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BRASSIA Lawrenctana, var. LONGISSIMA.

Mr. Lawrence's Brassia, long-sepaled variety.

Nat. Ord. Orncu1pEm.—Gynanpria MonanpRia.

Gen. Char. Perianthium explanatum. Sepala et petala angusta, libera,

zequalia, his nune minoribus. Labellum planum, indivisum, ecalearatum,

cum columna continuum, basi bicristatum. Colwmna nana, libera, aptera.

Anthera 1-locularis. Pollinia 2, postice suleata; eaudicula brevi; glan-

dula crassa.—Herbex epiphytice, acaules, pseudobulbose, Americe tropice

incole. Folia coriacea. Scapi radicales, basi bracteati. Flores speciosi,

spicati. Lindl.

Brassta Lawrenciana ; sepalis lateralibus elongatis, labello oblongo apice

lanceolato subundulato, callo baseos simplici canaliculato truncato

pubescente. Lindl.

Brassta Lawrenciana. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. v. 27. t. 18.

Var. longissima, sepalis longissime caudatis, labello oblongo-lanceolato sub-

tiliter aristato-acuminato ima basi abrupte excavato. Reichb. fil. in

Gard. Chron. 1868, p. 1313.

This magnificent Orchid is a native of Costa Rica, and was

flowered last September by Wentworth Buller, Esq., F.L.S.,

of Strete Raleigh, Exeter, who informs me that one spike

bore no less than thirteen fragrant flowers, of the size and

colour represented in our Plate.

When figuring the original Brassia Lawrenciana, Dr.

Lindley well remarked that “the species of this genus are

difficult to distinguish from one another, especially those

which have the lateral sepals much lengthened out.” The

flowers of the original state are not half so large as those of

our plants, the lateral sepals measuring barely three inches,

whilst they are fully seven inches long in the var. longissima ;

the colours, too, are considerably different, a deep orange-

yellow, with few large, broad, purple blotches in the variety,

but a pale golden-yellow, with more, much smaller, paler,

redder bars in the original. In more important characters,

however, the two plants agree so closely, that I have followed

JANUARY Ist, 1869.

Professor H. Reichenbach in referring the splendid plant

here figured to its comparatively pigmy and pale-flowered

predecessor, described by Dr. Lindley. It should further be

stated that Mr. Lawrence’s plant is said to be a native of

Brazil, whilst Mr. Wentworth Buller’s comes from Costa

Rica; but in the early days of Orchidology, localities and

habitats were not much attended to.

_ Descr. Pseudobulbs three inches and a half long, oblong

in outline, much compressed, with very acute thin edges,

quite smooth, even, and bright green. Leaves six to eight

inches long, oblong-lanceolate, coriaceous, very dark green.

Bracts at the base of the pseudobulb, often leafy. Spikes

from the base of the peduncle, two feet long, nearly hori-

zontal, drooping at the apex, many-flowered; bracteoles

short and small. Ovary one inch long, narrowed into a

stout pedicel. Sepals very long and slender, a quarter of an

inch broad at the base, lateral upwards of seven inches long,

dark orange-yellow, with a few large, deep red-purple

blotches towards the base. Petals erect, similar to the sepals,

and as broad, but much shorter, two to three inches long.

Lip three inches long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, pale yel-

low, with a ring of purple spots at the base, surrounding two

raised parallel ridges that are slightly pubescent and termi-

nate in tubercles. Edges of column pubescent.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Base of lip and column ;:—magnified.

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Tas. 5749,

IBERIDELLA rorunprrorta.

Round-leaved Iberidella.

Nat. Ord. Cructrer#.—TsrrRaDYNAMIA SILICULOSA.

Gen. Char. Sepala erecta, basi equalia. Petala equalia. Stamina libera,

edentula. Siligua compressa, oblonga v. lanceolata, acuta v. acuminata ;

valvis carinatis v. subalatis ; septo angusto membranaceo ; stylo elongato,

stigmate emarginato. Semina in loculis 2-6, oblonga, immarginata ; coty-

ledones accumbentes, interdum oblique.—Suffrutices v. herbe sepius basi

ramosi, glabri, montium Europe australis, Syrie, Persiz, e¢ Asie Minoris

incole. Folia alterna et opposita, integra. Flores racemosi, albi lilacini

v. roset.

Iserivetta rotundifolia; humilis, glaberrima, radice elongata, ramis con-

fertis ascendentibus foliosis, foliis oppositis parvis carnosulis obovatis

v. obovato-rotundatis obtusis integerrimis v. obscure sinuato-dentatis

radicalibus petiolatis caulinis sessilibus basi obtusis v, auriculatis, ra-

cemis oblongis densifloris, pedicellis gracilibus patentibus, petalis li-

lacinis, siliquis obovato-oblongis acuiinatis stylo persistente termi-

natis, valvis carinatis, loculis 2-spermis.

Tuuasprt rotundifolium. Gaud. Fl. Helvet. v. 4. p. 219.

TutaspPt ceperfolium. Koch, Fl. Germ. ed. 2. p. 75.

Tataspr corymbosum. Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. v. 2. p. 8. t. 6. f. 4224.

Hurcurnsta rotundifolia. 2. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 4. p.82. DC.

Prodr, v. 1. p. 177.

Hurcnrnsta cepeefolia. DC. Syst. v. 2. p. 386. Prod. v. 1. p. 177.

Hutcurnsta corymbosa. J. Gay, in Syllog. Ratisb. v. 1. p. 169.

Iseris rotundifolia. Linn. Sp. Pl. n. 905.

Iserts cepeewfolia. Wulf. in Jacq. Mise. v. 2. p. 28. f. 1.

Noccea ceperfolia. Reichb. Fl. Hxcurs. p. 663.

A lovely little rock-plant, native chiefly of shingly calca-

reous soils in the Alps of Europe, from Mont Cenis to Ca-

rinthia, at elevations of 6-9000 feet. It flowered in the

Royal Gardens, Kew, in April last, and at the same period

in Messrs. Backhouse’s establishment at York; the Kew

plants were received from the Zurich Botanic Gardens;

Messrs. Backhouse’s were imported from the Monte Rosa

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Alps. The plant is variable in habit, in the colour of the

foliage, and its glaucousness; the Zurich variety is denser,

deeper green, and has stouter racemes of more numerous

flowers than the Monte Rosa ones, the lower leaves of which

are of a lovely glaucous hue, variegated with red-purple, and

the inflorescence laxer and fewer flowered.

The species has been transferred from genus to genus

until the late settlement of the Thlaspideous crucifers in the

‘Genera Plantarum.’ There.can, I think, be no doubt that

it is a close ally of the more Eastern forms that constitute

the genus Jheridella, which differ from Thlaspi in the acute

pod, from Léeris in the equal petals, and from Hutchinsia in

the long style and foliage.

Descr. A densely-tufted, more or less glaucous-green,

glabrous herb, with a long perennial tap-root, that burrows

deep amongst stones. . Stems three to six inches long, ascend-

ing. Leaves mostly opposite, small, fleshy, one-third to three-

quarters of an inch long; radical petioled, broadly obovate

or almost orbicular, quite entire or obscurely sinuate-toothed ;

cauline sessile, obtuse or auricled at the base. Flowers half

an inch in diameter, in cylindric, crowded, erect racemes, pale

lilac, with a yellow eye; pedicels horizontal.—J. D. H.

Fig, 1. Flower, 2. Ditto, with the calyx and pet

—all magnified. alyx and petals removed. 3. Ovary: |

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TACSONTA ERIANTHA,

Woolly-flowered Tacsonia.

Nat. Ord. PasstrrorE®.—PrEnranpria TRIGYNIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 557 1.)

Tacsonta eriantha; caule glabrato, foliis latis profunde 3-lobis 5-nervibus,

lobis ovatis calloso-serratis supra glabris subtus niveo-tomentosis venis

glabratis, stipulis dimidiato-orbiculatis aristato-dentatis, bracteis con-

natis venosis venis viridibus calyceque albo-lanatis, calycis tubo elon-

gato, lobis petalisque consimilibus oblongis apice rotundatis roseis,

coronis brevissimis exteriore carnosulo dentato intermedio integro, in-

teriore crenulato.

Tacsonta eriantha. Benth. Pl. Hartweg. 183. Walp. Rep. v. 5.773.

A noble plant, resembling in habit and colour of flower the

well-known T. mollissima (Tab. nostr. 4187*), from which,

however, it differs conspicuously in the white undersurface

of the foliage and long bracts; these species, and others not

yet introduced, are natives of the temperate Andes of Ecua-

dor and New Granada, and are cultivated in the Gardens of

Quito, whence they have been introduced into this country.

The one here figured was sent by Professor Jameson, of that

city, to Isaac Anderson Henry, Ksq., F.L.S., of Hay Lodge,

Edinburgh, with whom it flowered last J uly. Professor

Jameson describes it asa native of the Volcano of Pichincha,

growing at the upper boundary of the forest regions, 1]-

13,000 feet above the sea, ina cold and foggy climate. Asa

greenhouse or conservatory climber, it rivals the 7. mollis-

sima, and is as free a flowerer.

Descr. A late woody climber. Stem nearly glabrous, an-

gular. Leaves on stout glandular petioles an inch and a

half to two inches long; blade four to six inches in dia-

meter, much broader than long, deeply three-lobed, subcor-

date at the base, glabrous above, covered below except the

* I doubt much this being the true mollissima, H. B. K., which has

densely tomentose stems; it more resembles 7. Quitensis, Benth.

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nerves with snow-white cottony tomentum; lobes serrate.

Stipules semiorbicular, coriaceous, convex, acutely toothed,

with a spinous process at the base. Peduncles solitary, stout,

one-flowered, shorter than the petioles. Bracts connate into

a three-lobed tube one inch long, covered as well as the

calyx-tube with white down, the veins conspicuous and green.

Calyx-tube three inches long by half an inch in diameter,

cylindric, lobes an inch and a half long, oblong, rounded

at the point, pink, with a green midrib at the back, which is

produced into a sharp point. Pefals similar to the calyx-

lobes. Corona of three short series, outer an irregularly

lobed ring, intermediate an almost entire ring, inner tubular,

embracing the base of the stamens, crenulate. Ovary vil-

lous.— J. D. Hf.

Fig. 1. Portion of calyx, showing the outer and middle coronas :—magnified.

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STAPELIA Hysrrix.

Bristly flowered Stapelia.

Nat. Ord. ASCLEPIADE®.—GyYNANDRIA PENTANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tan. 5692.)

Stapeia Hystriz; glauco-virescens, ramis ramulisque pentagonis, angulis

rotundatis dentatis, dentibus patentibus corneis acutis, pedunculis so-

litariis v. aggregatis unifloris roseis ex parte inferiore ramulorum

enatis, corolla patentissima 5-fida, lobis ovatis acuminatis, supra sul-

phureis striis brevibus interruptis transversis rufis et processubus

subulatis erectis diaphanis apicibus rufescentibus densissime obtectis,

corona exteriore depressa lobata, cornubus conniventibus appendici

crasso horizontali oblongo obtuso terminatis, appendicibus discum

obtuse 5-lobum efformantibus,

This is an entirely new species, in so far as I can ascertain,

of the long neglected but interesting and beautiful genus

Stapelia. At first sight it resembles so closely the S. glan-

duliflora of Masson (cultivated in Kew in 1796, but now lost

to the country), that it was taken for that plant ; but it

differs entirely in the five-angled stems, horizontal spines, in

the larger flowers, in the subulate processes (not clavate

hairs) that cover the corolla-lobes, and in the curious hori-

zontal appendages that crown the stamina] processes, and to-

gether form a five-rayed disk in the centre of the flower. It

is a native of Eastern South Africa, and was sent to the Royal

Gardens by Mr. M‘Ken, the indefatigable and able Superin-

tendent of the Natal Botanic Gardens.

Descr. A small, tufted, pale glaucous-green species, four

to six inches high, and much branched. Branches half an.

inch to three-quarters of an inch in diameter, five-angled ;

angles obtuse, tuberculate, toothed, tubercles conical, teeth

horny, pointing outwards. Flowers two to three together from

near the bases of the branches, bracts subulate; peduncles

pink. Sepals small, lanceolate. Corolla one inch in dia-

meter, pale sulphur-coloured, internally marked with innu-

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merable small, short, transverse bars of dark purple, lobes

ovate acuminate, spreading and recurved, densely covered

with erect, diaphanous, subulate, fleshy processes, tipped with .

purple; interior of tube smooth. Outer corona depressed,

expanded, lobulate, with small tubercles between each sta-

men. Staminal processes erect, conniving, with horizontal

terminal appendages that are thick and ovoid, flat above and

convex below; these together form a five-rayed disk in the

centre of the flower.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Vertical section of tube of corolla, showing the corona and sta-

minal processes :—magnified.

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THIBAUDIA acumryara.

Sharp-leaved Thibaudia.

Nat. Ord. Ertckm.—Prntanpr1a Monoeynt.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4308.)

Turpavpta (Proclesia) acuminata ; fruticosa, glabra v. ramulis et inflores-

centia puberulis, foliis brevissime petiolatis coriaceis ovatis y. ovato-

lanceolatis longe acuminatis v. apice caudatis integerrimis 3-5-plinerviis

coriaceis subtus nigro-punctulatis, racemis brevibus subterminalibus,

bracteis amplis coloratis deciduis, calycis limbo 5-dentato, corolla

elongato-urceolata 5-dentata, filamentis glaberrimis alternis paulo mi-

noribus.

THIBAUDIA acuminata. Hook. Ic. Pl. ¢. 111.

Tarpaupia Hookeri. Walp. Rep. v. 6. p. 412.

ProctEsta acuminata et P. Benthamiana. Klotzsch in’ Linnea, v. 24. p. 34.

A very distinct, showy, free-flowering shrub, a native of

the Andes of Columbia and Ecuador, whence we have many

specimens collected by Jameson, Hartweg, and others. It

was introduced by Mr. Pearce when collecting for Messrs.

Veitch, by whom it was flowered in November last.

Being a native of the loftier regions of the Andes, from

8-10,000 feet, it is well suited to a conservatory temperature,

where its handsome green foliage, purple-tinted young leaves,

and brilliant red flowers, which are produced in great abun-

dance, render it a very attractive plant. Colonel Hall, its

discoverer, describes the fruit as fragrant and eatable. Pro-

fessor Jameson observes that around the suburbs of Quito,

where it abounds, it flowers throughout the year.

Descr. A branching, leafy, evergreen shrub, with pendu-

lous branches, that are glabrous or slightly pubescent. Leaves

subdistichous, on very short stout petioles, two to three

inches long, ovate or oblong-lanceolate, rounded at the base,

with long acuminate or caudate points, three to five-nerved

towards the base, glabrous and dark green above, below

JANUARY Ist, 1869.

paler, with a few scattered, minute, black, glandular dots.

Flowers in terminal and axillary short racemes, covered when

in bud by large, imbricating, concave, scarlet, deciduous, ob-

long, obtuse, coriaceous bracts, the longest nearly half an

inch long. Pedicels short. Calyz-tube globose, limb. five-

toothed. Corolla two-thirds of an inch long, glabrous, tubu-

lar, but ventricose below, shortly five-toothed, bright red, with

green tips and lobes. Stamens included, filaments very short,

curved, glabrous; anthers slender, cells with long terminal

slits. Style slender, stigma truncate.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2, Ovary. 8. Stamens :—all magnified.

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CdELOGYNE (Pleione) ReicHEnBACHIANA.

Dr. Reichenbach’s Pleione.

Nat. Ord. OrcnipEx.—Gynanpria Monanprra.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tan. 5674.)

CaLoe@rne (Pleione) Reichenbachiana; pseudobulbo magno lagenweformi

supra medium tumido longitudinaliter lobato, apice abrupte conico,

floribus amplis, sepalis petalisque anguste oblongis roseis, labello albo

disco roseo maculato mento brevissimo, lobis lateralibus brevibus

terminali dilatato ciliato-dentato 2-fido, disco 3-carinato carinis medio

serie papillarum ornatis, columna gracili apice 3-lobo, lobis lateralibus

emarginatis intermedio dentato, rostello 3-lobo.

Catoarne (Pleione) Reichenbachiana. T. Moore in Gard. Chron. 1868,

p- 1210.

This is decidedly the finest species of the Pleione group of

Celogyne known; it was discovered by our excellent and

indefatigable correspondent Col. Benson, of Rangoon, on the

mountains of Arracan, I believe (but have no certain infor-

mation), and transmitted by him to the Royal Gardens and

to Messrs. Veitch’s establishment, in both which places it

flowered simultaneously in November of last year. It was

first described in the ‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle’ under the above

name, thus paying a richly deserved compliment to a

foreigner who has ever lent a helping hand to all classes of

the British cultivators of his favourite order of plants. As

a species it is very distinct from any other, by the great size,

peculiar shape, lobing, and reticulated coloration of the

pseudobulb, in which respect it most resembles C. lagenaria

(Tab. nostr. 5370). The colouring of the lip and form of

the lobes of the top of the column are variable.

Descr. Pseudobulbs crowded, two inches and a half long,

FEBRUARY Ist, 1869.

by one inch and a half in diameter, pitcher-shaped, but sud-

denly contracted into a blunt conical apex, constricted

below the middle, rounded at the base, deeply longitudinally

6-8-lobed, the lobes semicylindric and forming rounded

prominences at thé broadest part; very dark green, reti-

culated with dark brown. Leaves not seen. Scapes one

to two inches high, closely sheathed; lower sheaths short,

inflated, green spotted with brown, uppermost long, lax,

membranous. Ovary slender, one inch long. lowers two

to two inches and a half across. Sepals narrow-oblong, pale

rose-coloured, with white edges. Petals narrower and paler.

Lip nearly white, with a very short gibbosity (mentum) at

the base ; lateral lobes convolute, gradually dilating into the

open, reflexed, suborbicular, 2-fid middle lobe, which is white,

with a few pale-red purple spots, and has ciliate toothed mar-

gins; disc of lip streaked with purple, and bearing three

slender crests along the middle, which are shortly produced

on to the middle lobe, each crested with a series of short

flattened prominent papille. Colwmn very slender, apex 3-

lobed, lateral lobes notched, middle obtusely irregularly

toothed. Rostellum 3-lobed.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Column. 2. Lip:—both magnified.

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DELOSTOMA DENTATUM.

Toothed-leaved Delostoma.

Nat. Ord. Branontacr2.—Dipynamta ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx coriaceus, alabastro obovoideus, clausus acuminatus,

adultus 2-8-labiatus. Corolla tubulosa, plus minusve incurya, limbo

patente 5-lobo sub-2-labiato. Stamina 4 fertilia, quinto setiformi v. 0,

didynama; antherarum loculi subdiscreti. Ovariun 2-loculare; stylus

filitormis, stigmate 2-lamellato. Oapsula oblonga v. lineari-oblonga, com-

presso 4-gona, utrinque attenuata, valvis cymbiformibus levibus, septo

valvis contrario (parallelo, DC.), polysperma. Semina in loculis plurise-

riata, compressissima, late alata.—Frutices Peruvim et Nove Granade

imcole. Folia opposita, petiolata, simplicia, elliptico-oblonga. ‘Racemi inter

ramulos oppositos orti, pauciflori, bracteis 0 v. minutis. © Flores conspicut.

—Bureau, Monog. Bignon. p. 51, ¢.16. Copazzta, Karst. et Trian. in

Linnea, v. 28. p. 426.

Dertostoma dentatum, parce puberulum, foliis amplis oblongis subacutis

obtuse serratis, calycis tubo campanulato 5-gono angulis superne

nodoso-incrassatis lobis 8 parvis triangulari-ovatis aristato-acuminatis,

corolla alba y. pallide rosea glaberrima tubo incurvo, staminibus 4 cum

quinto setiformi, stylo pubescente.

Detostoma dentatum. Don in Hd. Phil. Journ. 1823, p. 263. Gen. Syst.

Gard. v. 4. p. 228. DC. Prodr. v. 9. p. 198.

A remarkably beautiful plant, with the habit of a Gesne-

ria, raised from seeds sent by Professor J ameson, of Quito,

to that able and intelligent horticulturalist Isaac Anderson

Henry, Esq., of Hay Lodge, Edinburgh, with whom it

flowered in October of last year. It is a native of Gualesca,

near Cuenca, in Ecuador. The genus consists of three or

four other species, none of which have ever been introduced,

and the present is the only one hitherto figured in botanical

works.

Descr. A small shrub of robust habit, sparsely pubescent

on the branchlets and leaves below. Branches stout, terete.

FEBRUARY Ist, 1869.

Leaves opposite, simple, petioled, four to five inches long by

three to four inches broad, broadly oblong, subacute, obtuse

at the base, coarsely bluntly serrate, bright green on both

surfaces, nerve very strong below. taceme arising from the

forks of the upper branches, two to three inches long, 3—4-

flowered; peduncles short, with minute bracts at the base.

Calya a quarter of an inch long; tube campanulate, 5-ribbed

above, the ribs produced into tubercles at the apex ; limb

small, of three triangular-ovate subaristate conniving lobes.

Corolla one inch and a half.long, subcampanulate ; limb

nearly two inches in diameter, white suffused with pale rose-

colour; tube incurved; lobes five, nearly equal, spreading,

orbicular. Stamens four, with a rudimentary fifth; fila-

ments swollen and pubescent at the base; anther-cells con-

tiguous, parallel. Ovary sunk in a fleshy cup-shaped disc ;

style hairy; stigmas small, unequal.—dJ. D. H.

Fig. 1. Base of corolla and stamens. 2. Anther. 8. Calyx, style, and

stigmas :—all magnified.

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CAMPTOPUS Manni.

West-African Camptopus.

Nat. Ord. Rusracez. Tribe Psycnorries.—Pentanpria Monoeynta.

Gen. Char. Flores involucrati, hermaphroditi. Calycis tubus brevis,

obconicus, limbus ultra ovarium productus subcylindricus 5—6-fidus, lobis

lanceolatis erectis ciliatis. Corolla tubulosa, coriacea, extus glabra, tubo

paulo ampliato limbo calycis duplo longiore, fauce intus ad insertionem

staminum oreque villosis, lobis 5 ovatis valvatis. Stamina 5, fauci corolle

inserta, filamentis subulatis ; anthers exserte, dorso supra medium affixe,

lineares, obtuse, basi breviter 2-lobe. Discus epigynus magnus, globosus,

apice depresso. Ovarivm 3-4-loculare; stylus brevis validus, stigmate

3—4-lobo lobis erectis oblongis intus papillosis; ovula in loculis solitaria,

erecta. Fructus * * * —Frutex glaberrimus, Africe occidentalis tropice

incola, ramis crassis cylindricis levibus. Folia ampla, opposita, breve crasse

petiolata, obovata, coriacea, costa subtus crassa, nervis divergentibus. Stipulx

magne, 2-fide, foliacee, decidue. Pedunculi rubri, solitarii, axillares, lon-

gissimi, cernui, apice erecti floriferi, capitulum compositum multiflorum

involucrato-bracteatwm gerentes, bracteis orbicularibus concavis rubris nitidis.

Flores albi, breviter exserti, densissime congesti.

Camptorus Manni.

This very singular stove shrub was discovered at Fernando

Po by Mr. Mann during his dangerous botanical journeys on

the west coast of tropical Africa in the service of the Royal

Gardens, and was introduced by him in 1863. It has also

been collected at Old Calabar, from the coast opposite Fer-

nando Po, by a correspondent of Dr. Balfour, of Edinburgh, to

whom the Hookerian Herbarium is indebted for a dried speci-

men. As an ornamental hothouse plant it is conspicuous

for the size and beauty of the deep-green foliage with a red

midrib beneath, and the brilliant coloured bracts and pedun-

cles, the latter of which, after reaching a foot in length,

curve outwards and downward beyond the foliage and

become suddenly thickened as they bend upwards at the

tip and support the scarlet and white ball of flowers, pre-

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senting a most graceful and striking feature. It was received

at Kew in 1864, and flowered, for the first time, in November

of last year. As a genus it is closely allied to Cephaéhs,

differing in habit, in the 3-4-celled ovary, and exserted sta-

mens.

Descr. A shrub attaining fifteen feet in height. Branches

stout, cylindrical, green. Leaves opposite, on petioles two

to three inches long, obovate or obovate-lanceolate, acute,

narrowed into the petiole, quite glabrous, coriaceous; mid-

rib stout, red below, nerves diverging. Stipules large, leafy,

oblong, 2-fid, united at the pubescent base within the petioles,

deciduous above the base. Peduncle axillary, eight to twelve

inches long, solitary, scarlet, curving outwards, then down-

wards, thickened and ascending at the apex, and bearing an

erect subglobose compound head, two to five inches in dia-

meter, of white flowers clothed with numerous general and

partial orbicular concave shining involucral bracts. lowers

densely crowded, white, shortly exserted, almost sessile; bracts

spathulate. Calyax-tube very short, limb cylindric, 5—6-cleft,

segments ciliate. Corolla-tube white, coriaceous, one-half to

three-quarters of an inch long, lobes spreading, throat and

mouth villous. Stamens exserted. Disc very large, almost

globose. Ovary 3—4-celled ; style stout; stigma 3- or 4-lobed.

ii Sr as . ees

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Corolla laid open. 3. Stamen. 4. Calyx, style,

and stigma. 5. Ovary, disc, and base of style. 6. Vertical section of

ditto. 7. Transverse section of ovary :—all magnified.

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ONCIDIUM xantnopon.

Golden-toothed Oncidium.

Nat. Ord. Orncnu1pr“#.—GynNanpRIA MoNnaANpDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4148.)

Oncrpium (Cyrtochilum) wanthodon; pseudobulbo elongato ovoideo com-

presso levi, folio anguste obovato-oblongo coriaceo, scapo volubili

longissimo, panicula ampla ramosa flexuosa multiflora, bracteis ovato-

lanceolatis spathaceis ovario elongato multo brevioribus, perianthii

lobis undulato-crispatis brunneis aureo-marginatis et crenulatis, se-

palis petalisque unguiculatis obovato-rotundatis his paulo minoribus,

labello parvo sessili basi subhastata fornicata, callis tuberculiformibus,

lamina anguste obovata unguiculata recurva, columna breyi sigmoidea,

alis minutis.

Onciprum (§ Cyrtochilum) xanthodon. H. G. Reichenbach ful. in Gard.

Chron. 1868, p. 1338.

A very remarkable species, described by Dr. Reichenbach

as being allied to O. serratum, conspicuous for its large

panicle and numerous flowers, and the chocolate-brown colour

of the reflexed and wavy perianth-segments, which are edged

with a golden band, crenate and almost crisped ; it was im-

ported by Messrs. Backhouse, of York, from the eastern parts

of the Cordillera of Ecuador. Four plants of it flowered

simultaneously in November of last year with Messrs. Back-

house, who inform me that the flowering stems were six to

eight feet long and twined round every available object with

which they came in contact.

Descr. Pseudobulb five inches long, narrow-ovoid, much

compressed, perfectly smooth, bright green, with a few

sheathing leaves at its base and one at its apex. Leaves one

anda half to two feet long, two to two and a half inches

broad above the middle, narrow linear-obovate, acute, bright

green, quite smooth. Scape very slender, six to eight feet

‘long, much branched, twining, greenish-brown ; sheaths ap-

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pressed. Panicle much branched ; rachis and branches slen-

der, flexuous; bracts ovate-lanceolate, nearly half an inch

long. Ovary and pedicel together slender, nearly two inches

long. Flowers one inch and a half in diameter, of a rich

chocolate-brown colour, with golden crisped and crenate

edges. Petals and sepals very similar, waved and reflexed,

clawed; blade broadly ovate, rounded or almost hastate at

the base. Jp smaller and narrower than the petals; basal

portion irregularly quadrate, sessile, two-lobed at the apex;

disc very prominent, with several tubercular calli which

are yellow, shining, and viscid; blade spathulate, recurved,

acute, of the same colour as the sepals and petals. Column

short, curved like the letter s, with small lateral wings at

the apex.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Lip and column :—magnified.

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COBAA PENDULIFLORA.

Pendulousflowered Cobea.

Nat. Ord. Poremoytacexs.—PrEntanpRia Monoeynta.

Gen. Char. Calyz late campanulatus, foliaceus, 5-fidus, sepalorum mar-

ginibus induplicatim connatis 5-alatus. Corolla campanulata, tubo brevi,

fauce ampla elongata; limbi lobi breves vy. elongati, nunc loriformes et

penduli. Stamina 5, exserta, filamentis elongatis alabastro contortis, basi

villosis. Discus maximus, carnosus, 5-lobus. Ovarium 8-loculare ; stylus

gracilis, stigmate 3-lobo; ovula pauca v. plurima. Capsula 3-gona, 3-locu-

is, 3-valvis, oligo- y. polysperma. Semina 2-seriatim adscendentia, im-

bricata, compressa, in alam expansa.—Frutices Mexici, Nove Granade ef

Americe centralis incole. Folia alterna, pinnatisecta, in cirrhum desinentia,

Soliolis 2-3-jugis infimis stipuleformibus. Pedunculi axillares, 1flori, basi

Soliaceo-bracteati.

Copxa penduliflora; gracilis, glaberrima, foliolis petiolulatis lineari-ob-

longis acutis v. acuminatis basi obtusis vy. subcordatis, sepalis lineari-

oblongis acutis, corolle campanulate lobis loriformibus pendulis un-

dulatis apice 2-fidis, filamentis longissimis inter lobos corollz longe

exsertis bislaiwnidiies patentibus, stylo longissimo stigmatibus fili-

formibus.

Roszyzrrata penduliflora. Karsten, Fl. Colomb. p. 27, t. 14,

This very singular and graceful climber at first sight so

little resembles the common Cobea of our greenhouses that

it is difficult to suppose it belongs to the same genus; but a

‘Yeference to the C. macrostema, Pavon (Tab. nostr. 3780) at

once shows how simple the transition is from one to the

other, the chief differences being in the immensely long

corolla-lobes of C. pendulifiora and the much exserted stamens

of this and of C. macrostema, which project horizontally

between the corolla-lobes, forming five rays, much as in

Gloriosa—an arrangement doubtless intended to secure cross-

impregnation by removing the anthers to the furthest distance

from the stigma. C. penduliflora is a native of the mountains

of Caraccas, at an elevation of 6000 feet, where it was dis-

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covered by Fendler, and published by Karsten, who has

given an excellent figure of it, adopting the generic name of

Rosenbergia, which was originally applied by Cirsted for an

allied Central-American species.

The seeds were sent to the Royal Gardens by Monsieur A.

Ernst, of Caraccas, a zealous correspondent of this establish-

ment ; and the plants flowered in the cooler end of the Palm

House in December 1868. It has also been found near

Tarapoto, in Eastern Peru, by Spruce.

Descr. A slender, glabrous, pale-green climber. Leaves

three to five inches long, pale green and membranous ; leaf-

lets in two pairs, one and a half to two inches long, petiolu-

late, narrow oblong, acute or acuminate, obtuse or rounded

at the base; petiole ending in a long, branched, filiform,

tortuous tendril. Pedwncles solitary, axillary, pendulous,

eight to ten inches long, naked, 1-flowered. ower four to

five inches long from the base of the calyx to the tips of the

corolla-lobes. Calyx-tube dilated, lobed and intruse at the

base; segments one and a half inch long, broadly linear,

acuminate, green. Corolla green, campanulate; tube one

inch, and lobes three to four inches long, the latter strap-

shaped, not one-quarter of an inch broad, pendulous, wavy,

2-fid at the tip. Stamens spreading; filaments three inches

long, dark red-purple; anthers yellow, three-quarters of an

inch long. Style filiform, green; stigma slender.—J. D. i.

Fig. 1. Base of corolla and stamen. 2. Tip of corolla-lobes. 3. Base

of calyx, dise, and ovary. 4. Transverse; and 5. Longitudinal section of

ovary :—all magnified.

Tas. 5758.

CYCLAMEN AFRICANUM.

Algerian Cyclamen.

Nat. Ord. Primviacem.—Prntanpria Mownoeynta.

Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus. Corolle tubus brevis, subglobosus, fauce

incrassata, limbi refracti laciniis 5 tubo longioribus. Stamina 5, imo

corolle tubo inserta, inclusa, filamentis brevissimis ; anthers cuspidate.

Ovarium 1-loculare ; stylus indivisus, stigmate simplici; ovula numerosa,

peltatim amphitropa. “Capsula globosa, 1-locularis, 5-valvis, valvis reflexis.

Semina plurima, subglobosa, angulata, umbilico ventrali; embryo rectus,

umbilico parallelus.—Herbe Europe medi, Asie occidentalis et Africe

borealis incole, tubere carnoso napiformi. Folia radicalia, petiolata, cor-

dato-reniformia. Scapi nudi, lflori, floriferi stricti, fructiferi in spiramn

convolut: humo appressi. Corolla rosea, purpurea v. alba.

CrcLamen Africanum; tubere magno, foliis synanthiis basi cordatis swpius

acute 7—9-angulatis margine revolutis crenulato-dentatis, pedunculis

superne calycibusque pubescenti-glandulosis, sepalis ovatis setaceo-

acuminatis glanduloso-dentatis, corolla roseo-alba, tubo apice non

constricto, fauce 10-dentato, laciniis oblongo-linearibus, antheris

sessilibus.

Crctamen Africanum. Boiss. § Reuter, Pugill, Plant. Nov. Afr. Or. et

Hisp. Austr. p. 75. Planchon in Flore des Serres, v. viii. t. 841.

Cyctamen Neapolitanum. Duby in DC. Prodr. quoad descriptionem et

patriam Algeriam, non Tenore.

CycLaMEN macrophyllum. Host ex Planchon in Fl. des Serres, 1. ¢.

The largest species of the beautiful genus to which it be-

longs, the tubers sometimes attaining the size of a large

turnip. It is a very common Algerian plant, and was sent

to the Royal Gardens by Giles Munby, Esq., Col. Playfair,

Consul-General of Algeria, and other parties, and it flowers

abundantly in September.

I follow Boissier and Reuter in considering this a distinct

species, though under a conviction that it is but a form of

one of the European kinds (probably C. Neapolitanum), which

FEBRUARY Isr, 1869.

are themselves so variable that authors differ widely as to their —

nomenclature and synonymy; its best character appears to

reside in its strongly toothed calyx-lobes. The figure in the

‘Flore des Serres’ represents a huge overfed garden form of

the plant, quite unlike any indigenous specimens.

Descr. Tuber very large, four to ten inches in diameter.

Leaves two to two and a half inches long, ovate-cordate, ob-

scurely or shallowly and acutely angled, obtusely coarsely

toothed, dull green, marbled with paler green, pale beneath ;

petioles and scapes red. Calya pubescent, 5—6-fid ; lobes

broadly ovate, acuminate, toothed, green-veined. Corolla

nearly white, with a faint rose-purple tinge; segments five

to six, deep purple at the base, one inch long.—J. D. ZH.

5702

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VANDA INSIGNIS.

Noble Vanda.

Nat. Ord. Orncurpr#.—GynaNnpriA MoNnANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tan. 5174.)

Vanna insignis ; foliis rigidis canaliculatis apice inequali-abscissis v. den-

tatis, racemis folium wquantibus laxis 5-7-floris, perianthii foliolis

patentibus obovato-spathulatis rectiusculis, labelli basi 2-carinati

lobis lateralibus parvis adscendentibus obtusis, intermedio arrecto

apice repente dilatato-rotundato undulato ad basin subhastatam

utrinque calloso, caleari compresso conico obtuso recurvo.

Vanpa insignis. Blwme, Rumphia, v. 4. p. 49, t. 192. f. 2 e& 197 A.

Lindl. in Paxt. Fl. Gard. v. 2. p. 19, ewm ic. aylog. Folia Orchidacea,

Vanda, No.7. Reichb. in Gard. Chron. 1868, p. 1259.

The magnificent Orchid here figured is one of the most

interesting importations of late years. It settles a long ob-

scure point in the garden nomenclature of this noble genus,

proving that the plant which has hitherto usually borne the

name of V. insignis is not the plant of Blume, but, as was

often suspected, a form of V. tricolor; and that Blume’s plant

is not only a perfectly distinct species, but as fine a one as

any in the genus, V. Cathcartii, perhaps, alone excepted.

The V. insignis is a native of the Moluccas; it was sent to

Messrs. Veitch by their late lamented collector Mr. Hutton,

and flowered at their establishment in the King’s Road in

October 1868. Blume gives the mountains of the island of

Timor as its native country. It is probably as rare as it is a

little-known species; for I do not find it included in the

rich (1866) catalogue of the plants cultivated in the Royal

Botanic Gardens of Buitenzorg, in Java, where upwards of

500 Orchids, chiefly Malayan, are enumerated.

Descr. Stem suberect, as thick as the finger, leafy. Leaves

equidistant, ten inches long, one to one and a quarter broad,

MARCH Ist, 1869.

closely imbricating below, curved in a semicircle, linear, but

slightly narrowed at both ends; apex truncate, obliquely ex-

cised, in one curve or in two, one on each side the midrib,

deep green, nerveless, as are their sheaths, deeply keeled,

with rather recurved margins. Raceme rather short, axillary,

shorter than the leaves, drooping, 4—7-flowered ; rachis green,

terete. Flowers two to two and a half inches in diameter,

spreading ; pedicels and ovary together one and a half inch

long, at right angles to the rachis, almost white. Sepals

obovate-spathulate, three-quarters of an inch in diameter,

obtuse, fleshy, bright ochraceous brown, with darker brown

blotches, whitish externally. Petals similar, but narrower.

Lip almost fiddle-shaped, consisting of a subovate white body,

with two short auricles or lateral lobes, and two low ridges

on its disk; this suddenly expands into a rosy semilunar con-

cave limb, one inch broad, with smooth surfaces and entire

rounded margin. Colwmn short, thick.—J. D. H.

Tas. 5760.

: AGLAONEMA Maynn.

Mr, Mann’s Aglaonema.

Nat. Ord. Arnorppm.—Monecra PoLyanpria.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5500.)

Actaonema Mannii; foliis breviter petiolatis elliptico-oblongis mucronatis

luride viridibus, vaginis 2-3-pollicaribus viridibus, margimibus anguste

membranaceis, spatha breviter pedunculata 2 poll. longa oblonga

acuta, e basi breviter convoluta aperta sordide alba, spadice spatha

paulo breviore cylindrico obtuso, ovariis ad 15 depressis 2-locularibus,

stigmate sessili disciformi concavo, antheris 3-gonis late truncatis 2-

porosis.

To those who cultivate stove plants, the value of the

tropical Aroids is well known, because of their fine evergreen

foliage and remarkable freedom from insects, their singular

form, and the often conspicuous nature of their floral organs.

Of the several hundreds that are in cultivation in England,

and on the continent, where they are more highly prized

than with us, not half a dozen have been imported from

Tropical Africa, where various species form conspicuous

features in the humid forests of the west coast. Amongst

these is the subject of the present plate, which was sent to

the Royal Gardens by Mr. Gustav Mann from the Victoria

Mountains, one of the Cameroon range, which that intrepid

traveller and excellent collector was the first to explore.

The genus to which it belongs has hitherto been known as a

native of India only, where it ranges from the foot of the

Eastern Himalaya through the Malayan peninsula and

islands to the Moluccas, and it thus forms another proof of

.- close affinity between the tropical African and Malayan

oras.

Descr. Stem eighteen inches to two feet high, as thick as

MARCH Ist, 1869.

the thumb, covered with the erect sheathing bases of the

leaves. Leaves five to seven inches long, by three to four

broad, coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, rather obtuse, mucronate,

dark green above, paler below, with prominent midrib and

veins; petiole above the sheath half an inch long, stout,

deeply channelled in front, swollen at the base, as if jointed

on the sheath, which is two to four inches long, herbaceous

and green, with a very narrow membranous margin, not

auricled, but rounded at the upper termination. Peduncle

terminal, short, stout, erect. Spathe two inches long, white,

greenish below, discoloured above, scarcely convolute at the

concave base, then gradually expanding, but the margins

only reflexed. Spadiz one-third shorter than the spathe, one-

third of an inch in diameter, cylindric, on a stout columnar

peduncle, one-third of an inch long. Male portion half the

whole length; anthers white, trigonous, truncate, and flat-

topped, with 2 apical pores. Ovaries about fifteen, 2-celled,

very depressed, subspheroidal, but irregular in figure, scarlet.

Stigma a sessile depressed disk.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Spadix. 2. Group of three anthers. 3. Anther. 4. Ovary.

5. Transverse; and 6. Vertical section of ovary :—all magnified.

5767.

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AMOMUM SCEPTRUM.

Sceptrate Grain of Paradise.

Nat. Ord. Zrvarprerace2.—Monanpria Monoeynta.

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

Amomum sceptrum; foliis petiolatis anguste oblongo-lanceolatis glabris,

ligula scariosa, scapis simplicibus apice clavato-turgidis, circa 10-

floris, bracteis superioribus dorso apiculatis tempore florifero trans-

verse plicatis, labello amplo orbiculato undulato roseo, staminodiis

- liberis, fructu ovoideo compresso v. sub3-gono glabro, pericarpio

crasso, seminibus angulatis.

Amomum sceptrum. Oliver & Hanbury in Jowrn. Linn, Soc. v. 7, Bot.

(1863), p. 109.

A very beautiful plant, discovered by Gustav Mann, whilst

collecting for the Royal Gardens, on the Gaboon River, in

1861, and at Ambas Bay, where it grows near the shore.

The specimens here figured were raised from seed procured

by Daniel Hanbury, Esq., F.R.S., who flowered it in his

garden at Clapham in January of the present year, and who

informs me that it has also been sent from Old Calabar in

1863, and from Akassa, River Nun, by Mr. E. J. L. Simmonds

in 1865. As a species it approaches A. longiscapwm (Hook.

Kew Journ. Bot. 1854, p. 296), but differs conspicuously in

the narrowed base of the leaf and the linear outer perianth-

lobes. Though belonging to the same genus as the plant

producing the pungent and highly aromatic Melaguetta or

Grain-of-Paradise seeds, those of this species are almost

flavourless.

Descr. Rhizome stout, rooting, sending out long scaly

suckers. Leafing stems five to six feet high. Leaves

eight to ten inches long, narrow oblong-lanceolate, one and

a quarter to one and a half inch broad, narrowed to an acu-

MARCH Ist, 1869.

minate point, unequal at the base, and obliquely decurrent

on a very short slender petiole. Sheath five to eight inches

long in its loose open part, which is rather membranous and

finely striate; ligule oblong, scarious, half an inch long.

Blade with a distinct midrib, striated with innumerable fine

parallel diverging nerves. Flowering scape six inches high;

Jruiting, one to one and a half foot, erect, slender, red-brown,

covered with appressed obtuse sheaths of a darker red-brown ;

those surrounding the flowers distichous, gradually larger,

retuse or emarginate, green, mottled with brown, and with

brown margins. flowers suberect, three inches long,

altogether of a fine bright rose-purple. Spathaceous or outer

perianth short, obliquely truncate, subacute. Dorsal petal

narrow, oblong, obtuse, arched, very concave, twice as long

as the stamens; lateral lanceolate, decurved. Lip two to

two and a half inches in diameter, lamina orbicular, waved,

almost plicate. Staminodes linear, obliquely truncate.

Anther pubescent, with the connective produced at the top

into two spreading linear-oblong obtuse incurved horns; fila-

ments with an erect subulate basal appendage on each side.

Stigma small, capitate, excavated.. Fruit three inches long;

narrowly flagon-shaped. Seeds subpyriform, like grape-

stones; testa bright pale brown, very shining, nearly taste-

less—J. D. H. = :

Fig. 1. Ovary and spathaceous perianth. 2. Anther. 3. Staminodes.

4. Ovule in its aril. 5. Seed ate | 2 magnified,

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CARYOTA Cuminel.

Mr. Cumings Wine-Palm.

Nat. Ord. Patan=.—Moneacra PoLyanprRia.

Gen. Char. Flores monoici in distinctis spadicibus, spathis aliquot basi-

laribus completis cincti, sessiles, bracteolati. Maso. Caly« 3-phyllus,

foliolis ovatis imbricatis. Petala 8, oblonga, valvata. Stamina plurima,

filamentis brevissimis basi in urceolum connatis ; anther lineari-oblonge.

Fem. Calyx maris. Petala imbricato-convolutiva. Staminwm rudimenta

0. Ovariwm 3-loculare, stigmatibus 3 depressis connatis. Bacca 2-locu-

laris, 2-sperma. Semina plano-convexa, albumine cartilagineo ruminato ;

embryo dorsalis.—Palme Indicw, caudice annulato. Folia 2-pinnata,

pinnulis premorsis. Spadices magni, fastigiato-ramosi. Baccw pisiformes.

Caryora Cwmingii ; trunco mediocri basi parce sobolifero, foliis bipinnatis,

5-6-pedalibus, vaginis glabris, petiolo tereti glabro, rachi superne et

rachibus partialibus sparse nigro-furfuraceis compressis subquadratis

superne sulcatis, pinnulis subcoriaceis sessilibus elongato-dimidiato-

rhombeis extrorsum grosse eroso-dentatis, spadicis ramis pedalibus,

floribus masculis } poll. longis, antheris elongato-linearibus apice

2-lobis.

Caryora Cumingii, Loddiges ex Mart. Hist. Palm. ii. p. 159.

This plant has for many years been cultivated in the Royal

Gardens as the Caryota Cumingii, which was introduced

by the late Hugh Cuming from Singapore some twenty

years ago. The authority of the specific name appears to be

the late Messrs. Loddiges, by whom the plant was first raised,

and probably presented to these Gardens. It is alluded to

in Martius’s great work, and defined there by a short descrip-

tion transmitted by De Miquel, which, however, like all

specific diagnoses of Palms, does not suffice to identify the

species: so difficult is it to express the characters of these

noble trees; nevertheless, so far as it goes, the description

MARCH Ist, 1869.

applies. It is a most elegant little Palm, differing from its

great congener C. wrens in size, in the nearly glabrous petioles,

and in sending out suckers from the base of the stem, as C.

sobolifera does, but much fewer of them. It may indeed

prove identical with C. sobolifera, a native of Malacca,

described by Griffith subsequently to C. Cumingii; but the

leaflets appear longer. As with all its congeners, after

arriving at maturity it throws out a flowering spadix (in this

case male) from the uppermost leaf-axil, and then from the

next leaf-axil lower down, and so on downwards till all the

leaf-axils have flowered, after which the stem dies. There

is thus fruit at the top of the tree and buds at the bottom

for a long period.

Descr. Trunk ten feet high, erect, covered almost to the

base with the sheathing leaf-bases, as thick as the forearm.

Leaves about five to six feet long, spreading, three to four

feet broad, bipinnate; sheath very coriaceous, glabrous, dark

green ; petiole terete, thicker than the thumb; rachis terete

for halfway up, then becoming compressed laterally, slightly

convex on the back, grooved in front, presenting a vertically

elongate oblong figure when cut across, the apex and the

partial raches having on their sides a sparse black fur-

furaceous down. Pinnules eight to ten inches long, rather

coriaceous, sessile, two to two and a half inches broad, sub-

falcate, obliquely cuneate for one-quarter to one-third up

from the base; lower margin straight, upper entire for the

cuneate portion, then irregularly sharply erose for the other

two-thirds ; lowest pinnule shorter and broader, uppermost

longer. Spadix a foot long, formed of a bundle of floriferous

simple partial spadices, green. Dale Jlower half an inch long;

sepals very broad and short, ciliate, almost circular and cup-

shaped. Petals one-quarter to one-third of an inch long, four

times as long as the calyx, very coriaceous, erecto-patent,

oblong, obtuse. Anthers narrow, bilobed at the apex; fila-

ments very short.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Reduced view of the Palm. 2. Pinnule. 3. Portion of spadix.

4. Female flower. 5. Male ditto. 6. Stamen :—all but 2 and 3 magnified.

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Tas. 5763.

KAEMPFERIA Partsutt.

Mr. Parish’s Kempferia.

Nat. Ord. Sorramine®.—Monanprra Mownoeynta.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tan. 5600.)

Kamprerta Parishii; caudice tuberoso, radicibus passim tuberiferis,

scapis preecocibus paucifloris,vaginis inferioribus brevibus late oblongis

acutis fusco-reticulatis, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis basi

acutis costa valida, ovario piloso, perianthio externo spathaceo apice

2-caudiculato, petalis 8 exterioribus anguste linearibus apice subulato-

tereti acuminatis albis, interiorum 2 superioribus oblongis apiculatis

albis, inferiore bilobo lobis obovato-cordatis purpureis, anthere con-

morose Superne in laminam apice fissam dilatato, staminodiis filifor-

mibus.

This is another of the Rev. C. Parish’s valuable contribu-

tions to the Royal Gardens; it is a native of the dense forests

of Moalmayne, whence seeds were sent home which flowered

in a stove in July of last year. Like its allies of the genus,

the flowers appear long before the leaves, after the full

development of which latter, the whole plant goes to rest.

As a species it closely approaches K. diversifolia, Link (K.

ovalifolia, Roscoe, Monand. Plants, t. 95), but differs in the

short, oblong, appressed, reticulate lower sheaths of the

flowering scape, and in the two lower inner perianth-segments

not being appendaged in the sinus. ae

Descr. A glabrous herb. Root stout, tuberous, emitting

many stout cylindric fibres as thick as a small quill, that

bear at intervals oblong tubers the size of a nut. Leafing

stems one inch in diameter at the base. Leaves six to nine

inches long, pale green, not glaucous, oblong-lanceolate,

acuminate, waved, pale below, with a very stout midrib and

prominent diverging nerves; petiole short, half to one inch

MAROH Ist, 1869.

long, stout, deeply channelled in front; sheaths four to eight

inches long, open, green, with short rounded ligules. F/ower-

ing scapes three inches high, as stout as the little finger ;

lower sheaths three to four, oblong, acute, appressed, pale

yellow-green, reticulated with brown nerves; inner narrower,

white, with purple veins. Flowers several, three inches long.

Ovary small, pilose. Outer or sheathing perianth two inches

long, gradually swelling upwards, truncate at the top, with

two subulate points, white. nner perianth-tube exserted,

slender, terete, white; three outer segments spreading and

recurved, two inches long, linear, with a terete subulate apex,

white ; two upper inner segments oblong, obtuse, apiculate,

white ; lower deeply 2-lobed, each lobe equal to the upper,

obcordate, bright violet-purple. Anther with the connective

dilated into a broad oblong membrane unequally cut at the

apex. Staminodes very slender. Stigma funnel-shaped.—

é..D, Hl.

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Fig. 1. Flower with part of the petals removed. 2. Anther and stigma.

3. Ovary and staminodes :—all magnified.

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Vincent Brooks Day &

W. Fitch, del.et lith.

Tas. 5764,

ALLAMANDA wnopsttis.

Noble Allamanda.

Nat. Ord. Apocynea.—Pentanpria Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4851.)

ALLAMANDA nobilis ; scandens, ramulis robustis, petiolis foliis calycibusque

pubescenti-pilosis, foliis oppositis v. 3-4natim verticillatis oblongo-

lanceolatis acuminatis brevissime petiolatis, glandulis minutis rotun-

datis, sepalis foliaceis ovato-lanceolatis, corolla extus pubescentis tubo

gracili, limbo oblique campanulato, lobis amplissimis horizontaliter

patentibus medio valide 3-nerviis.

ALLAmanDa nobilis, 7. Moore in Gard.: Chron. 1868, p- 180 et p. 918, cum

wc. xylog.

A magnificent plant, imported from the Rio Branco, on the

confines of Brazil and Venezuela, by Mr. Bull, of Chelsea,

and certainly one of the finest stove climbers in cultivation.

As a species I doubt very much its proving distinct from

A. Schottii (Tab. nost. 4411, by error 4911), 4. grandiflora

(Tab. nost. 4351), 4. Aubletii, and A. Hendersonii; but as a

horticultural acquisition it differs from all these, and sur-

passes them individually, either in habit or in the large size

and full green of the foliage, or in the very large flower, its

regular contour and bright colour, or in the number of flowers

produced, or in their magnolia-like odour—altogether render-

ing it one of the most gorgeous free-flowering stove-plants

introduced into Europe for many years past. From the

original 4. Schottii (Tab. nost, 4351) it differs more conspicu-

ously than from 4. Hendersonii in its pubescent calyx and

broader more abruptly acuminate leaves, as well as in other

points; but in my experience of both wild and cultivated

_ Apocynee, these have proved to be very variable characters ;

and judging also by dried specimens of forms not hitherto

imported in a living state, I suspect that many intermediate

APRIL Ist, 1869.

forms between these and others, perhaps connecting them all

with the old 4. cathartica, may yet be found. The erect

or scandent habit, so striking a character in cultivated plants,

is one singularly liable to variation ina state of nature. For

the magnificent specimen here figured, I am indebted to Mr.

Glendinning, of Turnham Green, with whom it flowered in

July, 1868.

Descr. A tall stout pubescent climber, the pubescence

extending over all parts except the upper surface of the

corolla lobes. Stems slender, green tinged with purple.

Leaves opposite or whorled in threes and fours, subsessile,

six to eight inches long, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, abruptly

acuminate, pale green above, paler and more pubescent below,

glands minute, orbicular. F/owers in six- to eight-flowered

axillary racemes; shortly pedicelled. Sepals very unequal,

about one inch long, ovate-oblong or lanceolate, subacute,

green. Corolla four to five and a half inches in diameter, fine

golden yellow, with a pale spot at the base of each segment;

tube rather slender, one and a half inch long, expanding

abruptly into an oblique campanulate limb, which has five

imbricating broadly orbicular-obovate spreading three-nerved

segments, margined externally with red in the bud.—/. D. #.

Fig. 1. Disc, ovary, style and stigma :—magnified.

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5765.

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W. Fitch, del.et lith

s.Day &5on,im

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Vincent Br

Tas. 5765.

RICHARDIA MELANOLEUCA.

Black-throated Richardia.

Nat. Ord, AROIDEZ.—Monaec1a Monanpria.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5140.)

Ricwarp1a melanoleuca ; scapo petiolisque inferne pilis rigidiusculis sparsis,

foliis hastato-ovatis acuminatis maculis oblongis translucidis albis nota-_

tis, auriculis obtusis; spatha pallide straminea a basi aperta recurva

marginibus revolutis, intus basi plaga ampla atro-purpurea notata, spa-

dice brevi.

This belongs to a remarkable group of African Richardius,

distinguished by the often white transparent spots on the

foliage, and cream-coloured flowers, to which belong the 2. a/bo-

maculata (Tab. nost. 5140) and R. hastata (Tab. nost. 5176).

From both these the present plant appears to be well dis-

tinguished by its spathe being open to the very base, thus

exposing the dark-black purple spot at its base, which is only

seen in the other species by everting the spathe: whether this

is asufficient distinctive character cannot be determined with-

out more specimens of these plants than are at present in cul-

tivation. In other respects they present no difference of

consequence. f. melanoleuca was imported by Mr. Bull, of

Chelsea, from Africa, and was flowered in his establishment in |

the autumn of 1868. Like its congeners it is no doubt a

greenhouse plant, and may be cultivated out of doors in the

warmest parts of England.

Duscr. Plant, two feet high. Habit and appearance of

ft. albo-maculata : lower part of petioles and scape bearing a

few Spreading stiff bristly hairs. Leaf six to nine inches

long, exclusive of the petiole; oblong, or ovate-hastate, acu-

minate with a filiform point; basal lobes spreading, obtuse,

base deeply cordate ; substance membranous, dark green, with

many oblong translucent spots following the direction of the

APRIL Ist, 1869.

nerves. Spathe three inches long, and as broad when spread

out, quite open from the very base, acuminate with a filiform

apex, recurved, as are the margins, pale straw-coloured, with

a large dark-red purple basal spot. Spadir one to one and a

half inch high, shortly stipitate ; male portion bright orange-

yellow; female with about four rows of green subglobose

ovaries.—/J. D. H.

Fig. 1. spadix; 2, stamen; 3, ovary; 4, transverse, and 5, longitudinal

section of ditto :—all magnified.

5766.

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Vinent Brooks Day&SonLmp-

Tas. 5766.

DENDROBIUM CRASSINODE. ;

Thick-knotted Dendrobe.

Nat. Ord. OrcuipEa:.—GyYNANDRIA MoNANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4755.)

Denprogium crassinode ; caulibus pallidis robustis creberrime nodosis leviter

sulcatis, nodis globosis internodiis duplo latioribus, floribus ad nodos

solitariis v. 2-nis, pedicellis basi bracteis scariosis vaginatis, sepalis

lineari-oblongis subacutis albis apice roseis petalis consimilibus sed

latioribus, labello ovato-rotundato breviter unguiculato superne tenuiter

velutino albo apice roseo disco flavo, mento brevissimo.

Denprogium crassinode, Benson et Rchb. fil. in Gard. Chron. 1869, p. 164.

One of the most remarkable Dendrobes hitherto discovered,

of which an excellent sketch was sent to Sir W. Hooker by

Mr. Parish in 1859, and another to myself by Col. Benson

early in 1868, and which was shortly followed by living

plants from the latter gentleman, both to Messrs. Veitch and

to the Royal Gardens, that flowered simultaneously in January

of the present year.

Mr. Parish’s specimens were procured in the Siamese

province of Kiong-koung ; Col. Benson’s are from the Arrakan

mountains, at an elevation of 2500 feet. The drawings of

both differ a very little from the cultivated specimens, Mr.

Parish’s in having a purple base to the claw of the lip, and

purple edges to the wings of the column; Col. Benson’s

in having a deep purple column. The latter gentleman finds

as many as twenty-two flowers upon one stem. As a species

D. crassinode approaches in habit to D. nodatum, Rehb. (Tab.

_ nost. 5470) and in flower to D. Bensonie nob. (Tab. 5679),

but is abundantly distinct from both in the stems.

Descr. Forming large tufted leafless masses. Stems pen-

dulous, a span to two feet long, formed throughout of swollen

internodes, in the form of depressed spheres one inch in

APRIL Ist, 1869.

diameter, and less than that apart; the constricted portions

between them about half that diameter ; nodes and inter-

nodes with shallow distant grooves; the upper half of each

node is covered with a scarious appressed sheath ; colour pale

dull olive-green. Leaves not developed in our specimens,

apparently confined to first year’s shoots at the base of the

stems. lowers two to two and a half inches in diameter,

abundantly produced from the upper nodes, solitary or in

pairs ; white with broad rosy tips to the sepals, petals, and

lip, and a yellow disc to the latter. Sepals linear-oblong,

acute or subacute. Petals similar, but much broader. Lip

very broadly ovate-oblong, obtuse, undivided, shortly clawed ;

margin minutely erose and ciliate ; upper surface covered

with a fine velvety down. Column short, white in our spe-

cimen, purple in Col. Benson’s drawing.—/. D. H.

Fig. 1. Ovary and column; 2, lip :—both magnified.

5767

W. Fitch, del.et lith

Tas. 5767.

SACCOLABIUM BIGIBBUM.

Orange-flowered Saccolabe.

Nat. Ord. Orcntpex.—Gynanpria MoNnAnprtia.

Gen. Char. (Vide Supra, Tas. 5483.)

Sacco.anrum bigibbum ; caule brevissimo, foliis late lineari-oblongis apice

contracto 2-fido, racemis breviter pedunculatis subcorymbosis folio

brevioribus, sepalis petalisque consimilibus patentibus pallide flavis

spathulatis, calcare subhemispherico, labelli lamina latissime triangulari

calcare latiore sed breviore margine eroso-ciliato disco levi, columna

brevi.

Sacco.anium bigibbum, Rchb. fil. MSS.

“

_. A very curious discovery of Col. Benson’s, in Rangoon or

_ Arrakan, and by him communicated to Messrs. Veitch, who

flowered it in November, 1868; it is nearly allied to S. den-

_ ticulatum (Tab. nost. 4772), of the Khasia Mountains, and to

S. acutifolium, Lindl. of the Sikkim Himalayah ; having a

similar habit, subcorymbose inflorescence, spathulate petals and

sepals, and large broad laterally compressed spur, upon the

outer edges of which the very broadly triangular lip is

perched ; but it differs from these in the colour of the flower,

the naked disc of the lip, the shorter stem, and bifid apices

of the leaves. |

_ Desor. A small epiphyte. Roofs flattened, creeping ex-

tensively on the surface of wood, pale brown. Slem very

short. Leaves few, spreading, three to four inches long, by

one broad ; linear-oblong, bifid at the contracted apex, bright

green, paler and keeled below, coriaceous. Peduncle one to

one and a half inch long, curved, and rachis green. Raceme

very short, almost corymbiform, drooping, many-flowered,

shorter than the leaves. Mowers, twelve to fifteen in each

corymb, two to three inches in diameter, pale yellow with

faint red markings on the edge of the spur. Svya/s and petals

APRIL Ist, 1869.

very similar, spreading, spathulate, obtuse or subacute, with

broad flat claws. Spur large in proportion to the size of the

flowers, sub-hemispherical, short, and broad, laterally com-

pressed, about as long from back to front as the lateral sepals.

Lip placed on the outer edge of the spur, and thus appa-

rently disconnected from the rest of the flower; very broadly

triangular, with erose and ciliated margins, white, tumid

and yellow on the disc, which is smooth or papillose. Column

very short.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Lateral, and fig. 2, front view of flower :—both magnified.

Vincent Brocks, Day 4 Son, Imp,

W. Fitch, delet lith

Tas. 5768.

PALAVA FLEXUOSA.

Hexuous-stemmed Palava.

Nat. Ord. Matvacrea.—MonapDELPHIA Po.yeynia.

Gen. Char. Bracteole 0. Calyx 5-fidus; Columna staminea usque ad

apicem in filamenta oo divisa. Ovariiloculi © ; styli rami totidem, filiformes,

superne truncati summo vertice stigmatosi. Carpella matura inordinate

capitato-congesta, a receptaculo secedentia, indehiscentia. Semen ascendens.—

Herbe Peruviane et Chilenses, tomentose v. glabriuscule. Folia sepius lobata

dissecta v. sinuata. Flores aviliares, pedunculati, solitarii, purpuret. Habitus

Sere Cristarie.

Paxava flexuosa; annua, pilosa, ramis ascendentibus superne flexuosis, foliis

oblongo y. deltoideo-ovatis sub 2-pinnatifidis lobis primariis paucis

oblongis lobulatis v. pinnatifidis, stipulis subulatis, pedunculis folia

superantibus, sepalis triangulari-ovatis basi purpureis, carpellis mamil-

latis.

Patava flexuosa, Masters in Gard. Chron. 1866.

A lovely hardy or half-hardy annual, discovered in the

valley of San Lorenzo, in Peru, by Mr. McLean of Lima,

who sent it to Sir W. Hooker some thirty years ago; since

which time nothing seems to have been known of the plant |

until its introduction by Messrs. Veitch, through their suc-

cessful collector, Mr. Pearce, who sent seeds that flowered in

the Royal Exotic Nurseries in June 1868. The genus

consists of five or six species, some annual, others perennial,

all natives of the Western slopes of the South American

Andes, and all well worthy of cultivation. One of these,

P. rhombifolia, Graham, was figured in this work (Tab. 3100)

many years ago.

Descr. A slender annual, branched from the roots, covered

with spreading branched hairs. Stems eight to ten inches

long, ascending, slender, flexuous above. Leaves on slender

petioles, one to two inches long; blade one to two inches

APRIL Ist, 1869.

long, and broad, oblong-ovate, or triangular-ovate in outline,

pinnatifid with one or two pairs of spreading lobed or

irregularly pinnatifid segments, which are obtuse or rounded

at the apex; stipules subulate, slender. Peduncles longer

than the leaves, very slender. ower one to one and a half

inches in diameter, light mauve, pale towards the centre, with

bright red anthers and bases of the petals. Sepals triangular-

ovate, acute, purple at the base, green, not glandular dotted

as they are in a closely-allied species. Petals very much

larger than the sepals, obliquely truncate. Anthers very

numerous, superimposed in five longitudinal series. Carpels

tumid and mammillate. Styles very numerous (twenty-five

to thirty), spreading, truncate-—/. D. H.

Fig. 1. Flower with corolla removed. 2. Ovary. 3. Transverse section

of ditto :—all magnified.

SS)

W. Biteh, del et lith.

Vincent Brooks Day&Son,lmp-

Tas. 5769.

AZALEA ttearirorta.

Slender-leaved Azalea.

Nat. Ord. ERIcE#.—PENTANDRIA Mownoeynta.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4726.)

Azatza linearifolia ; ramulis pedicellisque hispidis, foliis elongato-linearibus

utrinqueangustatis longe acuminatis marginibus revolutis sinuatis ciliatis,

floribus 1-3 terminalibus, sepalis elongato-setaceis hispido-glandulosis ;

corollz laciniis liberis roseis longe subulato-lanceolatis glabris patenti-

recurvis, staminibus 5, ovario appresse setoso,

Ruopopenpron linearifolium, Siebold and Zuccarini, Fl. Jap. Fam. Nat. Sect.

altera, p. 7.

This is certainly the most remarkable species of Azalea

hitherto introduced, well supporting the character of its

native country, Japan, for contributing odd as well as hand-

some plants to our collections. It has been referred to

Rhododendron by its original describers, Siebold and Zuccarini,

but this could only be under the extreme course of uniting

Azalea with Rhododendron, a step I am not prepared to take.

No doubt these genera are closely allied, and a few species’

occur that are referable to either, but these are very excep-

tional, and the multitude of species of both kinds, and espe-

cially of Rhododendron, lately discovered, have not added to

their number. As a rule Azaleas have deciduous foliage, a

more deeply divided corolla, 5-8 stamens, and never more than

five cells to the ovary; Rhododendrons have very persistent

coriaceous foliage, a less deeply-divided 5-10 lobed corolla, ten

or more (rarely eight) stamens, and a 5-15 celled ovary. The

present plant has all the habit and characters of an Azalea,

carried indeed in one point to excess, for the corolla lobes are

very long, and free to the very base, or all but so. It was

introduced from J apan by Messrs. Standish, in whose nursery

it flowered in February of the present year.

MAY Ist, 1869.

Descr. A small shrub; branches slender, hispid with rigid

spreading hairs, red-brown. Leaves few, crowded at the ends

of the branches, two to four inches long, narrow linear-

lanceolate, 41-inch in diameter, narrowed into a short hispid

petiole ; margin revolute, undulate, ciliate. //owers crowded,

fascicled at the ends of the -branches ; bracts linear or

setaceous, green ; pedicels short, and sepals hispid with gland-

tipped hairs. Calyx segments linear-subulate, one half-inch

long. Corolla one-and-a-half to two inches in diameter, of five

subulate-lanceolate recurved red-purple acuminate petals.

Stamens five, filaments as long as the petals, slender, slightly

pubescent, red; anthers small, dark-brown. Ovary densely

clothed with erect stiff bristles, five-celled; style slender ;

stigma capitate—/J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Flower with petals removed; 2. petal. 3. stamen. 4, ovary-

5. transverse section of ditto :—all magnijied.

2 snus’ Q\

Vincent Brocks, Day&Son, Inap.

W Fitch, del. et lith

Tas. 5770.

CROTALARIA CUNNINGHAMII.

Allan Cunningham’s Crotalaria.

Nat. Ord. Leguminosa.—D1ADELPHIA DECANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Calycis lobi liberi v. varie connati, Veaillum sepius orbi-

culatum, supra unguem brevem sepius 1-callosum; ale obovate vy. oblonge,

vexillo breviores; carina incurva v. dorso angulata, rostrata. Stamina

omnia in vaginam supra fissam connata; anthere alterne, parve, versatiles,

alterne long basifixe. Ovarium sepissime sessile, 2-co ovulatum; stylus

incurvus v. abrupte inflexus, longitudinaliter barbatus. Legumen glo-

bosum v. oblongum, inflatum, 2-valve, intus continuum. Semina sepissime

strophiolata, funiculo filiformi. Herbe v. frutices. Folia simplicia v.

digitatim 1-« -foliolata ; stipule a petiolo libere, interdum decurrentes rarius

0. Flores flavi, rarius cerulei v. purpuret, racemosi v. solitarit. Bractee

parve v. 0, rarius foliacee ; bracteolis parvis rarius 0.

CroraLaria Cunninghamii ; frutex tomentosus, foliis ovatis obtusis, petiolo

supra medium articulato, stipulis bracteisque subulatis caducis, racemis

lateralibus densifloris, floribus magnis flavidis, calyce tomentoso, lobis

* subsequalibus, vexillo ovato-acuminato carinam subequante, alis brevio-

ribus, ovario breviter stipitato villoso, legumine 14-poll. longo coriaceo

tomentoso.

CroraLaria Cunninghamii, Hook. Ic. Pl. 829. F. Mueller Fragment. v. 3,

p- 52. Benth. Fl. Austral. v. 2, p. 182.

Though unattractive as to the colour of the flower, this is

a very curious and striking greenhouse plant, the soft velvety

pubescence that clothes all the surfaces with a uniform glaucous

hue at once arresting the attention. It is a native of the

dry, almost desert regions of North-western and Central

Australia, growing on sandy ridges, from Shark’s Bay to the

Gulf of Carpentaria, and penetrating southwards through

Central Australia towards Spencer’s Gulf. The specimen here

figured was raised by W. Wilson Saunders, F.H.S., and

flowered in his garden at Reigate, in February of the present

year.

MAY Ist, 1869.

Descr. A shrub two to three feet high, everywhere covered

with a soft grey-green tomentum. Stem and branches stout,

terete. Leaves apparently simple, but really one-foliolate ;

petiole half to one and a half inches long, . jointed above the

middle; stipules subulate, caducous; leaflet two to three

inches long, oblong or ovate-oblong, obtuse at both ends.

Racemes \ateral on the branches, terminating short branchlets,

short or long, one to six inches long, very stout, erect, few or

many flowered; bracts subulate, deciduous. Yowers shortly

pedicelled, one anda quarter inch long. Calyz, pale blue-

green, tube hemispherical; lobes five, subulate, subequal.

Corolla yellow-green, with purple veins on the ovate, long-

acuminate reflexed standard. Wings oblong, obtuse. Keel

as long as the standard; shortly clawed, ovate below, with

a long narrowed beak. Stamens all united below; filaments

very long and slender. Pod one and a half inch long, in-

flated, subulate, tomentose.—/. D. H.

Fig. 1. Flower with the corolla removed; 2, standard; 3, keel; 4, wing:

5, pod :—all but f. 5 magnified.

ay & Son, imp

Vincent Brooks.t

Tarn. 5771.

ERAN THEMUM anpersont.

Dr. Anderson's Eranthemum.

Nat. Ord. AcaNTHACEa.—DIANDRIA MonoGynia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5440.)

Erantuemum Andersoni; elatum, glaberrimum, ramis subteretibus supra nodos

leviter incrassatis, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis utrinque angustatis petiolatis

obtuse acuminatis, fasciculis florum subverticillatis in spicam strictam

erectam densifloram dispositis, bracteis minutis, calycis lobis subulatis,

corolla hypocrateriformi, tubo leviter curvo, calycem longe superante,

lobis oblongis obtusis 4-subequalibus albis antico purpureo maculato,

antheris exsertis purpureis.

Erantuemum Andersoni, Masters, in Gard. Chron., 1869, p. 134.

K. elegans, Masters 1. c. 1868, p. 1234, non Brown.

A beautiful stove plant, a native of India, whence it was

sent by Dr. Anderson from the Calcutta Gardens to the

Botanic Gardens of Trinidad, and thence to Kew by Mr.

Prestoe, the active and intelligent curator of those long-

established and flourishing colonial gardens. It was first

described by Dr. Masters, from plants which flowered with

Mr. Bull, of King’s Road, Chelsea, and which were exhibited

at the Royal Horticultural Society’s Gardens in November of

last year; our plant did not flower till the following January,

and from it the figure here given is taken.

Dzscr. A tall half-shrubby stove plant, bright green, per-

fectly glabrous, sparingly branched. Stems erect, strict, green,

_ nearly terete, swollen above the nodes. Leaves six to twelve

— inches long, oblong-lanceolate, narrowed into a short petiole,

and produced at the apex into an obtuse elongated point,

bright deep green above, paler beneath. Flowers sessile, fas-

_eicled ; fascicles whorled on a tall, erect, common peduncle,

six to eight inches high, which is simply or sparingly

branched at the base; bracts minute, shorter than the calyx

MAY Ist, 1869.

tube. Calyx short, green, with five subulate, erect, glabrous

lobes. Corolla salver-shaped; tube slender, half an inch

long, curved; limb one to one and a quarter inches in

diameter, of five subequal, spreading, oblong, obtuse lobes, the

two upper rather ascending, smallest, forming an upper lip;

the lower also spreading, the middle of them the largest, and

sprinkled with purple on the disc. Anthers exserted, oblong,

purple; cells parallel, mucronate at both ends. Ovary ovoid-

oblong, on an oblique cupular disc; style very slender, stigma

minute, notched.—/. D. H.

Fig. 1. Calyx and ovary; 2, stamen; 3, ovary and disc :—all magnijied.

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CALCEOLARIA uenrict.

Mr. Anderson-Henry’s Calceolaria.

Nat. Ord. ScropHuLARINEa.—DIANDRIA Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tan. 5892.)

CatcroLaria Henrici ; erecta, foliosa, caule puberulo, foliis oppositis breviter

petiolatis supremis sessilibus elongato-lanceolatis 3-5 poll. longis acumi-

natis marginibus recurvis serratis supra glabris subtus pubescenti-pilosis,

cymis pedunculatis corymbosis 6-8-floris, glanduloso-puberulis, calyce

parvo explanato ad medium 4-lobo, lobis latis obtusis, corolla puberula,

labiis clausis superiore inflato transverse oblongo, inferiore depresso-

globoso ascendente.

For the opportunity of describing this new and@* almost

hardy and. beautiful Calceolaria, I am indebted to Isaac

Anderson Henry, Esq., F.L.8., of Hay Lodge, Edinburgh,

who received seeds of it from our mutual friend Professor

Jameson, of Quito, its discoverer, who states that it grows

on the Andes of Cuenca. A very similar plant was gathered

on the Andes of Ecuador by Mr. Spruce (No. 6081), but differ-

ing in the much more tomentose foliage and branches, and al-

most villous calyces and peduncles. Mr. Henry’s specimen

was flowered in 1865. As a species it closely approaches C.

hyssopifolia, H. B. K. (Tab. nost. 5548), also introduced by

Professor Jameson, and flowered by Mr. Henry, and which,

like this, forms a beautiful greenhouse plant.

Descr. Sfem two to three feet high, terete, slender, erect,

pale green, very sparingly pubescent. eaves opposite, three

to five inches long, lower and middle shortly petioled, upper

sessile, elongate-lanceolate, acuminate, margins recurved

serrate, glabrous and dull green above, beneath pubescent,

with scattered rather woolly hairs, midrib and veins strong

and prominent. Cymes, six- to eight-flowered, numerous,

terminal and in the upper axils, corymbose or subumbellate

at the top of the stem, glandular-pubescent, peduncles two

MAY Ist, 1869.

to four inches long, pedicels slender, one inchlong. Calya one

quarter inch in diameter, flattish, obtusely four-lobed to the

middle, glandular-pubescent. Corol/a deep bright yellow,

two-thirds of an inch long, puberulous; lips both much

inflated, entirely closing the mouth, upper one-third smaller,

depressed at the calyx, prominent in front, with a transverse

depression, lower projecting, subspherical in front. S/amens

minute, anther-cells oblong, placed end to end.—/. D. /.

Fig. 1. Flower with corolla removed :—magnified.

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IRIS sryuosa.

Long-styled Tris.

Nat. Ord. IntpEa.—Trianpria Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tan. 5298.)

Ints stylosa ; foliis erectis anguste ensiformibus longe attenuato-acuminatis

striatis; spathis 1-floris, valvis appressis inequalibus submembranaceis

carinatis striatis, ovario angusto elongato, perianthii foliolis subeequa-

libus late oblongo-spathulatis obtusis, exterioribus reflexis, stigmatibus

linearibus profunde 2-fidis, segmentis apice 2-caudatis.

Inis stylosa, Desfontaines, Flor. Atlant., v. i. p- 40, f. 5.

I. unguicularis, Poiret, Encycl., v. iii. p- 802.

Nevsecgra stylosa, Alefeld, fide Klatt, Revis. Irid. in Linnea, v. xxxiv, p. 589.

A very beautiful and sweet-scented spring flowering

Iris, for which the Royal Gardens are indebted to Mrs.

Bodichon of Algiers. It has been referred by Alefeld to

his genus Weubeckia, the characters of which, as given by

Klatt in his revision of the order Jridee quoted above, seem

to me of very doubtful generic value, depending mainly, if

not altogether, on a very variable character—viz., the length

of the tube of the perianth, “elongate” in Neubeckia, and

“short,” in Iris. A further diagnostic character is given to

Neubeckia, in the persistent septum of the anthers, but this,

if not accompanied by characters of higher importance, is

not enough to found a genus upon. Klatt refers the J.

longispatha of this work (Table 2528) doubtfully to this

species; Ledebour, however (Flora Rossica, v. iv. p. 95),

identifies the J. Jongispatha with J. biglumis, Vahl, a Dahurian

and Siberian species, of a very different habit.

1. stylosa is a native of the hedges of Algeria, and is also

found in Corfu and the Morea; it was first published, with-

out a specific name, in 1789, by Poiret, in his Voyage en Bar-

barie, v. ii. p- 96, and afterwards, first as J. stylosa, by

MAY Ist, 1869.

Desfontaines in 1798, and then as J. unguicularis by Poiret,

in 1799.

Duscr. Rhizome creeping, as thick as the thumb, pale, and

with pale brown membranous sheaths. eaves one to one and

a half foot long, one-sixth to one-third of an inch broad,

erect, slender, flat, thin, striated, attenuated to long sharp

points, bright green, shorter or longer than the scapes.

Scape erect, slender, sheathed by slender appressed spathes,

one-flowered. Ovary narrow, slender, one inch or more

long. lowers sweet-scented, two to two and a half inches

diameter. Claws of the perianth segments yellowish, veined

with red-purple, one and a half inch long, gradually dilating

into broadly oblong spathulate, subequal, entire, obtuse,

unbearded lamine ; outer leaflets recurved, pale violet, mottled

below the middle with pale yellow, and with a strong deep

yellow central band; izzer rounded at the top, apiculate, of

a uniform pale violet colour. Stigmas deeply cleft into linear

lobes which are acutely 2-fid at the apex, and usually single

toothed on the outer margin —/. D. H.

Fig. 1. Portion of styles, stigmas, and anther :—magnified.

Tas. 5774.

CORDIA GLABRA.

Stiooth:leaved Cordia.

Nat. Ord. Boraginea.—PENTANDRIA Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5027.)

Corp1a (Sebestenoides) glabra; ramulis teretibus, pedunculis petiolisque

scaberulo-pubescentibus, ceterum glabra, foliis alternis oppositis v. sub-

verticillatis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis integerrimis v. subserratis

in petiolum breviusculum angustatis, subtus reticulatis, cyma brevi

ramosa ramis scorpioideis, calyce obconico-campanulato breviter 2-4 lobo,

lobis obtusis acutisve, corolla 5-loba.

Corpia glabra, Chamisso in Linnea, v. viii. p. 124, non Linn. D.C. Prod.

v. ix. p. 477.

A handsome Brazilian stove plant, introduced into the

Royal Gardens from South America, and flowering late in

autumn. It has been collected in the neighbourhood of

Rio de Janeiro and elsewhere in Brazil, by Gardner, (No. 182

and 5031,) Von Martius, Weir, and other travellers.

Duscr. A woody shrub. Branches terete; branchlets covered

with a minute rigid pubescence, which extends over the

petioles, branches of the cyme, and often the midrib and

nerves of the leaf below. Leaves variously disposed, usually

alternate, but occasionally opposite or almost whorled towards

the ends of the branches, three to eight inches long, oblong-

lanceolate, variable in breadth, acuminate, tapering below

into a petiole, one quarter to half an inch long, glabrous and

shining deep-green above, paler below, with a finely reticu-

lated venation, quite entire or rarely with sinuate teeth along

the margins. Cymes terminal, short, branched; branches

scorpioid, several-flowered. Calyx between obconic and bell-

shaped, variable in size, one-third to two-thirds of an inch long,

glabrous, finely striated, shortly and unequally two to four

lobed at the apex, lobes obtuse or sub-acute, usually hispid

at the top. Corolla snow-white, two and a half inches in

May Isr, 1869.

diameter ; tube rather broad, angled and corrugate ; lobes five,

broad, acute, much wrinkled and crumpled. Stamens five,

short; anthers versatile, included in the tube; filaments

slightly hairy at the base. Ovary subglobose, narrowed into

the style which is sub-equally four-cleft at the apex; stigmas

slightly thickened or clavate, recurved. Fruit (described by

Chamisso), ovoid, half an inch long, subtended by the per-

sistent calyx, truncate and apiculate at the top—/. D. H.

Fig. 1. Calyx, style and stigmas; 2. base of corolla and stamens; 3.

ovary :—all magnified.

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CEREUS LIVIDUS.

Livid Cereus.

Nat. Ord. CacTe.—IcosanpRIA Monoeynta.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tan. 5360.)

Cereus lividus ; erectus, robustus, plumbaceo-viridis, caule elato remote

articulato 4-6-costato, costis compressis 1-2 poll. profundis, obtusis, rec-

tiusculis, areolis remotis leviter depressis sublanuginosis, aculeis 6-10

rectis rigidis, 1-3 poll. longis, brunneis; floribus 10 poll. diametro, albis,

calycis tubo glabro, sepalis cum petalis 30-40 lineari-oblongis patentibus

obtusis, stigmatibus ad 18.

Cereus lividus, Pfeiffer Enum. diagn. Cact.98. Labouret Monog. Cact. 359.

C. Perotetti, Hort. (id. Pfeiffer.)

One of the most striking of the columnar Cacti in the

succulent house at Kew, and procured, I believe from Germany,

as a small plant many years ago; since which time it has at-

tained a height of twelve feet, and diameter of four to six inches.

Though placed by Pfeiffer (who seems to have seen young

plants only) in the section Cereastri, with inarticulate stems,

it will be seen from the plate that when full-grown the stem

is distinctly articulated at regular intervals, and it should

hence probably be referred to his section Protracti. The

specimen here figured is the largest hitherto described, and

flowered for the first time in June, 1868. It is a native of

Brazil, La Guayra, and Curacoa.

Drscr. Stem tall, erect, simple or very sparingly branched,

twelve feet high in our specimen, with about twelve narrow

oblong joints in that space; of a dull leaden green colour,

five to six angled (six to eight angled at the very base); angles

produced into thick flat straight round-edged wings or ribs,

one to one and a half inches deep. Areole on slight depressions

of the wings, about one to one and a half inches apart, circular,

_ ne-quarter inch diameter, grey, velvety, bearing six to eight

JUNE Ist, 1869.

marginal spines, which are one-quarter to one-half inch long

deflexed grey with red tips, besides one or two central ones of

about the same length. F/owers one or two, produced on the

terminal joint, ascending, ten inches in diameter, white with

a yellow-green tinge. Calyw-tube five inches long, one inch

in diameter, terete, green, smooth, glabrous, with few dis-

tant appressed green triangular scales; lobes about ten,

linear-oblong, subacute, yellow-green, purplish at the back

towards the tip. Petals very numerous, in about three

series, spreading, narrow obovate-oblong, obtuse or apiculate,

erose, ivory white, faintly undulate. Stamens excessively

numerous, forming a broad cylinder two and a half inches in

diameter, and two inches high, of filiform pale-green fila-

ments, the lower most numerous, incurved at the apices;

anthers small. Style very stout; stigmas about eighteen,

subulate, erect, yellow.—/. D. H.

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CROCUS ORPHANIDIS.

Prof. Orphanides’ Crocus.

Nat. Ord. In1pea—Trianpria TRIGYNIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5297.)

Crocus Orphanidis, bulbo lageneformi, tunicis castaneis fibroso-membrana-

ceis, fibris parallelis, foliis synanthiis latiusculis elongatis flores super-

antibus, scapo involucrato, spatha membranacea vaginis inclusa,

perianthii laciniis oblongis subacutis pallide lilacinis, fauce antherisque

pallide flavis, stigmatibus multifidis intense aurantiacis.

This most lovely and very distinct Grecian Crocus was

sent to the Royal Gardens, together with many other valuable

bulbs, by Professor Orphanides of Athens, under the name of

C. pholegandrus, but with no authority for that name: as I

can find no such name published, and am unable to trace its

etymology, I feel compelled to coin another for it. Crocus

Orphanidis belongs to the group with C. Boryanus and others,

distinguished by their multifid stigmas, and flowers appearing

together with the leaves; it differs, however, from all pre-

viously described species of that group, in the form of the

bulb, its tunic, its great size, and the size and colour of the

flower, anthers, and especially of the stigmas. It is a very

handsome and free-flowering species, blossoming in a cool

frame in November.

Duscr. Bulbs very large, one and a half to two inches

long, narrow, closely covered with the bright chestnut-brown

tunic, which is formed of fine parallel slightly interlaced

fibres. Sheaths of the leaves two to three, membranous, pale

green, acute, slightly striate. eaves produced with the

flowers and much exceeding them, lengthening after flowering,

seven to ten inches long, about one-fifth of an inch broad.

Spathes membranous, for the most part ufcluded in the

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sheaths. Flowers two to two and a half inches diameter,

pale bright lilac-blue without veins, pale yellow in the

throat. Segments of perianth equal, elliptic-oblong, obtuse,

concave, not crested. <Anthers very pale yellow. Stigmas

slender, each many-times divided above the middle; lobes

linear, slender, truncate and erose, all deep orange-red and

very brightly coloured.—/. D. H.

Fig. 1. Stigmas; 2. portion of tunic of bulb :—magnified.

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PELARGON IUM scuortit.

Dr. Schott's Pelargonium.

(Garden Hybrid.)

Nat. Ord. Grrantacra.—MOonapDELPHIA DECANDRIA.

Gen. Char, (Vide supra, Tas. 5421.)

PrLaraonium Scuorru; totum molliter dense pilosum; caule suffruticoso

robusto, foliis sparsis pinnatim 3-7-foliolatis, lobis lobulatis undulato-

erispatis et crenato-dentatis, lateralibus cuneatis, terminali 3-lobo,

stipulis late ovato-cordatis acutis; pedunculis simplicibus v. ramosis ;

calycis tubo pedicello multo longiore basi tumido, segmentis erectis

linearibus acutis; petalis oblongo-obovatis coccineis calyce duplo lon-

gioribus.

PrLarconium Scuorru, Hort.

This plant, cultivated at Kew and in Mr. W. Wilson

Saunders’ rich collection, was received from the Continent

under the name of Pelargonium Schottit without any authen-

tic record of its origin and pedigree. It has near relations,

either in inflorescence or foliage, with several old garden

forms, but perhaps more nearly with P. Cherophyllum of

Sweet (Geran. tab. 257) than with any other. P. Chero-

phyllum was a hybrid raised in 1822 from P. fulgidum fertilised

by the pollen of P. sanguineum. :

Descr. Stem succulent, branched, twelve to eighteen inches

high, somewhat shrubby at the base, densely covered, as are

all other parts except the petals, with soft white spreading

hairs. eaves scattered, on petioles four to ten inches long,

pale bright green and flaccid, blade pinnately three- to seven-

foliolate, lobes or pinnules all much cut and lobulate with waved

and crisped broadly and acutely toothed margins; lateral

leaflets one to two inches long, obliquely cuneate, sessile; ter-

minal three-lobed, often three inches broad. Stipu/es broad,

JUNE Ist, 1869,

sub-cordate. Peduncle four to ten inches long, simple or

branched, suberect, terete. Umbel six to ten flowered ; involu-

cral bracts linear-oblong, one-third of an inch long, obtuse ;

pedicels the same length or a little longer. FYowers one and

a quarter to one and a half inches diameter. Ca/ya-tube one

inch long, cylindric, slender, gibbous at the base ; lobes like

the involucral bracts,obtuse. Peta/s subequal, the larger three-

quarters of an inch long, smaller two-thirds, oblong-spathulate,

crimson with black elongate broken blotches running into

the nerves on the disc.—/. D. H.

Fig. 1. Flower with the petals removed :—magnisied.

Tas. 5778.

ODON TOGLOSSUM KRAMERI.

Kramer's Odontoglot.

Nat. Ord. Orcuipe®.—GyNANpDRIA MonanpriA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5691.)

OpontoeLossum Krameri ; pseudobulbis suborbicularibus valde compressis

ancipitibus 1-phyllis, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis, scapis ascendentibus v.

pendulis foliis brevioribus flexuosis paucifloris, sepalis petalisque

oblongis acutis, labelli ungue 2-calloso lamina subquadrata 2-loba pal-

lide roseo-violacea plaga basi utrinque semilunari alba aureo et pur-

pureo-maculata.

OpontoaLossum Krameri, Rehb. fil. in Gard. Chron. 1868, p. 98, cum ic. xylog.

Floral Magazine, t. 406 (sub O. Kremeri).

In the matter of delicate colouring, this is perhaps the

most lovely of all the species of Odontoglossum, recalling a

Phalenopsis much more than any one of its congeners ; it is

also a remarkably free flowerer, and holds its flowers for a con-

siderable period. Dr. Reichenbach, who named and published

it, states that it is a native of Costa Rica, where it was dis-

covered by M. Kramer, collector for Messrs. Veitch and

Sons, in whose noble Orchid collection it first flowered in

1868. The figure here given was taken by Mr. Fitch, from a

drawing made at Mr. Day’s, and which, representing the full

size of the plant, occupies a large folio sheet of paper. Like

its congeners, this plant flourishes under cool treatment,

being no doubt a native of the cool regions of the Cordillera

of Costa Rica.

Descr. Pseudo-bulbs nearly orbicular in outline, one and

half inches in diameter : much compressed, sharply two-edged,

pale glaucous green. Leaves solitary, seven to nine inches

long, one and half to two inches broad, keeled, smooth, not

ribbed or folded. Scapes four to eight inches long, three to

five-flowered, pendulous, horizontal or ascending, flexuous,

JUNE Ist, 1869.

green; bracts small, appressed. Peduncles with the ovary

one to one and a half inches long. Flower one and a half inches

in diameter. Sepals and petals subequal and similar, oblong,

acute, pale violet-red in the centre, with broad white

margins. Zip one-third of an inch broad; neck short,

stout, quadrate, yellow, deeply hollowed in front, with two

erect calli; limb subquadrate, two-lobed at the apex, angles

rounded, the basal lateral lobes small, reflexed, pale violet-

red, with two confluent semilunar white patches at the base,

on each of which is a concentric red-brown band, and a few

spots of the same colour on a golden-yellow ground. Column

short, thick, without wings or appendages.—/. D. H.

Fig. 1. Side view of Labellum :—magnijied.

Tar. 5779.

PLUMERIA LUTEA.

Yellow-flowered Plumeria.

Nat. Ord. Arocynacea.—PENTANDRIA Monogynia.

Gen. Char. Calyx apice 5-lobus, lobis rotundatis, rarissime integer. Corolla

tubus gracilis, rectus v. incurvus, fauce exappendiculata, lobis 5 dex-

trorsum convolutis. Stamina 5, basi corolle inserta, filamentis brevis-

simis, anthere basi sepe dilatate, apice obtusiuscule. Ovaria 2, disco

immersa ; stylus 1, stigmate oblongo apice 2-fido, ovula «, suture ven-

» trali affixa. Folliculi 2, polyspermi, sutura ventrali dehiscentes, ex-

terne carnosuli. Semina oblonga, compressa, hinc membranaceo-alata,

hilo elongato, ala laciniata, albumine 0; cotyledones ampla.—Arbuscule

plereque Americane, ramis crassis cicatrisatis. Folia alterna, ampla ;

— flores ampli in cymas terminales corymbosas dispositi, speciosi, sepe fra-

grantes, A. DC.

Plumeria lutea; foliis oblongo-obovatis v. elongato-obovatis acutis in peti-

olum angustatis glabris, cyma terminali umbellata multiflora folio sub-

equali, calycis lobis truncatis, corolle lobis obovatis pallide roseis disco

aureis tubo fere recto triplo longioribus, folliculis rectis elongatis

utrinque obtusis.

P. lutea, Ruiz and Pavon, Fl. Per. v. 2, p- 21, t. 142. Alph. DC. Prod. v. 8,

p. 391.

For the beautiful plant here figured the Royal Gardens

are indebted to Mr. Linden of Brussels, from whom it was

received a good many years ago. It has now grown to be a

fine branching plant six to seven feet high, flowering

copiously in June in the Palm House, where it proves a

most attractive feature. The original describers of the plant,

Ruiz and Pavon, seem to have known it in a cultivated state

only; they say it occurs in the gardens of Peru, flowering

from January to March, and is called by the natives “ Ccar-

huas Suche, id est, Suche amarillo.”

Drscr. A small branching glabrous tree, ten to twenty

feet high. Branches and branchlets stout, green, scarred.

Leaves crowded at the ends of the branches, spreading, eight

to eighteen inches long, narrowly oblong-obovate, tapering

JUNE Ist, 1869.

into the stout petiole, subacute, deep bright-green above,

paler below. Cymes terminal, subumbelled, about as long as

the leaves, many-flowered ; peduncles and pedicels stout,

erect, green, with red semilunar scars left by the fall of the

bracts and bracteoles. Flowers very sweet-scented. Calyx

green, fube urceolate, with. five short transversely oblong

truncate crenate puberulous lobes. Corolla four inches dia-

meter; lobes broadly oblong, obtuse, thrice as long as the

rather slender slightly curved tube, very pale pink with a

broad pale golden yellow base; tube hairy within. Stamens

small, in the bottom of the tube; anthers subacute. Style

very short, with a cup-shaped apex, on which are the two

short stigmas. Follicles described and figured by Ruiz and

Pavon as being as long as the hand.—/. D. 7.

Fic. 1. Tube of corolla laid open; 2. stamen; 3. calyx; 4. ovaries, style,

and stigma; 5. transverse section of ovary :—all magnified.

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DEN DROBIUM DENSIFLORUM.

VAR. ALBO-LUTEA.

Dense-flowered Dendrobe, white and yellow variety.

Nat. Ord. Orcumex.—GyYNANDRIA Monanprla.

Denvrosium densiflorum, Wall. Cat. n. 200. Lindl. in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. 40.

Gen. & sp. Orchid. p. 90. Bot. Mag. t. 3418. Bot. Reg. t. 1828.

Var. albo-lutea, racemo elongato pedali laxifloro, sepalis petalisque albis

translucidis, labello luteo.—Tab. nost. 5780.

Of all the varieties of Dendrobium densiflorum, this is

certainly the most profuse flowerer, and in many respects the

most elegant, resembling D. Farmeri in the laxer raceme, and

contrast between the colour of the lip and sepals. It was

exhibited at the Horticultural Society by its possessor, Went-

worth Buller, Esq., of Strete-Raleigh, Devon, in March, 1867,

as D. thyrsiflorum, a name which I have failed to find published,

and one not very suggestive of the differential characters of

the plant. Professor Reichenbach, to whom I referred for

his opinion as to its specific value, at once pronounced it a

form of D. densiflorum, an opinion originally expressed by Mr.

Wentworth Buller, and in which I entirely coincide; for indeed

except in the greener, glossier pseudo-bulbs and leaves, in the

long lax panicle, and colourless transparent sepals and petals, I

am unable to detect any distinctive characters. It was dis-

covered by the Rey. C. Parish, in the Moulmein forests, and

communicated by that ardent collector to Messrs. Low and

Co., of Upper Clapton, from whom Mr. Buller procured it.

Descr. Stem jointed, narrowly clavate, compressed, fur-

rowed, six to nine inches long, the joints with a membranous

sheath. Leaves few, three to six inches long, distichous,

broadly lanceolate, obscurely nerved, dark green, coriaceous.

faceme lateral, from the apex of the stem below the leaves,

recurved, pendulous, one foot long. Flowers very humerous,

JULY Ist, 1869.

lax, two nehes broad. Sepals and petals similar, obovate,

oblong, obtuse, the two lateral sepals connate at the base into

a blunt sac, nearly white, not striate as in D. densiflorum.

Lip rich orange, blade orbicular, fringed, exactly as in D.

densiflorum in size, shape, and all other particulars. Column

short, white —/. D. #.

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VACCINIUM reriexum.

Reflexed-leaved W hortle-berry.

Nat. Ord. VaccinaceEa.—Decanpria Monoeynta,

Gen.’Char. (Vide supra, Tax. 5279.)

Vaccintom (Vitis-Idea) reflecum; ramis elongatis flaccidis pendulis

foliosis hirtellis, foliis parvis patentibus v. reflexis glaberrimis oblongo-

v. ovato-lanceolatis acutis argute serratis rigide coriaceis nervoso-

reticulatis, floribus parvis in corymbos breves densifloros dispositis,

calycis lobis ovatis acutis coriaceis, corolla breviter urceolata 5-gona,

lobis 4 parvis obtusis erectis, antheris dorso muticis.

A beautiful little Andean rock-plant, conspicuous for

its pendulous habit, the deep glossy green hue of the leaves,

which are reflexed on the stem and branches, the bright pale

red hue of the young foliage, and deep red flowers. It was

introduced by Messrs. Veitch, through their late energetic

collector, Mr. Pearce, from Bolivia, and flowered in their es-

tablishment in the King’s-road, Chelsea, in January of the

present year. I have examined Herbarium specimens, labelled

from the hills between Cuenca and Loxa, collected by Pro-

fessor Jameson, others from the sources of the Maranon by

Warsewitz, and from Equador by Seemann. As a species it

approaches V. densiflorum, Benth., which is described as

having shortly-awned anthers, and is a very much larger and

more robust plant, with slightly serrated leaves, which are

not reticulated as are those of this species.

Descr. Stem woody, slender, branched from the base;

branches one to two feet long, hanging over rocks, &e., spar-

ingly divided, leafy, covered with a short rather hispid pu-

bescence. eaves small, reflexed or spreading horizontally,

three-quarters to half an inch long, almost sessile, oblong-

lanceolate, acute, sharply serrate except at the base, thick

and coriaceous, deep green or purplish above and shining,

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paler beneath, much reticulated with very prominent veins

on both surfaces. Corymés small, short, few-flowered, or

many-flowered and then subglobose, subterminal and axillary,

a quarter to one-third of an inch long; peduncles short, brac-

teate, pedicels two-bracteolate ; bracts and bracteoles small

and caducous. Calyx-tube subglobose, lobes five, triangular-

ovate, acute, coriaceous, reddish. Corolla red, coriaceous,

urceolate or almost globose, rather acutely five-angled ; lobes

small, obtuse, contracted at the base. Stamens of equal

length; filament short, broad, flat, white; anthers oblong,

cells lobed at the base in front, pores oblong. Ovary five-

celled ; style short, stout, glabrous.—/. D. H.

Fig. 1. Leaf and portion of stem; 2, flower, pedicel and bracts; 3, ovary,

calyx, style and stigma; 4, & 5, front and side view of anthers; 6,

transverse section of ovary :—all magnified.

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GEON OMA GHIESBRECHTIANA.

Ghiesbrecht’'s Geonoma.

Nat. Ord. Patmacez.—Mona@cia HEXANDRIA.

Gen. Char, Flores moneci in eodem vel in distinctis spadicibus, rarius

diceci, in alveolis rhacheos immersi, feminei singulatim, masculi per

binos vel ternos. Spatha duplex (rarissime triplex) ; exterior truncata,

incompleta, concava; interior compressa vel fusiformis. Masco. Calyx

uterque 3-sepalus ; sepalis exterioribus carinato-concavis ; interioribus

planis. Stamina 6; filamenta inferne in cylindrum connata, apice libera;

anthere loculis divaricatis. Ovarii rudimentum. FEM. Calyx exterior

3-sepalus; interior trifidus. Urceolus stamineus cylindraceus, 6-den-

tatus, ovarium ambiens, antheris destitutus. Ovarium 3-loculare.

Stylus basilaris. Stigmata 3, subulata, revoluta. Bacca 1-sperma.

Albumen squabile, corneum. Embryo sublateralis vel basilaris.—

Palme sylvas primevas incolentes. Caudex arundinaceus, gracilis,

strictus, annulatus, levigatus, rarius nullus. Frondes primum simplices,

moa in pinnas irregulares integerrimas planiusculas viz reduplicatas jisse

(pinnatifisse), petioles vaginantes, partim caudici lateraliter insidentes

vel omnes terminales. Spadices inter frondes emergentes, spicati sepiusve

paniculati, Spathe ut plurimum jam ante anthesin obliterate (fibroso-

secedentes). Flores primum in rhacheos alveolis latentes, sub anthest

emersi, straminei vel purpurascentes. Bacce ovate vel subglobose, coloris

obscuri, nitide, parce carnosa, insipide.—Kuntu, Enum. Plant. iii. 228.

Gronoma Ghiesbrechtiana ; caudice brevi aut subnullo; frondibus elongato-

ovatis, 6 (9)-juge pinnatisectis, petiolo longo, segmentis inqualibus,

oppositis suboppositisve, remotiusculis, alternatim anguste lateque

lanceolatis, longissime acuminatis falcatis, duobus superioribus in

quovis latere latissimis ; spadicibus simplicibus, thachi cylindrica

obtusa, alveolis margine nonnihil revolutis, integerrimis, septem-novem-

fariam imbricatis.—(Lind. et Wend.)

Gronoma GuiEsBRecHTIANA.— Linden et Wendland in Linnea, xxviii. (1856)

343.

Catyprrogrne Gutesprecutiana.— Wendland in Bot. Zeitung, xvii. (1859)

72.

This very ornamental Palm is figured from specimens

flowered in the Royal Gardens, Kew, where it has been in

i introduced to

cultivation several years. It was originally

continental gardens from Chiapas, Mexico, by Ghiesbrecht.

Dr. Wendland, who first described the species, and to whom

suLy Ist, 1869.

the accompanying plate has been submitted, is of opinion that

G. Ghiesbrechtiana, together with G. spicigera, C. Koch, merit

subgeneric distinction from the true Geonomas. In 1859, he

published these species as generically different under the name

Calyptrogyne ; but now he informs us he is not disposed to

attach so much importance to their points of difference, and

so sinks Calyptrogyne as a subgenus of Geonoma, differing from

the typical species in some minor details of floral structure,

which need not be enumerated here.

Descr. Stem short or wanting. Leaves pinnate, two to

five feet long, pinne opposite or alternate, sessile, of unequal

breadth,the narrower one to two-nerved, the broader six to ten-

nerved, usually from six to twelve on each side of the rachis;

the intervals between the pinne varying from half an inch

to two inches. Petiole broadly sheathing at the base, from a

few inches to one and a half feet long. Peduncles erect, over-

topping the leaves, bearing a single cylindrical undivided

spadiz nine to twelve inches in length. Spathe. elongate-

linear, acute, shorter than the spadix, at length deciduous.

MALE-FLOWERS numerous and rather crowded, in threes, 1m-

mersed in depressions of the spadix ; distinctly exserted on

expansion. Perianth double, six-leaved, three outer segments

concave carinate, inner concave and narrower. Stamens six,

filaments united nearly to the apex. FEmMALE-FLOWERS ex-

serted, patent. Outer perianth three-leaved, inner cylindri-

conical, the upper calyptriform portion separatin g transversely

and deciduous. Abortive staminal-tube cylindrical six-toothed,

surrounding the ovary, adnate below with the inner perianth.

Ovary three-celled, two cells abortive ; style tripartite elon-

gate; stigmas three, recurved, slightly protruded. (Descrip-

tion chiefly taken from Dr. Wendland’s Memoir, cited above.)

Fig. Entire plant, reduced ; 2. Spathe and spadix, with expanded male

sheesie near the apex; 3 & 4. Male flowers detached; 5. Portion of.

Sete, eens female flowers; 6 & 7. Female flowers with calyp-

triform apex of the rianth bef an oe AM oo ll

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DIPLADENIA pottviensts.

Bolivian Dipladenia.

Nat. Ord. ArocyNem—PENTANDRIA DicGyniA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4702.)

Dipapenta Boliviensis ; scandens, glaberrima, foliis petiolatis acuminatis

basi acutis, stipulis 0, calycis lobis brevibus ovatis acuminatis, pedicellis

tortis, corolla alba tubo cylindrico fauce elongato-cylindrico, ore flavo non

constricto, limbi patentis lobis late ovatis obtuse acuminatis, glandulis

ad basin sepalorum lobulatis, squamis hypogynis semi-orbicularibus.

The genus Dipladenia has hitherto been supposed to be

confined to the east coast of America, ranging from Trinidad

to South Brazil; hence the discovery of the present species in

Bolivia by Mr. Pearce, late collector to Messrs. Veitch and

Sons, is a most interesting one. As a species, it approaches

very near indeed to D. urophylla Hook. (Tab. nost. 4414)

from the Organ mountains of Brazil, but differs in the shorter

apices to the leaves, the much narrower throat of the corolla,

and white flowers. It is a very beautiful plant, well deserving

of cultivation, and flowered for the first time in June, 1868,

in Messrs. Veitch’s establishment.

Descr. Everywhere perfectly glabrous. Stems slender,

terete, twining. eaves petioled, two to three and a half

inches long, oblong or narrow oblong, narrowed into an obtuse

acumen, acute at the base, bright green and glossy above,

pale beneath, stipular glands none. acemes subterminal or

axillary, three to four-flowered; peduncles short. green ;

bracts minute, at the base of the short stout twisted pedicels.

Calye-lobes short, ovate, acuminate, green, one quarter of an

inch long. Glands at the base of the calyx-lobes short, lobulate.

Corolla almost salver-shaped, the tube and throat being both

of them narrow and slender ; tube cylindric, half an inch long ;

faux about twice as long and half as broad again, golden

JULY Ist, 1869.

yellow inside ; limb one and a half inches across, of a beautiful

pearly white colour, lobes broadly ovate acuminate with

obtuse tips. Stamens linear-sagittate. Ovary narrow oblong;

hypogynous scales two, opposite, almost semicircular in out-

line; style very slender, stigma mitriform.—J. D. /.

Fig. 1. Portion of corolla and stamens; 2, calyx, ovary, style and stigma ;

3, base of calyx, perigynous glands, hypogynous scales and ovary; 4,

lateral view of ovary and scales :—all magnvjied.

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PTERODISCUS LURIDUS.

Lurid-flowered Pterodiseus.

Nat. Ord. Peparinem.—Dipynam1a ANGIOSPERMIA.

"Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 41 17.)

Preropiscus luridus ; caudice obconico, ramis brevibus foliisque subtus

pulvereis, foliis vix petiolatis lineari-oblongis semi-pinnatifidis segmentis

ovatis obtusis, sinubus latis rotundatis, glandulis ad basin petiolorum

sessilibus vertice depressis, corolla ‘flavo-fusca, tubo lato lente curvo

inferne gibbo, fauce paulo constricto, ore transverse oblongo, lobis

brevibus retusis.

One of the most remarkable botanical features of the drier

districts of South Africa, is the presence of plants of various

natural families possessing short stout tuberous stems or

caudices, rising a few inches above the ground, and sending

forth from their crowns, on the approach of the wet season, a

few stout herbaceous, succulent, leafy, flowering-branches :

such are species of Vitis, of Composite, Asclepiadee, Apocynee,

Convolvulacee, Pedalinee, and probably many other orders.

These have repeatedly been sent to this country, where they

have been too often regarded as dead sticks, or if they have

been planted they have been killed with kindness ; in other

words, they were either watered to death, or kept in damp

stoves till they rotted away. Happily a different system of

treatment has lately been introduced, and we may soon ex-

pect to see these curious and interesting things brought more

largely into cultivation. They flourish best in a moderately

warm house, planted in a poor soil, amongst stones, &c., and

exposed to the full light of the sun. The present example

of this form of vegetation is a native of the Albany district

of Cape Colony, and was sent to the Royal Gardens from

those of Graham’s Town, along with many other interesting

plants. It flowered in July, 1868, and though equally

JULY Isr, 1869,

curious, is less handsome than the beautiful P. speciosus

figured at Tab. 4117 of this work.

Desc. Caudex stout, tuberous, a foot long in our specimen ;

the upper part conical, two and a half inches diameter at the

widest part, and three quarters of an inch at the top, covered

with pale bark. Branches annual, six to eight inches long,

spreading, stout, rather flexuous, covered like the leaves with

a powdery pubescence. Leaves two to three inches long,

spreading, linear-oblong, subacute, pinnatifid to beyond the

middle; lobes spreading, a quarter of an inch long, triangular-

ovate, obtuse, quite entire, dark green above, pale below ;

petioles short, with a small sessile depressed gland on each

side. Flowers solitary, axillary; pedicels very short, 2-

glandular at the base. Calya-lobes triangular-lanceolate, un-

equal. Corolla one and a half inches long; tube one-third

of an inch diameter, slightly curved, vertically compressed,

gibbous below towards the base, pale green ; throat trans-

versely reniform, contracted ; lobes a quarter of an inch long,

one-third of an inch broad, retuse, spreading, pale dirty

orange-yellow or brown.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Calyx, pédicel and glands, with ovary, style and stigma; 2, base of

corolla and stamen; 3, ovary and disc :—-all magnified.

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MORAA BULBIFERA.

Bulbous Morea.

Nat. Ord. Irmea.—Trianpria Monoeyrnta.

Gen. Char.—Perigonium corollinum, superum, tubo brevissimo, limbi 6- —

partiti laciniis interioribus minoribus, post anthesin convolutis. Stamina

3, perigonii tubo inserta, filamentis distinctis, anthere oblonge basifixe.

Ovarium oblongo-prismaticum, stylus triqueter, gracilis, stigmatibus

3 petaloideis, 2—3-fidis; ovula plurima, angulo centrali loculorum

24seriatim affixa, horizontalia, anatropa. Capsula membranacea, obtuse

3-gona, 3-locularis. Semina plurima, angulatan—Herbe Capenses,

rhizomate repente v. tuberoso-bulboso. Folia 2-faria ensiformia. Spathe

elongate, subimbricate.

Monza bulbifera; 14-3-pedalis, bulbo subrotundo, bulbillis numerosis et

radicibus brevibus curvatis divaricatim ramosis circumdato, scapo

angulato apice flexuoso folioso glabro, foliis distichis scapo interdum

longioribus anguste ensiformibus canaliculatis striatis margine carinaque

asperulis, floribus luteis distiche paniculatis, spathis bivalvibus, valvis

amplexicaulibus herbaceis inequalibus, valva inferiore breviore

ovata v. ovato-lanceolata acuminata, superiore lineari-lanceolata, pedi-

cellis trigonis glabris, perigonii laciniis oblongis obtusis recurvatis,

stigmatibus bifidis laciniis lanceolatis acutis denticulatis.

Morea bulbifera, Jacq. Hort. Schenbr. ii. tab. 197; Klatt in Linnea xxxiv.

565.

The Mormas, which are amongst the gayest and easiest-

cultivated of Cape-bulbs, have long gone out of fashion, and

yet no plants of the kind exceed them in beauty ; this is

no doubt mainly due to the length of time during which their

bulbs or tubers must be kept dry and at rest, when the plants

are as so much lumber in the greenhouse. The present species

is one of the most beautiful of the genus, and produces a great

multitude of its golden flowers in succession, which expand

fully in the sunshine, and ornament a house for a period of

several weeks. It is a native of various districts of 8. Africa,

and was lately imported by our friend Mr. Wilson Saunders,

F.R.S., through his indefatigable collector, Mr. Cooper. It

was originally introduced into the Vienna Gardens so long

ago as last century, and figured, in 1792, in Jacquin’s mag-

JULY Ist, 1869.

nificent “Hortus Scheenbrunensis.” The specimen here figured

flowered in the Royal Gardens, in May, 1868. Viessceuwia

Jugazx (Tab. nost. 5438), also introduced by Mr. W. Saunders,

is another species of Morea (M. edulis, Gawl.)

Descr. Bulbs the size of a walnut; surrounded with innu-

merable bulbils, giving off numerous rigid rootlets that bear

stiff horizontal fibrils. Stem rigid, one to three feet high,

angled, glabrous, repeatedly forked, flexuous, leafy. Leaves

often bulbiferous in the axils, distichous, longer than the

stems, ensiform, six to twelve inches long, one-third to two-

thirds inch broad, striated, green, slightly rough or toothed

on the keel and margins. Spathes convolute, acuminate, ap-

pressed. Flowers peduncled, two inches diameter, golden

yellow; pedicels 3-gonous, glabrous. Perianth-segments

subsimilar, oblong, obtuse, slightly reflexed, the three outer

speckled at the base. Anthers purple; pollen yellow. Stigmas

2-fid; segments lanceolate, acute, toothed.—/. D. H.

Fig. 1. Outer segment of the perianth ; 2, ovary, stigmas and stamens—all

magnified,

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GRIFFIN IA DRYADEs.

Wood Grifinia.

Nat. Ord. AmaryLLipex.—Hexanpria Moyoeyrnia,

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5666.)

GrirFinta dryades, elata, robusta, foliis longiuscule et. crasse petiolatis

oblongo-lanceolatis, scapo crasso multifloro, floribus 3-4 unc. diametro,

perianthii foliolis lanceolatis lilacinis disco albo, inferiore minore, stig-

mate simplici.

GrirFinia dryades,, Vellozo, Flor. Flum. Inde«, p. 3,

AmaryLLis dryades, Vellozo, Flor. Flum. Liber primus, p. 130, Icones, v. iii.

t. 117. Kunth. Synops. v. 5. p. 544 (nomen tantum).

When figuring the beautiful Grifinia Blumenavia two years

ago (Zab. nost. 5666), it was little expected that a much

larger and finer congener would soon be introduced; such

however is the present plant, a native of maritime forests near

Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, and imported and flowered by that

admirable horticulturalist, W. Wilson Saunders, Esq., F.R.S.,

at his gardens near Reigate, in 1868. As a species, it is most

distinct, of a very robust habit, the scapes being as thick as

the finger, and bearing ten to thirteen flowers, of a fine

clear blue-lilac colour, white in the centre.

These Grifinias are amongst the most charming stove dma-

ryllidee, and if not so large and gaudy as the Crinums and

Pancratiums of the Old World, are far more delicate in habit

and colouring. The G. dryades was originally described by

Vellozo in 1790, in his MSS. of the Flora of kio de Janeiro,

which was published in 1824 by Fr. Antonio d’Arrabida

at Rio.

Descr. Bulé almost as large as the fist, broad, flat below.

Leaves spreading, on stout long petioles as thick as the little

finger, with closed sheathes at the base; limb leathery, a

foot long and upwards, five to six inches broad, bright green,

avGusT Ist, 1869,

oblong lanceolate, subacute, with many strong well marked

nerves, and transverse reticulations. Scape thicker than the

petiole, terete, one and a half feet high; bracts five to six,

one to one and a half inches long, gradually tapering from a

broad base, recurved. Flowers ten to thirteen ; pedicels short,

green, about one inch long. Ovary small, globose. Perianth

four inches long by four and a half inches broad when fully

expanded, tube cylindric, limb gibbous at the base, broadly

funnel-shaped, lobes subequal, lanceolate, the lower shorter

and narrower, the three upper approximate, each two and a

half inches long by two-thirds of an inch broad, recurved,

acuminate, of a fine blue-lilac colour, white in the middle and

at the base. Stamens inserted at the mouth of the tube, the

upper erect, the rest declinate. Anthers pale yellow. Stigma

quite entire. Fruit (from Vellozo’s drawing) as large as a

chesnut.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Ovary, section of perianth-tube, stamens, and style; 2, transverse

section of ovary; 3, a pair of ovules :—all magnified.

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PHALERIA LAURIFOLIA.

Laurel-leaved Phaleria.

Nat. Ord. TuymeLe®,—Terranpria Monogynta.

Gen. Char.—Perianthium hypocraterimorphum y. infundibuliforme, limbo

subequali 4-6-fido, fauce nuda, Stamina 8, biseriatim disposita, fila-

mentis exsertis; anthere adnate, connectivo crassiusculo. Ovarium

sessile, 2-loculare, basi disco cupuleformi cinctum, glabrum ; stylus

terminalis, exsertus, stigmate capitellato; ovula in loculis solitaria, prope

apicem septi appensa. Drupa ovoidea, nuda, sarcocarpio fibroso, 1—2-

sperma. Semina exalbuminosa; cotyledones carnose.—Arbores fru-

ticesve Moluccane. Folia sparsa v. opposita, breviter petiolata. Flores

capitati v. umbellati, terminales v. axillares—Puauerta, Jack, in Malay.

Misc. v. ii. p. 59 (1822). Hook., Comp. Bot. Mag. v. i. p. 156. Dry-

MISPERMUM, Reinwardt, Sylloge Nov. Pl. Ratisb. 1828, p. 15, t. ii.

Puateria laurifolia ; foliis superioribus oppositis oblongo-lanceolatis acu-

minatis, corymbis terminalibus paucifloris, involucri foliolis paucis an-

gustis inequalibus, floribus extus pubescenti-pilosis 4—6-lobis,

DrrmisPerMuM laurifolium. Decaisne in Ann. Sc. Nat., Ser. 2, v. xix. p. 89,

t.i.f A. Meissn. in D. C. Prod. v. xiv. pt.2, p. 604. Miquel. Fl. Ind.

Bat. v. i. part 1. p. 885.

An evergreen stove shrub, remarkable for the delicious

Daphne-like odour of its flowers. It was communicated to the

Royal Gardens from Ceylon by our excellent correspondent,

G. H. K. Thwaites, Esq., F.R.S., under the specific name

given above, and under which he received it, I believe, from

the Buitenzorg Gardens of Java. It is a native of Timor,

but is closely allied to various Malayan island species. The

genus Phaleria having been published and well described by

Jack in 1822, takes precedence of Reinwardt’s Drymispermum,

which was not published till six years afterwards. The

Malayan Miscellanies, printed at the Missionary press of

Bencoolen in Sumatra, and of which the first volume, with

many of Jack’s descriptions, appeared in 1820, and the second

in 1822, are unfortunately extremely rare in European

libraries, but how they came to be ignored by the Dutch

auausT Ist, 1869.

botanists who were actively employed simultaneously in the

neighbouring island of Java, is not easily explicable.

Descr. A shrub four to eight feet high, erect, evergreen.

Branches covered with brown tough bark. eaves four to

five inches long; the upper opposite, lower alternate, very

shortly petioled ; oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, quite glabrous,

shining. Corymb terminal, six to eight flowered ; peduncle

short, bracts linear-oblong or lanceolate, with tomentose

apices and margins. Flowers sessile. Perianth pubescent, with

scattered flaccid hairs; tube slender, two-thirds of an inch

long ; lobes four to seven, spreading and reflexed, very pale

yellow. Stamens much exserted, in two approximate series.

—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower ; 2, ditto with perianth laid open; 3, anther; 4, ovary and

disc; 5, transverse section of ovary:—all magnified.

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STERIPHOMA parapoxum.

Paradoxical Steriphoma.

Nat. Ord. CapparIpDEz.—OctTANDRIA Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. Calyx cylindraceo-campanulatus, apice 2-4-lobus, irregulariter

ruptus, basi squamulis 4 auctus. Discus annularis. Petala 4, sessilia,

toro inserta, 2 antica paulo majora. Stamina 6, cum petalis inserta,

adscendentia; 2 postica breviora, filamentis longe exsertis. Ovarium

oblongum v. cylindraceum, 2-loculare, ovulis « 2-seriatis, stigmate

sessili. Bacca globosa, angulata v. cylindrica, corticata, pulposa.

Semina o, nidulantia, angulata; cotyledones spiraliter convolute.

Frutices Americe tropice. Folia 1-foliolata, foliolo integerrimo. Racemi

terminales, pedicellis apice refractis v. decurvis, 1-floris. Flores speciosi,

aurantiact,

SrerrpHoma paradoxum; _foliis

apicibus fere setaceis.

Srerrpnoma paradoxum. Endl. ea Karst. Ausw. Gew. Venezuel. p. 10,

cum icone. Planch. in Flore des Serres, v. 6, t. 534, 535.

SrepHanta cleomoides, Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 2, p.239. D.C. Prodr. v. 1, p. 253.

Carparis paradoxa, Jacq., Hort. Schoenb. 1, p. 58, t. iii.

oblongo-lanceolatis, caudato-acuminatis

A beautiful stove-shrub, introduced into Europe so long

ago as 1797, when it was figured by Jacquin from plants that

flowered in the Imperial Botanic Gardens at Scheenbrunn

(Vienna). Inthe Royal Gardens of Kew it has existed for

many years, having been received from the Trinidad Botanic

Gardens some forty years ago, and it flowers freely every year

in a stove. My attention was drawn to the fact of its never

having been figured in this Magazine by Dr. Moore, of Glas-

nevin Botanic Gardens, who sent beautiful flowering specimens

from which the accompanying drawing

in April of last year,

was made. It is a native of the Caraccas and various parts

of New Grenada. :

Descr. A leafy shrub, four to ten feet high. Branches

erect or ascending, slender, terete, woody, covered with fur-

furaceous pubescence. Leaves alternate, crowded towards

AuGust Ist, 1869.

the ends of the branches, spreading and deflexed, four to

seven inches long, oblong or ovate-oblong, rounded at the

base, narrowed into slender acuminate points, furfuraceous

below and above when young; petiole slender, furfuraceous,

tumid at the apex. aceme terminal, short, stout, dense-

flowered, one to three inches long, rachis furfuraceous, tumid.

Flowers imbricating ; abruptly deflexed from the apex of the

orange-yellow pedicels, which are one to one and a half inches

long. Calyx bright orange, oblong-cylindric, two-thirds of

an inch long, irregularly split half way down, covered like

the pedicels with furfuraceous down. Pefals hardly twice as

long as the calyx, linear-oblong, pale yellow. Stamens five to

seven, horizontal, slightly upcurved, pale yellow, three to

four inches long. Ovary cylindric, on a curved gynophore.

Fruit described as cylindric.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Petal; 2, receptacle and ovary :—both magnified.

2 7 9

1, [mp

Vincentt ics.

cent Brooks, Day£5o

Tap. 5789.

APHELANDRA ACUTIFOLIA.

Sharp-leaved Aphelandra.

Nat. Ord. ACANTHACEA.—DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5463.)

APHELANDRA acutifolia ; glaberrima, caule sub-4-gono, foliis petiolatis ob-

longis acuminatis, basi in petiolum angustatis, spica terminali sessili,

bracteis imbricatis ovato-oblongis acuminatis serratis ciliatis rigidis

rachique puberulis, corolla glabra coccinea, labii inferioris lobis 3 ob-

longis obtusis, lateralibus patentibus, intermedio minore.

APHELANDRA acutifolia. Nees in D. C. Prodr. v. 11, p. 299.

One of the most brilliant flowered of the beautiful genus to

which it belongs, and apparently a common plant in South

America, as I find specimens in the Herbarium from Mexico,

Peru, New Grenada, and Surinam. The individual here

figured was sent by Messrs. Veitch, of the Royal Exotic

Nurseries, who imported it from South America, and with

whom it flowered in October, 1863.

Descr. A glabrous erect shrub. Stems obscurely four-

angled. eaves four to eight inches long, membranous,

glabrous, oblong-ovate, acuminate and much narrowed at the

apex, entire, but when dried rather waved and almost crenate

at the margin, narrowed at the base into a long or short

petiole, sometimes two inches long ; colour, a bright uniform

green, glossy above, paler below. ASpése terminal, sessile,

erect, strict, four to six inches long, with the bracts two-

thirds to one and a half inches broad; rachis pubescent.

Bracts imbricating, two-thirds to one and a third inches long,

ovate-oblong, acuminate, rigid, sharply, serrate above the

middle, minutely ciliate and finely pubescent on the back,

strongly nerved, green with dull purple margins. — Flowers

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

deep vermilion red. Calya lobes lanceolate, from a broad

AueusT Ist, 1869.

base, gradually acuminate; bracts small, subulate. Corolla

tube slender ; limb flat, one and a half inches diameter ; upper

lip arched, very concave, subacute ; lower longer, three-lobed ;

lateral lobes two-thirds of an inch long, spathulate-oblong,

middle almost twice as large, and broader in proportion.

Ovary pubescent at the apex; stigma minutely toothed.—

J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Bract and flower, with corolla removed; 2, ovary :—both magnified.

Tas. 5790.

MYRCIA AMPLEXICAULIS.

Ampleaicaul-leaved Myrcia.

Nat. Ord. Myrracea.—lIcosanpRia MonoGyYnia.

Gen. Char. Calycis tubus turbinatus v. hemisphericus; limbi lobi 5, rarius

3 v. 4. Petala 5, rarissime 3 v. 4, patentia. Stamina , «-seriata,

libera, filamentis filiformibus; anthere versatiles, v. fere basifixe, loculis

parallelis v. altero altius affixo, longitudinaliter v. oblique dehiscen-

tibus. Ovarium 4-rarius 2-loculare; stylus filiformis, stigmate parvo;

ovula in loculis gemina, collateralia. Bacca calycis limbo reliquiis

coronata. Semina sepius 1-2, subglobosa: radicula longiuscula, in-

curva v. cyclica; cotyledones contortuplicate. — Arbores fruticesve

Americe tropice et subtropice incole. Folia opposita, pennivenia.

Flores sepius parvi, cymosi v. paniculatt.

Myrcta amplexicaulis ; ramulis tomentosis et sericeo-strigosis, foliis amplis

sessilibus basi lata cordatis amplexicaulibus oblongis acuminatis reticu-

_ lato-costatis nervis plurimis arcuatis, paniculis brachiatis oppositis folio

multo brevioribus, floribus fasciculatis, fasciculis remotis, antheris 2-

locularibus linearibus loculis parallelis rimis longitudinalibus.

EveEnta amplexicaulis.— Vellozo, Flor. Flum., v. 5, t. 44.

Gomiprs1a amplexicaulis—Berg, in Mart. Flor. Brazil. ; Myrt., p- 13.

A very handsome Brazilian stove-shrub, remarkable for its

fine evergreen persistent foliage. A native of the province

of Rio de Janeiro, where it probably forms a bush or small

tree, though it flowers freely in the stoves at Kew when only

three to five feet high. 2

Berg, in his elaborate account of the Brazilian A/yrtacee,

in Von Martius’ Flora of Brazil, describes the calyx-lobes

of this plant as acute, from the wretched drawing in Flora

_ Fluminensis, where they are incorrectly figured as acute on

the plant of the natural size, but correctly as truncate im the

enlarged analysis; Berg further states that the anthers are

figured by Vellozo as those of a Gomidesia (viz. 4-celled) ; but

I see no signs of this in the figure, nor in the live plant.

lwDesor. A shrub, covered everywhere with a soft velvety

tomentum. Branches strict. erect, terete, stout ; branchlets

AuGuUsT Ist, 1869.

as thick as a goose-quill. eaves opposite, sessile, ten to

sixteen inches long, narrow-oblong or linear-oblong, acumi-

nate, downy on both surfaces, reticulated above, lateral

nerves below numerous, very divergent, elevated. Panicles

downy, from the upper axils, six to ten inches long ; branches ~

few, opposite, spreading. owers fascicled on the branches,

sessile, three-quarters of an inch in diameter, calyx-tube

turbinate ; lobes five, short, transversely oblong, very obtuse,

almost truncate. Petals orbicular, white. Stamens much

larger than the petals, filaments linear, flexuous, much con-

tracted at the very apex; anthers linear, cells slender,

bursting longitudinally ; style filiform.—J. D. /.

Vig. J, Ovary and calyx; 2, transverse, and 3, vertical section of ovary ;

4, stamen :—all magnified.

5791,

W. Fitcl

Tas. 5791.

CYPRIPEDIUM PARISHI.

The Rev. Mr. Parish’s Lady's Slipper.

Nat. Ord. Orcnipe®.—GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5349.)

Cypripepiom Parishii ; foliis distichis loriformibus coriaceis, apice obliquo

obtuso v. 2-fido immaculatis, scapo elongato stricto pubescente 3-5-floro

foliis multo longiore, bracteis late ovatis acutis ovario dimidio brevio-

ribus, sepalis pallide viridibus lateralibus carinatis, dorsali late ovato

subacuto, petalis sepalis 3-plo longioribus elongato-linearibus tortis

sordide purpureis basi viridibus, marginibus undulatis verruceis paucis

purpureis penicillatis ornatis, apicibus obtusis ciliatis, labello anguste

oblongo basi rotundato ore paulo ampliato obliquo auriculis subacutis

prominulis, staminodio 2-fido, :

Cypripepium Parishii, Reichb. fil. in Flora, 1869, 322; and Gard. Chron.

1869, 814, cum ic. xylogr.

A superb species belonging to the Indian section of which

C. insigne is the type, and was long the only known represen-

tative, but which section is now increased by several noble

discoveries, including C. Jevigatum (Tab. nost. 5508) and

C. Stonei (Tab. 5349); to the former of these indeed, a

native of the Philippines, C. Parishi 18 very closely allied,

differing in the larger size, pale green unstriped dorsal sepal,

obtuse tips of the petals, the pencilled warts on the ae

of which are more prominent, in the form of the mou >

the obtuse-based lip, and in the shape of the staminode. :

Parishii was discovered in the Moulmayne mountains by the

eminent amateur of this family, our energetic correspondent,

the Rev. ©. Parish, of Moulmayne, 1859, and refound in

1866, when he brought roots to his garden, which flowered in

1867. From this a drawing was made, and sent to Kew,

with a noble dried specimen, bearing five open flowers, and

to this Prof. Reichenbach has attached the name of its dis-

SEPTEMBER lst, 1869.

coverer. The specimen here figured flowered with Messrs.

Veitch in July of the present year, and presented a spike

no less than two feet long! Mr. Parish’s dried specimen and

flowers are quite as large as ours, and differ only in having

a broader leaf (full two inches across) and a deep purple-

tinted lip. Z

Desc. Stem four to eight inches high, leafy. Leaves eight

inches long by two inches broad, coriaceous, exactly linear,

bright green, obliquely rounded, and bifid at the apex.

Scape one and a half to two feet high, stout, covered with

villous hairs, three- to five-flowered. Bracts large, spatha-

ceous, ovate, acute, green. Ovary and pedicel two inches

long, covered with soft green villous hairs. Sepals spreading,

pale green, two inches long by one to one and a half inches

broad. Petals pendulous, four to five inches long, linear,

twisted, purple with pale margins for the lower two-thirds

of their length, apex rounded and pencilled, margin in the

upper third greenish, waved, presenting here and there

purple very prominent shining pencilled warts. Lip one and

a half inches long, rounded at the base, green or purplish,

mouth rather expanded with erect acute auricles. Sfaminode

large, green, broadly oblong, bifid.—/. D. H.

Fig. 1. Staminode and stigma :—magnified.

\ fee

.. 3 P

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W.Fitch, delet lith. ; Vincent Brooks, Day&Son.Imp

Tas. 5792.

CEROPEGIA SANDERSONI.

Mr. Sanderson's Ceropegia.

Nat. Ord. AscLEPIADEZ.—PENTANDRIA Monocynia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5806.)

Crropecia Sandersoni ; glaberrima, caulibus robustis elongatis volubilibus,

foliis crasse petiolatis ovatis v. ovato-cordatis subacutis obtusisve car-

nosis, pedunculis brevibus crassis paucifloris, bracteolis parvis ovatis

acutis, calycis lobis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis, corolla albo-viridi

magna ampla, tubo basi modice inflato curvo sursum valde ampliato

late infundibuliformi translucido, lobis remotis in laminam horizontalem

basi 2-lobam ciliatam dilatatis, laminibus in umbraculam latissimam

5-lobam 5-sulcatam connatis, corone staminex lobis exterioribus 0,

interioribus elongatis erectis apicibus recurvis.

Ceropraia Sandersoni, Decaisne in litt.

This very striking and conspicuous-flowered plant, was

discovered in J uly, 1867, by our active and able correspondent,

John Sanderson, Esq., of Natal, in the Bush on the banks of a

stream flowing into the Umgeni river in a stony soil; and

by: him a sketch was in the following year sent both to

myself and to my friend M. Decaisne, who provisionally gave

it the above name,—a richly-deserved compliment to its ex-

cellent and liberal discoverer. In 1868 live specimens were

transmitted in a Ward’s case by Mr. Sanderson to Kew, and

these having gone on flowering abundantly, from the month

of May till the present time, enable me to figure it here. In

habit C. Sandersoni differs altogether from its congeners, as it

does in its stout stem like that of a Vanilla, its succulent

leaves, and the remarkable structure and colour of its semi-

transparent flower capped by the curious broad lobed hood

of mottled green, which bears near the margin a series of

erect white flat hair-like processes.

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1869.

Descr. A lofty glabrous climber. Stems stout, succulent,

as thick as a goosequill, twining, and sparingly branched.

Leaves small and distant for the size of the plant, shortly

stoutly petioled, one and a half to two and a half inches long,

ovate-cordate, obtuse, thick and succulent, nerveless, deep

green like the stems. Peduncles axillary, short, curved, stout,

terete, bright green, three- to four-flowered. Bracteoles small,

subulate. Pedicels short. Calyx-lobes subulate, quarter of an

inch long, green. Corolla two and a half inches long, curved

at the base, two inches broad across the top; tube slightly

inflated and green at the base, expanding into a funnel-

shaped, five-angled, transparent limb, with opaque green

reticulated veins; this presents five short distant lobes on

its margin, which bears the five curious horizontal appendages

that together form the umbraculiform cap to the flower: this

cap is bright verdigris-green, pitted on the surface and

formed of five confluent convex lobes with a conical central

papilla, each lobe is two-lobed at its outer margin, and the

margins are turned up and bear a series of transparent flat

erect hairs within the border. Staminal corona yellow, termi-

nating in five erect strap-shaped connivent processes with

recurved apices.— J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Staminal corona; 2, pollini:—both magnified.

Tas. 5793.

ACER RUFINERVE; var. albo-limbata.

fed-nerved Maple,—white-bordered variety.

Nat. Ord. SapinpacE&#.—PoLyGAMiA OCTANDRIA.

Gen. Char.—F lores seepissime polygamo-dieci. Calyx sepius 5-partitus,

deciduus, imbricatus. Petala 0 v. lobis calycinis isomera. Discus annu-

laris, lobatus. Stamina sepius 8, disco inserta, filamentis filiformibus.

Ovarium 2-lobum, 2-loculare, septo contrarie compressum; styli 2, inter

_ lobos ovarii inserti, filiformes, intus longe stigmatosi; ovula in loculis 2,

superposita v. collateralia. Samare 2, divaricate, 1—2-sperme, longe

alate, alis elongatis oblique dilatatis. Semina adscendentia, compressa, testa

membranacea, endopleura carnosa; embryo conduplicatus.—Arbores succo

aqueo, rarius saccharato, rarissime lacteo. Folia opposita, decidua, integra

lobata v. subpedatim 5—7-partita. Flores racemosi v. corymbost, axillares et

terminales. :

Acer rufinerve ; foliis e basi cordato, palmato, 8—5-lobis argute duplicato

serratis superne glabris, subtus ad nervos rufo-lanatis demum glabratis,

lobis deltoideis abrupte caudato-acuminatis lateralibus brevioribus, ra-

cemis simplicibus multifloris, floribus breviter pedicellatis, sepalis ob-

longis petalis obovatis paulo brevioribus ovarioque glabris, samare alis

late cultratis rotundatis adscendentibus.

Acer rufinerve, Siebold et Zuccarini, Fl. Japon. v. ii. t. 158, ined. ex. Fl.

Jap. Fam. Nat., Sect. i. p. 47. Miquel Prolus. Fl. Japon. p. 20, et

“ Sur les Erables du Japon,” in Archives Néerlandaises, v. ii. 1867.

Var. albo-limbata ; marginibus foliorum albo marmoratis.

The Japanese Maples, of which many species are now to be

found in our gardens in a young state, are amongst the most

beautiful novelties of late introduced into the Arboretum,

for that many of them will prove as hardy as their fellow-

countrymen, the Salisburia, Sophora japonica, and Aucuba,

can no longer be doubted. Our figure represents one of the

noblest of these in foliage, and a very remarkable variety of

it, exhibiting that variegation so frequent amongst Japan

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1869.

plants, and which the Japanese themselves so sedulously

encourage in their gardens and pleasure grounds.

Acer rufinerve is a native of Nagasaki and Yokohama, two

widely-separated localities, with very different climates ; and

there are specimens of the white-bordered variety in the Kew

Herbarium, collected by the eminent Russian traveller and

botanist, Maximowicz, in the town of Jedo. The figured

specimen is from the nurseries of Mr. Standish, and was ex-

hibited at the Horticultural Society in May of the present

year.

Desor. A largetree. Branches stout ; branchlets, peduncles,

petioles, and often midrib of the leaf below pale red. Leaves

palmately three- to five-lobed, cordate at the base, three to

five inches long and broad ; rufous-pubescent or woolly below

on the nerves when young, glabrous when old, lobes broadly

ovate or triangular abruptly cordate-acuminate, doubly

serrate, deep green, mottled along the border with white ;

petiole one to one and a half inches long. Racemes pendulous ;

flowers green, quarter of an inch in diameter. Calya-lobes

obovate-oblong. Petals broadly obovate, crenate. Stamens

eight. Fruiting raceme lengthened. Samaras one to one and

a half inches across the pair; wings slightly falcate, rounded

at the apex.—J. D. #.

: Fig. i, Flower; 2, the same seen from the outside; 3, stamen; 4,

fruit:—all but fig. 4 magnified.

5794.

W. Fitch, del.et lith.

Tas. 5794,

PRIMULA PEDEMONTANA.

Piedmontese Primrose.

Nat. Ord. PrimuLaceEa.—PENTANDRIA Monoaynia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5528.)

Primvuxa pedemontana ; foliis oblongis obovatisve obsolete repando-dentatis

glanduloso-ciliatis junioribus convolutis subcarnosis levibus, scapo pedi-

cillisque glandulis brevissime stipitatis viscosis adspersis, involucri brac-

teis parvis late oblongis obtusis pedicellis multo brevioribus, corolla

lobis obcordatis, fauce esquamato non farinoso, staminibus sexus bre-

vistyli paulo infra medium tubi insertis, capsula calycem equante.

Priva pedemontana, Thomas. Plant. exsicc., Koch. Synops. Flor. Germ. et

Helvet., Ed. 2. p. 675.

One of a: lovely series of Swiss Alpine Primulas of the

Auricula group, which includes P. pubescens, Jacq., rhetica,

Gaudin and villosa, Jacq., and which are distinguished from

one another by such slight characters that continental authors

are not altogether of one accord as to their limits Reichen-

bach (Ie. Crit. vol. vii. p. 17. t. 856-7), considering them as

one species, and Koch keeping them distinct. It is a native

of the high Alps of Piedmont and Switzerland, and one of

the most lovely plants of those regions. ‘The specimen

figured bloomed profusely in the Royal Gardens in April of

the present year, from roots received from Messrs. Backhouse,

of York. ‘The flowers vary a good deal in colour in the

native state, those here figured are of the clearest and brightest

rose-purple that can well be imagined. _ Les

Desc. Rosettes of leaves two to three inches in diameter,

appressed to the ground. Leaves one to one and a half inches

long, oblong or obovate, hardly petioled enough to be spathu-

late, obtusely sinuate, toothed, covered and fringed with glan-

dular viscid hairs, deep green with a paler midrib. Scapes

stout, two to four inches high, very many-flowered, viscidly

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1869.

pubescent. — Znvolucral leaves very short, ovate or oblong,

obtuse, appressed. M/owers numerous, usually forming a

dense head ; pedicels strict, viscid, much longer than the

snvolucral bracts. Caly«-tube oblong-cylindric, viscid, teeth

short, rounded. Corolla rose-purple, tube much longer than

the calyx, half an inch long; limb one inch diameter ; throat

naked, yellow, without farina or scales, lobes obcordate, not

deeply lobed. Stamens in the short-styled form inserted

shortly below the mouth of the corolla. Ovary globose.

Capsule as long as the calyx —J. D. #7.

Fig. 1, Flower; 2, calyx cut open, showing the ovary :—magnified,

h del et lith

tch del et lith.

7, DD.

Vincent Brooks Day & So

mn Imp

Tas. 5795. .

DORSTENTA ARGENTATA.

Stlvered-leaved Dorstenia.

Nat. Ord. More&.—Monecia DrsaNnpria.

Gen. Char.—Receptaculum carnosum, concavo-planum. Flores plurimi i

alveolis receptaculi, masculi femineis mixti. Masc. Alveoli superficiales.

Perigonium 0 vy. lobi 8 ad orem alveoli. Stamina 1 v. plura, filamentis fili-

formibus; anthere 2-loculares, globoso-didyme. Frm. in foveolis recep-

taculi solitarii. Perigonium 0. Ovarium breviter stipitatum, ovatum,

1-loculare; stylus lateralis, filiformis, stigmate 2-fido; ovulum 1, parieti

styligeri appensum. Utricudé demum circumscissi, receptaculo subsucculento

immersi. Semen uncinatum, testa crustacea; embryo uncinatus—Herbe

Americe tropice incole, acaules v. caulescentes. Folia varia, radicalia v.

caulina et alterna. Capitula scapos radicales v. pedunculos axillares termi-

Mantia,

Dorstexta argentata ; caule e basi radicante prostrato erecto puberulo folioso

purpurascente, foliis alternis breviter petiolatis oblongis v. anguste

lanceolatis, apice attenuato obtuso apiculato, obscure sinuato-dentatis,

supra et subtus ad nervos patentes puberulis siccitate scabridis, disco

supra late irregulariter argentatis margine saturate viridi, petiolo brevi

costaque subtus fusco-purpureis, stipulis subulatis persistentibus, pedun-

culis axillaribus, receptaculis, orbicularibus pubescentibus leviter con-

cavis margine processibus brevibus subcapitellatis ornato, alveolis disci

fomineis marginis masculis monandris, perigonii lobis 3.

A remarkably pretty variegated-leaved stove plant, a

native of South’ Brazil, for which the Royal Gardens are in-

debted to Mr. Wilson Saunders, F.R.S., of Reigate. It is

not described by Miquel in the monograph of the Brazilian

species, which has appeared in Martius’s Flora Brasiliensis,

but there are dried specimens in the Kew Herbarium sent by

Dr. Fritz Miiller, of Sta. Catherine, South Brazil.

Duscr. Stem nearly simple, terete, horizontal and rooting

for a foot or so, sending up few ascending simple leafy branches

six to twelve inches high; branches dull purple, terete, pu-

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1869,

bescent, almost as thick as a goosequill. Leaves numerous,

alternate, three to five inches long, oblong- or narrow-lanceo-

late, narrowed above to an obtuse apiculate tip, and below

into the petiole, sinuate-toothed, deep green at the margins,

with a broad central silvery zone which is marbled with

green at the juncture of the colours, scabridly puberulous

above and beneath on the nerves which spread widely from

the costa, petiole half an inch to one inch long and midrib

below purple; stipules persistent, small, subulate. Peduncles

axillary, half an inch to one inch long, stout, dull purple,

puberulous, suddenly expanding into the peltate orbicular

slightly concave receptacle, which is dark green, three-quarters

of an inch to one inch in diameter; margin furnished with a

series of short obtuse purple capitate conical tubercles, each

tipped with a few short hairs. /owers of the disc all female,

immersed in simple alveoli. Ovary flagon-shaped; styles

two, recurved. Ovter flowers male, in few series ; the mouth

of the alveoli furnished with three broadly ovate, short,

green incurved perianth-lobes. Sfamens three, surrounding

a conical papilla (a rudimentary ovary).—/J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Receptacle; 2, vertical section of the same :—both magnified.

OE et ne ete

Tas. 5796.

DROSOPHYLLUM LUSITANICUM.

Portuguese Yellow Sundew.

Nat. Ord. Droseracem.—OcTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA.

Gen. Char.—Calyx 5 partitus, foliolis oblongis imbricatis. Petala 5, hypo-

gyna, patentia, nervosa. Stamina 10-20, hypogyna, filamentis filiformibus ;

anther oblonge, extrorse. Ovarium ovoideum, 1 loculare; styli 5, fili-

formes, stigmatibus capitatis; ovula numerosa, placente basilari affixa.

Capsula conica, chartacea, 1-locularis, ad medium 5-valvis, polysperma.

Semina majuscula, obovoidea, funiculo elongato, testa crassa; embryo in

_basi albuminis densi semi-immersa, minima. Fruticulus pedalis, caule brevi,

totus pilis grosse capitato-glandulosis viscidus. Folia confertim alterna,

elongato linearia, apice attenuata, vernatione circinatim revoluta. Flores

corymbosi, ampli, sulphurei. Capsula exserta, erecta.

Drosopny.uium lusitanicum, Linn. D.C. Prod. i. 320. St. Hil.in Mem. Mus.

ii. 124, t. 4, f. 13.

This almost shrubby representative of the Sundews of our

bogs and moors is one of the most singular plants of the

European Flora; it differs from its ally Drosera, not only

in habit and size, and in some very curious points of struc-

ture, as the numerous stamens, entire styles and basilar

placente, but in the nature of the glandular hairs, which

have rigid pedicels that are not endowed with the motive

power of those of the English Sundews, which curve towards

their prey when once it is entangled. A still more anoma-

lous character is to be found in the way the leaves are

developed in the bud, being circinate and revolute, not imvo-

lute as in our Droseras, in Ferns, Cycads, and other plants ;

and of this mode of development Drosophyllum is, in so far as

I know, the only example in the vegetable kingdom.

Drosophyllum is a native of Spain, Portugal, and Mauri-

tania, inhabiting sandy shores and dry rocks, by the sea and

OCTOBER Ist, 1869.

inland. The Royal Gardens are indebted to M. Goeze, of

the Botanical Gardens of Coimbra, for seeds and living plants ;

as also to Mr. Darwin, to whom they were sent by Mr. G.

Maw, who collected them himself on the coast of Marocco.

The plant flowered at Mr. Darwin’s and at Kew in April

of the present year.

Desor. Whole plant, except the leaf-base, inside of sepals,

petals, stamens and ovary, covered: with purple, pedicelled,

viscid glands. Stem woody, two to three inches high, as

thick as the little finger, rough with the old leaf bases.

Leaves crowded at the top of the stem, four to eight inches

long, spreading, one-eighth of an inch broad, gradually

narrowed to the apex. Flowering stem leaty, stout, a foot high.

Flowers in a lax corymb, erect, one and a half inches in dia-

meter branches distant, flexuous, bracteate at the forks;

bracts linear, quarter to half an inch long, pedicels one to

three inches long, stout. Sepals one-third of an inch long,

oblong, acute. Petals obovate, spathulate, bright pale yellow,

membranous, twisted after flowering. Stamens usually ten,

alternate longest; anthers short, yellow. Ovary oblong, one-

celled; styles usually five, stigmas capitate ; ovules anatro-

pous, crowded on a central receptacle. Capsule three-quarters

of an inch long, narrow ovoid, coriaceous, glossy, five-valved.

Seeds compressed.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Portion of leaf and gland; 2, gland; 3, sepals, stamen and pistil ;

4, petal; 5, stamen; 6, ovary; 7, transverse, and 8, vertical section of ditto :

—all magnified.

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MACKAYA BELLA.

Natal Mackaya.

Nat. Ord. ACANTHACE.,—DIANDRIA MonoGyYnIA.

Gen. Char.—Calyx parvus, ebracteolatus, equaliter 5-partitus, laciniis

subulatis. Corolle tubus cylindraceus, limbus ampliatus oblique campanu-

latus, venosus, subsqualiter, 5-lobus, lobis patentibus. Stamina circa

apicem tubi inserta; duo fertilia antheris sagittatis bilocularibus sub-

equilateris pilosis; duo inferiora ananthera filiformia. Stylus filiformis ;

stigmate minute bifido. Ovarium loculis medio bi-ovulatis. Capsula?—

Frutex gracilis, inermis. Folia supra minute punctata, sinuato—dentata.

Racemi terminales, laxe secundiflori, bracteis bracteolisque infra medium

pedicellorum minimis. lores magni, speciosi, lilacini. Harv. Thes. Cap.

Tab. xiii.

Mackaya bella, Harvey in Proc. Dubl. Univ. Zool. et Bot. Ass. ined. The-

saurus Capensis, t. xiii. T. Anderson, in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. vii, p. 18

and 53.

This most beautiful Acanthaceous plant was dedicated by

the late Professor Harvey, of Dublin, to his old friend, Dr.

J. T. Mackay, Keeper of the Dublin University Botanic

Garden, and author of “ The Flora Hibernica ;’ it is ana-

tive of the bed of the Tongat river, Natal, where its dis-

coverer, Mr. J. Sanderson, describes it as “a beautiful shrub,

one mass of most delicate pendant, pale lilac, campanulate

flowers.” For living specimens the Royal Gardens are in-

debted to its discoverer, and to Mr. McKen, of the D’Urban

Botanic Gardens. It flowered in the Palm House in May of

the present year.

Descr. A tall, slender, nearly glabrous shrub, with virgate

branches. Leaves on short petioles, patent, ovate-oblong,

two to four inches long, glabrous, but minutely granulated

on the upper surface when dry, sinuate-toothed, apex con-

tracted, obtuse or acuminate, veiny. tacemes four to six

OCTOBER Ist, 1869.

inches long, many-flowered, terminal, unilateral; bracts

opposite, minute, subulate; pedicels two to three lines

long, cernuous, bracteolate at a line from the base. Flowers

secund, erect. Calyx continuous with the pedicel, equally

five-partite, with narrow subulate segments. Corolla nearly

two inches long, pale lilac, throat with most delicately

pencilled reticulated purple veins, of thin membranous sub-

stance, tubular below, campanulate upwards, with a deeply

five-lobed, subequal, spreading limb; the segments oblong,

obtuse. Stamens inserted at the top of the narrow tube of

the corolla, shorter than the limb ; two perfect, with sagittate,

pilose, equal-sided, two-celled anthers; two reduced to fila-

ments, nearly as long as the others, without anthers. Style

filiform, with a minute, bifid stigma; ovary bilocular, with

two ovules in each cell. Capsule unknown.—/. D. H.

Fig. 1, Corolla laid open; 2, stamen; 3, calyx and style; 4, ovary :—all

magnified.

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Tas. 5798.

ARIDES JAPONICUM.

Japanese dirides.

Nat. Ord. OrcuipeEx.—GyYnanpriA Monoeynta.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5138.)

ZErwes Japonicum ; foliis brevibus lineari-oblongis recurvis carinatis apice

oblique bilobis, racemis 6—10-floris, sepalis oblongis obtusis albo-viri-

dibus, petalis consimilibus, labelli laciniis posticis brevibus plicatis in-

termedio obovato spathulato basi saccato apice rotundato crenulato

medio obtuse carinato carina crassa tumida levi alba violaceo-maculata,

calcare brevi infundibuliforme obtuso adscendente, columna subelon-

gata, anthera rostrata,

fErwes Japonicum, Linden et Reich. fil. in Hamburg Garten- und Blumen-

zeit, ann. 1863, p. 210.

The presence of rides in so high a northern latitude as

Japan is a remarkable fact in Botanical Geography, as testify-

ing to the warmth of the southern coasts of that Archipelago,

and to the extension of a Malayan type of vegetation to so

high a parallel. As a species 4. Japonicum is compared by

Reichenbach with A. radicosum, A. Rich. (Saccolabium Wight-

anum, Lindl.), from which it differs in habit, but which it

resembles in the form of the lip.

Zbrides Japonicum was originally introduced from Japan by

Mr. Linden of Brussels in 1862, and more recently by Messrs.

Veitch, with whom the plant from which the present figure

was taken flowered in June of this year.

Descr. Stem very short. Leaves six to eight, two to three

inches long, three quarters to one inch broad, recurved, linear-

oblong, keeled, unequally two-lobed at the apex, dark green

above. Raceme six inches long, flowers distant, one and a

half inches from the tip of the lip to that of the back sepal,

bracts short. Sepals and petals nearly half an inch long,

oblong, obtuse, greenish-white; lateral sepals with dull

OCTOBER Ist, 1869.

prown-purple bars towards the base. Basal lobe of lip ob-

long, with two short plaited lobes and an intermediate

spinous process placed over the mouth of the spur; terminal

lobe obovate-spathulate, crenate, concave and gibbous below,

white, with a raised, dark violet, smooth, median ridge, and

a few paler violet spots. Spur short, funnel-shaped, obtuse,

the point reaching half the length of the lip, to the gibbosity

at the back of which it points. Co/wma one third of an inch

long, incurved. Anther beaked. Pollinia globose ; caudicle

short.—J. D. HH.

Fig. 1, Column and anther; 2, pollinia; 3, lip and spur ; 4, anterior view

of lip :—all magnified.

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NERTERA DEPRESSA.

Depressed Nertera.

Nat. Ord. Rupracea.—TETRANDRIA Monoernia.

Gen. Char.—Flores hermaphroditi. Calycis tubus ovoideus; limbus _

truncatus v. obscure 4-dentatus. Corolla tubulosa v. infundibuliformis,

4-loba. Stamina 4; filamenta basi corolle inserta; antheris exsertis.

Ovarium 2-loculare ; Joculis 1-ovulatis. Styli 2, elongati, exserti, undique

piloso-stigmatiferi. Bacca globosa, carnosa, dicocca; coccis coriaceis,

1-spermis. Semina plano-convexa, intus sulcata.—Herbe parve, repentes ;

foliis sempervirentibus ; stipulis intrafoliaceis ; floribus axillaribus, sub-—

sessilibus. : )

Nerrera depressa; glaberrima, caulibus repentibus, ramulis suberectis v-

demissis, foliis petiolatis late ovatis acutis, calycibus ovariisque glaber-

rimis, embryone majusculo,

Nerrera depressa, Banks and Sol. in Gertn. Fruct. v. i. p. 124, t. 26.

D.C. Prod. v. iv. p. 451. Smith, Ic. ined. v. ii. t. 28. Hook. f. Fl.

Tasm. v. i. p. 167. Handbook of New Zealand Flora, p. 120. .

Nerrera repens, Ruiz and Pav. Fl. Peruv., v. i. p. 60, t. 90.

Eryrnropamum alsineforme, Pet. Thouar, Fl. Trist. @Acunha, p. 42. t. 10.

GonoziA granatensis, Mutis in Linn. fil. Suppl. p. 29.

Though when in flower one of the most insignificant of

flowering plants, when covered with its translucent orange

fruit, which it keeps for a long period, this is one of the

most charming of rockwork plants. It is a native of the

bleak cold Antarctic mountains throughout the southern

hemisphere, where I have gathered it in Lord Auckland and

Campbell Tslands, the Falkland Islands, and Cape Horn; it

also inhabits Tristan d’Acunha, the mountains of New Zea-

land and Tasmania, and follows the Andes from Cape Horn

to New Grenada. oe

The specimen here figured flowered in June, and fruited in

ocroBer Isr, 1869.

August, 1868, and remained in fruit during a good part of

the winter. It was communicated to the Royal Gardens by

Mr. Niven, from the rich herbaceous collection of the Botanic

Gardens of Hull.

Descr. A low, depressed, densely tufted herb, covered with

minute yellow-green flowers, succeeded by globose, bright

orange-red berries. Almost glabrous in every part. Stems

creeping and rooting, densely tufted, six to ten inches long,

tetragonous. Leaves one-sixth to one-third of an inch long,

broadly ovate, acute or obtuse, coriaceous or almost fleshy ;

petioles as long as the blade or shorter. Séipules very small.

Flowers solitary, minute, sessile, one-tenth of an inch long,

probably subunisexual, one sex having long stamens and

short styles, the other the reverse. Calyx-limb four-toothed.

Corolla fannel-shaped, green with four short spreading lobes.

Stamens four, filaments flattened. Ovary two.-celled, styles

slender, papillar all over ; ovules one in each cell. Fruit glo-

bose, bright orange, translucent, size of a small pea, most

abundantly produced, each with two plano-convex coriaceous

one-seeded cocci.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Tip of branch with leaves and flower; 2, corolla laid open; 3, sta-

men; 4, ovary; 5, vertical section of ditto; 6, tip of branch and fruit;

7, transverse section of ditto; 8, cocci :—all highly magnified.

La ec ee eee ee

Tas. 5800.

BIGN ONIA PURPUREA.

Nat. Ord. BigNoNIAcEZ.—DipyNamIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char.—Calyx margine 5-dentatus, rarius integer aut 5-partitus

aut 2-3-lobus. Corolla bilabiata aut subequalis, 5-fida. Stamina 4

fertilia, didynama, quinto sterili. Amnthere loculis glabris, sepissime dis-

cretis. Stigma bilamellatum. Capsula valvis vix convexis planisve, septo.

plano valvis parallelo. Semina ad quodque septi latus uniseriata, utrinque

alata, ala pellucida.—Caules nune frutescentes arboresve erecti, nunc fruticoso-

scandentes. Folia fere ubique opposita, petiolata, sed ceterum valde varia.

Flores s@pe speciost.

Biegnon1a purpurea, glaberrima, foliis breviter petiolatis 2-foliolatis petiolo

sepissime in cirrhum producto, foliolis oblongis obtusis v. subacutis re-

curvis breviter petiolatis, floribus inaxillis foliorum 2-nis, breviter pedun-

culatis, pedunculis basi minute bracteolatis, calyce tubuloso campanulato,

ore plicato plicis in dentes 5 conicos breviter productis, corolle pallide

lilacine fauce albo tubo infundibuliforme, limbi lobis obovato-rotun-

datis, ovario tuberculato.

Bignowia purpurea, Lodd. D, C. Prod. v. ix. p. 171 (name only).

This magnificent stove climber has long been cultivated in

the Palm House at Kew, and is no doubt the Bignonia pur-

purea of Loddiges’ catalogue, an undescribed plant, of which

there is a named specimen in the Hookerian Herbarium, col-

lected in the Liverpool Botanical Garden, probably thirty

years ago.

As a species B. purpurea 1s closely allied to B. speciosa,

Hook. (Tab. nost., 3888), a native of Uraguay, resembling it

altogether in habit and foliage, and in size and colour of the

flower, but differing in the longer calyx, with short conical

teeth, and narrower corolla tube.

Duscr. A lofty glabrous climber. Stem slender. Leaves

bifoliolate ; petioles short, one-third of an inch long, some-

times ending in a long flexuous tendril; leaflets two and a

half to three and a half inches long, obovate-lanceolate,

ocToBeR Ist, 1869.

abruptly narrowed to an acute point, bright green above,

paler below, their petioles one quarter of an inch long. Mowers

in pairs in the axils of the leaves, pedicels half an inch long,

with minute subulate bracts at the base. Calyz one-third

of an inch long, tubular-campanulate, plaited at the mouth,

with five short, obtuse, conic teeth. Corolla mauve, with a

large white eye, tube funnel-shaped, one inch long, lobes

nearly equal, rounded, mouth transverse. Stamens and style

included, glabrous. Ovary upon a small disc, ovoid, tuber-

se cells with two rows of horizontal ovules.—

Fig. 1, Calyx and style; 2, base of corolla throat, showing the stamens;

3, anther; 4, ovary; 5 and 6, vertical and transverse section of ditto:—all

magnified,

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Tas, 5801.

COTYLEDON SALZMANNI.

Salzmann’s Cotyledon.

Nat. Ord. CrassuLAcEa®.—DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA.

Gen. Char—Calyx 5-partitus, corolle tubo equalis v. brevior. Corolle

tubus angustus v. amplus, urceolatus v. cylindricus, teres v. 5-gonus, limbi

lobis parvis patentibus. Stamina 10 (rarissime 5), tubo corolle inserta,

filamentis filiformibus brevibus v. elongatis; anthere oblongex, exserte v.

incluse. Squamule lineares, oblonge v. quadrate, nunc latiores quam

longe. Ovarit carpella 5, libera, in stylos filiformes v. subulatos sepe

exsertos attenuata, stigmatibus oblique capitellatis; ovula in carpellis «.

Folliculi «<-spermi.—Herbe v. suffrutices ramose v. subscapigere, habitu

valde varie, Folia opposita v. alterna, sessilia v. petiolata, sepe crassissime

carnosa, in paucis peltata, sparsa v. rosulata. Flores erecti v. penduli, parvi

majusculi v. ampli, spicati racemosi v. cymosi, nunc speciosi. Corolle lobi

estivatione torti. Benth. and H. f. Gen. Plant. i. 659,

CotyLtepon Salzmanni ; radice annua, ramis cymosis glanduloso-hirtis, foliis

subulato-lanceolatis acutiusculis glandulosis teretibus, sepalis 5 parvis

acutis hirtellis, corolla calyce plus sextuplo longiore ad tertiam partem

usque profunde 5-fida, tubo subconico extus hirtello, limbi subpatuli

lobis ovatis apiculatis mucronulatis flavis apice brunneis et brunneo

sparse punctatis, stylis et staminibus subequalibus exsertis.

CotyLepon (Pistorinia) Salzmanni, Boiss. Voy. in Esp. p. 224, t. 63, fig. B.

Walp. Rep. ii. 258.

A more beautiful rock plant of the kind than this can

scarcely be imagined. It is literally a mass of brilliant golden

blossoms, relieved by the red-brown spots at the tips of the

corolla lobes, which give them the appearance of being forked

at the apex. The foliage, too, is of a brilliant green trans-

lucid texture relieved with blood-red streaks. I have referred

it with some doubt to Boissier’s Mogador plant, the dried

specimens of which are but one and a half inches high, and

am far from satisfied that itis nota form of C. hispanicum,

Desff.

OCTOBER Ist, 1869.

The Royal Gardens are indebted for this beautiful plant to

G. Maw, Esq., who collected it at Tangiers in the early spring

of the present year, and transmitted it to Kew with many other

most interesting herbaceous plants: it flowered in the month

of July.

Descr. Annual, covered with glandular hairs, tufted. Stem

stout, inclined, ascending, as thick as a crow-quill, leafy, ex-

cessively corymbosely branched at the top. Leaves half an

inch to two-thirds of an inch long, spreading, curved, very

thick and fleshy, terete, obtuse, green, covered with short red

streaks, tips red-brown. Flowers most abundantly produced,

shortly pedicelled. Calyx-lobes lanceolate, one-third of an inch

long. Corolla between funnel- and salver-shaped, golden

yellow, tube half an inch long, streaked with red, lobes spread-

ing, ovate, apiculate, golden yellow, with red-brown tips and

scattered spots. Stamens on the throat of the corolla, ex-

serted. Hypogynous glands slender, linear, bifid. Carpels very

slender, with diverging filiform styles.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, leaf; 2, flower; 3, corolla, tube, and stamens; 4, anther; 5, ovary

and scales :—all magnified.

5802.

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Tas. 5802.

MORMODES GREENII.

Mr. Charles Green's Mormodes.

Nat. Ord. Orcuipe&®.—GyYNANDRIA MOoNANDRIA.

Gen. Char.— Sepalum superius fornicatum angustum ; lateralia conformia

reflexa. Petala sublatiora conformia. Labellum selleforme, ascendens,

truobatum, subcuneatum, apiculatum v. lineare apice dilatato cucullato cum

columna articulatum. Columna semiteres; clinandrium postice acumina-

tum. Pollinia 4, per paria connata, caudicule crasse affixa, glandule

carnose crasse adherentia.—Herbe Americe tropice incole. Pseudobulbe

oblonge. Folia elongato-lanceolata, sepius plicata, membranacea. Flores

| numerosi, in racemos sepius pendulos dispositi, speciosi v. luridi.

Mormopes Greenii ; pseudobulbis ovoideo-cylindricis subancipitibus, foliis

subtus glaucis elongato-lanceolatis pedalibus, racemo magno pendulo

longe pedunculato multifloro, sepulis petalisque subequalibus patentibus

ovato-oblongis auctis subconcavis extus pallidis intus flavis creberrime

rubro-maculatis, labello e basi lineari incurvo apice in laminam cucul-

latam fimbriatam acuminatam dilatato.

This noble species was flowered by our friend Mr. W. Wilson

Saunders, F.R.S., from imported bulbs purchased at one of

Stevens’ sales. It seems to differ entirely from any species

hitherto published, and I have dedicated it to Mr. Charles

Green, one of the most accomplished and skilful of English

gardeners, who for many years managed the immense collec-

tion of herbaceous plants cultivated by the late Mr. Borrer,

and since then has cultivated with equal skill the very dif-

ferent and far richer and more varied horticultural collections of

of Reigate. The specimen here figured flowered in June,

oa 1869, and exhaled a powerful aromatic odour.

-Dascr. Pseudo-bulbs broadly fusiform, somewhat two-edged.

Leaves narrow-lanceolate, one to one and a half feet long,

eee _ NOVEMBER Ist, 1869.

gradually acuminate, dark green above, paler and glaucous

beneath. Raceme very large, pendulous, many-flowered ;

peduncle one foot long. Flowers horizontal, two and a half

inches diameter, whitish externally ; perianth lobes ovate,

subacute, the outer rather smaller, one and a half inches long,

somewhat concave, inner surface pale yellow, entirely covered

with oblong dark-red spots. ip curved upwards, rather

longer than the perianth-lobes, narrow, gradually dilated

from a linear fleshy base quarter of an inch broad, to a very

concave or saccate incurved orbicular mucronate apex, which

is irregularly toothed on the margin ; base of lip dark purple,

rising into two calli; inner surface yellow with red streaks ;

outer covered with spots like the perianth segments, except

on the dilated apex, which is a dirty lilac. Column short,

green inside, curved, so that the ovate acuminate anther

comes under the concave apex of the lip.—/. D. H.

Fig. 1, Column and lip:—magnified.

W. Fitch, del et lith.

Vincent Brooks, Day Son Imp.

Tas. 5803.

VELLOZIA erxzeans.

Natal Vellozia.

Nat. Ord. VELLOzIEa.—HEXxANDRIA Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas, 5574.)

VeLtozia elegans ; caule pedali gracili erecto, foliis ensiformibus racemosis

carinato-complicatis multinervis acuminatis apices versus cartilagineo-

serrulatis, scapis 3—5-floris, pedicellis valde elongatis filiformibus, ovario

3-quetro glaberrimo, perianthii albi foliolis subequalibus oblongis obtusis

demum excrescentibus viridibus, staminibus 6 subsessilibus, antheris

linearibus obtusis, stylo brevi, stigmate oblongo-cylindraceo 6-sulcato

obtuso, seminibus teretibus elongatis curvis.

Vettozia elegans, Oliver MSS. ex Balfour in Trans. Bot. Soc. Ed. v. ix.

pp. 79 and 189.

Ta.soria elegans, Balfour, l. c. 192, name only.

Our first knowledge of this plant was derived from a spe-

cimen brought from his garden by the Hon. H. Fox Talbot,

F.R.S., to the Kew Herbarium, in 1866, and which was raised

from seed procured either from the Cape or Madagascar, which

Professor Oliver pronounced to be a Vellozia (identical with

a Natal plant, Hypovis barbacenioides, Harv. MSS.), and the

name V. elegans was proposed for it.

A specimen, presented by Mr. Fox Talbot to the Edin-

burgh Botanic Gardens, was next exhibited to the Botanical

Society of that city by my friend Professor Balfour, as

Vellozia elegans (see Proc. Bot. Soc. Edinb., ix. p. 79, Jan.

1867). At a subsequent meeting (/. c. p. 189, 138th June),

Dr. Balfour again exhibited this plant as V. Talbott, or, if it

should prove a new genus, Zulbotia elegans. On a third occa-

sion (/. c. p. 192, 11th July), he exhibited it as Zulbotia

elegans, without a generic character, or pointing out its

generic differences from Vellozia. Meanwhile it appears to

have been overlooked that an African (Madagascar) genus of

NOVEMBER Ist, 1869.

Vellozie had already been described by Commerson, under the

name of Xerophyta, and figured in Lamarck’s Encyclopedia,

t. cexxv. Commerson’s plant agrees with V. elegans in the

principal character by which [ find /. elegans to differ from

its Brazilian congeners (the cylindric stigma), whilst it differs

from V. elegans in another character which is common to the

Brazilian species—viz., the length of the filaments. As, how-

ever, Xerophyta is reduced by Endlicher to Vellozia, it appears

clear that Zulsotia should go with it, and that Professor

Oliver’s original name of V. e/egans should be retained for this

plant. Another character by which /. elegans differs from the

Brazilian species, is the terete not angled seeds; but as the

structure of the seed, testa, raphe, and funicle are otherwise

identical with those of the only Brazilian species which I have

examined, this character is unavailable.

The specimen here figured was communicated from the

Botanical Gardens of Edinburgh, and flowered in those of

Kew in May of the present year.

Descr. Glabrous. Svem rigid, flexuous, six inches high,

simple, leafy above, below densely covered with the fibrous

remains of the leaves. Leaves tristichous, recurved, four

to eight inches long, linear-lanceolate, sharply keeled, acu-

minate, serrated towards the apex, base sheathing; nerves

close-set. Peduncle terminal, sheathed at the base, divided

into three to five slender pedicels two to six inches long.

Flower pale lilac in bud, then pure white, one and a quarter

inches diameter, ebracteate. Perianth segments spreading,

ovate, subacute, three outer rather smaller; all enlarging

and turning green after flowering. Stamens six, erect ; anther

subsessile, linear, obtuse. Ovary obovoid, triquetrous three-

celled; ovules many, on two thick placentas in each cell;

style as long as the stamens; stigma cylindric, thickened,

obtuse, six-furrowed. Capsule obovoid, sharply three-angled,

half an inch: long, many-seeded ; septa and walls breaking

away from the three persistent angles. Seeds narrow, terete,

curved; funicle thickened, and raphe conspicuous.—/. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower with the perianth removed; fig. 2, stamen ; fig. 3, stigma;

fig. 4, transverse section of ovary :—all magnified.

5804.

WRitch, debetlith.

Tas. 5804.

CALOCHORTUS ovuntrtorus.

Single-flowered Calochortus.

Nat. Ord. Lit1acea.—HEeExanpriA Monoeyrnia.

Gen. Char.—Perigonium corollinum, deciduum, hexaphyllum ; foliola ses-

silia v. subunguiculata, supra basim fovea nectarifera; exteriora minora,

omnia vy. interiora tantum intus barbata. Stamina 6, perigonii foliolis basi

adherentia, Ovarium triloculare; stigmata 3, subsessilia, libera v. basi

coalita, reflexa, canaliculata; ovula in loculis plurima, biseriata, horizontalia,

anatropa. Capsula subgloboso-trigona, trilocularis, septicido-trivalvis, valvi

demum bifidis. Semina in loculis plurima, subuniseriata, horizontalia, com-

pressiuscula; testa fusca, membranacea, laxiuscula, hine raphe percursa ;

embryo rectus, teres, excentricus. Herbx im America boreali occidentali, et

in terris mexicanis indigene, bulbose, simplices. Folia ensiformia vaginan-

tia Flores speciosi solitarit umbellati v. racemosi, purpurei v. albidi. Endl.

CaLocnortus uniflorus ; parvula, folio radicali anguste elongato-lanceolato

marginibus recurvis, scapo gracili 1—3-floro, sepalis anguste oblongis acu-

minatis, petalis late obovato-cuneatis apice obscure erosis basi barbatis

et squama nectarifera transversa notatis, antheris ceruleis obtusis, stylo

distincto.

CaLocnortus uniflorus, Hook. and Arn. Bot. Beech. p. 398, tab. 94; Alphonso

Wood in Proc. Soc. Nat. Sc. Philadelph. 1868, p. 168.

CrcLopoTura uniflora, Kunth. Enum. v. iv. p. 669.

For this most lovely little Liliaceous plant, the Royal

Gardens are indebted to Dr. Bolander, of San Francisco,

California, an eminent botanical explorer, who sent it under

the unpublished name of C. dilacinus. It is a native of the

high plains of Santa Cruz, according to Mr. A. Wood, who

has monographed the Oregon and Californian Liliacee in the

Proceedings of the Philadelphia Academy ; and though called

uniflorus, the flowers are usually more than two. It flowered

in the Royal Gardens in June of the present year.

Descr. Bulb small, ovoid, half an inch long. clothed with

NOVEMBER Ist, 1869.

a thin shining membrane. Zadical leaf sheathing at the base ;

sheath slender ; d/ade four to six inches long, very narrow-lan-

ceolate, acuminate, one-fourth to one-third of an inch broad,

with many slender nerves, margin revolute. Stem or scape five

to eight inches high, slender, few-leaved, one or more flowered.

Flowers on slender peduncles, one and a half inches in diameter,

pinkish white. Sepa/s narrow oblong, acuminate, one-third

shorter than the petals, externally veined with pale crimson.

Petals spreading, obovate-cuneate, membranous, obscurely

erose, faintly streaked with pink on the back, hairy towards

the base inside, with a transverse nectariferous scale, anda few

purple spots. Stamens spreading ; filaments subulate ; anthers

linear-oblong, obtuse, bluish. Ovary triquetrous ; style short,

stigmas short obtuse spreading purple.—/. D. Hi.

Fig. 1, Flower with perianth removed; fig. 2, sepal; fig. 3, petal ; fig. 4,

ovary ; fig. 5, the same cut transversely :—all magnijied.

5805.

W. Fitch, del et lith Vincent Brooks Day &So0, imp.

Tas. 5805.

RHODOTYPUS KERRIOIDES.

Japanese Rhodotypus.

Nat. Ord. Rosacea.—IcOSANDRIA DIGyYnNIA.

Gen. Char.—Calycis persistentis tubus explanatus, intus villosus ; lobi 4,

foliacei, argute serrati, imbricati. Petala 4, ampla, orbiculata. Discus

lla includens

amplus, carnosus, in urceolum 4-dentatum intus sericeum carpe

constrictus. Stamina perplurima, filamentis filiformibus liberis; anthere

late didymo-oblonge. Carpella 4; styli filiformes, exserti, stigmatibus

capitellatis; ovula 2, sub apice loculi pendula. Drupe 1-4, pisiformes,

epicarpio sicco nitido a sarcocarpio farinaceo secedente, putamine osseo reti-

culato l-spermo. Semina obovoidea, testa membranacea ; cotyledones

plano-convexe ; radicula curva, supera.—Frutex J aponicus rams decussatis

virgatis strictis, gemmis perulatis. Folia decussatim opposita, petiolata,

ovata, acuminata, argute serrata, subtus sericea. Stipule Libera, membrana-

cee. Flores solitarit, ampli, ramulos terminantes, breviter pedicellati ; calyce

4-bracteolato.

1. Ruopotyrus Kerrioides, Sieb. and Zucc. Fl. Jap. p. 187, t. xe. Regel,

Gartenflora, Vv. XV. P- 130. t. 505, f. 2 and 3.

CAD EO ORO OPO aoa TaE T

A very elegant shrub, and no doubt hardy, a native of

Japan, where it is said to grow wild in the mountains of

Kiusiu, but which is known only in cultivation ; flowering in

April and ripening its black fruit in mid-winter. The latter

resembles that of a blackberry, except in the fewness and

dryness of the drupes. It was introduced first of all into

the Imperial Gardens of St. Petersburgh, by M. Maximovicz,

the eminent Japanese traveller and botanist, and has since

been transmitted to Europe by other parties. The plant

here figured flowered # the Temperate House at Kew in May

of the present year, from seeds by Mr. Oldham, from J apan.

Dxscr. A shrub fifteen to twenty feet high, according to

the Japanese, but only known to botanists as attaining three

to six feet under cultivation. Branches twiggy, spreading ;

NOVEMBER IsT, 1869.

buds oblong, covered with scales. eaves shortly petioled,

one-and-a-half to two-and a-half inches long, ovate, acumi-

nate, trebly serrate with glandular teeth, ciliate, glabrous

above, silky pubescent beneath, nerves very numerous ; sti-

pules subulate, acute. Flowers terminal, solitary, one-and-a-

half inches diameter ; peduncles short, much thickened up-

wards after flowering. Calyx of four broad, ovate, acute,

serrate green sepals, subtended by as many short, subulate,

alternating bracts. Petals nearly orbicular, white; stamens

very numerous; filaments slender; anthers small, broad.

Disk forming four silky, fleshy lobes, concealing the carpels.

Ovary of two to four cohering carpels, with slender styles,

obtuse stigmas, and two pendulous ovules in each carpel.

Fruit of two to four single-seeded, subglobose, dry, black,

shining drupes. Seed pendulous, exalbuminous.—J/. D. H.

_Fig. 1, Disk and styles; fig. 2, stamen; fig. 3, bases of carpels; fig. 4,

ripe drupe :—all but fig. 4 magnified.

5806.

W. Fitch, delet lith.

Vincent Brooks Day &Son.JmP

linha spaniel

Tas. 5806. ;

IRIS | NUDICAULIS.

Naked-scaped Iris.

Nat. Ord. InIpDEx.—TRIANDRIA TRIGYNIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5298.)

Iris nudicaulis ; robusta, foliis breviusculis late ensiformibus falcatis caule

nudiusculo brevioribus, floribus pedunculatis, spatha herbacea, perigonii

lacinis obovato-oblongis subequalibus exterioribus ungue fimbriato-

cristatis ceterum glabris, ovario subtereti, stigmatibus 2-fidis segmentis

dentatis, capsula parva obtuse 3-gona.

Irs nudicaulis.—Lamk, Encycl., v. iii. p. 296. Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. v. ix.

p- 4, t. 831, Ram, and Schultes, v. i. p. 463,

In1s, BonEMIcA, Schmidt, Bohem. Cent. v. iv. p. 506. Koch.

A very handsome, hardy herbaceous plant ; growing in

sunny places, and forming large tufts. It is a native of

Bohemia, Silesia, and it is said of Volhynia in Russia; but I

have seen no specimen from so far East as the latter locality.

It is specifically closely allied to J. Germanica, and others of

that group; but is sufficiently distinct. The Herbarium

specimens are much taller than the cultivated ones, and with

larger scapes ; but these often elongate much after flowering,

and greatly exceed the leaves.

The plant here figured, which flowered in April of the

present year, has long been cultivated in the Royal Gardens

under the above name, and I am unaware of its origin.

Descr. Rootstocks matted, as thick as the thumb, ringed,

sending up many flowering and leafing stems. Leaves six to

eight inches long, three-quarters to one inch broad, falcate,

linear ensiform, acuminate, pale green, rather thick, nerves

obscure. Flowering scapes several together from the root,

two to ten inches long, two to three-flowered, compressed ;

bracts one and a half to two inches long, herbaceous, with

NOVEMBER Ist, 1869.

membranous margins, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate. Flowers

sessile or pedicelled, two and a half to three and a half inches

across, dark. purple. Perianth segments nearly equal, ob-

ovate-oblong, rounded at the apex; three outer darker; claw

banded with white, and bearing a crest of dense long white

hairs in the middle; inner segments with narrower claws,

less distinctly banded. Sézgmas oblong, bifid, segments nar-

row, triangular, acute, toothed. Capsule small for the size

of the plant, one to one and a quarter inch long, obtusely

angled.—J. D. H. —

5807.

ptt.

W. Fitch, del. et lith

Tas. 5807.

ERIA VESTITA.

Furred Fria.

Nat. Ord. OrcHipEm.—GyYNANDRIA MOoNANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5391.)

Entra (Trichotosia) vestita ; totus villis deciduis dense vestitus, caulibus

guberectis v. pendulis, foliis coriaceis lanceolatis apice obliquis obtusis

supra parce subtus densissime villosis, racemis elongatis pendulis

multifloris flexuosis, bracteis late ovato-rotundatis amplis coriaceis

persistentibus, floribus capsulisque villosis, sepalis rubro-aurantiacis

lanceolatis lateralibus in cornu lato obtuso porrecto connatis oblique

mucronulatis, petalis albis lineari-oblongis obtusis brevioribus glabris, _

labelli trilobi auriculis lateralibus elongatis obtusis segmento terminali

subrotundato eroso emarginato piloso per axin linea elevata interrupta

velutina dentibusque paucis aucto, lamellis inter auriculas angustis

approximatis.

Erta vestita, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1844. Misc. 1845, p. 79, tab. 2. Walp.

Ann. v. vi. p. 284.

Denprosium vestitum, Wall. Cat. n. 2005 (in

Orchid. No. 33.

part); Lindl. Gen. and Sp.

This curious orchid is undoubtedly the Fria vestita figured

by Lindley in the Botanical Register for 1845, from Manilla

specimens flowered by Loddiges, and which specimens are

preserved in his Orchideous Herbarium, now at Kew. It is

also in part the Dendrobium vestitum of Wallich, who dis-

tributed along with this plant another species, which may

be E£. vulpina, Reich. f., but is more probably different from

either.

E. vestitawas discovered by Wallich, at Sincapore; Loddiges

received it from Manilla, and there are fine specimens in the

Hookerian Herbarium from Bangarmassing, 1» Southern

Borneo, whence the species seems to have a very wide range.

DECEMBER Ist, 1869.

The beautiful specimen here figured was imported by W.

Wilson Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., who flowered it in May of the

present year, at Reigate.

Drscr. Wholly covered with soft villous spreading hairs,

most copious on the inflorescence. Stems tufted, usually

ascending, six to ten inches long, as thick as the little finger

at the base, leafy. Leaves lanceolate, acute, spreading and

recurved, five to seven inches long, one and one-third

inches to one and two-third inches broad, hairy on both sur-

faces, many-nerved. Racemes axillary, pendulous, five to

six inches long, many-flowered ; rachis zigzag, sheathed with

short broad imbricate scales at the base ; floral bracts large,

one-half to one inch long, broadly orbicular-ovate, white, with

a broad blood-red margin. Flowers sessile. Ovary very short.

Perianth orange-red, curved, an inch long, nearly half an

inch diameter. Sepals connate, lanceolate, tips abruptly

recurved. Spur very broad, obtuse, half as long as the

sepals. Petals linear-oblong, obtuse, white, their tips

projecting between the sepals. Lip white, basal portion

with two long, broad, obtuse auricles ; terminal portion nearly

as broad, suborbicular, erose; disk of lip with three to five

obscure blunt ridges between the auricles, which are continued

as a villous prominence on to the disk of the basal portion.

Column broad below, narrowed upwards, very concave in

front. Anthers small; pollinia, long, slender.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, flower with the sepals removed ; fig. 2, lip ; fig. 3, column and half

of spur; fig. 4, front view of column ; fig. 5, pollinia :—all magnified.

5808.

: Day & Son, Imp:

W Fitch, delet lith. : Vincent Brooks Day :

<a ae

Tas. 5808.

ANDROSACE PUBESCENS.

Downy Androsace.

Nat. Ord. Primutacem.—PentanpRia Monoeynia.

Gen. Char—Calyx quinquefidus vy. quinque-dentatus, demum sepius

auctus. Corolla infundibuliformis v. hypocraterimorpha, tubo calycem

vix superante ovato, apice contracto; fauce fornicibus brevibus instructa.

Stamina 5, corolle tubo inserta, ejusdem laciniis opposita, inclusa, fila-

mentis brevissimis; anthere ovate. Ovarium uniloculare ; placenta basilari

globosa, substipitata; stylus filiformis, inclusus, stigmate obtuso v. subglo-

boso; ovulis 5 v. indefinitis, peltatim amphitropis. Capsula unilocularis,

apice v. juxta totam longitudinem quinquevalvis. Semina 5 v. indefinita,

placentz basilari globose libere stipitate inserta, dorso complanato rugulosa,

ventre convexo umbilicata; embryo in axi albuminis carnosi rectus, umbi-

lico parallelus—Herbe in temperatis et frigidis hemisphere borealis obvie,

plurime alpicole, scpissime cespitose. Pedunculi solitarit v. umbellatt.

Flores parvt, sepissime albi v. roset.

Anprosace pubescens; dense c#spitosa, caulibus procumbentibus, foliis

confertis patentibus lineari-oblongis oblongo-obovatisve obtusis BT

sepius furcatis pubescentibus ciliatisque, floribus solitariis albis,

pedunculis foliis seepius brevioribus sub calyce paulo si crassatis,

calycis segmentis ovatis obtusis v. subacutis ciliatis.

Anprosace pubescens, De. Fl. Frane. v. 3, p. 438.

Awprosace alpina, Gaud. Fl. Helvet. v. 2, p. 107.

a a

A lovely little alpine, belonging to a genus notoriously

difficult to keep in cultivation. It is a native of the lofty

mountains of Dauphiny, the Pyrenees, and Swiss Alps, at

elevations of seven to nine thousand feet, and often occurs

near the glaciers, on whose detritus it likes to grow. For

the plant here figured I am indebted to Mr. Backhouse, of

York, in whose splendid collection of Alpines it appears to

flourish. Beautiful as this species is, it cannot compare with

the 4. glacialis of the Tyrolese and Enghedien Alps, which

DECEMBER Ist, 1869.

carpets the rocks with sheets of the most lovely rose-purple,

and is the choicest of all Alpines known to me.

Dzscr. A small, densely-tufted alpine, forming low mossy

patches six inches broad and upwards, much branched;

branches one inch long. Leaves crowded, rosulate, one-eighth

to one-fourth of an inch long, linear-oblong, or oblong-obovate,

obtuse, ciliate with forked hairs, and more or less pubescent.

Flowers excessively numerous, solitary at the ends of the

branchlets ; peduncles short, slightly swollen at the base of

the calyx, nearly glabrous. Calyx campanulate, five-lobed to

the middle; lobes ovate, obtuse, ciliate, and slightly pu-

bescent. Corolla white with a faint yellow eye, one-third of

an inch in diameter ; tube short, subglobose ; lobes obovate,

emarginate. Stamens included. Ovary subglobose, stigma

capitate.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, leaf; fig. 2, flower; fig. 8, corolla laid open: fig. 4, calyx; fig. 5,

ovary :—all magnified,

Vincent Brooks Day& Son, Imp.

sania mane

Tap. 5809.

BLANDFORDIA AUREA.

Golden-flowered Blandfordia.

Nat. Ord. Liw1acea.—HexanpriA MonoGynia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5734.)

Bianprorp1a aurea; foliis angustis 1-} poll. latis acute carinatis, mar-

ginibus scaberulis, scapo gracili paucifloro, bracteis pedicellis multo

brevioribus setaceo-lanceolatis, perianthio campanulato aureo, segmentis

8 exterioribus apice viridibus.

Of the beautiful Australian genus Blandfordia, five species

are now in cultivation, differing chiefly in robustness, in the

breadth, and smooth, or serrulate margin of the leaf, in the

length of the bracts, form of the inflorescence, and colour of

the flower. To these must now be added a sixth in the

present plant, a native of New South Wales, and imported

by Messrs. Veitch and Sons, with whom it flowered in July

of the present year. Specifically, it 1s very nearly related to

the original B. nobilis, Br. of Port Jackson, and may prove

to be a variety of it; but it differs from all our wild spe-

cimens of that species, in the larger more campanulate

flower, and from the figures in the colour of the flower. The

Blandfordias all grow in wet, peaty soil, and in hilly parts of

country, extending from Tasmania to Queensland, and are

absent in the Western and Northern half of the Australian

continent.

Dzscr. Root of stout fleshy fibres. Leaves numerous, dis-

tichous, rigid, grass-like, very narrow, linear, eight to twelve

inches long, one-eighth to one-sixth inch broad, gradually

narrowed to a very slender point, dark green, and deeply chan-

nelled above, paler, striate, and acutely keeled below, margins

DECEMBER Ist, 1869.

scabrid. Scape one foot to one and a-half feet high, very

slender, cylindric, with few subulate lanceolate sessile bracts.

Flowers three to five, subumbellate, nearly horizontal. Pe-

dicels one inch and a-half to two inches long, green below,

yellow above, bracts much shorter than the pedicels, subulate,

green. Perianth one inch and a-half long, and nearly as

broad at the mouth, campanulate, slightly contracted above

the base, bright golden yellow ; segments nearly half orbicular,

obtuse, obscurely three-nerved, bluntly apiculate, the three

outer tipped with a green spot. Stamens yellow. Ovary

green, very slender, elongating, and much exceeding the

perianth long before maturity —/. D. H.

5810.

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W. Fitch, del. et lith

Tas. 5810.

GLADIOLUS crRvUENTUS.

Blood-red Gladiolus.

Nat. Ord. InrpE#.—TRIANDRIA MonoGynta- -

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5427.)

ee ere eS

Gapioius cruentus ; scapo bipedali, foliis elongato-ensiformibus glaucis, spica

disticha, perianthii late campanulati segmentis obovatis emarginatis

sanguineo-coccineis, lateralibus saturatioribus zona pallida notatis,

tubo gracili spatha acuminata breviore, genitalibus perianthio subs-

quilongis, stigmatibus gracilibus recurvis.

GuaproLus cruentus, Moore in Gard. Chron., 1868, p. 1139.

ee ee er rem aeere eee

This very beautiful plant, a native of the Colony of Natal,

in South Africa, was flowered by Mr. Bull, at his nurseries in

Chelsea, in September, 1868. It is specifically allied to G.

Cardinalis, which is indigenous in the same district of South

Africa, but differs in the much larger flower, colour, and

notched perianth segments. The original plants that have

hitherto flowered are, we are given to understand, made over

to be hybridized, so that in all probability the pure race will

soon be lost to cultivators. :

Considerably upwards of one hundred species of Gladiolus

have been cultivated in Europe, indeed upwards of one hundred

and ten reputed species have been figured from living spect

mens: the greater proportion of these are no doubt lost

to cultivation, and prob bly no horticultural establishment

boasts more than a fraction of them: the genus belongs to

that immense class of South African and other plants which

were the favourites of our forefathers, were suite

atmosphere of their plant-houses heated by currents of dry air,

and the cultivation of which ‘5 not understood by the gene-

DECEMBER Ist, 1869.

rality of gardeners of the present day. It is greatly to be

desired now that such amateurs as are disposed to leave the

beaten track of ordinary greenhouse and stove culture,

should take up the culture of these and similar tribes, which

would well repay all their care, and advance our knowledge

of some of the most interesting and beautiful of our Colonial

floras.

Duscr. Scape two feet to three feet high, stout and erect.

Leaves bifarious, one to one and a half feet long, three-

fourths of an inch to one inch broad, linear-ensiform,

gradually acuminate, dark green and glaucous. Spike dis-

tichous, six inches to ten inches long, rather dense-flowered.

Bracts narrow-lanceolate, the lowest six inches long, upper

gradually shorter, all green and herbaceous, much exceeding

the perianth-tube. Flowers four inches in diameter, broadly

campanulate, brilliant scarlet, yellow-white and speckled

with red at the very base of the limb. Perianth-tube one

and a-half inch long, white externally ; segments obovate,

all nearly similar in shape, but the lower three one-third

smaller than the upper, all obtuse and rounded at the tip,

with a distinct notch, and a prominent point in the sinus;

the two lower lateral darker than the others, with a trans-

verse pale band spotted with red about the middle, and a

white lanceolate stripe running from it towards the tip.

Filaments and style scarlet, anthers natrow, two-thirds of an

inch long, red-purple ; stigmas slender, recurved.—/. D. H.

”

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Tas. 5811.

VANDA DENISONIANA.

Lord Londesborough’s Vanda,

Nat. Ord. OrcurpE#,—GYNANDRIA MoNANDRIA.

hee Re een

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4432.]

Vanpa Denisoniana ; foliis lorato-ligulatis apice ineequaliter bilobis, racemo

valido plurifloro, floribus albis, sepalo dorsali oblongo-spathulato, late-

ralibus late ovatis subacutis, petalis in laminam spathulatam abrupte

dilatatis, labelli auriculis subquadratis, lamina pandurata, segmento

terminali 2-lobo, lobis subrotundatis divaricatis, carinis a basi in discum

approximatis quinis obtusis, callo parvo emarginato, calcare conico brevi

intus velutino.

Vanpa Denisoniana; Benson and Reichenb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1869, p. 528.

ee na cera

This is another of Colonel Benson’s remarkable dis-

coveries, communicated to Messrs. Veitch, and flowered by

them in April of the present year. Tt is a native of the

same localities as Dendrobium crystallinum, aftects in the

‘Arracan mountains, growing in sheltered and shady spots

to its discoverer) difficult,

on large trees, and 1s (according

when out of flower, to distinguish from /. Bensoni (Tab.

Nost. 5611). Dr. Reichenbach, its describer, indeed, justly

compares it with /. Bensoni in many points of structure,

though differing so remarkably in the breadth and two-lobed

d colour of the

lips of the leaves, in the form of the raceme an

flowers. ‘The species was dedicated by its namers to Lady

Londesborough, “ in appreciation of Lord Londesborough’'s

great and generous love of Orchids.” The comparison of the

terminal lobe of the lip to a blackcock’s tail by Professor

Reichenbach is a happy one-

Duscr. Stem short in the only specimen I have seen.

Leaves strap-shaped, six to ten inches long, by two-thirds or

DECEMBER 1sT, 1869.

three-fourths inch broad, rigid, recurved, deeply bifid at the

tip; lobes unequal, subacute, nearly straight, dull green,

shining. Raceme five inches long, ascending, five to six

flowered. Flowers two inches diameter, pure white, with a

few orange markings at the base of the lip. Perianth seg-

ments of nearly equal length, with the lip longer, somewhat

reflexed. Dorsal sepal oblong, spathulate, two lateral much

broader, obliquely ovate, subacute. Petals spathulate. Lap

with a two-lobed base, the lobes auricled; callus quadrate,

small, two-lobed, with a semi-lunate yellow band, with orange

ciliate edges behind it; lamina of the lip nearly as broad as

the base, contracted in the middle, with two short diverging

terminal lobes, and five ridges on the disk. Spur short,

obtuse, velvety inside. Column short, stout, obtuse.—/. D.H.

Fig. 1, Lip.—magnified.

. 9812. ¢

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Tas. 5812.

ALOE (GASTERIA) CROUCHERI.

Mr. Croucher’s Gasteria.

Nat. Ord. AspHODELE®.—HEXANDRIA Monoeyrnia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5210.)

Aor (Gasteria) Croucheri; acaulis, foliis patulis elongato-lingulatis mu-

cronatis inequilateraliter trigonis angulis albo-maculatis cartilagineis

denticulatis, supra concavis subtus oblique convexis levibus maculis

ovalibus albis sepe ocellatis notatis, racemis elongatis late paniculatis

multifloris, perianthiis elongatis teretibus curvis medio leviter contractis

roseis superne albis viridi striatis, segmentis parvis rotundatis erosis.

This, the handsomest Gasteria of the kind that has hitherto

flowered at Kew, is named after the intelligent foreman of the

propagating department, Mr. Croucher, under whose care the

succulent plants of the Royal Garden are placed, and to whose

zeal and especial love for this class of plants the collection

owes much of its value and interest. It is closely allied to

A. candicans, Haworth; but besides differing in colouring

of the foliage, in the copiously branched, dense-flowered in-

florescence, in the much larger flowers with the tube ventri-

cose, and white with green stripes above the middle, it is in

every way a handsomer species. In many respects it resembles

even more closely the A. acinacifolia, Jacq. (Tab. Nost. 2369),

but that has more attenuated leaves, and the supplementary

keel of the leaf, which is on the right-hand side of the upper

surface of the leaf, in 4. acinacifolia, is on the left in A.

Croucheri (on the right in the plate, owing to an oversight in

not reversing the drawing when it was transferred to the

stone).

i de followed the usual practice in regarding Gasteria as

a division of Aloe, but I suspect that it will prove to be as

DECEMBER Ist, 1869.

good a genus, both in habit and floral characters as most of

Liliaceae.

Aloe Croucheri has been long cultivated at Kew ; its origin

is unknown. |

Drscr. Stemless. Leaves numerous, spreading in all

directions and recurved, forming a dense rosette, one foot

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

base, gradually narrowed upwards to a suddenly rounded

tip terminating in a hooked mucro, three-fourths of an inch

to one inch in thickness; surface smooth, dark green,

covered with oblong whitish spots, which have often a green

eye, upper surface broadly channelled, with the supplemen-

tary keel on the left (to the right in the plate by an error),

margins cartilaginous, spotted with white, minutely toothed.

Scape including the panicle two feet to two and a half feet

high, much branched above. acemes numerous, eight to

ten inches long, curving upwards ; bracts setaceous. Flowers

very numerous, pendulous, two inches long, pedicels one

half inch long, Perianth tubular, cylindric, slightly curved,

terete, somewhat contracted in the middle, slightly inflated

above and below it; lower half pale rose-coloured ; upper half

white, with green veins running downwards from each of the

short broad erose perianth segments. Stamens yellow,

slightly exserted.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Reduced sketch of plant ; fig. 2, portion of leaf, and fig. 8, portion

of araceme, both of nat. size ;—fig. 4, flower ; fig. 5, ovary ;—both magnified.

INDEX,

In which the Latin Names of the Plants contained in the

Twenty-fifth Volume of the Tutrp Suries (or Ninety-

fifth Volume of the Work) are alphabetically arranged.

PLATE

5793

5798

5760

Acer rufinerve ; var. albo-lim-

bata.

ZErides Japonicum.

Aglaonema Mannii.

PLATE

5796 Drosophyllum Lusitanicum.

5771 Eranthemum Andersoni

5807 EHria vestita.

5782 Geonoma Ghiesbrechtiana.

5764 Allamanda nobilis. 5810 Gladiolus cruentus.

5812 Aloe (Gasteria) Croucheri. 5786 Griffinia dryades.

5761 Amomum sceptrum. 5749 Iberidella rotundifolia.

5808 Androsace pubescens. 5806 Iris nudicaulis.

5789 Aphelandra acutifolia. 5773 Iris stylosa.

5769 Azalea linearifolia. 5763 Kempferia Parishii.

5800 Bignonia purpurea. 5797 Mackaya bella.

5809

5748

5772

5804

5755

Blandfordia aurea.

Brassia Lawrenciana; var. lon-

gissima,

Calceolaria Henrici.

Calochortus uniflorus.

Camptopus Mannii.

5785 Morea bulbifera.

5802 Mormodes Greenii.

5790 Myrcia amplexicaulis. _

5799 Nertera depressa. peeuus

5778 Odontoglossum Krameri.

5756 Oncidium xanthodon.

5768 Palava flexuosa.

5762 Caryota Cumingii. é eee

5775 Cereus lividus. 5777 Pelargonium Schottu. —

5792

5757

5753

5766

5780

5783

5795

Ceropegia Sandersoni.

Cobexa penduliflora.

Coelogyne (Pleione) Reichen-

Dendrobium crassinode.

Dendrobium densiflorum ; var.

albo-lutea.

Dipladenia Boliviensis.

Dorstenia argentata.

5787 Phaleria laurifolia.

5779 Plumeria lutea.

5794 Primula Pedemontana.

5784 Pterodiscus luridus.

bachiana. a

5774 Cordia glabra. 5805 Rhodotypus Kerrioides. te

5801 Cotyledon Salzmanni. 5765 Richardia melanolenca.

5776 Crocus orphanidis. 5767 Saccolabium ee

5770 Crotalaria Cunninghamii. 5751 Stapelia Hystrix.

5758 Cyclamen Africanum. 5788 Steriphoma paradoxum.

5791 Cypripedium Parishii. 5750 Tacsonis eriantha.

5754 Delostoma dentatum. 5752 Thibaudia acuminata.

5781 Vaccinium reflexum.

5811 Vanda Denisoniana. =

5759 Vanda insignis. :

5803 Vellozia elegans.

- INDEX,

In which the English Names of the Plants contained in the

Twenty-fifth Volume of the Tarrp Serres (or Ninety-

fifth volume of the Work), are alphabetically arranged.

a. BUATB

5798 Airides, Japanese.

5760 Aglaonema, Mr. Mann’s.

5764 Allamanda, noble.

5808 Androsace, downy.

‘ 5789 Aphelandra, sharp-leaved.

_ 5769 Azalea, slender-leaved.

~ 5800 Bignonia, purple.

5809 Blandfordia, golden-flowered.

5748 Prassia, Mr. Lawrence’s; long-

sepaled variety.

772 Calceolaria, Mr.

Henry's. —

5804 Calochortus, Giigibdiuweted,

5755 Camptopus, West African.

5775 Cereus, livid.

_ 5792 Ceropegia, Mr. Sanderson’s.

5757 Cobra, pendulous-flowered.

5774 Cordia, smooth-leaved.

9801 Cotyledon, Salzmann’s.

9776 Crocus, Prof. Orphanides’,

9770 Crotalaria,Allan Cunningham’s

5758 Cyclamen, Algerian.

5754 Delostoma, tooth-leaved.

5780 Dendrobe,dense-flowered; white

and yellow variety.

___ 5766 Dendrobe, thick-knotted,

785 Dipladenia, Bolivian.

‘5795 Dorstenia, silver-leaved,

5771 Eranthemum, Dr. Anderson’s.

5807 Eria, furred.

5812 Gasteria, Mr. Croucher’s,

_ 5782 Geonoma, Ghiesbrecht’s,

5810 Gladiolus, blood-red.

5761 Grain of Paradise, sceptrate.

5786. Pt. wood,

Anderson

PLATE

5749

5773

5806

5763

5791

5797

5793

5785

5802

5790

d799

5778

5756

5768

5777

D787

5793

5779

5794

5784

5805

5765

5767

5751

5788

5796

5750

5752

5811

5759

5803

5781

576%

Iberidella, round-leaved.

Iris, long-styled.

Iris, naked-scaped.

Kempferia, Mr. Parish’s.

Lady’s Slipper, Rev. Mr.Parish’s

Mackaya, Natal.

Maple, red-nerved, white-bor-

dered variety.

Morea, bulbous.

Mormodes, Mr. Charles Green’s.

Myrcia, amplexicaul-leaved.

Nertera, depressed.

Odontoglot, Kramer's.

Oncidium, golden-toothed.

Palava, flexuous-stemmed.

Pelargonium, Dr. Schott’s.

Phaleria, laurel-leaved.

Pleione, Dr. Reichenbach’s.

Plumeria, yellow-flowered.

Primrose, Piedmontese.

Pterodiscus, lurid-flowered.

Rhodotypus, Japanese.

Richardia, black-throated.

Saccolabe, orange-flowered.

Stapelia, bristly-flowered.

Steriphoma, paradoxical.

Sundew, Portuguese yellow.

Tacsonia, woolly-flowered.

Thibaudia, sharp-leaved.

Vanda, Lord Londesborough’s.

Vanda, noble.

Vellozia, Natal.

Whortle-berry, reflexed- iene ed

2 Wine-Palm, Mr. Cuming’s.