CURTIS'S

BOTANICAL MAGAZINE,

COMPRISING THE

Plants of the Roval Gardens of Kew,

AND

OF OTHER BOTANICAL ESTABLISHMENTS IN GREAT BRITAIN,

WITH SUITABLE DESCRIPTIONS;

SIR JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER, M.D., O.B., K.C.S.L,

F.BS., F.L.S., ETO.,

D.C.L. OXON., LL.D. CANTAB., CORRESPONDENT OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANOB,

fi VOL. Say,

OF THE THIRD SERIES.

(Or Vol. CV. of the whole Work.)

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“"No daintie flowre or herbe that growes on grownd,

No arborete with — sey pe yee ae

And smelling sweete, ere it mig :

To bud out faire, and throwe her sweete smels al around.” —Faerie Queene.

LONDON: ‘

L. REEVE anp CO., 5, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

1879.

Mo. Bot. Garden,

1897.

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GEORGE KING, ESQ. MB, F.LS,,

SUPERINTENDENT OF THE ROYAL BOTANICAL GARDENS, CALCUTTA.

My par Kine,

Allow me the pleasure of dedicating this volume

to you, as the worthy successor to a position held by three

eminent Indian Botanists, Wallich, Thomson, and Anderson,

who have successively accepted similar tributes from the pens

of Editors of the Boranican Macaztne. Let me at the

same time record my sense of the active interest which you

have shown in the Royal Gardens of Kew, and in its offspring,

the present work; and of the value of your contributions to

it, to Horticulture, and to Botanical Science.

I am, my dear King,

Very sincerely yours,

_ J. D. HOOKER.

Royat Garpens, Kew,

Dec. 1st, 1879.

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BURBIDGEA nrripa.

Native of Borneo.

Nat. Ord. ZrnerpERacex.—Tribe Amom2,

Genus novum Bursincra, Hook, f.

Gen. Cuar.— Perianthium exterius (calyx) tubulosum, membranaceum, ore

truncato obscure 2-dentato; interius tubo gracili elongato; segmenta

3 exteriora patentia, postico orbiculato subacuto, lateralibus minoribus

elliptico-lanceolatis acuminatis ; interiora lateralia 0. Zabellum parvum,

erectum, anthere antepositum, stipite anther equilongo elongato, lamina

oblongo-quadrata petaloidea, basi cordata, apice 2-fida. Anthera lineari-

elongata, filamento brevi, connectivo in appendicem Janceolatam acutam

lamina labello inclusam producto. Ovarium subcylindraceum, 3-loculare ;

stylus filiformis, superne inter loculos anther» inclusus, stigmate breviter

exserto parvo obliqne truncato concayo; ovula in loculis numerosa, pla-

centis angulo interiori affixis inserta. Fructus elongatus, cylindraceus,

coriaceus, indehiscens, 1-locularis, polyspermus. Semina immatura axi

soluta 8-ptera inserta, erecta, fusiformia, arillo carnoso laciniato.—Herba

caulescens, Borneensis, habita Hedychii, rhizomate repente, caulibus 2-3-peda-

libus erectis fasciculatis. Folia alterna, subcarnosa, elliptico-lanceolata,

cordato-acuminata, utrinque nitida. Flores speciosi, in paniculas terminales

dispositi, aurantiaco-coccinei, odore zingiberaceo. Fructus 2-pollicaris.

B. natida, Hook. f.

This very beautiful plant is the type of an entirely new

genus, with the habit of Hedychium, but with the lip reduced

to a small stipitate blade, and with no lateral inner segments

of the perianth. Mr. F. W. Burbidge, who discovered it

when travelling in Borneo, for Messrs. Veitch, informs me

that it grows in shady forests of the Murut district in

N.W. Borneo, between the Lawas and Trusan rivers, at an

altitude of 1,000 to 1,500 feet, in spots where there is little

undergrowth ; and that it thrives best where the rhizomes

form matted masses on moist rocks covered with vegetable _

débris, producing ten to thirty slender flowering stems, rarely

exceeding ten feet high, and each bearing a panicle of twelve

to twenty flowers. The leaves are of a lively glossy green

on both surfaces, and serve to set off the rich orange-scarlet-

colour of the flowers. Mr. Burbidge further remarks that

it is very local in its distribution, he having found it only

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in one place, and that this restricted distribution is shared by

many other Bornean plants, especially aroids; so that ina

journey of even twenty miles one may pass through belt after

belt of different kinds of aroids, ferns, and orchids, just as

is the case in ascending a high mountain range. S

I have named this interesting discovery in recognition

of Mr. Burbidge’s eminent services to horticulture, whether

as a collector in Borneo, or as author of ‘ Cultivated Plants,

their Propagation and Improvement,’ a work which should

be in every gardener’s library. The drawing here given is

from a sketch by Mr. Burbidge, and the analyses are from

specimens which bloomed twice in Messrs. Veitch’s nursery

within a year after their introduction.

Duscr. Rootstocks creeping, matted. Stems tufted, two to

four feet high, slender, terete, leafy. Leaves four to six

inches long; sheaths subcylindric, with short rounded —

auricles ; blade four to six inches long, elliptic-lanceolate,

caudate-acuminate, rather fleshy, bright green above, glossy

on both surfaces. Panicle terminal, four to six inches long,

many-flowered; rachis and short pedicels glabrous. Outer

pertanth (calyx) a membranous tube, truncate and obscurely

two-toothed. Inner perianth-tube one to one and a half inch

long, slender, glabrous ; outer segments one and a half to two

inches in diameter, bright orange-scarlet ; dorsal almost

orbicular, subacute; two lateral elliptic-ovate, acuminate ;

inner lateral segment 0. Lvp small, erect, with a long stipes

and small oblong bifid petaloid blade, which embraces the

appendix of the anther. Anther linear-oblong, puberulous

at the back; connective produced into an erect lanceolate

acute appendage as long as the anther-cells, or longer. Ovary

pubescent, three-celled ; cells many-ovuled ; style slender,

upper part embraced by the anther-cells ; stigma somewhat

dilated, obliquely truncate, concave. Fruit slender, cylindric,

two to three inches long, coriaceous, indehiscent, one-celled

from the absorption of the septa. Seeds (unripe) fusiform,

erect, attached to a central free three-winged column ; aril

fleshy, laciniate, almost equalling the seed:—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Flower ; 2, stamen and lip; 8 and 4, side and front view of anther;

5, limb of lip; 6, stigma; 7, outer perianth; 8, transverse section of ovary :—

all enlarged,

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ESCALLONIA FrortpunDa.

Native of New Grenada.

Nat. Ord. Saxrrracem.—Tribe EscaLLoniER.

Genus Escatxonia, Linn. f.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 644).

Escattonia floribunda ; glaberrima, ramulis folisique junioribus viscosis, ramis

teretibus, foliis lineari- v. obovato-oblongis obtusis minutissime denticulatis

membranaceis lete viridibus subtus pallidis sparse minute furfuraceis v.

glaberrimis creberrime reticulatis, cymis pyramidatis terminalibus multifloris,

floribus albis 3-poll. diametro, calycis tubo obconico, limbo brevi 5-dentato,

dentibus latis brevibus, petalis obovato-spathulatis patenti-recurvis concavis,

filamentis robustis petala subequantibus, stylo robusto, stigmate capitato.

E. floribunda, Humb, Bonpl. et Kunth, Nov. Gen. et Sp. Amer. vol. iii. p. 297;

Kunth Synops. Plant. A2quinoct. vol. ii. p. 826; DC. Prod. vol. iv. p. 43,

Lodd. Bot. Cab.t. 1772; Reichb. Ic. Bot. Haot. t. 202.

E. montevidensis, DC. Prod. vol. iv. p. 4; Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1467.

E. floribunda, var. montevidensis, Cham. et Schlecht, in Linnea, vol. i. p. 543.

E. bifida, Link et Otto, Ic. Pl. Hort. Berol. t. 23.

An ornamental free-flowering shrub, remarkable for its

very wide geographical range. It was discovered by Hum-

boldt and Bonpland in the Andes of New Grenada, at an

elevation of 8,400 feet, where it has since been collected by

the late Dr. Jameson, Purdie, Triana, and others; to the

northward it has been found in Venezuela, on the Silla of

Caraccas, at 2,500 to 4,000 feet, with smaller flowers than the

New Grenada form; and to the south in Peru, whence it

extends across the continent to the Rio Grande do Sul province

of Monte Video. The specimens from the latter country,

though originally described as a variety of floribunda by

Chamisso and Schlechtendal, were erected into a different

species by De Candolle, who was followed in ‘this respect by

Lindley. Of these authors De Candolle gives no distinctive

characters, and Lindley, who gives an excellent figure of the

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Monte Video plant in the Botanical Register, depends for its dis-

tinctive characters on its absence of viscidity, terete branches,

larger fruit, more corymbose inflorescence, and longer calycine

teeth ; but these characters all seem to break down; Lindley

himself describes the leaves of the E. montevidensis as covered

with resinous dots beneath; the branches of E. floribunda are

quite round, its fruit varies in size, as do its corymbs, and the

calyx-teeth are identical in the two plants. The name of

L. bifida was given to a state with leaves accidentally

notched at the point. Both 2. floribunda and montevidensis

are cultivated in the open air at Kew, against a wall; of

these the former was received from Messrs. Smith, of

Worcester, and has been out for two years; the latter has

been for many years in cultivation, but does not flower so

freely : both flower in August.

Descr. A leafy evergreen bush or small tree, with suberect

cylindric branches, and rather viscid young branches and

leaves. Leaves two and a half to four inches long, elliptic

or linear- or obovate-oblong, obtuse, rarely acute, narrowed

into a slender petiole which varies from one quarter to three

quarters of an inch long, margin minutely crenulate, dark

green above, paler beneath with close reticulations and

resinous dots or sometimes minute scurfy resinous points.

Cymes terminal, pyramidal, much branched, three to five

inches long and broad, leafy below; bracts 0 or small and

linear; pedicels slender, one-sixth to one quarter of an inch long.

Flowers one half inch in diameter, white. Calyz-tube broadly

obconic, limb with five broadly triangular teeth. Petals

obovate-spathulate, concave, obtuse. Filaments stout, equalling

the petals. Style as long as the stamen, stigma capitate.—

J.D. H. ates

Fig. 1, Vertical section of flower ; 2, transverse section of ovary :—both enlarged.

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NEPETA spicata.

Native of the Western Himalaya.

Nat. Ord. Lasrata.—Tribe Nererz.

Genus Nepeta, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. ii. p. 1199).

Nereta spicata; glabra v. parce puberula v. hirsuta, caule erecto v. basi ascen-

dente, foliis longe petiolatis late ovatis acutis v. obtusis crenatis basi cordatis

v. truncatis utrinque viridibus, nervis subtus prominulis, spicis oblongis y.

linearibus dense- v. laxi-floris interdum interruptis, bracteis oblongo- v. ellip-

tico-lanceolatis subulato-acuminatis calycem mquantibus v. superantibus,

calycis dentibus subulatis tubum rectum v. curvatum costatum squantibus,

corolla tubo late infundibulari calyce duplo longiore, labio superiore brevi

2-lobo, .inferioris lobis lateralibus brevissimis terminali orbiculari concavo

albo.

N. spicata, Benth. in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. vol. i. p. 64, et in D.C, Prod. vol. xii.

p. 872.

Beronica levigata, Don Prod. Fl. Nep. p. 110.

One of the commonest Himalayan cat-mints, ranging from

the Kumaon to Kashmir and Murree, at elevations of 7,000

to 12,000 feet, but not found in Nepal or anywhere to the

eastward of it. In its most fully developed state it forms an

erect herbaceous perennial, two to three feet high, with

dense spikes of bright purple flowers, three to four inches

long and an inch broad, and there are sometimes five and six

spikes on abranch ; such is the var. e/ata of Bentham, which,

however, passes gradually into the smaller and commoner

form of the plant here figured. This was sent by T. Ander-

son Henry, Esq., from his rich herbaceous garden at Trinity,

Edinburgh, where it flowered for the first time in September

last. Besides its varying in stature, the bracts present all

sizes, from equalling the calyx to three times that length,

when the spikes appear bristly from the long exserted seta-

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ceous points; the whole plant is glabrous or pubescent; the

flowers vary greatly in size, and the calyx is straight or

curved.

Descr. An erect or ascending branched herb, with peren-

nial rootstock, glabrous, hirsute, or puberulous. Stem acutely

four-angled. Leaves one to four inches long, broadly

ovate-cordate, rarely rounded at the base, deeply serrated or

toothed, bright green above, paler beneath ; petiole one-half

to two inches long. Spikes terminal, sessile or peduncled,

two to four inches long, one-half to one inch in diameter,

lax- or dense-flowered. Bracés elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate,

ending in a straight subulate point, reticulate, rigid. Calyx-

tube shortly cylindric, straight or curved, strongly nerved ;

lobes as long as the tube, subulate, with long straight points.

Corolla purple, lower lip nearly white; tube twice or thrice

as long as the calyx, funnel-shaped, slightly curved; upper |

lip short, two-lobed ; lower three-lobed ; side lobes very short,

recurved, longer than broad; mid-lobe orbicular, -concave,

crenulate. Stamens included in the upper lip. Stigma

_ ~~ short subulate lobes. Mueules small, smooth.—

Fig. a, flower; b, the same halved vertically ; ¢, calyx; d, stigma; ¢, nucules:

—all enlarged.

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FRITILLARIA KARELINI.

Native of Central Asia,

Nat. Ord. Littacex.—Tribe Torres.

Genus Fritrmrari, Linn.; (Baker in Journ, Linn. Soc, vol. xxv. p. 251).

Fritiiiaria (Phinopetalum) Karelini ; bulbo globoso squamis paucis crassis, caule

brevi scabro foliis 4-6 preedito, infimis lanceolatis alternis vel oppositis,

superioribus linearibus alternis, floribus 2-12 cernuis in racemum dispositis,

pedicellis ascendentibus brevibus, bracteis magnis foliaceis linearibus inferi-

oribus geminis, perianthii campanulati pallide purpurei segmentis oblongis

obtusis unguiculatis maculis paucis saturatioribus preeditis flore expanso

supra medium patulis, unguibus omnium distincte foveolatis, ungue

superioris profunde saccato, staminibus perianthio duplo brevioribus fila-

mentis subulatis scabris, stylo integro ovario duplo longiori, capsulis latioribus

quam longis apice umbilicatis basi truncatis, seminibus crebris discoideis.

F. Karelini, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xiv. p. 268.

F. gibbosa, Boiss. Diagn. part vii. p. 107; Walp. Ann, vol. i. p. 852.

F. pterocarpa, Stocks in Hook. Kew. Journ, vol. iv. p. 180.

Raworeratum Karelini, Fisch. in Hdin. New Phil. Journ, 1830, p. 19; D. Don in

Sweet Brit. Flor. Gard. ser. ii. t. 283; Kunth Enum. vol. iv. p, 256; Flore

des Serres, t. 2214; Regel Gartenfl. 1874 p. 161 t. 796; FU. Turkest. p. 151.

R. Boissieri, Klatt in Hamb. Gartenzeit. vol. xvi. p. 489.

This singular plant has been known for a long time. It

was sent as long ago as 1836 by Dr. Fischer, of St. Peters-

burg, to Mr. Anderson, of the Chelsea Botanic Garden, and

was figured at the time in Sweet’s British Flower Garden

from the dwarf starved specimens that flowered at Chelsea.

Within the last few years it has been again introduced,

and has been grown successfully by several different

cultivators both in Germany and in England. In a wild

state it is widely diffused, as it reaches from the Ural and

Altai mountains southward through Persia and Turkestan

to Beloochistan and Afghanistan. It has not yet been found

within the bounds of the Flora Indica. The claims of

Rhinopetalum to be regarded as a genus distinct from

Fritillaria rest only upon the fact that the foveole of the

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upper segment of the perianth is decidedly deeper than those

of the other five segments, which gives the flower a slight

irregularity ; but the plant is so completely a Fritillary in all

other points, that when I monographed the genus I kept it up

as a section only. The specimen from which our plate was

drawn was communicated by Mr. G. Maw, with whom it

flowered early in the month of October of last year.

Descr. Bulb globose, about an inch in diameter, composed

of very few thick scales. Stem not more than four or six

inches long, of which the lowest one and a half or two inches

are below the surface of the soil, the upper part scabrous, as

are the axis of the raceme and the margins of the leaves and

bracts. Leaves four or six to the stem below the in-

florescence, ascending, rather fleshy, glaucous, the two lowest

the largest, lanceolate, alternate or opposite, the others

smaller, linear, always alternate. Flowers from two to twelve

in a close raceme, cernuous, on short, ascending pedicels,

which are bracteated by linear leaves, of which there is a pair

to the lower flowers. Perianth campanulate, under an inch

long, pale purple, with darker veins and a few darker spots ;

segments oblong, obtuse, unguiculate, subequal, spreading

from the middle when the flower is expanded, the claw of

each furnished with a distinct yellowish-green foveole, that of

the upper segment deeper than the others, so as to forma

sort of rounded spur a twelfth or an eighth of an inch long.

Stamens about half as long as the perianth segments ; fila-

ments scabrous, subulate, narrowed to the tip; anthers small,

sub-globose or linear-oblong, basifixed. Pist/ about as long

as the stamens; style entire, twice as long as the oblong

ovary. Capsule broader (about an inch in diameter) than

long, umbilicate at the apex, truncate at the base, with a

distinct neck. Seeds brown, discoid, packed tightly in two

rows in each of the cells.—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, A flower cut in half, so as to show the spur of the upper segment;

2, pedicel, with its pair of bracts; 3, ovary, with style and stigma; 4, a single

stamen; 5, an anther, shedding pollen :—all magnified.

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VERONICA Lonerrorts, var. SUBSESSILIS.

Native of Japan.

Nat. Ord. ScropHuLARIAcEx.—Tribe Di@iTaLeR.

Genus Veronia, Linn. (Benth et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 964).

Veronica (Pseudolysimachia) longifolia ; caule glabro puberulo, foliis breviter

petiolatis oppositis v. 3-natim verticillatise basi ovata v. cordata ovato- v.

oblongo-lanceolatis! acuminatis argute serratis, racemis solitariis v. paucis

densifloris, pedicellis calyce sepius brevioribus. Linn. Sp, Pl. p.18; Benth.

in DC. Prod, vol. x, p. 465.

Van. subsessilis; foliis brevissime petiolatis simpliciter serratis subtus appresse

puberulis, racemorum rhachi appresse pubescente, sepalis ciliolatis. Miquel,

Ann. Mus. Lugd, Bat, vol. ii. p. 119.

This brilliant Speedwell hardly differs, even as a variety,

from the European V. longifolia, which ranges from Lapland,

Denmark, and Lombardy, in the west, through middle

Europe and N. Asia to China, and thence to the Island of

Saghalien and Japan. The specimens from the latter country

have been distinguished as a variety by Miquel, on account of

their broader leaves, very short petioles, and sparce pubes-

bescence, but I find as broad and as shortly petioled speci-

mens in Europe; and the leaves of some Japanese ones are

narrow-lanceolate. It is further very near the common

continental V. spicata, L., and the 8. Europe and N. Asiatic

_ V. paniculata, L.; and, as Bentham remarks, is connected

with these by intermediate states or garden hybrids; so that

it is difficult to assign the limits of the species in the wide-

spread and beautiful Pseudolysimachia section of the genus

to which they all belong. In cultivation the Japanese plant

is a superb object, with its dense spikes of amethystine blue

lucid flowers, and deep green leaves. It has been introduced

by Messrs. Ware, of Tottenham, who sent the specimen here

figured in August of last year.

Descr.—An erect branching undershrub, two to four feet

high. Stem cylindrical; branches ascending, puberulous.

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Leaves two to four inches long, very shortly petioled, dark

green, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, deeply acutely

serrate ; nerves strong and puberulous beneath. Racemes

terminal and on lateral branches, six inches to nearly a foot

long, subsessile or peduncled, strict, erect, very dense-

flowered ; rachis pubescent. Bracts linear-lanceolate. Pe-

dicels about as long as the calyx. Sepals ovate-oblong or

linear, subacute, ciliolate. Corolla one-third of an inch in

diameter, bright amethystine blue; tube very short; seg-

ments spreading, rounded, concave, the posticous rather the

largest. Filaments slender, exceeding the corolla-segment.

Style filiform; stigma capitate. Cupsule rather longer than

the sepals, turgid, two-lobed.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Side, and 2, front view of the flower :—enlarged.

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ECCREMOCARPUS SCABER.

Natiwe of Chili.

Nat. Ord. Branontacem.—Tribe JACARANDEA.

Genus Eccremocanpus, Ruiz et Pavon. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl.v. ii. p.1050.)

Eccremocarrus (Calampelis) scaber ; scandens, ramis gracilibus angulatis, ramulis

petiolis et inflorescentia puberulis, v. scaberulis, foliis oppositis bipinnatis

petiolo stricto rachi pinnarum flexuoso, pinnulis alternis petiolulatis oblique

ovatis cordatis v. subrotundatis integris v. 2-3-lobis, cirrhis dichotome

ramosis, racemis elongatis secundifloris, bracteis parvis, calycis tubo subin-

flato, lobis triangularibus, corolle tubo hinc ventricoso, ore contracto, limbo

parvo angusto annulari recurvo 5-lobo, antheris refractis loculis divaricatis,

capsula stipitata elongato-ovoidea acuta membranacea inflata, seminibus

multiseriatis ala orbiculari basi emarginato. ;

E. scaber, Ruiz et Pavon, Fl. Peruv. Prodr. p.90; Syst. Veg. p. 157; Lindl. in

Trans. Hort. Soc. vol. vii. p. 249; Bot. Reg. t. 939; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1411;

DC. Prod, vol. ix. p. 238; Rev. Hortic. p.857, Ic. Xylog.

Catampetis scaber, Don in Edinb. Phil. Journ. 1829, p. 89; Sweet. Brit. F1.

Gard. ser. 2, t. 30; Hindlich. Iconog. Gen. Plant. t. 95.

We take the opportunity of figuring the ripe fruit and

seeds together with the flower of this old-established favourite,

which has not till now found the place it should long since

have occupied in the Botanica, Macazinz. Though originally

introduced into England from Mexico in 1824 (when it was

raised by Mr. Tate, of the long-abandoned Sloane Street

Nursery), its native habitat is Chili, whence we have at

Kew dried specimens, collected upwards of eighty years ago by

the celebrated Archibald Menzies, when accompanying Capt.

Vancouver in his surveying voyage to N. W. America, and

when also he procured the seeds of the great tree of Araucaria

imbricata, now growing in the Royal Garden at Kew.

The motions of the stems, leaves, and tendrils of this

plant have been described by Mr. Darwin in his admirable

work ‘“‘On the Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants”

(p. 103). He found that the internodes, leaves, and tendrils

all revolved, all thus contributing their efforts towards

finding support for the elongating climbing stem. Of these

the internodes revolved at rates varying from 3} to 14 hours,

sometimes standing still for 12 or 18 hours. The young main

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petioles follow nearly the same course and rate as the inter-

nodes, but the two opposite petioles did not move together.

Lastly, the tendrils, besides being carried about by the

revolving petioles, themselves move: spontaneously. ‘Then,

with regard to the branches of the tendrils, they are sensitive

on all sides, bending in about 10 minutes after being rubbed,

or after coming in contact with a support; and after such

contact several branches might be seen slowly to lift themselves

up, change their positions, and again come into contact with

the supporting surface. The object of this latter movement

is to bring the double hooks at the ends of the branches,

which naturally face in all directions, into contact with the

wood, lastly, if the tendrils come into contact with a

slender object, the sensitive nature of their branches (on

being touched) close to the little hooks, causes them to curl

round and clasp it. —

Descr. A slender climber, glabrous, or with a scant

scabrous pubescence, chiefly on the branchlets, petioles and

inflorescence ; trunk with corky bark; branches acutely

angled. Leaves opposite, bipinnate, the main petiole stiff

and angular, the secondary more flexuous, and often ending

in dichotomously branched filiform circinnate tendrils ;

leaflets few, alternate, petiolate, one-fourth to three-fourths of

an inch long, ovate-cordate or orbicular, obtuse, more or less

oblique, entire or lobed. Racemes four to six inches long,

drooping; bracts small, ovate, green; pedicels secund, a

quarter to half an inch long. lowers an inch and a half

long. Calyx-tube rounded at the base, rather inflated ; lobes

triangular, erect. Corolla tubular, ventricose above the calyx

on one side, suddenly contracted at the orifice; limb very

short, revolute, 5-lobed. Anthers with divaricating lobes and

glandular connective. Ovary oblong; style slender, stigmas

two, diverging. Capsule pendulous, an inch and a half long,

elongate-ovoid or ellipsoid, suddenly contracted into a stipes,

coriaceous, wrinkled, 2-valved; placentas narrow, covered

with imbricating seeds in many rows. Seeds one-twelfth of

an inch in diameter, including the broad circular wing, which

is notched at the base.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Longitudinal section of flower; 2 and 8, front and back view of anthers;

' 4, transverse section of ovary; 8, section of valve of capsule and placenta with

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‘DIOSCOREA vrrrara. -

Native of Brazil.

Nat. Ord. DioscorEx,

Genus Droscorna, Linn. ; (Kunth, Enum. vol. v. p. 325).

Dioscorra (Epistemon) vittata; caule gracili glabro late volubili, foliis cordato-

ovatis, cuspidatis integris glabris membranaceis petiolatis, lobis basalibus bre-

vibus rotundatis, sinu basali late rotundato, utrinque viridibus vel sepe rubro

vel albido-variegatis, floribus masculis laxe racemosis 1-3-nis breviter pedun-

culatis, rachibus pedicellisque pubescentibus, bracteis minutis lanceolatis, peri-

anthio luteo-viridulo parvo, tubo brevi campanulato segmentis lineari-lance-

olatis, staminibus perfectis 6 in tubo insertis segmentis duplo brevioribus,

filamentis cylindricis, antheris minutis oblongis, floribus foemineis ignotis.

D. vittata, Hort. Bull. Cat. no. 72 (1872), p. 21, (mame only).

This is one out of several Dioscoreas which have been

widely grown in our hot-houses of late years for the sake of

their variegated leaves. The earliest mention of the present

plant which I have found is in Mr. Bull’s catalogue above

cited. We have had it in the Palm-house at Kew for many

years, but it never flowered till last autumn: We then found

that it agreed with a plant belonging to the section Epis-

temon of Grisebach, which we have had in the Herbarium for

a long time without any specific name, gathered by Salzmann

near Bahia; the dried specimen, like the™living one, repre-

senting only the staminate plant. It does not agree with

any of the species described by Grisebach in the ‘Flora Brasi-

liensis,” nor by Kunth in his ‘‘ Enumeratio,”’ so we have kept

the name under which it has been widely distributed in cul-

tivation.

Descr. Stems very slender, wide-turning, glabrous. Leaves

cordate-ovate, entire, cuspidate, with rounded basal lobes and

a broadly-rounded basal sinus three to five inches long, mem-

branous in texture, glabrous, green on both sides, or flushed

with claret-red beneath, or variegated on both sides with red

and white, with about three main veins on each side of the

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midrib, which extend from its base to the margins; petiole

one or two inches long. Male racemes one to three from the

axil of each leaf, three or four inches long, lax, shortly pe-

duncled; rachis pubescent ; flowers solitary, on short pubes-

cent pedicels, each with a minute lanceolate bract at its base.

Pertanth greenish-yellow, an eighth or a sixth of an inch

long; tube short, campanulate; segments linear-lanceolate,

three or four times as long as the tube. Fertile stamens six,

inserted low down in the tube, half as long as the perianth-—

segments; filaments cylindrical; anthers minute, yellow,

oblong. Rudimentary ovary present in the staminate flower.

Female flowers and fruit unknown. — J. G. Baker.

1, A single flower; 2, a flower, opened out; 3, a stamen; 4, rudimentary ovary

of the staminate flower :—all enlarged.

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LOASA VULCANICA, —

Native of Equador.

Nat. Ord. Loasex.

Genus Loasa, Juss; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i., p. 804).

Loasa vulcanica ; annua, setosa, erecta, foliis tripartitis, segmentis petiolulatis

elliptico-ovatis obovatisve acuminatis grosse inequaliter lobulatis et

serratis, petiolulis lateralibus spe basi pinnulis 2-3 alternis auctis, racemis

foliosis, foliis floralibus subsessilibus inferioribus tripartitis supremis integris

omnibus inciso-serratis, floribus nutantibus, calycis lobis late ovatis acutis,

petalis albis auguste cymbiformibus, squamis conicis aureis rubro trans-

versim vittatis, ovario clavato.

L. vuleanica, Fd, André, Il. Hortie. vol. xxv. p. 11, t. 302.

L. Wallisii, Hort.

M. André, who introduced this pretty plant into cultiva-

tion during his expedition to the Andes of New Grenada and

Equador, states in the ‘ Revue Horticole’ that he found it in

June, 1876, forming a common branched bush on the banks

of the river Pitaton, also occurring at the foot of the

voleano of Corazon, on the western slope of the Andes, at an

elevation of 9000 to 10,500 ft. above the sea. There are

Specimens in the Kew Herbarium gathered by Seemann in

August, 1847, at the village of Gonzanama, also in Equador.

Like the other members of its family it is covered with

stinging bristles, as to which M. André remarks that the

obtaining its seeds cost him ‘‘les mains bullées en mille

endroits.”’

Loasa vulcanica grows as an erect bush to an height of two

or three feet, forming a very attractive plant from the number

of pearly blossoms, each with a golden eye banded with red ;

it is quite hardy, having flowered without protection in the

herbaceous ground at Kew in September, last year. The

artist of our plate, Mrs. Barnard, observed that the filaments

of each bundle of stamens after having sprung towards the

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centre of the petal, from their original position in the hood

of the petal, became coiled up as represented in figure 7. In

some other species the anthers themselves, after fertilization,

became spirally coiled. The specimen figured was raised

from seeds received from Mr. Thompson, of Ipswich, under

the name of Loasa. Wallisit.

Drscr. An erect, much-branched, bushy, leafy herb, two

to three feet high, clothed everywhere with spreading, stinging

bristles. Leaves three to six inches broad, petioled, tripartite,

the segments with long petioles, ovate, or ovate-lanceolate, or

obovate, acuminate, lobulate and coarsely serrate, the lateral

petiolules with two or three smaller sessile leaflets. Racemes

leafy, six to eight-flowered, floral leaves sessile, lower trifoli-

olate, upper simple, irregularly serrate or laciniate. Flowers

on slender nodding pedicels, one to one and a quarter inch

in diameter. Calyx-tube clavate, lobes broadly ovate, acute,

green. Petals clawed, narrowly boat-shaped, white. Scales

broadly conical, golden yellow with transverse red bands,

two-lobed at the tip; with two subulate free processes

attached at its base to its inner face, their tips exserted.

Bundles of stamens coiled inwards after discharging their

pollen ; anthers small, short. Style very slender.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Vertical section of flower; 2, 3, 4, lateral, ventral, and dorsal view of

scales; 5, subulate process; 6, bundles of stamens; 7, the same after discharge

of pollen :—all enlarged.

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INULA Hooxert.

Native of the Sikkim Himalaya.

Nat. Ord. Composittm.—Tribe InuLomEm.

Genus Inuta, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 330.)

Invuta Hookeri ; superne villosa, foliis sessilibus v. in petiolum brevem angustatis

elliptico-lanceolatis acuminatis glanduloso-denticulatis membranaceis supra

pilosis subtus tomentosis v. glabratis, capitulis solitariis 24-3} poll. diametro,

involucri villosissimi bracteis elongato-subulatis recurvis demum squarroso-

patentibus, ligulis perplurimis 1-seriatis pallide flavis angustis elongatis

recurvis, acheniis minutis glabris sulcatis, pappo sordide albo.

I. Hookeri, C. B. Clarke, Compos. Indice, p. 122.

A very free-flowering perennial, with leaves of a remarkably

delicate membranous texture and faintly sweet-scented

flowers. Unfortunately it withers rapidly after being cut,

so that it can be of little use for decorative purposes except

in the garden. It is a native of rocky places and the interior

valleys of Sikkim, at elevations of 7,000 to 10,000 feet, where

it replaces the very similar J. barbata, Wall., of the western

Himalaya. Both these closely resemble the JL. grandiflora,

Willd. and J. glandulosa, Willd. which are natives of the

Caucasus, and the former of which is enumerated by Mr.

C. B. Clarke a native of the western Himalaya also.

All these species are, like J. Hooker, remarkable for the

glands which terminate at the teeth on the margins of the

leaves, and all have narrow finally squarrose involucral bracts,

covered with long shaggy hair.

Inula Hookeri was introduced into cultivation in Kew by

seeds sent by myself from Sikkim in 1849, which flowered in

1851; and specimens from which are preserved in the Kew

Herbarium. It was again raised two years ago from seeds

sent by M. Gammie also from Sikkim, and from which plants

the accompanying drawing was made in September of last

ear.

Descr. Fibrous, with soft hairs, which become tawny

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when dry. Roofstock perennial. Stems one to two feet high,

sparingly branched, slender, angled, pubescent below, villous

above. Leaves three to four inches long, sessile, or narrowed

into very short petioles, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, base

acute, minutely toothed, the teeth tipped with a globose

gland, hairy above, usually tomentose beneath, very mem-

branous, bright green. Heads two and a half to three

and a half inches in diameter, shortly peduncled, ter-

minating leafy branches. JInvolucre very broad, shaggy;

bracts elongate, linear-subulate, spreading and _ recurved,

finally squarrose. lowers of the ray very numerous (about

35), with slender spreading pale-yellow ligules an inch and

more long ; ligule slightly hairy towards the base, obtusely

three-toothed at the apex. Dise flowers very numerous. Re-

ceptacle convex, papillose. Anthers with slender tails.

Achenes very small, deeply grooved. Pappus hairs in one

series, dirty-white.—J/. D. H.

Figs. 1 and 2, Outer and inner involucral bracts; 3, receptacle; 4, the same

cut vertically ; 5, corolla of the ray ; 6, young achene of the ray crowned with the

base of an accessory foliaceous appendage; 7, style-arms of ray-flower, 8, flower

of disc ; 9, stamen ; 10, its style-arms; 11, pappus hair :—all enlarged.

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CUPHEA LANCEOLATA.

Native of Mexico.

Nat. Ord. Lyrurartrx.—Tribe Lyrurez.

Genus Curnea, P. Br. ; (Benth. et Hook. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 778).

Cupnea lanceolata; glanduloso-pubescens et viscosa, caule erecto stricto, foliis

oppositis et alternis petiolatis ovatis v. ovato-lanceolatis obtusiusculis,

floribus axillaribus solitariis pedicellatis deflexis, pedicellis 2-bracteolatis,

bracteolis parvis, calycis tubo elongato imo basi gibbo infra orem antice

inflato lobo dorsali triangulari ovato erecto, ceteris brevissimus acutis sinubus

penicillis villorum auctis, filamentis brevibus longe lanatis, antheris oblongis,

ovario lanceolato glabro disci processu lingueformi basi stipato.

C. lanceolata, Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, vol. iii. p. 150; Kunth, Nov. Gen. et Sp. vol.

vi. p. 605 ; DC. Prod. vol. iii. p. 85; Don in Sweet. Brit. Fl. Gard. vol. vii. t.

402; Regel, Gartenfl. 1864, p. 3%, t. 424.

C. Zimpani, Roezl, MS.

This belongs to the same section of the large genus

Cuphea as the old C. silenoides, Nees (Tab. nost. 4362), but

is a taller-growing, more erect, and much handsomer plant,

with strict (not flexuous) branches, longer calyx-tubes, and

much larger flowers. Regel, indeed, in the ‘Gartenflora,’

reduces C, silenoides to a variety of this, but the habit and

other characters of the two are so different that I do not feel

justified in adopting this conclusion, especially after observing

them growing side by side. : ae

Cuphea lanceolata was introduced into English cultivation

as long ago as 1796, by Mr. Anderson, then curator of the

famous Apothecaries’ garden at Chelsea, but was soon lost,

no doubt from its having been treated as a stove plant, as

directed in the ‘Hortus Kewensis.’ It was reintroduced at

Hamburgh in about 1835, by Messrs. Booth, and was flowered

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in England as a hardy plant by Messrs. Osborne, of Fulham

soon again to be suppressed in England in the rage for new

things and neglect of any hardy herbaceous plants but the

gaudy “ bedding-out stuffs.” It, however, held its place on

the continent, from whence seeds were received at Kew some

years ago. It flowers annually in the herbaceous grounds,

and has a very handsome appearance in September and

October, presenting in its robust habit and erect growth,

larger, deeper-coloured petals, with no pale border, a

marked contrast to the half prostrate flexuous-stemmed

C’. silenoides.

Duscr. An erect, straight, viscidly glandular-pubescent

annual, three to four feet high; branches stout, erect, purplish

green. Leaves half an inch to three inches long, opposite and

alternate, petioled, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, quite

entire, membrancous, soft, bright green. Flowers axillary,

solitary, pedicelled, deflexed ; pedicels one-third to one half

an inch long, purple, 2-bracteolate, bracteoles alternate, green,

small, Calyx an inch long, tubular, gibbous at the very base

above, and swollen below the throat below, ten-nerved,

purple, very viscid ; upper lobe triangular-ovate, erect; four

others very small, spreading or recurved, broadly triangular,

acute, with a tuft of villous hairs in the sinus between each.

Four dorsal petals three-quarters of an inch in diameter,

orbicular, clawed, fine maroon purple with pale veins; four

other petals very small, orbicular, paler. Stamens hardly

exserted from the throat of the calyx, filaments short, densely

woolly above the middle; anther oblong. Ovary lanceolate,

with a slender straight style, attached at its base to the

recurved tongue-shaped disk. Capsule included in the sub-

erect calyx-tube, ovoid, many-seeded.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Vertical section of flower ; 2, front, and 3, side view of calyx; 4 and 5,

Stamens ; 6, ovary and disk ; 7, capsule burst open ; 8, seed-bearing axis ; 9, seed :

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ANEMON OPSIS mMscRoPHYLLA,.

Native of Japan.

Nat. Ord. RanuncuLacex.—Tribe HELLEBORER.

Genus Anemonorsis, Sieb. et Zuce. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 8).

ANEMonopsis macrophylla, elata, glaberrima, caule ramisque gracilibus rigidis

flexuosis cylindraceis purpurascentibus, foliis amplis bi- tri-ternatis, petiolis

petiolulisque gracilibus rigidis, foliolis ovato- v. elliptico-lanceolatis grosse

irregulariter subduplicatim serratis acutis v. acuminatis, intermedio petiolu-

lato, lateralibus sessilibus, racemis laxifloris, floribus longe pedicellatis

nutantibus, bracteolis pedicello et rachi parvis lanceolatis v. trifidis viridibus,

floribus diametro sesquipollicaribus pallide lilacinis, sepalis 3 exterioribus

concavis dorso saturate fusco-purpureis. :

A, macrophylla, Sieb.et Zuec. F1. Jap. Fam. Nat. sect. 1, p. 75; Walp. Ann. vol.

i. p. 155.

Though described upwards of thirty years ago, this highly

remarkable plant has until recently been little known to

botanists; nor until very lately has it been brought under

cultivation. It was discovered in North Japan by the Dutch

traveller and naturalist, Siebold, and described by him and his

coadjutor in publication, Zuccarini, in the Transactions of the

Bavarian Academy of Sciences about 1847. Since then it has

been collected by Tchnonoski in 1864, and specimens com-

municated by him to Maximovicz, the very learned Russian

botanist, who spent many years in the exploration of the

Japanese Archipelago, and by whom magnificent dried

Specimens were sent to Kew. From these the details of the

fruit and seeds are given in the accompanying plate.

\ Anemopsis is a near ally of Cimicifuga, differing in its very

large anemone-like flower, and in the shape of the petals ; it

consists of but one species. The plant from which our figure

was made flowered on the rock-work at Kew in July of last

year.

FEBURARY Ist, 1879.

Descr. An erect perennial herb, two to three feet high,

everywhere quite glabrous, smooth and shining. Stem wiry,

rigid, cylindrical, of a dirty-purple colour, flexuous, simple.

Leaves on very long petioles, eight to ten inches broad,

triangular in outline, biternately compound ; petiole of the

lowermost leaf a foot long, sheathing at the very base ;

partial petioles very slender, lateral divaricating; leaflets

two to four inches long, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, cuneate at

the base, unequally incised-serrate or toothed, the teeth

apiculate, terminal petiolulate, lateral sessile. Flowers one

and a half inch in diameter, drooping or inclined, in lax

few-flowered racemes, or the lowest flower axillary; bracts

on the rachis and pedicel small, green, rigid, lanceolate, or two

to three-fid ; pedicels two to four inches long, curved. Sepals

about nine, concave, spreading, the three outer dirty-purple

externally, internally a pale lilac, as are all the rest and the

petals. Petals about twelve, erect, strongly imbricating in

several series, about one-third the length of the sepals, linear-

oblong, rather contracted downwards, tip rounded, thickened

towards the base on the middle of the inner face. Stamens

numerous, filaments filiform; anthers narrowly oblong, con-

nective much thickened at the back, and produced intoa

point ; cells adnate, linear, opening in front. Carpels 3,

erect, subulate, ending in slender erect styles; ovules very

numerous, two-seriate. Fruit carpels two, stipitate, sharply

deflexed, obtuse, faleate, membranous, much compressed, with

the stigma lateral, about ten-seeded. Seeds oblong; testa

covered with membranous quadrate scales radiating especially

from the margins; albumen copious; embryo minute,

cotyledons short oblong, radicle subglobose.— J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Petal; 2, stamens; 3, carpels; 4 and 5, the same cut vertically and

transversely ; 6, follicles; 7 seed; 8 and 9, the same cut transversely and verti-

cally; 10, embryo :—all enlarged.

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EUCHLANA toxvriays.

Native of Guatemala.

Nat. Ord. Graminrx.—Tribe OLyrEs,

Genus Evucuiana, Schrader ; (Meissn. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 319.)

Evucuizena lueurians; glabra, culmis robustis elatis dense fasciculatis sim-

plicibus erectis foliosis, foliis 3-4—pedalibus elongato-lanceolatis longe acu-

minatis planis junioribus marginibus cartilagineo-serrulatis multinerviis

leevibus, ligula brevi membranacea integra v. fissa, spiculis 9 in spicas

terminales unilaterales subcorymbosim fasciculatis dispositis 2-floris, glu-

mis vacuis scaberulis ovato-lanceolatis exteriore multinervi glumis flo-

riferis paleis angustioribus floris inferioris 3-nervi superioris 1-nervi,

lodiculis subquadratis carnosulis margine superiore crenato, spiculis ? in

spicas elongatas alternatim dispositis et in cameris racheos profundere

cavati.

E. luxurians, Duritu de Maisonneuve et Ascherson in Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn.,

Paris, No. 14, p. 105 (January, 1877).

Reana luxurians, Durizu in Bull. Soc. d’ Acclim., Ser. 2, vol. ix. p. 581 (1872).

Few fodder grasses have of late years attracted more atten-

tion than the magnificent plant here figured, whether for its

supposed value or for its botanical interest. The first notice

of it is contained in an interesting article communicated by

the late M. Duriéu de Maisonneuve (Director of the Botanical

Garden at Bordeaux) to the Acclimatation Society of France.

in 1872, which states that the author received the seeds from

the Society about four years previously under the name of

Teosinté, and as coming from Guatemala, From experiments

made with it in Bordeaux, Collioure, and Antibes, he pro-

nounced it to be a plant of d'une végétation prodigieuse, every

seed ‘producing about 100 stems, and these attaining 10 feet

in height, but as incapable of flowering in these localities,

and as cut down by the first frosts. From imperfect flowers

produced at Antibes, he refers it to the genus Leana, which

is a synonym of Luchlena, as pointed out by Ascherson in

the paper quoted under the specific character. Latterly this

grass has been successfully cultivated at Cairo, from whence

we have received excellent specimens and seeds from Dr.

Schweinfurth, and its valuable properties as a fodder grass

have been abundantly verified. Seeds of it have been dis-

tributed both from Kew and from Cairo, to Cyprus, and the

East and West Indies, Australia, and tropical Africa. _

In a botanical point of view Huch/ena is a most inter-

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MONNINA xatarensis.

Native of Mexico.

Nat. Ord. Potyeates. |

Genus Monnina, Ruiz et Pav. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL i. p. 139.)

Monnina walapensis ; fruticosa, glaberrima v. ramulis et inflorescentia pubescente,

ramulis strictiusculis angulatis, foliis elliptico- v. obovato-lanceolatis v. ob-

lanceolatis acuminatis in petiolam brevissimum longe angustatis membra-

naceis nervis obscuris, racemis terminalibus et axillaribus simplicibus v. ter-

minalie basi ramosi sepalis exterioribus late ovatis obtusis interioribus

cblique semiorbicularibus concavis mulloties minoribus, carina galeata

3-loba, lobis rotundatis margine, anticovilloso, petalis interioribus column

staminez adnatis superne in appendicem cochleatan productis, ovario I-lo-

culari, stigmate apice dilatato truncato, drupa ellipsoidea utrinque acuta

exalata. :

M, xalapensis, H. B. et K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. vol. v. p. 314; Kunth Synops. Pl.

Aiquinoct. vol, iii. p. 320; DC. Prod. vol. i. p. 339; Benth. Pl. Hartweg,

p. 10; Masters in Gard. Chron. 1879, p. 50. x

HEBEANDRA euonymoides, Bonpl. in H. B. K.,, ete. p. 42.

Apparently a common and variable Mexican plant, at an

elevation of 3000 to 4000 feet, where it was discovered by

Humboldt and Bonpland. It forms an evergreen shrub or

small tree, conspicuous for its bright green foliage and

copious racemes of blue flowers. The genus, which is a

large one, containing some fifty species, is confined to South

America, and is allied to Polygala, differing in the arrange-

ment of the petals and the indehiscent fruit; one has been

already figured in this work, the MM. obtusifolia of Peru

(Tab. 3122).

I am indebted to Lady Dorothy Nevill for the specimen

here figured, which flowered in the gardens of Dangstein in

October last. It is, I fear, the last plant that will be figured

from that noble private collection, which is shortly to be

broken up, to the deep regret of all lovers of botany and

horticulture.

Descr. An evergreen slender shrub or small tree, glabrous

or more or less pubescent, or even tomentose on the branch-

lets and inflorescence; branches angled, compressed above.

MARCH Ist, 1879.

Leaves very variable in size and shape, two to four inches

long, elliptic and equally narrowed to both ends, or obovate-

lanceolate, or oblanceolate, acute or acuminate, quite entire,

always gradually narrowed below into a very short petiole,

which is jointed on to a prominence of the branches ; mem-

branous, flat; nerves obscure. Racemes one to three inches

long, axillary and terminal, erect, simple, and the terminal

one rarely branched at the base; bracts minute, ovate, very

deciduous ; pedicels very short. Flowers about one-fourth of

an inch in diameter, bright blue. Sepa/s, three outer short,

pubescent, ovate, obtuse; two inner very large, obliquely

semicircular, very concave, with a sub-acute point and straight

lower edge. Petals, three outer forming a 3-lobed hood over

the stamens, lobes obtuse; two inner adnate to the staminal

column, and terminating upwards in a spoon-shaped appen-

dage. Ovary oblong, 1-celled, with a prominent gland at its

base; style very thick, bent at right angles, and terminating

in a dilated truncate stigma. Fruit, a drupe one-fourth of an

inch long, ellipsoid and acute at both ends.—/. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower with one inner sepal removed; 2, the same viewed from the

other sides; 3, flower with botk inner sepals removed; 4, staminal column and

inner petals; 5, stamen; 6, pedicel and ovary; 7, transverse section of ovary:

—all enlarged.

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CROCUS VITELLINUS.

Native of Syria and Asia Minor.

Nat. Ord. Intpackm.—Tribe Ixiex.

Genus Crocus, Towrnef.; (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xvi. p. 79.)

Crocus vitellinus ; hyemalis, tunicis exterioribus brunneis in fibras parallelas

deorsum dissolutis, spatha basali nulla, foliis 5-6 synanthiis anguste

linearibus albo vittatis, spathd propria diphylla, perianthii tubo citrino

2-3-pollicari, fauce concolori glabro, limbi aurei concoloris subpollicaris seg-

mentis oblongo-spathulatis, antheris citrinis filamento glabro subsequi-

longis, styli fulvo-lutei ramis permultis capillaceis divaricatis.

C. vitellinus, Wahlenb. in Isis, vol. xxi. p. 106; Baker in Gard. Chron. 1873,

p- 680; in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xvi. p. 84.

C. syriacus, Boiss. et Gaill. in Boiss. Diagn. ser. 2, vol. iv. p. 94.

C. Balansew, J. Gay in Balans. Pl. Orient. Busic. anno 1854, No. 34.

Var. syriacus ; limbi segmentis dorso atro lineatis. (tab. nostr. fig. 3.)

C. syriacus, Baker in Gard. Chron. et Journ. Linn. Soe. loc cit.

C. lagenzeflorus var. (?) syriacus, Herb. in Journ. Hort. Soc. vol. ii. p. 282.

This is the only yellow-flowered Crocus of the section with

a much-divided style. It is an inhabitant of Syria and Asia

Minor, and now that we possess a fuller supply of material

it seems clear that, as was first suggested by Mr. G. Maw,

syriacus and vitellinus are only two forms of one and the same

species, one with a striped, and the other with a concolorous

perianth-limb. We have the type from several places on the

western slope towards Saida and Beyrout of the Lebanon

range, where it was discovered by a Swedish traveller called

Berggren in 1820, and also from the neighbourhood of

Smyrna,* where it was found by Balansa in 1854. Of the

striped variety there is a specimen in the Banksian herbarium,

gathered about Aleppo a hundred years ago by Dr. Russell,

and it has been lately refound in the same neighbourhood by

Dr. Haussknecht, and in the Cilician Taurus, by Mr. and

Mrs. Danford. The plant tlowers from November to March

* Mr. G. Maw, who has also gathered this, thinks it may prove a distinct

species, as although growing at a low level it flowers as late as March.—See

ard. Chron. 1879, p. 234.

MARCH Ist, 1879.

and is still rare in English gardens. The material for the

drawing of the type was a specimen in the Kew collection,

presented by Mr. G. Maw; and of the striped variety a plant

sent up by the Rev. H. Harper Crewe, who obtained it from

M. Chapellier, of Paris. *

Descr. Corm ovoid, middle-sized, the firm, brown outer

tunics splitting up more or less into parallel fibres towards

the base. Corm producing one to three buds, of one to five

flowers each, the top of the flower five or six inches from the

top of the corm. Basal spathe obsolete. Leaves five or six

to a bud, quite cotemporary with the flowers, narrow, gla-

brous, with revolute edges and a distinct white central band.

Proper spathe of two valves. Perianth tube filiform, pale

yellow, two or three inches long; limb about an inch long,

orange-yellow, its oblong spathulate segments concolorous in

the original vifel/inus, striped with five feathered lines down

the back in the variety syriacus, and in a third form plain

orange with an obscurely lineate, brownish blotch at the base ;

throat glabrous, concolorous. Azthers lemon-yellow, about

the same length as their filaments. S¢y/es fulvous, cut up

into numerous diverging capillary branches.—J/. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, A plant of var. syriacus ; 2, its style branches, magnified ; 3, a plant

of typical CO. vitellinus :—natural size.

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Tas. 6417.

COTYLEDON RAMOSISSIMA.

Native of South Africa.

Nat. Ord. CrassuLacegz.

Genus Corrxepoy, Linn.; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 659.)

Corytepon (Paniculate) ramosissima; fruticosa, glaberrima, glaucescens,

foliosa, ramosissima, caule crasso erecto, ramis ramulisque gob ers paten-

tibus cylindraceis annulatim cicatricatis, foliis confertis breviter petiolatis

obovato-orbiculatis subacutis v. breviter cuspidatisconcavis integerrimis dure

carnosis purpureo-marginatis glauco-viridibus, floribus ad apices ramulorum

solitariis pedicellatis cernuis sesquipollicaribus, calycis brevis dentibus

acutis sinubus latis rotundatis, corolla campanulata cylindracea viriscente

lobis brevibus recurvis pallide sanguineis, filamentis corolle tubo basi

adnatis antheris exsertis, carpellis gracilibus, ovariis antice planis, basi

squamis cucullatis adnatis.

C. ramosissima, Haw. suppl. p. 25; DC. Prodr., vol. iii. p. 396; Harv. §& Sond.

Fl. Cap., vol. ii. p. 372.

A native of the interior districts of South Africa, as at

Uitenhage, George, the Zwartkops river, where it forms a

bush from one to three feet high, remarkable for its density,

bushy and leafy habit, and the pale glaucous green of

the foliage and young parts. It is very closely allied to the

beautiful C. ordiculata of this Magazine (Tab. 321), differing

in habit and wanting that snowy glaucous hue of that plant,

but remarkably similar in form and size of the flower. Though

referable to the section with panicled flowers in all other

respects but this, the flowers are in all our specimens, living

and dried, solitary at the tips of the branchlets.

Cotyledon ramosissima has been long cultivated at Kew, and

all trace of its introduction is lost, though this must have

been since the date of the publication of the second edition

of the “ Hortus Kewensis,” namely 1811, in which work it

is not described ; it was, however, discovered soon after that

date (in 1813) by Burchell, whose specimens are at the Kew

Herbaries. The Kew plant for which the accompanying

figure was made was sent by Mr. McGibbon, of the Cape-

town Botanical Gardens, and flowered in the month of

September.

Duscr. A bushy, succulent, much branched, erect shrub,

MARCH Ist, 1879.

one to three feet high ; branches cylindric, annulate, covered

with an ashy bark. Leaves crowded, opposite, three-quarters

to one inch long, orbicular, obovate, subacute or cuspidate,

concave, densely fleshy, quite entire, nerveless minute glau-

cous furpuraceous scales, derived from the dead upper cells

of the epidermis, margins dull purple. lowers solitary at

the tips of the branchlets, drooping, an inch and a half

long ; peduncle curved, naked, shorter than the flower, swol-

len in a top-shaped manner beneath the calyx. Calya-

tube short, cupular; teeth five, very short, triangular, acumi-

nate, appressed to the corolla, separated by a broad shallow

rounded sinus. Corol/a much larger than the calyx, fleshy,

campanulate ; tube pale glaucous-green, cylindric or obscurely

angular, lobes one-third the length of the tube, spreading,

ovate, acute, thick, glabrous. Sfamens ten, filaments long,

much thickened and pubescent at the base, where they are

united into a ring which is attached to the corolla near its

base; this ring projects in the cavity of the corolla and forms

at its base a chamber which probably catches the nectar secreted

by the glands at the base of the carpels, which would other-

wise escape from the pendulous flower; anthers exserted.

Carpels slender, tapering into filiform styles; ovary flat on

the back, adnate below the horizontal fleshy cucullate

hypogynous glandular scales.—/. D. H.

Fig. 1, Vertical section of flower ; 2, portion of corolla laid open, and stamens

showing the chamber formed by the shortened bases of the filaments; 3, bases

of carpels and scales; 4, transverse section of carpel :—all enlarged.

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CARLUDOVICA ENsIForRMIs.

Native of Costa Rica.

Nat. Ord. CycLanTHER.

Genus Caruupovica, Ruiz et Pav, ; (Endl. Gen. Plant., p. 242).

Cartupovica Ensiformis ; 2-3-pedalis, subacaulis, foliis distichis longe petiolatis

ad basinfere bipartitis, segmentis ensiformibus 14 poll. latis acutis 4—nerviis

coriaceis planis, petiolo subcylindrico antice sulcato, marginibus sulci mem-

branaceis basin versus scariosis imo basi vaginantibus, pedunculo 2-3—polli-

cari nutante v. suberecta, spathis ad 3—4-pollicaribus lanceolatis longe

acuminatis cymbiformibus extus brunneis intus albis caducis, spadice

oblongo 1}-pollicari, fl. ¢ perianthii lobis ad 12 brevibus oblongis obtusis

carnosis suberectis v. recurvis, staminibus perplurimis confertis filamentis

e basi mamillari gracilibus brevissimis, antheris oblongis connectivo apici in

papillam producto, fl. 2 perianthii lobis erectis quadratis angulis rotundatis

margine superiore undulato.

The members of the very curious natural family of Cyclan-

thee are all tropical American, and are very little known,

although one of them, the Carludovica palmata, of New

Grenada, is the plant from the leaves of which the famous

Panama hats, cigar cases, and other similar plaited fabrics,

so celebrated for their fineness, durability, lightness, and

flexibility, are made. Only two genera of this Order are

known, Carludovica and Cyclanthus, and about a dozen de-

scribed species: they are closely allied to the Aroidee and

Pandanee, and, as with these, some are scandent, their stems

adhering to the branches of lofty trees by adventitious roots,

and others are, like the one here figured, stemless and

terrestrial. One of the species of Carludovica only has been

figured in this Magazine, namely, Ludovia latifolia (Tab.

2950-1). The name Zudovia was substituted by Persoon for

the original one, Carludovica (of Ruiz and Pavon), on the

ground of the barbarity of so latinizing the conjoint names

of Charles XI. of Spain and his Queen Louisa, after whom

the genus was so called. As however, in so many other

cases, euphony has carried the day over classical rules and the

laws of botanical nomenclature, for Carludovica has wholly

superseded Zudovia amongst botanists.

MARCH Ist, 1879.

This curious plant was imported from Costa Rica a good

many years ago, and flowered for the first time in June, 1874.

Our drawing was, however, made on a subsequent occasion,

namely, in August, 1877.

Descr. Stem very short or none. Leaves three to four

pairs, distichous, long petioled ; two to three feet long ; blade

divided nearly to the base into two divergent, ensiform, acute,

or scarcely acuminate, flat, coriaceous, 4-nerved divisions ;

nerves very prominent; nervules vbscure; entire portion two

to four inches long, with an acute sinus, the margins pro-

duced downwards on to the petiole, which is a foot or more

long, rather slender, cylindric above, compressed below, with

a deep frontal groove; margins of the groove membranous

and overlapping, the membrane becoming broader, scarious,

and sheathing below. Peduncle three to four inches long,

erect or inclined, cylindric; spathes four, spreading, three

inches long, lanceolate, long acuminate, boat-shaped, brown

externally, white within. Syadix shortly oblong, one and a

half inches long, obtuse. Flowers densely crowded. Males

- with an obconic base and about twelve broadly oblong, fleshy,

suberect, or recurved obtuse short lobes in one series. Stamens

very numerous, each seated on a globose fleshy mamilla or

base of the filament, which above it is very short and slender.

Anthers oblong, tipped with a globose production of the con-

nective. Females with four almost quadrate, erect, or incurved

fleshy perianth lobes, and four filiform staminodes three and a

half inches long, one opposite to and at the base of each

segment.—/. D, H.

Fig 1, Female flower seen from above with the staminodes removed; 2, male

flower; both enlarged ; 3, head of unripe fruit of the natural size.

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COREOPSIS noupara.

Native of the Southern United States.

Nat. Ord. Composrrm.—Tribe HELIANTHOIDES.

Genus Corzorsis, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. v. ii. p. 385.)

Coreopsis nudata; gracillima, glaberrima, caule erecto tereti dichotome ramoso,

foliis paucis, radicalibus elongato filiformi-subulatis cylindraceis longe

acuminatis caulinis sparsis subulatis;brevibus, capitulis amplis, involucri

parvuli bracteis exterioribus brevibus recurvis late oblongis obtusis, interior-

ibus oblongo lanceolatis apices versus acutatis, floribus radii ad 8 limbo late

obovato apice obtuse 2~4-lobo roseo v. purpureo, fl. disci flavis dentibus re-

curvis papillosis, acheniis quadrato-oblongis hispidulis anguste alatis acutis

brevibus ciliatis.

C. nudata, Nutt. Gen. vol. ii. p. 180; et in Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. New Ser.

vol. vil. p. 360; Torr. § Gr. Fl. N. Am. vol. ii. p. 348; DC. Prodr. vol. vii. p.

574; Chapm. Fl. 8. United States, p. 236.

Cautiopsis nudata, Spreng. Syst. Veg. vol. iii. p. 611. :

A singularly beautiful plant, with the foliage of a rush, and

the flower of a small Dahlia, or of a very large Anemone of

the Japonica group; a native of swamps and ponds in the

pine-barrens near the coast of the Southern United States

from Georgia to Florida. It has been referred to a small

section of the genus, to which the name of Cosmella has

been given; but which appears to be a purely artificial

group. The root is almost tuberous, and the leaves like

those of a very slendef rush, they are stated to be fistular in

a note attached to dried specimens communicated by the late

Dr. Torry, but they are certainly solid in the specimens

cultivated at Kew. ;

The seeds of Coreopsis nudata were received from Professor

Asa Gray, and were sown ina pan of moist soil in a warn

pit, the plants thus raised flowered in the open air in September

of last year. :

Drscr. A tall very slender glabrous perennial marsh or

APRIL Ist, 1879.

pond plant; root-stock short, stout, almost tuberous, emit- —

ting stout fibres. Stems two to four feet high, very graceful,

simple below, sparingly dichotomously branched above, the |

branches terminating: in single heads. eaves very few;

radical erect, very slender, rush-like, with short bases that

sheath the very base of the stem, quite terete and smooth,

purplish green; cauline leaves few, small, short, subulate.

Heads two and a half inches in diameter, with a very small

disk, and about 8 large purple rose-coloured or crimson rays.

Involucre short, one-third of an inch in diameter ; outer bracts,

broadly oblong, obtuse, recurved ; inner erect, linear-oblong,

toothed towards the summit, receptacle naked, papilose. Ray-

_ Mowers with a small naked achene, a very short slender tube,

anda broad obovate-spathulate limb an inch long and nearly

half as broad, entire or lobulate at the tip, 5-nerved. Disk

Jlowers yellow ; corolla-tube long, with short papillar recurved _

teeth; anther-cells shortly ciliate at the base. Stigmatic

arms spreading, truncate. Achenes nearly quadrate, with a

narrow ciliate wing, and two short hispid arms.—/. D. H.

Figs. 1 and 2, inner involucral bracts ; 3, section of involucre and receptacles ;

4, ray flower; 5, stylearms; 6, disk ower; 7,achene; 8, anther ;—all enlarged.

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VILLARSIA CAPITATA.

Native of Western Australia.

Nat. Ord. Gentianex.—Tribe MenyanTHEZ.

Genus Vitiarsia, Vent.: (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 819.)

Vittarsta capitata; caule erecto simplicisculo folioso, foliis longe petiolatis

reniformibus orbiculatis v. late ovatis obtusis integerrimis v. sinuato-den-

tatis, floribus in capitula involucrata terminalia congestis pedicellatis, bracteis

ovatis obtusis concavis, bracteolis minutis ciliolatis, calycis segmentis ovato-

lanceolatis acutis v. acuminatis pilosis v. lanatis, corolla lobis sub-quad-

ratis apice bilobis lobis sinuque acutis marginibus erosis basi ciliatis,

antheris inclusis, glandulis hypogynis 5 subulatis apice penicillatis, ovario

elongato-ovoideo, stigmatibus linearibus v. dilatatis, seminibus levibus

nitidis. ?

V. capitata, Nees in Pl. Preiss. vol. i. 365; Benth. Fl. Austral. vol. iv. p. 375.

Y. involucrata, Hook. Ic. Pl. p. 725.

A native of the Swan River district in marshy ground,

where it attains a height of six inches or so. I have referred

it to V. capitata with some doubt, because in the descriptions

of that plant as well as in the figure (V. ¢nvolucrata) cited

above, the corolla-lobes are acute and quite entire, and little if

at all longer than the calyx, whereas in the plant here figured

they are much longer than the calyx, broad, strongly 2-lobed

and denticulate. On referring to the dried specimens, from

which both the description of V. capifata and the drawing

(of V. involucrata) were made, I find the corolla has

withered after the manner of Villarsias, namely by the exces-

sively membranous lobes rolling inwards till the whole is

shortened, and, as it were, retracted within the calyx, and no

amount of maceration or careful dissection has sufficed to

unfold them as to show their true shapes. In its usual

state the heads of V. capitata are much more woolly than

those of the specimen here figured, but this character is a

very variable one.

APRIL Ist, 1879.

For the seeds of this pretty plant, the Royal Gardens are

indebted to Baron Von Mueller. When sown in a pot of

earth standing in water they vegetated in profusion, and in a

few months the surface of the pot was clothed with a thick —

mass of bright green foliage studded with primrose-coloured

flowers which appeared in succession for some weeks in the

open air. :

Descr. Erect, glabrous; stem three to six inches high,

simple or nearly so, with two or three leaves, rather stout

and fleshy. Leaves one-fourth to three-fourths of an inch in

diameter, long-petioled, orbicular obovate or broadly ovate,

quite entire or sinuate-toothed, bright green; petiole 1-4

inches long, sheathing at the base. owers pedicelled,

in terminal involucrate heads ; outer involucral bracts spathu-

late, inner ovate obtuse concave, rather gibbous beneath,

glabrous hairy or villous; bracteoles on the pedicels minute.

Calye of 5 spreading ovate-lanceolate hairy divisions.

Corolla, one-half to three-fourths of an inch in diameter, bright

yellow ; throat hairy, lobes much longer than the calyx,

broadly oblong, bifid, the teeth and sinus between them

acute, margins erose or toothed. Stamens inserted in the

corolla-tube, filaments short; anther oblong. Hypogynous

glands subulate, with a pencil of hairs at the tip. Ovary

narrowly ovoid, narrowed into an erect style with two oblong

or sputhulate stigmatic lobes; placentas parietal near the

base of the cell. Capsule surrounded by the marcescent calyx

and corolla, many-seeded. Seeds discoid, quite smooth and

shining.— J. D. H.

Fig. 1, leaf; 2, outer involucral leaf; 3, back view of flower; 4, part of corolla,

and two stamens; 5, anther; 6, ovary and hypognous glands; 7, hypogynous

glands; 8 and 9, stigmas; 10, transverse 11, vertical section of ovary; 12,

young seed :—all enlarged.

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GENTIANA anprewstl.

Native of Canada and the Eastern United States.

Nat. Ord, Gentianex.—Tribe Swerriz2.

Genus Gentiana, Linn. ; (Benth. §& Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 815.

Gent1ana (Pneumonanthe) Andrewsii ; erecta, robusta, glaberrima, foliis e basi

angusta lanceolatis y. ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis 3-nerviis margine sca-

berulis, floribus in capitulum terminalem congestis et in axillis foliorum

fasciculatis sessilibus v. breviter pedicellatis erectis, calycis lobis ovatis

oblongisve tubo’ cylindraceo multo brevioribus, corolla coerulea calycem'

longe excedente inflato-clavato obtuse angulata, ore contracto, lobis ohsoletis,

appendicibus inflexis minutis fimbriatis, antheris in tubum cohvrentibus,

capsula exserta, seminibus late alatis.

G. Andrewsii, Griseb. Gen. § Sp. Gentian., 287; et in Hook. Fl. Bor. Am., vol.

i, p. 55; et in A. DC. Prodr., vol. ix. p. 113; A. Gray, Man. Bot., p. 388;

Torr. Fl. New York, vol, ii. p. 107 t. 80. *

G. Saponaria, Freel. Gent., p.32 excl. Syn.; Bartl. Fl. N. Am., t.79; ? Att.

Hort. Kew, ed. 2, vol. ii. p. 111; ? Bot. Mag., t. 1039, non Linn.

This, the “ Closed gentian” of the Americans, is one of the .

handsomest species of the genus; it was long confounded

with an American close ally, the G. Saponaria of Linneus,

from which it was first distinguished by Grisebach, who,

however, does not observe,that the G Saponaria (erroneously

quoted as G. Catesbei, is De Candolles Prodronus 1. c.), figured

in this work (t. 1039) is, as far as can be ascertained from the

imperfect description and very indifferent drawing, referable

to G. Andrewsii. The chief diagnostic characters between

these two species are the linear or spathulate calyx lobes of

G. Saponaria, which equal or exceed the tube, its light blue

corolla, with distinct lobes, and cleft appendages, and its acute

narrowly winged seeds. - Of these characters the colour of the

corolla, and the form and size of the calyx lobes are the only

ones determinable from the figure at t. 1039, and as these

accord with those of G. Andrewsii, I have little doubt of the

plate in question representing a miserable specimen of this

plant.

APRIL Ist, 1879.

G. Andrewsii is common in the damp woods of the North-

eastern United States and Canada; it was brought into Kew

in 1776 by a Mr. William Young, and appears to have been

introduced into England even at an earlier period by Messrs.

Loddiges. It flowers in August and September at Kew,

where, however, it does not attain the status and development

which it does at Mr. G. Wilson’s, of Heatherbank. Weybridge,

to whom I owe the magnificent specimen here figured.

Descr. A tall stout usually simple-stemmed biennial, one tc

two feet high, quite glabrous. S/em cylindric, leafy. Leave:

two to four inches long, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate from :

sessile narrow base, coriaceous, 3-nerved, deep green, with

rough margins. Flowers crowded in dense terminal heads

and also fascicled in the axils of the leaves, one and a hal

inches long, erect, sessile or very shortly pedicelled. Calyx.

tube cylindric ; lobes ovate, narrowed at the base, spreading

not half the length of the tube. Corolla much longer than

the calyx, inflated and club-shaped, obtusely 5-angled, deep

bright blue, mouth much contracted, teeth very obscure

between the small fimbriated reflexed folds. Stamens with

broad flattened converging filaments; anthers sagittate coher-

ing. Ovary pedicelled ; style short, stigmas removed. Cap-

sule exserted. Seeds with a broad obtuse wing.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, calyx; 2, vertical section of flower ; 3, stamen and pistil; 4, stigmas ;

5,'seed :—all but Fig. 2, enlarged.

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Tas. 6422.

VILLANOVA curysanTHEMOIDEs.

Native of Colorado and New Mezico.

Nat. Ord. Composrrz.—Tribe HetentoweR,

Genus Vitianova, Lagasc.; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Pl., vol. ii. p. 404.)

VILLANOVA chrysanthemoides; erecta, robusta, superne paniculatim ramosa,

polycephala, cano-puberula v. glabrata, foliis alternis ambitu late ovatis v.

obovatis petiolatis biternatisectis laciniis linearibus v. apices versus dilatatis

acutis v. obtusis re¢urvis, pedunculis glandulosis, capitulis 1-poll. diametr.

involucri bracteis sub 3-seriatis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis v. abrupte longe

acuminatis interioribus scariosis, receptaculo convexo, ligulis 15-20 patenti-

recurvis apice 3-lobis, fl. disci corolla glandulosa dentibus erectis obtusis,

achzeniis elongato-obconicis angulatis sulcatis costis rugulosis, angulis

leevibus. ,

V. chrysanthemoides, 4. Gray, Plant. Wright. pars. ti. p. 96; Walp. Ann., vol.

Vv. p. 248; Porter § Coulter, Synops. Fl. Colorado, p. 75.

Amauri P dissecta, A. Gray, Plant. Fendl., 104; Walp. Ann., vol. ii. p. 883.

A hardy free-flowering annual, a native of the Rocky

Mountains of Colorado and New Mexico, at elevations of four

to six thousand feet and upwards ; very like a groundsel in

habit and appearance, but belonging to a totally different

tribe of the vast natural order of Composite. The genus is

a purely American one, and the only known species are

the present and two others, one a native of New Grenada

and the other of Peru.

As grown at Kew this Villanova shows a tendency to ab-

normal development of some of its organs. Thus at fig. 3 are.

represented a floret with two supplementary styles, one with

two arms, the other with one only, all emerging from corolla

of the same ray-flower. At fig. 5 the achene is seen to

have a remarkable projecting lateral process. In none of the

flowers examined was there any small cone terminating

the style-arms of the disk flowers as is attributed to

the genus in the General Plantarum.

The plant here figured was raised from seed sent by

+ APRIL Ist, 1879. :

Professor Asa Gray from the Rocky Mountains, which

flowered in the Royal Gardens in September, 1878.

Drscr. A stout erect herb, 1-2 feet high, hoary with

down on glabrate, paniculately. branched and _ glandular

above. Stem grooved, leafy. Leaves alternate, petioled,

about two inches long and broad, twice ternately cut into

linear or obovate laciniate acute or obtuse recurved lobes.

Heads an inch in diameter, on stout glandular peduncles

which are naked or have one or more imperfect leaves.

Involucre hemispherical, glandula; bracts in about three series,

linear oblong, acute or acuminate, margins scarious, the inner

ones more membranous; receptacle slightly convex, papillose.

Rayflowers fifteen to twenty; tube short, glandular ; limb

cuneate, deeply 3-lobed, bright yellow, lobes obtuse; style arms

short, recurved, obtuse. Disk flowers numerous, very glandu-

lar ; lobes five, obtuse ; style arms flattened, obtuse. Achenes

narrowly _ obconic, four-angled and many-ribbed, young

glandular, ripe dark brown, ribs rugulose, angles smooth.

mt. 2 ff.

_Fig. 1, section of receptacle; 2, ray flower; 3, another with three styles; 5,

disk flower with irregular corolla; 6, disk flower with abnormal achene ; 7, style

arms of disk flower :—all enlarged.

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BILLBERGIA NUTANS.

Native of South America.

Nat. Ord. Brometiacex.—Tribe ANANASSEX. :

Genus Brtpereta, Thunb. § Holm. ; (K. Koch. in Walp. Ann. vol. vi. p. 72.)

BILLBERGIA wutans ; acaulis, stolonifera, foliis basalibus productis 12-18 lineari-

ensiformibus sesquipedalibus vel bipedalibus chartaceis sursum faleatis ad

apicem sensim attenuatis margine denticulatis facie viridibus deorsum can-

aliculatis dorso striatis parce albo lepidotis haud fasciatis, pedunculo sub-

pedali foliis scariosis bracteiformibus superioribus rubellis, floribus 4-8 in

racemum subspicatum cernuum dispositis, braceteis minutis deltoideis,

ovario oblongo glabro viridi multisulcato, sepalis lanceolatis acutis ovario

longioribus, petalis lanceolatis viridibus margine cceruleis basi squamatis

sepalis duplo longioribus, staminibus petalis cequilongis antheris linearibus

versatilibus, stigmate exserto.

B. nutans, H. Wendl. in Regel. Gartenjl. vol. xviii. (1869) p. 162 t. 617 ; B. Morren

in Belg. Hort. 1876, p. 220 t. 15.

This is one of the best marked species of that section of

the genus Bil/bergia which is characterised by a comparatively

lax drooping inflorescence and bright red bract-like upper

stem-leaves, to which belong many of the species which are

most highly prized in horticulture. This one may be re-

cognised, at a glance, by its narrow acute leaves and green

petals with a sudden blue edge. The precise country to

which it belongs is not known, and there are no dried wild

specimens in our London herbaria, but the head-quarters of

its allies are Central and Southern Brazil. We have had

the plant at Kew for some time. The plate was drawn from a

specimen that flowered at Kew in January, and it has also

been flowered this winter by Mr. Chas. Green, in the fine

collection of Sir George Macleay. It was first introduced

into cultivation about 1868.

Dezscr. <Acaulescent, stoloniferous. Zeaves twelve to

eighteen produced in a utricular’ rosette, linear-ensiform,

reaching finally a length of one and a half or two feet, half

APRIL Ist, 1878.

an inch broad at the top of the dilated base, narrowed

gradually to the point, falcate in the upper half, minutely

toothed, the face bright green, the back finely striped and

thinly white-lepidote, without any bands or spots. Peduncle

central, about a foot long, its bract-leaves erect and lanceolate,

the lower ones greenish, the upper bright red. lowers four

to eight in a cernuous subspicate raceme; pedicels very

short or none; bracts minute, deltoid. Perianth about two

inches long; ovary oblong, naked, bright green, with many

irregular vertical ribs and hollows. Sepals lanceolate, acute,

about half an inch long. Pefa/s lanceolate, twice as long as

the sepals, bright green, with a sudden blue edge, with

a couple of small scales near the base. Stamens reaching

to the top of the petals; anthers yellow, linear, ver-

satile. Sfy/e a little longer than the stamens; stigmas con-

volute—J. G. Baker. :

Fig. 1, a flower cut through vertically, nat. size ; 2, a scale from the base of a

petal; 3, an anther; 4, stigmas :—the three last magnified.

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LINARIA patmatica.

Native of 8S. Europe, Asia Minor, and Persia.

Nat. Ord. Scropuubarinex.—Tribe ANTIRRHINE.

Genus Lrvari, Pers.; (Benth. § Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 932.)

Liyaria (Linariastrum) dalmatica: erecta, elata, robusta, paniculatim ramosa,

glaberrima, glauca, foliis plerisque alternis patentibus ovato-v. oblongo-v.

elongato-lanceolatis acuminatis integerrimis subrigidis nervis obscuris, basi

angustatis v. semi-amplexi caulibus, racemis paniculatis foliosis gracilibus

elongatis patentibus multifloris, floribus remotiusculis amplis breviter pedi-

cellatis, bracteis foliaceis, calycis segmentis lanceolatis acuminatis patulis,

corolla lutea basi in calcar rectum subulatum producta, labii superioris seg-

mentis recurvis acutis, inferioris lobis 2 lateralibus amplis reflexis intermedio

minuto porrecto subacuto, palato prominente ochrolemo villoso.

L. dalmatica, Mill. Dict. ed. 8, No. 13; Chavannes, Monog. Antirrh., 126; Ait.

Hort. Kew, ed. 2, vol. iv. p.16; Bot. Reg.,t. 1683; Reich. Iconog, t. 488 ;

Benth. in DO. Prodr., vol. x. p. 275.

L. grandiflora, Desf. Coroll. inst. Tourn., 30 t. 21.

Antirrhinum dalmaticum, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 857.

A handsome but very variable hardy Toadflax, of which a

rigid erect form, with crowded flowers in a dense raceme is

figured in the “Botanical Register,” from seeds sent from

Persia. It was, however, introduced into England before

1731, when it was cultivated by Phillip Miller in his garden

at Chelsea. It has a wide geographical range; commencing

in the east side of the Adriatic, it ranges through the islands

of the Levant to Constantinople, Odessa, the Caucasus, Meso-

potamia, Persia, and the Caspian Sea. Throughout this

great extent of country it retains its floral characters with

remarkable uniformity, but varies in habit, being sometimes

very robust, and in foliage from very broadly ovate and

amplexicaul to narrow linear-lanceolate and narrowed at the

base. Though never before figured in this Magazine, it has

been for many years cultivated at Kew, where it flowers in

the open border in September.

APRIL Ist, 1879.

Drscr. A robust erect more or less paniculately branched

glaucous smooth perennial. Leaves scattered, spreading, from

one-half to four inches long; usually lanceolate or ovate-

lanceolate from a semi-amplexicaul base, rather rigid,

smooth, with obscure nerves, sometimes short and broadly

ovate, at others oblong, at others linear-lanceolate and two

inches long with a narrow base. Racemes long, slender, —

panicled, spreading, with distinct flowers, or stout erect with

crowded flowers ; bracteal leaves, like the cauline, but shorter,

spreading ; pedicels shorter than the flower, erect, stout.

Calyzx-segmenis ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, spreading, erect in

fruit. Corolla nearly two inches long, including the spur;

bright golden yellow, with orange on the palate; tube short,

compressed, rather gibbous behind at the base, produced in

front into a slender straight subulate spur of its own length ;

limb large, upper lip with two broad acute reflexed lobes ;

lower with two very broad reflexed overlapping rounded

lateral lobes, between which the small obtuse or subacute

mid-lobe projects ; palate prominent, villous. Stamens hairy

at the base. Ovary glabrous. Capsule small, globose, opening

by apical teeth. Seeds angular, with raised edges and

tubercled faces.—J. D. H.

_ _Hig 1, upper lip and outer of the corolla laid open, showing the stamens; 2,

pistil :—both enlarged.

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CASSIA anata.

Native of Tropical America.

Nat. Ord. Lecumryosa.—Tribe Casstea.

Genus Cassia, Linn.; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 57.)

Cassta(Senna) alata: fruticosa, ramulis robustis pubescentibus, foliis 2-pedalibus

rachi articulata 2-alata eglandulosa, foliolis 8-16-jugis amplis breviter petio-

lulatis oppositis lineari-oblongis basi rotundatis v. oblique subcordatis apice

rotundatis retusisve apiculatis glaberrimis nervosis terminalibus smpe

rotundatis, stipulis ovato-cordatis subulato-acuminatis persistentibus,

racemis terminalibus axillarisbusque strictis multifloris simplicibus v. 2-fidis,

bracteis ovatis concavis, sepalis coloratis, legumine ligulato stricto, valvis

late longitudinaliter alatis alis crenatis, seminibus gomplanatis trape-

zoideis faciebus excavatis marginibus discoque medio incrassatis.

C. alata, Linn. ; Willd. Sp. Pl. vol. ii. p. 523 ; Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2, vol. iii. p. 29;

DO. Prodr., vol. ii. p. 492; Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind., p. 209; Wight. et

Arn. Fl. Penins Ind. Or., p. 253 ; Wight. Se. Pl. Ind. Or., t. 453; Hook. J.

Fl. Brit. Ind., vol. ii. p. 264; Reichb. Ic. et descr. Pl. Cult., t. 84.

C. bracteata, Linn. fil. Suppl. 232; DC.1. c.

Senna alata, Roxb. Fl. Ind., vol. ii. p. 349.

Herpetica, Jacq. Obs. vol ii. p. 24, t. 45, f.2; Rumph. Hort. Ambowm., vol. ii. t. 18;

A very handsome large shrub, a native of tropical America,

whence it has been introduced into all other tropical countries,

in many of which it has established itself as a denizen, notably

in India, where it is found in gardens and naturalized in

Bengal. According to Roxburgh it is known to Europeans in

the Carnatic provinces under the name of Mitta tamara,

and the same author ascribes also to it names in Sanscrit,

Hindi, Bengali, and Telinga, which would go far to esta-

blish its claim to be a native of India, had the fact of its

introduction from the New World not been well established —

by evidence of various kinds. Drury, in his “ Useful plants

of India” (p. 120), calls it the Ring-worm plant, and citing

Roxburgh and others, says that its leaves mixed with lime-

juice are used as a remedy for ring-worm, as are its fresh leaves

bruised and simply rubbed into the diseased parts. The

leaves are also an aperient, and a tincture of them when dried

operates like Senna. Further the Hindoo doctors affirm that

the plant affords a cure for all poisonous bites.

Cassia alata was introduced into England in 1731 from the

West Indies, and has been raised and flowered at Kew from

seeds received from the Kast Indies, but the specimen here

figured was flowered by Mr. Bull in December of last year.

Descr. A large shrub with a stout trunk, which in old

plants is sometimes spinous from the persistent stipules;

branches robust, downy. eaves two to three feet long,

spreading, strict; rachis jointed and winged on each side,

eglandular ; leaflets eight to fourteen pair, very shortly

petioled, two to five inches long, linear-oblony, quite glabrous ;

apex rounded or retuse, apiculate; base rounded or obliquely

sub-cordate ; nerves 12 to 15 pair; stipules broadly ovate-

cordate, suddenly acuminate, cuspidate, rigid, persistent, often

reddish. Racemes terminal and axillary; rachis one to two

feet long, stout, sub-erect, simple or forked, many-flowered ;

bracts large, coriaceous, caducous, yellow. Flowers shortly

pedicelled, one inch in diameter, golden yellow; Sepals

oblong, obtuse, golden yellow. Petals shortly clawed.

Legume six to ten inches long by three-quarters of an inch

broad, flattened, with a broad crenate wing on the back of

each valve, dark brown. Seeds very numerous, transverse,

trapeziform and narrowed at the base into a stalk, margins

and medial line thickened, faces excavated between the

thicknesses.—J. 8. H.

Fig. 1, petals; 2, stamens; 3, large stamen 4, pods; 5, seed; all but Fig. 4

enlarged.

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ALLIUM srpexn.

Native of Palestine.

Nat. Ord. Littacrm.—Tribe ALLIEZ.

Genus Axium, Linn. (Regel. Monogr. in Act. Hort. Petrop. vol. iii.)

Aum Erdelii ; bulbo solitario subgloboso, foliis 3-4 confertis basalibus late

linearibus acuminatis suberectis glaucis ciliatis facie canaliculatis, scapo

valido tereti, floribus permultis dense umbellatis, pedicellis flore 2-3—plo

longioribus, spathé brevi seepe monophylla rotundata cuspidata interdum

2-3-phylla, perianthii rotati segmentis lanceolatis acutis denticulatis albis

viridi vittatis, staminibus perianthio equilongis, filamentis conformibus

deorsum dilatatis purpureis, ovario globoso-trigono nigro nitido.

A. Erdelii, Zuccar. in Abhand. D. K. Bayr. Acad. vol. iii. p. 237, tab.5; Kunth

Enum., vol. iv. p. 688 ; Regel. Monog., p. 250.

A. Libani, Boiss. MSS.

This is one of the prettiest of all the Alliums for horticultural

purposes. It is allied to the well-known 2. nigrum (of which

a good figure will be found, Boranican Maeazing, t. 1148,

_ under the name of 4. magicum), but is much dwarfer, with a

very compact umbel of large fragrant flowers, the sharp-

pointed white perianth-segments keeled with green, the

filaments with a stain of bright claret purple at the base, and

the ovary a glossy black. It is confined to Palestine, but

extends from the Lebanon range as far south as Jerusalem.

It has not been known in cultivation till last year we

received dried specimens from our diligent correspondent, the

Rev. G. E. Post, of the Syrian Protestant College at Beyrout,

and one of the bulbs being found to be still alive was trans-

ferred from the herbarium to the garden, where it revived,

and in process of time produced the leaves and flowers which

are here drawn. coe

Descr. Bulb solitary, subglobose, about an inch in dia-

meter. Leaves three or four, produced in a rosette from the

surface of the ground, broad linear, suberect, tapering to the

point, glaucous, channelled down the face, minutely ciliated,

half a foot or more long. Scape stout, terete, glaucous, with

a purple tinge towards the base, varying in length from two

to twelve inches. lowers forming a dense umbel, two or

three inches in diameter; pedicels greenish, half an inch or an

inch long; spathe not longer than the pedicels, usually mono-

phyllous, round, cuspidate, sometimes splitting into two or

even three valves. Expanded perianth rotate, about an inch

in diameter; segments lanceolate, acute, denticulate, pure

white, with a narrow green keel. Stamens as long as the

perianth-segments, suberect in the expanded flower ; filaments .

uniform, lanceolate, the upper part white, the base stained

with bright claret-purple ; anthers small, pale yellow, linear-

oblong. Ovary globose-trigonous, glossy black; style short,

claret-purple. Capsule globose-trigonous, a third of an inch

in diameter; seeds two in a cell, superposed, dull black.—

J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, a monophyllous spathe; fig. 2, an expanded flower :—both magnified.

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GOETHEA mackoyana.

Native of Brazil.

Nat. Ord. Matvacrx.—Tribe Urenez.

Genus Gorruea, Car.; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 205.)

Gortnea Mackoyana; fruticosa, ramosa, ramulis petiolisque molliter patentim

pilosis, foliis sparsis gracile petiolatis elliptico-lanceolatis v. oblanceolatis

acuminatis basi acutis supra glabris saturate viridibus subtus pallidioribus

coriaceis utrinque opacis integerrimis v. marginibus obscure undulatis, -

floribus in racemos terminales demum subelongatos dispostis erectis,

bracteis oblongo-lanceolatis subacutis viridibus pedicellos superantibus,

bracteolis 4-5 roseis ovatis v. ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis basi cordatis

pubescentibus calycem 5-fidum duplo longioribus, petalis lineari-oblongis

obtusis fusco-purpureis bracteolis duplo longioribus.

Pavonia Mackoyana, Morren in Belgig. Hort., vol. xxviii, (1878) p- 59. t. iii.

Though in several respects differing in character from the

figure of Pavonia Mackoyana as figured in the Belgique

Horticole under Pavonia, I cannot doubt this being the same

plant; the most striking difference is in the leaves, which in

the above-cited plate are represented as strongly serrate; on

referring however to the accompanying Latin description,

they are stated to subentire (limbo subintegro), and in the ac-

companying remarks as ‘‘limbe presque entier ou faiblement

acute.” They are also much larger in the Belgian figure than

in our plant, but this may be due to the specimen being better

grown. Another discrepance in character is the absence of

minute pellucid dots in the leaves described by Morren; in

place of which I find minute furfuraceous scales on the young

bracts. Though referred by Morren to Pavonia, that learned

author justly remarks that this plant is referable to Goethea

by those who uphold that genus, as is done by Bentham in the

“Genera Plantarum” and apparently with sufficient reason,

the remarkable bracts forming a very well marked character in

this species as well as in the original G. caulifora, Nees, and

in G. strictiflora, Hook. (Tab. nost. 4677). On the other

hand the character of Goethea taken from the inflorescence

being cauline, breaks down in this plant, in which it is race-

mose as in Pavonia proper.

G. Mackoyana was introduced from Brazil, in 1873, by

Jacob Mackoy of Liege, and the specimen here figured was

communicated by Mr. Bull, with whom it tlowered in December

of last year.

Descr. A shrub; branches short, cylindrical, clothed,

as also the petioles, with soft spreading close-set

hairs. Leaves three to five inches long, elliptic-lanceolate,

acuminate, quite entire or obscurely sinuate, coriaceous,

dark-green, glabrous, nerves beneath red-brown; petiole

three-fourths to one and a half inch long, slender.

Flowers in a terminal dense raceme which elongates during

flowering; bracts one-half to three-fourths of an inch

long, elliptic- or linear-lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent ;

pedicels shorter than the bracts, jointed about the middle.

Bracteoles four or five, two-thirds of an inch long, ovate or

ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent, rose-red, cordate at the

base, plaited. Calyx half as long as the bracts, campanulate,

5-lobed to below the middle, segments acute. Petals dark

brown purple, twice as long as the bracteoles, linear-oblong,

rounded at the tip, erect, about 7-nerved. i/aments and

styles rose-red ; anthers and stigmas blue purple.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, calyx; 2, petals; teeth of stamina] tube :—all enlarged.

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IRIS picuotoma,

Native of Eastern Siberia.

Nat. Ord. Tripacex.—Tribe InmEx.

Genus Iris, Linn.; (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc., vol. xvi. p. 136.)

Iris (Apogon) dichotoma ; rhizomate breviter reptante rosulis foliorum confertis,

foliis laxe dispositis ensiformibus subpedalibus, caule 3-4-pedali valde

ramoso, pedunculis ascendéntibus elongatis, floribus 4-6-nis purpureis ves-

pertinis fugacibus, spathis brevibus valvis exterioribus oblongis viridulis

firmulis, interioribus membranaceis, pedicellis spath4 squilongis, ovario

clavato semipollicari, tubo supra ovarium nullo, segmentis exterioribus ob-

lanceolato-spathulatis limbo falcato recurvato ungue variegato subduplo

breviori, segmentis interioribus paulo brevioribus immaculatis emarginatis,

styli ramis oblanceolato-oblongis, cristis lanceolatis, antheris filamento libero

zequilongis.

I. dichotoma, Linn. fil. Suppl., p. 97; Vahl. Enum. vol. ii. p. 236; Willd. Sp.

Plant. vol. i. p. 230; Ker. in Bot. Reg. t. 246; Sweet Brit. Flow. Gard.

t. 96, ete.

I. pomeridiana, Fischer MSS. ; Klatt.in Linnea, vol. xxxiv. p. 612.

Pardanthus dichotomus, Led. Fl. Ross. vol. iv. p, 106.

_ This is a very distinct species of Iris, remarkable for its

much branched habit, short spathes and fugacious, rather small

bright purple flowers, which expand in the evening, one after

another in the same cluster on successive days, after the fashion

of Zigridia or Pardanthus. Tt is a native of the Eastern half

of Siberia, and has long been known in cultivation, but it has

always been very rare, and it has not yet appeared in the

Boranican Magazine. The drawing was made from a plant

that flowered at Kew last September, raised, I believe,

originally from seeds sent by Dr. Hance.

Descr. Rhizome short-creeping, with the tufts of leaves

crowded upon it. Produced /eaves six or eight in a distichous

tuft, the base of which exfends over the lowest half-foot of the

stem, ensiform, pale green, the largest about a foot long and

an inch broad. Mowering-stems three or four feet high, much

more branched than in any other species of the genus. /Vowers

four or six ina cluster, scentless, bright violet-purple. Spathe-,

valves under an inch long, subequal, the outer ones oblong

green and firm in texture, the inner membranous. LPedicels

just as long asthe spathe, articulated at the tip. Ovary

clavate, half an inch long; perianth-tube obsolete ubove the

ovary; outer segments of the limb oblanceolate-spathulate, an

inch and a half Jong, the reflexing roundish violet-purple limb

not more than half as long as the permanently suberect claw,

which has a beardless pale green keel, from which lines of

bright purple on a paler ground radiate transversely; inner

segments of the perianth similar in shape to the outer, but

rather shorter, plain purple, deeply emarginate at the tip.

Petaloid branches of the séyle vblanceolate—oblong, nearly

white ; crests lanceolate, very acute. Authers linear-oblong,

equalling in length the free filaments—/. G. B.

Fig. 1, outer segment of the perianth; Fig. 2, petaloid branch of the style

with its crests :—both enlarged.

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ALBUCA WAKEFIELDII.

Native of Kast Tropical Africa.

Nat: Ord. Litiacea:.—Tribe Scruie”.

Genus Axsuca, Linn.: (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xiii. p. 285.)

AtBuca (Pallastema) Wakefieldii; bulbo ovoideo tunicis brunneis apice

truncatis, foliis 4-5 lineari-ensiformibus acuminatis glabris flaccidis peda-

libus vel sesquipedalibus, scapo tereti bipedali, floribus 10-12 imodoris

cernuis laxe racemosis, pedicellis ascendentibus flore brevioribus, bracteis

parvis lanceolatis, perianthii albo-viriduli segmentis exterioribus planis

lineari-oblongis, interioribus oblanceolato-oblongis albido marginatis apice

cucullatis, staminibus omnibus fertilibus, filamentis applanatis basi pan-

duriformibus, antheris parvis oblongis, stylo subulato ovario 2-3 plo-longiori.

The bulbs of this interesting new A/suca were sent by the

Rey. Mr. Wakefield, through Colonel Grant, to the Kew col-

lection, where the plant flowered for the first time last autumn.

Pallastema is a subgenus of Albuca, with a perianth like that

of the type, but with a style instead of being short and

prismatic, subulate, and much longer than the ovary, as in an

ordinary Ornithogalum or Scilla. he subgenus is confined to

tropical Africa, and for nearly a century only a single species

was known, Albuca abyssinica, named by Dryander, and

figured by Jacquin and Redouté. Through the explorations

of late years six additional species have been added, four by

Dr. Welwitsch in Angola, and one by Baines on the east side

of the continent, near the southern tropic. Since the date of

my monograph of Albuca in 1873, altogether twelve new

species have been added to the sixteen then known.

Duscr. Bulb pale green, ovoid, an inch and a half in

diameter ; tunics membranous, pale brown, not produced into

bristles at the tip. Leaves four or five produced, cotempo-

rary with the flowers, linear-ensiform, flaccid, glabrous, a

foot or a foot and a half long, an inch broad at the base,

tapering to the point. Scape terete, longer than the leaves.

Flowers ten or twelve, arranged in a laxe raceme, which is six

or nine inches in length when fully expanded, cernuous,

scentless, greenish-white ; pedicels ascending, the lowest under

an inch long; bracts lanceolate, shorter than the pedicels.

Perianth an inch long ; outer segments flat, linear-oblong, all

green ; inner segments broader, oblanceolate-oblong, green,

with broad white borders, inflexed at the tip. Stamens all

fertile, rather shorter than the inner segments of the perianth ;

filaments flattened, dilated at the base, and again auricled

above the top of the ovary; anthers small, pale yellow,

oblong. Ovary oblong-trigonous ; style subulate, more than

twice as long as the ovary ; stigma capitate.—/ G. Baker.

Fig 1, a flower with the perianth stripped away : magnified.

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ASTER 'TownsHenv1t.

Native of Colorado,

Nat. Ord. Composirm.—Tribe AsTEROIDER,

Genus Aster, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl, ii. 271).

Aster (Euaster) Townshendii : erecta, herbacea, ramosa, scaberulo-pilosa, ramis

robustis costatis foliosis, foliis radicalibus elongato-spathulatis obscure sinuatis

apice rotundatis, petiolo alato, caulinis e basi semiamplexicauli ovato-oblongis

obtusis irregulariter dentatis, capitulis 2} poll.diam., pedunculis validis foliaceo-

bracteatis, involucri late turbinati bracteis numerosissimis multiseriatis her-

baceis rigidis linearibus acutis squarroso-recurvis hispidulis exterioribus bre-

vioribus, ligulis sub.-2-seriatis pollicaribus linearibus, herbaceis, fl. disci flavis

pappo 1-seriato setis inequalibus, appendicibus stigmatis brevibus obovatis,

acheniis glabris.

I fail to find any description, or any specimen in the Kew

Herbarium answering to the character of this very handsome

plant, whose nearest ally appears to be the Aster canescens, A.

Gr , (Diplopappus incanus, Lindl., tab. nost. 3382, var. latifolia,

Gray, from which it differs in its scabrid hairs, robust habit,

the cordate bases of the much broader leaves, and the very

large heads. It is remarkable that so beautiful a plant should

have escaped the notice of the many excellent botanists and

zealous collectors that have explored the Rocky Mountains of

Colorado, and that it should find no place in the synopsis of

that Flora published in 1874 by Messrs. Porter and Coulter.

It was raised from seeds presented in 1877 to the Royal

Gardens by Richard B. Townshend, Esq., a gentleman who has

resided in Colorado, and to whom the gardens are indebted

for other valuable contributions from that interesting country.

The seeds vegetated freely and the plant flowered profusely

in September, 1878. ;

Descr. A stout, much branched herb, clothed with short

rigid hairs; stem and branches green, angled and ribbed,

leafy. Radical leaves 8 to 12 inches long by one to one and a

JUNE Ist, 1879. :

half inches broad, elongate-spathulate from a broad winged

petiole, rounded at the apex, margin obscurely undulated,

midrib very stout; cauline ovate-oblong, obtuse from a cordate

semiamplexicaul base, remotely and irregularly toothed,

spreading, bright green, paler beneath. Heads terminating all

the branches, two and a half inches in diameter ; peduncles stout,

thickened upwards, bearing short rather squarrose scattered

linear bracts with cordate bases. Involucre between turbinate

and hemispherical; bracts very numerous, in many series,

linear, acute, rigidly herbaceous, green, strongly recurved

from about the middle, giving the involucre a squarrose appear-

ance, innermost erect, all scabrid, the tips glandular. Receptacle

flat, pitted. Ray-flower in about two series, bright violet- blue ;

ligules an inch long, minutely toothed at the tip ;_ style-arms

slender with rounded tips. Disk-flowers golden yellow,

puberulous ; corolla lobes short ; style-arms with obovate broad

appendages. Pappus of few marginal bristles. _Achenes (un-

ripe) glabrous, smooth.—/. D. H.

Fig. 1, Vertical section of involucre and receptacle ; 2, inner bract of involucre ; 3,

ray-flower; 4, its style-arms; 5, disk-flower; 6 and 7,itsarms; 8, disk-flower,

with inner bract of involucre connate to the achene; 9, hair of pappus :—all

enlarged.

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CALCEOLARIA DEFLEXA.

Native of Peru.

Nat. Ord. ScropHuLARINEZ.—Tribe CALCEOLARIE®.

Genus, CatcroariA, Linn; (Benth et Hook., f. Gen. Pl. vol. it. p. 919).

Catcrorarta (Salicifolie) fuchsiefolia; gracilis, glabra, suffruticosa, ramulis

teretiusculis, v. obtuse 4-gonis, foliis petiolatis ovato-lanceolatis insequaliter

denticulatis supra luride viridibus paniculeque .ramis plus minusve verni-

cosis subtus pallidis, paniculis amplis, axillis 2-foliatis, floribus nutantibus,

calycis lobis triangulari-ovatis, corolle glabra labio superiore reniformi-orbi-

culare crenato, inferiore inflato subgloboso incurvo paulo minore.

C. deflexa, Ruiz and Pav., Fl. Per. & Chil. vol. i. p. 15, t. 23, f. a.; Benth. in

DOC. Prodr, vol.-x. 217.

C. fuchsieefolia, Hemsl. in The Garden, 1879, p. 258.

After a careful examination of the species of Calceolaria

belonging to the ninth, or Salicifolia section of Bentham, in

De Candolle’s ‘‘ Prodromus,” and a comparison of the nume-

rous specimens which have accumulated in our Herbaria

since the publication of that work, I think it cannot be

doubted that these species have been unduly multiplied, and

that it is even doubtful whether some of the original species

of Ruiz and Pavon may not have been separated on trivial

grounds. Be this as it may, the identity of the present

plant with the C. defleca of Ruiz and Payon cannot be ques-

tioned ; the character mainly depended upon by Mr. Hemsley,

who advances the species doubtfully, for distinguishing it,

namely, the absence of viscosity, not holding good with the

specimen here figured, in which the upper surface of the

leaves and the branches of the panicle were more or less

shining from the presence of a viscous exudation ; a character,

however, depending for its development on the warmth of the

weather and on the condition of the plant.

Specimens which I cannot distinguish from these, and named

_ by Bentham C. defleva, are contained in the Kew Herbaria,

gathered in the Cauta valley by Cruckshanks, near San

JUNE Ist, 1879.

Matteo, by Matthews, and near Quito by Professor Jameson ;

and there are specimens in the Herbaria which were culti-

vated many years ago from Messrs. Veitch’s garden (probably

then at Exeter). I suspect that C. cerasifolia, Benth., C.

involuta, Ruiz and Pavon, and C. viscosa, R. and P. are

all forms of one plant, which in this case extends from New

Granada to Peru. ©. stricta, H. B. & K., differs in its larger

leaves, more narrowed into the petiole; and @. tetragona,

Benth., in the entire larger more elliptic leaves and large

calyx. I should mention that, in identifying the plants of

Ruiz and Pavon by those authors’ plates, much allowance

must be made for these being often made by very inferior

artists from very incomplete specimens, and these always

a dried state.

. _ @. defleea was introduced into cultivation by Messrs.

Rodger M‘Clelland and Co., of Newry, and the figure here

given was taken partly from specimens kindly communicated

by W. T. Gumbleton, Esq., in March last, and partly from

one that flowered at Kew at the same time. :

Duscr. A slender glabrous undershrub ; stem and branches

round or obscurely four-angled; leaves above, and panicle

more or less viscid. Leaves two to two and a half inches

long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, unequally toothed or serrate,

rounded acute or subcordate at the base, dark green above,

whitish beneath ; petiole one quarter to half an inch long.

Panicle large, effuse, with small opposite lanceolate leaves at

the forks. //owers drooping, on slender pedicels. Calyx-lobes

triangular-ovate, one-third of an inch long, acute. Corolla

one inch across the lobes, sulphur-yellow; lips subequal,

upper orbicular-reniform, compressed from back to front,

crenate; lower rather larger, inflated, incurved and rounded ;

mouth subquadrate, villous, exposing the stamens and ovary.

Ovary conical, glabrous ; style short-—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Upper lip of corolla and stamens ovary ; 2, vertical section of flowers

3, calyx and unripe fruit ; 4, stamens :—all enlarged. .

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CYPRIPEDIUM LAWRENCEANUM.

Native of Borneo.

Nat. Ord. OrncHipEx.—Tribe CypripEDIEX.

Genus Cyprrivepium, Linn.; (Endl. Gen. Plant., p. 220).

Cypripepium Lawrenceanum, acaule v. caulescens, foliis paucis distichis lineari-

ellipticis acutis planis viridibus albo tessellatis, scapo tomentoso purpureo 1-2-

flore, flore magno, sepalo dorsali orbiculato amplo subacuto albo purpureo-

vittato vittis basin versus verrucosis lateralibus parvis in laminam angustam

lineari-oblongam concavam obtusam deflexam labello breviorem connatis,

petalis planis horizontalibus late linearibus ciliatis secus marginem verrucosis

nitidis ciliatis purpureis ornato, labello subcylindriceo apice rotundato fusco-

purpureo, ore parum ampliato, anthera sterili Iunata cuspidibus incurvis

acutis margine interiore fisso.

C. Lawrenceanum, Reichb. in Gard. Chron. 1878, ii. p. 748.

Dr. Reichenbach in his description of this plant well re-

marks that it unites the flower of the Javan C. barbatum with

the foliage of C. Dayanum. It is one of a series of forms of the

genus, with few linear usually tessellately spotted leaves, few-

or single-flowered scapes, spreading petals, broad dorsal sepal

and small combined lateral sepals, which extends from Nepal on

the West (C. venustum, tab. nost. 2129) to Borneo and the

Philippine Islands on the East, the colour becoming more

intense and the flowers larger in proceeding southward and

eastward, till they attain their known maximum in the pre-

sent splendid Bornean species, and in C. Argus (tab. 6175) of

the Philippine Islands. It includes also C. purpuratum (tab.

nost. 4901) of the Indian Peninsula, C. barbatum, Ldl. (t.

4234) of Java, C. Hookerw, Rehb. f. (t. 5362), C. Faireanum,

Ldl. (t. 5024), and others. @. Lawrenceanum is one of Mr.

Burbidge’s discoveries during his recent expedition to Borneo,

in the service of the Messrs. Veitch ; another of the fruits of

which journey is the beautiful Burbidgea nitida, figured in the

January Number of this work (t. 6403). Mr. Burbidge in-

forms me that he found it on sandstone and limestone rocks,

JUNE Ist, 1879.

in shady forests, at an elevation of 2000 feet, sometimes at-

taining three feet in height. It flowered in Messrs. Veitch’s

establishment in December, 1878, and was named by Dr.

Reichenbach after Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., M.P., the

possessor of a renowned collection of Orchids, which the

author of the species describes as being of exceptional richness

and beauty.

Descr. Stemless, or with the stem a foot high. Leaves

distichous, nearly a foot long, including the broad flattened

sheath, linear-elliptic, acute, two inches broad, nearly flat,

grooved down the centre in front, and keeled at the back,

about 12-nerved, tessellated with bright greenish white and

dull green. Scape longer than the leaves, flexuous,

1-2-flowered, clothed with long spreading glandular hairs, as

are the bract, ovary, and back of the sepals. Bract small,

oblong, obtuse. Flower erect, upwards of five inches across

the petals, and as much from the tip of the dorsal sepal to

that of the lip. . Dorsal sepal very large, orbicular, rather

broader above the middle, white with broad purple alternately

long and shorter bands, the latter warted towards the base,

none of them reaching the tip ; margins very slightly revolute

below the middle; lateral sepals combined into a brown

oblong obtuse concave ribbed limb much shorter than the

lip. Petals straight, flat, two and a half inches long, and one

half inch broad ; ciliate, green, dull purple towards the subacute

tips, with a series of six or eight purple vanished hairy

warts along each margin, and a few on the disk beyond the

middle. Zip dull purple, two inches long, subcylindrical,

ventricose below the middle, mouth slightly dilated, emargi-

nate in front, Staminode lunate with acute incurved cusps, and

five teeth in the sinus, cleft with a narrow sinus at the

back.— J. D. H.

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CHIONODOXA Luci.

Native of Asia Minor and Crete.

Nat. Ord. Lintacem.— Tribe HyactntaHex,

Genus Cur1onopoxa, Boiss. (Baker in Journ, Linn. Soe. vol, xi. p. 435).

Curonopoxa Lucilig; bulbo ovoideo tunicis brunneis membranaceis, foliis 2-3

loratis erectis viridibus facie canaliculatis apice cucullatis, scapo gracili

tereti, floribus 1-10 in racemum laxum deltoideum dispositis, bracteis

minutis membranaceis deltoideis, pedicellis patulo-cernuis, perianthii cceru-

leo-albi tubo oblongo, segmentis oblongo-lanceolatis tubo subtriplo longior-

ibus, filamentis brevibus inequalibus, antheris filamento longioribus, ovario

globoso, stylo brevi cylindrico, stigmate capitato.

C. Lucilie, Boiss. Diagn. part 5, p. 62; Baker in Journ, Linn, Soe. vol. xi. p. 436.

C. Forbesii, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. loc. cit.

This is one of the most valuable and interesting additions

to our list of early-flowering Spring bulbs that has been

made for a long time. I quite agree with Mr. Elwes, who

writes of it ( Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1879, p. 379): ‘* I can say

with confidence that it is one of the best, if not the very best

of all its class, far surpassing any of the Squills, and appa-

rently as hardy and as easy to increase as Scilla sibirica.”

Now that we know the plant pretty thoroughly in a living

state, 1 do not wish any longer to attempt to separate my

Chionodoxa Forbesii, discovered by the late Professor Edward

Forbes on the Lycian ‘!aurus, or the white-flowered Cretan

plant gathered by his fellow-explorer, Lieutenant Spratt, on

the summit of Mount Ida, from the Anatolian C. Lucilie of ©

Boissier, which represents a starved dwarf one-flowered con-

dition of the species ; and I am inclined also to believe that,

in a broad botanical sense, the Cretan @. nana and C. ecretica

are not more than varieties of the same species. The former,

however, is in cultivation, and it is much inferior to C. Lucilie

in horticultural effect. Our present plant was discovered by

Boissier, in June, 1842, flowering amongst the melting snows

JUNE Ist, 1879,

of the western Tmolus, above Bozdagh, at an elevation above

sea-level of 7000 feet. It was introduced into cultivation by

Mr. G. Maw, from one of whose letters I cite the following

account of the circumstances under which he found it:— ~

‘The specimens were obtained the first week in May, 1877,

in ascending the Nymph Dagh, east of Smyrna, at elevations

of from 3000 to 4300 feet. At the lower level it was out

of flower, but near the summit of the mountain a great mass

of it was met with in full splendour, forming one of the most

sumptuous displays of floral beauty I ever beheld ; a mass of

blue and white resembling Nemophila insignis in colour, but

more intense and brilliant. Close at hand were Tulips of

several species, yellow Fritillaries, Galanthus Elwesii, yellow

Gageas of several species, Croci, Colchicum bulbocodioides,

Scillas, etc., a perfect paradise for the bulb collector and the

botanist.” Mr. Maw adds that the Chionodoxa has proved

itself perfectly hardy in the open ground at Benthall during

the late exceptionally severe winter, and that the bulbs

which he brought home in 1877 have increased in size and

strength. :

Duscr. Bulb ovoid, with brown membranous tunics. Leaves

two or three to a stem, sheathing it for some distance above

the base, lorate, fleshy, bright green, three to six inches long

at the time of flowering, channelled down the face, cucullate

at the tip. Scape attaining a length of four or six inches

above the bulb, slender, terete. Flowers from one to ten,

arranged in a very lax deltoid raceme, with minute mem-

branous bracts, and cernuous pedicels. Perianth bright blue

or rarely entirely white, nine or twelve lines long, with an

oblong tube, and six spreading oblong-lanceolate segments

under a quarter of an inch broad. Filaments flat, white, un-

equal ; the larger a sixth of an inch, the smaller an eighth of

an inch long, touching edge to edge, but not forming a dis-

tinct corona, as in Puschkinia. Anthers linear, cleft at the

tip, protruding out of the cup formed by the filaments.

Ovary blue, sessile, globose, with a short cylindrical style

and a capitate stigma.—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, a flower opened out natural size ; fi f

: : ; } fig. 2, two of the stamens and a po

a of the perianth-tube ; fig. 3, a stamen, viewed from outside ; fig. 4, pistil;

g- 5, horizontal section of ovary :—all enlarged.

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CINCHONA Catisaya, VERA.

Native of Bolivia and Peru.

Nat. Ord. Rusracex.—Tribe CincHonez.

Genus Cincuona, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 82).

CrxcHona Calisaya ; foliis oblongis v. obovato lanceolatis obtusis basi attenuatis

rarius utrinque acutis glabratis nitidis v. subtus pubescentibus, axillis

nervorum scrobiculatis, capsula ovata corollam longitudine equante,

seminibus margine crebre fimbriato-denticulatis.

C, Calisaya, Weddell, Hist. Nat. des Quinquinas, p. 30.

Var. a. Calisaya vera, arbor, foliis ellipticis v. oblongo v. lanceolato-obovatis

obtusis. Weddell, 1. c. t. 8, 4, 4 bis, & 28 f. 1-4.

Cartsaya javanica, Howard, Quinology of the East Indian Plantations, t. viii.

The very interesting plant here figured, is the true

famous ‘ Calisaya’ fever-bark, of which a remarkable variety

(Josephiana) is represented in Plate 6052 of this work. It

very closely agrees with the original specimens of C. Calisaya

collected by the author of the species, the late eminent

botanist and traveller Dr. Weddell, in the province of Cara-

baya in Peru. Like its congeners, this species varies very

much in the size, shape, and texture of the leaves. Mr.

Howard identifies this form with that called ‘Schuhkraft’s

Calisaya,’ figured in his ‘ Quinology,’ Plate VIII. The seeds

were received by Mr. Howard from India, where thousands

of acres are under cultivation with this invaluable plant.

The @. Calisaya yields the most important bark for medicinal

purposes of all the species—that known as the yellow bark ;

and it is also that the obtaining of which for cultivation in

India, was the principal object of Mr. Markham’s famous

journey to the border-land of Bolivia and Peru in 1860.

From the Eastern slope of the Andes in that region, Mr.

Markham, assisted by his gardener, Mr. Weir, brought 450

living plants of Cinchona, chiefly belonging to this species, to

the Pacific coast, and thence to England, and the survivors

to India; where, however, owing to many delays attending

the transport, but few arrived in a living state. The diffi-

JUNE Ist, 1879,

culties, and indeed perils, encountered by Mr. Markham in

this journey, are described in his ‘Travels in Peru and

India,’ a work containing not only a fund of varied infor-

mation, regarding the Cinchona trees and the conditions under

which they grow in the Andes, and were introduced into

India, but a deeply interesting account of the extinction of the

Incas in Peru, and of the execrable treatment they and the

Indians received under the rule of their conquerors, the

Spaniards.

Like the two other Cinchonas figured in this work, namely,

the variety of this mentioned above, and @. officinals, t. 5364,

-the C. Calisaya has been flowered for the first time in this

country by J. E. Howard, Esq., F.R.S., of Tottenham, in -

whose conservatory it forms a small tree, eight to nine feet

high, blossoming in March. Besides being a successful

cultivator of this interesting genus, Mr. Howard has the

well-sustained reputation of being an enlightened philan-

thropist, who has energetically aided the Indian Government

in its endeavours to extend the propagation of the Fever-bark |

trees, and to ascertain the value of their properties ; whilst

as a scientific man he has, by his careful researches into the

origin and history of their species and varieties, and his

beautiful illustrated works, produced and circulated regard-

less of labour and cost, earned the gratitude alike of botanists

and pharmacists.

Desor. A lofty tree, with an erect or ascending trunk

often twice as thick as the human body, and a leafy crown

overtopping almost all the trees of its native forests; bark

thick, longitudinally and transversely fissured; branches

spreading. Leaves opposite, oblong-elliptic or obovate-

lanceolate, often large and broad, glabrous and shining above,

beneath with pale veins, in the axils of which are rough

depressions; petiole short. Séipules oblong, obtuse, quite

entire, connected. Panicle large, diffuse, tomentose ;

peduncles square and compressed, main ones opposite,

spreading, secondary and ultimate ones opposite or alter-

nate; bracts minute, ovate, acute. Flowers very numerous.

Calyx minute, 5-toothed. Corolla rose-red, tube half an inch

long, tomentose, as are the spreading lobes. Capsule ovoid,

acute, brown. Seeds yellow; wing elliptical-lanceolate,

subacute at both ends, lacerate on the margin.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower cut longitudinally ; 2, stamens; 3, stigmas :—all enlarged.

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LAMPROCOCOUS Werzpacutz.

Native of Brazil.

Nat. Ord. Bromeniacex.—Tribe ANANASSEX.

Genus Lamprococeus; Beer Fam. Brom. p. 103.

Lamrrococeus Weilbachii ; acaulis, foliis productis 12-20 dense rosulatis loratis

pedalibus vel sesquipedalibus nitide viridibus supra basin dilatatum aie

apice deltoideis cuspidatis, pedunculo subpedali erecto foliis bracteiformibus

adpressis superioribus igneis occulto, floribus in paniculam laxam dispositis,

ramis laxis brevibus patulis paucifloris spicatis subsecundis bracteis magnis

igneis lanceolatis suffultis, bracteis floralibus minutis, calycis semipollicaris

rubro-violacei tubo oblongo, segmentis latis brevibus rotundatis cuspi-

datis, petalis parvis rubellis lingulatis basi squamatis, genitalibus petalis

brevioribus.

L. Weilbachii, Z. Morren in Belg. Hort. 1861, p. 805, cum icone; Regel Gar-

tenfl. vol. xvi. p. 98, tab. 539.

L, Laurentianus, K. Koch; HE. Morren in Belg. Hort. 1861, p. 312.

Ecumea Weilbachii, F. Dietr. in Ind. Semin. Hort. Bot. Copen. anno 1854;

Rafarin in Rev. Hort. 1870, p. 171, cum icone.

This is one of the most striking of the cultivated Brome-

liads; for, although in Lamprococcus and Aichmea the

individual flowers are smaller and less showy than in

Billbergia, the bright red rachises and bracts of the present

plant, in combination with its bright green leaves and red-

dish-violet calyx, which all preserve their colour for a long

time, make it an effective species for decorative purposes.

The corolla, however, is small and by no means showy, and

soon fades to a brownish tinge. It has been in cultivation

along time, but is still rare in this country. It was first

described from a specimen that flowered in 1854 in the

Botanic garden at Copenhagen ; and again from a plant intro-

duced about 1860 from Brazil, by Monsieur de Jonghe, of

Brussels. Our present drawing was made from a specimen

that flowered lately in the Kew collection.

Descr. Produced Jeaves twelve to twenty, in a dense

sessile utricular rosette, lorate, a foot or a foot and a half

JUNE Ist, 1879.

long, about three inches broad at the dilated deltoid clasping

base, where it is sharply toothed, entire above the base, thin

in texture for a Bromeliad, an inch or an inch and a half

broad at the middle, bright green on both sides, faintly

lineate down the back, deltoid-cuspidate at the tip. Peduncle

about a foot long, erect, hidden by its lanceolate adpressed

erect imbricating scariose bract-leaves, of which the upper

are bright red. Panicle half a foot long, with several distant

short spreading few-flowered spicate subsecund branches,

subtended by bright red scariose lanceolate bracts as long as

themselves ; rachises, as in the other species of Zamprococcus,

bright red and quite glabrous; flower-bracts minute-round,

navicular, not cuspidate. Calyx half an inch long, the red-

dish-violet oblong tube longer than the round-cuspidate

spirally-twisted segments. Pefals lingulate, obtuse, red,

half an inch long, with a pair of small cuneate dentate scales

at the base. Stamens and style shorter than the petals ;

anthers small, oblong; stigmas slightly spirally twisted.—-

J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, An entire flower, natural size ; fig. 2, calyx-tube, with a single segment ;

fig. 3, petal and stamen, viewed from inside the flower ; fig. 4, scale from base of

petal ; fig. 5, two stamens ; fig. 6, stigmas; fig. 7, horizontal section of ovary ; fig.

8, an ovule :—all more or less enlarged.

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HYMENOCALLIS MACROSTEPHANA,

Native Country unknown.

Nat. Ord. AmMaryLLIpAcE®.—Tribe PancratiEr.

Genus Hymenocatuis, Salish. ; (Kunth, Enum. vol. v. p. 664).

Hymenocatuis (Choretis) MacrosTEPHANA ; bulbo ovoideo longicollo tunicis brun-

neis membranaceis, foliis 8-9 synanthiis oblanceolatis viridibus 2-3-pedalibus,

scapo robusto ancipiti, umbellis 6-10-floris, bracteis exterioribus deltoideis

interioribus lanceolatis, pedicellis brevibus, ovario semipollicari, perianthii

albi tubo tripollicari, segmentis linearibus patulis tubo paulo longioribus,

corona bipollicari infundulari ore dentato flore expanso subpatulo, filamen-

torum parte libera pollicari incurvato, antheris parvis luteis.

H. macrostephana, Baker in Gard. Chron. 1879, p. 480.

We received this from two sources at the early part of the

present year. First from Sir Philip Egerton, who had it

from a continental nursery under the name of Pancratium

fragrans, and who noticed that it was quite different from the

plant properly so called, which is a variety of Hymenocallis

speciosa ; and afterwards from Mr. Woodbridge, gardener to

the Duke of Northumberland at Sion House, who has grown

it for some time there. We have not been able, so far, to

trace out further its history, or to ascertain its native country.

Its nearest ally is evidently the Mexican Choretis glauca of

Herbert, and the two together form a group midway between

Ismene and the typical species of Hymenocallis, such as

speciosa and caribea, in which the corona is much smaller,

and the free portion of the filaments proportionately larger.

The flower is pure white and sweet-scented, and it certainly

is one of the most valuable of all the Pancraties for decora-

tive purposes. It flowers in February and March. |

Dzscr. Bulb ovoid, two inches in diameter, with brown

membranous tunics and a long neck. Leaves eight or nine to

a bulb, cotemporary with the flowers, aggregated in a basal

rosette, oblanceolate, loosely arcuate, two or three feet long,

two or three inches broad three-quarters of the way up,

JULY Ist, 1879.

narrowed gradually to an inch above the clasping base; the face

bright green, the back paler green. Scape much shorter than the

leaves, ancipitous, an inch in diameter. Umbel six- to ten-

flowered ; pedicels very short; outer spathe-valves deltoid ;

inner lanceolate. Flowers pure white, sweet-scented ; ovary

oblong-trigonous, half an inch long; perianth-tube three

inches long, green in the lower part ; segments linear, rotate,

a little longer than the tube, half an inch broad, Corona

funnel-shaped, two inches in length, and about the same in

diameter at the irregularly-toothed throat, where it spreads a

little when the flower is fully expanded; free portion of the

filaments abruptly incurved, as in Jsmene, about an inch

long; anthers linear, yellow, under half an inch long. Style

protruded an inch and a-half or two inches from the corona,

declinate, greenish ; stigma capitate-—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, Horizontal section of the scape :—a little enlarged.

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PRIMULA Roska.

Native of Kashmir.

Nat. Ord. Priumvutaces.—Tribe PRIMULER.

Genus Primvuta, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 631).

Prieta rosea ; glabra, efarinosa, foliis confertis subsessilibus obovato-lanceolatis

acutis crenulatis supra viridibus subtus pallidioribus marginibus vernatione

revolutis, scapo robusto, involucri bracteis carnosis lanceolatis acuminatis

basi in auriculam apice rotundatam oblongam deorsum productis, pedicellis

bracteas sequantibus v. excedentibus, floribus confertis roseis erectis, calyce

ad medium 5-fido, lobis subulatis acutis, corolle tubo calycem paulo exce-

dente, limbi explanati late rosei segmentis planis enneato-obcordatis, lobis

oblongis apice rotundatis, sinu acuto, fauce nuda,

P. rosea, Royle, JU. Himal. Pl. p. 311, t. 75, f£.1; Duby in DC. Prodr, vol. iii. p. 41.

This humble plant proved the most attractive novelty in

the spring Horticultural shows of the present year; and,

indeed, it would be difficult to single out any early-flowering

hardy plant, except perhaps the blue Gentian of the Alps,

which forms a more striking object of its kind. No Primula

heretofore cultivated grows in the same compact manner and

has such brilliantly-coloured flowers, which are almost’ pure

carmine when first expanded, and gradually become pale,

with a shade of purple. The species has been long known to

Indian botanists and natives of the extreme Western

Himalayas, from the district of Kulu eastward to Afghanis-

tan ; Kashmir being its head-quarters, where it was discovered

by the late Dr. Royle’s collectors, and afterwards gathered

by Falconer, Thomson, Edgworth, and lately by Dr.

Aitchieson, to whom the Royal Gardens are indebted for the

seeds which were widely distributed, and from which, I

believe, all the plants hitherto cultivated have been grown.

We reeeived the first flowering specimen from Mr. Ware,

of Tottenham; a few days afterwards it flowered at Kew

and in many other collections. It is quite an Alpine species.

Thomson gathered it at 10,000 to 12,000 feet, and Griffith

JOLY Ist, 1879,

found it in Affghanistan in snowy ravines at 11,000 feet.

Dr. Aitchieson has sent dried specimens of what is either a

larger form or distinct species from a much lower level, 8,500

feet, at Gulmarz, in Kashmir, and these have much larger

obovate, oblong, and sharply toothed leaves, with rounded

apices. In its native mountains it flowers from June to

August, but in England as early as March and April.

Descr.—Glabrous, not mealy. Leaves densely tufted,

obovate-lanceolate, acute, sessile, one to two inches long,

crenulate, deep green above, paler beneath, margins revolute

when young. Scapes many, stout, longer than the leaves,

four- to ten-flowered. Involucral bracts erect, appressed, thick,

lanceolate, acuminate, produced downwards into an oblong

obtuse auricle. Pedicels equalling or exceeding the bracts.

Calyx one-third of an inch long, tube cylindric, cleft to the

middle into five subulate erect lobes. Corolla tube exceeding

the calyx; limb flat, one-half to two-thirds of an inch in

diameter, clear bright rose-carmine; segments cuneate-

obcordate, lobes rounded, with a deep acute sinus; throat

a little swollen, smooth.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Top of scape and bracts ; longitudinal section of flower pias 3 enlarged,

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DENDROBIUM FINDLEYANUM.

Native of Burmah.

Nat. Ord. OrcHipzraz.— Tribe DENDROBIER.

Genus Denprosium, Swartz ; (Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 74).

Denprosium Findleyanum, caulibus articulatis, internodiis 2-3-pollicaribus e basi

gracili clavatis inferne cylindraceis vaginatis parte incrassato obovoideo

nudo sulcato, foliis lineari-oblongis acutis submembranaceis caducis, pedun-

culis lateralibus 1—-2-floris, bracteis parvis appressis, pedicellis gracilibus 2-3-

pollicaribus, floribus 3—poll. diamet. labello flavo excepto albis roseo suffusis,

sepalo dorsali lineari-oblongo acuto, lateralibus ascendentibus recurvis paulo

latioribus, petalis patentibus late oblongis obtusis, labello breviter stipitato

rotundato-cordato margine undulato, disco velutino callo basi obscuro.

D. Findleyanum, Parish et Reichb. f. in Trans. Linn. Soe, vol. xxx. p. 149.

Rteichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1877, part i. p. 334.

When Dendrobium crassinode, Bens. and Reichb. f. (tab.

nost. 5766) was first published in England, in 1869, it was

considered, and very justly, as one of the most remarkable

species then discovered, on account of the curiously-swollen

internodes, which are not half the length but double the

thickness of those of the present species. The latter, indeed,

in respect of its internodes, form a Jink between that singular

plant and D. nodatum, Reichb. f. (tab. 5470); and together

with Bensonie, nob. (tab. 5679), and some others, forms

a section of the genus of very distinct habit.

D. Findleyanum is one of the Rev. Mr. Parish’s many

Moulmein discoveries. It first flowered with Sir Trevor

Lawrence in 1877; it had, however, been previously described

from dried specimens and drawings, by Messrs. Parish and

Reichenbach, in the thirtieth volume of the Transactions of

the Linnean Society. The specimen figured flowered in the

Royal Gardens in March of the present year, and was one of

Mr. Parish’s many valuable donations to this establishment.

Descr. Stems two feet long, jointed throughout their

length ; joints green, two to three inches long, club-shaped

JULY Ist, 1879.

from a slender stalk-like base, which is one-fourth of an inch

in diameter, and covered by the leaf-sheath; the club-shaped

portion is grooved and often three-quarters of an inch

diameter. Leaves three inches long by three-quarters of an

inch broad, spreading, linear-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute

or notched at the tip, wavy, bright green, sessile on the

sheath. Peduncles lateral, short, green, one to two flowered ;-

bracts small, appressed ; pedicels two to three inches long,

slender, pale rose coloured. Flowers three inches in diameter,

white, suffused with rose red, except the lip. Sepals oblong-

lanceolate, acute, the lateral recurved. Petals much larger

and broader than the petals, apiculate. Zip when spread out

broadly rounded, ovate or ovate-cordate, acute, membranous,

margin wrinkled, surface tomentose, callus at the base

obscure, dark orange yellow towards the centre, fading into

golden yellow towards the margins. Column with two deep

purple bands in front —J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Lip; 2, column :—both enlarged,

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TULIPA ScHRENKI.

Native of Central Asia.

Nat. Ord. Lintacku.—Tribe Turrre®.

Genus Touxira, Linn.; (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xiv. p. 275).

Tuttra Schrenzi; bulbo ovoideo tunicis brunneis intus parce pilosis, caule pu-

berulo unifloro 3-4-phyllo, foliis lanceolatis subglaucis facie glabris margine

obscure ciliatis, perianthio erecto rubro vel luteo infundibulari segmentis

conformibus obtusis, staminibus perianthio duplo brevioribus, antheris fila-

mento glabro longioribus, ovario cylindrico-trigono, stigmatibus magnitudine

mediocribus.

T. Schrenki, Regel in Act. Hort. Petrop. vol. ii. p. 439 and 452.

T. Gesneriana, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xiv. p. 284, ex parte: Regel, FI.

Turkest. vol. i. p. 188, ex parte.

This is a close ally of the old well-known Tulipa Gresneriana

of Linneus, from which so many of our garden forms have

originated. It differs from esneriana mainly in the form of

the flower, which is more funnel-shaped, with more spreading

segments. In colour, like Gesneriana, it goes through a wide

range of variation. Our wild specimens, gathered by Schrenk,

have flowers of a uniform pale yellow. In the plant from

which the drawing was made, which was sent to Kew by

Dr. Regel, they were considerably larger and bright crimson

with a yellow throat. It flowers with us at the beginning of

April. It has been gathered in Turkestan by Lehmann and

others, and in the Soongarian desert by Schrenk. Since the

publication of my monograph of the genus in 1874, the

Russian explorers, principally Dr. Albert Regel, have found

eight new Tulips in Central Asia, Kaufmanniana, Kolpakows-

kiana, triphylla, tetraphylla, Kesselringi, Korolkowi, Alberti,

and turkestanica.

Descr. Bulb ovoid, an inch in diameter, with brown mem-

branous tunics, shortly pilose inside in the upper part. Stem

JULY lst, 1879,

about half a foot long, bearing a single erect flower, and

three or four lanceolate Jeaves, with a glabrous rather

glaucous surface and obscurely ciliated margins, the lowest

and largest in the cultivated specimens about four inches long

and an inch and a half broad. Pedunele erect, puberulent,

three or four inches long, Perianth yellow or bright red with

a yellow throat, funnel-shaped, with more spreading segments

than in Gesneriana, an inch long in the wild, nearly two inches

in the cultivated specimens, all the segments similar, oblong,

obtuse. Stamens half as long as the perianth ; anthers lemon-

yellow, longer than the glabrous filaments. Ovary cylindrico-

trigonous, nearly as long as the stamens ; stigmas middle-

sized, a little broader than the diameter of the ovary.—

J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, First view of a stamen; 2, back view of the same—enlarged.

Tas. 6440.

CAJANUS inpicus.

Native of tropical Asia.

Nat. Ord. LEcuminos%.—Tribe Puasro.er,

Genus Casanus, DC. (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 641).

Casanus indicus ; frutex, ramulis sulcatis foliis et inflorescentia tomentellis v.

sericeo v. velutino-pubescentibus, foliis pinnatim 3-foliolatis, foliolis ellip-

tico-lanceolatis acuminatis subtus pallidis nervosis resinoso-punctulatis,

stipulis parvis subulatis caducis, stipellis minutis, floribus flavis v. pur-

pureo-lineolatis in racemis axillaribus dispositis ebracteolatis, bracteis

caducis, vexillo orbiculato reflexo, alis dimidiato-obovatis, carina obtusa,

legumine lineari compresso basi et apice angustatis acuminatis 3-5-spermo,

septis distinctis, seminibus compressis hilo laterali estrophiolato.

Casanus indicus, Spr. Syst. Veg. vol. iii. p. 248; Wight et Arn. Prod. Fl. Pen.

Ind. Or, p. 257; Drury, Useful Plants of India, p. 94.

C. bicolor, DC. Cat. Hort. Monsp. p. 85; Prodr, vol. ii. p.406; Lindl. Bot. Reg.

vol. 31, t. 31; Wall. Cat. n. 5577; Carriere in Rev. Horticole, 1874, p. 191,

C. flavus, DC. 1. ¢.

Cytisus Cajan, Linn. Sp. Pl. p.1041; Roxb, Fl. Ind. vol. iii. p. 325; Jacq. Obs.

voi. t 7.

C. pseudo-cajan, Jacq. Hort. Vind. vol. ii. t. 119.

Thora-poru, Rheede, Hort. Mul. vi. t. 13 ; Plum. Ed. Burm, t. 114, f. 2.

This, the Dal, or Dal urur of Bengal, is one of the most

widely-diffused and valuable of tropical Pulses, being con-

sidered in India as next in rank to the Chick Pea (Cicer

arietinum) and is in use amongst all classes of natives as a

nutritious esculent. Its seeds are usually eaten mixed with

rice; the dried wood affords a useful fuel; the charcoal made

from it is in esteem for gunpowder, and the young shoots

afford a good cattle-food. There are two principal varieties

of it described by De Candolle as species, one Lal Toor

(according to-Drury) of the Hindoos (@. flavus, DC.), with

yellow flowers and unspotted 2-3-seeded pods; the other,

Paoud ke Toor, (C. dicolor, DC.) with red stripes on the

standard and spotted 4-5-seeded pods. Roxburgh also

describes two varieties, distinguishable chiefly by their size,

of which the smaller ripens’in half the time of the larger ;

JULY Ist, 1879.

this’ latter is sown in alternate drills with millet (Sorghum

vulgare) which ripens first, and is cut when the Toor 1s quite

small. The larger form attains a height of eight feet and

a circumference of twenty round the extremities of the

branches, is sown in June, takes nine months to ripen, and

yields six hundred-fold; the smaller Toor is only half that

size, is sown in September, and yields only one hundred-

fold. ‘Though probably a perennial, the Cajanus is treated

as an annual in India, because it does not produce a good

second year’s crop, and because the wood is so useful for fuel.

It is also the best wood for procuring fire from friction.

Pigeon Pea and Doll are English names given to the

Cajanus sceds in various parts of the world, and the yellow-

flowered one (C. flavus) is that most esteemed in the West

Indies, where it is called the No-eye Pea; whereas the C.

bicolor, called Congo Pea, is coarser, takes long to boil when

dried, and is used chiefly by the Negroes. Oflate years 1ts

cultivation has been introduced on a large scale into Egypt,

where it is known under the French and other names of

Embrevade, Poisd’Angole, Pois de sept ans, Cytise des Indes,

Woondo, Owendo, Mais Indien, Lentille des Soudan, etc. An

account of it is given by M. Delchevalerie in the “ Belgique

Horticole” for 1873 p. 35, who describes it as three or four

times more nutritious than beans or lentils.

The specimen here figured unites the two Candollean

species, having the pure yellow flower and small stipelle of

C. flavus, and the spotted pods of C. décolor; it was raised

from seeds sent by Dr. King from the Calcutta Botanic

Gardens, and flowered in March of the present year. It isa

curous fact that, well and widely as this plant is known, its

native country is undiscovered. Can it be still to be found

In Western China, or Cochin-China ? —J. D. H.

_Fig. 1, wing; 2 and 3,keel; 4, stamens; 5, valve of pod; 6 and 3, side and

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AACHMEA MARI®-REGINA.

Native of Costa Rica.

Nat. Ord. BromEniaceEz.—Tribe ANANASSER.

Genus Aicumea, R. & P. ; (Baker in Trimen Journ. 1879, p. 129).

Aicumea (Chevalliera) Marie-regine; acaulis, foliis basalibus 15-20 dense

rosulatis lorato-lanceolatis acutis basi dilatatis subcoriaceis 2-3-pedalibus

utrinque presertim ad faciem inferiorem tenuiter lepidotis spinis marginali-

bus parvis crebris patulis instructis, pedunculo valido stricto subpedali albo-

tomentoso bracteis pluribus lanceolatis reflexis spinoso-dentatis splendide

coccineis proedito, floribus in spicam oblongam densam aggregatis, bracteis

floralibus minutis lanceolatis membranaceis, ovario oblongo albo-lepidoto,

sepalis equilongis et latis obliquis valde imbricatis conspicue cuspidatis,

petalis lingulatis sepalis duplo longioribus primum ceruleis demum rubris

basi distincte bisquamatis, genitalibus inclusis. .

A. Mariev-regine, H. Wendl.jin Hamb. Gartenzeit vol. xix. (1863), p. 82 ; Regel,

Gartenfl. vol. xiii. (1864), p. 152; Baker, in Trimen Journ, 1879, p. 162.

This is botanically a near neighbour of Aechmea (Chevalliera)

Veitchii, figured in the Borantcat Magazine, tab. 6329. The

leaves and spikes of the two plants are similar, but here the

flower-bracts are reduced to a minimum, and the most

effective part of the plant is the large bright red reflexing

bract-leaves of the general peduncle. The present plant is

a native of Costa Rica, where it is used at the feast of

Corpus Christi for the decoration of the altars in the churches.

Its local name is “Flor de Santa Maria,” from which the

scientific name has been taken. It has been in cultivation

in Europe for nearly twenty years, but only flowers rarely.

Our plate was drawn from a specimen that flowered with

Messrs. B. S. Williams and Co., at Holloway, in April of

this present year.

Desor. Leaves fifteen to twenty in a sessile. utricular

rosette, lorate-lanceolate, two or three feet long, three or

four inches broad at the dilated clasping base, two or three

inches in the middle, subcoriaceous in texture, thinly white

AUGUST Ist, 1879.

lepidote on both sides, especially on the under surface,

narrowed gradually to a cuspidate tip, margined with

crowded lanceolate small spreading brown prickles, which

grow gradually less from the base of the leaf upwards,

Pedunele about a foot long, stout, stiffly erect, clothed

throughout with thin white lepidote tomentum, furnished

with numerous reflexing persistent crimson lanceolate bract-

leaves with toothed margins. Flowers in a dense oblong

spike three or four inches long, each subtended by a minute

lanceolate membranous bract. Calyx including the ovary

half an inch long, clothed throughout with white tomentum ;

sepals about as broad as long, oblique, much imbricated,

furnished with a large pungent cusp. etals lingulate,

half an inch long, blue when they first open, turning red

as they fade, furnished each with a pair of minute fimbriated

scales at the base. Stamens and pistil reaching to the

summit of the petals.—J. G. Baker.

_ Figs. 1, and 2, entire flowers, life-size; fig. 8, a calyx-segment, of unusually

irregular form; fig 4, a petal and a couple of stamens; fig. 5, two anthers,

showing their insertion on the filament ; fig. 6, stigmas and summit of style;

fig. 7, horizontal section of ovary :—all more or less enlarged.

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LOASA prosrrata,

Native of the Chilian Andes.

Nat. Ord. Loasrx.

Genus Loasa, Juss. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl, vol. i. p. 804).

Loasa prostrata; herba prostrata, setosa, caulibus robustis flexuosis, foliis

oppositis breviter crasse petiolatissummis sessilibus ovato-rotundatis profunde

cordatis 3-lobis scaberidis utrinque sinubus rotundatis, lobis lobulatis et den-

tatis, dentibus setosis, nervis prominentibus, floribus axillaribus et apices

versus ramulorum divaricato-paniculatis, pedunculis robustis, calycis lobis

ovato-oblongis lanceolatis acutis setoso-dentatis, petalis aureis cymbiformibus,

squamis conicis albis infra medium rubris, ovario turbinato, seminibus

ovoideis maximis, testa levi.

L. prostrata, Don in Edinb. Phil. Journ. 1841, 274; Gay. Fl. Chilen. vol. ii. p. 454.

The Genus Zoasa has its head-quarters in the southern

Andes, no less than thirty-one species being described as

natives of Chili alone, where they are well known for their

stinging hairs, which are far more irritating than those of

the nettle. The present species has more botanical than

horticultural interest, and is a native of the Southern

Cordillera, where it was first discovered by Dr. Gillies, half

a century ago, and where it has been since collected by

Bridges and Cuming. It seems to be a scarce plant, and not

to have been found by Claude Gay, the eminent Chilian

traveller and botanist, and author of tbe Flora Chilina, who,

in the latter work, quotes Don’s description as his only

authority for the plant. :

Loasa prostrata seems to be perfectly hardy, having with-

stood the protracted winter of 1878-9 without protection in

the herbaceous ground at Kew, where it flowers in September.

Dxscr. Clothed with stinging hairs. Séems branching

from the base, stout, fleshy, prostrate, flexuous, green. Leaves

opposite, two to two and a half inches long, lower on very

stout short petioles, upper sessile, all broadly ovate, deeply

cordate, 3-lobed to below the middle with rounded sinus,

AuGUsT Ist, 1879.

scabrid on both surfaces ; lobes variable in length, the middle

longest and sometimes produced, irregularly lobulate and

toothed, teeth setose; nerves very strong beneath, radiating

from the top of the petiole; upper leaves less deeply lobed.

Flowers one inch in diameter, axillary, and in leafy terminal

divaricating few-flowered panicles; peduncles very stout,

longer than the leaves, spreading horizontally. Calyx-lobes

oblong-lanceolate, acute, toothed, rather shorter than the

petals. Petals oblong, boat-shaped, yellow. Scales broadly

conial, 2-fid, with 3 bristles at the base, scarlet below the

middle, white above it. Staminodes curved, with a bristle

below the club-shaped tip. Stamens about 12 in a bundle.

Ovary turbinate. Seeds very few, large, oblong; testa

smooth.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Vertical section of flower; 2, front, 3, back, and 4, side view of scale ;

5, Staminode ; 6, bundle of, stamens :—oil enlarged.

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COLCHICUM montanum.

Native of the- Mediterranan Region.

Nat. Ord. Linitacka.—Suborder MELanTHIACEA.

Genus Cotcuicum, Linn. ; (Kunth, Enum. vol. iv. p. 138).

Cotcuicum montanum ; cormo ovoideo magnitudine mediocri, foliis synanthiis

falcatis lanceolatis vel linearibus hyemalibus vel vernalibus sepissime

tribus, floribus sepissime pluribus interdum 1-2-nis, perianthii tubo 2-3-

pollicari, limbi segmentis lilacinis’ oblongis vel oblanceolatis, staminibus

limbo subduplo brevioribus filamentis basi luteis strumoso-incrassatis,

antheris purpureis, stigmatibus minutis subcapitatis.

C. montanum, Linn. Sp. Plant. edit, ii. p. 485, excl. syn.; Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ.

tab. 424, figs. 940 to 943.

C. bulbocodioides, M. Bieb. Fl. Taur. Caue. vol. i. p. 293; Kunth, Enum. vol.

iv. p. 142.

C. Ritchii, R. Br. in App. Denh. et. Clapp. p. 241; Kunth, Enum. vol. iv. p. 145.

C. Bertolonii, Stev. in Act. Nov. Mosq. vol. vii. p. 268; Parlat. Fl. Ital. vol. iii.

p. 190.

C. Cupani, Guss. Prodr. Sic. vol. i. p. 452.

As [have gone fully into the history and synonymy of

this plant in a paper which is now printing in the Journal

of the Linnean Society, I cite here only a few of the leading

synonyms. I feel satisfied that there is only one species

_ covered by all these names, and have ascertained, by inspection

of the Linnean herbarium, that it is this plant which was

sent by Loefling from Spain to Linneus, and which

furnished the basis of his idea of Colchicum montanum,

although some of the synonyms cited in the “Species

Plantarum” do not really refer to it. The species ranges

from Portugal eastward by way of Algeria and Italy to

Egypt, Syria, Armenia, Kurdistan, and the Caucasus. The

genus Monocaryum of Endlicher and Kunth is founded upon

what is simply a monstrosity of this same plant, and I

AUGUST -lsT, 1879.

do not think that Boissier’s Colchicum cegyptiacum and

crocifolium are more than Oriental varieties of the same

species with more numerous flowers to a corm and narrower

perianth-segments. Although the plant has so wide an area,

it is very little known in cultivation. In England it appears

in early spring with the Snowdrops and Crocuses. The

drawing was made from material furnished by Mr. George

Maw, who gathered it along with Chionodoxa Lucilie on the

Nymph Dagh, near Smyrna, under conditions explained in

detail under our plate of that species, tab. 6433.

Descr. Corm middle-sized, about an inch in diameter

when fully developed, furnished with a firm brown tunic,

and a neck two or three inches long, which is invested with

a tight-fitting membranous sheath, and reaches to the surface

of the ground. eaves generally three in number, cotem-

porary with the flowers, lanceolate or linear, falcate, reaching

about as high as the flowers, finally half a foot long and an

inch broad. Flowers two or three inches above the soil,

hlac-purple or nearly white, with a filiform tube, and a limb

an inch or an inch and a half long, with oblong or oblanceo-

late segments. Stamens about half as long as the perianth-

segments; filaments yellow and thickened at the base;

anthers small, oblong, versatile, purplish. Styles reaching

up to the anthers ; stigmas minute, nearly capitate. Capsule

produced in summer, oblong, about an inch long.—J. G.

Baker.

Fig. 1, a flower ent open, life size; fig. 2, an anther, facing outwards; fig. 3,

an anther viewed from the back; fig. 4, a plant with the leaves and flower-

wrapper stripped away so as to show the ovary and long styles; fig. 5, stigmatose

tip of style :—all more or less enlarged.

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BOMAREA acovrirorta,

var. EHRHENBERGIANA.

Native of Mexico and Guatemala.

Nat. Ord. AmaryLLipAceE#.—Tribe ALSTROMERIER,

Genus Bomarga, Mirbel ; (Kunth, Enum. vol. v. p. 787).

Bomarea acutifolia, var. Ehrhenbergiana ; caule glabro late volubili, foliis oblongis

acutis petiolo crispato proeditis facie viridibus glabris dorso pallidioribus

pubescentibus, floribus 10-20 simpliciter umbellatis, bracteis magnis ovatis,

pedicellis glandulosis flore paulo longioribus raro bracteolatis, ovario glandu-

loso, perianthii limbo 12-15 lin. longo, segmentis exterioribus oblanceolatis

obtusis rubellis, interioribus paulo longioribus obovato-unguiculatis luteis

brunneo punctatis, genitalibus inclusis.

B. acutifolia, var. Ehrhenbergiana, Kunth, Enum. vol. v. p. 794,

There are at least two well-marked forms included by

Kunth under his definition of Bomarea acutifolia, which

have quite as good a claim to be regarded as distinct as

many of the accepted species of the group of which B. edulis

is the oldest and best known representative. The typical

B. acutifolia of Herbert (which has already been figured in

the Boranican Magazine, tab. 3058, and previously by

Link and Otto, under the name of Alstromeria acutifolia),

1s much less valuable for decorative purposes than the

Subject of the present notice. It is less robust in habit,

with narrower leaves, less hairy on the under surface, and

bears fewer flowers, in a much less compact umbel, the

pedicels of which are often compound and lengthened out

to three or four inches. We havenumerous specimens of the

present plant in the Kew herbarium from Mexico (Hartweg

520, Linden 41, Bourgeau 2952, etc.), and from Guatemala,

Where it was found long ago by Skinner, and where Messrs,

Salvin and Godman have lately gathered it on the Volcan

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de Fuego, at an elevation of 8300 feet above sea-level. Our

plate was drawn from specimens that flowered with Mr.

Elwes at Cirencester in the spring of the present year.

Descr. Stems stout, wide-climbing, glabrous. Leaves

oblong, acute, three or four inches long, about half as broad,

abruptly narrowed to a short crisped petiole, green and

glabrous on the upper surface, paler and densely hairy on

the ribs beneath. lowers up to twenty in a dense umbel,

with several large ovate leafy bracts ; pedicels slender,

densely glandulose, rarely bracteolate, always simple, not

more than an inch anda half or two inches long. Ovary

triquetrous, six-grooved, glandulose ; perianth-limb an inch

or an inch and a quarter long ; outer segments oblanceolate,

obtuse, reddish ; inner segments obovate unguiculate, bright

yellow, with copious minute spots of brown over the face.

Stamens and pistil rather shorter than the inner segments

of the perianth; filaments and style glandular in the lower

part ; anthers oblong.—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, an inner segment of the perianth-limb ; fig. 2, an outer segment, both

natural size; fig. 8, a stamen; fig. 4, complete pistil, with its inferior ovary :—

both enlarged.

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LASIOPETALUM BAvERI.

Native of Southern Australia.

Nat. Ord. SrercuLiacEm.—Tribe LastoPeTALE&,

Genus Lastoretatum, Smith ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 228).

LastoperaLum Baueri; carno-tomentosum, ramulis gracilibus, foliis oppositis

suboppositis et 3-nis subsesillibus] inearibus obtusis coriaceis marginibus

recurvis, floribus parvis in racemis brevibus recurvis paucifloris dispositis,

bracteis viridibus calyce ter brevioribus, calyce late campanulato infra

medium 5-fido, lobis triangularibus subacutis extus tomentosis intus puberulis

y. glabratis, petalis minutis obovatis, filamentis anthera lanceolata apicem

versus 2-rimosa brevioribus, ovario dense stellatim tomentoso, stylo ima basi

pubescente.

L. Baueri, Steetz in Plant. Preiss. vol. ii..p. 339; F. Mueller, Pl. Vict. vol. i.

p. 142; Benth. Fl. Austral. vol. i. p. 263. °

A very elegant little greenhouse shrub, covered profusely

with pearly white flowers, to which no drawing on white

paper can do justice. It belongs to a large and peculiarly

Australian genus, embracing twenty species, which is

confined to the extra-tropical regions of the continent, across

which it extends from east to west. Of these some are

rather handsome shrubs, as the ZL. macrophyllum, Graham,

(Tab. 3908), but most of them partake of the dusty hue of so

many of the plants of the dry climate of Australia.

L. Baweri was raised from seeds sent to the Royal

Gardens by Baron Sir Ferdinand Mueller in 1868, and flowers

annually in spring on the shelves of the temperate House ;

it has a wide range in its native continent, from the Blue

Mountains in New South Wales, to Victoria and South

Australia.

Descr. A slender much-branched shrub, two to three feet

high, with erect twiggy branchlets, covered everywhere with

minute stellate pubescence, which turns of a rusty brown

colour when dry. Leaves very shortly petioled, opposite,

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subopposite, and almost whorled, one and a half to three

inches long, by one sixth to one third of an inch broad,

coriaceous, linear, obtuse, margins recurved, puberulous and

deeply channelled above, tomentose, and with a strong midrib

beneath. Racemes axillary, shorter or rather longer than the

leaves, horizontal or decurved, four to six-flowered ; pedicels

one fourth to one third of an inch long; bracts linear-oblong,

about one third as long as the calyx, to which they are

appressed. Calyx broadly campanulate, one third of an inch

in diameter, cleft to below the middle into five triangular

subacute lobes, obscurely angled, pearly white tinged with

pink, tomentose externally, pubescent or nearly glabrous —

within. Petals, minute obovate white scales, shorter than

the filament. Stamens included, conniving ; filaments shorter

than the lanceolate-acute anthers, which open by subterminal

slits. Ovary globose, densely stellate-tomentose; style

glabrous, except at the very base. Capsule globose, included

in the calyx.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Vertical section of flower ; 2, petal; 3, stellate hairs; 4 and 5, front and

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ARISAMA NEPENTHOIDES.

Native of the Eastern Himalaya.

Nat. Ord. Aroinr#.— Tribe ArisarEx,

Genus Arisama, Mart. ; (Schott Prodr. Syst. Aroid. p. 24).

AniszMa nepenthoides ; foliis 2-nis radiatisectis petiolis pedunculogue transverse

variegatis, foliolis 5 late v. anguste elliptico-lanceolatis lateralibus interdum

basi ineequalateris extus dilatatis, omnibus basi sessili longe angustata apice

tenuiter caudato-acuminato, marginibus planis v. undulatis, spathe elongate

tubo cylindraceo, fauce aperta, limbi erecti lamina ovato-lanceolata

acuminata supra medium incurva tubo equilonga, basi utrinque in auriculam

amplam rotundatam recurvam vittatam nitidam dilatata, spadice erecto

exserto, appendice stipitata ¢ylindracea obtusa, basin et apicem versus

incrassata, vertice rotundata.

As nepenthoides, Mart. in Flora, 1831, p. 458; Schott Prodr. Syst. Aroid. 48.

Arum nepenthoides, Wall. Tent. Fl. Nep. p. 26, t.18; Cat. Herb. Ind. Or. n.

8919. :

Already several species of Himalayan <Arisema have been

figured in this work; and the list of those in cultivation at

Kew and elsewhere is by no means thereby exhausted, for

thanks to the exertions of Mr. Gammie, and Elwes especially,

at least six unfigured species have lately been introduced

into, and flowered in England. Of these the subject of the

present plate is by no means the finest, for I shall soon have

the opportunity of figuring the two gigantic species, 4. utile

and 4. Hookerianum, which have both flowered with Mr.

Elwes at Preston. Ariscema nepenthoides is remarkable for the

broad ear-like strongly-coloured appendages at the base of the

lamina of the spathe, which curve backwards and downwards

and are very variable in length and breadth. I am indebted

to Mr. Elwes for the specimen figured, which flowered in his

garden in March of the present year. It is abundant in

Nepal and Sikkim, at 9-11,000 feet elevation.

Drscr. Leaves two to each plant, one to two feet high;

petiole rather slender, pale green, transversely barred, dull

red-purple ; leaflets five, radiating horizontally from the top

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of the petiole, six to ten inches long by one to three and a

half broad, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, narrowed to the

sessile base, tips drawn out into filiform points, bright green,

with paler flat or undulated margins; midrib usually red};

two outer leaflets like the others, or unequal at the base,

being dilated outwardly. Scape equalling or shorter than

the petioles, transversely barred like these, and usually

stouter. Spathe three to seven inches long ; sheathing portion

cylindric, dirty green, striped with dull red; lamina as long

as the sheath, elliptic-ovate, acuminate, the upper half curving

forwards and drooping, base on each side dilated into a

recurved rounded auricle, which is very dark green, with

broad red-brown margins, and dark elongated spots; back of

spathe pale yellow-brown, irregularly spotted. Spadix erect.

Ovaries close-set, dark green, with short conical straight dark

styles. Appendage stipitate, elongate, terete, swollen at the

rounded base and tip, gradually narrowed towards the centre

pale yellow, almost wholly exserted.—J. D. H.

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DRAC AINA FLORIBUNDA.

Native Country unknown.

Nat. Ord. Lintacem.—Tribe Dracenex.

Genus Dracmna, Vand.; (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol, xiv. p. 523.)

Dracmna floribunda; frutex 8-10-pedalis, caule ramoso, foliis dense rosulatis

loratis acuminatis 3—4-pedalibus utrinque viridibus margine concoloribus

costé superne obscura centialibus ascendentibus exterioribus falcatis, pedunculo

brevi valido, racemis cylindricis pluribus in paniculam cernuam aggregatis,

bracteis minutis deltoideis, pedicellis singulis brevibus erecto-patentibus,

perianthii viriduli cylindrici tubo campanulato, segmentis ligulatis tubo triplo

longioribus, stylo breviter exserto, stigmate trilobato.

This is one of the largest and most striking of all the

known Draczenas. For many years the plant from which

our drawing was made has been one of the most con-

Spicuous members of the group of arborescent Liliacez in

the Palm-house at Kew, but it has never flowered until

this present summer. Now that we know it completely, it

proves to be a well-marked new species, remarkable for its

very large drooping panicle and the great number of its

crowded cylindrical racemes. We received it many years —

ago from the Botanic: Garden at Mauritius, when Mr.

Duncan was Curator there, without any precise information

as to its native country. Mr. Horne, the present Director

of the Mauritius Garden, thinks it very likely the plant was

brought from Rodriguez, but it was not seen in that island

by Professor Bayley Balfour. Its nearest ally is the West

African Dracena arborea of Link.

Descr. Trunk in the cultivated specimen drawn six or

eight feet high, tuberous at the base as in a Beaucarnea,

branching low down. Leaves fifty or sixty, crowded in a

dense rosette, the inner ones ascending, the outer reflexing,

lorate, acuminate, three or four feet long, three inches or

three inches and a half broad at the middle, narrowed to an

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inch and a half or two inches above the dilated base,

moderately firm in texture, bright green on both sides,

concolorous at the margin, the midrib distinct down the

back in the lower half only. Panicle drooping, shortly-

peduncled, three or four feet long, made up of from fifteen

to twenty drooping cylindrical racemes a foot or more long

and a couple of inches in diameter; bracts very minute,

deltoid, membranous; pedicels all solitary, stiffly erecto-

patent, a quarter or a third of an inch long. Perianth

greenish, cylindrical, above half an inch long; tube cam-

panulate; segments ligulate. Stamens inserted at the

throat of the perianth-tube; filaments filiform, rather

shorter than the perianth-segments ; anthers small, oblong.

Ovary oblong; style a little exserted; stigma obscurely

three-lobed.—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, a single flower, opened out, magnified two diameters; fig. 2, pistil,

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SALVIA ELEGANS.

Native of Mexico.

Nat. Ord. Laptatz.—Tribe MonARDER.

Genus Satvia, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 1194.)

Satv1a (Calosphace) elegans; erecta, gracilis, glabra v. parce pilosa, foliis petiolatis

ovatis acutis serratis basi rotundatis v. acutis, supra hispidulis pubescentibus

v. tomentosis, floralibus parvis sessilibus ovatis acuminatis deciduis, verticillastris

remotis interdum distantibus sub 6-floris, floribus pollicaribus breviter pedi-

cellatis _glanduloso-villosis, calyce campanulato labio superiore 1-3-aristato,

inferioris dentibus brevibus aristatis, corolla coccinea calyce sub sextuplo

longiore, tubo subincurvo, labiis subzequalibus Superiore galeato obtuso erecto

inferioris lobo medio rotundato lateralibus parvis, genitalibus exsertis, connectivis

linearibus rectis.

S. elegans, Vahl, Enum. vol. i. p. 238; Benth. in D.C. Prodr. vol. xii. p. 343;

Saunders, Refug. Bot. t. 228.

S. incarnata, Cav. in Ann. Cienc. Nat. vol. ii. p. 112; Kunth in Humb. and

Bonpl. Nov. Gen. et Sp. vol. ii. p. 293 and 144.

8. microculis (irv. typ. pro microcalyx), Poir. Dict. vol. vi. p. 614.

8. punicea, Mart. et Gal. in Bull. Acad. Bruz. vol. v. p. 11.

Apparently a common and variable mountain plant of

Mexicoy.as I find it amongst the collections of almost all

the botanical travellers of that country, where it inhabits

elevations of about 9000 feet. Seeing how vivid its colours

are, it is singular that it should not earlier have been in-

troduced into English gardens. The first person who

appears to have cultivated it in this country is Mr. Wilson

Saunders, at his fine garden at Reigate, now dispersed, to

the great regret of all horticulturists. Our specimen was

flowered in Sir George MacLeay’s beautiful garden at

Pendell Court, near Bletchingly. These gardens are now

under the care of Mr. Green, who was formerly gardener

to Mr. Wil8on Saunders, with whom and with the late

Mr. W. Borrer before him, at Henfield, in Sussex, he

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acquired a knowledge of interesting cultivated plants that

has rarely been equalled.

Drsor. A tall, graceful herb, two to four feet high, with

‘slender four-angled stem, more or less hairy, pubescent, or

nearly glabrous. eaves one to four inches long, ovate,

acute or acuminate, serrate, pubescent, pilose or tomentose,

base rounded or acute; petiole one-third to one inch long,

slender. Inflorescence of numerous verticillasters, which are

more or less remote, sometimes an inch apart, and forming

a spike a foot long, rachis very slender ; floral leaves (or

bracts) small, one-fourth of an inch long; ovate, acuminate,

very deciduous. Verticillasters about six-flowered. Flowers

Suberect, upwards of an inch long, tomentose. Calya

short, five-angled, two-lipped, lips short, teeth triangular,

with acute shortly aristate tips. Corolla scarlet, about six

times as long as the calyx; tube slender, compressed ;

upper lip oblong, very concave, rounded at the tip,

erect; lower reflexed, about as long as the upper mid-lobe

rounded, retuse, lateral very small. Stamens exserted,

connectives straight, slender, parallel; anther-cells broadly

oblong.—J. D. H.

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TRILLIUM NIVALE.

Native of the Northern United States.

Nat. Ord. Trinn1acEZ.

Genus Triniium, Linn. ; (Kunth, Enum. vol. v. p. 121.)

Tritium nivale; rhizomate oblongo obliquo tuberoso, pedunculo 3—4—pollicari,

foliis tribus ovato-oblongis obtusis membranaceis 5-nervatis distincte petiolatis,

pedicello brevi erecto vel cernuo, sepalis lanceolatis viridibus, petalis albis

obovato-oblongis calyce sesquilongioribus, staminibus calyce _brevioribus,

antheris filamento lineari paulo brevioribus, stylis apice revolutis ovario

longioribus.

T. nivale, Riddell in Kunth Enum. vol. v. p- 129 and 852; A Gray Man.

edit. v. p. 523.

Of late years these Trilliums have been becoming more

and more cultivated on rockeries in our English gardens.

The finest species is 7. grandiflorum of Salisbury, of which

there is a good figure at Tab. 855 of the Borantcar

Macazinz, under the name of J. erythrocarpum. The

present species is one of the dwarfest of the genus, and is

distinguished by its distinctly-petioled leaves and white

petals without purple stripes. It inhabits woods in the

North-western States from Ohio westward to Wisconsin.

Our drawing was made from the plants that flowered in the

herbaceous department at Kew this present summer.

Desor. Rootstock an oblique oblong tuber, with numerous

wiry radical fibres. Peduncle without any leaves below the

flower, three or four inches long, slender, terete, tinted

with red-brown, with a membranous sheath at the base.

Leaves always three in a whorl, oblong or ovate-oblong,

obtuse, distinctly petioled, an inch and a half or two inches

long, membranous, green and glabrous on both sides, with

a distinct midrib running up from the base to the point,

and two less distinct vertical nerves on each side of it.

Pedicel about half an inch long, suberect or cernuous.

Sepals green, lanceolate, membranous, obtuse or subobtuse,

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under an inch long. Petals pure white, obovate or obovate-

oblong, obtuse, half as long again as the calyx. Stamens

shorter than the calyx; filaments linear; anthers linear-

oblong, basifixed, rather shorter than the filaments. Styles

free to the base, subulate, revolute at the stigmatose tip,

longer than the globose ovary.—J. G. Baker.

Figs. 1 and 2, single stamens; fig. 3, pistil :—doth enlarged.

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RHODODENDRON tepiporum var. opovatum.

Native of the Sikkim Himalaya.

Nat. Ord. Ertcem.—Tribe RooporER.

Genus Ruopopenpron, L.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 599.)

RuHopopENpDRON lepidotum, Wall. Cat. n.758; Royle, Ill. Pl. Himal. p. 260,

t. 64, f.1; Hook. f. Sikkim Rhododendrons, pt. ii. p. 6; Bot. Mag. t. 4657.

Var. obovatum ; foliis obovatis utrinque squamulosis.

R. obovatum, Hook. f. Sikkim Rhododendrons, |. c. p. 6.

The plant here figured affords an instance of the variable

characters which the Rhododendrons display in the centre

of their geographical distribution, the Sikkim Himalaya.

When first studying the species in their native mountains,

it appeared to me easy to distinguish as two well-marked

allied species, the present plant, described as R. obovatum,

with dark-purple flowers and short leaves, and that I

called &. salignum in the “ Rhododendron of the Sikkim

Himalaya” (t. 23) with lanceolate leaves and golden-yellow

flowers. Further investigation led to the conclusion that

neither the form and size of the leaf, nor the colour of the

corolla, afforded any available diagnostic character ; for

though I never found R. salignum with purple flowers, I

found plenty of R. lepidotwm with golden-yellow ones.

A third subject of variation is the number of stamens,

which in almost all the wild specimens of R. lepidotum

are eight, but in that here figured there are ten.

The name of obovatwm was given to this form before it

was ascertained to be conspecific with the R. lepidotum of

Wallich, which is erroneously described in De Candolle’s

Prodromus from very imperfect specimens. As mentioned

under Tab. 4657, BR. obovatum is in no way specifically

distinguishable from Wallich’s Nepalese plant, and a

reference to the above-cited plate will show that, except

in the larger more maroon-coloured flowers, and more

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copious glands on both surfaces of the leaf, this hardly

differs from typical R. lepidotum.

R. lepidotum is a native of the loftier interior ranges of

the Nepal and Sikkim Himalaya, at elevations of 8000 to

16,000 feet. The specimen figured was raised from seed

sent to the Royal Gardens from Sikkim by Mr. Gammie,

which flowered in May of the present year.

Descr. A stout or slender twiggy shrub, forming ex-

tended clumps, one to four feet high, branching from a

woody tortuous rootstock ; branches tufted, as thick as a

crow’s quill; whole plant covered with resinous scales.

Leaves pale glaucous green, one-half to one and a half inch

long, emitting a resinous odour, obovate in this form,

elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate in others, not coriaceous.

Flowers few, terminal, but subtended by leafing shoots ;

pedicels simple, one to two inches long. Calyx green, of

five rounded oblong recurved obtuse or retuse sepals.

Corolla maroon-purple in this variety, an inch in diameter,

salver-shaped; tube very short, subglobose ; limb spreading,

lobes orbicular, veined. Stamens usually eight, rarely ten ;

filaments short, hairy at the base; anthers linear-oblong.

Ovary ovoid, deeply five-lobed laterally; style very short,

clavate, decurved ; stigma discoid, obscurely five-lobed.

Capsule hardly exceeding the calyx.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Pedicel, calyx, aud pistil; 2 and 3, stamens :—all enlarged.

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ALLIUM. KARATAVIENSE.

Native of Turkestan.

Nat. Ord, Littacrz.—Tribe ALLIEZ.

Genus Attium, Linn. ; (Regel Monogr. in Act. Hort. Petrop. vol. iii.)

Autium karataviense; bulbo magno solitario depresso-globoso, foliis 2 raro

3 prope scapi basin aggregatis magnis oblongis acutis viridibus glauco tinctis,

scapo valido tereti semipedali, umbella magna globosa densiflora, spathz valvis

2-3 parvis deltoideis, pedicellis strictis perianthio subtriplo longioribus,

perianthii segmentis lanceolatis acuminatis albidis purpureo costatis, filamentis

erectis perianthio equilongis basi deltoideis coalitis, ovario globoso trilobato,

ovulis in loculo geminis collateralibus erectis, stylo ovario equilongo.

A. karataviense, Regel Mon. Pp. 243; Fl. Turkest. vol. i. p. 98, tab. xvi. figs.

1—3; Gartenfiora, vol. xxvii. (1878), p. 162, tab. 941.

This again, like Tulipa triphylla, is one of the recent

discoveries of the Russian explorers in Central Asia. It

was first found several years ago by Sewerzow and Krause

in the Karatau Mountains, east of Samarcand, and was

gathered again in the summer of 1876 on the Alatau range

by Dr. Albert Regel, who sent bulbs to his father at St.

Petersburg, from whom we received it. Of old familiar

types in the genus it most resembles Allium nigrum, but it

is much dwarfer, with large prominently-veined leaves of

firmer texture, and smaller flowers, with very acuminate

perianth-segments. It is quite hardy in England, and our

drawing was made from a specimen that flowered in the

herbaceous ground at Kew in the month of May of this

present year.

Descr. Bulb solitary, depresso-globose, a couple of

inches in diameter. Leaves usually two, rarely three,

crowded near the base of the stem, oblong, acute, suberect,

firm in texture, distinctly veined, glabrous, dull green,

with a slight glaucous tinge, six or nine inches long

by about three inches broad at the middle. Stem half a

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foot long, stout, terete, rather glaucous. Umbel very

dense, globose, three or four inches in diameter; spathe-

valves two or three, deltoid, membranous, shorter than the

pedicels, which spread stiffly in all directions, and are about

an inch in length. Perianth a third of an inch long;

segments uniform, lanceolate, acuminate, nearly white,

with a distinct purplish keel, rather ascending when fully

expanded. ilaments about as long as the perianth-

segments, subulate, deltoid and confluent at the base, per-

manently erect; anthers small, oblong, versatile. Ovary

grey-purple, globose, deeply three-lobed; ovules two in

each cell, erect, collateral; style as long as the ovary.—

J. G. Baker.

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GERANIUM ATLANTICUM.

Native of Algeria.

Nat. Ord. Gerantacem.—Tribe GERANIES.

Genus Geranium, Linun.; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 272.)

GERANIUM atlanticum; pilis appressis subsericeum, eglandulosum, rhizomate

erasso_subgloboso, caule gracili suberecto, foliis omnibus longe petiolatis pal-

mato-5-7-partitis, segmentis anguste obovatis v. cuneatis 3-fidis laciniatis v.

pinnatifidis laciniis grosse dentatis, floribus subterminalibus 1} poll. diam.,

pedunculis 2-floris post anthesin erectis, sepalis ellipticis subaristatis appresse

hirsutis, petalis obcordatis purpureis sepalis multo longioribus, filamentis basi

pilosis, carpellis maturis lesions rostroque brevissime pilosis eglandulosis,

seminibus subtilissime punctulatis.

G. atlanticum, Boiss. Diagn. Pl. Orient. Nov. vol. i. p. 59; Walp. Rep. vol. ii.

p- 819,

Though differing from Boissier’s character in the colour

of the petals, which that author describes as rosy, and their

length, which he states to be only twice that of the sepals,

this so well agrees not only with the rest of his good de-

scription, but with native specimens in Munby’s Herbarium

and others collected by Lefebvre, and communicated by

Prof. Reichenbach, that I have no doubt of the correctness

of the identification. As a species it is, as Boissier points

out, near the widely-diffused G. sylvaticum, but differs in

being wholly eglandular, with more deeply-divided and silky

leaves, as also in the woody tuberous rootstock; though

the latter may well be a climatal character. :

G. atlanticwm is a native of Algiers, where it is found in

rocky places, near Constantine by Boissier, on the banks of

the Chiffa by Munby, on the peak of Mérid by Choulette,

and in oak forests near Blidah by Lefebvre. The specimen

here figured flowered in June 1878 and 1879 in the garden

of the artist, Mrs. Barnard, on Leckhampton Hill near

Cheltenham, from a root brought by Mrs. Thiselton Dyer

in 1875 from Algeria.

Descr. A perennial herb, clothed with rather appressed

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silky hairs, eglandular ; rootstock a small woody tuber with

dark-brown bark. Stems one or more from the rootstock,

suberect, twelve to eighteen inches high, slender, simple,

flexuous. Leaves all long-petioled, radical petioles four to

five inches long; uppermost floral only sessile; all orbicular,

cut nearly to the base into five or seven narrowly obovate

or cuneate segments, which are again trifid or pinnatifidly

laciniate and toothed, the teeth acute or obtuse, silky on

both surfaces, but especially beneath; stipules small, linear-

oblong. lowers one and a half inch in diameter, in

terminal 2-flowered peduncles, which, as well as the pedicels

and calyx, are silky; peduncles and pedicels each about

an inch long; bracts small, subulate-lanceolate. Sepals

elliptic, acuminate, with a short awn. Petals three or four

times as long as the sepals, obcordate, pale purple, with red

veins; claw small, hairy. Filaments glabrous, except at

the base. Carpels smooth, minutely pubescent, eglandular.

Seeds most minutely dotted.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Longitudinal section of flower; 2, claw of petal; 3, stamen ; 4, pistil ;

5, rootstock and radical leaves :—figs. 3 and 4 enlarged.

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CHIONODOXA nana.

Native of Crete.

Nat. Ord. Lin1acem.—Tribe HyacInTHEZ.

Genus Co1onopoxa, Boiss.; (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xi. p. 435.)

CHIonopoxa xana; bulbo minimo ovoideo tunicis membranaceis exterioribus

brunneis, foliis 2 linearibus suberectis viridibus facie canaliculatis apice

cucullatis, scapo gracili tereti foliis breviori, floribus 1-4 laxe corymbosis, pedi-

cellis ascendentibus, bracteis obsoletis, perianthii albo-ceerulei 5-6 lin. longi

tubo campanulato, segmentis oblongis patulis tubo 2-3-plo brevioribus, stami-

nibus segmentis subtriplo brevioribus, antheris breviter protrusis, ovario globoso,

stylo brevissimo.

C. nana, Boiss. & Held. in Boiss. Diagn. I. part xiii. p.24; Baker in Journ. Linn.

Soc. loe. cit.

Hyacinthus nanus, Roem. et Schultes Syst. Veg. vol. vii. p. 581; Kunth Enum.

vol. iv. p. 304.

Puschkinia scilloides, Sieber Reise Crete, vol. ii. p- 319, tab. 7, non Adams.

This, the oldest-known species of Chionodoxa, is a native

of the mountains of Crete, at an altitude of five thousand

or six thousand feet above sea-level, flowering in the neigh-

bourhood of the melting snow in May, and consequently

perfectly hardy in our English gardens. It was discovered

by Sieber, an Austrian traveller who collected plants largely

in the island about the year 1820, and who confounded it

with the Caucasian Puschkinia scilloides, and figured it

under that name in his published travels. For horticul-

tural purposes it is far inferior to CO. Lucilie (Bot. Mag.

tab. 6433), the flower being much smaller, and the whole

habit of the plant more slender. Our drawing was made

from plants that flowered in the herbaceous ground at Kew

in May of the present year, which were raised from bulbs

that were sent to us by Mr. Elwes. |

Descr. Bulb ovoid, under half an inch in diameter, the

tunics very thin and membranous, the outer brown, the

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inner whitish. Leaves two to a scape, contemporary with

the fiowers, suberect, linear, five or six inches long, under

half an inch broad, green, deeply channelled down the face

and hooded at the tip, tinted with purple towards the base.

Scape very slender, terete, three or four inches long, bearing

from one to four laxly corymbose flowers ; pedicels ascend-

ing, reaching an inch or an inch and a half in length;

bracts obsolete. Perianth five or six lines long; tube

campanulate ; segments oblong, two or three times as long

as the tube, spreading when the flower is fully expanded,

white, keeled and flushed with lilac-blue. Stamens a third

as long as the perianth-segments ; filaments strap-shaped,

inserted at the throat of the perianth-tube, nearly equal,

touching edge to edge permanently, but not united ; anthers

linear-oblong, rather overtopping the filaments. Ovary

globose, bright blue; style very short; stigma capitate,

reaching only to the base of the anthers and the throat of

the perianth-tube.—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, vertical section of a flower; 2, side view of a stamen; 3, back view of

the same; 4, front view’ of the same ; 5, perianth-tube, with the six stamens in-

serted at its throat; 6, horizontal section of ovary, all enlarged ; 8 and 9, two

forms of bulb and radical fibres, life-size.

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PSYCHOTRIA JASMINIFLORA.

Native of South Brazil.

Nat. Ord. Rupracex.—Tribe PsycHoTRIEZ.

Genus Psycnortria, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 123.)

Psycnortria (Eupsychotria) jasminiflora; fruticosa, ramulis teretibus, foliis breviter

petiolatis oblongis acutis basi rotundatis v. subcordatis coriaceis, stipulis parvis

in vaginam intrapetiolarem connatis setosis persistentibus, pedunculis termi-

nalibus et axillaribus, cymis paucifloris breviter paniculatis, calycis glabri

limbo tubuloso inzequaliter breviter 4-lobo, corolle villosse tubo gracili elongato,

fauce paullo ampliata, lobis 4-oblongis obtusis, filamentis glabris, antheris

exsertis.

GuonERria jasminiflora, Lind. & André, Ill. Hortic. vol. xviii. p.76, t.60; Benth.

et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 51, et. 1228.

The genus Gloneria, which was founded upon this plant,

must have originated in some curious misconception, the

zstivation of the corolla being described as contorted, the

ovules as numerous, inserted on fleshy placentas in each

cell, and the leaves as tomentose beneath. When describing

the genus for the “ Genera Plantarum,” I had access to no

specimens, and gave the description under the authority of

its founders, applying, however, to my friend Mr. Linden

for some flowers from his rich garden. The plants, how-

ever, were not then in flower, but he subsequently obligingly

gave me some, which enabled me to refer the genus Gloneria

to Psychotria, as stated in the “‘ Addenda and Corrigenda ”

to the same volume of the ‘‘ Genera Plantarum.” _

Though undoubtedly a Psychotria, this species 1s very

different from any other of that immense genus, and so

closely resembles in habit, form of corollas, texture of the

leaves, and other characters, a Coussarea, that but for the

_two cells of the ovary with thick dissepiments between

them, I should have been disposed to refer it to that genus.

Indeed, I think that this plant renders it questionable

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whether Coussarea and Faramea (which has a very thin

dissepiment) should not be included under Psychotria. The

stipules of P. jasminiflora are quite those of the latter genus,

being united into an intrapetiolar tube, and bearing simple

or branched bristles on the back or margin, which are

sometimes caducous.

P. jasminiflora was discovered by Libon in the province

of St. Catherine, in South Brazil, in 1860, and introduced

by Mr. Linden; and the specimen here figured was flowered

in Messrs. Williams’s Nursery in May of the present year.

Descr. A nearly glabrous shrub, except the corolla, with

white bark. Leaves shortly petioled, three inches long and

under, oblong-ovate, acute, coriaceous, evergreen, bright

green above, pale beneath with obscure nerves; base acute

or cordate; petiole an eighth of an inch long. Stipules

united into a short intrapetiolar sheath, with several rigid

bristles from their back or margins, which are often

branched and deciduous. Inflorescence of trichotomous

cymes shorter than the leaves; peduncle flattened, terminal,

rarely axillary, glabrous; partial ones almost obcuneate ;

pedicels 3-nate, short, flattened; bracteoles appressed to

the calyx, short, toothed. Calya-tube short, limb dilated,

cupular, obtusely unequally 4-toothed or lobed. Corolla

snow-white, one to one and a quarter inch long, externally

softly villous or tomentose; tube slender, slightly dilated

above the middle; lobes one-fourth the length of the tube,

oblong, obtuse, valvate. Stamens inserted half-way down

the tube, filaments slender glabrous, exserted; anthers

small, broadly oblong. Disk annular, erect. Style slender,

stigmatic arms subulate, hairy. Ovary 2-celled, with a

thick septum; ovules solitary in each cell, basal, erect,

oblong.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower ; 2, upper portion of corolla laid open, and stamens; 3, lower part

of corolla and ovary cut longitudinally; 4 and 5, anthers; 6, tip of style and

stigmas :—all enlarged. ;

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ODONTOGLOSSUM MACULATUM.

Native of Mexico.

Nat. Ord. OrcH1pEZ.—Tribe VaNDE.

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

OpontoeLossuM (Xanthoglossum) maculatum ; pseudo-bulbis oblongo-ovatis com-

pressis 1-phyllis, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis nervosis, racemis pendulis

multi-laxi-floris folio longioribus, bracteis spathaceis ovario brevioribus, sepalis

rectis anguste lineari- v. lanceolato-oblongis acuminatis brunneis, apicibus

recurvis, petalis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis aureis brunneo maculatis, mar-

ginibus undulatis, labelli lamina late trulliforme v. triangulari caudato-

acuminata aurea brunneo maculata, marginibus crispatis, ungue brevi 2-cristata,

columna alba.

O. maculatum, Lave, Orchid. Mex. vol. ii. p. 35; Lindl. in Bot. Reg. vol. xxvi.

t. 30; Fol. Orchid. Odontogloss. p.5; Regel Gartenfl. (1877), vol. xxvi. p. 258,

t. 913; Walp. Ann. vol. vi. p. 829; Reichb. f. Pescatorea, t. 28; non Tab.

nostr. 4878, que O. cordatum, Lindl.

So long ago as 1855 a plant was figured in this work as

Odontoglossum maculatum, which, however, differs widely

from that species in the size of the flower and in the form

and colouring of the sepals, petals, and lip, and which is

the O. cordatum of Lindley. Both these species are natives

of Mexico, and belong to the same section of the genus, of

which twelve species are known, including some of the

finest, which are yet to be introduced into cultivation.

O. maculatum has been long cultivated at Kew, and

flowers freely in June. |

Descr. Pseudobulbs one and a half to two and a half

inches long, broadly oblong-ovate, compressed, dark-green,

smooth, one-leaved. Leaves six to eight inches long,

oblong-lanceolate, acute, about 9-nerved, bright pale-green.

Racemes a foot long and more, pendulous, loosely many-

flowered ; peduncle rather stout; rachis flexuous ; bracts

Spathaceous, shorter than the ovary. Flowers about an inch

apart, nearly three inches across the petals. Ovary with

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pedicel two inches long. Sepals spreading, nearly straight,

narrowly linear, oblong-lanceolate, brown, with slender

acuminate yellow recurved tips, not spotted. Petals rather

shorter than the sepals, ovate-lanceolate, finely acuminate,

the base contracted, undulate, golden yellow with brown

blotches below the middle. Jip with the blade trowel-

shaped or triangular, about as long as the petals, acuminate,

the margins crisped, base truncate; claw about half as long

as the blade, with a lobed erect crest on each side. Column

white, not winged or cirrhose.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, column and lip; 2, front view of column; 3, anther-case; 4 and 5, back

and side views of pollen-masses and their gland :—all enlarged.

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VERONICA LYALLII.

Natwwe of New Zealand.

Nat. Ord. ScropHuLaRrInEx.—Tribe Dia1TaLeZ.

Genus Veronica, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Pl. vol. ii. p. 964.)

Veronica (Chamedrys) Lyallii ; glabra v. parce puberula, caulibus gracilibus

erectis v. repentibus rigidulis, foliis parvis breviter petiolatis ovatis acutis

serratis coriaceis, pedunculis axillaribus erectis elongatis gracilibus glabris pauci-

v. multifloris, floribus racemosis, racemis continuis v. interruptis, bracteis

sessilibus ovatis obovatis oblongisve, pedicellis gracilibus elongatis, sepalis

oblongo-ovatis acutis, corolla rotata, lobis omnibus orbiculatis 2 lateralibus

postico paullo majoribus, antico minore integro, staminibus brevibus, capsula

didyma sepala equantibus v. superantibus, lobis turgidis.

V. Lyallii, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zeald. vol. i. p. 196; Handb. of New Zeald. Fi.

p- 215

A singularly elegant plant, and one which, considering

its wide range in New Zealand, might have been expected

to have been introduced long before this. I believe it to

be a form of the very variable V. Lyallii, which approaches

closely to V. cataracte, V. Bidwillii, and V. nivalis, if,

indeed, some of these species are really specifically distinct.

Most of our native specimens have the stems creeping, as

in our V. Chamedrys, but a few have them more woody and

suberect, as in the plant here figured. It inhabits both the

larger islands of New Zealand, at elevations of 2000 feet

and upwards; and we have specimens which cannot be

distinguished specifically in a dry state, gathered by Colenso

on rocky cliffs at Patea, and from the top of the Ruahine

mountains. From its near ally, V. nivea (erroneously

called nivalis in the Handbook of the New Zealand Flora),

it differs in the eglandular inflorescence, slender peduncle,

and 2-lobed anterior corolla-lobe, from V. catavacte in its

much smaller leaves. It is curious that amongst no fewer

than twenty-eight ticketed specimens from various collectors,

not one of the latter has recorded on the ticket the colour

OCTOBER lst, 1879.

of the flower! That of V. nivea I know to be white with

pink veins, and others of this section have pale violet-blue

or pinkish flowers; probably this character is a variable

one. The indigenous specimens which accord most nearly

with our figure in their erect woody habit, were gathered

by Dr. Lyall, R.N. (after whom the species was named), at

- Milford Sound, when exploring the New Zealand islands as

surgeon and naturalist attached to H.M.S. Acheron, which

was surveying the coast. :

V. Lyallii was raised from seed by my indefatigable

friend, Mr. Isaac Anderson Henry, F.S.A., and flowered

with him in May of the present year for the first time.

Drsor. A slender suberect or creeping branching plant, —

glabrous or with the stem pubescent; branches rather

woody, prostrate and rooting or ascending. Leaves small,

one-half to two-thirds of an inch long, shortly petioled,

coriaceous, usually ovate and acute, coarsely serrate. Pe-

duneles solitary, or in pairs in opposite axils (one in each),

very slender, erect, three to five inches long. tacemes

glabrous, few or many flowered, continuous or interrupted ;

pedicels very slender, one-half to one inch long; bracts

variable, small, green, coriaceous, ovate-oblong or obovate.

Flowers one-third to one-half an inch in diameter. Sepals

ovate-oblong, acute. Corolla rotate, white, with the veins

pink near the throat; lobes orbicular, the lateral largest,

the anterior smallest. Stamens shorter than the corolla-

lobes, filaments slender, glabrous; anthers pale purplish.

Ovary glabrous, oblong, compressed. Capsule didymous,

valves turgid, about equalling the sepals.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, flower viewed in front; 2, calyx, pedicel, andstyle ; 3,stamen; 4, pistil :—

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ARIS ASMA GaLeaToM.

N ative of the Sikkim Himalaya.

Nat. Ord. AnoipEm.—Tribe ARISAREZ.

Genus Arisarum, Mart.; (Schott, Prodr. Syst. Aroid. p. 24.)

Arts=ma (Trisecta) galeatum ; dioicum, folio solitario 3-foliolato, foliolis breviter

petiolulatis decurvis ovatis acuminatis basi acutis v. rotundatis marginibus

crenulatis rubris reticulatim nervosis, nervis supra impressissubtus prominentibus

rubris, petiolo tereti cylindraceo viridi, pedunculo petiolo multo brevivre viridi,

spatha 4-pollicari, tubo subelongato cylindraceo leviter curvo 1 poll. diam.

viridi ad 10-costato costis pallidis, vertice decurvo galeato levi in laminam

brevem pendulam ovato-oblongam marginibus recurvis abrupte desinente,

spadicis masculi parte florifero brevi rubro, antheris sparsis, appendice a basi

truncato elongato-conico in filum longissimum sensim desinente.

A. galeatum, VV. Brown in Gard. Chron., 1879, p. 102.

This is not the least remarkable species of that curious

_ genus, to the numerous unfigured species of which now in

cultivation I have called attention under Tab. 6146;

though it falls far short, in stature, colour, and singularity

of spathe, of the A. wtile and Hookerianum, which have yet

to be figured. In many respects it resembles 4. nepenthoides,

but differs remarkably in the long cylindrical tube of the

spathe, in wanting the large auricles at its mouth, and in

the curious boss or hood that crowns the tube. Like so

many of its congeners, it is a native of Sikkim, from

whence tubers were sent to Kew by our indefatigable

correspondent, Mr. Garmmie, through Dr. King, of the

Caleutta Botanic Gardens. It flowered in Kew in May of

the present year, as it also did in the gardens of the Royal

Horticultural Society, Chiswick, from which plant the

drawing here published was made. =

Desor. Leaf solitary; petiole two feet high, cylindric,

smooth, green, unspotted ; leaflets three, decurved, shortly

stoutly petiolulate, ovate, acuminate, ten inches long, the

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lateral five, the central six and a quarter inches broad;

margins crenulate, red, upper surface with close set im-

pressed veins, which are prominent and reddish beneath,

bright pale-green. Peduncle not one quarter as long as the

petiole, stout, erect, dull green, without markings. Spathe

four inches long, erect, cylindric for the most part of its

length, one inch in diameter, and very slightly curved,

rather dirty-green, with about twenty pale almost white

ridges faintly tinged with pink; top of spathe suddenly

decurved, and ending in pendent green ovate acute lamina,

that is given off below a rounded boss-like crown, upon

which the ridges terminate; margins of the lamina pro-

duced along the mouth of spathe as two narrow recurved

lips. Spadi#, male only seen, with a very short reddish

flowering portion, loosely covered with small stipitate

anthers; appendix almost white, sessile on the flowering

portion by its truncate base, elongate conical, gradually

narrowed into a filiform tail ten inches long, the end of

which rests on the ground.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, much reduced figure of whole plant; 2, leaf reduced about one-half;

3, spathe, and 4, spadix of the natural size; 5, anther before dehiscence; 6, the

same after the pollen is shot :—both enl arged.

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BOLLEA C@LESTIS.

Native of New Grenada ?

Nat. Ord. Orcu1pEx.—Tribe VanpE2. :

Genus Botiza, Reichb. f. in Mohl and Schlecht. Bot, Zeit. 1852, p. 667.

Bote eelestis; foliorum vagina 3-4-pollicari 1 poll. lata eompressa, lamina

6-pollicari 2 poll. lata oblongo-lanceolata acuta, pedunculis 4-5 pollicaribus

robustis flexuosis, floribus # poll. diam., sepalis acutis violaceis ultra medium

saturatioribus, marginibus undulatis versus apice flavis, postico obovato,

lateralibus majoribus late oblongis, petalis sepalo postico consimilibus, labello

a basi profunde cordato ovato saturate violaceo basin versus flavo marginibus

recurvis, apice attenuato revoluto, callo in disco elevato tabuleformi antice

rotundato multisuleato aureo columna angustiore, columna crassa fornicata

antice pilosa.

B. ceelestis, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron, 1876, p. 756, and 1877, p. 366, et in Linnea,

vol. xli. p. 5,

The rarity of blue or violet-coloured Orchids has given a

notoriety to this remarkable plant, which is the largest of

the genus to which it belongs, and from the size and

colouring of the flower by far the most showy. It would

also appear to be a very free flowerer, as Mr. Backhouse

of York, to whom I am indebted for ‘sending the fine

specimen here figured, informs me that four and even six

flowers occur on one shoot, and that twelve had been seen

on one of his plants with three shoots, Unfortunately even

a quarto plate would not give room to represent such a_

specimen. :

Under B. Lalindei (t. 6331) I have expressed concurrence

in the opinion that Bollea should, along with Pescatorea, be

reduced to Zygopetalum; and I am glad to see that M.

Reichenbach adheres to this view, for under the description

of the present plant he says, ‘‘ Botanice Zygopetalum_celeste.”

As to the native country of this plant, Prof. Reichenbach

says, “It was discovered somewhere in western tropical

South America, by M. Roezl, or by the Messrs. Klabock, his

NOVEMBER Ist, 1879.

nephews.” As stated above, I am indebted to Mr. Back«

house for the specimen figured, which was sent up in June

last. For its cultivation he recommends a strong light, but

with slight shade in intense sunshine, a humid atmosphere,

free watering with water of about the temperature of the

house, but never below it, and a temperature of 60° to 70°

in summer, and 55° to 60° in ‘winter.

Descr. Leaves six to ten on a shoot ; Sheath flattened, pale,

three to four inches long by one broad; blade six inches

long by two broad, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, bright

pale-green. Pedwneles one from each leaf, one-flowered, six

inches long, very stout, erect, flexuous. Flowers four inches

in diameter.’ Sepals broad, acute, violet-purple, with a

broad much deeper band beyond thé middle and undulate

edges, yellow towards the tips, all acute; dorsal smaller,

obovate, hooded ; lateral larger, more oblong. Petals like

the dorsal sepal, and about the same size, but paler coloured.

Lip with a short claw and ovate limb which is deeply cor-

date at the base, its margins are recurved, and tip produced

and revolute; it is deep violet beyond the middle, paler

with yellowish margins towards the base ; disk golden-yellow,

much raised, tabular and rounded in front, deeply grooved

as if formed of about twenty thick parallel raised connate

plates with rounded tips. Column very large, arching over

the disk, violet, obtuse, hairy in front within.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, column and lip; 2, lip; 3, top of column viewed in front :—all enlarged.

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TULIPA tripsysia.

Native of Turkestan. )

Nat. Ord. LitraceEm.—Tribe TULIPEX.

Genus Tuutpa, Linn.; (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xiv. p. 275.)

Tura triphylla; bulbo ovoideo-oblongo tunicis brunneis membranaceis intus

apice parce adpresse pilosis, foliis 3-4 prope caulis basin impositis linearibus

vel lanceolatis glauco-viridibus faleatis facie glabris margine obscure ciliatis,

peduntulo semipedali glabro erecto, perianthii lutei infundibularis 15-18 lin.

longi segmentis subconformibus oblongis subacutis, staminibus perianthio

triplo brevioribus, antheris filamento clavato glabro zquilongis, ovario clavato-

trigono stigmatibus parvis.

T. triphylla, Regel Gartenftora, vol. xxvii. (187 8), p. 193, tab. 942, figs. bt a:

This is another new species of Tulip from Central Asia.

It was discovered by Dr. Albert Regel, on a recent excur-

sion to the Sairam See, in latitude 42°, just south of the

‘centre of the great Thian-schan range. At first sight its

affinity appears to be with 7. sylvestris, but on looking

closer it is found to have the glabrous filaments and other

marks of the Gesneriana group, in which it is easily recog-

nized by its narrow leaves, crowded together near the base

of the stem, and funnel-shaped yellow flowers with uniform

subacute segments. The drawing was made from plants

that flowered at Kew this present spring, which were raised

from bulbs sent to us by Dr. Regel, the father of its

discoverer. ;

Descr. Bulb ovoid-oblong, middle-sized, the dark brown

membranous tunics with only a few adpressed hairs on the

inside towards the tip. Stem six or eight inches long, one-

flowered, bearing near its base three or four crowded falcate

linear or lanceolate Jeaves, which are three or four inches

long, a quarter or half an inch broad, slightly glaucous,

glabrous on both faces, obscurely ciliated on the margins.

NOVEMBER Ist, 1879.

Peduncele half a foot long, slender, erect, glabrous. Perianth

funnel-shaped, bright yellow, tinted with green on the out-

side; segments nearly uniform, oblong, subacute, an inch

and a quarter or an inch and a half long, half or three-

quarters of an inch broad at the middle. Stamens one-third

as long as the perianth ; anthers linear-oblong, equalling in

length the clavate glabrous filaments. Ovary clavate-

trigonous, shorter than the stamens; stigmas small.—

J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, a couple of stamens ; 2, pistil :—doth enlarged.

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ENKIANTHUS aranatovs.

Native of the Eastern Himalaya.

Nat. Ord. Ertcem.—Tribe ANDROMEDER.

Genus Enxrantuvs, Lour.; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 588.)

EnKiAntuvs himalaicus ; frutex v. arbuscula, foliis ad apices ramulorum fascicu-

latis deciduis membranaceis petiolatis, petiolis pedunculisque pilosis, ovatis

acuminatis serrulatis pubescentibus demum glabratis, floribus umbellatim con-

gestis pendulis, pedunculis elongatis 1-rarius 2-floris, corolla urceolato-campanu-

lata basi zquali, antheris 2-aristatis, capsulis decurvis pentagonis loculicidis

valvarum marginibus incrassatis, seminibus lineari-oblongis, testa 5-alata, alis

membranaceis undulatis,

KE. himalaicus, Hook. f. et Thoms. mm Kew Journ. Bot. vol. vii. p. 125, t. 3.

Rhodoracee, Griff. Posth. Papers, vol. ii. p. 148, n. 717, and Rhodora deflexa,

Griff. 1. c. p. 187, n. 969.

The eastern Asiatic genus Enkianthus presents four

types of structure which almost indicate as many genera,

and would do soif the species had not been united by habit,

and if the characters were associated, instead of applying

each to one species only. The original H. quinqueflorus of

China (tab. nost. 1649) has subumbellate drooping flowers,

as in our plant, but the corolla has five swellings at the

base, and the capsules are erect. H. japonicus (tab. 5822),

the second type, has also subumbellate but spreading

flowers, and the corolla has a contracted mouth and five

much larger swellings at the base, but the capsules are quite

erect ; and, lastly, there is a third, also a Japanese type (L.

Meisteria of Siebold and Zuccarini), with racemose flowers,

and the deflexed capsules and corolla of the £. himalaicus,

but with the lobes of the latter laciniate: this last has not

yet been introduced into cultivation.

Enkianthus himalaicus was discovered by the late Dr.

Griffith in Bhotan, at an elevation of 8000 to 10,000 feet

above the sea, a fact not known to me when I published

the species as a discovery of my own, the Griffithian collec-

NOVEMBER Ist, 1879.

tion being at that time inaccessible in the vaults of the

India House. In Sikkim it inhabits the same elevation as

in Bhotan, and becomes a small tree twenty feet high.

The specimen here figured is from a plant raised in the

Royal Botanic Gardens of Edinburgh, where it has flowered

under Mr. Sadler’s care, and was communicated by Dr.

Balfour in June of the present year. The colour of the

flower is much brighter in the native Sikkim specimens than

in that here represented.

Desor. A large shrub or small tree, with deciduous

leaves that are crowded towards the ends of the branches,

and whorls of drooping flowers. Branches slender, staff,

with red-brown bark, young ones bright red, as are the

petioles, midribs, and margins of the leaves. Leaves two to

three inches long, petioled, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate,

serrulate, base acute, pubescent beneath when young;

petiole slender, hairy. lowers crowded in an umbellate

manner towards the tips of the branches and bases of the

young shoots, pendulous, pedicels hairy, one and a half

inches long, rarely two-flowered. Calyx-lobes small, subulate-

lanceolate, appressed. Corolla half an inch long, broadly

campanulate, obscurely five-angled, five-lobed ; lobes short,

triangular, red, scarcely spreading; limb dull yellowish red,

streaked with brighter red. Stamens included, pubescent

all over, filaments short; anther-horns recurved. Ovary

pubescent. Capsule decurved on the pedicel, almost glo-

bose, with five valves that are thickened at the edges.

Seeds with five membranous wrinkled toothed wings.—

Fig. 1, stamens; 2, calyx and ovary ; 3, vertical section of ovary; 4, peduncle

and capsule ; 5, seed; 6, longitudinal section of ditto :—all but Jig. 4 enlarged.

6461

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SOLANUM TORREYI.

Native of Texas and Arkansas.

Nat. Ord. Sonanacex.—Tribe SoLanEz.

Genus Sozanum, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 888.)

Sotanum Torreyi ; suffraticosum, cinerascens, stellato-purpuraceum, aculeis parvis

rectis nune raris v. obsoletis, foliis breviter petiolatis ovatis ovato-cordatis

v. hastatissinuato-lobatis, lobis integris v. undulatis obtusis inermibus, cymis

primum terminalibus 2-3-fidis pedunculis pedicellisque robustis, floribus mutan-

tibus, calycis lobis triangulari-ovatis, corolla 2 poll. diam., lobis late ovatis acutis

violaceis plicatis, antheris subequalibus lanceolato-subulatis poro parvo, baccis

globosis glabris, pedunculis reflexis.

8. Torreyi, Gray in Proc. Amer. Acad. Se. vol. vi. p. 44; Synopt. Fl. N. Am.

vol, ii. part 1, p. 230, ’

8. platyphyllum, Torr. in Amer. Lye. New York, vol. ii. p- 227, not. H. B. K,

S. mammosum ? Engelm. et Gray, Pl. Lindh. vol. i. p. 46.

A very handsome and free-flowering hardy Solanum, a

native of the prairies of the interior of North America, east

of the Rocky Mountains, where this and other species of

the genus form a frequent feature in the uniform landscape.

It varies very much in amount of prickliness, depending a

good deal on the dryness of the locality and consequent

luxuriance or poverty of the plant. The young leaf-buds

are often a bright red-purple colour and velvety texture, |

and the older leaves, even in a young state, are often tinged

with pale rose-red underneath. The flowers are large, pro-

duced copiously, and beautifully veined with red-purple.

The plant was raised from seed sent from the Cambridge

(U.S.) Botanic Gardens in 1877, and it flowered in July,

1878, in the open border of the herbaceous ground at Kew

Tt has survived the long cold winter of 1878-9.

Descr. An erect stout herb, with the stem woody below,

and a running rootstock, covered with a close-set purpura-

ceous pubescence of stellate hairs, and more or less prickly;

NOVEMBER Isr, 1879.

ba |

prickles small, straight, most frequent on the midrib of the

leaf beneath, and rare on the stem or absent from it.

Leaves two to three inches long, ovate with a rounded cor-

date truncate or hastate base, sinuately lobed, the lobes

obtuse usually rounded, mealy especially beneath; petiole

short, stout. lowers in terminal few-flowered cymes, two

inches in diameter, nodding; peduncles and pedicels short

and stout. Calya-lobes broadly ovate, subacute or obtuse,

pale blue. Corolla-lobes horizontally spreading, triangular

ovate, acute, plaited, with wrinkled margins and a stout

midrib which is yellowish towards the base; veins purplish.

Stamens subequal, filaments very short; anthers lanceolate,

opening by a small terminal pore, yellow. Berry globose,

glabrous, smooth.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, stamen ; 2, calyx cut open, showing the ovary and style ; 3, vertical section

of young fruit :—all enlarged.

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COREOPSIS ARISTOSA.

Native of the United States.

Nat. Ord. Compostrm.—Tribe HELIaNTHOIDER. z

Genus Corxopsis, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 385.)

Corkopsis aristosa ; annua, erecta, glaberrima v. hic illic puberula, foliis oppositis

1-2-pinnatisectis, segmentis 5-7 distinctis lanceolatis grosse serratis acuminatis

basin versus attenuatis et integerrimis, capitulis flavis paniculatim corymbosis,

involucri bracteis exterioribus numerosis foliaceis linearibus patentibus tortis,

floribus radii ad 8 limbo elliptico-lanceolato acuto, acheniis late oblongis margi-

natis hispidulis 2-4-aristatis,

C. aristosa, Michx. Fl. N. Am. vol. ii. p. 140; DC. Prodr. vol. v. p. 572; Torr.

et Gr. Fl. N. Am. vol. ii. p. 340, ;

C. aristata, Willd. Sp. Pl. vol. iii. p. 2253.

Diodonta aristosa, Nutt. in Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. (n. ser.) vol. vii. p. 360.

This is one of the many golden-flowered plants of the

Eastern United States, which are the glory of the autumnal

herbaceous vegetation of that country, and are much needed

for the decoration of our borders and beds, late in the season

especially. It is indeed astonishing that these Coreopsises,

with the Asters, Helianthi, Rudbeckkias, Silphiums, and

numberless other fine North American herbaceous plants,

all so easily grown and so handsome, should be entirely

neglected in English gardens ; and this in favour of carpets,

hearth-rugs, and ribbons, forming patterns of violent

colours, which though admired, from being the fashion, on

the lawn and borders of our gardens and grounds, would

not be tolerated on the floor of a drawing-room or boudoir.

Coreopsis aristosa has a wide range in the United States,

from Michigan, one of the most northern, to western

Louisiana in the south, according to Torrey and Gray’s

Flora, though I do not find it included in Chapman’s Flora

of the Southern United States. It is very near the C.

trichosperma of the same regions, differing chiefly in the

NOVEMBER 1st, 1879.

longer teeth of the achenes, though as these are described

as sometimes absent in C. aristosa, that character will not

avail much.

C. aristosa is said to be a swamp plant in America, but it

has flourished in the herbaceous ground at Kew, where the

soil is anything but moist, attaining a height of three feet ;

it is described as a biennial, but it is annual here, and

flowers in September and October.

Desor. A tall slender annual or biennial, with erect wiry

red-brown stems, two to three feet high, quite glabrous,

except for a few hairs chiefly towards the bases of the

leaves and nodes. Leaves opposite, once or twice pinnati-

“sect; the segments five to seven, rather distant, one to

three inches long, lanceolate, acuminate, deeply serrate,

entire towards the narrowed bases. Heads golden-yellow,

nearly two inches in-diameter, in panicled corymbs; pedun-

cles very slender, wiry, tortuous, with a few small distant

simple leaves. Involwcre of many bracts ; outer numerous,

leafy, spreading and twisted, linear, obtuse; inner erect

with involute margins above the middle. Ray-flowers about

eight, neuter, with a short tube and large elliptic lanceolate

acute flat five-nerved limb. Di¢sk-flowers small, tubular.

Style-arms acute. Achenes flattened, broadly oblong, hispid,

the margins thickened and produced upwards each into an

erect hispid awm as long as the achene (awns sometimes

four or wanting, according to descriptions).—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, inner involucral bract; 2, scales of receptacle ; 3, ray-flower ; 4, disk-

flower; 5, style-arms ; 6, achene :—al/ enlarged.

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GLADIOLUS BRACHYANDRUS,

Native of Zambesi Land.

Nat. Ord. Intpackm.—Tribe GLADIOLER.

Genus Guapiotus, Linn.; (Baker in Journ. Linn, Soe. vol. xvi. p. 170.)

Guaptotvus brachyandrus ; bulbo magno subgloboso tunicis exterioribus brunneis,

foliis basalibus 4-5 parvis ensiformibus subcoriaceis venis exsculptis, pedunculo

subpedali foliis 1~2 valde reductis predito, spica subpedali laxe 8-10-floro

floribus ascendentibus, spathe valvis lanceolatis flore subduplo brevioribus,

perianthii rubri magnitudine mediocris tubo brevi curvato late infundibulari,

segmentis ineequalibus oblongis acutis, sn ae majori haud cucullato, latera-

libus paulo minoribus, 3 inferioribus multo minoribus, staminibus perianthio

triente brevioribus antheris albis, stylo staminibus xquilongo stigmatibus

oblongis longe unguiculatis.

It has been ascertained during the last twenty years

that there are a considerable number of Gladioli amongst

the mountains of Tropical Africa, which are distinct specifi-

cally from all the well-known old types of the Cape and

Mediterranean region. Dr. Welwitsch found in Angola

eleven species, of which ten proved new, and others have

been met with in Guinea, Abyssinia, the Upper Nile country,

and Zambesi-land. The present plant, however, is the first

of these Tropical African species that has reached this

country alive. It was sent about a couple of years ago to

the Edinburgh Botanical Garden from the Shire Highlands

by Mr. John Buchanan, along with another less showy

species, which also proves to be new. It comes nearest

the Natal G. Eckloni, lately figured in the Macazinn (tab.

6335), and the old well-known G. blandus, but 1s readily

marked at a glance from all its neighbours by its short

stamens and very unequal perianth-segments. Our drawing

was made from a plant flowered by Mr. Sadler at Edinburgh

in the month of July of the present year.

Descr. Bulb depresso-globose, about a couple of inches

DECEMBER Ist, 1879.

in diameter, with bright brown outer tunics. Produced

leaves four or five near the base of the stem, firm in texture,

ensiform, green, strongly ribbed and margined, about half

an inch broad, the largest not more than two or three

inches long. Peduncle about a foot long, bearing one or

two much-reduced leaves. Spike nearly a foot long,

consisting of eight or ten distant ascending flowers ; spathe-

valves lanceolate, membranous at the flowering-time, the

outer an inch or more long, the inner rather shorter.

Perianth bright pale scarlet, two or two and a half inches

long; tube curved, openly funnel-shaped, half an inch long ;

segments all oblong and acute, but very unequal in size,

permanently much imbricated, the upper one an inch and

a half long by half as broad, not cucullate; the two side

ones rather shorter and broader, standing forward in the

fully-expanded flower with slightly spreading tips; the

three lower ones much smaller, under an inch long. Stamens

not reaching up more than half the length of the upper

segment of the perianth; anthers white, a quarter or a

third of an inch long. Style half as long as the top segment

of the perianth; stigmas oblong, falcate, with long claws.—

J. G. Baker. : é

Fig. 1, upper portion of a stamen ; 2, upper portion of style, with the three

stigmas :--both enlarged.

Tas. 6464.

SCUTELLARIA PURPURASCENS,

Native of South America.

Nat. Ord. Lasrata#.—Tribe StacHyDEZ.

Genus Scuretrarta, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 1201.)

ScuTettarra (Heteeantheria) purpurascens ; erecta, herbacea, puberula pubescens

v. patentim pilosa, caulibus ramosis teretibus, foliis longe petiolatis ovato-cor-

datis subacutis grosse sinuato-dentatis pallide viridibus pubescentibus v.

glabratis, floralibus parvis v. minutis deciduis, racemo laxifloro, floribus subse-

cundis sparsis v. inferioribus oppositis, calycibus pedicello subzequilongis, fructi-

feris obovato-orbiculatis, corolla pollicari tubo gracili cceruleo, labio superiore

fornicato acuto, inferiore obtuse 4-lobo saturate violaceo linea media albida.

8. purpurascens, Swartz Fl. Ind. Oce. vol. ii. p. 1013; Benth. in DC. Prodr.

vol, xii. p. 416.

S. Felisberti, ees et Mart, in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. vol. ii. p. 77.

This appears to me to be one of many varieties of a

common South American Scutellaria, of which the published

type is Swartz’s S. purpurascens, and which has been

described under various names from various parts of that

continent, according to its pubescence, length of petiole,

&c. I have compared Herbarium specimens of what appears

to me the same thing from Dominica, Martinique, St.

Lucia, St. Vincent’s, Trinidad, Guatemala, Venezuela (as

S. meridana, Moritz), and Costa Rica. It appears in

Guiana under the name of 8S. wliginosa, St. Hil., under

which name also it extends to Rio de Janeiro and the

provinces of St. Paul and St. Catherine. There are further

Some very nearly allied plants which may prove to be,

varieties with petioles much shorter than the leaf, as 8.

tubiflora, Benth., of Brazil; a tomentose Cuban plant

named purpurascens by Grisebach;,and a Mexican one

(Orizaba Herb. Bourgeau, No. 2796) with rather larger

flowers.

Our plants of S. purpurascens e received from Mr.

DECEMBER Ist, 1879. a Kerrnsnrce my

Portella of Rio de Janeiro, and flowered at Kew in

September.

Dusor. Perennial; one to two feet high, herbaceous,

pale green, and rather succulent ; more or less pubescent,

or clothed with spreading hairs ; stem branched ; branches

terete. Leaves long-petioled, one and a half to two and

a half inches long, broadly ovate-cordate, obtuse or sub-

acute, coarsely sinuate-toothed, sinus at the base deep, the

lobes almost overlapping, upper surface with spreading

hairs, under finely pubescent or glabrate ; petiole one to

two and a half inches long, terete, pubescent. Haceme one

to two inches long; flowers subsecund, alternate, or the

lower only opposite; bracts small or minute, green,

deciduous, the lower sometimes: leafy; pedicels about

equalling the calyx, pubescent. Calyx one-sixth of an

inch long. Corolla two-thirds of an inch long; tube

slender, slightly compressed, pale blue, hardly dilated

upwards, slightly curved; upper lip small, arched, com-

pressed, acute; lower a quarter of an inch in diameter,

obtusely 4-lobed, dark violet, with a median broad white

band. Fruiting calyx obovate-orbicular ; shield very concave,

deeply cupped, much broader when ripe than represented

in the state figured here; nucules subglobose, minutely

et seated on a prominent columnar receptacle.—

oD. Hi;

Figs. 1 and 2, calyx of immature fruit seen from beneath and from above—

enlarged.

6905

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Tas. 6465,

LUZURIAGA nrapioans.

Native of Chili.

Nat. Ord. Sminacrz.—Tribe PHILESIER.

Genus Luzuriaaa, Ruiz et Pav.; (Endl. Gen. Pl. p. 154.)

Luzvrraca radicans ; glaberrima, caulibus gracilibus ramosis flexuosis angulatis

basi radicantibus, foliis distichis ellipticis oblongis lineari-oblongisve acutis v.

apiculatis subtus glaucis costatis et 6-12-nerviis, floribus solitariis v. 2-3-nis

axillaribus nutantibus, staminibus conniventibus filamento brevi lato crasso,

antheris anguste lanceolato-subulatis praefloratione erectis antice dehiscentibus,

ovarii placentis 4~5-ovulatis axim non attingentibus.

L. radicans, Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Peruv., et Chili, ¥ol. iii. p. 66, t. 298; Presl. Rel.

Haenk. vol. ii, p. 130; Hook. et Arn. Bot. Beech Voy. p. 48; Baker in

Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. xiv. p. 573.

A very elegant green-house plant, a native of a consider-.

able extent of the coast of Chili, from the latitude of

Valdivia to the Straits of Magellan, and also of the plains

of Chiloe. It is usually found in forests, rooting up the

mossy trunks of trees. Its roots are used as a substitute

for sarsaparilla in its native country, on which account,

probably, the authors of the genus named it after a

celebrated Spanish physician, Don Ignatio Marie Ruiz de

Luzuriaga. According to the collector Bridges, its stems

are used for rope-making.

The genus Luzuriaga consists of but one species; the

LL. erecta of Kunth being, as originally and rightly described

by Sir W. Hooker, a true Callixene (C. polyphylla, Hook. Ic.

Pl. t.674; tab. nost. 5192), differing wholly from Luzuriaga

in the structure of the anthers, as pointed out, indeed, by

its author, and which renders Kunth’s subsequently remov-

ing it to this genus quite unaccountable. Both these

genera are closely allied to Philesia (tab. nost. 4738), and to

Lapageria (tab. 4447), and they together form a group of

the Sinilacee, or a separate order of the Smilaceous alliance,

DECEMBER Ist, 1879.

characterized by the one-celled ovary with parietal anatropous

ovules, entire style with minute stigma, and berry with

subglobose seeds, the testa of which is membranous and

white, and the albumen horny. The anthers of both Luzu-

riaga and Callixene have been incorrectly described as

opening by pores. They dehisce throughout their length ;

those of Lnzwriaga are erect, and attached by a broad base

to the very short, broad, thick filaments ; those of Callizene

are attached above the free base of the cells to a short

slender filament, and are versatile, becoming in C. polyphylla

reflexed after flowering. Lwuzuriaga radicans has been

cultivated for many years in the Royal Gardens, and thrives

on stones in the shaded side of the Temperate House,

flowering about Midsummer. 7

Drscr. Stems very slender, two to three feet high,

branching, flexuous, angled, green, with small sheathing

persistent brown scales at the nodes. Leaves one to two

and a half inches long,*distichous, rather remote, sessile,

twisted at the base, elliptical-oblong or linear-oblong, acute

or apiculate, bright green above, glaucous beneath, with

three to six pairs of green parallel nerves on each side of

the distinct midrib. Flowers springing from small imbri-

cating brown persistent bud-scales, solitary, or the peduncle

two to three-flowered, drooping; peduncle a quarter to one

inch long, slender, bearing one or two small scale-like

bracts. Flower white, very variable in size, one and a half —

to two inches in diameter. Perianth spreading, segments

elliptic or lanceolate, acuminate, the three inner rather

larger and thickened along the middle. Stamens conniving

into a conical column; filaments inserted at the base of

the perianth-segments, short, broad, and thick; anther

sessile on the broad top of the filament by a broad base

which is continuous with the stout connective, subulate-

lanceolate, subacute, cells narrow, dehiscing laterally, the

valves with inflexed edges. Ovary globose; style strict,

angular; stigmas three, minute; ovules two seriate on

three projecting parietal placentas, anatropous, about five

in a row. Berry size of a pea, globose, few-seeded.—

fe? 3 Hag « &

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5, berry :—all but 5 enlarged.

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SYMPHYTUM PEREGRINUM.

Native of the Caucasus.

Nat. Ord. Boraginem.—Tribe Boracen.

Genus Sympuyrum, Zinn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 854.)

SYMPHYTUM peregrinum ; caule elato ramoso setis subreversis hispido, foliis inferi-

oribus longe petiolatis elliptico-lanceolatis acuminatis superioribus sessilibus,

omnibus molliter hispidis ciliatisque, petiolis decurrentibus, calyce fere ad basin

5-partito segmentis triangulari-lanceolatis sensim acuminatis hispidulis,

corolla calyce triplo v. quadruplo longiore, tubo angulato medio constricto

supra medium subcampanulato, ore breviter 5-fido, dentibus latis apicibus

recurvis, appendicibus antheras subzquantibus.

8. peregrinum, Ledebour Ind. Sem. Hort. Dorpat. 1820, p. 4; Fl. Ross. vol. iii.

p- 114; DC, Prodr. vol. x. p.37; Briggs in Report of Bot. Exchange Club

Jor 1877-8, p. 17.

8. asperrimum, Bab. Fl. Bathon. 32.

The history of this plant, which is now well known under

the erroneous name of Symphytwm asperrimum (or Prickly

Comfrey) is still obscure. That it is not the true S.

asperrimum of Donn, figured by Sims in this work (t. 929),

is obvious from a comparison of that plate, in which the

calyx is correctly represented as short, and shortly 5-cleft

to the middle only, with obtuse lobes, and which has

curved prickles on the stem, arising from conspicuous white

tubercles. It agrees well with the character of S. peregrinum

given in Ledebour, except that the appendages between the

stamens are rather shorter (than longer) than the anthers,

and the style is not always bent below the top (stylo infra

apicem infracto), though it is sometimes so above the middle.

From S. caucasicum it differs in the stem not being hirsute,

nor the leaves softly hoary, and in the calyx being deeply

divided. In the Report of the Botanical Exchange Club,

cited above (in which work I find the plant for the first

time referred, though doubtfully, to S. peregrinum), it is

suspected to be a garden hybrid between S. asperrimum and

DECEMBER Ist, 1879, ,

S. officinale, which latter is said to be often planted for

forage. This may be so, but there is no evidence of its

hybridity, and Ledebour gives a habitat for the indigenous

S. peregrinum, namely, Sawunt in the Talysch province

of the Caucasus, at a height of 4000 feet above the sea;

and I have seen excellent dried specimens in the Kew

Herbarium, collected by Besser (under the erroneous name of

S. caucasicum, Bieb.), and by Wilhelms, collected in Iberia

in 1824, and sent under the name of S. asperrimum to the

late J. Gay, who has attached to the specimen the note,

“Je crois que c’est le Symphytwm caucasicum M. B. et

nullement le S. asperrimum.”’ Boissier in his Flora Orientalis

(vol. iii. p. 175) indeed says of 8. peregrinum and another,

“‘formz hortenses forsan hybrid.’ Lastly, for my own

part, I see very little reason to regard it as other than a

very large form of S. officinale, with the stem fistular below,

probably originating from cultivation, and not from hy-

bridization.

The specimen here figured flowered in the Royal Gardens

from plants of “ Prickly Comfrey,” presented by Mr. T.

Christy, who has been the means of widely diffusing the

culture of this Symphytum as a fodder plant, under the

above name. For some notes of its use as a cattle food I

must refer to the “ Report of the Progress and Condition

: pas Royal Gardens during the year 1878,” p. 12.—

Fig. 1, portion of stem with decurrent petioles—of the natural size ; 2, calyx;

3, corolla—enlarged.

srooks Day & Son Imp

H7.D.del. LN Fitch lith Nihtant

L. Reeve &C° London.

Tas. 6467.

APHELANDRA powta.

Native of Brazil.

Nat. Ord. AcanTHACEH.—Tribe JUSTICIER.

Genus APHELANDRA, Br.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 1102.)

APHELANDRA pumila; acaulis v. caule brevissimo, tenuiter -pubescens, foliis con-

fertis terree sub-appressis oblongis v. ovato-oblongis acutis v. obtusis basi

profunde cordatis superne lete viridibus costa nervisque validis interdum pur-

purascentibus, subtus albescentibus costa nervisque prominentibus, petiolo

crasso, spica subsessili amentiforme obtuse 4-angulato breviusculo crasso,

bracteis arcte imbricatis obovatis obtusiusculis coriaceis serratis luride fusco-

purpurascentibus venosis, bracteolis sepalisque oblongo-lanceolatis acutis, corolle

coccinese tubo curvo longe exserto, labio superiore porrecto fornicato rostrato,

inferiore reflexo lobis lateralibus oblongis obtusis intermedio orbiculari.

A. pumila, W. Bull’s Retail List of New, Sc. Plants, No. 143, 1878, p. 4.

Very dissimilar in habit and stature to any of the

numerous species of this beautiful genus that have hitherto

been imported into this country, or are contained in our

Herbaria. Of these no less than fifty species are known,

of which only about a dozen have been in cultivation; and

of these again eight are now figured in this work.

A. pumila belongs to the section with large bracts, the

upper lip erect, concave, and entire, and the lower divided

into three large lobes: it was imported by Mr. Bull from

Brazil, and flowered in the Royal Gardens, to which he

presented it, during last summer. _

Descr. Stem very short, giving off many stout petioled

leaves, and an inclined shortly-peduncled spike. Leaves

crowded, horizontally spreading, and lying almost pros-

trate on the ground, three to five inches long, oblong

or ovate-oblong, acute or obtuse, deeply cordate at the

base, very convex, finely pubescent upon both surfaces,

dark green above, with deeply-impressed green or purplish

midrib and nerves, pale green or whitish beneath, with

much raised midrib and nerves; petiole very stout, half to

DECEMBER Ist, 1879.

one inch long, pubescent, dull purple. Spike three inches

long, on a short stout leafy peduncle, formed of closely

tetragonally imbricate appressed bracts, three-quarters to

one inch long, which are obovate, serrate, subacute, and of

a dull brown-purple colour, the lower of them with green

foliaceous tips. Calyx-segmenits and bracteoles oblong-

lanceolate, acute. Corolla much exceeding the bracts, one

to one and a quarter inch long, scarlet ; tube slender, slightly

curved, arched at the top; upper lip arching, beaked, acute,

compressed, tip ascending ; lower lip sharply reflexed, three-

lobed to beyond the middle, lateral lobes broadly oblong

obtuse, mid-lobe orbicular. Ovary glabrous, on a fleshy

disk.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, bracteole ; 2, sepal ; 3, lower lip; 4, disk and ovary—all enlarged.

“4. 7°

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Tas. 6468.

BAA HYGROMETRICA.

Native of N. China.

Nat. Ord. GEsNERACERH.—Tribe CyRTANDREA.

Genus Baa, Comm.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 1023.)

Baa hygrometrica ; acaulis, albo-sericea, foliis omnibus radicalibus rosulatis sessi-

libus orbiculari-ovatis v. -ellipticis crenatis subtus albo-lanatis, scapis gracilibus

foliis zquilongis v. longioribus nudis 1-pauci-floris, pedicellis calycibusque

patentim pilosis, calycis lobis parvis triangulari-lanceolatis, corolle tubo am-

pullaceo, labii superioris lobis 2 orbiculatis, inferioris lobis 3 majoribus oblongis,

eapsula siliqueeformi elongata calyce multoties longiore.

B. hygrometrica, Brown in Benn. Pl. Jav. Rar. p.120; Deless. Ic. Lel. vol. v.

t. 5:

Dorcockras hygrometrica, Bunge Enum. Pl. Chin. n, 301.

The genus Bea is an Asiatic one, and its head-quarters

are the hilly country of Hastern Bengal, Tenasserim, and

’ Birma, from whence there are seven or eight species, several

of them undescribed. One is found as far east as the

Philippine Islands, and another in N. Australia, whilst the

subject of the present plate occurs a long way to the north

of the ordinary range of the genus, namely, in the neigh-

bourhood of Pekin.

The first described species of the genus B. Commersonii

is even a more distant outlier than any of the above,

and though discovered upwards of a century ago, its

native country has been only very recently ascertained.

For half a century it was claimed by America, and located

in the dismal region of Fuegia (Straits of Magellan);

for the next half-century it was put down as African, and

attributed to the Seychelle Islands, whereas it now proves

to be a native of an island in the Western Pacific. ‘The

history of its re-discovery in Commerson’s habitat is given

by Dr. Trimen in the Journal of the Linnean Society

(Botany, vol. xv. p. 163, where the name is by a typo-

graphical error spelled Boéa), and is so curious that I shall

transcribe it here. The genus was discovered in 1768 by

Commerson, the naturalist to Bougainville’s voyage round

the world, who in his MSS. proposed for it the generic

name Bea, in honour of his brother-in-law, the Rev. Dr.

Beau, of Toulon; the species was subsequently described

in 1783 by Lamarck, from Commerson’s specimens and

DECEMBER lst, 1879.

manuscripts, under the name of B. Magellanica, assumin

. that Commerson had found it in that remote locality, where,

indeed, he had collected largely. Half a century later

Robert Brown, having discovered that Commerson’s speci-

mens were collected at a place called the Port of Praslin

(and the Isles Praslin being the Seychelles), altered the

name of B. Magellanica to that of B. Commersonii, and for

the following half-century the Seychelles have been the

recognized habitat of the plant. Lastly, in 1875, Baron

Mueller sent to Dr. Trimen specimens of a Bea from an

island between New Britain and New Ireland, with a request

that he would compare it with Commerson’s plant. This

Dr. Turner did, and finding them to be identical, he took

the pains to search for Commerson’s Port Praslin, and

found that it was actually situated in the very island from

which Baron Mueller’s specimens were obtained !

Bea hygrometrica was discovered by the now venerable

Dr. Bunge of Dorpat in the mountains near Pekin in 1831,

and the specimens here figured were raised from seeds sent

to Kew in 1876 from the seme locality, by Dr. Bushell,

physician to the British Embassy at Pekin. They flowered

in August of the present year.

Descr. Stemless, clothed with soft long hairs that are

silky on the upper surface of the leaves, and woolly on the

under. Leaves all radical, rosulate, two to three inches

long, sessile, orbicular-ovate or obovate, or almost trapezoid,

obtuse, narrowed and entire towards the base, strongly cre-

nate upwards ; nerves deeply impressed above, the three

main ones longitudinal and diverging from the base.

Scapes very slender, hairy, naked, sparingly divided above,

few-flowered. Flowers pedicelled, nodding, one-half to

three-fourths of an inch in diameter. Calya very small,

lobes triangular-lanceolate. Corolla pale blue with a yellow

throat ; tube inflated, hemispheric; upper lip of two orbicular

lobes, lower with three oblong obtuse lobes, each almost

twice as long as one of the upper. Stamens two, inserted on

the throat of the corolla, filaments very short; anthers

broadly reniform, turned inwards and downwards, and

meeting by their faces. Ovary hairy ;. style slender, stigma

very small. Capsule one and a half inch long, slender,

pubescent, much twisted to the left, terminated by the

slender style.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, section of flower; 2 and 3, front and back view of stamens; 4, capsule :—

all enlarged.

6441

6429

6426

6451

6413

6467

6457

6446

6430

6468

6423

6458

6444

6403

6440

6431

6418

6425

6433

6453

6434

6443

6462

6419

6417

6416

6412

6432

6438

6409

6447

6408

6460

6404

INDEX

To Vol. XXXV. of the Tutrp Suries, or «VOL “Cy.

of the whole Work,

Aichmea Mariz-reginz.

Albuca wakefieldii.

Allium erdelii.

Allium karataviense.

Anemonopsis macrophylla.

Aphelandra pumila.

Ariseema galeatum.

Ariszema nepenthoides.

Aster Townshendii.

Bea hygrometrica.

Billbergia nutans.

Bollea ccelestis.

Bomarea acutifolia.

Burbidgea nitida.

Cajanus indicus.

Calceolaria deflexa,

Carludovica ensiformis.

Cassia alata.

Chionodoxa Lucilix.

Chionodoxa nana.

Cinchona Calisaya, vera.

Colchicum montanum.

Coreopsis aristosa,

Coreopsis nudata.

Cotyledon ramosissima.

Crocus vitellinus.

Cuphea lanceolata.

Cypripedium Lawrenceanum,

Dendrobium Findleyanum.

Dioscorea vittata.

Draczena floribunda,

Eccremocarpus scaber,

Enkianthus himalaicus,

Escallonia floribunda.

6414

6406

6421

6452

6463

6427

6436

6411

6428

6435

6445

6424

6442

6410

6465

6415

6405

6455

6437

6454

6450

6448

6464

6461

6466

6449

6439

6459

6407

6456

6422

6420

Euchlena luxurians,

Fritillaria Karelini.

Gentiana andrewsii,

Geranium atlanticum.

Gladiolus brachyandrus,

Goethea mackoyana.

Hymenocallis macrostephana.

Inula Hookeri.

Tris dichotoma.

Lamprococcus Weilbachii.

Lasiopetalum Baueri.

Linaria dalmatica.

Loasa prostrata.

Loasa vulcaniea.

Luzuriaga radicans.

Monnina xalapensis.

Nepeta spicata,

Odontoglossum maculatum.

Primula rosea,

Pysechotria jasminiflora.

Rhododendron __lepidotum,

var. obovatum.

Salvia elegans,

Scutellaria purpurascens,

Solanum Torreyi.

Symphytum peregrinum.

Trillium nivale.

Tulipa Schrenki.

Tulipa triphylla.

Veronica longifolia,

subsessilis.

Veronica Lyallii.

Villanova chrysanthemoides.

Villarsia capitata.

var.