CURTIS’S

BOTANICAL MAGAZINE,

SRI COMPRISING THE

Plants of the Ropal Gardens of Kew,

OF OTHER BOTANICAL ESTABLISHMENTS IN GREAT BRITAIN;

WITH SUITABLE DESCRIPTIONS;

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

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Mo. Bot. Garden,

1897.

SIR TREVOR LAWRENCE, BART. M-P.,,

PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.

Dear Sir Trevor Lawrence,

Allow me on this, the hundredth anniversary of the

Bortanrcat MaGazing, to dedicate to you, as President of the

Royal Horticultural Society, the volume that is the evidence

of this work having attained a longevity far exceeding that of

any other Illustrated Botanical or Horticultural Serial.

And whilst thus commemorating your services to Horti-

culture, I would associate with your name that of the Lady

from whom you directly inherit your love of plants and

passion for gardening—the late Mrs. Lawrence, of Ealing

Park, whose liberality and whose rich and beautiful conserva-

tories were set forth by my predecessor in the dedication to.

her of the 68th volume (published in 1842) of this work, and .

whose kindness to myself when a very young Botanist I shall

ever hold in grateful remembrance.

Believe me, dear Sir Trevor Lawrence,

Faithfully yours,

JOS. D. HOOKER.

Tue Camp, SuNNINGDALE,

December 1st, 1886.

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TXORA Macrornyrsa.

Native of the Malay Archipelago.

Nat. Ord. Rustacez.—Tribe IxorEx.

Genus Ixora, Linn. ; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p- 113.)

Ixora macrothyrsa ; frutex glaberrimus, ramulis teretibus, foliis breviter petiolatis

lanceolatis v. oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis undulatis basi acutis subcoriaceis,

stipulis interpetiolaribus ad medium connatis brevibus latissimis mucronatis,

thyrsis maximis subglobosis densifloris floribus confertissimis coccineis, calyce

brevissime obtuse 4-lobo, corolla tubo sesquipollicari lobis }-pollicaribus lanceo-

latis, stylis exsertis, bacca pisiformi.

I. macrothyrsa, Teysm. et Binn. in Herb.; Masters in Gard. Chron. N.S. xxii.

(1884), p. 267.

I, Duffii, 7. Moore in Flor. et Pomol. 1878, p- 76; cum Ie. xylog.

Pavetta a Teysm. et Binn. in Bat. Natuur. Tijdsche, vol. xxix. (1867),

p- 247

Of all the species of the large genus Jvora, of which

upwards of one hundred are enumerated, this is certainly

the most imposing, whether for habit, size or colour. It

would appear to be a widely diffused plant in the Malayan

Archipelago. It was first described as a native of the

province of Manado in Celebes, where it was discovered by

M. Teysmann, and an authentic specimen of it is preserved

in the Kew Herbarium, presented by the late D. Hanbury,

who received it from M. Binnendyk. Another specimen

is from the Island of Sumatra, sent by Teysmann to Dr.

Hance, and by him to Kew; the species is, however, not

mentioned by Miquel in the supplementary volume of his

“Flora van Nederland. Ind.,” which is devoted to the

plants of Sumatra. The only other known habitat is that

of the specimen here figured, which was procured in Ualan

or Strong Island, one of the Caroline group, by Mr. Duff,

an employé of the Sydney Botanical Gardens.

The specimen here figured flowered in the Royal Gardens

in September, 1883; the plant was presented by Messrs.

_ Veitch. It may be referable to the var. nitida of Teysm.

and Binnend. /.c¢., the only characters of which are that

JAN. Ist, 1886.

the thyrse is more dense, the leaves more narrowed at each

end and shining above, and the stipules with a longer point,

matters rather of individual than varietal value in the

genus. The same authors describe the flower as orange-

coloured at first, and then atrosanguineous; those of the

plant cultivated at Kew are of a pure bright scarlet.

Desor. A shrub, everywhere quite glabrous, with stiff

terete branches. Leaves about a foot long by one and a

half to two inches broad, shortly petioled, linear-oblong to

oblong-lanceolate, usually acuminate, undulate, base at-

tenuate, bright green above, paler beneath, base often

unequal; nerves very variable in number and direction,

eleven to eighteen pair, spreading or ascending, arched or

nearly straight; petiole very stout, one-half to three-

quarters of an inch long; stipules short, much broader

than long, mucronate, connate to or beyond the middle.

Thyrse subsessile, globose or nearly so, eight inches in

diameter; flowers innumerable, hiding the ramifications,

scarlet, shortly pedicelled, pedicel jointed above the minute

opposite bracts. Calyz minute, short, shortly and obtusely

four-lobed. Corolla-tube one and a half inch long, very

slender, not enlarged below the limb; lobes nearly half an

inch long, lanceolate, obtuse. Anthers long, connective

acuminate. Style exserted, with two short recurved

lobes.—J. D. H.

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MARTINEZIA caryormronta.

Native of Tropical South America.

Nat. Ord. Patmea.—Tribe CocornEx.

Genus Martinezia, Ruiz et Pav. ; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p- 944.)

Martinezia caryotefolia; caudice gracili 20-30-pedali creberrime annulato,

annulis aculeis elongatis nigris horridis, foliis pinnatis pinnis aggregatis e

basi lata elongato-cuneatis truncatis apice sub-3-lobis erosisque utrinque viri-

dibus glabris, lobis marginalibus interdum longe productis, petiolo rachique

aculeatis aculeis gracillimis, spatha elongato-clavata aculeata, spadice pedali

laxe paniculatim ramosa ramis elongatis, bracteis ad basin ramorum parvis e

basi lata lanceolatis, drupis globosis.

M. caryotefolia, Humb. Bonpl. et Kunth, Nov, Gen. et Sp. vol. i. p. 305, and

vol, vii. tab. 699; Kunth Enum. vol. iii. p. 270; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm.

vol. iii. pp. 284 and 322, tab. 161, fig. 1; and Palm. Orbign. p. 76; Drude

in Mart. Fl. Bras., Palm. 394, tab. 85.

A handsome small Palm, belonging to a genus of which

fourteen species have been enumerated, all natives of

tropical America, where they inhabit hot valleys and river

banks. As may well be supposed from a glance at the

plate here given, they are plants not easily collected and

preserved for scientific purposes, and it is consequently

not possible to define with accuracy the geographical

limits of the species. M. caryotefolia is the first known,

and is undoubtedly a native of New Granada, and is stated

to inhabit equatorial Brazil, Peru and Guiana. Five species

of the genus are cultivated at Kew, but no other has

hitherto flowered.

M. caryotefolia has been cultivated for many years in

the Royal Gardens, having been raised from seed imported

from New Granada, and collected by Purdie in 1845, when

he was travelling in the service of the Gardens in that

country. The plant is now about twelve feet high, and

flowers in May.

Descr. A small graceful Palm, attaining thirty feet in

height. Stem cylindric, strict, erect, slightly swollen at

the base, where it roots above the soil, closely ringed ;

JAN. Ist, 1886.

rings loaded with stiff black straight slender spines two

to three inches long, which when young are flattened and

silkily villous. eaves four to five feet long, terminal,

bright green, paler beneath, spreading and drooping ;

petiole and rachis armed with scattered very slender

spines ; pinne eight to ten pairs, nine to twelve inches

long by three to four broad, inserted by a broad base on

the trigonous mealy or scurfy rachis, elongate-cuneate,

truncate, more or less three-lobed at the apex, which is

further lobulate and erose; sides usually produced into

acuminate drooping laciniz one to two inches long, pli-

cately many-nerved, midrib distinct; petiole one to two

feet long, with an open basal sheath. Spathe a foot long,

elongate-clavate, aculeate. Spadix very long-peduncled,

glabrous or nearly so, loosely branched; branches green,

slender; bracts at their bases half an inch long, lanceolate

from a broad base, membranous, appressed to the branch ;

bracteoles very short, semi-linear, brown; flowers sessile,

yellow-green, rather distant, one-sixth of an inch long;

males most numerous, females at the lower part of the

branches. Mate Fiowsr. Calys# short, three-lobed. Petals

three, ovate, subacute, valvate. Stamens six, included,

filaments short; anthers linear-oblong. Ovary rudimentary,

minute, three-lobed. Frmare Fiowgr. Sepals broad, mem-

branous, reniform. Petals broadly ovate, obtuse, concave,

slightly imbricate. Disk cup-shaped, toothed. Ovary

globose, with three very small conical stigmas. Drwpe (in

New Granada specimen) globose, crowned by the terminal

stigmas ; endocarp bony, with three pits round the equator,

each surrounded by radiating lines. Seed globose, intruded

at the base, testa brown, albumen solid ; embryo opposite

one of the pores of the endocarp.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Reduced figure of the palm; 2, portion of rachis and pinna; 3, a young

spine; 4, portion of spadix ; 5, male flower; 6, the same laid open; 7, front, and

8, back view of stamen ; 9, rudimentary ovary of male flower; 10, female flower;

11, the same with the perianth removed; 12, transverse section of ovary :—all but

Sigs. 2, 3, and 4 much enlarged.

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MUSCARI Svzovirstanum.

Native of Persia and the Caucasus.

Nat. Ord. Lin1acrkm.—Tribe SctnuEm.

Genus Muscart, Miller; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 811.)

Muscart (Bellevallia) Szovitsianum; bulbo magno globoso, foliis linearibus

viridibus flaccidis facie glaucescentibus canaliculatis, pedunculo erecto semi-

pedali, racemo densissimo primum conico demum oblongo, floribus nitide

ceruleis leviter suaveolentibus, fertilibus breviter pedicellatis perianthio

obovoideo-oblongo ore constricto segmentis latis imbricatis albidis flore expanso ~

faicatis, staminibus leviter biseriatis prope tubi medium insertis, ovario globoso,

stylo ovario zquilongo, floribus sterilibus parvis densis subsessilibus pur-

pureo tinctis.

M. Szovitsianum Ruprecht MSS.; Baker in Gard. Chron. 1878, N.S. vol. ix.

p. 799.

M. racemosum, var, brachyanthum, Boiss. Fl, Orient. vol. v. p. 295.

The numerous forms of Grape Hyacinth are very nearly

allied and difficult to classify botanically. The present

plant is intermediate between the two best- and oldest-

known types, VM. botryoides and M. racemosum. It has the

bright blue flowers of the former, but the raceme is denser,

the leaves are narrower, and the perianth a different shape.

We first received it at Kew from Max Leichtlin in the

year 1876, along with many other rare bulbs, and have

found it quite haray and easy of cultivation. It has a

faint scent, and flowers with us at the end of March and

the beginning of April. The plate was drawn from a plant

in Kew Gardens in April, 1879. 7

Descr. Bulb large as compared with its allies, globose,

and if well-developed bearing two or three flowering-stems

and numerous leaves. eaves linear, six or nine inches

long at the flowering-time, a quarter of an inch broad,

flaccid, bright green, channelled down the rather glaucous

face. Peduncle terete, half a foot long. Raceme very

dense, at first conical, finally oblong, an inch and a half or

two inches long; central pedicels finally as long as the

Jan. Ist, 1886.

flowers ; upper and lower shorter. Jertile flowers bright

blue; perianth obovoid-oblong, a sixth or a fifth of an inch

long, distinctly constricted at the throat; teeth a little

broader than long, white, falcate when the flower is fully

expanded. Stamens inserted at the middle of the perianth-

tube, slightly biseriate. Ovary globose; style as long as

the ovary. Sterile flowers twelve to twenty, dense, sub-

sessile, tinged purple.—.J. (. Baker.

Figs. 1 and 2, Flowers from different parts of the raceme; 3, perianth cut open

to show the stamens; 4, anther, front view; 5, anther, back view ; 6, pistil; 7,

horizontal section of ovary :—all more or less enlarged.

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LAYIA Gianpunosa, Hook. § Arn.

Native of Western North America.

Nat. Ord. Composir2.—Tribe HELIANTHOIDER.

Genus Layia, Hook. §& Arn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 395.)

Lavra (Madaroglossa) glandulosa; diffuse ramosa, hispida et glandulosa, foliis

sessilibus linearibus obtusis v. acutis integris v. inferioribus sepe inciso-

pinnatifidis, capitulis amplis, involucri bracteis linearibus hispidis glandulosis-

que, fl. radii 8-13 albis, ligulis amplis late cuneato-obovatis obtuse 3-lobis

tubo glanduloso, fl. disci flavis, corolla tubo glanduloso limbi lobis 5 brevibus

patentibus longe ciliatis, disci acheniis clavatis sericeo-villosis, pappi setis

rigidis scabridis albis basi longe villosis.

L. glandulosa, Hook, et Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 358; Torr. et Gr. Fl. N. Am.

vol. ii. p. 394; A. Gray in Bot. Calif. vol. i. p. 368; and Synopt. Fl. N.

Amer. vol. i. pt. 2, p. 314.

L. neo-mexicana, 4. Gray Plant. Wright. vol. ii. p. 98.

BiepHaripappus glandulosus, Hook. Fl. Bo. Am. vol. i. p. 316.

Ertorarrvs glandulosus, Arn. in Lindl. Introd. Nat. Syst. ed. 2, p. 443.

Maparoetossa angustifolia, DC. Prodr. vol. v. p. 694.

Though at first sight resembling a Pyrethrum or Matri-

caria, more than a Helianthoid composite (in which tribe

the flowers are generally yellow), this is an undoubted

member of that group. It is a very handsome profusely

flowering annual, a native of British Columbia, where it

was discovered by D. Douglas in 1826, and extends from

thence to Southern California in the west, and eastwards to

Idahos and the borders of Mexico. Our plants were raised

from seed kindly sent by Mr. Thompson, of Ipswich,

and flowered in the open border in July, 1885. A. Gray

describes a variety with rose-purple rays as occurring in

California. ;

Descr. A hispidly hairy leafy annual, excessively

branched from the base, the hairs simple or mixed with

shorter ones that are tipped with black glands, especially

on the peduncles and involucres; branches slender, pale,

’ terminating in solitary peduncled heads. Leaves alternate,

_ one to one and a half inches long, by one-sixth to a quarter

: — Jan. Ist, 1886.

of an inch broad, sessile by a broad base, linear, obtuse,

one-nerved, quite entire, or a few of the lower sparingly

pinnatifidly lobed. Heads one to one and a half inches in

diameter ; involucre of linear, rigid, erect, hispid and glan-

dular green bracts. Ray-rLowsrs eight to thirteen ; tube

glandular, embraced at the base by the dilated auricled

margins of the inner bracts; limb broadly cuneately

obovate, with three rounded terminal lobes, pearly white.

Pappus none, or very scanty. Style-arms slender, revolute.

-Disk-riowers tubular-campanulate, very shortly five-lobed ;

lobes ciliolate. Anthers exserted, base obtuse. Style-arms

revolute. Achenes clavate, villous; pappus of ten to—

twenty rigid scabrid unequal bristles about as long as the

achene, and villously hairy below the middle.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Portion of ray-flower and bract; 2, outer bract; 3, disk-tlower; 4,

stamens ; 5, stigmatic arms; 6, achene and pappus :—all enlarged.

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ROSA pisocarpa.

Native of British Columbia and Oregon.

Nat. Ord. Rosacex.—Tribe RosEx.

Genus Rosa, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 625.)

Rosa pisocarpa; gracilis, fere glaber, inermis v. aculeis stipularibus paucis parvis

rectis v. ascendentibus, foliolis parvis ellipticis obtusis serratis, floribus parvis

solitariis corymbisve paucifloris, bracteis paucis Jinearibus, calycis tubo urceo-

lato glabro, lobis e basi late ovata longe et anguste productis extus nudis

glandulosisve intus pubescentibus apicibus dilatatis, fructu globoso pisi mole

vertice infra lobos persistentes erectos constricto, stigmatibus liberis, acheniis

dimidiato-oblongis dorso apiceque hirsutis.

R. pisocarpa, A. Gray in Proc. Amer. Acad. vol. viii. p. 382, and in Bot. Calif.

vol. i. p. 187; 8S. Wats. Bibl. Ind. N. Amer. Bot. p. 313, and in Proe.

Amer. Acad, Art. and Se. vol, xx. p. 342.

R. nutkanaP var. microcarpa, Crepin in Bull Soc. Bot. Belg. vol. xiv. p, 44,

To discuss the affinities of any rose, British or Exotic, is

no light matter even for a specialist in the genus, and I

hesitate to offer any opinion upon this little species, which

in habit resembles no other known to me. At first sight

it seems as different as roses are “‘ inter se”’ from R. cali-

jornica, which is a much larger, coarser, many-flowered

species with recurved prickles; but 8. Watson, in his

revision of the North American Roses, regards it as “ rather

doubtfully distinct from that plant, distinguished by the

somewhat smaller and more globose fruit, and by the

prickles never recurved, but frequently ascending.”

R. pisocarpa was first described as a native of Oregon,

and a specimen so named by Crepin was gathered by

Douglas on the Columbia River in 1826, but as this is of a

larger and coarser plant with ovoid fruit, I should refer it

to R. californica. Dr. Gray and I gathered it in the

Upper Sacramento Valley, California, at an elevation of

4000 to 6000 feet in 1877, and it is probably not an

uncommon plant in North California. Guay describes the

calyx-lobes as reflexed, and the fruiting peduncle as

nodding, which is not the case in dried specimens, nor in

those that flowered at Kew. In the “ Botany of Cali-

wan. Ist, 1886,

fornia,” it is further stated that the fruit is not constricted

below the calyx-lobes, which it is very conspicuously.

The Kew plants were raised from seed received from Prof.

Sargent, and flowered in the Arboretum in July; the fruit

ripened in September.

Descr. A small, rather straggling, slender, much

branched, nearly glabrous bush, unarmed or with smail

(rarely stout) straight or upcurved stipular spines. Leaves

two to three inches long, petiole and rachis very slender,

minutely pubescent. Leaflets two to three pair and an

odd one, three-quarters of an inch long, broadly elliptic,

obtuse, finely serrate, dark green but not shining above,

paler and puberulous beneath; stipules narrow, not leafy.

Flowers one inch in diameter, solitary or in few-

flowered corymbs, pedicel slender, rarely hispid. Calyx

glandular; tube urceolate in flower; lobes very long,

the broadly triangular ovate base contracted into a

very slender lamina three times as long as the tube and

slightly dilated at the tip, hoary within. Petals orbicular,

two-fid, rose-coloured. Stamens very numerous, filaments

short ; anthers pale yellow. Stigmas very shortly exserted,

free. Fruit erect, globose, one-third to one-half of an inch

in diameter, bright red, crown contracted into a neck

beneath the long erect calyx-lobes. Achenes dimidiate-

oblong, hirsute on the back and tip.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Calyx laid open, with stamens and carpels; 2, carpels; 3, ripe fruit of

the natural size; 4, achene:—all but fig. 3 enlarged.

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LISSOCHILUS SANDERSONI.

Native of Natal.

Nat. Ord. OrcH1pEx.—Tribe VanDEX,

Genus Lissocnitvs, Br.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 536.)

Lissocuitus Sandersoni; elatus, robustus, foliis 3—-4-pedalibus 3-4 poll. latis

elongato-lanceolatis subacutis in petiolum elongatum angustatis, scapo cylin-

draceo, spica pedali rachi robusto, bracteis magnis elliptico-oblongis concavis

viridibus, floribus 2-24 poll. diam., sepalis viridibus brunneo-sphacelatis acutis

late oblongis basi angustatis postico paullo majore, petalis amplis sepalis triplo

majoribus late falcato-obiongis candidis apice rotundatis, labelli lobis lateralibus

amplis erectis concavis sepalis concoloribus, intermedio quadrato integro

ambitu purpureo striisque saturate purpureis lineato, disco flavido papillis

ae 3-5-plici seriatis densis cristato, calcare labelli conico obtuso, columna

albida.

L. Sandersoni, Reichb. f. Otia Botan. Hamburgens. fase. I. p. 62, non Harvey

mss.

A stately species of what was till lately a small genus of

Orchids, but which recent collections made in tropical

Africa give promise of proving a very large one, with its

headquarters in that country. It is, however, more

probable that ail will merge into Hulophia, which, as

Mr. N. E. Brown has shown me, cannot be satisfactorily

distinguished from it. Of the previous figured kinds,

LL. Sandersoni approaches nearest to L. Horsfallii, Batem.,

of Old Calabar, which, however, differs conspicuously in

the narrower sepals, their dark maroon-purple colour, and

that of the mid-lobe of the lip, as well as in the disk of the

latter being covered with linear toothed wings.

L. Sandersoni is a native of Natal, and was first made

known by a drawing sent to Kew by the late Mr. Sanderson

in 1867, from which Reichenbach’s specific description was

drawn up, and a specimen has since been kindly communi-

cated by Mrs. Sanderson. The drawing alluded to appears

to have been made from a faded specimen, for though

agreeing in all essentials with the plant here figured, the

flowers are much smaller and colours faded. There is in

the Kew Herbarium a very similar and probably identical

FEB. Ist, 1886.

species, collected in the Shire Highlands, Zambesia, by

Mr. Buchanan, communicated from the Herbarium of the

Edinburgh Botanical Gardens. The ZL. Sandersoni of

Harvey is quite a different plant, and, as pointed out in the

* Genera Plantarum,” referable to the genus Cymbidium,

from wanting a spur.

For plants of this majestic Orchid, the Royal Gardens

are indebted to Mr. Lyle, of Natal, who gave them in

1879. After making some growth, the roots were trans-

ferred a few years ago to one of the beds in the Palm

House, with a south exposure, where they flowered for the

first time in June last.

Descr. Rootstock stout, subterranean. Leaves three to four

feet long by three to four inches broad, elongate-lanceolate,

acute, plaited and many-nerved, narrowed into a long petiole,

bright green. Scape six to seven feet high, robust,

cylindric, with one or two sheathing bracts. Spike a

foot long, erect; rachis stout ; flowers pretty close, two to

two and a half inches in diameter; bracts one inch long

and less, oblong, obtuse or acute, very coriaceous and

concave, green with brownish edges. Sepals elliptic-oblong,

narrowed at the base, incurved, dirty green with suffused

brown edges and nerves, dorsal rather the largest. Petals

very much larger than the sepals, obliquely falcately

broadly oblong, obtuse, pure white. Lip large, contracted

below into a short conoidal obtuse spur; side lobes large,

rounded, erect and incurved, very concave, dark green

with brownish veins; mid-lobe between square and

rounded; limb pale violet with darker purple streaks;

disk pale yellow-green, studded with long papille in three

to five rows. Column large, arched, white; anther two-

toothed.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Reduced figure of whole plant; 2, portion of leaf; 3, section of leaf ;

4, spike; 5, column and ovary; 6, anther; 7 and 8, pollen-masses and gland :—all

but figs. 1, 2, and 4 enlarged.

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CALOTROPIS PROCERA.

Native of Western and Central India.

Nat. Ord. AScLEPIADEZ.—Tribe CYNANCHEZ.

Genus Catotroris, Brown; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 754.)

CaLorroris procera; frutex glaber, inflorescentia appresse lanata, foliis subsessili-

bus ovatis obovato-oblongis obovatisve acutis basi cordatis, floribus alabastro

depresso-globosis corymbosis, pedicellis gracilibus, coroll lobis late ovatis

acutis planis incurvis extus albis intus purpureis, columna staminea brevi

squamis brevibus bifidis, calcaribus incurvis.

C. procera, Brown in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, vol. ii. p. 78; Hamilt. in Trans.

» Linn, Soe. vol. xiv. p. 246; Wight Contrib. p. 53, and Ic, t. 1278; Brand.

For, Fl. p. 331; Boiss. Fl.. Orient. vol. iv. p. 57; Dene. in DC. Prodr.

vol. viii. p. 535; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. iv. p. 18; Bot. Reg. t. 1792 ;

Bentl. et Trim, Med. Pl. (excl. cit. Rheede), t. 176.

C. Hamiltoni, Wall. Cat. n. 8215; Wight Contrib. p. 53.

C. Wallichii, Wight Contrib. p. 53; Wall. Cat. n. 8216.

C. heterophylla, Wall. Cat. n. 8217; Wight Contrib. p. 53.

Asclepias procera, Willd. Sp. Pl. 1263; Schneevogt Ic. t. 18.

A. gigantea, Andrews Bot. Rep. t. 271.

A frequent native of Western and Central India, where

it is known chiefly for its medicinal properties as ‘* Mudar,”

from Scinde and the Panjab, eastwards to Behar and

Bombay, reappearing in Ava, but not inhabiting the

Deccan, nor the eastern districts of Bengal and the Malayan

Peninsula and Islands; on the other hand it has an im-

mense extension westwards, through Affghanistan into

Persia and Syria, and over many drier parts of N. tropical

Africa to the Cape de Verd Islands. The inner bark yields

a strong flax (Mudar and Yercum fibre), from which halters,

lines, and ropes are made ; the silky hairs of the seeds are

used to stuff mattresses; the acrid milky juice, mixed with

salt, is employed to remove hair from hides; pieces of the

roots are in common use for tooth-brushes, or rather are

used as tooth-rubbers, and gunpowder charcoal is made of

the wood. In all these properties and uses it resembles

C. gigantea (Plate 6862) in greater or less degree, as it

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does also in repute of the drug derived from the powdered

bark of the root, stem, and branches. This, the famous

Mudar of Oriental physicians, is much used as an alterative

tonic, diaphoretic, and in large doses as an emetic, and is

used in many other diseases, especially in dysentery, as an

excellent substitute for ipecacuanha. It is, however, not

in the British or American official Pharmacopceias, but is in

the Indian.

C. procera has been long known in Hurope. Prosper

Alpinus, at the end of the last century, alludes to it as

a native of Egypt; and according to Aiton it was intro-

duced into England in 1814 by the Duchess of Beau-

fort, from Persia. It has been repeatedly raised at Kew,

and lost by over-watering. The plant here figured was

raised from seed sent by Dr. King, of the Botanical Gardens,

Calcutta, which flowered in June.

Descr. A shrub, six to ten or even fifteen feet high,

with rather slender glabrous branches and leaves, the

younger parts hoary, and inflorescence clothed with ap-

pressed wool. eaves four to ten inches long, subsessile

and amplexicaul, coriaceous, glabrous when old, young

hoary beneath, oblong or obovate-oblong, acute with a ring

of hairs at the very base. lowers one-half to two-thirds

of an inch in diameter, in axillary peduncled subcorymbose

umbels; peduncle and pedicels slender. Sepals ovate,

small, green. Corolla-lobes broadly ovate, spreading and

incurved, white without, purple within to a greater or less

depth, with a white base and margin. Staminal column

very low, with five bifid purple points, and as many in-

curved (not involute) horns at the base. Fruit-follicles

three to five inches long, oblong, recurved, rounded at

both ends, yellow-green, bladdery. Seeds three-quarters

of an inch long, with a long silky coma.—J. D. H.

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SYNTHYRIS rentrormis.

Native of California and Oregon.

Nat. Ord. ScROPHULARINEZ.—Tribe DiciTaLEm,

Genus Syntuyris, Benth. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 963.)

SynTHYRIS reniformis ; glaberrima v. sparse pilosa, foliis longe petiolatis coriaceis

cordato-rotundatis duplicato-crenatis dentatisve, scapo robusto erecto foliis

longiore bracteato, racemis multifloris, bracteis oblongis obtusis, pedicellis

sepalis subsquilongis, corolle pallide violacee tubo globoso, lobis oblongo-

lanceolatis postico majore 2-dentato, capsula orbiculari 2-fida valde compressa

pleiosperma, seminibus compressis marginibus tenuibus.

S. reniformis, Benth. in DC. Prodr. vol. x. p. 454; Hook. Kew Journ. Bot.

vol. v. p. 257; A. Gray Synopt. Fl. N. Am. vol. ii. pars 1, p. 285; Bot.

Calif. vol, i. p. 571, in part, and vol. ii. p. 474.

Wulfenia reniformis, Dougl. in Hook, Fl. Bor. Am. vol. ii. p. 102.

The genus Synthyris, of which seven species are

described, all North-Western American, is the New World

representative of the Wulfenias of the Alps of Eastern

Europe and the Himalaya, approaching that genus very

nearly both in habit and characters. Of the described

Species, two seem to have been a good deal confounded,

the S. reniformis, Benth., and S. rotundifolia, Gray, from

the fact of both being figured under the former name in

the “‘ Flora Boreali Americana,” one in flower and the other

in fruit. Of these, one, distinguished by Gray as S. rotun-

difolia, is a small plant, with weak slender scape, shorter

than the membranous broadly crenate leaves, a small few-

flowered raceme with slender pedicels, broader sepals and

corolla-lobes, and, according to Gray, fewer seeds in the

cells of the capsule. The other, the subject of this plate,

is a much larger stouter plant, with more acutely cut

coriaceous leaves, longer stouter scape, and long racemes,

shorter pedicels, narrow sepals and corolla-lobes, a globose

corolla-tube and more seeds in the cells. Both were found

in the mountains near the Grand Rapids of the Columbia

River and the Blue Mountains by Douglas in 1827, and are

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figured on the same plate in the “ Flora Boreali Americana”

as Wulfenia reniformis, which latter name is now retained for

that here figured. Its range is from Oregon to N. California,

and westwards to Idaho. 8S. rotwndifolia inhabits, besides

the habitat given by Douglas, Fort Vancouver and the Willa-

mette River, and a var. cordata, Gray, occurs in Mendocino

County, California. May it not be possible that these

supposed species are sexual forms of one? The capsule

varies very much in S. reniformis, from orbicular and

obscurely retuse to broadly two-lobed.

For plants of S. reniformis the Royal Gardens are

indebted to Mr. Brockbank, of Didsbury, Manchester, with

whom it flowered in April of last year. It is perfectly

hardy.

Desor. Glabrous or obscurely hairy. ootstock stout,

elongate. Leaves one and a half to two and a half inches

in diameter, orbicular-cordate, coriaceous, doubly-toothed,

often sharply, sinus narrow, bright green on both surfaces.

Scape five to ten inches long, stout, with many scattered

leafy crenate sessile or petioled bracts. Raceme erect, four

to six inches long, very many- but not dense-flowered ;

bracts coriaceous, cblong, longer than the pedicels, which

about equal the sepals. lowers pale violet, about a quarter

ofaninch long. Sepals linear-oblong and pedicels glandular-

hairy. Corolla-tube inflated, globose, hairy within, shorter

than the sepals; lobes oblong-lanceolate, unequal,

dorsal largest two-toothed, anterior smallest. Stamens

exserted; anthers large. Ovary globose, hairy; style

slender, stigma capitate. Capsule flat, erect, a quarter

of an inch in diameter, orbicular, retuse or notched, or

with diverging lobes. Seeds flat.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower ; 2, corolla; 3, interior of tube of ditto and stamens; 4, ovary;

5, transverse section of ditto; 6, capsule and calyx:—al/ enlarged.

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RHYN CHANTHUS .onaretorvs.

Native of Burma.

Nat. Ord. Scrraminra2.—Tribe ZINGIBERER.

Genus novum, RuyncHantuus ; Hook. f.

Gen. Coan. Calyx anguste tubulosus, ore fisso, truncatus, retusus. Corolle

tubus elongatus, superne dilatatus; lobi breves, ovato-lanceolati, longe acumi-

nati, erecti, postico paullo majore. Staminodia lateralia 0; labellum obsoletum.

Filamentum valde elongatum, longe exsertum, curvum, anguste cymbiforme,

teres, in rostrum elongatum antheriferum productum; anthera breviter line-

aris, 2-locularis, connectivo non producto, Ovarium 3-loculare, 0 -ovulatum,

stylodiis 2 oblongis coronatum ; stylus filiformis, ultra antheras productus,

stigmate infundibulari truncato.—Herba gracilis, rhizomate tuberoso radices

crassas tomentosas emittente. Caulis erectus, foliosus. Folia disticha,

oblongo-lanceolata, acuminata. Flores in spica terminali pauci, sessiles,

4-pollicares, anguste tubulosi ; bractee 2, elongate, membranacee, colorate.

Corolla pallide virescens ; filamento stramineo.

This very curious plant differs generically from any

hitherto described. In some respects it approaches Burbidgea

(Plate 6403), next which it will stand in the Order, and

which it resembles a little in the long flower-buds; but

here all resemblance ends, Burbidgea having thick coria-

ceous glossy leaves (most unusual in the Order), shortly

pedicelled flowers with caducous bracts, large broad

spreading corolla-lobes, a distinct lip, the blade of which

embraces the anthers, a stamen with a very short filament,

an anther terminated with a very long appendage, and a

minute oblique almost spathulate stigma. Rhynchanthus,

on the other hand, has the ordinary membranous leaves of

Zingiberee, sessile flowers with very large loose membranous

probably persistent bracts, remarkably small erect corolla-

lobes, a lip reduced to a mere point, and a most curious

petaloid filament, like a very long canoe, exserted far

beyond the corolla-lobes, terminated by an anther with no

appendage, and the stigma is erect and funnel-shaped.

Rhynchanthus was procured from Burma by Messrs.

Low, of the Clapton Nurseries, and was presented early in

last year to Kew, where it flowered in a stove in July.

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Unfortunately no record was kept at the Nursery of the

exact locality where it was found, or of its discovery.

Dusor. Rootstock tuberous, broadly ovoid, one to one and

a half inches in diameter, green, fleshy, sending out very

stout worm-like tomentose roots, and from its side the young

stem of the following year. Stem eighteen inches high,

erect, slender, with ten or twelve distichous leaves. Leaves

six to eight inches long by one and a half inches broad,

oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, membranous, bright green,

with a very narrow brown edge, base contracted into a

very short petiole; sheath slender, pale, with short rounded

auricles at the mouth. lowers four inches long, few, erect,

in a terminal subsessile spike with a slender rachis. Bracts

two, one and a half inches long, spathaceous, linear-oblong,

obtuse, very membranous, hyaline, pale orange-red. Caly

shorter than the bracts, tubular, with a split mouth and

rounded retuse tip. Corolla pale yellow-green; tube two —

inches long, swollen above the middle ; lobes one-third of an

inch long, ovate-lanceolate, long-acuminate, concave, erect,

greener than the tube. Jip reduced to a mere point ab

the base of the filament. Filament one and a half inches

long, elongate, boat-shaped, being swoilen in the middle

and open in front, slightly curved, exserted far beyond the

perianth, contracted into a long point at the tip, straw-

coloured; anther shortly linear-oblong, orange-yellow. |

Ovary very, short, pubescent, three-celled, many-ovuled,

crowned with two oblong stylodes; style very slender,

exserted beyond the anther, stigma funnel-shaped ; mouth

truncate, entire, not ciliate.—J. D. H.

: Fig. 1, Reduced view of whole plant ; 2, rootstock; and 3, stem of the natural

size; 4, calyx clothed at the base with the base of the inner bract (concealing the

ovary); 5, corolla and stamen; 6, stamen; 7, top of style and stigma; 8, ovary

and stylodes ; 9, transverse section of ovary ; 10, ovules:—all but figs. 1, 2, and 3

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CALOTROPIS cicantra.

Native of India.

Nat. Ord. AscLEPIADEXZ.—Tribe CYNANCHER.

Genus Catorropis, Br.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 754.)

Catorroris gigantea ; arbuscula ramulis foliis subtus et inflorescentia appresse

lanatis, foliis sessilibus late oblongis v. cuneato-oblongis obovatisve submucro-

natis basi cordatis v. amplexicaulibus, pedunculis axillaribus, floribus alabastro

ovoideis corymbosis albis v. lilacinis pedicellis crassis, corolle lobis revolutis

tortisque, columna staminea magna crassa truncata, calcaribus basi involutis.

C. gigantea, Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, vol. ii. p. 78; Hamilt. in Trans. Linn.

Soe. vol. xiv. p. 245; Wight Ill. Pl. Ind. Or, t. 155,156A; Brand, For.

Flor. p. 331; Griff. Ic. Pl. Asiat. t. 397, 398; Dene. in DC. Prodr.

vol. viii. p. 535; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. iv. p. 17; Bot. Reg. t. 58.

Asclepias gigantea, Willd. Sp. Pl. p. 1264; Rowb. Fl. Ind. vol. ii. p. 30.

Ericu et Bel-ericu, Rheede Hort. Mal. vol. ii. pp. 52, 56, t. 31.

Both this and C. procera having flowered in the same

month of the same year, I have taken the opportunity of

figuring both in the same number of the Magazine. (C.

gigantea is a much larger coarser plant than C. procera,

and the area it inhabits is much more extended to the east-

ward, reaching China and Borneo. It occurs in waste

places throughout India, from the Panjab and Scinde to

Ceylon and Singapore, often gregariously, and ascends the

Himalayan valleys to 3000 feet elevation. Brandis remarks

of it, that it may be said to belong to the moister districts

of India, and its congener to the drier; but this is only so

far the case that the latter never reaches the more rainy

regions of Bengal and transgangetic India, where C. gigantea

abounds. <A better contrast is afforded by the extra-Indian

distribution of the two; that of C. gigantea being to the

eastward, reaching China, and of CU. procera confined to the

westward, and reaching the Cape de Verd Islands. The

properties of the two are akin, but the strong silky flax

yielded by the inner bark of C. gigantea is finer, and used

for making the robes of native princes, as also for bow-

strings, fishing-lines and nets, for which latter purpose its

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indestructibility in water recommends it. It is also used,

as Mudar, medicinally, and a fine gunpowder charcoal is

made from the wood. Rheede distinguishes a white and

lilac-flowered variety by the colour alone. Roxburgh follows

him in this.

The specimen here figured was raised from seeds sent

from the Kurnod district, Madras, by the Rt. Hon. M. E.

Grant Duff, Governor of Madras, in 1883, which flowered

in June of the present year. According to Aiton, it was

cultivated in the Royal Gardens at Hampton Court as early

as 1690. In India it flowers and fruits all the year round.

Descr. A large shrub, almost a small tree, never leafless,

with a trunk sometimes as thick as the thigh, and spreading

sparingly leafy branches covered with ash-coloured bark ;

shoots, leaves beneath and inflorescence clothed with white

wool, eaves four to six inches long, leathery, pale green,

opposite, decussate, subsessile, obovate or cuneately oblong,

acute or mucronate; base often retuse, ciliate at the inser-

tion of the very short petiole ; sometimes semi-amplexicaul.

Flowers one to one and a half inches in diameter, in simple

or subcorymbose umbels, with very thick peduncles and

pedicels; colours a mixture of white, pale rose-coloured

and lilac, buds ovoid. Sepals small, ovate. Petals broadly

ovate, reflexed and twisted in flower. Staminal column

very large, one-half to two-thirds of an inch long and

almost as broad, between conical and broadly oblong,

rather turgid in the middle, almost truncate at the top,

spurs at the base involute, margins of the appendages

tomentose. Lrwit-follicles three to five inches long, oblong,

recurved, rounded at both ends, pale yellow, bladdery.

Seeds three-quarters of an inch long, with a long silky

coma.—J. D. H.

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ALOE HETERACANTHA,

Native country unknown.

Nat. Ord. Littace2.—Tribe ALOINER.

Genus Atog, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 776.)

ALOE heteracantha ; caule brevissimo simplici, foliis 15-30 dense rosulatis lanceo-

latis pedalibus obscure verticaliter lineatis parce irregulariter albo maculatis

facie seepe lineis 2 elevatis verticalibus percursis margine inermibus vel aculeis

paucis inzequalibus deltoideis armatis, floribus racemoso-paniculatis, pedunculo

valido ancipiti, racemis densis cylindricis, pedicellis flore 2-3-plo brevioribus,

bracteis ovatis pedicello brevioribus, perianthio cylindrico splendide rubro

tubo brevissimo, genitalibus perianthio equilongis.

A. heteracantha, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xviii. p. 161.

This is an Aloe which we have had for a long time at

Kew, but have never before flowered, and of which the

flowers have never been described. Its history is not

clearly known, but it is believed to have been brought from

the Jardin des Plantes at Paris many years ago by Mr.

Cooper. It has been thought that it might be identical

with the Aloe inermis of Forskahl, an inhabitant of Arabia

Felix, but of this no specimens are known to exist, and the

description is extremely incomplete. Mr. Brown tells me

that it has also been flowered at Reigate in the open air by

Mr. Cooper, and that when so grown the leaves are much

smaller than in our plant, and strongly tinted with red-

brown. Our plant was grown under a subtropical tempera-

ture, and the drawing was made in June, 1885.

Drsor. Stem simple, very short. Leaves fifteen to thirty

in a dense rosette, ascending, lanceolate, half to one foot

long, one and a half to two and a half inches broad low

down, narrowed gradually to the concave apex, green or in

exposure tinted with red-brown, obscurely vertically lineate

towards the base, often with a few irregular small whitish

Spots, and often marked down the face with one or two

faint raised vertical ribs, usually furnished with a few ir-

regular spreading deltoid prickles on the margin. Inflores-

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cence three feet high in the specimen drawn, consisting of

three branches; main peduncle very stout, ancipitous, a

foot long below the lowest branch; racemes dense, cylin-

drical, half a foot or a foot long, three inches in diameter ;

pedicels ascending, cernuous at the tip, the lower half or

three-quarters of an inch long ; bracts ovate, acute, shorter

than the pedicels. Perianth cylindrical, an inch and a

quarter or an inch and a half long; tube very short ; outer

segments bright red; inner whitish, with a red keel.

Stamens as long as the perianth; anthers oblong, reddish-

yellow. Style longer than the ampulleform ovary, reaching

to the tip of the perianth-segments.—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, The whole plant, much reduced; 2, leaf, natural size; 3, raceme,

natural size; 4, a single flower; 5, flower, with perianth-segments cut away ;

6 and 7, stamens ; 8, pistil; 9, ovary; 10, horizontal section of ovary :—all more

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COLENSOA puysatorpEs.

Native of New Zealand.

Nat. Ord. CampanvuLace®.—Tribe LoBELIER.

Genus Cotznsoa, Hook.f. ; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 557.)

CotrNsoa physaloides, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. vol. i. p- 157, and Handbook of

New Zeald. Fl. p. 170.

Lobelia physaloides, 4. Cunn. Bot. N. Zeald. in Tayl. Ann. Nat. Hist. vol. ii.

p. 20; DC. Prodr. vol. vii. Addit. p. 785; Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 555.

The natural family of Campanulacee, of which upwards

of thirty species inhabit Australia, is very poorly repre-

sented in New Zealand, where, however, a monotypic

genus, the subject of the present plate, is endemic. ‘This

last in floral characters comes near to Pratia, a genus

found in all three continents of the southern hemisphere,

which extends into tropical Asia, and which differs from

Colensoa in the usually small size and creeping habit of the

Species, their more equal corolla-lobes, and solitary flowers,

and in some or all the anthers being strongly bearded or

terminated by bristles. In other respects Colensoa is a

gigantic Pratia. The name it bears is that of one who

well deserves the name of the patriarch of living New

Zealand Naturalists, W. Colenso, Esq., the friend of Allan

Cunningham, who botanized the Northern Island in 1838,

the companion of Darwin in some of his rambles about the

Bay of Islands in 1835, and the zealous aider of the

Naturalists of the Antarctic Expedition in 1841. Of him

it is written in the Preface to the ‘‘ Handbook of the New

Zealand Flora,’ that ‘during many successive years he

has collected throughout the whole length of the Northern

Island with great care and skill, discovering more rare and

new plants than any botanists since Banks and Solander,”

and that ‘in every respect Mr. Colenso is the foremost

_ New Zealand Botanical Explorer, and the one to whom

_ the author of the Flora of that country is the most indebted

_ MARCH Ist, 1886,

for specimens and observations.” Nor have Mr. Colenso’s

researches been confined to Botany; he was the first to

bring to notice the former existence of the gigantic birds,

the Moas, and his labours in the Language, Ethnology,

Habits, Customs, Arts and Manufactures of the Natives

of New Zealand are no less valuable than are his botanical

ones.

Colensoa is, as far as hitherto known, confined to the

northern parts of the Northern Island of New Zealand,

from Wangaroa to Cape North, where it occurs on the

margins of forests. It was first found by Richard

Cunningham in 1834, who referred it to Lobelia, from

which its fruit abundantly distinguishes it.

The plants here figured were raised at Kew from seeds

sent by Dr. Hector, F.R.S., in 1883, which flowered in

September, 1885, in a cool frame.

Dusor. A stout glabrous simple or sparingly-branched

herb, two to three feet high ; stem succulent, dull purplish,

obtusely angled below. Leaves alternate, petioled, four to

six inches long, ovate or elliptic-ovate, acute, coarsely often

doubly serrate or toothed, bright green, pale beneath;

petiole one to five inches long, slender. Flowers two inches

long, in axillary usually few-flowered (rarely eight to ten-

flowered) racemes, inclined or horizontal ; pedicels a quarter

to haif an inch long, with small scattered subulate bracts.

Calyz-tube hemispheric, obscurely five-furrowed; lobes

subulate, as long as the tube. Corolla very pale blue, two-

hpped, at length split to the base posteriorly, tube very

short; upper lip of two linear erect acuminate lobes ;

lower as long, but much broader, reflexed, oblong, three-

toothed at the tip. Staminal column pubescent; anthers

firmly united, hirsute, tips hardly bearded. Stigma at

first capitate, at length two-lobed. Berry globose, nearly

one inch in diameter, five-lobed, dark blue, thinly fleshy,

crowned with the calyx-lobes. Seeds very numerous,

minute, globose, tuberculate.—J. D. H.

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ments and anthers ; 3, transverse section of fruit; 4, a seed :—adl enlarged.

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JASMINUM ancunare.

Native of South Africa.

Nat. Ord. OLEAcEX.—Tribe JASMINER.

Genus JasmMinuM, Linn, ; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 674.)

JASMINUM angulare; glabrum pubescens v. tomentosum, ramulis ssepe tortuosis

costato-angulatis v. teretiusculis, foliis oppositis 3-foliolatis, foliolis petiolu-

latis ovatis oblongis rotundatis lanceolatisve obtusis subacutis v. mucronatis

coriaceis, basi obtusis acutis rotundatis v. cordatis, pedunculis axillaribus et in

orcheniga terminalem dispositis, trifloris, floribus pedicellatis, calycis tubo

reviter cylindraceo lobis brevibus acutis, corolla alb tubo 3-14 poll. longo

gracili, fauce vix ampliata, lobis 5-7 lineari-oblongis obtusis.

J. angulare, Vahl Symb. vol. iii. P 1, and Enum. vol. i. p. 32; Willd. Sp. Pl.

vol. i. p. 38; DC. Prodr. vol. viii. p. 311.

J. tortuosum, Willd. Enum. Pi. vol. i. p.10; DO. le.

J. flexile, Jacg. Hort. Schoenbr. vol. iv. p. 46, t. 490, non Vahl.

J. campanulatum, Link, Jahrb. vol. i. 3 H. p. 30; Enum, Alt. vol. i. p. 32.

J. capense, Thunb. Prodr. Fl. Cap. p. 2; Fl. Cap. p. 41.

Var. glabratum, E. Mey. in Coll. Drege; DC. l.c.; wholly or nearly glabrous.

Apparently a common Cape plant, with an extended

distribution from the Cape Colony proper eastward to

British Kaffraria and Natal. It was introduced into Euro-

pean Gardens early in the century, being figured in Jacquin’s

noble work on the ‘ Plants of the Imperial Gardens of

Schoenbrunn”’ near Vienna. It is not, however, introduced

into ** Hortus Kewensis,” and the only British-grown speci-

men known to me is that here figured, which was obtained

from the Cape by Mrs. Birks, and flowered in the Cambridge

Botanical Gardens in July of last year. Mr. Lynch, to whom

lam indebted for sending it, informs me that it is extremely

pretty, and adorns a rafter of one of the greenhouses in

the Botanic Gardens. Had it but the odour and hardiness

of the Caucasian J. officinale, it would indeed be an acqui-

sition to our domestic horticulture.

Like all its congeners, J. angulare is an exceedingly

variable plant, and is indeed more so than most; for along

--—s MaRcH Ist, 1886.

with the protean foliage, and length of the corolla-tube,

and size and breadth of its lobes, it varies from being quite

glabrous to softly tomentose with white hairs; and the

calyx-teeth, though usually very short and_ triangular-

subulate, are sometimes narrowly subulate, and as long as

the calyx-tube. Thunberg’s name of capense is most

applicable, but unfortunately a few years later in date than

the much less apposite one of angulare. That J. tortwoswm

is the same thing seems certain; the names have been

promiscuously applied in the collections of Cape Botanists,

and the characters given for the two are not distinctive.

Descr. A slender long branching climber, glabrous,

pubescent or tomentose, or with pubescence confined to

the axils of the leaf-nerves beneath, with green branches

terete below and obtusely or subacutely four- to five-ribbed

rather than angled towards the tips. Leaves opposite,

trifoliolate, green, coriaceous; leaflets petiolulate, one to

two inches long, of all forms between ovate orbicular and

lanceolate, obtuse acute or mucronate; base acute, rounded,

or rarely cordate; petiolules a quarter to one-third of an

inch long; nerves few and slender. Flowers in clusters of

three, which are axillary or disposed in a terminal panicle,

pedicelled, white, inodorous. Calyx one-sixth of an inch

long, cylindric-oblong, with five teeth which are equal to

or shorter than the tube. Corolla white, tube two-thirds

to one and a half inch long, very slender; lobes five to

seven, lanceolate, subacute. Fruit of two globose carpels

the size of a small pea.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Portion of base of leaflet, seen from beneath, showing tuft of hairs in

axils of leaf-nerves ; 2, section of branchlet; 3, calyx and style; 4, portion of

corolla and stamen:—all enlarged,

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SOLANUM TRILOBATUM.

Native of the East Indies.

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Nat. Ord. Sotanacex.—Tribe SonanEex.

Genus Sotanum, Linn.; (Benth, et Hook. S. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 888.)

Sotanum trilobatum ; suffrutex subscandens, stellatim tomentellus, demum glaber,

ramis flexuosis tenuibus rigidiusculis petiolisque aculeis validis recurvis

armatis, foliis subremotis petiolatis ovatis rotundatis oblongisve obtusis in-

zqualiter sinuato-3-5-lobatis, eymis lateralibus axillaribus et terminalibus

paucifloris, pedicellis gracilibus eiongatis, calycis lobis parvis, corolle ample

violaceze v. albz lobis ovatis obtusis, bacca globosa rubra calyce immutato

suffulta, seminibus levibus.

8. trilobatum, Linn. Sp. Pi. p. 188; Burm. Fl. Ind. p. 57, t. 22; Roxb. Fl. Ind.

vol. i. p. 571; Ait. Hort. Kew, ed. 2, vol. i. p. 405; Dunal Solan. p. 225,

2 and in DC. Prodr. vol. xiii. pt. 1, p. 287; Wight Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 854;

1 Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. iv. p. 236.

. 8. acetosefolium, Lamk. Dict. vol. iv. p. 306; Dunal Solan. p. 226.

8. canaranum, Mig. Pl. Exsicc. Hohenack., No. 740.

It is rather remarkable that this very common and really

ornamental Indian plant should not have been figured in any

English work, though introduced into cultivation a hundred

_ and thirty years ago. It isenumeratedin Miller’s ‘Gardener's

Dictionary,” and in the “ Hortus Kewensis,” which gives

the date of its cultivation in Miller’s garden as 1759.

Tt is a very common plant in rubbishy places of the Western

Peninsula of India and in Ceylon, growing prostrate and

also ascending bushes for several feet by its hooked prickles.

In the Eastern Peninsula it is found from Arracan to

Malacca, in tidal swamps, and it occurs also in China.

Roxburgh, who gives an excellent description of it, says

that the leaves are a favourite pot-herb of the Telingas in

the Northern Circars.

The plant figured was raised from seed sent from Madras

by the Rt. Hon. M. E. Grant Duff, Governor of Madras,

and flowered in September.

_ Desscr. A prostrate rambling or climbing nearly gla-

-brous undershrub. Stem two to five feet high, slender,

- MARCH Isr, 1886.

woody, terete, rigid, sparingly or copiously branched,

armed with stout recurved prickles, as are the petioles,

midrib and sometimes the nerves of the leaf beneath, and

often the peduncles. Leaves alternate, one to three inches

long, long-petioled, oblong rounded or ovate, obtusely un-

equally sinuately three- to five-lobed, smooth, shining, green

on both surfaces. Peduneles usually leaf-opposed, but

sometimes terminal from the arrest of a terminal bud,

rarely axillary, solitary or accompanied by a single flowered

pedicel, three- to six-flowered; peduncles and _ pedicels

slender. Calyx small, green; lobes ovate, subacute.

Corolla one to one and three-quarters of an inch broad,

usually violet blue, but sometimes, according to Roxburgh,

white; lobes ovate-oblong obtuse, midrib of each lobe

white at the base, giving a stellate appearance to the base

of the corolla. Stamens large, golden yellow. Berry glo-

bose, the size of a large pea, smooth, scarlet.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower with the corolla removed; 2, stamen; 3, pistil :—adZ enlarged.

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ECHINOCACTUS Joapir.

Native of Uruguay ?

Nat. Ord. CacteEm.—Tribe EcHINocACTER.

Genus Ecainocactus, Link and Otto; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. i.

p. 348.)

Ecurnocactus Joadii; parvulus, depresso-globosus, vertice alte depressus, lete

viridis, costis ad 20 § poll. latis crenato-areolatis areolis (crenisve) subdepresso

mammilleformibus apice rotundatis levibus, spinis intercrenalibus 15-25

exterioribus inzquilongis gracillimis erecto-patentibus albis, 1-4 centralibus

fere duplo longioribus et fortioribus rubris porrectis, perianthio infaundibulari

2-3 poll. lato, tubo 1§ poll. longo squamis perplurimis arcte imbricatis dense

obtecto, squamis oblongis § poll. longis apice pilis longis tortis crinitis, apice

squamula lanceolata setisque 8-10 erecto-patentibus rubris instructis, sepalis

petalisque perplurimis pluriseratis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis pallide aureis,

antheris minutis, stigmatibus 10-12 erectis coccineis.

This beautiful species was in the rich collection bequeathed

to the Royal Gardens by the late Mr. Joad, of Wimbledon,

bearing the name of H. mammulosus, from the description

of which, however, it widely differs. In form, size, number

of ribs and their lobing into mammilla, it agrees with that

Species, but the spines are far more numerous, more

slender, none of them are flattened, and the inner ones are

not deflexed. Mr. N. E. Brown, who has paid a good deal

of attention to these plants, and has helped me in the

determination of this, regards the species with recurved

flattened inner spines as forming a very distinct group

from those which, like H. Joadii, have perfectly terete

slender straight ones. The difficulty of naming these

Cacti from descriptions is so great, that it is with great

hesitation that I put this forward as a new species; but —

no other course presents itself. H. concinnus, figured at

_p. 551 of the second edition of “ Forster’s Cacteen,” and.

‘which is always placed next to H. mammulosus, strongly

_ resembles this in form, habit, and in the disposition of the

spines, but it has fewer broader ribs, only twelve to fourteen

spines in a group, and has lanceolate scales in the perianth-

_ MARCH Ist, 1886.

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tube. It must, however, be a very near ally. As both

E. mammulosus and concinnus are natives of Uruguay, I

have doubtfully assumed LH. Joadii to be a countryman of

those species.

Descor. Plant two and a half inches in diameter, depressed

globose, with a sunken crown, green, glabrous, except a

the spine-bases. ibs about twenty, vertical, rounded,

crenately lobed into low rounded mammille, which are

most prominent towards the crown of the plant. Spines

in groups of fifteen to twenty-five, sunk in the crenatures,

with a small tuft of pale hairs at their bases; all very

slender, terete and quite straight, outer a quarter to one-

third of an inch long, erecto-patent, very unequal, pale; inner

one to three inner three-quarters of an inch long, stouter,

red, quite horizontal or the upper erect. lower two

inches long by two and a half in diameter. Perianth funnel-

shaped; tube one and a half inch long, densely clothed

with short imbricating oblong scales with rounded tips, each

crowned with a lanceolate scale and eight to ten slender

red spines, all surrounded at the base by a tuft of long

curly hairs. Sepals and petals together in several series,

lanceolate acuminate, golden yellow. Anthers very small.

Stigmas ten to twelve, erect, bright red.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Tuft of spines ; 2, scale from tube of perianths ; 3, stamens; 4, stigmas :—

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ECHIUM CANDICANS.

Native of Madeira.

Nat. Ord. Boraainex.—Tribe Borage.

Genus Ecuivum, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 863.)

Ecuivum candicans; fruticosum, cano-hirsutum v. virescens, caule elato robusto

ramoso, ramis crassis apices versus foliosis, foliis caulinis pedalibus lanceolatis,

infra-floralibus multo minoribus confertis subulato-lanceolatis erectis v. paten-

tibus, panicula elongato-oblonga ramulis perplurimis gracilibus patulis, floribus

sessilibus, sepalis linearibus subacutis, corolle pallide azurex lobis late ovatis

obtusis, staminibus longe exsertis, stylo piloso ramis brevibus.

E. candicans, Linn. f. Suppl. Pl. p. 181; Jacg. Collect. vol. i. p. 44; Ic. Pl.

Rar. vol. i. t. 30.

E, fastuosum, Jacq. fil. Eclog. t. 41, not of Aiton.

This noble plant belongs to a group of the genus, in-

habiting Madeira and the Canary Islands, all the species of

which are so imperfectly characterized that I am in great

doubt as to the name it should bear. Of these species two

or more appear to be variously described under the names

of H. candicans, Jacq., fastuosum, Ait., fastuosum, Jacq. fil.,

nervosum, Ait., and virescens, DC. It is uncertain whether

all are Madeiran or some only, or all or some Canarian

also. All are founded on cultivated specimens. In the

hope that by shortly giving their history and the characters

attributed to them the attention of horticulturists may be

directed to the subject, I shall here do so.

In 1781 the younger Linneus published FH. candicans,

from specimens brought by Masson from Madeira; and in

1786 the elder Jacquin figured it from a young and im-

perfectly developed specimen with an unformed panicle of

very pale blue flowers in the Schoenbrunn Gardens; adding

in the description that after six years the plant becomes

‘subarboreous and bears a much longer and broader panicle.

In 1793 he more fully described it in his ‘ Collectanea,”

erroneously giving ‘Teneriffe (Masson) as the native

country. He was followed by Aiton, who in 1789

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describes it as introduced from Madeira in 1777; and so

matters rested till 1810, when the new edition of ‘* Hortus

Kewensis”’ appeared, wherein are described the above-

mentioned EH. candicans, Jacq., H. fastwoswm, Ait., from the

Canaries (Masson), with a cylindric raceme and acute sepals,

and H. nervoswm, Ait., from Madeira (Masson, 1877), with

ovate raceme and subobtuse sepals.

In 1811 the younger Jacquin in his “ Ecloge”’ figured,

also under the name of H. fastwoswm, a plant which he says

appeared amongst the pots of H. candicans in the Schoen-

brunn Gardens, and differs from it; but he does not say

how. It is evidently not Aiton’s ZL. fastwosum, having a

large broad panicle of pale blue flowers.

De Candolle in 1813, in the Catalogue of the Montpellier

Garden, has candicans as a Madeiran plant of Aiton’s in

the list (p. 25), but attributes it to Linn. fil. in his “* Adno-

tationes”” (p. 108), and describes it as having a spiciform

panicle and intense blue-purple flowers. He also describes

fi. virescens, DC., from Teneriffe, to which he refers L.

candicans of the elder Jacquin, but not of Linn. fil.; it too

has a spiciform panicle and bright blue corollas with white

lines at the base. of

In 1815 an H.. candicans is figured by Edwardes in the a

Botanical Register (vol. i. t. 44) with a compact cylindric -

spiciform panicle, and small bilabiate corollas with rounded

lobes, the two upper small and blue, the’ three lower white.

Lehman, in his “Plant. Asperif.” (1818), describes candi-

cans, Linn. fil., Jacquin and Aiton, as a Madeiran plant

with a conical panicle, oblong acute sepals and blue corolla;

and fastuosum, Jacq. fil. (candicans, DC.), native country

unknown, as differing from candicans, Linn. fil., in its

broader more hirsute ciliate less white leaves, large ovate

_thyrse, dense spikelets and lanceolate sepals.

Webb in “Hist. Nat. Ins. Canaries” (1845?) retains

virescens, DC., referring to it HE. candicans, Jacq., and

doubtfully, H. fastuosum, Jacq. fil.; he says it differs from

candicans, Linn. fil., in the short subvelvety pubescence, and

that: it is found on the Mountains of Orotava only.

De Candolle in the Prodromus (1846) describes candicans,

Linn. fil. and Jacq. Pl. Rar., with virescens, DC., as a

synonym, as with a lax panicle and corollas white or blue

with white lines; and fustwosum, Jacq. fil. Eclog. (with

nervosum, Ait., and candicans, DC. Cat. Hort. Monsp., as

synonyms), as having a spiciform cylindric panicle and

splendidly blue flowers, which is the reverse of Jacquin’s

character and figure. ,

Lastly Carriere figures, in the “‘ Revue Horticole ” (1876,

p- 10), as the Madeiran H. fastuoswm, Jacq., a plant with a

dense spiciform cylindric panicle of the deepest gentian-

blue corollas having broad short retuse lobes.

There are two other authorities for EH. candicans,

Lamarck’s “ Encycloped.” t. 94, which is altogether bad

and unrecognizable, and Savi’s “Flora Italiana,” vol. ii.

t. 91, a work I have not seen.

Referring to Herbarium specimens, the counterpart of

the plant here figured is from Madeira, named, apparently

by Webb, (wrongly) “ H. nervosum, Ait., HE. fastuosum, DC.

Prodr.,” and there are other specimens both from Madeira

and the Canaries named candicans and virescens differing

very slightly, and chiefly in the more cylindric panicle.

There are also specimens with the spiciform panicle of

dense blue flowers named by Lowe JL. candicans, from the

Waterfall, alt. 3000 ft.

The plant here figured was received from Sir G. Macleay,

and flowered, when three feet in height, in April, 1885. <A

very similar one has been long in cultivation in the Tem-

perate House, but I am not aware of its origin; it forms a

bush six feet high with an arboreous trunk and foliage of

a green colour when fresh, but hoary-white when dry, and

flowers in spring.—J. D. H.

_ Fig. 1, Reduced view of whole plant; 2, leaves, and 3, panicle of the natural

size; 4, flower-bud ; 5, stamens; 6, ovary:—all enlarged.

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IRIS Barront.

Native of Afghanistan.

Nat. Ord. IntpEx.—Tribe MorzeEz.

Genus Iris, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pi. vol. iii. p. 686.)

Iris (Pogoniris) Bartoni ; rhizomate carnoso breviter repente, foliis ensiformibus

bipedalibus lwte viridibus apice scariosis, pedunculo oligocephalo foliis

subequilongo, spathe valvis exterioribus magnis divergentibus diutine

viridibus, floribus 2-3-nis magnis albidis suaveolentibus breviter pedicellatis,

ovario oblongo-trigono vix sulcato, perianthii tubo infundibulari viridulo

any segmentis exterioribus obovatis unguiculatis infra medium reflexis

rba elongata albo-aurantiaca decoratis venis facialibus luteo-viridibus inferi-

oribus purpurascentibus, segmentis interioribus erectis exterioribus vix mino-

ribus ungui angustiori purpureo venoso facie barbato, stigmatis cristis magnis

deltoideis, antheris magnis albis.

I. Bartoni, Foster in Gard. Chron. N.§. vol. xix. p. 275 (1883).

This is a new species of the group of German Irises, for

the introduction of which into cultivation we are indebted

to Professor Mickael Foster. Let me take the present

opportunity of saying how glad I am that a biologist with

his training and experience has made a speciality of the

genus in the only way in which it is possible to investigate

properly the relationship of the complicated series of forms

to one another, by cultivating them side by side, and on

_ this basis attempting to work out their life history and

mutual affinities. It was procured ina garden at Kandahar,

during the occupation of that city by our troops in 1880,

and was sent home by Colonel Barton, after whom it was

named, and who was informed by a native gardener that it

was brought from a ditch not far distant. Of the well-

own old European types it comes nearest to I. florentina,

from which it differs in the colouring and veining of its

perianth-segments, and especially in the claw of the inner

Segments being bearded, and in the very large divergent

outer spathe-valves, which remain green for some time after

the flowers have faded. Our drawing was made from

Specimens sent up by Mr. R. J. Lynch, from a plant grown

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in the Cambridge Botanic Garden. It flowers at the

beginning of June. -

Drscr. Rhizome thick and fleshy, resembling that of

I. florentina. Leaves ensiform, pale green, a foot and a

half long, one and a half or two inches broad, strongly

ribbed, narrowed gradually to a scariose tip. Pedunele

slightly overtopping the leaves, usually once forked. -

Flowers two or three in a cluster, creamy white, strongly

scented ; pedicels very short; outer spathe-valves oblong-

navicular, four or four and a half inches long. Ovary

oblong-trigonous, above an inch long; perianth-tube infun-

_ dibuliform, greenish, an inch long; outer segments obovate,

unguiculate, three and a half or four inches long, an inch

and a half broad, reflexing from below the middle, the

veins of the face greenish-yellow, of the claw violet-purple ;

beard extending considerably beyond the claw, the hairs of

the upper part pure white, of the lower tipped with orange-

yellow ; inner segments erect, obovate-unguiculate, scarcely

smaller than the outer, veined with purple and bearded

down the face of the claw. Crests of the stigma large,

deltoid, irregularly toothed on the outer margin. Anthers

large, pure white.—J. G. Baker.

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CACCINIA arauca.

Native of Persia and Affghanistan.

: Nat. Ord. Boracinrm.—Tribe Boracex.

Genus Caccin1A, Savi; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 846.)

Cacctnta glauca; herba perennis, glauca, subcarnosa, sparse tuberculata, foliis

breviter petiolatis elliptico-oblongis aculeolato-denticulatis, calycis floriferi

segmentis oblongis denticulatis, corolle tubo calyce paullo longiore, lobis

oblongo-lanceolatis, antheris 3 minutis quarta multo majore lineari, calyce

fructifero crasse pedicellato obconico, lobis denum late explanatis triangularibus,

nuculis magnis disco planiusculis marginibus denticulatis.

C. glauca, Savi Cos. Bot. i. t. 1, ex Alph. DC. Prodr. x. 166; Boiss. Fl. Orient.

iv. 277; Gard. Chron, 1883, ii. 173, fig. 27.

C. Celsii, Boiss. Diagn. Ser. i. 11. 133.

Borrago crassifolia, Vent. Hort. Cels. t. 100.

Jt is not without hesitation that I refer this singular-

looking plant to OC. glauca, from the description and plates

of which it differs in the racemose inflorescence, the broader

flowering calyx-lobes, and the much shorter corolla-tube

and shorter broader corolla-lobes; but it seems nearer

to that species than to any other, and Boissier describes

C. glauca as varying in the length of the corolla-tube

in relation to the calyx. The other species of the same

section, of which four are described, all differ much more

in various characters. The genus is a small one, confined

to Western Asia, and extending from Armenia to Affghanis-

tan. C. glauca is abundant in the latter country and in

Northern Persia, ascending the mountains to 5000 feet.

It has been cultivated in France ever since the beginning

of this century.

_ The specimen here figured has for some years been cul-

tivated at Kew; it flowered in the open air in the Royal

Gardens in 1880, and has annually since. : ;

‘Descr. A glaucous, rather fleshy, pale, perennial-rooted

herb, one to three feet high, branched from the base, erect,

aringly scabrid with distant tubercles or small prickles

and pale depressed warts. Stem below as thick as the

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thumb, terete, very smooth. Leaves four to eight inches

long, shortly petioled, or the upper sessile, elliptic-oblong

with rounded tips, sparsely tubercled, very pale green,

margins with short prickle-like teeth, midrib very stout.

Flowers in racemose cymes; bracts leafy. Calyz-lobes (in

flower) oblong, greenish brown, margins everted, serrulate.

Corolla-tube not exserted, lobes half an inch long, oblong-

lanceolate, violet-blue, turning red. Stamens four, on the

mouth of the corolla, three very small; fourth much larger,

with a long narrow anther which is longer than the

filament. Srwiting pedicels elongate, much thickened,

echinate; fruiting calyx (before ripening) broadly obconic,

one inch in diameter, lobes closing over the carpels with

es iatene everted, forming acutely-toothed wings.—

Fig. 1, Vertical section of flower, of natural size ; 2, portion of corolla and two

stamens ; 3, stigma; 4, section of unripe nuculi:—all enlarged.

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EOMECON CHIONANTHA,

Native of China.

Nat. Ord. PapavERACEx.—Tribe EvPAPAVERER.

Genus Eomecoy, Hance in Journ, Bot, vol. xxii. (1884) p. 376.

EomeEcon chionantha; herba glaberrima, rhizomate perenni, succo croceo, foliis

radicalibus longe petiolatis late cordiformibus sinuatis palmatinerviis subtus

dealbatis, petiolo terete, scapis gracilibus elongatis apice ramosis, floribus 2

poll. diametr., pedicellis elongatis basi bracteatis, bracteis parvis lanceolatis,

sepalis in spatham cymbiformem membranaceam caducam confluentibus, petalis

4 amplis albis, staminibus numerosis, ovario oblongo, stylo valido elongato,

stigmate breviter 2-lobo lobis erectis, placentis 2 polyspermis, capsula stipi-

tata a basi ad apicem 2-valvi, seminibus tuberculatis.

E. chionantha, Hance 7. ¢. et vol. xiv. (1845) p, 255.

A beautiful monotypic genus of Papaveracee, inter-

mediate, as its author Dr. Hance observes, between Stylo-

phorum and Sanguinaria, differing from both in the scapose

habit, racemose flowers, and sepals confluent in a mem-

branous boat-shaped spathe, and further from Stylophorum

in the form of the leaves and colour of the flowers; and

from Sanguinaria in the four petals, elongate style, and

stigmatic lobes alternating with the placentas. It was

discovered by the Rev. B. C. Henry on the banks of

rivers in the province of Kwangsi, to the westward of

Canton, according to Dr. Hance, whose description of the

fruit is given above. It is probably half hardy, having

flowered in a frame in the Royal Gardens in September

last, the plants having been sent by Mr. Ford, Superinten-

dent of the Hong Kong Botanical Gardens, where it fruited

in the spring of last year.

Descr. Rootstock perennial, as thick as the fore-finger,

creeping and ascending, clothed with the membranous

bases of the sheaths of the petiole, abounding in yellow

sap. Leaves all radical, long-petioled, three to six inches

long, broadly cordiform with a very deep closed or open

sinus, concave, thinly coriaceous, margin broadly sinuate,

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apex rounded; nerves one medial and three to five slender

pair radiating from the top of the petiole; upper surface

bright pale green, lower subglaucous; petiole six to eight

inches long, slender, with a narrowly sheathing base.

Scape a foot or more high, erect, terete, reddish, subpani-

culately branched above ; bracts at the base of the branches

a quarter of an inch long, lanceolate, membranous. [lowers

terminating the branches, erect, two inches in diameter;

pedicel slender, one to two inches long; buds ovoid, acute,

erect. Sepals combined into a boat-shaped membranous

subacute caducous delicately-nerved green spathe. Petals

four, nearly orbicular, pure white, concave, spreading,

nerves very faint. Stamens numerous; anthers linear,

yellow, as long as the slender filament. Ovary ovoid, with

two opposite thick ribs, narrowed into a stout style with a

two-lobed stigma, lobes erect; ovules very numerous, on

two parietal placentas. Capsule oblong, stipitate, dehis-

cing from the base to the apex, the valves separating from

the replum but remaining attached to it at the top. Seeds

oblong, testa crustaceous, tubercled.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Calyx; 2, stamen; 3, ovary; 4, transverse section of ditto :—all enlarged.

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VACCINIUM Mortinta.

Native of the Andes of Ecuador.

Nat. Ord. VacctnracE®.—Tribe Evvacctniex.

Genus Vaccinium, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 573.)

Vaccinium (Vitis idea) Mortinia ; frutex ramosissimus, foliosus, ramulis pubes-

centibus, foliis }-pollicaribus breviter petiolatis ovatis v. ovato-oblongis -lanceo-

latisve acutis cartilagineo-serrulatis epunctatis costa petiolisque puberulis,

nervis obscuris, racemis axillaribus folio paulo longioribus, floribus congestis

cernuis, calycis lobis late ovatis obtusis acutis acuminatisve, corolla rosea

oblongo-urceolata 5-dentata, filamentis hirsutis antheris quilongis, bacca

globosa.

V. Mortinia, Benth. Plant. Hartweg. p. 221.

A native of the Andes of Ecuador and New Grenada,

ascending to an elevation of 11,000 feet on Pichincha,

where it was discovered by Hartweg when collecting for

the Royal Horticultural Society, and has been subsequently

collected by Spruce, Jameson and others. What appears

to be the same plant has been gathered in the Cordillera

of Peru by Lechler (No. 2213), and on the Sierra Nevada

of Santa Martha in New Grenada by Purdie, who describes

it as reaching the snow-line. It is known by the native

name of Mortina, under which the fruit is brought to the

market of Quito. Hartweg describes it as more acid thaa

that of V. Myrtillus.

Like most of the Andean plants from great elevations,

V. Mortinia is probably only half hardy. The plant culti-

vated at Kew was received from Mr. Max Leichtlin in 1884,

and flowered in a cool greenhouse in April, 1885. From

specimens in the Kew Herbarium, the late Mr. Isaac

_ Anderson Henry seems also to have had it in cultivation in

1870, no doubt raised from seeds sent by his correspondent

Dr. Jameson. :

Descr. A small woody densely-branched leafy shrub,

two to three feet high; branches pubescent with short

hairs or nearly glabrous, the lower stout, upper slender.

aPEit Isr, 1886,

Leaves rather crowded, one-half to three-quarters of an inch

long, spreading and reflexed, oblong-ovate or -lanceolate or

ovate, acute, very thickly coriaceous with cartilaginous sub-

serrate margins, convex when dry, with recurved margins,

not punctate beneath; petiole very short and midrib above

towards the base usually puberulous, nerves very obscure.

Flowers in very short drooping racemes, crowded, shortly

pedicelled ; pedicels with two small opposite concave ovate

bracteoles. Calyx-tube short; lobes broadly ovate, obtuse

acute or acuminate. Corolla one-third of an inch long, rose-

pink ; tube cylindric-oblong or -urceolate, terete, quite gla-

brous, not ribbed; teeth five, small, recurved. Stamens wholly

included, filaments slender as long as the anthers, hirsute

with long hairs; anther-tubes as long as the cells, which

latter are very membranous and dehisce along the margins

exposing the pollen. Fruit like that of the V. Myrtillus,

acid.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Leaf; 2, flower; 3 and 4, stamens; 5, ovary; 6, transverse section of

ditto :—all enlarged,

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TRICHOSANTHES parmata.

Native of India.

Nat. Ord. CucurBiTracEx.—Tribe CUcUMERINES.

Genus Tr1cHosantueEs, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 821.)

TRIcHOsANTHES palmata; herba alte scandens, glabra pubescens v. ramulis foliis-

_ que minute tuberculata, caule angulato, foliis petiolatis palmatim 5-7-lobatis

v. -angulatis dentatis, angulis lobisve acutis v. obtusis sinubus interdum

profundis, floribus masculis amplis albis in racemum elongatum dispositis,

bracteis magnis vaginantibus ovatis obovatisve basi angustatis integris serratis

v. fimbriatis, sepalis dentatis serratis laceratis v. subpinnatifidis, corolle seg-

mentis cuneatis margine exteriore fimbriato, fructu globoso rubro aureo fasciato,

seminibus numerosis obiongis marginibus obtusis.

T. palmata, Rorb. Fl. Ind. vol. iii. p. 704; Wight and Arn. Prodr. p. 350;

Wight Lil. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 104, 105; Dalz. and Gibs. Bomb. Fl. p. 103;

Clarke in Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. ii. p. 606. :

T. laciniosa, Wall. Cat. 6689.

T. tricuspis, Miguel Fl. Ind. Bat. vol. i. pt. 1, p. 679.

T. bracteata, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1877, pt. 2, p. 99.

Invotucrartra Wallichii, Seringe in DC. Prodr. vol. iii. p. 318.

It is remarkable that this, which is one of the commonest

and most conspicuous plants of India, should not have been

figured in any work devoted to garden plants; and this

though its seeds, like others of the family to which it

belongs, long retain their vitality, and are certain to

germinate, and though its culture is easy, its foliage

Striking, and its scarlet fruit with golden stripes as con-

Spicuous and beautiful as are its snow-white flowers, fringed

hke a parasol, with filaments of exquisite delicacy. It

been grown at Kew at various times within the last

twenty years, but as it is not included in the second

edition of Aiton’s ‘“‘ Hortus Kewensis” (published in 1813),

it must be regarded as a comparatively modern introduction.

According to Mr. Clarke, who monographed the Cucur-

bitacee of India for the “Flora of British India,”

T. palmata is a very variable plant, having large acutely

angular glabrous leaves and large flowers with long fimbriz

_ MaY Isr, 1886.

sins Ti ah et ct

to the corolla in moist woods, but much smaller deeply-

lobed leaves covered with minute warts on both surfaces,

and smailer flowers with shorter fimpriz in drier and more

open places. There is further great variation in the form

size and cutting of the bracts, in the number of male

flowers in a raceme, and in the form and cutting of the

sepals, which are sometimes entire ovate-lanceolate and

acuminate, at others toothed or serrate, or, as in the form

here figured, dilated and pinnatifidly lacerate. Lastly the

whole plant may be glabrous or more or less pubescent.

Amid all these variations, however, the fruit and seeds are,

as far as is known, constant in form, size, colour, and all

other characters.

T'. palmata occurs all over India, from the Western

Himalaya eastward to Assam, and southward to Malabar,

Ceylon and Singapore; it is also a native of the Malay

Archipelago, China, Japan and North Australia. The

Kew plants were raised from seeds sent from the Calcutta

Botanical Gardens, which flowered in the Water-lily House

in March, 1882. The flowers open in the evening, for one

night only, and are sweet-scented. The following descrip-

tion applies to the large forest form here figured.

- Desor. A tall glabrous rambling climber, with long

angular branches, which hang down for many feet from

the branches of forest trees. Leaves four to eight inches

long and broad, membranous, broadly ovate, palmately five-

to seven-angled, tip and angles acuminate, bright green

above with sunk nerves; petiole stout, two to four inches

long; tendrils stout, two-fid or three-fid. Flowers dicecious,

male in stoutly-peduncled axillary racemes three to six

inches long, solitary, or rarely with a smaller few-flowered

second; female fi. solitary, axillary. Bracts one and a

half inch long or less, ovate, boat-shaped and sheathing,

often bearing large black glands. Calyz-tube short; lobes

lacerate, spreading. Corolla four inches in diameter eX-

cluding the fimbriz, pure white. Fruit globose, one and a

quarter to two inches in diameter, scarlet with ten orange

stripes. Seeds very many, nearly one-third of an inch long,

imbedded in green pulp.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Calyx; 2, anthers :—doth enlarged.

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GENTIANA Bicetovit.

Vative of New Mewico.

Nat. Ord. GENTIANE®.—Tribe SwERTIE.

Genus GenTrana, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 815.)

GeEyTiana (Pneumonanthe) Bigelovii; caulibus e radice perennante adscenden-

tibus pedalibus teretibus foliosis subscaberulis, foliis sessilibus lineari-oblongis

obtusis v. subacutis coriaceis 1-nerviis supremis flores longe superantibus,

floribus axillaribus in spicas foliosas elongatas dispositis, calycis scaberuli

lobis 5 angustis tubo cylindraceo tereti paullo brevioribus, corolle

violaceze tubo cylindraceo lobis brevibus ovatis subacutis erecto-patentibus

dorso lineis crenulatis in tubum decurrentibus notatis, lobulis accessoriis

bipartitis segmentis subulatis, antheris cordatis, capsule stipite brevi fistuloso,

seminibus anguste alatis.

G. Bigelovii, Gray in Proc. Amer. Acad. vol. xix. p. 86; Synopt. Fl. of N.

Am., Gamopet. p. 406.

G. affinis, Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound, p. 157.

Dr. Gray, the author of this species, remarks that it had

long passed as an extreme form of (. affinis, but that “ it

decisively differs by its oblong rather than funnel-form

corolla with shorter lobes, and by the salient crenulate or

roughened ridges which in the bud externally border the

infolded plicze; the stipe (of the capsule) is shorter and

broader, and completely fistulous, so that some of the

seeds fall into it—even to the bottom.” The two species

are indeed very near, and meet (if they do not cross) at

the limits of their areas of distribution in Colorado. Our

numerous specimens of affine may, however, be distinguished

at first sight by the shorter and comparatively broader

leaves, especially the floral ones, the usually more

capitate inflorescence (though in some forms this is

spicate), and the upper leaves rarely exceeding the flowers.

The crenulate ridges on the corolla externally seem to

afford a very constant character in G. Bigelovii, as does

the stipes of the capsule. In the form of the corolla and

length of its lobes I recognize no material difference

between the two. G. affinis varies much in the size and

MAy Ist, 1886.

breadth of corolla, and that of the cultivated specimens of

G. Bigelovii is larger than in native ones.

G. Bigelovii is a native of the Rocky Mountains from

Colorado to New Mexico and Arizona, in the latter

country ascending to 9000 feet. The plants from which

our figure was made were raised from seed sent by Dr.

Parry some years ago; it flowers in the rock-garden in

August annually, being perfectly hardy.

Duscr. Rootstock stout, woody, giving off ascending

simple terete subscaberulous purplish-green stems, twelve

to sixteen inches high and leafy to the top. Leaves

crowded, one to two inches long, sessile, spreading and

recurved, linear-oblong or the upper quite linear, obtuse

or subacute, coriaceous, one-nerved, margin obscurely

scabrid, lower shorter broader, upper exceeding the

flowers. Flowers axillary, sessile, forming a leafy spike;

bracteoles linear. Calyx-tube cylindric, terete, red-purple ;

lobes very narrow, erect, linear or subulate, rather shorter

than the tube, reaching about the middle of the corolla-

tube, scaberulous. Corolla about one inch long, violet,

tube cylindric funnel-shaped, much longer than the short

broadly ovate obtuse or acute erecto-patent lobes, which

are marked on the back with two crenulate ridges that

run down the upper part of the tube; accessory lobules

bipartite; segments subulate, half the length of lobes.

Filaments flattened except towards the tip; anthers short,

cordate. Ovary turgid in the middle, narrowed upwards

to the obscure stigmas. Capsule on a short stout hollow

stipes. Seeds minute, oblong, flattened with a narrow

wing.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Calyx and bracteoles; 2, portion of corolla laid open; 3, stamen; 4,

ovary :—all enlarged.

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HAIMANTHUS Bavrit.

Native of Kaffraria.

Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDEZ.—Tribe AMARYLLER.

Genus Hamantuvs, Linn.; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 730.)

HzmantTuvs (Diacles) Bawrii ; bulbo oblongo compresso tunicis crassis truncatis

viridibus, foliis 2 patulis orbicularibus facie glabris margine ciliatis, pedunculo

brevissimo occulto, umbello denso multifloro pedicellis brevissimis vel subnullis,

bracteis exterioribus obovato-cuneatis membranaceis albidis imbricatis pubes-

centibus floribus longioribus, perianthio albo tubo subcylindrico, segmentis

oblanceolatis tubo longioribus, staminibus segmentis equilongis antheris parvis

oblongis citrinis, stylo apice stigmatoso tricuspidato.

This is one of those curious dwarf fleshy-leaved

Hzmanthi which are one of the many strange botanical

types characteristic of the interior sterile regions of Cape

Colony. It has not yet been published or described, but

we received dried specimens as long ago as 1874 from its

discoverer, the Rev. R. Baur, a Moravian missionary, who

during the last twenty years has added greatly to our

knowledge of the botany of Kaffraria. He collected it at

Shawbury, in Transkeian Kaffraria, at an elevation of 1500

feet above sea-level, flowering in June. Now through

Professor Macowan it has been introduced in a living

state, and our drawing was made from a plant that

flowered at Kew in November, 1885. It is allied to the

well-known 4H. albiflos of Jacquin, to H. deformis, Hook.

fil. in Bor. Mac. t. 5908, and to H. Arnottii, Baker in

“Gard. Chron.” N. §. vol. x. p. 492. We have also a

Specimen received from the late Mr. Wilson Saunders,

F.R.S., in 1878. as

Descr. Bulb oblong, compressed, three or four inches

the long diameter; tunics thick, green, truncate. Pro-

duced leaves two, contemporary with the flowers, fleshy,

Spreading, suborbicular, about half a foot long, and seven

_ or eight inches broad when fully developed, glabrous on

the surface, persistently ciliated on the margin. Pedunele

very short, compressed, glabrous, hidden by the base of

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the leaves. Umbel dense, many-flowered, about two inches

in diameter; pedicels at most very short; outer bracts ©

obovate-cuneate, membranous, pubescent, white with |

a slight green tinge, much imbricated, truncate or

emircinate. Ovary oblong, green. Perianth pure white,

above an inch long; tube subcylindrical, shorter than the —

oblanceolate segments. Stamens as long as the perianth- _

segments; anthers small, oblong, lemon-yellow. Style —

minutely tricuspidate at the apex.—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, A flower; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, istil ; 5, apex of style; 6, horizontal

section of ovary :—all more or less se And 2 :

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CYPRIPEDIUM Gopzrroy2.

Native of Siam.

Nat. Ord, Orcn1pex.—Tribe CypripEDIER.

Genus Cyprrpepium, Linn; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 634.)

CypriPepium Godefroye ; humile, foliis 6-8 glabris omnibus radicalibus distichis

patenti-recurvis coriaceis lineari-oblongis acutis obtusis v. apice subbidentatis,

supra lete viridibus albo irroratis, subtus luride purpureis virescenti-irroratis,

scapis brevissimis 1-2-floris ovarioque tomentosis, bractea cucullata foliacea,

floribus albis purpureo-punctatis, sepalo dorsali rotundato-cordiformi puberulo

obtuso, lateralibus in laminam oblongam dorso villosam sepalo dorsali multo

minorem confluentibus, petalis latissime ovato-oblongis obtusis sepalo dorsali

majoribus, labello subcylindraceo ore subcontracto, staminodio punctato parvo

oblongo-quadrato apice 3 dentato.

C. Godefroy, Godefr. Bebeuf, Orchidophile, No. 31, t. 830; Moore, Florist and

Pomologist, 1884, 37, with fig.; The Garden, vol. xxv. p. 396 with fig. ;

Warner and Williams, Orchid. Album, vol. iv. t. 177; D’ Ancona in Bull.

Soe. Tose. Ortic. 1884, 168, t. 8; Gard. Chron. 1884, vol. i. p. 146, and

1885, vol. i. p. 49, fig. 11.

A member of the same group of species of the genus as

that to which C. concolor (Tab. 5513) and C. niveum (Tab.

5922) belong, and in some respects, as pointed out by Dr.

Moore in the “ Florist and Pomologist,’’ it is intermediate

between those plants, having the white flowers of the latter,

and the dwarf habit, bract and leaves more like C. concolor.

It is, indeed, very closely allied to the latter plant, of which

it has exactly the habit, but differs in the leaves not being

barred with black and green above, or uniformly purple

beneath, and in the smaller flower not being yellow, and

having broader shorter sepals and petals copiously spotted

with chocolate purple or brown, and in the staminode being

three-toothed at the tip. Dr. Moore compared the stami-

node to that of niveum, but I think he must have meant

concolor ; for in nivewm that organ is very large and broad,

transversely oblong, and is much larger than the mouth of

the lip above which it is raised, whereas in C. concolor and

-Godefroye it is much smaller than the mouth of the tip

and more oblong. C. Godefroye is a native of calcareous

MAY Ist, 1886.

rocks in Siam, as its two allies are of like situations in

Burma; it was introduced by Mr. Godefroy Lebceuf of

Argenteuil, who named it in compliment to his wife, and

it has flowered first in his and subsequently in other

collections. Our plant was received in 1884 from Mr.

Alabaster, when in charge of the public gardens of

Bankok in Siam, who procured it from the Birds’ Nest

Islands in 1884, and it flowered in September of the

following year.

Drsor. Stem very short, clothed with three to four pairs

of equitant horizontally spreading leaves, and throwing up

very short stout one-flowered scapes. Leaves glabrous,

four to six inches long, linear-oblong, obtuse acute or

obscurely two-fid at the tip, keeled beneath by the midrib,

which is sunk above. Upper surface dark green mottled

with pale greenish-white, lower densely spotted with rich

red-brown, the spots becoming confluent. Scape one-half

to one inch high, stout, tomentose, spotted like the leaves

beneath ; bract very broad, about half an inch long, com-

plicate, coloured like the leaves. Ovary three-quarters of

an inch long, villous with red-brown hairs. Perianth

about two inches in diameter, white with dark and pale

rounded spots of red purple or chocolate red. Dorsal

sepal erect, concave, very broadly ovate, obtuse, faintly

pubescent on both surfaces; lateral sepals confluent into a

much smaller elliptic villous blade behind the lip. Petals

much larger than the dorsal sepal, orbicular-oblong. Lip

nearly one inch long, cylindric, faintly and minutely

spotted, base rounded, mouth hardly dilated. Staminode

much smaller than the mouth of the hip, subquadrately

oblong, spotted, tip trifid.—J. D. H. |

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HOYA Gnratrrirnait.

Native of Eastern Bengal.

Nat. Ord. AscLEPIADEZ.—Tribe MarspEninz.

Genus Hoya, Brown ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 776.)

Hora (Euhoya) Griffithii ; frutex glaberrimus, scandens, ramis elongatis flexuosis

teretibus, foliis 6-9-pollicaribus per paria distantibus breviter petiolatis oblongo-

lanceolatis oblanceolatisve acutis acuminatisve crasse coriaceis, costa crassius-

cula, nervis tenuissimis patentibus obscuris, pedunculis axillaribus crassis

elongatis, umbellis multifloris, pedicellis pollicaribus crassis, floribus 1-1}-poll.

diam., sepalis lineari-oblongis obtusis crassis, corolle sordide rosex lobis crassis

triangulari-ovatis dorso concavis intus glabris, corone processubus magnis

as hemisphericis faciebus planis in spinas obtusas stigma superantes pro-

uctis.

H, Griffithii, Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. iv. p. 59; N. EF. Brown in Gard. Chron.

1885, vol. ii. p. 334, fig. 74.

This noble species of Hoya was discovered by the

indefatigable Indian botanist and collector, Dr. W. Griffith,

in the Khasia Mountains of Eastern Bengal, between

Assam and Silhet, upwards of half a century ago; and it

was again gathered there by Dr. Thomson and myself in

1850, near Nowgong, at an elevation between 2000 and

4000 feet above the sea. It is a near ally of the still

nobler H. imperialis, Lindl., of Malacca, figured at Tab. |

3397 of this work. A still nearer ally is the beautiful —

H. coronaria, Blume, a hitherto unfigured species of Malacca

and Penang, which has pubescent leaves and flowers.

Flowering specimens of H. Griffithii were sent to Kew by

Mr. Swan, of Oakley, Fallowfield, near Manchester, in July

last, with the information that the plant had been at

Oakley about ten years. Mr. Swan states that it came

from Northern India, and was originally sent to his

employer, W. Leech, Esq. It is, of course, a stove plant,

and as such well worthy of cultivation.

Descr. A tall quite glabrous climber. Stem slender,

terete, flexuous. Leaves in distant pairs, four to ten inches

_ long, very shortly petioled, elliptic- or oblong-lanceolate

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or oblanceolate, acute or acuminate, thickly coriaceous,

bright green above, paler beneath; midrib rather stout ;

nerves slender, very obscure, horizontally spreading and

loosely anastomosing ; petiole stout, one-sixth to one-third

of aninch long. Flowers one to one and a half inch in

diameter, numerous, umbelled on a stout axillary peduncle

two to three inches long; pedicels long, stout, one to one

and a half inches long. Sepals much larger in proportion

to the corolla than usual in the genus, oblong, obtuse,

thickly coriaceous. Corolla quite glabrous, pale rather

dull rose-red (the colour of blotting-paper externally) with

yellowish edges; paler and yellowish within, with three faint

pink stripes on each segment. Segments triangular-ovate,

acute, thickly coriaceous, concave behind. Corona large,

with five hemispheric lobes; these lobes have the convex

surface downwards and longitudinally cleft, the flat surface

upwards and produced inwards into a short ascending

spine which reaches and rises above the stigma.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Calyx and unopened corolla; 2, corona and base of corolla; 3, pollen-

masses :—all enlarged.

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Tab. 6878,

AN THURIUM SPLENDIDUM.

Native of New Grenada.

Nat. Ord. ArorpEx.—Tribe OronTIEx.

Genus AnTHURIUM, Schott; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p- 998.)

Antuurium splendidwm; subacaule, foliis amplis late ovato-cordatis sinu pro-

fundo acutis obtnsisve supra lete glauco-viridibus creberrime bullatis nervis

_ nervulisque impressis subtus papillosis pallidioribus, basi 7-nerviis, nervis

lateralibus 8-10 arcuatis, petiolo pedunculoque crassis 6-7-alatis, alis creberrime

undulatis, pedunculo valido, spatha lanceolata reflexa rosea demum alba

marginibus roseis, spadice breviter stipitata elongata erecta obtusa demum

aurantiaca, floribus dense compactis, perianthii foliosis 4 pentagonis late trun-

catis, staminibus inclusis, filamentis latis crassis, antheris parvis, ovario breviter

columnari terete vertice rotundato 2-loculari, loculis 1-ovulatis, ovulis septo

affixis sigmoideis.

A. splendidum, Hort. Bull. in Gard. Chron. vol. xix. (1883), p. 381, f. 58, and

NV. FE. Brown, 1. ¢. vol. xxi. (1884), p. 108; Regel Gartenfl. vol. xxxiii. (1884),

pp. 145 and 146, Ic. xylog.; Rodigas in L’ Ill. Horticole, vol. xxxi. (1884),

-'p. 13, t: 610.

This truly splendid plant was introduced by Mr. Bull

from New Grenada in 1882, and the figure here given is

from a specimen liberally presented to the Royal Gardens

by that energetic and successful horticulturist. Mr. N. E.

Brown, who has kindly superintended the analyses given

on the plate, informs me that its nearest affinities in the

genus are not clear to him, though the general resemblance

of the plant is that of A. Scherzerianum (Tab. 5319), and of |

A. Glaziovii (Tab. 6833). The colour of the leaves is a

metallic green above, with the lustre of shot-silk; the

Spadix is at first green, then orange-yellow, and lastly brick-

‘red. The spathe is at first very pale rose-coloured within

with scarlet edges, but in age the rosy blush disappears.

The crisped wings of the petiole and peduncle are very

striking characters. ?

The specimen here figured is an unusually fine one, and

_ the plant requires great heat and moisture to bring it to

perfection. It flowered in the Royal Gardens.

Desor. Stem or rootstock very short, sending out stout

ng root-fibres. Leaves a foot long and less, broadly ovate-

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cordate with a deep sinus which is often closed, obtuse or

acute, rather coriaceous, above glabrous and_bullately

reticulate by the sunk nerves and nervules, metallic green,

under-surface paler, with papillose nerves and nervules ;

midrib stout; basal nerves seven, spreading from the top

of the petiole, lateral nerves from the midrib six to nine

pairs, arching; petiole usually shorter than the blade, very

stout, six- to seven-angled and winged, wings undulate or

crisped. Peduncles much longer than the petioles, winged

like these, stout, erect. Spathe six inches long, lanceolate

from a rounded base, acuminate, reflexed, flat, white with

red edges, faintly rose-coloured when first opened. Spadiz

erect, on a very short stout stalk, five to nine inches long

by one-third of an inch in diameter, cylindric, obtuse,

green, then yellow, and finally brick-red. Flowers densely

crowded, depressed, together presenting a flat surface.

Perianth-segments four, short, thick, five-angled, broadly

truncate. Stamens four, included, filaments very broad and

thick ; anthers small, two-celled, with vertical slits. Ovary

very shortly columnar, cylindric, top rounded, stigma

obscure, cells two. Ovules one in each cell, sigmoid,

attached by a broad ventral funicle to the septum.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Reduced view of whole plant; 2, leaf; 3, flowering peduncles, both. of

the natural size; 4 and 5, flowers; 6 and 7, stamens; 8, ovary ; 9, vertical section

of ditto; 10 and 11, transverse section of ditto; 11, ovules:—all enlarged.

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GREVILLEA HOooKERIANA.

Native of Swan River.

Nat. Ord. Prorracra.—Tribe GReviuex.

Genus GREVILLEA, Br.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 180.)

GREVILLEA (Hebegyne) Hookeriana ; fruticosa, erecta, ramis foliisque subtus

cano-tomentosis, foliis demum glabris longe petiolatis pinnatis segmentis 3-9

anguste linearibus rigidis subacutis supra canaliculatis subtus ob sist

recurvos costamque validam 2-canaliculatis, racemis spiciformibus densifloris

erectis, floribus secundis, rachi villosa, perianthio subsericeo-villoso intus

glabro tubo } poll. longo infra medium inflato, limbo brevi revoluto, toro recto,

—— semiorbiculari, ovario villoso, stylo elongato, stigmate globoso vix

obliquo.

G. Hookeriana, Meissn. in Plant. Preiss, vol. i. p. 548, and in DC. Prodr.

vol, xiv. p. 374; Benth. Fl. Austral. vol. v. p. 432.

G. tetragonoloba, Meissn. in DC. 1. e.

Western Australia abounds in handsome shrubs, suitable

for conservatories, and amongst them the genus Grevillea

affords a considerable contingent of ornamental species,

as the volumes of this work prove, where no fewer than

sixteen species have been figured, and about half that

number have been illustrated in other works devoted to

horticulture. Amongst these is the graceful G. robusta,

which is perhaps the most widely-used “ foliage plant” for

table decoration that ever was introduced into Hurope. _

G. Hookeriana is a native of South-West Australia,

growing in dry places along the coast, as near King George’s

Sound, at the Gardiner River, and at Doubtful Island bays.

It was discovered by Preiss, and collected afterwards by

Drummond and others. The specimen here figured was

raised from seed communicated by W. R. Guilfoyle, F.L.S.,

Director of the Melbourne Botanical Gardens, which

flowered in the Royal Gardens in January of the present

ear. |

Desor. A tall branching rigid shrub, with hoary-tomen-

tose branches and leaves beneath. Leaves four to six

inches long, pinnate; pinnules three to nine pairs, distant,

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one and a half to three inches long by one-eighth of an

inch broad, linear, rigid, spreading, acute but not pungent,

grooved above, with two channels beneath from the recurved

margins not meeting the prominent midrib, glabrous above,

beneath hoary-pubescent, at length glabrous; petiole one

to three inches long, as broad as the leaflets, channelled

above and winged with recurved margins like the leaves.

facemes two to three inches long, stout, erect, dense-

flowered, shortly peduncled ; peduncle and rachis tomentose.

Flowers secund, villous, densely packed, very shortly

pedicelled. Perianth one-third of an inch long, straw-

coloured, inflated below the middle, limb reflexed with very

short concave lobes. Ovary villous; gland semicircular ;

style one inch long, stout, bright red; stigma globose with

a nearly terminal circular stigmatic surface. uit three-

quarters of an inch long, gibbously or dimidiately oblong,

pubescent, very shortly stipitate, subacute.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower ; 2, hairs of branch ; 3, perianth-segment; 4, ovary and gland ;

5, stigma :—all enlarged.

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SOPHRON ITIS vionacza.

- Native of Brazil.

Nat. Ord. OncHIDEx.—Tribe EprpENDREX. _

Genus SopHronitis, Lindl. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 535.)

SorHronitis violacea ; pseudobulbis oblongo-ovoideis tunica alba striata tectis,

foliis solitariis lineari-elongatis subacutis canaliculatis, scapo vaginato 1-2-floro,

floribus roseis, sepalis petalisque oblongo-lanceolatis acutis, labello ezquilongo

rhombeo-obovato acuto nudo basi obscure bigibboso, columne alis magnis

carnosis falcatis antheram superantibus truncatis.

S. violacea, Lindl. Bot. Reg. vol. xxvi. (1840), Mise. p. 18, No. 18; Lindl. and

Paxt. Fl. Gard. vol. iii. p. 11, fig. 238; Reichb. f. in Linnea, vol. xxxv.

p- 245, and in Walp, Ann. vol. vi. p. 466.

This is unquestionably the Sophronitis violacea of Lindley,

though the flowers are not always solitary, and are far from

being of a violet colour, either in our fresh specimens, or

in a Brazilian dried one collected in 1837, in which the

petals have retained their colour. It is a very elegant

little species, discovered by Gardner in the above-named

year, who in a note says that he fouud it only once, and

then as a single small tuft, on the trunk of a large tree.

Lindley was the first to describe it, but very briefly, from

a specimen flowered in 1847 by Mrs. Cannon, of Stratford

Green. Reichenbach, in 1852, published a much fuller

description in the Linnza, from specimens sent by Regnell.

He states that it is common on the Organ Mountains.

Our specimens differ from his description in the more

numerous (three to six) sheaths on the often two-flowered

scape. Dr. Reichenbach adds that the labellum varies

much in shape, from obtusely rhomboid to lanceolate and

acute, or obovate and acute.

The specimen here figured flowered at Kew in February

of the present year, and was presented to the Royal

: Gardens by Messrs. Veitch.

Descor. A small epiphyte, with a creeping slender |

rhizome. Pseudo-bulbs one-third to one and a quarter inch

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long, ovoid and rounded at the base, or elliptic-oblong

and subacute at both ends, clothed with a white sheath

which is fluted in parallel lines. Leaf solitary, two to

three inches long by a quarter to one-third of an inch

broad, linear, acute, channelled above and keeled at the

back, bright green above. Scape shorter than the leaves,

one- to two-flowered, clothed with imbricating ovate-

lanceolate acute or acuminate short coriaceous sheaths.

Flowers one to one and a half inches in diameter, bright

rose-coloured. Sepa/s and petals oblong-lanceolate, acute,

the latter rather the narrowest. Lip about the length of the

petals, rhombic-obovate, acute, flat with two obscure calli

at the very base. Column blood-red; wings very fleshy,

broad, falcate, rising above the anther and truncate at the

apex.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Lip; 2, column, base of lip and top of ovary; 3, front view of column ; 4,

anther; 5, the same viewed in front; 6 and 7, pollen-masses :—all enlarged.

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ROYDSIA svaveotens.

Native of the East Indies.

Nat. Ord. Cappartpem.—Tribe Capparrn.

Genus Roypsia, Roxb. ; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pi. vol. i. p- 110.)

Roypsta suaveolens ; frutex v. arbuscula ramis scandentibus, foliis breviter petio-

latis oblongis v. oblongo-lanceolatis acutis v. abrupte acuminatis integerrimis

glaberrimis, racemis axillaribus solitariis v. paniculatis pubescentibus, floribus

flavis suaveolentibus, drupa globoso-ovoidea v. oblonga aurantiaca breviter

Stipitata, endocarpio levi.

R. suaveolens, Roxb. Cor. Pi. vol. iii. p. 86, t. 289; FU. Ind. vol. ii. p- 643 ; Wali.

Cat. Herb. Ind. Or. No. 4200; Griff. Notul. vol. iv. p. 578; Hook. f. Fl.

Brit. Ind. vol. i. p. 180.

A frequent plant in the borders of tropical forests at the

base of the Eastern Himalaya, from Sikkim to Upper

Assam, and in similar situations in Assam, the Khasia

Mountains and Munneypore, scenting the air when in

flower with a delicious fragrance. The genus, which con-

sists of very few tropical Asiatic species, differs remarkably

from all others of the Caper family, to which it belongs, in

the absence of petals, in the fruit being a drupe with a

woody three-valved endocarp, in the three subulate styles,

and in the three-celled ovary, which, however, becomes a

one-celled fruit through the absorption of the placentas

and the arrest of the development of numerous ovules.

Roydsia has been for many years cultivated at Kew,

having been received from the Calcutta Botanical Gardens.

It is excellently described by Dr. Roxburgh, who named

the genus in compliment to “Sir John Royds, one of the

Puisne Judges of the Supreme Court of Judicature of Bengal,

and an eminent benefactor to the science.” Though in its

full-grown state rather a coarse rambling bush, ill suited

for small houses, it is well worth cultivating for its fra-

grance by those who can give it space enough, the foliage

being handsome, of a bright green, and persistent ; and pot

Specimens flower freely, even smal] ones. The plant here

JUNE lst, 1886,

figured flowered at Kew in January of the present year,

and specimens are flowering in the present month (May).

Descr. A woody shrub or small tree, with a stout stem

and numerous rambling branches, that climb over forest

trees ; bark of branches glabrous or nearly so, red-brown,

covered with white spots. Leaves alternate, four to twelve

inches long, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, rarely oblanceo-

late, acute or acuminate, quite entire, bright green and

shining, coriaceous, paler beneath; petiole one-third to

half an inch long, terete. Racemes axillary or rather above

the leaf-axils, solitary or in terminal panicles, three to seven

inches long, erect or spreading, at length drooping ; rachis

stout, clothed to near the base with flowers ; bracts small,

tomentose. Flowers numerous, shortly stoutly pedicelled,

three-fourths of an inch broad across the stamens, fragrant.

Calyx of six pubescent oblong two-seriate spreading de-

ciduous sepals. Corollanone. Stamens about one hundred,

inserted on a globose receptacle, spreading; filaments

slender, yellow; anthers small, oblong. Ovary ovoid,

obscurely three-angled, pubescent, stalked, three-celled by

the intrusion of three parietal placentas which are confluent

in the axis of the ovary; style very short, with three

erect subulate stigmas ; ovules very numerous in the inner

angles of the cells. Drupe one to one and a half inch long,

broadly ellipsoid or oblong, shortly stipitate, orange-yellow

with white specks; pulp soft, yellow; endocarp thin,

smooth, but woody, splitting into three valves, one-seeded.

Seed oblong; embryo erect; cotyledons very unequal, one

larger deeply concave with the smaller in its concavity;

radicle inferior, minute.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Bract and flower, with stamens removed; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, ovary

and receptacle ; 5, transverse section of ovary:—all enlarged.

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TILLANDSIA (Vriesea) rriata.

Native of Brazil.

Nat. Ord. Bromettacexz.—Tribe TInLANDSIER.

Genus Tinnanpsta, Linn.; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p- 669.)

TILLANDSstA (Vriesea) inflata ; acaulis, foliis 15-20 dense rosulatis oblanceolatis

. cuspidatis basi dilatatis utrinque viridibus glabris, pedunculo brevi erecto

foliis bracteiformibus imbricatis occulto, floribus 10-12 alternis in spicam

densam disticham dispositis, bracteis magnis ovato-navicularibus imbricatis

superioribus splendide rubris luteo marginatis infimis viridibus, pedicellis

subnullis, sepalis lanceolatis pallide luteis bracteis paulo brevioribus, petalis

oblanceolatis luteis apice patulis viridulis basi squamis 2 semiadnatis appendi-

culatis, genitalibus exsertis, antheris linearibus leviter versatilibus, lobis

stigmatosis orbicularibus patulis.

Vriesea psittacina, var. Truffantiana, André in Journ. Soc. Nat. et Cent. Hort.

France, 1881, p. 87.

V. incurvata, Morren in Belg. Hort. vol. xxxii. (1882), p.52, tab. 2, non Gaudich.

V. inflata, Wawra Itin. Prin. Cob. vol. i. p. 161; Antoine Brom. p. 28, t. 18.

V. carinata, var. inflata, Wawra in O6cster, Bot. Zeitschrift, vol. xxx. (1883),

p. 184,

This is one of the most showy of all the numerous

Tillandsias of the subgenus Vriesea which have been

brought into cultivation of late years. Of the older-known

types it comes nearest to 7’. pstttacina, Hook. (Bor. Mac.

tab. 2841), but here the flowers are so close that the large

bright-coloured bracts overwrap one another. It is a

native of the woody coast region of the southern half of

Brazil. It was introduced into cultivation by M. Binot in

1880, and was first flowered by M. Truffant at Versailles.

Our drawing was made from a plant that flowered at Kew

in December, 1885. Botanical science has lately sustained

a heavy loss by the death within a short time of the two

continental botanists who had specially devoted themselves

to Bromeliacex, both of whom, as will be seen from the

Se oeyny cited, had figured and described the present

plant.

Drsor. Acaulescent. Produced leaves about twenty,

forming a dense rosette, oblanceolate from an ovate dilated

JUNE lst, 1886.

- base above two inches broad; lamina six or eight inches

long, an inch and a half broad above the middle, deltoid

and cuspidate at the apex, bright green and glabrous on

both surfaces. Peduncle central, erect, three or four inches

long, quite hidden by the imbricated bract-leaves. Spike

simple, erect, distichous, five or six inches long, two inches

broad ; flowers ten or twelve; bracts ovate-navicular, an

inch and a half long and broad, all except the lowest, which

are greenish, bright red, with a narrow yellow border.

Calyx nearly as long as the bract, pale yellow; sepals

lanceolate. Corolla cylindrical, bright lemon-yellow, pro-

truded half an inch beyond the bract; petals obtuse, with

a spreading tip tinged with green, appendiculate at the

base with two half-adnate scales. Stamens rather longer

than the petals; anthers linear, slightly versatile; pollen

bright yellow. Pistil a little longer than the stamens ;

stigmatic lobes orbicular, spreading.—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, Whole plant, much reduced ; 2, whole plant; 3, a flower, both life-size ;

7 ah 5, front view of anther; 6, back view of anther; 7, stigma :—al/ en-

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.MYRMECODIA Beccarn.

Native of Tropical Australia.

Nat. Ord. Rusracem.—Tribe PsycHorriex,

Genus Myraecopia, Jack. (Beccari, Malesia, vol. ii. p. 95.)

Myrmecopia Beccarei ; tubere ecostato lobato spinuloso, spinulis brevibus sim-

plicibus, ramis nodoso-incrassatis eclypeolatis, foliis oblanceolatis v. oblongo-

oblanceolatis subacutis carnosis in petiolum semiteretem brevem crassum

angustatis, floribus in alveolis ramorum nidulantibas, stipulis brevissimis in

membranam 2-fidam tenuiter membranaceam fugacem connatis, bracteis

obsoletis, calycis glabri iimbo annulari, corolla tubo cylindraceo lobis ovatis

crassis longiore, staminibus parvis, filamentis antheras breves «#quantibus,

ovario 4-loculari, fructu cylindraceo-oblongo apice rotundata 4-pyreno,

The plant here figured is one of the most singular ever

imported in a living state into this country, and it belongs

to a genus, or rather to one of a group of genera of

epiphytic Rubiacee, which have been long known from

their singular habit of forming often spinous tubers of

great size, the interior of which is galleried by ants of

various species, and of which insects these are the native

homes. ‘Io enter into any details of the history of these

plants and their inhabitants would require a volume. J

may, however, remark in respect of their history, that it

affords one of the most striking instances known to me

of the advance of botanical knowledge within so recent a

period. In 1874, at the date of publication of the Genera

Plantarum, our knowledge of the ant-nesting Iwbiacee

was that it consisted of two very imperfectly known

genera, Hydnophytwm and Myrmecodia, with four or six ill-

characterized species between them; whereas in 1884

there appeared the splendid monograph of Signor Beccari,

on “insect-nesting plants,” in which he establishes four

genera of Malayan ant-harbouring Lubiacee, with upwards

of fifty species, many of them discovered by himselt in the

Malayan Archipelago and New Guinea. Signor Beccari’s

monograph, entitled Piante ospitatrice, forms two parts of a

JULY Ist, 1886. .

quarto work dedicated (under the name of Malesia) to

botanical observations on Malayan and Papuan plants, and

of which these two parts occupy 212 pages, with fifty-four

excellent plates. In them he describes various plants

which are hosts for insects, of the orders Myristicee,

Euphorbiacea, Verbenacee, Leguminosee, Araliacee and

Palmee, but the bulk of the work is devoted to the four

Rubiaceous genera, Myrmecodia, Hydnophytum, Myrme-

phytum and Myrmedoma, under which their botany and

the economy of their growth, and of the insects they

harbour, are described with a fulness and ability that are

quite admirable.

Of Myrmecodia itself there are eighteen described

species, besides the present one, of which details were

sent to Dr. Beccari, who did not recognize it as any of

those known to him: the genus extends from Sumatra and

Singapore to New Guinea, North Australia, and the

Solomon’s Archipelago. Besides that here figured two

species have been found in Torres Straits, M. Antoinii,

Bece., and M. Muellerii, Becc., and no doubt more remain

to be discovered in New Guinea and its neighbourhood.

Living specimens of one or more species of Myrmecodia

from North Australia have been received at Kew at various

times, from the Botanical Gardens of Brisbane and Sydney,

but after such protracted voyages that they have arrived

in too weak a condition to survive long. For the plant

here figured, the Royal Gardens are indebted to the

liberality of Messrs. Veitch, who imported it from

Brisbane in 1884, with the information that it was found

in the Gulf of Carpentaria, and is extremely rare there:

it came to Kew in January, 1886, in seeding condition,

and flowered in the following February; it continues to

flourish, as do seedling plants raised from its fruit, and

now in June it is again in fruit. It requires great heat, —

and is treated like an epiphytic orchid. I have named it

: ee oa eminent botanist and traveller alluded to above.—

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: ting and young plants; 5, flower; 6, corolla laid open;

7 and &, front and back view of stamens ; 9, ovary :—all enlarged.

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ARISTOLOCHIA toneirorsa.

Native of Hong Kong.

Nat. Ord. ArisTOLOCHIACER.

Genus Aristotocuta, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 123.)

Aristotocuta (Siphisia) longifolia ; caule crasso deforme, ramis scandentibus

gracilibus, inferne foliisque subtus breviter tomentosis, superne (foliisque

Junioribus) dense sericeo-villosis, foliis petiolatis e basi cordata v. rotundata

elongato- lineari-lanceolatis longe tenuiter acuminatis, subtus inter nervos

validos reticulatim venosis, floribus basin versus ramorum solitariis paucisve

pedunculatis, pedunculo ovario perianthioque extus patentim villosis, perianthii

refracti parte inferiore (sacculo) lineari-oblongo modice inflato costato superiore

angustiore, limbo amplo suborbiculari 2-lobo intus glabro, columna obtuse

3-loba, antheris 6 per paria connatis.

A. longiflora, Champ. in Hook. Kew Journ. vol. vi. (1854) 116; Benth. Fl. Hongk.

p. 333 ; Duchartre in DC. Prodr. vol. xv. pars. 1, p. 438.

A native of clefts of rock on Victoria Peak, in the Island

of Hong Kong, where it was discovered by the late Col.

Champion, when stationed on that island in 1847-50, and

when by his active herborizations he added enormously to

what had been made known of the Flora of that island by Mr.

Hinds in 1841. Itis to the exertions of these two gentlemen

that Mr. Bentham owed the materials for the “ Flora Hong-

kongensis,” which was published under the authority of

the Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1861.

A. longifolia is an ally of the Indian A. saccata, and is still

nearer A. Westlandi, Hemsley, of China, the limb of the

corolla of which is more than six inches in diameter, and

clothed with long shaggy villous hairs. It was sent to

Kew by Mr. Charles Ford, F.L.S., of the Botanical Gardens,

Hong Kong, in 1882, and flowered in March of the present

year. It requires no great heat, and succeeds best in a

warm conservatory.

Dusor. Stem or rootstock short, woody, as thick as the

thumb; branches several feet long, climbing, as thick as a

goose-quill, below finely tomentose, silkily villous towards

the tips. Leaves six to ten inches long by one to one anda

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half broad, pendulous, coriaceous, narrowly linear-lanceolate

from a rounded or cordate base, narrowed into a very fine

acuminate point, glabrous above, finely tomentose beneath,

more villous on the stout midrib and ten to fifteen pairs

of arching nerves, strongly reticulate between the latter ;

petiole one-third of an inch long, stout, twisted. Flowers

solitary or two together from towards the bases of the |

branches, pedicelled, pendulous, villous with spreading

hairs externally, as are the stout flexuous pedicels. Ovary

linear-oblong. Perianth-tube yellowish, faintly streaked

with red-brown; saccate portion one and a half inches

long, cylindric-oblong, moderately inflated ; refracted por-

tion of tube shorter, suddenly dilated into a maroon-

brown nearly orbicular shallowly two-lobed glabrous limb

two and a half inches in diameter, and mottled with

reticulate darker nerves; mouth subquadrate and tube

within bright yellow, with a few small purple specks.

Column shortly stipitate, three-lobed ; lobes obtuse, entire,

fleshy, with recurved crenulate margins. Anthers six, in

three pairs, cells linear-oblong.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Ovary and column viewed towards the back of one stigmatic lobe; 2, the

same viewed towards the sinus between the lobes :—both enlarged.

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GALTONTA cravara.

Native of Cape Colony.

Nat. Ord. Lintacex.—Tribe Sctntex.

Genus Gattonra, Decaisne; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii, p- 809.)

GaLtonta clavata ; bulbo ovoideo tunicis pluribus brunneis apice fibrillosis, foliis

6-8 sessilibus lanceolatis glabris glaucescentibus flaccidis bipedalibus, scapo

valido tereti foliis subequilongo, racemo laxo, pedicellis floriferis cernuis flore

sepe longioribus, bracteis lanceolatis membranaceis, perianthio viridulo tubo

clavato, segmentis oblongis obtusis tubo duplo brevioribus, staminibus limbo

equilongis filamentis lanceolatis antheris lineari-oblongis, ovario oblongo-

trigono sessili, stylo gracili ovario longiori apice stigmatoso minute trilobato.

This is a third species of Galtonia, hitherto undescribed,

which differs from the two species already known by its

shorter perianth-segments and lanceolate filaments. The

genus, which differs from Hyacinthus mainly by its more

numerous flattened seeds, was named by Decaisne in

honour of our countryman, Francis Galton, F.R.S., the

well-known traveller and anthropologist. We do not

know the precise locality of the present plant, but presume

it to be somewhere within the already ascertained area of

the genus, which from Kaffraria extends northwards along

the east side of Cape Colony through Natal to the

Transvaal, always at such a considerable altitude above

Sea-level that the two species already known are hardy in

England. It flowered at Kew in 1881, and the bulbs were

received in 1879 from Mr. Charles Ayres of Cape Town.

The flowers in shape resemble those of the tuberose, but

have no scent, and altogether it is not so fine a plant froma

horticultural point of view as the two species already

known. : og

Desor. Bulb ovoid, three or four inches in diameter, —

with many dry brown outer tunics, splitting up at the top

into copious persistent fibres. Leaves six or eight,

contemporary with the flowers, sessile, lanceolate, glabrous,

glaucous green, two feet long, one or two inches broad

JULY Ist, 1886.

below the middle, narrowed gradually to an acute point,

furnished with a distinct pale margin. Peduncle terete,

stiffly erect, as long as the leaves. lowers scentless,

greenish-white, arranged in a lax raceme; pedicels cer-

nuous in the flowering stage, one or two inches long;

bracts lanceolate, membranous, persistent. Perianth-tube

clavate, about an inch long; segments oblong, obtuse,

half as long as the tube, with several stripes of green

down to the central third. Stamens inserted at the

throat of the perianth-tube, as long as the segments;

filaments lanceolate, pure white; anthers linear-oblong,

versatile. Ovary oblong-trigonous, sessile; ovules super-

posed, crowded, horizontal; style slender, straight, longer

than the ovary, obscurely three-lobed at the stigmatose

apex. Fruit a large ovoid capsule.—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, Entire plant, much reduced in size; 2, half a flower, showing the

stamens; 3, pistil complete; 4, horizontal section of the ovary :—all more or less

enlarged.

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PLEUROTHALLIS Barseriana.

Native of Tropical South America.

Nat. Ord. OncHIDER.—Tribe Eprpenprex.

Genus PLevRoTHALLIS, Br.; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 488.)

PLEUROTHALLIS (Apode) Barberiana ; pusilla, exspitosa, acaulis, folio elliptico-

obovato apice rotundato crasso subtrigono costa marginibusque anguste

incrassatis supra medio canaliculata, basi acuta in petiolum gracillimum

angustata, racemis solitariis capillaribus nutantibus plurifloris, floribus

pendulis gracillime pedicellatis, bracteis tubulosis, sepalis ovato-oblongis

purpureo-maculatis caudato-acuminatis subciliolatis, petalis multi-minoribus

ovatis acuminatis serratis purpureo-punctatis, labello tereti lineari-oblongo

saccifurme sed solido ante unguem 2-dentato purpureo, columna angusta im-

marginata postice carinata, anthera appendice 3-dentato coronata,

P. Barberiana, Reichd. f. in Gard. Chron. N.S. vol. xvi. (1881), p. 6.

There is no genus of Orchids so well deserving an

illustrated monograph as Pleurothallis, for though wanting

members of the gorgeous forms and colours that so many

other genera of the order possess, it abounds in species of

most singular habits, and of an infinite variety of forms of

inflorescence and flowers, and the latter, though small, are

often of gem-like beauty. They take up little space in the

orchid-house, flower at various seasons, are easy of culti-

vation, and evergreen in foliage. If a fraction of the

money spent by patrons of orchid culture on gorgeous

duplicate plates of the better known fashionable orchids

were devoted to illustrated monographs of such genera as

this, Stelis, Masdevallia, Restrepia, Bulbophyllum, and their

allies, a great service would be rendered to both horticulture

and botany. As it is, the numbers of species of these

plants that are imported to be lost or thrown away, because

not showy or gaudy, is very great, and when the rage for

ao is past, the loss of any’record of them will

felt.

Plewrothallis Barberiana was first described by Dr.

Reichenbach as ‘a lovely little thing, imported by Mr.

Low, no doubt from tropical South America,’’ and was, so

JULY Ist, 1886.

to say, “discovered” in their stoves by Mr. J. Barber,

who was struck with the resemblance of the lip to that of

a Cypripedium. Dr. Reichenbach further happily remarks,

that it “ belongs to the Zephyrean company of P.macroble-

pharis and P. baleniceps.”

For the specimen here figured the Royal Gardens are

indebted to Messrs. Low. It flowers all summer.

Dusor. A dwarf tufted stemless species. Leaf one-half

- to three-fourths of an inch long, elliptic-obovate, rounded

at the tip, narrowed into a very slender petiole, flatly

triangular on a cross section, which shows a promi-

nent but slender thickening of keel and margins, that

of the margins rather due to a narrow recurvation of

the edge, and a mesial furrow on the face, bright green.

Racemes many times longer than the leaves, subsolitary,

capillary, drooping, six- to eight-flowered, but with rarely

more than one flower open at a time; bracts brown,

sheathing tubes, with a truncate mouth; pedicels very

slender; flowers nearly one inch long from the tip of the

dorsal to that of one of the lateral sepals. Sepals oblong-

lanceolate, concave, white blotched with purple, suddenly

contracted into a yellow tail almost as long as the limb.

Petals not half the size of the sepals, ovate, white spotted

minutely with purple, ending in a long yellow point. Tip a

linear-oblong, terete, subclavate, solid body of purple colour

blotched with deeper purple, rounded at the tip, and with

two teeth opposite the very short claw. Colwmn slender,

yellowish, keeled behind. Anther a shallow cap, crowned

with an oblong terete three-toothed appendage.—J. D. H.

_ Fig. 1, Transverse section of leaf; 2, portion of raceme and flower; 3, flower

viewed sideways ; 4, front, and 5, side view of flower with sepals and petals re-

moved ; 6 and 7, anther ; 8 and 9, pollen-masses :—all enlarged.

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TULIPA KavrManyrana.

Native of Turkestan.

Nat. Ord. Lin1acrm.—Tribe Turrerx.

Genus Tutpa, Linn.; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 818.)

Tutrpa Kaufmanniana; bulbo ovoideo, tunicis brunneis membranaceis intus

;». parce adpresse strigosis, caule diphyllo unifloro, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis vel

oblongis glaucescentibus glabris, pedunculo erecto obscure puberulo, perianthio

magno subcampanulato versicoiori (luteo, rubro vel albido) segmentis oblongis

subobtusis subconformibus basi cuneatis ungue aurantiaco concolori, antheris

linearibus magnis filamentis applanatis aurantiacis glabris zquilongis, ovario

cylindrico-trigono stigmatibus magnis.

T. Kaufmanniana, Regel Gartenfl. vol. xxvi. (1877), p. 194, tab. 906, figs. 6-10;

Baker in Gard. Chron, N.S. vol. xx. (1883), p. 71.

This is another of the fine new Tulips which have

recently been discovered by the Russian explorers in

Central Asia. It was found, since the date of the publica-

tion of the first part of the Flora of Turkestan (1876), by

Dr. Albert Regel in the mountains that surround the river

-~Tschirtschik, and was named in honour of General Von

Kaufmann, the governor-general of the province. It is

closely allied to 7. Gesneriana, and is equally variable in

colour, ranging through various shades of red and yellow

to white. In all the specimens we have seen the claw of

the segments is flushed with bright orange yellow, without

any black line or encircling horseshoe-shaped mark.

Dr. Regel has named two forms albo-variegata and luteo-

variegata, of which he considers the former the type. In

the plant from which his figure and description were made

the pistil has evidently not attained its full development.

Our plate was drawn from three plants flowered by

Mr. Elwes at Cirencester early in the month of April of

_ the present year.

_ Dusor. Bulb ovoid, an inch in diameter; tunics brown,

-membranous, slightly hairy inside. Stem erect, one-

flowered, under a foot long. Leaves usually two, oblong-

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lanceolate or oblong, five or six inches long, an inch or an

inch and a half broad at the middle, glaucescent, glabrous.

Peduncle obscurely pubescent, about as long as the leaves.

Perianth subcampanulate, two or two and a half inches

long in the cultivated plant, yellow, red or white;

segments subequal, oblong-cuneate, subobtuse, with a

bright orange concolorous claw. Stamens an inch long;

anthers linear, lemon-yellow; filaments bright orange,

glabrous, flattened. Ovary cylindrical-trigonous, nearly

an inch long; stigmas large, suborbicular, undulated.—

J. G. Baker.

Figs. 1 and 2, Segments of the perianth, from two different flowers, life-size ;

3, a stamen ; 4, pistil:—both enlarged.

Tas. 6888,

RANUNCULUS tyatuu.

Native of New Zealand.

Nat. Ord. RanuncuLacexZ.—Tribe RaNUNCULEE.

Genus Ranuncutvs, Linn; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 5.)

Ranuncvutvs Lyallii; elatus, robustus, foliis radicalibus longe petiolatis crasse

coriaceis orbicularibus peltatis crenatis, caulinis sessilibus reniformibus supremis

cuneiformibus lobulatis, floribus maximis corymbosis, pedunculis pedicellis

sepalisque araneoso-lanatis, petalis perplurimis cuneato-obovatis albis, stamini-

bus brevibus, acheniis in stylum gracilem flexuosum attenuatis viilosis.

R. Lyallii, Hook. f. Handbook of New Zealand Flora, p. 4; Armstrong in

Gard. Chron. N. 8. xv. (1881), p. 74, fig. 1381; Masters, l. c. N. S, xxiii.

(1885), 351, fig. 67.

The first specimens of this remarkable plant, which is

certainly the monarch of the genus, were procured in Milford

Sound ,on the west coast of the Southern Island of New

Zealand, by Dr. Lyall, when accompanying Capt. Stokes

In the surveying voyage of H.M.S. Acheron (1847-9) ;

unfortunately they consisted of leaves only. These did

not even suggest the natural family to which they belonged,

and from their likeness to those of a gigantic Hydrocotyle

vulgaris were not unnaturally supposed to be referable to

an unknown umbelliferous plant. In 1860-1 it was redis-

covered by Drs. Sinclair, R.N., and Haast (now Sir Julius

Von Haast, F.R.S.), when travelling in the mountains on

the eastern side of the Middle Island, in marshy places

at elevations of 3000 to 4000 feet (it attains even 5000

in the Lake Ohou district); and since that time it has

been repeatedly found in various localities between the

latitudes of Canterbury and Otago by Messrs. Travers,

Hector, Buchanan, and other travellers. Its most re-

markable character is its peltate leaves, which it shares

with only three other species, namely, 2. Traversii, Hook. f.,

also a native of the New Zealand Alps and too closely

allied to R. Lyallit (but differs in its much smaller size

and broader obcordate petals), and two indigenous in

South Africa, R. Cooperi, Oliv. (in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1502),

from marshy places on the mountains of Basuto Land,

and R. Baurii, MacOwan (in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 390,

- aveusr Ist, 1886.

and Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1503), from similar situations in the

Kaffrarian mountains.

The following account of the localities which R. Lyallii

inhabits and other matters is extracted from notes by

Mr. J. B. Armstrong, of Christchurch, N.Z., published

in the “Gardener’s Chronicle.” It is confined to the

Middle Island, extending from Canterbury, where it grows

at 2000 to 4000 feet elevation, to Otago, where its limits

are 1000 and 3500 feet, and grows on mountain slopes

below the snow-fields, where the ground is usually kept

moist during the summer from the trickling downwards of

the melting snow, and is shaded from the mid-day sun.

These slopes are perfectly drained by masses of rock

beneath, and are covered by peat. It also, however, occurs

in sand, and even in shingle. On mountains facing the

south Mr. Armstrong has seen it “covering the ground

for hundreds of acres with one huge sheet of pure white,”

but it more commonly grows in patches of a score or thirty

plants among straggling patches of Olearias, Veronicas, and

other shrubs. An admirable wood-cut, taken from a

photograph sent by Mr. Armstrong, of a long border

crowded with plants of this species, accompanies his

description, and gives an excellent idea of its habit.

Seeds have been sent to England during the last twenty

years by the thousand, but their germinating powers seem

to be destroyed or retarded by the voyage, for very few

plants have been raised from them. The late Mr. Isaac

Anderson-Henry is said to have flowered it previous to

1864, and remarked that the seeds lay dormant for four

or five years; whereas in New Zealand, Mr. Armstrong

found that they germinated in exactly eight months.

Those, one of which produced the plant here figured

(which flowered in April, 1886), were received per Major

Teschkernaker, of Sydenham ; they were sown in a tropical

heat at Kew in October, 1882, and germinated in November

of the following year. It is known in New Zealand as the

Lily, Water Lily, Mountain Lily, and Rookwood Lily; and

the leaves attain a foot in diameter, and the flowers four

inches ; these vary from snow-white, the usual colour, to

creamy and pink, all very rare colours in the genus, except

in species of the aquatic (Batrachium) section.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, 2, Stamens ; 3, young carpels; 4, head of achenes ; 5, ripe achenes :—ad/

but fig. 4 enlarged.

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TRIS Miest.

Native of Temperate Himalayas.

Nat. Ord. Intpzr%.—Tribe Morxe,

Genus Iris, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p- 686.)

Iris (Evansia) Milesii ; rhizomate late repente, foliis 7-8 ensiformibus pallide

viridibus, pedunculo tripedali apice corymboso 3~4-cephalo, floribts 3—4-nis

pulchre lilacinis evanescentibus inodoris, spathe valvis ovatis vel oblongis

firmulis brevibus, pedicellis bracteis vix brevioribus, perianthii tubo brevi,

segmentis exterioribus obovatis falcatis pallide lilacinis lineis saturate purpureis

radiantibus preeditis carina lutea profunde fimbriata, segmentis interioribus

obovato-unguiculatis concoloribus, stigmatis appendicibus quadratis profunde

fimbriatis.

I. Milesii, Foster in Gard. Chron. N.S. vol. xx. (1883), p. 231.

This interesting new Iris was received in seed by Mr.

Frank Miles from the Kulu and Parbutta valleys of the

North-Western Himalayas, and first flowered in this

country in the summer of 1883, when it was described by

Professor Foster in the “ Gardener’s Chronicle.” We have

also received dried specimens from Dr. Brandis, which

were gathered by himself in flower in the Parbutta valley

in October, 1876. It is said to grow at an elevation above

sea-level of 14,000 feet, so that it comes decidedly within

the bounds of the temperate region. The flowers are

handsome, but fugitive. Botanically it is very distinct

and interesting as furnishing a link of transition between

the fimbriated and bearded Irises (the sections Evansia

and Pogoniris), for the crest is so deeply fimbriated as to

- have almost become a beard. Its nearest allies are the

Chinese Iris tectorum, Maxim. (Bot. Mac. tab. 6118), and

the well-known Iris japonica, Thunb. (I. chinensis, Curt.

Bot. Mag. tab. 373). Our drawing was made from a

Specimen sent by Mr. Lynch from the Cambridge Botanic

Garden in May, 1886.

Dusor. Rootstock creeping to a length of half a foot or

More. Jeaves seven or eight to a stem, distichous,

ensiform, pale green, firm in texture, tapering gradually to

a point, one and a half or two feet long, an inch and a half

broad. Flowering-stem three feet long, bearing three or

four clusters of flowers. Flowers three or four in a cluster,

bright lilac, fugitive, inodorous; spathe-valves ovate or

oblong, moderately firm in texture, green at the flowering-

time, an inch or an inch and a half long; pedicels nearly

or quite as longas the spathe. Ovary clavate; tube short,

cylindrical; limb above two inches long; outer segments

obovate, under an inch broad, with lines of darker lilac

radiating from the deeply fimbriated yellow crested keel;

inner segments rather shorter than the outer, more

ascending, obovate-unguiculate, concolorous. Anthers

linear, white, basifixed. Styles lilac, above an inch long;

appendages quadrate, deeply fimbriated.—J. G. Baker.

_Fig. 1, Whole plant, much reduced ; 2, apex of leaf; 3, clusters of flowers, both

life-size; 4, stamen ; 5, style with stigma and crests :—both enlarged.

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CERINTHE muon.

Native of Southern Europe and Western Asia.

Nat. Ord. Boracinrx.—Tribe Borage.

Genus CerintuE, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 854.)

CERINTHE minor; glabra, glauca, caulibus erectis ramosis foliosis, foliis lavibus

v. verrucosis inferioribus oblongis ovato-oblongisve, superioribus sessilibus

ovato-cordatis serrulatis, racemis valde elongatis, bracteis auriculato-cordatis,

sepalis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis serrulatis, corolle tubo calyce longiore,

lobis lanceolatis acuminatis erecto-conniventibus demum reflexis, filamentis

brevissimis, antheris anguste lanceolatis in appendicem lanceolatam acuminatam

productis, carpellis levibus.

C. minor, Linn. Sp. Pl. 772; DC. Prodr. x.2; Ait. Hort. Kew. Ed. 2, vol. i.

p. 295; Boiss. Fl. Orient. vol. iv. p. 148; Jacg. Fl. Austr. vol. ii. p. 15,

t. 224; Reichb., Ic. Crit. vol. iii. fig. 481, and Le. Fl. Germ. vol. xviii.

t. 1295; Nees Gen. Fl. Germ. vol. vi. t. 66.

A hardy herbaceous plant, of short duration, and

described as either biennial or perennial, very variable in

character, and of its forms or varieties at least five species

have been made, all brought together by Boissier in his

“Flora Orientalis.” It was introduced into England as

long ago as 1570 by Mr. Hugh Morgan, and is figured in

a rude wood-cut, with a description, though not a botanical

one, in Lobel’s ** Adversaria” (p. 172). As an ornamental

plant it is not to be compared with C. major (Bor. Mac.

t. 333), or the rare C. gymnandra (t. 6130).

O. minor is a native of a wide range of country, extending

from the Alps of Dauphiny to Middle and South Russia,

inhabiting also Italy and Dalmatia, Greece, Asia Minor,

Syria, Armenia, and N. Persia; it varies greatly in the size

of the leaves, which are all green or spotted with white,

and smooth or warted; the corolla is all yellow, or has a

yellow tube and purple lobes or vice versa (as in the

“specimen here figured), or it has purple spots on the

_ throat; the appendages of the anthers, too, vary in length.

The specimen here figured is from a plant that flowered at

Kew, where it has long been cultivated in the Herbaceous

- Ground, flowering in July.

- avGust. lst, 1886.

Desor. A pale green glaucous erect perennial branching

herb, ten to eighteen inches high, with terete stem, and the

flowering branches at first incurved, and then lengthening

out into leafy racemes. Leaves one to four inches long,

the lower obovate-spathulate, narrowed into a broad petiole,

all green or spotted with white, smooth or with low small

warts on one or both surfaces. Facemes six to eight

inches long, densely clothed with leafy bracts; bracts

ovate-cordate, subserrulate, acute or tip rounded; flowers

one-third of an inch long, pedicelled, pedicels shorter than

the calyx. Sepals lanceolate, acuminate, very unequal,

serrulate, dilated after flowering. Corolla-tube rather

larger than the calyx; lobes ovate-lanceolate, at first

conniving, then sharply reflexed, colours yellow and purple

variously disposed. Stamens on the mouth of the corolla;

filaments very short; anthers long, connective dilated and

produced into a subulate point of very variable length.

Carpels quite smooth, enclosed in the dilated sepals.—

J.D. H.

Fig. 1, Vertical section of flower; 2, calyx; 3 and 4, stamens; 5, top of style

and stigma; 6, transverse section of ovary; 7, ripe fruit:—ad/ enlarged. |

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DISA atropurPuREA.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Nat. Ord. OncHIpEx.—Tribe OpHRYDEx.

Genus Disa, Berg.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 630.)

Disa (Trichochila) atrosanguinea ; foliis gramineis rigidis acuminatis canaliculatis

ultra medium sensim latioribus, scapis foliis longioribus 1-2-floris, vaginis

3 appressis acuminatis, bracteis cuspidatis ovarium subzquantibus, floribus

purpureis, galea ampla ovato-rotundata acuta concava marginibus incurvis,

calcare brevi lato subinflato apice rotundato, sepalis lateralibus oblongis

incurvis, petalis parvis medio constrictis basi dilatatis supra medium late

cuneatis 2-fidis, labello late ovato-cordato acuminato undulato-crispato, ungue

brevi gracili.

D. atrosanguinea, Sonder in Linnea, vol. xix. (1847), p- 96.

The Cape of Good Hope may prove to be the head-

quarters of terrestrial Orchids in the southern hemisphere,

if not in the globe. No fewer than a hundred species of

Disa are already known, and Harvey, in the second edi-

tion of his Genera of South African plants, enumerates

thirty-five genera of terrestrial habit, some of them with

very numerous species. In Australia, including the

tropical half of that continent, there are about the

Same number of genera, but only about 180 species of

these are described in Bentham’s “ Flora Australiensis.”’

In Europe, Nyman, in his “ Conspectus Flore Europze,”

enumerates twenty-eight genera and 110 species. In

North America they are fewer still, and neither tropical

South America nor tropical Africa has hitherto been prolific

in this class of. plant. Asia remains, where the majority

are Himalayan species of European genera or tropical

genera of the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago, but they

have never been enumerated. Nor will the Cape yield to

any country in the beauty of its terrestrial Orchids, which

no doubt centres in the genus Disa. ae

Disa atrosanguinea is a native of the Worcester district

of the Cape, where it was first found near a waterfall at

the town of Tulbagh by the botanical travellers Ecklon and

_ avevst Isr, 1886.

Zeyher. The specimen here figured was kindly sent by

~W. Gumbleton, Esq., in April of the present year. It is

very closely allied to the D. spathulata, Swartz, also a native

of Tulbagh, but that has the claw of the lip as long as or

longer than the blade.

-Drsor. A rigid erect perennial herb. Leaves five to six

inches long, grassy, gradually dilated from a slender petiole

to towards the finely acuminate tip, one-sixth of an inch broad

at the broadest part, light green and channelled above,

keeled and paler beneath. Scape longer than the leaves,

one- to two-flowered; sheaths few, appressed, acuminate ;

bracts oblong, acuminate, equalling or shorter than the

ovary ; flower one to one and a half inch long from the tip

of the upper sepal to that of the lip, of a uniform rather

dull red-purple, except the small yellowish petals. Upper

sepal(galea) rounded-ovate, subacute, concave with incurved

margins ; lateral oblong, incurved. Petals minute, erect,

contracted in the middle, below dilated and auricled in

front ; above obliquely cuneate and unequally two-lobed,

with the broader lobe toothed, the smaller acute or obtuse.

Lip about as large as the upper sepal, shortly clawed,

ovate-cordate, acumimate, waved and rather crisped.

Column very short.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Front, and 2, lateral view of flower with the sepals and lip removed ;

3, front, and 4, lateral view of column ; 5, a pollen-mass :—all enlarged.

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RIBES oxyacantTHorpes.

Native of North America.

Nat. Ord. SaxrrraGacExZ.—Tribe RipesiEex.

Genus Rigs, Linn.; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 654.)

Rrzxs (Grossularia) oryacanthoides ; glabrum v. parce setosum, spinis solitariis

v. 2-3-nis, foliis orbiculatis v. basi truncatis cuneatisve 3-lobis obtuse inciso-

crenatis lobulatisve, pedunculis brevibus 2-3-floris, floribus glabris, calycis

tubo supra ovariam campanulato lobis oblongis obtusis brunneis breviore,

petalis minutis flavis, bacca globosa glabra purpurea.

R. oxyacanthoides, Linn. Sp. Pl. 201; DC. Prodr, vol. iii. p. 478; Ait. Hort.

Kew, Ed. 2, vol. ii. p. 43; Nouv. Duhamel, vol. iii. p. 232; Torrey & Gray

Fl. Bor. Am. vol. i. p. 546, excl. var.; Torrey, Fl. U.S. p. 270; A. Gray,

Bot. Calif. vol. i. p. 206; Berland. in Mem. Soc. Genev. p. 58, t. 1, fig. 2 ;

Loud. Arb, Brit. vol. ii. p. 968, fig. 715 ; 8. Watson, Bibl. Index, parti. p. 335,

R. hirtellum, Michz. Fl. Bor. Am. vol. i. p. 111; Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. vol. ii,

p. 231; Torr. & Gr. Fl. Bor, Am.vol.i. p. 546; A. Gray, Man. Bot, N.U.S.

Ed. 5, p. 164; Loud. Arb. Brit. vol. ii. p. 971,

R. saxosum, Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. vol. i. p. 231.

An American Gooseberry of very wide distribution, and

one well worth cultivating on account of its fruit. It

extends from Canada and the Northern United States to

Hudson’s Bay and British North America, and runs down

the Rocky Mountains to New Mexico, occurring also in the

Sierra Nevada of California, where it is found at elevations

of 6000 to 9000 feet, as far south as Mariposa county.

There has been so much confusion between this and &.

Cynosbati, Linn., lacustre, Poir, and setosum, Lindl., that

Gray only accepts it as probably the oayacanthoides of

Linneus. In a paper on “Our Wild Gooseberries”’ by

Gray, published in the ‘“ American Naturalist” (vol. x.

p- 270, May 1876), that author says of the name oryacan-

thoides, that “it must be brought. into use in place of

R. hirtellum, Michx. (which is generally inappropriate), for

no reasonable doubt remains that it is the Hudson’s Bay

Gooseberry figured by Dillenius (Hortus Elthamensis,

p- 166, t. 139, f. 166) upon which Linnzus founded the

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species. It is the common smooth-fruited Gooseberry of

New England and the whole region northward.”

R. oxyacanthoides, or “‘ Currant Gooseberry,” was intro-

duced into England in 1705 by a Mr. Reynardson, and

is mentioned by Plukenet in his “ Amaltheum Botanicum.”

The fruiting specimens figured were kindly sent in August,

1885, by G. Fox, Esq., of Chad Hill, Sandown, Isle

of Wight, and the flowering in April of the present

year. It only remains to add that though smaller than

the common gooseberry, the fruit is as good as the ordinary

varieties of that species, and the skin is much thinner,

and that it has none of the unpleasant musky flavour of

some allied North American species. I have received from

the South of France a small globose purple smooth-skinned

ripe gooseberry in the month of May, which resembles

those of oxyacanthoides so much that I suspect it may be

cultivated there for the sake of its fruit. Loudon states

that the colour of the latter varies from red to green and

purplish blue. It is described as an unfailing cropper,

flourishing when the ordinary gooseberry flags for want

of moisture; and its only drawback is the thorny nature .

of the bush, which renders the berries difficult to pick.

Descr. An erect shrub, two to four feet high; branches

pale, smooth, or with a few scattered bristles ; spines one

to three. Leaves one and a half to two inches broad,

usually semicircular in outline, with a truncate base, but

the latter is sometimes cuneate, three- to five-lobed, lobes

coarsely crenate, pale green and glabrous above, paler and

Sometimes pubescent beneath; petiole very slender, as

long as the blade. Racemes small, short, two- to three-

flowered ; bracts minute ; flowers half an inch in diameter.

Calyw-tube campanulate, green, lobes about as long as the

tube, oblong, tip rounded, reddish-brown. Petals minute,

yellow. Stamens shorter than the calyx-lobes. Ovary

ellipsoid, glabrous; style two-cleft to below the middle,

hairy. Berry globose, three-quarters of an inch in

diameter, green red or purple; skin very tender, quite

glabrous ; pulp sweet. Seeds many.—J. D, H.

Fig. 1, Flowering branch ; 2 iti son

» ; 2, petal; 3, stamens; 4, ovary; 5, fruiting specimen;

2 ay Wh fleshy testa; 7, nucleus and raphe from eed 8, longitudinal section

and embryo ;—all but figs. 1 and 5 enlarged.

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BEFARIA anavea.

Native of New Grenada.

Nat. Ord. Ertcacrm.—Tribe RoopopENDRE®.

Genus Berarta, Mutis. ; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 599.)

Brrarta glauca; ramis foliisque glaberrimis, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis

breviter petiolatis venis obscuris supra late viridibus convexis subtus glaucis,

racemo paniculave erecta laxe multiflora, ramis ramulis pedicellisque minute

sparse puberulis glaberrimisve, bracteis parvis sparsis subulatis, floribus longe

gracile pedicellatis, sepalis rotundatis ciliolatis, petalis lineari-oblongis roseis

“ich 3-5 saturatioribus percursis, filamentis glaberrimis elongatis, antheris

revibus.

B. giauca, Humb. and Bonpl. Pl. Equinoct. vol. i. p. 117, t. 119; Humb.

Bonpl. and Kunth, Nov. Gen. et Sp. vol. iii. p. 291; De Cand. Prodr.

vol. vii. p. 731; Morren, Ann. Soc. Agric., and Bot. de Gand. vol. i. t. 7.

The genus Befaria in habit, inflorescence, colour of

flowers, and the elevations at which the most of the

Species grow, represents in the Andes the Rhododendrons

of the mountains of the Northern Hemisphere; and

it is a noteworthy fact, that they begin in the American

continent exactly where the true Rhododendrons find their

Southern limit. Thus, of the latter genus, 2. punctatum,

Andr. (Bot. Mac., tab. 2285), the most southern species

known, which inhabits the mountains of Georgia and Caro-

lina, also occurs ‘in the pine barrens of West Florida, where

it finds its southern limit; and it is in the sandy soils of

Georgia and East Florida that the most northern species

of Befaria, namely B. racemosa, Vent., is found.

Notwithstanding this, it is not to Rhododendron that the

botanist looks for the nearest allies of Befaria, but to the

comparatively inconspicuous genus Ledwm, which in

America extends from the Arctic regions to the mountains

of Guiana, where also Befaria occurs. Befaria is, in fact,

‘Only distinguished from Ledwm by few other characters

than habit and the size of the flower, and consists in

Ledum having a five-toothed calyx, five or ten stamens,

and an oblong five-valved capsule bursting from the base

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upwards, whilst Befaria has a five- to seven-partite calyx,

and a globose six- to seven-valved capsule bursting (as in

Rhododendron) from the top downwards.

B. glauca was discovered by Humboldt and Bonpland on

the Silla de Caraccas, in the beginning of the century.

It was introduced into cultivation by Jacob Makoy of

Liege, who received seeds from the collector Nicholas

Funk, and flowered plants of it in 1845. Its geographical

range is uncertain; it seems identical with a plant collected

in the colony of Tovar by Fendler (No. 743), and by Pierce

in the Andes of Poruro (9000 ft.) in Peru, and it may hence

prove a form of a species with rusty-pubescent peduncles

and pedicels, which is common in the Andes from New

Grenada southward.

The specimen here figured was raised from seed sent to

Kew by Mr. Robert Thomson (formerly of the Jamaica

Botanical Garden) on his return from an excursion to

the Silla with Professor Ernst of Caraccas in 1879, and

flowered in the Temperate House in April of the present

year. Mr. Thomson says of it, “I first found it at 5500

feet elevation, forming thickets everywhere over the slopes

and ridges up to 7200 feet, the foliage diminishing much

in size at the higher elevations ; so much so that specimens

from the highest spots might be taken for a distinct species.

It grows in a stiff soil, partly of decayed vegetable mould,

and partly of clay. At a height of over 7000 feet I

observed a trunk two feet in diameter, which had been cut

down at about ten feet above the ground, and the top of

which bore branches two feet high. The plant, however,

rarely exceeds eight to ten feet in height.”

The other species of Befaria figured in this work are B. —

coarctata (Tab. 4433), B. estans, Linn. (Tab. 4818), and

B. Mathewsti, Hook. (Tab. 4981).—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Pedicel, calyx and style; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, ovary; 5, transverse

section of the same :—all enlarged.

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IRIS Starenz.

Native of Southern Europe.

Nat. Ord. In1pEx.—Tribe Morzen.

Genus Iris, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 686.)

Ints (Pogoniris) Statelle ; rhizomate breviter repente, foliis ensiformibus erectis

glauco-viridibus caule brevioribus, caule monocephalo subpedali, floribus

evanescentibus, sulphureis viridi venosis, spathis bifloris, valvis oblongis

ventricosis apice marginibusque late scariosis, ovario subsessili, perianthii tubo

cylindrico viridi subunciali, limbi segmentis exterioribus obovato-cuneatis

falcatis dimidio inferiori barbatis, interioribus erectis obovatis unguiculatis,

antheris filamento xquilongis, styli cristis deltoideis serratis.

I. Statelle, Todaro Nuov. Gen. p. 5; Hort. Panorm. p. 23, t. 6; Bull. Soe.

! Bot. France, vol. v. p. 659.

This new Iris is very nearly allied to Iris lutescens of

Lamarck, which was figured long ago in the BorantcaL

Macazine on Plate 2861, differing principally in its more

membranous spathe-valves and broader perianth-segments. .

These two species and J. virescens form a group differing from

_ the German Irises by having only a single cluster of more

fugitive less brightly-coloured flowers. The native country

_ of the present plant is not known clearly. 1t was described

by Professor Todaro from specimens grown in the Botanic

_ Garden of Palermo. It was first imported into this country

a few years ago by Professor M. Foster. Our drawing

was made from plants sent up from Cambridge in the

middle of May by Mr. R. J. Lynch.

Descor. Rhizome short-creeping. Leaves ensiform,

glaucous green at the flowering season, six to nine inches.

long, under an inch broad. Stem about a foot long,

bearing only a single terminal cluster, containing two

flowers ; spathe-valves oblong, ventricose, scariose in the

upper half and on the edge at the flowering season.

Flowers fugitive, pale sulphur-yellow, veined with green ;

ovary subsessile; tube cylindrical, green, about an inch

long; limb above two inches long; outer segments obovate-

cuneate, falcate, with a dense purplish beard, tipped with

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orange-yellow down the lower half; inner segments as

long as the outer, obovate, rounded to a distinct claw.

Anthers as long as the filaments. Styles an inch long, the

serrated deltoid crests reaching to the tip of the beard.—

J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, A single stamen ; 2, style with crests :—doth enlarged.

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TULIPA OSTROWSKIANA.

Native of Turkestan,

Nat. Ord. Litracra.—Tribe Tunipez.

Genus Tunira, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 818.)

Tutrpa Ostrowskiana; bulbo ovoideo tunicis exterioribus atrobrunneis intus

parce adpresse pilosis, caule glabro glauco unifloro triphyllo, foliis glauco-

viridibus marginibus obscure ciliatis, inferiori oblongo semipedali, superioribus

lanceolatis, pedunculo glabro erecto, perianthio campanulato splendide rubro

segmentis conformibus oblongis acutis basi nigro-maculatis, filamentis deorsum

nigrescentibus basi nullo modo pilosis, stigmatibus sessilibus ovario vix

latioribus.

T. Ostrowskiana, Regel in Gartenflora, vol. xxxiii. (1884), p. 34, 71, 358, t, 1144,

fig.1; Deser. Pl. Nov. fase. ix. p. 9.

This is another fine new Tulip from Central Asia. It

was discovered in Eastern Turkestan in the year 1881 by

Dr. Albert Regel, and was named in compliment to Herr

von Ostrowski, chief minister of the department to which

the Imperial Botanic Garden at St. Petersburg belongs.

Of the older-known types it is nearest to 7. Didieri,

Jordan (Bor. Mac. tab. 6639). From T. Gesneriana it

may be known at a glance by all the six segments of the

_ perianth being narrowed to an acute apex and furnished

_ with a small cuneate blotch of black at the base of the claw.

There are two forms, one scarlet, with the outer segments

of the perianth flushed outside with green, and the other

crimson, with the outer segments with a glaucous tint, but

no green. Our plate represents a plant grown at Kew, the

bulbs of which came from Dr. de Regel. With us it

flowers in the open air in the middle of Apri =

_ Dssor. Bulb ovoid. middle-sized ; outer tunics rigid,

brown-black, with a few adpressed hairs inside. Stem

-one-flowered, three-leaved, glaucous, glabrous, about a foot

long. Leaves glaucous, glabrous on the surface, minutely

-Ciliated, erecto-patent; lowest oblong, acute, half a foot

long ; two upper much smaller, lanceolate. Pedwnele erect,

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three or four inches long. Perianth campanulate, bright

red, an inch and a half long; segments uniform, oblong,

acute, furnished with a small black blotch at the base.

Stamens half as long as the perianth; anthers reddish;

filaments tinged with black in the lower half, glabrous at

the base. Ovary cylindrical-trigonous, shorter than the

stamens; stigmas about equalling the ovary in breadth.—

J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, A stamen ; 2, pistil:—doth enlarged.

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CORYDALIS Sewsrzovt.

Native of Western Turkestan.

Nat. Ord. PapaveracEm.—Sub-Ord. FumMarie2.

Genus Corrpauis, DC.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Pl. vol. i. p. 55.)

Corypatis (Bulbocapnos) Sewerzovi ; glaberrima, radice tuberosa, caule pedali

crasso flexuoso carnosulo, foliis infimis suboppositis verticillatisve longe

petiolatis pinnatisectis, foliolis paucis alternis oppositisque obovatis obtusis

apiculatisve glaucis flabellatim nervosis integris v. inzequaliter lobatis, foliis

caulinis bracteisve amplis obovatis obtusis acutis v. acuminatis, floribus paucis

gracillime pedicellatis, sepalis minimis membranaceis dentatis v. lobulatis albis,

corolla sesquipollicari aurea, tubo inferne gibboso calcare elongato robusto

apice incurvo obtuso brunneo multo breviore, limbi labiis equilongis reflexis

marginibus incurvis, stylo filiformi, stigmate discoideo lobulato.

C. Sewerzovi, Regel Pl. Semenov. Fasc. i, Suppl. ii. p. 16, n. 606, and in Garten-

flora, vol. xxxi. (1882), p. 97, t. 1077.

A very handsome species of Corydalis, allied to the

common (. bulbosa, Linn., of our gardens, but with fewer

flowers of very much greater size. Dr. de Regel, to whose

exertions we are indebted for so many beautiful novelties

from Central Asia, first described it in 1870 from specimens

collected by Semenov in 1857, in the cis- and trans-Ili

provinces of Western Turkestan; and he afterwards

figured it in his Garden Flora, from plants which flowered

in the St. Petersburg Garden, and of which roots were

sent by his indefatigable and intrepid son, Dr. Albert Regel.

As a species he regards it as nearest to C. Ledebouriana,

Karel. and Kiril., of Soongaria (which in the “ Flora

Indica,” but not in the Flora of British India, was

erroneously referred to OC. rutefolia), and indeed it much

resembles a greatly enlarged form of that plant. _ ;

C. Sewerzovi was drawn from specimens sent to Kew

by Mr. Elwes, from his garden at Preston, Cirencester, in

February last, where it had flowered in a frame under

protection. It flowered at the same time at Kew, from

tubers, received in June, 1885, from Dr. Aitchison, botanist

to the Affghanistan Boundary Commission.

SEPT. Ist, 1886.

Descr. oot an irregular tuber, about the size of a

small potato. Stems one or more from the root, eight

to twelve inches high, stout, succulent, flexuous and

ascending, unbranched. Leaves pale green, glaucous,

rather fleshy, lower opposite or in a false whorl, from

where the stem leaves the ground, a span long and less,

pinnatisect, long-petioled; pinnules few, opposite and

alternate, an inch long or less, obovate, obtuse or apicu-

late, entire or with one or two irregular lobes or segments;

nerves flabellate, faint; cauline leaves or bracts very large,

sessile, one inch long or less, broadly cuneate, subacute or

with the tip rounded; base often rounded or cordate,

glaucous, usually longer than the peduncles. Flowers few,

distant; pedicels slender. Sepals very minute, mem-

branous, white, irregularly toothed or crenate. Corolla

one and a half inch long, golden yellow with a brownish

tip to the spur; tube gibbously convex below, not half as

long as the very stout curved horizontal cylindric spur,

the tip of which is incurved and obtuse; tips of limb

subequal in length, with broadly incurved margins, the

upper broadest and rounded, the lower ovate obtuse.

Ovary oblong; style very slender, stigma erect disciform

lobulate.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Sepals; 2, bundle of stamens ; 3, pistil :—al/ enlarged.

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GLADIOLUS Korscuyanvs.

Native of Persia and Afghanistan.

Nat. Ord. Intprx.—Tribe Ix1ez.

Genus Giapioius, Linn.; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 709.)

Guiaprotus (Sphexrospora) Kotschyanus; bulbo ovoideo tunicis fibrosis, caulibus

erectis strictis gracilibus 1-2-pedalibus, foliis 2-3 linearibus remote superpositis

rigidulis glabris, floribus 4-12 in spicam laxam secundam dispositis, spathe

valvis lanceolatis firmulis ineequalibus, perianthii rubello-purpurei tubo infundi-

bulari, segmentis anguste obovatis subequilongis tubo 2-3-plo superantibus, 3

inferioribus magis faleatis et unguiculatis facie purpureo saturatiori pulchre

carinatis, genitalibus perianthio distincte brevioribus, seminibus subglobosis

exalatis.

G. Kotschyanus, Boiss. Diagn. ser. 1, part xiii. p. 15; Baker in Journ. Linn

Soc? vol. v. p. 141.

G. imbricatus, var. Kotschyanus, Boiss, Fl. Orient. vol. v. p. 141.

_ This is the first-fruits, from a horticultural point of view,

of Dr. Aitchison’s labours as Botanist to the Affghan

Boundary Commission. The Oriental Gladioli are in a

state of great confusion, for they belong to a group in

which the differential characters of the species are so slight

that they can only be worked out by studying the plant in

all stages of growth, which of course can only be done

properly when it is brought into cultivation. Dr. Aitchison

has brought home a good supply of the present plant in a

late stage of growth, and we have now grown and flowered

it from his seeds at Kew; and after studying this full

material, I feel quite satisfied that it is distinct specifically

from the widely-spread European Gladiolus imbricatus,

_ with which Boissier has lately united it. ‘There are several

allied Oriental forms, as G. subbiflorus, hygrophilus and

libanoticus of Boissier, and G. Raddeanus of Trautvetter,

which also require to be studied under cultivation. Dr.

Aitchison found the present plant growing abundantly

both in Hastern Persia and North-Western Affghanistan as

a weed in cultivated fields at an elevation of five thousand

SEPT. 1st, 1886.

feet above sea-level. With us at Kew it flowered about the

middle of May. The figures of the fruit and seeds are

taken from Dr. Aitchison’s dried specimens.

Desor. Bulb ovoid, under an inch in diameter; outer

tunics brown, with close strong parallel fibres, anasto-

mosing towards the top by a few cross-veinlets. Flower-

ing-stems slender, stiffly erect, one or two feet long,

sheathed for two or three inches at the base by a scariose

rudimentary leaf. Produced leaves generally three, dis-

tantly superposed, linear, glabrous, strongly ribbed, the

central one the largest, half a foot long. lowers four to

twelve, arranged in a lax secund spike; spathe-valves

unequal, lanceolate. Perianth bright lilac-purple ; tube —

funnel-shaped, half an inch long; segments narrowly

obovate, an inch or an inch and a quarter long, the three

lower ones keeled with darker lilac and more spreading

and more distinctly unguiculate than the upper three.

Stamens not reaching to the tip of the perianth-segments ;

anthers linear, half an inch long. Style-branches reaching

to the tip of the anthers. Capsule oblong, half an inch

long. Seeds globose or slightly angled by pressure, not

at all winged, pale brown.—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, Front view of anther; 2, side view of anther; 3, pistil, all enlarged ;

A, spike in fruiting stage, life-size.

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TILLANDSIA FENESTRALIS.

Native of Rio de Janeiro,

Nat. Ord. BRoMELIacex.—Tribe TILLANDSIER.

Genus Tittanpsta, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 669.)

Tintanpsta (Vriesia) fenestralis ; caulibus robustis cespitosis, surculis axillaribus

sessilibus, foliis perplurimis 1-2 pedalibus 2-3 poll. latis recurvis late linearibus

abrupte acuminatis coriaceis viridibus tessellatis, scapo simplici erecto bracteato,

bracteis convolutis appressis, spica erecta stricta robusta, floribus approximatis

distichis horizontalibus sessilibus, bracteis tubulosis crassis teretibus viridibus

brunneo-maculatis ore obliquo sphacelato, sepalis bracteis paulo longioribus

viridibus convolutis, corollz2 subcampanulatz petalis late obovato-oblongis

emarginatis pallide aureis basi 2-squamosis, staminibus inclusis superne

dilatatis, antheris adnatis linearibus, stylo gracili, stigmate minuto.

Vrizsta? fenestralis, Linden and André in Ill. Hortic. 1875, p. 124, t. 215.

Y. fenestralis, Morren in Belgique Hortic. vol. xxxiv. (1884), p. 65, t. 4, 5.

This very striking plant was introduced into cultivation

as early as 1852, by Mr. Linden, when it at once attracted

the attention of Horticulturists by its bold and peculiarly

coloured foliage. It was figured and published by M.

André in 1875, but without flower, as a doubtful Vriesia.

Seeds were sent to the late Prof. Morren, of Liege, by

M. Glaziou, Director of the Imperial Gardens of that city,

in 1856, and from these was raised the flowering specimen

which is figured by that lamented botanist in the ‘* Belgique

Horticole,” together with its full description. From the

latter we learn that the flowers expand successively after

two or three days’ interval; they open after midday, and

remain open till the following morning, when the petals

wither. The flowers exude an acid secretion, tasting of

Vinegar, and which reddens litmus paper. This is also

the case with V. bitwminosa, Wawra. Our specimen was

purchased at the sale of Prof. Morren’s plants, and

flowered in June of the present year.

Dsscr. A very robust densely tufted plant, with a

short stout stem, and numerous recurved leaves. Leaves

oct. Ist, 1886,

one to two feet long, and two to three inches broad, linear,

abruptly acuminate, with a brown rigid tip, concave, pale

green with innumerable parallel dark green veins and cross

veins. Scape a foot high, strict, erect, clothed with dark

green acute convolute bracts. Spike a foot and a half

high, strict, stout. Flowers sessile, distichous, horizontal,

two to two and a half inches long; bracts dark green

spotted with brown, tubular, rather gibbous at the base ;

mouth oblique, margins brown membranous. Sepals

half as long as the bract or less, dark green, convolute.

Corolla narrowly campanulate; petals broadly obovate-

oblong, convolute, emarginate, exserted from one-third to

one-half their length, pale golden-yellow; scales two,

basal, ovate, acuminate. Stamens included, filaments

dilated upwards; anthers linear. Ovary elongate-ovoid ;

style very slender, stigma minute, three-lobed.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Plant reduced; 2, leaf, and 3, spike of the natural size; 4, petal and

stamen ; 5 and 6, stamens; 7, pistil:—ad/ enlarged.

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BEGON ITA Jounsront.

Native of Tropical Africa.

Nat. Ord. Brconracez.

Genus Braonta, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p- 842.)

Breonta (Diploclinium) Johnstoni ; monoica, caulescens, caule erecto robusto,

ramis pedunculis petiolisque:elongatis crassis, foliis longe petiolatis mem-

branaceis valde oblique ovatis profunde unilateraliter cordatis, lobis rotundatis

imbricatis, margine irregulariter crenato, subtus sparse pilosis, subtus apicem

versus petioli annulo setarum instructo, stipulis magnis late ovatis obtusis,

bracteis ovato-rotundatis obtusis v. subacutis, cymis 4-floris, floribus roseis

cernuis, fl. mase, 4, fl. fem. 5-6, sepalis late obovatis oblongisve pallide rosels,

staminibus perplurimis, filamentis liberis, stylis 3 brevibus basi connatis ramis

subflabellatis fascia papillosa subspiraliter torta continua, capsula trialata

ala una majore porrecta obtusa, placentis 2-partitis.

B. Johnstoni, Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ined.

The subject of this plate. is alluded to by Prof. Oliver

under his description of B. Johnstoni cited above, which

was prepared from a very indifferent specimen of a plant

gathered by Mr. Johnston on his expedition to Kilimanjaro,

at an elevation of 5000 to 6000 feet on that mountain.

Whether the two are quite the same specifically cannot be

positively ascertained till better specimens of the Kili-

manjaro plant are obtained ; meanwhile they agree in too

many important points to induce me to pronounce them

distinct. The chief differences are, that B. Johnstont has

a blood-red stem, its young leaves are irregularly toothed

_ rather than crenate, the bracts are more acute, the scattered

hairs on the under surface of the leaf are confined to the

nerves, and the wing of the fruit is shorter and broader.

Add to this that the two come from very far apart localities,

the seeds of that here figured having been sent by the late

Bishop Hannington from the Masai country, a district far

to the north-west of Kilimanjaro (probably from the Usigara.

Mountains). |

B. Johnstoni belongs to the Asiatic section of the genus

Diploctinium, and differs from most of the African Begonias

oct. lst, 1886,

in the bipartite placentas. For the seeds the Royal

Gardens are indebted to Mr. Mitten, A.L.S., of Hurst-

pierpoint, who received them from Bishop Hannington in

1884; the plants raised from them flowered at Kew in

April, 1886.

Descr. A tall, succulent, robust, branched species,

twelve to eighteen inches high; stem, branches, petioles,

peduncle and pedicels pale watery green with scarlet stria.

Leaves \ong-petioled, four to six inches long, obliquely

ovate, acute, coarsely crenate, deeply two-lobed at the

lateral base where the rounded lobes overlap, dark green

above, paler beneath with soft scattered hairs; nerves

radiating from the top of the petiole; petiole as long as the

blade, clothed at the top with soft white reversed bristles,

which also form a ring round its insertion. Cymes long-

peduncled, four- to six-flowered ; flowers pale rose-coloured,

pedicelled, drooping, one or two females in each cyme.

Matz FL. one and a half to two inches in diameter. Sepals

four, outer broadly oblong, inner larger, more obovate.

Stamens very numerous, filaments free; anthers subglobose.

_ Feware ru. smaller. Sepals five, outer obovate-oblong.

Ovary three-celled, placentas bipartite; stigmas three,

short, united at the base; arms twisted with a continuous

papillose band. Capsule three-winged, one wing protruded,

upeurved obliquely, triangular-ovate, obtuse.—J. D. H.

: Fig. 1, Top of petiole and base of leaf; 2, stamens; 3, transverse section of

immature capsule; 4, stigmas :—all but fig. 1 enlarged.

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LEONTICE <Axserrt.

Native of Western Turkestan.

Nat. Ord. BerseripEx.—Tribe Berperex.

Genus Lronticz, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p- 43.)

Leronticr Alberti; tubere depresso-globoso, caulibus robustis, foliis subradicalibus

2 longe petiolatis digitatim 5-foliolatis, foliolis per anthesin involutis, demum

late elliptico-oblongis apice rotundatis, stipulis amplis viridibus venosis,

sediment florifero robusto, racemo basi foliis oppositis instructo conico multi-

floro, bracteis latis orbiculatis flabelliformibusve, floribus amplis ochroleucis,

sepalis oblongis, petalis parvis cuneato oblongis truncatis concavis, ovario ovoideo

stipitato. ;

L. Alberti, Regel, Gartenflora, 1881, p. 293, t. 1057, f. 2.

This is one of the many interesting discoveries of Dr. de

Regel’s distinguished son, made during his extensive

wanderings in Central Asia. Its exact habitat is on the

Western Alatau Mountains, between Tashkend and Samar-

cand. It is allied to the Z. altaica of the Siberian Altai,

and indeed represents a gigantic form of that species.

The specimen here figured was communicated by Mr.

Elwes from his garden at Preston, Cirencester, with whom

it flowered in April of the present year. Froma comparison

with the plate given by Dr. Regel in the “ Gartenflora,” it

will be seen that when the latter was made the plant had

not attained its full development. :

Descr. Tuber two inches broad, oblately spherical, much

depressed at the top. Stems several from the top of the

tuber, very stout, each usually giving off two subradical

long-petioled undeveloped (at the flowering time) leaves,

and a very stout flowering stem; and it is only long after

the flowering of the latter that the two aforesaid leaves

attain their full development. Fully-formed Jeaves on

petioles four to five inches long, subdigitately five-partite

into as many pale green glaucous rather fleshy sessile

elliptic-obtuse leaflets; nerves obscure above, parallel and

more prominent beneath; stipules three-quarters of an

oor. Isx, 1886.

inch long, broadly oblong, green with deeper green veins.

Flowering-stem six to eight inches high, very robust, naked

below, bearing below the conical raceme one or two pairs

of opposite leaves with the leaflets convolute during

flowering, and with large broad stipules often tipped with

red-brown at the base of the petiole; bracts like the

stipules, but darker-coloured, shorter and broader. Flowers

nearly one inch in diameter, ochreous yellow, streaked with

red-brown at the back. Sepals spreading, oblong, obtuse.

Petals small, erect, cuneately oblong, with a crenate

truncate apex, rather shorter than the stamens, concave in

front and tubular at the base. Stamens short, anthers

oblong. Ovary stipitate, ovoid, narrowed into the stout

curved style-—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Bud with bract; 2, flower with sepals removed; 3, petal; 4 and 5,

stamens ; 6, stamen with anther valves spreading ; 7, ovary and top of pedicel; 8,

top of pedicel and ovules :—all enlarged.

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COLCHICUM Troonn.

Native of Cyprus.

Nat. Ord. Lin1acrm.—Tribe Coucnicrn.

Genus Cotcnicum, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 821.)

Cotcuicum (Arenarii) Troodii ; cormo mediocri, tunicis castaneis apice productis,

foliis 3-6 hysteranthiis vernalibus recurvis loratis 6-12 poll. longis 2-1 poll.

latis apice obtuse angustatis, floribus perplurimis autumnalibus niveis, peri-

anthii tubo 2-3-pollicari, limbi lobis pollicaribus linearibus acutis, staminibus

perianthii lobis dimidio brevioribus, antheris linearibus luteis, stylis tubo

wquilongis, stigmatibus oblique truncatis, capsula ovoideo-oblonga acuta 3 poll.

longa pedicellata, carpellis longe rostratis.

C. Troodi, Kotschy in Unger and Kotschy Cyprus, p. 190; Boiss. Fl. Orient.

vol. v. p. 161; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xvii. p. 430.

A native of the Island of Cyprus, where it was discovered

by that indefatigable Oriental traveller and collector, Dr.

Kotschy, on the mountains of Prodromum and Troodos.

It has not been found elsewhere, though it may occur in

Asia Minor, as Boissier mentions having a plant with

similar leaves collected by Bourgeau on Mount Elami in

Lydia. Asa species it comes very near to the C. neapoli-

tanum, differing, according to Baker, in its more robust

habit, more numerous flowers, and broader leaves, to

which Boissier adds the rounded tips of the latter. The

flowers are described by Kotschy as purplish lilac, and by

Boissier as pale rose-coloured with the perianth-segments

lanceolate and acute, none of which characters are shown

in the piant here figured, the flower of which is of a lovely

white, with linear oblong rather obtuse perianth-lobes.

The specimen here figured was flowered by Mr. Elwes

in his garden near Cirencester in November, 1885, and its

leaves arrived at maturity in the following April.

Descr. Corm one and a half to two inches in diameter;

coats a rich chestnut-brown, produced upwards round the

base of the white membranous spathe that is tinged with

pink. Leaves three to six, appearing in spring long after

the flowers, six to twelve inches long, by two-thirds to one

oct. Ist, 1886,

inch broad, strap-shaped, abruptly rounded at the rather

narrowed tip, dark green above, paler beneath. Flowers

very numerous, aS many as twelve, appearing in late

autumn. Perianth pure white; tube two to three inches

long, slender; throat funnel-shaped, glabrous; lobes

nearly an inch long, linear-oblong or almost strap-shaped,

obtuse or subacute. Stamens less than half the length of

the perianth-lobes, erect, filaments slender; anthers hnear,

yellow. Style about as long as the perianth-tube, slender,

stigma obliquely truncate. Capsule pedicelled, ovoid-

oblong, acute, three-quarters of an inch long; carpels with

long beaks.—J. D. H.

Figs. 1 and 2, Stamens ; 3, top of a style :—both enlarged.

Tas. 6902.

IRIS EULEFELDI.

Native of Eastern Turkestan. ~

Nat. Ord. Intpzrx.—Tribe MorEx.

Genus Iris, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p- 686.)

Ir1s Eulefeldi; rhizomate compacto, foliis 5-6 confertis glauco-viridibus, seapo

pedali 2-floro medio 1-foliato, floribus inodoris, spathe valvis 2-3-pollicaribus

subnavicularibus acutis viridibus demum divergentibus membranaceis et

mae pedicellis bracteis multo brevioribus, perianthii tubo crasso ovario

uplo longiore, segmentis exterioribus anguste cuneato-obovatis obtusis,

ungue brunneo lineato, limbo pendulo lilacino basin versus nervis brunneo-

purpureis lineato, barba densa alba apicibus aureis, segmentis interioribus

erectis oblanceolatis ungue elongato aureo brunneo striato et punctato, lamina

purpureo-brunnea striata, stigmatibus oblongis patulis ceruleis segmentis

interioribus perianthii paullo brevioribus, lobis dimidiato-oblongis serratis,

antheris linearibus.

I. Eulefeldi, Regel in Act. Hort. Petrop. vol. v. p. 633; Gartenflora, vol. xxvii.

(1878), p. 324, t. 954.

I, glaucescens, Bunge, var. 8. Eulefeldi, Maxim. in Bull. Acad. Petersh, vol. xxv.;

Regel Descript. Pl. Nov. fase, vii. p. 212.

Prof, Michael Foster, F.R.S., to whom I am indebted

for the following description and remarks, informs me that

I. Bulefeldi is a shy flowerer, but that the foliage remains

green all summer, not dying down in July and shooting

again in August like the Oncocycli and many other Central

Asian Irises. It dies down late in autumn, and does not

shoot again till March or April. The colour of the flower

is of extraordinary beauty and delicacy, very difficult to

describe. As yet, Prof. Foster adds, I know no Iris like

it, being unlike the Oncocycli, or any of our European

dwarf species of the genus. It makes a distant approach

to I. Blondowi, but without capsule and seeds its amount

of affinity cannot be determined. Its distinctive features

are its rhizome, foliage, spathe-valve, colour of flower, and

especially the form of the narrow long cuneate segments

of the perianth. Maximovicz makes it a variety of J.

scariosa, Pallas (I. glaucescens, Bunge), but according to

oct. Ist, 1886.

Ledebour’s description of that plant, I. Hulefeldi would

appear to be abundantly distinct.

The treatment of I. Hulefeldi is that of I. cberica, namely,

keeping it dry, and under glass in summer. It flowered in

the Botanical Gardens of Cambridge in May, and in Kew

at about the same time, and is a native of mountains near

Suidun at an elevation of 5000 to 6000 feet.

Drscr. Rhizome compact, as in ordinary Pogoniris, the

new bud remaining attached to the old part of the rhizome

by a broad base about an inch in diameter, not by a

narrow prolonged base as in I. Korokovi, Leichtlinii and

others of the Oncocycla group. Leaves five to six in

a cluster, one foot or more long, and one inch or more

broad, more or less falcate, acute, of so remarkably glaucous

a grey green colour that the species may thereby be

recognized from all others at present in cultivation. Scape

about one foot high, with a bract or sheathing leaf about

half-way up, bearing at the summit two flowers with

spathe-valves, Spathe-valves two by five-eighths of an

inch, pointed, subnavicular, veins obscure, pale green at

first, finally colourless and diverging, exposing the ovary.

Tube of perianth thick, about twice as long as the ovary,

red-purple. Outer segments cuneate-obovate, obtuse, very

recurved ; veins brown, or purplish on the claw, purple on

the limb; beard long, exceeding the claw, hairs white, tips

blue-purple, papillose. Inner segments erect, connivent,

narrowly cuneate-spathulate, veins thickish and red-

brown on the yellow claw, redder on the blade with blue-

purple prolongations of a peculiar hue towards the margin.

Anthers narrow; pollen scanty, blue, fine-grained. Style

tall, blue-purple.—M. Foster.

Figs. 1 and 2, Anthers; 3, top of style and stigmatic surfaces :—both enlarged.

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STREPTOCARPUS Donnu.

Native of the Transvaal.

Nat. Ord. Gesyeracex.—Tribe Cyrtay prer.

Genas Srrerrocarres, Lindl. ; (Benth. et Hook. J. Gen. Pi. vol. ii. p. 1023.)

StrEprocarrvs Dunnii ; molliter glanduloso-pubescens v. tomentosns, folio maximo

ts egg sessili ovato-oblongo obtuso margine irregulariter lobulato et

crenato reticulatim venoso inter venas bullato, costa crassa subtus villosa,

scapis perplurimis confertis seriatim evolutis robustis paniculas maltifloras

secundifloras gerentibus, floribus 1}-pollicaribus pallide lateritio-roseis breviter

pedicellatis inclinatis cernuisve, calycis segmentis lineari-oblongis, corolla

curva tubuloso-infundibulari puberula, lobis brevibus tis ciliolatis

capsula pollicari tomentosa.

Strerrocanrrvs, n. sp., Masters in Gard. Chron. vol. xxv. (1886), p- 625.

This magnificent plant, which is quite the monarch of its

beautiful genus, belongs to the unifoliate section, along

with S. polyantha, Hook. (Tab. 4850), S. Saundersii, Hook.

(Tab. 5251), and several other South African species, in

all of which (and as far as is known in all the genus) the

only or principal leaf is the growth of one of the cotyledons

of the minute embryo. This curious fact was made known

almost simultaneously by two independent observers ; first

in 1859 by Dr. Caspary, as mentioned in the “ Botanische

Zeitung” for that year (p. 240), and then in 1860 by the

late Mr. Crocker, when foreman of the propagating pits

at Kew, in the case of S. polyanthus, who published an

account of it in the Journal of the Linnean Society (vol. v.,

p. 65, t. 4, f£.1—8). The development of Streptocarpus—

has also been taken up in Germany, and is treated of in —

an elaborate paper by Hielscher, in Cohn’s “ Beitrage

(ot ps: 1; t: 1-8).

Amongst the one-leaved Streptocarpi the nearest ally of

| 8. Dunnii is 8. Saundersii, which, like it, has small nearly

orbicular anthers, and glabrous filaments ; S. polyanthus,

on the other hand, differs widely in the almost hypo-

erateriform corolla with long obovate lobes, and especially

in the large oblong anthers, which, as well as the filaments,

Nov. Ist, 1886. | as

are hairy. Possibly this great difference in the anthers

may be sufficient to establish sectional characters in the

genus of more importance than the foliage.

S. Dunnii is a native of Spitzkop, in the mountains of

the Transvaal goldfields, at elevations of 3600 to 6000 ft.,

whence seeds were sent to Kew by Mr. H. G. Dunn, of

Oaklands, Claremont, Cape Town, in 1884, From these a

profusion of plants have been raised at Kew, which in

1886 formed a conspicuous ornamental border in the

Succulent House, flowering in May and June, and fruiting

in August. The leaves have attained the extraordinary

dimensions of over three feet long, by sixteen inches broad,

and are still growing.

Dusor. Base of the very short stem as thick as the

thumb, villous, as are the young scapes, inflorescence, and

midrib beneath, with soft subglandular hairs that turn

rufous when dry. Leaf solitary, eighteen to thirty-six

inches long, sessile, horizontal and decurved, broadly

oblong, obtuse, base rounded, contracted or subcordate,

margin lobulate and coarsely irregularly crenate, upper

surface reticulate and bullate between the nerves, finely

pubescent, under surface tomentose, except the very broad

villous costa. Scapes numerous (six to eight or more),

uniseriate from the very base of the leaf, stout, erect, a

foot high, bearing much-branched panicles of unilateral

glandular-pubescent or tomentose racemes. Flowers one

and a half inch long or more, at length drooping ; pedicels

short. Sepals one-third of an inch long, linear-oblong.

Corolla curved, between tubular and _ funnel-shaped,

variable in brightness of tint, pale or bright rose-coloured

with a bright red tinge, puberulous externally; lobes

rounded, subciliate, two upper smallest. Stamens small,

included, quite glabrous; filaments rather slender, in-

curved, contracted near the base; anthers orbicular;

rudimentary stamens very minute. Capsule one inch long,

tomentose; style pubescent.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Reduced figure of whole plant ; 2, plant of the natural size; 3, calyx and

style; 4, corolla laid open; 5 and 6, anthers; 7, ovary, disk and pedicel ; 8, fruit

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KARATAS ACANTHOCRATER.

Native of Brazil.

Genus Karatas, Adans. ; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p- 660.)

Karatas (Nidularium) acanthocrater ; acaulis, foliis 20-30 loratis obtusis cuspi-

datis patulis rigidulis facie viridibus sepe maculatis dorso tenuiter lepidotis

margine atrobrunneis spinis crebris validis ascendentibus armatis, foliis inte-

rioribus brevioribus pulchre purpureo suffusis, floribus pluribus in capitulum

_globosum centralem aggregatis, bracteis lanceolatis viridibus, ovario cylindrico,

calycis segmentis oblongo-lanceolatis cuspidatis, corolle tubo cylindrico —

segmentis ovatis cuspidatis falcatis violaceis, staminibus ad corolla faucem

uniseriatis filamentis brevibus antheris oblongis, stylo elongato, stigmatibus

spiraliter convolutis.

Nidularium acanthocrater, Morren in Belg. Hort. vol. xxxiv. (1884), p. 140,

tab. 9.

This new species is one of the finest of the curious

Bromeliacez with a nest-like habit of growth. In general

appearance it closely resembles the three best-known

garden species, N. fulgens, N. Meyendorfii, and N. Inno-

centii, but the colouring of the inner leaves, instead of

being red, is purple. There are two varieties, one

(Plutonis) in which the purple shades off in the direction

of red, and the other (Proserpinw) in which it has a bluish

tinge. The plant is a native of the forests of South Brazil,

and was first sent to Europe by the indefatigable Dr.

Glaziou in 1877. It flowered for the first time in the

Botanic Garden of Liege in 1881, and a stock was raised

and distributed in commerce by M. Jacob-Makoy and Co.

shortly after. Our drawing was made from a plant that

flowered at Kew in May, 1886. Nidulariwm is a name

which is universally used as generic in gardens, but it was

reduced to a section of Karatas by Mr. Bentham.

Desor. Acaulescent. Leaves twenty or thirty, arranged

in a dense rosette, spreading, lorate, cuspidate, the outer a

foot long, two and a half or three inches broad at the

middle, three or four inches at the dilated base, firm in

texture, green and often spotted with brown-black on the

Noy. Ist, 1886,

face, slightly lepidote on the back, margined with a brown-

black line, and furnished with copious large ascending

prickles of the same colour. Inner leaves reduced in size,

and flushed with purple towards the base; innermost

small and altogether purple. Capitulum dense, many-

flowered, sessile in the centre of the rosette of leaves;

bracts lanceolate, green. Ovary cylindrical; segments of

the calyx-limb oblong-lanceolate, cuspidate. Corolla a

little longer than the calyx-limb; tube cylindrical; seg-

ments falcate, ovate cuspidate, bright lilac. Stamens

arranged in a single row at the throat of the corolla-tube ;

filaments very short; anthers oblong. Style elongated ;

stigmas spirally twisted.—J. G. Baker.

, Fig. 1, The whole plant, much reduced ; 2, a portion of a plant, life-size; 3,a

single flower, complete, with its subtending bract; 4, portion of corolla, cut open,

showing three stamens; 5, summit of style, with stigmas :—all enlarged.

6905.

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ACHILLEA noupzstris.

Native of Southern Italy.

Nat. Ord. Comrosirm.—Tribe ANTHEMIDER.

Genus AcHiLLEa, Linn.; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p- 419.)

AcuititEd (Montane) rupestris ; humile, laxe cespitosum, stoloniferum, rhizo-

mate lignoso, caulibus erectis v. ascendentibus glanduloso-puberulis, foliis

radicalibus rosulatis lineari-spathulatis obtusis subacutisve integerrimis griseo-

viridibus, caulinis sparsis consimilibus interdum basin versus uno latere

dentatis capitulis corymbosis 3-3-poll. latis, involucro late ovoideo, bracteis

aucis dorso glandulosis marginibus scariosis fimbriatis, paleis lanceolatis,

Raribas radii paucis, tubo brevi glanduloso, ligulis rotundatis imbricatis albis

3-crenatis, disci paucis, acheniis rufo-brunneis. 2

A. rupestris, Huter in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. 1879, p. 281; Heimerl Monog.

Ptarmic. (1884), p. 38.

The Southern Apennines of Calabria have only recently

been examined closely by botanists, and have yielded a

considerable number of new or very interesting plants,

including some that had previously been supposed to be

confined to the mountains of Greece. Achillea rupestris is

one of these novelties, and a very scarce one, having been

collected in one spot only, namely, at Polinello, on the

precipitous calcareous rocks of the Pollino Mountains, at

an elevation of between 5000 and 6000 feet, where it was

discovered by Signors Huter, Porta, and Rigo, in 1877. It

is quite hardy in England, and is a very attractive plant

for the rock-garden, where it flowered for the first time

at Kew in May of the present year.

The Achilleas of the Ptarmica section have been made

the subject of an elaborate monograph by Anton Heimerl,

published by the Royal Academy of Sciences of Vienna, in

which twenty-one species are described, together with

eighteen hybrids. It is a remarkable fact that though the

section Ptarmica extends all round the globe in north

temperate latitudes, no species is found in the Himalaya

-- or in Tibet.

Nov. Ist, 1886.

~Descr. ootstock much branched, tufted, with many

short leafy stolons. Leaves on the shoots rosulate, a

quarter to half an inch long, linear-spathulate, obtuse

or subacute, closely pubescent, greyish green, quite entire ;

cauline scattered, similar, spreading, the upper sometimes

toothed towards the base on one side. Corymbs one to

one and a half inches in diameter; heads pedicelled, one-

half to three-quarters of an inch broad. Jnvolucre short,

of few, oblong, grey, slightly pubescent bracts, with scarious

fimbriate margins. Palew of the receptable scarious,

lanceolate. ay-flowers few, with very short glandular

tubes, and large rounded imbricating obtusely ‘three-

toothed or -lobed snow-white rays. Disk-flowers few.

Achenes red-brown.—J. D. H.

Figs. 1 and 2, Bracts of the involucre ; 3, ray-flower; 4, disk-flower ; 5, stamens ;

6, style of disk-flowers :—all enlarged.

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TILLAN DSIA_ cnHrysostacHys.

Native of Peru.

Nat. Ord. Brometiacram.—Tribe TILLANDSIER.

Genus Tittanpsta, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 669.)

TILLANDsta (Vriesea) chrysostachys ; acaulis, foliis 20-30 dense rosulatis lanceo-

latis faleatis viridibus haud lepidotis dorso deorsum brunneo tinctis, pedunculo

elongato foliis pluribus reductis rigidulis imbricatis tecto, spicis distichis

elongatis simplicibus vel furcatis, bracteis ovatis navicularibus imbricatis

citrinis, floribus bracteis zequilongis, sepalis liberis lanceolatis, petalis ligulatis

obtusis luteis basi appendiculatis, staminibus petalis brevioribus, stylo elongato,

stigmatibus brevibus patulis.

Vriesea chrysostachys, E. Morren in Belg. Hort. vol. xxxi. (1881), p. 87.

This beautiful new species of Vriesea was introduced

into cultivation by Messrs. Veitch in the year 1881. They

received it from their collector, Mr. Davis, who discovered

it in the forests of the Peruvian Andes. It was described

at the time by the late lamented Professor Edward Morren,

but has never been figured. The striking point about it

is the long yellow spike, in allusion to which the specific

lame was given, and which remains in good condition for a

long time, as the coloration resides mainly in the coriaceous

_ bracts. Our drawing was made from a plant that flowered

at Kew in May, 1886.

Descr. Acaulescent. eaves about thirty, arranged in

a dense rosette, lanceolate, thin in texture for the Order,

entire, a foot or a foot and a half long, two or two anda

half inches broad at the middle, bright green on the face,

without any bands or spots, paler green on the back,

tinged towards the base with claret-brown. Peduncle stiffly

erect, about a foot long, hidden by the sheathing im-

bricated ovate adpressed bract-leaves. Spikes one or

two, distichous, half a foot or a foot long; bracts ovate,

navicular, an inch long, imbricated, bright lemon-yellow.

Flowers not protruded beyond the bracts. Sepals free,

Nov. Ist, 1886. :

lanceolate, half an inch long. Petals ligulate, obtuse,

bright yellow, an inch long, each appendiculate with a

quadrate membranous scale above the base. Stamens

shorter than the petals. Pistil nearly as long as the

corolla; style slender, elongated; stigmas short, spread-

ing.—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, Whole plant, much reduced; 2, leaf; 3, spike, both life-size; 4, a

complete flower; 5, a petal and three stamens; 6,a single anther; 7, complete

pistil; 8, stigmas :—all more or less enlarged.

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BRODIAA Doverasit.

Native of California, Sc.

Nat. Ord. Litiacex.—Tribe ALLIEZ.

Genus Broprxa, Smith; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pi. vol. iii. p- 880.)

Broprxa Douglasii; bulbo parvo globoso tunicis exterioribus fibrosis sursum

reticulatis, foliis 2 linearibus flaccidis viridibus carinatis scapo brevioribus,

seapo gracili tereti, umbellis multifloris, spathe valvis 2-3 parvis membranaceis

brunneis lanceolatis, pedicellis cernuis flore brevioribus, perianthio infundi-

bulari hyacinthino, segmentis oblongis acutis tubo squilongis, staminibus

biseriatis prope tubi faucem insertis antheris oblongis, 3 exterioribus subses-

silibus 3 exterioribus filamentis brevibus preditis, pistillo tubo wquilongo,

ovario distincte stipitato.

Brodiza Douglasii, S. Wats. in Proc. Amer. Acad. vol. xiv. p. 237; Bot. Calif.

vol. ii. p. 154.

Triteleia grandiflora, Lind. in Bot. Reg. sub tab. 1293; Hook. Fl. Bor. Amer.

vol. ii. p. 186, tab. 198 B.

Milla grandiflora, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xi. p. 380.

This is one of the finest representatives of the large

Western American genus Brodica. In my monograph in

the Journal of the Linnean Society, just cited, I classified

under Brodiwa only those species in which three out of

the six stamens are suppressed, but Mr. Bentham, following

Dr. Sereno Watson, has added to these a large number of

closely-related hexamerous species, and as thus understood

the genus now includes between thirty and forty species.

Hookera of Salisbury has a slight priority over Brodiaa

of Smith. The present plant has a wide distribution

through California, Oregon, Washington territory, and

British Columbia. It was introduced into cultivation long

ago by Douglas, but was soon lost. We had it from Mr.

Elwes in 1876. Our drawing was made from a plant that

flowered at Kew in May, 1886, the bulb of which came

from our enterprising correspondent, Mr. C. G. Pringle,

who, after a residence of many years 1n Vermont, is now

busily engaged in exploring the botany of Arizona and the

north of Mexico.

nov. Ist, 1886.

Descr. Bulb small, globose; outer tunics of fine fibres,

netted in the upper part. Leaves generally two to a bulb,

linear, bright green, flaccid, deeply channelled down the

face, shorter than the scape. Scape slender, terete, a foot

or a foot and a half long. Flowers ten or twenty,

hyacinth-blue, inodorous, arranged in a dense umbel;

spathe-valves two or three, small, brown, lanceolate ;

pedicels cernuous, shorter than the flowers. Perianth

infundibuliform, an inch long; segments oblong, acute, as

long as the tube; three inner rather crisped. Stamens

biseriate, inserted near the throat of the perianth-tube;

three outer subsessile; three inner with short filaments ;

anthers small, oblong. Pistil about as long as the perianth-

tube; ovary distinctly stalked.—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, Bulb, life-size ; 2, a flower, cut open; 3, anther, front view; 4, anther,

back view; 5, pistil:—all enlarged.

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ALPINIA motica.

Native of the Malay Islands.

Nat. Ord. SctramiInE&®.—Tribe ZINZIBERER.

' Genus Aupinia, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p- 648.)

ALPINIA mutica; elata, robusta, foliis breviter petiolatis vaginisque glaberrimis

oblanceolatisve acuminatis basi acutis lineari-lanceolatis, thyrsis robustis

breviter crasse pedunculatis sericeo-tomentosis erectis multifloris, pedicellis

brevibus crassis ovariisque subglobosis tomentosis, calyce 2 poll. longo eylin-

draceo oblique truncato albo basi apiceque sanguineo, corollz alba tubo calyce

incluso, segmento postico cucullato obtuso, lateralibus lineari-oblongis, stami-

nodiis lateralibus brevibus, labello amplo late ovato aurantiaco sanguineo-

nervoso, filamento crasso, anthere lineari-oblonge connectivo crassissimo

pubescente apice obtuse 3-dentato, stigmate cupulari piloso.

A. mutica, Rorb. Fl. Ind. Ed. Carey, vol. i. p. 65; Monand. Plants, t. 47;

#1. Ind. (Calcutta Edition) vol. i. p. 67; Horaninov. Prodr. Monogr. Scitam.

op. 34.

This noble Alpinia was introduced into cultivation sixty

years ago, but has long since passed into oblivion in so far

as European gardens are concerned. It was sent by Dr.

Roxburgh from the Calcutta Botanical Gardens, in about

1825, to that of Liverpool, the latter at that time being

extraordinarily rich in. Scitamineous plants. This was

owing to the enlightened patronage of the late Wm.

Roscoe, Esq., a wealthy merchant of that city, and the

well-known author of the “ Life of Lorenzo de Medici.”

The figure published by Roscoe is a very indifferent one,

_ showing that the plant bad not attained maturity ; that here

given better agrees with Roxburgh’s description. Accord-

ing to the latter author, A. mutica is a native of the forests

_ of Prince of Wales Island (Penang), whence it was brought

to Caleutta by Dr. Roxburgh himself. The plant from

_ which the accompanying drawing was made was presented

to Kew by Mr. Bull, and came from Borneo; it flowered

im the Palm-house in November, 1882, and again in April,

1886. Roxburgh describes the stems as usually biennial,

perishing after the ripening of the seed.

pre. Isr, 1836.

Descr. Stems many, tufted, erect, four to six feet high.

Leaves bifarious, a foot long by two to three inches broad

exclusive of the sheath, quite glabrous, linear-lanceolate,

finely acuminate, base acute, bright green above, paler

beneath, midrib pale; petiole very short; sheath three to

five inches long, striated ; ligule short, obtuse. Panicle or

contracted raceme (thyrse)-erect, a foot high by five inches

in diameter, densely silkily tomentose; rachis very stout,

peduncles and pedicels very short and stout; bracts oblong,

caducous. lowers two and a half inches long, drooping.

Calyz-tube cylindric, slightly curved, obliquely truncate and

obscurely lobed, white; before opening it is oblong, with

vivid scarlet base and tip. Petals white; dorsal large,

cucullate, obtuse; lateral linear-oblong, obtuse, concave.

Lip broadly orbicular-ovate, margin and tips recurved and

waved, bright orange-coloured with undefined radiating

scarlet streaks. Staminodes short, lobed. Filament stout,

white; anther pubescent, cells very narrow; connective

very thick, tip truncate, obtusely lobed. Ovary globose,

villous, green.— J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower, with the perianth removed ; 2, anther; 3, ovary and staminodes ;

4, transverse section of ovary :—all enlarged.

Tas. 6909,

ARISTOLOCHIA Exxcays.

Native of Brazil.

Nat. Ord. ARISTOLOCHIACER.

Genus Anrstozocuta, Linn. ; (Benth, et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 123.)

Anistotocuta (Gymnolobus) elegans; suffruticosa, scandens, glaberrima, ramis

gracillimis, foliis longe petiolatis membranaceis reniformi-cordatis obtusis

5-7-nerviis, subtus glaucescentibus, stipulis falcato-oblongis -orbiculatisve,

floribus solitariis longe pedicellatis pendulis, perianthii tubo oblongo inflato

abrupte in limbum refractum desinente limbo breviter infundibulari dein

expanso concavo ambitu suborbiculato hine cordato extus albo purpureo

venoso, intus purpureo albo reticulato circa orem parvum velutino, fauce luteo-

viridi, styli lobis 6 brevibus erectis obtusis, antheris 6 loculis angustis.

A. elegans, Masters in Gard. Chron. N.S. xxiv. (1855), p. 301, f. 64.

This, as Dr. Masters observes, is nearly allied to A.

Ruiziana, Duchartre (A. Duchartrei, André, Tab. nostr.

5880), which, however, differs notably in the racemose

_ inflorescence, and in the much longer tube of the limb of

_ the corolla. A. elegans is much the most graceful plant

of the two, and indeed well deserves its name. It is a

native of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil, whence Herbarium

specimens have been sent to Kew by the Superintendent

of Public Parks and Plantations, the indefatigable Senr.

Glaziou; but our living specimen was received from Dr.

Capanema, of Rio. Mr. Bull has also introduced it into

cultivation, and the specimen figured in the ‘‘ Gardener’s

Chronicle” is from his establishment. Our specimen

flowered in a tropical house at Kew in August of the

present year. There are in the Kew Herbarium specimens

of apparently the same species from the Parana River in

-26°-27° 8. latitude, communicated by D. Parodi in 1883.

Possibly the species is only cultivated at Rio. ~

_ Descr. A very slender glabrous climber, with pendulous

filiform flowering branches. Leaves long-petioled, two to

three inches long and broad, membranous, broadly reni-

formly cordate with large open sinus and rounded basal

lobes, sides sometimes contracted, tip rounded or obtuse,

DEC. lst, 1886. .

upper surface bright green, under glaucescent; nerves five

to seven pair radiating from the tip of the petiole, slender,

reticulating ; petiole one to two and a half inches long, very

slender; stipules falcately reniform or almost orbicular,

with an oblique base. lowers solitary, long-pedicelled,

together with the pedicel two to three inches long; ovary

very slender. Perianth-tube (or sack) one and a half inches

long, oblong, rather inflated, pale yellow-green ; limb

suddenly expanding from a very short funnel-shaped base

into a nearly circular shallow cup, cordate at the base and

three inches in diameter ; externally white reticulated with

undefined red purple veins; internally the limb is deep rich

purple brown; it is velvety towards the centre, and whitish

towards the circumference, where the purple is irrorated

with white; mouth yellow-green. Stylar column short,

cylindric, but expanded upwards into six oblong obtuse

teeth. Anthers six; cells very narrow.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Top of ovary and stylar column ; 2, column :—Joth magnified.

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GERANIUM voserosum, var. Cmarnestt.

Native of Affghanistan.

Nat. Ord. GERaNIACER.—Tribe GERANIER.

Genus Geranium, Linn.; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 272.)

Geranium tuberosum; plus minus pubescens vy. hirsutum, rhizomate tuberoso,

caulibus erectis superne pluries et divaricatim 2-3-chotomis, foliis ambitu

suborbiculatis 5-9-partitis, segmentis lanceolatis, radicalibus longe petiolatis,

floralibus sessilibus, pedunculis 1—-2-floris fructiferis erectis, sepalis hirtis ovatis

abrupte mucronatis, petalis obcordatis calyce duplo longioribus, valvulis hirtis.

G. tuberosum, Linn ;— Boiss. Fl. Orient. vol. i. p. 873.

Var. Charlesii, Aitchison and Hemsley mss.; rhizomatibus superpositis, foliorum

segmentis integrioribus.

This is one of the difficult cases that often present them-

selves to a systematist, of determining whether a divergent

form of a species obtained from the extreme limits of

the geographical area of that species should be entitled to

specific rank. The subject of the present plate is from

Affghanistan ; and the type of Geranium to which it belongs

(G. tuberosum) extends from the Mediterranean region and

North Africa to Persia, but had not hitherto been found

_ anywhere to the eastward of that region; and here we have -

from beyond its known limits a plant differing from tuberosum

only in the less laterally lobed segments of the leaf, and its

superposed rhizomes. In such a case as this the variability

of the type must be taken into account ; and as Boissier,

who knew Gt. tuberosum better than any one, says of it that

it is very variable as to foliage, the conclusion adopted by

Aitchison and Hemsley is no doubt the right one. A more

remarkable character than the foliage is the superposed

subterranean rhizomes, as shown in our plate and in all Dr.

-Aitchison’s specimens; in the type plant they seem to be

_ almost invariably solitary.

Var. Charlesii was raised from tubers sent to Kew by

Dr. Aitchison when on the Affghan Boundary Commission,

DEC. lst, 1886.

and he desires that it should bear the name of Dr. Charles,

the medical officer in charge of the Field Hospital of the

Commission. It was found commonly in crevices of lime-

stone rocks at an altitude of 3000 feet on the north and

eastern sides of the Kambno Pass, Badghis, in May, 1885,

and it flowered in Kew in the same month of the following

year. Boissier describes the flowers of G. tuberosum as

violet-coloured, which is hardly the case.

Desor. A perennial, up to eighteen inches high, usually

four to six. Stems of the larger forms weak and spreading,

of the smaller stiff and erect. Rootstock of numerous

superposed tubers, the lowest usually the largest and as

large as a cherry. tadical leaves none; lowest cauline

long petioled, upper shorter petioled, uppermost (floral)

sessile, segments cut chiefly at the tip, more rarely at the

sides. lowers rose-coloured, varying in size one-half to

one inch, the petals enlarging till they fall off (Aitchison

and Hemsley mss.).—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower with the petals removed (the spurs at the tips of the sepals

- omitted); 2, stamen ; 3, ovary :—all enlarged.

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CARPENTERIA catirorntica.

Native of California.

Nat. Ord. SaxirraGEu.—Tribe HypRanGEx.

CarrENTERIA californica; frutex subglabra, cortice albo, foliis oppositis snb-

sessilibus oblongo-lanceolatis obtusis v. subacutis subtus appresse albo-

tomentillis integerrimis v. remote obscure dentatis, basi acntis, floribus in

axillis superioribus subcorymbosis pedicellatis amplis albis, sepalis ovato-

lanceolatis, petalis orbicularibus, staminibus perplurimis perigynis, ovario 5-6-

loculari basi lata calyce immerso late ovoideo in stylum brevem attenuato,

stigmatibus 5-6 reflexis, capsula septicide 5-6-loculari.

C. californica, Torrey Plant. Fremont. vol. vi. p. 12, t. 7; Kellog in Proc.

Californ. Acad. vol. vii. p. 110; S. Wats. Bot. Calif. vol. i. p. 203; Revue

Horticole, 1884, p. 365; Masters in Gard. Chron. N.S. vol. xxvi. (1886)

p- 115, fig. 22.°

It is singular that the exact native country of so fine a

shrub as Curpenteria should be doubtful. Torrey, the

author of the genus, said of it in 1850, Sierra Nevada of

California, probably on the head waters of the St. Joachin,

a statement repeated by all subsequent authors, and even

up to the latest by the ‘ Gardener’s Chronicle,” published

in the present year. The only native specimens in the Kew

Herbarium are those collected by Fremont in one of his

Californian expeditions, but whether of 1843, 1845, or

1848 is not stated. In all these expeditions Col. Fremont

collected largely, but a large proportion of the results have

been lost. Thus of his second expedition (1844), which

- embraced extensive regions of Oregon and California, a mule

loaded with botanical specimens procured along a thousand

miles of travel, fell from a precipice into a deep gorge and

could not be recovered, and a large part of the remainder

of his herbarium was destroyed by a flood in crossing the

_ Kansas River. Again, Torrey tells us that in his third —

expedition, a very hazardous one, notwithstanding every

_ precaution, some valuable packages were destroyed through

the numerous and unavoidable mishaps of such an adven-

_turous journey.

pec. Ist, 1886.

Carpenteria is closely allied to Philadelphus, differing in

the almost superior ovary, and solitary style. It was named

after Professor Carpenter of Louisiana, an assiduous local

botanist. It was introduced into Europe by our friend

Max Leichtlin, of Baden Baden ; and for the specimen here

fizured I am indebted to Miss Jekyll, of Munstead, near

Godalming, in whose rich gardens, at an elevation of

400 ft. above the sea, it withstood the cold of last winter

in the open air and unprotected, without a leaf being

injured. In a cool greenhouse Miss Jekyll has a plant

seven feet high which flowers in July.

Dxscr. A shrub six feet high, with opposite branches

and leaves, the former clothed with a white bark, the

outer layers of which are removable. Leaves two to four

inches long, lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse or

subacute, quite entire or minutely toothed, base acute,

upper surface bright green, under clothed with appressed

white tomentum. lowers odorous, terminating axillary

branches, together forming a loose panicle, two to three

inches in diameter, pure white. Calyzx-tube very short ;

segments ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. Petals orbicular,

concave, notched, hardly clawed. Stamens perigynous,

very numerous, shorter than the petals, filaments slender,

suddenly dilated at the very base, anthers small. Ovary

five- to seven-celled, broadly bottle-shaped, its base sunk

in the calyx-tube, contracted into a short stout style

with five to six reflexed linear stigmas grooved down the

middle. Ovules very numerous, on bifid placentas

projecting from the inner angles of the cells. Fruit

membranous, epicarp separable, septicidally five-valved.

Seeds minute, oblong, testa produced into an obtuse appen-

dage.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower with the petals removed ; 2, bundle of stamens; 3, stamens; 4,

ovary ; 5, transverse section of ditto :—all enlarged.

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ASTER STRACHEYI.

Native of the Western Himalaya.

Nat. Ord. Compositex.—Tribe ASTEROIDER.

Genus AstEr, Linn; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii, p- 271.)

Aster Stracheyi; humilis, hirsuto-pubescens, subacaulis, stolonifera, foliis radi-

calibus rosulatis oblanceolato-spathulatis integerrimis v. dentatis paucinerviis,

stolonibus elongatis prostratis apicibus adscendentibus sparsim foliatis, foliis

parvis sessilibus obovato-spathulatis, scapis pedunculisve adscendentibus gracili-

bus pauci-bracteatis rufo-brunneis monocephalis, capitulis parvis, involucri

campanulati bracteis oblongo-lanceolatis fimbriato-ciliatis rufo-brunneis medio

viridibus, ligulis numerosis l-seriatis pallide cxruleo-lilacinis, floribus disci

paucis, pappo sordide albo v. rufescente, acheniis compressis oblanceolato-

cuneatis sericeis.

A. Stracheyi, Hook, fil. Flora of British India, vol. iii. p. 250.

Heterocheta, No. 2, Strachey and Winterbottom, Himal. Herb.

The species of Aster and FHrigeron are amongst the

greatest ornaments of the grassy and rocky pastures of the

loftiest Himalaya, where, however, they form groups of

Species most puzzling for the botanist to distinguish and

describe; and indeed, with regard to some of them, it is

difficult to decide to which of the above-named genera they

should be referred. Fortunately A. Strachey is one of

those that can least be confounded with any other; its

small size, copious stolons, slender one-flowered scapes,

and small heads are easily recognized characters. It is

apparently a very local species, and has hitherto been

found only in the provinces of Garwhal and Kumaon (west

of Nepal). Wallich first procured it, probably from Dr.

Govan, the earliest botanical explorer of that region.

Some thirty years afterwards, Madden, Strachey,and Winter-

bottom all found it at the Pindari Glaucier, alt. 12,500 feet ;

and still more lately it has been found on the Bamsor Pass,

in Garwhal, at an elevation of 15,000 to 16,000 feet, by

Mr. Duthie, Superintendent of the Saharunpore Botanical

Gardens.

The specimen figured was received from the Saharunpore

pec, Ist, 1886.

Botanical Gardens in 1885, and flowered in May of the

present year.

Descr. Whole plant more or less hispid or hirsute.

Rootstock rather stout, simple or branched, giving off

tufts of rosulate leaves, numerous long slender stolons

which are prostrate or pendulous over rocks, and many

ascending usually slender one-flowered scapes. Radical

leaves one to one and a half inches long, shortly petioled,

oblanceolate or obovate, acute or subacute, entire or more

or less toothed, pale green above, paler beneath with two

or three pairs of ascending nerves; leaves on the stolons

much smaller and more sessile, those on the scapes few and

linear or linear-obovate. Scapes rich dark brown, two to five

inches high, with spreading hairs. Heads three-quarters

to one and a quarter of an inch in diameter. Involucre

campanulate ; bracts in about two series, red brown, with

green backs, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute or subacute,

nearly glabrous except at the subfimbriate margins. [ay-

jlowers in one series, pale lilac blue, linear, tips minutely

notched. Disk-flowers few, yellow, not forming a compact

mass. Achenes narrowly obovate, compressed with an

obtuse ridge on the face, silky; pappus rather longer than

the achene, rigid, dirty reddish.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Bracts of the involucre; 2, ray-flower ; 3, disk-flower; 4, stigmatic arms

of ditto; 5, achene of ray, and 6, of disk :—all enlarged.

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INDEX

To Vol. XLII. of the Turrp Serizs, or Vol. CXII. of the

whole Work.

» 6905 Achillea rupestris.

6863 Aloe heteracantha.

6908 Alpinia mutica.

6878 Anthurium splendidum.

6909 Aristolochia elegans.

6884 Aristolochia longifolia.

- 6912 Aster Stracheyi.

6893 Befaria glauca.

6899 Begonia Johnstoni.

6907 Brodiza Douglasii.

6870 Caccinia glauca.

6862 Calotropis gigantea.

6859 Calotropis procera.

6911 Carpenteria californica.

6890 Cerinthe minor.

* 6901 Colchicum Troodii.

6864 Colensoa physaloides.

6896 Corydalis Sewerzovi.

6876 Cypripedium Godefroye.

6891 Disa atropurpurea. :

6867 Echinocactus Joadii.

6868 Echium candicans.

6871 Eomecon chionantha.

6885 Galtonia clavata.

6874 Gentiana Bigelovii.

6910 Geranium tuberosum (var.

Charlesii).

6897 Gladiolus Kotschyanus,

6879 Grevillea Hookeriana.

6875 Hemanthus Baurii.

6877 Hoya Griffithii.

6869 Iris Bartoni.

6902 Iris Eulefeldi.

6889 Iris Milesii.

6894 Iris Statelle.

6853 Ixora macrothyrsa.

6865 Jasminum angulare.

6904 Karatas acanthocrater.

6856 Layia glandulosa.

6900 Leontice Alberti.

6858 Lissochilus Sandersoni.

6854 Martinezia caryotzfolia.

6855 Muscari Szovitsianum.

6883 Mrymecodia Beccarii.

6886 Pleurothallis Barberiana.

6888 Ranunculus Lyallii.

6861 Rhynchanthus longiflorus.

6892 Ribes oxycanthoides.

6857 Rosa pisocarpa.

6881 Roydsia suaveolens.

6866 Solanum trilobatum.

6880 Sophronitis violacea,

6903 Streptocarpus Dunnii.

6860 Synthyris reniformis.

6906 Tillandsia chrysostachys.

6898 Tillandsia fenestralis.

6882 Tillandsia (Vriesea) inflata.

6873 Trichosanthes palmata.

6887 Tulipa Kaufmanniana.

6895 Tulipa Ostrowskiana.

6872 Vaccinium Mortinia.