) CURTIS'S

BOTANICAL MAGAZINE,

;

COMPRISING THE

Plants of the Ropal Gardens of Kev,

AND

OF OTHER BOTANICAL ESTABLISHMENTS IN GREAT BRITAIN ;

WITH SUITABLE DESCRIPTIONS;

SIR WILLIAM JACKSON HOOKER, K.H., D.C.L.t Oxon.,

LL.D., F.R.S. and L.S., Vice-President of the Linnean Society, and Director of the Royal Gardens of Kew.

VOL. X. 7

OF THE THIRD SERIES;

(Or Vol. LXXX. of the Whole Work)

EARN nn nnn nnnnnnnr

‘ Wherefore did nature pour her bounties forth

With such a full and un withdrawing hand,

Covering the earth with odours, fruits. and flocks,

But all to = and sate the curious taste hee we as

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2 LOVELL REEVE, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

1854.

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THE REV. M. J. BERKELEY, M.A., F.R.S.,

RECTOR OF KING’S CLIFFE, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE ;

A GENTLEMAN EMINENT FOR

HIS KNOWLEDGE OF THE ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF PLANTS,

AND FOR THE SERVICES HE HAS RENDERED TO

BOTANY AND HORTICULTURE,

The present Volume is Dedicated,

BY HIS SINCERE AND

FAITHFULLY ATTACHED FRIEND,

W. J. HOOKER.

RoyaL GaRpDEns, Kew,

December, 1854.

INDEX,

Tn which the Latin Names of the Plants contained in the Tenth

Volume of the Ta1rp Sxrres (or Hightieth Volume of the

Work) are alphabetically arranged.

Plate.

4801 Acroclinium roseum.

4769 Allosorus calomelanos.

4762 “flexuosus.

4764 Amomum Danielli.

4782 Angreecum pertusum.

4761 eburneum.

4807 Anguloa uniflora.

4773 Astrocaryum rostratum.

4784 Barkeria elegans.

4818 Befaria estuans.

4819 Blandfordia flammea.

4811 Bougainvilleea spectabilis.

4793 Buddleia crispa.

4785 Ccelogyne testacea.

4808 Calycanthus occidentalis.

4796 Cassiope fastigiata.

4792 Catasetum Naso, varr.

4806 Ceanothus floribundus.

4810 Lobbianus.

4815 ——"papillosus.

4779 Ceratostema longiflorum.

4814 Cereus Lemairii.

4758 Ceropegia Thwaitesii.

4765 Cheilanthes farinosa.—

4763 Cissus discolor.

4794 Clematis barbellata.

4822 Crescentia macrophylla.

4781 Desfontainia spinosa.

4760 Dichorisandra picta.

4800 Drimys Winteri.

4787 Draczena elliptica ; var. maculata.

4812 Eschscholtzia tenuifolia.

4759 Epidendrum Stamfordianum.

4821 Epipogon Gmelini.

- 4771 Exacum macranthum.

4809 Myrtus bullata.

Plate,

4790 Franciscea eximia.

4791 Gardenia globosa.

4776 Gentiana Fortuni.

4767 Goldfussia glomerata; v

ciosa, :

4804 Hedera glomerulata.

4774 Heintzia tigrina.

4786 Hexacentris Mysorensis

4817 Hypoxis latifolia.

4783 Imantophyllum ? miniatum.

4816 Kniphofia uvaria. :

4823 Nymphaea Amazonum. —

4824 Oncidium incurvum.

4799 Pittosporum flavum.

4775 Pitcairnia longifolia.

4770 ———-——— muscosa.

4798 Primula mollis.

4788 Rhododendron cinnab

4797

4802

chloranthum.

4805 — Maddeni.

4772 Saccolabium denticula

4789 Scutellaria villosa.

4768 Scolopendrium Krebsii.

4803 Senecio precox

4795 Spirea grandiflora.

4780 Torreya Myristica.

4820 Trichodesma Zeylanicum

4766 Warrea quadrata.

4777, 4778 Wellingtonia

4813 Whitlayia grandiflora.

INDEX,

. In eiach the English Names of the Plants contained in the ‘Tenth

< Volume of the Turrp Serres (or Eightieth Volume of the

Work) are alphabetically arranged.

OS Siete.

~ 4801 Acroclinium, rose-coloured.

4769 Allosorus, deltoid-leaved.

4762 zigzag.

4781 Angraecum, perforated.

4761 ‘ivory.

4807 Anguloa, one-flowered.

78 Astrocaryum, beak-sheathed.

84 Barkeria, elegant.

94 Beardletted Traveller’s-joy.

4818 Befaria, glowing.

4819 Blandfordia, flame-flowered.

4811 Bougainvillea, showy.

4793 Buddleia, crisped-leaved.

4822 Calabash-tree, large-leaved.

4785 Ceelogyne, clay-coloured.

4808 Calycanthus, western.

4796 Cassiope, fastigiated.

4792 Catasetum, proboscis, vars.

306. Ceanothus, one

158 Ceropegia, Mr. Thiwuites’s.

765 Cheilanthes, mealy.

4763 Cissus, two-coloured.

4760 Dichorisandra, blotch-leaved.

781 Desfontainia, holly-leaved.

787 Draczena, elliptic-leaved ; spotted

=. vat.

4312 Eschscholtzia, slender-leaved.

4759 Epidendrum, Mr. Stamford’s.

4821 Epipogon, Gmelin’s.

4771 Exacum, large-flowered.

790° Franciscea, beautiful.

791 Gardenia, globe-fruited.

Plate.

4776 Gentian, Mr. Fortune’s.

4767 Goldfussia, clustered ; showy-

_ flowered var.

4774 Heintzia, spotted-flowered.

4786 Hexacentris, Mysore ; yellow-

flowered var.

4768 Hound’s-Tongue, Pinnated.

4817 Hypoxis, broad-leaved.

4783 Imantophyllum, brick-coloured.

4804 Ivy, glomerulated.

4816 Kniphofia, serrulated-leaved.

4764 Melligetta, bastard.

4809 Myrtle, blistered-leaved.

4780 Nutmeg, Californian.

4824 Oncidium, curved.

4770 Pitcairnia, hoary.

4775 long-leaved.

4799 Pittosporum, yellow-flowered.

4798 Primrose, soft-leaved Bootan.

4788 Rhododendron, cinnabar-flow-

ered; pale var.

4797 citron-flowered.

4805 Major Madden’s.

4802 sealy ; yellow-

green-flowered var.

4772 Saccolabium, toothed.

4789 Skull-cap, shaggy.

4795 Spireea, large-flowered.

4803 Tree Groundsel, early-flowering.

4820 Trichodesma, Ceylon.

4766 Warrea, fragrant.

4823 Water-Lily, Amazon.

4777, 4778 Wellingtonia, gigantic.

4813 Whitlavia, large-flowered.

4860 Winter’s Bark.

=, Leer

ceme of three to five flowers, which are maderately large,

Tas. 4758.

CEROPEGIA Tuwairest.

Mr. Thwaites’s Ceropegia.

Nat. Ord. ASCLEPIADEZ.—PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4349.)

Crerorreta Vuaitesii; volubilis glabra, foliis petiolatis cordato-ovatis acumi-

natis tenuibus, racemis 3-5-floris folio longioribus, sepalis subulatis, corolla

tubo infundibuliformi basi inflato-globoso, limbi laciniis oblongis glabris co-

herentibus, corone staminex foliolis externis bipartitis laciniis subulatis

one interioribus lineari-spathulatis erectis glabris exteriora duplo supe--

rantibus.

‘

Apparently a new species of the singular genus Ceropegia, —

seeds of which were received at Kew, from Ceylon, sent by

our friend Mr. Thwaites, in 1851. The plants flowered in Sep- _

tember, 1853, and exhibit many points in common with C.

Cumingiana, Dene., figured at our Tab. 4349. The chief diffe-

rence, as may be expected, lies in the flower: here the corolla

being very contracted near the middle of the tube, and at the |

base singularly and suddenly inflated ; the markings and colour

of the corolla too, are very different, as is the form of the sta- —

minal crown. a

Dzsor. The whole length of the plant before us is between

two and three feet, moderately branched ; branches glabrous,

terete, climbing. Zeaves opposite, on rather long petioles, ovate,

acuminate, submembranaceous, glabrous, or only slightly ciliated

at the margin, penninerved, entire, the zerves prominent beneath, :

and the colour paler there. Young s/em and foliage often tinged

with red. Petioles nearly an inch long, terete. Peduncles axil-

lary, about as long as the petiole, and bearing an umbellate 7

Calye ot five, sul

/— ganvary Isr, 1854.

base of the corolla. Corolla with the tuée yellow, infundibuli-

form, very narrow below the middle, much inflated and almost

globose at the base, dilated upwards, and there sprinkled with

dark, blood-red spots. ZLimé of five, oblong-ovate, obtuse seg-

ments, which are erecto-connivent into a cone, concave or grooved

at the back, yellow, with a transverse band of dark brown, almost

black-purple above the middle, the tips green: staminal crown

cup-shaped, fleshy; external folioles five, erect, bifid, the segments

subulate, villous with long hairs; interior of five, erect, linear-

spathulate, glabrous ones, twice as long as the outer.

Fig. 1. Corona staminea :—magnified.

rather obtuse, a little tapering at the base. Peduncle arising

Tas. 4759.

‘EPIDENDRUM STAMFORDIANUM.

Mr. Stamford’s Epidendrum.

Nat. Ord. Orncu1pr”.—Gynanprta MoNANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4107.)

ErrpEnDRuM (§ Psilanthemum) Stamfordianum; pseudo-bulbis fusiformibus, foliis

oblongis obtusis coriaceis basi angustatis, racemo radicali paniculato, sepalis

patentibus, petalis duplo angustioribus, labelli tripartiti laciniis planis zequi-

longis lateralibus oblongis rotundatis intermedia transversa biloba s. emar-

ginata fimbriata.

EPIDENDRUM Stamfordianum. Bateman, Orchid. Mex. et Guat. t. 11. Lindl.

Folia Orchid. Epidendr. p. 28.

EprpEnpDRvM basilare. Klotzsch, in Link et Otto Ic. pl. 2. p. 111. t. 45.

In the valuable ‘ Folia Orchidacea,’ now in the course of

publication by Dr. Lindley, that author describes no less than

310 species of the genus to which our present species belongs.

All are natives of the warmer parts of America, and nearly all

are epiphytes. They are divided into twelve groups or sections,

and our species will be found in the fifth of these, “ Psilanthe-

mum” of Klotzsch, distinguished by the radical inflorescence, — :

otherwise unknown in the genus, and the lip adnate to the

column, and similar in structure to Amphiglottium: it em-

braces only two known species, our present one, and Z. pur-

purascens of Focke. #. Stamfordianum is a native of Guatemala,

where it was discovered by Mr. Skinner, and of Santa Marta,

where it was detected by Mr. Purdie, who sent plants to Kew.

It bears large racemes of greenish-yellow, spotted with red, frag- 7

rant flowers, which appear with us between February and May.

Dzscr. Epiphyte. Pseudo-bulbs long, slender, fusiform, taper-

ing below into a long jointed stalk, sheathed with scales, which |

are very large, membranous, pale brown and pointed on the — :

thicker portion of the pseudo-bulb. eaves three to four from oe

the apex of the pseudo-bulb, five to seven inches long, coriaceous,

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JANUARY Ist, 1854. ae

from the very base of the stalk of the pseudo-bulbs, among the

short, thick, fleshy roots, bearing a compound panicle of racemes

of numerous, fragrant flowers, of moderate size, of a yellow colour,

more or less tinged with green, marked, especially on the sepals

and petals, with blood-red spots. Sepals and petals much

spreading, all lanceolate and acuminate, rather than acute, the

latter the narrowest. Ladellum with its claw surrounded by and

united with the column, the rest spreading, deeply tripartite,

bearing two prominent ftudercles at the base of the disc: side

lobes nearly ovate, spotless, middle semiorbicular, spotted, taper-

ing into a claw, rather deeply two-lobed, each lobe half-ovate ;

all the lobes more or less serrated or fimbriated. _4nther-case

hemispherical, sunk into a toothed clinandrium.

Fig. 1. Labellum. 2. Pollen-masses -—magnified.

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Tas. 4760.

DICHORISANDRA picta.

Blotch-leaved Dichorisandra.

Nat. Ord. CoMMELINE%.—HEXANDRIA Monoeynia.

Gen. Char, (Vide supra, Tas, 4733.)

DICHORISANDRA picta ; foliis lato-ellipticis mucronato-acuminatis subternatim =

approximatis fusco-maculatis, panicula terminali plurifiora, floribus hexan-

dris dioicis (an semper ?), petalis ovalibus obtusis.

DIcHORISANDRA picta. Hortulan.

This mottled-leaved Dichorisandra has been for some years cul-

tivated in the Royal Gardens of Kew, having been received from

Mr. Low, of the Clapton Nursery, under the name we have here

adopted, but which we can nowhere find published in books to

which we have access, and the species does not appear to be

described under any other name. It is very pretty in the spotted

and glossy foliage, and the bright purple and white, somewhat

fragrant, flowers. These latter are abortive, there being no per-

fect pistil, and the stamens have scarcely the appearance of per-

fect ones. The plant requires the heat of the stove, and is pre-

sumed to be a native of Brazil. : oe

Descr. Our only plant of this is little more-than a foot high,

slightly branched; the dranches jointed, short, clothed with brown |

sheaths. About three eaves are near the termination of a branch, —

approximate: they are four to five inches long, patent or even |

reflexed, broadly elliptical, their base forming a long sheath

(ciliated at the mouth) upon the branch, the apex is suddenly

and almost mucronately acuminate, the surface glabrous, full

green above, often blotched with brown (which gives rise to the

specific name) and marked with remote parallel striz or veins.

The panicle is terminal, thyrsoid, on a very short branch (in our

plant), having a short peduncle, erect ; peduncle and main rachis

downy. Bracteas rather small, acuminate. Flowers only male

JANUARY Ist, 1854.

in our plant. Ca/ye (or outer perianth) of three sepals, oblong,

concave, thin, membranaceous, green, spreading, obtuse. Peta/s

three, spreading, oval, obtuse, larger and longer than the sepals,

purple-blue, with a very clearly defined and white spot at the

very base. Stamens six, erect. Filaments short, white. Anthers

approximating into a cone, equal, subulate, blue, longer than the

filament, the two cells opening by a single pore at the extre-

mity. Ovary abortive, a conical, acuminated body.

Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Abortive pistil :—magnified.

Tas. 4761.

ANGRAECUM EBURNEUM.

Lvory Angraecum.

Nat. Ord. Oncurpacrm.—GyNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Perianthium patens. Sepala et petala subsequalia, libera. Label-

‘um sessile, cum basi column continuum, carnosum, indivisum, petalis multo

latius ; calcare recto, cornuto, seepius subcylindraceo perianthio multo longiore,

raro obconico, Columna nana, subteres, raro elongata semiteres. _Anthera bilo-

cularis, truncata. Pollinia 2, bipartibilia; caudicula brevi, angustata ; glandula

triangulari.— Epiphyte caulescentes. Folia coriacea, ligulata, apice obliqua. Flores

solitarit v. racemosi, albi, nunc citrini vel herbacei. Lindl.

AneGracum eburneum ; caule simplici, foliis coriaceis lucidis apice obliquis 7—10-

striatis, spicis multifloris secundis, labello cordato subrotundo cuspidato basi

jugo elevato cristato, caleare sepalo supremo parallelo et dimidio longiore,

ovario scabro.

ANGR&cuM eburneum. Thouars, Orchid. Afr. t. 65. Achill. Richard, Orchid.

Maurit. p. 71. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1522. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 245.

Limoporum eburneum. Bory, Voy. v. 1. p. 359. ¢. 19. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 4.

p. 125.

ANGR&cuM superbum. Thouars, Orchid. Afr. tt. 62, 63,64. Lindl. Gen. et Sp.

Orchid. p. 245.

AEROBION superbum. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 716.

It is not possible to render justice to this noble Orchideous

plant on a quarto page. All we can do is to give a reduced figure

of the entire plant, and a portion of a leaf and of the spike of

flowers of the natural size, as they appeared on our specimens at _

Kew, which we derived from the collection of the late Mr.

Clowes. The species is a native of Madagascar and Bourbon,

and is yet very rare, we believe, in our stoves. ‘The first plant

was imported by the Horticultural Society from the former is-

land, through their collector, Mr. Forbes. The flowers have un-

fortunately neither colour nor fragrance.

Descr. Our plant is about two feet high ; the s/em, except the

very base of it, is clothed with large, sheathing, coriaceous, shin-

JANUARY Ist, 1854. :

ing, distichous, striated Jeaves, two inches broad, singularly ob-

lique at the apex, carinate in the lower half. From between the

lower leaves many stout radicles descend from the stem. Pe-

duncle arising from near the base of the stem, jointed, sheathed

with scales, bearing a spike of very large green and white flowers,

which overtops the longest leaves. ‘These flowers are distichous

rather than secund, and are placed alternately back to back, with

the apices of their labella all pointing one way. Sepals and petals

very much spreading, green, lanceolate. Labellum very large,

broadly cordate, ivory-white, thick and fleshy im texture, concave

in the centre, and bearing there an elevated cleft ridge, the apex

is suddenly but shortly acuminated. Column very short, thick,

greenish-white, bearing a hemispherical anther, firmly attached

to its clinandrium*. Pol/en-masses two, bipartite, yellow, broad,

cuneate, waxy, approximate, with a narrow caudicle arising from

a large, canaliculate, triangular g/and. Stigma quite sunk in a

hollow, and concealed beneath the clinandrium.

The plate represents an entire plant, on a very reduced scale, the apex of a leaf,

and the chief portion of a spike :—xat. size. Vig. 2. Pollen-masses :—-magnified.

* Dr. Lindley observes on this structure, and that of the concealed stigma,

“This plant offers.a striking instance of the precaution which Nature seems to

have taken, to prevent direct contact between the pollen and the stigmatic sur-

face, and at the same time of the skilful means by which an indirect. communica-

tion is substituted, so that no impediment may in reality exist to the process of

fertilization, notwithstanding the apparent obstacles to its taking effect. The

pollen is locked up in an anther, so firmly united to the top of the column, that

nothing but actual force can remove it; while the stigma is situated upon the

face of the column, far beyond the reach of contact with the pollen. To establish

the requisite communication, a narrow slip of the top of the column, proceeding

from the edge of the stigma to beneath the anther, gradually separates from the

surrounding tissue: the face of the anther opens along the middle of the cells,

contracts, and allows the pollen-masses to glue themselves to the narrow slip,

which is the caudicula ; at the same time, while this operation has been in pro-

_ gress, a triangular portion of the front of the edge of the stigma has been adher- a

ing to the caudicula, and thus establishes the direct communication which is re- 4

quired, afterwards separating, with the caudicula, under the form of the gland.” ;

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Tas. 4762.

ALLOSORUS rFfuexvosvs.

Zigzag Allosorus.

Nat. Ord. Frnicrs.—CryprocamMia FIicgs.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4698.)

AtLosorus fleeuosus ; scandens, fronde ampla divaricato-tripinnata, pinnulis al-

ternis remotis cordato-ovatis obtusis glabris longiuscule petiolulatis, rachi

communi flexuosa, secundaria angulato-flexuosa, soris ad marginem utrinque

continuis, caudice repente.

ALLosorus flexuosus. Kaulf. “ Ind. Fil. MS.” Kunze, Adit. Enum. Fil. Mezic. in ~

Linnea, v.13. p.136. Kunze, in Schkuhr, Fil. Suppl. p. 46. t. 23.

Preris flexuosa. Kauif. MS. Linnea, v. 5. p. 614. (ewel. syn.) Hook. Ic. Plant.

v2. t. 119. ,

Preris cordata. Link, Hort. Berol. v. 2. p. 27. (excl. syn.)

PLATYLOMA flexuosa. J. Smith, Enum. Fil. in Bot. Mag.v. 72. comp. p. 21.

Petiaa flexuosa. Fee, Gen. Fil. p. 129.

A graceful scandent, but we should scarcely call it, as Kunze ‘

does, a“‘ twining” Fern ; having assuredly its pinnules very much —

resembling those of Adlosorus cordatus, figured at Tab. 4698 of ©

our last volume: nor can we point out any specific difference, _

but that the latter has an erect habit, while this is flexuose in

the main rachis, and quite zigzag in the secondary ones. For the

character of the genus Pellea, M. Fée places reliance on the

colour, ete., of the stipites and principal nerves, black and shining, —

ete., as in Adiantum ; whereas his first species (the same as ours) _

and his second, or Pel/ea sagittata, are peculiarly pale, almost

Straw-coloured, in the stipites and principal nerves. It isa

native of Peru and Mexico, and flourishes in a temperate Fern- _

house, requiring support in its cultivation. eee

Descr. Our plants are from four to five feet long; the rather

short stipes and main rachis being flexuose, more or less downy,

with soft patent hairs ; secondary rachises, or branches, long and

straggling, often pendent or refracted, these are glabrous, or

scarcely downy, singularly zigzag or angulato-flexuose, bearing —

JANUARY Ist, 1854.

the ultimate rachises at the angles, and these generally are pin-

nated with from three to five cordato-ovate, coriaceous, obtuse,

petiolated pinnules; the margin entire; the surface glabrous,

or rarely subpubescent ; the veinlets several times forked. The

petioles are moderately long. The zavolucre is continuous along

the two sides of the pinnule, reflected, apparently formed of its

substance, but paler and more membranaceous, quite entire and

covering the sorus, which is equally a continued line of cap-

sules, whose origin however appears to be from the apices of

the veinlets ; but this is a point very difficult of determination.

If in a pteroid Fern the receptacle of the capsules occupies a

considerable length on the terminal veinlets, we have then the

Platyloma of Mr. J. Smith (Adiantum paradoaum of Mr. Brown) ;

but such can hardly be said of the present species, which is

likewise called by him Platyloma ; the additional character, ap-

plied equally by Mr. J. Smith (as by M. Fée, to his Pella), of

the ebeneous stipes and rachis, does not hold good here, as is

above observed.

Fig. 1. Fertile pinnule, seen from beneath. 2. Portion of a fertile pinnule,

with the involucre raised to show the sorus :—magnified.

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Tas. 4763.

CISSUS piscotor. |

Two-coloured Cissus.

Nat. Ord. AMpELIDEH®.—TrETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx liber, brevissimus, obsolete quadri- v. rarissime quinque-

lobus. Corolle petala 4, rarissime 5, disco hypogyno extus inserta, squalia,

concava, apice cucullata, zstivatione induplicatim valvata, sub anthesi patentia,

decidua. Stamina 4 vy. rarissime 5, cum petalis inserta, iisdem opposita; jila-

menta brevia; anthere biloculares, incumbentes, longitudinaliter dehiscentes.

Ovarium \iberum, disco plus minus immersum, biloculare. Ovula in loculis

gemina, collateralia, e basi dissepimenti adscendentia, anatropa. Stylus brevis ;

stigma capitatum, Bacca uni-bilocularis, abortu mono-disperma. Semina erecta, —

testa ossea, epidermide membranacea. Embryo in axi albuminis dense carnosi

minimus, orthotropus; radicula infera—Frutices sarmentosi, seandentes, raris-

sime arbores, inter tropicos totius orbis, imprimis tamen Asie crescentes, in sub-

tropicis multo rariores ; foliis alternis, stipulatis, simplicibus v. compositis, pedatis

v. rarius pinnatis bipinnatisve, sepe pellucido-punctatis, petiolatis, petiolo basi ar-

ticulato ; ramis foriferis oppositifoliis v. rarissime axitlaribus, sterilibus in cirrho

conversis ; floribus cymosis, sepissime ad apicem ramulorum umbellatis, umbellis

involucratis, pedicellis basi articulatis. Endl.

Cissus discolor; caule scandente angulato, foliis cordato-oblongis acuminatis

serratis subtus intense purpureo-rubris supra albo-maculatis, stipulis ovatis,

pedunculo petiolo subequilongo, cymis subtrifidis. .

Cissus discolor. Blume, Bijdrag. v.1. p. 181. Hasskarl, Cat. Plant. Bogor.

p- 166. Walp. Repert. Bot, v. 1. p. 437.

Few plants can be less attractive in the flowers than the Cissus

here represented, but assuredly none more lovely in the foliage.

Its native country is Java; but it has now for some few years

been cultivated in the warm stoves of this country, where, trained

in a good-sized pot, around a number of small sticks for support,

it is sure to attract attention by the bright velvety green of the

upper side of the foliage, spotted or mottled with white, the deep

red purple of the underside, and the coral-red of the branches.

The flowers are produced in September. We are indebted for

our plants to Messrs. Jackson, nurserymen, of Kingston, Surrey.

Duscr. Stems and éranches twining; the latter bright red,

FEBRUARY Ist, 1854.

zigzag, angled. Leaves rather closely placed, alternate and dis-

tichous, the lower and larger ones on rather long petioles, the

upper smaller ones almost sessile ; all cordato-oblong, acuminate,

glabrous (as is every part of the plant), penniveined, serrated,

the serratures purple ; the veins connected by transverse veinlets,

prominent beneath; the colour of the upper side deep velvety

green, blotched or spotted with white, the spots lying in oblique

lines between the primary veins, beneath deep red-purple. S#z-

pules rather large, opposite, ovate, obtuse, somewhat fleshy, red.

Tendrils, when present, arising from a point directly opposite to

the insertion of the petiole, simple. Peduncles about as long as

the petioles, opposite the leaves, reddish, bearing a rather small

ternately divided cyme of greenish white flowers. Calyx hemi-

spherical, truncated. Corolla of four ovato-oblong, obtuse, con-

cave petals, inserted at the base of a large, fleshy, pale yellow,

four-lobed ring. Stamens four, inserted at the base of the petals, —

and opposite to them. Filaments subulate, erect. Anthers ovate.

Pistil sunk in the fleshy disc or ring, tapering upwards into a

short thick style. Stigma obtuse.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil and calyx :—magnified.

F. Reeve, amp

Fitch, del. et. hth:

Tas. 4764.

AMOMUM Dantettt.

Bastard Melligetta.

Nat. Ord. ZINGIBERACEZ.—MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4603.)

Amomum Danielli; glabrum, caule elongato folioso, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis

tenui-acuminatis striato-venosis, scapis radicalibus floriferis 2 unc., fructi-

feris 4-6 une. longis 3-5-floris, bracteis oblongo-cymbiformibus obtusis,

corolle coccines lobis lateralibus patentibus lanceolato-acuminatis dorsali

amplo obovato-oblongo ceteris longiore, labello late obovato-subspathulato

albo flavo roseoque picto patente margine undulato-crispato, filamento basi

utrinque appendicula subulata aucto, fructu lineari-ampullaceo rostrato.

Amomum Danielli. Hook. fil. in Journal of Bot. v. 4 (1852). p. 129. tab. 5 (in

Tab. under the name of A. Afzelii).

We have taken infinite pains with our correspondence in tro-

pical Western Africa, to endeavour to procure authentic informa-

tion respecting the Amomums, or Melligetta Peppers, as they are

usually called, of that coast. At our Tab. 4603 of this Magazine,

we had the satisfaction of publishing a figure and description of

the Amomum Grana-Paradisi of Linneeus ; and now we are able

to illustrate another kind, of which till lately nothing had been

known but by the figure given at page 1138 of vol. i. of the

late Dr. Pereira’s ‘ Elements of Materia Medica,’ the specimen of

which he received from Dr. Daniell under the name of “ Bastard

Melligetta.” That able author thought it might prove to be the

Amomum Clusii of Sir J. E. Smith, in Rees’s Cyclopedia ; but,

as Dr. Hooker has shown, in the ‘ Journal of Botany,’ that is a

point impossible to be determined by the description given i

that work, and it is zof the fruit so named of Sir James Smith's

collection at the Linnean Society. The present species Is a na-

tive of the Gold and Slave Coasts, and about Clarence Town, in

Fernando Po. The natives call it “ Bassalo.” With us it re-

quires the heat of a moist stove; and it is a highly ornamental

FEBRUARY lst, 1854.

plant, richly coloured in the scales and bracts of the lower part

of the stem and of the scapes, and in the large, handsome, orchi-

deous-like flowers. We may observe, that the leaf figured in the

‘ Journal’ is much larger than any upon our growing plant. It

may be a luxuriant state, or it may be the leaf of another kind,

supposed to belong to the same by Dr. Daniell; for of this the

flowers not unfrequently appear before the leaves, and then col-

lectors cannot be too careful to see that the leaves and flowers,

and fruit too, all belong to the same species. |

Descr. The stems, two feet or more long, grow clustered and:

branching, with suckers, at the root; scaly below, with large,

reddish, imbricating, membranaceous scales. Leaves, the largest

of them in our plants scarcely a span long, oblong-lanceolate,

sharply acuminated, striated with oblique parallel nerves. The

short scape proceeds from the very base of the stems, and is

sheathed with large, red, boat-shaped scales, from within which

appear in succession from three to five flowers. These latter

are large and richly coloured ; the three outer sepals fine red ; the

spreading /abellum whitish, tinged with rose-colour and yellow.

_ Fig. 1. Ovary and inner scales :—magnified.

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Tas. 4765.

CHEILANTHES rarinosa.

Mealy Cheilanthes.

Nat. Ord. Frtices.—CryrroGamia FIuiczs.

Gen. Char. Sori subglobosi, marginales, plerumque dente vel lobulo demum

reflexo frondis marginis siti. Znvolucrum primum plerumque punctiforme, semi-

orbiculare v. reniforme v. oblongum, e dente v. lobulo textura fere frondis for-

matum, v. membranaceum et diaphanum, integrum, fimbriatum v. ciliatum,

magis minusve confluens, non raro continuum: nune rarius subintramarginale.—

Filices ¢ropice vel extratropice, plerumque parve, rhizomatose, vel radice cespitosa.

Frondes cespitose, glabra vel pilose, lanuginose vel squamose, raro simpliciter

pinnate, plerumque bi-tripinnate vel varie pinnatifide. Pinnule lacinieve parece.

Stipites rachidesque plerumque ebence. Venule furcate, libere, apicibus uni-

sorosis.

CHEILANTHES farinosa; radice cespitosa, stipitibus elongatis ebeneis inferne

squamosis, frondibus subcoriaceis spithameis et ultra deltoideo-ovatis lan-

ceolatisve glabris pinnatis apice acuminatis pinnatifidis subtus albo-pulve-

rulentis, pinnis sessilibus inferioribus subsemideltoideis basi bipinnatifidis,

involucris suborbicularibus scariosis non raro confluentibus undulato-lobatis

marginibus integris v. erosis.

CHEILANTHES farinosa. Kaulf. Enum. Fil. p. 212. Hook. et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 134.

Hook. Gen. et Sp. Fil. v. 2. p. 17.

Prerts farinosa. Forsk. Fl. Aiyypt. Arab. p.187. Vahl, Symb. v.3.t. 75. Sw.

Syn. Fil. p. 105.

CuErLantuEs dealbata. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nep. p. 16. Wall. Cat. n. 71 (excl.

sub num. 4). Schimp. in Herb. It. Abyss. n. 1123. Kunze in Linnea,

v. 24. p. 271.

Prerts argyrophylla. Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 105.

Prerts argentea. Bory. \

Prerts decursiva. Forsk. et Sw.

CassnBrERa farinosa. J. Sm. Cat. of Ferns in Kew Gard. Comp. Bot. Mag. 1846,

p. 20.

AruritopTeris farinosa. Fée, Gen. Fil. p. 153. t. xii. B. f. 1. (sori distinct.)

ALEURITOPTERIS dealbata. Fée, Gen. Fil. 1. c. f. 2. (sort confluent.)

An extremely pretty Fern, with glossy ebeneous stipites and

rachises, dark green above, clothed beneath with a pure white

and powdery substance. It is a native of Arabia, Abyssinia, of

_ FEBRUARY Ist, 1854. os

the mountain districts of India generally, extending to Java and

the Philippine Islands. Our specimens from Galeotti (n. 6551%*),

gathered at Oxaca, in Mexico, seem in no way different from that

here figured. A plant of such widely extended locality, and a

good deal variable in its involucres, has occasioned a great num-

ber of synonyms, which we have taken infinite pains to unravel.

It flourishes in a pot in a temperate greenhouse.

Descr. Roots tufted. Sfipites two to four inches long, black,

glossy, scaly below. Fronds tufted, from a finger’s length to a

span long, subcoriaceous, deltoideo-ovate or sublanceolate, acu-

minate, pinnated, pinnatifid at the apex, dark green above,

glabrous and naked, white and powdery beneath. Lower pair of

pinne remote, half-deltoid, bipinnatifid. Inferior segments of the

base much longer than the opposite one. The rest of the pinne

are simply pinnatifid, with the segments oblong, obtuse, rarely

crenate. Sori subglobose, on little lobules, of which the mar-

gins are involute, and form the scariose suborbicular involucres :

these are sometimes free and rather distant, usually more or less

combined, and with the edges crisped or erose.

* The same author’s n. 6442 (his Cheilanthes candida) is a different plant,

and, judging from his figure, a Nothoclena.

Fig. 1. Back of a fertile segment. 2. Underside of a fertile segment :—

magnified,

ss PEBRUARY Ist, 1854.

Tas. 4766.

WARREA QuapRATa.

Fragrant Warrea.

Nat. Ord. Orcutpr®.—GyYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Gen. Char, Flores subglobosi, subregulares, mento brevi rotundato. Labellum

continuum, indivisum, lineis elevatis carnosis in medio. Columna semiteres,

clavata. Pollinia 4, per paria in caudiculam brevem linearem inserta, glandula

triangulari.—Herba terrestris, pseudo-bulbosa. Folia arundinacea. Scapus radi-

calis apice racemosus (v. uniflorus). Flores speciosi. Lindl.

Warrea quadrata; labelli lobo medio orbiculari retuso lateralibus semiovatis

conniventibus, appendice carnosa subquadrata sulcata apice obtuse triden-

tata. Lindl.

Warrea quadrata. Lindl. in Gard. Chron, 1853, p. 647.

The only notice we have of this rare Orchideous plant is in

the ‘Gardeners’ Chronicle,’ above quoted, where Dr. Lindley _

has described the plant from the garden of Messrs. Jackson, of

Kingston, from whose collection our plant was received (the

plant here figured) in November of the same year. It has a very

peculiar habit; the flowers are large and fragrant ; and the

species is said to be a native of Central America, introduced by

Mr. Warszewicz to our stoves. Dr. Lindley notices its affinity

with Warrea discolor, “ both in habit and general form. The

flowers however are larger and more fleshy, with no purple but

in the centre and upper half of the lip. It is essentially known

by the appendix at the base of the lip being nearly square, about _

three-toothed in front, and deeply furrowed ; that of discolor

is uniformly digitate in all the specimens I have seen. a.

Descr. Pseudo-bulbs apparently none in our plant. From a —

few large, fleshy, fibrous roots, a cluster of eaves rises nearly :

erect, a span or more long, very obscurely veined, oblong,

shortly but narrowly acumimated, plain or slightly’ carinate,

jointed upon a narrowed but conduplicate base: there a few

brownish scales at the base of these leaves. Scapes radical,

from within the leaves, but shorter than the leaves, erect, with i

two or three sheathing scales at the base, bearing a single in-

clined or drooping, large, sweet-scented flower. Sepals white,

or very pale greenish straw-colour, lanceolate; the lateral ones

singularly reflexed and twisted. Petals of the same colour,

ovato-lanceolate, recurved. zp very large, projecting, between

orbicular and obovate, three-lobed, the lateral lobes ovate, ob-

tuse, involute, middle lobe very broad retuse: the colour is

white, with a broad purple margin, and a few purplish streaks

on the disc. At the base is a large, shield-like, nearly square

disc, radiated with a few furrows, and streaked with purple, the

edge emarginate, with three obscure teeth at the apex. Column

short, covered by the side-lobes of the labellum, white.

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

Note.—At our Tab. 4759, for “ Mr. Stamford’s Epidendrum,” read “ Earl

of Stamford’s Epidendrum.” At the time the description was drawn up, we had

not access to our copy of Mr. Bateman’s Orchidee of Mexico and Guatemala,

where alone, as far as we know, the explanation of the name is given.

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Tas. 4767.

GOLDFUSSIA GLomerRaAta; VAR. speciosa.

Clustered Goldfussia ; showy-flowered var.

Nat. Ord. AcANTHACEEZ.—DIpDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus, subeequalis. Corolla infundibuliformis, limbo

5-fido obtuso equali. Stamina inclusa, didynama, hexmiliora seepe brevissima,

reflexa. Anthere nutantes; loculi in connectivo uncinato glanduloso obliqui,

ovati, membranacei. Stigma simplex, subulatum, altero latere crenatum, irrita-

bile. Capsula 6-angularis, 2-valvis, a dissepimento facile solubilis, loculis infe-

rius 2-spermis. Semina discoidea, retinaculis subtensa.—Frutices Indie orien-

talis, foliis serratis penninervibus, curvinervibus, nervis omnibus apicem petentibus,

nec vero attingentibus. Flores pauci in capitulo, bibracteolati, bracteis deciduis, ra-

rius spicatis ; spica post delapsas bracteas magis elongata. Capitula pedunculata,

pedunculo simplici vel diviso. DC.

Gotprussta glomerata ; caule fruticuloso hirsuto, foliis ineequalibus, altero ovato

cuspidato inaqualiter dentato-crenato multiplinervi, altero multo mimore

ovato-subrotundo, basi obtusis valde ineequalibus spicisque axillaribus oppo-

sitis solitariis globosis brevissime pedunculatis hirsutis, bracteis lanceolatis

integerrimis, interioribus capitulum equantibus. Nees.

a. floribus pallide lilacinis.

Goprussta glomerata. Nees in Wall. Pl. Asiat. Rar. v. 3. p. 88. Hook. Bot.

Mag. t. 3881. Nees in De Cand. Prodr. v. 11. p. 173.

Rue11a glomerata. Wall. Cat. n. 2361 dis.

8. floribus purpureis speciosis, (Tas. Nostr. 4767.)

We received this plant from the Botanic Garden at Mauritius,

under the name of Ruellia glomerata (now Goldfussia), which

species is a native of Silhet, according to Wallich, and is

figured at Tab. 83881 of this Magazine, with pale greyish-lilac

flowers, as they appeared at the Botanic Garden of Edinburgh

in 1841. Our present plant, nevertheless, we believe to be the

same species, but possessing the advantage of really fine, showy

flowers, of a full, if not bright purple, and there is a rich tinge,

too, upon the foliage, occasioned by the copious ferruginous~

hairs. It is treated with us as a stove-plant, and flowers in No-

vember. :

FEBRUARY Ist, 1854.

Descr. Plant a foot to eighteen inches high, erect, branched ;

branches knotted at the joints, nearly terete, clothed, as well as

the leaves and all the herbaceous part of the plant, with spread-

ing, ferruginous hairs, most copious on the young foliage.

Leaves on rather short petioles, opposite, very unequal in size ;

one of each pair large, ovate, acuminate; the opposite one very

much smaller and subrotund; all of them are strongly and

somewhat duplicato-serrate, and very unequal at their base. Pe-

duncles solitary, axillary, bearing a somewhat capitate cluster of

three to five bracteated flowers, one of each cluster only opening

at atime. Outer dractee concealing the flower-buds and calyces

of the fully-expanded flowers, linear-lanceolate, coarsely serrated,

erecto-patent. Calycine dracteas two, opposite, erect, more than

half as long as the calyx, entire. Calyx deeply cut into five

erect, lanceolate, almost hispid segments, somewhat unequal.

Corolla large, handsome, deep purple. Zuse between cylindrical

and funnel-shaped. Zim oblique, large, of five nearly regular,

subrotund, emarginate, and crisped spreading Jodes. Stamens

quite included within the tube, two long and two short: all four

have oblong-ovate, one-celled, perfect anthers. Ovary oblong-

cylindrical, seated on a large, fleshy, orange-coloured disc. Style

very long, curved. Stigma subulate.

Fig. 1. Calyx and its bracts. 2. Stamens. 3. Pistil:—magnified.

Tas. 4768.

SCOLOPENDRIUM Kressit.

Pinnated Hound’ s-Tongue.

Nat. Ord. Fruices.—CryproGamia FILices.

Gen. Char. Sori lineares, oppositi, inferior in venula superiore, superior in

venula proxima inferiora. nvolucrum lineare, planum, marginibus liberis op-

positis contiguis aut distantibus. Ven@ pinnate, interne, uni-bifurcate, venulis

parallelis apice libero in punctum incrassato aut acuto terminatis.—Rhizoma sub-

rotundum aut repens. Frondes fasciculata, subcoriacee, simplices, integerrime vel

lobate, nune pinnate.

Sconopenprivm Krebsii ; stipitibus fasciculatis brevibus crinitis, frondibus sub-

coriaceis lato-lanceolatis acuminatis pinnatis glabris subtus nunc minute

punctatim squamulosis, pinnis approximatis sessilibus e lata basi utrinque

auriculatis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis subsinuatis, infimis remotis del-

toideis reflexis, involucris oblongo-linearibus margine minute ciliatis.

ScoLopenprium Krebsii. Kunze, in Linnea, v. 18. p. 118. Fée, Gen. Fil.

p. 209. |

Onycutum Krebsii. Kunze, in Linnea, v. 10. p. 594.

A native of South-eastern Africa, about Graham’s Town and

Natal, whence we have received original specimens from the

late Professor Kunze, gathered by M. Krebs and by M. Guein-

zius. ‘The general aspect is so unlike that of our own Scolopen-

drium (vulgare), having more the habit of Nephrolopis, or some

other aspidioid plant, that, without a careful inspection of the

fructification, few would suspect it to be of this genus. Kunze

indeed, in the first instance, described it as an Onychium ; and

even in his figure of the species as Scolopendrium Krebsii, he

introduces a frond with the sori forming two almost uninter-

rupted lines, parallel with, and close to, the midrib: thus no-

ticed by Fée,—‘“ 8. Krebsii (ex Kunzio) sporothecia biformia

producit, aliis sporothecia Scolopendrit, altis Lomarie sporothecia

referentibus ;’—but to me this sort of fructification more re-

sembles that of a Doodia or Woodwardia. The figure probably

belongs to some very different Fern. ‘The species requires a

temperate greenhouse for its successful cultivation. —

FEBRUARY Ist, 1854.

Dzscr. From an underground, thick, oblique rizzome, the

short, green, succulent sfipetes arise, m a tufted form, and are

crinite with brown, subulate, shining scales. Fronds a foot or

more long, erect, broad-lanceolate, acuminate, subcoriaceous,

glabrous, pinnated, the apex pinnatifid. Pinae approximate

(except the lowest ones, which are small, deltoid, and reflected),

spreading, sessile from a broad base auriculated on each side,

oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, beneath often dotted with exceed-

ingly minute deciduous scales, costate; veins pinnated, forked,

the apex clavate, terminating just within the margin. Sori

broad-linear, in pairs. zvolucres of the same shape, in pairs,

opening towards each other, ciliated at the margin, one of each

pair arising from the superior side of a superior branch of a fork,

the opposite one from the lower side of the branch of the fork

next above it.

Fig. 1. Portion of a fertile pinna, seen from beneath :—magnified. 2. Smaller

portion of a fertile pinna :—more magnified.

Tas. 4769.

ALLOSORUS caALomELANos.

Deltoid-leaved Allosorus.

Nat. Ord. Fittcrs.—Cryprocamia Fruices.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4698.)

ALLosorus calomelanos; frondibus czespitosis subcoriaceis (ramis simpliciter

pinnatis) oblongo-triangularibus bipinnatis, pinnulis omnibus _petiolulatis

cordato- (raro subhastato-) triangularibus obtusissimis integerrimis nunc

subtrilobis sinuatisve, sinu angusto profundo, venis dichotome radiatis,

soris marginalibus continuis, involucris membranaceis, stipitibus brevius-

culis basi paleaceis rachibusque omnibus gracilibus atro-ebeneis nitidis.

ALLosorus calomelanos. Presi, Tent. Pierid. p. 153.

Preris calomelanos. Swartz, Syn. Fil. p.106. Willd. Sp. Plant. v. 5. p. 393.

Schlecht. Adumbr. Fil. Cap. p. 43. t. 24.

Prerts hastata. Thunb. Cap. ed. Schultes, p. 733.

PLaTYLOMA calomelanos. J. Sm. in Comp. to Bot. Mag. 1846. p. 21.

PELLza calomelanos. Link, Fil. Hort. Berol. p. 61. Fée, Gen. Fil. p. 129.

Professor Kunze observes of this Fern, ‘“‘ Planta distinctissima,

notissima, habitu quodammodo a genere (Péeride) discedit ; sed

neque ad Allosorum, neque ad Cheilanthem pertinet, et veros

Pteridis characteres offert.”” Whatever may be the views of

botanists with regard to the separation of Ad/osorus from Pferis,

there can be no question of this Fern belonging to the same

group of Péeridee, with what Kunze himself has considered true

Allosori ; A. cordatus (see our Tab. 4698) and A. fleawosus (our

Tab. 4762) for example. Generically those plants never can be

separated. Then again those who are most united in pro-

- nouncing those two genera distinct, are quite at variance as to

the name that should be given to the majority of the so-called

Allosori of Presl. The group in question is named Platyloma of

J. Smith, and he confines the name Al/osorus to Mr. Brown's

genus Cryptogramma, which undoubtedly the author of “A//osorus

(Bernhardi) included in it, but mixed with other Ferns so widely

MARCH Ist, 1854.

different in habit and character, that M. Fée throws the name

aside altogether, and adopts Link’s Ped/ea for the mass of /lo-

sorus of Presl. Our present plant is a native of the Cape of

Good Hope, in mountainous districts, growing in rocky places,

at elevations above the level of the sea varying from 500 to

4000 feet, according to Drege. It is an elegant and graceful

Fern, with fronds of a delicate bright green, and glossy ebeneous

stipites and rachises. It requires protection from the frost, and

flourishes in a cool greenhouse, with a northern aspect.

Duscr. Roots tufted. Stipites several from one point, two,

four, or five inches long, ascending or erect, the base woolly,

with copious, curly, paleaceous scales; the rest black, ebeneous,

as are all the rachises, and slender. Fronds bipinnated (rarely

simply pinnated, with three or five pinnules), triangular-oblong,

subcoriaceous, bright clear green; primary pinne distant ; pin-

aules subapproximate, often imbricating, rather large, triangulari-

cordate, very obtuse, sometimes approaching to hastate or three-

lobed, and sometimes sinuated, all with a deep sinus at the base,

and petiolulated: veins all radiating from the sinus, numerous,

two or three times dichotomous ; sor? narrow, continuous roun d

the margin. Jnvolucre entire, pale, membranaceous.

Fig. 1. Fertile pinnule, seen from beneath :—magnified. 2. Portion of a

sorus :—more magnified,

Fitch, del et ith EReeve, arp.

Tas. 4770.

~PITCAIRNIA muscosa.

Hoary Pitcairnia.

Nat. Ord. Bromeniace#.—HeExanprRiA Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4241.)

PrrcatRN1a muscosa ; foliis linearibus recurvatis acuminatis integerrimis inferne

carinatis supra demum glabris subtus cauleque folioso ‘cinereo-tomentosis,

racemo simplici, bracteis subulatis pedicellos subequantibus, floribus ap-

proximatis rubris, calygibus coloratis, petalis subgaleatis basi nudis.

Prrcarrnra muscosa. Martius, Fl. Bras. ined. Schultes, Syst. Veg. v. 7. p. 1240.

Received from the Imperial Gardens of St. Petersburg, under

the name here retained; for it seems to be identical with that

species, published in the last volume of ‘ Schultes’ Systema Vege-

tabilium,’ in which case it is a native of Brazil, Serra de Piedade,

Province of Minas Geraes, Brazil. It requires the heat of the

stove, grows in tufts, and, being a free winter flowerer, it enlivens

the shelf with its red blossoms in mid-winter, its flowering season

with us being the month of December. It is perhaps the smallest

species of the genus yet known in cultivation.

Duscr. Several plants grow together in a tufted manner.

The eaves are principally radical, the longest of them nearly a

span in length, linear, much and finely acuminated, quite entire,

subcoriaceous, recurved, carinated in the lower half, when young

all over downy, the adult ones glabrous and dark green above,

below woolly, with a whitish or pale grey down or scurf. Sfem

about twice as long as the longest leaves, erect, not so thick as

a writing pen, very woolly, terete, sparingly leafy, with the leaves

gradually smaller, and more bracteiform upwards, so as to pass

into erect dracteas, of which those at the base of the pedicels are

about equal in length to the pedicels. Aacemes erect, six, ten,

or twelve-flowered. Pedicels erect, a little more than half an

inch long. Flowers erect, or nearly so, two inches long, red.

Calyx of three lanceolate sepals, erect, red, tipped with green,

MARCH Ist, 1854,

nearly half as long as the corolla. Corolla of three linear, con-

volute, oblique petals, so arranged as that the upper portions

form a sort of helmet on the anthers, destitute of scale at the

base within. Stamens six, nearly as long as the petals. Fila-

ments and linear anthers white. Ovary oval, with three longi-

tudinal furrows. S#y/e as long as the stamens ; stigma of three

linear, spirally-twisted lobes.

Fig. 1. Petal. 2. Pistil:—magnified.

F. Reeve, mp.

Kitch, del.et ith

Tas. 4771.

EXACUM macranrtuvum.

Large-flowered Exacum.

Nat. Ord. GenTIANEm.—PENTANDRIA MonoGynia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4340.)

Exacum macranthum ; caule teretiusculo subsimplici, foliis sessilibus elliptico-

lanceolatis basi apiceque magis minusve attenuatis trinerviis, calycis 5-par-

titi segmentis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis, alis semisubulatis, corolle in-

tense purpurez lobis late ovatis acuminatis, antheris in conum conniventibus,

stylo declinato.

Exacum macranthum. Arn. in Ann. des Se. Nat. v.11. p.175. Griseb. Gent.

p. 111. in De Candolle Prodr. v. 9. p. 46.

For our first knowledge of this most lovely gentianoid plant

we are indebted to the late Mrs. General Walker, who communi-

cated specimens to us from the mountains of Ceylon, elevation

6000 feet, and we owe the possession of it in our gardens to our

valued friend Mr. Thwaites, who sent the seeds from Ceylon

about two years ago, to Kew and to Dublin. Mr. Moore, of the

Glasnevin Botanical Garden, Dublin, was so good as to forward

a living flowering plant to us in December, 1853, from which

our present drawing and description are made. ‘The flowers

bear no small resemblance to those of the well-known Solanum

Amazonicum (Nycterium, Ker), especially in the connivent sta-

mens and declinate style; but the colour of the flower is a much

deeper and richer purple. The bright stamens are well set off in

contrast with the purple of the corolla. It has been cultivated

hitherto in a stove; but there is reason to suppose that it will

prove only an annual, or biennial at most. It is a species at

once distinguished from Heacum Zeylanicum (Tab. nostr. 4423),

by the terete stems and sharp lobes of the corolla.

Descr. Root imperfectly fusiform and branched. Stem a foot

to near a foot and a half high (in our Herbarium), nearly terete

the whole length, glabrous, copiously leafy below, distantly so

MARCH Ist, 1854,

above, very slightly branched. Lower /eaves almost obovate, and

short, gradually longer and larger, and more acuminate upward :

the usual form is between elliptical and lanceolate, tapering at

both extremities; all are opposite, sessile, quite entire, and strongly

marked with three parallel nerves. Corymb terminal, bearing

several large, handsome, richly coloured flowers, on moderately

long slender peduncles. _ Calyz large, somewhat inflated, deeply

cut into five lanceolato-subulate segments ; a wing appears down

the middle of each segment, which, from being broad on the tube,

gradually loses itself on the lobe. Corolla rotate, of five large,

broad, ovate, spreading, deep purple segments, rather oblique.

Stamens five. Filaments short; anther large, yellow, linear-su-

bulate, approximating into a cone, each opening by two pores at

the extremity. Ovary oval, glabrous. Style filiform, declined.

Stigma subcapitate, obscurely two-lipped.

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

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Tas. 4772.

SACCOLABIUM DENTICULATUM.

Toothed Saccolabium.

Nat. Ord. Orcnu1pE#.—GyYNANDRIA MonoGynia.

Gen. Char. Perianthium explanatum, patens. Sepala petalis equalia, lateralia,

seepius majora. Labellum indivisum, calcaratum, basi column accretum. Columna

erecta, semiteres, rostello subulato. dnthera semibilocularis. Pollinia 2, sub-

globosa, caudicula elongata, glandula minuta.—Herbe epiphyte, caulescentes.

Folia disticha, coriacea, apice sepius obliqua. Flores asillares, racemosi v.

solitarit. Lindl. 3

SaccoLaBium denticulatum ; caule repente radicoso, foliis lineari-oblongis acutis-

simis, racemis corymbosis folio brevioribus, sepalis petalisque subsimilibus

obovato-spathulatis patentibus, labelli calcare globoso amplo utrinque uni-

dentato perianthio quali, laminz lato-triangularis margine densissime

glanduloso-fimbriato, columna brevi denticulata. bees

Saccotasrum denticulatum. Paxton, Mag. of Bot. v. 7. p. 145. cum Ie,

Said to be a native of Khasya in Eastern Bengal, introduced

to our stoves in 1837, and among the Orchideous collection be-

queathed to Kew by the late Mr. Clowes. It is a plant of little

show, but the flowers are exceedingly beautiful when minutely

examined, and they are prettily variegated in regard to colour.

It flowers with us in November.

Drscr. Stems a span or more long, thicker than a swan’s:

quill, here and there throwing out large fleshy unbranched vermi- —

cular roots. Leaves rather remote, distichous, four to five inches —

long, patent or reflexed, linear, oblong, acute, one-nerved, some- —

what fleshy, articulated upon the sheath, often obliquely twisted.

Peduncles \ateral, extra-axillary, much shorter than the leaves,

terete, thickened upwards, bearing a corymbose or almost umbel-

late raceme of numerous small flowers, elegantly marked and

spotted with red, white, and yellow. Sepals and petals free,

spreading horizontally, nearly uniform in size and colour, obovato- |

spathulate, externally green, within olive-brown, spotted with —

MARCH lst, 1854.. —

bright red. Zadellum, the greater part of it is formed by the

nearly globose spur, white, fleshy, large, tinged with yellow,

having a tooth on each side in front ; the lamina or lip resembles

a broad white triangular appendage to the spur, reflexed and

and, margined with a deep white fringe of delicate glandular

hairs; the disc of this lamina is dotted with red. Column very

short, toothed at the sides, red. Anther-case nearly hemi-

spherical.

Figs. 1 and 2. Views of the flower, from which the sepals and petals have

been removed :—magnified,

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ASTROCARYUM Rrostratum.

Beak-sheathed Astrocaryum.

Nat. Ord. Patma.—Mone@cia HExanpria.

Gen. Char. Flores monoici in eodem spadice, spatha simplici fusiformi ventre

aperto lignescente diu persistente cincto.—Masc. in superiore ramorum parte

densi, in alveolis sessiles. Calyx exterior 3-partitus v. 3-fidus, tener, basi pro

trajicientibus vasis pervius ; laciniis 3-angularibus, acutis ; inderior 3-partitus vel

subtrisepalus ; laciniis oblongo-lanceolatis, erectis, membranaceis vel basin ver-

sus carnosiusculis. Stamina abortu 6, ex imo calyce interiore orta, sepalis inte-

rioribus per paria opposita, raro plura, plerumque parum exserta (inclusa, Hndl.) ;

Jilamenta filiformia, erecta; anther@ lineari-subsagittate, dorso affixee, incumben-

tes. Ovarii rudimentum minimum, stigmatibus tribus subulatis—Fem. infra

masculorum spicas solitarii, in rachi vel in pedunculi parte dilatata sessiles ;

bractea marginali duplici, obvoluti. Calyx exterior urceolatus, obiter 3-dentatus,

pergameneus, nervosus, sicciusculus; interior urceolatus, carnosus, ore contracto

subdentato, tandem irregulariter trifido, intus basi in annulum membranaceum

elevatus, uti exterior, foramine orbiculari pervius. Ovarium ovatum, loculis 2

rudimentariis 1-loculare. Stylus 1. Stigmata 3, in corpus floccoso-gelatinosum

conicum vel lobatum confluentia. * Drupa ovata vel subglobosa, 1-sperma; carne

crassiuscula, valide fibrosa : putamine osseo, vertice 3-poroso, Nuclei testa venosa,

Albumen equabile, corneum, album, centro cavum. Hmbryo intra porum apicalis.

Palme mediocris altitudinis, rarius acaules, locis sylvaticis humentibus calidis

sparse vel subcespitose degentes. Caudex, exceptis annulis, undique aculeis validis

atris horridus, Frondes omnes terminales, pinnate, pinnis linearibus, ma

tis, aculeato-ciliatis, subtus plerumque argenteo-albis ; petiolis aculeatis. Spadices

simpliciter ramosi, aculeis vel setis horridi, sepius albo-tomentosi, spathis lignes-

centibus aculeatis inclusi, inter frondes persistentes. Flores masculi flavescentes,

densi, spicati, profunde immersi ; feminei virescenti- vel ochroleuco-pallidi. Drupe

_ vel aurantiace, fibroso-carnose, calyce persistente stipate, mermes vel spinu-

. Kth,

Asrrocaryum rostratum ; candice brevi, foliis lato-oblongis apice fissis, pinnis

linearibus sepissime connatis acuminatis aculeato-ciliatis subtus albo-furfura-

ceis, stipitibus rachique subtus spathisque cymbiformibus rostratis horride

patentissime aculeatis, spadicis pedunculo aculeis erectis, florum masculorum

alveolis margine’dense albo-lanatis, calycibus minutis foemineorum sessilium

solitariis, drupis obovatis rostratis dense setoso-aculeatis, aculeis patentis-

simis.

ms in the noble house recently built for their reception

yal Gardens of Kew, are beginning to feel the benefit

H Ist, 1854.

of their translation from the old stoves, many of them growing

with a rapidity almost incredible to those who do not witness

it, exhibiting something of their native character, and not a few

of them bearing flowers and fruit; so that we shall take ad-

vantage of our success, and from time to time present figures

in the pages of our Magazine. But here, at the first intro-

duction as it were of our design, we meet with difficulties of no

ordinary kind, in endeavouring to ascertain the correct nomen-

clature of the species. ‘The present one for example, received

from Bahia, Brazil, has been long cultivated at Kew under the

name of Astrocaryum Ayri: but we find it much at variance with

the 4. Ayri figured and described by Martius; the nature and

direction of the aculei, the leaflets or pinne, the shape and size

of the spatha being altogether at variance, nor can we find that

it better accords with any other described species of the genus ;

so that nothing remains for us (presuming that the known spe-

cies are correctly described) but to consider our plant as a new

species, and to characterize it accordingly. The name is derived

from the evident rostrum or beak of the spatha, and the fruit is

no less distinctly rostrate.

Descr. Our tallest plants stand about ten feet high including

the leaves. Caudez, to the springing of the lowest leaves, erect,

scarcely a foot high, closely annulated with the scars of the fallen

leaves, and there quite unarmed. eaves six to eight feet long,

including the petiole, which is about equal in length with the

blade, and is densely clothed with a mass of short bristly prickles

or aculei, intermixed with a great number of long and strong

black ones, hard and rigid, two to four inches long, triangular,

glossy: the é/ade of the leaf is oblong, split at the apex, formed

of a very great number of pinne, which are two to three feet long,

linear, acuminate, less than an inch wide in the broadest part,

costate and with two parallel nerves on each side the midrib ; the -

margin ciliated with distant black aculeiform sete, single or

twinned, above dark green, naked, and somewhat below glaucous,

apparently from a minute scurfy covering, and rough to the touch

with minute black raised points. Spatha axillary, on a short

stipes, erecto-patent, pale greyish-brown, a foot or rather more

long, cymbiform, thick-coriaceous, almost woody, terminating in

a distinct narrow beak, opening outwardly, externally (except

the beak) covered with innumerable patent (below a little de-

flexed), strong, black aculei, from half an inch to an inch long.

The whole interior is occupied by a compound stalked spike of

numerous closely placed whitish or cream-coloured flowers ; the

_ stalk or petiole downy, with a few appressed bracts and appressed

black prickles. Spikelets cylindrical, clothed with male flowers ;

_ some of them having a solitary female flower at the base. The

rachis is alveolate, and the margin of each alveole is woolly : the

flowers are all sessile or a little sunk in the alveoles. Mate

FLOWER :—Calyx minute, trifid. Corolla tripartite; the seg-

ments ovate. Stamens six, inserted on the corolla. Fidaments

subulate. Azther oblong, scarcely exserted : in the centre is the

rudiment of an ovary. Femate rLowsr :—Calya minute, three-

lobed, and, as well as the tripartite corolla, clothed with ap-

pressed acicular prickles. Ovary ovate, similarly aculeate : style

short : stigma trifid. Fruit an obovate, almost orange-coloured

drupe, with a beaked apex, everywhere echinated with sharp

black spreading aculei.

Fig. 1. Male flower. 2. Female flower :—magnified. 3. Fruit :—natural

size, The figure in the background is a much reduced plant of Astrocaryum

rostratum.

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HEINTZIA ticrina.

Spotted-flowered Heintzia.

Nat. Ord. GesNERIACEE.—DIpYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx liber, quinquepartitus, subineequalis, persistens, lobis basi

nervo medio excrescente callosis, estivatione valvata. Corolla hypogyna, infun-

dibuliformis, extus supra basin ad marginem limbi tomentosa, éwJo subcurvato,

dimbo quinquepartito ineequali subbilabiato, aciniis subcordato-orbiculatis, paten-

tibus, duabus superioribus minoribus, tribus inferioribus paulo majoribus. Sta-

mina quatuor, didynama, inclusa ; filamenta subulata, basi dilatata, in tubum postice

fissum coalita, hic corolle tubo adnata; anthere per paria coherentes, biloculares,

ovate. Ovarium liberum, disco annulari cinctum, tomentosum, uniloculare, pla-

centis duabus parietalibus, bilobis; ovw/a plurima in funiculis longissimis ana-

tropa. Stylus simplex, teres, longitudine filamentorum minorum. Stigma infun-

dibuliforme, subbilobum. Fructus carnosus, unilocularis, corticatus, demum bi-

valvis, valvis medio placentiferis. Semina plurima in pulpa nidulantia, ovalia vel

obovata, testa crustacea spiraliter striata. Embryo in axi albuminis oleosi parci

cylindricus ; cotyledonibus brevissimis applicatis, radicula umbilico proxima teret!.

Karst. in Walp.

HeErnvzta tigrina.

Hernrata tigrina. Karsten in Otto and Dietr. Allgm. Gart. Zeit. v. 17. p. 33.

and Answ. Schinbliihend. Gwehse. Venezuel. v. 34. t. 11. Walp. Annal. Bot.

v. 2. p. 1075.

A rather showy stove-plant, but with coarse foliage; for the

possession of which at Kew we are indebted to Mr. Lowe, of the

Clapton Nursery. It is a native of Caraccas, and is considered

by some continental botanists to form a new genus of Gesnert-

acee ; a family of plants however, all the individuals of which,

as we have before had occasion to observe, require a thorough

revision, and remodelling of their genera. When taken up in

an isolated manner by those who are not familiar with the gene-

ral structure of the whole, slight modifications in the form of the

corolla or calyx, or in the nature of the hypogynous glands, will

be magnified into real generic distinctions, though perhaps only

of specific importance. As a genus, it cannot be far removed —

APRIL lst, 1854.

from Drymonia and Besleria. We had not the opportunity of

examining the perfect flowers from which the drawing was made,

and therefore abstain from offering an opinion on the value of

Mr. Karsten’s new genus. With us it flowers in mid-winter.

Descr. Stems from two to three or even five feet high (ac-

cording to some, obscurely tetragonal), nearly terete, erect,

branched, red, downy. Leaves large, opposite, of a somewhat

thick and fleshy nature, ovate, acuminate, strongly serrated,

_ downy above, hoary and pale beneath, with a strong costa and

many parallel veins, which are prominent beneath, the base

tapering into the yather long, succulent petioles, which are also

downy and reddish. The czforescence is axillary, and described

as umbelliform, but in our plant the peduncles are simple, single-

flowered, bibracteated at the base, as long, including the flower,

as the petioles. Mowers erect or nearly so, of moderate size.

Calyx very large, pale yellow-green, tinged with red, truncated

at the base, deeply cut into five, long, ovate, serrated lobes. Co-

rolla white, infundibuliform, half as long again as the calyx: dude

white, woolly. Limb of five, equal, rounded, spreading, orbicu-

lar, spotted /odes, the margins entire, the surface spotted with

purple. Stamens and style downy, included. Ovary ovate, downy,

with a rather obscure annulus at the base.

Fig. 1. Pistil :—magnified.

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Tas. 4775.

PITCAIRNIA tonerrorta.

Long-leaved Pitcairnia.

Nat. Ord. BromEeLi1acem.—HExanpria Monoaynla.

Gen. Char, (Vide supra, Tas. 4241.)

Pircatrn1a longifolia; caule erecto elongato simplici dense annulato, foliis

longissimis (4-pedalibus) e lata basi amplexante striato pubescente lanceo-

latis acuminatissimis supra basin insigniter attenuatis viridibus spinuloso-

ciliatis, panicule terminalis ramis racemosis, floribus secundis, pedicellis

bracteolatis, sepalis subulatis viridibus corolla coccinea triplo brevioribus,

petalis convolutis coccineis apicibus unilateralibus basi intus squamosis, sta-

minibus styloque subexsertis corolla paulo brevioribus.

marked species of Pitcairnia, which was

received from Lima, in 1852, through Mr. William Nation ; rea-

dily distinguished by the elongated stem or caudex, more than

an inch thick, annulated by the closely-placed bases of the

former year’s leaves, and the much-divided panicle of red flowers

with green calyces. From P. Jacksoni (see our Tab. 4540) it

is easily known by the tall stem above alluded to, the very long,

spiny leaves, smaller flowers, green subulate calyces, compound

or paniculated raceme; but near which it must rank in any

system. It is a handsome species, and flowered in our stove in

December, 1853.

Descr. Our plant has a stem or caudex a span or more high,

three inches in circumference, scarred with transverse lines,

whence the leaves have fallen, but above clothed with the

withered dases of old leaves. From the summit a spreading

tuft of pale-green coriaceous leaves, of great length (often four

feet long), appears; they are between lanceolate and sword- -

shaped, acuminated to a very slender point, towards the base

gradually and very much contracted, and then carinated ; at the

setting on upon the stem dilated into a broad, concave, sheath-

Ing, striated, amplexicaul or semiamplexicaul base, for the whole

APRIL Isr, 1854. |

length rather minutely spinuloso-serrulated. Panicle longer

than the leaves, terminal, in reality a compound raceme; the

branches patent, somewhat distichous ; peduncles and branches

green, tomentose. Bracteas small, subulate, appressed. /Vowers

secund. Pedicels short, about as long as, or longer than, the

bracteoles. Cal/ya of three, erect, subulate or subulato-lanceolate,

quite green sepals, erect, appressed, rather more than one-third

the length of the corolla. Petals three, two inches long, linear-

oblong, subspathulate, channelled, furnished with a bifid scale

at the base, bright-red ; they are convolute into a tube for about

two-thirds of the length, then spreading all to one side. Stamens

longer than the tubular portion of the petals, but shorter than

the “petals themselves. Fi/aments slender, white. Anthers linear,

curved, yellow. Ovary free, pyramidal, with three furrows and

three cells, tapering above into a filiform sfy/e, a little longer

than the stamens. Stigmas three, ag spreading.

Fig. 1. Petal. 2, Pistil :—magnified.

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GENTIANA Forrtvunt.

Mr. Fortune's Gentian.

Nat. Ord. GENTIANE®.—PENTANDRIA DIGyNIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx 5-4-partitus vel 5-fidus, hine dimidiato-spathaceus, valvaris.

Corolla marcescens, aut infundibuliformis v. hypocraterimorpha v. rotata, aut

clavata vel campanulata, rarius glandulifera, nuda aut corona vel plicis seepius

exsertis aucta, foveis epipetalis destituta, limbo 5—4-partito (hine flore 6—8-mero),

aut plicis spurie 10-partito. Stamina 5 vel 4, corolla tubo inserta ; jfilamentis

basi wqualibus. Anthere incumbentes v. erecta, hine in tubum connate et ex-

trorsum dehiscentes. Ovarium disco spurio interrupto basilari plerumque cine-

tum, uniloculare ; ovulis juxta suturam seriatis. Stigmata 2, terminalia, revoluta,

aut si contigua infundibularia; s¢y/o nullo aut cum infundibulo stigmatico stig-

matibusve persistente. Capsula bivalvis, septicida, unilocularis, placentis membra-

naceis arew juxta suturam extensz insertis. Semina placentis immersa.—Herbe

sepius perennes, habitu varia, caule recto v. abbreviato, foliis oppositis, cyma race-

miformi aut floribus terminalibus. Griseb.

Gentian (§ Pneumonanthe) Fortuni ; caulibus subewspitosis erectis vel adscen-

dentibus, foliis lato-lanceolatis (infimis ovatis) 3-nerviis margine scabris, flo-

ribus in axillis solitariis terminalibus glomeratis sessilibus, calycis tubo cam-

panulato laciniis 5 linearibus recurvis, corolla intense cerulee albo-macu-

late aperte pentamera lobis cordato-ovatis plicis brevibus ineequaliter 3-

dentatis vix exsertis, antheris liberis.

Grisebach, in De Candolle’s Prodromus, vol. ix., has charac-

terized 158 species of Gentiana ; and beautiful as they generally

are, the present equals, we think, if it does not excel in beauty, all

that have yet been described. It evidently belongs to the same

group or section of the genus with our well-known G. Pueumo-

nanthe, and with the Siberian and Altaic G. septemfida of Pallas

and of Sims (Botanical Magazine, Tabs. 1229, 1410), particu-

larly with variety maculata, represented on the latter plate. It

is however a taller, more robust-growing plant, with more distant

foliage, larger flowers, and it is at once distinguishable by the

plice or scales at the mouth having three, often irregular, blunt

teeth, scarcely projecting beyond the mouth of the tube of the

APRIL Ist, 1854. oe

corolla, whereas in G. septemfida they are large and prominent,

and furnished with long cilia, giving a densely fringed character

to the mouth of the flower. Our charming ‘species is a native

of northern China (the exact locality is not stated), and was sent

by Mr. Fortune, in 1849, to Messrs. Standish and Noble of the

Bagshot Nursery. Showing a disposition to flower, as it did, late

in the autumn, it was kept in a greenhouse, and the blossom

expanded in December 1853, when our drawing was made. It

will, there can be little doubt, prove hardy.

Descr. From the collum or neck of the root two or three

stems appear, erect or ascending, terete, glabrous, simple. Leaves

in rather distant pairs, opposite, the lowest small and ovate, the

rest an inch and a half or nearly two inches long, lanceolate,

glabrous, three-nerved, the margin scabrous, the base tapering,

and united with that of the opposite leaf. /Vowers axillary, soli-

tary, sessile, the ultimate ones, from the approximation of the

leaves, glomerate, large, very handsome, sessile, generally accom-

panied by two small leaves at the base. Calyx quinquefid ; the

tube campanulate ; segments of the /imd linear, acuminate, and re-

curved. Coro//a infundibuliform, slightly ventricose: limd of

five, spreading, cordato-ovate lobes, intensely deep blue, as is the

inside of the tube, and equally spotted with white. Scales of the

corolla short, blunt, three-toothed, scarcely projecting beyond the

base of the sinus of the lobes; teeth unequal. Stamens five, in-

serted below the middle of the corolla, quite cluded. Anthers

free, lear. Ovary subcylindrical, a little inflated in the middle.

Styles, or rather stigmas, two, linear, recurved.

Fig. 1. Corolla laid open. 2. Pistil :—smagnified.

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Tas. 4777, 4778.

WELLINGTONIA GiGcanTEA.

Gigantic Wellingtoma.

Nat. Ord. ConrrFer#.—Diecia MoNADELPHIA.

Gen. Char. Flores dicici?—-Mascunt ...? Foaminer: Strobl oblongi,

lignei; squamis numerosis, cuneatis, truncatis, per apophysin transverse (ob brae-

team equilongam omnino adnatam) sulcatis, mucrone in medio. Semina 7 cuique

squame, supra medium pendula, compressa, utrinque alata——Arbor vasa, tricenti-

pedalia, Californica, foliis parvis alternis.

WELLINGTONIA gigantea.

Wetinetonta gigantea. Lindl. in Gardeners’ Chronicle for December, 1853,

No. 52, p. 820,and 823. Veitch, lithographic plate, large folio, 1854;

drawn from nature by J. M. Lapham.

Of late the curiosity of the public, as well as of the botanist,

has been excited by a discovery of Mr. William Lobb, of a coni-

ferous tree in the interior of California, of a most gigantic size,

measuring 300 feet and more in height, and from 10 to 20 feet

in the diameter (30 to 60 feet in circumference) of its trunk.

Douglas’s Pinus Lambertiana, of the Oregon, measured two-

thirds of that height, with a trunk nearly equal in girth to that

just mentioned, and the same intrepid traveller has described a

Californian tree in the following language*: “ But the great

beauty of Californian vegetation is a species of Zavodium, which

gives the mountains a most peculiar, I was almost going to say,

awful appearance, something which plainly tells us we are no!

in Europe. I have repeatedly measured specimens of this tree

270 feet long, and 32 feet round, at three feet above the ground.

Some few I saw upwards of 300 feet high, but none in which

the thickness was greater than those’ I have instanced.” —No —

seeds or specimens indicated as belonging to this tree were ever —

transmitted by him to Europe. Still I was disposed to refer —

barren branchlets of a Conifera, sent home by Douglas, to this —

* See Douglas’s Letters, in Memoir of Douglas, published in ‘ Hooker’s Com- a

panion to the Botanical Magazine,’ vol. ii. p. 150. ee

APRIL Ist, 1854.

monster tree, which I published in the ‘Icones Plantarum,’ tab.

379, as the Sequoia sempervirens*, and probably the tree in

question. Time, and our increased and increasing knowledge

of Californian trees, proved that I was in error, and that the sub-

ject of my plate in reality belonged to Adies bracteata (Botanical

Magazine, ‘Tab. 4640). Happily Mr. William Lobb sent home

specimens of the branches of his gigantic Conifer, bearing foliage

and cones, a drawing of the entire tree, with its accompanying

scenery, bark, wood, etc., together with the following account of

it, which appeared in the ‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle,’ under the arti-

cle quoted above, of Dr. Lindley, for 1853, p. 819 :—

“This magnificent tree, from its extraordinary height and 2

large dimensions, may be termed the monarch of the Californian

forest. It inhabits a solitary district on the elevated slopes of

the Sierra Nevada, near the head-waters of the Stanislau and

San Antonio rivers, in latitude 38° N., longitude 129° 10’ W.,

at an elevation of 5000 feet from the level of the sea. From

eighty to ninety trees exist, all within the circuit of a mile, and

these varying from 250 feet to 320 feet in height, and from ten

to twenty feet in the diameter of the trunk. Their manner of

growth is much like that of Sequoia (Taxodium) sempervirens ;

some are solitary, some are in pairs, while some, and not unfre-

quently, stand three and four together. A tree recently felled

measured about 300 feet in length, with a diameter, including

bark, 29 feet 2 inches, at five feet from the ground ; at eighteen

fect from the ground it was 14 feet 6 inches through; at 100

feet from the ground, fourteen feet; and at 200 feet from the

ground, five feet five inches. The bark is of a pale cinnamon-

brown, and from twelve to fifteen inches in thickness. The

branchlets are round, somewhat pendent, and resembling a Cy-

press or Juniper. The leaves are pale grass-green ; those of the

young trees are spreading, with a sharp, acuminate point. The

cones are about two and a half inches long, and two inches

across the thickest part. The trunk of the tree in question was

perfectly solid from the sap-wood to the centre, and, judging by

the number of concentric rings, its age has been estimated at

_ 3000 years. The wood is light, soft, and of a reddish colour,

__ like Redwood (or Zacodium sempervivum).

___ “Of this vegetable monster, twenty-one feet of the bark, from

_ the lower part of the trunk, has been put up in the natural form,

in San Francisco, for exhibition; it there forms a spacious car-

peted room, and contains a piano, and seats for forty persons.

* Mr. William Lobb (see ‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle,’ 1854, p- 22) has shown that

Douglas’s monster tree could not have been the VW ellingtonia, for he was not within

120 miles of its locality, but that it was really and truly the Sequoia sempervirens.

Sequoia gigantea, therefore, of Endlicher, taken up from our figure, is a nonentity.

On one occasion, a hundred and forty children were admitted

without inconvenience.”

Dr. Lindley not unnaturally exclaims, “What a tree is this!

of what portentous aspect, and almost fabulous antiquity! They

say that the specimen felled at the junction of the Stanislau and

San Antonio was above 3000 years old; that is to say, it must

have been a little plant when Sampson was slaying the Philis-

tines, or Paris running away with Helen, or Alneas carrying off

good Pater Anchises upon his filial shoulders. And this may

very well be true if it does not grow above two inches in dia-

meter in twenty years, which we believe to be the fact. At all

events we have obtained the plant. The seed received by Messrs.

Veitch has all the appearance of vitality, and since the tree is

hardy and evergreen, it is a prodigious acquisition.” Since this

was written, less than three months ago, the seeds have germi-

nated ; and the young plants have prospered so well, that they are

now, we believe, offered for sale by the Messrs. Veitch, at their

extensive exotic nurseries, Exeter, and King’s-road, Chelsea, and

we trust we may live to see them as common in Great Britain as

Deodars have now become.

Although we as yet know nothing of the male fructification,

nor of the cones, save in the mature state, yet in these latter,

together with the specimen with young and adult foliage, which

Messrs. Veitch laid before Dr. Lindley, there were sufficient ma-

terials for that botanist to determine that the tree belonged to a

perfectly new genus, with foliage not very dissimilar to that of

the Junipers, yet with true cones, or strodzli, as large as those of

the Scotch Fir, but in structure very much resembling those of

the Japan genus Sciadopitys of Siebold and Zuccarini, Flora of.

Japan, ii. p. 1. t. 102,—Wwhich however has leaves the longest

(four to five inches long, and the broadest more than a line in

width,) of any genus of Conifere of the northern hemisphere ;

and so arranged in whorls that each whorl is umbraculate, whence

the generic name.

Descr. A gigantic ¢ree, attaining a height of more than three

hundred feet. (Its general habit and ramification will be best

understood by a reference to our figure at Tab. 4777.) Greatest

diameter of the trunk twenty feet, or sixty feet in circumference ; _ -

bark exceedingly thick. Extremities or terminal dranch/ets some-

what distichously pinnated, drooping, slender, filiform. Leaves

small, alternate, coriaceous, palish green, spirally as it were ar-

ranged, three completing the circuit of the trunk, all of them

erect and imbricated, so that the branches, in conjunction with

the leaves, are nearly terete. ‘The leaves of the young plants are

oblong-subulate, apiculate, or mucronate ; semiamplexicaul at the |

base, keeled at the back, plane within, but with a slightly ele-

vated central ridge: those of the older branches are smaller,

shorter, more compact, and crowded, ovato-lanceolate, acute.

Male. flowers unknown. Of the cones we are only acquainted

with fully ripe ones, from which the seeds had been removed ;

they are nearly two inches long, by one and three-quarters inch

broad in the widest part, ovate, obtuse, sessile? ligneous, com-

posed of a central axis (or apophysis), of a stoutish cylindrical

form, bearing a number of rather large, thick, spreading scales,

of the same substance and texture as the apophysis, and forming

one with it, by means of the thickened base; the thickness of

the scale is increased by the entire union of the éractea with the

scale: its apex dilated, convex, transversely rhomboideal, with a ~

transverse, elevated ridge or keel, and in the centre an umbo-

nated depression. Beneath each scale, according to Dr. Lindley,

are lodged seven seeds, exactly as in Sciadopitys; and these

seeds of the same shape, too, as in that genus, that is, nearly

orbicular, compressed, small, less than one line long, scarcely

winged at the margins.

Tab. 4777. Representation of the entire tree, reduced with Mr. Veitch’s per-

mission from his plate above alluded to.—Tab. 4778. Fig. A, Small specimens of

a young branch. B. Older specimen :—nat. size. Fig. 1. Foliage from A. 2.

Foliage from B :—both magnified. 3. Cone :—nat. size. 4. Vertical section of

a cone :—nat. size. 5. Seeds :—magnified.

‘

Tas. 4779.

CERATOSTEMA LoNGIFLORUM.

Long-flowered Ceratostema.

Nat. Ord. Vaccintr#.—DECANDRIA Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. Calyx turbinatus, 5-gamosepalus, semi-adheerens, limbo 5-partito,

partitionibus liberis magnis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis marcescentibus. Corolla

plerumque magna, crassa, subcoriacea, tubulosa, subconica, nervosa, 5-gamopeta-

la, apice breviter angulata, limbo 5-fido, laciniis acutis erectis vel reflexis. Sta-

mina 10, epigyna, recta, corolle longitudine, inclusa. Filamenta brevia, com-

pressa, linearia, supra basin extus hirta, pilis rufis retroflexis subcoalita. An-

there longissime, biloculares, loculis basi liberis, medio coalitis, adnatis, su-

perne liberis, in tubulos longe productis, poro obliquo apice dehiscentibus. Dis-

cus epigynus, liberus, annularis. Ovariwm semi-adherens, subturbinatum, trun-

catum, punctis decem excavatis, staminum insertionibus respondentibus notatum,

e carpellis 5 coalitis, 5-loculare. Stylus cylindricus, rectus. Stigma subcapita-

tum, 5-striatum, obsolete pentagonum. Bacca turbinata, subglobosa, interdum

obscure pentagona, superne truncata, limbo calycino et disco siccis marcidis co-

ronata, subumbilicata, 5-locularis, loculis polyspermis. Semina plurima, minima,

obovata, ossea.—Frutices Peruviani, sempercirentes. Caules erecti, ramosissimi ;

rami patuli, Folia integra, breviter petiolata. Flores spicati, terminales vel azxil-

lares, 1-ni, 2-ni, 3-ni, 4-nigue, bracteolis 2 supra basin cincti, florentes primum

erecti, dein cernui, tandem fructifert crecti, Gemmarum squame, bractee, racemt,

calyces, corolla et bacce rubicundi coloris. De Cund.

Sa i 2 eae

CeratosTema longiflorum ; ramis junioribus pubescentibus, foliis brevissime pe-

tiolatis parvis coriaccis ovali-cordatis utrinque punctulatis marginibus Tevo-

lutis integerrimis, floribus nutantibus subterminalibus preecipue in &

foliorum solitariis nune aggregatis, pedunculis vix folia superantibus caly-

cibusque pubescentibus, corollis amplis suburceolato-cylindraceis calycem

quintuplo superantibus limbi lobis 5 patentibus.

Crratosrema longiflorum. Lindl. in Gard, Chron. 1848, p.87.cum Ic. Klotcsch,

in Linnea, v: 24. p- 68.

Cerarostema grandiflorum, Ruiz e¢ Pav. Ie. ined. t. 383 5?

This splendid Ericaceous plant was introduced to our collec-

tions by Messrs. Veitch and Son of the Exotic Nurseries, Exeter, —

and of King’s-road, Chelsea, having been found by their collector —

Mr. W. Lobb on the Andes of Peru, at an elevation of 12,000 feet

above the level of the sea. It had been treate

APRIL Ist, 1854.

d, we believe, as a — 8

half-hardy plant. A flowering specimen attracted much atten-

tion at the Chiswick Horticultural Summer Exhibition of 1853,

and from that our figure was taken. Dr. Lindley considers it

the finest species of the genus. He overlooks probably the C.

grandiflorum of Ruiz and Pay, Ic. ined. tab. 383 4., which if

there be no exaggeration, has flowers in all likelihood, of the

same rich colour, half as big again as these; but I suspect in

reality that figure is intended to represent our plant, or a variety

of it, with longer and somewhat sharply pointed leaves. ‘The

plate in question is unaccompanied by descriptive characters ;

but Don, in Dict. of Gard., who was likely to have Ruiz and

Pavon’s own specimens before him in the Lambertian Herba-

rium, in his very meagre specific character speaks of the leaves

as “lanceolate, or ovate,” and in the latter case the two plants

do not seem to be specifically distinct.

Descr. Our plant was about a foot high. Young branches

downy, terete. Zeaves upon very short petioles, ovate, obtuse,

or rather between oval and cordate, coriaceous, the margin re-

curved, dark green, and shining above, paler beneath, punctate,

with impressed dots on both sides. Peduncles from the axils of

the upper leaves, and also terminal, usually solitary, rather thick,

bibracteolate, decurved, downy ; flowers large, nearly two inches

long, drooping. Calyx pubescenti-hirsute ; tude turbinate ; limb

of five ovate, acute /obes. Corolla scarlet, merging into yellow

at the apex, between urceolate and cylindrical, of a thick texture,

between waxy and coriaceous ; Jimé of five, spreading, acute lobes.

Stamens ten, from the circumference of a depressed epigynous

disc. Filaments short, hairy at the back. Azther with two

very long, slender, filiform, erect horns, as long as the tube of

the corolla, each opening by a pore at the extremity. Style from

the centre of the epigynous disc, as long as the corolla, terete.

Ovary five-celled, many-seeded.

Fig. 1. Calyx and pistil. 2. Transverse section of ovary. 8. Stamen:—

magnified.

Tas. 4780.

TORREYA Myristica.

Californian Nutmeg.

Nat. Ord. Contrerm.—Dt1ecra PoLyANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Dioica.—Masc. Amentum primo subglobosum, demum elongatum.

Rachis nuda, demum elongata, basi squamis siccis quadrifariam imbricatis brac-

teata, multiflora, Sguame staminifere pedicellate, subpeltate, dimidiate, hine

antheram 4-locularem pendulam gerentes.—FaM. mentum ovatum, basi ut in

mare, bracteatum, uniflorum. Discus carnosus hypogynus nullus. Ovulum erec-

tum. Semen ovatum, basi squamis siccis haud grandefactis bracteatum, caeterum

nudum ; ¢esta crassa extus carnoso-coriacea, intus fibrosa; tegmen crustaceum,

durum. Albumen ruminatum. méryo subcylindricus, brevis; cotyledones con-

natee.—Arbores. Rami patentes ; ramuli distiche oppositi. Folia disticha, linearia,

rigida, mucronato-pungentia.— Arn.

Torreya Myristica ; foliis biuncialibus et ultra longe mucronatis siccitate utrin-

que planis subtus concoloribus lineisque duabus impressis, fructu magno

exacte elliptico valde pulposo.

A beautiful evergreen tree, thirty to forty feet high, native of

elevated regions in the Sierra Nevada of California, where it was

discovered by Mr. William Lobb in 1851, who sent specimens

and seeds home to Messrs. Veitch and Son, of the Exotic

Nursery, Exeter, and King’s-road, Chelsea. The slightest glance

at the internal structure of the fruit at once identifies this tree

with the genus Zorreya of the southern United States, but only

in the Aspalaga and Apalachicola country of Middle Florida.

There has been discovered the Zorreya tawifolia of Dr. Arnott

(in Taylor, Ann. of Nat. Hist. v. 1. p. 180, and in Hook. Ic.

Plant. tab. 232 and 233). Those who are familiar with that

species, now not very rare in our gard pl

or who will revert to the figures } rt ith

surprise that I have had no little difficulty in framing specific

characters that shall clearly distinguish the two. On first aspect _

there is as much difference between them as_ ;

the Cephalotaxus Fortuni (see our Tab. 4499

Yew (setting the fruit aside). The Cephalota

“May Isr, 1854.

Californian Nutmeg with ‘its large foliage, and the common Yew

the Zorreya taxifolia ;

in fact, the foliage and fruit of Zorreya

Myristica are more than twice the size of 7. tarifolia, and thus

the common observer will never be at a loss to distinguish them.

To the botanist I may mention the following discriminative

marks :—

TORREYA TAXIFOLIA.

Branches pale ashy-brown.

Leaves one inch long, half a line wide,

convex above, grooved beneath from

the reflexed margin, and of a paler

hue, with a slightly raised parallel

brownish line on each side the mid-

rib; mucro short.

Male flowers with the scales all acute

and mucronated.

Fruit scarcely an inch long, somewhat

obovate and acute.

Wood of a reddish colour, like that of

Juniperus Virginiana (Dr. Torrey).

Torreya MyristTIica.

Branches red-brown.

Leaves two inches and often more long,

one line wide, nearly plane above and

beneath, the under-side rather paler,

with a depressed or sunken line of

the same colour on each side the

midrib; mucro long.

Male flowers (not by any means fully

developed) with the inner scales

membranaceous, obtuse and erose.

Fruit, the smallest specimen an inch

and a half long, in shape exactly el-

liptical.

Wood yellow, like Box, as seen at Mr.

Veitch’s Nursery, King’s-road, Chel-

sea.

Any further remarks would be superfluous ; further and more

important distinguishing marks may be looked for in the perfect

male and female fowers. ‘The plant has not only been imported

alive by Messrs. Veitch, but they have reared many plants from

seed.

Tas. 4781.

DESFONTAINIA spinosa.

Holly-leaved Desfontainia.

Nat. Ord. SOLANEIS AFFINE ?—PENTANDRIA Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus, persistens, laciniis lanceolatis erectis. Corolla

tubulosa, subimmersa, subcartilaginea, tubo calycem duplo superante, nervoso ;

nervis per medias limbi patentis equaliter 5-partiti lacinias ovatas estivatione

imbricatas decurrentibus. Stamina 5, fauci corolle inserta, ejusdem laciniis al-

terna, inclusa. Filamenta brevia, complanata. <Anthere lanceolate, acute, basi

-affixee, biloculares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovarium ovali-globosum, quin-

queloculare, placentis carnosis in loculorum angulis interioribus ; ovw/is nume-

rosis subquadriserialibus pendentibus. Bacca globosa, calyce persistente munita.

Semina plurima, parva, ovato-oblonga, nitida, angulata, testa coriacea hine raphe

prominula callosa umbilicum basilarem chalazee apice dilatatee jungente percursa.

Embryo in basi albuminis dense carnosi_copiosi prope umbilicum minimum sub-

globosum, cotyledonibus brevissimis.—Frutices Peruviani (et Chilenses). Folia

opposita, dentato-spinosa, petiolata, coriacea, amara, petiolis cum ramo articulatis.

Flores azillares et terminales, solitarii, pedunculati; pedunculis bibracteolatis.

Corolla coccinea, limbo luteo.—Dun. (in part.)

DESFONTAINIA spinosa.

Dgsrontainra spinosa. Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Peruv. v. 2. p- 47. t. 186. Hook. Ic.

Pl. v.1. t. 33. Hook. fil. Fl. Antaret. v. 2. p. 332. Dunal in De Cand.

Prodr. v, 13. p. 675.

DesronTaINtA splendens. H. B. Pl. Aiquinoct. v. 1. p. 157. ¢. 45. Dunal,

l.c., p. 676.

Desrontarnta Hookeri. Dunal, J. c., p. 676.

DesFoNTAINIA acutangula. Dunal, l.c., p. 676.

This splendid accession to our garden culture has been long

known in our Herbaria, but its place in the Natural System 1s_

still a puzzle. We had hoped to have found the subject dis- —

cussed in some of the many learned essays on Solanee by our — 2

valued friend Mr. Miers; but he writes word to us, “ I have not —

taken up Desfontainia, because I always considered it quite fo-

‘reign to Solanacee, especially on account of its opposite leaves, —

the sstivation of its corolla, and structure of its ovarilum; nor

does it accord better with any genus of Aéropacee.

MAY Ist, 1854.

If the natural family of this plant is difficult to fix, so are the

limits of the species. According to modern views of considering

any possible variation of form as characteristic of a new species,

Dunal reckons four species; but I fear he is guided rather by

locality than difference in form. The original D. spinosa of Ruiz

and Pavon is the Peruvian plant from Tarma. &. splendens, of

Bonpland, is from Quindiu, m Ecuador. D. Hookers is the name

Dunal gives to my D. spinosa from Valdivia. His D. aeutangula

is from Tolima, near Maraquita, New Granada. A shrub, how-

ever, which can be traced from the northern part of South Ame-

rica to Valdivia, and even to Staten Land, in 53° south, may be

expected to vary in different localities in the size of the plant, in

the more or less spiny nature of the leaves, in the downy or gla-

brous calyx, and the relative size of the foliage and corolla. We

possess specimens from the extreme south which cannot be dis-

tinguished from those of the north. Everywhere it is a most

lovely plant, with perennial, glossy, holly-like foliage, and flowers

often two inches long, rich scarlet, tipped with yellow. Messrs.

Veitch, of the Exeter and Chelsea Exotic Nurseries, had the

honour to introduce this plant from Valdivia to our greenhouses,

through Mr. William Lobb, and our figures were made from the

plant exhibited at Chiswick, m August, 1853.

Dzscr. A rigid, erect-growing shrud, with somewhat angular,

pale-coloured, opposite dranches, and opposite Jeaves. The latter

are on short fooéstalks, from one to two or two-and-a-half inches

long, oval rather than ovate, waved, rigid, glossy, lobed at the

margin, the lobes varying much in number, and tapering, as well

as the apex of the leaf, into a sharp pungent spine. Peduncles

solitary, axillary and termmal, thick, longer than the petioles,

and bearing an oblong green dractea at the base, curved down-

ward, single-flowered. owers large, pendent. Calyz 5-partite ;

lobes oblong, obtuse, erecto-patent, glabrous or slightly downy,

minutely ciliated at the margin, persistent, withering.. Corolla

two inches long, funnel-shaped, angled, rich scarlet, tipped with

yellow. Lobes of the limé scarcely spreading, obtuse. Anthers

nearly sessile, lear, inserted at the mouth of the tube, shorter

than the lobes of the corolla. Ovary oval-cylindrical, glabrous,

five-celled. In the inner angle of each cell is a large fleshy recep-

tacle, bearing numerous pendent ovules on the back, in about

four longitudinal rows or series. Sfy/e as long as the tube of the

corolla. Stigma scarcely dilated, obscurely five-lobed. Berry

globose, about the size of a wild cherry :—a perfect one with

ripe seeds I have not examined.

Fig. 1. Seetion of calyx, with pistil. 2. Transverse section of ovary. 3. Co-

rolla laid open :—magnified. 4. Berry, scarcely mature :—nat, size.

Tas. 4782.

ANGRASCUM peErtTusuoM.

Perforated Angraecum.

Nat. Ord. OncHIDE®.—GyNAaNDRIA MONANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4761.)

s elongato-oblongis rectiusculis

AnGracum pertusum ; caule brevi, foliis distichi

ifidis basi equitantibus, racemis

carinatis utrinque pinnulatis apice oblique b

densis nutantibus axillaribus folia squantibus, floribus imbricatis distichis,

ovario sepalisque rotundatis concavis tuberculatis, petalis ovalibus, labello

apice rotundato obtuso basi dilatato depresso, caleare clavato labelli longi-

tudine.

Ancracum pertusum. Lindl. in Paxton’s Mag. of Bot. v. 7. p. 237.

Angraecum is eminently an African genus, and were that

country and its adjacent islands laid open to the visits of bo-

tanists the species would doubtless be found very numerous.

Those that have been made known have been so chiefly through

M. Aubert du Petit Thouars, and by imperfect descriptions.

There is a vast difference in the size both of foliage and flowers

between our present,plant and Angraecum eburneum, Tab. 4761 ;

but the general structure of the flowers and the habit of the

plant are alike in both. 4. pertuswm is stated in the work above

quoted to have flowered with Messrs. Loddiges, but there 1s no

indication of the country which it inhabits. It was sent to the

Kew Gardens by Messrs. Jackson, of the Kingston Nursery, and

though possessing, like, we believe, all its congeners, no brilliant-

coloured flowers, there is much grace and elegance In the droop-

ing spikes of compact white blossoms, which appear March. |

““Duscr. There is a short, rather thick, creeping s¢em or caudex,

about as thick as the finger, marked with the scars of fallen”

leaves, and throwing out thick, fleshy, simple, flexuose roots.

Leaves all distichous, about a span long, strap-shaped, thick,

fleshy, carinate, dotted, obliquely and bluntly two-lobed at the

apex, the base sheathing and equitant, like the leaves of an Zris.

MAY Ist, 1854. ce eee ue ae

Peduncles about two on each plant, axillary, solitary, bracteated

when young, but dracteas soon deciduous, and leaving scars.

Spike four to five inches long, drooping, formed of numerous

small greenish-white flowers. Sepals spreading, subrotundo-

ovate, concave, fleshy, white, externally greenish and tuberculate,

with minute, elevated dots. Petals spreading, similar in shape

to the sepals, but smaller, quite white, and not tuberculate.

Jip \arge for the size of the flower, white, subspathulate or

obovato-spathulate: the side lobes almost obsolete, terminal lobe

recurved, beneath having a comparatively large, greenish, de-

curved, obtuse, clavate spwr, as long as the rest of the flower.

Ovary short, small, tuberculate.

Fig. 1. Side view of a flower. 2. Front view of ditto. 3. Pollen-mass.

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Tas. 4783.

IMANTOPHYLLUM? miniartum.

Brick-coloured Imantophyllum.

Gen. Char. IMANTOPHYLLUM*, Perianthium superum corollaceum, 6-parti-

tum, patenti-campanulatum, tubo brevissimo, laciniis late obovato-lanceolatis

subeequalibus, 3 int. paulo majoribus. Stamina 6. Filamenta crassa, subulata,

patentia, summo tubo inserta, perianthii laciniis subbreviora. Anthere versatiles,

brevi-oblonge. Ovarium inferum trigonum, 3-loculare, doculis oligospermis,

ovula subsex in quolibet loculo biseriatis, angulo interno affixa. Sty/us crassus,

- decurvato-adscendens, perianthio longior. Stigma 3-fidum. Capsula carnosa, 1n-

dehiscens. Semina (abortione) in singulo loculo solitaria, bulbiformia, rugosa,

subpulposa, magnitudine seminis Fae vulgaris (horse-bean).—Herba acaulis.

Radix ¢ fibris numerosis fasciculatis carnosis crassis. Folia radicalia ampla lorata

disticha, basi latissima amplewante. Scapus plano-convewus, latus, apice umbellato-

multiflorus. Spatha polyphylla, marcescens, colorata. Flores ampli, miniati, uni-

colores, pediceliati, bracteolati ; bracteolis linearibus, longitudine fere pedicellorum.

IMANTOPHYLLUM? miniatum.

VALLota? miniata. Lindl. in Gardeners’ Chron. 1854, p.119; and at p. 149,

observations by Mr. Backhouse. —

A flowering specimen of this fine Amaryllidaceous plant was

exhibited at a meeting of the Horticultural Society in February

of the present year; and in the following month the Messrs.

Backhouse, of the York Nursery, who imported the plant from

Natal}, obligingly forwarded from their greenhouse the specimen

here represented. Dr. Lindley noticed the plant doubtfully as a

Vallota: it wants the peculiar duplicature of the faux of the

corolla of that genus, and it has not a bulbous root. Mr. Back-

house agrees with us that it is nearer Cha than Vallota: so

near, that I am not sorry to transfer one of the two generic

* Not Imatophyllum (more correctly Imantophyllum) of ourselves, at Tab, 2856.

It was unfortunate that that plate of J. Aitoni appeared on the same. day on

which the same plant was figured by Dr. Lindley in the ‘ Botanical Register’ as

Clivia nobilis. The name may, we think, thus with propriety be transferred to

the present genus, a near ally of, but certainly distinct from, Clivia, Lindl.

x + We have ourselves also received living plants of the same direct from

atal. .

MAY Ist, 1854,

- abrownish colour and became soft, and the integument of the

names which that plant has borne to the present. Mr. Back-

house alone has imported ripe fruit; and the seeds which he

describes are in appearance similar to the so-called bulbiform

seed of other Amaryllidaceous plants, Crinum for example. We

shall conclude this article with a description from the living plant,

by Mr. Backhouse, which accompanied the specimen.

Descr. “ After removing the flower-stem, the plant was taken

out of the pot, and the earth thoroughly washed from it, so as

to allow a complete investigation of its root. This was done

with a view of relieving the plant from the encumbrance of a ball

of exhausted hard earth. The vertical root-stock is about four

inches long, cylindrical, and truncated; the lower two inches

are bare and like a section of a broomstick, about an inch in dia-

meter. From the upper two inches protrude numerous whitish

branched jidres, about the thickness of a goose’s quill, clothed

with a short pubescence on their younger portions. ‘The /eaves

on our oldest plant were twenty-three in number, in opposite

rows, the widened base of each leaf embracing that of the op-

posite one ; and in this respect, as well as in the root, resembling

Clivia. The leaves of our plant are not linear nor rigid, like

Clivia, but are linear-lanceolate and stout, and exhibit not only

the longitudinal -nerves, but some of the stronger transverse

partitions ; like those of Clivia, they are perennial. In strong

plants they come up from the centre in series of four to five at

once, quickly succeeding each other; and about the time that

the first of the new series is matured, the flower-stem is pro-

truded between the outer one of these and the last of the next

older series. The new leaves are of a rather brighter green than

the old ones. The flower-stem is flattened, about a foot long, and

supports an umbel of twelve to fifteen pedunculate flowers, at

first enveloped in a sheath, composed of membranous and mem-

branous-margined bracts. The stamens and style, when the

flowers begin to open, are decidedly declining ; but the expan-

sion of the flowers carries the upper stamens a little out of this

position, and spreads the whole of them. So far as we have

seen, but one ovale in each cell swells. Once, one in each of

two cells was matured, and the third was abortive. In two

other instances only one in one cell matured, and those of the

other cells were abortive. I did not examine minutely the ori-

ginal number of rudimentary ovules. The seeds, being valuable

to us, were not cut, so as to examine their internal structure ;

but their size was that of a smallish horse-bean, and, though less

rugged than those of Crinum, decidedly ‘ bulbiform,’ at least so

both William Wood and myself considered them. They were

sown immediately, under the idea that they would not keep,

and they quickly pushed up each a leaf. The capsule turned of

seed was moist; and on a portion of the exterior being acci-

dentally rubbed off, a silvery membranous coat, like that of the

bulb-seeds of Crinum, was exhibited. Our old plant has for the

last two years produced fresh leaves and a flower-stem about

every four months. It has sent off several suckers from the

portion of the root-stock which produces the fibres (if so the

thick roots I have described may be called). If the flower-stem

be kept in water, possibly some of the capsules may swell a little,

so as to exhibit the number of the rudimentary ovules. The

corollas are deciduous, as in Clivia, to which I certainly think

the plant nearer than to Vallota. The flowers expand about two

at a time daily, or in two days or longer periods, but remain so

long as to form, along with the others also expanded, a fine head

for from two weeks to a month, according to temperature.”

Fig. 1. Pistil. 2. Transverse section of ovary :—magnified.

Tas. 4784.

BARKERIA ELEGANS.

Elegant Barkeria.

Nat. Ord. OncHIDEZ.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Sepala et petala equalia, libera, membranacea, patentissima.

. Labellum planum, integerrimum, nudum, (cuneatum cum apiculo) column ad-

pressum. Columna petaloidea. Anthera 4-locularis, carnosa, septorum margi-

nibus membranaceis. Podlinia 4, caudiculis totidem ligulatis reflexis, per paria

connatis.—Herbee epiphyte, caulibus fusiformibus carnosis. Folia angusta, mem-

branacea, nervosa. Pedunculi longi, graciles, squamati, terminales, apice racemosi.

Flores magni, conspicui, nutantes. Lindl.

BarkeErta elegans ; foliis lanceolatis, racemo paucifloro, sepalis petalisque late

ovato- seu obovato-lanceolatis acutiusculis, labello obovato obtusissime retuso

basi callo oblongo medio brevi-trilamellato, columna late spathulata peta-

loidea.

Barkerra elegans. Knowles and Westcott, Floral Cab. 2. p. 7. cum Ic.

A less showy species, for the flowers are fewer and smaller, than

the B. spectabilis, given in our Tab. 4094 ; but each individual

blossom is very delicate and beautiful, and the form of the lip of

the petals and sepals and column is quite different. The present

was indeed the first discovered species, and upon which the genus —

was founded, exhibiting the very petaloid column, which is scarcely

of that character in B. spectabilis. It is a native of the same

country (Mexico), and was introduced by G. Barker, Esq., of

Springfield. We are indebted to Messrs. J ackson, of Kingston,

for the beautiful specimen here figured, which flowered in March.

Descr. Stem, rather than pseud: -bulb, a span and more

long (when it passes into the peduncle), clustered, sheathed with

the leaves of the rather distant foliage, spindle-shaped, striated.

Leaves nearly distichous, remote, with long sheathing bases, ob-

long, subacute, spreading, costate, but nerveless. Peduncele twice

as long as the stem, terminal, solitary, slender, green, blotched

with purple, sheathed for the greater part of its length with

MAY Ist, 1854. : ie

scariose elongated scales. Raceme lax, of four or five large, hand-

some flowers. Lowers spreading. Petals and sepals large, spread-

ing, obovate or obovato-lanceolate, nearly equal, almost white, with

a tinge of bluish within, delicate lilac-purple outside. Zip large,

deflexed, broadly obovate, obtuse, with a mucro, having at its

base an oblong callus, ending in three elevated lines; the colour

is nearly white, with deep rose-coloured large blotches towards

the apex. Column bent down as it were upon the lip, spathulate,

petaloid, white, dotted with purple, and stained with yellow at

the apex.

Fig. 1. Front view of the column. 2. Lip :—magnified.

Tas. 4785.

COKLOGYNE rTestacea.

Clay-coloured Ceelogyne.

Nat. Ord. OrncHipE%.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4440.)

CaLocyne ¢estacea; pseudobulbis angustis ovalibus angulatis, foliis lanceolatis

tri-costatis, racemo pendulo, bracteis ovatis cucullatis ovaril longitudine,

sepalis petalisque subzequalibus, labelli oblongi lobis lateralibus rotundatis

obsoletis intermedio obtuso, venis 4 papillato-cristatis.

Ca@LoeyNE testacea. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1842. Misc. n. 34.

Introduced by Messrs. Loddiges from Sincapore. Its racemes,

as Dr. Lindley justly observes, “have a dull clay colour, which

renders them anything but handsome.” In this respect the

plant is very unlike other species of the genus, in which the play

of colour, often on the purest white ground, is peculiarly beauti-

ful. The plant blossoms readily in the stove, and generally in

the early summer months.

Descr. Pseudo-bulds clustered, oblong-ovate, dark green,

varying in size, compressed and angled, partially clothed from

below with large brown scales, and sending down coarse fibrous

radicles from below. Leaves terminal on the pseudo-bulbs,

broad lanceolate, submembranaceous, acute, petiolate, striated,

and with three principal longitudinal ribs ; petio/e one-third as

long as the leaf. Peduncle from the base of the bulb, arising

from the axil of a large brown withered scale, and itself clothed

for nearly its whole length with leafy imbricated scales. Maceme

drooping, about, as long as the leaf, bearing 8-10 subdistichous

flowers. Bracteas large, ovate, brown, membranaceous, cu-

cullate, concealing the ovary. Sepals and petals nearly uni-

form, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, but somewhat apiculate, pale

clayey white, subpatent. Zip scarcely longer than the sepals,

broad-oblong, recurved, three-lobed, white, spotted and blotched

JUNE lst, 1854.

with brown; the side lobes rounded, short ; terminal lobe very

obtuse, slightly waved, having four elevated lines, fringed or crested

with glandular fleshy hairs. Colwmn tereti-compressed, dilated

and winged on each side above, within which marginal wings

the anther is placed. Pollen-masses four.

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

At Tas. 4782 of our last number, instead of “Lindl. in Paxton’s Mag. of

Bot.,” read “ Paxton’s Mag. of Bot. ;” and at Tas. 4783 there should be no

note of interrogation after the word “ Imantophyllum?” These errors were oc-

yg by our unavoidable absence when the sheet passed through the press.

Tas. 4786.

HEXACENTRIS Mysorensis.

Mysore Hevacentris ; yellow-flowered var.

Nat. Ord. AcANTHACEZ.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. Calyz patereeformis, parvus, limbo inequaliter dentato repandove.

Bractee due, altero latere connate, altero dehiscentes, valvatee, calycem tegentes.

Corolla infundibuliformi-campanulata, tubo brevissimo, limbo subequali oblique

quinquefido. Stamina tubi faucibus annulo barbato limbatis inserta. Anthere

erectze, biloculares, glabra, loculis parallelis contiguis, superiorum staminum

uno basi longissime calcarato, altero brevi mucronulato, inferiorum utroque loculo

longissime calcarato, calcaribus flexuosis. Rudimentum staminis quinti sterilis

breve, subulatum. Stigma bifurcum, laciniis truncatis complicato-canaliculatis

basi angustioribus. Capsula bilocularis, tetrasperma, rostrata. Semina cristata.

Dissepimentum a valyis solubile, integrum, ad axin bipartibile —Frutices Indici,

scandentes, foliis dentatis nervosis glabris. Racemi azillares et terminales, mul

tiflori, bracteis communibus parvis, floribus oppositis solitariis vel fasciculatis,

bracteolis caducis.—Nees.

Hexacentris Mysorensis ; foliis elliptico-lanceolatis acuminatis trinerviis basi

sepe subhastatis, racemo longissimo pendulo, bracteis omnibus lanceolatis

parvis, corolle ample labio superiore magno subindiviso, antheris basi longe

barbatis, stigmate infundibuliformi.

Hexacentrts Mysorensis. Wight, Ic. Plant. Ind. Or. v. 3. p. 8. tab. 871.

Walp. Annal. v. 1. p. 539.

Hexacenrris lutea. Hort. Veitch.

Hexacenreis Mysorensis. Past. Fl. Gard. v. 3. p. 88.

Var. Corollis luteis, limbo sanguineo.

From the exotic nurseries of Messrs. Veitch and Son, Exeter,

and King’s Road, Chelsea, where it produces its long aes

racemes of deep yellow blossoms in the spring months. The

original species Hewacentris (Thunbergia, Wall.) coccinea was

much admired for the singularity and beauty of its blossoms ;

but this far exceeds them in the size and in the brightness of

colour, and in the number of blossoms borne by each raceme.

The H. Mysorensis given in ‘Paxton’s Flower Garden,’ is a variety

of this, with a sanguineous limb. Dr. Wight, the author of the

present species, expressly describes the limb as “ bright yellow.

JUNE Ist, 1854.

Messrs. Veitch received seeds of their plant from Mr. M‘Ivor

of the Botanic Garden of Ootacamund, who obtained them pro-

bably from the locality mentioned by Dr. Wight, viz. Nuggur,

in Mysore. Fine flowering specimens were exhibited at Chis-

wick, with five or six racemes.

Dzscr. A climbing shrub, with very long slender branches,

extending far and wide, everywhere glabrous. Leaves opposite,

on rather long petioles, 3-4 inches to a span long, oblong-lanceo-

late, acuminate, membranaceous, three-nerved, reticulated with

transverse nerves, the base often subhastate, the margin entire,

or more or less distinctly toothed. Pefioles swollen at the apex,

and still more at the base or point of insertion. /acemes very

long, pendent, terminal on short leafy branches, bracteated ;

bracteas rather remote, opposite in pairs, all small, lanceolate ;

lower ones without flowers; the rest bearing single-flowered

pedicels in their axils an inch or more long, at first straight, at

length, when the flower expands, curved upwards, so as to bring

the flower into an erect position. oral bracteas two, large,

closely applied to the flower, ovate, striated, purplish-green, at

first closed, and including the whole blossom, at length opening

on one side for the exclusion of the corolla, and then resembling

a monophyllous spatha. Calyx very small, cup-shaped, shallow,

the margin sinuous, entirely concealed by the bracteas. Corolla

very large, bright, deep and full yellow. Limé spreading, four-

lobed,—that is, the upper lip is not deeply bifid or two-lobed,

but rather truncated and obscurely three-lobed ; lower lip deeply

three-lobed ; all the lobes spreading. Stamens (as well as the

style) shorter than the upper lip of the corolla, and sunk into a

groove or channel (with a plica on each side). Anthers having a

tuft of long hairs at the base. Spurs long, subulate. Ovary

ovate, sunk into a large flat hypogynous disc, as large as the

calyez. Style slender. Stigma funnel-shaped, hollow.

Fig. 1. Anther. 2. Calyx and pistil. 3. Calyx, hypogynous disc, and ovary :

—imagnified.

Tas. 4787.

DRACAENA eExuieTica; var. maculata.

Elliptic-leaved Dracena ; spotted var.

Nat. Ord. ASPARAGINE®, Kth—Hexanpria Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4571.)

Dracana elliptica ; fruticosa, ramis laxis, foliis petiolatis elliptico-lanceolatis

subcoriaceis nitidis mucronato-acutis nune abortivis stipuleeformibus, petio-

lis canaliculatis basi dilatato-amplexantibus, paniculis terminalibus sub-

sessilibus ramis strictis patentibus, bracteis minutis, floribus plerumque

ternis pedicellatis, perianthii segmentis linearibus patentibus tubum basin

versus inflatum longitudine eequantibus, stylo staminibus vix longiore.

Dracana elliptica. “ Thunb. in Diss. 0. 3.” Schultz, Syst. Veget. v. 7. p. 345.

Kunth, Enum, Pl. v. 5. p. 14.

Dracamna spicata. Roxb. Fl. Ind. v. 2. p. 157.

Dracana terniflora. Road. Ft. Ind. v. 2. p. 159. Wall. Cat. n. 5147 a. (im

Herb. Hook.)

Dracana Wallichii. Kunth in Act. Acad. Berol. 1842. p. 26. Enum. Plant. v.

5. p. 11.

Dracana Javanica. Kunth, Enum. Plant. v. 5. p. 12.

Sanseviera Javanica. “ Blume, Enum. Pl. Jav. v. 1. p. 11.” Schultes, v. 7. p.

360. Hasskarl, Plant. Jav. Rar. p. 114.

Corpyink Sieboldii. “ Planchon in Van Houtte, Flore des Serres, v. 6. p. 109.

t. 569” (fide descr. in Walp. Ann. Bot. v. 3. p. 644). .

Terminatts alba. Rumph. Amb. v. 4. p. 19. t. 34. f. 1.

8 maculata; floribus luteo-maculatis. (Tas. Nostr. 4787.)

Dracana maculata. Road. Fl. Ind. v. 2. p.157. Kunth, Enum, Pl. v. 5. p. 13.

SaNSEVIERA Javanica, 8. Hassharl, 1. ¢. p. 114.

CorpyYLINE Sieboldii, 8 maculata. Planch. et Walp. 1. ¢.

A pretty stove-plant, for which we are indebted. to Messrs. —

Low, of the Clapton Nursery, who received it from the Belgian

gardens, under the name of Sanseviera Javanica, var. maculata.

This plant seems identical with the description of Cordyline”

Sieboldii, 8 maculata, of Planchon, as given by Walpers, I. c. ;

_ JUNE Ist, 1854.

but we are compelled to bring a host of other synonyms into

the page, which we think all justly belong to this plant, and we

are doubtful if we should not also include Dracena surculosa,

Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1169, and D. ovata, Ker, Bot. Mag. t. 1170

(one and the same plant) ; but the raceme is there simple and co-

rymbose, and the locality Sierra Leone. They are evidently nearly

allied species. The synonyms here adduced have been well con-

sidered. There can be little doubt of Rumphius’s figure repre-

senting our plant, although the flowers are shorter and the pe-

tioles longer than in the majority of our specimens. Thunberg’s

characters (plant from Ceylon and Java) quite agree with our

species, and we have pretty good authority in our own herbarium

for Roxburgh’s supposed species, besides his descriptions. The

presence or absence of certain abortive leaves, common on the

young shoots, passing into bracts at the base of the panicles,

have probably misled authors; but it is a species of marked

character. It seems to abound in the Malay Archipelago, Am-

boyna (Rumphius). We possess the species in our herbarium

from Ceylon, Java, Sumatra, Borneo (Lobb), Silhet, Bombay

(Mr. Law and Mr. Dalzell). In our stove it blossoms in March.

Our dried specimens do not exhibit the spots on the leaves.

Drscr. Stem fruticose, 2-3 feet or more high, terete, and,

as well as the lax branches, marked or ringed with the scars of

fallen leaves. Zeaves mostly confined to the upper extremity of

the branches ; young ones often clothed with scales or abortive

leaves, which are broad at the base and thence subulate, or bear-

ing an Imperfect lamina ; perfect leaves varying from 3 to 4 inches

to a span long, generally spreading, petiolate, coriaceo-membra-

naceous, elliptical-lanceolate, glossy, acute and mucronate, closely

marked with parallel longitudinal lines or striz, full green; in

8 spotted or blotched with yellow. Petiole 3 inch to 2—3 inches

long, grooved, dilated, and amplexicaul at the base. Panicle

terminal, rarely lateral, branched to the very base, and there

often bracteated or leafy; dranches spreading, strict, bearing

racemes of pale, yellow-green flowers, which are rarely solitary,

mostly in pedicellate fascicles of threes, each fascicle subtended

by a small subulate dracteole. Perianth varying in size from

half an inch to an inch long ; tube half as long as the limb, in-

flated below 3 segments of the limb spreading, linear ; stamens as

long as the limb. Ovary oval. Style flexuose, as long as the sta-

mens. Stigma capitate, three-lobed in the centre. Berries the

size of large peas, three-sceded, or by abortion two- or one-seeded.

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

SIRS aaa

Tas. 4788.

RHODODENDRON cinnasarinum; var. pallidum.

Cinnabar-flowered Rhododendron ; pale var.

Nat. Ord. Ertce#.—DercanprIA Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4336.)

_ RuopopEnvRon cinnabarinum ; foliis lato-lanceolatis acutis marginibus revolutis

brevi-petiolatis supra glabris subtus pallidis rufisve squamuloso-punctatis,

floribus umbellato-capitatis, lobis calycinis ovalibus oblongisve subineequa-

libus grosse glanduloso-squamosis, corolle campanulato-infundibuliformis

lobis rotundatis plerumque acutis, staminibus 10, filamentis basi pilosis

ovario 5-loculari furfuraceo.

a; foliis minute reticulatis subtus ferrugineo-squamulosis, calycis lobis angustis

valde inzequalibus, corolla (cinnabarinz) lobis acutis.

RHODODENDRON cinnabarinum. Hook. fil. Rhod. Sik. Himal. t. 8; et in Journ.

of Hort. Soc. v. 1. p. 101.

8; foliis latioribus subtus omnino ferrugineis, lobis calycinis obtusis subsequali-

bus, corollis intense roseis.

RuopopEnDRON Roylei, Hook. Rhod. Sik. Himal. t. 7.

Var. foliis subtus glaucis, lobis calycinis subsqualibus obtusis, corollis pallidis,

fauce supra sanguineo-irrorata. (Tas. Nostr. 4788.)

Already, since the publication of the two species above quoted

in Dr. Hooker’s ‘Rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya,’ that author

has felt it right to consider them mere varieties of one and the

same species; and now we have in cultivation at the Royal Gar-

dens of Kew what he considers a third variety, with leaves, in

shape, resembling those of the original type of 2. cianabarinum,

but pale-coloured beneath, with a calyx resembling that of the

R. Roylei, and corollas paler than either of those two kinds, and

having the faux above sprinkled with dark sangumneous dots.

This produced its blossoms in a cool greenhouse in the early part

of May of the present year 1854. The species 1s a native of

Eastern Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhotan, in valleys and on the tops

of mouitains in very damp regions, and at elevations above the

sea-level of from 10,000 to 12,000 feet. The species 1s as-

JUNE Ist, 1854,

suredly a variable one, and neither of the figures in the ‘ Rho-

dodendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya’ (under the names of &. cin-

nabarinum and FR. Roylei), Dr. Hooker says, “ gives a good idea

of the plant, which forms a rather elegant bush, about eight feet

high, conspicuous in May and June from its elegant blossoms,

which form very loose and graceful heads of long pendulous

flowers. ‘The figures are from stunted specimens, in very ex-

posed situations; the leaves are not usually reticulated, except

under these circumstances. It is universally considered poison-

ous to cattle and goats; of the latter I have seen many die from

eating either of this or of a species of Andromeda. If employed

as oes the smoke causes the eyes to inflame and the cheeks to

swell.

Descr. A shrub, with erect or moderately patent branches.

Our plants have not as yet attained a greater height than 24

feet; bark reddish-brown. eaves usually broad, lanceolate,

but sometimes nearly elliptical, subcoriaceous, acute and mucro-

nated, on short yetioles, penninerved, the margins recurved,

full green and naked above, pale and often glaucous green be-

neath, sometimes rusty, dotted with minute scales, which vary

in colour, brown or pale green. FVowers in an irregular wmdel

or cyme, terminal, at first scaly, with large imbricated bracteal

scales. Calyw usually of five, short, nearly equal, oval or rounded,

very obtuse lobes, scaly on the outside, one (the largest) some-

times setigerous; or the lobes are longer and narrower, with one

lobe (upper one) a good deal longer than the rest. Corolla, in

our variety, full rose-colour, between infundibuliform and cam-

panulate, the limb broad, spreading, the lobes subrotund, more

or less acute, the upper one within (at the faux) dotted with nu-

merous sanguincous spots. Stamens 10, deflexed, unequal,

shorter than the corolla. Filaments villous at the base. Anthers

dark purple. Ovary oblong, very scaly. Style as long as the

longest stamen. Stigma dite. © age ‘

Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Calyx and pistil. 3. Ovary. 4. Section of ovary :—magnified.

Tas. 4789.

| SCUTELLARIA vittosa.

Shaggy Skull-cap.

Nat. Ord. Laprat#.—DiIpyNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide Supra, Tas. 4268.)

ScurELLARtA villosa; caule acute tetragono ramoso, foliis petiolatis cordato-

ovatis mollibus acuminatis grosse sinuato-dentatis rugosis pilis tenuissimis

albis patentibus villosis subtus purpureis, racemis terminalibus multifloris

brevibus corymbosis, bracteis parvis herbaceis, floribus glanduloso-villosis,

corolla (coccinese) tubo elongato gracili infundibuliformi lobis abbreviatis.

of the Andes of Peru, whence rooted plants were sent

1842, by Mr. Nation. The plant proves to be a new

species, allied indeed to S. cordifolia, Benth. (see our Tab.

4290), having similarly large scarlet flowers, and more or less

cordate leaves, but essentially different in the more compact

habit, short corymbose racemes, discoloured, softer, very coarsely.

sinuato-serrated leaves, and above all in the copious long

spreading slender white hairs of the foliage, and in the glandu-

lar hairs of the flowers, which are particularly long on the calyx.

With us it flowers in the stove in the early spring months, and

is assuredly a great acquisition to our collections.

Duscr. Stem erect, scarcely a foot high in our plants, spa-

tingly branched, tetragonous, purplish-green, hairy with rather

short spreading hairs : dranches short, opposite. Leaves spread-

ing, opposite, petiolate, cordato-ovate, acuminate (with a narrow

joint), soft in texture, wrinkled with the sunken reticulated veins,

green above, purple beneath, the margin deeply sinuato-den-

tate; above, beneath, and at the margin quite villous, with soft,

very slender spreading hairs. Petioles about an inch long,

hairy. Raceme terminal, short, almost sessile, corymbose, many-

flowered. Flowers scattered on the rachis, externally wholly

clothed with spreading hairs, which are especially long on the

calyx, and all are tipped with a minute globose gland. Bracteas

JUNE lst, 1854.

small, oblong-lanceolate, herbaceous, scarcely so long as the

short, scattered pedicels. Calyx small, tubular, oval, two-lipped,

green ; scale large, spreading. Coro//a an inch and a half long,

rich scarlet. ude slender, infundibuliform, angled. Zimé short

in proportion to the tube, two-lipped; wpper lip galeate, three

lobed (lateral lobes united with it); Jower lip undivided, the

sides deflexed. Stamens included. Ovary deeply four-lobed,

seated on a large fleshy base, or gynophore, with a curved neck.

Style as long as the corolla, and concealed within it, dilated up-

wards. Stigma subulate.

Fig. i. Flower. 2. Pistil and gynophore, magnified.

a "Etat &

——

790

eeweerey ons)

Tas. 4790.

FRANCISCEA exita.

Beautiful Franciscea.

Nat. Ord. ScropHuLARIACER.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA,.

Gen. Char, (Vide supra, Tas. 4583.)

FRANCISCEA eximia ; foliis lato-lanceolatis acuminatis brevipetiolatis opacis ob-

scure venosis subtus subglaucescentibus, cymis paucifloris, calycibus elon-

gatis cylindraceis paululum curvatis pubescentibus apice quinquedentatis

hine fissis spatheeformibus, corolle limbo amplo tubum zquante.

FRANCISCEA eximia. Scheidweiler, in Gard. Mag. of Bot. v. 2. p. 16. 2. p. 177.

cum Te.

We made a brief allusion to a “ Hranciscea evimia’’ under our

Fyanciscea calycina, Tab. 4583, but could only speak of it then

as a plant so named in cultivation. It has since been figured in

the work above quoted ; but the calyx, on which the main cha-

racter depends, is so imperfectly represented, that but for the

more accurate descriptive character it would be difficult, if not

impossible, to say how it differed from /. calycina, save by

the longer, narrower, and more opaque leaves, which indeed

are not very constant to their shape in either species. In

F. calycina the calyx (as shown at fig. 2) is perfectly gla-

brous, straight, inflated, and divided at the apex into five mode-

rately long, equal, and rather spréading teeth. ‘The calyx of our

present plant is elongated, curved, cylindrical, not inflated

(except possibly in fruit, which we have not seen), five-toothed ;

the teeth straight or a little incurved, and the superior sinus —

split down for some way, from which cleft the tube of the

corolla is slightly protruded : the -calyx hence becomes spatha-

ceous. The flowers are very beautiful when first expanded, but

soon fading to white or whitish—characteristic, it would ap-

pear, of all the Franciscee. The plant does not appear to have

been taken up by any author but Scheidweiler, and is stated to

JUNE lst, 1854.

be discovered by M. Libon, in the environs of Villa Franca,

Brazil, and introduced to Brussels by M. de Jonghe. It is a

free flowerer ; and a bush, at the time we write, early in March,

is quite gay with the large purple blossoms, in a warm stove ;

and we have received fine specimens at the same season from

Mr. Moore, of Chelsea, not only of this, but also of 7. calycina,

exhibiting the same characters as we have above noticed.

Descr. An erect, branching shrub, 2-3 feet high; branches

terete. Leaves petiolate, broad, lanceolate, subcoriaceous, acu-

minate, opaque, rather obscurely penniveined, pale beneath : pe-

tiole short, about half an inch long. Flowers terminal, from two

to four or five from a branchlet, large, handsome. Calyx elon-

gated, cylindrical, not at all inflated, slightly curved, downy, an

inch and a quarter long ; dimé of five, short, linear-lanceolate,

erect or slightly curved, teeth, one of the sinuses cleft much deeper

down than the rest. Corolla large, handsome, when first open-

ing rich purple, by the second day fading almost to white. 7ude

long, slender, a little exceeding the calyx in length, and where

exserted having a peculiar flexuous curve, which brings the broad

limb into an oblique position; lobes of the dims subrotund,

spreading horizontally, fave a little elevated, forming a white

ring. Stamens, as in the genus, included. Style, as long as the

ae of the corolla, dilated upwards. Stigma obscurely two-

obed.

Fig. 1. Calyx. 2. Re th : ae :

esipeited: yx presents the calyx of Franciscea calycina :—both slightly

Tas. 4791.

GARDENIA Guososa.

Globe-fruited Gardenia.

}

Nat. Ord. Rupracr®.—PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Calycis tubus ovatus, seepe costatus, limbus tubulosus truncatus

dentatus 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, bifidum aut bi-

dentatum, lobis crassis erectis. Ovarium dissepimentis incompletis 2-5 semi-

divisum, l-loculare. Bacca carnosa, calyce coronata, intus chartacea aut nu-

cleata, incomplete 2-5-locularis. Semina minuta, placentis parietalibus carnosis-

immersa. Embryo albuminosus, vagus.—Arbores aut frutices (gerontogew) inermes

aut spinescentes. Folia opposita, raro verticillata, ovalia, Flores azillares aut

terminales, plerumque solitarii, albi, demum sepe florescentes, sepius odori.—DC.

GarDENIA globosa; foliis lato-lanceolatis brevipetiolatis glaberrimis, floribus

terminalibus solitariis, calycis limbo brevi 5-dentato intus villoso, corollee

tubo omnino campanulato limbo profunde 5-lobato lobis patentibus acutis —

fauce villosa, ovario oblongo, fructu globoso majore.

GarRDENtA globosa. Hochstett. Flora, v. 25. p. 237 (note). Walpers, Rep. Bot.

v. 2. p. 944. Krauss, Fl. Natal. p. 66.

A shrub of Natal, South Africa, first detected by Dr. Krauss,

since imported to our collections by Messrs. Backhouse, York

Nursery, through their friend Mr. Andrew Steedmann. The

“ globose” fruit I have not seen, but there can be no doubt, I

think, of the identity of the species with the @. globosa of

Hochstetter and Krauss. Messrs. Backhouse learn, from Mr.

John Brownlee, missionary at King William’s Town, in Caf-

fraria, that the fruit of some of the South African species of Gar-

denia is eaten, when mellowed, like that of the ‘medlar. The

present is a greenhouse plant, where it forms an erect shrub,

bearing its white, very fragrant flowers, in a small-sized pot, m

the month of June. :

_Duscr. Moderately-sized shrub, much branched, with oppo-

site, spineless dranches, which are clothed with a smooth, red-

‘dish-brown dark. Leaves opposite, 8-4 inches long, between

JULY Ist, 1854,

membranaceous and coriaceous, broad-lanceolate, moderately

acuminated, entire, glabrous, shortly petiolated, penninerved.

Stipules rather small, from a broad base, subulate, close-pressed.

Flowers terminal, solitary, fragrant, nearly sessile. Calya, the

adherent ‘ube oblong-cylindrical, the free portion small, cup-

shaped, the margin five-toothed, the inside lined with hairs. Co-

rolla moderately large, white, or rather cream-white. ude cam-

panulate, an inch long, singularly broad, the very base alone

contracted, which fits into the narrow limb of the calyx ; slightly

again contracted at the mouth, and there clothed with yellow

spreading hairs; the /imé, spreading horizontally, of five large,

broad, subrotund, acute lobes. S*amens five, linear, sessile, at-

tached some way down in the tube, so as not to have any por-

tion exserted. Style also included, inserted in a fleshy dise or

annulus, club-shaped, gradually passing into the bifid stigma

whose apices are reflexed.

Fig. 1. Corolla :—unaé. size. 2. Pistil; a portion of the calyx-limb being re-

moved. 3. Stamen, front view. 4. Ditto, back view :—magnified.

Tas. 4792.

CATASETUM Naso, varr.

Proboscis Catasetum, vars.

Nat. Ord. OncHIDEe.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Perianthium sepius globosum, nunc explanatum ala et

tala subaequalia. Labellum cial, ae. ee aad pi :

om fimbriatum, sub apice saccatum, obsolete trilobum. Columna erecta, aptera,

ibera, apice utrinque cirrhosa. Anthera sub-bilocularis, antice truncata. Pol-

linia 2, postice biloba vel sulcata ; caudicula maxima nuda demum elastice con-

pit glandula cartilaginea, subquadrata.—Herbee terrestres, epiphyte ; caulibus

evibus fusiformibus, vestigiis foliorum vestitis. Folia basi vaginantia, plicata. —

Scapi radicales. Flores speciosi, racemosi, virides, nunc purpureo-maculati.—

t .

Catasetum (§ Myanthus) Naso ; spica brevi erecta, sepalis oblongo-lanceolatis

complicatis petalisque lanceolatis adscendentibus equalibus, labello hemi-—

spherico apice abrupte in appendicem carnosam ovatam obtusam pro-

ducto, marginibus basi tenuibus laceris amplexicolumnibus, linea intramar-

ginali carnosa inflexa connivente ostium cordiforme efficiente. Lindl.

oe a aris Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1843. Mise. p. 71. n. 11, and 1844, Mise.

p. 36. . 18.

“Native of Caraccas, Mr. Linden. This is a singular plant,

_whose flowers before opening might be mistaken for C. tridenta-

tum, but when expanded they are totally different. The sepals

and petals, which are very pale dull green outside, are slightly

pink inside, and richly spotted, in irregular bars, with a deep —

crimson-purple. ‘The lip is a most singular organ, and very dif-

ficult to describe. Viewed from the side it has a hemispherical

nt, where it is extended into

Seen in front it is almost wholly

were a solid hemi-

-shaped hole ;

which rises

within the true edge of the lip, and directing itself inward | ;

JULY Ist, 1854.

Such, as we have given above, are the specific characters and

description of Dr. Lindley of the very curious C. Naso. Of that

identical state of the plant I have seen no specimen, nor have I

seen any figure. Drawings of the two kinds of flowers here

given (our ‘Tab. 4792, fig. 1 and 2, from the gardens at Syon),

were submitted to Dr. Lindley, who considers them to be varie-

ties of C. Naso; as such we represent them, with a feeling how-

ever upon our minds that they may all be sports of the origi-

nal C. tridentatum ; the foliage and pseudo-bulbs seem to be the

same in all.

Var. 1. Floribus viridibus, labelli apice 3-4-lobo, lobis lanceolatis, sepalis pe-

talisque integerrimis. Tan. Nosrr. 4792, fig. 1.

Var. 2. Sepalis viridibus integerrimis, petalis magnis grosse lacerato-serratis,

disco 2-3-dentatis (labelloque) purpureo-sanguineis, labello apice lobo soli-

tario seu proboscideo. Tas. Nosrr. 4792, fig. 2.

Our second variety, in the proboscideous apex of the labellum,

approaches perhaps nearest to the normal form of C@. Naso.

a . ‘

Fig. 1. Spike of our var. 1. 2. Single flower of our var. 2 :—nat. size.

LIIF@

Fitch del. et lith

Vincent Brooks Imp.

Tas. 4793. .

BUDDLEIA crispa.

Crisped-leaved Buddleva. :

Nat. Ord. ScROPHULARINE®.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx 4-dentatus vel semi-4-fidus. Corolle tubus brevis, sub-

campanulatus:vel elongatus ; limbus patens vel rarius suberectus, laciniis brevibus.

Stamina 4, ad faucem inserta, antheris subsessilibus ; vel in medio tubo inserta,

antheris faucem subzequantibus inclusisve. Stylus integer, apice clavatus, parte

stigmatosa crassa capitata, vel basi decurrente, biloba. Capsula septicide bivalvis ;

valvulis bifidis subintegrisve, marginibus inflexis, columnam placentiferam nudan-

tibus. Semina numerosa, parva, compresso-fusiformia vel discoidea ; ¢es¢a laxius-

cula, seepe in alam membranaceam subexpansa, reticulata. Hmbéryo parvus vel

rarius dimidium seminis superans.—Arbores, frutices vel herbee Americam cali-

diorem, Africam australem vel Asiam Indicam habitantes, sepissime tomento vel

lana vestite, in ramulis junioribus, foliorum pagina inferiore, pedunculis calycibus-

que et interdum etiam in corollis copioso, in pagina superiore foliorum et in ramus

adultis demum sepius deraso. Folia opposita. Pedunculi eymoso-multifiori, axil-

lares vel sepius in thyrsum vel paniculam derminalem dispositi. Benth.

Bupptera (§ Glomeratz) crispa ; tomento denso ferrugineo vel canescente, foliis

plerisque petiolatis margine crenatis inferioribus basi cordatis seepe crassis

rugosis utrinque tomentosis, capitulis densis plurifloris pedunculatis, pani-

cula oblonga vel subracemosa, corollee tubo calycem subcampanulatum duplo

superante. Benth.

Buppxera crispa. Benth. Scroph. Ind. p. 43. Wall. Cat. 6404. Benth. in De

Cand. Prodr. v. 10. p. 444.

Reared by Mr. Moore at the Glasnevin Botanic Garden, from

seeds sent by Major Madden, from near Almorah, Western

Himalaya, at an elevation of 5500 to 7500 feet above the level

of the sea; and a very desirable shrub it proves to be to our

_ gardens, being hardy, like the B. glodosa, that 1s, only requiring

protection of a wall, when it bears our winters unharmed, and

has the advantage of flowering from the beginning of February

until the beginning of May, scenting the atmosphere around

with its fragrance. It has, perhaps, a rather extensive Tange 1D

Northern India. We possess specimens (besides those from

Major Madden) from Dr. Wallich, its discoverer, gathered at

JULY Ist, 1854.

Kamaon (where Messrs. Strachey and Winterbottom also found

it), Saharungur and Sermoie; from Simla, Lady Dalhousie (com-

municated also by the late Mr. Fielding); from Affghanistan,

Griffith, n. 613, and from Chibil Tun and Zahree, Scinde, by

Dr. Stocks (n. 867).

Descr. A shrub, twelve to fourteen feet high. Branches

opposite, obtusely tetragonal, the younger ones densely covered

with tawny or ferruginous down. Leaves on woolly petioles

one-quarter of an inch to one inch long, ovate or oblong, the

lower ones cordate at the base, upper ones cuneate, thick, to-

mentose, densely so beneath, with ferruginous or cinereous to-

mentum, the margins toothed and crisped, rarely entire, except

in the upper leaves. Mowers arranged in capitula, or in dense

whorls, constituting spikes or racemes, and these, from the many

short flowering-branches, forming panicles. The lower portions

of the spikes have leaf-like bracteas, the upper are bractless.

Calyz oval, downy, nearly half the length of the tube of the co-

rolla, four-toothed; teeth erect, obtuse. Corolla salver-shaped,

lilac, with a white eye; éwbe cylindrical, downy ; Zimé in breadth

nearly equal to the length of the tube, spreading horizontally,

deeply four-lobed, lobes broadly obcordate, waved and crenulated,

_ the mouth or faua contracted, orange-coloured. Stamens four,

inserted below the middle, and quite included ; filaments short ;

anthers short, oblong. Pistil quite included. Ovary ovate,

downy, except at the very base. Style very short. Stigma

clubbed, bifid. ?

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Corolla laid open. 3. Pistil :—magnified.

Tas. 4794.

CLEMATIS sBarsBeLuata.

Beardletted Traveller’ s-joy.

Nat. Ord. RANUNCULACEZ®.—PoLyanpRIA MonoeynIa.

Gen. Char. Involucrum 0, aut calyciforme sub flore. Sepala 4-8, colorata. —

Petala 0 aut plana, sepalis breviora. Caryopsides 00, in caudam sepius barbato- |

plumosam productze.—Radices perennes. Folia ewacte opposita. De Cand.

Crematrs (§ Cheiropsis) Jardellata ; foliis ternatim sectis, pedunculis aggrega-

tis unifloris folia subeequantibus, floribus nutantibus, staminibus perianthio

fere 4 brevioribus, filamentis planis lanceolatis ciliatis, antheris introrsis

dorso dense pilosis. bic

Ciematts barbellata. Edgeworth, in Linn. Trans. v. 20. p.25. Hook. fil. et Thoms.

Fl. Indica, p. 5 (ined.).

Crematis Nipalensis, Royle, Iilustr. p: 51 (excl. syn.).

Native of the Western Himalaya, where, about Garhwal, it

appears to have been first detected by Dr. Royle and Mr. Paken-

ham Edgeworth, and first distinguished as a species by the latter _

gentleman (from whom we have received native specimens) 1D

the Linnean Society’s Transactions above quoted. Messrs.

Strachey and Winterbottom found it at Kamaon, at an elevation —

of 10,000 feet: and Major Madden, who introduced it by seed

to the Glasnevin Botanic Garden, Dublin, met with it im Woo

between Kamaon and Simla, at elevations varying from 8000 to

10,000 feet above the level of the sea. Mr. Edgeworth consti-

tutes of it a new section or subgenus (Bebeanthera), differmg

from Cheiropsis, in wanting the involucra, and in the introrse —

anthers; but Drs. Hooker and Thomson refer it to § Chetropsis, — 5

whose character they consider mainly to rest on the nee 2

flowered peduncles : and they give another Indian species ne a

longing to it, with introrse anther, viz. C. acutangula, Hook. :

et Thom. (C. darbellata is a very pretty species, bearing meg

rous, large, chocolate flowers, with cream-coloured borders es e

sepals. Mr. Moore, who sent the specimens here figured from

JULY Ist, 1854.

Glasnevin, considers the species hardy, a free bloomer, and as

contrasting well with C. montana, which is beautifully in flower

in company with it in May, 1854.

Dzsor. Climbing. Stems and branches slender, woody, stri-

ated, slightly hairy, obscurely striated. Leaves from a nodus, and

clustered or subverticillate, ternately trisected, on long pedicels,

each leaflet or segment petiolate, ovate, much acuminated, coarsely

serrated, reticulately veined, bifid or (especially the side leaflets)

trifid, glabrous. Peduncles from the same nodus as the leaves,

3-4 inches long, fascicled, spreading, hairy, single-flowered.

Flower drooping, large, moneecious (Edgew.). Sepals large, erecto-

patent, so as to form a campanulate perianth, each ovato-acumi-

nate, three-nerved, slightly coriaceous, chocolate-coloured, the edge

white or cream-coloured, and downy. Stamens numerous, erect,

flattened, little more than half the length of the perianth. Fi/a-

ments broad, lanceolate, membranaceous, hairy and ciliated, bent

at the base. Anther oblong, terminal, basi-fixed, opening in-

trorsely, glabrous within, the back with a dense tuft of hairs.

Pistils several, erect. Ovary ovate, glabrous or bearded on the

under side only. Style long, subulate, villous except at the

apex, which is slightly recurved and terminated with the simple,

obtuse stigma.

Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Pistil :-—magnified.

G94

Fitch del et lith

Vincent Brooks Imp

Tas. 4795.

SPIRAZA GRANDIFLORA.

Large-flowered Spirea.

Nat. Ord. RosacEm™.—IcosANDRIA PENTAGYNIA.

bivalves. Semina 2-15, pendula v. rarissime adscendentia.

minosi, orthotropi; radicuda umbilico proxima, supera.vel rarissim

v. suffrutices, v. frutices, in temperatis hemispheria borealis eres s alt

nis simplicibus v. simpliciter aut composite imparipinnatis, stipulis gem s petiolo

adnatis, interdum minimis v. penitus obsoletis, floribus axillaribus terminalibusque,

racemosis, corymbosis, cymosis, paniculatis v. interdum fasciculatis, albis v. rarissime

roseis, nonnunquam abortu polygamis vel dioicis. Endl.

Sprrma grandiflora ; foliis lanceolatis mucronulato-apiculatis integerrumis, flori-

bus in racemis plurifloris erectis terminalibus, calycis tubo late turbinato

(disco toto carnoso) basi contracto ore expanso subrecurvo extus basi brac-

teolato limbi lobis rotundato-ovatis ciliatis, petalis- magnis rotundatis, ova-

riis 5 liberis biovulatis, stigmate dilatato.

AMELANCHIER racemosa. Fortune, MS.

The present remarkable plant has been sent by Mr. Fortune,

under the name of Amelanchier racemosa, from the north of

China, to Messrs. Standish and Noble, of the Bagshot Nursery,

where it bears the open air, blossoming in May, 1854: and it is

certain that its conspicuous large flowers cannot fail to recom-

mend it as a very desirable ornamental shrubbery plant. The

habit and foliage are that of an Amelanchier: but the structure

JULY Ist, 1854.

of the flowers point to the genus Spir@a, as that to which, in

the absence of the fruit, it must be referred, and unfortunately

the frosts of the early spring soon destroyed the flowers, so that

we have no knowledge of the perfect fruit. The calyx-tube is

remarkable in form, much contracted below, then suddenly at

the narrow faux expanded and recurved, and the whole lined

with a fleshy disc, at the edge of which the fifteen stamens are

inserted in threes. The species is extremely different from any

hitherto described.

Duscr. Apparently a moderately-sized shrub, with twiggy

branches, clothed with brown bark. Leaves alternate, submem-

branaceous, lanceolate, two to three inches long, entire, acute

and somewhat apiculated, penninerved, glabrous. Petiole half

an inch long. Stipules, if any, soon deciduous. Racemes terminal,

solitary, erect, bearing six to eight large, conspicuous, white

flowers. Pedice/s half an inch to an inch long, bearing a pair

of small, opposite, deciduous dracteoles at the base of the calyx.

Calye turbinate: the lower part or ‘tvbe much contracted (in-

cluding the ovaries), then at the mouth suddenly expanding and

slightly recurved, lined throughout with a fleshy disc. Limb of

five, broadly oval, submembranaceous sepals, beautifully ciliated

at the margin. Stamens about fifteen, inserted by threes at the

edge of the fleshy disc of the calyx. Petals very large, subro-

tund, or somewhat obcordate, slightly unguiculate. Ovaries five,

approximate, but quite free even to the base, in no way adherent

to the calycine tube, one-celled, with two ovules. Styles five,

quite free. Stigma dilated, reflexed, and furrowed within, the

furrows extending some way down the inner side of the style.

4196

aS Sp nnrrag ne,

Fitch del et lth

Vincent Brodks Imp

Tas. 4796.

CASSIOPE FastiGIATA.

Fastigiated Cassiope.

Nat. Ord. Ericacrm.—Dxrcanpria Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus, persistens, basi nudus. Corolla campanulata, 5-

loba. Stamina 10, inclusa; filamentis glabris ; antheris brevibus, loculis tumidis

apice longe apiculatis. Stylus basi crassus, conicus. Stigma obtusum. Capsula

5-loculatis, 5-valvis; valvis apice bifidis medio septiferis. Placenta 5-loba.

Semina oblonga, nitida, lucida.—Suftrutices boreales humillimt, glabri, ericoidei, sem-

pervirentes. Folia sparsa, conferta, sepius imbricata. Flores solitarii, pedicellati,

laterales aut terminales, rosei (v. albi), nutantes, interdum 4-meri 8-andri.—DC.

Cassiope fastigiata; foliis dense 4-fariam imbricatis ovatis subtrigonis dorso

profunde crasse carinatis carina longitudinaliter suleatis marginibus scariosis

albis sulcis labiisque pulcherrime ciliatis, floribus subyerticillatis, pedicellis

villosis, corollis lato-campanulatis albis, calycis lobis lanceolatis ciliato-ser-

ratis.

Casstorn fastigiata. Don, Gard. Dict. v. 3. p. 829. DC. Prodr. v. 7. p. 611.

Anpromepa fastigiata. Wall. Trans. Asiat. Soc. v. 13. p. 304. Plant. Rarwr.

Asiat. v. 3. p. 51. t. 284. Royle, [llustr. Himal. p. 260. t, 63.f. 1.

ANDROMEDA cupressiformis. Wall. MSS. D. Don, Werner. Trans. v. 3. p. 407.

For the opportunity of figuring this interesting and very rare

plant we are indebted to Mr. Moore, of the Glasnevin Botanic

Garden, who raised a single plant from Himalayan seeds, col-

lected by Major Madden in North-western Himalaya, where it

was abundant at elevations of from 12-13,000 feet (also gathered

there by Messrs. Strachey and Winterbottom). Its native range

is pretty extensive, being found in Gossan Than, by Dr. Wallich

and Mr. Blinkworth, and abundantly in the mountains of Sikkim-

Himalaya by Dr. Hooker, at elevations of from 10-14,000 feet.

In general habit it will be seen that this charming plant has

much affinity with Casseope (Andromeda, L.) efragona, of Arctic

Europe and America, figured at our Tab. 3181; but 1 sa

larger plant, far more beautiful, and has leaves of quite a differ- a

ent and peculiar structure, having a white, silvery, finely ciliated

margin, and a deep and broad keel, deeply furrowed on the back,

JULY Ist, 1854. ;

and the edges of the furrow also fringed with cilia. Such a

species cannot fail to be a great favourite with all cultivators of

alpine plants. It flowers with Mr. Moore in May.

Descr. Small shrub, very much branched, the dranches de-

cumbent, crowded, and subfastigiated. eaves densely and

closely imbricated in a quadrifarious manner (so that the

branches are tetragonous), erect, sessile, ovate, concave, rather

obtuse, coriaceous, with a deep carina at the back, and that

carina has a deep furrow (fig. 1), so as to form the keel into two

plates or ridges, united towards the apex, which are fringed at

the edges; the leaf itself has a broad, white, silvery margin,

beautifully fringed with cilia throughout the whole edge. Pe-

duncles axillary, solitary, short, hairy, single-flowered, decurved,

hairy; at the base are two or three bracteal fringed scales. Flower

drooping, large for the size of the plant. Calyz-lobes lanceolate,

acuminated, with a scariose, ciliato-serrated margin. Corolla

white, broadly campanulate, the mouth spreading ; Jimd of five,

acute, patent /obes. Stamens quite included. laments subu-

tate, glabrous. Anthers of two oval cells, opening with a large

pore at the top, and each cell having a long, subulate, downy

seta. Ovary subrotund, five-lobed, seated on a fleshy disc, from .

one which the stamens emerge. Style short, fusiform. Stigma

obtuse.

_ Fig. 1. Back view of a leaf. 2. Interior of aleaf. 3. Flower and peduncle,

and bracteal scales. 4,5. Stamens, 6, Pistil :—magnified.

™“S

a ee

Tom

aks Imp.

Vincent. Bro

Tas. 4797.

RHODODENDRON cirrinvum.

Citron flowered Rhododendron.

Nat. Ord. Ertcra.—Dercanpria MoNoGyYnNIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4336.)

stigmate convexo.

larger, always acuminated, and beneath densely

ferruginous scales. The number of stamens 1s con

in each flower, and those declined, a little mor

which contrast well with the pale corolla.

- brown. Leaves on short petioles, spreading, the lar

ee not more than two inches long, elliptical-oblong,

AUGUST IsT, 1854.

RHODODENDRON citrinum ; pentandrum, foliis oblongo-ellipticis obtusis subtus

pallidis punctato-squamulosis obscure venosis, squamulis concoloribus, flori-

bus subumbellatis nutantibus, calycis minuti lobis subrotundis ciliato-glan-

dulosis, corollis (citrinis) parvis campanulatis, limbi lobis eequalibus suberec-

tis retusis, staminibus tubo corolle vix longioribus, ovario oblongo nudo,

RuHODODENDRON citrinum. Hassk. Cat. Pl. Hort. Bot. Buitenz. p. 161.

The Messrs. Rollisons, of Tooting, have placed before us (May,

1854) the charming shrub here figured, a pale lemon-flowered

species of Rhododendron from Java, sent by their collector, Mr.

Henshall. It was supposed to have been a new species, and in

that case would have borne the name of the discoverer; but it

is clearly the R. citrinum of Hasskarl, in his Cat. of the Bot.

Garden of Buitenzorg, Java. In that island, the author tells us, it

inhabits trunks of old trees in marshy mountains of Tjiburrum,

5000 feet above the sea-level. Mr. Henshall traced it up to an

elevation of 9700 feet, but no higher. Its nearest affinity 1s

with what we take to be R. album of Java; but, independent of

this difference in the colour of the flowers, the leaves are much

clothed with

e than half the

length of the corolla: they bear deep orange-coloured anthers,

Duscr. This plant forms a small, handsome, evergreen, green-

house shrué, with glabrous green, terete branches, tinged with

gest of them

obtuse, gla-

brous, coriaceous, obscurely penniveined, glabrous, dark green

above, pale beneath, and there dotted with minute pale greenish

(never ferruginous) scales: costa beneath sometimes tinged with

red. Peduncles single-flowered, umbellate, terminal, often ap-

pearing lateral from the annotinous shoots, above reddish and

squamulose ; each bears a single, drooping, rather small flower.

Calyz of five, very short, rounded, ciliato-glandular /obes. Corolla

little more than three-quarters of an inch long, pale lemon-

coloured, fragrant, almost exactly campanulate; cmd of five,

nearly erect, rounded, retuse lobes. Stamens five (!), declined,

as long as the tube of the corolla, quite included therefore. Fila-

ment thick, a little dilated at the base. Anther oblong, deep

orange, opening with two pores above. Hypogynous gland, a

large, fleshy, waved ring. Pis#i/ as long as the stamens. Ovary

oblong, five-celled: style thickened upwards: stigma dilated,

convex, radiated.

Fig. 1. Stamen. 9. Calyx and pistil. 3, Annular bh dive and bead

of ovary :-—magnified. Senet pnt: ular ypogynous sc an ve

4798

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et me

——

Lib

Tas. 4798.

PRIMULA mo tis.

Soft-leaved Bootan Primrose.

Nat. Ord. PrrmuLacn®.—PENTANDRIA MoNnoGyYNIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4550.)

Primvta (Primulastrum) mollis; acaulis, molliter hirsuto-pubescens, foliis longe

petiolatis cordatis sinuato-lobatis crenulatis reticulatim villosis, seapo foliis

longiore (petiolisque) patentim villosis, floribus verticillatis, verticillis 3—4-

subquinquefloris, pedicellis bracteis longioribus, calycis laxi subampli tubo

turbinato (intense rubro) dentibus patentibus viridibus, corolle (intense

roseze) limbo obliquo laciniis obovatis bifidis.

PRIMULA mollis. Nuté. MSS.

A charming new Primula, of the “ Primulastrum” section, and

intermediate as it were between Primula Sinensis and P. cortu-

soides; but very different from either in foliage, corolla, and

. especially calyx. It is a native of the mountains of Bootan,

x where it was discovered by Mr. Booth ; and the plants were reared

; from seeds sent by him to his relative Mr. Nuttall (Rainhill,

i near Prescott), which flowered in April of the present year. That

| gentleman has hitherto treated it as a hardy greenhouse plant ;

but the probability is, it will be found to bear the open arr, and

may be considered to bear the same treatment as P. cortu-

soides.

Dzscr. Root perennial. Whole plant covered with soft pu-

bescence or hairs. Stem none. Leaves all rising from the root,

upon long terete petioles, which are clothed with long spreading

hairs; the blade is almost exactly cordate, rather obtuse, with a

deep but nar inus at the base; the margin sinuato-lobate

and crenulate, reticulately veined and soft with pubescence,

which is more copious beneath, and there the nerves are pro-

: minent. Scape longer than the leaves, villous with soft patent

| hairs, bearing three or four whorls of moderately-sized deep rose-

coloured flowers. Involucre of two linear or subspathulate leaves.

AUGUST lst, 1854,

Pedicels three to five in a whorl, longer than the mvolucres.

Calye \ong in proportion to the corolla, lax ; the tube turbinate,

tapering at the base, deep red, villous: teeth five, acute, patent,

green. Corolla with the tube somewhat infundibuliform, longer

than the calyx, brick-red: Zimb broader than the tube is long,

oblique, of five, spreading, horizontal, downy, deep rose-coloured

lobes, bifid at the apex; round the mouth is a deep, blood-

coloured spot, which sends out rays corresponding to each seg-

ment: at the mouth are five, erect, emarginate scales. Stamens

about one-third of the way within the tube, and where the tube

is a little inflated. Filaments extremely short: anthers oblong-

subsagittate. Ovary subglobose (or having a somewhat rhom-

boidal outline). Sty/e filiform, nearly as long as the tube. Stigma

a flattened disc.

Fig. 1. Corolla laid open. 2. Pistil :—magnified.

“SP ap. 4799.

-PITTOSPORUM riavum.

- Yellow-flowered Pittosporum.

Nat. Ord. Prrrosporr#.—PENTANDRIA MonoGyYnIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx quinquefidus vel quinquepartitus. Corolle petala 5, hypo-

gyna, calycis foliolis alterna, unguibus erectis, in tubum conniventibus v. cohe-

rentibus, apice patentia vel reflexa. Stamina 5, hypogyna, petalis alterna, in-

clusa ; filamenta subulata, stricta; anthere introrse, biloculares, subsagittate,

erectee, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovarium sessile, incomplete bi-tri-quinque-

loculare. Ovula plurima, semiseptorum marginibus utrinque inserta, anatropa.

Stylus filiformis, brevis ; stigma subcapitatum, obsolete emarginato-bi-tri-quinque-

lobum. Capsula subglobosa, ovata, ovato-conica v. obovata, angulata vy. com-

pressiuscula, incomplete bi-quinquelocularis, bi-quinquevalvis, valvis coriaceis,

crassis, medio semiseptum margine seminiferum gerentibus. Semina plurima,

resinoso-viscida, valvis apertis, seepe in globum compacta, subglobosa, angulata

vel plus minus complanata. Zmébryo in basi albuminis duri, prope umbilicum

minimus, orthotropus.—Arbuscule v. frutices, in insulis Canariis, Capite Bone

Spei, in insulis Borbonicis, Japonia et Archipelago Sandwicensi rare, in India con-

tinente paullo frequentiores, copiosissime in Nova Hollandia extratropica et Nova

Zelandia crescentes ; foliis alternis, integerrimis v. interdum paucidentatis ; ‘flori-

bus derminalibus v. axillaribus, solitariis v. corymbose aggregatis, bracteatis. Endl.

Prirrosporum flavum ; foliis late obovato-lanceolatis brevi-acuminatis integerri-

mis coriaceis glabris basi in petiolum breviusculum attenuatis, pedunculo

terminali, corymbis compositis bracteatis pubescentibus, sepalis ovato-lanceo-

latis acutis, petalis (flavis) extus dense sericeis longe unguiculatis, filamentis

pubescentibus, ovario cylindraceo-elongato sericeo, stigmate bilobo.

One of the finest species yet known of the genus. Specimens

were some time ago sent to us as gathered at Port Stephen, East

Australia, by Allan Cunningham. More recently we have re-

ceived specimens from the late Mr. Bidwill, collected in_ the

Wide Bay district, and a drawing from Captain Phillip King,

who considered it would form the type of a new genus: but

we do not see how it differs generically from Prtfosporum. The

seeds, however, which we have not seen, are said to be winged :

and the name proposed for it was “ Hymenosporum. Our plants,

introduced by Mr. Bidwill, flowered in February, 1854.

AUGUST Ist, 1854,

Dzscr. Our plant forms a moderate-sized shrub, a good

deal branched. Leaves usually alternate, but sometimes oppo-

site and even subverticillate, the largest of any species known

to me, sometimes almost a span long, broadly obovato-lanceo-

late, shortly acuminated, tapering into a short petiole, the tex-

ture is coriaceous, the margin entire; veins pinnated; colour

paler beneath. Corymdé of yellow, large flowers, compound, on a

terminal peduncle. Pedice/s downy. Bracteas \inear-subulate,

lower ones subinvolucrate. Calyx ot five, erect, concave, pointed,

silky sepals. Corolla: petals with the damina obovate or wedge-

shaped, streaked with orange at the base; the claws very long,

straight, and approximated into a tube, silky on the outside.

Stamens five, longer than the claws. ///aments subulate, downy :

anthers oblong-sagittate. Ovary much elongated, cylindrical,

very silky, as long as the claws of the petals : style short :

stigma two-lobed.

Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Petal. 3. Pistil :—magnified.

a coomaareeee SINS SO Si re ec

i wpe 4

Tas. 4800.

DRIMYS WinrTer1.

Winter's Bark.

Nat. Ord. MaGNnoLtaceE#.—PoLyYaNDRIA MoNoGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Flores hermaphroditi. Calyx estivatione clausus, valvatim de-

) cil Rs coneavis, persistentibus. Corolle petala 6-24,

fia, decidua. Stamina plurima, hypogyna, juxta

nem inserta, pluriseriata; filamenta late linearia,

biloculares, loculis subrotundis, extrorsum adnatis,

longitudinaliter dehiscentib ‘Ovaria 2-8, in summo toro verticillatim sessilia,

dorso gibba libera, unilocularia. Ovula juxta suturam ventralem 6-9, biseriatim

pendula, anatropa. Stigmata in ovariis subterminalia, sessilia, mammilleeformia.

Bacce obovato-gibbe, sessiles. Semina abortu pauca, inversa, obovata ; testa

crustacea. Embryo in basi albuminis carnosi, minutissimus, orthotropus ; radi-

cula supera.—Arbores vel frutices in America a Mexico ad fretum Magellan,

necnon in Nova Zelandia crescentes, cortice aromatico, foliis sparsis petiolatis esti-

pulatis integerrimis subtus incanis vel glaucis, calycibusque et petalis plus minus

pellucido-punctatis, floribus axillaribus, solitariis vel in apice ramulorum approzi-

matis aut congestis, nunc umbellatis, bracteis involucrantibus caducissimis, squa-

mulis gemmarum terminalium convolutis, acuminatis, caducis. Endl.

Drimys Winteri; foliis ellipticis lanceolatisve subtus glaucis, floribus umbel

latis 3-plurifloris, calyce diphyllo, petalis lanceolatis numerosis, ovartis —

subdecem. cent

Drimys Winteri. Forst. Gen. p. 84. ¢. 42. De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p 718.

Hook. fil. Bot. of Ant. Voy. v. 2. p. 229. Git

WINTERANA aromatica. ‘Sol. Med. Obs. v. 5. p. 46. ¢. 1.”

. WINTERA aromatica. Murray, Syst. p. 507. Smith in Rees’ Oycl.

Drimys Granatensis. Linn. fil. Suppl. p. 269. De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p. 78.

Vintera Granadensis. Hum. et Bonpl. Pl. Aiquin. v. 1. p. 205. t. 58.

Drrmys Chilensis. De Cand. Syst. Veg.v. 1. p. 444. Prodr.v. 1. p. 78. De

Lessert, Ic. v. 1. t. 85. Hook. et Arn. in Bot. Mise. v. 3. p. 134.

Drimys Mexicana. De Cand. Syst. v. 1. p. 444. Prodr. v. 1. p. 78.

We are glad to be able to figure, from a living plant, a

flowering specimen of a tree which once possessed some cele-

brity under the name of Winter's Bark, the use of it having

been brought into notice by Captain Winter, who accompanied

Sir Francis Drake, in the year 1578, to the Straits of Magellan,

where it was first discovered. It afterwards became confounded

AUGUST IsT, 1854.

with the Canella alba of Jamaica, which has superseded it as

a medicinal plant. Living plants have been several times im-

ported, and in the south of England the species may possibly

prove hardy. It has a most extensive range in its native coun-

try, South America ; for, as we ventured to suggest, in the ‘ Bo-

tanical Miscellany,’ that Drimys Chilensis must merge into D.

Winteri, so Dr. Hooker has come to the conclusion that the D.

Granatensis and D. Mexicana (and our own examination of speci-

mens confirms this view) are also specifically identical, and that

there is only one species in all South America. Thus this plant

extends from Tierra del Fuego and Hermite Island, in the ex-

treme south (there even ascending to 1000 feet of elevation),

all along the west or Pacific side of the vast continent of South

America, to New Granada, and even Mexico. Of course, as

may be expected, there are many trifling variations throughout

such a vast extent of territory, but no more than may be looked

for under such circumstances. A distinct species of Drimys is

found in New Zealand (D. azillaris, Forst.), and another has

been recently found on the mountains of Borneo (D. piperata,

Hook. fil.). All are pungent, aromatic, astringent, and anti-

scorbutic. Our plant flowers in June, and is treated as a hardy

greenhouse plant.

Descr. In its native forests this ¢ree attains a height of forty

or fifty feet. The dranches are clothed with reddish bark, and

bear copious, handsome, evergreen foliage, everywhere quite

glabrous eaves three to five inches long, alternate, coriace-

ous, elliptical or lanceolate, more or less acuminated, penni-

nerved, the base obtuse or attenuated into the short petiole,

bright full green above, pale and glaucous beneath; very aro-

matic. From above the axils of many of the upper leaves the

peduncles have their origin, bearing from three to nine elongated

pedicels in one umbel. Peduncles and pedicels generally brac-

teated. These umbels are often nearly as long as the leaves.

Flowers moderately large. Calyx of two, ovate, very concave,

almost boat-shaped sepals. Petals pale cream-yellow, eight to

twelve, lanceolate, more or less acuminated, spreading. Stamens

several, shorter than the calyx, and much shorter than the co-

roll or even pistils. Filaments broad, almost lanceolate. 4n-

thers two-celled, ovate ; cells slightly apart. Ovaries about ten,

club-shaped, erecto-patent. Stigma large, lateral, sessile.

Fig. 1. Flower from which the petals are removed. 2. Stamen. 3. Pistil:

—magnified.

Ce a oe ee

W. Fitch del et lith

rocks tmp.

Vincent

Tas. 4801.

ACROCLINIUM Rrosevum.

The Rose-coloured Acroclinium.

Nat. Ord. Composit#.—SYNGENESIA AQUALIS.

Gen. Char. Capitulum multiflorum, floribus omnibus tubulosis hermaphroditis

v. exterioribus imperfectis. Znvolucrum late campanulatum, pluriseriale, squa-

mis exterioribus scariosis interioribus seriatim longioribus radiantibus petaloideis.

Receptaculum planiusculum y. conicum, ambitu subalveolatum. Corolle tubu-

loso-infundibuliformes, 5-dentatee. Anthere basi breviter 2-sete. Styli rami

truncati, brevissime penicillati. Achenia turbinata, pilis niveis sericeo-villosa,

interiora glabrata, callo basi obliquo. Pappus persistens, uniserialis, e paleis

rigidis 10-20 basi subconcretis ; fl. fertil. dense plumosis ; i. s¢eril. tenuioribus

seepe paucioribus (6-12) minus plumosis apice nudis v. penicillatis.—Herbe

haud lanate ; caules e radice annua plurimi simpliciusculi ascendentes, foliosi,

apice 1-cephali; folia alterna v. inferiora opposita linearia ; capitula majuscula.

Asa Gray, in Hook. Journ. Bot, 1852. v. 4. p. 271.

ACROCLINIUM roseum; glaberrimum, caulibus sulcatis, foliis linearibus acumi-

natis, involucri squamis exterioribus subappresse patentibus, receptaculo

planiusculo pilosiusculo. :

A native of the interior of South-west Australia, between the

Moore and Murchison rivers, from whence the seeds were sent

in 1853 by Mr. James Drummond, together with dried speci-

mens (No. 157 of his Herbarium). It flowered freely in the

Royal Gardens at Kew during the present summer, and forms

a graceful greenhouse annual, conspicuous for its bright rose-

coloured heads and pale stems and leaves. Our garden speci-

mens are considerably larger than the wild ones, both in stature

and the size of the flowers. Though differing from the previ-

ously-described species of Acroclinium in the flat receptacle, we

have no hesitation in referring it to that genus, and have modi-

fied Professor A. Gray’s generic character in consequence. ‘The

other species, of which three are enumerated in“the ‘ London

Journal of Botany,’ are all natives of South-west Australia, as

is a fifth and new one, sent to us from the same country by our

intelligent correspondent Mr. Roe, the Colonial Surveyor.

AUGUST Ist, 1854.

Duscr. Stems numerous, from a small, annual roof, almost

erect from the base, slender, one to two feet high, cylindrical,

grooved, pale green. eaves linear, sessile, acuminate, almost

decurrent, quite glabrous, pale green, paler beneath, one to one

and a half inch long. Capztula very variable in size, half an inch

to two inches broad, rose-coloured, with a bright yellow eye, the

colour of which is due to the yellow tips of the pappus. Znvo-

lucre broadly hemispherical, of very many scales: the outer small

and short, scarious, pale olive-green or brownish, closely imbri-

cated and spreading, broadly ovate, blunt: the inner gradually

longer, sharper, and gradually becoming red at the somewhat

rigid tips ; the three or four inner series are longest, linear-oblong,

bright pink, radiating, but incurved, each sharp or obliquely

truncated or notched at the point, and furnished with a broad

concave claw. Receptacle quite flat, pitted towards the margin,

papillose in the centre, covered loosely with short weak hairs.

Flowers all tubular and hermaphrodite : the outer with large vil-

lous achenia and exserted linear branches to the style: the inner

with smoother abortive achenia and short blunt branches to the

style. Pappus of about fifteen to twenty pales, flattened and

connected at the base, gradually thickened upwards, owing to the

longer and more densely placed hairs on their margins and sur-

face, terminating in a yellow club-shaped brush.

Fig. 1. Inner scale of the involucre. 2. Outer floret :—magnified.

Tas. 4802.

RHODODENDRON teprporum;

var. CHLORANTHUM.

Scaly Rhododendron ; yellow-green-fowered var.

Nat. Ord. Erice2.—Drcanpria Monoeynia.

Gen. Ohar. (Vide supra, TaB. 4336.)

RHODODENDRON Jepidotum; fruticulus ramosus, totus lepidotus, squamulis al-

bidis ferrugineisve, foliis obovatis lanceolatis oblongisve apiculatis breve

petiolatis pallide viridibus, pedunculis terminalibus solitariis 2-3-misve erec-

tis, sepalis 5 foliaceis obtusis, corolle flavidee v. purpurea tubo brevi in-

flato, lobis patentibus late ovatis, staminibus 8 filamentis ciliatis, ovario 5-

loculari, stigmate brevi decurvo. Hook. fil. in Journ. Hort. Soc. Lond. v. 7.

pp. 80, 104.

RHODODENDRON lepidotum. Wall. Cat. n. 758. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4657.

Var. chloranthum ; floribus flavo-viridibus viridi-maculatis.

RHODODENDRON salignum. Hook. fil. Sikkim Rhod. t. 23, left-hand figure.

This variety of R. lepidotum was detected by Dr. Hooker in

Sikkim Himalaya, and at first considered a new species, to which

he gave the name of salignum. Afterwards he saw the propriety

of uniting it with the 2. eleagnoides, and that again with Z.

lepidotum, of which it is assuredly a variety. The species has

been already fully described at our Tab. 4657. Our var. chloran-

thum flowered with us this year readily in May in a cool frame.

Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Calyx and pistil. 3. Transverse section of ovary :—

magnified,

AuGuUST Ist, 1854.

Tas. 4803.

3 SENECIO pracox.

Karly-flowering Tree Groundsel.

Nat. Ord. Composit SENECIONIDE®.—SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA.

Gen. Char. Capitulum homogamum, discoideum, aut heterogamum, fl. radii

ligulatis foemineis. Jnvolucri uniserialis nunc nudi nunc squamellis accessoriis

calyculati:sguame seepius apice sphacelate, margine subscariose, dorso frequenter

binervate. Receptaculum epaleaceum nudum alveolatumve. Styli fl. herm. trun-

cati, apiceque solo penicillati! Achenium erostre, exalatum, teretiusculum aut sul 3

cato-angulatum. Pappus pilosus, pluriserialis, caducus, setis rectis subzequalibus

tenuissimis vix scabris.—Herbe aut frutices innumeri polymorphi. Species per

totum orbem terrarum divulgate, sed eedem in pluribus regionibus vir occurrentes.

Folia alterna, in 2 tantum (dubiis) opposita. Capitula solitaria, corymbosa aut

- paniculata. Cor. disci fere semper lutea, rarissime purpurea, nunquam nisi culte

albe ! . Ligule etiam flava, rarius purpurascentes aut albi. De Cand. —

SENECIO precoa ; glaber, caule fruticoso carnoso ramoso tereti, foliis p

post anthesin plerisque nascentibus cordato-acuminatis subhastatis

batis carnoso-membranaceis lobis acutissimis, corymbis ramosis, pec

elongatis parce bracteolatis, involucro cylindraceo 8-10-phyllo

teato, ligulis 5-6 patulis, disci circiter 15, achenio glabro.

Senectro precox. De Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p. 431. ,

Crnerarta precox. Cav. Ic. v. 3. p. 23. t. 244. Willd. Sp. Pi. v. 3. p.

Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 546. De Cand. Hort. Genev.t.7.

Nearly 600 species of Senecio were described by De Can 0

in the volume of his ‘Prodromus’ published in 1837. ee

have been discovered since, and, if all were as well marked as

the species now before us, the study of them would not be at-

tended with the difficulty which is known to be the case. Nor.

is this devoid of beauty. It constitutes a large shrub, with thick,

succulent, woody stem, and terete branches, and attains a height

of five or six fect even in our greenhouses ; more, probably, in its

native country. The large corymbs of flowers are produced in

the early spring at the apices of the branches, and while the fo-

liage is young ; thence the specific name of precow. o

Derscr. Shrub with straggling terete branches, about as thi

| SEPTEMBER Ist, 1854.

as one’s finger, between fleshy and woody, much scarred from

the fallen leaves. eaves from the apices of the branches only,

deciduous, on long terete petioles, cordate, much acuminate,

subhastate, five- to seven-lobed ; /obes very acuminate, spread-

ing, the lower ones deflexed: the texture is between membrana-

ceous and fleshy. Before the appearance of the leaves, or while

they are only partially developed, the corymds of flowers occupy

the apex of the branch, and bear several elongated, partially

bracteolated, yellow branches, thickened below the capitulum.

Flowers numerous, large. Involucre cylindrical, of eight to ten,

erect, nearly equal, linear-oblong, obtuse, glabrous scales, ebrac-

teolate, or nearly so. orets of the ray five or six, rarely more,

distant, female: ovary oblong, crowned with the hairy pappus.

Lagule oblong, yellow, three-toothed at the apex. Style with

two recurved stigmas. Tubular florets about fifteen. Ovary and

pappus as in the ligulate florets. Corol/a tubular, the limd of

five recurved linear segments. Receptacle pitted.

Fig. 1. Involucre laid open. 2. Floret of the ray. 3. Floret of the disc:

—magnified.

Tas. 4804.

HEDERA GLOMERULATA.

Glomerulated Ivy.

Nat. Ord. ARALIACEH.—PENTANDRIA MoONOGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx tubo cum ovario connato, limbo supero, brevissimo, integro

vel 5-dentato. Corolle petala 5-10, disci epigyni margini inserta, libera, ex- =.

pansa. Stamina 5-10, cum petalis inserta, iisdem alterna v. opposita ; jilamenta

brevia; anthere incumbentes, biloculares. Ovarium inferum, 5-10-loculare.

Ovula in loculis solitaria, pendula. Séyli 5-10, erecti v. conniventes, aut in

unicum coheerentes ; stigmata simplicia. Bacca calycis limbo stylisque coronata,

quinque-decemlocularis, loculis membranaceis monospermis. Semina inversa.

Embryo in apice albuminis carnosi, endopleure processubus rugosi brevis, ortho- i

tropus, radicula supera.—Frutices scandentes vel erectt, interdum arborescentes,

inter tropicos totius orbis magno numero, parce in hemisphere borealis temperatis

crescentes, foliis alternis, nunc simplicibus, integris v. lobatis, nunc compositis,

digitatis vel rarissime pinnatis, petiolis basi vaginantibus, floribus capitatis, capi-

tulis racemoso-paniculatis. .

HEDERA glomerulata ; caule arboreo aculeato, foliis digitatis, foliolis subseptenis

petiolulatis oblongis acuminatis serratis glabriusculis, panicula terminali

longissima pendula, rachibus aculeatis, floribus (polygamis?) in capitula

glomeratis. pone

Hepera glomerulata. De Cand. Prodr. v. 4. p. 265.

ARaia (Gynapteina) glomerulata. Blume, Bijdr. p. 871.

The limits of the genera Hedera, Arala, Panaz, Sciodaphyl-

lum, and other genera of Araliacee, are very ill-defined, and

differently understood by different botanists. That of Hedera,

as above given from Endlicher, is intended to include several

Aralie of Linnzeus and other authors, especially the section

“ Gynapteina of Blume,” distinguished by having the styles

united into one. Divided as botanists may be on the subject

of the genus of the present plant, the species is a very remark-

able one, and has attracted much attention in the stoves of the

Royal Garden of Kew, where its singularly long pendent racemes

(four to five feet long) are annually produced in April and May.

SEPTEMBER lst, 1854,

It is a native of Gede Mountain, Java, where it is known by the

name of “ Pangang,” according to Blume. We received our

_ plant from Mr. Makoy, of Liége, in 1847.

_ Descr. Our plant, with its ample foliage, has attained a

height of seven feet, and is remarkable for its tree- or almost

Palm-like character, erect, flexuose, scarcely branched, in the

present instance only once forked, and leafy only at the extre-

tity of these two branches, prickly on the branches and a little

way down the stem; prickles subulate, slightly curved, spread-

ing horizontally. Leaves large, on ‘long petioles, swollen at the

base, digitate, of about seven large leaflets, which are oblong-

lanceolate, acuminated, serrated in their upper half, penninerved,

glabrous. Raceme four to five feet long, pendent from the apex

of the stem, and bearing at the end of the branches (which are

sometimes again divided) large, capitate, quite globose, densely

flowered wméels of a brownish or yellowish green colour. Main

rachis and peduncles prickly. Pedicels downy. Maun flowers

(which only have appeared in our plant) :—Ca/y« obscurely five-

toothed. Petals five, spreading, ovate, thick and leathery, the

apices inflexed and ragged. Ovary imperfect, imbedded in a

ares, fleshy, slightly lobed, yellowish disc. Style short, conical,

a al

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. The same more expanded :—magnified.

DOD p NDRON Mappeni.

Major Mailiden’s Rhododendron.

7 ee

Nat, Ord. Ertcacrm@.—DeEcanpria Monoeynia. —

“ere

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TAs, 4836.)

RnopopEnDRoN Maddeni; fratex erectus virgatns, ramulis pedunculis petiolis

foliisque subtus ferrugineo-lepidotis, foliis petiolatis elliptico-lanceolatis

utrinque acutis acuminatisve marginibus planis superne nitidis viridibus,

pedunculis 3 terminalibus brevibus crassis, calycis brevis 5-fidi lobis in-

eequalibus (supremo nunc elongato), corolla extus lepidota ampla, tubo elon-

gato infundibuliformi, limbi patentissimi lobis maximis rotundatis integris, :

staminibus 18-20, filamentis glabris, stylo longissimo ovarioque lepidotis,

capsula 10-loculari lignosa.

RHODODENDRON Maddeni. Hook. fil. Rhod. Sik. Himal. p.19.t.18. Journ.

of Hort. Soc. Lond. v. 7. p. 19 et 95. eet

Ge terhaps the noblest of the

ich rewarded Dr. Hooker’s researches

in Northern India. Its flowers are nearly as large as in that

species, fragrant, very much in general form and size resembling

the white Day Lily (Zilivm candidum), but the corolla is deli-

cately tinged with rose. Fine as is the original figure of the

author above quoted, it is quite equalled by our flowering spe-

cimens at Kew, which were in perfection in May and June of

1854, in a cool and shaded greenhouse. The large delicate

flowers contrast well with the ample dark-green foliage, which is

rusty beneath, and has deep red petioles. It is a rare species

in its native mountains, only found in the inner ranges of Sik-

kim-Himalaya, in thickets by the Lachen and Lachoong rivers,

at Choongtam, at an elevation of 6000 feet above the level of

the sea. We cannot venture to consider it a hardy plant. The

species, Dr. Hooker says, “is named in compliment to Major

Madden, of the Bengal Civil Service,—a good and accomplished

botanist, to whose learned memoirs on the plants of the tem-

perate and tropical zones of North-west Himalaya the reader

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1854. :

may be referred for an excellent account of the vegetation of

those regions. The same gentleman’s paper on the Conifere

of the north of India may be quoted as a model of its kind.”

Duscr. A shrub six to eight feet high, branching from the

base. Branches erect, supple, covered with pale papery bark.

Leaves abundant, very bright green, coriaceous but flaccid, ellip-

tical-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, more or less tapering into

the thick, short, red footstalk, four to seven inches long: the

young ones entirely, the older ones beneath only, clothed with

dense, minute scales, which become ferruginous in age; the

costa very prominent beneath, and deep red near the footstalk.

Flowers invariably three at the extremity of the branches,

spreading nearly horizontally in three directions, large, hand-

some, fragrant, white, tinged with blush. Each short peduncle

subtended by one or more large, loose, membranaceous dracteas.

Calyz of five, short, unequal, rounded, erect Jodes, very squamu-

lose. Corolla with the tube elongated, funnel-shaped ; the /iméd

of five, large, rounded, scarcely acute, spreading lobes. Stamens

eighteen to twenty, shorter than the corolla. Ovary oval, squa-

mulose, ten-celled. Style longer than the stamens. Stigma

very large, rayed. |

Fig. 1. Stamina. 2. Calyx and pistil. 3. Section of ovary :—magnified.

Tas. 4806. -

CEANOTHUS FrtiorisBunpDUvs.

Copious-flowering Ceanothus.

Nat. Ord. RHAMNEZ.—PENTANDRIA TRIGYNIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4660.)

Cranornus floribundus ; piloso-scabridus, foliis breve petiolatis oblongis coriaceis

undulatis acutis margine (et paulo intra marginem) dentato-glandulosis

dpiceque acutiusculo reflexis subtus venosis pubescenti-tomentosis, corymbis

densifloris globosis aggregatis sessilibus.

Among other interesting species of Ceanothus of California,

the present was raised, from seeds sent by Mr. William Lobb,

by Messrs. Veitch, of the Exeter Nursery, and of King’s-road,

Chelsea, and it is certainly the most beautiful of the several —

blue-flowered kinds yet known tous. The leaves are copious,

compact, and glossy, and the flowers, though really growing In

corymbs, are so dense as to be perfectly globose, capitate, sessile

(in which respect it differs remarkably from C. dentatus, Torr. et

Gr.), and these heads crowded ‘at the extremity of numerous

short branches and of the richest mazarine blue that can be

looked upon. To add to its charms, Messrs. Veitch have found

it to be quite hardy in this climate. It flowers in June.

Dzsor. Apparently a moderately-sized shrub; the branches

clothed with brown dark, and slightly hairy; the ultimate or

lateral branches short, redder and more hairy. Leaves crowded,

small, patent or reflexed, deep green, glossy, hairy above, ob-

long, coriaceous, waved, the margin and moderately acute apex

reflexed (giving a retuse appearance to the apex), the former at

the very edge, and within the edge on the upper side, studded

with tooth-like glands ; the under side is pale, prominently veined

and reticulated, downy. Petioles short, thick, hairy, with a pair

of ovate tapering s¢ipules at the base, more than half their length.

Flowers of the richest mazarine blue, arranged indeed in corymbs,

but so crowded and so spreading as to form dense balls, or capt-

SEPTEMBER lst, 1854.

tula, sessile, and these crowded about the extremities of the short

branches, so copious as to conceal a great part of the foliage.

Pedicels reddish, hairy, and having small, scale-like, reddish,

deciduous éracts at the base. Calyx deeply cut into five, ovate,

acute, inflexed segments, which meet at the style with their points

and conceal the ovary. Petals brilliant blue, on long filiform

claws, spreading, the /amina cucullate ; all standing out from the

clefts between the closed calycine segments. Stamens opposite

the petals, inserted at their base, as long as the petals, erect,

patent. Filaments blue ; anthers oval, blue, pollen yellow. Ovary

trigonous, sunk in a fleshy broad ring or disc. Style columnar,

much shorter than the stamens and pistils. Stigmas three, mode-

rately spreading.

Fig. 1. Leaf and stipules, upper side. 2. The same, under side. 3. Flower.

4. Pistil and annular disc :—magnified, %

Tas. 4807.

ANGULOA ountrtLora.

One-flowered Anguloa.

Nat. Ord. Oncu1ppa#,—GyNanpRIA MoNANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Fores subglobosi, nunquam patentes. Sépaia lateralia, invicem

imbricantia, basi valde convexa, nec in cornu producta; alterum, nunc anticum,

nune posticum, conforme, basi planum. Peta/a sepalo dorsali «qualia et similia.

Labellum coriaceum, unguiculatum, subconvolutum, trilobum, lamina carnosa

lata plana supra medium auctum, hine quasi bilabiatum. Columna teres, clavata,

libera; clinandrio nunc mutico, nune lacinia acuta porrecta utrinque aucto.

Anthera galeata, valvis membranaceis nunc in lacinulas acutas producta. Pol-

linia 4, plana, inzequalia, caudicula longa lineari, et glandula acuta.—Herbe

epiphyte Granatenses et Peruviane, Lycastis facie —Lindl.

_ AnGULOA uniflora; pedunculo bi-(pluri-)floro radicali squamis base imbrica-

tis inflato-tubulosis vaginato, sepalis ovatis acuminatis cucullato-concavis

sepalis subconformibus minoribus modice concavis, labelli trilobi lobis

lateralibus rotundatis obtusissimis intermedio lineari-angusto reflexo-revo-

luto, columna apice laciniis duabus subulatis aucto.

ANGULOA uniflora, Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Peruv. Syst. p. 228. Fl. Peruv. Prodr. p.

118. 4.26. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 160. Bot. Reg. 1844, t. 60.

Three species of this remarkable genus are figured by Dr.

Lindley, 4. Clowesii, Bot. Reg. 1844, t. 63. (Tab. Nostr. 4313),

A. Ruckeri, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1846, t. 41, and A. uniflora, Ruiz

et Pav., Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1844, t. 60; to the latter our species

must be referred, differing only in the colour of the flower, here

tinged with blush, and spotted with the same tint. There is

further an Anguloa squalida, Popp. Nov. Gen. et Sp. pl. 1. p. 43,

p. 74, described as having the flowers of “a dirty flesh-colour ;

but the figure is totally at variance with our plant, as it is with

any other known Anguloa, and more like some Catasetum. Our

plant is of a lot purchased at a sale of Mr. Warcewitz’s last

Columbian (Quindios) collections, 1852, in London, by Messrs.

Jackson, of the Kingston Nursery, in whose orchideous stove it

flowered in June, 1854.

Drscr. Pseudo-bulbs oblong, attenuated, furrowed, clustered ;

younger ones sheathed, with large green membranaceous scales,

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1854,

which gradually pass into true Jeaves, of which there are three

or four, broad, elliptical-lanceolate, acute, membranaceous, stri-

ated. Peduncle, or scape, from the base of the pseudo-bulbs,

nearly as long as the leaves, sheathed with membranous green

bracteas, and bearing one large flower from the uppermost

sheaths. Sepals ovate, acuminate, concave, the two lower or

lateral ones almost cucullate at the lower base ; all fleshy, as are

the petals, which are similar in shape to the sepals, but narrower

and smaller. The flower is a dirty cream-colour, tinged and

spotted, chiefly within, with pink. zp as long as the column,

to which it is applied, subsemicylindrical ; that is, the sides are

involute ; three-lobed, yellowish, spotted with pink ; /ateral lobes

subrotund, very obtuse ; iztermediate one in a deep sinus of the

lateral lobes, linear, narrow, revolute ; the /amina occupying the

disc is bifid at the apex, and projects a little beyond the sinus

of the two lobes. Column terete, clavate, the apex or clinan-

drium with two, projecting, large, subulate lacinie. Anther-case

hemispherical.

Fig. 1. Column and lip. 2. Front view of lip. 8. Pollen-masses :—magnified.

Tas. 4808.

CALYCANTHUS OCCIDENTALIS.

Western Calycanthus.

Nat. Ord. CatycaNTHEx.—ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx tubo brevi urceolato, limbi lobis multiserialibus, imbricatis,

_ (sepe) coloratis, carnoso-subcoriaceis, lanceolatis, intimis minoribus. Corolla

nulla. Stamina plurima, annulo carnoso calycis faucem claudenti inserta, inclusa,

pluriseriata, ineequalia, decidua, exteriora duodecim fertilia ; filamentis brevissi-

mis ; antheris oblongis, extrorsis, bilocularibus, adnatis, longitudinaliter dehis-

centibus. Ovaria plurima, calycis tubo undique inserta, libera, unilocularia, ovwlo

unico, adscendente, anatropo, rarius geminis, altero ex apice loculi pendulo, mi-

nimo. Styli terminales, compresso-subulati, exserti; stigmata obtusa. dchenia

plurima, calycis tubo carnoso inclusa, subcornea, monosperma. Semen adscen-

dens. Hmbryonis exalbuminosi recti cotyledones foliacex, spiraliter convolute,

radicula infera.—Frutices Boreali-Americani, aromatici, brachiato-ramosi ; foliis

oppositis, petiolatis, integerrimis, eastipulatis ; floribus coetaneis, ramulos terminan-

tibus, atro-rubentibus. Endl.

CaLycanTHus occidentalis ; foliis cordato-ovatis brevi-acuminatis glabris nitidis

supra scabriusculis subtus concoloribus, pedunculis elongatis terminalibus

solitariis v. ternis rarius lateralibus infra florem bracteatis, sepalis lineari-

spathulatis obtusis.

Caycantuus occidentalis. Hook. et Arn. Bot. of Beech. Voy. p. 340. t. 84.

Torrey et Gray, N. Am. Fl. v. 1. p. 476. Walp. Repert. Bot. v. 2. p. 60.

This fine Calycanthus is handsome in its growth and foliage,

and especially in the size and colour of the flowers, and has not yet

had the justice done to it in the gardens of this country which

it deserves, seeing it was one of Mr. David Douglas's introduction

to the Horticultural Society’s Garden, from California, m 1831.

It is perfectly hardy, but a wall singularly favours the ripen-

ing of the wood and the production of the flowers. Our plant,

with an eastern aspect, is seven or eight feet high, and bears its

large singularly-coloured flowers at this time (September) in

great perfection. The wood is equally fragrant with that of the

common Carolina Allspice (C. floridus); but the whole habit of

the shrub is very different. ;

Descr. Glabrous in every part. Branches erect, strict, stout,

OCTOBER Ist, 1854, :

rounded, greenish-brown. Leaves opposite, petiolate, large, five

to six inches long, cordato-ovate, moderately acuminate, firm in

texture, bright full shining green .on both sides, but rather paler

beneath, slightly rough on the upper surface to the touch, scarcely

so to the naked eye, fragrant when bruised, as are the branches

afid every part of the wood. Peduncles elongated, thickened up-

wards and there bracteated, with subulate dracteoles, terminal,

and there often ternate, or in the forking of a branch; or rarely

lateral, from the upper leaves. owers scentless, large, more

than three inches across: sepals, which may be considered. to

pass gradually into petals, all of the same uniform purplish but

rather bright brick-colour, leathery, subspathulate, outer ones

much reflected: the tips of all become tawny in age. Stamens

densely crowded around the mouth of the calyx-tube. Filaments

_ very short, dilated at the base. Anthers oblong, yellow, apiculate, »

slightly villous, opening outwardly. Ovaries sunk into the bottom

of the thick fleshy calyx-tube, as in Rosa. Pistil hairy: style

filiform, glabrous.

Fig. 1. Calyx-tube, from which the sepals and petals are removed, showing

the stamens and tips of the styles. 2. The same cut open. 3. Stamen. 4.

Pistil :—magnified.

4809

wi,

Rall

Tas. 4809.

MYRTUS BULLATA.

blistered-leaved Myrtle.

Nat. Ord. Myrtacea.—IcosanpRIA MonoGynia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4558.)

Myrtvs éullata ; arbuscula, ramulis pedunculis petiolis costaque folii pubescen-

tibus, foliis brevi-petiolatis late elliptico- v. orbiculari-ovatis bullatis subtus

discoloribus, pedunculis folio brevioribus, v. equilongis uni-bi-floris, floribus

tetrameris, bacca (matura) verrucosa 2-loculari oligosperma.

Myrvrvs bullata. Banks et Sol. Ic. et MS. All. Cunn. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Zel. in

Ann. of Nat. Hist. v. 3. p.115. Hook. Ic. Plant. p. 557. Hook. fil. Bot.

of Antarct. Voy. Pars I, Fl. Nov. Zel. p. 10. Gray, Bot. U. 8. Expl.

Exped. v. 1. p. 543.

Like most other New Zealand persistent-leaved trees and

shrubs, the present has a singularly dingy-brown colour in the

foliage ; and it has a further peculiarity in the very blistered cha-

racter of all the leaves (whence the specific name), giving them

an appearance as if they have been scorched by fire. ‘The flowers

are tolerably numerous, larger than those of our common myrtle ;

in other respects very similar; the petals are delicately tipped —

with rose-colour. In our climate we find it necessary to winter

it in the greenhouse ; but in the extreme south-west of England, —

and in the Channel Islands, it would probably bear the open

air throughout the year. Its foliage, when bruised, is very fra-

grant and aromatic. Flowers at Kew in June and July. It is

frequent in the Northern Island of New Zealand, where its na-

tive name is Rama-Rama, according to Mr. Allan Cunningham.

Descr. An erect shrub, with a somewhat arboreous sfem, at-

taining a height of from fifteen to twenty feet. Branches terete,

slightly pubescent, very leafy. Leaves on short downy petioles,

subrotund, or approaching to ovate or elliptical, firm, between

coriaceous and membranaceous, more inclining to the latter,

convex above and singularly bullate, the lateral veins being much

sunk, and the areoles between them swollen, glabrous; the colour

OCTOBER Ist, 1854,

is pecularly lurid and purplish, beneath, and the young leaves

entirely, more purple. Peduncles axillary or terminal, solitary,

generally shorter than the leaf, one- or two-flowered, bearing at

the extremity, immediately at the base of the ovary, a pair of

opposite, subulate dracteoles. Flowers moderately large. Calyx

purple, very downy. Zwse obconical, purple; “mé of four,

spreading, broad, ciliated, dotted, concave segments. Petals

four, nearly orbicular, concave, ciliated, white, externally deeply

tinged with rose-red; they are faintly striated and strongly dot-

ted. Stamens numerous, arising from a pulvinate ring at the

mouth of the calyx-tube. Filaments white: anthers subrotund,

yellow. Ovary inferior, two-celled. Style as long as the stamens,

subulate.

Fig. 1. Petal. 2. Flower from which the petals and stamens are removed.

3. Transverse section of the ovary :—magnified. ,

: Tn our May Number, Tab. 4781, we have spoken of Desfontainia spinosa as

introduced by the Messrs. Veitch “to our greenhouses ;” we should have said,

“ to our gardens and shrubberies,” for it has proved perfectly hardy in the Exeter

Nursery during four winters.

Tas. 4810.

CEANOTHUS Lossianvs. fest )

Mr. Lobb’s Ceanothus.

Nat. Ord. RHAMNE#.—PENTANDRIA TRIGYNIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4660.)

Czanotuvs Lobbianus; ramis patentibus teretibus, foliis elliptico-oblongis tri-

costatis rigidis hirsutulis marginibus recurvis grosse glanduloso-dentatis,

stipulis lato-subulatis petioli longitudine, pedunculis subterminalibus nudis

vel unifoliatis, racemis capitatis subrotundo-ovatis, floribus densis.

We have here another pretty, hardy, blue-flowered Ceanothus

from California, discovered by Mr. W. Lobb, and communicated

by the Messrs. Veitch, of Exeter and Chelsea Nurseries. It is

one of the group whose leaves have three ribs, and therefore

is far removed from our C. floribundus, Tab. 4806 of our last

number. It has some resemblance to C. thyrsiflorus, Eschs.,

but there the branches are straight, erect, and angular, the leaves

are much larger, and flowers paler-white in our specimens in the

dried state; as it has also to C. divaricatus of Nuttall, from

whom we have an authentic specimen before us, and other spe-

cimens gathered by Jeffray (n. 1201), and by the officers of Fre- _

mont’s Expedition to California (n. 357),,and even from Mr. WwW.

Lobb, all agreeing in having leaves with the margins quite plane

and fringed with very minute glandular teeth : whereas our plant

is remarkable for the reflexed margins (both in the wild and

cultivated state), and the conspicuous glandular teeth. In other

respects, it must be confessed, the two have a great affinity.

The present is every way worthy of cultivation, and is quite gay

with its pedunculated clusters of small but thickly-placed bright

blue flowers, which are produced in June and July. :

Descr. A moderately-sized, erect shrub, with numerous, patent, —

terete, rather twiggy dranches, the young ones green and downy. —

Leaves patent, alternate, rarely exceeding’ an inch in length, —

generally bearing young leaf-shoots in the axils, on short petioles,

elliptical-oblong, obtuse, rigid, subcoriaceous, slightly hairy, three-

OCTOBER lst, 1854.

bbed, dark green above, beneath paler and downy; the margin

always recurved (in cultivated as well as native specimens), and

bearing numerous, conspicuous, spreading teeth, tipped with a

gland: ribs and veins sunk above, prominent beneath. There

are two, broad, subulate, scale-like stipules, one on each side the

base of the petiole, equal in length with it. Peduncles solitary,

rather longer than the leaves, subterminal, situated in the axils

of the upper leaves, terminated by a capitate raceme of dark blue,

compact flowers. Pedicels hairy. Calya, with its five, deep,

ovate segments, incurved over the germen. Petals spreading

horizontally from between the sinuses of the calycine segments,

cucullate, tapering below into a long slender claw. Ovary three-

lobed, sunk in a slightly lobed fleshy aznulus or disc: style

thick, longer than the calyx-segments : stigmas three, moderately

reading. : |

‘Fig. 1. Flower and pedicel. 2. Pistil and fleshy annulus. 3. Leaf and sti-

iles :—magnified. :

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Tas. 4811.

BOUGAINVILLEA specranuas. (46/0)

Showy Bougainvillea.

Nat. Ord. NyctaginE#.—OctTanpria Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. Involucrum aut bractea magna membranacea ad basin cujusque

floris, hine fere ad medium insidentis, pedunculo bracteze adnato. Perigonium

tubulosum, limbo abbreviato. Stamina 7-8, inclusa, sub ovario coadunata. Stylus

lateralis ; stigma incrassatum aut clavatum.—Frutex vel arbuscula sepe scandens

et spinosa, floribus aggregatis et bracteis splendide coloratis spectabilia, foliis al-

ternis : e America meridionali. Chois.

BovGainvitima spectabilis. Willd. Sp. Pl. pl. 2. p. 348. Spreng. Syst. Veget.

v. 2. p. 163. Chois. in De Cand. Prodr. v. 13. part 2. p. 437. Paxton's

Mag. of Bot. v. 12. p. 51 eum Ie. ;

BoUGAINVILLM@a virescens e¢ B. pomacea. Chois. l.c. p. 437 et 438.

BouGainvittm@a Peruviana. Humb. et Bonpl. Pl. Aig. v. 1. p. 173. t. 49?

Chois. in De Cand. Prod. 1. c. p.437? Nees et Mart. Nov. Act, Bonn. v. 11.

p. 39. ;

JosEPHaA angusta. Vell. Fl. Flum. v. 4. t. 16.

Var. glabra.

BoueaIinvitima glabra. Chois. De Cand. Prod. 1. c. p. 437.

Many have heard of the beauty of the inflorescence of this

subscandent, large shrub or tree, but few have been rivileged

to see it. It has been reported (see Paxton, /. c.) to ave flow-

ered for ten years in succession in the border of a stove trained

against a back wall in the Jardin des Plantes at Paris. At length

(for the first time, we believe, in England), in 1844, it flowered

in the large tropical conservatory at Chatsworth. In June of

the present year, Mrs. George Marryat, of Clinton Glen, Christ-

church, Hants, obligingly communicated to us the specimen

here figured, from the vinery of Mrs. West, in that neighbour-

hood, where it blossomed when five years old, “in a vinery

where grapes are ripened without fire, trained in a fan-shaped

manner against the back wall, the roots confined in a compara-

OCTOBER Ist, 1854,

tively small pot.” It will be seen by our figure that the charm

of this plant is not in the flowers themselves, which have no

beauty to recommend them, but in the large bracteas or floral

leaves, which in our living plant are of a full and bright rose-

colour, and, as the branches are literally loaded with them, the

effect must be very striking. In respect of colour however, I

suspect these bracteas are exceedingly variable. In Paxton’s

plant they are deep purple: so green in one variety, that M.

Choisy has constituted of it a species (B. virescens), mainly de-

pending on that circumstance. In some of our specimens they

are brick-red. Mr. Tweedie, in a note accompanying his speci-

mens, says, “the trees seem all on fire with them.” That all

M. Choisy’s zew species are trifling varieties I am satisfied, and

indeed I have authority for them in my own Herbarium. His

B. virescens is merely a variety with greenish bracteas (a pecu-

liarity perhaps due to the plant being much shaded); and in-

deed Martius’ specimen, n. 64 in my Herbarium, quoted by

Choisy under B. spectadilis, is this variety, as well as Mrs.

Graham’s specimen, rightly referred to in my Herbarium as B.

virescens. Mr, Gardener’s n. 5139 (B. glabra, Chois.) is simply

a nearly glabrous state of spectadilis. Blanchet’s n. 2573 (B. po-

macea) is a specimen of spectabilis, with smallish leaves, and

‘flowers and bracteas not quite developed.

_ I feel doubts in regard to Bonpland’s B. Peruviana as a dis-

tinct species. The differences figured and described are but

trifling, and the author conceives them to be of more weight,

“car on connait & peine quelques plantes qui croissent a la fois

au Brésil et au Pérou.” My own specimens from three loca-

lities, on the western side of South America, lead me to the

conclusion that they are specifically identical with the Brazilian

plant ; and I possess specimens from the late Colonel Hall, from

Zarumille, near Quito (I believe), from Dr. Seemann, collected

at Quinos, Peru (n. 940), and from Warszewicz, gathered on the,

Magdalena. The spines in these specimens are straight, or

slightly curved, or absent.

Dzscr. The main trunk is quite arborescent; the branches

numerous, long and subscandent, flexuose, more or less downy

and spiny: spines varying much in size, and in straightness or

curvature. Leaves petiolated, ovate, acuminate, entire, varying

somewhat in shape, more or less acuminated, blunt, or even cor-

date or acute at the base, varying too in pubescence ; sometimes

glabrous. Peduncles axillary from near the apices of the very

numerous branches, shorter or longer than the leaves, solitary,

simple or forked, each branch bearing three large, coloured,

membranaceous, reticulated, cordato-ovate, glabrous or downy

bracteas, costate and veined like the leaves, in our specimen

deep full rose-colour (and these retain their colour perfectly afte

being dried, like what are called everlasting flowers); one, two,

or all three bearing a flower from the costa below the middle.

Perianth one to two inches long on different specimens, yel-

lowish-green, tubular; in our specimen irregularly lobed, and

slightly expanded at the limb, hairy. Stamens eight, unequal in’

height, shorter than the perianth, united below. Azther small,

oval. Ovary oblong-cylindrical, stipitate. Style as long as the

ovary. Stigma linear, lateral. Py

Fig. 1. Perianth, laid open. 2. Pistil and stamen :—magnified.

Tas. 4812.

ESCHSCHOLTZIA tenutro.ta.

Slender-leaved Eschscholtzia. Se

Nat. Ord. PaAPAVERACE®.—POLYANDRIA TETRAGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Receptaculum ampliatum, hypocrateriforme, limbo expanso integro.

Calyx mitreformis, caducus. Corolla tetrapetala, petalis unguibus fauci recep-

taculi insertis, staminiferis. Capsula siliqueeformis, bivalvis: semina marginibus

valvarum affixa. De Cand.

EscuscHourzia tenuifolia ; foliis ceespitosis, segmentis lineari-subulatis, pedun-

-_culis elongatis erectis, toro tubuloso-campanulato limbo nullo, calyce brevi-

et subobtuse mucronato.

Escuscuotrzta tenuifolia. Benth. in Trans. Hort. Soc. 2nd ser. v. 1. p. 408.

Walp. Repert. Bot. v. 1. p. 116.

Curysets tenuifolia. Lindl. MS. Torr. et Gr. N. Am. Fl. v. 1. p. 63.

Botanists have been divided in regard to the propriety or ne-

cessity of changing the name of Mschscholtzia to that of Chryseis. _

Dr. Lindley (Bot. Reg. under Tab. 1948) proposed and adopted —

the latter name, and gives the authority of a botanical friend for

stating that the original name, Eschscholtzia, Chamisso, is the

same with Hlsholtzia (the different spelling being an error of

the press) of Willdenow, among Ladiate ; and that Willdenow's —

Elsholtz and Chamisso’s Hschscholtz are father and son. I

know not on what authority this statement is made. One would

almost wish it were correct, so as to justify such a change.

But Dr. Asa Gray, who had adopted this view in his and Dr.

Torrey’s ‘ Flora of North America,’ vol. i. p. 63, has the following

observation in the Supplement to the same volume, p. 664.

“We are informed by several distinguished German Botanists

that the Hsholtz, to whom the genus Hsholizia was dedicated

by Willdenow, and Zschscholtz, the companion of Chamisso, —

were not father and son, nor of the same family or name. If .

this be the case, it becomes a question whether the similarity be-

tween Elsholizia and Eschscholtzia is so great as to justify the

OCTOBER lst, 1854.

change proposed by Dr. Lindley, and which we have adopted.”

We think not, under these circumstances: botanists, too, fre-

quently increase the similarity of the names by writing H/sholtzia

of Willdenow, in Labiate, Elscholtzia.

If there be doubt or difficulty in the determination of the

generic name, we fear that still greater difficulties attend the de-

termination of the several species described. We give the pre-

sent plant, with the name of Z. ¢enuifolia, Benth., as we received

it from our friends Messrs. Veitch, and such we believe it to

be, for it sufficiently accords with authentic specimens of that

species in our Herbarium; but we are bound to say it almost

equally accords with those of B. cespitosa and EL. hypecoides.

The able author of all these, Mr. Bentham, indeed, says of #.

tenuifolia : “ Stature and flowers of £. cespitosa, but easily dis-

tinguished by its very finely cut leaves, and by the form of the

calyx.” Of HF. hypecoides, he says: “ Habit of #. Californica ;

but the leaves are much smaller, and the flowers not one-third

of the size.” An extensive suite of specimens in our Her-

barium show that they are liable to much variation in the size

of the flowers,’ in the greater or less slenderness of the seg-

ments of the leaves, and especially in the form of the calycine

cup; so that I fear I may say of this present species, in relation

to &. caspitosa and hypecoides, the same as Dr. Lindley has said

of his Chryseis compacta (Bot. Reg. t. 1948) in relation to the

Californica, Lindl. (not Cham., C. Douglasii, Hook.), and C.

erocea, Lindl., (Culifornica vera, Cham.) ; viz., “If they are dis-

tinct, so is this; but if they are only varieties of one species, this

must be reduced to that species also.”

Even as distinguished from the larger-flowered kinds of Zsch-

scholtzia, the differences are not great; and may be summed up

in few words better than by a laboured description —Our Z.

tenuifolia has a dense, compact, erect habit, a good deal branched

near the base. eaves very crowded, mostly subradical, two-

thirds as long as the stems; segments linear-subulate. Flowers

small, uniform, yellow ; calycine cup almost cylindrical, scarcely

dilated at the margin.

Fig. 1. Leaf. 2. Flower-bud. 3. Stamen. 4. Calycine cup and _pistil :—

magnified.

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Tas. 4813.

WHITLAVIA GrRaAnDIFLORA.

Large-flowered Whitlavia.

Nat. Ord. HypRropa#yLLaceEm.—PENTANDRIA MoNnoGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx patentissimus, 5-partitus, sinubus nudus. Corolla hypo-

gyna, tubuloso-campanulata, tubo inflato, calyce multo longiore, intus basi squa-

mulis 5 staminibus oppositis iisque adnatis aucto, ore subconstricto, limbo quin-

quelobo patente. Stamina 5, squamulis corolle adnata, exserta. Ovarium spurie

biloculare, placentis carnosis. Ovula plurima: stylus exsertus, bifidus. Capsula

subcompressa, unilocularis, loculicida, valvis medio placentiferis. Semina nume-

rosa, tuberculata.—Herbe Californize caulescentes, annua, glanduloso-pubescentes ;

caulibus erectis flexuosis ; foliis alternis longe petiolatis indivisis ovatis grosse den-

tatis hirsutis; floribus circinato-racemosis speciosis albo-ceruleis pedicellatis; pedi-

cellis gracillimis secundis patentissimis glandulosis. y

WHITLAVIA grandiflora ; caule diffuso flexuoso, foliis subdeltoideis, corolla tubo

calyce duplo longiore, squamulis oblongis retusis.

Wuittavra grandiflora. Harv. in Lond. Journ. of Bot. v. 5. p. 312. t. 11.

Walp. Repert. Bot. v. 6. p. 525.

This beautiful annual has attracted the attention of all lovers

of Horticulture at the Chiswick Exhibitions of the present sum-

mer (1854), having been sent by the Messrs. Veitch from their

nurseries at Exeter and King’s-road, Chelsea. The seeds had

been the”year before sent home from California by Mr. William

Lobb. It was first detected in that country by the late Dr.

Coulter, and described by Dr. Harvey, in the ‘ London J ournal

of Botany,’ as a new genus, to which is added a second species,

W. minor, also found by Mr. W. Lobb. The generic name

commemorates the services rendered to Botany by Francis

Whitla, Esq., especially to the Belfast Botanic Garden. ‘ When:

introduced to our gardens,” remarks Dr. Harvey, “ the plants .

now described will probably become as universal favourites as

the Nemophile and Gilie (to which might have been added

Lutoca viscosa), which they rival, or perhaps excel, in beauty.

From Eutoca, Whitlavia is at once distinguished by the form of

OCTOBER lst, 1854. *

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the corolla, and the scale at the base of the stamens. As a border

plant, it is a great acquisition.

Dezscr. Annual, with branched, diffuse, flexuose, glanduloso-

pubescent, rounded, green stems. Leaves alternate, nearly del-

toid, or ovato-deltoid, coarsely and doubly serrated, pubescenti-

hirsute, penninerved, on long pubescenti-glandulose petioles, ge-

nerally longer than the leaves. Flowers large, in terminal, many-

flowered, secund, circinate racemes. Calyx deeply cut to the

base, into five, linear, very patent, glandulose segments. Corolla

rich blue, with an ample campanulate dude, slightly inflated be-

low; the Zimd equal, or nearly so, of five, rounded, spreading

lobes. Stamens five. Filaments exserted, arising each from the

back of a scale at the base of the corolla, slightly hairy; scale

oblong, retuse, hairy at the apex. Anthers oblong. Ovary

seated on a glandular disc. Style as long as the filaments, and

hairy like them, forked at the apex. Stigmas obtuse.

Fig. 1. Stamen and scale. 2. Pistil. 3. Transverse section of an ovary :—

magnified.

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CEREUS Lemarrit.

Lemaire’s Cereus.

Nat. Ord. CactEa.—IcosaNDRIA MonoGyNIa.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4417.)

subremote dentatis, dentibus parvis obtusis in axillis pulvinatis, aculeis

1-3 perbrevibus subulatis rectis, floribus maximis speciosissimis, calygis

glaberrimi tubo elongato squamis maximis oblongis imbricatis appressis

subfoliaceis obtecto, sepalis numerosis erecto-patentibus (flavo-rubris) ple-

risque petala oblonga erecta obtusa eequantibus, stylo staminibus densissime -

compactis longiore, stigmatis radiis numerosis magnis bifidis.

Cereus rostratus, “Lemaire”? Salm-Dyck, Cact. Hort. Dyck. p. 51 ef 218? —

. $71. sud C. hamato” ? ee es

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Cernus Lemairii; repens, ramis longissimis flexuosis obtuse trigomis, angulis ~~

We received, two years ago, cuttings of a flagelliform Cereus —

from the Royal Botanic Garden of Hanover, bearing the name —

of “ C. rostratus, Lemaire.” If it be really the plant so. called,

and briefly characterized by the Prince of Salm-Dyck, it 1s most —

inappropriate*. Its stems might very well have been taken for

those of our Cereus MacDonaldia (figured at Tab. 47 0

we were agreeably surprised, in the month of June, 1854, to see

following, from the Cact.

3-4-angularis viridis ra-

* All that I can find of descriptive matter is the

Hort. Dyck. :—* C. rostratus, Lem.; suberectus YaMosus 8 , aie

dicans, costis junioribus acutis tandem obtusis rectiusculis quase hamatis, areolis —

in parte superiore tuberculorum decurrentium positis, aculeis 6-8 gracilibus albis

fasciculatis.—Caulis ramique valde extensi scandentes, plerumque tetragon!, lin.

8-12 crassi. Flores hucusque ignoti. A cacteris speciebus differt giddis carnosis,

recurvatim rostratis, sub pulvillo positis.” : ie ae

I have placed those expressions in italies which require special attention; an : :

most remarkable feature

NOVEMBER IsT, 1854.

blossoms upon it, though equalling in size those of that fine

flowering plant, yet very different in several particulars,—the

form of the petals and sepals, for example, and especially in the

nature of the calycine tube: in C. MacDonaldia (and also in C.

grandifiorus) partially clothed with minute, scattered, distant,

shaggy or villous scales; here the tube is quite concealed by

large, coloured, quite glabrous scales, the smallest of them al-

most an inch long, and then gradually enlarging upwards and

passing into the sepals. It is equally fragrant with the two

species now mentioned, and is, like them, a night-blowing one.

Nothing is positively known of its native country; but it hap-

pens that I have in my possession a drawing made in Antigua,

undoubtedly of this species; so that it is probably a native of

that island.

Dzscr. Stems much elongated, branched, and pseudo-articu-

late, rooting, thicker than one’s finger, dark-green, obtusely tri-

angular, the angles toothed, teeth (or tubercles) small, distant

about half an inch from each other, bearing an areolus in its

axil; areoles pulvinate, bearing from one to three, very small,

subulate, but rather thick, straight aculei. Flower arising from

an angle of the stem, sessile, curved upwards, very large, twelve

inches long, and nine inches across the cup-shaped perianth

(for the flower has not the spreading sepals and petals of C.

MacDonaldia). Calya-tube four to five inches long, curved, an

inch and a half in diameter, clothed with large, oblong, rather

obtuse, leafy scales, an inch and more long, the lower ones pale

green ; upper and larger ones yellow, margined with red, and

these gradually pass into the sepals of the calyx, which are linear-

lanceolate, acute rather than acuminate, the larger ones six inches

and more long, bright tawny-yellow, streaked or margined with

red. Within this are the large, white, oblong, obtuse, numerous

petals, about equal in length with the inner sepals, but twice

or thrice as wide. Stamens exceedingly numerous and densely

crowded, pale yellow. Style very thick, pale yellow, cylindrical.,

Rays of the stigma yellow, more than two inches across, nume-

rous, downy, bifid.

Fig. 1. Pulvinulus and spine :—magnified.

: Our Subscribers are requested to observe, that the numbering on the descrip-

tion of Bougainvillea spectabilis should be 4810 (instead of 4811), and Ceanothus

Lobbianus should be 4811 (instead of 4810); and they should be transferred to

their respective Plates.

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Papillose Ceanothus.

Nat. Ord. RHAMNEZ.—PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4660.)

Cranortuus papillosus ; pubescenti-hirsutus, foliis alternis petiolatis anguste ob-

longis penninerviis dentatis supra convexis papillosis subtus tomentosis,

papillis apice dentibusque glandulosis stipulis ovatis anguste acuminatis basi

pinnatifidis, corymbis subpaniculatis copiosis pedunculatis terminalibus axil-

laribusque, ovario trigono angulis apice subproductis.

CEANoTuUs papillosus. Torr. et Gray, Fl. of N. Am. v. 1. p. 208.

One of the many interesting discoveries of the unfortunate

Douglas in California. We are not aware however that he was

the means of introducing it to the gardens of this country. We

are indebted for the specimen here figured to Messrs. Veitch and

Son, of the Exeter and King’s Road Nurseries, who reared it

from seeds gathered by Mr. William Lobb. It flowered in the

open border, at Exeter, in June of the present year, and it will,

no doubt, prove as hardy as the other blue-flowered species of

Ceanothus from the same regions. Its blossom-heads are not so

compact as in some other blue-flowered species, but this is com- -

pensated by their number on all the lesser branches.

Duscr. A moderately-sized shrub, with downy or hairy, terete

branches, becoming brown in age. Leaves alternate, petiolate,

rather narrow-oblong, subcoriaceous, dark green, pubescent and —

convex above, distinctly papillose, penninerved, dentate at the

margins ; papille and marginal teeth terminated by a gland, be-

neath pale and tomentose. Stipules, a pair at the base of the

petioles, shorter than they, broad and ovate and pinnatifid at

the base, tapering into a long acuminated point. Peduncles ax-

illary and terminal, about as long as the smaller leaves, termi-

nated by a rather paniculated corymb of small bright purple

flowers. Pedicels and flowers quite glabrous. Calye with five

large, triangular, incurved segments. Petals horizontally spread-

NOVEMBER lst, 1854.

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KNIPHOFIA Uvarta.

Serrulated-leaved Kniphofia.

Nat. Ord. AspHoprtn#.—Hezxanpria Monoeynis.

Gen. Char. Perigonium corollinum, campanulato-cylindricum, limbo brevi, sex-

dentato. Stamina 6, hypogyna : filamenta exserta, alterna elongata. Ovarium tri-

loculare. Ovula plurima, biseriata, horizontalia, anatropa. Stylus terminalis, fili-

formis ; stigma obsolete trilobum. Capsula cartilaginea, ovata, obsolete trigona, —

trilocularis, septicido-trivalvis. Semina plurima, biseriata, horizontalia (triquetra, —

fusco-nigra, subtilissime punctulato-scabrata, opaca, arillo membranaceo laxo ru-

guloso fusco-nigro solubili ad angulos alato-ampliato undique involuta, A¢h.).—

Herbze Capenses, scapigere ; foliis radicalibus, linearibus, canaliculatis, distichis ;

floribus spicato-racemosis, nutantibus. Endl. :

Kwrrnorta Uvaria; foliis longissimis acuminatissimis profunde carinatis sub-

glaucis margine carinaque precipue minute cartilagineo-serrulatis, spica

ampla ovato-cylindracea post anthesin inferne insigniter contractis, floribus —

densissimis deflexis infundibuliformibus limbi lobis modice patentibus,

staminibus exsertis. —

Knipnorta aloides. Monch, Meth. p. 631. Kth. Enum. Pl. v. 4. p. 551. - |

Trrroma Uvaria. Gawler in Bot. Mag. t. 158. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. p. 290.

| Redouté, Liliac. t. 291 (figure excellent).

TrrroMaNntHeE Uvaria. Link, Enum. v. 1. p. 833. Roem. et Schult. Syst. Feget.

Be ile OER caw |

Atoz Uvaria. Linn. Sp. Pl. p.460. |

Axerrts Uvaria, Linn. Mant. p. 308.

VELTHEIMIA Uvaria. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 2. p. 182.

VELTHEIMIA speciosa. Roth, Nov. Pl. Spec. p. 490.

Aor Africana, etc. Commelyn, Hort. Med. Amst. v. 2. p. 29. t. 15.

* Tris uvaria promontorii Bone Spei. Stapel. Theophrast. p. 335.”

Of late years visitors to the Royal Gardens of Kew have been —

much struck with the beauty of the flower-spikes of a Kniphofia

(Zritoma of most authors), planted in several of the beds, and

producing a most striking effect during the summer months:

the plant here represented. In reply to the queries respecting =

its history, Mr. Smith has only to reply, that it 1s always what

NOVEMBER Ist, 1854.

has been cultivated in these Gardens under the name of 7rztoma

Uvaria,. Gawler. The figure, indeed, of Mr. Gawler, above

quoted, is so indifferent, that we can well excuse its not being

easily recognized, and have no hesitation in offering a better one.

We almost regret, but we believe it is only an act of justice, to

change a long-established name for one, no doubt, overlooked by

the author of Zritoma; but we think it equally a duty to retain

the Linnzan specific name, for the change of which there can be

no reason at all: a name, too, given by the very old botanists.

Although a native of the Cape, no plant can be more hardy nor

more easily cultivated, and assuredly none more worthy of a place

in every garden. Our specimen here represented is no unusually

fine one: on the contrary, it becomes larger and handsomer as

the inflorescence advances ; for then the lower flowers are pressed

down close upon the scape, and become entirely of a full yellow

colour (as admirably represented by Redouté), while the upper

and less expanded blossoms are of the finest red. The species

was introduced to our gardens 150 years ago, and yet only now

seems to attract special notice.

Dzscr. The /eaves grow in dense tufts (and arise from tubers

which are large and flattened beneath, and by means of which the

plant increases abundantly); they are very long, three to four

feet, and narrow, subulate, that is tapering to a very much

_ elongated, slender point; for nearly the whole length they are

somewhat conduplicate, so that a transverse section resembles

the letter V; but the apex is very sharply alato-triquetrous. The

margins and keel ‘are cartilaginous and rough (to the touch), or

minutely serrulated, especially the keel. In these serratures the

species differs essentially from Zritoma media, Gawl., as well as

from the Zritoma Burchellii of Dr. Lindley. Scape two to four

feet high, terminated by a dense bracteolated spike of very nu-

merous drooping flowers, at first bright red, then tipped with

yellow, finally wholly yellow. The form of the spike is ovato-

cylindrical, singularly contracted at the base when the flowers

are past, for then the blossoms are pressed close to the stem,

forming a kind of handle to the spike. Perianth slightly curved,

infundibuliform, six-toothed or six-cleft at the apex: the teeth

or lobes moderately patent; the tube obscurely six-angled. Sfa-

mens exserted, unequal. Fi/aments inserted at the base of the

perianth. Anthers oblong. Ovary ovate, three-furrowed, three-

celled. Style rather longer than the stamens. Stigma obtuse.

_ Fig. 1. Figure of an entire plant, very much reduced. 2. Flower :—natur al

size. 3. Flower laid open. 4. Ovary. 5. The same cut through transversely :-—

all but figures 1 and 2 magnified.

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Tas. 4817.

- HYPOXIS tatiro3ta.

Broad-leaved Hypoxis. 2 vee

Nat. Ord. Hyroxiprm.—Hexanpria Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. Perigonium corollinum, tubo cum ovario connato, limbo sexpartito

plano persistente. Stamina 6, limbi laciniis mediante disco epigyno inserta.

Ovarium inferum, triloculare. Ovula plurima, biseriata, amphitropa. Stylus

liber; stigmata 3, angulis styli adnata, rarius distincta. Capsula limbo emarcido

coronata, trilocularis, evalvis. Semina plurima.—Herbee perennes, habitu Cureu-

liginis, floribus spatha bivalvi bracteeformi v. subglumacea exceptis. Endl.

Hypoxis Jatifolia; tubere globoso solitario, foliis lato-lanceolatis acuminatis

glabris basi vaginatis demum interioribus longissimis, racemis plurifloris, —

bracteis ciliatis, ovario turbinato.

In the spring of 1854 some bulb-like tubers were, along with —

many other rare plants, brought to us by Captain Garden, then —

of the 46th Regiment, from Natal. The tubers in question threw

out leaves with the habit of those of some Orchis, particularly of

our Orchis hircina, but more numerous and more sheathing at

the base: from the axils of the leaves the flower-stalks arose,

bearing spikes, or rather racemes, of moderately-large yellow

flowers, having all the character of those of Hypozxis, to which

genus I consequently refer it, notwithstanding the dissimilarity

in the foliage. In this foliage there was a further peculiarity,

namely, that after flowering (in which state 1t 1s here represented)

the upper or inner leaves continued elongating till they attained

two feet in height, giving the mature foliage a very different ap-

pearance from that which it had in the flowering state of the

plant. Its nearest affinity is probably with 7. od/usa, Burch.

in Bot. Reg. f. 159; and the flowers are there equally large.

Drsor. Tuber bulbiform, the size of a small turnip, rounded,

obscurely concentrically striated, shaggy at the top, from which

arises the cluster of Zeaves: of these, the lower are squamiform

upwards, gradually becoming larger, and which in the flowering

state are about six inches long, broad-lanceolate, acuminated,

MBER 1sT, 1854.

striated, quite glabrous, much sheathed at the base: the inner

or upper ones the narrowest, and these, after the flowering of

the plant is past, gradually elongated, till they become, from

the base, two feet long; of one such a portion is here repre-

sented at fig. 1. Racemes spicate, many-flowered, pedunculated,

appearing before all the leaves are perfected. Peduncles axillary,

solitary or two together, shorter than the leaf, in whose axil they

are produced. Bracteas lincar-lanceolate, ciliated and hairy at

the back, the base embracing the very short pedicels. Flowers

large, bright yellow, externally green. Zudbe of the pertanth com-

bined with the germen, six-furrowed ; Zimé of six, spreading, oval,

obtuse segments. Stamens nearly as long as the lobes of the

perianth, erecto-patent. Anthers orange-coloured. Ovary tur-

binate, the upper portion only free. Style short: stigma large,

of five, linear lobes. The flowers died off without producing

any fruit.

Fig. 1. Outline of a portion of a fully-grown leaf, after the flowering of the

plant :—natural size. 2. Bractea, and flower from which the segments of the

perianth and the stamens have been removed :—magnified.

4518

Vincent Brooks Imp

W.Fitch del, et lith.

Tas. 4818.

BEFARIA astuans.

Glowing Befaria.

Nat. Ord. Ertcepm.—Prentanpria Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4433.)

Berarta estuans; ramis pedunculis calycibusque septemfidis ferrugineo-tomen-

tosis, foliis oblongo-ovatis acutis planis subtus glaucis ferrugineo-tomentosis

tomento demum obsoleto, racemis terminalibus, floribus amplis, petalis 7

obovato-spathulatis erecto-patentibus, staminibus 7-14 corolla brevioribus,

stylo corollam superante.

Berarta estuans. Mutis, ec Linn. Mant. p.242. Suppl. p. 247. Vent. Choix

des Plantes, sub n.52. Bonpl. Pl. Asquin. v. 1. p. 120. p. 118. De Cand.

Prodr. v. 1. p. 731. Lindl. and Past. Fl. Garden, p. 85. Spreng. Syst.

Veget. v. 2. p. 458.

Acunna oblonga. Ruiz e¢ Pav. Fl. Perwo. Syst. p. 128.

The Andian genus Befaria is an essentially beautiful one ;

but, we suspect, very variable, and one that requires to be studied

with great caution, for the well determining of the species*.

Our specimen, here figured, was derived from the Messrs. Veitch

as a hardy greenhouse shrub ; and they imported it through their

collector, Mr. William Lobb, who detected it in the province of

Chacapoyas, at an elevation of 8000 feet above the level of the

sea. Dr. Lindley’s plant, figured in the ‘ Flower Garden,’ was

obtained from the same source, Messrs. Veitch’s Nursery ; but

it differs from our plant in the much longer style, in the pre-

* We are the more led to make this remark because the authors of the

‘Flower Garden,’ 1. c. p. 84, have, as it appears to us, committed a great error

in stating that the B. coarctata, figured by us at our Pla ae

arctata of Humboldt and Bonpland. This is, perhaps, inferred from the acci-

dental mistake on our part of omitting the synonym of the ‘ Plante Aiquinoc-

tiales,’ and by comparing the figure in their own work, instead of comparing It”

with that of Humboldt and Bonpland. It would otherwise have been seen that —

ours is the true coarctata, with the petals patent and a short style, instead of

having the petals erect and subparallel, and the style almost twice as long as

the corolla.

NOVEMBER IsT, 1854.

Plate 4433, is not the co- | oe

sence of coarse hairs on the branches, calyx, and flower-stalks,

and in the margins of the leaves being fringed with blackish

bristles. Bonpland also speaks of a degree of hairiness, which

our plant does not possess, and it is probably, like the ferru-

ginous down beneath the leaf, of a fugacious character. In

other respects our plant sufficiently accords with his figure. It

appears to be found in New Granada, as well as in Peru.

Drscr. A shrub, according to Bonpland, attaining a height of

eight feet: the branches, peduncles, and calyx, clothed with soft,

ferruginous, woolly down. Leaves scattered, elliptical-ovate, on

short petioles, acute, penninerved, coriaceous, green (pale in our

specimen) above, somewhat glaucous beneath, and there more or

_ less clothed with rusty down or wool, more so in the younger

foliage. Corymés terminal, of several large, fine, rose-coloured

flowers. Calyx deeply seven-lobed ; lobes oval, close pressed to

the base of the corolla. Petals erecto-patent, obovato-spathulate.

Stamens varying from seven to fourteen, unequal, but all shorter

than the corolla. Filaments curved, thickened, and hairy at the

base. Anihers opening by two pores at the apex. Ovary sub-

rotund, seven-celled. Style a little longer than the corolla.

Stigma a convex, five-lobed disc.

ia Calyx and pistil. 2. Stamen. 3. Ovary. 4. Section of ovary :—

4819.

Witch del et Lith.

Tas. 4819.

BLANDFORDIA Friammea.

Flame-flowered Blandfordia,

Nat. Ord. ASPHODELE#.—HEXANDRIA MoNOGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Perigonium corollinum, tubuloso-campanulatum, limbo breviter

6-lobo wequali. Stamina 6, basi tubo inserta ; filamenta filiformia, inclusa. Ova-

rium pedicellatum, triloculare. Ovuia plurima, biseriata, horizontalia, anatropa.

Stylus subulatus; stigma simplex. Capsula prismatica, trilocularis, tripartibilis,

introrsum dehiscens. Semina in placentis suturas marginantibus plurima, hori-

zontalia, desta laxa, pubescente. Embryo rectus, dimidio albumine longior, ex-

tremitate radiculari umbilico proxima.—Herbe in Nova Hollandia orientali ex-

tratropica indigena, radice fibrosa, foliis radicalibus linearibus elongatis, caulinis

distantibus abbreviatis, racemo terminali abbreviato, pedicellis bibracteatis, bractea

altera interiore laterali minore, floribus puniceis cernuis. Endl.

——-

Bianprorpt1A flammea ; foliis longissimis linearibus sensim acuminatis glauco-

virescentibus acute carinatis, marginibus carinaque seabriusculis, scapo su-

perne bracteato, racemis plurifloris, inflorescentie bracteis subherbaceis pe-

dicello triplo brevioribus, perianthio campanulato basi solummodo contracto,

limbi laciniis interioribus latioribus, staminibus perianthium equantibus.

Trrroma flammea. Lindl. in Journ. of Hort. Soc. v. 5. p.32. Part. Mag, of Bot.

v. 1, p, 353 (cum ic.).

We have seen in the Kniphofie, or Tritomas, among the 4s-

phodelee (Liliaceous plants), how variable are the species, in a

measure perhaps owing to cultivation ; and we fear other genera

of the same natural group will be found to depart from the

normal type of their respective species, under peculiar circum-

stances. Blandfordia will probably not prove an exception. We

would therefore speak with caution as to distinctive characters of

what have been adopted in this genus. Plants under the names

of Blandfordia nobilis and B. grandiflora have long been known

in our gardens, and both of them figured in botanical works.

B. nobilis (of which the figure in Smith’s ‘ Exotic Botany’ is the

acknowledged type) is given at our Tab. 2003 by Dr. Sims ;

but B. grandiflora, given by Mr. Gawler in Bot, Reg. t. 924,

DECEMBER Ist, 1854.

we feel sure is not the plant of Mr. Brown, as indeed is inti-

mated by a passage in the text. We fear it is only B. nobilis

with the peduncles less developed than usual. The true B.

grandiflora, with long peduncles and longer and very slender

membranaceous bracts, is that published by Dr. Lindley, Bot.

Reg. 1845, t. 18, under the name of B. marginata, Herb. It

is a native of Van Diemen’s Land, where Mr. Gunn finds it

abundantly and at various elevations from the level of the sea to

4000 feet of elevation. It is readily distinguished by the short

stamens inserted about one-third the way down from the mouth

of the tube. This.is the plant, as Mr. Brown suspected, which

Labillardiére figures, Fl. Nov. Holl. t. 111, under the name of

Aletris punicea. Dr. Lindley has (Bot. Reg. I.c.) under t. 18,

two other species of Blandfordia, viz. :

1. B. Backhousii, of which he says, “The flowers resemble

those of B. marginata (B. grandiflora, Br.), and their bracts of

the same nature, but narrower and weaker and not one-half the

length of the slender flower-stalks.”” This is numbered 241 by

Mr. Gunn, and we fear is only an accidental variety of the true

grandiflora. We have copious specimens with the same number

attached, which are undoubtedly that plant. And

2. B. Cunninghamii, which we believe to be a very distinct

species, discovered by Allan Cunningham, but the locality was

unknown to Dr. Lindley. Fine specimens of the same plant are

in our Herbarium, gathered in the Blue Mountains: but so va-

riable were the species of Blandfordia considered by that prac-

tical Australian botanist Mr. Cunningham, that he has indicated it

as “ B. nobilis: very luxuriant specimens from a stiff and clayey

bank, beneath a permanent elevated peaty bog.”

Again, there is in the miscellaneous portion of the same volume

of Bot. Reg., from Mr. Herbert, B. intermedia, “a garden plant, :

imported from New Holland under the name of B. grandiflora,

but the description does not suffice to enable us to offer any

opinion upon it.

And lastly, we have the fine species here figured, unquestion-

ably the most beautiful and distinct of all. Our specimen was

sent to us by Dr. Mackay, from the Dublin Botanic Garden.

The root was brought from the Sydney Botanic Garden (under

the name of B. grandiflora) four years ago by Lord Walter Butler,

to the Countess of Carrick, who presented it to Dr. Mackay. It

appears to have been introduced to Sydney from Hunter’s River,

whence we have native specimens in the Herbarium gathered by

the late Lady Parry. We further possess specimens from. Port

Macquarrie, gathered by Mr. Backhouse in 1836, and still finer

ones gathered by the late Mr. Bidwill at Wide Bay, North-east

Australia, by Mr. Bynoe, from near Sydney.

4820,

WFitch del. et lth.

ooks Imp.

ot Dr

Vince

Tas. 4820.

TRICHODESMA Zeryuanicum.

Ceylon Trichodesma.

Nat. Ord. BoraGiInr®.—PENTANDRIA MOonoeynia.

Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus y. profunde 5-fidus, sepe accrescens, lobis e

basi lata nunc auriculata attenuatis. Corolla calyce vix longior, tubo late cylin-

draceo, fauce nune fornicata, interdum ad sinus intrusa, lobis e basi lata seepius

acuminato-subulatis et tunc estivatione dextrorsum convolutis. Stamina tubo

corolle inserta, seepius limbo patente exserta; antheris filamento multoties ma-

joribus, in conum conniventibus, dorso plus minus villosis, apice seepius longe

subulatis et dextrorsum contortis. Pollen subsphericum. Nectarium nullum.

Ovarium 4-loculare, ovato-acutum aut depressum, subquadrilobum. Ovula ex

angulo superno pendentia, anatropa. Sfylus filiformis. Stigma subsimplex.

Nucule 4-1, basi clause, columne centrali quadrangulari ventre toto adnate.

Semen obovoideum, funiculo brevissimo pendens, exalbuminosum. Radicula su-

pera, cotyledonibus ovalibus brevior—Herbe nunc basi suffrutescentes, Asiatice

et Africane (Australasia) erecta, ramosa, pilis nunc basi tuberculatis. Folia al-

terna aut opposita, sessilia, inteyra. Pedicelli laterales, florem subequantes, hispidi,

in racemos dispositi. Flores pro ordine majusculi. Alph. De Cand.

TricHopgesma (§ Cynoglossoides) Zeylanicum; caule erecto parce setoso, foliis

oppositis subsessilibus oblongo-lanceolatis haud attenuatis supra sparse se-

tosis subtus junioribus pubescentibus et parce setulosis, pedicellis patentim

hispidis lateralibus longis unifloris in racemum dispositis, cal. lobis ovato-

lanceolatis villosis. 4. De Cand.

TRichoprsMa Zeylanicum. Br. Prodr. Nov. Holl. p.496. Lehm. Asperif. n.

149. Roem. et Sch. Syst. v. 4. p. 69 et 153. 4. De Cand. Prodr, v. 10.

p. 172.

Boraco Zeylanica. Linn. Mant. 202. Jacq. Ic. Rar. v. 2.¢. 314. Burm. Fi.

Ind. v. 41. t. 14. f. 2.

TrichopesmMa Kotschyanum. Fenzl. in Pl. Kotsch. p. 542, et Pl. Schimp. v. 2.

p. 625. .

Our plant, from which the accompanying figure is taken, was

raised from seeds gathered by Mr. Drummond in Western Aus-

tralia, in about south lat. 27°; and that zealous botanist, to whom

the plant was quite new, has stated in his journal—‘ A fine plant

belonging to Asperifolie appears in great abundance and pertec-

tion on the sand-banks in the sheltered bed of the Irwin river ;

DECEMBER Ist, 1854.

it grows to be six or eight feet high, with numerous branches,

which terminate in panicles of large, bright-blue, Borage-like

flowers. The anther, style, and stigma are, at the time of flower-

ing, covered by a curious calyptra, formed by five scales, which

rise from the back of the anthers at the mouth of the tube of the

corolla, free at the upper half and spiral, coming to a sharp point,

firmly united to each other by interlaced cilia. The style comes in

contact with the pollen of the anthers in passing up through this

covering, but ultimately rises above this calyptra, forcing open

the spiral portion, which, as soon as it has passed, closes on the

style and stigma. The plant is perennial, with a sort of woody

stem five or six inches in diameter (circumference?) near the

ground. It rises readily from seed, and would be a great orna-

ment to the gardens and shrubberies of Perth.” This proved to

_ be, as was suspected, a 7richodesma, Br.; and the 7. Zeylanicum at

this point of Australia attains its southern limit. Mr. Brown found

it in Tropical Australia, and upon this species established his genus.

It has been further gathered on the north-west’ coast of Australia

by Mr. Bynoe (Voyage of the Beagle), at Port Curtis by J. Mac-

gillivray, Esq., then in H.M.S. Rattlesnake, and by Mr. Fraser

at Moreton Bay, in about the same latitude in Eastern Australia

that the Irwin is on the west.* In all the warm parts of India

this species is abundant, as well as in Madagascar, Abyssinia,

and even in French Guiana. We have only reared a few plants

in pots in a warm greenhouse, comparatively of small size; and

if they ripen seed, we shall try in the open air, where they would

probably flourish in summer, and greatly improve in the size of

the flowers, as well as of stem and foliage.

Duscr. An erect plant, with perennial root, and probably

perennial sfem in the tropics, everywhere piloso-hispid, and fre-

quently with white concretions at the base of the large setee ; but

the nature of the hairs is very variable on different plants, so that

Mr. Brown was led to make the remark :—“ Planta polymorpha

preesertim strigarum et pubescentie copia.” Branches terete.

Leaves lanceolate, varying much in width in different individuals,

tapering at the base, but sessile. Racemes terminal, leafy, few-

flowered, drooping. Calya of five, deep, lanceolate, acuminated

lobes, as long as the corolla. Corolla rather deep and. fine blue,

with five small white areolz or spots at the base; the shape is

infundibuliform, the lower part of the tube contracted, above

spreading, cup-shaped, in which cup the stamens are sunk ; the

. Another species, as it is considered, is the 7. sericeum of Lindley, gathered

by Major Mitchell in the subtropical interior, and by Mr. Collie at Flinders

Bay, South-west Australia, It has altogether a different clothing to the whole

plant, pubescenti-appressed and silvery, rather than rough with hispid hairs and

tubercles.

segments of the limb five, spreading, subrotund, almost.

_at the point. Anthers five, arising from the mouth of the tu

sessile, erect, each linear-subulate, very hairy, cohering by

intertexture of the long lateral hairs; the apices are spirally

twisted. Ovaries four, sunk into a large fleshy disc or expan-

sion of the base of the style; the latter is very slender. Stigma

obtuse.

Fig. 1. Pistil. 2. Corolla laid open. 8. Inside view of a stamen :—magni-

5 ae

Tas, 4821,

EPIPOGON GMELINI.

Gmelin’s Epipogon.

Nat. Ord. OncHipE®.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Flores resupinati, pedunculis brevibus non contortis sed bracteatis

insidentes. Perianthit lacinie exteriores subzequales, patentes ; dus interiores

exterioribus similes. Labellum erectum (superum) trilobum, lobis lateralibus

parvis patentibus, lobo terminali maximo, integerrimo, concavo et punctis elevatis

notato, basi in calcar inflatum et adscendens desinens. Gynostemium oblongum,

rectum, supra stigma in androclinium magnum, profundum et apice truncatim

dilatatum. Anthera stipitata sed androclinio inserta, subrotunda, gibba, antice

mucronulata, bilocularis, loculis longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. Pollinaria duo,

oblonga, caudiculata, caudiculis supra basin pollinariis affixis, basi junctis, sub

anthesi reflexis et proscolle solute adglutinatis. Pollen sectile. Staminodia

obsoleta. Proscolla magna cordata, emarginature androclinii supra stigma ad-

herens. Stigma valde prominens, transversim ellipticum. Germen non con-

tortum, ovatum, uniloculare, multiovulatum, ovulis spermophoris tribus parietali-

_ bus affixis. Fred. Nees.

Epreogon Gmelini. Ledeb. Fl. Ross. v. 4. p. 77.

Erreocum Gmelini. “ Z. C. Richard, de Orchid. Europ, Annot. p. 36.”

Ervreocium Gmelini. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 383. Fred. Nees, Gen. Plant.

Germ. cum Ie.

Eprpeoerum aphyllum. Reichenb. Fl. Excurs. p. 135.

Lrmoporum Epipogium. Sw. Nov. Act. Ups. v. 6. p. 80.

Saryrtum Epipogium. Linn. Syst. Veget. p. 676. Jacq. Fl. Austr. t. 84.

Epreocum. Gmel. Fl. Sib. v. 1. p. 22. tab. 2. f. 2.

Even upon the continent of Europe, Dr. Fred. Nees calls this

a “planta rarissima ;” and it is singularly gratifymg to us that

the first figure of it published in this country, should be from a

specimen, an undoubted native of England. It was discovered

on the 9th of September of this year (1854), as related in the

‘Journal of Botany’ for October, by Mrs. Anderton Smith, the

lady of the Rev. Anderton Smith, at Tedstone Delamere, Here-

fordshire. “All the specimens were found at the foot of a very

steep woody bank, close to a brook ; the soil very wet and stiff.

DECEMBER lst, 1854.

That it has remained so long undiscovered in this country, and

that it is still considered so rare on the Continent, is due to the

fact of its having no foliage and no conspicuous colours to at-

tract attention; or it may have been passed by for some of our

other colourless and aphyllous plants. Once known to be a

native of Britain, other stations may be expected to be soon

detected. Various localities are given in the middle and north of

Europe, from Switzerland, Austria, the Caucasian Provinces, to

Sweden, and westward as far as Lake Baikal, and the River

_ Irkut, Province of Tunka. It was first known as a Siberian

plant, and admirably described and figured by Gmelin (/. ¢.)

under the name of “ Hpipogum*,” a little more than a century

ago. Linnzus referred the plant to Limodorum, and called the

species Epipog¢um,—quoting the synonym of Gmelin also incor-

rectly as Hpipogium. ‘This spelling of the word has by authors

been adopted, till Richard, in his ‘ Annotationes,’ as quoted by

Lindley, named the plant “ Epipogum Gmelini.” At length Lede-

bour gave the generic name the usual termination, “Zpipogon ;”

but he refers to authors whom I have not the means of consult-

ing “ Patze, Meyer et Elkan Flora d. Provinz Preussen, p. 93,”

in justification of the change. I have adopted the same

as the most correct, and quite in accordance with that of the

original author. Mr. Brown however, in his Prodromus Nov.

Holl. p. 330, under Gastrodium, is the first of the later botanists

(1810) to allude to Hpipogium as a genus: “ Affinitatem haud

levem habet cum Apipogio (quod Limodorum Epipogium, Sw.),

presertim anthera decidua cum polline e particulis elastice cohe-

rentibus, necnon stigmate ad basin columne elongate sito.”’—

Lindley indeed places it in his Division Gastropiua# of his fifth

Tribe ARETHUSE. :

It is observed by M. Schlauter, in Fred. Nees’ ‘Flora Euro-

pea,’ that the plant does not appear annually in the same spot,

but every two years: the swollen branches of the root eventually

“senepa new flower-stems, and requiring two years to be per-

ected.

Descr. Parasitic? Root a mass of thick, branching, fleshy

fibres, very much resembling that of Corallorhiza innata, the

apices of the branches often swollen (said to be incipient flower-

stems). Stems a span or more high, arising from a thickened

branch, or portion of the root, swollen a little above the base,

and there articulated; the rest of the stem is erect, terete, of a

pale reddish or tawny colour, speckled with red, of a fleshy or

almost waxy texture, and sheathed with three or four membra-

naceous, inconspicuous scales, terminating in an erect raceme

_ * “ Epigogum dixi, quia barba (by which he meang the labellum) hujus floris

inverso ordine disposita est.” Gmed.

of four to five or six moderately-sized flowers. Pedicels short,

not longer than the small fleshy dracts. Sepals and petals all

directed downwards, but curved forwards, narrow-lanceolate,

nearly equal, pale sulphur-yellow. Zip superior; it may be de-

scribed as ovate in general form, of a thick and fleshy texture,

the ground-colour white, three-lobed; the lateral lobes small,

ovate, obtuse, moderately spreading, the middle lobe large, sud-

denly reflexed, acute, having a cavity (and externally a tubercle

corresponding with it a little below the apex); the whole upper

surface studded with soredia, or small rough prominences, ar-

ranged in lines, and of a rose-colour; the base beneath is pro-

longed into a large pouch or blunt spur, as long as the ovary ;

this is white, tinged with purple. Column rather short, terete,

and somewhat gibbous below, apterous above, flattened in front,

and bearing the stigma. Anther-case terminal, subhemispherical,

erect, two-celled. Pollen-masses two, tapering into slender stalks,

which are attached to a white triangular gland. Ovary straight,

not twisted, short, three-lobed, nearly turbinate, yellowish,

streaked with pale red.

Fig. 1. Front view of a flower. 2. Side view of a labellum, with the spur.

3. Column and anther. 4. Pollen-masses :—magnified.

4822,

Ss Ses ae

oe nt URS

‘Gincent Brooks Imp-

et lith.

itch ded.

Tas. 4822.

CRESCENTIA MaAcROPHYLLA.

Large-leaved Calabash-tree.

Nat. Ord. CRESCENTIACE®.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. emend. Calyx deciduus, bilabiatus, lobis integerrimis. Corolla

subcampanulata, tubo elongato, fauce magna ventricosa, limbo inequaliter 5-fido

vel crenato aut fimbriato-laciniato. Stamina 4, cum rudimento quinti. <Anthere

biloculares, loculis divergentibus. Discus glandulosus, ovarii basin cingens. Stylus

elongatus. Stigma bilamellatum. Ovarium uniloculare, multi-ovulatum. Fructus

globosus, ovatus vel ellipsoideus, cortice lignoso, spurie 2-locularis, intus pulpo-

sus, Semina plurima. Albumen nullum. Embryo magnus.—Arbores vel fru-

tices arborescentes America tropice, foliis alternis solitariis vel fasciculatis, sim-

plicibus vel trifoliolatis, pedunculis e trunco ramisve ortis, corollis rubentibus, vi-

rescentibus, vel virescentibus purpureo et flavo variegatis. Seem. l

CrescEentra macrophylla; arborea, glaberrima, foliis alternis solitariis omnibus

simplicibus obovato-lanceolatis breviter acuminatis versus basin longe cune-

atis integerrimis, nervo (unico) utrinque acuto, petiolis valde incrassatis,

corrolla (virescente) campanulata, tubo curvato ventricoso, limbo subregu-

lari fimbriato-laciniato, lamellis stigmatis fimbriatis, fructus . .

CrEsceNntTIA macrophylla. Seem. in Hook. Journ. of Bot. and Kew Misc. v. 6.

p. 274.

FERpINaNDEA superba. Hort. Germ.

At present there are cultivated in the Royal Botanic Gardens

at Kew the four species of which, according to our recent revision,

the genus Crescentia, as far as we know it, is composed. Of

these, two (C. alata, H. B. K., and C. cucurbitina, Linn.) have

been raised from seeds received at various times from South

America; the third (C. Cujete, Linn.) has been in cultivation

in several gardens, for a great number of years; and the fourth

(C. macrophylla, Seem.) was imported, not long ago, from i

Continent, where it is generally known under the name of Fer-

dinandea superba. A glance at the Botanical Magazine fig

(Tab. 4822) and description, however, will at once show that it

has nothing to do with either Ferdinandea or Ferdinandusa of

Pohl, a Rubiaceous genus, or with Ferdinanda of Lagasca,

belonging to Composite, or with Ferdinandezia of Ruiz and

DECEMBER Ist, 1854.

Pavon, a well-known genus of Orchidee ; but is, as far as we

may venture to say without having seen the fruit, a true species

of Crescentia. Its native country is still unknown ; but, judging

from the habit of the plant, we think it must be Tropical Ame-

rica. Crescentia macrophylla rust, on account of its fine foliage,

rendering it what German gardeners term a “ Blattpflanze,” be

regarded as a desirable acquisition to our hothouses, and we

have no doubt that it will soon make its way into almost every

horticultural establishment.

Derscr. The largest of the plants cultivated. in the stoves of

the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew is about seven feet high;

but we have received information that, in the Botanic Garden

at Schéneberg, near Berlin, there are specimens growing which

measure more than twelve feet in height, making it probable

that this species attains the size of a tree. The petioles and

young dranches are purple; and the Jeaves, which are alternate,

‘simple, obovate-lancet, with a short acumen, and cuneate at the

base, measure occasionally fifteen inches in length, and in the

broadest part from two to three inches across. The peduncles,

growing out of the old wood, are about one and a half inch, and

the calyx one inch, long ; both calyx and corolla (the latter being

greenish) are furnished with glandular dots. The sfy/e and the

stamens are as long as the tube of the corolla. The ovary is uni-

locular. The ripe fruit is still unknown. Seemann.

Fig. 1. Lower portion of corolla, showing the four fertile stamens, and the

one rudiment of the fifth. 2. Glandular dise surrounding the ovary, style, and

stigma :—all slightly magnified.

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Tas. 4823.

NYMPHAAA Amazonvum.

Amazon Water-Lily.

Nat. Ord. NyMpH#ACEEZ.—PoOLYANDRIA MoNnoGyNIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4257.) -

Nyuenwa blanda; glaberrima, foliis suborbiculato-cordatis integris vel magis

minusve sinuato-dentatis lobis obtusis subincumbentibus petiolis infra fo-

lium annulo villoso instructis, filamentis exterioribus subpetaloideis omnibus

fertilibus, antheris exappendiculatis, sepalis petalisque eequilongis obtusis,

stigmatis processubus (tot quot radii) longissimis teretibus clavatis erecto-

incurvis.

Nympnaea Amazonum. Mart. et Zuccar. Abhandl. der Math.-Phys. Classe der

Bayersch. Akad. v.1. p.363. Walp. Repert. Bot. Syst.v.1.p.107. Lehm

iiber die Gattung Nymphéer, n. 48. Planch. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 3me série,

tom. 19. p. 48.

Nympnma Lotus. Lunan, Jam. v. 2. p. 271.

Nympuaa blanda? Macfad. Fl. Jam. p. 19.

Nympuma fetida. Garda. MSS. in Herb. Braz. n. 2477.

ene et

A very pretty night-flowering species of Water-Lily, which

has been sent by W. T. March, Esq., of Spanish Town, Jamaica,

to Mr. Moore, of the Glasnevin Botanic Gardens, Dublin, under

the name of WV. nocturna. It was not surprising that that gen-

tleman should consider it to be a new species, seeing that it

possessed so remarkable a structure, as seén in the large club-

shaped processes of the stigma, and which till lately seem to

have been altogether unnoticed,* or most imperfectly described.

I‘at once saw that the specimens obligingly sent by Mr. Moore

corresponded with Guiana ones in my Herbarium, which I had

with some doubt referred to WV. dlanda, Meyer, FI. Essequeb., a

species of the same locality, but miserably described,—for he

* Lunan, in his very imperfect ‘ Hortus Jamaicensis,’ describes his NV. : Lotus

(assuredly not of other authors) as having “ from each erena of the stigma a

short, compressed, incurvated filament, with a clavated summit ; whence I have

been led to infer he here intends our plant rather than NV. ampla, which it has

been generally. considered to be.

DECEMBER Ist, 1854.

takes no notice of the club-shaped processes, and compares the

species with the WV. nitida, Sims, in Bot. Mag. t. 1359 (‘cul

inter omnes maxime affinis”),—a Siberian plant, and probably

a mere form of our WV. alba. Yet, singular enough, he gives, as

a synonym, WV. glandulifera of Rodsche (1 know not where de-

scribed), so named in all probability on account of the presence

of these large club-shaped glands or processes, but of which

Meyer says, “ Nomen Rodscheio, stigmatis radius pro glandulis

habente, huic stirpi impositum, quia ex errore proditt, rejecimus.”

- Thus, by unintentionally confessing his own blunder, he leads us

to believe in the presence of these bodies. Meyer probably mis-

took them for an inner series of stamens. M. Planchon’s third

section of Nymphaea, Hyprocau1s, is mainly distinguished by

their presence, and includes seven species, all tropical American ;

among them the V. Amazonwm of Martius and Zucearini, which

differs from the d/anda in little save the presence of a sub-

-membranaceous hairy ring at the top of the petiole, just below

— its insertion on the leaf. We refer our plant, then, to that,

rather than to WV. dlanda, which is destitute of that ring, and

must leave it for future investigation to determine how far the

character is constant.

- Descr. Our plant can be described in few words. Leave

-suborbicular, cordate, obtuse, coriaceo-membranaceous, entire or

- sinuato-dentate, glabrous, bright-green above, usually reddish

beneath, the sinus at the base very deep, the lobes large, obtuse,

generally slightly overlapping ; the length in our specimen little

more than four inches, but they often attain three or four times

that size. Petiole terete, purple, having at the summit, just

below the insertion upon the leaf, an evident hairy or villous

ring. Flower very fragrant, rather small, between three and

four inches in diameter, opening at about eight or nine in the

evening. Sepals four, yellow-green, purple at the base, and

often streaked with purple in interrupted lines, oblong, obtuse.

Petals scarcely shorter than the calyx, yellowish-white, about

twenty-five; outer ones green on the back ; inner the smallest.

Stamens about as many as there are petals; outer ones with

somewhat petaloid filaments ; inner linear. Azthers linear, scarcely

appendiculate. Stigma yellow, downy, with about twenty-two

rays, and from beneath each ray arises a clavate fleshy body,

almost an inch long, curving over the top of the stigma, and

collectively forming a crown around it.

Fig. 1. Ovary, with its crown of club-shaped processes. 2. Inner stamen. 3-

Outer stamen :—-magnified.

We have given up so much space to the endeavour to clear

up some of the difficulties attending the study of the genus

BLlandfordia, that it is scarcely necessary to enter into any length-—

ened descriptive matter on this particular species. The leaves

are long and slender, very slightly rough to the touch on the

edges and keel. The flowers, when living, are almost exactly

campanulate, and the stamens are longer than in another species -

we know, a little exserted, and arising from the edge of the

very small contracted portion of the tube near the base. The

ripe fruit is remarkably acuminated. Dr. Mackay’s finest spe- _

cimen had the flower-stalk three feet and a half high, and in all

plant.

Fig. 1. Flower with the campanulate portion of the perianth removed. 2, §e

Pistil. 3. Immature fruit. 4. Transverse section of the same :—magnijied.

TAB. 4824. °

ONCIDIUM trncuRVuUM.

Curved Oncidium.

Nat. Ord. OncHIDE#.—GYNANDRIA MoNANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Perianthium explanatum. Sepala sepius undulata, lateralibus

nunc sub labello connatis. Petala conformia. Ladbellum maximum, ecalcaratum,

cum columna continuum, varie lobatum, basi tuberculatum v. cristatum. Columna

libera, semiteres, apice utrinque alata. Anthera semi-bilocularis, rostello nunc ab-

breviato, nunc elongato rostrato. Pollinia 2, postice sulcata, caudicula plana,

glandula oblonga.—Herbee epiphyte, nunc pseudo-bulbose. Folia coriacea. Scapi

paniculati vaginati, rarius simplices. Flores speciost, sepius maculati, rarius albi.

Lindl.

ea ca ania li ah gs

Oncrp1uM (§ Euoncidium) ineurvum ; pseudo-bulbis ovatis ancipitibus utrinque

3—4-costatis di-triphyllis, foliis ensiformibus acutis, scapo elongato racemoso-

paniculato, sepalis linea ‘-Janceolatis undulatis liberis, petalis conformibus

incurvis, labelli laciniis lateralibus rotundatis nanis intermedia subrotunda

concava acuta, crista ovata depressa dimidia inferiore lineata superiore

tricostata, columna subaptera. Lindl.

Oncrprum incurvum, Barker in Bot. Reg., 1840, Mise. 174. Lindl. Bot. Reg.

1845, ¢. 64.

A well-marked species of a most extensive genus, first intro-.

duced to our Gardens, as appears from the ‘ Botanical Register,

by Mr. George Barker of Birmingham, but no locality is given

for the species. We are enabled to state that it is a native of

Mexico, whence it has been sent by Percy W. Doyle*, Esq.,

Minister Plenipotentiary in that city, to his brother, Colonel

North, at Putney, in whose stove it Howered in October 1854,

and from whose plant our figure was.taken. ‘The nearest affi-

nity of the species is perhaps with 0. ornithorhynchus, but it

wants the long beak to the anther-case.

Descr. Pseudo-bulbs ovate or oblong, compressed and ancl-

pitous, with about three elevated ribs on the flattened sides ; the

younger ones bearing a pair of leaves at the base of the pseudo-

* Tt was to this gentleman we were indebted for the “jumping” or “ moving iz

seeds; for an account of which, see our Journal of Botany for the present year

(1854), p. 304.

DECEMBER Ist, 1854.

b, and a pair, rather caves

ear-ensiform, rather i, C al — Scape

rom an angle of the pseudo-bulb and from within the base

of the leaf, erect, flexuous, one and a half foot long, jointed,

eathed with scales at the joints. Panicle moderately large;

ranches spreading, constituting racemes of flowers. Sepals and

etals nearly uniform, spathulato-lanceolate, spreading, undula-—

ted, the latter moderately incurved, all of them white, blotched

vith reddish-purple. Zadellum three-lobed ; two lateral lobes:

(at the base) small, patent, obtuse ; intermediate lobe dilated

at the extremity, where it is subreniform; the colour white,

otched with purple; the disc at the base crested and tuber-

ated. Column short, moderately winged. Anther-case hemi-

spherical. Pol/en-masses as in the genus. 7

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