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TAB, 6074,

SAXIFRAGA petra TA.

Native of California.

Nat. Ord. SAXIFRAGACER.—Tribe SAXIFRAGER,

Genus Saxirraga, Linn. ; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Pl., vol. i. p- 635),

SaxIrraGa peltata; rhizomate crasso repente, foliis omnibus radicalibus

longe petiolatis erectis amplis peltatis orbiculatis amb:tu 6—10-lobatis

lobis inciso-dentatis, scapis nudis elongatis, cymis corymboso-capitatis

multifloris glandulosis, calycis tubo brevissimo obconico-campanulato,

‘Sepalis oblongis obtusis, petalis ellipticis obtusis, filamentis subulatis,

carpellis liberis in stylos breves attenuatis, stigmatibus dilatatis.

Saxrrraga peltata, Torr. Mss. in Benth, Plant. Hartweg, p. 311; e in Bot.

U. States Explor. Exped. P. y, (without teat); Engler Monog. Gatt.

Saxifr.108 Walp. Ann., vol. vii. p. 891. ;

One of the largest species of the genus, and a very curious

one, though far from being as handsome as many others.

Variable as the foliage of the Saxifrages is, the present is the

only one known in which that organ is completely peltate,

and like many other peltate-leaved marsh and water-loving

plants, this is stated to be found on the margins of streams and

mn the water itself. I have seen indigenous specimens

gathered in the Sacramento Mountains by Hartweg, who dis-

Covered the species ; in the Mendreino county, California, by

Prof. Bolander, of San Francisco ; and others collected by

Lobb without a locality. A very singular form, either a

variety or different species, is in the Hookerian Herbarium

from Clear Creek in North California; it has the almost

glabrous cyme broken up into a distantly branched panicle,

the branches of which have short rounded bracts at the base,

and has inflated much rounded carpels abruptly terminated

with short styles; the fruit figured in the “Botany” in the

United States Exploring Expedition resembles this, and not

¢ narrower attenuated fruit of Hartweg’s, Lobb’s, and the

cultivated plants. Engler in his Monograph of Savifraga

JANUARY Ist, 1874,

makes a section of it (Peltophyllum) founded on the shape of

the leaf, and on the carpels opening above only, but the

latter is an error, for the carpels open to the base both in

this plant and in that figured by Torrey.

I am indebted to Messrs. Downie, Laird, & Laing for a

specimen of this fine plant, which flowered with them in April

1873; it would probably attain a greater size if planted in or

near water and become a very conspicuous and attractive

object.

Drscr. Sootstock as thick as the thumb, creeping, partly

buried in the soil; green with large broad leaf-scars ; the

tip clothed with the broad green stipular leaf-sheaths, which

are rounded with membranous pink-margins. Leaves all

subterminal, erect ; petiole one to two feet long, cylindric, as

thick as a goose-quill, glandular-pubescent ; blade orbicular,

peltate, six inches in diameter, 6-10-lobed, the lobes cut

and sharply-toothed, upper surface dark green with a deep

funnel-shaped depression at the centre where attached

to the petiole, pale beneath. Scape equalling or exceeding

the leaves, terete and glandular like the petiole. Cyme

three to five inches in diameter ; subcapitate, repeatedly

branched, ebracteolate, glandular-pubescent. Flowers one half

inch in diameter, Calyzx-tube very short, between obconic

and campanulate; lobes 5, reflexed, oblong, tip rounded.

Petals longer than the sepals, elliptic, rounded at both

ends, white or very pale pink. Stamens equalling or exceed-

ing the petals, filaments broad subulate, anthers small broad.

Carpels two, nearly free, narrowed into short stout styles;

stigma dilated, Fruit-carpels one-third inch long, narrowed

into the style. Seeds large, subcuneate, angled, compressed,

brown. —J. D. 7

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XAN THORRHGA QUADRANGULATA.

Native of South Australia.

Nat. Ord. Juncem.—Tribe XERoTIDED.

Genus Xantoorrua@a, Smith ; (Endl. Gen. Plant., p. 152).

XANTHORRHG@A quadrangulata ; trunco arboreo, foliis gracilibus e basi paulo

dilatato glaberrimo filiformibus rectangule tetraquetris glaucis angulis

scaberulis, scapo 2-6 pedali, spica 3-4 pedali, bracteis numerosis angustis

apice rhombeo-dilatatis acuminatis, sepalis albis paulo longioribus equa-

libus anguste spathulatis obtusis v. cuspidatis valvatis; petalis, lineari-

oblongis obtusis cuspidatis, staminibus longe exsertis divaricatis, capsula

perianthio longiore.

XANTHORRH@A quadrangulata, F. Muell. Fragment. Plant. Austral., vol. iv.

Dp. ii].

The Grass-gum trees are amongst the most remarkable

vegetable features of that country of wonderful vegetableforms,

Australia; and it is with great satisfaction that we now

figure in the Botanic Magazine a second species of a genus so

rare in cultivation. It is a native of South Australia, where

it inhabits rocky hill-ranges, and was sent to Kew by Dr.

Schomburgk, the energetic Director of the Adelaide Botanic

Garden. Shortly after its arrival, the trunk which is

four feet high, slowly developed its fresh green leaves,

which steadily increased in number and length till the plant

had the appearance given in the plate; the flower-stem and

‘Typha-like spike commenced to emerge about July of last

year, and attained its full development in September, when

the flowers began to expand from below upwards, and a full

month elapsed before all had opened. During flowering time a

copious honey-like secretion was exuded, which hung in great

tear-like drops to the brown spike. A few of the ovaries

have swollen, and indeed matured, but the seeds have not

been fully formed. :

Dr. Engelheart, of Gawlor-town, South Australia, an ardent

Horticulturist, informs me that the Xanthorriwas, of which

there are two species in that district (X. semiplanu and guad-

JANUARY Ist, 1874.

rangulata), like a rich fern-soil, mixed with a good deal

of fine black sand, and drive their straggling roots into

crevices of rocks 20-30 feet down amongst the accumulated

vegetable soil. Young plants have a very pretty appearance,

resembling a Gynerium, but growing older, and periodically

subjected to bush fires, all the leaves but the central are con-

sumed, and an ugly charred and blackened stump with a tuft

of leaves remains.

About fifteen species of Xanthorrhea have been discovered,

of which the X. Hastile of New South Wales (Tab. nost.

4722), is the best known, from the uses of its long peduncles,

which attain twenty feet in height, as spear-shafts, and for

the rich red-brown astringent resin which forms between the

densely compacted bases of the leaves, and which has been used

as a substitute for gum-kino. It is often called the Black-

boy, and a native boy with a tuft of grass on his head placed

amongst a group of them, is, from a little distance, with diffi-

culty distinguished from the surrounding trunks. Another

species, X. pecoris, F. Muell., of West Australia, forms a staple

fodder for cattle during a good part of the year. Several

species are cultivated at Kew—viz., X. qguadrangulata, semi-

plana, F. Muell., Hastile, Br. and minor, Br., with others not

- in a sufficiently advanced condition for determination.—

Fig. 1, Whole plant:—reduced in size ; 2, leaf:— of the natural size; 3,

transverse section of leaf:—magnified ; 4, upper part of spike:—of the

natural size; 5, flower and bracts; 6, bracts; 7, ovary; 38, fruit :-—all

magnified.

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: STEUDNERA conocast#routra.

Native of South America.

Nat. Ord. AroinE2.—Tribe ASTEROSTIGME.

Genus Sreupnera; (Koch in Regel Gartenflora, 1869, p. 323).

STEUDNERA colocasiefolia ; caudice brevi crasso vaginis brunneis tecto, foliis

longe_petiolatis, petiolo tereti, lamina peltata concava ovato-oblonga

acuminata basi modice emarginato-2-loba, subtus glauo-viridi maculis

brunneis latis infra nervos irrorata, pedunculis petiolo brevioribus et

tenuioribus viridibus, spatha ampla tota aperta late ovata acuta recurva

flava disco pallide et sordide rufo-purpurea, spadice spatha multo

breviore obtuso parte fceminea dorso spathe fere toto adnata, ovariis

confertis staminodiis brevibus clavatis circundatis hemisphericis

2-locularibus, stigmate sessile discoideo 5-gono, antheris columne-

formibus late truncatis loculis 7-8 parallelis connectivo columnari

carnoso longitudinaliter adnatis,

STEUDNERA colocasizfolia, Koch, 1. c.

According to Regel and Koch this singular Aroid is a

native of South America, whence it was imported by Linden,

if, as I venture to think, the plant here figured and for

Which T an indebted to Mr. Bull, is the Stewdnera colocasiafolia

of Koch. Of this a comparison with Regel’s description

and plate would leave no doubt in my mind, were it not

that Mr. Bull’s plant has many staminodes and a 2-celled

ovary, whilst Koch’s has but one or two staminodes, and a

5-celled ovary ; the number of staminodes is very likely to

be variable, as is frequently the case with arrested organs,

and our plants having, like Koch’s, 5 rays to the stigma

would indicate the probability of there being sometimes as

_ Many cells to the ovary

4 regret having no information as to the exact habitat of

his plant. Mr. Bull believes that he received his specimen

tom Calcutta, but it is certainly not an Indian form. it

longs to Schott’s section or tribe of Asterostigmea, and its

tes are for the most part American; it, however, closely

Tesembles in the form “and colouring of the foliage a very

JANUARY Ist, 1874.

ornamental Arvid (Colocasia Jenningsii), which I found in

the Khasia mountains. The specimen here figured flowered

in Mr. Bull’s nursery in May, 1873.

Drscr. Rootstock one to two inches high, and one and a

half in diameter, clothed with brown sheaths. eaves few,

six to ten inches long, terminal, oblong-ovate, acuminate,

peltate, concave, with a shallow notch at the base, midrib

strong, as are two nerves that proceed backwards from the

insertion of the petiole; lateral nerves numerous, spreading ;

upper surface dark green, under glaucous green, with dark

brown blotches between the nerves; petiole one foot long

terete, green. Peduncle, shorter and more slender than the

petiole, terete. Spathe four inches long, broadly-ovate,

acuminate, quite open, slightly concave, recurved after opening,

yellow, with a suffused pale red-purple disk. Spadiv one

and a half inches long, upper one-third free, subclavate,

obtuse, clothed densely with hexagonal anthers; lower two-

thirds dorsally adnate to the spathe, densely clothed with

ovaries, and each surrounded by five to eight short clavate

staminodes. Anthers shortly columnar, apex of connective

flat dilated ; cells seven to eight, linear, parallel, surrounding

the thick connective. Ovary hemispheric, 2-celled; stigma

discoid, 5-angled ; cells several-ovuled, ovules attached to the

axis.— J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Spadix and its attachment :—of the natural size; 2, anther; 3

ovary and staminodes; 4, transverse section of ovary :—all magnified.

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MESEMBRYANTHEMUM trunoatetiun.

Native of South Africa.

Nat. Ord. Ficoiem.—Tribe MesempryeR.

Genus MrsempryantuEmum, Linn. ; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant., vol. i.

p- 853).

MEsEMBRYANTHEMUM truncatellum ; obconicum, 1-8 poll. diametro, acaule,

glaberimum, glaucum, crassum, pallide viride, foliis ad 4 decussatim oppo-

sitis latissime cuneatis basi connatis appressis apicibus dilatatis, latissime

truncatis, vertice lunatis convexis pallide bruneis depresso-tuberculatis

colore saturatiore irroratis, basi vestigiis membranaceis fugaceis foliorum

‘vetustorum vaginatis, floribus majusculis 14 poll. diametro solitariis

sessilibus, ovario inter folia 2 summa compresso, calyce 5-6-fido seg-

mentis obtusis, petalis 2-serialibus numerosissimis anguste linearibus

stramineis, staminibus perplurimis segmentis calycinis equilongis, stylis

ad 5 gracilibus, apicibus incurvis.

MESEMBRYANTHEMUM truncatellum, Haworth Miscell. Nat., p. 22; Ait. Hort.

Kew, Ed. 2, vol. iii. p. 213; Haw, Synops. Plant. Suce., 203; DC. Prodr.,

vol. iii. p. 417.; Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap., vol. ii. p. 392.

Though differmg in some respects from the published

description, of Mes. truncatellum, I have little hesitation in

referring the vegetable oddity here figured to that plant.

Thus Harvey, on what authority is not stated, describes it as

only half an inch in size, whereas Haworth (the author of

the species) calls it the “ great dotted Dumplin,” which

implies that it is the largest of its allies, of which the

smallest, WM. minutum, is fully half an inch in size. Again,

Haworth, in his original description (Misc. Nat.), describes

the ovary as never extruded beyond the surface of the plant,

as in our specimen; but in his Synopsis he describes it as

exserted, and in this he is followed by De Candolle and

Harvey. Lastly, the calyx is said to be 5-fid in the original

description, and in De Candolle’s Prodromus, and Harvey's

ora; but 4-fid in the Hortus Kewensis: in our plant it is

JANUARY Isr, 1874,

M. truncatellum was introduced into Kew in 1795, by

F. Masson, one of the travellers attached to the establish-

ment, and is described as flowering in November; our plant

was sent by Principal MacOwan, of Gill College, Somerset

Kast, and flowered in October 187 3; it is a very rare species,

was unknown to the Prince Salm Dyck, and is hence not

included in his magnificent work; it has never before been

figured.

Descr. Plant forming tufts of pale glaucous green,

obconic, truncate, translucent fleshy masses, one to three

inches in diameter, with a flat or convex rather tubercled

brown surface ; each branch on plant, consisting of four leaves

in opposite pairs, placed cross-wise. Leaves very fleshy, broadly

cuneate, connate to above the middle; back convex; face

convex ; crown lunate, brown, mottled, convex; the first formed

fleshy leaves, after developing another pair between them,

shrink into a mere membranous pellicle that sheaths the base

of the younger pair. Flower solitary, sessile, one and a

half inches in diameter. Calya-tube sunk and tightly-wedged

between the two uppermost leaves: limb 5—6-cleft, lobes

obtuse, tinged purple. Petals in two series, very numerous,

straw-coloured. Stamens very numerous, anthers yellow.

Styles 5, slender, tips uncurved.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Leaf; 2, flower with two sepals, and petals of same side removed :—

both magnified.

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COLCHICUM speciosum.

Native of the Caucasus.

Nat. Ord. Metanruacea.—Tribe CoLcHicem.

Genus Concuicum, Journ. 3 (Endl. Gen. Plant., p. 137).

CoLcuicum speciosum; robustum, hysteranthum, cormo magnit. judglandis,

foliis 4-5 late elliptico-lanceolatis, perianthii late purpurei tubo crassitie

penn anserine 6-12-pollicari, limbo 5 poll. diam. segmentis ellipticis

apice rotundatis concoloribus non tessellatis, antheris elongatis flavis,

stigmatibus subunilateralibus integris apicibus incurvis perianthii seg-

mentis multo brevioribus,

Cotcuicum speciosum, Stev. in Mem. Soc. Nat. Mosc., vol. vii. p. 265, t.

15; Kunth Enum., vol. iv. p. 139; Hohen. Enum. Pl. Talusch., p- 23;

Koch in Linnea, vol. xxii. p. 258; Ledeb. Fl. Ross., vol. iv. p. 204.

The largest known species of the genus, and a very hand-

Some one, a native of the countries bordering the Caucasus

Tange on the south, and extending thence into Persia, if, as

appears to be the case, a Ghilan plant of Aucher Eloi

(n. 5370) is the same species. Ledebour in his Flora Rossica,

says that it inhabits the provinces of Mingrelia, Iberia, the

Suwant, Lenkoran, and the south-west shores of the Cas-

pian sea. It has been for some time known to amateurs in

England, though not hitherto figured in any English work.

One of its nearest allies is the very broad-leaved C. dyzantinum

(Tab. nost. 1122), which has a broader leaf, a much smaller

paler flower, and broad short anthers; and is a native of

Constantinople.

C. speciosum has been cultivated for many years in Kew,

but the specimen here figured, which is much more deeply

coloured than the Kew ones, was sent by Messrs. Barr and

Sugden, who have a fine collection of the species of this

autiful genus. ; :

Drscr. Corm the size of a walnut, clothed with rich

chestnut-brown shining sheathes, of which one, as broad as

the finger in diameter, extends four to five inches up the

JANUARY Ist, 1874.

scapes. Leafing-stem one foot high, with three to five leaves

Leaves appearing before the flowers, a foot long, by two to

four inches broad, elliptic, suberect, narrowed to the obtuse

apex, of a dark green colour, paler beneath. /owers numerous.

Perianth-tube six to twelve inches long, as thick as a goose-

quill, pale purple; limb four to five inches in diameter, of a

clear red-purple colour with a white throat; segments ellip-

tic, rounded at the point, concave, without conspicuous

venation -or tesselation. Azthers linear, oblong, yellow,

bursting outwards. Sfyles three, subunilateral, slender,

quite entire, white, tips slightly incurved.. Capsule two-

thirds inch long, turgid.— J. D. H.

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BAMBUSA STRIATA,

Native of China.

Nat. Ord. Graminrraz.—Tribe BamBusea.

Genus Bampusa, Linn. ; (Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc., vol. xxvi. p. 87).

Bampusa striata; culmo gracili inermi, internodiis 4-2 poll. diametro viridi

aureoque striatis cavitate angusto, foliis 6—8-pollicaribus 7-1 poll.

latis, e basi obliqua obtusa elongato oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis

subtus subglaucescentibus glabris, ligula brevi truncata ciliata, vagina

_ levissima, panicule ramis gracillimis, spiculis angustis 3 poll. longis sub-

ternatim fasciculatis, fasciculis remotis sessilibus, glumis oblongo-

lanceolatis acuminatis compressis levibus obscure 9-11-nerviis, in-

feriore longiore, palea inferiore subulato-lanceolata sub-enervi glaber-

rima, superiore paulo breviore angusta 2-nervi, nervis dorso ciliatis,

squamulis 3 oblongis ciliatis, antheris 6 paleis equilongis linearibus

acuminatis rubris demum liliacinis, ovario styloque elongato piloso,

stigmatibus 2 subulatis. ee a

Bampusa striata, Loddiges ex Lindl. in Penny Cyclopedia, vol. iii. p. 357;

Munro Monog. Bambus. in Trans. Linn. Soc., vol. xxvi. p. 121.

The plant here figured has been, I believe, long known in

this country as a native of China, and was introduced by

the Messrs. Loddiges, of Hackney. many years ago. It is

further cultivated in various tropical countries, and has been

received at Kew both from the Jamaica and the Calcutta

Botanic Gardens. In adopting the name s/ria/a, therefore,

the only cause for hesitation is, that Lindley describes

Loddiges’ plant as having the leaves narrowed at the base,

which hardly applies to this, in which they are oblique and

almost rounded on the lower half of the base and acute in

the upper. The specimen at Kew, sent from the Calcutta

Botanic Gardens, is about six feet high, but Lindley describes

It ag attaining twenty feet, which from its habit it may very

Well be supposed to do. It belongs to Munros third section

of the genus Bambusa, which has a long hairy style, and to

Which the B. vulgaris and two other species belong.

JANUARY Ist, 1874.

This plant flowered in November last, with Mr. Bull, who

kindly sent: me the specimen here figured; its anthers stain

paper of a lilac colour; it has been called B. Fortunet, which

I take to be a very different plant.

Descr. A graceful tufted very glabrous slender species,

six to twenty feet high. Culms as thick as the thumb; |

internodes four to six inches long, shining, striped yellow

and green; walls thick, tube slender. Leaves six to eight

inches by three-quarters to one inch long and broad, linear-

oblong or oblong-lanceolate from an obtuse unequal base,

glabrous, finely ciliolate on the margin, rather glaucous

beneath ; sheath slender, smooth, glabrous ; ligula short,

truncate, ciliate. Panicle slender, sparingly branched;

branches long, with distant fascicles of about three sessile

spikelets, which are three-quarters inch long, narrowly elliptic-

lanceolate, 3-5-flowered. Glumes and lower palee similar,

acuminate, with many obscure nerves, smooth ; upper palea

slender, 2-nerved, nerves ciliate. Scales 3, oblong, pilose.

Stamens 6; anthers almost as long as the glumes, linear,

apiculate, red purple, lilac when old. Ovary hairy, as is the

very slender style; stigmas two—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Spikelet; 2, flower ; 3, scales, base of filaments, and pistil :—all

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FAGRAIA zEyLantca.

Native of Ceylon.

Nat. Ord, Loganracra.—Tribe Facraea.

Genus Facrma, Thunb. ; (DC. Prodr., vol. ix. p- 28).

Facrea zeylanica ; robusta, fruticosa, glaberrima, foliis 5—12-pollicaribus

obovatis obovato-spathulatisve apice rotundatis sessilibus v. in petio-

lum robustum angustatis crasse coriaceis, nervis paucis inconspicuis,

cymis terminalibus 3-multifloris, floribus breviter et crasse pedicellatis,

calycis ovoidei lobis rotundatis scarioso-marginatis, bracteolis paucis

brevibus, corolle tubo 4-pollicari sursum infundibulari, lobis oblongis

apice rotundatis, genitalibus exsertis, antheris magnis.

Fraarma zeylanica, Thunb. Nov. Gen., vol. ii. p. 34; Act. Holm., 1782, p. 125,

t.4; Lamk. Ill, t. 167, f. 2; Blume Rumphia, vol. ii. t. 78; 7) hwaites

Enum., p. 200 et 425 ; DC. Prodr., vol. ix. p. 29; Benth. in Journ. Linn.

Soc. Bot., 1857, p. 98.

Soanpra oppositifolia, Moon Cat., p. 15.

A native of the central province of Ceylon, where, according

to Dr. Thwaites, it abounds on the banks of the river at

Balangodde. It is one of the handsomest species of a fine

tropical Asiatic and Polynesian genus, of which some twenty

Species are enumerated by Bentham in his notes on Loganiacee,

published in the Linnean Journal (cited above), in 1857, to

which several more are now to be added from the Malayan

Islands. One species, the F. obovata, is figured in this

work (Tab. 4205). The individual here figured was sent from

Ceylon by Dr. Thwaites, about ten years ago, and flowered

in the Royal Gardens in J uly, 1873.

Descr. A very stout glabrous spreading deep green thick

and coriaceous-leaved shrub. Branches as thick as the little

finger, bright green, as are all the parts, except the flowers,

scarcely shining. eaves variable in length and breadth,

five to twelve inches long, usually obovate, and narrowed

into a very short, stout, semiterete petiole, which is, how-

ever, sometimes one to one and a half inches long ; blade

FEBRUARY Ist, 1874.

sometimes much elongated, and between obovate and spathu-

late ; tip always rounded and sometimes emarginate ; margins

slightly recurved; nerves few, spreading, almost invisible in

the fresh state. Cymes in terminal clusters, or solitary, three or

more flowered, corymbose ; peduncles and short pedicels

as thick as a goosequill, smooth; bracts and bracteoles very

short, triangular. Ca/yz nearly one inch long, ovoid, cleft to

above the middle into rounded, appressed, overlapping lobes,

with scarious margins when dry. Corolla white, leathery ;

tube four inches long, funnel-shaped above ; limb three to four

inches in diameter; lobes oblong, thick, spreading and recurved,

nerveless. Stamens with very slender unequal filaments longer

than the tube. Anthers nearly one-half inch long, broadly

oblong, obtuse, pale yellow. Ovary cylindric; style slender,

exserted ; stigma green, capitate.—/. D. H.

Fig. 1, Specimen of natural size ; 2, ovary; 8, transverse section of ovary ;

4, top of filament and anther :—all magnified.

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GAILLARDIA AMBLYODON.

Native of Texas.

Nat. Ord. Composirxz.—Tribe HELENIOIDE 2,

Genus GartiarpiA, Foug.; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant., vol.ii. p. 414).

GamLarp1a Amblyodon; annua, ramosa, pilis patulis hirtella, foliis semi-

amplexicaulibus oblongis v. inferioribus spathulatis apices versus grosse

dentatis basi auriculato-bilobis, capitulis pedunculatis 24 poll. latis, in-

‘ volucri squamis 3-4-seriatis lineari-lanceolatis setaceo-acuminatis his-

pidis conformibus externis basi concretis, receptaculi setis rigidis se-

taceo-acuminatis achenia superantibus, ligulis 12-15 obcuneato-oblongis

trifidis sanguineo-purpureis, corolle lobis extus pubescentibus, acheniis

cylindraceo-vblongis, pappo radii e squamis brevibus latis exaristatis

disci oblongo-oblanceolatis longe setaceo-acuminatis.

Gaittarpia Amblyodon, J. Gay in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 2, vol. ii. p.57; Torr.

§ Gray Fl. N. Am., vol. ii. p. 267; Gray Chlor. Rot. Am., 32, t. 4.

A very handsome October-flowering annual, a native of

sandy plains in Texas and New Mexico, where it blossoms

from the beginning of summer until the winter's frost cuts

it off. The genus to which it belongs inhabits both tempe-

rate North America and extra-tropical South America, and

consists of about eight species, of which two have been

already figured in this Magazine—namely, the old G. bicolor,

Lam. (Tab. 1602), and its variety Drummondii (Tabs. 3368 and

3551); and the large yellow-flowered @. aristata (Tab. 2940).

The present species was discovered by Berlandier in 1527,

and collected subsequently by Lindheimer in 1844, and by

Drummond in 1845. The specimen here figured was raised

from seed by Mr. Thompson of Ipswich, and flowered in

October, 1873.

Derscr. An annual branching herb, two to three feet high,

forming large clumps, clothed with spreading short hispid

hairs. Leaves, radical subspathulate ; cauline one and a half

to two and a half inches long, semi-amplexicaul, oblong, sub-

acute, coarsely toothed beyond the middle, usually contracted

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below it; pubescent and pale beneath, midrib beneath hispid,

base’ 2-lobed, auricled. Heads two and a half inches dia-

meter, terminal, peduncled. nvolucral scales green, rigid,

3—4-seriate, subulate-lanceolate, hispid, erecto-patent, the

outer confluent at the base. Receptacle clothed with rigid

bristles which exceed the achenes. ay-flowers twelve to

fourteen, spreading, deep blood-red ; limb cuneate-oblong, ob-

tusely 3-lobed. Disk-flowers short; lobes short, obtuse, erect,

pubescent externally. Achenes cylindric-oblong, those of the

ray with a pappus of few short broad scales; those of the disk

with as many long rigid scales that terminate in setaceous

points ; style-arms long, slender, exserted.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Ray-flower; 2, disk-flower; 3, pappus scale of the latter:—all

magnified.

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STAPELIA CorDEROYI.

Native of South Africa.

Nat. Ord. AscLerrapEZ.—Tribe STAPELIER.

Genus Srapetia, Linn. ; (Decaisne in DC. Prodr., vol. viii. p. 652).

STaPenia (Duvalia) Corderoyi ; humilis, glaberrima, glauca, ramulis brevibus

obesis procumbentibus ovoideo-oblongis obtusis sub-4-costatis, costis

rotundatis remote dentatis, sinubus acutis, dentibus brevibus triangulari-

subulatis patentibus basi carnosis et utrinque unituberculatis, corolla

13-2 poll lata ad medium 5-loba, lobis triangularibus acuminatis

sordide viridibus marginibus recurvis, apices versus fusco-purpurascen-

tibus, sinubus setoso-glandulosis, fauce elevata pallide-lilacina filamentosa,

Corona staminea duplici breviter stipitata purpurea, exteriore e disco

crasso obtuse 5-gono, interiore e cornubus 5 brevibus crassis ovoideis

. exteriore impositis.

T am quite unable to identify this very curious little

Stapelia with any described species, though it clearly belongs |

to Haworth’s section Duvalia. In habit, size, and form of

branches it agrees with S. cespitosa, Mass., but the flowers

are very much larger, and of a totally different form and

colour. 'T'o the same division belong S. radiata (Tab. nost.

619) and S. reclinata (Tab. nost. 1397) ; but these have, like

8. cespitosa, small dark-coloured flowers, with very narrow

corolla-lobes. pes

T have named this very curious and distinct species after .

Mr. Justus Corderoy, of Blewberry, near Didcot, an old and

an eminent cultivator of succulent plants, and for many years

a valued correspondent of the Royal Gardens. It flowered at

lewberry in September of last year.

Descr. Branches short, procumbent, very stout, glaucous,

about two inches long by three-quarters of an inch in dia-

meter, very pale green and fleshy, obtusely 4—5-ribbed, the

ribs Semi-cylindric with an acute sinus between them, each

bearing two to four short triangular teeth, which are fleshy

at the base, and there furnished with a globose tubercle on

each side. Peduncles solitary or in pairs, about an inch long,

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green, variegated with purple. Calya of five triangular-

subulate green teeth, with red-brown tips. Corolla about one

and a half inches in diameter, 5-lobed to about the middle ;

lobes triangular-acuminate, dirty green, with purple brown

tips, and a few long slender glandular purple hairs in the

sinus, margin recurved ; throat surrounded with an elevated

lilac coronal disk, clothed with slender spreading purplish

hairs. Staminal-column on a short stipes, expanded into a

broad fleshy purple obscurely 5-lobed disk (the outer corona)

which bears on its summit as many egg-shaped obtuse spread-

ing horns (which form the inner corona). Pollen-masses

bright orange, reniform.—J/. D. H.

Fig. 1, Teeth on ribs of branches; 2, flower, with the corolla removed;

3, pollen-masses :—all magnified.

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| IRIS DoUGLASIANA.

Native of California.

Nat. Ord. Inmacex.—Tribe Iripex.

Genus Ir1s, Linn. ; (Endl. Gen. Plant., p. 166).

Ir1s Douglasiana; imberbis, rhizomate crassitie digitis, foliis 1-14-pedalibus

3—3 poll. latis planis anguste lineari-ensiformibus longe acuminatis

scapum solidum excedentibus, spathe valvis 2-3-pollicaribus angustis

acuminatis pedunculos longe superantibus, ovario angusto obtuse 3- —

gono faciebus concavis, perianthii tubo 3-3 pollicari, limbi 3-4 poll. lati

segmentis exterioribus obovato-spathulatis pallide lilacinis disco albido

venis purpureis, interioribus erectis elliptico-lanceolatis acuminatis

lilacinis, stigmatibus cuneato-oblongis 2-fidis, lobis acutis dentatis.

Ints Douglasiana, Herbert in Hook. § Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. 395; Torrey tn

Whipple Rep. Bot. 35th Parallel, p. 144.

Discovered by Coulter in California, and subsequently

collected by David Douglas, in 1833, in New California, but

unknown to me from any other locality and collector, except

from a mention of the plant in one of the Reports of the

United States’ surveys, quoted above, where it is stated to be

found on hill-sides in the Grass Valley, California, together

with a large-flowered variety (how large it is not said), and

longer pedicels (one inch) at the Corte Madera, also in Cali-

fornia. It is a very little known plant, being omitted in Klatt’s

monograph of the genus, (published in the Linne, vol. xxxiv.),

and is closely allied to 8. Zongipetala (Tab. nost, 5298), which

is, however, a very much larger species, with a remarkably

short perianth-tube. I am indebted to Messrs. Veitch for the

specimen here figured, which flowered in his nursery last year.

Derscr. Rhizome as thick as the little finger, creeping.

Leaves a foot to a foot and a half long, by half to three-

quarters of an inch in diameter, of a dark green colour, except

at the bases and on the sheaths, which are paler, variegated

with red, narrow-linear, gradually contracted into the acumi-

nate tip, nerves obscure. Spathes usually two, enclosing

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together two flowers, three to four inches long, narrow and

long acuminate, without scarious margins. Peduncles shorter

than the ovary, which is one to one and a half inches long,

narrow-oblong, with three rounded angles and channelled

faces. Perianth-tubes one-half to three-quarters of an inch long,

rather stout, green; limb three to four inches in diameter ;

outer segments obovate-spathulate, spreading and recurved,

beardless, obtusely toothed, pale lilac, with a white disk

which is veined with purple; inner segments rather shorter,

lanceolate, acuminate, erect; obtusely toothed, pale lilac-

purple, not veined. Stigmas one half as long as the inner

segments, bifid, oblong cuneate, segments acute.—J. D. H.

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ODONTOGLOSSUM rosevm.

Native of Peru.

Nat. Ord. OrcuipE&.—Tribe VanpEm.

Genus Opontoaiossum, H. B. § K.; (Lindl. fol. Orchid. Odontoglossum).

_OpdontoaLossum roseum; pseudobulbis late-ovatis compressis ancipitibus

apice 2-foliatis, foliis loriformibus acutis canaliculatis sessilibus dorso

carinatis coriaceis enerviis, racemis breviuscule pedunculatis cernuis

elongatis multifloris, rachi tenui, bracteis ovato-lanceolatis viridibus

pedicellis squilongis, ovario gracili perianthio rosee 1-poll. diametro,

sepalis petalisque consimilibus oblongo-ellipticis subacutis patenti-

Tecurvis, labello anguste 3-lobo, lobis lateralibus brevibus rotundatis,

intermedio longe producto lineari apice paulo dilatato obtuso, disco:

inter lobos laterales callo 4-fido ornato, columna apice pallida mem-

brancea 3-fida.

OponToGLossuM roseum, Lindl. in Benth. Plant. Hartweg, p. 151; Fol.

Orchid. Odontogloss. p. 23: Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann., vol. vi. t. 848 ;

Gard. Chron., 1867, p. 404; André in Linden Illust. Hortie., vol.

Xviii. t. 66; Bateman Monog. of Odontogloss. t. 22.

In its rose-coloured flowers this forms a remarkable contrast

to the prevalent colour of the genus to which it belongs. It

was discovered by Hartweg near Loxa, in the Peruvian

Andes, in a quite cool region, and was introduced by Mr.

Linden from that region by his able collector, Mr. Wallis, in

1865. 2A, figure of a small and poor specimen is given mm

Mr. Bateman’s beautiful work upon this genus, and a much

finer one in the “ Illustration Horticole,” where, however, the

flowers are represented as larger and of a much deeper hue

than in our plant. The specimen here figured was exhibited

by Mr. Linden at the Horticultural Society in April, 1871.

_Duscr. Pseudobulbs two inches long by one and a half in

diameter, broadly ovate, much compressed, 2-edged, pale-

brown when mature. Leaves five to seven inches long, by

three-quarters to one inch in diameter, strap-shaped, acute,

narrowed at the base, channelled and dark-green above, paler

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and keeled beneath, very coriaceous, nerveless. Aacemes pro-

ceeding from the base of the pseudobulb, six to eight inches

long, on a peduncle of half that length, graceful, curved,

many-flowered; peduncle closely clothed with appressed

obtuse sheathing green bracts ; rachis rather flexuous ; flowers

rather distant and distichous ; bracts about as long as the

pedicels, acute, appressed, green. Ovary very slender,

3-angled, hardly distinguishable from the pedicel. Perianth

one to one and a quarter inches in diameter, rose-red through-

out. Sepals and petals similar, oblong-elliptic, acute, spread-

ing and recurved, paler at the back. Jip about as long as

the petals; claw appressed to the column; limb cuneate at

the base, 3-lobed; lateral lobes small, rounded, enclosing a

small disk which bears a 4-lobed appressed callus ; midlobe

much longer than the rest of the lip, linear, dilated or spa-

thulate at the obtuse tip, obscurely channelled above. Column

rather slender, rose-coloured, with a 3-toothed white mem- ~

branous tip.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, View of column and lip from above ; 2, the same from the disk :—

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ODONTOGLOSSUM Rozztu.

Native of New Grenada, 7

Nat. Ord. Orcuipex.—Tribe VanpEzx.

Genus Oponroaiossum, H. B. & K. ; (Lindl. Fol. Orchid., Odontoglossum).

Opontoctossum Roezlii ; pseudobulbis parvis anguste ovatis compressis mar-

ginibus acutis, foliis pedalibus elongato lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis

carinatiset lineato-nervoris, scapis gracilibus foliis brevioribus 1-2 floris,

floribus maximis, perianthio plano, sepalis obovato-oblongis acutis niveis,

petalis sepalis consimilibus niveis fascia magna lata versus basin san-

guineo-purpurea ornatis, labello maximo late obcordato in sinu apicu-

lato, ima basi in unguem brevem contracto, ungue utrinque postice in

spinam rectam, producto, disco 5-carinato spinisque aureo rubroque

irroratis, columna breviuscula exalata.

OpontocLossum Roezlii, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron., 1873, p. 1303, cum Te.

Aylog., et in Xen, Orchid., vol. ii. p. 191 (cum, tab. 182 ined.)

This is a very near ally and a rival of the 0. veaillarium

(Tab. nost. 6037); so near an ally indeed, that Prof. Reichen-

bach suggests the possibility of its being a hybrid between

that plant and O. Phalenopsis. Putting aside the different

colour of the flower, the principal distinctions between this

and O. vewillarium are the more slender leaves, which are

nerved beneath, less robust habit, fewer-flowered scapes, the

obeordate lip and longer column of this; Prof. Reichen-

bach indicates the flat (not revolute) sepals and the different

keels at the base of the lip (he, however, finds three keels in

this, not five, as in our specimen); to these may be added the

more slender and much longer floral bracts, and shorter scapes.

It is stated to be a native of New Grenada, where it was dis-

covered by M. Roezl, whose name it bears ; and was flowered

by Mr. Bull in October last ; to whom I am indebted for the

opportunity of figuring it. It is a superb plant, and in

Tespect of the pearly whiteness of the flower more admired

by some than even 0. veeillarium.

Duscr. Pseudobulds one to two inches long, narrowly ovate,

compressed. Leaves eight to twelve inches long, narrowly

linear-lanceolate, acuminate, pale clear green above, paler and

MARCH Ist, 1874.

keeled beneath; nerves parallel. . Scapes about half the

length of the leaves, slender, terete, 1-2-flowered; bracts

subulate-lanceolate, half an inch long, green ; pedicels exceed-

ing the bracts, gradually passing into the slender grooved

ovary. Vowers three to three and a half inches across, but

probably variable in size, almost as large as and closely

resembling in form those of O. vewillarium ; perianth quite flat.

Sepals subequal, one and a half inches long, the dorsal rather

the narrowest, obovate-oblong, acute, snow-white. Petals

as large as, and altogether similar to, the lateral sepals, but

with a broad red-purple band across their breadth towards

the base. zp very large, two to two and a quarter inches in

breadth, broadly obeordate with a mucro in the notch, very

shortly clawed, snow-white, with faintly yellow marblings,

tinged with pale red on the disk above the base; a small

spur-like horn arises on each side of the base of the claw,

and is directed upwards and backwards, one on each side of

the column ; and there are five short slender ridges on the

disk in front of the interval between the spurs. Column not

winged.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Front; and 2, side view of portion of lip and column :—magnijied.

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BAUHINIA wnaratensis. ©

Native of Natal.

Nat. Ord. Lecumimosm.—Tribe BAUHINIES.

Genus Bavuinia, Lina. ; (Benth. §& Hook. f. Gen. Pl., vol. i. p. 575).

Baunita (Pauletia) natalensis ; frutex inermis, erectus, glaberrimus, ramulis

gracilibus, foliis parvis gracile petiolatis, foliolis 2 liberis oblique

oblongis v. obovato-oblongis apice rotundatis, basi obtusis, pedunculis

1-2-floris oppositifoliis gracilibus, stipulis setiformibus, floribus 13. poll.

diam. erectis albis, calyce spathaceo late cymbiformi apiculato, petalis

obovatis apice rotundatis, staminibus 5 longioribus filamentis 2 basin

versus calearatis, 5 duplo minoribus antheris parvis, ovarii stipite libero,

stylo elongato, stigmate capitato, legumine plano acinaciformi acuminato

glaberrimo tenuiter venoso, ‘basin versus sensim angustato, margine

inferiore plano.

Bavutnia natalensis, Oliv. Mss. in Herb. Kew.

My first knowledge of this elegant little shrub was derived

from specimens collected in Natal by Mr. Moodie, and com-

municated by Mr. McKen, the late energetic Curator of the

D’Urban Botanic Gardens, in 1869. These were followed

by pods with ripe seeds in 1870, from which the plant here

figured was raised, and which flowered for the first time in

September last. It is closely allied to the African and Indian

B. tomentosa, Linn. (Tab. nost. 5560) and especially to a

nearly glabrous and small-leaved variety of that plant from

Port Natal, but the leaflets are perfectly free, the flowers much

smaller and the stamens quite different.

Descr. A small, glabrous, slender, leafy bush. Branchlets

nearly straight, slender. Leaves alternate, somewhat, dis-

tichous ; petiole very slender, quarter to a half inch long,

ending in a subulate point between the leaflets, swollen at

the base ; leaflets one inch long, quite free, obliquely obovate,

or subovate-oblong, rounded at the apex, as also at the base on

the outer side, dark green, rather paler beneath ; midrib and

few nerves very slender ; stipules subulate. Peduncles \eaf-

Opposed, 1~2-flowered, with two minute setaceous bracts

MARcH Ist, 1874,

at the base. Vower one and a half inches in diameter,

pure white with a faint crimson streak along the midrib of

the three smaller petals. Calyx with a short turbinate tube,

and a broad spathaceous green apiculate limb, one-third

inch long, which is truncate at the base. Petals erecto-

patent, obovate-oblong, rounded at the apex, obscurely

veined ; three upper rather smaller. Stamens ten; filaments

almost free, and slightly hairy at the base; five longer

equalling the style, of which two have each a lateral spur above

the base ; five shorter stamens half as long as the others ;

anthers all oblong, obtuse, yellow; cells ciliate at the base.

Ovary stipitate, free, slender; style stout, elongate, stigma

large, capitate. Pod three inches long by nearly one half inch

broad, scimitar-shaped, acuminate, contracted at the base, flat,

glabrous, obscurely reticulately nerved, convex edge flat,

about 6-seeded, interior almost divided between the seeds by

a thin down.—/. D. H.

Vig. 1, Leaf and portion of stem; 2, flower, with the petals removed ;

3, long and short stamens :—all magnified.

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% i ARABIS BLEPHAROPHYLLA, 3

Native of California.

Nat. Ord, Crucirerz.—Tribe ARABIDER.

Genus Aranis, Linn. ; (Benth. § Hook. J. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p, 69),

Aranis blepharophylla ; perennis, erecta, caulibus foliosis, foliis ciliatis et

sparse pilosis radicalibus rosulatis obovato-spathulatis obtusis sinuato-y.

serrato-dentatis, caulinis elliptico-v, lineari-oblongis obtusis basi sim-

plicibus v. subauriculatis, racemis brevibus latis obtusis, floribus gracile

pedicellatis amplis roseis, petalis obovato-cordatis, siliquis 1}-pollicaribus

erectis rectis v. lente curvis linearibus, valvis utringue obtusis costa

nervisque lateralibus flexuosis validis, stylo brevissimo, seminibus

1-seriatis orbicularibus compressissimis exalatis brunneis.

Anazis blepharophylla, Hook. et Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy., p. 821,

Of the large genus Arabis almost all have white flowers ; in

a very few species they are yellow, and in this alone of those

known to me, do the colour and size of flower together recom-

mend it for cultivation. It is a native of San Francisco, in

California, where it was discovered by David Douglas in 1833,

and has since been collected by Bridges, Brewer, Bolander,

and others, and is described as a great ornament in March

on the hills of that State. It seems remarkable that so con-

spicuous a plant, growing in what is now a populous State,

should be so little known, but I find no other description of

it than that in the Botany of Beechey’s Voyage, published

thirty-five years ago; nor do I find any mention of it in the

-Mmultitudinous and cumbrous records of the United States’

Surveying Expeditions. Professor Asa Gray, of Cambridge,

was, I believe, the first to send ripe seeds to England—this

was in 1865—from which plants were raised at Kew, and by

Mr, Thompson, of Ipswich, if I recollect aright; but it was

hot till quite recently that the plants throve (from seeds sent

by Commissioner Watt, of the Agricultural Department of

Washington) and appeared in their full beauty. The speci-

men here figured flowered at Kew in J anuary, in a cool

MARCH Ist, 1874,

frame, where it has hitherto thriven better than in the open

border or rockwork ; itis, however, doubtless quite hardy, and

would succeed equally well out of doors, where, from its beauty

and early flowering, it is sure to become a great favourite.

Drscr. Whole plant six to ten inches high, erect. oot

perennial, fusiform. Mower-stem leafy, robust. Leaves all

ciliate, and sparsely hairy with long simple or forked hairs ;

radical forming a lax rosette three to four inches in diameter,

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

obovate-spathulate, obtuse, irregularly sinuate or toothed,

dark green above, paler beneath ; cauline leaves shorter, sessile,

linear-oblong, obtuse, serrate or toothed, base rounded or

slightly auricled. Flowering-racemes about two inches long,

and nearly as broad, rounded at the apex; pedicels half an

inch long, slender, spreading, erect in fruit. lower three-

quarters of an inch in diameter. Sepals erect, linear-oblong,

obtuse. Petals with a short claw and broadly obovate retuse

rose-coloured limb. /%/aments slender; anthers small. Pod

one to one and a half inches long, nearly one-eighth of an inch.

broad, erect, slightly curved, linear; valves obtuse at both

ends, rather coriaceous, margined, convex over the seeds;

midrib and waved lateral nerves very strong, giving the

surface a grooved appearance; style very short, conical;

stigma minute. Seeds, about eight to ten in each cell,

1-seriate, orbicular, much compressed, brown, not winged.—

P pe Lays &

Fig. 1, Flower with calyx and anthers removed; 2, ovary , 3, immature

capsule :—all magnified.

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NUNNEZHARIA (CHamzporzra, A uct.)

ss GEONOMFORMIS.

Native of Guatemala.

Nat. Ord. PALMEZ.—Tribe ARECINER.

Genus NonnezuartA; Ruiz § Pay —(Caamapvorea, Willd. et auct.).

Nonnezuanrta (Psilostachys) geonomeformis ; caudice gracili erecto dense

annulato, foliis erecto-patentibus breviter petiolatis simplicibus obovatis

apice bipartitis, vaginis brevibus apertis, spadicibus ¢ infra et inter coro-

nam enatis longe pedunculatis, pedunculo erecto, masculi ramis gracilli-

mis pendulis densifloris, fl. ¢ compresso-globosis, perianthio exteriore

annulari brevissimo latissime 3-lobo, interiore e foliolis 8 obovato-

_ triangularibus, antheris inclusis oblongis, fl. Q scrobiculis spadicis

suberecti subimmersis depresso-globosis, perianthii foliolis 3 exterioribus

interiora rotundata ovarium amplectentia subequantibus, staminodiis

minutissimis, stigmatibus minutissimis exsertis.

CitaMaporra geonomeformis, Wendland Ind. Palm., p. 12 (1854), et in Otto

et Dietr. Gartenz., 1852, ex Oecrsted in Palm. Centroamer. in Natur.

Foren. Vidensk. Meddels,, 1858, p. 24; Oersted, L’Amerig. Centr,

Fasc. i. p. 14, t. 5 (1858).

Cu. fenestrata, Hort. Houtt., ex Wendl. Ind. Palm, 12.

Cu. humilis, Hort. Berlin, ex Wendl. 1.c.

This little Palm was received at Kew from the Royal

Gardens of Berlin in 1856, and flowered in the Palm-house

in May, 1859, and repeatedly since. From its dwarf habit,

abundant foliage, and graceful male inflorescence, it is one of

the most elegant of the beautiful genus to which it belongs.

It is a native of Guatemala, whence it was introduced by

Warsiewicz, and named by Wendland. Its foliage pre-

cisely accords with that of a Peruvian congener, the WV. ? geo-

nomordes, Spruce (Journ. Linn. Soc., vol. xi. p. 122); but the

flowers are very much larger and widely different. There is

no question but that, as Mr. Spruce points out, Willdenow’s

generic name of Chamedorea must give place to the prior one

MARCH Ist, 1874.

of Nunnezharia, given to the genus nine years earlier by Ruiz

and Pavon.

The Kew plant, which in 1858 (when the accompanying

drawing was made), had a stem only a few inches high, with

four naked joints, has now a stem three and a half feet high,

which presents sixty-four joints between the rootlets and

lowest leaf base. It is stated to have borne sometimes male

and sometimes female spadices.

Drscr. Whole height about four feet. S¢em erect, as thick as

the thumb, deep bright green ; internodes one-half to one inch

long, not much contracted at the middle. eaves spreading,

eight to twelve inches long by five or six broad, obovate,

obscurely serrate, apex two-partite, with spreading triangular

lobes, deep green, plaited; nerves about twelve on each side,

perfectly glabrous ; petiole short, green; sheath oblong, the

lower pale red-brown. Spadices (male) axillary, and from the

jomts immediately below the leaves, very slender, erect,

terminated by long slender alternate drooping branches, eight

to ten inches long; peduncle clothed with slender, erect,

orange-brown, acuminate sheaths four inches long; branches

very graceful, green, clothed throughout with close-set but

not crowded male flowers. Mowers (male) compressed-

globose, a quarter of an inch in diameter, dark green like the

branch of the spadix, in which their bases are hardly sunk.

Outer perianth of three minute membranous segments, connate

into a cup; inner much larger, obovate, connate at the tips

for some time. Stamens six, surrounding a rudimentary ovary.

Female flower (from Oersted’s description) immersed in pits of

the erect branches of the spadix. Outer perianth nearly as

large as the inner. Staminodes very minute.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Reduced view of whole plant ; 2, male spadix :—of the natural size ;

3, portion of ditto and flower; 4 male flower :—magnijied.

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~RHIPSALIS Hoocttern.

Native of Brazil ?

Nat. Ord. Cactea.—Tribe Oruntien.

Genus Rurpsauis, Gertn.; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant., vol. i. p. 850),

Rurpsatis Houlletit; epiphytica, pendula, ramosa, glaberrima, caulibus

gracilibus, ramulis foliaceo-dilatatis planis, internodiis elliptico-lanceo-

latis 1-1}-poll. diam. grosse obtuse serratis coriaceo-carnosis nervis

obscuris, floribus fere 1-poll. diametro pallide flavis odoris, ovario

exserto oblongo obtuse 4-5-costato, perianthii foliolis 8-12 erecto-

patentibus lanceolatis acutis, exterioribus paullo minoribus, staminibus

numerosis perianthio brevioribus, stylo gracili, stigmatibus 4-5.

Rurpsatts Houlletii, Lemaire, Les Cactee, p. 80, nomen tantum.

This Rhipsalis has been cultivated for some time in the

Royal Gardens, where it flowered first in November, 1872,

and it has been received also from Mr. Corderoy, who sent us

flowering specimens to be named in the same month of 1873.

Quite recently Mr. Green contributed a fine plant of it from

Mr. Wilson Saunders’ late collection, which came from

Paris, with the name I have adopted. I have failed to find

any description of this species in any horticultural or botani-

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Duscr. Stem probably many feet long, and pendulous

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‘green, with a faint tinge of brown purple along the margins

of the leaf-like articulations, slender and cylindric between

the ‘articulations. Articulations three to six inches long, by

MARCH Ist, 1874.

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rowed into the petiole-like branches, regularly coarsely ob-

tusely toothed, between coriaceous and fleshy, quite flat,

without scales or hairs ; midrib and lateral nerves broad and

faint, the latter directed to the sinus of the teeth, and un-

branched. Mowers copiously produced in the axils of the

teeth, three-quarters to one inch in diameter, pale straw-

coloured, odorous, opening by day. Ovary quite naked from

a very early stage, sessile, oblong, with four to five obtuse

ribs. Perianth erecto-patent; leaflets 8-12, narrow-lanceo-

late, acute or acuminate, the outer rather smaller. © Stamens

numerous, much shorter than the perianth. Style slender,

_ stigmas four or five, spreading.—/. D. H.

Fig, 1, Ovary style and stigma :—magnified.

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COLCHICUM PARKINSONI,

Native of the Greek Archipelago.

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Nat. Ord. MevantHaceg..—<Tribe CoLCHICER.

Genus Cotcuicum, Tourn. ; (Endl. Gen. Plant., p. 137).

Cotcutcum Parkinsoni ; hysteranthum, cormo magnitudine avellane, foliis

patulis prostratis et humi appressis, elongato-lanceolatis acuminetis

margine insigniter undulatis, perianthii 3-4 poll. diametro tubo albo

segmentis patenti-recurvisalbis pulcherrime purpureotessellatis elliptico-

lanceolatis subacutis, antheris ceruleis, polline fusco-purpureo, stigma-

tibus minutis incurvis perianthii segmentis multo brevioribus.

? Cotcnicum chionense, Haw.,; ex Kunth. Enum., vol. iv. p. 189, sub

C. variegatum.

C. Fritillaricum Chiense, Parkins. Parad., p. 155, f. 5, et p. 156.

“wer

This charming Meadow Saffron appears to have been actu-

ally lost sight of by botanists for nearly two and a half cen-

turies. It is originally very accurately described and rudely

figured by Parkinson, in the “Paradisus Terrestris,” pub-

lished in 1629, where it is distinguished from the other tessel-

lated-flowered Colchicums by its smaller size, brighter, clearer

colouring, and the undulated leaves lying flat on and ap-

pressed to the ground. ;

Ray, in his “ Historia Plantarum,” p. 1172, published in

1688, keeps up Parkinson’s plant under his name, but adds

to it Cornutis’s C. variegatum as the same thing; in this he

was mistaken, for a reference to Cornutis’s work, published

In 1635, with a rude woodcut, proves that his is a very dif-

ferent plant, a native of ‘Messina, and is probably that now

nown as C. Bivone, Guss. The plant now called variegatum,

and which igs supposed to be the Linnzan one, is also a native

of Greece, and is figured at Tab. 1023 of this work (copied

and reversed in Reichenbach’s « Flora Exotice,” t. 57, without

acknowledgment). This, Mr. Baker informs me, is a much |

larger Species than the subject of the present plate, with less

pronounced and coarser tessellation, and having suberect leaves

APRIL Ist, 1874,

a foot high and Jess undulated. It is known under the name

of C. variegatum, tessellatum, and agrippinum in English gar-

dens, and is liable to be killed in severe winters.

With regard to Haworth’s name of chzonense, cited with-

out a reference by Kunth, I can nowhere else find it; and

having no means of knowing to what plant he applied it, I

hesitate to apply it to this, which should henceforth bear the

name of the acute old botanist who first published it, and

whose quaint and characteristic description I here give at

length :—

“This most beautiful Saffron flower riseth up with his

flowers in the Autumn, as the others before specified do,

although not of so large a size, yet far more pleasant

and delightful in the thick, deep blew or purple-coloured

beautiful spots therein, which make it excel all others what-

soever: the leaves rise up in the Spring, being smaller then

the former, for the most part three in number, and of a paler

or fresher green colour, lying close upon the ground, broad’

at the bottom, a little pointed at the end, and twining or

folding themselves in and out at the edges, as if they were

indented. I have not seen any seed it hath born: the root is

like unto the others of this kinde, but small and long, and

not so great: it flowreth later for the most part then any of

the other, even not until November, and is very hard to be

preserved with us, in that for the most part the root waxeth

lesse and lesse every year, our cold country being so contrary

unto his natural, that it will scarce shew his flower; yet

when it flowreth any thing earlie, that it may have any com-

fort of a warm Sun, it is the glory of all these kindes.”—

Paradisus Terrestris, p- 156.—J. D. A.

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BESCHORNERIA Tonetu.

Native of Mexico.

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Nat. Ord. AMarYLLIDk.g.—Tribe AGAVER,

Genus Brscuornerta, Kunth; (Kunth, Enum. Plant., vol. v. p- 844),

Bescuorneria Tonelii’; foliis reeurvis pedalibus elliptico-lanceolatis acumi-

natis asperulis subtillissime denticulatis, scapo 4-pedali sanguineo-

purpureo, panicula 2-pedali inclinata, ramis paucis gracilibus paten-

tibus sparsifloris, bracteis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis pallidis, floribus

nutantibus et pendulis, pedicellis ovariis perianthiique segmentis basi

et dorso late sanguineo-purpureis, perianthii segmentis acutis viridibus.

Bescuornerta Tonelii, Jacobi in Otto Hamburg. Garten- und Blumenz.,

vol. xx. p, 503, sine descriptione. :

Had I not examined this plant in a living state in Mr.

Wilson Saunders’s garden, where it flowered in May of last

year, I should certainly have identified it with the original

B. tubifora, Kunth, as figured at Tab. 4642 of this work ;

nor am I now sure, after a comparison of these real or sup-

posed species, that they are more than varieties of one. The

present is of alaxer habit, has much broader leaves, and

brighter red purple scape and panicle, the latter with drooping

branches ; it has also rather longer more pendulous flowers

with more acute perianth-segments. In all other respects,

and especially in the floral organs, the two supposed species

appear to be identical.

According to General Jacobi, who (in Otto’s work, cited

above), has given a sketch of the genera and species of

Agavee, the genus Beschorneria contains four species, of

which two are now figured in this Magazine, and the others,

B. yuccoides and B. Parmentieri (Yucca Parmentiert, Roezl),

are unknown to me. Unfortunately General Jacobi gives no

description of B. Zonelii, his conspectus of dloine@, which was

commenced in the work referred to, not having been con-

tinued to Beschorneria, and I am therefore dependent on the

APRIL Ist, 1874,

authority of Mr. Wilson Saunders’s garden for the name this

plant bears.

Descr. Stem very short. Leaves few, spreading, fifteen to

twenty inches long, by two and a half inches broad, acumi-

nate and keeled beneath towards the tip, minutely serrulate,

scaberulous above, very glaucous, thick and hard, contracted

into a flat thick petiole an inch broad. Scape four feet high,

as thick as the middle finger below, and as well as the inflo-

rescence of a bright red-purple colour. Panicle two feet long,

slender, inclined, with few lax spreading simple branches bear-

ing distant fascicles of two to five flowers ; bracts.several to each

fascicle of flowers, three quarters to one and a quarter inches

long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, spreading, membranous, pale.

Flowers two and a half inches long, drooping, on slender pedicels

half to three-quarters inch long. Ovary one inch long, obtusely

3-gonous, dark red-purple, 6-grooved. “Perianth tubular ; seg-

ments linear, slightly dilated at the rather spreading acute tip,

dark blood-red below and on the midrib, the rest very bright

verdigris green. Stamens nearly as long as the perianth, fila-

ments dilated above the base; anthers linear-oblong. Style

rather longer than the stamens, base conical ; stigma obscurely

3-lobed.—/. D. H. |

Fig. 1, Top of ovary with stamens and style:—magnified.

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ACONITUM uaereropryiium.

Native of the Western Himalaya.

Nat. Ord. Ranuncutacra.—Tribe HELLEBORER.

Genus Aconitum, Linn. ; (Benth. 6 Hook. J. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 9).

Aconitum heterophyllum; caule erecto robusto simplici v. ramoso glabro

superne pubescente, foliis radicalibus petiolatis rotundato-reniformibus

v. cordatis obscure 5-lobis grosse duplicatim inciso-dentatis v. lobulatis

glabris, caulinis late cordatis sessilibus brevissime petiolatis v. amplexi-

caulibus, racemis lateralibus vy. terminalibus multifloris dense v.

laxifloris, pedicellis erectis, bracteolis 2-3, floribus ceeruleis v. ochro-

leucis purpureo ceruleo ve venosis, sepalis puberulis, supremo valde

convexo, lateralibus oblique ovatis, antico lanceolato sinuoso, petalis

ungue late lineari subincurvo apice subgloboso inflato ecalcarato,

carpellis 5 pubescentibus, folliculis erectis.

Aconrtum heterophyllum, Wall. Cat. 4722; Royle Ill. Pl. Himal., p. 56,

t.13; Hook. f. & Thoms. Flor. Ind., vol. i. p. 58; Hook, f. Flor.

Brit. Ind., vol. i. p. 29.

A. cordatum, Royle Jil. p. 56.

A. Atees, Royle in Journ. As. Soc. Beng., vol. i, p. 459.

The subject of the present plate is a very interesting plant,

as being, though a member of a most poisonous genus, in

extensive use as a tonic medicine throughout N. India, under .

the name of Atees or Atis. It inhabits the whole Western

Himalaya, from Kumaon to Kashmir, at elevations from

8-13,000 ft., growing in moist places, at the edge of forests,

&e. It is a near ally of the famous Bikh poison of the same

mountains, which does not seem to differ from our deadly

A. Napellus (Monkshood). For the specimen here figured I

am indebted to Colonel G. Smyth of Wetten-le-Wold, Louth,

who cultivated it in his garden from Himalayan seed, and

communicated it to Kew in August of last year.

Dr. Royle says of this species :—“ In the native works on

Materia Medica, as well as in the common Persian and Hin-

doostanee and English Dictionaries, Afees is described as

APRIL lst, 1874.

being the root of an Indian plant used in medicine. This,

the author learnt, was the produce of the Himalayas; he

therefore sent to one of the commercial entrepéts situated at

the foot of the hills, and procured some of the root, making

inquiries respecting the part of the mountains whence it was

procured. ‘he plant-collectors, in their next excursion, were

directed to bring the plant, with the root attached to it, as

the only evidence which would be admitted as satisfactory.

The first specimens thus procured are represented in Plate 13,

and the root Atees having been thus ascertained to be the

produce of a new species of Aconite, was named Aconitum

Atees (Journ. Asiat. Soe., i. p. 459); but which has since been

ascertained to be the Aconitum heterophyllum of Dr. Wallich.

The reots obtained in different parts of the country resemble

one another, as well as those attached tothe plant. They

are about an inch in length, of an oblong oval-pointed form,

light-greyish colour externally, white in the inside, and of a

pure bitter taste. That its substance is not so injurious as

the Bish, I conclude from its being attacked by insects,

while the other remains sound and untouched. The na-

tives describe it as being of two kinds, one black, the other

white, and both as bitter, astringent, pungent, and heating,

aiding digestion, useful as a tonic, and aphrodisiac.’’—Royle

Ill. Pi. Himal., p. 48.

Fig. 1, Pedicel with bract, stamen, and two lateral sepals :—magnijied.

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PAN AX SAMBUCIFOLIUS.

Native of New South Wales and Victoria.

Nat. Ord. ArALiActa.—Series Panace x.

Genus Panax, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant., vol. i. p. 938).

Panax sambucifolius ; glaberrimus, foliis pinnatis 2-pinnatisque, foliolis

polymorphis sessilibus petiolulatisve ellipticis v. lanceolatis integerrimis _

dentatis lobulatis v. pinnatifidis subtus glaucis, rachi interdum dilatata

ad nodos articulata, umbellis terminalibus et axillaribus corymbosis

paniculatis v. racemosis, calycis limbo brevissimo sinuato 4-5-dentato,

fructu baccato globoso aquoso translucido, pyrenis plano-convexis dorso

obtuse costatis.

Panax sambucifolius, Sieb. in DC. Prog: vol. iii. p. 255; Benth. Fl. Austral ,

vol. iii. p. 382.

P. angustifolius e P. dendroides, F. Muell. in Trans. Phil. Inst. Vict.,

vol. i. p. 42; Plant. Vict., t. 28.

Notuoranax sambucifolius, Seem. Flor. Viti., p- 115.

The singular beauty of-the translucent berries which per-

sist for a long time on the plant, recommend the latter for

cultivation. These resemble white currants in form and

transparency, but have a faint blue tinge, and each is

capped by a minute black calyx-limb, and two thread-like

diverging or recurved styles. It is a native of extra-tropical

Eastern Australia, extending from north of the New South

Colony to Victoria; and a very similar plant (of which I

have seen the leaves only) has been sent from Tasmania. Like

so many 4raliacee, the Ivy notably, the leaf varies most

extraordinarily, being simply or doubly pinnate, and the

leaflets being quite entire, toothed, lobed, or pinnatifid, and

the petiole flat or dilated between the leaflets. The flowers

are small and insignificant ; they appear in spring, and the

beautiful berries ripen in September.

Panawx sambucifolius was introduced into Kew from the

Melbourne Botanic Garden by Baron Mueller, and flowered

for the first time in 1873.

APRIL Ist, 1874.

Descr. A shrub or small tree, everywhere quite glabrous ;

branches slender, green. Leaves three to ten inches long,

pinnate or 2-pinnate; leaflets one to three inches long,

sessile or petioled, elliptic or lanceolate, quite entire, toothed,

lobed or pinnatifid, and cut into distant short or long, broad

or narrow lobes, glaucous beneath; rachis simple winged or

dilated and leafy. Uméels small, half an inch in diameter,

green, in corymbs, racemes, or panicles ; peduncles slender ;

pedicels very short, jointed below the flower. /Jowers one-

sixth of an inch in diameter. Calyz-tube hemispheric, con-

tracted into a short stipe ; limb 4—5-toothed. Petals four

to five, spreading with incurved tips; those of the female

flowers larger and often cohering at the tips, smaller and ~

more spreading in the males. Fruit a watery transparent

berry, one-third of an inch in diameter, crowned with a minute

black calyx limb, and two slender recurved styles; pyrenes

two, plano-convex, with two striate dorsal ribs—J. D.

Fig. 1 and 2, Male flowers; 3, calyx, and styles of ditto; 4, ripe fruit;

5, transverse section of ditto :—all magnified.

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EPIDENDRUM orinirerum. _

Native of Costa Rica.

Nat. Ord. Orcuipex.—Tribe EpmpenpREz.

Genus Eprpenprum, Linn. ; (Lindl. Fol. Orchid. Epidendrum).

Eripenprum (Spathium) criniferum ; caulibus repentibus et fasciculatis

' simplicibus gracilibus ima basi tuberosis superne foliosis, foliis sub-

distichis, vaginis teretibus, lamina sessili lineari-lanceolata acuta

patenti-recurva, spathis pluribus viridibus lineari-oblongis apice

truncatis, racemo terminali subsessili, bracteis minutis appressis, floribus

2 poll. diam., sepalis subulato-lanceolatis acuminatis aureis rubro-fusco

maculatis, petalis equilongis fere filiformibus, labelli laciniis lateralibus

semi-ovatis incurvis lateribus in processus subulatos undulatos fissis,

lacinia media porrecta lineari angusta, disco callis 2 parvis supra stigma

ornato.

EPmpenprvo criniferum, Reichb. J. in Gard. Chron. 1871, p. 1291.

This belongs to a large West-Indian and South-American

section of Hpidendrum, of which many species have been

described by Lindley in his “ Folia Orchidacea,” by Reichen-

bach, and by others; of the latter the Cuban JZ. rivulare,

Lindl, according to Reichenbach, comes nearest to this, but

differs in the longer and narrower leaves, shorter bristles on

the lip, and different midlobe of the latter. Reichenbach

further observes that the lip of this is totally white, but in

the specimen here figured it is blotched with pale red, and-

the midlobe is yellow.

Lipidendrum criniferum was sent for figuring by Messrs.

Veitch, in whose splendid collection of Orchids it flowered in

January of the present year.

Descr. Stems a foot high, in tufts from a creeping root-

stock, slender, green, leaty, as stout as a swan’s-quill, the

basal joints swollen and ‘half an inch in diameter. Leaf-

sheathes one inch long, green, cylindric, with a truncate

mouth; leaf-blade, three to four inches long by half inch

broad, spreading and recurved, linear-lanceolate, acute, sessile,

APRIL Ist, 1874.

dark-green above, pale beneath, margins subrecurved, midrib

keeled. Spathes about three, terminal, erect, an inch long,

linear-oblong, truncate. Racemes terminal, subsessile, inclined,

about 6-flowered ; rachis green, one to one and a half inches

long ; bracts small, green, appressed to the slender pedicel.

Ovary slender, with the pedicel one and a half inches long.

Perianth nearly two inches across. Sepals equal, flat, spread-

ing, subulate-lanceolate, acuminate, golden-yellow blotched

with chestnut-brown. Petals as long and similarly coloured,

but extremely narrow. Jip adnate to the column,

3-lobed, lateral lobes semi-ovate with crinite margins, the

sete curved upwards and waved; disk white with very pale

pink blotches and two tubercular calli close under the

stigma; midlobe straight, yellow, very narrow, acute, ex-

tending as far as the petals. Column white-—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Ovary, column, and lip :—magnified.

Tas. 6095. —

RHOPALA Poxtit.

Native of Brazil.

Nat. Ord. Proreacea.—Tribe GREVILLER.

Genus Ruopata, Schreb.; (Meissner in DC. Prod., vol. xiv. p, 424).

Ruopara Pohlit; arborescens, ramulis petiolisque fusco-tomentosis demum

glabratis, foliis imparipinnatis, foliolis petiolatis oblique ovatis ellip-

ticis-ovatisve acuminatis grosse serratis supra glabris nitidis subtus

costatis reticulatis laxe tomentosis v. glabratis, racemis erectis simpli-

cibus v. compositis solitariis sessilibus aureo-lanatis, pedicellis bracteis

parvis duplo longioribus, perianthio clavato ad medium 4-fido, seg-

mentis anguste spathulatis, ovario villoso, stylo gracili.

Ruopata Pohlii, Meissn. in Mart. Fl. Bras., fasc. xiv. p. 89, t. 33; et in

DC. Prod., vol. xiv. t. 433.

R. corcovadensis, Hort.

The genus Rhopala is one of the few American repre-

sentatives of the Old World Proteacee, and is confined to the

tropical and south temperate regions of the New World,

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Drscr. A tree. Branches clothed with dense, bright, rusty-

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arched, pinnate, with five to eight pairs of subopposite and

alternate pinnules, rachis, petiole, and petiolules villous ;

pinnules three to five inches long, on stout petiolules, which

are sometimes an inch long, obliquely ovate or elliptic-ovate,

APRIL Ist, 1874.

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five inches long, subsessile, narrow, simple or compound

at the base, covered with orange-red velvety pubescence ;

pedicels strict, erect, much larger than the small bracts.

Flowers one-third of an inch long. Perianth clavate before

opening, divided to below the middle into four narrowly

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slender, stigma clavate —J. D. H.

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6096

Witch da et hih VincentBrocks Day &Sonlmp

Tas. 6096,

XIPHION SISYRINCHIUM,

Native of the Mediterranean Region.

Nat. Ord. Intwace®,.—tTribe Irie.

Genus Xiputon, Tourn. ; (Tab. nost. 5890).

Xipuion Sisyrinchium ; bulbo globoso fibroso-tunicato, caule gracili sepius

flexuoso 2—6-floro, foliis sub-binis elongato-subulatis falcatis dorso

semiteretibus, spathis 1}-pollicaribus ventricosis, ovario subsessili,

peranthii tubo gracili subunciali, limbo tenuissimo ceruleo-violaceo

1-14 poll. diametro, segmentis exterioribus obovato-spathulatis, inte-

rioribus angustis paulo brevioribus:erectis, filamentis deorsum stylo

adnatis, stigmatibus segmentis perianthii interioribus equilongis profunde.

2-fidis, lobis erectis parallelis subulato-lanceolatis.

X. Sisyrinchium, Baker in Seemann Journ. Bot., vol. ix. p. 42.

Ints Sisyrinchium, Linn. Sp. Pl., vol. i. p. 59; Sibth. Fl. Greec., vol. i.

p- 30, t. 42; Cav. Ic, t. 193; Rédouté Lil., t. 29 et 458.

I. Egyptia, Delile Fragm. Fl. Arab., p. 6.

I. fugax, Ten. Fl. Neap., vol. i. p. 15, t. 4.

GYNANDRIRIS Sisyrinchium, Parl. Nuov. Gen., p. 52, Flor. Ttal., vol. iii.

p. 309; Godr. et Gren. Fl. France, vol. iii. p. 246; Klatt in Linnea,

vol, xxxiv. p. 577.

Mora Sisyrinchium, Gawl, Bot. Mag., t. 1407.

M. fugax, Ten. Syll., p. 26.

M. Tenoreana, Sweet. Brit. Fl. Gard., t. 110.

This lovely little plant is the most widely diffused of all

the Jridea, extending from Spain and Marocco to Turkey and

Egypt in Europe and Africa respectively, and thence east-

ward through Syria and Arabia to Affghanistan and Beloo-

chistan, It further, probably, passes the confines of the

British Indies, as my correspondent, Dr. Aitcheson, informs

me by a letter just received, that he has found a bulbous

Iris in the North-Western Punjab, which, from his descrip-

tion, may well be this. oe

Tt will be observed that this is the Morea Stsyrinchium

figured in this work (Tab. 1407), but so indifferently as

MAY Ist, 1874.

hardly to be recognisable. It was introduced into England

before the days of Gerard (1597), but is still scarce, being

often killed by frost. The plants here figured flowered at Kew

in May of last year, from bulbs sent by D. Hanbury, Esq.,

F.R.S., from Calabria. The bulbs are said (Bot. Mag. 1. c.)

to be eaten in Spain and Portugal, whence Gerard and

Parkinson called them Spanish nuts; but I cannot confirm

this statement.

Descr. Bulb the size of a large hazel-nut, globose, clothed

with matted fibres. Stem six to twelve inches high, stout or

flexuous, 2—6-flowered. eaves dark green, usually twin,

distichous, spreading or recurved, elongate-subulate very

concave, rounded at the backs, about as long as the stem.

Spathes ventricose, membranous acuminate. Flowers one and a

half inches in diameter, blue-purple, with a yellow oblong spot

on the disk of the outer perianth segments. Ovary slender,

about one inch long. Perianth-tube as long and more slender ;

outer segments of limb reflexed, oblong-spathulate, obtuse ;

inner narrow-lanceolate, erect, much paler. Stigmas erect, as

long as the inner segments, bifid to the middle, segments

subulate, parallel, erect.—/. D. H.

Fig. 1, Apex of stigma :—magnified.

6097

Day &Son,bap

W Fitch del ot lid: Vincent Broaks Day:

Tas. 6097.

ECHIN OCACTUS Cumminait.

Native of Bolivia.

Nat. Ord. Cactex.—Tribe EcHinocactex.

Genus Ecninocactus, Link § Otto ; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Pl., vol, i. p. 848).

Ecuinocactus Cummingii ; subglobosus, griseo-virescens, tuberculis 4-4

poll. diam. distinctis subhemisphericis spiraliter dispositis centro de-

pressis, areolis parvis fere circularibus, demum nudis, spinis exterioribus

15-20 patentibus gracilibus strictis ad 1 poll. longis pallide flavescen-

tibus superioribus longioribus centralibus fortioribus, floribus 1 poll.

diametro aureis, perianthii tubo infundibuliformi, laciniis ad 40 aureis

extimis tubum efformantibus brevibus imbricatis apicibus sanguineis,

intimis numerosis patentibus lineari-oblongis obtusis, staminibus con-

fertis auries tubo fere immersis, antheris parvis, stylo columnari,

stigmatibus 7-8 erectis cylindraceis.

Ecurnocacrus Cummingii, Salm-Dyck. Cact. Hort. Dyck. Cult. p. 174;

Labourét Monog. Cact., p. 264, .

A very elegant little globose Cactus, with rather large

bright golden flowers, communicated to Kew by Mr. Pferts-

dorff in June of last year: it is stated by Labourét and Salm-

Dyck to be a native of Bolivia, and to be very rare in Europe,

but one specimen according to the former author existing in

France (in 1847), which was in the collection of M. Andry,

of Chaillot. I give it the name under which Mr. Pferfsdortf

sends it, assuming it to be correct; it agrees with Labourét s

character in everything but the size of the flowers, which are

described as “ petites,” whereas these are of considerable size

in proportion to the size of the plant. E

Derscr. Stem in our specimen two and a half inches in

diameter, nearly globose, of a grey-green colour, hardly

shining, contracted slightly at the base. Tubercles about

one third of an inch in diameter, arranged in spirals, sub-

hemispherical, base obtusely quadrangular, with a depression

at the top in which the areole is placed. Areo/e small, nearly

circular, outer spines about fifteen to twenty, strict, slender,

erecto-patent, pale yellowish, the upper rather the longest,

MAY Ist, 1874.

central two or three shorter and stouter. Flowers numerous, .

sessile. Perianth golden yellow, one inch in diameter, and

about as long; tube funnel-shaped, clothed with lax imbri-

cating oblong scales tipped with red (the outer segments) ;

inner segments numerous, spreading, linear-oblong, obtuse,

flat and overlapping. Stamens lining the whole perianth-

tube, the innermost much the shortest, filaments strict

slender, anthers minute, yellow. Style rather stout with

seven to eight erect, thickly filiform stigmas.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Areole and spines; 2, apex of tubercle and spines; 8, vertical

section of flower :— all magnified.

6098

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Witch da etlith

Tas. 6098,

EPIDENDRUM (Barkers) LInDLEYANUM.

Native of Costa Rica,

Nat. Ord. Orcuipem.—Tribe EpIpENDREA.

Genus Eprenproum, Z.; (Lindley Fol. Orchid. Epidendrum).

Eprpenprum (Barkeria) Zindleyanum; caule tereti ramoso non bulboso,

foliis elliptico-oblongis acutis patenti-recurvis planiusculis enerviis sub-

tus carinatis, vaginis breviusculis, scapo gracili terminali laxi-plurifloro,

bracteis viridibus subulato-lanceolatis, floribus patentibus purpurels, pedi-

cello ovarioque gracillimis, sepalis elliptico-lanceolatis acuminatis, petalis

consimilibus sed latioribus, labello” oblongo-quadrato apiculato ungue

brevi basi column adnato, disco albo 2-carinato, columna clavata anguste

alata, apice 3-loba.

E. Lindleyanum, Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann., vol. vi. p. 375.

Barkerta Lindleyana, Batem. in Bot. Reg., vol. xxviii. Mise., p. 2, et in

Orchid. Mex., tab. xxviii.; Paat. Mag. Bot., vol. xiii. p. 193.

According to Reichenbach the genus Barkeria falls into

Epidendrum, and no doubt rightly ; and I cannot but wonder

how it was that Lindley, when revising the latter genus in

- his “ Folia Orchidacea,” failed to perceive that Barkerva must

be united with it, the character of the winged colun.n being

a very trivial and far from conspicuous one, and the amount

of adnation between the column and lip in Epidendrum itself

being, as in Barkeria, very variable. eee

Reichenbach further places all the Barkerias 1m a natural

section of Hypidendrum, which he designates as Amblostoma,

characterized by a free or nearly free lip; to which section

the name of Barkeria, now so well known amongst horticul-

turists, may be equally well applied.

E. Lindleyanum is a native of Costa Rica, where it was dis-

covered by the late Mr. Skinner. The specimen here figured

flowered in Mr. Veitch’s establishment in December last, and

has larger flowers, of a paler colour than those of the plant

figured by Bateman, and by Paxton in his Magazine. _

“Descr: Stems a foot or more high, terete, sparingly

MAY Ist, 1874,

branched and rooting at the nodes, clothed below with short

pale sheaths, and above with subdistichous leaves, as thick

as a goosequill. Leaves four to five inches long, spreading

and recurved, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, nerveless, keeled at

the back. Scape terminal, very slender, inclined, many-

flowered. Flowers lax, two inches in diameter, purple except

the white disk of the lip. Bracts green, slender, longer or

shorter than the slender pedicel, but never exceeding the

ovary, which is also slender. Sepals spreading and recurved,

elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate. Petals similar, but broader. .

Lip oblong-quadrate, apiculate, flat with subserrate edges ;

claw adnate to the lower one-third of the column ; disk white

with two keels. Column ‘clavate, narrowly winged, purple,

three-lobed at the top.—J. D. H. 7

Fig. 1, Column :—magnified.

Tas. 6099.

SENECIO (Kiernra) ANTEUPHORBIUM.

Native of South Africa.

Nat. Ord. Compositam.—Tribe SENECIONIDEA.

Genus Senecio, Z. ; (Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. Pl., vol. ii. p. 446).

SENEctO (Kleinia) Anteuphorbium; glaberrimus, carnosus, erectus, ramosus,

caule crasso cylindraceo ad nodos coustricto, foliis pollicaribus sparsis

erectis oblongis lineari-oblongisve obtusis acutisve integerrimis carnosis, -

petiolo brevissimo secus caulem linea triplici deducto, capitulis polli-

caribus crasse pedunculatis solitariis erectis, bracteis sparsis anguste

linearibus, involucri squamis anguste linearibus acutis numerosis, flori-

bus omnibus tubulosis flavis, pappi setis tenuissimis, acheniis levibus,

styli ramis apice acutis,

Kiemia Anteuphorbium, DC. Prodr., vol. vi. p. 838; Harv. et Sond. Fl.

Cap., vol. iii. p. 319.

Cacatta Anteuphorbium, Linn. Sp. Pl., p. 1168; Willd. Sp. Pl., vol. iii.

p. 1725; Ait. Hort. Kew., vol. iv. p. 497.

AnteupHorsitm Bawh. Pinax, 887; Dod. Pempt., 3, lib.ii. p. 378; Lob.

Ie., vol. ii. p. 26 ; Moris Hist., vol. iii, p. 845; Dill. Hort. Elth., p. 63,

t. 55, f. 2, 3.

The subject of the present plate is one of the oldest Cape

plants in cultivation, having, according to Dodonzus, been

brought to Europe in 1570, and cultivated in England in

Gerard’s garden in 1596. Nevertheless, its recent South

African habitat is up to this date unknown, no accurate

description of it has hitherto appeared, and it has been but

once seen in flower in Europe, until I received the

specimen from which the accompanying drawing was made

im January last from Mr. Thomas Hanbury’s garden at

Palazzo Orengo, near Mentone. Dillenius indeed, so early as

1732, points out the rarity of its flowering, adding that,

as his work “The Hortus Elthamensis,” was passing through

the press, he received a flowering specimen from a Mr.

Owers, gardener to Mr. Blaithwaits, at Dirham in

Gloucestershire, and which specimen he figures, though very

Wretchedly, for it appears to have been quite withered.

MAY Ist, 1874.

This plant hasbeen long cultivated at Kew, where it forms

an erect shrub 3-4 feet high in the succulent house. The name

Anteuphorbium was given because of its being a reputed anti-

dote against the acrid poison of the Cape Huphorbium.

Descr. An erect perfectly glabrous smooth pale green

succulent shrub, with thick fleshy cylindric stem and

branches, one half to one inch in diameter, which are con-

stricted at the base. Zeaves about an inch long, erect, oblong

or linear-oblong, acute or obtuse, pale green and fleshy like

the branches, with rounded quite entire margins; petiole

excessively short, produced down the stem as three slender

lines. Heads an inch long, cylindric, erect, solitary, axillary ;

peduncle very stout, almost clavate, with a few slender,

scattered linear bracts, which are shorter than the head.

Lnvolucral bracts numerous, linear or linear-lanceolate, acumi-

nate, green, slightly red at the base. #/owers all tubular,

scarcely exceeding the involucre, yellow with a rose tinge.

Corolla with short lobes. Anthers exserted. Stigmatic arms

with short, conical, acute papillose tips. Achene small, quite

smooth, crowned with a rather rigid pappus.—/. D. 7.

_ Fig. 1, Vertical section of top of peduncle and head; 2, flower; 3, stamen :

—all magnified.

Ta. 6100.

REGELIA CILIATA,

Native of South-Western Australia.

Nat. Ord. Myrrace&#.—Tribe LerrosPERME,

Genus Regeia, Schauer ; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant., vol. i. p. 706).

RecExtA ciliata ; frutex hirsutus v. pubescens, foliis parvis erectis patentibus

recurvisve late ovatis obovatis v. fere orbiculatis obtusis planis con-

cavisve 3-5-nerviis, floribus in capitula globosa congestis, rachi lanata,

calycis tubo ovoideo, lobis erectis, petalis minutis calycem vix exceden-

tibus integerrimis ciliolatis, staminum phalangiis ungue lineari petala

longe superantibus filamentis ad 12 erecto-patentibus filiformibus

flabellatim dispositis, antheris minutis adnatis poris subterminalibus,

calycibus fructiferis concretis ore lato truncato.

R. ciliata, Schauer in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur., vol. xxi. p. 11, tab. i., figs. 1—3;

et in Plant. Preiss., vol. i. p. 148; Benth. Flor. Austral., vol. iii. p. 170.

This genus, named after the distinguished and indefati-

gable Botanist and Superintendent of Culture in the Imperial

Botanical Gardens of St. Petersburg, consists of three West

Australian plants, which, with the habit of Metrosideros, are

closely allied to Beaufortia, differing chiefly in the form of

the anthers and number of ovules; by far the finest of them

is the R. grandiflora, Benth., which has never yet been intro-

duced into cultivation, and in which the apparently scarlet

bundles of stamens are an inch long, and the leaves, which

are many times larger than those of R. ciliata, and clothed

with a white silky pubescence. All are greenhouse hard-

wooded plants.

The species here figured has been cultivated for some years

at Kew, flowering in September ; and I have also received it ina

flowering state from Messrs. Backhouse, of York. The ovary

appears imperfect, as if the flower were male only. The

fruiting specimen figured is from the Herbarium.

Descr. A straggling twiggy bush, three to five feet high,

with more or less pubescent or hirsute twigs and leaves ;

branchlets slender, strict, clothed with leaves. Leaves

quarter to a third of an inch long, erect, spreading, and

MAY Ist, 1874.

recurved, imbricated tetrastichously, sessile, rigid, ovate

obovate or almost orbicular, obtuse, flat or concave, quite

entire, 3- rarely 5-nerved, hairy on both surfaces. Flower.

heads globose, half to three-quarters of an inch in diameter,

terminal, though as the axis elongates and becomes leafy

the head becomes situated some inches below the top of the

branchlet, of a dull red-purple colour. Calyz-tube villous,

rounded at the base; lobes acute, subulate. Pe/als minute,

scarcely exceeding the calyx, oblong, concave, quite entire,

with ciliate margins. PAalanges of stamens much exceeding

the calyx; claw linear, glabrous, giving off about twelve

slender spreading filaments, each terminated by an adnate

short two-celled anther, whose cells open by terminal short

slits. Ovary a villous tubercle at the base of the calyx-

tube.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1 and 2, Leaves ; 8, flower; 4, longitudinal section of calyx ; 5, petal;

6, tip of filament and anther :—all magnified.

G10)

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SENECIO Doronicum, VAR. HOSMARIENSTS.

Native of Northern Maroceo.

Nat. Ord. Comrostrm.—Tribe SENECIONIDE®.

Genus Senrcro, Z. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl., vol. ii. p. 446).

SENEcto (Crociserides) Doronicum » herbaceus perennis polymorphus, floccoso-

tomentosus v. glabratus, 1-pauci-cephalus, foliis. crassiusculis dentatis,

radicalibus lanceolatis ellipticis v. ovato-cordatis dentatis sinuato-den-

tatisve breviter v. longius petiolatis subacutis v. obtusis, involucri

bracteati campanulati squamis lanceolatis acuminatis, ligulis 12-25 planis,

acheniis glabris striatis,

8S. Doronicum, Linn. Sp. Pl., p. 1222; DC. Prodr., vol. vi. p. 357.

Var. hosmariensis ; caule breviori, foliis caulinis paucis angustis, inferioribus

2-3 limbo lato in petiolum attenuatis, radicalibus late ovatis basi trun-

cata v. subcordata in petiolum non deccurrentibus. Ball in Journ.

Bot. n.s., vol. ii. p. 867 (1873).

Senecio Doronicum is a very. handsome and not uncommon

South European plant, extending from the Pyrenees to

Transylvania, inhabiting considerable elevations in those

countries, attaining a foot or two in height, with heads two

inches in diameter. On the southern shores of the Mediter-

ranean it has hitherto been found only in the northern moun-

tains of Marocco, where it was discovered on Beni-Hosmar,

a rugged limestone mass close to Tetuan, by Messrs. Ball,

Maw, and myself, in April, 1871, at an elevation of about

3000 feet, growing in dry rocky places.

_ In this state it forms a very pretty rockwork plant, flower-

ing in May in England. The specimen here figured is from

Mr. Maw’s rich garden of herbaceous plants at Benthall Hall,

near Broseley, in Shropshire.

Desor. A perennial scapigerous herb, leaves below, scape,

bracts, and involucre more or less clothed with floccose

tomentum. Root of thick fibres. Radical-leaves one to one

and a half inches long, ovate, elliptic-ovate, or ovate-cordate,

acute or obtuse irregularly teothed, more or less contracted

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into the short petiole or not, dark green, rugose, and

glabrous above, greenish-white beneath. Scape three to five

inches high, rather stout; bracts few, scattered, linear,

foliaceous. Heads solitary, one and a half to two inches in

diameter, yellow. Jnvolucre campanulate, sub-biseriate ;

scales linear-subulate, green, with red purple tips, the inner-

most close-set, with tips slightly spreading, base woolly.

Ray-flowers about twenty, tube glabrous, very broadly linear-

oblong, tip three-toothed; disk-flowers shortly five-toothed,

teeth obtuse erect. Style-arms truncate. Achene short,

smooth, even, glabrous ; pappus white, rather rigid, exceeding

the involucre.—J. D. H.

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SAXIF RAGA FLORULENTA.

Native of the Maritime Alps.

Nat. Ord. SaxirraGace #.—Tribe SAXIFRAGER.

Genus Saxirraga, L.; (Benth. § Hook. Sf. Gen. Pl., vol. i. p. 635),

Saxirraca (Euaizoonia) florulenta ; foliis omnibus basalibus numerosissimis

rosulatis confertis spathulatis coriaceis mucronatis glabris margine car-

tilagineo setaceo-ciliato apicem versus integerrimo, caule florifero erecto

thyrsoideo fistuloso hirsuto, bracteis linearibus, pedunculis unifloris

rarius bifloris erectis apice cernuis inferioribus longioribus, bracteolis

sub flores fere 2 lanceolato-linearibus, calycis glanduloso-hispidi tubo

obconico ovario adnato, lobis lanceolatis mucronulatis erectis, petalis

atque staminibus duplo longioribus spathulatis obtusis 5-nerviis, stylis

tribus capitatis staminibus equilongis.

SaxirraGa florulenta, Moretti Tent. Sax. p. 9; Seringe in DC. Prodr.,

vol. iv. p. 20; Bertolon. Misc. Bot., xxi. p. 14, t. 2; Engler Monog. der

Gatt. Saaifr., p. 248; Regel Gartenjl. 1874, p. 2, t. 782.

This striking and extremely local species was first dis-

covered about the year 1820 (in the Alps of Fenestre) by an

English tourist, who forwarded specimens to Professor

Moretti of Pavia. It was rediscovered in the same locality

in the year 1856, since which time it has been found in

numerous distinct habitats. I+ appears to be tolerably abun-

dant at an altitude of from 7 000 to 9000 feet within a limited

area of about eight miles square, in the higher regions of the

watershed of the Maritime Alps, between the Col du Tenda

and the valley of the Tinea north of Nice, on cliff faces and

precipitous ravines facing the north. Mr. G. Maw, to whom

we are indebted for the specimen figured, informs me that it

mostly grows in single rosettes, some of which are six or

seven inches across ; they are generally found under an over-

hanging ledge protected from the drip and direct rainfall, the

rosette turning downwards, and never exposed to the sun.

The plant was first introduced alive to this country by Mr.

Moggridge. Its cultivation is extremely difficult, from the

all but impossibility of obtaining well-rooted plants. It is an

JUNE Isr, 1874. :

extremely shy bloomer ; it probably lives to a great age before

flowering, after which it dies. It seems entirely to fail under

pot culture, but Mr. Maw informs me that M. Boissier has

succeeded in growing it by wedging the rosettes firmly

into the crevices of a brick wall with a northern exposure.

Mr. Ellacombe has found it intolerant of frost at Bitton, near

Bristol.

Descr. Rosettes five to seven inches in diameter, concave, —

becoming convex at the time of flowering, bright green.

Leaves three-quarters of an inch to two inches long, inner-

most shortest, very numerous, densely imbricated, spathulate,

mucronate, margin cartilaginous, with setaceous cilia below,

entire towards the apex. Inflorescence a narrow thyrsoid

panicle with a fistulose rachis, five to twelve inches high,

more or less densely hairy; bracts linear-spathulate ;

peduncles 1—2-flowered, with one or two linear-lanceolate

bracteoles. lowers half an inch long, slightly nodding.

Calyx obconical, densely clothed with gland-tipped hairs ;

lobes lanceolate, mucronulate. Petals pale lilac, twice as long

as the calyx-lobes and stamens, spathulate, obtuse, 5-nerved.

Ovary three-celled; styles capitate. Capsule globular.—

ds led.

Fig. 1, Leaf of a rosette; 2, do. back; 3, transverse section; 4, flower;

5, do. calyx, limb, and petals removed; 6, transverse section of ovary :—

all magnified.

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CRO CUS CANCELLATUS,

Native of Greece and Asia Minor.

Nat. Ord. InipEx.—Tribe Ix1ez.

Genus Crocus, Tourn. ; (Klatt in Linnea, vol, xxxiv. p. 674).

Crocus cancellatus ; cormis mediocriter globosis, tunicis reticulatis fibrosis

brunneis demum in fibras setiformes perianthii tubi basim circumdantes

solutis, areolis elliptico-oblongis, foliis post anthesin evolutis 6-8-polli-

caribus, vaginis latis membranaceis, spatha bivalvi vel monophylla,

involucro, perianthii tubo albido vel pallide lilacino, segmentis albis,

vel lilacinis purpureo striatis ellipticis acutiusculis, fauce lutea levi,

antheris aureis filamentis levibus longioribus, stigmatibus crocels multi-

fidis antheras superantibus.

Crocus cancellatus, Herbert in Bot. Mag. sub t. 3864; Journ. Hort. Soc.,

vol. ii. p. 276; Baker in Gard. Chron, 1873, p. 1553.

C. Schimperi, Gay in Schimp. Pl. Cephal. exsic.

C. Spruneri, Boiss. ¢ Heldr. Diagn., vii. p. 103.

C. mazziaricus, Herb. Bot. Reg. 1845, Misc., p. 3; Bot. Reg., 1847, t. 16,f£.5 &6.

C. dianthus, K. Koch in Linnea, vol. xxi. p. 634.

C. nudiflorus, Sibth. § Smith, Prod. Fl. Greec., p. 23 (excl. syn.).

A well-known and beautiful species not apparently figured,

except very ineffectively by Herbert. It is frequent in the

Ionian Islands, Greece, Asia Minor, and reaches, it is said,

eastward to Armenia. In Greece it ascends to 4000 feet

and in Taurus to the Alpine region. The curious reticulated

coats, with a texture which recalls cocoa-nut fibre, especially

in the prolonged bristle-like fibres surrounding the neck

(similar to those met with in Adlsuca setosa or Chlorogalum

pomeridianum) distinguish this species from all the autumn

flowering Crocuses. Amongst the spring-flowering species,

coats of this kind are only found in @. 7 eticulatus and C.

susianus. The specimens figured were received from G. Wood,

_ Esq, of Rochford, Essex, early in November, 1873.

‘Descr. Corm globose, about one inch in diameter, clothed

with coarse reticulated fibrous coats (not well represented in

JUNE Ist, 1874.

the plate) prolonged above into loose bristle-like fibres. Leaves

about seven, produced after the flowers (half their length in the

plate). Perianth without an involucre ; tube slender, pale ;

throat pale yellow; limb three and a half inches in diameter,

segments elliptic rather acute white with reddish-purple

streaks. Anthers shorter than the filaments. S¢zgma saffron

coloured, divided into numerous segments— IV. 7. 7. D.

Fig. 1, Reticulated coat of the corm; 2, stigmas :—both magnified.

a —

Viacent Brooks Day leSun IP

delet lith,

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coches

, Tas. 6104,

CALANTHE CURCULIGOIDES.

Native of Malacca.

Nat. Ord. OrcuipeEm.—Tribe VANDER.

Genus Catantue, Br. ; (Lindl. Fol. Orchid. Calanthe).

CaLantuE (Eucalanthe) curculigoides ; foliis anguste ellipticis glabris scapo

duplo longioribus; racemo cylindraceo denso, bracteis membranaceis

caducis, labello trilobo, lobis lateralibus rotundatis, medio subpanduriformi

acuto nervis quinque parallelis, caleare uncinato, rostello longo setiformi

faucem occludente,

CALANTHE curculigoides, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch., p. 251; Bot. Reg. 1847,

t.8; Fol. Orchid. Calanthe, p. 4; Walp. Ann., vol. i.p. 7 92 et vol. vi.

p- 918; Wall. Cat., 7340.

? Amptyatorris pulchra, Blume Bijd. 371.

? Catantue pulchra, Lindl. Gen. § Sp. Orch., p. 250.

A native of Malacca, Penang, and Singapore, according to

Lindley, who described it originally from specimens collected

: lich, and who afterwards

* figured it in the Botanical Register from a plant flowered by

the Messrs. Loddiges of Hackney. In the latter work Dr.

Lindley describes it as an undisputed novelty by reason of its

llow in his figure, with

hich they are of a

rather bright orange. The flowers too are much more

and the lip

different.

the Botanical

Lindley also

in the two latter countries by Wal

colour, which is pale dirty ochreous ye

much larger flowers than our plant, in W

ringent in Lindley’s figure and dried specimen,

is more acute, but I can hardly think the species are

I have taken the two doubtful synonyms from

gives Java as a habitat.

at the base, narrowly elliptic or elliptic-!

about six strong parallel nerves, deep

beneath. Racemes three to four inches long (or more),

JUNE Ist, 1874.

a SryLoGLossum nervosum, Kuhl §- Hasselt ex Herb. Lindl.; Breda Orch. Jav.,

2g a

Drscr. Terrestrial. Leaves subradical, distichous, sheathing

anceolate, acute, with

green above, paler —

drical, terminating a lateral scape about half the length of

the leaves, and furnished with several brown sheathing

scales. Bracts. linear, membranous, brown, very fugitive.

Flowers orange yellow, three quarters of an inch long,

crowded ; pedicel one to three quarters of an inch. Perianth

scarcely patent. Sepals oblanceolate, acute. Petals similar.

Lip 3-lobed, about equalling the perianth; lateral lobes

rounded, intermediate lobe subpanduriform, acute. Rostellum

a slender style-like process half as long as the lip, and

partially closing the mouth of the hooked spur.—/. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower; 2, the same with the sepals and petals removed; 3, lip,

column, and base of ovary; 4, pollinia :—all magnified.

GIC5

Fincent BrooksDay &Sauimp

Tas. 6105,

GREVILLEA FASCICULATA,

Native of West Australia.

Nat. Ord. Proteacem.—Tribe GReviILLEs.

Genus Grevitira, R. Br. ; (Benth. Fl. Austr., vol. v. p. 41 7).

GREVILLEA (Plagiopoda) fasciculata; frutex, ramulis pubescentibus, foliis

pollicaribus sesquipollicaribusve sessilibus vel brevissime petiolatis

oblongo- vel oblanceolato-linearibus acutis margine revolutis supra

scabro-punctatis, racemis terminalibus axillaribusve sessilibus pauci-

floris, perianthii pilosiusculi tubo basi gibboso sub limbo globoso

reflexo, fauce pilis reflexis transverse barbata, disci valde obliqui glan-

dula latissima truncata, ovario stipitato piloso, stigmate obliquo crasso

concavo glabro.

Grevitira fasciculata, R. Br. Suppl., p. 20; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss., vol. i.

p. 536; DC. Prodr. vol. xiv. p. 369; Benth. Fl. Austral., vol. v. p. 449.

G. Meissneriana, F. Muell. in Linnea, vol. xxvi. p. 857 3 Meissn. Le. p. 360.

G. aspera var. linearis, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss., vol. i. p. 537.

A native of Western Australia, from King George’s Sound

to the Swan River. It was discovered on the south-west

Shore of the former place in 1829, by D. Baxter. The

specimen figured was from a Swan River plant, flowered by

Mr. Wilson Saunders, at Reigate, in May, 1873. _

Duscr. A low and prostrate or erect shrub, attaining three to

four feet. Branches slender, erect, more or less fasciculate, leafy,

terete, youngest pubescent. Zeaves three-quarters to one and

a-half inches long, sessile, or very nearly so, acute, some-

what variable in form from oblanceolate to linear-oblanceolate

and linear, rather rigid with revolute margins, upper surface

minutely scabrous-punctate, lower silky and pale brown.

Racemes or fascicles few-flowered, sessile, axillary and terminal

on the lateral shoots. Flowers bright red with yellow tips,

pedicels about half their length. Perianth a quarter to a

third of an inch long, sac-like and gibbous at the base, con-

tracted and revolute below the yellow limb, the tube furnished

internally on the superior side with a transverse beard of

JUNE Ist, 1874,

reflexed hairs below the contraction. Torus oblique, gland

broad, truncate. Ovary very shortly stipitate, hairy. Style

dilated upwards, somewhat exceeding the perianth, stigma

very oblique glabrous fleshy concave and slightly hippo-

crepiform.— W. 7. 7. D.

Fig. 1, Leaf, under surface; 2, ditto, upper surface; 3, flower, lateral

view; 4, ditto, longitudinal section :—all magnified.

6106 |

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Tap. 6106.

LESSERTIA perennans.

Native of Natal.

Nat. Ord. Lecuminosem.—Tribe GALEGE.

Genus Lessertia, DC. ; (Benth. §& Hook. J. Gen. Pl., vol, i. p, 503).

Lessertia perennans ; suffrutex, caulibus erectis virgatis valde striatis tenuiter

puberulis, foliolis 7-10-jugis ellipticis elliptico-lanceolatisve utrinsecus

sericeo-pubescentibus, racemis laxiusculis folia superantibus, floribus

lilacinis, calycis lobis attenuatis, legumine stipitato compresso oblique

elliptico mucronato glabro, seminibus 3-4.

Lessertia perennans, DC. Prodr., vol. ii. p. 271; Harv. § Sond. Fl. Cap.,

vol. ii. p. 216.

All the species of the genus are natives of Southern Africa.

The present one occurs in grassy places on the eastern side,

from Albany to the Transvaal. The specimen figured was

from a plant which flowered in the Royal Gardens, Kew, in

July, 1873. | ;

Duscr. Suffruticose with erect virgate strongly striate

slightly pubescent fistular stems. Leaves imparipinnate,

about two inches long, more or less silkily pubescent on

both surfaces, and greyish, or rarely glabrate ; leaflets seven

to ten pairs, very shortly petioluled, elliptic or elliptic-

lanceolate, acute or mucronulate ; petiole about a quarter ol

an inch long; stipules linear-falcate, membranous. Racemes

rather lax, exceeding the leaves; peduncle one to three

inches long. Pedicels rather longer than the flowers. /owers —

@ quarter of an inch long, reddish-lilac or white. Calyx

pubescent; teeth narrowly triangular, gradually attenuate.

Legumes about three quarters of an inch long, obliquely

elliptic or oblong-elliptic, very shortly stipitate, compressed,

membranous, 3—4-seeded—W. 7. 7. D.

Fig. 1, Leaflet; 2, flower; 3, do. petals removed; 4, standard; 5, wing;

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CHRYSANTHEMUM CATANANCHE.

Native of the Greater Atlas.

Nat. Ord. Composirm.—Tribe ANTHEMIDEZ.

‘Genus Curysantuemum, L.; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant., vol. ii. p. 424).

CurysaNtHEMum Catananche; perenne, subcespitosum, sericeo-pilosum

v. tomentosum, foliis radicalibus fasciculatis inequaliter 1-3-ternatim

sectis segmentis patentibus linearibus acntis obtusisve, petiolo lineari,

scapis adscendentibus superne nudis 1-cephalis, capitulo 1—2 poll. diam.,

involucri bracteis laxe imbricatis oblongis medio herbaceis late scarioso-

marginatis nitidis, ligulis ad 25 latiusculis stramineis basi sanguinels

obtuse 3-dentatis, disci floribus flavis, acheniis lineari-oblongis 10-

costatis costis anguste alatis.

Curysanruemum Catananche, Ball in Trimen. Journ. Bot., 1873, p. 366.

This, which is one of the most beautiful plants of the

Greater Atlas, was discovered in 1871, by Messrs. Ball,

Maw, and myself, in valleys of that range at elevations of

7000 to 9000 feet, flowermg in May, and has since been

cultivated both in Mr. Maw’s garden, and at Kew, where

it flowered for the first time in April of the present year.

In its native country it forms patches of a silvery green hue,

and of considerable size, in rocky valleys, and on mountain

slopes exposed to the sun. ‘The broad white involucral

bracts are conspicuous for their silvery whiteness, hyaline

texture, and transparency, relieved by a narrow purplish

herbaceous central band; their resemblance to the bracts of

Catananche has suggested the specific name.

Descr. Rootstock stout, woody, branched, with often many

heads. Leaves tufted, one to two and a half inches long, as

well as the scape clothed with silky tomentum of a silvery

green colour, petioled, irregularly 3-chotomously cut

once twice or thrice into linear acute or obtuse spreading

lobes; petiole slender, narrow. Scapes stout, ascending,

three to six inches high, green. Heads solitary, one and a

half to two inches across, pale yellow, the rays of dirty

JULY Ist, 1874.

purplish hue outside towards the tip, and blood-red within

at the very base; disk of a darker yellow. uvolucre cam-

panulate ; bracts imbricate, linear-oblong, scarious, white

and transparent, with a purplish herbaceous median band.

Ray-flowers about twenty-five, with a broad linear-oblong

obtusely 3-toothed ligula and short glabrous tube; style-

arms oblong, obtuse; achene linear, deeply 10-ribbed, ribs

with narrow membranous wings; pappus short, mem-

branous, obliquely truncate. Dish-flowers slender, 5-toothed,

glabrous, style-arms with broad truncate tips; achenes

narrow, like those of the ray but shorter; pappus a short

auricle—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Ray; and 2, disk-flowers :—both magnified.

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ERICA CHAmissonis.

Native of South Africa.

Nat. Ord. Ericacra.—Tribe Ericea.

Genus Erica, L.; (Benth. in DC. Prodr., vol. vii. p. 613).

Erica (Melastemon) Chamissonis ; erecta, ramosa, hirto-pubescens, foliis in-

curvi-patentibus 3-nis } poll. longis anguste linearibus dorso sulcatis,

floribus numerosis in ramulis abbreviatis terminalibus, pedicellis hirtis,

bracteis minutis, calycis parvi segmentis acuminatis, corolla globoso-

campanulata, lobis latis brevibus, staminibus inclusis filamentis brevibus

glabris, antheris brevibus, loculis apice subacutis lateraliter anguste

cristatis poris amplis apices versus lateralibus, ovario hirto, stylo gra-

cili, stigmato truncato.

Erica Chamissonis, Klotesch in Herb. Reg. Berol. ex Benth. in DC. Prodr.,

vol. vii. p. 685.

Many years ago the Cape Heaths formed a conspicuous

feature in the greenhouses of our grandfathers, and in the

illustrated horticultural works of the day, including this

Magazine, wherein about 50 are figured. These have given

place to the culture of soft-wooded plants—Geraniums, Cal-

ceolarias, Fuchsias, &.; and the best collections of the

present day are mere ghosts of the once glorious Ericeta of

Woburn, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Kew. A vast number of

the species have indeed fallen out of cultivation, and a few

easily propagated hybrids for decorative purposes are all that

are to be seen of this lovely tribe in most of the best esta-

blishments of England. No less than 186 species of Hrica

were cultivated at Kew in the year 1811, now we have-not

above 50, together with many hybrids and varieties. Besides

the fact of their going out of fashion, there have been two

main causes for their present rarity ; of these the first and

most conspicuous is bad treatment. As with Australian

and other Cape hard-wooded plants, their culture 1s special,

unknown to most gardeners of the present day, and they will

not survive the promiscuous use of the water-pot and syringe,

to which they are exposed if mixed up with many other things.

JULY Ist, 1874.

The second is, that very few collectors have been of late years

in the Heath district of the Cape, which is almost confined to

the narrow strip of country between the Western coast and

the coast ranges, and where were the botanizing grounds of

the collectors sent out at the beginning of the century.

Erica Chamissonis is one of the few Heaths that extend

~ eastward in South Africa, being found near Graham’s Town

in the Albany district, about 500 miles east of Cape Town,

where it grows on rocky hills at an elevation of 2000 feet,

flowering in October. Seeds of it were sent to the Royal

Gardens by Mr. M‘Owan. The plant here figured, raised

from these, flowered in April.

Drscr. A shrub with slender leafy erect branches, all

parts, except the corolla, clothed with short soft spreading

hairs. Zeaves about a quarter to a third of an inch long,

ternate, spreading and incurved, sessile, linear, obtuse, grooved

underneath from the recurvation of the margin. FVowers at

the tips of short side-branches, solitary or three or four

together, pendulous, rose-coloured, about a third of an inch

in diameter ; pedicel half an inch long, pink, with two small

basal bracts and two bracteoles above them. Calya jointed

with the pedicel, small; teeth ovate, acuminate, much shorter

than the corolla. Corolla between globose and campanulate ;

lobes very short and broad. Stamens short, filaments gla-

brous; anthers short, with narrowly crested pointed cells

and lateral slits near the tip. Ovary tomentose, 4-celled ;

style slender, stigma truncate; ovules many in each cell.

—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Leaves; 2, flowers; 3, the same with the corolla removed; 4 and

5, stamens; 6, ovary; 7, transverse section of do, :—all magnified.

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ROMANZOFFIA SITCHENSIS.

Native of North-West America.

Nat. Ord. Hyproteaces.—Tribe NamMex.

Genus Romanzorria, Cham. ; (Ohoisy in DC. Prodr., vol. x. p. 185).

RomANzorr1a sitchensis ; tota pilis crispulis aspersa, foliis reniformi-cordatis

suborbiculatisve crenato-lobatis, cymis laxifloris.

RomanzorFia sitchensis, Chamiss. in Linnea, vol. ii. p. 609 ; Bongard Bot.

Sitch., p. 41; t.4; Hook. Fl. Bor. Am., vol. ii. p. 103; Ledeb. Flor.

Ross., vol. iii. p. 181; Regel Gartenfl., vol. xxii. (1873) p. 33, t. 7 48.

This very rare and interesting little plant, with the habit

of a Saxifrage of the granulata group, 1s closely allied to the

majestic Wigandia of our subtropical gardens, though so

dissimilar in stature, habit, and general characters, and in

coming from so different a climate and country. It is a

native of a few distant spots over a very wide range of

country in North-Western America, and has been gathered

by very few collectors. First, by the late venerable Menzies,

the Naturalist to Vancouver’s voyage (and introducer of

Araucaia imbricata) in May, 1793, who discovered a small

slender variety of it on hanging rocks at Trinidad, in California, .

lat. 41° 10' N.; next by Chamisso at Sitka in the then —

Russian, but now American territory of Alaschka, fully _

1000 miles north of Trinidad, and by whom it was first

described ; more lately it was gathered abundantly by Dr.

Lyall on the Cascade Mountains, in lat. 69° N. in the bed

of the Sallse: river, and a large flowered variety (Regel’s

R. grandiflora) on the same mountains, at an elevation of 7000

feet. Lastly we have specimens collected in South California

(probably in the mountains), in lat. 35°, by Dr. Bigelow,

surgeon to Lieutenant Whipple’s exploration for a railway

route across America in 1853-4; this is fully 1400 miles south

of Sitka.

Romanzofia sitchensis is a rock-plant, easy of cultivation,

JULY Isr, 1874,

and was, I believe, introduced into Europe by Messrs.

Haage and Schmidt, of Erfurt. The specimen here

figured flowered in the Royal Gardens in April last.

Dezscr. A weak, green, perennial-rooted, straggling, or sub-

erect herb, four to eight inches high or long, more or less

covered with scattered curled short hairs, Stems many from the

root, branched. Leaves subradical, petioled, one to one and a

half inches in diameter, orbicular-reniform, crenate-lobed,

bright green, paler beneath; petiole a half to one inch long.

Cymes at the ends of the branches, few-flowered, ebracteate.

Flowers variable in size, one-third to one-half inch in diameter,

white; pedicels slender, spreading. Sepals oblong-ovate, sub-

acute. Corolla-lobes orbicular. Stamens attached to the base

of the corolla-tube. Disk annular. Ovary glabrous, style

slender, stigma minute.—/. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower; 2, corolla laid open; 3, disk and ovary; 4, transverse

section of ovary :—all magnified.

Tas. 6110.

IRIS o.siensts.

Native of Northern Italy and Southern France.

Nat. Ord. Intpacem.—Tribe Iripe4.

Genus Iris, Linn. ; (Endl. Gen. Plant., p. 266).

Irs olbiensis ; rhizomate crasso, caule brevi, foliis brevibus (2-6 poll.) lati-

usculis acutis sensim acuminatis scapo brevioribus, floribus breviter

pedicellatis magnis, spathe valvis membranaceis laxis abrupte acuminatis

ovarium velantibus, perianthii tubo pollicari, limbi 3 poll. lati segmentis

obovato-spathulatis decurvis apice rotundatis ungue barbato, interiori-

| bus iis subequalibus erecto-incurvis conniventibus elliptico-oblongis

| stipitatis, stigmatibus segmentis perianthii dimidio brevioribus bifidis

lobis triangularibus acutis margine exteriore dentatis.

Ints olbiensis, Hénon in Ann. Soc. Agric. Lyons; Gren. e Godr. Fl. de

France, vol. iii. pt. i. p. 240; Parlatore Flor. Ital., vol. iii. p. 289.

This belongs to a small group of dwarf Iris, which inhabit

for the most part Southern Europe, and of which the I.

pumila, L. (Tab. nost. 9, 1209 and 1261) may be taken as the

type. It is a native of the South of France and North Italy,

from Nismes eastwards, but apparently not advancing beyond

Tuscany. It varies much in the colour of the flowers, which

= are sometimes white. It is distinguished from J. pumila by the

much larger flowers, which are pedicelled and less fugacious,

as also by the shorter perianth-tube. The J. étalica of Par-

latore appears to be only a variety of it; and it is represented

by I. pseudo-pumila in Sicily. It is very closely allied to, if

not a mere variety of the Z. Chamaciris, Bertoloni, which has a

wider range in France and Italy. The specimen here figured

flowered in the Royal Gardens in April of the present year.

Descr. Rootstock prostrate, very thick and fleshy, as big

as the thumb. Leaves three to six inches long by one-third

to two-thirds inch in diameter, erecto-patent, straight or some-

what falcate, usually narrowed almost from the base to the

acuminate tip, glaucous green. Scape rather larger than the

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leaves, stout, erect, closely sheathed. Spathes one to two

inches long, large and rather tumid, lax, obliquely truncate

and acuminate. Yowers very large for the size of the plant,

usually dark purple, three and a half to four inches across the

perianth were it spread out; pedicel short, stout. Perianth-

tube longer than the ovary ; outer segments recurved, spathu-

late-obovate, tip rounded, claw deeply bearded; inner seg-

ments as long as the outer, erect and connivent, broadly

elliptic-oblong with a narrow claw and cordate base. Stzymas

not half the length of the inner perianth segments, their lobes

triangular, acute, toothed at the outer edge—J/. D. H.

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CAMPSIDIUM cattenss,

Native of Chili.

Nat. Ord. Bianonracem.—Tribe BIGNONIER.

Genus Campsipium, (Seemann in Bonplandia, vol. x. (1862), p, 147).

Campsiprum chilense; frutex volubilis glaberrimus, foliis Oppositis impari-

pinnatis, foliolis oppositis ellipticis v. ovato- v. elliptico- v. lanceolato-

oblongis obtusis v. apiculatis integerrimis serratisve rachi antice sulcato,

racemis terminalibus pendulis 6-10-floris, floribus coccineis gracile

pedicellatis,

Campsipium chilense; Reiss ¢ Seem.; ec Seem. in Bonplandia, vol. x,

p. 147, t. 11; Gard. Chron., 1870, p. 1182, cum ic xylog.

Tecoma Guarume, Hook. in Bot. Mag., t. 4896 in adnot. (non DC.)

T. valdiviana, Philippi in Linnea, 1857, p. 14.

T. mirabilis, Hort.

This very beautiful climber is a native of Chili and the

Archipelago of Chiloe, and was discovered on the island of

Huafto by Dr. Eights, an American voyager, who sent a small

collection of Chilian and Fuegian plants to Sir William Hooker

some fifty years ago, amongst which is this plant. It has

subsequently been collected by many botanists, most recently

by Dr. Cunningham, naturalist to the surveying expedition

of H.M.S. Nassau, who gathered it as far south as Wellington

Island in lat. 40° S., where it would seem to be common. Its

northern limit is probably Arique, near Valdivia, lat. 50° 8.,

where it was found by Lechler. It is not a little remarkable

that so beautiful a plant, and one found through so many

degrees of latitude in Chili, should have escaped the obser-

vation of C, Gay, whose Flora Chilensis, published in 1 845,

does not include it. The equally conspicuous Berberidopsis

corallina (Tab. nost. 5343) which, like Campsidium, 1s a

native of the neighbourhood of the maritime capital of

Valdivia, was also unknown to that author, though he spent

many years exploring that country for the Chilian govern-

ment. Iam indebted to Messrs. Veitch for the plant here

JULY Ist, 1874.

figured, which flowered with them in April of the present

ear.

? Descr. A woody perfectly glabrous slender climber,

ascending trees to a height of forty to fifty feet; branches

woody, angular, with pale yellowish bark, wood very hard.

Leaves four to six inches long; leaflets three-quarters to one

and a half inches long; sessile, usually five pairs and an odd

one, elliptic-oblong or lanceolate, acute obtuse apiculate or

emarginate, quite entire or serrulate, base equal or oblique,

coriaceous, nerves very inconspicuous ; petiole grooved on the

upper surface, sometimes faintly winged between the leaflets.

facemes terminal, pendulous, 6—10-flowered, peduncle short

or long; pedicels slender; bracts small, linear-subulate.

flowers one and ahalf to one and three-quarters inches long,

Calyz green, campanulate, shortly 5-lobed; lobes triangular,

acute. Corolla scarlet; tube rather ventricose ; lobes small,

rounded, toothed, hairy inside towards the margins. Stamens

four, inserted towards the base of the corolla-tube, filaments

slender, hairy at the base; anthers oblong-linear, acute, those

of the two longer stamens exserted, and of the shorter in-

cluded. Disk elevated, cupular. Ovary flagon-shaped, glabrous,

narrowed into the stout style; stigma of two oblong lobes ;

cells two, with two placentas inserted on the septum in each;

ovules very numerous. Capsule 2-valved, three to four inches

long, narrowly elliptic-oblong; valves coriaceous with a

removable papery endocarp. Seeds not seen.—J. D. H. :

Fig. 1, Flower with corolla removed; 2. corolla laid : 3, anther; 4

ovary and disk :—all magnified. ee Hs

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PYRUS BACOATA.

Native of Siberia, Japan, and the Himalaya Mountains.

Nat. Ord. Rosacrm.—Tribe Pomez.

Genus Pyrus, LZ. ; (Benth. ¢ Hook. f. Gen. Pl., vol. i. p. 626).

Pyrus (Malus) baccata ; foliis ellipticis elliptico-ovatisve acutis acuminatis v.

caudato-acuminatis serrulatis glabris eglandulosis, petiolo gracili, floribus

umbellatis albis, pedicellis gracilibus, calycis tubo ovoideo lobis lanceo-

latis intus villosis, petalis leviter concavis albis, stylis ad 5 glabris,

pomo globoso apice (cicatrice calycis deciduo) late areolato.

Pyrrus baccata, Linn. Mant., 75; Pall. Fl. Ross., vol. i. p. 23, t. 10; DC.

Prodr., vol.ii. p. 685; Led. Fl. Ross., vol. ii. p. 97; Loud. Arboret., vol.

ii. p. 892 ; Koch Dendrol., vol. i. p. 210; Regel Gartenfl., vol. ii. (1862)

p. 201, t. 8364; Brandis For. Flor. of N.W. India, p. 205.

Matus baccata, Desf. Arb., vol. ii. p. 141.

This charming tree, though so long known in cultivation,

has never before been well figured in this country. It has a

very wide distribution; in Siberia it occurs in the eastern

districts of Lake Baikal and in Dahuria; thence it passes by

the Amur river north of China into Japan, whence we have

numerous specimens. In the Himalaya it extends from the

Indus to Kumaon, at elevations between 6000 and 11,000

feet, entering the Tibetan region of Piti; and it was gathered

by Dr. Thomson and myself in the Moflong woods of the

Khasia mountains, at an elevation of 6000 feet. Tt varies

very much as to the pubescence of its parts; the Siberian

and Japanese specimens being almost wholly glabrous; the

Western Himalayan having more or less pubescent calyces,

pedicels and petioles, and sometimes young leaves beneath ;

whilst those from the dry region of Piti, on the border of

Tibet, are as glabrous as the Siberian; and those from the

very wet region of the Khasia are the most pubescent of any.

this correlation of humidity with pubescence 1s not unusual

in the vegetable kingdom. :

The figure of P. éaccata is taken from Kew specimens,

JULY Ist, 1874,

where the species was introduced in 1784; though whence

the plant here figured came is uncertain ; it will be remarked

that it has a pubescent calyx-tube like the Himalayan forms.

Duscr. A small tree, with grey cracked bark, and round

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glabrous, rarely pubescent beneath; petiole as long, very

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lobes lanceolate, deciduous. Petals white, rather concave,

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or woolly at the base. Fruit size of a large cherry in cultiva-

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base, with a broad apical areole, austere, scarlet and greenish

yellow when ripe, endocarp almost woody in a wild state, and

occupying nearly the whole fruit.—/. D. H.

Fig. 1, Calyx and styles :—magnified,

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Tab. 6113. Crinum Moorei, Hook. £/—Native of South

, Fas

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Africa. :

6114. Brachysema undulatum, Ker.—Native of

Western Australia.

6115. Decabelona elegans, Decaisne.—Native of South

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6116. Kniphofia Rooperi, Lem—Native of South

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6117. Achillea ageretifolia, Hook. f—Native of

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Tas. 6113.

CRIN UM Mooret.

Native of South Africa.

Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDEH.—Tribe AMARYLLEZ.

Genus Crinum, Linn. ; (Herbert Amaryllid., p. 242).

Crinum Moore ; bulbo pedali anguste ovoideo collo elongato, foliis amplis

4-poll. latisensiformibus obtuse acuminatis striato-nervosis, scapo robusto,

spathis late oblongo-lanceolatis herbaceis recurvis, pedicellis brevibus,

perianthii tubo 3-pollicari, limbi 6-poll. diam. rosei segmentis late

ellipticis apicibus incrassatis herbaceis, antheris flavis.

A hardy Crinum is a rarity in English gardens, and except

the beautiful C. capense, I know no other but this now in

open air cultivation ; and beautiful as C. capense is, it is far

exceeded in size, foliage, and colour by the subject of the

present plate. :

Crinum Moorei was introduced into the Glasnevin Gardens

in 1863, by a friend of Dr. Moore’s, Mr. Webb, who had

served on the commissariat staff of our army in South Africa,

and had brought the seeds from the interior—as Dr. Moore

thinks—of Natal. During the last five years the specimen

from which the drawing was made has been planted in a

border fronting the conservatory range at Glasnevin, without

getting the slightest protection, flowering sometimes in

autumn and at other times in spring. The leaves are cut up

in the winter, but the bulbs are not seriously hurt, and soon

recover themselves, when they push out a fresh set of their

broad, peculiarly-ribbed leaves, eighteen to twenty inches long.

The bulb is remarkably long, sometimes reaching eighteen

inches.

A closely allied species to this is the C. Colensot of Natal,

which will shortly be figured, which has also broad leaves and

a long bulb, but the perianth-tube is much longer, and the

flower smaller, with a narrower pale limb: it has been flowered

by Mr. Bull and others, and may, we hope, also prove hardy.

AUGUST Ist, 1874.

Descr. Bulb twelve to eighteen inches long, narrow ovoid

contracted into a long neck. eaves twelve to eighteen

inches long by four broad, very numerous, erecto-patent, ensi-

form, with obtuse herbaceous tips, closely striated with strong

nerves, deep bright green. Scape taller than the leaves, as

thick as the thumb, green. Swathes six inches long, oblong-

lanceolate, subacute, concave, herbaceous, reflexed. Flowers

six to eight in a head, sessile or very shortly pedicelled.

Ovary one inch long. Perianth-tube three inches long; limb

four inches in diameter, very broadly campanulate, bright

rose-red ; segments spreading nearly from the base, broadly

elliptic, with a callous green obtuse tip. Stamen one and a

half inch long; anthers half an inch long, yellow.—J/. D. H.

Fig. 1, Reduced figure of whole plant,

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BRACHYSEMA vunpvLatum.

Native of South-Western Australia.

Nat. Ord. Leauminosa.—Tribe PopaLyrirz.

Genus Bracuysema, Br.; (Benth. 5 Hook. f. Gen. Pl., vol. i. p. 467). -

BracuyseMa undulatum; frutex erectus, ramulis foliisque subtus sericoe-

pubescentibus v. glabratis, foliis alternis subsessilibus polymorphis late

oblongis ellipticis ovatis linearibusve obtusis coriaceis, floribus 1-3

pedicellatis interdum racemosis, calyce late urceolato-campanulato

sericeo, lobis subacutis, vexillo cordato, alis carine squilongis breviore

reflexo, ovulis 15-20, legumine basi disco interiore cincto, ovoideo

crustaceo piloso.

BracuyseMa undulatum, Ker in Bot. Reg. t. 642; DC. Prodr., vol. ii. p.

105; Lodd. Bot. Cab., t. 778; Benth. Fl. Austral., vol. ii. p. 11.

B. melanopetalum, Muell. Fragm., vol. iv. p. 11.

Cuorozema sericeum, Smith in Trans. Linn. Soc., vol. ix. p. 253.

Popotostum? sericeum, DC. Prodr., vol. ii. p. 103.

Oxy Losrum? sericeum, Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus., vol. ii. p. 70.

A long known, but rare and curious greenhouse plant,

remarkable for the dark violet-blue hue of the flowers, which,

however, in native specimens, vary to lilac and pink. It has

a wide range in Western Australia, from King George's

Sound to Champion Bay, and occurs under three principal

forms :—1. With broad leaves, very silky beneath, with waved

margins, and usually solitary flowers ; 2. With elliptic-oblong

leaves, only slightly hairy beneath, hardly waved margins,

and solitary flowers; this is the B. melanopetalum of Mueller,

and that figured here; 3. With linear leaves glabrous

beneath having involute margins and racemose flowers. Of

these the first is the common Swan-river form, and is also

found at Champion Bay; the second comes from the Tone

and Don rivers, and the third from the Tone, Gordon, and

Blackwood rivers.

Brachysema undulatum is a hard-wooded greenhouse shrub,

requiring the same treatment as Chorozemas, &c. It was

AuGusT Ist, 1874.

raised by Mr. Bull, with whom it flowered in April of the

present year.

Descr. A shrub, four to six feet high; young branches

calyx, pedicels, and usually the leaves beneath clothed with

appressed silky pubescence. Stems and branches very slender.

Leaves one to two inches long, very shortly petioled, from

linear with margins recurved to orbicular with waved margins,

tip apiculate or not base, rounded, coriaceous, glabrous and

dark green above, paler and usually silky beneath. Stzpules

subacute, recurved. Vowers three quarters of an inch long,

axillary, solitary or two or three together, shortly pedicelled

or racemose. Calyx broadly campanulate with an urceolate ~

gibbous tube; lobes short, broad, subacute. Petals about

twice as long as the calyx, dark purple, yellowish-green, or

red ; standard reflexed, cordate, shorter than the oblong obtuse

wings, which equal the obtuse keel. Ovary hairy, many-

ovuled. Pod short, ovoid, crustaceous.—/. D. #1.

Fig. 1, Flowers; 2, standard ; 8, wing petal; 4, kee!s; 5, ovary :—all

magnified. - .

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PAB. SL1G;

DECABELON E ELEGANS.

Native of Angola.

Nat. Ord. ASCLEPIADACE.—Tribe STAPELLE.

Gen. Cuar.—Calyz brevis, 5-partitus, foliolis acuminatis, glandulis herbaceis

acutis interdum introrsum interpositis. Corolla anguste campanulata,

lurida; tubo externe striis maculisque brunneo-purpureis consperso,

interne pilis papilleformibus deflexis instructo; limbo 5-fido, laciniis

acutis, deltoideis, paullo revolutis. Gynostegium imo tubo conditum.

Corone staminee lacinie 5, submonadelphe, alte bifide, in fila gracillima

apice capitato-incrassate attenuate. <Anthere ovate, obtuse, dorso ap-

pendice ligulata incumbente; masse pollinis horizontales, compress,

subreniformes, funiculo appendice membranacea lineari munito. Stigma

muticum, disciforme.—Herbe stapelieformes Africe australis preecipue

tropice incole. :

DecaBetone elegans; caulibus ramisque stapeliseformibus angulato-costatis,

costis sepissime 6 spinosis, spinis setis lateralibus duabus erectis armatis,

floribus vel e ramulorum axillis vel ad fundum inter costas ortis, coron®

staminee laciniis basi connatis albis, sursum in fila bina capitata atro-

violacea gracillima attenuatis.

Decasetone elegans, Dene. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 5° sér. t. xiii. p. 404, pl. 2.

During the month of June of the present year this ex-

tremely interesting plant flowered for the first time in

England, in the collection of J. T. Peacock, Esq., of Sudbury

House, Hammersmith. A few weeks later flowers were also

produced by plants in the Royal Gardens, Kew. The plate

has been drawn from Mr. Peacock’s specimen, a compliment

which is no more than is due to the zeal and enterprise which

he has shown in the cultivation of succulent plants. | His

plant has been grafted on a Stapelia, probably S. Planttt. It

was obtained from Herr Pfersdorf, under the name of Deca-

belone Sieberi, but it appears to be identical with the pat

described and figured by Decaisne, which was also obtaine

from the same cultivator, though the precise native origin

was unknown. ; :

The Kew plants were obtained direct from Angola, through

the aid of Mr. Monteiro, to whom botanical science is under

many obligations in elucidating the still little known cere

of that country, and was found by him at Ambriz, s out

three miles from the sea, in sand, near a salt marsh or “ flat.

AuGUST Ist, 1874.

The Kew Herbarium contains a specimen collected twenty

years ago, at Loanda, by Dr. Welwitsch, who appears to have

been disposed to constitute it a new genus, but subsequently

referred it to Huernia. He notes that in habit it is “late

ceespitosa.”

The Royal Gardens, Kew, is also the fortunate possessor of

specimens, both living and in spirit, as well as of drawings

and analyses from His Excellency Sir Henry Barkly, Dr. Shaw,

and Mrs. Barber of a second species, from Little Namaqualand.

It is closely allied to D. elegans, the flowers being extremely

similar, but the branches appear to have more numerous

angles, and the two lateral setz of the spines are more slender,

and detlexed instead of erect. I am indebted to Professor

Thiselton Dyer for the accompanying revised description of _

the genus and of this species.

Duscr. Stems succulent, leafless, caspitose, four to six

inches high, strongly angled, the angles furnished with

patent spinous processes, each bearing two lateral erect barb-

like set. Flowers produced according to Decaisne from the

axils of the branchlets, but apparently also from the branches

themselves between the spinous angles. Flowers sub-erect (the

pendent habit given in the plate is due to the plant having

been grafted) ; pedicels one-third of an inch, accompanied by

one or two membranous acute bracteoles. Calya 5-lobed, lobes

one third to half an inch long, linear-deltoid, acuminate

with a small linear herbaceous appendage arising between

each pair of lobes on the inner side. Corolla narrowly cam-

panulate, 5-lobed, tube externally marked with brownish-

purple streaks and spots on a lurid yellow ground, internally

furnished with numerous ‘papilla-like deflexed processes and

hairs ; lobes deltoid, acute, slightly revolute. Staminal-crown

5-fid ; segments connate at the base, oblong, white, deeply

bifid, each tapering into two filiform capitate dark violet

processes, becoming ultimately flaccid and entangled. Aathers

broadly ovate, obtuse, with a dorsal incumbent ligulate

appendage ;_ pollen-masses horizontal, compressed, obovato-

ensiform with a short funiculus furnished with a linear

membranous appendage at the base, where it is attached to

the stigmatic gland. Stigma disk-like.

Fig. 1, Spinous process from branch viewed from above (magnified) ; 2,

os section through corolla (nat. size); 3, longitudinal section

dis ne 4 Synostegium—the posterior pair of pollen-masses is represenve?

5 Placed (magnified); 4, andrecium viewed from above ‘(magnified) ;

» pair of pollen-masses (magnified).

TAB. 6116.

KNIPHOFIA Roopert.

Native of South Africa.

Nat. Ord. Littacea.—Tribe ALOoINEx.

Genus Knipnoria, Mench. ; (Endl. Gen. Plant., p. 148). |

Kyipnor1a Rooperi ; acaulis, foliis elongato-ensiformibus 13 poll. latis alte

carinatis tenuiter cartilagineo-serrulatis, scapo valido, bracteis caulinis

paucis brevibus e basi lata semiamplexicauli subulatis, racemo ovoideo-

oblongo, perianthii recti 14 pollicaris lobis brevibus obtusis, bracteolis

latis, filamentis demum exsertis.

Kyipnorta Rooperi, Moore in Gard. Comp., vol. i. p. 113 (Tritoma) ; Lemaire

Jard. Fleur., t. 362 ; Baker in Journ, Linn. Soc., vol. xi. p. 363.

This is very nearly allied to the well known X. aloides,

(K. Uvaria, Tab. 4816, Zritoma Uvaria, Tab. 758), and may

perhaps prove to be a late flowering variety of it; in which

opinion I am strengthened by Mr. Baker, who has mono-

graphed the genus in the Linnean Journal. The chief

character by which this was distinguished, namely, the in-

cluded stamens, does not hold good, as the plate shows ;

better ones may be found in the paler, less curved flower, in

the form of the bracteoles, and in broad rich glaucous leaves.

Of the fourteen species enumerated by Mr. Baker, seven have

been figured in this country from cultivated specimens; namely,

1. K. aloides, mentioned above, which was introduced in 1707,

according to the Hortus Kewensis, and probably much earlier

into Europe, as it is mentioned in Stapel’s Theophrastus as

“ Iris Uvaria promontorii Bone spei;” 2. K. precoz, Baker,

(Saund. Refug. Bot. t. 168); 3. A. Burchellii, Kunth (Bot.

Reg. t. 1745); 4. K. pumila (Tab. nost. 764); 5. K.

sarmentosa (Tab. nost. 744, Jris media); 6. K. caulescens

(Tab. nost. 5946), and the present plant. All are probably

hardy, and require protection only during very severe winters ;

indeed, it is to the latter cause alone that can be attributed

the logs during half a century of so conspicuous and easily

grown a plant as K. aoides, which reappeared in cultivation

AUGUST Ist, 1874.

not very many years ago. K, Rooperi is a native of British

Kaffraria, whence it was sent to England by Capt. Rooper,

whose name it bears. The specimen here figured flowered

with Mr. Wilson Saunders in November of last year.

Descr. Two feet high. Stfemnone. Leaves eighteen inches

long by one and three-quarters broad, ensiform, gradually

acuminate, deeply keeled, at the back dark green, not glaucous,

margin serrulate. Scape very stout, a foot long; bracts few,

short, membranous, subulate from a broad semiamplexicaul

base. phe six to eight inches long, ovoid-oblong. Flowers

densely crowded, about one and a half inches long, orange-red,

becoming yellow with age; bracteoles broadly lanceolate,

acute. Stamens at length exserted.—/. D. H.

6/77.

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Tas. 6117.

ACHILLEA AGERATIFOLIA.

Native of Greece.

Nat. Ord. Compostr#.—Tribe ANTHEMIDER.

Genus Acuiiiéa, Linn. ; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant., vol. i. p. 419).

AcuiLea (Ptarmica) ageratifolia ; perennis, ceespitosa, tota niveo-tomentosa,

. foliis radicalibus confertis patenti-recurvis anguste lingulato-lanceolatis

apices versus dilatatis obtusis crenato-serratis crenis interdum biseriatis,

{ eaulinis sepe basi dilatatis et pectinato-lobulatis, capitulis solitariis

» amplis, involucri hemispherici squamis oblongis, paleis oblongo-lanceo-

y _ latis apice scariosig laceris, ligulis 2-seriatis late oblongis 3-crenatis.

ACHILLEA ageratifolia, Benth. in Benth. et Hook. f- Gen. Pl., vol, i, p. 420, ;

Awtuemis ageratifolia, Sibth. Prodr. Flor, Greec., vol. ii, p..19¥; Fl, Gree.

4 t 888; DC. Prodr., vol. vi. p. 12...’ * fe

2 A. Aizoon, Grisgb. Fl. Runel. et Byth., vol. ii. p, 210; Walp. Rep., vol, vi.

po east - eee bere

% A, Aizoides, Boiss. et Orphan. mss. cS em

This charming little plant is a native of the mountains of

Greece, and was first detected (in Crete >) by Sibthorp, and it

has since been gathered on the mainland, by Prof. Orphanides,

of Athens, in the middle region of Mount Olympus in

Thessaly, at an elevation of 5-7000 feet. A very nearly allied

plant, most probably a variety, is the Anthemis Aizoon, of

Griesbach, a native of the mountains of Macedonia, which

has also been gathered in the upper regions of Mount

Parnassus, at an elevation of 6-7000 feet, by Prof.

Orphanides, and named by him and M. Boissier Anthems

Aizoides ; it differs in the smaller size, shorter more spathu-

late leaves, which show no signs of double crenature. Both

are obviously species of Achillea, having compressed achenes,

quite different from those of Anthemis, of which they have

more the habit.

Lindley, in the ninth volume of Sibthorp’s Flora Greeca,

observes correctly, that this is not the Lepidophorum repandum,

AuGusT Ist, 1874.

as suspected by De Candolle; he describes it from very im-

perfect specimens, which he found in Sibthorp’s herbarium,

along with Gnaphalium luteo-album, from Crete. It appears to

me so unlikely that these plants should have grown together,

that I suspect some confusion of habitat, and that Sibthorp

did not collect his plant in Crete, where no one has found

it, but on Mount Olympus, which he visited, and where he

could not well have missed finding it.

The Royal Gardens are indebted to Mr. Niven, of the

Hull Botanic Gardens, for living plants which flowered at

Kew in May.

Drscr. Covered with white soft tomentum. Roots woody.

Stems many, short, tufted. Leaves spreading, recurved ;

radical one to one and a half inches long, linear-lingulate,

obtuse, pectinately crenate, crenatures often in two series;

cauline linear, obtuse or subacute, base at times dilated and

pectinate. Howering-stems six to ten inches high. Heads

solitary, one to one and a quarter inches diameter, white with

a pale yellow disk. Jnvolucre hemispherical ; scales with broad

very obtuse scarious margins; pales linear-lanceolate with

Scarious toothed tips. Ray-flowers in two series, broadly

oblong, with three toothed ‘tips and a winged tube. Dish-

flowers with a winged lower half of the tube. Achenes

obovate, flattened, winged.—J. D, H.

Fig. 1, Leaf’; 2, flower of ray; 3, do. of disk :—all magnified.

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IRIS tTectorum.

Native of Japan.

Nat. Ord. IrntpaceEm.—Tribe Ir1pEx.

Genus Iris, Linn, ; (Endl. Gen. Plant., p. 266).

Iris tectorum; rhizomate crasso, caule elato, foliis pedalibus 3-11 poll. latis

lete viridibus, scapo subcompresso foliis subsequante, spathis oblongis

acutis herbaceis 3-valvibus, floribus 3-4 poll. diam., pedicello ovario

equilongo, perianthii tubo crassiusculo ore 6-glanduloso, segmentis

crispato-undulatis subsequalibus exterioribus lilacinis maculatis obovato-

rotundatis reflexis ungue albido venis violaceis, crista laciniata, interiori-

bus unicoloribus, filamentis complanatis, stigmatibus ligulatis superne

dilatatis, segmentis grosse dentatis,

Iris tectorum, Mawim. Diagn. brev. Pl. Nov. Jap. Dec., viii. p, 563; Regel

Garten-Fl., vol. xxi. p. 65, t. 716.

I. tomiolopha, Hance in Trimen Jour. Bot. N.S., vol. i. p. 229.

I. cristata, Mig. Pro. Fl. Jap., p. 805, non Ait.

Although the plant here figured came from Whampoa in

China, where it was cultivated by Dr. Hance, Her Britannic

Majesty’s Vice-Consul at that port, there can be no question

but that it is the J apanese Iris tectorum of Maximovicz, which

grows in fields about Yokohama in Japan, and is likewise

cultivated by the Japanese. It differs from Maximovicz’s

description, but not from native specimens, in having three

Spathes, which are acute or acuminate—characters which

(with some others of foliage that are very variable) induced

Dr. Hance to publish it as a new species, under the name of

tomiolopha, in allusion to its cut crest. On the other hand it

differs from Dr. Hance’s description in the spreading inner

perianth-segments, a character probably due to cultivation,

as it occurs in the splendid Iris Kempferi var. Hendersoni,

lately exhibited in the Royal Horticultural Society by

Messrs. Henderson, and which is unquestionably a form of

e & levigata, with a spreading perianth. With the North

American J. cristata, to which it was referred by the late

SEPTEMBER, 1874,

Professor Miquel, it has no near affinity, but it has with the

Himalyan J. decora, Wall., of Nepal. —

I am indebted to Mr. Bull for the specimen here figured,

which was raised from seeds sent by Dr. Hance from his

garden in Whampoa, and which flowered in April, 1874.

Descr. Rootstock creeping, tuberous, annulate. Leaves

about a foot long, by three-quarters to one and a quarter

inches broad, ensiform, scarcely glaucous. Scape nearly terete,

about as long as the leaves. F/owers three to four inches in

diameter. Spathes three, herbaceous, green, erect, longer than

the perianth-tube, acute. Pedicel about as long as the ovary.

Perianth-tube one inch long; outer segments one and a half

inches broad, obovate, margin erisped and waved, pale lilac

streaked with violet; claw half as long as the limb, white ;

crest running up the claw and half the limb, half an inch deep,

white and lilac, deeply laciniate; inner segments rather

narrower than the outer, spreading, pale lilac, claw short.

Stigmas half as long as the perianth-segments recurved, lilac,

segments coarsely toothed —J/. D. H.

‘

Tas. 6119.

BOLBOPHYLLUM DAYANUM.

Native of Tenasserim.

Nat. Ord. OrcnuiprEa.—Tribe DENDROBIES.

Genus Bousopuyttum, Thouars ; (Lindl. Gen. § Sp. Orchid., p..47).

Botzoruyttum Dayanum ; rhizomate crasso cylindrico repente, pseudobulbis

globoso-ovoideis sulcatis, folio oblongo obtuso crasse coriaceo-carnoso

enervi costa subtus prominente floribus 2-3, 1 poll. diam. ringentibus

in racemulo abbreviato subsessilibus, sepalis ovatis obtusis saturate

viridibus purpureo-maculatis longe ciliatis, petalis multo minoribus

lineari-oblongis acutis purpureis ciliatis, labelli parvi pallide viridis vix

unguiculati lobis lateralibus parvis auriculeformibus crenulatis, terminali

late oblongo obtuso crenato-dentato, disco cristis 3-elevatis centralibus

crenatis ornato, et utrinque intra cristas et margines seriebus 3 spinu-

larum aucto, columna apice dentata.

Bo.sopuyttum Dayanum, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron., 1865, 434; Xenia

Orchidacea, p. 128, t. 144.

This singularly coloured species of Bolbophyllum was

introduced by Mr. Day from Moulmein, and published in the

Gardeners’ Chronicle for 1865, by Professor Reichenbach; and

it has now again been sent to England by our old friend

Mr. Parish, who has returned to the scene of his clerical and

botanical labours, which he has resumed with his wonted

energy and former success. Itis very much to be wished that

these might culminate in a general work from his pen on the

Orchids of the Tenasserim provinces, that have proved such a

mine of wealth in these plants, and for which Mr. Parish s

special acquirements admirably suit him. Asit is, Orchidology

is falling into a hopeless condition, and but for the generous

assistance of Professor Reichenbach, both cultivators and

botanists would be very badly off sndeed. A synopsis of the

genera and species, or even a classified catalogue of these, with

synonyms and habitats and references to publications, would

be a boon to Botany and Horticulture. Of Bolbophyllum

alone no less than eighty-four species were brought together

by Prof. Reichenbach in the sixth volume of Walper’s

SEPTEMBER, 1874,

« Annales,” which professes to bring the subject down to

1855; and who but Dr. Reichenbach knows how many have

been published since—and where ?

Dzscr. Rhizome creeping, stout, as thick as a goosequill,

staooth, woody, annulate. Pseudobulbs globose-ovoid, deeply

channelled, with rounded ridges. JZeaf shortly petioled,

three to four inches long, by one quarter to two inches broad,

thickly coriaceous, almost fleshy, oblong, tip obtuse, recurved ;

midrib stout and convex below, deep green above, purplish

beneath, nerveless. Jowers about three in a very shortly

peduncled raceme or umbel from the base of the pseudobulb,

one inch in diameter. Ovary curved, pedicel short, stout.

Sepals spreading, ovate, obtuse, ciliate, with long spreading

hairs, yellow-green, with six rows of dark purple spots. Petals

about one quarter the size of the sepals, spreading, linear-

oblong, obtuse, ciliate, purple with green edges. Li very

small, shortly clawed, pale purple edged with green, lateral

lobes small oblong crenulate ; midlobe broadly oblong obtuse

crenate, with three longitudinal crests in the disk, of which

the lateral are raised towards the base into flat erect crenate

plates ; there are also three rows of spinous processes on each

side of the lip—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower; 2, sepal; 3, column and lip; 4, lip :—all magnified.

120

W Fitch de

rooks Day & Sen, imp

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Tas. 6120.

CINNAMODENDRON corticosvum.

Native of the West Inhes.

Nat. Ord. CANELLACER.

Genus CinnamMopENDRON, Endl. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl., vol. i. p. 121).

CINNAMODENDRON corticosum ; glabcrrimum, foliis anguste elliptico-v. obovato-

oblongis -lanceolatisve sepe gibbis v. inequilateris obtusis v. subacutis

marginibus recurvis basi rotundatis acutisve, cymis parvis axillaribus,

sepalis 5 ovato-oblongis apice recurvis rotundatis, petalis 4-5 erectis

oblongis, antheris 16-20.

CINNAMODENDRON corticosum, Miers Contrib. to Bot,, vol. i. p. 121, t. 24;

Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind., 109.

A well known West Indian tree, as the Mountain Cin-

namon of Jamaica, or Canella bark of that islana and St.

Thomas, but not the true Brazilian plant of that name, which

is its solitary congener, the C. awil/are of Endlicher. These

two very distinct trees were indeed long confounded together,

and their bark is still imported under the same name of

Canella, and employed Jargely as an aromatic stimulant to

purgatives and tonics, being ‘reputed to be well adapted for

debilitated stomachs. The Caribs (ancient natives of the

Antilles) and the negroes of the present day employ it is a

condiment. As an aromatic, Pereira says that it ranks

between cinnamon and cloves. Mr. Hanbury informs me

that the bark was exported during the last century as

“Winter’s bark” and is still found in the market ; as also that

it is probably the “ Wild Cinnamon tree of Sloane, commonly

but falsely called Cortex Winteranus,” though the tree that he

figures Phil. Trans. xvii. 465, (1693) is certainly Canella alba.

It is a local plant growing in Jamaica only in mountain

Mets of the parishes of St. Thomas in the Vale and St.

ohn.

In the following description I have followed the view of

the nature of the outer floral whorls adopted in the Genera

Plantarum, though more disposed to regard the outermost

SEPTEMBER, 1874,

three organs as sepals, and. the innermost four or five as

staminal appendages.

Descr. A small or large tree, fifty feet high, branched from

the base, glabrous throughout; branches terete; bark aromatic.

Leaves alternate, shortly petioled, four to five inches long,

oblong-lanceolate, narrowed at both ends, subacute or obtuse,

base rounded or acute, often very unequal-sided, one side

bulging out above the middle, coriaceous, covered with pellucid

dots, margins recurved, nerves 10-12 pairs, very slender,

reticulations delicate ; petioles one quarter inch to one-third -

inch. Cymes axillary, very shortly peduncled, 6-8-flowered,

quite glabrous. lowers shortly pedicelled, one-third inch in

diameter, orange-red, pedicels short, bracts at their bases

deciduous. Bracteoles (or sepals) three, orbicular, green,

ciliolate. Sepals (or petals) five, erect with recurved rounded

tips, oblong-ovate, red. Pe/als (or staminal scales), four or five,

erect, linear-oblong, unequal. Staminal column cylindric,

5-lobed at the apex ; anthers sixteen to twenty, linear. Ovary

seated in a cupular disk, obtusely 3-gonous, ovoid-oblong,

obscurely contracted into a columnar style whose rounded

apex is divided into three to five minute stigmatic lobes.

Berry ovoid, half an inch long, many-seeded. Seeds ovoid,

testa brown shining, albumen fleshy and oily; embryo

linear.— J. D. H. :

Fig. 1, Flower ; 2, the same with bracts and three sepals removed ; 3 sta-

minal column; 4, portion of do, ; 5, disk and ovary; 6, transverse section of

ovary :—all magnified.

6721

th.

WFitch,del et

Vincemt Brooks Day &Saukep

Tas. 6121,

DROSERA WattTAKERII.

Native of South Australha.

Nat. Ord. DrosERACE.

Genus Drosera, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl., vol. i. p. 662).

Drosera Whittakerii; tubere globoso corticato cortice chartaceo fragili

nitido, rhizomate erecto valido subterraneo, foliis rosulatis spathulato-

obovatis viridibus crassiusculis, pilis glandulosis rubris elongatis, scapis

brevibus 1-floris sepalisque elongatis viridibus eglandulosis, petalis

obcordato-cuneatis albis, ovario globoso, stylis in laciniis capillaribus

capitellatis ad basim fissis.

Drosera Whittakerii, Hook. Ic. Pl., t. 875; Planch. in Ann. Se. Nat.,

ser. 3, vol. ix. p. 202; Benth. Flor. Austral., vol. i. p. 462.

This charming little plant was sent to the Royal Botanic

Gardens of Edinburgh by Mr. W. A. Mitchell, formerly an

employé in that establishment, where it was flowered by Mr.

McNab in July last, and sent up to Kew for figuring, with a

description by my friend Dr. Balfour, who observed that the

sepals were reflexed, and the flowers an inch in diameter

when well grown and expanded, a statement fully borne out

by the dried specimens. The glandular hairs on the leaf are

in all respects like those of D. /ongifolia, and act precisely in

the same manner on being brought into contact with insects ;

the leaf itself, however, does not become concave, but retains

the remarkable convexity of surface of each half.

Drosera Whittakerii is a common Victorian and South Aus-

tralian plant, and belongs to a group of very closely allied

species, including D. bulbosa, zonata and rosulata, all having

tuberous roots, attaining a considerable size in the first named

of these. Such sorts indicate a totally different kind of treat-

ment to what answers in cultivation for D. rotundifolia and its

allies; itindicates a resting season, preveded by one for theripen-

ing of the bulb, and followed by a growing one 1n due course.

The same remark applies to almost all terrestrial Australian

Orchids, objects of inconceivable beauty and interest, but

which have never been successfully kept in this country.

Descr. Leaves rosulate, very numerous, densely crowded, one

SEPTEMBER, 1874.

to one and a quarter inches long, one-half to three-quarters inch

wide at the broadest part, obovate-spathulate, the petiolar

part broad green, the blade tumid on the face on either side

the mesial line, and studded with long red-brown glandular

hairs, rather fleshy. Scapes several, about equalling the

leaves, slender, erect and one-flowered, quite glabrous and

not glandular. /Yower one-half inch to one inch in diameter.

Sepals oblong, obtuse, green, glabrous, eglandular. Petals

obcordate-cuneate, white. Stamens quite hypogynous; anther-

cells separated by the connective. Ovary globose; styles

split at the base into filiform capitate white filaments.—

J. D. H.

Fig. 1 and 2, Leaves; 3, glandular hair of do.; 4, flower; 5, petal; 6,

top of pedicel, stamen, and pistil; 7 and 8, stamens; 9, ovary :—all

magnified,

Tas. 6122.

PENTSTEMON uomiuis.

Native of the Rocky Mountains.

Nat. Ord, ScropHULARINEZ.—Tribe CHELONES.

Genus Pentstemon, L’Her. ; (Benth. in DC. Prodr., vol. x. p. 320).

Pentstemon humilis; glaberrimus, foliis radicalibus anguste lineari-lanceolatis

ellipticis v. elliptico-spathulatis petiolatis integerrimis v. obscure crenatis

acuminatis caulinis oblongis linearibusve, floribus racemosis breviter

gracile pedicellatis, calycis lobis recurvis lanceolatis ciliatis, corolla

semi-pollicari, tubo lente curvo modice inflato, limbo ceruleo 2-labiato,

labii superioris lobis breviter oblongis inferioris late obovatis obtusis,

- filamentis glabris, antheranum loculis divaricatis, stylo piloso.

Pentsremon humilis, Nutt. in Herb. Acad. Philad. ex A. Gray in Proc.

Amer. Acad. Arts and Sc., October, 1862, p. 69; S. Watson Bot. 40th

Parallel, pp. 220 and 454.

The charming little plant here figured differs very much in

stature and foliage from the indigenous specimens preserved

in the Kew Herbarium, which are eight inches to a foot high,

more robust, and have elliptic-ovate radical leaves, oblong-

spathulate cauline ones, and flowers two-thirds of an inch long.

All these, however, are differences of degree only, and I quite

expect that older specimens of the cultivated plant will

assume the stature and probably the foliage of the native

ones. Add to these points the known variability of the

species of Pentstemon, and that there is no other species to

which the present bears any resemblance (except the foliage

to the otherwise very different P. Hallit), and no doubt is

left in my mind as to the identification of this with P. Aumi/vs.

Pentstemon humilis was one of the indefatigable Nuttall’s

discoveries in the Rocky mountains, and it has since been

gathered by the naturalists attached to various American and

English Government-exploring expeditions, amongst others,

by Dr. Lyall, of the Oregon Boundary Commission, who

collected it at 7000 feet above the sea, between Fort Colville

and the Rocky mountains, in 1867. The plant here repre-

SEPTEMBER, 1874,

sented was sent for figuring by Messrs. Backhouse, of York,

who flowered it in June last.

Descr. Root perennial, bearing many short branches.

Leaves chiefly radical, from linear-lanceolate to elliptic-oval,

obtuse acute or acuminate, coriaceous, quite entire, nerveless,

glabrous. Mowering-stems six to twelve inches high, erect,

with two or more pairs of linear-lanceolate or oblong leaves.

Panicle of three or more whorls of shortly pedicelled flowers ;

bracts herbaceous, ovate-lanceolate, acute. Flower half to

two-thirds of an inch long, horizontal or drooping. Calyx

small, glandular, pubescent or ciliate; segments subulate-

lanceolate, recurved. Corolla-tube moderately inflated, pale

reddish-purple ; throat open, not folded ; limb 2-lipped, bright

blue purple ; upper lip of two shortly oblong rounded lobes ;

under of three shortly broadly obovate lobes. laments

glabrous ; anther-cells divergent. Style hairy —/. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower; 2, base of corolla-tube, stamens and style :—all magnified.

er Pee pigmaeervenn i tpl h ee eT ee ee sew meen Tae, ma a pe a et oe er kee Ja ee en

Tas. 6123.

BRODI ALA VOLUBILIS.

Native of California.

Nat. Ord. Lin1racem.—Tribe MILLez.

Genus Bropima, Smith; (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc., vol. xi. p. 375).

Broprma (Stropholirion) volubilis ; cormo globoso, foliis synanthiis carnoso-

herbaceis 1-1} pedalibus 4-4 poll. latis, seapo volubili prelongo, spathis

4—5 oblongo-lanceolatis, umbellis 15-30 floris, perianthio campanulato-

infundibuliformi tubo subventricoso, segmentis suberectis obtusis,

antheris sessilibus alatis, staminodiis ligulatis, ovario breviter stipitato,

Bropiaa volubilis, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc., vol. xi. p. 877.

Srropnotirion californicum, Zorrey in Bot. Whipple Exped., p. 149, t. 23;

Benth. Plant. Hartweg, 339.

Rupatieya volubilis, Moriére in Bull, Soc. Linn. Norm., viii. cum ic

ex Bull. Soc. Bot. France, vol. xi. Bibl. 25.

Dicuetostemma californica, Wood in Proc. Philad. Acad., 1867, 173.

It is not surprising that so remarkable a plant as this

should have been erected into a genus; or that, considering

the chaotic state of North American descriptive botany, it

should have had two made on purpose for it; or that it

should in fact have been referred by name to three other

genera before Mr. Baker, in his revision of the Liliacee,

reduced it to its proper position as Brodiea, reserving for it,

however, as a sectional name, Torrey’s generi¢ one of Stropho-

lirion. For the justice of this view I would refer to our plate

of the floral structure of Brodiea multiflora (Tab. 5989),

where it will be seen, that except by the twining scape,

Stropholirion differs from that genus in no important par-

ticular. ‘

Brodiaa volubilis was discovered by Hartweg in the

Sacramento mountains, California, in 1846, and has since

been found by various collectors in Sonora and other places.

The scape sometimes attains twelve feet in length.

The plant figured was raised and sent for figuring by

Mr. Thompson, of Ipswich, in July of the present year.

SEPTEMBER, 1874.

Duscr. Corm the size of a walnut. Leaves a foot long,

narrowly linear-lanceolate, acuminate, trigonous, acutely keeled.

at the back, channelled in front, very pale green. Scape four

to twelve feet long, twining amongst the branches of bushes,

one quarter inch in diameter, green varied with pink.

Umbel large, three to four inches in diameter, of very many

(twelve to twenty) pedicelled rosy flowers ; pedicels a quarter

to one inch long; spathes four or five, oblong-lanceolate,

concave, shorter than the rosy pedicels, tipped with green.

Flower three-quarters of an inch long. Perianth between

campanulate and funnel-shaped; tube 5-lobed, tumid; seg-

ments erect, ovate, obtuse. -Anthers three, opposite the inner

perianth lobes; adnate to and winged by the broad filament

behind it. Staminodes ligulate, notched, pubescent. Ovary

shortly stipitate, ellipsoid 3-gonous.—/. D. //.

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TACCA ARTOCARPIFOLIA.

Native of Madagascar and Johanna.

Nat. Ord, Taccacez,

Genus Tacca, Forst. ; (Endl. Gen. Pl., vol. i. p- 159).

Tacca artocarpifolia; elata, foliis amplis trisectis, segmentis petiolulatis

1}—2 pedalibus pinnatifidis, laciniis pedalibus 1—1} poll. latis sensim acu-

minatis, scapo elongato, involucro §—7-phyllo, foliolis 4-8-pollicaribus

caudato-acuminatis exterioribus deflexis angustioribus, interioribus:

laterioribus conniventibus erectis elliptico-lanceolatis, omnibus inte-

gerrimis v. exteriore 3-fido, pedicellis sterilibus pedalibus filiformibus,

ovario turbinato alte 6-carinato, perianthio globoso,

Tacca artocarpifolia, Seemann Flor. Vit., p. 101, in note.

This very remarkable plant is a congener of the Afaccia

cristata of this work (Tab. 4589), the genus dfaccia being

now regarded as a synonym of Zacca, and of 7. integrifolia

(Tab. 1488). It is a native of Madagascar and Johanna

Islands, whence there are excellent specimens in the Hookerian

Herbarium, from Mr. Justice Blackburn, Dr. Lyall, and

W. 'T. Gerrard. Its nearest ally is the well known 7° pin-

natifida, which, though one of the most widely cultivated and

most useful plants in the Pacifie Islands, has never yet been

figured in any English botanical work ; nor, as far as we know,

ever been introduced into this country. The tubers of 7. pin-

natifida afford the South-Sea arrowroot, said to be the best of

all in cases of dysentery, and its starch is a favourite article

of diet in the shape of puddings and cakes.

The 7. artocarpifolia has a tuberous root, and is, no doubt,

as full of starch and as wholesome as 7 pinnatifida. It

flowered in the Royal Gardens in May of the present year,

from roots received from Mr. Wilson Saunders in 1872.

Descr. Root tuberous. Leaves about three ; petiole two

feet long, stout, erect, cylindric, nearly as thick as a goose-

quill, brown; base curved with thick sheathing wings ;

blade two to three feet in diameter, trisect ; segments stalked,

OCTOBER Ist, 1874.

pinnatifid but not to the base ; pinnules three to four pairs,

one and a half feet long, by one to one anda half inches broad,

spreading, gradually narrowed into long acuminate points ;

midrib stout, lateral nerves very slender, elongate, and run-

ning parallel to the margins. Scape five to six feet high, as

thick as the little finger, brown. Jnvolucre of six to seven

leaves; outer narrow-lanceolate, five to six inches long, de-

flexed ; inner erect, incurved, conniving, elliptic-lanceolate, all

strongly nerved, green, caudate-acuminate. lowers very nu-

merous, pedicels one to three inches long; sterile pendulous

ones filiform, ten to twelve inches long, brown, grooved on one

face. Ovary turbinate, with six strong keeled ribs, brown.

Perianth glabrous, brown at the base, the rest green; seg-

ments broadly ovate, conniving, coriaceous. Stamens sessile.

Stigma 3-lobed, lobes convex. Fruit six inches long, ellipsoid-

oblong, 6-ribbed.—J. D. H.

_ Fig. 1, Reduced figures of leafing and flowering states ; 2, portion of leaf

and 3, inflorescence :—of the natural size ; 4, flowers; 5, the same with the

perianth-segments removed ; 6, the same with 3 stamens removed showing

the stigma :—all magnified.

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POGONTA piscotor.

Native of Java.

Nat. Ord. Orcnipem.—Tribe ARETHUSE.

Genus Poconta, Juss. ; (Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid., 413).

Pogonta discolor; folio breviter petiolato rotundato-cordato-multinervio

discolori supra et subtus ad nervos rufo-setoso, scapo subbifloro bracteis

spathaceis occulto, sepalis petalisque consimilibus linearibus acuminatis

pallide fusco-viridibus, labello obcordato-2-lobo albido,

P. discolor, Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat., vol. i. p. 32; Coll. Orchid.

Archip. Ind. et Jap., 152, t. 57, f. 1; Miquel Fl. Ind.-Bat., vol. iil.

p- 716. ,

Rirnosremon discolor, Blume Flor. Jav. Pref., vol. vi.; Lindl. Gen. et

Sp. Orchid., p. 453.

CorpyLa discolor, Blume Bijd., p. 417._

The species of Pogonia have usually little to recommend

them for horticultural purposes; but to this there are excep-

tions, especially amongst the Indian species, some of which

that have been cultivated at Kew present, like that here

figured, beautifully coloured and marked leaves that per-

sist for many weeks, and attract the attention of the most

ordinary observer. All have tuberous roots, often formed at

the end of subterranean cylindric fibres. It 1s not easy so

to manage their culture as that the leaves, flowers, and new

tubers should be successfully formed, and upon this their con-

_tinuance under cultivation depends. The present is closely

allied to the common P. plicata of Bengal, which has a

rose-coloured lip. Blume describes the lip of P. discolor as

entire, but it is retuse in his drawing, and distinctly 2-

lobed in our specimen.

Pogonia discolor is a native of damp forests in the moun-

tain region of Western Java, where it flowers in November.

The specimen here figured was flowered by Mr. Bull, in

February last, and the leaf was fully formed in the following

June.

OCTOBER Ist, 1874.

Descr. foot of small spherical tubers. Leaf solitary, three

to five inches in diameter, nearly horizontal, orbicular-cor-

date, cuspidate, convex, membranous; upper surface dark

rufous green, often with paler blue-green blotches between the

nerves, clothed with long rufous bristles which are disposed

in ‘lines along the principal and secondary nerves; under

surface pale dull purple, with bristles on the principal nerves

only ; nerves radiating from the top of the petiole, eleven to

sixteen, rufous above ; petiole half to one inch high. Scape

solitary, two to three inches long, clothed with the loose pale

dirty-green or purplish bracteal sheaths. JJowers in pairs, one

and a half inches in diameter. Ovary turbinate, sharply angled,

short, glabrous. Sepals and petals equal and similar, spread-

ing, three-quarters of an inch long, linear, acuminate, dirty

grey-green. Lip as long as the petals, white, with a green

disk, convolute for nearly its whole length; limb obcordate,

2-lobed, erose; disk crested. Column erect, clavate, white.

Pollen-masses oblong.—J. D. H.

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LILIUM macunatoum.

Native of Japan and N.E. Asia.

Nat. Ord. Liniacem.—Tribe TuLirez.

Genus Litium, Linn. ; (Baker in Gard. Chron. 1871; Journ. Hort. Soc.

, N.S. vol. iv. p. 39).

Litium (Martagon) maculatum ; glaberrimum, bulbo solitario squamis fusi-

formibus apice articulatis, foliorum verticillis 1-3, foliis in verticillo

4—2() lineari-lanceolatis ellipticisve obtusis v. obtuse acuminatis, racemo

1-12 flore, floribus 2-8 poll. diametr. cernuis, perianthio aurantiaco |

basi late campanulato, foliolis patenti-recurvis oblongis obtusis basim

versus rima nuda nectarifera instructis medium versus punctls majus-

culis atro-purpureis notatis, capsula pyriformi vertice depresso abrupte

in pedicellum brevem attenuata.

L. maculatum, Thunb. in Mem. Acad. Petersb., vol. iii. t. 5; Baker in Journ.

Hort. Soc. Lond., N.S. vol. iv. p. 45. a

L. avenaceum, Fischer—F’. Schmidt Flor. Sachalin ined. ex Maa imovicz in

Regel Gartenfl., vol. xiv. (1865) 290, t. 485.

L. Martagon, Ledeb. Fl. Ross., vol. iv. p. 149, quoad plantam Kamtscha-

ticam.

A native of Kamtschatka, the Kurile and Sachalin Islands,

Japan, and South Eastern Manchuria, whence it was intro-

duced into the Russian Imperial Botanical Gardens, and we

have dried specimens from Sitcha on the American coast.

According to Maximoviez (in Gartenflora), there are two

‘varieties of it: one, with a scented orange-yellow flower,

which is that figured here, and which came from Victoria

Sound; the other, with red inodorous flowers, 1s found in

Japan and Kamtschatka, is figured by Regel in the Gartenflora.

The leaves of both varieties vary extremely, both as to the

number of whorls, the number in each whorl, and in length

- and breadth. ;

I am indebted to G. F. Wilson, F.H.S., of Weybridge

Heath, for the specimen figured, the bulb of which he pur-

chased at a sale of Japan Lilies, in London, and which

flowered in June of the present year. I have also seen a

specimen flowered by Mr. William Saunders, F.H.S., in 1871.

OCTOBER Ist, 1874.

Drscr. Bulb from the size of a large nut to that of a wal-

nut ; scales fleshy, fusiform. Stem two to three feet high,

slender, bearing one to three whorls of four to twenty leaves

at various heights above the ground, but always far above it.

Leaves narrow when many, broad when few, sessile, three to six

inches long by one half to one and a half inches broad, linear-

or elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic, obtuse or obtusely acuminate,

with three to five principal nerves, dark green above, paler

beneath ; upper leaves alternate scattered, much smaller.

Flowers usually four to six (one to twenty), irregularly race-

mose; peduncles two three inches long ; bracts broad, green,

leafy. Perianth two three inches in diameter, campanulate

at the base, orange-yellow or red, with black rounded or ob-

long spots about the middle of the segments which are spread-

ing and recurved with obtuse thickened points. Filaments

much shorter than the perianth ; anthers linear, yellow. Ovary

oblong ; style short, clavate, stigma hemispherical. “Capsule

(according to Regel) pyriform.—/. D. H.

Fig. 1, Ovary and style :—magnified.

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SCORZON ERA UNDULATA.

Native of Algeria and Marocco.

Nat. Ord. Composirm.—Tribe CrncHonacesz.

Genus Scorzonera, Linn. ; (Benth, § Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 531).

Scorzonera undulata; caule erecto gracili elongato ramoso glabro, foliis

glabris radicalibus pedalibus anguste elongato-lanceolatis attenuato-

acuminatis vix undulatis, caulinis e basi lata sessile subulato-attenuatis,

capitulis 2-24 poll. diam., involucri bracteis cano-tomentellis exte-

rioribus late ovatis acutis apicibus recurvis, interioribus ter longioribus

ovato-oblongis anguste marginatis, ligulis roseo-purpureis, corolle

tubo gracili apicem versus barbellato, achenio obconico costato costis

crenulatis, pappi setis inequalibus infra medium plumosis, 5—6 ceteris

longioribus robustioribus supra medium scabridis.

S. undulata, Vahl. Symb., vol. ii. p. 85; Desfont. Flor. Atlant., vol. ii.

p- 219; DC. Prodr., vol. vii. p..117 (in part).

That this is the true Scorzonera undulata of Vahl and of

Desfontaine I have little doubt, though it differs somewhat

from the description of the former in its flat leaves and more

branched habit, and altogether from specimens in the Her-

barium of the Greek plant with which Desfontaine and De

Candolle confound the Barbary one. Vahl describes it as

common throughout the region of Tunis, and Desfontaine

has found it in sandy places. In many respects, and especially

in habit, it approaches 8. purpurea, Linn., which has smaller

bracts and very narrow leaves ; and also S. hispanica, which

differs chiefly, if not only, in its yellow flowers.

The specimen here figured was brought by Mr. Maw from

Algeria, where he recognised it as apparently the same

with a plant we found between Tangiers and Tetuan in

Maroceo. It flowered in July, and had a very handsome

appearance.

Descr. Root thick, fusiform. Stem one to two feet, slender,

_ branched, glabrous or with scanty white tomentum towards the

ends of the branches. Radical leaves nearly a foot long, narrowly

OCTOBER Ist, 1874.

linear-lanceolate, quite entire glabrous, three-quarters of an

inch in diameter at the broadest part, gradually narrowed

into a rather long petiole and to the acuminate apex, bright

green, with a yellow midrib; margins scarcely waved ; cau/ine-

leaves three to six inches long, gradually narrowed from a

broad sessile base to a very fine point, erect, keeled to the

midrib, margins even. Peduncies slender, green or purplish.

Heads two to two and a half inches in diameter, rose-

purplish ; involucre cylindric, tumid at its base, hoary with

a white down; outer scales broadly ovate, with a recurved

acuminate apex, green with pale margins ; inner twice or

thrice as long, linear-oblong, with broad scarious margins.

Flowers numerous. Corolla-tube slender, bearded below the

mouth ; limb as long, linear, 5-toothed. Achenes (unripe)

fimbriate, grooved, the ridges crenulate ; pappus-hairs about

twenty, all plumose halfway up, five or six stronger than the

oe and scabrid from above the middle to the apex.—

Fig. 1, Flowers; 2, unripe achene and pappus :—both magnified.

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CITRUS AvURANTIUM va7. JAPONICA.

Cultivated in China and Japan. The Kumquat.

Nat. Ord. Rutracem.—Tribe AURANTIER.

Genus Citrus, Linn. ; (Benth. § Hook.f. Gen. Pl., v. i. p. 805).

a --

Citrus Aurantium var. japonica ; fruticosa, spinosa v. inermis, ramis angu-

latis, petiolis cuneato-alatis v, lineari-cuneatis, foliis‘elliptico- v. oblongo-

lanceolatis obtuse acuminatis apices versus crenulatis, floribus axillaribus

solitariis fasciculatisve albis, fructibus globosis v. ellipsoideo-oblongis

4—6-locularibus, cortice granulato.

Cirrus japonica, Thunb. Flor. Japan., 292 ; Ic.t.15; DC. Prodr., vol. i. 540 ;

Sieb. § Zuce. Fl. Jap., vol. i. p. 35, t. 15; Fortune in Hort. Soc, Journ.,

NS. vol. ii. p. 46; Gard. Chron. 1874, 336, cum ic, xylog. ; Mig. Prolus.

Fl. Jap. p. 15.

C. Margarita, Zour. Fl. Coch., p. 570; DC. l.c.

Kinkan, Kempf. Amen. Ezot., vol. v. p. 801. |

Subvar. inermis.—C. inermis, Roxb. Fl. Ind.,'vol. iii. p. 393, C. madurensis,

Lour. Fl. Coch., 570; DC. Prodr., 1.c.; Rumph. Herb. Amb., vol. ii.

p- 110, t. xxx.

This well-known ingredient in Chinese sweetmeats has

never previously been figured from cultivated specimens in

Europe, though long known from Kempfer's description and

plate. According to Siebold, it is nowhere found wild in

Japan ; this author says that, in common with all other spe-

cies and varieties of Citrus, it has been introduced into the

Island from China or India; also that it is extensively culti-

vated under two varieties, one with globose, the other with

oval fruit, which latter is rare. He adds, that the agreeable

acid of the juice, flavoured by the aroma of the rind, renders

the fruit very pleasant, but that it yields only a transient re-

freshment, for it leaves a burning after-taste in the mouth.

A magnificent fruiting specimen of this interesting shrub

was exhibited by Mr. Bateman at the Horticultural Society

in 1867, from which the accompanying drawing was taken.

It belonged to the unarmed variety, and is far more luxuriant,

both as to foliage and fruit, than the dried specimen, or those

OCTOBER Ist, 1874.

figured by Siebold and Zuccarini. As regards the cultivation

of the Kumquat, Mr. Fortune, who introduced it, says in his

paper published in the Journal of the Horticultural Society,

quoted above, that it requires in summer plenty of water

at a temperature of 80° to 100°, and a high atmospheric heat

continued into autumn ; whilst in winter it should be kept cool

and rather dry, for it will then bear 10° and even 15° of frost.

It succeeds well grafted on Limonia trifoliata.

Drscr. A shrub or small tree, four to six feet high. Branch-

lets green, glabrous, compressed, trigonous. Leaves biennial ;

petiole one-third to one-half inch long, narrowly cuneate or

almost linear; blade three to five inches long, elliptic or ob-

long-lanceolate, narrowed at both ends, obtuse, crenate above

the middle. lowers one to three, axillary, fascicled, three-

fourths of an inch to one inch in diameter, white ; peduncles

glabrous. Calyx short, five-lobed, glabrous, green, segments

broad. Petals oblong, subacute. Stamens twenty or fewer,

irregularly connate into bundles. Dis/: thick. Ovary 4—6-

celled. Fruit two-thirds to one inch in diameter, globose

or shortly ellipsoid, bright orange-yellow, 4—6-celled; rind

thick, minutely tuberculate; pulp watery, sweet and aci-

dulous. Seeds few, like those of the common orange, but

much smaller.—J/. D. H.

Fig. 1, Calyx and Stamens—magnified; 2, transverse section of the fruit

of the natural size.

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PASSIFLORA (Tacsonra) MANICATA,

Native of New Grenada and Peru.

Nat. Ord. PassirLoracem.—Tribe PassiFLORE&.

Genus Passirtora, Linn. ; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant., vol. i. p. 810).

Passtriora (Tacsonia) manicata ; caule flexuoso subangulato, foliis 4-polli-

caribus coriaceis 3-lobis serratis supra glabris subtus pubescentibus,

lobis ovatis acutis intermedio producto, petiolo pollicari 3-4-glanduloso,

stipulis dimidiato-ovatis faleatis grosse dentatis, pedunculo _petiolo

duplo longiore, bracteis pollicaribus ellipticis acutis serrulatis liberis v. -

connatis, floribus coccineis, perianthii tubo 4~1-pollicari basi dilatato

limbo 4-pollicari.

TAcsonta manicata, Juss. in Ann. Muss., vol. vi. p. 898, t. 59, f. 2; Lindl.

Pact. Fl. Gard., vol. i. t. 26; DC. Prodr., vol. iii. p. 3384; Humb.

Bonpl. § Kunth Nov. Gen., vol. ii. p. 189; Masters in Mart. Flor.

Bras., vol. xiii. pars i. p. 541.

This lovely plant has been for many years cultivated in

England, though not so extensively as it deserves, having

had the reputation of not flowering freely. It was intro-

duced previous to 1850 by the Horticultural Society, through

its collector Hartweg, who found it in hedges near Loxa in

Peru, where, indeed, it was discovered by Humboldt and.

the Andes of Equador and New Grenada, where it was found.

by Purdie on the arid plains of Suta Marchan, and is there

called Ruruba de Seneno. A similar undescribed species, or

perhaps a variety of this, with white flowers, was gathered by

Pearce at Puquina (in Peru ?), at an elevation of 10,000 feet.

I am indebted for the accompanying drawing to Mr. E. J.

Smith, of Coalport, in whose conservatory the plant flowered

in July last. -

I regret not being able to follow Dr. Masters in retaiming

the genus Zucsonia, as is doue in his very admirable Mono-

graph of South American Passiflor, in Martius’s 2 Flora

Brasiliensis ;” the only character hitherto adopted being the

NOVEMBER lst, 1874.

comparative length of the perianth-tube of Zacsonia, which is

shorter in this species than in various Brazilian plants uni-

versally referred to Passiflora. Could genera be limited by

geographical distribution, Zucsonia would (as Dr. Masters

indicates) be defined as being confined, as far as is hitherto

known, to the Andes of South America, whilst the Passiforas »

are spread over the warm regions of the whole American

continent, and are found also in Asia and Australia.

Descr. Stem climbing, nearly terete, and as well as the

petioles leaves beneath stipules bracts and perianth externally

finely pubescent. Leaves about four inches long, coriaceous,

3-lobed to about the middle, finely serrate ; lobes broadly

oblong, obtuse or subacute, dark green above, pale beneath,

base rounded truncate or subacute; petiole about one inch

long, with three to four glands. Stipules one inch in diameter,

dimidiate-ovate, deeply toothed, convex, Pedunele longer than

the petiole. Bracts at some distance from the calyx, elliptic-

ovate, acute, serrate, pubescent, free or united from the base

upwards, sometimes for half their length. Perianth-tube

about half an inch long, base inflated and 10-lobed; limb

four inches in diameter, vivid scarlet; corona double ; outer,

at the mouth of the tube, of many series of short blue hairs,

the inner row of which connives around the column ; inner, at

the top of the inflated base of the perianth, formed of a

sigmoidly-inflexed membrane. Styles tree—J. D. H.

ein

Fig. 1, Vertical section of perianth tube :—somewhat magnified.

Son, Imp.

iBrooks Day

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ViLICEALL.

Tas. 6130.

CERINTHE cymnanpra.

Native of Italy, Algeria, and Marocco.

Nat. Ord. BorracinE#.—Tribe CERINTHER.

Genus Cerintue, Linn. ; (A. DC. Prodr., vol. 10, p. 2).

CERINTHE gymnandra; annua, glabra, caule subflexuoso simplici v. ramoso,

foliis oblongis ovato-oblongisve apice sphacelatis obtuse arcuatis v.

rotundatis basi auriculato 2-lobis, supra remote verruculosis subtus

glabris, calycis foliolis lineari-oblongis erectis ciliatis, corolla curva

infra medium clavato-inflato, lobis 5 triangulari-subulatis reflexis, an-

therarum caudis setaceis apicibus exsertis.

CrRINTHE gymnandra, Gaspar., Rendei dell Acad. Soc. Real Borbon di Nap.,

vol. i. p. 72, ea Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ., vol. xviii. p. 36, t. 1297;

Willkom. & Lange Fl. Hisp., vol. ii. p. 512.

A very rare European plant, hitherto found, as far as I am

aware, only near Naples, whence I have seen specimens col-

lected by Heldreich ; it is however common in some parts of

Western Algeria, as at Oran and Blidah, growing in sandy

places, and in Marocco. Though hardly different from

C. major (Tab. nost. 333), as pointed out by Willkomm and

Lange, it is a very beautiful form of the genus, well worthy

of cultivation, but unfortunately annual. One of its most

striking characters is the discoloration of the tips of the

leaves ; these in all our specimens are of a fine pale glaucous

blue, except at the very end, which is pale greenish-yellow,

bounded towards the midrib by a dull dark purple band ;

thus the colouring of the leaf-tip is a repetition of that of the

flower, and gives a bright appearance to the whole plant.

From the above-quoted figure of Cerinthe major in this Maga-

zine, the present differs in the yellow tubular terminal portion

of the corolla, the narrower sepals not cordate at the base,

and foliage; but little dependence can be placed on these

characteristics in so variable a genus.

Our specimens were raised from seed sent by Messrs.

Haage and Schmidt, and flowered in July.

NOVEMBER Ist, 1874.’

Descr. Annual, very variable in size and stature, glabrous, .

except the calyx. Stem six to twelve inches high, usually

ascending from a short base, simple or branched above, rather

stout, guite smooth, pale yellow-green. Leaves one to four

inches long, glaucous, usually ovate-oblong and somewhat

contracted in the middle, rounded or obtusely pointed; base

2-lobed, with two deep rounded auricles ; upper surface with

scattered small warts, only visible in the dry state, under

surface quite smooth; tips always discoloured, yellow-green

with a purple band beneath it, strongly contrasting with the

glaucous blue of the rest of the leaf; nerves faint. oral

leaves large, distichous, imbricate, enclosing and almost con-

cealing the flowers. /owers shortly pedicelled, nearly one

inch long. Calyx half the length of the corolla; leaflets

linear-oblong, acute, ciliate, with a purple band below the

tip. Corolla curved, lower parts rather inflated, subclavate,

deep red-purple except at the base; upper part cylindric,

yellow; lobes short, triangular, subulate, yellow, sharply

reflexed. Filaments short; anthers slender, with exserted

subulate purple tips, the cells caudate at the base.—J/. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower; 2, corolla laid open; 3, stamen; 4, disk, ovary and style :—

all magnified,

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“Vincent Brooks Day & Som, imp.

Tas. 6131.

MELALEUCA Wixtsont.

Native of South Austraha.

Nat. Ord. Myrracem.—Tribe LeprosPERME.

Genus Mexatevca, Linn. ; (Benth. Fl. Austral., vol. iii. p. 123).

MEtatevuca Wilsoni; ramulis junioribus exceptis glaberrima, foliis oppositis

confertis patulis v. in ramulis junioribus imbricatis subulato-lanceolatis

acutis v. acuminatis subtus convexis obscure 1-3-nerviis, floribus soli-

tariis v. fasciculatis sparsis v. spicatis, calycis tubo ovoideo glabro basi

rotundato lobis ovato-lanceolatis subacutis tubum squantibus, petalis

calycis lobis duplo longioribus ellipticis concavis, staminum phalangiis

erecto-patentibus 4—pollicaribus spathulatis, filamentis 15-20.

Meratevca Wilsoni, F. Muell. Fragm., vol. ii. p. 124, t. 15; Benth. Fl.

Austral., v. iii. p. 134. |

This is one of that large class of hard-wooded Australian

plants which, if properly cultivated, would ornament our con-

servatories and greenhouses at seasons when little else worth

looking at meets the eye, but which have almost throughout

the country succumbed to the treatment they have received—

namely, of watering in season and out of season. The genus

to which it belongs contains just one hundred species, scat-

tered over all parts of Australia, amongst which are some of

the most brilliant-coloured plants of that gay Flora. The

present is essentially a dry country species, inhabiting the

desert of the Tattiave country, Port Lincoln, &c., in South

Australia, as also the country around Lake Hindmarsh in

the colony of Victoria. It was raised at Kew from seeds

sent by Baron Muller from the Melbourne Botanic Garden,

when he was director of that rich botanical establishment ;

and was named by him after Mr. Charles Wilson, through

whose aid, he states, this very beautiful species was

discovered. '

Descr. A slender shrub, glabrous, except the puberulous

young branches. eaves close set, spreading, those on the

young branches imbricate, one-third to three-quarters of an

NOVEMBER Ist, 1874.

_inch long, subulate-lanceolate, rigid, quite entire, concave

below, obscurely 3-nerved, obtuse or pungent. Fowers

crowded, rarely solitary, sometimes forming cylindric spikes,

rarely solitary, sessile. Bracts imbricate, membranous,

equalling the calyx-tube. Calyx green, tube one-twelfth of an

inch long, ovoid, rounded at the base; lobes rather shorter,

erect, ovate, subacute. Pefals about twice as long as the calyx-

lobes, elliptic, subacute, concave, erect. Bundles of stamens

erect, then spreading, half an inch long, bright rose-red ;

claw linear-spathulate ; filaments fifteen to twenty. Fruit

3-valved—/J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Front and 2, back view of leaf; 3, flower and bract; 4, flower

with two calyx-lobes and petals removed, showing the base of two staminal

bundles, and the style ; 5, staminal bundle :—all magnified,

Tas, 6132;

IRIS L2&vicata. 5 ieee

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Nat. Ord. Irntpacem.—Tribe Ine.

Genus Iris, Linn. ; (Endl. Gen. Plant., p. 266).

Iris levigata, ; caule elato obtuse angulato foliato, foliis }—2 poll. latis anguste

lineari ensiformibus acuminatis utrinque viridibus costa prominula,

scapo 1-2 flore, spathis 2—3-valvibus, valvis inequalibus herbaceis

elongato-lanceolatis acuminatis, floribus breviter pedicellatis maximis,

pedicello ovario longiore, perianthii tubo crassiusculo segmentis exte-

rioribus recurvis magnis late elliptico-ovatis obtusis ecristatis purpureis

plaga basi aurea, interioribus parvis erectis conniventibus oblongis

acutis, stigmatibus recurvis lineari-oblongis apice 2-lobis et dentatis,

Irts levigata, Fisch., ex Turcz. Cat. Baikal, No. 1119; Fisch. et Mey Ind.

Sem. Hort. Petrop.; Ledeb. Fl. Ross., vol. iv. p. 97; Klatt in Linnea,

vol. xxxiv. p. 616; Maxim. Prim. Fl. Amurr., p. 271; A. Gray Bot.

Jap., p. 412; Miquel Prol. Fl. Jap., 306.

I. Gemelini, Ledeb. comment in Gmel. Fl. Sib. in Deutischer, Bot. Ges. Regensb.,

vol. iii. p. 48.

I. Kempferi, Sieb. ex Lemaire Ill. Hort. t. 157.

I. versicolor, Thunb. Fl. Jap., 34 (ex Miquel, l.c.) non Linn.

Whether under the indigenous form here figured, or the

curious garden form called £ Kempferi var. 7. G. Henderson

(Gard. Chron., 1874, p. 45), this beautiful hardy plant is

likely to become as great a favourite in England as it is said

to be in Japan. It was originally introduced by Von Siebold

from Japan, and flowered in Verschaffelt’s establishment at

Ghent in 1857, when a very pale variety of it was figured

by Lemaire in the “Illustration Horticole.” As it there

appeared under the name of J. Kemp/feri of Siebold, I suppose

that this latter author identified it with the Sziti or Itz falz

of Kempfer (4men. Erot. p. 873), a plant which Kempfer

describes as an Iris with large double flowers, and which

flowers during many days. Hasskarl (Miguel Protus. p. 306)

says that it is the Itsi Katsi of the Japanese. Whatever

may be its Japanese name or the history of that of Kampferi,

NOVEMBER Ist, 1874.

it was no doubt first long previously described from Eastern

Asiatic specimens by Fischer as /. /evigata. It is a native

of East Siberia from the Baikal and Dahuria to Kamtschatka,

the Amur district, and Korea, and it thence extends to the

northern parts of Japan.

_ Mr. E. G. Henderson’s variety, which I hope to figure

soon, 1s a most remarkable and beautiful plant; it is a

monstrous state, with six or more equal or unequal spreading

perianth segments; for a description of which I must refer

to Dr. Masters’s article in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, referred

to above.

_ The specimen here figured was flowered in May last by

G. Maw, F.LS., in his rich garden at Benthall Hall,

Shropshire, fromm roots received from Max Leichtlin of

Baden Baden; it has also flowered at Kew for several years

past.

Descr. Stem two to three feet high, slender, obscurely

angled. eaves as long, one-half to two-thirds of an inch

broad, narrow and slender, acuminate. Scape 1-3-flowered.

Spathes two to four inches long, narrowly lanceolate, her-

baceous, the outer shorter. lowers three to five inches in

diameter, varying from pale to deep red-purple; shortly pe-

dicelled ; pedicel shorter than the subterete ovary. Perianth-

tube about three-quarters of an inch long; outer segments

shortly clawed, broadly ovate-oblong, obtuse, reflexed, not

crested, with a bright 3-cuspidate orange spot at the base

of the limb; inner segments one to one and a half inches

long, of the same purple colour, erect, conniving, sub-acute,

oblong-lanceolate. — Stigmas spreading, linear-oblong, with

bifid incurved lobes.—/. D. H.

Tas. 6133.

POLYGONATUM VULGARE var. MACRANTHUM.

Native of Japan. .

Nat. Ord. Sminacem—Tribe CONVALLARIEZ. on

Genus Poryconatum, Tournef. ; (Endl. Gen. Pl., p. 154).

PoLyGonatum vulgare ; caule arcuato acuto angulato, foliis alternis breviter

petiolatis late ellipticis obtusis v. obtuse acuminatis subtus glaucescentibus

6-nerviis, floribus 1—4, perianthii supra medium subinflati lobis brevi-

bus late orbiculato-ovatis viridibus apice obtuse apiculatis et incrassatis,

filamentis glabris.

Potygonatum vulgare, Desf. ; A. Gray Bot. Jap.; p. 4138.

P. officinale, All. ; Maxim. Prim. Fl. Amur., 274; Miquel Prol. Fl. Jap., 148.

Conva.Laria Polygonatum, Linn. ; Thunb. Fl. Jap., p. 148.

Var. macranthum, floribus 1} pollicaribus.

I have retained this plant as a variety of P. vulgare with

much hesitation, doubting its proving even as a variety dis-

tinct from some already described forms of that variable plant.

Tt is certainly not the same as Morren and Decaisne’s

P. japonicum, which they describe as having short solitary

flowers with a campanulate perianth, and which is undoubtedly

another form of P. vulgatum, a plant that extends from

Western Europe (Norway and Spain) to the Western Hima-

laya, North East Asia and Japan, and which I suspect exists

in Eastern N. America under one or more forms.

The size of the flower is perhaps the most noticeable feature

of the plant here figured, though in that it is rivalled by both

European and North Asiatic specimens ; the inflation of the

corolla above its middle and its slight contraction at the

throat are other characters, which however disappear as the

corolla withers and its lobes connive. Decaisne and Morren

observe that the style exceeds the stamens in their P. japonicum,

which is no doubt a sexual difference. In the form of its

foliage it agrees best with the N. America P. commutatum,

Dietr. and Otto, which has a terete stem. Lastly, having

NOVEMBER Isr, 1874.

i all an

regard to the variability of the alternate-leaved Polygonatums,

it would not surprise me to find that all were referable to

two, the P. vulgare with a grooved stem, and P. multiflorum

with terete stem.

The subject of the present plate has long been cultivated

at Kew under the name of P. japonicum, and it flowers in

April.

Duscr. Rhizomes stout, creeping. Stems one to one and

a half feet high; stout, flexuous, green, angled and chan-

nelled. Leaves two to three inches long, alternate, subsessile,

broadly elliptic, obtuse or obtusely acuminate, light green

above, glaucous beneath, 7-nerved, quite glabrous. Flowers

one to four; peduncles and pedicels longer or shorter than

the perianth, very slender. Perianth one and a quarter

inches long, terete, tubular, white, inflated slightly beyond

the middle, contracted obscurely at the throat; lobes almost

orbicular, with obtuse callous points, spreading, green.

Filaments almost as long as the linear anthers, glabrous.

Ovary globose ; style filiform.—J. D. H.

Fig, 1, Flower laid open :—somewhat magnified.

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Tas. 6134.

BLUMENBACHIA (CatopHora) ConToRTA.

Native of Peru.

Nat, Ord. LoasEez.

Genus Biumensacnta, Schrad. ; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Pl., vol. i. p. 805).

Biumensacuta (Caiophora) contorta; caule volubili pilis urentibus patulis

reflexisque hispido, foliis breviter petiolatis triangulari-v.-oblongo-ovatis

pinnatifidis laciniis acutis acute inciso-dentatis lobatisve utrinque his-

pidis, pedunculis elongatis axillaribus, calycis lobis pinnatifido-lobatis,

petalis patentibus, squamis cucullatis, staminodiis falcatis unidentatis,

capsula ellipsoideo-oblonga 15 pollicari.

Loasa contorta, Lamk. Dict., vol. iii. p. 579; IU. t. 426, f.2; DC. Prodr.,

vol. iii. p. 840; Juss. in Ann. Mus., vol. v. p. 25, t. 3, £1; Tratt. Archiv,

vol. i. p. 17, t. 33.

Caropnora contorta, Pres! Relig. Haenk:., vol. ii. p. 42; Walp. Rep., vol. ii.

p. 227, and vol. v. p. 781.

Although described by Jussieu and (copying him) by

Trattinick as having a capsule a foot and a half long, “ sesqul-

pedalis,’” I have no doubt but that this is Lamarck s Loasa

contorta, which that author describes as having a capsule

about two inches long, as indeed it 1s figured by Jussieu.

Lamarck’s figure, again, a very indifferent one, represents the .

calyx-lobes as entire, though that, author describes them as

toothed. Presl, who founded the genus Catophora on De

Candolle’s first section of Loasa, proposes besides the @. con-

torta, two other species from the Andes of Peru, C. cirsitfolia

and carduifolia; but judging from his description and the

figures he gives of C@. cirsiifolia, I suspect that they are

varieties of C. contorta, which, according to numerous specl-

mens preserved in the Kew Herbarium, varies extremely in

the breadth and amount of division of the leaves.

B. contorta is a native of Peru and Equador, where it

ascends to an elevation of 12,000 feet; should it prove as

hardy as the charming B. /ateritia (Loasa lateritia, Tab. nost.

3632), it will be a very ornamental wall-plant in most parts

NOVEMBER jst, 1874.

of England. It is probably, like that plant, a biennial. It

was raised from Peruvian seeds by Messrs. Veitch, and

flowered in their grounds in July of the present year.

Descr. A climber, several feet high, hispid with spreading

and recurved stinging bristles and shorter spreading hairs.

Leaves shortly petioled, four to six inches long, triangular-

oblong or -ovate, pinnatifid to the middle or to near the base,

hispid, dark green; lobes few or many, broad or narrow,

pinnatifidly lobed or toothed; pale blue-green beneath.

Peduncles axillary, as long as or longer than the leaves, stout,

hispid. /owers one and a half to two inches in diameter.

Calyx-tube short, obscure; lobes one-third to half an inch

long, linear-oblong, pinnatifidly toothed or lobed. Petals

bright brick-red, three-quarters of an inch long, spreading,

obtuse, with a few bristles on the back. Scales a quarter of

an inch long, cup-shaped, green, 3-toothed at the rounded

tip, pubescent. Staminodes falcate, with one tooth on the

narrowly ellipsoid, an inch and a half long. —/. D. LH.

Fig. 1, Scale and staminodes ;—magnified,

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RHEUM OFFICINALE.

Native of Eastern Tibet and Western China.

Nat. Ord, Potyconace®.—Tribe PTERYGOCARPA.

Genus Rueum, Linn. ; (Meissn., in DC. Prodr., v. xiv. p. 32).

Rurvm officinale ; caule brevi robusto diviso apice folioso, foliis amplis or-

biculari-ovatis cordatisve villosulis subpalmatim breviter 3-7-lobatis,

lobis incisis lobulisque acutis, ochrea obovoidea densum fissa, petiolo

robusto pubescente intus haud sulcato, ramis floriferis foliosis panicu-

latim ramulosis, panicule erecte ramulis patenti-recurvis, ultimis flori-

feris spiciformibus nutantibus densifloris, floribus breviter gracile

pedicellatis, pedicello basin versus articulato, perianthii foliolis late

oblongis apice rotundatis interioribus paulo majoribus, staminibus 9

inclusis, disco annulari crenulato, stigmatibus orbiculatis, acheenio late

oblongo alis membranaceis obscure crenulatis nucleo duplo longioribus

et laterioribus.

Ruevo officinale, Baillon in Mém. de U' Association Francaise pour vAvance-

ment des Sciences, Sept. 1, Bordeaux, 1872, p. 514, t. x. (Translated in

Trimen Journ. Bot., 1872, p. 8379); Adansonia, vol. x. p. 246; Car-

ridre, Rev. Hortic., 1874, p. 93; Pluck. § Hanbury, Pharmacog., p. 442;

Gard. Chron., 1874, v. i. p. 346.

According to the evidence hitherto obtained, this grand

plant (which is certainly the handsomest of all the Rheuus,

except the Himalayan £2. nodile) is that which produces much,

if not all the Turkey Rhubarb of the pharmacopata. It isa

native of and also cultivated in Eastern and South-eastern

Tibet, and was sent thence by the French missionaries to M.

Dabry, the French Consul at Hankow. M. Dabry sent plants

to M. Soubeiran, Secretary of the J ardin d’Acclimatisation of

Paris, where they flowered at Montmorency m 1871.

An excellent history of this plant is given in Fluckiger and

Hanbury’s “ Pharmacographia,” quoted above, from which it

appears not to be certain that the true Turkey rhubarb of

commerce is derived exclusively from this plant, though the

evidence of the missionaries who discovered it, that it is the

main source of that drug, is supported by the fact that there

is no important discrepancy between this R. officinale and the

DECEMBER. 1st, 1874.

imperfect and scanty accounts and figures of the Chinese

authors and early French missionaries. From the same work

we learn that the drug was known to the Chinese long anterior

to the Christian era, and was described in a work dedicated to

_ the Emperor Shen-nung, the father of Chinese agriculture and

medicine, who lived about 2700 8.c. Also that Marco Polo

is the only traveller who has visited the districts yielding

rhubarb, in the mountains of one of which (Tangut) he de-

scribes it as growing in great abundance ; this, however, is, an

error, for an account of it will be found in the Travels of Bell

of Antermony (vol. i. p. 384— 387), who found it in Mongolia,

growing abundantly near marmot burrows. One of its most

remarkable characteristics is its stout very distinct stem,

which, and not the root, is considered to be the source of the

rhubarb in the view of M. Baillon, and no doubt correctly.

The rhubarb plant inhabits a vast area of Eastern Tibet

and Western China, abounding in high plateaus, especially in

spots enriched by old encampments. The plant here figured

was sent to the Royal Gardens by M. Soubeiran, and flowered

An June last, both at Kew and at Mr. Hanbury’s garden at

Clapham.

_Descr. Stem as thick as the arm, four to ten inches high,

divided into several leafing and flowering crowns. Leaves

one to three feet in diameter, orbicular-ovate or cordate, shal-

lowly 3- to 7-lobed, pubescent or subvillous, lobes acute and

acutely irregularly toothed ; nerves stout beneath, flabellate ;

petiole nearly terete ; ochrea split. /owering-stems two to five

feet high, erect, stout, leafy, pubescent, bright-green, pani-

culately branched ; branches spreading ; flowering branchlets

spreading and drooping , three to five inches long, spiciform,

very densely clothed with flowers. Flowers one-quarter inch

in diameter, green; pedicels slender, fascicled, jointed near

the base. Perianth-segments broadly oblong, rounded at the

tips, the inner larger, erect at the edges. Stamens nine, as

long as the perianth, hypogynous. Disk thick, annular, ob-

securely 3-lobed, crenulate. Stigmas orbicular, peltate. Lruit

half an inch long, broadly oblong, emarginate, bright red ;

wings longer and broader than the nucleus.—/. D. H.

_ Fig. 1, Reduced view of whole plant ; 2, portion of leaf, and 3, of flower-

Ing branch, both of the natural size ; 4, flower ; 5, stamen and pistil ; 6, pistil

and disk:—all magnified; 7, fruiting branchlet, not seen; 8, fruit:—

magnified,

Tas, 6136.

EPISCTA rotema.

‘Native of New Grenada.

Nat. Ord. GrsnerIAceEx.—Tribe BEsLertem.

Genus Eprscra, Mart. ; (DC. Prodr., vol. vii. p. 546).

Eriscra fulgida ; repens, stolonifera, tota pilis flaccidis villose, foliis cllipticis

elliptico-ovatisve subacutis basi rotundatis v. cordatis crenulato-

serratis convexis superne bullatim reticulatis, petiolo brevi crassiusculo,

floribus solitariis, pedunculo petiolo longiore, sepalis }—3-pollicaribus

spathulato-oblongis subserratis, corolle lete lateritim tubo 14-pollicari

hirsuto, limbo lobis rotundatis erosis, staminibus ‘inclusis, ovario

hirsuto. ee eee

-Cyrroperra fulgida, Lind. Cat. No. 90, p. 5; et in L’Illustr, Hortic., t. 131,

I have little doubt as to this being the plant described by

Linden as Cyrtodeira fulgida, of which the figure in the —

“ Tlustration Horticole” is excellent, though in the description —

the blade of the leaf is described as scarcely longer than the

petiole, and although the leaves want the pale band along

the midrib and principal nerves, which render Linden’s form

of it so valuable for decorative purposes. It is a very close

ally of the Brazilian #. reptans (Mart. Nov. Gen., t. 217) ;

but #. fulgidais a much larger plant, and has shorter petioles,

and differently shaped sepals, which are not entire ; it also

comes from a very different country. Another congener is

the Achimenes cupreata Hook. (Tab. nost. 4312), upon which

Hanstein (L. v. xxvi. p. 206) founded his genus Cyrtodeira,

distinguishing it from Lpiscia by the form and lesser curva-

ture of the corolla-tube, a character that does not hold in

the various species. Hpiscia fulgida is a native of New Gre-

nada, whence it was first introduced by M. Linden. I am

indebted to Mr. Williams for the specimen here figured,

which flowered in his establishment in July last.

Descr. Stem creeping, branched, stoloniferous, as thick as

a goose-quill, and, as well as the whole plant, clothed with a

soft villous pubescence. Leaves three to five inches long,

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elliptic or elliptic-ovate, acute, crenulate-serrate, convex and

bullately reticulated on the upper surface, dark emerald-green,

paler along the midrib, inclined to coppery, especially the

young ones; petiole stout, about one-eighth the length of the

blade. Peduncles axillary, solitary, stout, one to two inches

long. Calyx gibbous at the base, one-half to three-quarters

inch long, campanulate ; sepals spathulate-oblong, rounded

and crenate towards the recurved tips. Corolla bright and

almost vermilion-red; tube hirsute, one and a-half inch

long, cylindric, nearly straight ; limb one inch in diameter,

nearly equal; lobes rounded, irregularly toothed, pubescent

towards the throat. Stamens included, filaments very slender ;

anthers small, adnate to the large connective. Ovary broadly

ovoid, hirsute; gland emarginate—/. D. H.

Fig. 1, Cape; 2, corolla laid open; 3, top of stamen; 4 and 5, front and

side view of ovary :—all magnified.

4 1

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BOUCEROSIA maroccana.

Native of Marocco.

Nat. Ord. AscLepiADEH.—Tribe SraPELiE#.

Genus Boucerosta, Wight ¢ Arn. ; (Benth. 5: Hook, f. Gen, Plant.,

vol. ii, ined.).

Boucerosta maroccana; ramis tetragonis marginibus angulato sinuatis, foliis

trulliformibus acutis, corolle lobis nudis tubo intus hirsuto, corone

staminew processubus 5 incurvis gynostegio incumbentibus cum 10

erectis geminatim collateralibus capitatis alternantibus.

A near ally of B. Gussoniana (Apteranthes Gussoniana, Tab.

nost. 5087), of Algeria, and so like it that I long hesitated

before deciding upon figuring and describing it as new; be-

sides, however, the differences of habit, which are more easily

seen than described, there are so many other differential

characters that, taken altogether, it is impossible to unite this

with the Algerian plant. The angles of the stem, instead of

being faintly undulate, are longitudinally divided into broadly

triangular lobes, each tipped with a minute leaf, which

instead of being sessile adnate and upceurved, is trowel-shaped,

contracted at the base, and usually deflexed. The flowers are

fewer, on longer pedicels; the corolla-lobes want the long

cilia, being quite naked, and are shorter, not so reflexed, and

of a clearer purple, with fewer yellow bars, and the base of

the tube inside is densely velvety. But the greatest dif-

ference is in the staminal crown, which in B. Gussoniana

presents five capitate incurved processes, each with a knob on

each side at the base; but in this the five incurved processes

are inflexed and incumbent upon the stigma, whilst the lateral

knobs are elevated on erect stalks. How far any or all these

characters are variable can only be known by a long and

careful study. ‘The probability of their proving constant is

rendered more probable by the wide. difference of habit of —

the two plants, the 4. Gussonana being a native of saline

DECEMBER Ist, 1874.

situations in Sicily, Spain, and the Algerine coast; whilst

A. maroceana inhabits the much lower latitudes of Mogado

in Maroceo. Here it was found on the rocky islet of

Mogador by Messrs. Maw, Ball, and myself, and also else-

where along the coast near the town, and introduced into

Kew, where it flowered in July.

The genus Apteranthes is merged in Boucerosia (itself pos-

sibly referrible to Piaranthus) by Bentham in the forth-

coming volume of the Genera Plantarum.

Descr. Branches prostrate, six to ten inches long, by about

one broad, 4-sided, the sides deeply sunk, the angles cut into

broad subtriangular lobes, with an acute sinus, one-half to

three-quarter inch long. eaves on the angular summits

of the lobes of the stem-angles, one-tenth inch long, trowel-

shaped, contracted at the base, ciliolate. Mowers two to six

in an umbel, pedicel one-quarter inch long, and subulate

calyx-teeth green. Corol/a one-half to two-thirds inch diameter,

spreading, 5-lobed to about the middle; lobes triangular,

subacute, quite glabrous, pale green outside, dark red-purple

within streaked transversely towards the base and around the

cup with yellow ; tube densely villous. Crown of 5 inflexed

processes that cover the staminal crown, and 10 erect

capitate processes in pairs between the inflexed ones. —

J.D. A.

5 Fig. 1, Leaf; 2, outside, and 3, inside view of corolla; 4, gynostegium ;

9, pollen-masses :—all magnified.

Tas. 6138.

ON CIDIUM ZEBRINUM.

Native of Venezuela.

Nat. Ord. OrcnuipE#.—Tribe VANDEA.

Genus Oncipium, Swartz ; (Lindl. Fol. Orehid., Oncidium).

Oncrpiem (Cyrtochilum) zebrinum ; rhizomate robusto repente, pseudobulbis

compressis 4—5-pollicaribus ovato-lanceolatis levibus, foliis 6—9-polli-

caribus ensiformi-lanceolatis acuminatis carinatis nervosis, panicula

longissima robusta flexuosa, bracteis spathaceis ovato-oblongis obtusis,

perianthii foliolis albis rubro-fasciatis, petalis sepalisque conformibus

ligulato-oblanceolatis crispato-undulatis, labello parvo e basi dilatato

carunculato in laminam recurvam ovatam angustato, columna brevi

recurva antice tumida sulcata utrinque apicem versus unidentata.

O. zebrinum, Rehb. f. in Seem. Bompland, 1854; Lindl. Fol. Orchid. Oncid.

No. 16; Rchb.f. in Gard. Chron., 1872, p. 1555. :

Oponroatossum zebrinum, Rchb.f. in Linnea, vol. xxii. p. 849; Lindl, Fol.

Orchid. Odontoglossum, No. 40.

A very attractive plant from the pure white of the perianth,

with its red-purple bars, and the fine gamboge-yellow of the

bars of the lip; at least such are the attractions of the variety

figured here. But Reichenbach describes a form in which

the whole disk of the sepals is violet, and with only one

violet spot at the base of each petal. In the length of the

panicle it exceeds all other species I have seen growing ; in

the specimen here figured it was twelve feet long. Mr.

Burbridge, who communicated the plant to me from the

garden of Sir William Marriott, of Dover House, Blandford,

observes, that the pseudo-bulbs are quite like those of 0. ma-

cranthum (Tab. nost. 5743).

Oncidium zebrinum has been sent home, living or dried, by

various collectors, and was first flowered, according to Pro-

fessor Reichenbach, by Mr. Bull, in 1872.

Descr. Rhizome stout, creeping, as thick as a goose-quill,

with lanceolate brown scarious sheaths about one inch long.

Pseudo-bulbs three and a-half to four inches long, by one and

DECEMBER Ist, 1874.

_ a-half to one and three-quarter inch broad, narrow ovoid, com-

pressed, green, grooved when old or dry. Leaves six to nine

inches long, between ensiform and lanceolate, acuminate,

striated, keeled, deep green, paler beneath. ' Panicle sometimes

twelve feet long, peduncle and rachis green, terete, as thick

as a crow-quill and upwards, very flexuous but rigid, branches

six inches long. Bracts one-half to three-quarter inch long,

oblong-lanceolate, brown, dry. Pedicel together with the

slender ovary one inch long. Perianth one and a-half to one

and three-quarter inch in diameter. Sepals and Petals very

similar, narrowly obovate or oblanceolate, or somewhat spa-

thulate, waved and crisped, white with violet-red bars from

the base to the middle. Zip much smaller than the petals,

base broad subquadrate, irregularly thickened and warted,

the centre yellow, the edges barred; from this base the lip

suddenly contracts into a triangular thick reflexed somewhat

concave limb, which is white speckled with dull-red. Column

short, tumid, and grooved in part, with a horizontal process

on each side at the tip—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, View of ovary, column, and lip :—magnified.

6139

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Tas. 6139.

FUCHSIA PROCUMBENS.

Native of New Zealand.

Nat. Ord. ONAGRARIEZ.

Genus Fucnsta, Linn. ; (Benth. 5° Hook. f. Gen. Plant., vol. 1, p. 790).

Fucnsia procumbens ; elaberrima, prostata, caulibus filiformibus elongatis,

foliis longe graciliter petiolatis ovatis v. orbiculato v. cordato-ovatis

obtusis obscure sinuato-dentatis inter nervos non reticulatis, floribus

solitariis axillaribus erectis, calycis tubo cylindraceo-campanulato basi

rotundato non inflato, lobis oblongis obtusis, petalis 0.

Fucnsta procumbens, 2. Cunn. in A. Cunn, Bot. Fl. Nov. Zel. in Ann. Nat.

Hist., vol. iii. p. 315 Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 421; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zeld.,

vol. i. p. 573 Handb. New Zeald. Flor., p. 76 and 728 ; Masters in

Gard. Chron., Sept. 1874. (Planta 9).

F. Kirkii, Hook. f. in Ic. Plant., t. 1083 (Planta ¢ ).

This curious little plant, so unlike a Fuehsia in habit and

colour of the flower, was discovered in 1834 by Richard

Cunningham in the northern Island of New Zealand, on the

shores of the east coast, opposite the Cavalhos Islands, grow-

ing on the sandy beach, where it has since been gathered by

Colenso. It has also been found on the Great Barrier

Islands by Mr. Kirk in two localities, both near the sea.

This latter I distinguished as F. Kirkii, relymg on the

length of the style and large capitate stigma, which I now

find evidently a sexual character. I also attributed to the

true F. procumbens lanceolate sepals ; in this latter character

I now find I was deceived by the Herbarium containing a

mixture of specimens of what I take to be a slender variety

of F. Colensoi (Handbook of New Zealand Flora, p. 728) with

those of F. procumbens. Like all New Zealand plants, the

Fuchsias are extraordinarily variable, and the two small —

species ( procumbens and Colensoi) are certainly bisexual. Of —

the three New Zealand species, J". excorticata and Colensoi have

inflated at the base, then suddenly contracted and dilated

DECEMBER Ist, 1874.

again into a funnel-shaped limb, with lanceolate spreading

lobes, and have minute petals; whereas /. procumbens has

leaves without reticulation, has a cylindric corolla-tube with

linear-oblong lobes which are sharply reflexed on the tube ;

it has also often shorter petioles than / Colensoi, and is

apetalous. /. Colensoi may be divisible into two species; one

more robust with the calyx three-quarters of an inch long, the

other as slender and trailing as F. procumbens, with the calyx

one-third to one-half inch long; but this .can only be deter-

mined by studying the plant in all its states : the larger form

is possibly only a small state of /. excorticata.

F. procumbens was introduced into England by the late Mr.

Williams, of Hendon, many years ago; and again by Mr. J.

Blackett, of Egham, from whose plant Mr. Burbridge sent me

an excellent drawing in August last, in which, however, the

flowers are represented as pendulous. About the same time

Mr. Kinghorn, of Richmond, brought me a beautiful plant of

it, from which the accompanying drawing was made by my

very accomplished friend, J. I". Mogeridge, F.L.S., and which

is here reproduced by Mr. Fitch.

Duscr. Stems filiform, trailing, often many feet long. Leaves

one-half to three-quarters of an inch long, ovate or cordate,

rarely orbicular, obscurely sinuate-toothed, membranous,

pale green above, almost white beneath, not reticulated be-

tween the principal nerves ; petiole filiform, longer than the

blade. Howers solitary, axillary, erect, pedicels one-fourth

to one-half inch long. Calyz-limb longer than the pedicel,

cylindric, rounded but not inflated at the base, pale orange-

yellow ; lobes spreading, then reflexed on the tube, linear-

oblong, obtuse, dark purple, green at the base. Stamens in

the male plant on slender filaments; anthers blue; those of

the female with short filaments. Ovary ovoid; style in the

male plant included with a small stigma, in the female

exserted with a large capitate stigma.—/. D. H.

Fig, 1, Flower, with corolla laid open :—magnified.

INDEX

To Vol. XXX. of the Tarrp Series, or Vol. C. of the

Work,

nanos Thee

Page ra

6117 Achillea ageratifolia. 6152 Iris levigata.

6092 Aconitum heterophyllum. 6110 Iris olbiensis.

6087 Arabis blepharophylla. 6118 Iris tectorum.

6079 Bambusa striata. 6116 Kniphofia Rooperi.

6086 Bauhinia natalensis. 6106 Lessertia perennans.

6091 Beschorneria Tonelii, 6126 Lilium maculatum.

6134 Blumenbachia contorta. | 6181 Melaleuca Wilsoni.

6119 Bolbophyllum Dayanum. 6077 Mesembryanthemum trunca-

6137 Boucerosia maroccana. tellum,

6114 Brachysema undulatum. 6088 Nunnezharia geonomeformis.

6123 Brodiza volubilis. 6085 Odontoglossum Roezlii.

6104 Calanthe curculigoides. 6084 Odontoglossum roseum.

6111 Campsidium chilense. 6138 Oncidium zebrinum.

6130 Cerinthe gymnandra. _ 6093 Panax sambucifolius.

6107 Chrysanthemum Catananche. 6129 Passiflora manicata.

6120 Cinnamodendron corticosum, 6122 Pentstemon humilis.

6128 Citrus Aurantium, var. japo- || 6125 Pogonia discolor.

nica. 6138 Polygonatum vulgare,

*6090 Colchicum Parkinsoni. 6112 Pyrus baccata,

6078 Colchicum speciosum. 6100 Regelia ciliata.

6113 Crinum Moorei. 6135 Rheum officinale.

6103 Crocus cancellatus. 6089 Rhipsalis Houlletii.

6115 Decabelone elegans. 6095 Rhopala Pohlii.

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