum. Cact.

p. 65.

This has been for some time cultivated in the Royal

Botanic Gardens of Kew, under the name here adopted. If

it

it be the same with the. E. centeterius * of Lenmann and

Preirrer, the plant from which the latter author’s descrip-

tion was made is but young, for it is mentioned as two

inches and three quarters high, and three inches broad,

with flowers an inch and a half in diameter. In other

respects, the two plants appear to be the same. The best

of descriptions, however, give but an imperfect idea of

the distinguishing marks in this extensive and curious

family. In the specimen before us, the height is above six

inches, and the breadth somewhat less. The flowers are

copious, five to seven or eight from the summit of the plant:

each is nearly three inches across; the petals are deep

straw colour, with a reddish streak down the centre. The

Jilaments are reddish ; the anthers yellow. Stigmas about

eight- or nine-rayed, yellow, tinged with red, protruded

beyond the stamens.

It flowers copiously in July.

_ * xevrernpius, id quo pungere possumus :—so called, I presume, from the

copious spines.

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Pub.ty S. Curtis, Claxenwood Essex. OctT 1842 .

( 3975 )

STELIS ATROPURPUREA. DARK-FLOWERED

STELIS.

KEKE KEK EERE EEE EEK ER RK

Class and Order.

GyYNANDRIA Monanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—Orcuipea. )

Generic Character.

Sepala globoso-conniventia, zqualia, valvata, basibus

subconnata. Petala nana. Labellum nanum petalis con-

forme. Columna nana, mutica, cum ovario continua. An-

thera \-locularis. Pollinia 2, ovata, cereacea, distincta,

nune ad apicem materie viscida coherentia.—Herbe epi-

phyte habitu Pleurothallis. Lindl.

Specific Name and Character.

STELIs * atropurpurea ; folio oblongo-subspathulato retuso,

pedunculo squamato folio longiore, spica nutante, flo-

ribus sessilibus, sepalis trinerviis petalisque (triplo mi-

noribus) rotundato-ovatis obtusissimis atro-purpureis

labello patulo equantibus late ovatis basi canaliculatis

bituberculatis. |

This new Srenis, as I believe it to be, was sent by Mr.

Parkinson from Mexico, to His Grace the late Duke of

Bedford, and it flowered in the stove of the Orchideous

house of that nobleman at Woburn, in February, 1839.

It has little beauty to recommend it in comparison with

many of this family of plants, which are such universal

favorites.

Descr. Stems tufted, short, sheathed with scales, and

bearing a solitary leaf, which is articulated upon the apex.

Leaf

——...

* The Greek name of some parasitical plant found growing upon trees,

and so made applicable to a Epiphytal Orchideous plant.

7

Leaf about three inches long, oblong, retuse, tapering

gradually into a petiole. Peduncle from the base of the

leaf-stalk, taller than the leaf, scaly. Spike three to four

inches long, drooping. Flowers sessile, numerous, each

arising from a membranous, sheathing scale, of a sin-

Sularly dark, sanguineous, or blood-red colour. Sepals

spreading, equal, broadly ovate, very obtuse, three-nerved.

Petals of the same shape, but not one-third of the size, and

destitute of the nerves. Lip about the size of the petals,

ovate, recurved towards the apex, the base grooved, from

the turning up of the sides, and on each side furnished with

a tubercle. Column short, mottled with purple. Anther-

case downy.

Fig. 1. Portion of a Spike with two Flowers. 2. Flower from which the

Sepals

are removed. 3. Column and Lip. 4. Anther-case, 5. Pollen-

masses :—magnified.

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EcHITES SPLENDENS. SpLENDID-FLOWERED

EcuiteEs.

KEKE KKK KKK KKK EEE EEK EK

Class and Order.

PentanpriaA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Apocynez. )

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-partitus, laciniis intus squamula instructis. Corolla

hypocrateriformis aut infundibuliformis, tubo plus minus

elongato, limbo 5-partito, laciniis subinequilateris, fauce

nuda. Stamina inclusa, antheris sagittatis, raro hastatis v.

subcordatis. Ovaria 2, glandulis 5 hypogynis cincta aut

superata. Stylus 1. Stigma capitatum. Follicult 2, cylin-

dracei, angusti, seminibus comosis. Mart. et Stadelm.

Specific Name and Character.

Ecurres splendens ; scandens, caule glabro, foliis ellipticis

acuminatis undulatis basi cordatis supra venis reticula-

tis impressis, subtus precipue pubescentibus, venis

elevatis, racemis axillaribus sublonge pedunculatis,

bracteis calycinisque laciniis subulatis, corolla infun-

dibuliformi glabro, laciniis rotundatis subacutis, stami-

nibus supra medium tubi insertis.

Of the many handsome species of this Genus which the

late researches of Botanists and Travellers in Brazil have

made known to us, this is unquestionably the most beauti-

ful, and may vie with the choicest productions of Flora

which have been of late years introduced to our gardens.

It was sent from the Organ Mountains to Messrs. Verrcn of

the Mount Radford Nursery, Exeter, last year ( 1841), by

their zealous collector, Mr. Loss; and already has pro-

duced such copious and richly coloured blossoms, as have

gratified

VOL, XIV. D

gratified every one who has seen them. Dried native speci-

mens were sent home at the same time with the living

plants, and they, as well as the cultivated ones, show, that

Mr. Garpner, though he botanized extensively in the same

tract, did not meet with it ; and that it is a species unde-

scribed even by the authors (Martius and Srapetmever) of

the “ Ecurres of Brazil,” published in the Botanische Zei-

tung*. In the excellent work now quoted, it would be

placed in their second group of the climbing species.

“ B. Corolla infundibuliformi ; calycis laciniis acutis. Sta-

mina supra medium tubi inserta.’’ But, in that section,

there is not one species that agrees with it.

Descr. ‘The stems are climbing, and, in the old plants,

probably of great length; branches rounded, glabrous.

Leaves in opposite, remote pairs, very large, from four to

six or eight inches in length, nearly sessile, elliptical, sub-

coriaceous, waved, acuminate, cordate at the base ; above

almost glabrous, and strongly marked with deeply im-

pressed, reticulated veins; beneath pale-coloured, decidedly

downy, especially on the veins. Racemes axillary, of four

to six very large and extremely showy flowers. Peduncles

elongated, shorter, however, than the leaves. Pedicels

about an inch long. Bracteas small, subulate. Calyx

small, deeply cut into five slightly recurved, subulate,

segments, tipped with red. Corolla between funnel-shaped

and salver-shaped : the éube white, spreading upwards ; the

limb flat, four inches across, beautiful rose-colour, deeper

at the margins of the five, rounded lobes ; and with a very

deep star-shaped eye. Stamens inserted above the middle

of the tube. Glands two, each two-lobed, at the base of

the germen.

* Beiblatter zur Flora. 1841. Enrster Band.

Fig. 1. Tube of the Corolla laid open. 2. Pistil :—magnified.

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RoNDELETIA LONGIFLORA. BLUE-FLOWERED

RonDELETIA.

TREK KEKE EEE EEK EEE KEK

Class and Order. —

Pentanpria Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Rustacez. )

Generic Character.

Cal. tubus subglobosus, limbus 4—5-partitus, lobis ob-

longis linearibusve acutis persistentibus. Cor. tubo cylin-

drico vix apice subventricoso, limbo patente 4—5-lobo,

lobis subrotundis. Anthere 4—5 in apice tubi incluse,

sessiles. Stigma bifidum. Capsula globosa calyce coro-

nata bilocularis, ex apice dehiscens in valvulas 2 szpius

apice fissas, unde sepe 4-valvis videtur, nune loculicido-

rarius septicido-dehiscens, Placente centrales. Semina

plurima minima ovato-angulata, sepe 2 tantum in loculo

maturescentia. D C.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Ronperetia (Penramera) longiflora; foliis lato-lanceolatis

in petiolum brevem attenuatis acuminatis, margine re-

flexo venisque utrinsecus 7—10 subtus prominulis

seabro-strigillosis, axillis venarum barbatis, caterum

glabris, panicula terminali foliosa fastigiata, ramis

cymoso-trifloris, corolla tubo bipollicari fauce inflata,

laciniis ellipticis acuminatis acutis. Cham.

RonDELETIA longiflora. Cham. in Linnea, »v. 9. p. 240.

It is but a few months ago that we figured a RonpELeTIA

(Tab. 3933) remarkable for its bright colours of red and

yellow, a native of Havana and Mexico: and now there has

recently been introduced to our gardens, through the exer-

tions of Mr. Verrcn of Exeter, a Brazilian species, with

copious purple-blue flowers, which is no less ies oe aon

tivation in our stoves. It was sent with the subject of our

preceding plate, by Mr. Verrcn’s Collector, from the Organ

Mountains, and thoaeh of much humbler growth, may

almost rank with it in beauty. It flowered in August, 1842,

in the stove of Mount Radford Nursery, and the blossoms

have an agreeable odour, like that of the Auricula.

Descr. Shrubby, branched: branches rounded, with

two opposite, prominent lines. Leaves broadly lanceolate,

two to three inches long, acuminate, entire, tapering at the

base into a short footstalk, slightly scabrous. Stipules

interpetiolar, cordate, aristate. Flowers collected in threes

at the extremity of short branches, and three again spring-

ing from a main branch, the whole forming a terminal,

compound corymb, with copious flowers. Calyx-tube short :

Segments linear, erect. Corolla salver-shaped, purplish-

blue: the tube very long, slightly curved, and enlarged

upwards. Limb of five, spreading, ovate, acute segments.

Stamens five, a little exserted. Style nearly as long as the

tube of the corolla. Stigmas two, linear, downy.

Fig. 1. Calyx and Pistil :—magnified.

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Class and Order.

PentanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Convotvutacex. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 5-partitus, nudus. Corolla campanulata v. in-

fundibuliformis, 5-plicata. Ovarium 2—3-loculare, locu-

lis dispermis. Stylus indivisus. Stigma capitatum, 2—3-

lobum., Capsula 2—3-locularis.—Herbe volubiles, quan-

doque erecte. Folia indivisa v. lobata, nunc pinnatifida.

Semina in quibusdam comosa. Br,

Specific Name and Character.

Iromza Tweediei; volubilis glabra, foliis cordatis acutis

integerrimis basi profunde bilobis petioli longitudine,

pedunculis axillaribus bi- unifloris, sepalis ovatis acu-

tis imbricatis inequalibus, corolla tubo elongato su-

perne in limbum ampliato.

A very pretty Convolvulaceous plant, sent some years

ago, by Mr. Tween1e, from woods of the Parana, to the

Royal Botanic Garden of Glasgow. It is No. 120 of Mr.

Tweepie’s collections of dried plants. At the time the

drawing was made, the structure of the stigma was neglect-

ed to be observed. The genera of this family have lately

been studied by Cuoisy, and the result of his labours, in

part, laid before the public. That able Botanist keeps

Convotvutus and Ipomma distinct; but Enpxicuer in his

“Genera” unites them ; making of them, however, differ-

ent sections, distinguished, the one (Convotvutus), by the

“ Stigmata lineari-cylindrica,” and the other (Ipomma), by

the “* Stigmata capitato-globosa.” 1 think it will be found

that our present plant belongs to the latter.

Descr.

Descr. Stems climbing, terete, glabrous, as is the entire

plant. Leaves alternate, cordate, acuminate, entire, deeply

two-lobed at the base, the lobes rounded, very obtuse.

Petiole slender, about equal in length with the leaf. Pe-

duncles solitary, axillary, an inch or more long, generally

two-flowered. Calyx of five imbricated leaves, which are

ovate, acute, unequal. Corolla scarcely more than an inch

long, red-purple, with five pale, star-shaped lines, funnel-

shaped, the tube gradually enlarging upwards into the five

rounded segments or lobes of the moderately spreading

limb. Capsule globose, surrounded by the five imbricated

sepals of the calyx.

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( 3979)

MACLEANIA ANGULATA. ANGLED-FLOWERED

MACLEANIA.

KKK KKK KEKE KKK RK KKK KEK

Class and Order.

DecanpriaA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Enricez. )

Generic Character.

Cal. truncatus checlétionare 5-dentatus, 5-alatus, inferne

ovario adherens. Cor. urceolata vel subcylindracea. Stam.

10. Filamenta in tubum connata. Anthere basi affixe,

dorso mutice, apice in tubum simplicem attenuate et ri-

mula singula introrsum dehiscentes. Ovariwm 5-loculare,

multiovulatum. Bacca ?—Frutices habitu Thibaudie vel

Ceratostemmatis.

Specific Name and Character.

Macteania* angulata; foliis ovatis obtusis, axillis trifloris,

corolla ovato-urceolata pentagona.

In the “ Icones Plantarum,” vol. 2. tab. 109, I esta-

blished the Genus MacieaniA upon a very handsome shrub

found by Mr. Maruews at Jambrosbamba in the Andes

of Peru. In June, 1842, I was favored by Mr. Fores

with a second species of the same Genus, which had flow-

ered in the stove of His Grace the Duke of Bedford, at

Woburn, and which had been raised from seeds sent by

Mr. M‘Lean himself from the Peruvian Andes. It is an

evergreen shrub of great beauty, and well deserving a

place in every collection.

Descr.

* Named in compliment to Jonn M‘LzEan, Esgq., of Lima, a Peruvian

merchant, who has rendered great service to Botany, by his own individual

exertions, and by his patronage of the late Mr. MatHews. (See Lond.

Journal of Bot. v. 1. p. 393.)

Descr. A shrub, with rounded branches, and leaves

which are alternate, ovate, somewhat coriaceous, entire,

obtuse, on very short petioles, penninerved, two or four of

the lower, lateral nerves much longer than the rest, and

running nearly parallel. The leaves on the young shoots

are very delicate, and have a deep tinge of red. Flowers

three together, from the axils of the leaves. Peduncles

about an inch long, rather thickened, especially upwards,

Calyx cup-shaped, truncated, with five, obscure, mucro-

nated lobes, and as many sharp, wing-like angles. Corolla

nearly an inch long, bright red, the Limb yellow. Its form

is ovato-urceolate, with five prominent angles : the neck, or

mouth, contracted, the limb of five, erecto-patent teeth.

Stamens ten. Filaments united into a thick, fleshy tube,

which is broader upwards, and then again contracted where

the anthers are set on. Aftthers linear, slightly downy,

tapering into a rather short, slightly incurved tube, which

opens by a longitudinal fissure at the apex. Ovary united

with nearly the whole of the calyx. Style almost as long

as the corolla. Stigma capitate.

Fig. 1. Two of the Anthers and portion of the filamentous Tube, 2

Calyx, Stamens, and Pistil magnified.

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( 3980 )

ACHIMENES LONGIFLORA. [LONG-FLOWERED

ACHIMENES.

KEKE KEKE EEE ERE KKK REE KEK

Class and Order.

DipynamMiA ANGIOSPERMIA.

( Nat. Ord.—GesneriAce2. )

Generic Character.

Cal. tubus ovario adnatus, limbus 5-partitus lobis lanceo-

latis. Cor. tubuloso-infundibuliformis basi hine seepe gib-

ba, limbo plano 5-fido, lobis subequalibus subrotundis.

Stam. 4 didynama, antheris non coherentibus. Rudimenta

stam. quinti corolla basi inferne impositum, Nectarium

glandulosum angulare tenue. Stylus in stigma vix incras-

satum obliquum aut subbilobum abeuns. Capsula semibi-

locul. bivalvis, placentis parietalibus subsessilibus.—Herbe

Americane erecte villose. Folia opposita aut terno-verti-

cillata petiolata dentata. Pedicelli uniflori axillares. Cor.

coccinee aut purpuree multo quam Gloxinie minores.

Radices saltem specierum rite cognitarum, bulbillis squamo-

sis onuste. D C.

Specific Character and Synonyms. ~

Acuimenss* longiflora ; foliis 3—4-natim verticillatis ovatis

oblongisve grosse serratis cauleque hirsutis, pedicellis

unifloris calyce brevioribus, calycis laciniis lanceo-

latis erectis corolla tubo 4-plo. brevioribus, corolle

ee amplo patente. Benth. Pl. Hartw. p. 89. n.

Acuimenss longiflora. De Cand. Prodr.7. p. 536. _For-

tune in Hort. Trans. v. 2. N. S. p. 508. t. 14. Land.

Bot. . 1842, ¢. 9.

ot. Reg. 184 ; Dr.

o——_._

* Aname given by Patrick Browne, of unknown origin.

Dr. Linptey, in describing this species, after paying a

well-merited compliment to the Horticultural Society of

London for the many choice productions which it has heen

the means of introducing to this country from all parts of

the world, says of the plant itself, “ More beautiful than the

gayest of the stove herbaceous plants, as easy to cultivate

as the commonest of perennials, more prodigal of flowers

than the finest of the Groxinias, ever blooming, except

during the few months when it sinks into its winter rest,

this Acuimenes longiflora is an invaluable gift by the poe

to every one who has a warm greenhouse.” It has, indeed,

only to be treated as the common AcHIMENEs coccinea

(better known as Cyritta pulchella), and it will thrive as

readily. Our plant, presented by the Horticultural Society

to the Royal Botanic Garden, from which the present draw-

ing was made, has been unceasingly flowering for a period

of four months, and it is but now (October 4th) beginning

to sink into its state of winter rest.

Descr. The roots of this plant are fibrous, proceeding

from: subterraneous, filiform stolones, which bear copious

scaly buds, or new plants for the succeeding year. Stems

purple, erect, herbaceous, one to two feet high, rounded,

clothed with patent hairs. Leaves opposite, more generally

ternately or quaternately verticillate, between ovate and

oblong, acute or somewhat acuminate, serrated, hairy, paler

and often purplish beneath. Flowers solitary, but one

springs from the axil of almost every leaf. Peduncles short,

about equal in length with the calyx. Calyx cut into five

deep, lanceolate segments. Corolla salver-shaped. Tube

very long and slender, gracefully curved, pale reddish

purple. Limb very large, spreading, rich violet blue, pale

and almost white beneath: this limb is cut into five broad,

obcordate segments, with the lower segment (from luxuri-

ance) frequently again divided, so as to present six seg-

ments. Style and stamens included.

W Fitch Det!

Pub by S.Curtis. Glazenwood E. ssexlorl 18£2

( 3981 )

MAXILLARIA DECOLOR. PALE-YELLOW -

MAXILLARIA.

KEK KEKE KEKE EEK KEK EE EEE

Class and Order.

GyNANDRIA Monanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—Orcuinez. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium connivens, raro patens. Sepala lateralia

cum basi producta columne. Petala subconformia. La-

bellum trilobum, cucullatum, sessile, cum basi producta

columne articulatum. Columna semiteres, aptera. An-

thera subbilocularis. Pollinia 2, bipartibilia v. integra,

caudicula brevi, glandula transversa.—Epiphyte ( Ameri-

cané) pseudo-bulbose, acaules v. caulescentes. Folia pli-

cata v. coriacea. Pedunculi radicales, axillares v. termi-

nales, uni- v. multifiori. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Maxitraria decolor ; pseudo-bulbis oblongis compressis, ©

foliis solitariis oblongo-lanceolatis plicatis utrinque

acuminatis, scapo radicali multifloro vaginato foliis”

breviore, sepalis ovato-oblongis obtusis patentibus,

petalis duplo minoribus conniventibus, labello postico

obsolete trilobo obtuso cucullato, callis 5 elevatis

goes equilongis ultra medium procurrentibus.

ind.

Maxittaria decolor. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1549.

A native of Jamaica; drawn from a specimen which flow-

ered in the stove of the Botanic Garden of Glasgow, in the

spring of 1840. It possesses little beauty to recommend it,

in comparison with other epiphytal Orchideous plants, and

very much resembles our M. pallidiflora, figured at ‘Tab.

2806 of this work ; but it may be readily known from it by

the very different bulbs, and the callosities within the lip.

Descr. Pseudo-bulbs clustered, elliptical, compressed,

and more or less longitudinally wrinkled, bearing a solitary

leaf at the apex, which is broadly lanceolate, membrana-

ceous, striated and plaited, tapering below into a rounded

stalk, Scape much shorter than the leaf, bearing a droop-

ing raceme of several pale-coloured flowers. Sepals and

petals nearly uniform, pale, rather dull ochreous yellow.

Lip white, obovate, obscurely three-lobed ; within, on the

disk, for nearly three-fourths of its length, having about

five elevated lines or plates. Column and anther -case

white. Pollen-masses yellow.

Fig. 1. Lip. 2. Column. 3. Pollen-masses :—magnified.

Whitey dett

Lhib. by 8. Curtis Glaxenwood. Essea:Dec” 17842,

( 3982 )

SAURAUJA SPECTABILIS. Suowy SAvuRAUJA.

Class and Order.

PotyanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—TERnstTRO@MIACE. )

Generic Character.

Calyx extus ebracteolatus. Petala sepalis alterna basi

plus minus inter se in corollam monopetalam coalita, Sta-

mina numerosa, ime corolla adherentia. Anthere dorso

inserte incumbentes nec adnate. Styli 3—5 ex ovario

distincti. Capsula 5-locularis.

Specific Name and Character.

Saurausa* spectabilis ; ramis pedunculis calycibus folio-

rum nervisque appresso-ferrugineo-setosis, foliis obo-

vato-lanceolatis brevi-acuminatis basi cuneatis petiola-

tis duplicato-serratis, axillis venarum nudis, paniculis

amplis ramosissimis, petalis obcordatis calyce duplo

majoribus.

This fine and undescribed species of Sauravsa was raised

by Mr. Knigur, of the Exotic Nursery, King’s Road, Chel-

sea, from seeds, imported from the republic of Bolivia, in

1838. One seedling only was.reared, and this is now

(1842) twenty inches high, bearing seven branches, with

large and delicate foliage, and no less than thirty-seven

panicles of fragrant flowers, such as that here represented :

some fully expanded, others coming in succession, sO that

its beauty is of long duration ; and we scarcely ever saw

any stove plant more truly elegant and graceful. se

* So named by WILLDENOW, in compliment to some Botanist of the

name of Sauraso, but who is otherwise unknown to fame.

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The Genus Savravsa seems to differ in no particular from

Apatetia, De Canp., and Patava, R. and P., and the species 3

of-which, twenty-six being enumerated by STEUDEL in his“

“ Nomenclator” (to which may be added 8. barbigera and

S. pedunculata, lately figured in Hoox. Ic. Plant. tab. 431,

3 and A41 and 142), have a considerable resemblance one

. with another, and inhabit the tropical parts both of the Old

and of the New world. Our species is, perhaps, most

nearly allied to S. pedunculata; but differs in its foliage,

panicles, &c.

Descr. This fine plant would appear to attain to the

size of a large shrub; its young branches, peduncles, and

petioles sparingly clothed with short, appressed, scattered,

ferruginous bristles. Leaves from six and eight inches toa

foot long, obovato-lanceolate, cuneate below, shortly acu-

minate at the apex, duplicato-serrate, glabrous, except on

the principal nerves, which, on both sides, are beset with

the same short, appressed, ferruginous bristles, which clothe

the other parts of the plant, pale beneath. Panicles axil-

lary, copious, very large, and many times branched. Flow-

ers about three-quarters of an inch broad when fully ex-

panded, exceedingly numerous and fragrant. Calyx of five

ovate, spreading sepals. Corolla of five, spreading, obcor-

date petals, united at their bases by means of the numer-

Ous slamens. Filaments subulate, with long, spreading

hairs at the swollen base. Anthers opening with two

oblique pores at the apex. Germen roundish, glabrous.

Styles 5. Stigmas capitate.

Fig. 1. Flower.

| 2. Two of the Petals and Stamens. 8. Stamen. 4.

Calyx and Pistil,

5. Section of the Germen —magnified.

( 3983 )

CLEMATIS CH@RULEA; 6. grandiflora. VioLet-

BLUE TRAVELLER'S Joy; large-flowered var.

Class and Order.

PotyanpriA Potyeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Ranuncu.acez. )

Generic Character.

Involucrum nullum aut calyciforme subflore. Sepala

4—8 colorata. Petala nulla aut sepalis breviora. Caryop-

sides oo in caudam sepius barbato-plumosam ee

—Radices perenne. Folia exacte opposite. D C.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Ciematis cerulea; scandens patentim pilosa, foliis ternatis

quinatisve (rarius simplicibus), foliolis longe petiolatis

ovatis acutis integerrimis, pedunculis unifloris, sepalis

6 lato-lanceolatis pallide purpureis subtus viridibus

lato purpureo-marginatis.

Crematis cerulea. Hortul.—Lindl. Bot. Reg. tab. 1955.

(8.) grandiflora; floribus duplo majoribus.

Professor Linptey has adopted a garden name for this

plant, which, being a native of Japan, and introduced to

the Horticultural Society of London (and by them liberally

dispersed) through the medium of Holland, is, probably,

so called by its discoverer, Dr. Sresotp. The variety here

figured is twice the size of that represented in the Botanical

Register, and flowered in a pot in the greenhouse during

the summer months. The species, however, proves hardy,

and we have seen it blossoming profusely, trained against

a wall, in the beautiful gardens of Mrs. Lawrence, at

Ealing Park. Desa

Descr. A slender, graceful, climbing plant, its petioles

serving as tendrils. These petioles, as well as the young

stems and branches, are clothed with patent hairs. Leaves

rarely simple, ternate, or quinato-pinnate ; leaflets on long

_ petiolules, ovato-acuminate, quite entire, with frequently

three, nearly parallel, principal nerves, which are branched

and reticulated. Peduncles solitary, single-flowered ; the

Jlowers, in the present instance, five and six inches across.

Sepals of a delicate lilac-blue colour, that is, blue with a

considerable tinge of purple or lilac, not really blue (or

ceruleous), beneath with a central green band. Stamens

numerous ; filaments green; anthers dark purple.

BIS#.

Witch del* Lub ty S. Curtis Glaxenwood EssexDec? L1S#Z. Sean Sc

( 3984 )

MAMMILLARIA TURBINATA. ‘Top-SHAPED

MAMMILLARIA.

KK KKK KKK KEK EEE EERE EE

Class and Order.

IcosaANDRIA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Cacrez. )

Generic Character.

Calycis tubus ovario adherens ; lobi 5—6 colorati fruc-

tum juniorem coronantes. Petala 5—25 a calyce vix dis-

tincta, eo longiora et cum sepalis in tubum concreta.

Stamina filiformia pluriserialia. Stylus filiformis. _ Stagma

3—7-fidum radiatum. Baccalevis oblonga. Semina nidu-

lantia. Cotyledones minute acuminate.—Suffrutices car-

nosi subrotundi aut cylindracei lactescentes aut succo limpido

repleti, aphylli, tuberculis subconicis mammeformibus spira-

liter dispositis, apice spinulas radiantes et tomentum demum

deciduum gerentibus obtecti. Flores inter basin mammilla-

rum sessiles, sepius in zonam transversam dispositi. Bacca

obovata edulis, calyce marcescente, demum deciduo, coronata.

Pfeiff.

| Specific Name and Character.

Mamnitraria turbinata; glauca, subrotunda vertice de-

pressa basi contracta, mammillis obtusis conicis tetra-

gonis apice umbilicatis, supremis spinis 3-4 erectis

acicularibus mammilla quadruplo longioribus, reliquis

nudis.

Mammitzaria turbinata. Hortul.

One of the most distinct of all the species of this numer-

ous Genus, and not likely to be confounded with any other.

It is, too, of rare occurrence in collections, and only known

to us from having been received from the stoves of —

4EE

Ler and Kennepy at Hammersmith, where it bears the name

here retained. It is, probably, a native of Mexico, and

flowers with us in June.

Descr. Our plant is as large as a moderately sized

apple, globose, but depressed at the summit, and contract-

ed at the base, of a singularly pale glaucous hue. At the

contraction, the tubercles, or mammille, are flattened, and

lengthened out transversely ; the rest are prominent, sub-

hemispherical, but obtusely quadrangular and umbilicated

at the top, whence, in the upper ones, arises a fascicle of

from three to five erect, slender, almost filiform spznes,

about four times the length of the mammille ; the rest of the

mammillz are spineless, the spines being deciduous. Flowers

from the upper part of the plant, among the spine-bearing

mammille, of a moderate size, about an inch in diameter.

The petals are of a pale yellow or straw-colour, on the

outside tipped with red. Anthers and stigmas yellow.

Fig. 1. 2. Mammille, with Spines, from the upper part of the plant:—

magnified.

Lub by S.Curtis Glaxenwood Essec Deut 1 1842:

W Fitch del®

( 3985 )

TROPEOLUM AZUREUM. BLUE-FLOWERED

InpIAN CREss.

KKK KKK KEE KEKE EE EEE

Class and Order.

OctranprRIA Monoeynlia.

( Nat. Ord.—Tropzo.ez. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 5-partitus, lobo superiore calcarato. Petala 5 in-

equalia, 3 inferiora minora aut evanida. Stamina 8 ab

ipsa basi libera. Carpella 3 suberosa reniformia indehis-

centia hinc suleata rotundata. Semina magna exalbumi-

nosa, loculum suum implentia et hujus cavitati conformia.

DC.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Tropxo.ium azureum ; foliis peltatis profunde 5-lobis, lobis

lineari-lanceolatis obtusis, petalis unguiculatis lato-

cuneatis bilobis serratis uniformibus patentibus, calycis

petalis duplo minoris calcare conico brevi.

ROPRoLuM azureum. Meers.

It does not commonly happen, that Genera that have

bright-red or orange-coloured flowers, also produce species

with blossoms of a blue colour. LescHENAULTIA Was, for a

long time, only known to us with bright scarlet flowers, in

the instance of the L. formosa. At length, Mr. Drum-

MOND sent from the Swan River Settlement a species bear-

ing blue flowers, We have all been familiar with Tropxora

with red, orange, and yellow-coloured flowers, and, recently,

tubers of a species with blue flowers have been received

from Chili, and it has been the good fortune of Mr. Verrcn,

of the Mount Radford Nursery, Exeter, to be the first to

blossom both the blue LescHENAULTIA and the blue esteh

otuM. The latter, from which our present drawing was

made, excited very great interest at the meeting of the

London Horticultural Society on the 4th of October of the

present year, 1842, and, after some high compliments had

been paid to the successful cultivator, the Society’s silver

medal was awarded to Mr. Veircu, for this interesting addi-

tion to our greenhouse plants. The tubers were sent over,

only two months previously to the day of exhibition, from

Chili, by Mr. Verrcn’s Collector, Mr. Logs. I am not

aware that a description is anywhere given of this plant ;

but there is no reason to doubt its being the T. azwreum of

Mr. Miers’ “ Travels.” The species has not the gay ap-

pearance that we are accustomed to see in the species of

Indian Cress previously known to us: but it is a graceful

and elegant plant, and with the foliage somewhat resem-

bling that of T. tricolorum, it has flowers much more like

those of the common violet. In the structure of the blos-

soms, however, it very much resembles T. brachyceras

(Bot. Mag. tab. 3851).

~Descr. Roots tuberous. Stems slender, herbaceous,

much branched and twining, glabrous, as is every part of

the plant. Leaves alternate, peltate, divided almost to the

base into about five, lanceolate or linear segments ; their

petioles cirrhiform. Peduncles flexuose, slender, longer than

the leaves. Calyx of five deep, almost ovate, slightly

spreading segments, tapering at the base into a short, coni-

cal spur. Petals five, clawed, nearly equal, obcordate, vio-

let-blue colour (deep violet when dry), emarginate and

slightly erose. Stamens eight, oblique. Germen three-

lobed. Style short, thick. Stigma dentate.

Fig. 1. Calyx. 2. Flower cut open. 3. Pistil:—magnified.

W Fitch del

Pub, by §. Curtis laxenwood Fissex’ Decl 11942.

Swen Se

( 3986 )

Bossi#A virGATA. T’'wiacy Bossim@a.

REE KEK EEE EEK EERE EEK

Class and Order.

DiapELPHIA DeEcANpRIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Lecuminosz. )

Generic Character.

Calyx bilabiatus, labio superiore majore semibifido ob-

tuso. Stamina omnia connexa. Legumen plano-compres-

sum pedicellatum polyspermum margine utroque incrassa-

tum. Semina strophiolata.—Frutices Australasici?. Rami

sépe compresst. Folia nulla aut simplicia alterna. Flores

flavi, carina sepe purpurea aut fusca. D C.

Specific Name and Character.

z . . . . + >

Bossiza virgata ; glaberrima, ramis elongatis virgatis anci-

piti-alatis alis submembranaceis adultis etiam foliosis,

foliis petiolatis ellipticis linearibusque, calycis dentibus

rectis, leguminibus glabris.

A Swan River species, detected and introduced to this

country by Mr. James Drummonp, by seeds, received by

Mr. Murray in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, where the

plant flowered in June, 1842. Specimens have also been

sent over for the Herbarium, marked in Mr. Drummonp’s

first collections, No. 56. The species, is, perhaps, most

nearly allied to B. Scolopendrium, and to B. ensata; but

inay be known from both by its bearing leaves, and pretty

copiously, at the same time with the flowers. These flowers

are highly ornamental, and the plant has a very lively

appearance when in blossom. I may mention too, that the

Wings of the stem are of a much thinner texture than in B.

Scolopendrium. ;

Descr. This seems to be rather a tall growing plant,

With o i twi branches, flattened and

ith elongated, upright, twiggy bra batipitate

ancipitate, from the presence of two broad wings, which are

not very thick nor rigid, but rather foliaceous, slightly in-

dented where the leaves are set on. Leaves alternate, rather

closely placed on the young branches, remote on the older

ones, very variable in shape; some oval or even obovate,

some elliptical, or cuneate, or linear, obtuse or acute, and

even mucronated, of a thin and delicate texture jointed

upon a short, slender petiole. Stipules minute, subulate.

Flowers axillary, or from where a leaf has been, solitary,

peduncled ; peduncle about as long as the flower, with two

minute, nearly opposite bracteas. Calyx obovato-cyliudri-

cal, tapering into the peduncle, two-lipped, upper lip singu-

larly truncate with two teeth, lower of three subulate, nearly

equal, straight teeth. The corolla is beautifully variegated

with red and yellow. Standard orbicular, emarginate, with

a pale yellow spot in the centre, surrounded by a deep red

stain, which gradually melts into the orange. Wings red,

yellow at the base and claws. Keel yellow-red at the very

obtuse apex. Filaments white. Anthers yellow. lmma-

ture legumen glabrous.

Fig. 1. Calyx and Stamens. 2. Standard. 3. One of the Wings. 4.

Keel :—magnified.

Note on ALSTR@MERIA psittacina ; var. Errembaulti,

. Tab, 3944.

By the Hon. and Very Reverend the Dean of Manchester.

A letter from Mr, Vannontre of Ghent informs me, that this plant

was raised by Mr. ERREMBAULT DU MEsNItL, at Tournay, from seed,

sent to him from England, by Sir —— Oakes, meaning, doubtless,

Lady Oaxes of Mitcham, from whose garden ALSTR@MERIA heman-

tha, var. pilosa, was figured, Bot. Reg., 1410. The hybrid production

must, therefore, have been accidental, and it may possibly have been

obtained from that plant by pollen of A. psittacina, the colour being

discharged, through the weak and sickly constitution of the plant.

Crosses raised two different years from A. aurea, by pulchra, at Spof-

forth, have curled leaves, and show no disposition to flower, and half

of them have died. The name, it seems, should be spelt Errem-

baulti. W. H.

( 3987 )

LATHYRUS NERVOsUS. NERVE-LEAVED

Latuyrus; or EverLAstTiInG Pra.

Class and Order.

DiApELPHIA DecanpriA.

( Nat. Ord.—Leeuminos2. )

Generic Character.

Calyx campanulatus 5-fidus, lobis 2 superioribus brevio-

ribus. Corolla papilionacea. Stamina diadelpha. Stylus

complanatus, apice dilatatus, antice villosus aut pubescens.

Legumen oblongum, polyspermum, bivalve, 1-loculare.

Semina globosa aut angulata—Herbe sepius scandentes.

Stipule semisagittate. Petioli apice in cirrhum ramosum

abeuntes. Foliola 1—3 juga. Pedunculi axillares. D C.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Latuyrus nervosus ; glaberrimus, caulibus scandentibus

acute angulatis striatis, foliis unijugis elliptico-ovatis

acutis mucronatis nervosis internodio longioribus cir-

rhis elongatis bis trifidis petiolis brevissimis, stipulis

= eagdies wthec ge del: Mla nervosis, pedunculis mul-

tifloris.

Laruyrus nervosus. Lam. Dict. 2. p. 708. De Cand. Prodr.

2. p. 370. Spreng. Syst. Veget. 3. p. 263. Vogel, in

Linnea, 13. p. 32.

Larnyrvs trigonus. Vogel, in Linnea, 13, p. 31 (fide

Herb. nostr.).

A handsome and very desirable greenhouse plant, dis-

covered by Cameron, in rocky places, at Monte Video.

SELLow gathered it in the same locality, and it appears, In a

memoir of some Lecuminos# of South Brazil, in the thir-

teenth volume of the Linnaa, by the late lamented Dr.

VoGeEL,

Voeet, both under the name of nervosus and trigonus. Mr.

Tweepie has the credit of introducing the living plant

fo our gardens, having sent seeds to His Grace the late

Duke of Bedford, from Puerto Bravo, in South Brazil. If

trained neatly to a trellis in a pot, this makes a very pretty

appearance in the greenhouse, with its glaucous foliage and

large blue flowers. We learn that, in summer, it flowers

well in the open border.

Descr. Lamarck describes the stems as one foot long in

its native state. In cultivation, they attain a length of two

and more feet, and are rather stout, triangular, and striated.

Leaves glaucous-glabrous (as is every part of the plant,)

unijugate ; leaflets elliptical-ovate, mucronate, many-nerved,

with the nerves prominent, especially in the dry state, lon-

ger than the internodes in the upper part of the stem.

Petioles very short, almost none. T'endrils very long, gene-

rally twice divided in a trichotomous manner. Stipules

nearly two-thirds the size of the leaflets, ovato-triangular,

semisagittate, resembling the leaflets in texture and vena-

tion. Peduncle axillary, as long as the tendrils, many-

flowered. Flowers large, handsome, pale purplish-blue.

Calyx with five teeth, two-lipped, upper Lip shortest, biden-

tate, lower one with three subulate teeth, of which the

middle one is much the longest. The pod is described as

two inches and a half long, linear, glabrous, containing

seven or eight seeds.

Fig. 1. Calyx, Stamens, and Pistil. 2, Standard of the Corolla. 3.

Pistil :—magnified.

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( 3988 )

Diospyros Sapotra. Sapotra DATE-PLUM.

KKK KK ERE EEK EEE EE REE EE

Class and Order.

Potyeamia Diacia.

( Nat. Ord.—Esenacez. )

Generic Character.

Flores polygami. Calyx profunde 4-rarius 3—6-fidus.

Corolla hypogyna, urceolata, 4- nunc 3—6-fida. Mase.

Stamina ime corolla inserta, ejusdem laciniis dupla v.

rarius quadrupla ; filamenta duplicata, anthere lanceolate.

Ovarii rudimentum. Hermaphrod. Fam. Stamina effceta,

pauciora. Ovarium 8—12 loculare. Ovula in loculis soli-

taria, pendula. Stylus 2-plurifidus ; stagmata simplicia vel

bifida. Bacca globosa, calyce patente demum reflexo sti-

pata, plurilocularis, loculis monospermis. Semina inversa.

Embryo intra albumen cartilagineum obliquus Vv. axilis,

rectus; cotyledonibus foliaceis, radicula supera.—Arbores

vel frutices, inter tropicos crescente ; foliis alternis nteger-

rimis ; pedunculis axillaribus paucifloris. Endl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Diospyros* Sapota; foliis bifariis oblongo-lanceolatis obtu-

siusculis basi attenuatis glaberrimis, pedunculis in

ramis junioribus axillaribus, floribus sericeis masc. 3-

multifi.hermaphr. I-floris, corolla urceolato, limbo

5-lobo patente, florum hermaphr. stam. sub-16, stylo

5-fido, bacca globosa subtetrasperma.

Diosprros Sapota. Roxb. Flora Indica, v. 2. p- 535.

Diosryros edulis. Loddiges’ Cat.

Sarorre Negro. Sonnerat, Voy. 4 la Nouv. Guin. p. 45. <

tab. 14, 15, et 16.

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* Brom fevg, dog, Jupiter, or the deity, and. wupas, 97aw, OF fru

of several species one eatable, may have given rise to so grand a name.

VOL. XVI. F

In the rich and well cultivated collection of tropical fruits

at Syon House, which has so long engaged the attention of

the noble proprietor, this rare and very little known plant

has produced ripe fruit, which is the more interesting,

since, in the Calcutta Botanic Garden, whence it has been

sent to Europe, Dr. Roxsuren informs us that, though it

grows most Juxuriantly, and blossoms in the hot season, it

has never perfected its fruit. The Syon plant was received

from Mr. Loppiees, who had it direct from the Calcutta

Botanic Garden, and, as he informs me, under the name of

edulis. There is, however, no such name in Watticn’s

Catalogue, nor among the many specimens of Diospyros

sent by Dr. Watticu to this country : but I find it identical

with Dr. Watuicu’s specimens of D. Sapota (Roxs.) in my

Herbarium :—and this at once leads us to a knowledge of

the history and native country of the plant. Dr. Roxsurex

himself appears to have erred in this latter particular : for

he states it to be a native of the Mauritius, because it was

thence introduced, by the late Hyder Ally, into his garden

at Seringapatam ; from whence, in 1804, Dr. Berry of

Madras sent Dr. Roxsurex good specimens and the entire

ripe fruit. Dr. Roxsuren most correctly refers it to the

little known Sarorre-neero of Sonnerat’s learned voyage,

where the admirable figures of the flowering specimen

and fruit, given in three separate plates, leave not a doubt

on the subject. Again, on referring to Bosrr’s “ Hortus

Mauritianus,” I find the “‘ Saporre-Negro” is mentioned as

an introduced plant. He calls it, indeed, D. decandra, Lam.

(which can have nothing to do with it) ; but the name, in

conjunction with his description of the fruit, rond, un peu

déprimé, de la grosseur d’une pomme, noir a sa parfaite

maturité, et d’un géut assez agréable,” clearly shows what

plant he had in view. We must look, therefore, to Son-

NERAT for the native country, and for the best, and, indeed,

the only history of this plant. He had arrived at Lucon, the

principal of the Philippine Islands, on which Manilla is

situated, and his vessel had come to an anchor at Cavite,

situated at the head of a bay three leagues distant S. E.

of Manilla. Thence he made excursions to a small settle-

ment near Culamba, where was a hot spring (69° of Reav-

muR), in which were fish and aquatic animals, and where

certain shrubs, whose roots penetrated the water, while the

branches were saturated with the steam, were growing

vigourously. “ Quitting,” he continues, “ the village, tra-

versed by the stream of hot water, as mentioned above, I

pursued

pursued my way towards the East, and, after walking three

hours, found myself in an immense plain. The only inha-

bited part, that I could see, consisted of a small village. A

rill of clear, pure, and well-tasted water, proceeding from

the summit of an adjacent mountain, traversed this village,

and diffusing itself over the plain, increased its fertility. —

Wide fields were enamelled with flowers, whose varied hues

and sweet perfume delighted alike the eye and scent. It

were difficult for imagination to conceive a sweeter abode,

and the inhabitants received me so kindly, and offered me

so many marks of friendship, that, attracted also by the

simplicity of their manners, I staid for some time in this

happy spot. I investigated the productions of its fertile

soil and gathered several plants, which sufficed to confer

upon me the reputation of a skilful physician in the opinion

of the inhabitants, who, fond of life, as all men are, and cre-

dulous as to the means of prolonging it, quickly brought

me their sick, and begged for medicines. Of these 1 order-

ed but few ; but enquired what they were themselves in the

habit of using, and found that the number of their remedies

was small, their Pharmacopeia consisting of the seeds of

JampBoux-meEpica*, with the oil extracted from the same .

fruit, and of Sarorra negro. They bruise the seeds and

fruit of the Sarorra, and, mixing them with the oil, com-

pose a kind of liniment, with which they rub their wounds,

or that part of the body which is the seat of the pain.”

The fruit-bearing plant at His Grace the Duke of North-

umberland’s, is about ten feet high. Its flowers are ee

duced copiously in the autumnal months, and the fruit

ripens in April of the following year.

Descr. A tall, handsome shrub, with numerous, spread-

ing, smooth branches and copious evergreen foliage. The

leaves are alternate and bifarious, petiolated, oblong-lance--

olate, subcoriaceous, six to eight inches long, glabrous,

entire, penninerved, rather obtuse at the point, attenuated

at the base. Petiole scarcely an inch long. Peduncles very

short, axillary; those producing male-blossoms many-flow-

ered ; those with perfect blossoms, single-flowered. Calyx

ample, large, cut into five, deep, ovate laciniew, whose mar-

gins and sinuses are revolute, externally slighty ary.

0

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* The Jampoux-Mepica is the Tacamoxa of the Isle of France, and is

common at Madagascar, where the natives call it Foura, and also employ it

iM most of their remedies. Sonnerat.

Corolla urceolate, thick and fleshy, twice as long as the

calyx, and more silky, yellowish-white. Stamens about

sixteen, in two ranks, arising from the base of the tube of

the corolla. -Pistil: Germen ovate, tapering into a short,

thick style, with five erect stigmas : but the number appears

inconstant. Fruit a large, globose berry, of an olive but

yellowish-green colour when ripe, filled with a dark, soft,

and paste-like pulp. The flavour of this is agreeable ; but

not so pleasant to the eye. Near the centre of this pulp are.

four or five cells, each containing a large, rather irregular,

oval, compressed seed. Albumen between horny and fleshy.

Embryo inverted, the radicle turned towards the hilum.

Fig. 1. Calyx and Pistil. 2. Corolla laid open: magnified. 3. Fruit.

4. Section of ditto: nat. size. 5. Seed, ditto. 6. Seed laid open: magnified.

IISY.

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( 3989 )

CALLISTEMON PINIFOLIUM. PINE-LEAVED

CALLISTEMON.

Class and Order.

Icosanpr1A Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Myrracez. )

Generic Character.

Calycis tubus semisphericus, limbus 5-partitus, lobis ob-

tusis. Petala 5. Stamina numerosa, filamentis liberis elon-

gatis, antheris incumbentibus. Stylus filiformis. Stigma

capitatum. Capsula 3-locularis polysperma connata et In-

clusa calycis tubo incrassato et basi ramo adnato.—Frutices

Nove Hollandie. Inflorescentia Melaleuce. Stamina libe-

ra Metrosideri. Folia elongata rigida alterna. D C.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

CaLuistemon * pinifolium ; foliis lineari-filiformibus acerosis

rigidis mucronatis canaliculatis tuberculato-scabris,

calycibus glabris.

Caxusremon pinifolium. De Cand. Prod. v.3. p. 223. ;

Mertrosiperos pinifolia. Wendl. « Coll. 1. p. 53. t. 26. Willd.

Enum. p. 513.

Merrosiperos viridiflora. Cels. (not Sims.)

A tall-growing shrub, or small tree, native of New Hol-

land, and introduced to the Royal Gardens of Kew by the —

late Mr. Cunnincuam, many years ago :—so that our finest —

Specimen has now attained a height of nine feet ; and pro-

ducing its pale yellow-green flowers, as it does, among the

dark foliage, at a season when the young tufts of leaves “

* From xaos, beautiful, and crnper, a stamen ; from the length and beauty

of the copious stamens. .*

*

of alilac colour, and of the most delicate feathery character,

the appearance of the plant is very striking. Planted ina

large tub, it stands out abroad the whole summer, and in

winter is kept in a cool greenhouse.

It flowers in July.

Descr. A small tree, with spreading, greenish-brown,

angular branches. Leaves spreading, alternate, linear, fili-

form, acerose, three to four or five inches long, the young

ones forming tufts at the extremity of the branches, and

sheathed at the base by several long, imbricated, membra-

naceous scales. These young leaves are of the most deli-

cate texture, waving with the slightest breeze, ofa pale-lilac

colour, and feathery from the copious soft hairs with which

they are clothed. As they advance in age, the sheathing

scales fall away, the hairs disappear, and the leaves become

harsh, and dart green, grooved above, minutely granulated

on the surface, and besides beset with numerous tubercles:

the apex is mucronated. Flowers copious, sessile, axillary.

Calyx of four green, obtuse lobes, glabrous. Corolla ot

four very concave, green petals, twice the length of the

calyx. Filaments erect, four times as long as the corolla,

numerous, yellow-green. Anthers yellow.

Fig. 1. Germen and Calyx. 2. Petal. 3, 4. Upper and under side of

portions of the Leaf :—magnijied.

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BEGONIA COCCINEA. SCARLET-FLOWERED

Begonia ; or Elephant’s Ear.

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Chas and Order.

MonezcraA PoxnyAanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—BeconiaceEz. )

Generic Character.

Masc. Calyx 0. Corolla polypetala, petalis pleramque

4, inequalibus——Fam. Calyx o. Corolla petalis g;

plerumque inequalibus. Styli 3, bifidi. Capsula trique-

tra, alata, trilocularis, polysperma.

Specific Name and Character.

Breonia coccinea ; foliis obliquis oblongo-ovatis acumina-

tis carnosis sinuatis serratis rubro-marginatis, stipulis

amplis obovatis concavis coloratis deciduis, paniculis

nutantibus, floribus intense coccineis, masc, petalis 4

rotundatis quorum 2 minimis, foem. petalis 5—6 zqua-

libus ovatis, capsula pyriformi, alis 3 equalibus.

Unquestionably the most beautiful of the many handsome

species of Breconra now known to our collections, and,

apparently, a very free flowerer. It was imported by Mr.

Verrcu of the Exotic Nursery, from the Organ Mountains of

Brazil, that rich storehouse of vegetable beauties: being

there detected by Mr. Lose in 1841. It blossomed at Mr.

VEITCH’s Nursery soon after it was received, namely, in

April, 1842, when it was exhibited at the apartments of the

Horticultural Society. When the plants become larger,

and the blossoms, consequently, more copious, It will be a

truly splendid species: and, like most 0 the Brconias, its

Owers continue a long time in perfection. — :

_ Descr. The plant from which our drawing and descrip-

tion w cely a foot high, with a rather stout,

ere made, was scarcely gh, seat

knotted stem. Leaves alternate, very oblique, or inequi-

lateral, between ovate and oblong, shortly acuminate, con-

caye, very thick and fleshy, the margin sinuated and tooth-

ed, bordered with red. Petioles scarcely an inch long: at

the base of the upper ones are very large, concave, obovate,

membranaceous, coloured stipules, which soon fall away as

the leaves attain maturity. Peduncles axillary and termi-

nal, rather short, red, bearing a dichotomous, spreading,

and drooping panicle: its branches everywhere red, and

with oblong, concave, red, deciduous bracteas. Flowers

bright scarlet, exceedingly beautiful. Male flowers of four

rounded, spreading petals, or sepals ; female, of five or six

spreading, oblong-ovate, and equally-sized ones. Stamens

and styles yellow. Germen and nearly-mature fruit clavate,

or narrowly pyriform, triangular, with three almost equal,

of phe and, below, decurrent wings. The germens

and young fruz are both red.

Fig. 1. Section of a Germen. 2. Female Flower ;—slightly magnified.

W Fitch. del® Pub by SS Curtis Glaxrenwood Fs sex: Jan] I&43

( 3991 )

PuAsus Abus. Wuuite Puagus.

SEK KEE KKK KEEEKKEK

Class and Order.

GyNANDRIA Monanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—OrcuinEz. )

Generic Character.

Sepala et petala subequalia, patentia, libera. Labellum

sepius cucullatum, cum basi columne adnatum, calcara-

tum, integrum vel trilobum, sepius supra carinatum lamel-

Josum vel cristatum. Colwmna erecta, cum ovario continua,

semiteres, marginata, elongata. Anthera 8-locularis. Pol-

linia 8 subequalia.—Herbe terrestres (Asiatice), caules-

centes vel acaules, foliis latis plicatis. Scapi radicales.

Flores speciosi. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Puasus albus; caulescens, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis

subtus glaucis, sepalis petalisque oblongo-lanceolatis

acutis subaqualibus, labello oblongo cucullato denti-

culato apice rotundato, disco 5-cristato, calcare recti-

usculo emarginato, (bracteis cucullatis herbaceis per-

sistentibus imbricatis floribus equalibus). Lindl.

Puasus albus. Lindl. in Wall. Plant. Asiat. Rar. ». 2. t.

198. Gen. et Spec. Orchid. p. 128. Bot. Reg. 1838.

t. 33,

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This truly beautiful plant is stated by Dr. Watxicn (to

whom our stoves are indebted for its introduction), to be a

native of trees on Mount Chandaghiry in Nepal, and in the

neighbourhood of Silhet. The specimen here figured

flowered in the Royal Botanic Garden of Kew, in July,

Like that represented by Dr. Linoxey, it differs from

Dr. Waxticu’s figure, in the want of a yellow disk to —

the labellum. Descr

Descr. It is a caulescent species, with rather remote

oblong -lanceolate, somewhat distichous leaves, striated,

waved, and having long, sheathing bases, which clothe the

entire stem. The raceme of flowers springs, as it were, from

the sheathing base of the upper leaf, and is drooping. It

consists of from six to eight large, delicate flowers, with

large, concave, ovate, deciduous bracteas. Petals and

sepals spreading, nearly equal, oblong-lanceolate, acumi-

nate, white. Zip shorter than the perianth, oblong, the

sides involute, the apex spreading and much waved and

ciliated : the whole white ; but on the disk of the labellum

are five longitudinal lines of soft, erect, short, purple spines.

Column semicyliudrical, dilated upwards. Pollen-masses

eight, yellow.

Fig. 1. Column. 2. Pollen-masses. 3. Lip :—magnvfied.

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( 3992 )

Inex Paracuavensis. Marte, or Para-

GUAY TEA.

ERK KEK KEE EEE EKER ERE

Class and Order.

* 'TetTRANDRIA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Aguiro.iacez. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 4—5-dentatus, persistens. Petala 4—5, hypo-

gyna (ex Kunth), sepalis alterna, hunc libera, nunc basi in

corollam rotatam subcoalita. Stamina 4—5, petalis alterna

hypogyna. Ovarium sessile, 4-loculare, stigmatibus sessili-

us 4—}5 nunc distinctis nunc in 1 coalitis coronatum.

Bacca 4—5-pyrena, nucleis oblongis apice umbilicatis 1-

spermis. Semen inversum ; albumen carnosum, Embryo

m apice nidulans.—Frutices sempervirentes, foliis sepius

coriaceis, pedunculis multifloris, floribus hermaphroditis ra-

rissime abortu dioicis aut polygamis. D C. f

LES os

Specific Character and Syononyms.

a : Ga a

idtex* Paraguayensis; glaberrima, foliis cuneato-lanceo-

latove ovatis obtusiusculis obtuse inzqualiter serratis

inferne integerrimis, racemis axillaribus paniculatis,

pedicellis subumbellatis, calyce pubescente, drupis

(siccis) suboctosulcatis. :

(#.) foliis latioribus fere obovatis. (Tas. nostr. 3992).

Hook. Lond. Journ. of Bot. v. 1. p. 35. Tab, I. HL.

{uex Paraguayensis. Lamb. Pin. Tab. HU. cum deser.

(1824). Spreng. Syst. Veget. cur. post. p. 48. (excl.

Syn. St. Hil.) Se =

(8.) foliis minoribus superne angustioribus subtus—

nigro-punctulatis. Hook. 1. c. ;

inex Maté. A. J. Gomes, in Herb. Lindl.

(y-) foliis longioribus angustioribus sensim acuminatis fere ="

oblongo-lanceolatis subtus copiose nigro-punctulatis. —

Hook. l. c. Tab. UL. 4

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* According to Tuérs, this name is derived from ec, or ac, a sharp,

acute point, in the Celtic language.

Inex Paraguariensis. Aug. St. Hil. Mém. du Mus. d’ Hist.

Nat. v. 9. p. 351. (1822) note. De Cand. Prodr. ». 2.

p.15. Aug. St. Hil. Voy. dans le district des Diamans et

sur le littoral du Brésil et du Parag. v. 1. p. xl.

If the plant here represented does not exhibit magnificent

or splendidly-coloured flowers, it must yet be acknowledged

to be a production of some public and commercial interest,

since it has afforded for a century and a half, the common

beverage of an equally large portion of the inhabitants of

South America, as the Tea of Chinain the old World. Yet,

strange to say, till within these few years, the plant has been

quite unknown to Botanists, and all the plantations of it

have been the property of one individual, the late celebrat-

ed Dr. Francia, Dictator of Paraguay. There is not here

space sufficient to enter into the history of this useful shrub;

but it is of the less consequence, as all that I have been

able to collect on the subject is given in the first volume of

the ‘* London Journal of Botany,” p. 30 and following

pages, accompanied by three plates, two representing the

plant itself, and one the Maté-cup from which the infusion 1s

drunk, In that Memoir, it is mentioned that the Glasgow

Botanic Garden possessed a living individual of the Para-

guay Tea. This has lately bloomed, in June, 1842, and it

is from the flowering specimen, kindly communicated by

my good friend, Mr. Murray, that the accompanying draw-

ing was made. The Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew also

now possess a growing plant, through the kindness of

Messrs. Lucompe and Pince of Exeter. It may be cultivat-

ed successfully in a warm greenhouse. Its native country

seems to be Paraguay, but extending as far North as the

Organ Mountains of Brazil.

Descr. The plant here figured has attained a height of about six

feet. It is everywhere glabrous. The leaves are opposite, petiolated,

broadly obovate or nearly ovate, subcoriaceous, acuminated, serrated in

the upper half, rather suddenly tapering at the base into the petiole,

which is little more than half an inch long. Peduncles axillary, gene-

rally bearing three branches, and, at the apex of each branch, an um-

bellate cluster of flowers. Calyx of four rounded lobes, downy on the

outside. Corolla rotate, pale green; the four lobes spreading. Sta-

mens four, alternating with the lobes of the corolla. Germen depress-

ed, concave in the centre, from which arises a short style, with an

obscurely trifid stigma :—but, in this case, the pistil is, possibly, abor-

ve,

Fig, 1. Flower and Flower-bud :—magnified,

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ACHIMENES MULTIFLORA. MANY-FLOWERED

ACHIMENES.

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Class and Order.

Dipynamia ANGIOSPERMIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Gesneriace. )

Generic Character.

Calycis tubus ovario aduatus, limbus 5-partitus, lobis lan-

ceolatis. Corolla tubuloso-infundibuliformis basi hinc sepe

gibba, limbo plano 5-fido, lobis subequalibus subrotundis.

Stamina 4 didynama, antheris non coherentibus. Rudi-

mentum stamin, quinti corolle basi inferne impositum.

Nectarium glandulosum annulare tenue. Stylus in stigma

vix incrassatum obliquum aut subbilobum abeuns. Cap-

sula semibilocularis, bivalvis, placentis parietalibus subses-

silibus.—Herba Americane erecte villose. Folia opposita

aut terno-verticillata petiolata dentata. Pedicelli 1-flori,

axillares. Corolle coccinee aut purpuree multo quam

Gloxinize minores. Radices, saltem specierum rite cogni-

tarum, bulbillis squamosis onuste. D C.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Achimenes multiflora; tota hirsuta, foliis petiolatis oppo-

sitis ternisve ovatis acutis basi obtusis argute subdupli-

cato-serratis, pedunculis axillaribus 3—5-floris, calycis

lobis linearibus hirsutis, corolle2 tubo infundibuliformi

decurvo limbi lobis rotundatis inferiore precipue fim-

briato. : bee

(z.) corolle lobo inferiore solummodo fimbriato.

Acuimenes multiflora. Gardn. Herb. Braz. n. 3873. in

Hook. Ic. Pl. Tab. 468. Ne

(8.) corolle lobis omnibus grosse fimbriatis. ( Tab. nostr.

3993. )

This very beautiful stove plant inhabits dry banks, in

woods, on the Serra de Santa Brida, and near Villa de

Arayos,

Arayos, in the province of Goyaz, Brazil, and seeds were

sent home from thence by Mr. Garpner, its discoverer.

The plants flowered first at the Royal Botanic Garden of

Glasgow, and then at Kew, where our figure was made.

The autumn has been its season of blossoming with us,

and it continues long in that state, a succession of flowers

continually expanding. The fringe on the limb of the

corolla is extremely variable. In the figure taken from the

dried specimen in “ Icones Plantarum” above quoted, the

lower lobe is alone fringed, and that imperfectly. In our

plant, all the lobes are deeply so. The whole habit of the

species is so extremely like that of Groxin1a tcthyostoma

(Garon. in Ic. Plant. t. 472), that it seems contrary to

nature to place it in a different Genus; but Mr. GARDNER

observes that, the bifid stigma, and entire annulus of this

plant, prove it to belong to AcuImENEs.

Descr. An annual, according to Mr. GARDNER ; every-

where hairy, except the corolla. Stem simple, about a foot

high. Leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, ovate, rather

coarsely serrate. Peduncles axillary, solitary, bracteated,

three-flowered. Calyx half-superior, five-cleft, the seg-

ments broadly linear. Corolla nearly two inches long, deep

lilac within, paler without, especially the tube : this latter is

funnel-shaped, curved downwards, slightly gibbous at the

base ; the Limb oblique, of five nearly equal, rounded lobes,

strongly fimbriated at the margin. Stamens four, didyna-

mous, with the rudiment of.a fifth: anthers cordate, united

into a cross. Germen ovate, the free part hairy, surround-

ed by an entire annular disk. Style about equal in length

with the tube. Stigma clavate, bifid.

Fig. 1. Pistil. 2. Stamens :—magnified.

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AcRONYCHIA CUNNINGHAMI. Mr. ALLAN

CUNNINGHAM’s ACRONYCHIA.

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Class and Order.

OctanpriaA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Rutacea. )

Generic Character.

Calyx brevis, quadripartitus, laciniis estivatione imbri-

catis. Corolle petala 4, ad basin disci hypogyni inserta,

calyce majora, xstivatione valvata. Stamina 8, sub disco

Inserta, omnia corolla, alterna petalis opposita reliquis bre-

viora. Ovarium sessile, basi disco carnoso, truncato, octa-

gono, levi, adnatum, quadriloculare. Ovula in locnlis

gemina, angulo centrali infra apicem collateraliter inserta,

amphitropa. Stylus brevissimus vel subnullus, ovario con-

tinuus ; stigma capitatum, quadrilobum. Fructus bacce-

formis, subglobosus, quadrilocularis, sarcocarpio crasso,

subcarnoso, endocarpio tenui, crustaceo, loculis abortu mo-

hospermis. Semina inversa, nucumentacea, atra, dorso

convexa, facie acuta; umbilico lineari. Embryo intra albu-

men carnosum rectus ; cotyledonibus ellipticis ; radicula bre-

vi supera.—Arbores vel arbuscula, in Asia et Australasia

tropica et subtropica indigene ; foliis oppositis, petiolatis,

simplicibus, integerrimis, minutissime pellucido -punctatis,

aromaticis, petiolo apice interdum tumido et subgeniculato,

inflorescentiis axillaribus cymoso-paniculatis, pauci-multi-

Jloris, folio brevioribus, petalis et filamentis glanduloso-punc-

tatts. Endl.

Specific Name and Character.

Acronycuia * Cunninghami ; foliis oblongis utrinque acu-

tis, cymis axillaribus, filamentis margine fimbriato cili-

atis alternis brevioribus omnibus inferne in tubum

subcoalitis. ks :

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* So named by ForsTER, from axpos, the top, or summit, and owé, onyor,

a claw, Seckiise in the original species, there is an incuryed point at the top

of the petals,

VOL. XVI. G

A tall, handsome, evergreen shrub, a native of Moreton

Bay, New Holland, where it was detected by Mr. Atzan

Cunnineuam, and by him introduced to the Royal Gardens

at Kew, where it receives the ordinary treatment of green-

_house plants, and blossoms in the months of May and June.

The flowers at first sight have a good deal the appearance

of those of the Orange, and the odour bears a still greater

resemblance to those much prized flowers; but it 1s com-

bined with the aromatic warmth of Ginger. The foliage

when bruised diffuses a very terebinthaceous smell, arising

from the numerous pellucid glands, with which it abounds.

The Genus to which I have referred it, is the same with

Cyrminosma, Gzrrn., (of which a species is given at Tas.

3322 of the present work, the C. oblongifolia, A. C.,) and

JAMBOLIFERA, Linn. ; and, at first sight, would seem to

have as strong a claim to be referred to AURANTIACEH @S

to Ruracez. Ewnpuicner places it in the “ Genera XAN-

THOXYLIs affinia.” Had it the beautiful and delicious fruit

of the Orange, it would be equally worthy of cultivation.

The fragrant and Orange-like flowers, will, however, always

recommend it as a desirable greenhouse plant.

As regards the species, it possesses, probably, much the largest

flowers of any yet known to us, and by these, and the nature of the

stamens, and the different forms of the leaves, it may readily be distin-

guished from A. Endlicheri, and A, Baueri (from Norfolk Island),

figured in Scuott’s “ Rutacezx,” Tab, 2 and 3.

Descr. A shrub, with us about six or seven feet high, everywhere

glabrous; the branches terete, green. Leaves opposite, or nearly So,

petiolate, the blade articulated on the petiole, three to five inches long,

oblong, coriaceous, entire, acute at both ends, penninerved and reticu-

lated between the principal nerves, dark green above, paler and rather

glossy beneath; when held between the eye and the light, they are

seen to be full of pellucid dots, which contain a fragrant, essential oil.

Petiole from half an inch to an inch long, flat above, rounded beneath.

Peduncle axillary, much shorter than the leaf, bearing a cyme of from

three to five or six cream-coloured flowers. Calyx of four rounded,

concave sepals, membranaceous at the margin. Corolla of four mode-

rately spreading, ovate, thickish petals, four times as long as the calyx.

Stamens eight, alternately longer, broadly subulate, the margins dense-

ly ciliato-fimbriate, and so interwoven in the lower part of the filaments,

that these latter seem below to be united into a tube; but by a little

force, they may be separated, and then it is seen that there is no actual

union of the filaments. Germen subglobose, four-lobed, densely clothed

with reddish hairs, four-celled, the cells two-seeded, the seeds, or

ovules, collateral. This germen is seated on a large orange-coloured,

fleshy disk, four-lobed, the lobes again two-lobed. Style about as long

as the stamens, white, filiform, with a few spreading hairs at the base.

Stigma capitate, obscurely two- (or, perhaps, four-) lobed.

Fig, 1. Flower, from which the Petals are removed. 2, Pisti], and Glandular Disk. 3-

Two of the Stamens. 4. Germen cut through transversely, showing ths atrangement of the

Ovules in the Cells :—magnified.

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GESNERIA POLYANTHA. MANY-FLOWERED

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Class and Order.

Dipynamia ANGIOSPERMIA.

( Nat. Ord.—GesneriAceg. )

Generic Character.

Calyx ovarii basi adnatus, limbo subinzqualiter 5-partito

libero. Corolla tubulosa; limbo 5-lobo, lobis nunc in labio

duo dispositis, nunc subequalibus. Stamina 4 didynama,

cum quinti rudimento. Anthere juniores coherentes. Sty-

lus filiformis, stigmate capitato aut bilobo. Glandule pe-

rigyne 2—5. apsula coriacea, bivalvis, valvis convexis,

Placentis 2 parietalibus polyspermis. Semina scobiformia.

—Herbe perennes, radice tuberosa, rarius frutices. Cau-

lis simplex aut opposite ramosus. Folia opposita aut verti-

eillata, dentata. Pedunculi simplices uniflori, aut ramosi

multiflori axillares aut in thyrsum racemumve terminalem

dispositi.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Gesweria (Eversnerta) polyantha ; herbacea, foliis oppo-

sitis petiolatis amplis cordato-ovatis crenatis utrinque

pubescenti-scabris, panicula_ terminali ramosissima,

pedicellis (calycibusque) glabris elongatis gracilibus

aggregatis, floribus pendulis, corolla glaberrime tubo

curvato sursum ampliato, limbo patente lobis rotun-

datis subequalibus, glandulis hypogynis 2 oblongis

approximatis.

Gesneria polyantha. De Cand. Prodr. v. 7. p. 528.

Gesneria discolor. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1841, t. 63.

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Of the many beautiful Gesnerta with which South Ame-

rica has, of late years, enriched our stoves, few aboard a

richer

richer and handsomer appearance than the one now figured,

of which roots were sent from the Organ Mountains of

Brazil to Messrs. Verrcu of the Mount Radford Nursery,

Exeter, by their Collector, Mr. Loss. The plants produc-

ed their rich and copiously flowered panicles in August

(1842), and from the first that blossomed the present draw-

ing was made. The same species I find in Mr. Garpner’s

rich Brazilian Collections from the same locality, marked

No. 467 of his distributed plants: but my specimen bears

the remark, “‘ I found only a single plant of this species,

growing on a rock, by the side of a small stream, far ina

virgin forest, February, 1837.” It is a tall growing species,

and one of the leaves, exclusive of the petiole, is a foot

long, and nine inches broad. :

Descr. The entire plant I have not seen, but it would

appear to attain a height of some feet, with opposite, large,

cordato-ovate, rather membranaceous leaves, with a rather

deep sinus at the base, the apex rather obtuse, the margin

irregularly crenate, the surface on both sides pubescent

with numerous short hairs. The panicle is terminal, large,

much branched, tinged with purple, glabrous, especially

the secondary branches and pedicels, which latter are often

aggregate ; at the setting on of the branches and pedicels

are small, subulate bracts. Flowers drooping. Calyx gla-

brous ; the tube almost wholly adnate with the base of the

germen, the limb of five moderately spreading, ovate, acute

lobes, tipped with red. Corolla two inches long, rich scar-

let, the mouth with yellow rays, glabrous ; the tube curved,

gradually enlarging upwards: the limb of five, spreading,

nearly equal, rounded lobes. The free part of the germen

is oblongo-ovate, a little constricted above the middle; it

tapers into a style the length of the tube of the corolla.

Hypogynous glands, two approximate, large in proportion

to the size of the germen.

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LATHYRUS PUBESCENS. Downy Soutu Ame-

ricaN Latnyrus; or Everlasting Pea.

Class and Order.

DiApeLeHia DeEcanpnria.

( Nat. Ord.—Leeuminosa. )

Generic Character.

Calyx campanulatus 5-fidus, lobis 2 superioribus brevi-

oribus. Corolla papilionacea. Stamina diadelpha. Stylus

complanatus, apice dilatatus, antice villosus aut pubescens.

Legumen oblongum, polyspermum, bivalve, 1-loculare.

Semina globosa aut avgulata—Herbe sepius scandentes.

Stipule semisagittate. Petioli apice in cirrhum ramosum

abeuntes. Foliola 1—3 juga. Pedunculi axillares. D C.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Laruyrus pubescens ; superne molliter subsericeo-pubes-

cens, caule quadrangulari anguste alato, foliis tirrhosis

unijugis, foliolis oblongo-lanccolatis nervosis mucrona-

tis petiolum duplo superantibus, stipulis semisagittato-

ovatis petiolum subequantibus, cirrhis trifidis, pedun-

culis folium multoties superantibus multifloris, calyci-

bus germinuibusque sericeis, dentibus calycinis lato-

lanceolatis subaqualibus. !

Latuyrus pubescens. Hook. et Arn. in Bot. of Beech. Voy.

p. 21. Hook. Bot. Misc. v. 3. p. 198.

Laruyrus acutifolius? Vogel, in Linnea, 0. 13. p..27.

A hardy greenhouse plant, perhaps even able to bear

cultivation entirely in the open border. It is grown, we

believe, in several collections, and was introduced by Mr.

Tweepie from Buenos Ayres ; but whether it is found wild

near that place, or only in the interior of the Argentine

| : province,

province, does not appear. Mr. Bairp gathered it on islands

in the Parana. If, as I suspect, it be the same with the L.

acutifolius of Voget, it is also found in South Brazil. Dr.

Gixuits detected the plant about Mendoza; and it extends,

we know, as far westward as Conception and Valparaiso on

the shores of the Pacific. In general habit it is nearly

allied to L. nervosus (Bot. Mag. t. 3987), the flowers being

very similar, though the leaves are widely different. Trained

in a pot, and placed in a cool greenhouse, it bears its large

purplish-blue flowers in May.

Descr. Stems two to three feet long, trailing, four-

angled, the angles moderately winged. Leaves unijugate,

glaucous; leaflets narrow oblong-lanceolate, striated, hairy,

almost silky, which is the case with all the upper part of

the plant, acute and mucronate. Petiole half the length of

the leaflets, at the base of which is a pair of ovate, semi-

sagittate, striated stipules, nearly equal in length with the

etiole. Peduncle axillary, many times longer than the

eaves, bearing a capitate raceme of several flowers. Calyx

and germen silky. The rest of the inflorescence is very

similar to that of L. nervosus above mentioned.

Fig. 1. Flower, from which the Petals are removed. 2. Pistil :—mag-

nified.

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Class and Order.

PenTANDRIA Dicynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Apocynez. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 5-partitus, laciniis intus squamula instructis. Co-

rolla hypocrateriformis aut infundibuliformis, tubo plus

minus elongato, limbo 5-partito, laciniis subinequilateralis,

fauce nuda. Stamina inclusa, antheris sagittatis, raro hasta-

tis vel subcordatis, Ovaria 2, glandulis 5 hypogynis cincta

aut superata. Stylus 1. Stigma capitatum. Folliculi 2,

cylindracei, angusti, seminibus comosis. Mart. et Stadelm.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Ecuires hirsuta ; foliis late ovatis ovato-oblongis v. oblon-

gis cuspidatis basi contracta auriculato-cordatis, race-

mis lateralibus elongatis multifloris, corolla tubo ex-

tus albo-villoso e medio infundibuliformi, limbi laci-

niis obovatis hinc dente laterali longiusculo, folliculis

semipedalibus subtorulosis hirsutis. Stadelm.

Ecuires hirsuta. Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Per. p. 19. t. 136.

Spreng. Syst. Veget.v. 9. Vell. Fl. Flum. v. 3, t. 44.

Stadelmeyer, Echit. Brasil. in Biebl. zur Flora, oder

Bot. Zeit. 1841, Erst. Band. p. 1.

The South American species of Ecurres are numerous,

little known, ‘iL aencetloail : yet, I have reason to believe

that this is correctly referred to E. hirsuta of Ruiz and

Pavon, and that it is a species widely dispersed throughout

South America, and especially frequent in Brazil. Less

beautiful, unquestionably, than the E. splendens (Bot. me

a + ap.

tab. 3976), it is yet a very handsome plant, bearing its deli-

cate yellow and rim-chloured blossoms of a large size in

the month of September, in the stove of Messrs. Verrcu of

Exeter, where alone, we believe, it at present exists in this

country. It was sent by their Collector, Mr. Loss, from

the Organ Mountains of the Brazils, during the preceding

foe and is a highly valuable acquisition to our hothouse

plants,

Descr. A twining Shrub, with downy and terete branches.

Leaves opposite, petioled, oblong-obovate, cuspidato-acu-

minate, entire, slightly waved at the margin, somewhat

contracted at the base, and auriculato-cordate, slightly

downy above, beneath almost hairy, especially upon the

veins and midrib. Petiole about an inch in length, downy,

terete. Peduncle axillary, scarcely so long as the leaf, stout

in proportion to its length, the upper half constituting a

raceme of flowers, large and handsome. The lower blos-

soms, at least in this country, fall away as the corolla with-

ers, leaving a toothed rachis. Pedicels very short. Calyx

five-partite, the seginents subulate. Corolla between funnel-

shaped and rotate, sulphur-yellow, the faux delicate, stri-

ated with deep rose colour : the tube hairy on the outside,

grauan'y enlarging upwards ; the limb spreading, nearly

orizontally, in five broadly-obovate, waved lobes, ob-

liquely imbricated, and bearing a tooth on one side. _Sta-

mens situated near the summit of the tube. Germen sur-

rounded by hypogynous glands. Style slender, filiform, as

long as the tube of the corolla. Stigma umbraculiform,

with five angles.

Fig. 1. Tube of the Corolla laid o howing the Stamens. 2. Stamen.

3. Pistil :—magnified. ae sae

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CATTLEYA LABIATA. CRIMSON-LIPPED

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Class and Order.

-GynanpRIA Monanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—OrcHIDEz. )

Generic Character.

Sepala membranacea vel carnosa, patentia, equalia. Pe-

tala sepius majora. Labellum cucullatum columnam in-

volvens, trilobum vel indivisum. Columna clavata, elon-

gata, semiteres, marginata, cum labello articulata. Anthera

carnosa, 4-locularis, septorum marginibus membranacels.

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.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Cartieya labiata; pseudo-bulbis sulcatis, sepalis oblongo-

lanceolatis, petalis lato-ellipticis undulatis, labelli obo-

vati obtusi indivisi lamina superne tota coccinea.

Carrieya labiata. Lindl. Coll. Bot. t. 33. Hook, Exot. Fi.

tab. 157. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1856. Lindl. Gen. et Sp.

Orchid. p. 116. Bot. Reg. t. 1859.

SS

Dr. Liyptey, whose judgment, esp aety 1

cerns Orchideous plants, is entitled to the highest ene.

has pronounced the C. Mossi of our Bot. ¥ tab. 3669,

to be a mere variety of his C. /abiata. He may t, and

le number of

if tried by the same standard, a considerable number ¢

Orchideous plants will have to be abolished ; for there is no

uestion that, in a state of cultivation at least, +e

this family are liable to very great variation. fe had,

indeed, looked upon the very large size of the blossoms in

C. Mossi as one of the marks of specific distinction, when

compared with C. /abiata: but, in the present instance, by

skilful management, the true C. labiata presents flowers

nearly, if not quite, equal in magnitude to those of C.

Mossie; but the uniform deep blotch on the lamina. of

its labellum remains unaltered. We are indebted to Mr.

Moss, of Otterspool, for the present splendid specimen,

which he received from Trinidad ; but it had been sent to

that island from the Spanish Main. The species is too well

known, and has been too often described, to require any

further elucidation than that afforded by our figure.

We are requested by the Very Reverend the Dean of MANcHESTER

to insert the following in some vacant space.

CROCORUM SYNOPSIS.

Supra ad calcem N. 3867, fol. 2, dele in Occidente colles Eispaniea

usque ad Gijon et Santander.

Post ideoque biflorus gaudet, insere

3. Asturicus ; Herbert. Autumnalis, cormo ut in Pyreneo (paral-

lelo-fibroso stolonifero) minore, spatha pallida herbaced % une.

humo exserté, tubo purpureo infra pallidiore spatham 1} une.

superante, limbo 14 vel 1,3; unc. purpureo, laciniis ad basim (se-

palis precipué) saturatiis tristriatis, petalis 2 unc. latis barba ad

basim dens@ pallida, sepalis =5. unc. latis, filamentis albis ori ipsi

insertis 8; unc. antheris aureis ultra 2 unc., stylo aurantiaco mul-

tifido antheris breviore, primulam leviter redolente. Mascitur in

collibus Asturie prope “ Gijon” et “ Santander.” Floruit Spof-

Sorthie, Nov, 2, 1842, Pyrenzo affinis, mense et plus mense sertor,

omnt parte minor, colore saturatiore, fauce barbatd filamentis ori

wnsertis, §c., secernendus.

Pro 3. Serotinus ; lege 4. Serotinus ; et numeros specierum usque

- er en ratione corrige.—Respice etiam corrigenda et addenda,

: , fol. 2.

C. Imperatorianus ; supra in Crocorum Synopsi (ad calcem N. 3867.

fol. 2.).—Dele omnia que de habitatione emictitie rita dicte limbo

albo sepalis stamineis estriatis predicantur, errore non meo, sed amici

cujusdam botanici diu in Italia commoranti. Varietatem esse fortuitam

rar inter lilacinos legendam monet Cl. Tenore. W. Z.

BIGY,

( 3999 )

Fucusia aupestris. Mowontain Fucusia.

Class and Order.

Ocranpria Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Onageranriz. )

Generic Character.

Calycis tubus basi ovario adherens, superne productus in

tubum cylindraceum 4-lobum post anthesin articulatim de-

ciduum. Petala 4 summo tubo inserta lobis alterna, rarius

0. Stamina 8. Ovarium glandula urceolata coronatum.

Stylus filiformis. Stigma capitatum. Bacca oblongo- aut

ovato-globosa 4-locularis 4-valvis polysperma.—Frutices.

Folia sepius opposita. Pediculi axillares 1-flori, interdum

ad apices ramorum racemosi. Flores sepius nutantes, rubri

rarius albi, interdum 5-fidi 10-andri. D C. i

Specific Character and Synonym.

Fucusra alpestris ; caule tereti subscandente, ramis dense

pubescentibus, foliis oppositis petiolatis oblongo-lan-

ceolatis basi rotundatis acuminatis margine subrevo-

lutis vix dentatis utrinque petiolisque pubescentibus,

stipulis interpetiolaribus membranaceis demum de-

flexis, pedunculis axillaribus solitariis unifloris, laci-

niis calycinis lanceolatis acuminatis petala cuneata

duplo longioribus, bacca oblonga quadrangularis.

Fucusia alpestris. Gard. Herb. Brasil. n. 5706. —

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Sent, in August, 1842, from the Glasgow Botanic Garden,

by the able Curator, Mr. Murray, together with the fol-

lowing history and description from the pen of Mr.

Garpner. ss

This very distinct species of Fucusia I found during my

ast visit to the Organ Mountains, growing in moist, bushy,

rocky places, at an elevation of upwards of five ee"

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feet above the level of the sea. A plant of it, which I

brought home alive with me last year, has been in flower for

some time in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, and I am in-

debted to Miss Murray for the characteristic figure which

accompanies this description. It differs from F. integri-

Jolia, Sr. Hix., (see Bot. Mag. t. 3948,) in having narrower

and more acuminated leaves, smaller and paler coloured

flowers, besides being nearly all over densely pubescent, in

which latter respect it agrees with F. montana, and F. pu-

bescens of St. Hinatre, but they are otherwise very distinct

species. From the elevation at which it grows, I have no

doubt that it will succeed better in the greenhouse than in

the stove.

Descr. In its native place of growth, the plant has a

rambling, subscandent habit, the branches being sometimes

twelve to eighteen or twenty feet in length. The branches

are round, and densely pubescent. The leaves, both in the

wild and cultivated plant, are opposite, never ternate, ob-

long-lanceolate, acuminate, their margins slightly revolute

and distantly subdentate, pubescent both above and below,

the younger ones with a reddish tinge throughout, which, in

the older foliage, is confined to the margins, the midrib, and

the larger veins on the upper surface, but is very conspicu-

ous on the under surface and petioles, in length they are

from two and a half to four and a half inches, and from ten

to eighteen lines broad; petiole four to six lines long, pubes-

cent, rounded below, above channelled. Pedicels solitary in

the axils of the upper leaves. Flowers, including the sta-

mens, from an inch and a half to two inches long, of a pale

crimson colour. Calycine segments acuminated, and slightly

reflexed. Petals broadly cuneate, obtuse, deep purple.

Stamens much exserted, of the same colour as the calyx.

Style longer than the stamens. Stigma clavate, bilobed.

Germen oblong, smooth, green. Fruit oblong, quadran-

gular, of a dark purple colour when ripe. G. Gardner.

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FuUcHSIA CORYMBIFLORA. CLUSTER-FLOW-

ERED Fucusia.

Class and Order.

Octanpria Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—OnaerarizZ. )

Generic Character.

Calycis tubus basi ovario adherens, superne productus in

tubum cylindraceum 4-lobum post anthesin articulatim

deciduum. Petala 4 summo tubo inserta lobis alterna,

rarius 0. Stamina 8. Ovarium glandula urceolata coro-

natum. Stylus filiformis. Stigma capitatum. Bacca ob-

longo- aut ovato-globosa 4-locularis 4-valvis polysperma.

—Frutices. Folia s@pius opposita. Pediculi_axzdlares

1-flori, interdum ad apices ramorum racemosi. Flores s@-

plus nutantes, rubri rarius albi, interdum 5-fidi, 10-andri.

Specific Character and Synonyms. ‘i

Fucusia corymbiflora ; pubescens, foliis oppositis ternisque ©

petiolatis ovato-oblongis acuminatis reticulatim veno-

sis, corymbis longissimis terminalibus pendulis, pedi-

cellis basi foliolosis, calycis tubo longissimo infundibu-

liformi laciniis acuminatis reflexis, petalis acuminatis

staminum longitudine. fp es

Fucusia corymbiflora. Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Peruv. Sp. SE.

t. 325. f.a. De Cand. Prod. v. 3. p. 39. Spreng. Syst.

Veget. 2. p. 235. )

Commenced in the year 1786,—it “may be said of the

Boranicat MaGazinE,” What, assuredly, can be said of no

other periodical work of descriptive Natural History, that

VOL, XVI. : H

it has run a course of unprecedented length, appearing in

monthly numbers with the utmost regularity; and, notwith-

standing the injury it has sustained by a host of rival publi-

cations, the majority of which have been but of ephemeral

duration, it has maintained its ground, we trust we may

say, with undiminished usefulness, and with increased beauty

of execution, through a period of fifty-seven years ! In this

extended work has been given a mass of Botanical and

Horticultural information, accompanied by rour THOUSAND

coloured plates, which, as has been justly said by a most

competent judge* of the earlier volumes, have “‘ more

diffused a taste for unsophisticated nature and science than

any other publication.” ‘It was designed,” the same

author continues, “ to be a general depository of garden

plants, whether previously figured or not in other works ;

but it has often had the advantage of giving entire novelties

to the public, and it is in every respect worthy of its author.

Its sale has been extensive beyond all former example, and

it has rewarded its contriver with pecuniary emolument, as

well as with merited celebrity, and is still continued with

unabated utility.” This was written in 1819 :—the latter

part of the sentence we trust is still not undeserved : we

wish we could say that the surviving heirs of the family of

Mr. Curtis, to whom the copyright devolved, now derived

equal advantage from it: for, assuredly, as this kind of

work originated in the late Mr. Curtis, and led to the

“numerous imitators who have followed in his wake, and

was commenced with so much energy and taste ; so, nei-

ther, has anything been wanting on the part of the pre-

sent proprietor to make it still equally worthy of the

public patronage. 3 :

The splendid plant here represented has now been for

some time known in our gardens; but is not on that

account the less deserving a figure in the present work, nor

of the high number of plates to which the work has at-

tained. It is the most splendid of all our known species

of Fucusia, of free growth, and a ready and constant flow-

erer, except in the winter months, when, in the greenhouse

at least, it loses most of its foliage, and has a shabby

appearance : but, in the spring, it is rapidly clothed again

with leaves, and the plants may then be put into the open

border

as

* Sir James E. Situ,

: in his Memoi : }

Cyclopedia, Art. Curtis. emoir of Mr. Samuet Curtis, in REES

border with safety, and are soon loaded with their pendent,

copious, large, and graceful flowers.

Till recently, the species was scarcely known but by

the figure of Ruiz and Pavon, its original discoverers, who

found it at Chincao and Muna, in Peru. It has probably

an extensive range in the Andes of Peru ; for I possess fine

native specimens, gathered by the late Mr. Marsews in

Chacapoyas, and a very nearly allied species, or, probably,

a variety, from the western side of the great volcano of

Pichincha, in Columbia, collected by Dr. Jamuson.

Descr. With good management, this plant attains a

height, with us, of four or five feet, its new branches soft

and succulent, and, as well as the petioles, deeply tinged

with purple. The leaves are large, sometimes a span long,

between ovate and oblong, acute at both ends, obscurely

serrated at the margin, downy, especially beneath ; above,

the nerves are deeply impressed, and the primary lateral

ones are united by transverse ones, so that the surface may

be said to be reticulated. Peduncle terminal, long, grace-

fully drooping among the leaves, bearing a corymb of

numerous large, red flowers. Pedicels slender, with a small

leaf at the base of each, racemose, the lower ones elongat-

ed, so that the flowers form a corymb resembling a tassel

of rich scarlet flowers. Tube of the calyx very long,

funnel-shaped ; the segments acuminated, at length re-

flexed. Petals deep red, lanceolate, acuminate, spreading.

Stamens about as long as the petals, rather shorter than

the style with its capitate stigma. Germen oblong, be-

coming a berry of a rich purple colour, by no means

unpleasant in taste, the flavour a good deal resembling that

of well ripened figs.

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Class and Order.

GynanpriA Monanpria,

( Nat. Ord.—Orcuiwez. )

Generic Character.

~ Perianthium (candidum) sesquipollicare, cylindraceo-

‘connivens, laciniis omnibus lineari-oblongis curvis canali-

~ culatis obtusiusculis. Labellum cucullatum, trilobum, cum

_ columna omnino parallelum, basi inarticulatum ; lacinia

intermedia retusa flavescente disco luteo-glandulosa, latera-_

libus ovatis brevioribus violaceis ; axi elevata pubescente. —

Columna late alata, obtusa, carnosa. Anthera 2-locularis,

3

longitudinaliter dehiscens, dorso conica et cum columna_

articulata. Pollinia duo, reniformia, postice excavata, in

glandulam latam triangularem membranaceam sessilia.—

Herba parasitica, caulescens, ebulbis. Folia disticha, ob-

longo-linearia, emarginata. Spica terminalis, disticha, flex-

uosa, multiflora, lo pedunculata, bracteis brevissimis,

rigidis, dentiformibus. Lindl. Lek

whecific “Na : ce ,

- Bromugapia* palustris. _ :

ROMHEADIA palustris. Lindl. in Wall.

Bot. Reg. 1841, p. 89. F y 29h

Grammatornytium Finlaysonianum. Lindl. Gen. et Sp.

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We owe the possession a

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this in Kew Gardens, and

_ _ * So named by Dr. LINDLEY, in compliment to

BroMHEAD, Bart., F. R. S., “ whose investiga ions”

of plants are well known to systematic Botanists.

made, to His Grace the Duke of Northumberland. It has

flowered likewise with J. D. Liewetyn, Esq. of Penllegar,

who received the living plants from Mr. Cumine, with the

memorandum, as Dr. Linpiey assures us, that they were

dug out ofa bog in Sumatra :—a strange habitat for a

plant of this kind ; but which has given rise to the specific

name. It was, however, many years ago, detected at Sin-

gapore by Mr. Fintayson; and from his imperfect speci-

mens it was, firstly, referred by Dr. Linptey to Grammato-

PHYLLUM; and, afterwards, when the structure of the flowers

was known from living specimens, it was deemed worthy to

constitute a new Genus. It is a tall growing, graceful

plant, with very delicate flowers.

Descr. Roots consisting of stout, fleshy fibres. Stem

three and four feet high, terete, erect, below clothed with

long, sheathing, striated scales, there leafy, with a few dis-

tichous, oblong, fleshy or rather coriaceous, obtuse, faintly

striated leaves :—above naked again, in what may be called

the terminal peduncle, which is also beset with sheathing

scales. This peduncle bears tw6 or three spikes, densely

clothed with short, sheathing, distichous, imbricated herba-

ceous, tooth-like scales. From each of these scales a flower

proceeds. Sepals and calyx white, oblong-acuminate, nearly

equal, spreading, concave. Lip parallel with the column,

oblong, canaliculate, three-lobed, the side lobes involute,

white externally, within streaked with purple, and having a

pulvinate, oblong disk: the intermediate lobe is rounded,

acute, yellow in the middle. Column elongated, semi-

terete, the margin sharp and winged. Anther sunk in the

apex of the column. Pollen-masses on a large, triangular

gland.

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LOBELIA SPLENDENS; var. @., atro-sanguinea.

Surmine Loses; dark purple-leaved var.

SERIE HEHEHE

Class and Order.

PenranpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Lose.iacez. )

Generic Character.

Corolla tubo hine fisso (raro integro) ; limbo 5-partito.

Anthere connate. Stigma bilobum (nune indivisum). Cap-

sula bilocularis (raro trilocularis), apice supero bivalvi.—

Herbe vel Suffrutices, plere@que lactescentes. Folia alterna,

integra vel laciniata, raro fistulosa. Flores racemost, ter-

minales vel axillares, solitarii, pedicellis bibracteatis vel

nudis. Anthere sepius barbate. Br. Sar

Specific Character and Synonyms. aa

Losexia splendens; glabra, caule erecto simplici, foliis ses-

silibus lanceolatis acuminatis denticulatis, racemo ter-

minali, bracteis lanceolatis acuminatis dentatis pedi-

cello longioribus, tubo calycis hemispherico, lobis

- linearibus acuminatis tubo corolle glabra subequa-

libus, antheris dorso glabris infer. 2 apice barbatis.

De Cand. ic i ew Oe

Lozenia splendens. Willd. Hort. Berol. t. 86. Ker, Bot.

- Reg. t. 60. Humb. et Kunth, Nov. Gen. Am. 3. p. 311.

~ Spreng. Syst. Veget. 1. pp. 712.

Rapuntium splendens. Presl., Prodr. Mon. Lobel. p. 26.

(G.) caule foliisque atro-sanguineis,

The oriéfin LORELLA fulgens, to which this plant is un-

doubtedly to be referred, has the stem and foliage slightly

tinged with purple: and figure given in - ogo

Register represents the dark purple, and the leaves

. eh a ie ee blotched

blotched with the same colour: but there has lately appear-

ed in our gardens a variety, as here figured, with the whole

stem and leaves dark sanguineous purple. It is a plant of

great beauty, and, if not sufficiently hardy to bear our

winters, may easily be protected after its old decaying

flowering stems are cut away, by a covering of tan or Fern,

In the summer it makes a splendid appearance, with its

long spikes of vivid scarlet flowers, almost too dazzling to

be looked upon. It readily increases by the roots, which,

in the autumn, abound in short, creeping stolones, and

richly deserves a place in every garden. It is a native of

Mexico, and flowers during the summer and autumn

months.

Descr. In many respects this species resembles the well

known L. fulgens, but may readily be distinguished by its

strong purple tinge, and by the much longer and more

acuminated foliage, which is smooth and glossy, destitute of

any kind of pubescence.

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BrassiA Wrayva. Mrs. Wravy’s Brassia,

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Class and Order.

GyNANDRIA Monanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—OrcuipeEz. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium explanatum. Sepala et Petala angusta, li-

bera, equalia; his nunc minoribus. Labellum planum,

indivisum, ecalcaratum, columna continuum, basi bi-cris-

tatum. Columna libera, aptera, nana. Anthera 1-locularis.

Pollinia 2, postice sulcata; caudicula brevi; glandula

crassa,—Epiphyte pseudo-bulbose. Folia pergamenea. Sca-

pl radicales vaginati. Flores speciosi, spicatz. Lindl.

Specific Name and Character.

Brassia Wraye ; pseudo-bulbis levibus, folio ligulato cori-

aceo enervi, sepalis lanceolatis acuminatis, petalis con-

formibus minoribus, labello latissime obovato acuto

sepalis lateralibus duplo breviore, basi callo triden-

tato. .

Brassia Wraye. Skinner MSS.

This new species of Brassi1a was sent to the splendid col-

lection of J. C. Harter, Esq., of Broughton New Hall, near

Manchester, by G. U. Skinner, Esq., from Guatemala, in —

1840. It has now (October, 1842) flowered, for the first

time, under the skilful management of Mr. WiLuiAM

Asuton, gardener to Mr. Harter. It had been communi-

cated by Mr. Sxinner to that and other collections, under

the name of Oncin1um Wraye, to which Genus, previous

its having flowered, it had been supposed to belong, a

Mr. Skinner properly preserves the same spe fic ap =

lation, now it is proved to be a new species of Brassta.*

“Desc.

—

* Since the above was written, Dr. LinpLEY mentio is in his Miscell. of

the Bot, Register for 1843, that a fine plant has flowered at Messrs. RoLii-

Descr. Pseudo-bulbs oblong, compressed, two-edged,

bearing at the apex one or two oblong, coriaceous, obtuse,

nerveless leaves. Scape from the base of the bulbs, thrice

as long as the leaves. Flowers numerous, racemed. Brac-

teas small, squamiform. Sepals unequal ; the lateral ones

two inches long, the upper one nearly equalling the petals,

about an inch in length; all of them, including the petals,

linear-subulate, yellow-green, with a few large, brown

blotches. Lip two-thirds the length of the lateral sepals,

broadly obovate, acute, a little waved, the lower half with

the margins revolute: the colour is yellow, tinged with

green, and spotted with small blotches of brown, and, at the

base above, is an oblong, yellow callosity, or tubercle, with

three small teeth. Column and anther, as in the Genus.

son’s, under the name Brassta Wray, which is B. brachvata, LINDL,,

in BentHam’s “ Plante Hartwegiane,” p. 94; but the description is too

much at variance with the present plant, to induce me to suppose it can be

sa same, especially since it is said the sepals are sometimes six inches

ong.

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TrECOMA JASMINOIDES. JASMINE-LEAVED

TECOMA.

Class and Order.

Dipynami1A ANGIOSPERMIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Bienontacez. )

Generic Character.

Calyx campanulatus, quinquedentatus. Corolla hypo-

gyna tubo brevi, fauce campanulata, limbo quinquelobo-

bilabiato. Stamina corolle tubo inserta, quatuor fertilia

didynama, cum quinti rudimento ; anthere biloculares, lo-

culis divaricato-patentibus. Ovarium biloculare, ovulis ad

dissepimenti margines utrinque plurimis, horizontalibus,

anatropis. Stylus simplex ; stegma bilamellatum. Capsula

elliptico-oblonga, v. elongato-siliqueformis, bilocularis,

bivalvis, valvis dissepimento marginibus utrinque semini-

fero contrariis. Semina plurima, transversa, compressa,

utrinque in alam membranaceam expansa. Embryonis

exalbuminosi orthotropi radicula centrifuga.—Arbores v.

Frutices, interdum scandentes, in America tropica et boreali

calidiore, rarius in Capite Bone-Spei, et in Nova Hollandia

crescentes ; foliis oppositis, impari-pinnatis vel interdum

digitatis, foliolis serratis, incisis aut rarius integerrumis ; flo-

ribus terminalibus, paniculatis, flavis vel incarnatis. Endl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Trcoma jasminoides ; foliis pinnatis foliolis bi-trijugis cum

impari ovato-lanceolatis glabris nitidis, panicula termi-

nali, corolla infundibuliformi-campanulata, limbi plani _

lobis subzqualibus rotundatis undulato-crenatis.

Txcoma jasminoides. All. Cunn. in Loud. Hort. Brit. p.

582: Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 2002. Don, Gard. Dict. v.

4. p. 225.

A climbing shrub of humble growth, a native of Moreton

Bay, on the North-eastern coast of New Holland, where it

was

was discovered by the late ArLan CUNNINGHAM, and named

by him in Loupon’s “ Hortus Britannicus.” Mr. C. also

introduced it to the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, where

it is treated as a greenhouse plant, and bears its lovely

blossoms, milk-white with a deep rose-coloured eye, in the

month of August. /

Descr. Stem climbing, glabrous. Leaves impari-pin-

nate, with from five to seven, or, occasionally, even nine

leaflets, which are sessile or nearly so, between ovate and

lanceolate, tapering, yet blunt at the point, quite glabrous.

Panicle terminal, subcorymbose, of several large, hand-

some, showy flowers. Calyx very small, campanulate, of

five nearly equal, broad, but acute teeth. Corolla between

funnel and bell-shaped, very delicate milk-white, the throat

rose-red, the limb of five nearly equal, spreading, rounded,

somewhat waved and crenated lobes. Style and stamens

quite included within the tube of the corolla. Stigma two-

lipped.

Fig. 1. Calyx and Pistil: magnified.

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ANDROSACE LANUGINOSA. SHAGGY-LEAVED

ANDROSACE.

KEKE KEE KEKE KEKE KEK

Class and Order.

Pentanpria Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Primuacez.)

Generic Character.

Calyx quinquefidus vel quinquedentatus, demum sepius

auctus. Corolla hypogyna, infundibuliformis vel hypocra-

terimorpha, tubo calycem vix superante ovato, apice con-

tracto, fauce fornicibus brevibus instructa. Stamina 5,

corolle tubo inserta, ejusdem laciniis opposita, inclusa ; fila-

menta brevissima ; antheré ovate, biloculares, longitudina-

liter dehiscentes. Ovariwm uniloculare, placenta basilari

globosa, substipitata. Ovula 5 v. indefinita peltatim am-

phitropha. Stylus filiformis inclusus ; stigma obtusum vel

Subglobosum. Capsula unilocularis, apice vel juxta totam

longitudinem quinquevalvis. Semina 5 vel indefinita, pla-

cente basilari globose libere stipitate inserta, dorso com-

planato rugulosa, ventre convexo umbilicata. Embryo in

axi albuminis carnosi rectus, umbilico parallelus—Herbe

in temperatis et frigidis hemisphere borealis obvie, plurime

alpicole sepissime cespitose, pedunculis solitariis vel um-

bellatis. Endl. ff

Specific Character and Synonyms. " i

Anprosace* lanuginosa ; caulescens demum procumbens

tota pilis longis sericeo-lanosa, foliis sparsis obovato-

lanceolatis acutis, pedunculo terminali elongato, um-

bello multifloro, calyce tubum corolle ventricosum

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the common species having been thought to resemble an ancient buckler.

Anprosace lanuginosa. Wall. Fl. Indica, v. 2. p. 15.

n. 615. Royle, Bot. of Himal. Mts. v. 1. p. 310.

(8.) glabrior, Wall, Cat. l. c.

Seeds of this charming alpine plant were communicated

to our kind friend, J. T. Mackay, Esq., from the Himalaya

Mountains by Dr. Royte, and they flowered in the open air

in the Dublin Botanic Garden in August, 1842, when the

plants promised to be hardy. The flowers are of a delicate

rose colour with a yellow eye, while the foliage and branches

and young portions of the stem are densely clothed with

long, silky hairs. Dr. Roy.e speaks of it as growing

about Choon. Dr. Govan found it on the Sirmore Moun-

tains, and R. Buinxworrn at Kamoon, where the var. f. also

grows. Specimens from the latter country are in our Her-

barium, given by Dr. Waxticu, and we possess beautiful

eae sent us by the late Countess of Da.novusin, from

Simla.

Descr. Stems five to six or eight inches long, often

procumbent at the base, and there naked; above, branched

in a proliferous manner, and leafy; the leaves scattered,

alternate, nearly an inch long, between oblong and obo-

vate, acute, clothed, as well as the branches, with long,

soft, silky hairs. Pedunele terminal, often as long as the

stem, soon appearing lateral from the proliferous shoots.

Umbel of inany small flowers. Involucral leaves few, linear.

Pedicels generally short, but varying in length from two

lines to three-fourths of an inch. Calyx deeply cut into

five oblong, blunt segments, close pressed to the tube of the

corolla, and equal to it in length. Corolla: tube short, ven-

tricose, yellow. Limb of five rose-purple, spreading, round-

ed segments; the eye yellow: the mouth contracted, and

furnished with a crenated ring. Stamens small, concealed

within the tube. Germen turbinate. Style short. Stigma

capitate.

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PoinciANA Gituitsit. Dr. GILLIES’

PoINCIANA.

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Class and Order.

DecanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Leeuminosz. )

Generic. Character.

Calycis sepala 5 inequalia, basi in cupulam subpersisten-

tem coalita, inferiore fornicato. Petala 5 stipitata, supe-

riore difformi. Stamina 10, longissima, omnia secunda,

filamentis basi hirsutis. Stylus longissimus. Legumen

plano-compressum bivalve submultiloculare isthmis spongi-

osis. Semina obovata compressa, endopleura in aqua gela~

tinosa, cotyledonibus planis, plumula ovali.—Frutices aut

arbores elegantissime, aculeateé aut inermes. Folia abrupte —

pinnata. Flores paniculato-corymbosi. Pedicelli longi bast

ebracteatit. D C.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Porncrana * Gilliesii ; inermis, foliolis oblongis, calycibus

glandulosis apicibus dentato-ciliatis, leguminibus aci-

naciformibus glandulosis unilocularibus exsuccis.

Poinciana Gilliesii. Hook. in Bot. Misc. v. 1. p. 129. ¢. 34.

et vol. 3. p. 208. Don, Gen. Syst. of Gard. and Bot. v.

2.p.433. Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. v. 4. t. 311. ‘

Casapinia Gilliesii. Wall. MSS.

When I first described this charming plant, a native of

Mendoza, South America, in the Botanical Miscellany

| above

— —

* Named in compliment to M. de PoInct, who was Governor General

of the Antilles, about the middle of the seventeenth century.

VOL. XVI. i

above quoted, I little thought I should one day have the

pleasure of figuring it from plants flourishing in the open

air, and without any covering in the winter. Yet such is

the case. Seeds were introduced by Dr. Gixties in 1829,

and young plants, both at Mr. Knieuv’s Nursery, and at the

Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, were removed to a South

aspect in front of a stove. They have, with us at least,

attained to a height of six or seven feet, and bear their rich

yellow blossoms, with the singularly long and thick scarlet

stamens, during the summer months, and, indeed, till cut off

by the early autumnal frosts. In such a situation, no shrub

can be more deserving of cultivation. In its native country,

the late Dr. Gitues, its discoverer, informed me that, “ it

is called by the natives Mal de Ojos, and that it is very

abundant in the cultivated plains of Mendoza, where it has

the benefit of the water used in irrigation ; seeming to be

incapable of living on the dry arid lands which are not

under cultivation. Along the southern frontier of the pro-

vince of Mendoza, between the rivers Diamante and Atuel,

it is found abundantly, with other shrubs, in sheltered

Situations: also among thickets along the western side of

the Rio Quarto, near the western boundary of the Pampas ;

those plants growing in Buenos Ayres (where it is not un-

common), owing their origin to the seeds sent from Men-

doza. They do not ascend further than to the foot of the

mountains, neither are any traces of them to be seen in the

province of San Juan, which follows Mendoza to the North,

along the foot of the Cordillera of the Andes.”

Descr. Stems erect, much branched; branches rounded, nearly

glabrous. Leaves alternate, abruptly bipinnate; the Jeaflets small,

scarcely half an inch long, oblong, obtuse, glabrous. Stipules two,

ovate, acuminate, at the base of the main rachis. Raceme terminal, of

several, large, handsome Jlowers ; the lowest buds expanding first,

leaving the upper part densely imbricated with the curious, deciduous

bracteas ; these latter are ovate, cuspidato-acuminate, glandular at the

back, serrated at the margin. Peduncle an inch long, glandular,

thickened upwards. Calyx: tube short, turbinate, appearing externally

to be the top of the peduncle ; Zim of five, oblong, nearly equal, green

Segments, glandular on the outside, serrated at the point. Petals five,

large, nearly equal, sessile, Spreading, obcordate, yellow. Stamens

ten, free, arising from the top of the calyx-tube, four to five inches

long, bright red. _Anthers Versatile, oblong.

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Class and Order.

DecanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—MEtastomace2. )

Generic Character.

Cal. tubus ovatus, junior bracteis 2 deciduis involutus,

lobi 5 decidui. Pet. 5 obcordata. Stam. 10. Filamenta

pilosa v. glabra. Anthere elongate basi arcuate, connec-

tivo stipitiformi basi breve biauriculateo. Ovarium calyci

adnatum, apice setosum. Capsula baccata subsicca 5-locu-

laris. Semina cochleata.—Frutices Australi-Americani,

sepissime setis appressis scabri. Folia subrigida, 5-nervia.

Flores ampli purpurei, in racemum paniculumve dispositi.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Pieroma* Benthamianum; ramis alato-tetragonis petiolis-

que adpresse villosis, foliis petiolatis oblongo-lanceo-

latis basi rotundatis vel vix cordatis acutis 9-nerviis in-

tegerrimis supra setis minimis asperis subtus adpresse

sericeo-villosis, panicula terminali glanduloso-pilosa,

calycis glanduloso-setosi tubo ovato-globoso lobis ro-

tundatis ciliatis, filamentis glanduloso-pilosulis, stylo

villoso. |

Pieroma Benthamianum. Gardn. Herb. Bras. n. 410.

This species of Preroma, which I dedicate to my excel-

lent friend, G. Bentuam, Esq., is, certainly, the most beau-

tiful of the Genus which has yet flowered in this country.

The plant, which was brought home by myself from the

Organ Mountains, flowered in the autumn of 1842, in the

Glasgow

* So named by Mr. D. Don, from TWanpwya, fulness, probably from the

copious seeds in the cells of the fruit.

Glasgow Botanic Garden, and, unlike many of its conge-

ners, is not of very tardy growth, flowering freely at from

a foot and a half to two feet high—a circumstance, which,

along with the fine colour of the flower, cannot fail to

render it popular among cultivators. In its native country

it grows abundantly in a rather boggy soil, at an elevation

of upwards of 3,000 feet above the sea level.

From its hairy stamens, this plant would be referred to

the Genus Lastanpra, were it not that Mr. Benraam has

satisfactorily shown (Hook. Journ. Bot. 2. p. 288) that

Preroma and Lasianpra are not generically distinct ; and

Pteroma being the older name, it must be retained. His

observations on this subject are, “‘ PLeroma of Don is, evi-

dently, the same Genus as Lastanpra of DE CANDOLLE,

including, according to Cuamisso, Dirostecium of Don ;

and the former name, being the older, should be retained.

The original species have now all been re-examined, and

are all found to have a dry, dehiscent fruit, although the

calyx is more completely and more permanently adherent

than in most capsular Genera. The separation of PLERoMA

from Osecxta is, as observed by Martius, but very slight;

both Genera being distinguished from CuzrogastrA by the

same character, the deciduous lobes of the calyx. In Os-

BECKIA the calyx is usually more or less covered with

palmate, or stellate, hairs, or appendages, and the stamens

are smooth ; in Preroma, the hairs, or bristles of the calyx,

are usually simple, and the filaments more or less hairy;

but neither of these characters is constant. In habit, Os-

BECKIA agrees rather with some sections of CHZTOGASTRA,

and, as in that Genus, the flowers are sometimes penta-

merous, and sometimes tetramerous; but the OsBeckiA ca-

mescens, EK. Mey., appears really to be nearer PLeRoMA

than Ospecxia, although a native of South-East Africa.”

Descr. The plant is shrubby, with four-sided branches

winged at the angles, and, together with the petioles,

covered with adpressed hairs. The leaves are of an oblong-

lanceolate shape, rounded, or somewhat cordate at the base,

acute, nine-nerved, entire, the upper surface rough with

small sete, while the lower is covered with adpressed, silky

hairs. The flowers, which measure about two inches across,

are of a beautiful dark purple colour, almost white in the

centre. Stamens ten. Filaments covered with glandular

hairs. Ovary five-celled, als detisel oll wes ten

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AmICIA.

KEK KEKE ERE KEKE KE EEE

Class and Order.

DiapELPHIA DeEcANDRIA.

( Nat. Ord.—LeeuminoszZ. )

Generic Character.

Calyx campanulatus, 5-fidus, lobis 2 super. rotundatis

maximis, lateralibus minutis, inferiore oblongo carinato

concavo. Corolle vexillum orbiculatum, ale carina adpli-

cate. Stamina 10, monadelpha, tubo superne fisso. Le-

gumen \lineare compressum pluri-articulatum, articulis

utringue truncatis.—Frutices. Ramuli et petioli pubes- —

centes. Folia abrupte bijuga pellucido-punctata. Pedun-

culi axillares 4—6-flori. Bractee 2, orbiculate, opposite

ad originem pedicellorum. Flores flavi. De Cand.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Amicta Sygomeris ; foliis bijugis cuneato-obcordatis trun-

cato-retusis, legumine biarticulato.

Amicia Zygomeris. De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p. 315. Lin-

nea, v. 5. p. 582, et v. 12. p. 308. Spreng. Syst. Veget.

c. p. 294. %,

Amiciz sp. Hort.

The Genus Amrcia was 80 named by Messrs. Humpotpr-

and Kunrx in honor of Joun Baptiste Amici, of Modena,

who has so much distinguished himself by his riya tas

observations, especially on the movement of the fluids in

plants. It is chiefly distinguished from Porretia by the

| ay sry form of its calyx. There is another remarkable

ea

ture in the entire plant, leaves, calyx, and even we

an-

corolla ; that they are everywhere filled with pellucid, g

dular

dular dots, resembling those of Hypericum. The first dis-

covered species (by Humpotpr) is a native of New Grenada ;

the second, and only other yet known, (the one here

figured,) is a native of Mexico, was first taken up by

De Canpo.te, and afterwards more fully described in the

** Linnea,” from specimens gathered by ScurepE in woods

at Jalacingo ; and I possess fine native specimens collected

by M. Gateortt, upon the Cordillera of Mexico, near the

Pacific, growing in woods and by river-sides, at an eleva-

tion of from 5,500 to 8,000 feet above the level of the sea.

It is No. 3180 of M. Gatgorri’s, Mexican Collections.

ScHLECHTENDAL Calls it, and deservedly, “ planta pulcher-

rima ;”’ its flowers are large, copious, and the foliage ex-

tremely delicate. It was introduced to this country from

Paris by Messrs. Roxutsons of the Tooting Nursery, and

by them kindly given to the Royal Gardens of Kew, where

it blossomed copiously during the early winter months.

This blossoming was probably hastened by its growth

being checked from cuttings being taken from the plant.

Descr. A tall, free growing shrub, the young branches

and petioles clothed with patent, deciduous hairs. Leaves

on long petioles, bijugate ; leaflets large, frequently two

inches long, obcordate or almost cuneate, shortly petiolate,

entire, truncate or slightly retuse at the top, pale green

above, slightly glaucous beneath ; where the glandular dots

are very conspicuous, even when not held up between the

eye and the light, by their brown colour. The stipules are

very deciduous, and only present on the young branches,

but are large, orbicular, membranous, and very beautify

coloured, pale yellow-green, tinged and veined with red.

Pedicels short, with la

e r X, opposite, coloured bracteas, resem-

bling the stipules.

) Calyx most conspicuously dotted with

glands, two-lipped; upper lip of two exceedingly large,

veined, orbicular, conduplicate lobes, lower very small,

deeply cut into three reflexed, acuminated lobes. Standard

of the corolla large, broadly obcordate. Wings small, not

half so long as the keel. “Filaments of the stamens much

curved, very unequal in length. Germen of two terete

joints, the upper tapering into the long, curved style.

4009.

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PassirLorA AcTiniA. SEA+ANEMONE

Passion-F LOWER.

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Class and Order.

MonapDELPHIA PENTANDRIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Passirtorez. )

Generic Character.

Calycis tubus brevissimus, faux corona filamentosa multi-

plici ornata. Bacca sepius pulposa, rarius submembra-

nacea. D C,

Specific Name and Character.

Passirtora Actinia ; scandens, foliis integerrimis ovatis ob-

tusis emarginatis subtus glaucis, etiolis pluri-glan-

dulosis, pedicellis solitariis axillaribus, involucri sub

flore triphylli foliolis ovato-cordatis acutis integerri-

mis, sepalis petalisque oblongis coronam filamentosam

subzequantibus.

I can nowhere find the description of any Passion-Flower

which accords with this, and which was sent last year from

the Organ Mountains of Brazil to Mr. Verrcn of Exeter, b

his Collector, Mr. Loss. It produced its handsome, an

highly fragrant blossoms; first, in November, 1842, and

again, more profusely, in February of the present year: on

both which occasions, the plant was exhibited at the meet-

ings of the Horticultural Society, where it could not fail to

be much admired. The name, as will be at once seen, is

suggested by the resemblance of the flower to those marine

animals, so common upon our rocky coasts, known by the

name of Sea-Anemone (Activia). The plant deserves a

place in every stove.

Descr. Siem climbing; branches rounded, green, gla-

brous, as i rt of the plant. Leaves about three

as Is every part P Mars

inches long, ovate, obtuse, and emarginate at the point,

dark green above, pale and glaucous beneath. Petioles

scarcely half so long as the leaves, flexuose, beset with four

to six rounded, fleshy glands. Tendrils unbranched. Pe-

dunceles axillary, single-flowered, rather longer than the pe-

tioles ; at the top of which, and just under the calyx, is a

large, three-leaved involucre ; leaflets half the length of the

calyx, between ovate and cordate, acute, entire, glaucous.

Calyx with a short tube, limb of five greenish, oblong lobes.

Petals oblong, rather longer than the calyx, nearly white.

Nectary, or filamentous crown, of numerous spreading, in-

curved, worm-like filaments, beautifully banded with red,

blue, and white: within this, on the disc, are three circles

_ very minute processes. Stamens and Pistil as in the

enus.

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GASTROCHILUS LONGIFLORA. LOoNG-FLOW-

ERED GASTROCHILUS.

BR RAE RR ROE OR OR Oe OO ON OS Oe

Class and Order.

MonanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Scrraminez. )

Generic Character.

Calyx tubulosus, hine fissus. Corolle tubus elongatus,

filiformis, limbi lacinie exteriores equales patentes, interi-

ores laterales latiores, basi cum filamento in tubo connate ;

labellum maximum, saccatum. Filamentum lineare, ultra

anther mutice loculos connectivo longiores haud produc-

tum. Ovarium inferum, triloculare. Ovula in loculorum

angulo centrali plurima, horizontalia, anatropa. Stylus

filiformis ; stigma capitato-convexum, Capsula —.—Herbe

Indice, acaules, vel caulescentes ; radice repente vel fibroso-

ramosa, tuberibus subsessilibus fasciculatis ; spica radical v.

terminali imbricata, floribus nutantibus. Endl.

Specific Character and Synonym.

GAsTROCHILUS longiflora ; foliis oblongo-cordatis longe peti-

olatis, spicis radicalibus, tubo corolla longissimo ex-

serto. /

Gastrocuinus longiflora. Wall. Pl. Asiat. Rar. bi 1. pp.

22. tab. 25.

An equally rare, though less showy, species, with that

figured at our Tan. 3930, requiring the same treatment, and

flowering about the same time, July and August. It is

likewise a native of Rangoon; and also of Martaban in the

East Indies, and is one of the many treasures for the pos-

session of which the Royal Botan: c Ga

indebted to Dr. WaLLIcH. >entlem: n, in bi

tion above quoted, observes that the present species “ has

the habit of Kampreria. Its flowers are smaller than those

_ of G. pulcherrima, from which it differs abundantly in being

stemless, and having long-petioled, cordate leaves, radical

spikes, and flowers with very long tubes.”

Descr. Leaves all radical, erect, somewhat bifarious,

broadly oblong, much acuminated at the point, costate at

the base, and generally unequal, with copious, oblique

nerves, and slightly plaited. Petioles about equal in length

with the limb, deeply grooved, the margins from the base

upwards membranaceous, and terminating, below the limb,

in a tooth-like process. Spikes several, from the base of

the petioles, radical, and partly concealed by the earth.

Bracteas several, sheathing, striated, one to two-flowered.

Flowers on short pedicels, pale-yellow, tipped and more or

less tinged with red. General structure of the flower sim-

ilar to that described under G. pulcherrima, only the calyx

is, at the base, elongated into a slender, exserted tube,

three inches long.

Fig. 1. Inner view of the upper portion of the Corolla, with the Anther

and Apex of the Style ;—-slightly magnified.

W Fitch del® Pub by SY Curtis Glaxenwood Essex Apr 11943. Swan Se

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SENECIO CALAMIFOLIUS. QUILL-LEAVED

Carpe GROUNDSEL.

Class and Order.

SyNGENESIA F'RUSTRANEA.

( Nat. Ord.—Composir2. )

Generic Character.

Capitulum homogamum, discoideum aut heterogamum,

Jl. radii ligulatis foemineis. Invol. 1-serialis, nunc nudi nune

squamellis accessoriis calyculati, squame sepius apice spha-

celate margine subscariose, dorso frequenter binervate.

Recept. epaleaceum nudum alveolatumve. Style fl. herm.

rami truncati apiceque solo penicillati! Achenium erostre |

-exalatum teretiusculum aut sulcato-angulatum. ‘Pappus Zo

pilosus pluriserialis caducus, setis rectis subequalibus ten-—

uissimis vix scabris.—Herbe aut Frutices innumert, poly-—

-morphi. Folia alterna. Capitula solitaria corymbosa, aut

‘paniculata. Cor. disci fere semper lute, rarissime purpu-_

ree. Ligule etiam flave rarius purpurascentes aut albi.

DC

| Specific Name and Character.

Senecio calamifolius ; fruticosus arachnoideo-pubescens, —

foliis ad apices ramorum dense fasciculatis elongatis

~ eylindraceis apice hinc planis sepe dilatato-spathulatis,

pedunculis axillaribus subcorymboso-paniculatis, pedi-

cellis bracteatis, involucri turbinati foliolis subbiseria-

_libus pubescentibus apice sphacelatis basi squamel-

latis, radii flosculis subduodecim,

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An old inhabitant of the greenhouse of the Royal Gar-

dens at Kew, having been introduced from the Cape. by Mr.

Bowir: but it seems never to have been described by

any author. Few species are better marked. The leaves

indeed

indeed are more like those of some MrsemBpryANTHEMUM,

or Fig-Marigold, than of any Groundsel. It blossoms in

August, and from its copious, large yellow flowers, has a

lively appearance.

Descr. Stem shrubby, branched, woody, a foot or more

high, nearly of the thickness of the finger, clothed with a

rough, pale-green, downy bark. The branches are termi-

nated by dense fascicles of glaucous-green, fleshy, cylin-

drical leaves, three to five inches long and three lines broad,

curved, the apex flat, or, as it were, scooped out on one

side, and more or less dilated, so as to be almost spoon-

shaped :—the whole is clothed with a cobwebby, compact

substance, lying close to the surface. From the axil of the

leaves arises a peduncle a foot long, paniculated, bearing a

small leaf at the setting on of the first, or lowest, branches ;

the leaves upwards gradually pass into subulate, appressed

scales, or bracteas.. The peduncle and its branches are red-

dish, striated, downy. Pedicels single-flowered ; the flower

large, full yellow. Involucre shortly cylindrical, or almost

turbinate, downy. Scales, or leaflets, subulate, in two rows,

sphacelate at the point; the base having a few appressed,

short, subulate scales. Florets of the ray and of the disk as

in other species of the Genus.

Fig. 1. Floret of the Disk. 2. Ditto of the Ray :—magnijfied.

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ACHIMENES GRANDIFLORA. LARGE-FLOW-

ERED ACHIMENES.

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Class , and Order.

DipynamiA ANGIOSPERMIA.

( Nat. Ord.—GEsNERIACEZ. )

Generic Character.

Calycis tubus ovario adnatus, limbus 5-partitus, lobis

lanceolatis. Corolla tubuloso -infundibuliformis basi hine

sepe gibba, limbo plano 5-fido, lobis subaqualibus sub-

rotundis. Stamina 4, didynama, antheris non coherentibus.

Rudimentum staminis quinti corolle basi inferne impo-

‘situm. Nectarium glandulosum annulare tenue. Stylus

in stigma vix incrassatum obliquum aut subbilobum abeuns.

Capsula semibilocularis, bivalvis, placentis parietalibus bn

subsessilibus.—Herbe Americane erecta, villose. Folia

opposita aut terno-verticillata petiolata dentata. Pedicelli

l-flori, axillares. Corolle coccineé aul purpuree multo

quam Gloxinie minores. Radices, saltem specierum rie

cognitarum, bulbillis squamosis onuste. D C. )

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Acuiments grandiflora; pilis patentibus hispida, foliis oppo-

sitis equalibus ovatis acutis basi obliquis sparse serra-

tis DC.

Acuimenrs grandiflora. De Cand. Prodr. v. 7. p. 536.

Lindl. Bot. Reg. Misc. 1842, n. 59.

Trevinania grandiflora. Linnea, v. 8. p. 247.

The drawing of this fine plant was sent to us in January

- last, by M. Van Hovrre, of Ghent. Never having seen a

flowering specimen of the plant, I abstain from offering any

description.

VOL. XVI. K

description. It would seem to vie with A. longiflora in the

size and beauty of its flowers. Their colour is much more

verging to red, and the leaves are rusty-coloured below.

It was discovered by Scurepr and Deprr in Mexico, gTow-

ing in shady places, near the Hacienda de la Laguna, in

Barranza de loselos. Its period of flowering in Europe -«

has not been stated to me.

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DENDROBIUM CRUMENATUM. SWEET-SMELLING

CLUB-STEMMED DENDROBIUM.

KKK EEE KEE EEE EERE RERER EE

Class and Order.

GyNANDRIA MonanprIia.

( Nat. Ord.—Orcuine2. )

Generic Character

Sepala membranacea, erecta, vel patentia, lateralibus

majoribus obliquis cum basi producta columnz connatis.

Petala sepalo supremo sepius majora nunc minora, semper

membranacea. Labellum cum pede columna -articulatum

vel connatum, semper sessile, indivisum vel trilobum, sepius

membranaceum, nunc appendiculatum. Colwmna semiteres,

basi longe producto. Anthera bilocularis. Pollinia 4, per

paria collateralia—Herbe epiphyte, nunc _caulescentes,

nunc rhizomate repente pseudo-bulbifero. Folia plana, se-

pius venosa. Flores solitarii, fasciculati vel racemost, spe-

ctost. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

DenprRogium crumenatum ; caulibus cespitosis erectis basi

incrassatis teretibus, foliis ovato-oblongis obtusis emar-

ginatis, racemo terminali (3-) multifloro, sepalis peta-

lisque ovatis acuminatis subundulatis _conformibus,

labello cucullato trilobo, lobis lateralibus truncatis

intermedio ovato acuto, disco lamellato. Lindl. =

Denprozium crumenatum. Swartz, Act. Holm. 1800. p.

246. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 4. p. 137._ Lindl. Gen. et Sp.

Orchid. p. 88. Bot. Reg. 1839, t. 22. 4

Ancracum crumenatum. Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6. p. 105. t.

sit a mB :

oats crumenatum. Blum. Bidr. p. 326.

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bi

A native of various islands in the Malay Archi lago,

first figured by Rumpuivs, and recommending itself for cul-

tivation

tivation by the pure white of its blossoms, and their delicious

fragrance. Buume, indeed, says, that the flowers vary from

white to pink; but of the latter hue we have never seen

them. Our specimen, here figured, flowered at Kew in

April, 1842.

Descr. Stems tufted, erect, a foot and a half or more

long, thickened, or clubbed and furrowed at the base,

forming an imperfect pseudo-bulb ; the rest rounded, and

gradually tapering to an acuminated point. The lower

one has a few remote, sheathing scales ; the middle part is

eafy, the leaves gradually becoming smaller, and flowers

taking their place upwards. Leaves oblong, obtuse, coria-

ceous, distichous, semiamplexicaul at the base, and sheath-

ing. Pedicels curved downwards, with sheathing bracts at

the base. Sepals and petals oblong, attenuated, pure white.

Lip articulated on the very decurrent base of the column,

three-lobed, the middle lobe broadly oblong, waved and

crenate, pure white, but on the disk is a yellow crest, form-

ed of several parallel, crenated lamelle. Column short.

Anther-case hemispherical. Pollen-masses as in the Genus.

Fig. 1. Column and Petals. 2. Column with the Anther-case separating

from it :—magnified.

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STIGMAPHYLLUM HETEROPHYLLUM. VARIOUS-

LEAVED STIGMAPHYLLUM.

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Class and Order. ,

DecanpRiA T'RIGYNIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Matpieniacea. )

Generic Character.

Calyx quinquepartitus, laciniis quatuor basi extus bi-

glandulosis. Corolle petala 5, hypogyna, calyce longiora,

unguiculata, seepissime denticulato-ciliata, inequalia, Sta-_

mina 10, hypogyna, dissimilia et inequalia, quatuor subin-

teriora calycis laciniis glanduliferis opposita minora vel —

sterilia, vel subexteriora semper fertilia, alterna crassiora ¢

majora stylis opposita ; filamenta basibus connata ; anthere

introrse, biloculares, connectivo crasso, glanduleformi,

loculis longitudinaliter dehiscentibus, staminum quatuor

interiorum nullis vel effeetis. Ovaria 3, angulo centrali

coalita, dorso gibba, unilocularia; ovulo unico, pendulo,

reclinato. Styli 3, divaricati, apice introrsum in cucullum

foliaceum expansi, vel rarius tantum compresso-dilatati,

intus mamilla stigmatica instructi. Samare 3 vel abortu

pauciores, in axi coalite, apice in alam, margine antico

Superiore crassiorem expanse, latere sepe cristata, inde-

hiscentes, monosperma. Semen inversum.— Embryonis ex-

albuminosi, cotyledones apice inflexe, radicula brevissima,

supera.—Frutices Americe Tropica, plerumque scandentes ;

radice in multis tuberosa; foliis oppositis vel ternatim verti-

cillatis, in summis ramis remotioribus vel interdum alternis,

petiolatis, integerrimis, dentatis vel. varie lobatis, interdum

ciliatis, petiolo plus minus elongato, apice biglanduloso, basi

bistipulato, stipulis minutis, deciduis, inflorescentus umbelli-

formibus, in apice ramulorum terminalibus, vel s@pius in

ramulis axillaribus, plerumque dichotomis, pedunculos com~

_munes mentientibus quasi axillaribus, pedicellis cum pedun-

culis subequalibus, basi bracteatis et apwe bibracteolatis,

- articulatis, apice sepissime incrassatis, ante anthesin recur-

vs, floribus luteis. Endl. Spee ific

Specific Name and Character.

Srigmapuyiium* heterophyllum; parce pilosum, foliis ovatis

obtusis cum mucrone v, subcordatis trilobis lobis ob-

longis obtusis lateralibus patentibus, petiolo infra api-

cem biglanduloso, umbellis axillaribus plurifloris, sty-

lis apice foliaceis.

A showy, handsome climber, hitherto cultivated in the

stove by Mr. Veircu, who raised it from seeds sent from

Buenos Ayres by Mr. Tweepie: but I have reason to be-

lieve, on the authority of specimens in my Herbarium, that

its native country is Tucuman, whence the seeds were

brought by Mr. Tweepie, and reared by him about Buenos

Ayres. It is a ready flowerer, and promises to be worthy of

cultivation in every stove or warm greenhouse, making

a beautiful object, if trained against trellis work. At

Exeter it flowered in December, 1842. ;

Descr. Stem branched, climbing. Leaves opposite,

mostly ovate, waved, entire, very obtuse with a mucro ; not

unfrequently broader, almost cordate, deeply three-lobed ;

the lobes oblong-obtuse, with a mucro, the side ones spread-

ing; colour dark green above, pale below. There are a

few scattered, appressed hairs, fixed by their middle, chiefly

on the under side of the leaves. Petioles about half or three

quarters of an inch long, with a large, depressed gland on

either side near the apex. Peduncles solitary, axillary,

thickened, shorter than the leaf, and bearing an umbel of

several rich yellow flowers. Calyx of five erect sepals, each

with two large glands on the back. Petals orbicular,

clawed, waved and ciliated at the margin. Stamens ten.

Styles three, each expanding into a foliaceous, green

stigma,

* So called from ctyue, the sti. d ; a bei

broad and leafy. igma, and Pvarcr, a leaf: the stigmas being

Fig. 1. Flower, from which the Petals have fallen. 2. Petal :—magnified.

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SIPHOCAMPYLOS LONGEPEDUNCULATUS. LoNG

FLOWER-STALKED SIPHOCAMPYLOS.

JERSE

Class and Order. 7’

PENTANDRIA Mouteawun

( Nat. Ord.—Loseniacez. )~

Generic Character.

Calyx 5-lobus, tubo turbinato aut hemispherico. Co-

rolla tubo superne sepius ventricoso, plerumque recurvo,

integro vel (rarissime) basi fisso et superne solum integro ;

-lobis 5 tubo brevioribus bilabiatis falcatis, duobus superio-

ribus spe majoribus supra faucem reflexis, inferioribus

subbrevioribus. Stamina connata, antheris 2 inferioribus

apice barbatis aut (rarius) omnibus hirsutis.— Frutices,

suffrutices, vel herb, ex America presertim meridionali,

nonnunquam. scandentes ; caulibus ramisque sepius erectis ;

foliis alternis aut verticillatis, pedicellis axillaribus ; floribus

rubris vel sordide albidis, corollis plerumque pubescentibus,.

latere superiore paulo majore. Convexitas corolle sursum

Specitans. DC. ye

Sp s »C pp

_ Specific Character and Synonyms.

SiPHOCAMPYLOS longepedunculatus ; subscandens, glabrius-

culus, foliis alternis ovato-acuminatis membranaceis

argute dentatis basi subcordatis, pedicellis folio longio-

ribus (y. brevioribus), corolla lobis acumiatis, anthe-

‘ris glabris 2. infer. apice barbatis, “ capsula elongata

obovoidea.” i ™

Sipnocampyzos longepedunculatus. Pohl, Pl. Bras. ». 2.

p. 109. t.172. De Cand. Prodr. v. 7. p. 401.

Lozetia pedicellaris. Presl. Prodr, Lob. p. 34.

i3 is ee

This is another fine Srpnocampyos, for which our stoves

are indebted to Mr. GARDNER, who sent home seeds, as well

as

as specimens, from the Organ Mountains of Brazil. It was

first detected in the province of Rio Janeiro by Pout, and

figured by him in his splendid work on the Plants of Brazil.

The colouring being done from a dried individual, that

of the flower is, probably, inaccurate. The length of the

peduncle I find to be highly variable : for whereas the dried

native specimens sent home by Mr. Garpner (his n. 465)

exhibit them as long as, or even longer than, the leaves ;

in our flowering plant, raised from his seeds, the peduncles

are scarcely more than half the length of the leaf. The

stems are long and trailing rather than climbing, and should

be fastetied to wire trellice, when the plant makes a hand-

some appearance. Ours flowered in January, 1823, and

_ that of the Glasgow Botanic Garden about the same time.

Descr. Shrubby. Stems scandent, rounded, glabrous,

as is the whole plant. Leaves alternate, on short petioles,

three to four inches long, ovato-acuminate, sharply denticu-

lated, of a thin and membranous texture. Pedunele axil-

lary, single-flowered, varying much in length, sometimes

considerably exceeding the leaves, flexuose. Flower large.

Calyx-tube turbinate, short ; its five segments linear-subu-

late, spreading, entire. Corolla nearly three inches long ;

the éube contracted near the base, slightly enlarged up-

wards, curved, dark purplish-red, the segments yellow.

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Erica IrsyAna. Mr. Irsy’s Hearn.

KKK EEE KEKE KEKE KEE REE

Class and Order.

Ocranpria Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Entcacez. )

Generic Character.

Calyx equalis vel imbricatus, quadripartitus, vel rarius

quadrifidus. Corolla hypogyna tubulosa, hypocraterimor-

pha, urceolata, campanulata vel globosa, limbo brevi rarius

maximo quadrifido, connivente, erecto, patente vel revolu-

to. Stamina 8, rarius 6—7, disco hypogyno glanduloso

inserta, Filamenta libera, rarissime submonadelpha. _An-

there incluse vel exserte, terminales, ad insertionem fila-

menti appendicibus duabus aristate vel cristate, vel omnino

Mutice, poro orbiculari vel oblongo vel rima longitudinali

dehiscentes. Ovarium quadriloculare rarius 8-loculare,

loculis 200 ovulatis. Stylus filiformis. Stigma obtusum,

capitatum vel peltato-dilatatum, sepe breviter 4-lobum.

Capsula 4-rarius 8-locularis, loculicide quadrivalvis, disse-

Ppimentis demum fissis partim valvulis, partim columelle

adherentibus. Semina_ placentis axilibus affixa, ovoidea

vel compressa, testa adhzrente reticulata leviuscula vel

nitida, rarius in membranam tenuem expansa.—Frutices

Europei vel maxima parte Austro-Africant, rigiduli, ramo-

Sissimi; rarius flaccidi. Folia sepissime linearia, acerosa,

marginibus omnino revolutis et sub folio coherentibus pagi-

nam inferiorem veram omnino occultantibus, rarius omnino

plana verticillata vel rarius alterna vel sparsa. Flores in

pedicellis uniflores axillares vel terminales, solitarii, verticil-

lati, capitati vel umbellati, plerumque cernut. D C.

Specifie Character and Synonyms. —

Erica Irbyana ; foiiis ternis erectis lineari-lanceolatis tri-

gonis ciliatis rigidis, sepalis lineari-lanceolatis acutis,

corollz viscose tubo oblongo basi subattenuato versus

apicem

apicem longiuscule et leviter attenuato, limbi laciniis

ovatis.

Erica Irbyana. Andrews’ Heaths, t.219. Lodd. Bot. Cab.

é. 816. (forma hybrida a germina parum diversa.

Benth). De Cand. Prodr. v.17. p. 645.

Evrrtoma Irbyana. G. Don, Mill. Dict. Gard. v. 3.p. 816.

Var. Bandonia. Andr. Heaths, t..205.

Catusta Bandonia. G. Don, Mill. Gard. Dict. v. 3. p. 813.

A most lovely plant, brought to great perfection in the

greenhouse of the College Botanic Garden, Dublin, by our

friend Mr. Macway: but hybridized, as are so many of our

Cape Heaths at this time in our collections, that it is impos-

sible to pronounce upon the limits of the species. The

present one was sent as E. Bandonia of Anprews : but that

is considered by Mr. Benruam in De Canpo.te’s Prodromus

above quoted, as a form of E. Irbyana with patent leaves,

which is by no means the case with our plant. It differs from

the E. Irbyana of Lopp. Bot. Cabinet, in its still more erect

foliage and shorter and broader corollas: in short, it seems

pretty well to accord with the original E. Irbyana. :

Descr. A shrub, with flexuose branches, clothed with

erect, imbricated leaves, which are linear-lanceolate, aris-

tate at the point, plane or slightly concave in front, carinate

at the back, with a furrow on the keel, the margin entire,

but ciliated. Flowers in sessile umbels at the apex of the

branches. Pedicels red, bearing several erect, membranous,

subulate bracteas. Calyx of five linear-subulate sepals.

Tube of the corolla rather more than twice the length of

the calyx, oblong-urceolate, remarkably. glutinous, white

or nearly so, the faux deep rose colour ; the four spreading

segments of the limb ovate, white. Stamens eight, as long

as the tube of the corolla, erect, all of them singularly flex-

uose near the middle. Anthers awnless. Germen oblong-

clavate, with eight glands at the base. Style a little longer

than the stamens. Stigma dilated with five obtuse points.

———)

Fig. 1. Leaf. 2. Stamens and Pistil, 3. Anther. 4. Pistil :—magnified.

V Fite del® Tub by S. Curtis Glaxerwod Eosee May 21843.

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CATASETUM VIRIDI-FLAVUM. YELLOW-GREEN

CATASETUM.

Class and Order.

GynanpriA Monanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—OrcuipeEz. )

Generic Character.

- Perianthium sepius globosum, nunc explanatum. Se-

pala et petala subequalia. Labellum crassum, carnosum,

nudum, ventricosum vel explanatum, fimbriatum; sub

apice saccatum. obsolete trilobum. Columna erecta, aptera,

libera, apice utrinque cirrhosa. Anthera subbilocularis,

antice truncata, Pollinia 2, postice biloba vel sulcata ;

caudicula maxima nuda demum elastice contractili; glan-

dula cartilaginea subquadrata.—Herbe terrestres vel ept-

phyte; caulibus brevibus fusiformibus vestigiis foliorum

vestitis, Folia basi vaginantia, plicata. Scapi radicales.

oes speciosi, racemosi, virides, nunc purpureo-maculate.

andl.

Specific Name and Character.

Carasetum viridi-flavum ; foliis oblongis acutis, sepalis

patentibus petalisque ovatis acutis concavis, labello

subconico-saccato cucullato, ore contracto integro

ciliato, anthera columnaque acuminatis.

=" aa

Every district of tropical South America seems to afford a

Caraserum, different from what is found in other places ;

but how far these are to be defined as specifically distinct it

is not easy to say. The present, quite unlike in the general

appearance of its flowers any other known to us, 1s yet with

difficulty to be distinguished in words. It was discovered

by Mr. Barcray, (while employed as Government Botanist

on the Pacific side of South America, in H. M. wei ed

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NEMATANTHUS LONGIPES. LONG FLOWER-

STALKED NEMATANTHUS. 3

SERRE REE KEK EE KKEK

Class and Order.

DipynamiA ANGIOSPERMIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Gesneriacez. )

Generic Character.

Calyx liber obliquus ultra medium 5-fidus seu 5-partitus,

lobis lanceolato-linearibus subequalibus, summo paululum

minore. Corolla infundibuliformi-campanulata obliqua

basi postice gibba, fauce patula, limbo zqualiter 5-lobo.

Stamina 4 didynama cum quinto rudimentario aut nullo.

Anthere coherentes. Annulus hypogynus et glandula pos-

tica. Capsula pyramidalis coriacea 1-locularis 2-valvis,

placentis 2 parietalibus bilamellatis. Semina innumerosa

oblonga —Frutices Brasilienses simplices aut parce ramosi,

supra arbores scandentes sepe radicantes, epidermide nitida

cinereo-testacea. Folia opposita (altero sepe minore ) petio-

lata crassiuscula oblonga aut ovali-lanceolata utringue acu-—

minata subintegerrima, juniora ciliata. Gemmatio nuda

Joliis complicatis. \ Pedicelli axillares 1-flori solitarii ebrac-

teati filiformes penduli. Corolle punicee ample. DC. —

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Nematantnus * longipes ; pedicellis folio longioribus, caly-

cibus ultra medium quinquefidis. __ |

EMATANTHUs longipes. De Cand. Prodr. 7. p. 544. Gard.

in Hook. Lond. Journ. of Bot. v. 1. p. 178. (and in

Herb. Braz.) n. 72. (2.) a

sh eaten eens

* From mya, ares, a thread, and arbos, a flower ; from the pendent thread-

like peduncles on which the flowers are suspended.

VOL. XVI. L

The Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew are indebted to

Messrs. Rotutsons of Tooting for the possession of this

truly beautiful plant. It seems to have been introduced

from Brazil to Paris, and probably by the late lamented

M. GuitteMin, to the Jardin des Plantes, whence it was sent

to Messrs. Roxtisons by Mr. Neumann of that establish-

ment. Our young plant soon flowered in the winter,

December and January of last year, and again it is in high

beauty in the present month of May. It is a climber,

thriving well in the moist heat of our Orchideous house, and

makes a most handsome appearance, if trained about the

wire trellices which are now so commonly and so success-

fully attached to the pots which contain climbing plants.

It has been found by Mr. Garpner in woods of the Corco-

vado, Brazil, and is n. 72 (2) of his Collection : and is per-

fectly distinct from the N. chloromena, (Marr. Noy. Gen.

Bras. v. 3. p. 47. t. 219,) which is n. 5531 of Mr. Garpner;

but De Canpoxze seems to think it possible that the N.

corticola, Scurav. (N. ionema Marr.) may be the same,

though the colour of the flower is described as very dif-

ferent.

Drscr. A soft- wooded, half-shrubby, climbing, and

radicant plant ; with opposite, fleshy, elliptical or subovate,

petiolated glabrous leaves, entire, or sometimes here and

there serrated. From the axils of these leaves the long,

slender peduncles, twice or thrice the length of the leaves,

hang down, apparently drooping with the weight of the

large richly-coloured flowers. Calyx hairy, deeply cut, for

more than three-quarters of the way down, into five lanceo-

late, coarsely serrated segments. Corolla rich scarlet, ob-

liquely protruded between two of the segments, gibbous at

the base, inflated at the throat, but there laterally, singularly

pinched or compressed. Limb of five short, revolute, lobes.

Stamens as long as the corolla, Anthers united. Pollen

yellow. Ovary free, oblong, and, as well as the lower part

rie Beer hairy. On one side, at the base, is a large,

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© Secs of the Onnay: e rng Stamens. 2. Pistil an

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PoLysporRA AXILLARIS. AXILLARY PoLy-—

SPORA.

SEEKER EEK EEE EEE EE REREEEE

Class and Order.

MonapetpuiA PonyanpRia.

( Nat. Ord.—TERNsTR@MIACES. )

Generic Character

Calyx bracteatus. Sepala 5. Petala 5—6. Stamina

numerosa basi monadelpha et cum petalis connata. lus

simplex angulatus. Stigma lobatum. Ovarium 5-loculare.

Ovula biseriatim inserta ex angulo centrali. Capsula ob-

longa, lignosa, 5-locularis, 5-valvis, polysperma. Semina

imbricata superne alata.—Frutex Chinensis ; foliis obovatis

glabris integris v. serratis; floribus axillaribus solitarus

subsessilibus. Don.

Specific Name and Synonyms.

e

Potyspora * axillaris. * 1c

Potyspora axillaris. Don, Dict. of Gard. and Bot. v. 1. p.

‘Cametzia axillaris. Roxb.—Ker, Bot. Reg. t. 349. Sims

Bot. Mag. t. 2047. . :

Gorponia anomala. Spreng. Syst. Veget. 3. Pp: 126. |

__ So little justice has been done to this extremely beautiful

plant, by any figure which has yet been given to it, that

our readers will not be displeased at seeing the present

representation, taken froma specimen which flowered in the

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in November, 1842. a

* So named by SWEET, apparently from sonus, many, and omopa, a seed”

from the numerous seeds in the cells of the capsule.

plant was given to us by Mr. Makoy of Liege. _ It is said

to be a native of Pulo Penang ; but I possess fruit-bear-

ing specimens, from which the accompanying capsule was

drawn, brought to me by Mr. Livinesrone from China,

where, however, it is probably only cultivated. Much as

the general appearance resembles CAMELLIA, the fruit is

quite different, and seems to justify Mr. Sweer in consti-

tuting a new Genus of it. Enpicuer, indeed, refers it to

Gorpont, to which it has a near affinity.

Descr. Shrubby, branched. Leaves alternate, oblong-

obovate, obtuse, coriaceous, dark glossy green above, paler

below, the margin quite entire, except some of the lower

leaves, which are more or less serrated. Petioles short.

Flowers clustered upon short, terminal branches, on which

the leaves appear to be reduced to foliaceous bracteas.

Calyx of five imbricated, obcordate sepals, with two or

three scales at the base, green below, the rest dark brown.

Petals \arge, cream-coloured, broadly -obcordate, nearly

equal, with a sixth external and smaller one on the outside,

tipped with brown. Stamens numerous. Filaments yellow,

united by their bases among themselves, and to the petals.

Anthers yellow, oblong, two-celled, opening longitudinally,

orange-yellow as well as the pollen. Ovary nearly glo-

bose, silky, tapering into a thickened, angular style, as long

as the stamens, five-celled : each cell with two rows of

ovules attached to the inner angle. Stigma lobed. Capsule

oblong-obovate, brown, marked near the top with five

obsolete furrows, very hard and woody, and though, in my

specimens, apparently mature, difficult to force open. Seeds

with a broad wing above.

Ping = * rp mapa of the Germen: magnified. 3. Capsule : nat.

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IMPATIENS GLANDULIGERA. ‘GLANDULAR.

BausaM; or Touch me not.

SI sskeskeokskeokokeskokskakae

Class and Order.

Pentanpria Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Batsaminea. )

Generic Character.

Antheré quinque, nempe 3-loculares, 2 ante petalum

superius I-loculares. Stigmata 5 coalita. Capsula prisma-

tico-teretiuscula elongata, valvis 4 bast ad apicem extror-

sum revolutis. Cotyledones planiuscula. Pedunculi axil-_

lares ramosi multiflori. Capsule glabre. Folia alterna, +

Specific Character and Synonyms.

IMPATIENS glanduligera ; annua erecta, foliis verticillatis

ternatis ovato-lanceolatis argute serratis serraturis ba-

seos glandulosis, stipulis teretibus clavatis glandulosis,

pedunculis axillaribus subterminalibus 3-floris, sepalo

dorsali integro mutico, calcare brevi inflexo, petalo-

rum lobo altero rotundato altero dimidiato oblongo

obtuso subfalcato, fructu brevi gh ah Lindl.

Impatiens glanduligera. Royle Iustr. Himal. Mount. 151.

«6.28.72. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1840, t.22. Pies.

This is one of many desirable hardy plants of the North

of India which have of late years been introduced to

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Europe by the liberality of the East India Company, |

through Dr. Royre. The present was, indeed, first de-

scribed by that gentleman, who obtained the species from

Cashmere seed. Notwithstanding the peculiarity of climate

which prevails in the hill country of India, where this plant

is a native, almost all seasons in this country seem to be

f % ~ favorable

favorable to its growth : for, though a moist atmosphere sin-

gularly favors the rapid growth of this plant, yet, dry as

was the summer of last year, in my own private garden, it

came to great perfection. And this summer, there is a most

abundant crop of self-sown plants, which only require to be

thinned out, and thus an annual supply may without diffi-

culty be kept up. In the earlier stage of the plant, its

coarse dark foliage is very unpromising ; but when the

copious flowers come to perfection, it will be seen that few

annuals are better worthy of a place in every good-sized

flower garden. The flowers are in the greatest perfection

im autumn.

Descr. An annual plant, six to ten or twelve feet high,

with a very thick somewhat hollow stem, and copious

branches and foliage. Leaves three to five inches long,

ovate, or between ovate and lanceolate, sharply serrated,

the serratures at the base glandular, and decurrent upon |

the petiole. Stipules clothed with thick, glandular hairs.

The peduncles, with their three or more flowers, are so

copious towards the top of the plant from the axils of the

leaves, that they may be said to form a large, leafy panicle.

Flowers large, dark purple, succeeded by the seed-vessels

of the same hue, which, when ripe, or nearly so, burst on

the slightest touch with a remarkably elastic force, and

disperse the seed far and wide.

Fig. 1. Ripe Seed-vessel :—nat. size.

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BRASSAVOLA VENOSA. VEIN-LIPPED

BRASSAVOLA.

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€lass and Order.

GyNANDRIA MonANDRIA.

( Nat. Ord —Orcnipes. )

Generic Character.

Sepala et petala subequalia, libera, acuminata. Label-

lum cucullatum, integrum, columnam involvens. Columna_

marginata, clavata, stigmate infundibulari, clinandrio pos-—

tice tridentato. Pollinia 8, subequalia, quibusdam aliis

fparvis interjectis. Anthera 4-locularis, septis marginatis,

loculis semibipartitis —Herbe caulescentes, epiphyte, apice

folium unicum v. alterum, semicylindraceum, carnosum,

supra sulcatum, apice subulatum gerentes. Flores termt-

nales, magni, speciosi. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonyms. eee

Brassavoza venosa ; folio lineari-lanceolato coriaceo-car-

noso superne canaliculato, sepalis petalisque lineari-

lanceolatis, labelli ungue elongato serrato, lamina cor-

data acuminata yenosa basi subserrata.

Brassavota venosa: Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1840. Misc. n. 24.

@1.39. % i | Ps

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‘In the form and serratures of the lip, we fear the species

of BrassAvota, as is the case with so many other Orchidez,

are very liable to vary. That this plant is identical with

the B. venosa of Dr. Linvtey, there is, probably, little

_ doubt, but the labellum is not so serrated, and the lamina

_ less disposed to be three-lobed. It was drawn in July, from

iy lant that flowered in the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew.

Much as it resembles B: nodosa, (Bot. Mag. e Oe

3

Dr. Linpey observes, it seems to us still more closely allied

to B. cordata, (Bot. Mag. t. 3782,) differing chiefly in the

size of the flower and breadth of the leaf, to which Dr.

Linvuey adds, “ in the firmness of the lip, which is more or

less evidently lobed at the side,’’ (a variable character,)

“ and has the veins distinctly elevated.”

It flowered in the stove of the Royal Botanic Gardens,

and is certainly the finest of all the Brassavotas.

ok | 1. Columnand Anther. 2. Anther-case. 3. Pollen-masses :—mag-

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CESTRUM VIRIDIFLORUM. GREEN-FLOWERED

CESTRUM.

KEKE EEE EKER EE EEE ER

Class and Order.

PentanpriaA Monoeynta.

( Nat. Ord.—SoaneEz. )

Generic Character.

_ Calyx tubuloso-campanulatus, 5-dentatus. Corolla in-

fundibuliformis limbo plicato 5-fido, Stamina tubo inserta

subdenticulata. Bacca 1-locularis, polysperma.

Specific Name and Character.

Cestrum viridiflorum; totum pilis stellatis tomentosum,

filamentis edentulis, foliis ovato-lanceolatis breviter

petiolatis supra demum nudis, spicis simplicibus axil-

laribus pedunculatis folio brevioribus, bracteis lineari-

lanceolatis calycem zquantibus deciduis, calycis cylin-

dracei dentibus tubum dimidio equantibus, corolle

tubo elongato gracili superne campanulato, limbo

quinquepartito patente.

My first knowledge of this highly fragrant Cestrrum was

from specimens, sent by Mr. Tweenre from Porto Alegre in

South Brazil, where it is seen in woods, and it was re-

marked that it diffused a sweet scent at night, as is fre-

quently the case with flowers of this peculiar colour. It was

afterwards, in 1836, transmitted by the same indefatigable

collector from woods of St. Janvier, and on the eastern side

of the Cordillera, in Tucuman. At the same time seeds of

it were sent by Mr. Tweepie to Mr. D. Moore of the Glas-

nevin Botanic Garden, where flowering plants were produc-

ed last year. This able cultivator observes that, “‘ though

the flowers are not very showy, they are produced very

| abundantly,

abundantly, and the plant appears to be of easy culture

in a cool stove, flowering when eighteen inches or two

feet high. I should, therefore, say, seeing how deliciously

fragrant its blossoms are at night, (less, however, in the

day,) that it possesses sufficient merit to render it rather a

general favorite in collections. It flowers in the autumn

and early winter, and, probably, will do so for many

months in the year.” It is nearly allied to C. strzgzllatum

(Ruiz and Pavon) of Peru, and that has cordate leaves.

Descr. A straggling shrub, everywhere, except the

upper surface of the old leaves and the inside of the corolla,

clothed with a dense, stellate tomentum; but especially on

the underside of the foliage. Leaves alternate, three, four,

and five inches long, ovato-lanceolate, entire, penninerved.

Spikes of flowers axillary, sometimes sessile or nearly so,

but more generally pedunculated, always shorter than the

leaves. Calyx bracteated, tubular, with the five teeth about

one-half the length of the tube. Corolla pale yellowish-

green, the tube twice the length of the calyx, very slender,

dilated and campanulate at the apex, where the limb is

set on, which forms five spreading, ovate lobes. Fila-

ments short, arising from the top of the slender part of the

tube, without teeth. Anthers two-lobed. Ovary on a

fleshy base. Style rather longer than the tube of the

corolla. Stigma capitate, depressed.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil. :—magnified.

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LoMATIA ILICIFOLIA. HoLLY-LEAVED

LoMATIA.

ROR OR OR RON On ROR On Oo oe ee

Class and Order.

TrerrANpDRIA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Proreaces. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium irregulare, foliolis distinctis secundis. Sta-

mina apicibus cavis perianthii immersa. Glandule hypo-

gyn 3, secunde. Ovarium pedicellatum, polyspermum.

Stylus persistens. Stigma obliquum, dilatatum, subrotun-

dum, planiusculum. Folliculus ovali-oblongus. Semina

apice alata; ala marginata, disco evasculoso.—Frutices.

Folia alterna, in plerisque divisa v. dentata, rarius integer-

rima, quandoque in eodem frutice varia, Racemi terminales,

interdum axillares, elongati, laxi, nunc abbreviati, corym-

bosi, paribus pedicellorum unibracteatis. Flores ochroleuct.

Involucrum nullum. Seminis nucleus farina sulphurea con-

spersus. Br.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Lomaria ilicifolia ; foliis ovatis oblongis elliptico-lanceola-

_ tisve spinoso-dentatis reticulatis, adultis glabriusculis,

- racemis. elongatis, perianthiis pilis appressis, pistillis

~ glaberrimis. | Br.

Lomaria ilicifolia. Br. Prodr. 1. p. 390. Suppl. p. 33.

(a.) ovata ; foliis oblongo-ovatis, racemis terminalibus et e

summisalis. Br. Suppl. l. c.

(8.) glabrata ; foliis elliptico-lanceolatis, racemis termina-

libus, petiolis ramulisque adultis glabris. Br. lc.

(y.) axillaris ; foliis elliptico-lanceolatis, petiolis ramulis-

que pubescentibus, racemis axillaribus. Br. l. c.

(3.) pmnatifida ; foliis non raro pinnatifidis. (Tab. nostr.

4023.

Apparently

Apparently a very variable species, and of extensive loca-

lity in Australia. Mr. Brown mentions his first var. «. as an

inhabitant of the southern and eastern coasts, 8. as a native

of Port Jackson, and y. of Wilson’s Promontory, also on

the south coast. Our cultivated plant in the Royal Botanic

Gardens of Kew has the leaves extremely variable on differ-

ent parts of the same specimen, whence I have been led to

constitute a fourth variety. It is an ornamental plant, both

in its copious evergreen foliage and in its long compound

spikes of white flowers, which are plentifully produced in

August. With us, it thrives well in a peaty or heath soil,

simply protected by a frame. 3

Descr. A low evergreen shrub, with alternate leaves,

very variable in form, but in our specimens generally be-

tween ovate and lanceolate, four to eight inches long, cori-

aceous, harsh and rigid, waved, acuminate at both extre-

mities, and often pinnatifid, penninerved, and strongly

reticulated. The margins sinuato-dentate, or almost spinu-

lose. In our plant the raceme is terminal, so much branch-

ed as almost to become a panicle. Pedicels single-flowered,

solitary, or two or three together, three-quarters of an inch

to an inch long, glabrous, or slightly pubescent. Flowers

yellowish-white. Perianth a little silky, irregular : the

sepals at first opening only on one side, all leaning one way

and recurved at the apex, at length spreading open in four

unequal pieces, each bearing an anther in a hollow of the

revolute extremity. Ovary on a long pedicel, which has

three yellow glands at the base. Style curved. Stigma

dilated.

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PuarsBitis TyrRIANTHINA. 'TYRIAN-PURPLE

GAYBINE.

KEK KEKE KEE EEE KEKE KEK EEK

Class and Order.

PentanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Convotvutacez. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 5-sepalus. Corolla campanulata, aut campanu-

lato-infundibuliformis. Stylus 1. Stigma capitato-granu-

nia Ovarium 3-, rarius 4-, loculare, loculis dispermis.

hois.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Puarsitis Tyrianthina ; radice tuberosa, caule volubili fru-

ticoso verrucoso, foliis subrotundis cordatis acuminatis

molliter villosis, pedunculis multifloris folio longiori-

bus, corolla infundibulari calyce villoso 4-plo longiore.

Lindl.

Ipomma Tyrianthina. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1838, Miscell.

n. 162.

tention

Our first knowledge of this exquisitely coloured flower is

derived from the Miscellaneous portion of Dr. Linptey’s

Botanical Register, where that author gives the above

specific character, with the remark that “ this is a most

beautiful plant, for which our gardens are indebted to

Georee Freperick Dickson, Esq., who obtained the seeds

from Mexico, and presented them to the Horticultural

Society. One of the houses in the garden at Chiswick

was richly ornamented with it in October last (1838).

Neither Ipomza rubro-cerulea, nor \. Horsfallie, nor any

of the other noble species which have found their way to

Europe of late years, can exceed this in the richness of its

colour, which is of a peculiar tint, resembling nothing -

a muc

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VOL, XVI, M

much as the deepest purple ever seen in the finest varieties

of Perunta violacea. As the flowers are fully two inches

and a half long, and grow in clusters upon the end of long,

graceful peduncles, the rich effect of this species may be

easily imagined.”

It may well be supposed that such a plant, cultivated in

Mrs. Lawrence’s stove, with all the skill for which that

princely establishment is celebrated, would be an object

worthy of attention, and it was there that our figure was

made in October of last year, from a truly splendid

specimen, cultivated in a large pot; and having its

branches, with their copious foliage, trained round a basket

trellice, its numerous flowers, of the most perfectly sym-

metrical form, were set off to great advantage.

Descr. The figure, difficult as the colour is to be imi-

tated by art, will give a better idea of the plant than mere

words can do. It is, like many of the Genus, a twiner,

woody below; the younger branches herbaceous, and

having the hairs erecto-patent. Leaves large, heart-shaped,

with a deep narrow sinus at the base, the apex acuminated,

the margin entire; hairy on both sides, but especially

beneath. Petiole one inch and a half long. Peduncle

elongated, hairy, bearing about three to four flowers ;

pedicels an inch long, hairy, bracteated. Calyx of five

imbricated, elliptical-lanceolate, appressed, hairy sepals.

Corolla, in our specimen, full four inches across its spread-

ing limb, the tube funnel-shaped, equalling in length the

breadth of the limb; and externally the corolla is of the

same vivid Tyrian purple as the inner surface.

4020,

WF itch Delt Pub. by 3. Curtis, Glavenwood, Essex. July ]1P43.

( 4025)

BEGONIA ACUMINATA. POINT-LEAVED |

Beconia; or Elephant’s Ear. |

SKK KKK KKK EEK EEE EE

Class and Order.

MonazciaA PoLyanpriA.

( Nat. Ord.—Brecontscez. )

Generic Character.

Masc. Calyx o. Corolla polypetala, petalis plerumque

4, inequalibus. Fam. Calyx o. Corolla petalis 4—9,

plerumque inequalibus. Styli 3 bifidi. Capsula triquetra,

alata, trilocularis, polysperma.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Brconta acuminata; caulescens, foliis hispidis subplicatis

semicordato-ovatis acuminatis lobatis inciso-serratis,

capsule ala maxima oblique triangulari-ovata reliquis

parvis acutangulis subequalibus.

Beconra acuminata. Dryand. in Trans. Linn. Soc. v. 1. p.

166. t. 14. f.5,6. Willd. Sp. Pl.v.4. p.417. Hort.

Kew. ed. 3. v. 5. p. 284. Ker, in Bot. Reg. t. 364.

Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 626. ,

The various species of Beconra have not been valued

by Horticulturists in general, according to their merits.

As stove plants, few families present a greater variety of

colour and form in their foliage than they do: they are

easily increased, ready flowerers, and the blossoms are

highly beautiful, A collection of various species, grouped

together, as is now the case in the Royal Gardens of

Kew, is at all seasons of the year attractive; and from

among this group the present one, though far indeed from

being the handsomest, is selected. It was introduced to

this establishment by Sir Josern Banks, from Jamaica,

in

in 1790, and flowers, more or less copiously, from May

to December.

Descr. Our plant rises with several weak, though

rather stout, fleshy, semi-pellucid, reddish stems, having a

few scattered patent hairs, to the height of three or four

feet, branched. Leaves on short, rounded petioles, two to

three inches long, succulent, very oblique, or, in other

words, semi-cordato-ovate, hispid, plaited at the nerves,

acuminate, lobed and inciso-serrate at the margin. Stipules

ovate, membranous, deciduous. Peduncles axillary, longer

than the leaves, hispid, bearing three to five flowers. Male

jlowers consisting of four, white petals, two large and acute,

two about half that size and obtuse. Female flowers with

five white petals, of which two are smaller. Fruit with one

large and two small membranous wings.

Fig. 1. Section of a Capsule :—magnified.

( 4026 )

Ospeck1A CHINENSIS. CHINESE OSBECKIA.

Class and Order.

DecanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Metasromaces. )

Generic Character.

Calycis tubus ovatus sepius setis stellatis aut pube stel-

lata vestitus ; lobi 4—5 persistentes aut decidui; appen-

dices inter lobos extus orte forma et magnitudine varie.

Petala 4—5. Stamina 8—10, filamentis glabris, antheris

subequalibus breve rostratis connectivo basi breve biauri-

culato. Ovarium apice setosum. Capsula 4—}-locularis.

Semina cochleata.—Herbe aut sepius suffrutices, Ameri-

cani, Africani, aut Asiatict. Folia integerruma 3—5 nervia.

Flores terminales. D C.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Ospecxia Chinensis; herbacea, caule tetraquetro, foliis

subsessilibus lanceolato-oblongis 3-nerviis hispidulis

subcrenulatis, floribus cymosis terminalibus paucis,

calycis hemispherici lobis 4—5 linearibus acutis seto-

sis deciduis.

Ospecx1a Chinensis. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 490. Osbeck’s ie:

(Engl. ed.) p. 342. t. 2. Bot. Reg. t. 542. e@

Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p. 41. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2.

p. 312.

A very lovely plant, with spreading branches, dark co-

loured copious foliage, and bearing abundance of flowers

ua moist warm stove. It

in the spring months when kept iu a

is considered to be identical with the plant of Loureiro

and Ospecx, and consequently of Linn 2s ; though I have

not the means of identifying this point. Nor do I know

_ through what channel it was first introduced to peat si

lens ;

dens ; probably by Messrs. Convitt, of the King’s Road,

Chelsea, where’ it was described by Mr. Ker, in 1821.

Osseckx gathered it on hills, not far from Canton, flow-

ering in September. It is there known by a name which

is equivalent to plume of golden roses, from which we may

infer that it is much prized by the Chinese, by whom it is

sold in the apothecaries’ shops, being taken in infusion

for the colic, and used in fomentations for sprains and

swellings.

Descr. A shrub,with rather slender, copious, decussate,

four-sided, hispid, spreading branches. Leaves opposite,

ovato-lanceolate, nearly sessile, entire, three-nerved, cili-

ated on the margin, and chiefly on the nerves beneath,

which are very prominent. Cymes of three flowers, simple

or compound. Flowers very handsome. Calyx-tube ovate,

quite naked, limb of five recurved, acute segments, hispid

at the apex with simple hairs, and at the sinus is generally

a stellated tuft of hair. Corolla of five large, rich, palish-

purple, broadly-obovate petals. Stamens ten. Filaments

thickened upwards. Anthers oblong, corrugated in front,

yellow, terminating in a longish beak, opening by a single

pore. Germen subglobose, the lower part united with the

base of the tube of the calyx, the rest free: the apex

tipped with rigid, erect hairs. Style as long as the sta-

mens, curved at the apex. Stigma capitate.

Fig. 1. Section of a Calyx (with Stamens) and Germen. 2. Stamen:

magnified.

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Pub by 5. Curtis, Glavemwood Essex. July 17823.

( 4027 )

CANAVALIA ENSIFORMIS. OVERLOOK: or

JamAicA Horse-BeEan.

TEER KEKE KKK KKKEK

Class and Order.

DiapeteuiaA DEcANDRIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Lereuminosz. )

Generic Character.

Calyx tubulosus bilabiatus, labius infer. dentibus 3 acutis

parvis, super. lobis 2 amplis rotundatis. Corolle vexillum

amplum bicallosum, callis parallelis ; ale stipitate oblon-

$e auriculate ; carina dipetala. Stamina monadelpha aut

decimo subadherente. Legumen compressum tricarinatum

nempe infra et juxta suturam superiorem nervo protube-

rante suture parallelo utrinque instructum, mucrone inflexo

terminatum, membranis cellulosis inter semina donatum.

Semina ovali-oblonga, hilo lineari.—Herbe aut suffrutices,

ramis volubilibus, foliis pinnato-trifoliatis. Racemi axillares

“op ie pedicellis ternis. Flores ampli purpurascentes. —

Specific Character and Synonyms.

CANAVALIA ensiformis; foliolis ovatis acutis, leguminibus

latitudine quintuplo et ultra longioribus. P

Canavauia ensiformis. De Cand. Prodr. 2. p. 404. Mac-

Jad. Fl. Jam. 1. p. 292. J

Doticuos ensiformis. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1022. Lam. Dict.

2. p. 295. Spreng. Syst. Veget.v.3.p.250. ~

Douicuos acinaciformis. Jacq. Coll. 1. p. 114. Ic. Rar. t.

_ Where there is ample room in a warm stove this climber

4s well worthy ofa place. It has generally been considered

to be a native of Jamaica; sometimes of the East Indies ;

_ but, in this latter case, it seems to have been grr

. wit

with the C. gladiata, a truly Indian plant. Our friend, Dr.

M‘Fapyen, whose book, above quoted, is full of valuable

remarks, observes, “ Stoane considers this species to be

indigenous to the island of Jamaica, and says that the

seeds were, in his time, used by some as food, and given to

fatten hogs. I do not find, however, on enquiry, that any

use is, at present, made of them, except that they are

commonly planted by the Negroes, along the margin of

their provision grounds, from a superstitious notion, pro-

bably of African origin, but very generally entertained,

that the “ Overlook” fulfils the part of a watchman, and,

from some dreaded power ascribed to it, protects the

property from plunder. Even the better informed adopt

the practice, although, they themselves may not place

confidence in any particular influence which this humble

plant can exercise, either in preventing theft, or in punish-

ing it when committed.” The above notion of its being a

native of Africa, seems to be confirmed by the fact, that

the seeds from which our present plant was raised, were

sent to Mr. Veircn, of Mount Radford, Exeter, from Ashan-

tee, together with those of many other native plants. It

flowered in Mr. Verrcn’s Nursery, in November, 1842.

Descr. It is said to be an annual, and in Jamaica is

yearly planted along the margin of provision grounds.

The stems are several feet in length. Leaves large, rotun-

dato-ovate, acute. Peduncles axillary, in our specimens, a

span and more long, terminated by a raceme of large,

handsome, purple flowers: these flowers are seated upon

globular, fleshy excrescences. The calyx is cylindrical,

green dotted with brown; the upper lip of two large,

rounded lobes, the lower of three small teeth. Vezillum

large, obovate. Ale smaller than the carina, which latter

is very obtuse. Ovary linear, silky, stipitate, arising from

a glandular ring. The legume is described by Dr.

M‘Fapyen as about a foot long, scimitar-shaped, with

three keels or elevated lines along the outside. Seeds

oblong, plump, white, with the hilum brown.

ae

i 1. Portion of the Rachis, with a Calyx, Stamens, and Pistil. 2.

Vexillum. 3, Carina. 4. Pistil :—magnified.

4028.

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( 4028 )

MEGACLINIUM MAXIMUM. LaArcest Meaa-

CLINIUM.

KER KEKE EK EEK KEKE KK KKK EKK

Class and Order.

GynanpRis Monanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—Onrcuipea. )

Generic Character.

_Pollinia 4, cereacea equalia geminatim coherentia, cau-

dicula glandulaque nullis. Anthera terminalis, opercularis,

persistens minuta unilocularis. Stigma parvum intrusum,

rostello emarginato. Colwmna plana, abbreviata, apice bi-

cuspidata. Labellum integerrimum cum pede columne

elastice articulatum. Sepala exteriora basi connata: supe-

riore difformi, interioribus nanis.—Herbe epiphyte, oligo-

Phylle, cespitose, bulbose, (Africae et Asie inter tropicos ).

Scapi radicales simplices: rachidibus dilatatis. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Meeactinium* maximum; sepalo supremo acuto lateralibus

margine involutis acuminatissimis reflexis, labello line-

ari revoluto. Lindl. . ce

Mercacunium maximum. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1909. Gen. —

et Sp. Orchid. p. 47. a ef Lal

table kingdom, for which the Orchideous ep feed 7

remarkable. In the species of this Genus, the rachis, or

stalk immediately bearing the flowers, is broad, flat, a

his, or

Sword-shaped, and upon each side of this, the very

eo

One of the many strange vegetable features of the vege-

R

an

utd

_* So named by Dr. Linpiey from psyas, large, and xAwn, a bed, in allu-

Sion to the broad, sword-shaped bed or rachis of the flowers.

gular blossoms are inserted, and the appearance of these

flowers is more like little tadpoles, than any production of

the vegetable kingdom. The present kind was, as we are

informed by Dr. Linptey, first collected by Smearuman in

Sierra Leone ; and afterwards living specimens were sent

to Mr. Loppiegs, through whose means the plant is now

known in our Collections. With us, its flowering season

is June and July.

Descr. Pseudo-bulbs oblong, broad at the base, lon-

gitudinally marked with obtuse angles, and having a few

sheathing scales. Leaves two or three, terminating the

pseudo-bulb, ligulate, rather coriaceous. Scape arising

from the base of the pseudo-bulb, much longer than the

leaves, for more than half its length from the apex, sin-

gularly dilated and flattened, forming a sword-shaped

rachis, toothed at the margin, along the middle of which, on

the two opposite sides, the flowers are produced in a line

from the base to the apex. These are sessile, and arise

singly from a sort of articulation, at the centre of which is

a small subulate, reflexed bractea. The perianth is yellow-

green, variously spotted with blood-coloured dots, gen-

erally minute, some larger. Upper sepal erect, obovate

or broadly spathulate, thick and fleshy at the sides, almost

destitute of spots: the side sepals are spreading, triangular,

with a very broad base, the apex having the sides involute,

so as to form a narrow point. Petals spreading, very

small, spotless, linear. Lip also small, linear, reflexed,

dotted. Column short. Anther hemispherical. Pollen-

masses of two cereaceous, yellow lobes.

Fig. 1. Front view of a Flower. 2, Anther-case. 3, 4. Pollen-masses :

—magnified.

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( 4029 )

CorRR#A PULCHELLA. Pretty Corr.

SKK KEKE EEE EKER EEE

Class and Order.

OcranprRiA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Rutacez. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 4-dentatus persistens. Petala 4 basi subconni-

ventia aut in tubum longe coalita. Stamina 8 sub disco

hypogyno? 8-glanduloso inserta. _Ovariwm 8-sulcatum.

Stylus 1 persistens. Capsula 4-cocca, loculis truncatis com-

pressis. Semina in loculis 2—3 nitida intus adfixa, cotyle-

donibus ovalibus extus connexis.—Frutices, foliis oppositis

integris pube squamosa (Hippophaes more) obtectis, pedi-

cellis 1-floris. DC.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Corraa pulchella ; stellato-pubescens, foliis breviter petio-

latis cordato-ovatis obtusis undulatis adultis glabris,

floribus solitariis pendulis, calyce truncato vix dentato,

corolla tubulosa (roseo-coccinea) fauce paululum dila-

tata.

Corrza pulchella. Mackay in Sw. Fl. Australas. Tab. I.

Bot. Reg. t. 1224. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1684.

For our plants of this very beautiful species of Corrxa,

the Royal Gardens are indebted to Messrs. Lowe of Clap-—

ton. It was first introduced at their nursery in 1824, by

their collector, Mr. Baxter, from Kangaroo Island, on the

South coast of New Holland. It is among the handsomest

of all the species, and the flowers are well ‘relieved by the

dark green foliage. With us, its copious blossoms are pro-

duced in a cool greenhouse, during the early spring months.

Descr. This forms a firm, but gracefully growing

shrub, a foot and a half to two feet high, the decussate

branches

branches and young foliage clothed with rusty, stellated

tomentum. Leaves almost sessile, cordato-ovate, obtuse,

waved, entire, in age losing their tomentum, dark green

above, paler beneath: Flowers solitary, pendulous. Pe-

duncles short. Calyx hemispherical, truncate, with five

very minute teeth, downy. Corolla nearly two inches long,

tubular, red, slightly downy, somewhat dilated, and having

four moderately spreading teeth. Stamens protruded.

Anthers ovate, yellow. Ovary four-lobed, hairy or silky,

four glandular depressions are at its base.

Fig. 1. Calyx and Pistil. 2. Ovary :—magnijied.

FOS.

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W. Pitch del’ Pub, by S. Curtis Glax erwood Essex Aug 1IS43.

( 4030)

Rosa Brunonit. Mr. Brown’s Rose.

KEE KEE EEE EERE EEE EERE

Class and Order.

Icosanpria Poxyeyntia.

( Nat. Ord.—Rosacrz. )

Generic Character.

Calycis tubus apice contractus, limbo 5-partito, lobis per

estivationem apice subspiraliter imbricatis spe pinnatim

rectis, Pet. 5. Stam.oo. Carpella plurima calycis tubo

demum baccato inserta et in eo inclusa, sicca indehiscentia

subcrustacea, é latere interiore stylum gerentia, stylis e ca-

lycis tubo coarctato exsertis, nune omnind liberis, nunc in

stylum columnarem accretis. Semen in achenio solitarium

exalbuminosum inversum. Embryo rectus, cotyledonibus

planiusculis—Frutices aut arbuscule ; foliis sepiits impari-

punnatis, foliolis serratis, stipulis petiolo adnatis.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Rosa Brunonii; aculeis caulinis validis arcuatis, foliolis

5—7 lanceolatis utrinque pilosis subtus glandulosis

discoloribus, stipulis adnatis angustis acutis integerri-

mis, floribus corymbosis, pedunculis calycibusque pilo-

sis hispidulisque, sepalis subintegris, stylis in colum-

nam longissimam pubescentem coherentibus, fructibus

ovatis.

Rosa Brunonii. Lindl. Monogr. Ros. p. 120. t. 14. De

Cand. Prodr. 2. p. 598. |

Rosa Brownii. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 556.

Rosa Brunonis. Wail. Cat. n. 689.

‘—_

A native of Nepal and Kamoon, whence it has been sent

Dr. Watticu to the Royal Gardens of Kew, where,

Planted against a wall facing the West, it proves per-

fectly hardy, and, in the summer months, it makes a

handsome

VOL. XVI. N

handsome appearance with its large corymbs of white or

slightly cream-coloured, fragrant flowers, which, in age,

assume another tint, being then singularly spotted with

dingy purple. Our plant seems less glandular and downy

than that figured and described by Dr. Linvuey, and is

probably the var. depilata, Linpt., in Wat. Cat., from

Kamoon. Dr. Linprey, in his “‘ Rosarum Monographia,”

alludes to its affinity with R. moschata, a species supposed

to be peculiar to Africa, and De Canpo.te says, “ an var.

R. moschate?’”’ but the latter, having been now found in

Nepal, satisfies Dr. Linprey that the distinguishing features

do not depend on climate, and that the two are truly dis-

tinct. But Serinex (in De Canpoxze) has strangely trans-

ferred Dr. Linp.ey’s var. of moschata, given in Bot. Reg.,

t. 829, to the present species.

Descr. It isa much spreading, and probably, if suffered

to grow naturally, a climbing shrub, with long, slender,

young branches, nearly glabrous, and beset with rather

stout, hooked prickles. Stipules linear, acute, quite entire.

Petioles and leaves indistinctly (to the naked eye) hairy and

glandular. Leaflets five to seven, broadly lanceolate, plane,

acuminate, serrated, the serratures simple, close. Flowers

in large, copious-flowered corymbs. Bracteas narrow-lan-

ceolate, the sides involute. Peduncles nearly glabrous,

or with minute hairs and glands, and even short sete.

Calyx -tube ovato-turbinate, downy and setose ; sepals

shorter than the petals, lanceolate, acuminate, entire, and

slightly pinnatifid. Petals roundish, approaching to ob-

cordate, yellowish-white or cream-coloured, when old

blotched with small, purplish spots.

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ErRANTHEMUM MONTANUM. MOUNTAIN

ERANTHEMUM.

KEKE KEE EEE EKER EERE

Class and Order.

DianpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—AcanTHAceEz. )

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-fidus, equalis. Cor. hypocrateriformis, v. elon-

eato-infundibuliformis, tubo longo gracili, limbo subequali.

Stamina duo fertilia circa os tubi adnata, longe decur-

rentia ; duo sterilia brevissima, filamentis longiorum basi

connexa ; in speciebus nonnullis anomalis hee rudimenta

omnind desunt. Anthere exserte, bilocellate, mutice,

locellis parallelis contiguis, texture densioris. Capsula in-

ferné compressa, valvulis contiguis, asperma ; superius bilo-

cularis tetrasperma. Dissepimentum adnatum. Semina

discoidea, retinaculis suffulta—Inflorescentia: spica, brac-

teis communibus majoribus aut minoribus, bracteolis omnium

parvis oppositis.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

ErantHemum montanum ; caule teretiusculo (tetragono)

foliisque oblongis utrinque attenuatis repando-crenatis

(integerrimisque) glabris, pedunculis terminalibus tri-

chotomis spicisque pubescenti-viscidis, bracteis lanceo-

lato-attenuatis ciliatis. Nees.

Eranrnemum montanum. Roxb. Fl. Ind. 1. p. 110. ed.

Cur. Wall. p. 110. Roem. et Sch. Syst. Veget. 1. p.

150. Wall. Cat. n. 2492. b. c. d. (not a.) Wight Ie.

Pl. Ind. Or. 0. 2.p. 466. Wight, Cat. n. 2004.

Justicia montana. Roxb. Pl. Corom. 2. t. 177.

“A very beautiful flowering shrub,” as Dr. Roxpureu

justly calls it, a native of the Circar mountains. It - zs

oun

found by Dr. Wieut, probably not unfrequently in the

Madras Peninsula; and I possess numerous specimens

from Colonel and Mrs. Warxer, gathered in Ceylon. It is

allied to E. strictum; but abundantly distinct in the very

different bracteas, larger size, in the colour of the flower,

and the much longer tube. Nees described four varie-

ties, chiefly differing in the nature of the bracteas, and in the

hairiness about them and the calyx : the stem also seems to

vary. Nees von Esenseck describes it as “ teretiusculus.”

Roxsureu says that the young shoots are four-sided. In

ours the branches are acutely tetragonal. It flowers copi-

ously in the stove in April and May.

Descr. Stems weak. Branches four-sided, erect. Leaves

petioled, ovato-lanceolate, acuminate, membranaceous, four

to six inches long, entire, or, sometimes, according to

Nexs, repando-crenate, glabrous, strongly nerved. Panicle

trifid, much longer than the leaves. Bracteas linear-lance-

olate, alternate, more or less glanduloso-ciliate. Calyx

five-partite, clothed with patent hairs, glandular at their

apices ; segments subulate, erect. Corolla lilac, or rose-

purple. Tube very long, curved. Limb of five deep, nearly

regular, patent, obcordate, waved lobes, striated and reti-

culated with deeper blue lines on one side at the faux.

Stamens two, slightly exserted. Style very long, slender,

filiform, exserted. Stigma of two very unequal, subulate

segments.

Fig. 1. Calyx and Pistil. 2. Ovary. 3. Immature Fruit :—magnified.

W hitch del?

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Pub by S. Curtis Glavenwood Essex dug” / 1943 eate>

( 4032 )

ACACIA DENTIFERA. ‘TOOTH-BEARING

ACACIA.

KLEE MELEE EEE EEE EEE

Class and Order.

Potyeamia Monaccia.

( Nat. Ord.—Leeuminos#. )

Generic Character.

Flores polygami. Calyx 4—5-dentatus. Petala 4—5,

nune libera, nunc in corollam 4—5 fidam coalita, Stam.

numero varia 10—800. Legumen continuum exsuccum

bivalve.—Frutices aut arbores, habitu et foliatione valde

varie. Spine stipulares, sparse aut nulle. Flores flavz, —

albi aut rarius rubri, capitati aut spicati, decandri aut poly-

andri, eleutherandri aut monadelphi, petalis 4—5 liberis

coalitisve constantes. D C.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Acacia dentifera ; ramis angulatis, phyllodiis_elongato-

lineari-lanceolatis faleatis acutissimis penninervils ¢-

glandulosis inferne attenuatis, racemis demum foliatis

capitulis numerosis multifloris globosis majusculis pe-

dicello duplo brevioribus, leguminibus elongatis line-

aribus teretibus strictis.

Acacta dentifera, Benth. in Botanist, 4. t. 179. et m Hook.

Lond. Journ. of Bot. v. 1. p. 363.

A new and very graceful species of Acacta from the

Swan River, with unusually long racemes of flowers, longer

than the leaves, of a full yellow colour, and highly fragrant.

These racemes, however, Mr. Bentuam observes, run out

into leafy branches, and thus the species would appear to

belong to the division with solitary capitula. The seeds

were received from Mr. Drummonp ; the flowering or

oO

of the plant, in an airy greenhouse, is March and April,

after which it produces pods tolerably copiously.

Descr. Stem five to seven feet high in our specimens:

the branches chiefly at the top, gracefully drooping, angled.

Phyllodia five to six inches long, linear-lanceolate, elon-

gate, falcate, moderately thin, coming to a very acute,

mucronate point at the apex ; at the base gradually atten-

uated, but sessile ; dark full green, not in the least glau-

cous, with no apparent gland, furnished with an evident

costa, and some oblique veins, and, besides, obscurely

reticulated. Heads of flowers rather large, deep full yellow,

arranged in very long racemes, often much exceeding the

leaves. Pedicels twice as long as the heads. Flowers

numerous, fifteen to twenty in a head.

Fig. 1. Flower :—magnified.

( 4033)

BrassavOLa GLAUcA. GLAucoUS

BRASSAVOLA.

KKK KEK KKK KEKE EEE EEE

Class and Order. —

GynanpriA MOonNANDRIA. |

( Nat. Ord.—Orcuipez. )

Generic Character.

Sepala et petala subequalia, libera, acuminata. Label-

lum cucullatum, integrum, columnam involvens. Columna

marginata, clavata, stigmate infundibulari, clinandrio pos-

ticé 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, speciosi. Lindl. |

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Brassavoia glauca ; foliis coriaceis oblongis obtusis plani-

usculis glaucis, spatha uniflora, sepalis petalisque line-

ari-lanceolatis obtusis herbaceis, labello subsessili sub-

rotundo acuto margine lobato, clinandrio dentato,

dente dorsali apice glanduloso. Lindl.

Brassavora glauca. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1839. Misc. n. 67.

et 1840, ¢.44. Batem. Orchid. Mex. et Guatem. t. 16.

The specimen from which our figure is taken blossomed

in the month of February, 1843, in the rich collection of

Orchidaceez at Woburn Abbey. At first sight, as Dr.

Linptey well observes, the flowers rather resemble those of

a Carrzeya than a Brassavota : but it appears truly to be-

long to the latter Genus. A well grown plant of it makes

a handsome appearance, with its large flowers and earn

: ar

dark green leaves, which latter, in our specimen, are not so

glaucous as they are represented by others. The flowers

are fragrant. It was sent to Woburn by Mr. Sxinner from

Guatemala ; and was likewise detected by Mr? Hencuman

and by Mr. Hartwec in Mexico.

Descr. Stem creeping, jointed, rooting, sending up at

intervals oblong pseudo-bulbs, which are, however, wholly

concealed by sheathing, membranous scales, are compress-

ed, and bear at the extremity one oblong, very thick,

and coriaceous leaf. From the base of this leaf, and aris-

ing from a long, compressed, membranous sheath, springs a

single large flower, which is fragrant. Calyx and sepals

uniform, spreading, oblong - lanceolate, obtuse, yellow-

green. Lip with a short claw, involving the column, soon

a rite hp into a large, cordate, three-lobed limb, of a

yellowish-white colour, with short red streaks at the base ;

lobes large, rounded, the middle one much the largest and

apiculate. Colwmn white, short, the margin at the top (or

clinandrium) which surrounds the anther, toothed: the

middle tooth tipped with a gland. Anther-case eight-celled.

Pollen-masses eight, as in the Genus.

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

nified,

Swan Se:

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( 4034 )

Liparia PARvA. Smaty Lriparia.

BER E REE EERE EK EEK EERE

Class and Order.

Diapetpn1a DecanpriA.

( Nat. Ord.—Lereuminosz. )

Generic Character.

Calyx basi intrusé, tubo brevi, limbo 5-lobo, lobis 4

super. lanceolatis acutis subequalibus, inferiore longissimo

elliptico petaloideo. Cor. glabra, vexillo ovali-oblongo,

alis oblongis un& per estivationem alteram involvyente,

card recta acuta angusta bicipiti. Stam. diadelpha. Ova-

rium sessile, brevissimum. Stylus filiformis. Legumen ova-

tum oligospermum.—F rutex Capensis, glaber, exceptis pedi-

cello brevissimo et ovario villosissimis. Folia lanceolata apice

pungentia exstipulata integerrima tenue multinervia. Flores

n capitulum subsphericum dispositi, e flavo fulvi, in sicco

nigricantes. D C.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Liparta * parva; caule gracili ramoso, foliis ovato-ellipticis

acuminatis trinerviis (7 lin. longis 3 latis), floribus

capitatis, bracteis orbiculatis acuminatis foliorum cir-

citer longitudine margine barbato-ciliatis, calycis Jaci-

niis lanceolato-ellipticis longe barbatis. Walpas.

Liraria parva. Vogel in Linnea, v. 13. p. 468. Walpers,

Repert. Bot. Syst. v. 1. p. 580.

(8.) angustifolia ; toliis angustioribus. Benth. MSS. (Tas.

nostr. 4034. )

A small, erect, but rather straggling shrub, long cul-

tivated in the greenhouse of the Royal Gardens of ape

an

* From avmapos, shining, as characteristic of the Liparta spherica.

and considered a new species of Liparia. It has, however,

since the publication of the Leguminos# in De Canpotte’s

“ Prodromus,” been published in the “ Linnea,” and, still

more recently, in Watpas’ useful “‘ Repertorium Botanices

Systematice,”’ under the name here adopted. It flowers

in the early spring months, and makes a pretty appearance

with its rather large, orange-yellow heads of flowers.

Descr. Stem erect, but weak and flexuose, or strag-

gling ; branches frutescent, yellow-brown, angled, the

older portions marked with the cicatrices of fallen leaves.

Leaves ovato- elliptical, according to Wa.pras; in our

plant oblong-lanceolate (whence Mr. Bsenruam has con-

sidered it a var., angustifolia,) rather rigid, plane, acute,

three-nerved, sessile, turning black in drying, as do the

flowers. Flowers ten to twenty, rather large, collected

together in a terminal, bracteated head. Branches several,

large, imbricated, ovato-rotundate, acute, ciliated. Flow-

ers longer than the branches, full orange-yellow. Petals

as in the Genus.

Fig. 1. Flower and Bractea. 2. One of the Ale. 3. One of the Petals

of the Keel. 4, Leaf:—magnified.

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Pub by S.Curtis Glenwood Essex Aug 1843

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( 4035 )

DrvyANDRA ARCTOTIDIS. ARCTOTIS-LIKE

DRYANDRA.

SLE KEE EEE EEE KER ER

Class and Order.

TrrrANpDRIA MonoGyniA.

( Nat. Ord.—Proreaces, )

Generic Character.

Perianthium quadripartitum y. quadrifidum. | Stamina

apicibus concavis laciniarum immersa. Sguamule hypo-

gyne 4. Ovarium biloculare, loculis monospermis. Fol-

iculus ligneus: dissepimento libero bifido. Receptacu-°

lum commune planum, floribus indeterminatim. confertis ; -

paleis angustis, raro nullis. Involucrum commune imbrica-

tum.—Frutices plerumque humiles. Rami dum adsint sparse

vel umbellati. Folia sparsa, pinnatifida v. incisa, plante

juvenilis conformia. _Involucra solitaria, terminalia, raro

lateralia, sessilia, foliis confertis, interioribus quandoque

nanis obvallata, hemispherica, bracteis appressis, in quibus-

dam apice appendiculatis. Stylus sepe perianthio vix lon-

gir. Br. 7

Specific Character and Synonym.

Dryanpra arctotidis; foliis linearibus pinnatifidis subter

niveo-tomentosis caulem glabrum subzequalibus, lobis

lineari-lanceolatis decurrentibus aveniis marginibus in-

crassato-recurvis, involucri squamis lineari-lanceolatis

glabriusculis, perianthii unguibus laminisque villosis,

tubo imberbi. Br. ;

Dryanpra arctotidis. Br. Prodr. Suppl. p. 39.

This is one of several handsome species which Mr. Bax-

ter added to the number previously published in the

Prodromus Flore Nove Hollandiz ; and which Mr. Brown

PA introduced

introduced into his valued Supplement, which appeared in

1830. It was detected in 1829, in the hilly region near

King George’s Sound, on the South-western shores of New

Holland. Plants were raised from seeds soon after that

period, and they form small, but handsome, bushy green-

house plants ; bearing numerous flowers in the month of

May in the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, where our draw-

ing was made in 1842.

Descr. Stems short, but much branched and straggling,

glabrous, densely clothed with harsh, rigid, but graceful

foliage. Leaves a span long, petioled, linear, deeply pin-

natifid, almost to the rachis, more or less hairy; segments

very narrow, linear, acute, almost subulate, curved down-

wards, decurrent, dark green and shining above, white with

dense down beneath: the rachis pale brown :—the lower

segments are so far apart that the base of the leaf may be

called pinnate, the rachis winged with the decurrent pin-

nules. Flowers terminal, on exceedingly short branches,

collected into an obconical head, shorter than the surround-

ing foliage. Perianth with its tube glabrous, the four

‘narrow, linear segments spathulate at their extremities and

hairy. Style much longer than the perianth, glabrous.

Stigma clavate.

Fig. 1. Single Flower :—magnijied.

bolas Pub by S. Citlts Glaxeinweood fissex Sept! 1, 4843

EUCALYPTUS SPLACHNICARPON. SPLACHNUM-

FRUITED KucaLyptus; or Gum Tree.

see reslecleskeskeskakokolcokokeokeokeokeak skeskobeat

Class and Order.

TcosanpriA Mownoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Myrracez. )

Generic Character.

Calycis tubus persistens obovatus aut globosus cupule-

formis, limbus operculeformis integer basi circumscissé et

regulariter dehiscens deciduus. Petala o. Stam. fila-

menta oo libera. Capsula 4-locularis aut abortu 3-locu-

laris apice dehiscens pol ysperma.—Arbores (Nove Hollan-

diz) excelse. Folia integerrima coriacea sepiis alterna,

rarius opposita, interdum in tisdem individuis varia, paucis

exceptis glaberrima. Pedunculi axillares breves umbellam

3—15-floram gerentes. De Cand.

Specific Name and Character.

Evucatyprus* splachnicarpon ; foliis alternis oblique ovato-

lanceolatis margiuatis penninerviis coriaceis, umbellis

terminalibus compositis, operculo hemispherico sub-

globoso cupula calycina latiore, fructu splachniformi.

The Genus Evcatyprus has not been studied so well as

Species it contai

* From w, sel and xadorre, to cover; the segments of the calyx forma

limb, or cover, to the cupula, or tubular portion, and eventually fall off in

one piece.

VOL, XVI. o

uses to which many of them are, or may be, applied: So

long as thirty years ago, Mr. Brown stated in his General

Remarks on the Botany of Terra Australis, that of Euca-

Lyptus alone, nearly one hundred species had been already

observed, most of them trees, and many of them of enor-

mous dimensions, and that Mr. Carey had detected within

the limits of the colony of Port Jackson, nearly fifty spe-

cies, most of which are distinguished, and have proper

names applied to them, by the native inhabitants, who,

from differences in the colour, texture, and scaling of the

bark, and in the ramification and general appearance of

these trees, more readily distinguish, than Botanists have

hitherto been able to do. Yet, though so generally spread

over the whole of Terra Australis, the Genus is hardly found

beyond that country, and Mr. Brown was acquainted with

one exception only, in an additional species, which is said

to be a native of Amboyna.—Judging from what I have

myself received, the number of species now known to us

cannot fall short of double the number above mentioned,

namely, two hundred. Mr. Bacxnouse and my son, Dr.

Josep Hooker, have made MSS. remarks upon a great

number of new species in Van Diemen’s Land: and it is

there that the trees are seen to attain the most gigantic

size. Near Richmond, in Yorkshire, the former gentleman

visited a place in the forest remarkable for an assemblage of

Sigantic “ stringy Barks,” Eucatyprus obliqua? There,

within a space of halfa mile, he measured ten different trees

from thirty to fifty-five feet in circumference, at four feet

from the ground ; and some of these, fine sound trees, were

upwards of two hundred feet high. One prostrate tree, was

thirty-five feet in circumference at the base, twenty-two feet

at sixty-six feet up, nineteen feet at one hundred and ten

feet up. There were two large branches at one hundred

and twenty feet, and the elevation of the tree, traceable by

the branches on the ground, was two hundred and thirteen

feet.‘ We ascended this tree on an inclined plane formed

by one of its limbs, and walked four abreast with ease upon

its trunk! In its fall it had overturned another one hun-

dred and sixty-eight feet high, which had brought up with

its roots a ball of earth twenty feet across. It was so much

imbedded in the earth that I could not get a string round it

to measure its girth. On our return, I measured two stringy

Barks, near the houses on the Hampshire hills, that had

been felled for splitting into rails, each one hundred and

eighty feet long. Near to them is a tree that Nee

elled,

felled, which is so large that it could not be cut into

lengths for splitting, and a shed has been erected against it,

the tree serving for the back.” Another tree, at Emu Bay,

supposed to be two hundred and fifty feet high, was fifty-five

anda half feet round at five feet from the ground, and nearly

seventy feet in circumference at the surface of the ground.

«My companions spoke to each other, when at the opposite

side of this tree to myself, and their voices sounded so dis-

tant that 1 concluded they had inadvertently left me, to see

some other object, and immediately called to them. They,

in answer, remarked the distant sound of my voice, and

enquired if I were behind the tree!. When the road through

this forest was forming, a man, who had only about two

hundred yards to go, from one company of the work people

to another, lost himself: he called and was repeatedly an-

swered ; but getting further astray, his voice became more

indistinct, till it ceased to be heard, and he perished.”’—

The bark of various species. of Evcaryprus affords a great

quantity of Tannin, and a manufactory has been established

at Van Diemen’s Land for the preparation of the extract,

which has been largely imported into England, and it has

been said by Tanners to be twice as powerful in its opera-

tion as Oak bark. Many yield an essential oil of the cha-

racter of Cajeput, and somewhat resembling spirit of tur-

pentine, in which camphor has been dissolved. From E.

globulus (Blue Gum) it is obtained by distillation, or by

boiling the young shoots and skimming the oil from the

surface. It has been used with success by my friend Roser,

Officer of New Norfolk, in cases of rheumatism, as an ex-

ternal application, especially among the patients in the

government hospital under his charge. Considerable quan-

tities of Gum are also extracted from the different species of

Evucatyprus, whence the name of “ Gum Tree.” One kind,

resembling gum Kino, is extracted from Evuca.yprtus resint-

fera, aud is collected at the rate of a shilling a pound.

That from a species, called in New South Wales “ Blood

Tree,” is heated in shells by the blacks of Lake Mac-

quarrie, and applied to external sores to make them heal.

kK. virgata? is the White Gum, which, from wounds on its

shoots and the cartilaginous margins of the leaves, produces

the manna of Van Diemen’s Land. It is white, sweet, and

well-flavoured, and falls (sometimes in considerable abun-

dance) about the trees in dry weather in small, irregular

pieces. Another Evcaryprus, on the mountains of Van

Diemen’s Land, is called the “ Cyder Tree;” it ving a

_ liquor

liquor resembling black beer by boring into its trunk. The

timber, generally, is valuable, and extensively used : but so

heavy as to sink in water, and so hard as frequently to

require to be sawn before the sap dries up. Of the ‘ Spotted

Gum” the timber is nearly equal to Oak, but the sap, or

outer layers, decay rapidly. Such are the interesting facts

respecting the Eucatypti which I have collected from my

friend Mr. Backuovusr’s observations.—The present species

is a native of King George’s Sound, and, probably, attains

to a considerable size. Its discoverer, Mr. ALLAN CunnING-

HAM, who introduced it to the Royal Gardens of Kew, speaks

of it in his Herbarium as attaining a girth of twelve to six-

teen feet. He had given it the MSS. name of E. macro-

carpa: but as that name has already been applied to a much

larger-fruited species (see Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 115, 116, and

117) it becomes necessary to alter the present, and I have

assigned to it one expressive of the form of the fruit. It

has also been found at the Swan River by Mr. Fraser and

Mr. James Drummonp, who speak of it as an immense tree,

the general timber of that colony. The flowers are among

the largest of the Genus, in size and colour much resem-

bling those of Ancornora cordifolia, Bot. Mag. t. 1960.

Descr. With us E. splachnicarpon forms, in the green-

house, a tree, fourteen to fifteen feet high, with a rimose

trunk ; and copious branches chiefly at the top. Leaves

alternate, three to five inches long, placed vertically with

regard to the horizon, ovato-lanceolate, oblique, very rigid —

and coriaceous, the margin thickened, the midrib stout and

reddish, nerves numerous, oblique, parallel. Petioles an

inch or more long, tinged with red, as is the upper part of

the flowering branches. Peduncle terminal, bearing many

large flowers, arranged in umbels produced with us in the

autumn. Pedicels terete. Flower-bud pyriform, the upper

hemispherical portion consisting of the ld, which falls away

and leaves the capsule, or truncated portion of the calyx,

and its numerous yellow-green stamens. Fruit an inch

and a half or two inches long, shaped like that of a

Splachnum, globose below, and a little wrinkled, then con-

stricted ; the mouth contracted.

Fig. 5 Capsule and Pistil cut through. 2. Fruit:—nat, size.

swan St

WHitch del? Pub by §. Curtis Glazenweed, Fssex. Sept? 1 18#3.

( 4037 )

IsoPOGON SCABER. RovuGH-LEAVED

IsopoGoNn.

Class and Order.

TerranpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Proreace2. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium quadrifidum, tubo gracili diutits persis-

tente. Squame nulla hypogyne. Stylus totus deciduus.

Stigma fusiforme v. cylindraceum. Nux sessilis, ventricosa,

undique comosa.—Frutices rigidi. Folia glabra, plana, v.

Jjiliformia, divisa v. integerrima. Capitula terminalia, raro

axillaria. Flores modo densissimé imbricati, strobilo globoso ;

modo fastigiati, receptaculo communi planiusculo subinvo-

lucrato, paleis deciduis, congestis. Br. |

Specific Character and Synonym.

Isopogon scaber; ramulis pubescenti-tomentosis junioribus

sepe etiam hirsutis, foliis linearibus canaliculatis ru-

goso-scabris superne subbiternatim divisis laciniis sur-

sum i a integris vel trifidis mucronatis, strobilis

terminalibus sessilibus solitariis sphericis, squamis ova-

tis acutis imbricatis sphacelatis summis_linearibus,

stigmate elongato articulato articulo superiore hirsuto,

paleis hirsutissimis.

(6.) strobilis axillaribus aggregatis. .

Isopogon scaber. Lindl. Sw. Riv. Bot. p. xxv.

This is another of the many Swan River novelties for

which our greenhouses ‘are indebted to the researches of

Mr, James Drummonp. Seeds were sent by him to the

Royal Botanic Gardens, and the plants bore their hand-

some flowers in April, 1843. Of the Genus Isoprocon,

twelve

twelve species were described by Mr. Brown in his Prodro-

mus, and eleven more were added, chiefly from the South-

western shores of Australia, in the Supplement of the same

learned author. The present is one of the handsomest of

the Genus; for the heads or cones of flowers are large,

purple or deep rose-colour, exhibiting numerous yellow

styles and anthers in a circle as they expand, and these

heads are nestled, as it were, among the green foliage.

Descr. Our plant has attained a height of nearly four

feet ; but I possess entire native specimens scarcely two

feet high. Stem erect, but little branched. All the younger

parts of the plant are downy, and frequently the down 1s

mixed with long, spreading, white hairs, at length every

part, occasionally, becomes glabrous. Leaves linear, of a

thick and firm substance, in the upper half dividing into

three principal branches, which are again more or less

deeply divided into two or three segments which vari-

ously dilated upwards, tapering to a sharp, brown mucro ;

simple, or again once or twice divided, grooved or channel-

led above, keeled or subterete beneath, and rough, as it

were, with indistinct, prominent veins, and with minute,

elevated points. Head of flowers large for the Genus, gen-

erally solitary, terminal, but sometimes aggregated, five to

six, each in the axil of an upper leaf. Involucre downy ;

scales imbricated, sphacelate, ovate, acute, upper ones

linear; a few of the lower ones are a little recurved at the

apex. Scales or palee, among the flowers, linear-subulate,

yellow-brown, very hairy. Perianth full rose-colour. Seg-

ments tipped with a minute, silvery tuft of hairs. Stegma

peor: jointed, as it were, in the middle: upper joint

airy.

&

Fig. 1. Flower and bracteal Glume :—magnified.

L038.

WN. Fitch ded? Pub by 8. Curtie Glazenwood Essex Sept? 2 19#3. Sear

( 4038 )

OTHONNA TUBEROSA. ‘'TUBEROUS-ROOTED

Ornuonna; or African Ragwort. _

feorkeskeckeobeobesbeskeobeobesbasbeskesteote steaks

Class and Order.

SyncenesiA NEcESSARIA.

-( Nat. Ord.—Composirz. )

Generic Character.

Capitulum radiatum, fl. radii ligulatis foemineis, disci.

masculis tubulosis 5-denticulatis (nec ut in Hertid bilabia-

tis). Recept. convexum subconicumve foveolatum, interd.

pilosiusculum. Invol. squamez uniseriales inter se late-

ribus plis mints concrete anté explic. eximié valvate.

Styli fl. masc. apice stigmatibus in conum concretis. Ache-

nia radii fertilia ovalia hirta aut glabra papillosa pappo

piloso multiseriali densé coronata ; disci abortiva cylindra-

cea glabriuscula, pappo l-seriali depauperato.—Frutices

aut herb Capenses. Folia varie incisa aut integra, car-

nosa aut membranacea. Capitula ad apices pedunculorum

Solitaria, flava aut in paucissimis cyanea. De Cand.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

tis obovatisve obtusis sepe basi

renatis, caulinis paucis obovatis

mis crenatisve, capitulis solitariis

caulis aut ramorum, invol. squa-

cheniis villosis. DC.

mis ligulisque 1

Ornonna tuberosa. Thun

720. De Cand. Prod

_ * A name of DioscoripDEs, derived from obem, a linen cloth, or napkin,

in allusion to the downy covering of some of the original species.

Ornonna bulbosa, «. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1309.

Ornonna bulbosa. Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p. 2377. Ait. Hort.

Kew. ed. 2. p. 178.

A plant little known in our gardens we believe; yet not

unworthy of cultivation. It appears to have been intro-

duced from the Cape to the Royal Gardens of Kew in 1774,

by Mr. Masson, and then lost to this country. Tubers,

however, were again sent to the same establishment by Mr.

Anperer, in 1842. These produced their showy yellow

flowers in August of the same year.

Descr. Root a solitary, globose tuber, somewhat resem-

bling that of a Cycnamen, throwing out a few fibrous ra-

dicles from various parts of its surface, especially from

beneath. Above is a short collum, or neck, fringed with

long, dense wool: and here arise three or four or more

stems, six to eight or ten inches high, rather stout, herbace-

ous, more or less hairy at the base, decumbent, then erect,

leafy chiefly at the bottom, and there each stem produces

one large, ovato-cordate or obovate, waved, obtuse, pubes-

centi-hirsute, sinuato-crenate at the margin, petiolated leaf.

The rest of the leaves are reduced to bracteas, obovate or

linear, remote, uppermost ones minute, subulate. Flower

solitary, rather large, terminal, yellow. Involucre of one

piece,broadly cylindrical, plaited, twelve to fourteen-tooth-

ed, the teeth red at the margin. Ray of the same number of

female, ligulate florets. Acheniwm pilose, crowned with a

simple, hairy pappus. Stamens none. Disk of from fifteen

to twenty, or more, tubular, male florets. Ovary linear-ob-

long, glabrous, crowned with a long, simple pappus. Co-

rolla tubular. Stamens five, connate. Style thickened

upwards. Stigma of two points, within a circle of hairs

round the base. Receptacle convex, dotted, naked.

Fig. 1. Floret of the Ray. 2. Ditto of the Disk. 3. Hair from the Pap-

pus. 4. Style and Stigmas. 5. Receptacle : all more or less magnified.

FO39.

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RuIPSALIS BRACHIATA. OPppoSsiITE-BRANCHED

RuIPSALIS.

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Class iad Order.

IcosanpRiA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Cacrez. )

Generic Character.

Cal. tubus ovario adherens levis ; limbus superus 3—6-

partitus brevis, dentibus acuminatis membranaceis. Petala

6 oblonga petala calyci inserta. Stam. 13—18 petalis basi

affixa. Stylus filiformis. Stigmata 3—6 patula. Bacca

pellucida subrotunda calyce marcescente coronata. Sem-

na intra pulpam nidulantia, exalbuminosa, radiculé embry-

onis crassa, cotyled. 2 brevibus obtusis.—Frutices pseudo-

parasitict super arbores ins. Caribearum orti, sepius pen-

dult aphylli ramosi teretes nudi aut setas minimas subfalca-

tas gerentes, fasciculis tunc ordine spirali_quincunciali dis-

positis. Flores laterales sessiles parvi albi. Bacce (fere

Visci) albe pellucide. De Cand.

Specific Name and Character.

Ruresauis brachiata; erecta ramosissima, ramis sparsis tere-

tibus articulatis punctatis, ramulorum articulis brevi-

bus, ultimis apice barbatis, floribus in ramulis inferi-

oribus terminalibus solitariis, stylo exserto.

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This new species of Rurpsatis was received by Mr. Moore

at the Glasnevin Botanic Garden from Mr. Tweepie at

Buenos Ayres, and it produced its flowers with that able

cultivator in the month of March, 1843. It is very differ-

ent from any of the sixteen species described by Prenrrsr.

Indeed, of those sixteen, it could only be associated with

the species in that author’s fourth section “ ArticULIFER#,”~

and with neither of the two species of that group does it at

all accord. D

ESCR.

Descr. Entire plant, as flowering at Glasnevin, about

eight or ten inches high, growing erect, or nearly so. The

- main stem is cylindrical, but by no means jointed, it bears

a few scattered, articulated flowering branches below, and

above, very many horizontal branches, which are again

divided, always opposite, brachiate, and with more numer-

ous and shorter joints as they come nearer the ultimate

divisions: these joints are from half an inch to an inch long,

two lines broad, punctated, and at their points are decid-

uous hairs in tufts, the ultimate articulation is always ter-

minated with a tuft of hairs: the colour is pale glaucous

green. The flowers are rather large for the Genus, pale

greenish yellow, terminal upon divaricated articulations, as

before observed, on the lower part of the stem. Calyx of

several small, imbricated scales, which gradually pass into

the oblongo-lanceolate, acute petals. Stamens thirty to

forty, as long as the petals. Style exserted, a good deal

longer than the petals. Stigma quadrifid.

Fig. 1. Flower cut through vertically :—magnified.

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GASTROLOBIUM ACUTUM. SHARP-LEAVED

GASTROLOBIUM.

Class and Order.

DecanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Lecuminos2. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 5-fidus bilabiatus ebracteolatns. Ped. longitudine

subequalia. Ovariuwm dispermum pedicellatum. Stylus

subulatus adscendens. Stigma simplex. Legumen ventri-

cosum. Semina strophiolata.—Frutex Australasicus. Folia

simplicia, quaternatim verticillata. Stipule subulate dis-

tincte. Flores flavi in racemum ovatum terminalem dispo-

sitt. De Cand.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Gastrrotozium acutum; ramis villosis, foliis ternis ovatis

acutis mucronato-pungentibus integerrimis, Junioribus

subsericeis adultis glabris, racemis abbreviatis axillari-

bus paucifloris, calyce villoso subbilabiato, ovario ses-

sili villosissimo.

Gastrotosium acutum. Benth. in Lindl. Sw. Riv. Bot.

p. xtv. |

A handsome greenhouse shrub, flowering in the green-

house in the month of March. It was raised from seeds

sent from the Swan River by Mr. James Drummonp to the

Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, in 1842. Its red and deep

yellow flowers and its glossy, ternate leaves, make a very

pretty appearance at that early season of the year.

Descr. A shrub, about a foot and a half or two feet high,

with numerous, erect, rather twiggy, and somewhat angled

branches, the younger ones downy, or hairy, as are the

young leaves ; the older ones glabrous, but bristly with the

remains

remains of the old stipules where the leaves have fallen

away. Leaves three in a whorl, sessile, ovate, or ovato-

lanceolate, acuminate, spinoso-pungent at the apex, spread-

ing, penninerved. Stipules small, subulate or almost aci-

cular. Flowers axillary, solitary, or im very few-flower-

ed, short racemes. Pedicels short, hairy. Calyx hairy:

tube short ; limb two-lipped, red within ; upper lip of two,

lower of three spreading, acuminated teeth. Vexillum

broadly rotundato-cordate, deep yellow, red at the base of

the limb. Ale oblong, yellow. Carina obtuse, but nearly

of the same shape as the ale, yellow, the upper portion red.

Stamens sixteen, free, rather longer than the pistil. Ovary

sessile, ovate, silky: Style subulate, curved upwards, gla-

brous. The fruit I have not seen.

Fig. 1. Portion of a Branch, with the Whorl of Leaves and Stipules. 2.

Calyx, Stamens, and Pistil. 3. Vexillum. 4. Alw. 5. Carina, 6. Pistil:

—all more or less magnified.

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ACACIA ROTUNDIFOLIA. ROUND-LEAVED

ACACIA.

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Class and Order.

Potyeamia Monaecta.

( Nat. Ord.—Leeuminosz. )

Generic Character.

Flores polygami. Calyx 4—5-dentatus. Petala 4—5,

nune libera, nunc in corollam 4—5-fidam coalita. Stam.

numero varia 10—200. Legumen continuum exsuccum

bivalve-—Frutices aut arbores, habitu et foliatione valde

varie. De Cand.

Specific Name and Character.

Acacia rotundifolia; ramulis angulatis puberulis, stipulis

minutissimis squamiformibus acutis, phyllodiis brevis-

sime petiolatis oblique rotundatis obtusis v. retusis

cum mucrone costatis obscure penninervils marginue

subincrassato superiore versus medium uniglanduloso,

capitulis globosis solitariis v. racemosis, pedunculis

folio longioribus.

Sent to us by James Backuouse, Esq., from Hunter’s

River (he believes), New Holland in 1842, and it flowered

— copiously in the spring of the following year in the green-

house of the Royal Botanic Gardens. It is a straggling

plant, but when trained upon a trellice in a garden pot it

makes a very elegant appearance with its graceful drooping

branches and copious heads of blossoms, more copious than

the leaves. It seems quite distinct from any described spe-

cies: in some respects, indeed, resembling A. undulefolra

(Bot. Mag. t. 3394) but very different in the inflorescence

and phyllodia. f a

Descr. With us it forms a shrub three to four feet high,

with straggling, slender, angled, slightly downy Phyllodia

Phyllodia on very short petioles, about half an inch long,

rotundate, but the two halves unequal, waved, very obtuse,

or rather retuse, mucronate, slightly: pubescent, the mar-

gin in the adult ones only obscurely thickened, ciliated,

and at the upper edge below the middle, furnished with a

minute gland, deep but not glaucous green, costa excen-

tral, tolerably distinct, and from it diverge a few nerves in

a pinnated manner. Stipules very minute, resembling small,

acute, reflexed scales, deciduous. Heads of flowers globose,

solitary, or in racemes of two to four or five heads, the

peduncle always longer than the leaves, and the pedicels

longer than the capitula. Calyx of five deep, linear seg-

ments. Corolla of five oblongo-ovate petals, nearly twice

as long as the calyx. Stamens numerous, more than twice

as long as the corolla.

3 Fig. 1. Portion of the Stem and Leaves. 2. Single Flower :—magnified.

Swan Se

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TroP&oLUM POLYPHYLLUM. MANY-LEAVED

IN DIAN-CRESS,

Class and Order.

OcTaAnpRIA Monoeynia.

- ( Nat. Ord.—Tropzotez. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 5-partitus, lobo sup. calearato. Pet, 5, inaqualia,

3 inferiora minora aut evanida. Stam. 8 ab ipsa basi libera.

Carpella 3 suberosa, reniformia, indehiscentia hinc sulcata

rotundata. |

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Tropxorum polyphyllum ; prostratum, foliis digitato-pelta-

lis profunde sectis lobis 7—9 obovatis (nunc oblongis

linearibusve) integris obcordatis unguiculatis y. si-

nuato-dentatis, petalis calycem attenuato-calcaratum

superantibus, 2 superioribus majoribus magisque emar-

ginatis. |

Rop£oLum polyphyllum. Cav. Ic. p. 4. p. 65. t. 305.

De Cand. Prod. v. 1. p. 684. Hook. et Arn. Bot. Mise.

3. p. 161. Poepp. et Endl. l. c. p. 24. t. 37. f. 9 (leaf).

(8.) gracile. Hook. et Arn. 1. ¢. p. 161. var. myriophyl-

lum. Poepp. et Endl. Nov. Gen. et Sp. Pl. Chil. et

Peruy. p. 23. t. 37. =

"cen,

Mr. Knient, of the Exotic Nursery, King’s Road, Chel-

sea, has the Sratification of introducing this beautiful

Z ROPZOLuUM to our European gardens. None of the figures

; he quoted give anything like an adequate idea of the

on aa and beauty of the plant. My first knowledge of

aN erived from Chilian specimens, which were loaded

~ 4 $00d-sized blossoms, exactly as in the individuals now

before

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before me cultivated by Mr. Kxicut, and which are from

Bolivia. The species seems to have an extensive range,

being found on both sides of the Cordillera of Chili, and as

far South as the Maule province ; and there cannot be a

doubt, but that it will prove as hardy as any of our already-

known species of Troroium, and more desirable than any

for cultivation, in one respect ; namely, that it is of short and

compact growth ; so that it may be either treated as an an-

nual in the open border, where it will form a small, pros-

trate bush, or, as was the case at Mr. Knieut’s, reared on a

wire trellis, in a pot, in both instances making a very hand-

some appearance. We only wonder it has not been before

introduced to this country. It was in perfection in the

Exotic Nursery in the month of June, 1843.

Descr. Stems herbaceous, one to two feet long, natu-

rally prostrate, succulent, very leafy, especially towards

the apices of the branches. Leaves on petioles, about two

inches long, orbicular, peltate, cut almost to the centre into

seven to nine oblongo-oboyate, sometimes linear, entire, or

sinuato-dentate leaflets, very glaucous. Peduncle solitary,

axillary from the copious leaves at the upper extremity of

the stem, and much longer than the leaves. Hlowers mode-

rately large. Calyx ending behind in a long, attenuated

spur, lobes triangular, acute. Petals much longer than the

calyx, obcordate, unguiculate, yellow, the two upper large,

and streaked with red.

Fig. 1. Calyx with Pistil and Stamens. 2. Pistil :—slightly magnified.

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LEIANTHUS NIGRESCENS. BLACK-FLOWERED

LEIANTHUs.

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Class and Order.

PenranpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—GenTIANE®. )

Generic Character.

_ Calyx valvaris 5-gonus, seu alatus, 5-partitus, lobis equa-

libus planiusculis, suturis exalatis. Corolla 5-partita, regu-

laris, infundibuliformis, lobis cum fauce continuus a tubi

fundo supra germen constricto distinctis. Filamenta ine-

qualia. Anthere incumbentes, immutate nec apiculate.

Stigma capitatum! vel umbraculeforme. Discus glandu-

losus 0. Capsula bilocularis, vel semibilocularis, placentis

Margini interno valvularum insertis, utrinque connatis vel

discretis,—Fruticose vel suffrutescentes, ramose, foliose; —

Jloribus albidis vel flavis, (vel nigris ) gracilibus. Griseb.

Specific Character and Synonyms. ed

Letanrnus* nigrescens; biennis? ramis teretibus, foliis

_ decussatis lato-lanceolatis acuminatis Ne «i bees :

‘nicula ampla ramosissima laxiflora, floribus pendulis,

calycis 5-partiti laciniis subulatis appressis, corollis

(purpureo-nigris) infundibuliformibus, tubo _ eylin-

draceo superne™ dilatato, laciniis lanceolatis patenti-

: acuminatissiiis, stylo staminibusque vix exsertis.

_ Letanraus nigrescens. Griseb. Gen. et Sp. Gent. p. 199.

Benth. Plant. Hartw. p, 67.n.493.

a nigrescens. Cham, et Schlecht. Lpee v. 6.p.

-

* So named by GrisEBACH from Asus, smooth,

ys on account of the even or regular coro

enus from ListANTHUS.

—

lane, and avbos, a flower;

a, as distinguishing the

any with which I am acquainted. Probably Cuamrsso and

ScHLECHTENDAL, in naming it “nigrescens,” had an idea

that it became black only in drying ; and Grisegacu and

Don even speak of the flowers as white (GriseBacn), or

probably, greenish-yellow (Don) in the recent state. Such

is not the case, however; they are of as rich a deep blue,

or, rather, purplish blue-black, as a flower can well be.

But this singularity is not their only recommendation ; they

are large (larger than our figure represents them, when in

perfection), graceful in form and inclination (drooping like

a Fucusia), so numerous as to form a large panicle, two

to three feet high and a foot and a half broad; a great

many are in beauty at one time, and they continue in perfec-

tion for a very long time, if kept cool, and protected from

the too powerful rays of the sun. Indeed, with us, in a

shady greenhouse, its flowers have been equally profuse

and perfect for a period of four months. I scarcely kuow

a more interesting plant, that has for many years been in-

troduced to our collections, even in this age of novelties,

than the present. Scuiepe appears to be the first to disco-

ver it at Papantla, in Mexico. But it had been long known

to Mr. Sxinner, as an inhabitant of Guatimala ; and to him I

am indebted for the plants which were reared from his seeds

in the Royal Gardens of Kew, in 1842, and for a dried speci-

men. Mr. Hartwece (n. 493) detected it at Tanetze, Talca,

and Comaltepeque, and Mr. Gateorr: at Xalapa; from

both of these Botanists I possess fine native specimens.

It bids fair to produce seed with us, and it strikes readily

from cuttings.

Descr. The plant appears to be biennial. It produces an upright

stem, scarcely branched for about a foot and a half (but sending out

annotinous shoots in the autumn) which terminate in a large, much

branched, trichotomous panicle, two to three feet high. Branches as

well as the stem rounded. Leaves most crowded on the stem, op-

posite, decussate, lanceolate, acuminate, three to five-nerved, spread-

ing, the bases almost connate ; distinct and smaller and more acumin-

ate on the branches. Petals long, slender, with usually a pair of sub-

ulate bracteas or small leaves below the calyx. Flowers gracefully

drooping, two to three inches long. Calyx of five deep, subulate, ap-

pressed segments, rather more than half the length of the tube of the

corolla. Corolla deep purplish’ blue-black, funnel-shaped, regular.

Lube cylindrical, dilated a little upwards; the limb of five spreading,

or almost recurved, lanceolate, -very acuminated. segments, about half

as long as the corolla. Stamens five, inserted a little below the middle

of the tube. Filaments slender, rather longer than the tube. Anthers

oblong, two-lobed. Pistil: ovary oblong, two-celled, and style rather

longer than the filaments, Stigma large, capitate, two-lobed, velvety.

Fig. 1. Calyx-and Pistil.. 2, Flo Ss bail nOe

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GARDENIA SHERBOURNIZ. Mrs. SHER-

BOURNE S GARDENIA.

KKK KKK KEKE EEE EERE

Class and Order.

Pentanpria Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Rvpiscez. )

Generic Character.

Calycis tubus ovatus seepe costatus, limbus tubulosus trun-

catus dentatus fissus partitusve. Corolla infundibuliformis

aut hypocraterimorpha, tubo calyce multo longiore, limbo

per estivationem contorto patente 5—9-partito.. Anthere

5—9 lineares ad faucem subsessiles. Stigma clavatum bifi-

dum aut bidentatum, lobis crassis erectis. _Ovarium. disse-

pimentis incompletis 2—5 semi-divisum, 1-loculare. Bacca

carnosa calyce coronata intus chartacea aut nucleata incom-

pleto 2—5-locularis. Semina minuta placentis parietalibus

carnosis immersa. Embryo albuminosus vagus.—Arbores

aut frutices, inermes aut spinescentes. Folia opposita raro

verticillata, ovalia. Flores axillares aut terminales, plerum-~

que solitarii, albi,demum sepe florescentes, sepius odori. DC.

Specific Name and Character.

Garventa* Sherbournie ; volubilis, foliis elliptico-ovatis

brevi-acuminatis integerrimis coriaceis glabris, stipulis

-oblongis deciduis, pedunculis axillaribus solitariis uni-

floris bracteatis petiolo brevioribus, calycis lim bo amplo

campanulato lobis lato-cuneatis foliaceis, corolla infun-

dibuliformi-campanulata carnosa, tubo intus basi seri-

ceo, limbi lobis 5 rotundatis patentibus, stylo stamini-

busque inclusis, stigmate clavato sulcato.

handsome plant, received from ‘Sierra

ourne of Hurst House, Prescott, Lan-

: te re,

A new and very

Leone by Mrs. Suze

* So named, in compliment to Dr. ALEXANDER GARDEN, a Scotch Phy- |

sician, lon i rolina, who communicated many new plants to

the Saget Sonaeg bt wt ‘and was the correspondent of roe

Gronovius, Cottinson, Eris, &c. _“‘ The elegant and fragrant GAR-

DENTA, dedicated to him by his friend Exits, is worthy to bear his name.

Sir J. E. Smith.

cashire, and cultivated in her stove, among many other rare

exotics, especially tropical fruits and useful plants. ‘‘ The

principal collection is contained in two stoves, and, perhaps,

a better, or a more varied, private collection, considering

the short time that has elapsed since the talented proprietress

first devoted separate houses to the cultivation of tropical

fruits, is not to be met with in the country.”* The name of

such a lady cannot but be appropriately given to a plant

which would be an ornament to any stove, and introduced

and reared by herself. A question may, indeed, remain, as

to the Genus in which the plant ought to be placed ; but I

agree with Mr. Benruam, in thinking that, whilst the several

sections of GarpeniA, as given by ENpLIcHER, are compre-

hended in our Genus ; the present plant is rightly placed

there. It blossomed with Mrs. Suzrsourns, in June, 1843.

Mr. Wurrrtetp, who first sent it to that lady, says that, in

Sierre Leone, the fruit isan agreeably tasted berry.

Descr. A climbing and branching plant. Branches

rounded, glabrous. Leaves opposite, about three to four

inches long, elliptical-ovate, shortly acuminate, coriaceous,

petiolate, petioles rounded, connected at the base. Stipules

oblong, rather large and leafy, but soon deciduous, and only

seen on the upper nascent pair of leaves. Peduncles shorter

than the petioles, solitary, axillary, single-flowered, clothed

with small, ovate bracteas, which also cover the small infe-

rior ovary, which is obovate, downy, two-celled, with many

ovules: around the cells, between them and the margin, In

the thick pulpy substance, is a series of longitudinal canals

or ducts. Limb of the calyx very large, campanulate,

formed of five leafy, broadly cuneate lobes, half as long as

the tube of the corolla. Corolla large, fleshy, between funnel

and bell-shaped, white, deep blood colour within. The tube

is narrow at the base, and there clothed internally with short,

fine, silky hairs, much enlarged upwards; the limb of five,

rounded, spreading lobes. Stamens inserted above the

middle of the tube. Filament very short (almost none),

inserted below the middle of the back of the anther, which

is semicylindrical, the upper, plane surface, with two longi-

tudinal cells. On the top of the inferior ovary, in a large

disk or hemispherical gland, from the centre of which rises

the style, with its clavate stigma, marked, as it were, by the

cells of the anthers, which at first press against it.

———————

* See the second notice of the H i » Chronicle for

i September, 1843, p. 631. urst House ~~ in the ee

Fig. 1. Flower laid open. 2. 3. Back and front view of the Anther. 41) Vertical, and

5, transverse Section of the Ovary: —more or less magnified.

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CoLuMNEA ScurepeaNa. Mr. Scureper’s

COLUMNEA.

Class and Order.

~ Dipynamia AnGrosperMiA.

( Nat. Ord.—Gesneriacez. )

Generic Character.

Calyx liber, 5-partitus. Corolla tubulosa,_rectiuscula,

basi postice gibba, ringens, lobo superiore erecto fornicato,

inferiore trifido patente. Stamina 4 didynama, antheris

connexis, guinti postici rudimentum. Glandule 1—5 circa

basin. ovarii. Bacca 1-locularis, placentis 2 parietalibus

bilobis, Semina oblonga.—F rutices Americani flexiles erec-

ti aut scandentes. Folia opposita brevi-petiolata crassius-—

cula subserrata, hirsuta vel pubescentia. Pedunculi axillares

Solitarti aut conferti. Corolle coccinee. D C.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Co.umnra* Schiedeana ; sericeo-villosa, caulibus simplici-

bus, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis integerrimis y., laeviter

serratis brevi-petiolatis, calycis lobis deltoideo-lanceo-

latis patentibus integris y. hic illic serratis, corollis

-maculatis villosis.

Cotumnea Schiedeana. Schlecht. in Sea, : mie i

De: Canth,Prodtle pe 04ee 0)! 8 i bys A

If this cannot be called a handsome plant, it is, at any

rate,a very striking and remarkable one. . The flowers are

a8 mss ont THOT Dts SOF ae pei eri: numerous,

; Fy

— —— Se eae:

* So named in compliment to Fanrus Cotumna, a Botanist of =,

-» teenth century, whom :HaLLer commends as a reviyer and improver ©

the study of Botany, for the light he threw on many obscure passages in

Dioscoripes, and forthe numberof plants not before known, which he

numerous, large, yellow, and spotted with red, and the

calyx is red: but the yellow is a dull yellow, and the red is

a brick red. Still the species deserves a place in every

stove. It is one of Scuiepe’s discoveries. He met with it,

growing on old trees, near Misantla, and near la Hacienda

de la Laguna, in Mexico. It was probably introduced to

our English Gardens from that of Berlin, and being readily

increased by cuttings or offsets, is becoming common with

us. It flowers with us from May to June and July: and

though an epiphyte in its native woods, may be readily cul-

tivated, and thrives well in a pot of common mould.

Descr. Stems one and a half to two feet high, thick,

succulent, jointed and nodose, hairy, unbranched. Leaves

opposite, elliptical-lanceolate, thick, succulent ; on short,

rounded petioles, penninerved, the nerves sunk in the up-

per surface, prominent and reddish beneath, their margin

entire, or remotely and obscurely serrated. Peduncles

axillary, solitary, single-flowered, longer than the petioles,

but shorter than the leaves. Calyx red, five-partite, its

segments deltoideo-lanceolate, much spreading, and very

large. Corolla nearly three inches long, dingy orange

yellow, streaked and spotted with dull red ; its lower part is

tubular, slightly curved, very gibbous at the base above,

the rest two-lipped: lips long, very unequal ; the upper

larger, of three lobes, of which the middle is the largest,

porrected, the two side ones reflected, the lower deflected,

broadly linear, entire. Stamens four, didynamous, a little

shorter than the corolla. The anthers connate. Germen

oblique, ovate, hairy, with a large transversely oblong

gland on the opposite side. Style longer than the stamens,

curved. Stigma bifid.

Fig. 1. Pistil —magnified.

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BeconiA NITIDA. SHINING-LEAVED

Begonia; or Elephant’s Ear. Z

Class and Order.

MonazctA POLYANDRIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Breontaces. )

Generic Character.

Masc. Calyx 0. Corolla polypetala, petalis plerumque

4, inequalibus. Fam. Calyx o. Corolla petalis 4—9 ple-

rumque inequalibus. Styli 3 bifidi. Capsula triquetra,

alata, trilocularis, polysperma. |

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Brconta nitida ; fruticosa, elata, foliis oblique ovatis acu-

tis obsolete crenatis nitidis, stipulis oblongis cuspidatis

carinatis, fl. masc. petalis 4 quorum 2 rotundatis 2 ob-

longis triplo minoribus, fl. foem. petalis 5 zqualibus,

capsule ala unica maxima subrotundo-ovata. ar

Beconta nitida. Dryandr. in Linn. Trans. 2. 1. p. 159. et

in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 3. p. 352. -Salisb. « Stirp. Rar.

p. (7. f. 9.” et Parad. Lond. t. 72. Spreng. Syst.

Veget. v. 2. p. 629. Sh et

Beconia obliqua. L’Heérit. Stirp. Nov. v. 1... Go,

Beconra purpurea. Sw. Prodr. p. 86,

Brconia minor. Jacq. Ic. Collect. p. 126.

This is one of the many handsome species of a Genus,

which, we have before remarked, is not so much cultivated

as it deserves to be, a native of Jamaica, and introduced to

the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew (where our figure was —

made) by Dr. Wm. Brown, in the year 1777. It bears its

large, copious, showy flowers during most of the summer

: months,

months, when it makes a fine appearance, with its pink

panicles, and large glossy foliage.

Descr. Stems erect, or nearly so, for they require sup-

port, from four to five feet high, between succulent and

woody, branched. Leaves large, glossy, especially the

younger ones, green on both sides, petiolated, obliquely

ovate, acute, thick and succulent, obscurely crenated at the

margin. Petioles about an inch long, terete. Stipules

Jarge, membranaceous, oblong, mucronate and carinate,

deciduous. Panicles terminal and axillary, many-flower-

ed ; flowers large, handsome, especially the staminiferous

ones, which are an inch and a half across: Petals four, of

which two opposite ones are large, rounded, deep rose

colour, the two smaller ones broadly oblong, inclining to

yellow, all of them spreading : Stamens twenty or more, as

in the Genus. Pistilliferous-flowers with five nearly regu-

lar and equal petals, rose-coloured. Germen and mature

fruit with three wings, two of them comparatively small

and equal, the third very large, somewhat triangular, or

between ovate.and subrotund.

Fig. 1. Pistilliferous Flower: magnified. 2. Fruit, scarcely magnified.

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( 4047 )

HypocyrTaA STRIGILLOSA. RovuGH-LEAVED

Hyprocyrtra.

KKK KKK EEE KEK EKREEE

Class and Order.

DipynamiA ANGIOSPERMIA.

( Nat. Ord.—GeEsNERIACEE. )

Generic Character.

Calyx liber profundé 5-partitus, lobis lanceolatis integer-

rimis. Corolla tubulosa basi posticé gibba, tubo anticé

ventricoso, limbo 5-lobo aut 5-dentato subequali. Stamina

4 didynama cum quinti postici rudimento ex ima basi tubi.

Anthere per paria coherentes. Annulus hypogynus et

glandula postica. Stigma bilobum aut infundibuliforme

indivisum. Bacca globosa succosa |-locularis placentis 2

parietalibus bilobis. Semina oo oblonga aut ovata.—Fru-

ticuli Brasilienses extensi et radicantes, rariis erecti. Fo-

lia opposita crassiuscula. Flores axillares solitarii aut

aggregati. Corolle coccinee rosee albe aut ochroleuce.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Hypocyrta* strigillosa ; caule erectiusculo superne villoso,

foliis breviter petiolatis oblongis acuminatis mucronu-

latis strigillosis, floribus axillaribus solitariis, corollis

antice grosse ventricosis, limbo contracto 5-dentato.

Mart.

Hyrocyrra strigillosa. Mart. Nov. Gen. et Sp. Bras. ». 3.

p. 52. De Cand. Prodr. v. 7. p. 541.

Brazil is eminently rich in plants of the family of Grsne-

riacem. We have lately figured a species of os new

+ enus:

Vag?

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:; Fina

_ * So named iy Martius, from vm, beneath, and xvgros, gibbous, in con-

sequence of the remarkable inflation, or gibbosity, of the underside of the

corolla.

Genus Nemarantuus (see Tan. 4018), and now we have the

gratification of representing another new Genus of the same

author, Hyrocyrta. This, as its name implies, is distin-

guished by a peculiar gibbosity, or inflation of the underside

of the corolla, as to give it the appearance in form of a pouter

pigeon. All the species, however, have not their inflation

so remarkable as our present one, which belongs to the

section called Oncogastrum, while the other section, with a

more campanulated corolla, is called Coponantuon. The

species are found, apparently, throughout tropical Brazil,

some inhabiting the putrescent trunks of trees, while others

are found luxuriating on the fat soil of the ant-hills. The

present individual was imported by Mr. Verrcu, of Exeter ;

having been sent home by his collector, Mr. Loss, we be-

lieve from the Organ Mountains of Brazil. Martius found

it in the province of Minas, and also in the Sincore Moun-

tains, province of Bahia. It bears a near affinity to H. Air-

suta, Marr. (1. c. p. 52, tab. 222); but that has obovate

leaves, and apparently a differently formed corolla. H. sért-

gillosa flowered in Mr. Verrcn’s stove in May, 1843.

Descr. Stems apparently erect, succulent, rather stout,

terete, clothed with appressed hairs, as is the whole of the

plant, not excepting the corolla. Leaves opposite, spread-

ing, on very short petioles, oblong, lanceolate, acute rather

than acuminate, (rarely elliptical-lanceolate,) penninerved,

entire, or a little serrated, fleshy. Peduncles axillary, one-

flowered, about twice as long as the petiole, solitary, with a

pair of small bracteas at the base. Calyx oblique, deeply

cut, with five ovato-lanceolate, erect segments. Corolla

tubular, a little curved, the upper half beneath singularly

swollen, with a projecting inflation, so that the very small

mouth and limb are thrown upwards, as it were : the latter

consists of five small, rounded, erecto-patent teeth. Stamens

four, didynamous, the anthers meeting and conjoined, in-

cluded. Germen wholly superior, ovate, with a small

annular disk, and one large gland. Style hairy, included.

Stigma two-lobed.

Fig. 1. Leaf, nat. size, 2, Corolla laid open. 3. Calyx and Pistil.

4, Pistil:—magnified.

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INDEX,

In which the Latin. Names of the Plants: contained in the ‘Sieteonth

Volume of the New SERIES. (or Siety-ninth of the Work) are

ih 4;

:

Pale ea arranged.

<i

Pi. Pi,

4032 Acacia dentifera. 4047 Hypocyrta strigillosa.

4041 - rotundifolia. 3992 Ilex Paraguayensis.

4012 Achimenes grandiflora. 8965 Illicium religiosum. —

3980 — longiflora. 4020, Impatiens glanduligera.

3993 ————— multiflora. 3978 Ipomexa Tweediei.

3994 Acronychia Cunninghami. 4037 Isopogon scaber.

4008 Amicia Zygomeris. 3987 Lathyrus nervosus. —

4005 Androsace lanuginosa. 8996 ~- pubescens.

4025 Begonia acuminata. 4043 Leianthus nigrescens.

3990 - coccinea. 4034 Liparia parva.

3968 - hydrocotylifolia. 4002 Lobelia splendens ; var. ra

4046 - nitida. atrosanguinea. —

3986 Bossiea virgata. 4023 Lomatia ilicifolia. ...—

4033. Brassavola glauca. 3979 Macleania angulata,

10m & ——_—_———. venosa. 3972 Mammillaria pycnacantha.

s Boiesa, W Wraye. 3984 —__——_—-- turbinata. °*”’

‘Bromheadia palustris. 8966 Maxillaria acutipetala.

coccinea. 3981 decolor. 1A}

3980 ” Calliitesion pinifolium. 4028 Megaclinium maximum, __

4027 Canavalia ensiformis. 4018 Nematanthus longipes. _ oe

4017 Catasetum viridi-flavum. 4026 Osbeckia Chinensis.

3998 Cattleya labiata. 8967 Othonna frutescens. ©

4022 Cestrum viridiflorum. — 4038 tuberosa. —

3983 Clematis cerulea; 8. grandi- || 4009— Passiflora Actinia.

flora. 3991 Phajus albus.

4045 Columnea Schiedeana. 4024 Pharbitis Tyrianthina.

4029 Correa pulchella. 4007 Pleroma Benthamianam. —

4013 Dendrobium crumenatum. 4006 Poiriciana Gilliesii, =

3970 macranthum. 4019 Polyspora axillaris,

3988 Diospyros Sapota. 4039 Rhipsalis Drachiata, |

4035 andra arctotidis. 3977 Rondeletia longiflora.

3974 Echinocactus centeterius. 4030 Rosa Brunonii,

3997 Echites hirsuta. 3982 Saurauja spectabilis,

3976 splendens. 4011 Senecio calamifolius.

4031 Eranthemum montanum. 3973 Siphocampylos betulefolius.

4016 Erica Irbyana. 4015 eo oh

4036 Eucalyptus splachnicarpon. _ culatus. :

me 3999 Fuchsia alpestris. 3975 Stelis atropurpurea. _

a 4000 - coryinbiflora. 4014 Stigmaphyllum heterophyllum.

- 4044 Gardenia Sherbournie. 4004 Tecoma jasminoides,

4010 Gastrochilus longiflora. 3969 Trichocentrum fuscum,

4040 Gastrolobium acutum. 3985 Tropeolum azureum.

3995 Gesneria polyantha. 4042 ————-- polyphyllum.

3971 Gloxinia tubiflora.

rN OD PX,

In which the English Names of the Plants contained in the Sixteenth

Volume of the New Series (or Sizty-ninth of the Work) are

alphabetically arranged.

‘ >

Fi. | Fu.

4041 Acacia, round-leaved. | 4011 Groundsel, quill-leaved,

4032 tooth-bearing. Cape.

4012 Achimenes, large-flowered. 4016 Heath, Mr. Irby’s.

3980 - long-flowered. | 4027 Horsebean, Jamaica; or Over-

3993 many-flowered. look. .

3994 Acronychia, Mr. Allan Cun- | 4047 Hypocyrta, rough-leaved.

ningham’s. | 3985 Indian Cress, blue-flowered.

4038 African Ragwort; or tuberous | 4042 —————-— many-leaved.

Othonna. | 3978 Ipomea, Mr. Tweedie’s.

4008 Amicia, yoke-leaved. | 4037 Isopogon, rough-leaved.

4005 Androsace, shaggy-leaved. | 3987 Lathyrus, nerve-leaved; or

3965 Aniseed Tree, sacred. Everlasting Pea.

4020 Balsam, glandular; or Touch | 3996 ————— South American,

me not. | downy; or Everlasting Pea.

3968 Begonia, Penny-wort-leaved. | 4043 Leianthus, black-flowered.

4025 - - point-leaved ; or Ele- | 4034 Liparia, small.

phant’s Ear. || 4002 Lobelia, shining; dark purple-

- scarlet - flowered ; or | leaved var.

Elephant’s Ear. || 4023 Lomatia, Holly-leaved.

4046 - -— shining-leaved; or | 3979 Macleania, angled-flowered.

Elephant’s Ear. | 3972 Mammillaria, densely-spined.

3986 Bossiea, twiggy. 3984 ——___—- top-shaped.

4021 Brassavola, vein-lipped. 3992 Maté, or Paraguay Tea.

4033 ——-- glaucous, 3981 Maxillaria, pale-yellow.

4003 Brassia, Mrs. Wray’s. 3966 —————- sharp-petaled.

4001 Bromheadia, Marsh. 4028 Megaclinium, largest.

3964 Brownea, scarlet-flowered. 4018 Nematanthus, long flower-

3989 Callistemon, pine-leaved. stalked.

4017 Catasetum, yellow-green. 4026 Osbeckia, Chinese.

3998 Cattleya, crimson-lipped. 3967 Othonna, shrubby.

4022 Cestrum, green-flowered. 4038 ————— tuberous-rooted ; or

* 4045 Columnea, Mr. Schiede’s. African Ragwort.

4029 Correa, pretty. 4027 Overlook ; or Jamaica Horse-

3988 Date-plum, Sapota. Bean.

3970 Dendrobium, large-flowered. 4009 Passion Flower, Sea Anemone.

4013 —-—————. sweet-smelling, | 3991 Phajus, white.

clubbed-stemmed. 4007 Pleroma, Mr. Bentham’s.

4035 Dryandra, Arctotis-like. 4006 Poinciana, Dr. Gillies’.

3974 Echinocactus, variegated-flow- | 4019 Polyspora, axillary.

ered. 4039 Rhipsalis, opposite- branched.

3997 Echites, hairy-flowered, 3977 Rondeletia, blue-flowered.

8976 splendid-flowered. 4030 Rose, Mr. Brown’s.

4031 Eranthemum, Mountain. _ 3988 Sapota, or Date-plum.

4036 Eucalyptus, or Gum-Tree, || 3982 Saurauja, showy.

Splachnum-fruited. 3973 Siphocampylos, Birch-leaved.

4000 Fuchsia, cluster-flowered. 4015 long flower-

3999 Mountain. stalked. :

4044 Gardenia, Mrs. Sherbourne’s. || 3975 Stelis, dark-flowered. :

4010 Gastrochilus, long-flowered. || 4014 Stigmaphyllum, various-leaved

4040 Gastrolobium, sharp-leayed. 4004 Tecoma, Jasmine-leaved. —

_ 4024 Gaybine, Tyrian-purple. 3983 Traveller's Joy, violet-blue;

$995 Gesneria, many-flowered. large-flowered var.

_ 3971 Gloxinia, tube-flowered. 3969 Trichocentrum, brown-flowered