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RUELLIA MACRANTHA,

Native of Brazil.

Nat. Ord, Acantuace#.—Tribe RUELLIEZ.

Genus Rueiua, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1077).

RUELLIA macrantha; caule 4-6-pedali erecto ramoso, ramulis teretibus glabris

v. pubescentibus, foliis 3-5-poll. longis breviter petiolatis ovato- v.

oblongo-lanceolatis utrinque angustatis acutis v. acuminatis integerrimis

v. repando-dentatis supra sub-strigillosis subtus molliter hispidulis nervis

utringue costza 7-12 subtus prominulis, floribns axillaribus v. apices

versus ramorum confertis v. subspicatim dispositis amplis sessilibus v.

brevissime pedicellatis, bracteis 1-1} poll. longis lineari-oblongis obtusis,

sepalis subzequalibus bracteas subzequantibns lineari-lanceolatis acumi-

natis glabris, corolla lete roseo-purpuresw tubo 3 poll. longo infra medium

gracili curvo subtorto dein infundibulari-campanulato costato, limbi 3-4

poll. diam. lobis 5 subequalibus patenti-recurvis ciliatis apice emarginatis

3-nerviis, nervulis transversis remotis, filamentis gracilibus subzquilongis

inclusis inferne per paria connatis, autheris lineari-oblongis, ovario pilo-

sulo, capsula 1-13 poll. longa tereti, valvis lignosis, seminibus orbiculari-

bus complanatis anguste alatis.

R. macrantha, Mart. ex Nees in Mart. Fl. Bras. vol. ix. p. 37.

R. a Schott ex Nees in Mart. l.c. et in DC. Prodr. vol. xi. p. 118 (non

ari.).

Dipteracanthus macranthus, Nees in Mart. l.c.; in DC. lc. 117.

This magnificent plant appears to have a wide range in

Brazil, from the province of Minas to that of St. Paul,

growing amongst other shrubs in shady places, Of when

and how it was introduced into Europe I can find no

trace, nor does it appear in any of the continental garden

catalogues that I have referred to. It has been in

Cultivation in the Royal Gardens, Kew, for many years,

where it flowers in midwinter, and is then a very striking

object. ee |

A variety of it described by Nees (DC. Prodr. vol.

xi, p. 118) as B magnifica (Ruellia magnifica, Mart.

herb.), differs in being smaller in all its parts, and

more glabrous. Nees describes its leaves as being more

densely strigose; but in all the specimens in the Kew

Herbarium they are almost glabrous.

Descr.—A branching, soft-wooded shrub, four to six

feet high; branches rather stout, obtusely quadrangular ;

January Ist, 1909,

branchlets glabrous or hairy. Leaves alternate, three to

five inches long, variable in shape, from ovate to oblong-

or elliptic-lanceolate, or narrowed at both ends, to lanceo-

late, acuminate, quite entire to repand-crenate, more or

less strigillose on the dark green upper surface, pale and

_ sub-hispidly pubescent on the under, strongly seven- to

nine-nerved, base narrowed into the short, often hairy

petiole. Flowers very large, solitary, sub-sessile in the

uppermost leaf axils, or fascicled, or sub-spicate in an

elongate branchlet. Bracts two, sessile, linear-oblong,

obtuse, acute, or rounded at the tip, an inch to an inch

and a half long, green. Calyx about as long as the bracts,

glabrous ; segments erect, linear-lanceolate, finely acumi-

nate, strongly nerved, green. Corolla bright rose-purple ;

tube three inches long, slightly decurved, slender,

somewhat twisted in the lower half, above this inflated,

between funnel- and bell-shaped, strongly many-ribbed,

dilated above into a five-lobed limb three to four inches

in diameter; lobes nearly equal, orbicular, spreading, and

recurved, emarginate at the tip, strongly three-nerved,

cross-nervules distant. Stamens four, filaments sub-

equal, very slender, connate in pairs in the lower third ;

anthers included, small, linear-oblong. Ovary narrow,

terete, pubescent, narrowed into a very long, slender,

glabrous style unequally bifid at the tip.—J. D. H.

_ Fig. 1, bracts, calyx, and style; 2, portion of corolla with stamens; 3 and

4, anthers; 5, ovary :—adl enlarged.

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MUSCARI PARADOXUM,.

Native of Persia.

Nat. Ord. Littrackz#.—Tribe Scie.

Genus Muscant, Mill.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 811.)

Muscarti (Bellevalia) paradorum; bulbo majusculo ovoideo 2-4-foliato, foliis

1-14-pedalibus 1-1 poll. latis lineari-loriformibus obtusiusculis basi vix

angustatis scapum vaginantibus coriaceo-carnosis valde concavis dorso

rotundatis enerviis marginibus subtiliter erosis, scapo robusto foliis multo

breviore, racemo oblongo-cylindraceo densifloro, pedicellis cernuis flores

subequantibus, perianthio saturate violaceo oblongo-campanulato 3 poll.

longo, lobis rotundatis tubo triplo brevioribus concavis dorso incrassatis

apicibus demum recurvis intus marginibusque viridibus, staminibus supra

medium tubi insertis filamentis brevissimis, antherarum loculis atro-

coeruleis, ovario late ovoideo in stylum brevem attenuato, capsule 3 poll.

late erecta subgloboso ovoidex lobis ovoideis venosis dorso rotundatis

2-3-spermis, seminibus ovoideo-oblongis. were

M. paradoxum, 0. Koch in Linnea, vol. xxii. (1849) p. 253. Ledeb. Fl. Ross.

vol. iv. p. 153. Baker in Journ. Bot. vol. xii. (1874) p. 6.

M. pycnanthum, Boiss. et Buhse in Nouv. Mém. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xii. (1869)

p. 213, er parte, fide Boissier.

- Bellevalia paradoxa, Boiss. F1. Orient. vol. v. p. 308.

B. pseudo-museari, Boiss. et Buhse, Diagn. Plant. Orient. Ser. If. vol. iv.

p- 110.

Hyacinthus paradoxus, Fisch. et Mey. Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop.; (1835) p. 30.

Schlecht. in Linnea, vol. x. (1836) Litt. Ber. p. 92. E

Botryanthus ? paradoxus, Kunth Eawm. Pl. vol. iv. p. 312.

The species of the genus Muscari are very difficult of

discrimination and of recognition from descriptions alone.

That here figured is well known under cultivation, and it

agrees fairly well with the characters of Bellevalia paradoxa

given by Boissier, which is founded on the Muscart

paradozum of Koch, but I have seen no native specimens

wherewith to confirm the identification, and the definition

of its author is quite insufficient for that purpose. Mr.

Baker, in the Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. xi.,

p. 482 (not subsequently in the Journal of Botany),

unites with it M. montanum, Koch (which Boissier refers

to another section of Bellevalia), and gives ‘as habitats

Svria and Palestine; but M. paradovum is not included in

Post’s Flora of these countries.

Muscari paradoeum was discovered by ©, Koch in

January Ist, 1903.

the Russian (transcaucasian) province of Hriwan, which

borders Persia on the north, and the Caspian Sea on the

east. Boissier adds the province of Asterabad (Buhse),

which is in Persia, on the opposite, south-eastern shores

of the Caspian.

The specimen figured flowered in the open air, in a

south border, in the Royal Gardens, Kew, May, 1898.

The species is one of the most handsome in the genus.

Descr.—Bulb ovoid. Leaves two to four, twelve to

eighteen inches long, by one to one and a quarter inches

broad, loriform, sub-acute, thickly coriaceous, concave,

dorsally rounded, nerveless, bases sheathing the base of

the scape, margins minutely erose. Scape stout, much

shorter than the leaves, Raceme oblong, dense-flowered ;

bracts deltoid. Pedicels about as long as the flowers,

decurved. Pertanth about one-third of an inch long, very

dark violet-blue, oblong-campanulate; lobes about one-

third the length of the tube, orbicular, dorsally thickened,

margins ,green, at length spreading. Stamens inserted

above the middle of the tube, included; filaments very

short; anther-cells oblong, blue-black. Ovary broadly

ovoid, suddenly contracted into a short style. Capsule

trigonously globose, lobes dorsally rounded.—J. D. I1.

Fig. I, flower; 2, segment of corolla with stamen; 3, stamens; 4, ovary;

5, portion of rachis of raceme with capsules; 6, seed; all but 5, enlarged ;

7, reduced views of two plants.

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CHRYSANTHEMUM inpicum.

Native of China and Japan.

Nat. Ord. Comrosira.—Tribe ANTHEMIDE®.

Genus CurysantHEMuM, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook, f. Gen, Plant. vol. ii. p. 425.)

CunysantHEMuM (Pyrethrum) indicum; caule gracili foliisque glabris v.

pilis albis furcatis laxe sparsis, foliis petiolatis 2-3-poll. longis flaccidis

ovatis oblongisve acutis pinnatifido- v. bipinnatifido-lobatis plus minusve

irregulariter dentatis dentibus acutis, capitulis 1-2 poll. latis in corymbos

terminales oligo- v. polycephalos dispositis, flosculis disci et radii aureis,

pedunculis pedicellisque glabris v. pube appressa alba tomentosis, in volucri

glabri hemispherici bracteis appressis interioribus scariosis medio her-

baceis oblongis orbicularibusve apicibus rotundatis exterioribus breviori-

bus obtusis acutisve, receptaculo hemisphzrico, fosculis radii longitudine

disco capituli brevioribus v. paullo longioribus.

C. indicum, Linn. Sp. Pl. (1753) 889, exel. syn. Sabine in Trans. Hort. Soe.

vol. iv. (1821) p. 326, t. xii. xiii.; in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xiv. (1823)

p- 144. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1287. Roxb. Fl. Ind. vol. iii. p.436. Bretschn.

Early Hist. Europ. Res. Fl. China (1881) p. 158 et Hist. Europ. Bot.

Discov. in China (1898), pp. 39, 85 et 132. Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc.

vol, xxiii. (1888) 437; in Gard. Chron. 1889, vol. ii. pp. 521, 555, 585, 652.

Masters in Gard. Chron. 1900, vol. ii. p 340, fig. 106. Melville in Proc.

Manchest. Liter. & Phil. Soc. Dec, 16th, 1901, p. xix. Henry in Gard.

Chron. 1902, vol. i. p. 301, fig. 94.

C. maderaspatanum, &c., Pluk. Almag. Bot. 1696, p. 101, t. 160, f. 6.

C. procumbens, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. p. 499, ex Maxim.

C. tripartitum, Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. vol. ii. (1827) t. 103.

C. Sabini, Lind/. in Bot. Reg. sub t, 1287.

Dendranthema indica, Des Moul. in Act. Soc. Linn. Bordeaum, vol. xx. (1855),

p- 561.

Matricaria japonica, flore minore, &c., Breyne, Prodr. Fasc. Pl. Rar. (1688)

p- 66.

M. madraspatana, Petiv. Mus. Petiv. (1695) Cent. viii. p. 76, saltem pro parte.

M. Chusan, &c., Petiv. in Phil. Trans. xxiii. (1703) p. 1421, Bretschn. Lc. ,-p.

54 et 158.

M. sinensis flore minore, &c., Pluk. Amalth. Bot. (1705) p. 142, t. 430, f. 3.

M. sinensis, &., Vaillant, Act. (1720) p. 285, ea Linn. et Sabine.

M. zeylanica hortensis, &c., Linn. Fl. Zeyl. (1747) p. 198.

M. indica, Ramatuelle in Journ. d’ Hist. Nat. vol. ii. (1792) p. 240.

Pyrethrum indicum, Cass, in Dict. Se. Nat. vol. xliv. (1826) p. 149, DC.

Prodr, vol. vi. p. 62. Maaim. Mél. Biol. viii. (1872) p. 516, exel. B

plenum? Franch. & Sav. Enum. Pl. Jap. vol. 1. p. 230. Franch. Pl.

David. vol. i. p. 157, var. lavandulefolium. Honzo Zufu, vol. xiii. t. 7 (9).

Somoku Zusetsu, vol. xvii, t. 22 (29).

P. lavandulefolium, Fisch. ex Trautv.in Act. Hort. Petrop. vol. i. (1871-2)

p. 181.

Janvuany Ist, 1903.

Tanacetum indicum, Schultz. Bip. Tanacet. p. 50.

Tijetti-pu, Rheede Hort. Mal. vol. x. (1690) p. 87, t. 44.

The vegetable kingdom offers few instances of floral

disguises more complete than those under which the two

plants known to horticulturalists as the Indian Chrysan-

themum masquerade.

Until comparatively recently the wild forms of these two

plants were not even approximately identified, and now that

we have large series of specimens supposed to represent

both, from China and Japan, their delimitation appears

to me, after some study of them, to baffle description, so

variable are they in habit, foliage, inflorescence, and

pubescence. In the cultivated forms, on the other hand,

there is less variety in habit and foliage, with no limit to

vagaries assumed by the flower-heads, due to the suppres-

sion of the disk florets in a greater or less degree, and

their assuming, with more or less variation of form and

colour, the characters of ray florets. On the other hand,

it is, in very many cases, impossible to say to which of the

two species a given cultivated garden specimen is refer-

able, which may-be due, in part, to hybridization. The

two recognized species are C. indicum, Linn. (partim), of

which a very widely spread wild Chinese form is here

represented, and C. morifolium, Ram. (C. sinense, Sabine.

‘Their distinctive characters, as given by Mr. Henry (Gard.

Chron. l.c.), who has collected the plants in various parts

of China, and studied them at Kew, are :—

C. indicum; leaves thin, flaccid, pinnatipartite, serratures acute or mucro-

nate; outer invol. bracts scarious, except the narrow herbaceous nerve;

ligules yellow, shorter than the diameter of the disk.—China and Japan.

C. morifolium; leaves thick, coriaceous, entire or slightly incised; outer

invol. bracts short, linear, acute, densely albo-tomentose ; ligules white, longer

than the diameter of the disk.—N, China, Mongolia, J apan.

In a letter, Mr. Henry informs me that he recognized in

China two states of C. indicum. 1, A graceful, small,

delicate plant, growing in coniferous forests, at eight

thousand five hundred feet elevation; 2, a large straggling,

weedy, very fragrant plant, common in ditches and fields,

on the banks of the Yangtze Kiang at Ichang.

“The Chrysanthemum ” is the subject of an essay by

Mr. W. B. Hemsley, published in the Gardeners’ Chronicle in

1389 (cited above) which is a model for the treatment of

such a subject. He gives the early and later history of

the two plants under their botanical and horticultural

aspects, differentiating them much as Mr. Henry has since

done, but apparently restricting the wild C. morifolium to

narrower geographical limits, though these include the

Luchu Islands for a typical form. He also gives a very

full synonymy and list of references to works in which the

Species are described, figured, or noticed. This latter

appears to me to be so judiciously compiled that I have

not hesitated to copy it for C, indicum, adding to it a very

few later and omitted references.

It is much to be desired that a series of plates illus-

trating the forms of these Chrysanthemums as contained in

the Kew Herbarium should be published, for by no other

means could they be recognized. It remains to add that

the two figures entitled C. indicum on tabs. 327 and 2042

of this work are both referable to C. morifolium, Ram.,

and that C. indicum in a wild state is common from

Canton and Hong Kong to Pekin, and in Manchuria.

The specimen here figured is from a plant raised in a

greenhouse of the Royal Gardens, Kew, from seed pre-

sented by Col. Birch, of Rickmansworth. They were

collected by Mr. Grant Birch in the Yangtze Valley above

the rapids. They differ from the specimen of C. indicum

figured in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, in having larger flower-

heads, and in wanting the orbicular three-lobed stipules.—

J DH, 2

Fig. 1, forked hairs from the stem; 2, ray-floret ; 3, disk-floret ; 4, stamens:

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ALLIUM Ezrism.

Native of Khorasan.

Nat. Ord. Litiace#.—Tribe ALLIER.

Genus Auuium, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 802.)

Axium (Melanocrommyon) Ellisit ; bulbo magno globoso, foliis 4-5 patenti-

revolutis pedalibus 24 poll. latis linearibus lineari-oblongisve acutis pallide

glauco-viridibus fere planis nervis obscuris, scapo dali crasso 3 poll.

diam. viridi basi tantum folioso, spathz valvis deltoideo-ovatis acumi-

natis membranaceis ad 14 poll. longis, floribus 13 poll. diam. in capitulum

5 poll. diam. oblato-sphericum dense congestis, pedicellis subequilongis

flore subduplo longioribus, perianthii rosei basi intus albi segmentis ovato-

lanceolatis acuminatis fructiferis rigidis erectis, filamentis crassiusculis

rubro-purpureis perianthio triente brevioribus basi abrupte dilatatis subglo-

boso, antheris majusculis oblongis fusco-cceruleis, ovario breviter stipitato

globoso, loculis pluriovulatis, stylo filamentis subwquilongo, capsula

parva depresso-globosa perianthii segmentis_bis-terve breviore, loculis

dorso rotundatis 1-spermis, seminibus subreniformi-oblongis rotundatisve

ad ;'5 poll. longis, testa atra rugosa.

Allium Ellisti is a very handsome species, resembling,

in some respects of foliage, stoutness of scape and dense-

flowered, globose umbel A. Karataviense, Regel, of Tur-

kestan, t. 6451, which is a normally two-leaved species,

with much smaller, paler flowers, narrower, flaccid

perianth-segments, which are spreading or reflexed in

fruit, and a much larger capsule. My friend, Dr. Stapf,

whose travels in Persia and knowledge of the Oriental flora

are so well known, has carefully examined A. Hilisii, and

informs me that it belongs to the same group as A. caspium,

Bieb. t. 4598, A. brahuicum, Boiss., A. Schubert, Zuce., t.

7587-8, and A. Bodeanum, Regel, all oriental species, with

the perianth-segments erect in fruit ; and that it is most

nearly allied to the last of these. From the first

three, the shorter pedicels and dense-fld. umbels at

once distinguishes B. Hllisii, from which A. Bodeanum

differs (according to the description in Boissier’s “ Flora

Orientalis””) in the much narrower perianth-segments,

which are white, with a slender pink midrib, and in the

shorter stamens only half the length of the perianth, with

ihe filaments sub-biauricled at the base. In the few

capsules of A. Ellisii which I have examined, the cells are

Januaky Ist, 1900.

one-seeded. The black, rugose seeds closely resemble

those of A. Karataviense.

A, Ellisti flowered in July, 1900, and again in 1902 in

the garden of the Hon. Charles Ellis, of Frensham Hall,

Haslemere, who informs me that the bulb came from a

collector sent out for him from Meshed, by the late Mr.

Ney Hlias.

Descr.—Bulb globose. Leaves four to five, basal, a foot

long by two and a half inches broad, spreading and revo-

lute, linear-oblong, acute, nearly flat, glaucous green.

Scape a foot high, very stout, two-thirds of an inch in

diameter, green, bearing a depressed-globose compact

head of bright rose-coloured flowers five inches in

diameter. Spathes an inch and a half long, deltoidly

ovate, acuminate, membranous. Pedicels nearly equal in

length, about an inch and a half long. Perianth-seqments.

widely spreading, half an inch long or more, ovate-lanceo-

late, acuminate, white towards the base, stiff and erect in

fruit. Stamens one-third shorter than the perianth ; fila-

ments red, swollen and sub-globose at the base; anthers

linear-oblong, brownish blue. Capsule very small, not

half the length of the perianth-segments; depressed-

globose ; cells one-seeded. Sceds black, rugose.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, stamen and pistil; 2, pistil; 3, fruiting perianth; 4 and 5, seeds;

all except 3 and 4, enlarged.

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DIERVILLA Mippenporrriana.

Native of Mongolia, Manchuria, and Japan.

Nat. Ord. Caprirotiace#.—Tribe LonIcERE.

Genus Drervitna, Tourn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 6.)

Diervitna Middendorfiana ; frutex ramosus, glabes, ramulis robustis, cortice

atro-fusco, foliis breviter petiolatis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis argute

serratis basi rotundatis supra lete viridibus reticulatim rugosis subtus’

pallidis nervis utrinque costz 6-8 nervulisque subtus prominulis, cymis,

breviter pedunculatis multifloris, floribus confertis subsessilibus, bracteis

subulatis, calycis pollicaris tubo glaberrimo, limbi labiis ciliatis recurvis,

superiore oblongo 3-fido lobis lanceolatis, inferiore bipartito segmentis

linearibus cuspidatis, corolle primulinw tubo incurvo basi cylindraceo

intus hirsuto, limbo campanulato lobis rotundatis antico fauceque punctis

aurantiacis consperso, disci glandula rotundata pubescente, antheris

cohaerentibus glanduloso-pilosis, capsula ad 1} poll. longa anguste

oblonga, cylindracea, seminibus lanceolatis basi et apice longe alatis.

D. Middendorfiana, Carr. in Rev. Hortic. Sér. TV. vol. ii. (1853) p. 806 ; vol. iii.

(1854) p. 261, t. 14. Van Houtte, Fl. des Serres, vol. xi. (1856) t. 1137.

Gard. Chron. 1890, vol. i. p. 581, fig. 94. .Wawim. in Mél. Biol. vol. xii.

p. 482. 8S. Moore in Journ. Bot. vol. xvi. (1878) p. 129. (var. Maximoviczii).

- Calyptrostigma Middendorfiianum, Jrautv. & Mey. in Middend. Reise Fi.

Ochot. (1847) p. 46, tt. 25 a, b. . Regel § Tiling. Fl. Ajan. p. 100. Regel,

Gartenfl. 1857, p. 3, t. 183. Maxim. Prim Fl. Amur. p. 135; in Mél.

- Biol. vol. xii. p. 482. F. Schmidt, Reis. Amurl. (1868) p. 142.

Wagneria Middendorfiana, Lemaire in Ill. Hortic. vol. iv. (1857) sub t. 115.

Weigela Middendorfiana, Hort. ex Carr. in Rev. Hortic. Sér. LY. vol. ii. (1853)

p. 306. Lemaire in Ill. Hortic. vol. iv. (1857) t. 115; vol. xiii. (1866) t.

495 (var. purpurata).

Except in the curiously wrinkled leaves and colour of

the corolla, Diervilla Middendorfiana resembles D. jlorida,

Sieb. & Zucc. (Weigela rosea, Lindl. t. 4396), to which

species Mr. Hemsley (Journ. Linn. Soc. xxiii. 368) rightly,

I think, refers D. amabilis, Carr. (W. amabilis, Hort. t.

4893). D. Middendorffiana is the only Old World yellow-

flowered species, in which respect it resembles its

two New World congeners, D. trifida, Moench. (t. 1796,

D. humilis, Pers.), and D. sessilifolia, Buckle, both natives

of Eastern N. America. It is named after Alexander

'heodor von Middendorff, whose travels in Northern and

Eastern Siberia, in 1843-4, were published in St. Peters-

burgh in 1847-56. According to Carritre it was intro-

duced into Hurope in 1850, and found to be difficult of

January Ist, 1903.

cultivation. More recently it has been found in the Amur

district, and in the Island of Saghalien, by the late Mr.

Maries in the central mountains of Nipon, at elevations

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The specimen figured is from a plant in the Arboretum

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years, flowering in spring. It was probably introduced

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Descr.—A glabrous shrub, with black bark and spread-

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base rounded; nerves six to eight pairs, Spreading,

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bracteoles subulate. Calyx about an inch long, two-lipped,

tube glabrous ; lips ciliate, recurved, upper trifid, lower

bipartite, with linear, cuspidate Segments. Corolla pale

yellow, speckled with orange in the throat and on the

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at the base, and hairy within, inflated and campanulate

above; limb about an inch in diameter; lobes sub-equal,

orbicular. Disk-gland sub-globose, hairy. Filaments hairy

towards the base; anthers hnear-oblong, glandular-pubes-

cent. Style long, stout ; stigma large, three-lobed, lobes

globose.—J. D. H.,

Fig. 1, calyx with bracteoles, style, and stigma; 2, base of corolla-tube laid

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SANSEVIERIA eranpts,

Native of Tropical Africa ?

Nat. Ord. Hamoporacez.—Tribe OpHIOPOGONER.

Genus Sansevierta, Thund.; (Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 679.)

SANSEVIERIA grandis; acaulis, radicibus crassis, foliis amplis planis rosulatis

ineequilongis sessilibus patulis, majoribus 3-4~pedalibus obovato-oblongis

6 poll. latis rigide coriaceis acutis v. apiculatis utringue luride viridibus

fasciis saturatioribus transversis ornatis, marginibus anguste cartilagineis

rubro-brunneis, scapo erecto 2-pedali robusto stricto viridi vaginis paucis

lanceolatis coriaceis instructo, panicula spicwformi tripedali erecta stricta

dense multiflora, rachi crassiti digiti minoris viridi, bracteis minutis

- triangularibus acutis scariosis trifloris, floribus sessilibus v. breviter pedi- —

cellatis fere 2 poll. longis albis, perianthii tubo limbo paullo breviore

basi dilatato ovoidee, limbi segméntjs pollicaribus linearibus subacutis

1-nerviis, filamentis segmentis perianthii equilongis filiformibus, antheris

lineari-oblongis loculis contiguis, ovario oblongo tereti, stylo staminibus

- longiore, stigmate capitellato. :

_ §. grandis, Hook. f.

This very noble species of “ Bowstring hemp” was pre-

sented to the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1896, by the Royal

Botanic Society, Regent’s Park, who received it from Dr.

Heath, F.L.S., of Ebury Street, London. Referring to

that gentleman, he told me that roots of it were given to

him by a Cuban merchant, who informed him that the >

plants had been introduced into Cuba by a company formed

to grow it for its fibre, and that the company had failed,

owing to the cultivation of the plant not having been

earried out in a practical manner. ‘The fibre, he adds, is

_ fine, white, silky, and is of extraordinary strength, far

exceeding any other, a few strands of it being sufficient’

~ to hang a man. .

Referring to the Kew Museum of Economic Botany, I

was informed by Mr. Hillier that in the Cuban Catalogue

of textile materials in the Paris Exhibition of 1900, there

is the following brief allusion to what is, no doubt,

8. grandis, “Il y a d’autres plantes textiles, comme la

Lengua de Vaca, Sansevieria sp.” The term, Cow’s tongue,

appears to be appropriate to the form of the leaf of this

species.

Fepruaky Ist, 1903,

Regarding the value of the fibre, a specimen of rope

made from it, given me by Dr. Heath, was submitted by

the Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew, to Messrs. Ide &

Christie, Fibre Brokers, of 72, Mark Lane, E.C., who

report that ‘it is a good class fibre, much liked; its value

to-day (September, 1902) is 357. per ton; but that it is

not a regular article of commerce, only odd sample bales

having been received in this country. The plant thrives

in Cuba, but money is wanted to develop the industry,”

It remains to add that its native country, though un-

known, may be presumed to be tropical Africa, whence

ten species have been described, of which six, including

the present, have been figured in this Magazine. :

S. grandis forms a strong tuft in a bed in the Temperate

House, where it flowered for the first time in July, 1901,

and again in 1902,

Descr.—Stem 0. Leaves few, very large, rosulate, sessile,

unequal-sized, the largest three to four feet long, by six

inches or more broad, spreading, obovate-oblong, acute or

mucronate, rigidly coriaceous, flat, dull green, crossed by

broad bands of much darker green on both surfaces,

margin with a very narrow, red-brown, cartilaginous

border. Scape about two feet high, stout, green, bearing a

few, distant, narrow, lanceolate sheaths. Panicle two to

three feet high, erect, narrow, spiciform, dense-flowered.

Bracts minute, ovate, acuminate, scarious, three-flowered.

Flowers sessile, or very shortly pedicelled, erect, about two

inches long, pure white. Perianth-tube cylindric, inflated

at the base; segments about as long as the tube, linear,

sub-acute, dorsally costate. Stamens as long as the

perianth-segments. Anthers linear-oblong. Style slender,

stigma minute, capitate.—J. D. H.

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IMPATIENS Barrourt.

Nutive of the North Western Himalaya.

Nat. Ord. GERaNIACE&.—Tribe BALSAMINER,

Genus Impatiens, Linn.; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 277.)

Impatiens Balfourit ; herbacea, glaberrima, caule ramoso ramis obtuse 4-gonis,

foliis 3-5-pollicaribus breviter petiolatis ovato-lanceolatis longe acuminatis

argute serrulatis dentibus recurvis minatis basin versus folii majoribus

pallide viridibus, nervis utrinque cost# ad 8-10 nervulis transversis

striolatis, petiolo eglanduloso, glandulis stipularibus pulvinatis, pedan-

culis apices versus ramulorum subumbellatim laxe confertis gracilibus

3-4-pollicaribus roseis, racemis brevibus terminalibus simplicibus 6-8-floris,

bracteis 2-} poll. longis ovato-lanceolatis caducis, pedicellis alternis

gracillimis poll. longis, floribus majusculis pallide roseis, sepalis 2

orbiculari-ovatis mucronatis 3-3 in. diam., vexillo orbiculari 3-% in. diam.

reflexo pallido, carina paullo incrassata rosea, alis patulis }-1} poll. longis

lobo basilari oblongo pallide aureo, terminali multo majore late dolabri-

formi apice rotundato lete roseo, labello 1-1j-pollicari1 campanulato in

cornu lento incurvum apice obtusum sensim attenuato, capsulis erectis 1-14

poll. Jongis linearibus pentagonis viridibus angulis rubris oligospermis,

seminibus oblongis 4-4 poll. longis, testa crassiuscula striolato-punctulata.

I. Balfourii, Hook. 7.

The beautiful Balsam here figured was raised from seed

sent by Mr. Duthie, F.L.S., Director of the Botanical

Department, Northern India, to the Royal Botanic

Gardens of Edinburgh, with no precise habitat attached,

but no doubt collected in the Western Himalaya, the forests

of which swarm with its congeners. It is referable to

Series B in the tentative arrangement of Indian Balsams

adopted in the “ Flora of British India,” but does not fit

into any of the five groups of that Series. As, however,

these will all undergo great modifications in a further

study of the genus upon which I am now engaged, it

would be premature to do more than indicate the salient

characters of J. Balfowrii. These are the alternate, never

whorled or opposite leaves, their very minute, recurved

marginal teeth, short, naked petioles, the large flowers in

very short, terminal racemes, the very slender pedicels of

which are never interruptedly placed, or clustered whorled

or umbellate, and the erect capsules. Of the flower the

most marked character is the large, horn-like curved spur

of the lip. This would be regarded as a distinguishing

Fesrvanry Ist, 1203,

character, had it not been that with the specimen sent me

by Dr. Balfour, there came raised from the same packet of

seeds an altogether similar plant, except that the lip is

suddenly produced into an incurved spur of a totally

different character, and so slender that I at once named

it (whether specifically or as a variety) leptokentron.

Further materials are required before deciding which

alternative should be adopted. J. Balfourii flowered in

the Royal Gardens, Edinburgh, in September and October,

1901. |

Descr.—A perfectly glabrous, branching herb, two to

three feet high; branches obtusely angled. Leaves three to

five inches long, shortly petioled, ovate-lanceolate, almost

caudate-acuminate, minutely serrulate with recurved teeth,

basal serratures longer and straighter, but eglandular, —

base rounded or cuneate, pale green above, with eight to

ten nerves on each side of the midrib, striolate by trans-

verse close-set nervules; petiole eglandular; stipular —

glands pulvinate. Peduwncles loosely crowded in the upper-

most leaf-axils, forming a subumbelliform cluster, three to

_ four inches long, very slender. Iacemes very short, at

the end of the peduncles, simple, six to eight fld. Bracts

about a fifth of an inch long, ovate-lanceolate. Pedicels

very slender, one half to one inch long. Sepals 2, nearly

orbicular, mucronate, about one-fifth of an inch broad.

Standard orbicular, reflexed, white, suffused with rose;

keel red, slightly thickened. Wings one to one and a

quarter inch long, basal lobe oblong, pale yellow ; terminal

much larger, broadly hatchet-shaped, bright rose, tip

rounded. Lip an inch to an inch and a quarter long,

campanulate, gradually narrowed into a horn-like, some-

what incurved, obtuse horn, with a thickened tip. Cap-

sules erect, linear, one to-one and a half inch long, five-

angled, the angles red, few-seeded. Seeds oblong, testa

thick, punctulate.—J. D. H. :

Fig. 1, portion of stem and stipulary glands ; 2, serratures of leaf; 3, sepal;

4, lip; 5, wing; 6, seed :—al enlarged,

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ACIDANTHERA canpipa.

Native of Fast Tropical Africa.

Nat. Ord. In1ipEa.—Tribe xm.

Genus ActwantuERA, Hochst.; (Benth § Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 706.)

AcipantHera candida; herba gracilis, glaberrima, cormo globoso, caule sim-

plici 2-8-foliato 2-4-floro basi vaginato, foliis linearibus acuminatis 1-14

pedahbus } poll. latis rigidis costa prominula nervis obscuris, spatha

exteriore 24 poll. longa lanceolata herbacea, floribus albis odoriferis,

perianthii tubo fere recto gracili 3}-pollicari, limbi 2 poll. diam. segmentis

12 poll. longis, ovato-rotundatis subacutis obtusisve, filamentis brevibus,

antheris 3 poll. longis rectis, connectivo dorso ruguloso in appendicem

validam puberulam conico-subulatam producto, stigmatis ramis magnis

spathulatis fimbriatis patenti-recurvis.

A. candida, Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. xxx. (1895) p. 404.

Acidanthera candida is described by Dr. Rendle, F.L.S.,

as a native of woodless, undulating grassy steppes at

Lanjoro, in the Athi plains, Eastern tropical Africa, —

where it was discovered in 1893 by Prof. J. W. Gregory,

F.R.S., of the Geological Department of the British

Museum (now of Melbourne University). Its nearest

affinity is, he says, with A. lawiflora, Baker (‘* Handbook

of Iridex,” p. 188) a native of the slopes of Kiliman-

jaro, from which it differs in its more robust habit, firm,

narrow, linear leaves, its more linear outer spathe-valve,

and broad, pure White perianth-segments.

The genus Acidanthera consists of about eighteen

species, chiefly natives of the hilly regions of tropical

Eastern Africa. It is almost too closely allied to Tritonia,

- through A. capensis, Benth. Two species only have pre-

- viously been figured in this work : A, xquinoctialis, Baker,

of Abyssinia, t. 7393, and A. capensis, Benth., of the Cape

Colony (Tritonia capensis, Ker), t. 618 and 1581. ,

~ The Royal Gardens, Kew, are indebted to J. T. Bennett

Poé, Esq., of Ashley Place, London, for the plant of ©

A. candida here figured, which flowered in the Cape House ~

in April, 1902.

~ Descr.—A slender, erect, glabrous, leafy herb. Corm

globose. Stem a foot to a foot and a half high, slender,

Frprvary lst, 1900. i

green, two- to three-leaved, sheathed at the base, three- to

four-flowered. Leaves sheathing at the base, a foot to a foot

and a half long by half an inch broad, linear, acuminate,

‘rigid, bright green, midrib prominent on both surfaces,

lateral nerves none or very obscure. Outer spathe two and

a half inches long, lanceolate, acuminate, convolute, herba-

ceous. flowers white, very sweet-scented. Perianth-tube

three and a half inches long, slender, nearly straight ;

segments of limb orbicular-ovate, obtuse or sub-acute.

Filaments short; anthers half an inch long, linear, con-

nective dorsally thickened, rugose, produced into an erect,

stout, subulate, puberulous appendage. Stigmatie arms

large, spathulate, fimbriate, spreading, and recurved,—

Figs. 1 and 2, stamens; 3, stigma :—both enlarged.

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ASTILBE Davipu.

Native of China, &c.

Nat. Ord. SaxirraGacE#.—Tribe SaXxIFRAGE.

Genus AstTILBE, Buch.-Ham. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 634.)

Asti1BE Davidii; herba elata, caule tereti levi paucifoliato, foliis radicali-

bus rosulatis stipulatis, caulinis distantibus longe graciliterque petiolatis

ternatim pinnatis, pinnis lateralibus oppositis longe petiolulatis 3-5-

foliolatis, pinnulis lateralibus oppositis sessilibus papyraceis 1} poll.

longis ovatis oblongisve acutis grosse sepe inzqualiter argute serratis

dentibus cuspidatis sapra lete viridibus, terminali petiolulata duplo

majore basi acuta v. rotundata simplici v. triloba, panicula terminali

valde elongata angusta, rachi ramisque fusco-tomentosis, ramis simplici-

bus 2-4 poll. longis erecto-patentibus spiciformibus fere a basi densi-

floris, bracteis ad basin ramorum }-3 poll. longis lanceolatis membranaceis,

floribus parvis lete roseis secus rachin ramorum in glomerulos parvos

dispositis sessilibus bracteolis 2 subulatis, calycis puberuli turbinati

lobis ovato-oblongis obtusis, petalis loriformibus obtusis calycis lobis

4-plo longioribus apicibus neutiquam dilatatis, staminibus 10 petalis

brevioribns, filamentis violaceis, antheris subglobosis atro-violaceis, ovarii

conici carpellis basi c»nnatis in stylos subulatos attenuatis.

A. Davidii, Henry in Gard. Chron. 1902, vol. ii. p. 95, tig. 34.

A. chinensis, var. Davidi, Franch. Pl. David. p, 121. Henry le. The

Garden, vol. xii. p. 179, eum ite.

This beautiful plant has been referred by that excellent

botanist, the late Mr. Franchet, to a variety, Davidi, of

Astilbe chinensis, Maximowicz, a species described as having

a yellowish calyx, with acute lobes and white petals dilated

at the apex, founding the variety on the vinous colour of

the inflorescence, and uniformly linear petals. In so doing

_ he has overlooked the very long, narrow panicle, with long,

sub-erect branches regularly diminishing in ‘length up-

wards, which is a marked character of this plant. Taken

together, these differences induced Mr. Henry, when

describing and figuring it in the Gardeners’ Chronicle,

under the name given by Franchet, to adopt that of

Davidii as the specific name. }

A, Davidii appears to have a wide range in China,

growing in shaded places and by water-courses. There are

specimens in the Kew Herbarium collected in Manchuria

by Wilford in Mongolia, by Pére David, near Peking,

Fexpruary lst, 1903,

by Bretschneider, in Kansu by Potanin, and a fine

series in Hupeh, by Henry. The specimen figured, which

was six feet in height, was communicated by Messrs.

J. Veitch & Sons from their garden at Coombe Wood

in August, 1902. It was raised from seed sent home by

their collector, Mr. E. H. Wilson. :

Desev.—Stem with inflorescence four to six feet high,

stout, terete, smooth, glabrous. Leaves ternately pinnate

or bipinnate, radical rosulate, petioles long, very slender,

lower pinne opposite, petiolulate, bearing one or two

rather distant pairs of pinnules, and a_ petiolulate

simple or three-lobed terminal one; pinnules an inch

to an inch and a half long, opposite, sessile, oblons

or ovate, acute, coarsely unequally acutely serrate,

papyraceous, bright green above, paler beneath, base —

acute or rounded, terminal pinnule usually twice as

large as the lateral, and more deeply toothed, base acute.

Panicle two feet long, narrow, inclined; rachis brown,

tomentose; branches very many, alternate, sub-erect,

spiciform, lower four to five inches long, upper gradually

shorter, clothed nearly to the base with crowded globose

fascicles of minute, bright rose-pink, sessile flowers, rachis

tomentose; bracts at the base of the branches membra-

nous, lanceolate, acuminate, half an inch long; bracteoles —

at the base of the flowers minute, subulate. Calyx one-—

sixth of an inch long and broad, turbinate, puberulous,

lobes oblong-ovate, obtuse. Petals four times as long as

the calyx-lobes, exactly linear, very slender, one-nerved.

Stamens shorter than the petals, minute, filaments violet-

blue; anthers dark blue. Pistil of two conical, carpels

connate at the base, each narrowed into an erect style.—

—J, D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower and bracteoles ; 2, stamen ; 3, pistil:—all enlurged.

881

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RHODODENDRON BRACHYOARPUM.

Native of Japan.

Nat. Ord. Ericea.—RHODORER.

Genus RuopopenpRon, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 592.)

RuoDODENDRON (Eurhododendron) brachycarpum ; frutex 8-10-pedalis eglandu-

losus, ramis ramulisque robustis glabris novellis pubescentibus, foliis

46 poll. longis coriaceis oblongis lineari-oblongisve obtusis apiculatisve

basi cuneatis v. rotundatis supra glabris saturate viridibus subtus glabris

v. tomento brunneo appresso laxe v. dense stellatim-pubescentibus, nervis

10-15 utrinque coste tenuibus, petiolo robusto brevi, corymbo terminali

globoso sessili multi-densifloro, bracteis ovato-rotundatis acuminatis crasse

coriaceis glabris, pedicellis 1-2-pollicaribus, calyce brevissimo cupulari

puberulo obtuse 5-dentato, corolla infundibulari-campanulata 5-loba,

tubo brevi, limbo ad 2 poll. lato, lobis orbicularibus patenti-recurvis

apicibus retusis medio roseo-tinctis, 3 superioribus infra medium punctis

majusculis fulvis conspersis, staminibus 10 filamentis basi pilosis, antheris

fs is brevibus flavis, ovario 5-loculari pubescente, stylo staminibus

reviore crassiusculo apice truncato cavo stigmatoso, capsula 3-2 poll. longa

wre lignosa, seminibus ;; poll. longis testa utrinque inaqualiter pro-

ucta. |

RB. brachycarpum, D. Don, ex G. Don, Gen, Syst. Gard, vol. iii. p. 843. DC.

Prodr. vol. vii. p. 723. A. Gray in Mem, Am. Acad. Arts & Se. Bost.

vol. vi. (1859) p. 400. Franch. & Sav. Enum. Pl. Jap. vol. i. p. 288.

Maxim. Rhod. As. Or. p. 22.

Though apparently unknown to Kempfer and Thun-

berg, Rhododendron brachycarpum is a widely distributed

shrub in the mountain districts of Northern and Central

Japan, covering, according to Franchet, vast tracts of Fusi-

yama, above the forest region. It varies greatly in the

amount of. brown tomentum on the under-surface of the

leaves, which are sometimes perfectly glabrous. Probably

the colour of the corolla also varies ; the bright rose-pink

blush in the middle line of the lobes, becoming deeper

towards the tip, may spread over the whole corolla, as it

does in a Japanese figure of a plant that may be a variety

of this. The name brachycarpum is an unfortunate one, as

the figure (6) representing the normal size of the capsule

shows; there are, however, specimens in the Kew Her-

barium with the capsule less than half an inch in length.

Seed of R. brachycarpum, sent by the Imperial Botanic

Gardens of St. Petersburgh in 1895, to the Royal Gardens,

Kew, produced plants which flowered in the Arboretum at

Fesrvarky Ist, 1903.

Kew in June, 1902, from which the accompanying plate

was made.

Descr—A large, very robust shrub, six to ten feet

high; branches and branchlets glabrous, or pubescent

when young. Leaves four to six inches long, shortly

petioled, oblong or linear-oblong, obtuse or apiculate, base

cuneate or rounded, dark green and glabrous above, with

a stout midrib and ten to fifteen pairs of very slender,

arched nerves, beneath glabrous, or clothed laxly or densely

with a closely appressed brown tomentum of stellate hairs ;

petiole very stout. Flowers in a globose, terminal, sessile

corymb four to six inches in diameter; bracts orbicular-

ovate, acuminate, very coriaceous, glabrous; pedicels one

to two inches long. Calyx very small, cupular, obtusely

five-lobed. Corolla between funnel- and bell-shaped, tube

short, limb two inches in diameter ; lobes large, spreading,

orbicular, retuse, white, with a faint rose-pink blush in

the mesial line reddening towards the tip; throat and

three upper lobes closely sprinkled from the base to the

middle with fulvous spots. Stamens ten, filaments slender,

hairy towards the base; anthers small, yellow. Ovary

five-celled, pubescent. Capsule half an inch to one inch

in length.—J. D. H. — ese a

Fig. 1, portion of leaf, under-surface; 2, ealyx and pistil; 3, stamen;

4, summit of style; 5, branched hair of leat;—oll enlarged ; 6, capsule of

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ALOE - ruBROVIOLACEA.

Native of Southern Aralia.

Nat. Ord, Liniacea#.—Tribe ALOINE.

Genus Axox, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 776.)

ALOE (Eualoe) rubroviolacea ; caule crasso monocephalo, foliis dense rosulatis

bipedalibus patenti-recurvis subfaleatis late lanceolato-ensiformibus ad

2 poll. crassis glanco-viridibus pruinoso-violacea supra planiusculis

subtus convexis marginibus corneis rubris remote ‘spinoso-den tatis

dentibus 3 poll. longis incurvis rubris apicem versus folii evanidis, scapo

valido basi compresso adscendente parce ramoso, spicis binis 2-3-pedali-

bus 4 poll, diam. cylindraceis densifloris, bracteis 1-14 poll. longis

lanceolatis siccis infra racemum vacuis, floralibus striatis albo late mar-

ginatis, floribus brevissime [pscgh gee pendulis deorsum imbricatis,

perianthio 1} poll. longo cylindraceo } poll. diam. pallide rubro, segmentis

infra medium connatis apicibus deltoideo-recurvis pallidis, staminibus

longe exsert's, antheris ochroleucis demum atro-brunneis.

A. rubroviolacea, Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vol. ii. App. IT. (1894)

p. 71. Notizblatt. Berl. Bot. Gart. vol. i. p. 5 (1897).

For the opportunity of figuring this noble plant I am

indebted to my friend, Sir Thomas Hanbury, F.L.84 ‘of

La Mortola, who sent to the Royal Gardens, Kew, in

March, 1902, a flowering raceme, a leaf, a photograph of

the whole plant made by Sir Edmund Loder, Bart., and an

excellent detailed description, with notes on its affinities,

&c., by Sir Thomas’s able Curator, Mr. Alwin Berger,

of which I have largely availed myself. Mr. Berger says,

«The plant was received from the Berlin Botanic Gardens.

_ It flowered for the first time at the Palazzo Orengo in the

spring of 1900, and produced a few capsules with good

‘seed, from which a stock of seedlings has been raised.

In the severe winter of last year the flowering scape was

injured by the frost.” Mr. Berger adds, ‘“ The inflorescence

is composed at present of two spikes only, but it may

become more branched in future. Concerning its allies I

think there can be no doubt it belongs to the group with

A. Salm-Dyckiana, Schult. fil., A. drepanophylla, Baker,

and A. chloroleuca, Baker. It cannot be grouped under

Pachidendron, for the perianth is not at all clavate, its

Marcu 1st, 1903,

segments are much longer than the tube, and the bracts

are much larger than in that group. None of its allies

are found near its habitat, all being South African. It is

therefore of high interest in point of view of geographical

distribution. A further exploration of Arabia may bring

other allies to our knowledge.”

Dr. Schweinfurth discovered this species on Mt. Schibam

above Menacha in Southern Arabia, near the old castle,

at about nine thousand five hundred feet (two thousand

nine hundred met.) above the sea.

Descr.—Stem very stout, twenty inches high by four in

diameter, with a single declinate head of leaves. Leaves

about two feet long, by six inches broad, densely rosulate,

sub-faleate, spreading and recurved, ensiformly lanceolate,

about three-fourths of an inch thick, narrowed into a

rather obtuse point, pale green, with a faint, violet bloom,

nearly flat above; convex beneath, margins horny, red,

armed, except towards the tip, with rather distant, shortly

incurved, red spines. Scape ascending, bearing two

branches terminated by large cylindric spikes, each two to

three feet long, densely clothed with imbricating, pendulous,

pale red flowers. Perianth an inch and a half long,

_eylindrie, one-third of an inch diameter. Segments connate

for one-third of their length, tips spreading, pale, outer

with three darker greenish lines, inner with a broader,

central, red band. Filaments exserted for about one-fourth

of their length; anthers oblong, dark ochroleucous, at

length brownish black.—J. D. H. =

Fig. 1, bracts; 2, stamen and pistil; 8, pistil:—all except 1 enlarged.

“Vincent Brooks, Day &Son Lt?!

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SOPHORA VICIIFOLIA,

Native of China.

_ Nat. Ord. Leguminos#.—Tribe Sornorza.

Genus Soruora, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 555).

Soroka (Husophora) viciifolia; suffruticosa, spinosa, ramis glabris ramulis

petiolisque appresse tomentellis, foliolis 6-7-jugis cum impari sessilibus

¢ poll. longis ellipticis v. oblongo-obovatis obtusis apiculatis supra

glaberrimis subtus parce hirtellis, stipulis minutis tomentosis calloso-

mucronatis, racemis ramulos terminantibus erectis recurvisve breviter

pedunculatis foliis subzequilongis laxe 6-12-floris, foribus % poll. longis,

calyce violaceo pedicello xquilongo, cupulari subzqualiter 5-dentato

pubescente albis, bracteis minutis, - petalis subsequilongis, vexillo

spathulato reflexo, carinz petalis basi auriculatis filamentorum 9, alte

connatis, carpellis nune binis hirtellis, legumine aptero 1-2-pollicari

gracili moniliformi rostrato glaberrimo, articulis 3-5 interstitiis elongatis

valde constrictis, valvis membranaceis demum liberis, seminibus } poll.

_ longis oblongis flayo-brunneis.

8. viciifolia, Hance in Journ. Bot. vol. xix. (1881) p. 209. Hemsl. in Journ.

Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. xxiii. (1887) p. 203. ye

S. Moorcroftiana, Benth. var. Davidi, Franch. Pl. David. p- 101, t. 14.

Sophora viciifolia is so very closely allied to S. Moor-

croftiana, Benth., a native of the dry Tibetan Western

Himalaya, at elevations of ten thousand to twelve

thousand feet, that it was referred by Franchet, as a

variety, to that species. It is, however, specifically very

different. S. Moorcroftianahaving eleven to seventeen larger,

more tomentose and more obovate leaflets, terminated with

a long, stiff, awn-like mucro, a longer, narrower calyx, a

shorter, yellow corolla, and densely pubescent pods, with

seeds twice as large as those of S. viciifolia. The Chinese

plant was first described by the late Mr. Hance from

specimens collected in 1880 by Mr. T. Watters in the

Province of Hupeh, in the mountains of which province

it has since been found by Mr. Henry; it is also a native

of Shensi, Yunnan, and Szechuen, where it appears to be

common on the Tibet frontier, forming, according to Mr.

Pratt, large heaths, two to four feet high, in barren soils,

at an elevation of nine thousand to thirteen thousand five

hundred feet.

Marcu Ist, 1903.

The specimen figured was from a plant raised from seed

sent by Mr. Henry to the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1898,

which flowered in the open air against a wall in July,

1902. The violet calyces contrasting with the milk-white

corolla make a very effective and attractive contrast.

Descr.—A low, much-branched, spinescent shrub, two

to four feet high, with pubescent branchlets, petioles,

pedicels, and calyx. Leaves an inch to an inch and a half

long, shortly petioled; leaflets six to seven pairs, with a

terminal one, rather close-set, sessile, a quarter of an inch

long, elliptic, obtuse, mucronate, pubescent beneath.

Flowers white, in shortly peduncled, terminal, erect, or re-

curved, six- to twelve-flowered racemes. Calyx small, cup-

shaped, shortly five-toothed, violet blue. Petals about half

an inch long, sub-equal in length. Standard obovate-

spathulate, reflexed. Keel-petals obtusely auricled at the

base. Carpels one or two, very slender, hairy. Pod one

to two inches long, slender, moniliform, long-beaked,

smooth, glabrous, joints three to five, ellipsoid, interstices

long, much constricted ; valves free, membranous. Seeds

about one-seventh of an inch long, ellipsoid.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, calyx laid open and stamens; 2, standard; 3, wing-petal; 4, keel-

sg 5, single, and 6, twin carpels; 7, pod; 8, seed: all except 7 enlarged ;

and 8 from herbarium specimens.

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HAMAMELIS mottrs.

Native of China.

Nat. Ord. HaMaMeLipEs.

Genus HamameEtis, Gronov, ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 667.)

HAMAMELIS mollis; fratex v. arbor 10-830-pedalis, cortice atro-fusco, ramulis

foliisque subtus stellato-tomentosis, foliis breviter petiolatis 4-5 poll.

longis obovato-rotundatis oblongisve cuspidatis sinuato-dentatis basi

Invequaliter cordatis sinu acuto supra minute subscabride stellato-

pubescentibus, stipulis 2 poll. longis lineari-lanceolatis extus tomentosis

intus glabris caducis, floribus in pedunculis glomeratis, calycis pubes-

centis lobis ovato-rundatis rubris, petalis ad } poll. longis loriformibus

aureis, filamentis brevibns crassis glabris, antheris reniformi-rotundatis

ovario villoso, stylis brevibus recurvis, capsula tomentosa. ;

H. mollis, Oliv. in Hook. Ic. Pl. vol. xviii. t. 1742. Hemsl. in Journ. Linn.

Soe. Bot. vol. xxiii. (1887) p. 290.

Of Hamamelis only three species are as yet known.

H. virginiana, Linn. t. 6684, of the Eastern United States.

Hl, japonica, Sieb. & Gucc. t. 6659 (A. Zuccariniana, Oftol.

in Gard. Chron. 1874, vol. i. p. 187), and H. mollis,

which extends the distribution of the genus into Western

China. Though so widely apart geographically, the three

species hardly differ in any essential characters of habit,

inflorescence, or floral structure, but the Japanese and

Chinese are more akin than either is to the American,

which is nearly glabrous, and has smaller flowers, with

the calyx-lobes green within. 4H. mollis differs from its

two congeners in the stellate tomentum of the leaves

beneath, which are rather deeply cordate at the base, and

in the broader petals. Its calyx-lobes are, as in H. japonica,

purplish-red. All three flower in winter, and leaf and

rei in summer or autumn, the foliage colouring before it

alls. 3

H. mollis was first described and figured in Hooker’s

*Tcones Plantarum,” from specimens collected by Mr.

Henry in the Patung district of the Province of Hupeh.

It has since been found in Kiangsu, in the district of

Kiukiang by Mr. Maries, who sent seeds to Messrs. Veitch,

by whom plants were raised and presented to the Royal

Marcu 1st, 1903.

Gardens, Kew, in 1902. Tt is, no doubt, a mountain

plant in China, being hardy in England.

Descr.—A large bush or small tree, sometimes thirty

feet high, with straggling branches and nearly black bark.

Leaves four to five inches long, shortly petioled, orbicular-

obovate or -oblong, cuspidate, toothed, scaberulous above,

stellate-tomentose beneath, base obliquely cordate, basal

lobes more or less unequal, sinus acute, nerves eight or

ten pair; stipules three-fourths of an inch long, linear-

lanceolate, externally tomentose, glabrous within, cadu-

cous. Llower-heads sessile or very shortly peduncled.

Vaiye tomentose ; lobes broadly ovate, glabrous, purplish-

red within, about a tenth of an inch long. Petals a

third of an inch long by less than one-tenth of an inch

broad, golden-yellow. “Filaments short, stout, Ovary |

hirsute.—J. D. H.

_Fig. 1, flower; 2, section of ditto, showing bases of petals, stamens, and

pistil; 3, stamen :—al/ enlarged.

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PHALAIN OPSIS Konstierr.

Native of the Malayan Peninsula.

~ Nat. Ord. OrcuipEa.—Tribe VANDER.

Genus PuaLunorsis, B/.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. iii. p. 578.)

PuaLznorsis (Stauroglottis) Kunstleri; subacaulis, foliis 1-3 sessilibus oblongis

obovato-oblongisve apice acutis v. rotundatis et mucronatis 3-5 poll. longis

basi angustatis late viridibus, pedunculo 4-6 poll. longo decurvo v. pendulo

crassitie penne corvine vaginis 1-2 brevibus crassis obtusis instructo,

racemo terminali 3-6-floro rachi angulatim flexuoso, bracteis minutis

ovatis obtusis, pedicellis cum ovariis 1-1} pollicaribus ascendentibus

flexuosis, floribus 13 poll. latis, sepalis petalisque consimilibus lineari-

oblongis oblongo-obovatisve apice rotundatis supra convexis lateribus

recurvis rufo-brunneis apice et basi late aureis, labelli parvi lobis laterali-

bus incurvis atriculeformibus albis sanguineo striatis, terminali ovato-

rotundato obtuso medio alte carinato basi appendice brevi furcata -

instructo, disco inter lobos laterales crasse bicarinato, columna brevi

superne dilatata anthera biloba multo latiore.

P. Kunstleri, Hook. fil. in Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. vi. p. 30; et in Ann. Roy. Bot Gard.

Calcutta, vol. v. p. 38, t. 58.

I accept Mr. Rolfe’s determination of the plant here

figured being the Phalenopsis Kunstleri described by me

in 1895, from dried flowers of a specimen collected in

Perak by Dr. Kunstler, and a drawing of the whole plant

made by a native artist in the Royal Botanic Gardens of

Calcutta. A comparison of that drawing, subsequently

published in “ The Annals of the Royal Gardens,” with

Miss Smith’s here produced, shows that, if Mr. Rolfe’s

identification is correct, the species must be a variable

one, for the Calcutta drawing represents the roots as

much more slender and terete, the leaves lanceolate, acute,

without a terminal mucro, and of a very pale green,

suffused with yellow towards the base, a two-flowered

raceme, and obovate, nearly flat sepals and petals.

I am indebted to Sir Trevor Lawrence for the specimen

here figured, which he informs me he procured in 1899

from Mr. Curtis, F.L.8., Superintendent of Gardens and

Forests in Penang, without any definite locality. It

flowered in a stove at Burford Lodge in April, 1902.

Marcu Ist, 1903.

Descr.—Roots broad, flattened. Leaves few, variable,

_ the longer four inches long by nearly one broad, oblong,

sessile, tip rounded with a strong mucro, the shorter some-

times nearly orbicular, bright green. Peduncle a foot

long, rather slender, green. Raceme terminal, loosely

_ seven-flowered, pendulous, rhachis rather stouter than the

peduncle, zigzag. Bracts very small, broadly ovate.

Pedicels with ovary, one to one and a half inches long,

recurved. Perianth nearly two inches broad. Sepals and

petals equal and similar, spreading and incurved, linear- or

obovate-oblong, lips rounded, very convex, margins

strongly recurved, red brown above, with broad, golden-

yellow tips and bases, dorsally pale yellow. Lip very

much smaller than the sepals; side-lobes ear-shaped, in-

‘curved, white, streaked with blood-red, disk between the

side-lobes strongly two-ribbed; midlobe orbicular-ovate,

obtuse, strongly keeled in the middle, and with a small

forked appendage at the base, white, streaked with red.

Column very short and broad, much broader than the small,

hemispheric anther.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, flower with sepals and petals removed; 2, lip with one side lobe

removed; 3, anther; 4 and 5, pollinia :—all enlarged. ice

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CHRYSANTHEMUM eranpz.

Native of Algeria.

Nat. Ord. Composirz.—Tribe ANTHEMIDE,

Genus CurysantuEmum, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 424.)

CHRYSANTHEMUM (Plagius) grande ; herba 2-3-pedalis, perennis, erecta, robusta,

foliosa, hispido-pilosa v. glabrescens, caule subsimplici, foliis 6-8 polli-

earibus radicalibus longe petiolatis caulinis sessilibus lyratis lineari-

oblongis-obovatisve obtnsis repando-crenatis inferioribus basi longe angus-

tatis et in petiolum alatum remote dentatum basi late auriculatum pro-

ductis, auriculis profunde pinnatifidim dentatis dentibus incurvis acutis,

capitulis terminalibus solitariis 14-2} poll. latis valde depressis disci-

formibus homogamis, pedunculo valido elongato foliis parvis deformatis

instructo, involucri crateriformis bracteis numerosissimis 3-seriatis appresis

3 poll. longis subulato-lanceolatis extimis herbaceis intimis apice mem-

-branaceis brunneis, receptaculo lato plano granulato, flosculis innumeris

(radii 0) dense compactis bracteis squilongis aureis, corolla tubuloso-

campanulata 5-fida lobis ovatis acutis sparse tuberculatis, acheeniis crasse

stipitatis subcylindraceis lente curvis sulcatis basi oblique truncatis

apice in squamam unguiformem unilateralem coriaceam concavam corolla

ter breviorem persistentem producto.

C. grande, Hook. f.

C. grandiflorum, Battand. Flore d’ Alger. 1890, p. 464, non Willd.

Plagius grandiflorus, L’Hér. ex DC. Prodr. vol. vi. p. 135. Munby, Cat. Pl.

Alger. Eid. 2 (1866), p. 19.

Balsamita grandiflora, Desf. in Act. Soc. Hist. Nat. Par. vol. i. (1792) p. 1;

Fl. Atlant. vol. ii. p. 262. Willd. Sp. Pl. vol. iii. p. 1800.

Matricaria grandis, Desrouss. in Lam. Encycl. vol. iii. p. 738.

Tanacetum grandiflorum, Poir. Encyel. vol. vii. p. 574.

Cotula grandis, Linn. Sp. Pl. Ed. II. p. 1257.

The specific name of grandijlorum adopted for this plant

by Battandier and Trabut, being preoccupied by Willdenow

for the Canarian congener, I have replaced it by that of

grande, under which, as Cotula grandis, it was first

described by Linnzus. It is confined to Algiers, where it

is not uncommon in the Mitidja range, and in the Tell (the

cultivated districts between that range and the sea),

growing on roadsides and amongst brushwood. The

genus Plagius, Desf., to which, as a section, it is referable,

is founded on the absence of ray-flowers, a very exceptional

character in the genus Chrysanthemum, there being only

Marcu Ist, 1903.

two or three species, all Mediterranean, that are referable

to it. .

C. grande is not a common garden plant, the specimen.

here figured was obtained by the Royal Gardens, Kew,

from Mr. T. Smith, Nurseryman, Newry, in August,

1902. Byacurious coincidence only a few days previously

it was sent to me by a friend in Norfolk, procured from

the garden of Mr. James H. Reeve, of North Walsham.

It is perfectly hardy, flowers in autumn, and is a striking

accession to the herbaceous garden. —

Descr.—A very stout, erect, simple or sparingly

branched, hispidly hairy or nearly glabrous perennial

herb, two to three feet high. Stem leafy. Leaves six to

eight inches long, sessile, lyrately oblong or linear-oblong,

obtuse, coarsely crenate, contracted in the middle some-

a8 brosd; peduads ng a few small, —

me ss asta, innu.

stout, sub-cylindric, curved, sulcate, obliquely truncate

-at the base, produced above into a unilateral coriaceous

concave, persistent scale, about one-third as long as the

corolla,—J. D. H. Se ee

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Nat. Ord. VerBenace®.—Tribe VITICER.

Genus CLERODENDRON, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 1155.)

CLERODENDRON (Euclerodendron) myrmecophila; suffrutex 3-pedalis, parce

ramosa, caule crasso tereti fistuloso glabro internodis tumidis, cortice

alby, foliis oppositis vel alternis pedalibus lineari-oblongis obtusis acutisve

herbaceis glabris saturate viridibus politis basi acutis obtusis vel cordatis,

nervis utrinque coste ad 12, petiolo 1-3-pollicari fistuloso, panicula pedali

terminali erecta pyramidali pubescente multiflora, rachi viridi, ramis

ramulis bracteolis pedicellisque fusco-purpureis, bracteolis subulatis,

pedicellis brevibus, calycis puberuli 3 poll. longi tubo viridi lobis lanceo-

latis acutis fusco-purpureis, corolla rubro-aurantia:« tubo calyce paullo

longiore lobis $ poll. longis ip bo apice rotundatis superioribus

paullo longioribus, filamentis styloque pollicaribus ascendentibus gracilli-

mis rubris, antheris parvis, ovario globoso, styli ramis gracilibus, bacca

globosa } poll. diam. nigra. ;

C. myrmecophila, Ridl. in Journ. Bot. vol. xxxiii. (1895) p. 42.

This very handsome species of the large tropical genus

Clerodendron was discovered in dense forests of Singapore

by Mr. H. N. Ridley, M.A., F.L.S., Director of the

Gardens and Forest Department of the Straits Settle-

ments, who describes it as approaching in habit C. fistulo-

sum, Beccari (Malesia ii. 48) of Borneo, a species with

capitate inflorescence, but as being nearer to C. panicu-

latum, Linn, (tab. 7141), a common tropical Asiatic

species, with broad-lobed leaves, an angular stem, and a

very different calyx. In both ©. myrmecophila and

fistulosum the hollow stems are swollen at the internodes,

and there form nests for ants, those of the Singapore plant

belonging ‘to the genus Pheidole, Fabricus, those of the

Bornean to Colobopsis. Another ant-fostering species is

C. formicarum, Giirke (Engler, Bot. Jahrb. xviii. 179) a

native of tropical Africa.

A living plant of C. myrmecophila was received at the

Royal Gardens, Kew, from Mr. Ridley in 1896, which

flowéred in a stove in April, 1902, when three feet high.

There are specimens in the Kew Herbarium, of a very

closely allied species from Borneo, and from the Royal

Gardens, under the mss. name of C. macrophyllum, Hook,

Arkin Ist, 1903, :

Mo. Bot. Garden

ata =

1OO> Ss

(from Java?), which differs only in the rather longer

corolla tube.

_ Deser—A sparingly branched shrub, about three feet

high, with very stout, terete, glabrous, fistular stems, and

white bark; internodes swollen, hollow. Leaves opposite

and alternate, a foot long, linear-oblong, acute or obtuse,

dark green polished, base acute, obtuse or cordate,

costa stout, with about twelve pairs of nerves; petiole

short, stout, fistular. Panicle terminal, shortly peduncled,

a foot high, pyramidal, very many-flowered, pubescent ;

rachis green, strict ; branches very many, many-flowered,

slender, spreading, red-brown, as are the small, subu-

late bracteoles, short pedicels, and lobes of the calyx.

Calyx puberulous, about one-third of an inch long; tube

short, green; lobes lanceolate, acuminate, erect. Corolla

ochreous-red ; tube about one-third longer than the calyx;

lobes half an inch long, obovate-oblong, tips rounded.

Filaments an inch long, very slender, ascending, red ;

anthers very smal]. Ovary globose; style as long as the

stamens, red, arms slender. Berry globose, a quarter of

an inch in diameter. black.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, section of calyx and ovary; 2 and 3, anthers; 4, arms of style :—all

enlarged. =

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EKUPHORBIA oprsa,.

Native of South Africa,

Nat. Ord. Eurpporsiacka#.—Tribe EvPHORBIER.

Genus Evrnorsia, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Flant. vol. ii. p. 258.)

Evrvorsia (Euphorbium) obesa; aphylla, caule simplici erecto 5 poll. alto

oblongo-ovoideo 8-costato apice et basi rotundato pallide viridi striis

transversis pallide purpnreis creberrime fasciato, sulcis verticalibus ad 1}

poll. latis haud profundis sinibus acutis, costis acutis a basi creberrime

tuberculatis, tuberculis uniseriatis rugulosis brunneis supremis solo

florentibus, pedunculis vix ,, poll. longis simplicibus monocephalis

bracteis 5-6 arcte imbricatis obtusis carnosis tectis infimis ovatis 3

supremis (foliis floralibus) longioribus involucri tubum squantibus

ciliolatis, involucro sessili ad 5 poll. longo campanulato fundo glandulis

numerosis minimis instructo, lobis 5 minutis brevibus latis incurvis hispi-

dulis, glandulis interpositis lobis triplo majoribus orbicularibus carnosis

integerrimis punctatis, filamentis anantheris hirsutis, ovario breviter

stipitato, stylo breviusculo robusto, stigmatibus spathulatis revolutis.

E. obesa, Hook. fil.

The very remarkable plant here figured was sent to the

Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1897, by Professor MacOwan,

D.Sc., F.L.S., Government Botanist, Cape Colony, under

the name of Euphorbia meloformis, Ait., which is its

nearest but very different ally. It flowered for the first

time in July in the Succulent House in 1899, when the ac-

companying figure was made, and the ovary was pollinated

from E. meloformis. Subsequently this unique plant dis-

appeared from the Kew Collection, and I am consequently

unable to check the description given above, which was,

_ for the most part, drawn up shortly after the drawing was

finished. Possibly its illustration in this Magazine may

lead to the discovery of its whereabouts.

_ A reference to any of the six published figures of the

well-known FH. meloformis, which was introduced in

1774, shows that it differs greatly in inflorescence from

E. obesa, bearing its involucres on long, simple, or branched

peduncles.

Descr—Whole plant five inches high, obovoid-oblong,

simple, erect, rounded at both ends, pale green, crossed

with bands of innumerable pale purple striz, eight-ribbed ;

Apri Ist, 1903.

ribs vertical, straight, sub-acute, an inch and a half apart

at about the middle of the stem, closely covered with

minute, brown, rugulose tubercles in a single series; sinus

between the ribs shallow, acute at the base. JInvolucres

solitary on the tubercles at the crown of the plant, very

shortly peduncled ; peduncle about one-tenth of an inch

long, covered with obtuse, imbricating, fleshy, ciliolate

bracts, the three upper longest. Involucre about as long

as the peduncle, campanulate ; lobes five, minute, short,

broad, incurved, hispid; interposed glands three times as

large, orbicular, fleshy, quite entire, punctate. Filaments

anantherous, hirsute. Ovary nearly sessile. Style rather

short, stout ; stigmas large, revolute.—J. D. H

Fig. J, inflorescence; 2, involucre laid open with the ovary removed;

3, filaments and glands from the base of the tube of the involucre; 4, filaments —

and glands at the bottom of the involucre; 5, ovary :—all enlarged.

in Seer RT, SPE, FO . Semae eee

Tas. 7889.

IRIS Couerri. ;

Native of Burma.

Nat. Ord. In1pEz.—Tribe MoraEX.

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

Iris (Evansia) Collettii; dense caspitosa, radicibus crassis vermiformibus

_ annulatis, vaginis infimis fibrosis, foliis lineari-ensiformibus caule demum

multo longioribus rigidis alte 5-costatis acuminatis saturate viridibus,

caulibus 3-4-pollicaribus nudis 1-2-cephalis, spathis oP a

anguste lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis unifloris viridibus, pedunculo spathis

paullo longiore, perianthii tubo brevi, limbi ad 1} poll. lati segmentis

omnibus recurvis obovato-spathulatis violaceis basin versus albo striatis

apice retusis exterioribus paullo majoribus crista imberbi angusta ochro-

leuca instructis, styli ramis erectis crista ampla fere orbiculari bipartita,

segmentis dimidiato-ovatis acutis integerrimis.

I. Collettii, Hook. f. .

I. nepalensis, D. Don, forma depauperata, Collett § Hemsl. in Journ. Linn,

Soe. vol. xxviii. (1890) p. 136.

I. nepalensis, D. Don, var. Letha, Fost. in Gard. Chron. 1892, vol. ii. p. 458.

Tris Collettii was discovered, at an elevation of four

thousand feet, in the Southern Shan hills of Upper Burma,

by the late Col. Sir Henry Collett, K.C.B., who, in 1888, sent

herbarium specimens of it to Sir George King at the Calcutta

Botanic Gardens, some of which were transmitted to Kew.

From these it was first published in 1890, by Sir Henry

Collett and Mr. Hemsley, in the Journal of the Linnean ~

Society, as a depauperate form of I. nepalensis. In 1891

Messrs. Barr received living plants of it from Lieut.-Col.

Stone, collected near Fort White, also in the Shan hills,

at an elevation of seven thousand feet.

Of these latter Sir Michael Foster published a descrip-

tion in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, where, unaware of the earlier

- notice, he gave it the name of J. nepalensis, var. Letha,

from that of the mountain on which it was found. With

regard to the discrepancy between the elevations at which

the plant is stated to have been collected, I think that the

higher, seven thousand feet, is perhaps an error, for Sir

Henry Collett, in his preface to the account of his plants —

in the “ Linnean Journal” (p. 14) emphasizes the fact,

that though the Shan hills are actually within the tropics,

Aprit Ist, 1903,

between 19° and 22° N. Lat., temperate types appear in

abundance at four thousand feet.

The resemblance of I. Collettii to I. nepalensis is so

strong that I can well understand it being regarded as a

variety of that plant. Its distinguishing characters are

the dwarf habit (persistent under cultivation), earlier

leafing, small flowers, very short perianth-tube, sub-equal

segments all spreading and recurved, beardless crest, and

comparatively large stigmatic crests, which are bipartite,

with dimidiate-ovate, quite entire segments. The specimen

figured was sent to the Royal Gardens, Kew, by Mr.

Hildebrand, C.I.E., Superintendent of the Shan States in

Burma, where it flowered in a greenhouse in April, 1902.

The flowers were faintly fragrant. Plants of it were

subsequently planted in a border in the open air, where

they all died.

Descr.—toots of very many, crowded, large, equal,

vermiform, brown tubers several inches long, and a

quarter of an inch in diameter. Leaves narrowly ensiform,

strongly nerved, dark green, bases surrounded with rigid

brown fibres. Flowering stems about six inches high, one-

to two-flowered. Spathes one and a half to two inches —

long, narrow, acuminate, herbaceous, green. Perianth-

twbe short ; limb an inch and a half in diameter ; segments

sub-equal, spreading, and revolute, violet-blue, strea

with white towards the base; crest of outer brig

orange-yellow, not bearded. Stigmatic crests large, erect,

bipartite ; segments dimidiate-ovate, acute, quite entire.—

mp Be:

Figs. 1 and 2, anthers ; 3, stigmatic crest :—all enlarged.

ses ee

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Tas. 7890.

AGAVE BakeERI,

Native of Mexico ?

Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDEZ.—Tribe AGAVE.

Genus Acave, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 788.)

Acave (Littea) Bakeri; trunco 4-pedali, basi nudo coma 6 ped. diam.

e foliis perplurimis densissime confertis confecta, foliis 3 ped. longis

undique patenti-revolutis medio 5 poll. latis loriformi-lanceolatis haud

crassis basi angustatis supra planiusculis subtus leviter convexis spina

pollicari terminatis, marginibus lavibus purpureis, peduncalo brevi crasso

foliis junioribus brevibus erectis cincto, racemo 8-9-pedali stricto erecto

cylindraceo, floribufs densissime confertis, bracteis floribus equilongis e basi

ovata rubro striata anguste linearibus, bracteolis triangularibus mem-—

branaceis rubro striatis pedicellos crassos $-pollicares zequantibus, ovarus

pollicaribus lineari-oblongis teretibus, perianthii tubo ovario squilongo

cbeonico 6-sulcate, lobis pollicaribus lineari-oblongis obtusis revolutis

extus viridibus intus albo-viridibus fascia media saturatiore pictis, fila-

mentis 2-pollicaribus albis, antheris pollicaribus anguste linearibus

aureis, stylo filamentis breviore apice subclavellato 3-lobulato.

A: aurea Hook. f., ec W. Watson in Garden, 1902, vol. i. p. 240, ewm ic.

reduct.

A very distinct species of Agave, purchased for the Royal

Gardens, Kew, at the sale of the late Mr. Peacock’s noble

collection of Cactuses, Aloes, and Agaves in 1889, with no

indication of its native country or collector. It flowered

in the Mexican division of the Temperate House in January

to March, 1902. I have named it after my friend, J. G.

Baker, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., late Keeper of the Herbarium

of the Royal Gardens, Kew, author of the Handbooks of

the Amaryllidew, Iridew, Bromeliacew, and of other

works that have been of signal service to Botanists and

‘Horticulturalists.

_ Deser.—Trunk about four feet high, stout, erect, bearing

an elongated crown six feet in diameter, of very numerous,

spreading and recurved leaves, and a very shortly peduncled,

dense-flowered cylindrical raceme of nearly nine feet

high. Leaves three feet long by five inches broad at

the middle, narrowed towards the base, terminated by a

spine an inch long, glaucous-green, with a quite entire,

narrow, purple margin, coriaceous, slightly concave above,

and convex beneath; young leaves erect, crowded round,

Aprgit Ist, 1903,

and concealing the peduncle and base of the raceme.

Jiaceme strict, columnar, golden-yellow from the number

_ and size of the anthers. Dracts as long as the flowers,

tapering from a broad, pale green, striate base to a very

slender, almost filiform tip ; bracteoles half an inch long,

triangular-ovate, about as long as the very stout pedicels,

membranous, white, streaked with red. Ovary an inch

long, narrowly oblong. Perianth-tube as long as the ovary,

infundibular, six-grooved ; segments an inch long, linear-

oblong, revolute, tip rounded, dorsally green, very pale,

almost white within, with a median, darker green band

down the middle. Filaments two inches long; anthers an

inch long, very narrowly linear, bright yellow. Style

oes than the filaments, tip obscurely three-lobed.—

ne Eas: &

Figs. 1 and 2, flowers of the natural size, with bracts and bracteoles;

3 and 4, anthers; 5, apex of style :—enlaryed,

——

Tas. 7891.

LATHYRUS pusssosns.

Native of Temperate S. America.

Nat. Ord. Leguminosa.—Tribe Viera.

Genus Latuynvs, Linn.; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 526.)

Laturrvus pubescens; frutex molliter pilosus, 3-5-pedalis, diffuse ramosus,

ramis ramulis pedunculisque alte 4-costatis, foliis bi- rarius 4-foliolatis,

foliolis 1-24 pallisadibts ellipticis oblongis v. oblongo-lanceolatis acutis

subtus 3-5-costatis, petiolo brevi v. elongato, stipulis latis foliaceis semi-

sagittatis, cirrhis elongatis trifidis, pedunculo valido 4-6-poll. longo

rigido, racemo multi-laxe- v. densifloro, foribus 1-1} poll. latis breviter

pedicellatis, calycis } poll. longi tubo late campanulato, basi postice gibbo,

dentibus 2 superioribus acutis 3 inferioribus longioribus longe acuminatis,

vexillo orbiculari emarginato violaceo, lateribus recurvis, alis late oblique

faleatis patulis fere albis, carine parve incurve petalis apices versus |

_ rubris, stylo apice incrassato ad medium puberulo, legamine 2-2}-pollicari

_ lineari } poll. lato acuto pubescente, seminibus parvis ellipsoideis ad

} bol tong ines Lk

L. pubescens, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 21, et in Hook. Bot. Misc.

vol. iii. p. 198 (non tab. nostr. 3996). Hook. f. Fl. Antaret. vol. ii. p. 259

_(exel. cit. Bot. Mag). C. Gay, Fl. Uhil. vol.ii. p. 148. Benth. in Mart.

Fl. Bras. vol. xv. pars I. p. 114. André in Rev. Hortic. vol. xvii. (1895)

ike p. 40, cum ie. col.

_ L. acutifolius, e¢ L. petiolaris, Vogel, in Linnea, vol. xiii. (1839) pp. 27, 29.

L. macropus, Gillies, e« Hook. et Arn. in Hook. Bot. Mise. le.

Orobus pubescens, Alef. in Bonplandia, vol. ix. (1861) p. 143.

Lathyrus pubescens is very closely allied to L. tomentosus,

-Lamk., a native of S. Brazil and Buenos Ayres, which

| was figured under this name (pubescens) tab. 3996 of this

work. According to Bentham, l.c., LZ. tomentosus differs

from L. pubescens in being taller, and having broader

leaflets and stipules, and fewer, rather smaller flowers;

_ differences which are difficult of recognition in herbarium

_ specimens. A far more marked distinction between these

species, as shown by the two plates in this work, is the

glaucous blue colouring of tab. 3996 (tomentosus), and the

dark green of 7891 (pubescens). Both appear to be very

_ variable plants in the size of the leaflets, and number and

size of the flowers and stipules. It is further to be observed,

that Mr. André describes his plant as having glaucescent

foliage.

Aprit Ist, 1903.

Lathyrus pubescens has rather a wide distribution in

extra-tropical South America, from Valparaiso to Chiloe in

Chili, and from Monte Video to Banda Oriental and Parana

in the east. Mr. André, who was the first to cultivate it in

Europe, in his garden at La Croix, in Touraine, from

seeds sent by Mr. Cantana from Uruguay, describes it as

forming festoons of glaucescent leaves and lilac flowers

covering the branches of shrubs three to five feet high.

C. Gay, in his ‘Flora of Chili,” described the corolla as

yellow (aurea), but this must be an oversight.

The specimen here figured was from a plant presented

in 1900 to the Royal Gardens, Kew, by W. Gumbleton,

Esq., of Belgrove, Queenstown, which flowered i in a cool

house in April, 1902.

Deser.—A softly hairy, ditasely becuohine alive" “Btem |

and branches and peduncles four-angled, the angles form-

ing stout ribs. Leaves with one, rarely two pairs of

leaflets; petiole produced into a stout, trifid tendril;

leaflets sessile, one to two and a half inches long , elliptic,

oblong, or oblong-lanceolate, acute, dark green, ‘strongly

ribbed beneath ; stipules sotnteaee ees ery variable; a

size and breadth. Peduncle lon

bearing a short, lax-

shortly pedicelled flowe

inch and a quarter broa

nulate, five-toothed; two upper

three lower much longer, narrowed int “pol

Standard orbicular, notched at the tip, Voli bhic, margins

recurved. Wing-petals broad, spreading, pale lilac dorsally,

nearly white in front. Keel much Faraleee petals falcately

curved, white, with red tips. Pod two to two and a half —

inches long, linear, about one-third of an inch broad; —

acute ; valves hairy, flat. Seeds very small, ellipsoid.—

—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, calyx laid open and stamens; 2, keel petal; 3 and 4, anthers;

5, pistil; 6, legumes; 7 and 8, seeds :—all enlarged, except figs. 6 and -.

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RODGERSIA pinnata,

Native of China.

Nat. Ord. SaxirraGacE®.—Tribe SaxirrRaGen,

Genus Roperrsia, A. Gray; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. i. p. 685.)

RopceErsta pinnata; herba elata, 6-pedalis, rhizomate crassissimo brevi, caule

ascendente simplici fistuloso, collo nodisque sericeo-pilosis, foliis digitatim

impari-pinnatis radicalibus longe petiolatis, foliolis bi-tri~jugis is as

6-8-pollicaribus obovato-lanceolatis acuminatis inwqualiter argute den-

tatis multinerviis basi‘angustatis foliis superioribus digitatim 3-5-folio-

latis, foliolis basi angustioribus, inflorescenta terminali 1-2-pedali erecta

cymoso-paniculata ramosissima, ramis ramulisque hirtellis roseis, floribus

breviter pedicellatis 4 poll. diam. odoratis, calycis lobis ovatis subacutis

extus roseis intus albis, staminibus 10 sepalis subzquilongis, antheris

ovoideis purpureis connectivo breviter producto obtuso, ovarii carpellis

conicis in stylos crassos attenuatis basi connatis. :

R. pinnata, Franch, Pl. David. vol. ii. p- 214, in nota. Henry in Gard.

Chron. 1902, vol. ii. p. 132, fig. 44. :

AsTILBE pinnata, Franch. Pl. Delav. p. 231.

The genus Rodgersia is very closely allied to Astilbe,

differing chiefly, if not wholly, in the foliage, its leaves being

digitately pinnate, those of Astilbe ternately bipinnate.

One species has been already figured in this work, &.

pedophylla, A. Gray, t. 6691, a native of Japan, upon |

which the genus was founded; it has digitately five-

foliolate leaves, very small, yellowish-white flowers,

slender filaments, didymous anthers, and a depressed,

orbicular ovary. In an excellent article upon Hodgersia,

by Mr. Henry, in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, the genus is

described as consisting of four species, It. podophylla,

A. Gray, R. pinnata, Franch., BR. wsculifolia, Batal. in

Act. Hort. Petrop. vol. xiii. p. 96, a native of China, and

ft. Henrici, Franch. in Rey. Hortic. 1897, p. 174, a species

brought by Prince Henry of Orleans from Western

Yunnan, In thatarticle Mr. Henry describes the leaves of

R. pinnata as quasi digitate, consisting of three leaflets

ternately disposed, then two pairs of opposite leaflets, and

a terminal solitary petiolulate leaflet ; when only six leaflets

are present they are disposed in two ternate clusters.

May lst, 1903,

The upper leaves on the plant are simply ternate or

digitately five-foliolate.

fi. pinnata appears to be a common plant in the

mountain region of Yunnan, at elevation of seven thousand

to eight thousand feet, growing in shaded places by water

courses, where it was first found by the Abbé Delavay in

1883. Seeds of it were sent to the Royal Gardens, Kew,

by Mr. Henry, in 1898, from which plants were raised

that flowered in the Rock Garden in July, 1902. The

flowers have a delicate, angelica-like odour (Henry).

Descr.—A tall, unbranched herb, with a large horizontal

rootstock. Stem hollow, silkily hairy at the leaf axils.

Leaves long-petioled, digitately pinnate; petiole stout;

leaflets five to nine, towards the apex of the petiole, six to

eight inches long, obovate or oblanceolate, acute, coarsely

unequally toothed, narrowed to the base, very many-

nerved ; lateral leaflets usually four to six in opposite

pairs or threes, terminal usually three, digitate, leaf-like.

Flowers in a large, sparsely hirsute, much-branched panicle ;

rachis and branches rose-red, pedicels very short, Calyz

puberulous, lobes ovate, sub-acute, externally red, white

within. Petals 0. Stamens ten, about as long as the

calyx-lobes; anthers ovoid, purple. —J. D. H.

Fig. 1, fower; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, ovary :—all enlarged.

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SEMPERVIVUM ocrstoum.

Native of the Canary Islands,

Nat. Ord. CrassuLacEz.

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Genus Semrervivum, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 660.)

Semrervivom (onium) urdicum; fruticosum, caule erecto-1-3-pedali robusto

eylindraceo inferne nudo, cortice cinereo, cicatricibus rhomboideis

tessellato, foliis apicem versus caulis dense rosulatis 4-6 poll. longis 1-14

poll. latis anguste spathulatis cuspidatis crassis glabris ciliato-serrulatis

sessilibus, v. basi in petiolum tetragonum angustatis pullide viridibus,

subtus costa lata percursis, panicula magna pyramidali 2-3-ped. alta,

ramis patenti-decurwis gracilibus basi foliaceo-bracteatis longe nudis

apices versus ramulosis et foliis paucis parvis ovatis instructis viridibus

multifloris, floribus 3 poll. diam. breviter pedicellatis pallide aurcis,

ealyce cupulari breviter 8-10-dentato glaberrimo, petalis 8-10 oblongo-

lanceolatis acutis, filamentis glabris filiformibus ima basi dilatatis,

antheris oblongis apiculatis, disci glandulis quatratis, carpellis ad 10

erectis oblong's viridibus in stylos graciles ovario squilongis attenuatis.

S. urbicum, Chr. Smith, er Hornem. Suppl. Hort. Hafn. p. 60 (non Lindl.)

Haw. in Phil. Mag. 1827, p. 125. Buch, Phys. Beschr. Canar. Ins.

p- 177. DC. Prodr. vol. iii. p. 411.

AM nium urbicum, Webb & Berth. Phytogr. Canar, vol. i. p. 194, t. 29.

The Atlantic Islands are remarkable for the number of

indigenous species of Sempervivum which they contain,

upwards of forty being enumerated in the ‘“ Index

Kewensis”’ as natives of Madeira and the Canary Islands ;

a singular fact when it is considered that only one species

has hitherto been collected in the adjacent territory of

Morocco, and that a very different plant from any Canarian.

On the other hand, nine species of Sedum are recorded

from Morocco, and only one, the Mediterranean S. rubens,

DC., from the Canary Islands. aaa ce

Sempervivum urbicum is described by Webb as inhabiting

rocks, walls, and roofs in the sylvan region of 'l'eneriffe.

The specimen here figured was presented to the Royal

Gardens, Kew, by Mr. Van den Bosche, of Tirlemont,

Belgium, in 1901. It flowered in the Succulent House in

May, 1902.

Descr.—Stem erect, three feet high, simple, stout,

cylindric, covered with rhomboidal leaf-scars, Leaves

May Ist, 1903,

many, rosulate on the top of the stem, four to six inches long

by one and a half broad, narrowly spathulate, cuspidate,

very thick, fleshy, smooth, pale green, nerveless, margins

erosely serrulate, sessile, or base contracted into a short,

stout petiole. Panicle very large, pyramidal, three feet

high, and nearly as broad; branches very many, close-set,

spreading and decurved, with fleshy, oblong bracts at the

base, naked below, bearing towards the terminal cymosely

branched inflorescence a few small, ovate, sessile, fleshy

leaves. Flowers shortly pedicelled, three-quarters of an

inch broad, Calyz cupular, shortly eight- to many-toothed,

glabrous, green. Petals lanceolate, acute, pale yellow.

Filaments slender, dilated at the base; anthers small,

oblong, apiculate. Disk-glands quadrate. Carpels ten;

styles slender, erect, as long as the narrowly oblong ovary.

—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, flower with the petals removed ; 2, petals and stamens ; 3, carpel :-—

all enlarged; 4, reduced view of whole plant.

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SPHEDAMNOCARPUS prorixns.

Native of South Africa.

Nat. Ord. ManricguiacrEa.—Tribe BANNISTERIER.

Genus Sruepamnocarrus (Planch. ex Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i.

p. 256).

SPHEDAMNocCARPUs pruriens; frutex alte scandens, ramulis tomentellis, foliis

oppositis 1-4 poll. longis breviter petiolatis ovato-oblongis supra glabris

subtus marginibusque tomento sericeo argenteis apice rotundatis mucro-

natis basi rotundatis cordatisve, petiolo supra medium biglanduloso,

floribus subcorymbosis 1-13 poll. latis, pedunculis 1-14-pollicaribus

sericeis supra medium articulatis et bibracteolatis, calycis segmentis ad

4 poll. longis oblongis apice rotundatis dorso sericeis fructu_ paulo

auctis, petalis subequalibus ad 3 poll. longis breviter unguicnlatis

orbicularibus aureis marginibus crispatis, filamentis calyce squilongis

basi connatis, antheris majusculis connectivo rubente, ovario 3-lobo

hirsuto, stylis elongatis divarieatis, samaris 2-3 sericeis facie interiore

plana receptaculo applicata lateralibus inflatis, ala ad } poll. longa.

_8. pruriens, Szyszyl. Polypet. Rehmann. Enum. (1888) p. 2.

Acridocarpus pruriens, A. Juss. in Arch. Mus. Paris, vol. iii. (1843), p. 492.

Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. vol. i. p. 232. Walp. Rep. vol. v. p. 289.

It is remarkable that of the great Natural Order of

Malpighiacez, which consists of about 50 genera and

600 species, many of them of great beauty, only eight,

including that here figured, should have found their way

into the Botanical Magazine. The others are Malpighia

glabra, Linn, t. 813, Hirewa Simsiana, A. Juss. (M. volu-

bilis, Sims, t. 809), Byrsonima lucida, DC. (M. lucida,

Sw., t. 2462), Heteropteris chrysophylla, H. R. t. 3237,

Acridocarpus natalitius, A. Juss. t. 5738, Stigmatophyllum

heterophyllum, Hook. t. 4104, and 8. littorale, A Juss.

t. 6632. The reason for their being seldom cultivated, and

hence rarely figured from living plants, is that they are

for the most part tropical, rambling, woody climbers,

unsuitable for cultivation in an ordinary stove.

The genus Sphedamnocarpus is a considerable one.

There are as many as ten species of it in the Kew Her-

barium, including several undescribed ones. With the

exception of one Madagascar species, and S. pruriens, all

are from tropical Africa. 8. pruriens is a native of Natal,

Mary Ist, 1903.

the Transvaal, Rhodesia, and Matabeleland, and of Uiten-

hage, in the Cape Colony; seeds of it were sent from the

latter district to the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1899, by Mr.

Charles Howlett, now Curator of the Botanic Gardens of

Graaf Reinet, formerly of the Royal Gardens, Kew, a plant

raised from which flowered in the Temperate House in

October, 1902,

Descr.—A_ lofty, climbing shrub, with silkily tomentose

branches, leaves beneath, peduncles, pedicels, and calyces.

Leaves one to four inches long, opposite, shortly petioled,

ovate-oblong, obtuse, tip mucronate, base rounded or

cordate; petiole short, biglandular above the middle.

Flowers sub-corymbosely clustered at the ends of the

branches, an inch to an inch and a half broad, golden-

yellow; peduncles an inch long or more, bibracteolate

above the middle. Sepals oblong, tips rounded, enlarged

in fruit. Petals sub-equal, shortly clawed, orbicular,

margins crisped. Filaments as long as the sepals, connate

at the base. Ovary hirsute, styles divaricate. Fruit of

two or three dry, broadly winged, indehiscent carpels;

wings about half an inch long, obliquely obovoid,

coriaceous.—J. D, If.

Fig. 1, peduncle, bracteoles, and bract; 2, lower with the pet:

3 and 4, anthers; 5, pistil; 6, vertical section of ovary; 7, f hh

tomentum ; 8, fruit from herbarium specimen :—all but fig. 1 enlarged,

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HEBEN STRETIA comosa.

Native of S. Africa.

Nat. Ord. SeLacinea.

Genus HepenstreEtIA, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1127.)

HEBENSTRETIA (Huhebenstretia) comosa; perennis, erecta, fere glaberrima,

ramosa, caule robusto tereti folioso, ramulis puberulis, foliis 4-2-pollicari-

bus sessilibus lineari-oblongis-lanceolatisve subacutis acuminatisve grosse

acute serratis, spicis elongatis 2-6 poll. longis densifloris, bracteis ovato-

lanceolatis corolla tubum subsequantibus herbaceis glabris, calyce oblongo-

ovoideo ad 3 poll. longo 2-nervi costam versus herbaceo, corolla } poll.

longa, alba v. pallide flava, fauce rubro, lobis subsequilongis 2 interioribus

angustioribus.

H. comosa, Hochst. in Flora, vol. xxviii. pars I. (1845) p. 70; Beitr. Fl. Cap.

und Natal, p. 134. Choisy in DC. Prodr. vol. xii. p. 5. Rolfe in Dyer

Flor. Cap. vol. v. p. 99.

H. comosa, var. serratifolia, Rolfe in Gard. Chron. 1892, vol. ii. pp. 34, 188.

Hebenstretia is a large African genus, of which thirty

species have been described in the Flora Capensis, and

there are others in tropical Africa, some from as far north

as Abyssinia. Two have been previously figured in this

work. H, dentata, L., t. 483, and H. fruticosa, Thunb.

t. 1970. H. comosa has an extended 8. African range,

from Port Natal, where it is found on the plains near

_ Durban, at the level of the sea, extending to Pilgrim’s

vest, in the Transvaal, and Griqualand, at elevations of

four thousand feet. __

The genus was named by Linnzus in honour of Pro-

fessor John Ernst Hebenstreit, Professor of Botany in

Leipzig, who in 1740 proposed a classification of plants

according to their fruit.

ee: & comosa was, according to astatement in the Gardeners’

Chronicle, by Messrs. Dammann, of San Giovanni, Teduccio,

Italy, introduced by their firm into Europe in 1889, and

is entered in their catalogue of plants for that year. It

was flowered by Mr. Gumbleton at Belgrove, Queenstown,

in 1892. The specimen here figured was communicated

by Messrs. Sutton, of Reading, in September, 1902,

May lst, 1903.

when specimens were also flowering in the Royal Gardens,

Kew.

Descr.—An erect, branching, nearly glabrous herb, two

to three feet high. Stem rather stout, angular, leafy ;

branchlets puberulous. Leaves half an inch to two inches

long, alternate, sessile, linear-oblong or -lanceolate, obtuse,

acute or acuminate, coarsely serrate, rather thick in

texture, midrib very stout beneath. Flowers small, in —

erect, dense, cylindric spikes, two to six inches long,

terminating the stem and branches, about one-third of an

inch long; bracts as long as the corolla-tube, ovate-—

lanceolate, acuminate, herbaceous, green, persistent.

Calyx about one-sixth of an inch long, of two very

unequal lobes, unilaterally connate, the larger boat-shaped,

finely acuminate. Corolla-tube very slender, open for two- —

thirds of its length; limb yellow, with a large, red,

thickened area in the throat, four-lobed ; lobes oblong,

tips rounded, the two inner the narrower. Anthers large,

linear-oblong. Ovary oblong, with a small disk-gland at

the base; style slender.—J. D. H.

dee 1, calyx ; 2, corolla and stamens; 3 and 4, anthers; 5, ovary and disk-

ae i ovary; 7, transverse, and 8, vertical section of the same:—all

enlarg < a onoe : es

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DISSOTIS Manonr.

Native of Uganda.

Nat. Ord. Metastomacea.—Tribe OsBEcKIEZ.

Genus Dissotis, Benth. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 746.)

Dissotis (Heterotis) Mahoni; tota hispido-pilosa, caule prostrato ramoso,

foliis 1-1} poll. longis oppositis rotundatis ovato-rotundatisve obtusis,

petiolis t-3 poll. longis, floribus ad apices ramulorum solitariis 2 poll. latis,

pedicellis foliis brevioribus, calycis hemisphewrici non plumosi tubo setis

rigidis simplicibus basi bulbosis instructo lobis 5 ovato-oblongis subacutis,

‘sinu inter lobos appendice filiformi apice bifurcato ramis divaricatis

instructo, petalis oblique obovatis roseo-purpureis, staminorum majorum

connectivo antice in appendicem elongatum bituberculatum antice con-

cavum producto, minorum appendice simpliciter didymo, ovario hispido

tubo calycis profunde immerso. ;

D. Mahoni, Hook. f.

The Dissotis here figured so closely resembles the widely

distributed tropical African D. plumosa, Hook. f. (in Oliv.

Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. ii. 452), in habit, hairiness, foliage and

flowers, that I long hesitated before giving it a new

specific name. I find, however, in all the specimens of

that plant which I have examined, whether from Hast,

West, or Central Africa, that the bristles of the calyx-tube,

and the arms of the processes between the calyx-lobes are

plumose with stellate hairs (whence its specific name) of

which there are no traces in D. Mahoni.

_ The genus Dissotis is a large one, upwards of fifty

Species having been described, all tropical African, except

one, which is a native of Natal. Two have been previously

figured in this Magazine, D. incana, Triana (Osbeckia

eeeeeene Grah.), t. 3790, and D. Irvingiana, Hook. t.

149, : Ps : 7

Seeds of D. Mahoni were sent to the Royal Gardens,

Kew, in 1901, from Uganda, by Mr. John Mahon, plants

raised from which flowered in a stove in September, 1902.

I have the pleasure of naming it after its discoverer,

formerly at Kew, now Curator of the Botanic Station at

Uganda.

Descr.—Whole plant, except the flowers, hispidly hairy.

May Ist, 1903. :

Stems six to eight inches long, prostrate, rather stout,

obscurely tetragonous, branching, leafy. Leaves opposite,

shortly petioled, one to one and a half inches long,

orbicular or orbicular-ovate, sub-acute, base rounded ;

nerves deeply impressed above, stout beneath. Flowers

solitary on the ends of the branches, shortly pedicelled,

two inches broad. Caly«-tube hemispheric, armed with

rigid, bulbous-based bristles; lobes ovate, acute; sinus

between the lobes armed with a rigid, forked appendage, =

arms of the fork div. Petals obliquely obovate,

rose-purple. Connective of the larger stamens elongate,

bifid or two-lobed at t b , of ti arecprie reduced to

two tubercles. : sunk deep :

—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, calyx and si

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CLEMATIS Mryenrana.

Native of China.

Nat. Ord. RanuncuLaces#.—Tribe CLEMATIDER,

Genus Crematis, Linn.; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 3.)

Ciematis (Flammula) Meyeniana; frutex alte scandens, sempervirens, glaber

v. parce pubescens, cortice fusco-purpureo, foliis 3-foliolatis, foliolis

petiolulatis 2-44 poll. longis coriaceis ellipticis ovatis oblongis lanceo-

latisve integerrimis obtusis acutis acuminatisve 3-nerviis supra nitidis

saturate viridibus subtus glabris puberulisve basi rotundatis v. cordatis,

panicule effurze laxiflora ramulis trichotomis basi nudis v. bracteis 1-3

coriaceis integris lobatisve auctis, alabastris oblongis pallide flavis,

floribus 14 poll. diam., sepalis lineari-oblongis apice bidentatis albis

marginibus tomentellis, staminibus sepalis duplo brevioribus, antheris

linearibus aureis tilamenta glabra subaquantibus, acheeniis } poll. longis

obovoideis compressis villosis Havo-brunneis, cauda plumosa 1}-pollicari.

C. Meyeniana, Walp. in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. Misc. vol. xix. Suppl. i. (1843)

p. 297; Repert. Bot. vol. v.p.3. Benth.in Hook. Kew Gard. Misc. vol. iii.

(1851) p. 256; Fl. Hongk. p. 6. Maaim. in Mel, Biol. vol. ix. p. 597.

Hemst, in Journ, Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. xxiii. (1886) p.5. Seem, Bot. Voy.

Herald, p. 361.

C. Armandi, Franch. Pl. David. vol. ii. p. 2, t. 2.

C. oreophila, Hance in Walp. Ann. vol. ii. p. 3.

C. hedysarifolia, Bot. Reg. t. 599, non DC. . ;

C. hedysarifolia, DC. var. a, 8, 8, Kuntze, Monogr, Gatt. Clem, p. 152.

Clematis Meyeniana is a very variable plant, and it is

not surprising that so excellent a Chinese botanist as Mr.

- Hance should have described it under another name

(C. oreophila), when, according to Walpers, the founder of

the species, the panicles are said to be shorter than the

leaves and few-flowered, and the sepals rufous externally.

The figure in the Botanical Register, under the erroneous

name of C. hedysarifolia, DC., an Indian species, is very

good, but represents a form with flowers only an inch in

diameter, with very pale anthers; it shows the bidentate

tips of the sepals, which is overlooked by all other authors,

who describe them as being acute. It appears to be a

very common plant in 8.E. China, from the province of

Chekiang to Kwantung, and is found also in Cochin China,

Formosa, and the Luchu Islands. In Hongkong it occurs

in great abundance in almost every ravine, flowering in

June Ist, 1603,

May, and occasionally again in autumn, even so late as

December. (©. Armandi, Franch., from Moupine, is cer-

tainly only a form of C. Meyeniana, with small flowers and

large bracts at the bases of the lower branches of the

anicle. :

C. Meyeniana was cultivated in the Nursery of Messrs.

Colvile, in the King’s Road, Chelsea, in 1822, whence

procured was not then known. The specimen figured

was from a plant received from Mr. C. Ford, Superin-

tendent of the Hongkong Botanic Garden, in 1885. It

flowers annually in the Temperate House.

Descr.—A tall, evergreen, glabrous or sparsely puberu-

lous climber, with a purplish-brown bark. Leaves

trifoliolate ; leaflets two to three inches long, petiolulate,

elliptic- or ovate-oblong or lanceolate, obtuse, acute or

acuminate, quite entire, coriaceous, base rounded or

cordate, three-nerved, dark green and glabrous above,

pale and puberulous beneath. Panicles large, effuse,

trichotomously branched, lax-flowered ; bracts at the bases

of the branches minute, rarely enlarged, coriaceous, entire

or lobed. Buds oblong, pale yellow. Flowers an inch

to an inch and a half across. Sepals linear-oblong,

spreading, white, margins tomentose, tips two-toothed.

Stamens about half as long as the sepals; anthers as long

as the filaments. Achenes one-fourth of an inch long,

obovate, flat, villous; style an inch and a half long,

feathery.—J. D. H. c

Fig. 1, flower; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, pistil; 5, achene:—all enlarged;

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LABURNUM CARAMANICUM,

Native of Greece and Asia Minor,

Nat. Ord. Lecuminosa.—Tribe GENISTEA.

Genus LanurnuM, Griseb.; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 481.)

Lasurnum (Podocytisus) caramanicum ; frutex inermis, ramosus, glaberrimus,

glauco-virens, ramulis erectis virgatis, foliis digitatim 3-fuliolatis brevius-

cule petiolatis, foliolis breviter petiolulatis obovatis apice rotundatis

apiculatis saturate viridibus basi acutis lateralibus 4$-pollicaribus termi-

nali fere duplo majore, racemis terminalibus elongatis erectis sepius

pyramidatim paniculatis laxifloris, floribus nutantibus, pedicellis } poll.

longis, bracteolis minutis subulatis, calyce pedicellis subequilongo

cupulari breviter bilabiato fusco-rubro, labio superiore 2- inferiore 3-den-

tato, petalis unguiculatis aureis subzequilongis, vexillo orbiculari ad +

poll. diam. ima basi cordato, alis oblongis obtusis, carina petalis ineurvis

acutis, filamentis omnibus connatis, legumine breviter stipitato lineari-

oblongo plano papyraceo falcato apice rotundato 3-6-spermo subindehis-

cente marginibus undulatis superiore alato, seminibus parvis reniformtibus

estrophiolatis.

L, caramanicum, Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. /.c.

Cytisus caramanicus, Nym. Conspect. Fl. Hurop. p. 155. Lavall, Arboret.

Segrez. p. 59.

Popocysisus caramanicus, Boiss. & Heldr. Diagn. Pl. Or. Ser. I, pars ix. p. 7.

Boiss. Fl, Orient. vol. ii. p. 35.

The plant here figured was regarded by Boissier as

generically distinct from the common Laburnum of our

gardens and plantations, because of its erect branchlets

and racemes, and membranous, sub-indehiscent, more

broadly winged pods; to which might have been added

the rounded apex of the latter and the very small seeds;

but Mr. Bentham, the greatest authority on Leguminose,

attached less value to these distinctions, and Boissier

himself says of Podocytisus, “forsan non immerito a cl.

Benth. & Hook., Laburno conjungitur, sed praeter legumen

papyraceum subindehiscens facies et inflorescentia ab eo

abhorrent.” <a

L. caramanicum has a wide range of distribution in the

hilly region of the Balkan Peninsula, from Thessaly and

Albania to Southern Greece; and is also a native of the

Cilician Taurus. Plants of it were procured for the

June Ist, 1903.

Royal Gardens, Kew, from Mr. Transon in 1899, where

it flowered in the Arboretum in October, 1902.

Descr.—A small tree, with subglaucous, green foliage,

glabrous in all its parts; branchlets erect. Leaves shortly

petioled, trifoliolate; leaflets very shortly petiolulate,

obovate, apiculate; lateral half an inch long, terminal

twice as large. Jtacemes shortly peduncled, erect, three

to five inches long, many-flowered. Flowers three-quarters

of an inch long, golden-yellow, nodding; pedicels a

quarter of an inch long, bracteolate about the middle.

Calye cup-shaped, red-brown, two-lipped ; upper lip two-

toothed, lower three-toothed. Petals all clawed, about

equal in length. Standard orbicular, half an inch in

diameter, base cordate. Wings oblong, obtuse. Keel-

petals acute. Filaments all united. Pod shortly stipitate,

two to three inches long, by half an inch broad, flat,

papyraceous, tip rounded, upper margin narrowly winged.

Seeds few, about one-fifth of an inch long, reniform.—

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Fig. 1, calyx laid open and stamens; 2, standard; 3, wing petal; 4, keel

petal; 5, pistil; 6, pod; 7 and 8, seed :—all enlarged, except 6 and 7.—Nos.

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MIMOSA SPEGAZZINII.

Native of Argentina.

Nat. Ord. Leguminosz.—Tribe EumMIMosEa&.

Genus Mimosa, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 593.)

Mimosa (Eumimosa) Spegazzinii; frutex gracilis, scandens, ramosus, 6-10-

pedalis, spinis infra-foliaceis brevibus oppositis recurvis horridus, ramis

ramulis petiolis pedunculisque strigillosis, foliis sensitivis bipinnatis,

pinnis 2-pollicaribus breviter petiolulatis basi stipellatis, pinnulis 25-35-

jugis ad 3 poll. longis sessilibus contiguis lineari-oblongis obtusis acutisve

-apice mucronulatis 3-nerviis supra glabris subtus apicem versus adpresse

aes marginibus setulis rigidis appressis instructis, stipulis ovato-

anceolatis acutis striatis ciliatis, capitulis 1 poll. diam. solitariis v. binis

axillaribus v. in racemum terminalem dispositis, pedunculis brevibus v.

elongatis, bracteolis cuneiformibus apice truncatis setosis, seta media

elongata, corolla 4-loba, filamentis roseis, antheris aureis, legumine im-

maturo pollicari lineari valvis articulatis marginibus spinuloso-setosis.

M. Spegazzinii, Pirotta in Ann. Inst. Bot. Rom. vol. iii, (1887-8) p. 182, t. xiii.

The sensitive plant here figured is a native of Missiones,

Argentine Republic. It was discovered there by the

naturalist whose name it bears, who sent seeds to Pro-

fessor R. Pirotta, of Rome, by whom it was described.

Seeds of it were obtained for the Royal Gardens, Kew,

in 1900 from Dr. Hans Schinz, Director of the Botanic

_ Garden, Zurich, a plant raised from which flowered freely

in a stove in October, 1902, The leaves are sensitive, as

in its ally, M. pudica, L., to which it is nearly allied. In

Prof. Pirotta’s description the stem is described as erect,

and the filaments as pale violet.

_ Desev.—A scandent, much-branched, pubescent bush,

six to ten feet high, with short, stout, opposite branches

armed with recurved spines at the base of the petioles.

Leaves bipinnate, sensitive; petiole about an inch long,

bearing two pinne, each two to three inches long;

pinnules very numerous, sessile, close set, about one-

third of an inch long, oblong or linear-oblong, acute

or acuminate, three-nerved, glabrous beneath, margins

_ ciliolate with long bristles; stipules a quarter of an inch

long, oblong-lanceolate, acute; stipelle subulate. Heads

June Ist, 1903.

peduncled, an inch and a quarter in diameter, solitary

or binate, rose-purple, axillary or arranged in a ter-

minal, sessile, armed raceme six inches long; peduncles

opposite, stout, half an inch long or longer. Bracts

cuneiform, truncate, upper margin spinulosely lacerate.

Corolla four-lobed. Filaments rose-red; anthers yellow.

Pods an inch long, linear; valves jointed, spinulose.—

J. DH.

Fig. 1, portion of branch with spines, stipules, and portion of a leaf;

2, bracteole; 3, corolla and stamens; 4, pistil:—adJ enlarged; 5, immature

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DENDROBIUM Maponna.

Native of New Guinea.

Nat. Ord. Orncnipea#.—Tribe DenDROBIER,

Genus Denprosium, Ser.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 488.)

Deyprosium (Stachyobium) Madonne ; pseudobulbis confertis 6-9 poll. longis

inferne stipitiformibus, articulis inferioribus gracilibus vaginatis, basilari

tuberoso, terminali elongato incrassato 2-4 poll. longo fusiformi sulcato

2-3-phyllo, foliis 14-2 poll. longis sessilibus oblongis subcoriaceis obtusis,

pedunculis terminalibus 1-2 poll. longis trifloris, pedicellis cum ovario

pollicaribus, bracteis parvis oblongis subacutis, floribus nutantibus 23

poll. latis albis, sepalis 1-1} poll. longis oblongis acuminatis, lateralibus

subfalcatis basi latioribus, petalis sepalis multo majoribus ad 1} poll.

longis 2 poll. latis obovato-spathulatis apiculatis, labello ? poll. longo,

concavo explanato oblato obscure 3-lobo acuminato, lobis lateralibus juxta

margines purpureo maculatis, disco basin versus virescente callo elongato

bicarinato apice rotundato aucto.

D. (Stachyobium) Madonne, Rolfe in Kew Bulletin, ined,

The nearest ally, and it is a very near one, of D. Madonnx

is, as Mr. Rolfe points out, D. Fairfavii, Rolfe (in Gard.

Chron. 1889, i. 798) non F. Muell., a native of the New

Hebrides, which differs in the narrower petals and lip.

D. Madonnz, on the other hand, is a native of New

Guinea, whence it was introduced by Messrs. Sanders

& Co., who flowered it in their Nursery in December,

1899, and to whom the Royal Gardens are indebted for

_ the plant here figured.

Descr.—Pseudobulbs crowded, six to nine inches high,

the lower internodes cylindric, slender, forming a stipes

to the terminal, which is two to four inches long, fusi-

form and grooved ; lowest internode tuberous, obpyriform,

one half to three-quarters of an inch long, smooth. Leaves

two to three at the apex of the pseudobulb, one and a

half to two inches long, sessile, oblong, obtuse, coriaceous.

Peduneles terminal, one to two inches long, slender, three-

flowered ; pedicels with the ovary an inch long; bracts

very small, acute. Flowers two and a half inches broad,

nodding, white, with a few purple spots near the margins

of the lateral lobes of the lip. Sepals one to one anda

half inch long, oblong, acuminate; lateral broad at the

JuNE Ist, 1903.

base, sub-falcate. Petals much larger than the sepals,

obovate-spathulate, tip apiculate. Zip shorter than the

sepals, concave, when spread out oblate, obscurely three-

lobed, the midlobe cuspidate; disk suffused with green,

and bearing towards its base an elongate grooved callus

ending in a nob.—J. D. H,

Fig. 1, section of lip and column; 2, front view of column; 3, anther; —

4, pollinia :—all enlarged.

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PRIMULA mecasEmrouia,

Native of Asia Minor.

Nat. Ord, PriwuLacez.—Tribe PRIMULER,

Genus Primuta, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 631.)

Primvuta (Aleuritia) megasezfolia; rhizomate crasso, foliis amplis 3-5 poll.

longis 2-4 latis ovatis ovato-oblongis rotundatisve subcordatis obtusis

integerrimis v. remote denticulatis convexis glaberrimis lmte viridibus,

marginibus ‘nervisque subtus papilloso-hirtis, nervis nervulisque reticulatis

supra impressis subtus elevatis, petiolis 2-3-pollicaribus scapisque 2-5-

pollicaribus robustis hirtis, umbella multiflora 3 poll. diam., involucri

foliis 3-3 poll. longis lanceolatis acuminatis pedicellisque 4-1} poll. longis

glaberrimis, calyce } poll. longo paullo inflato teretiusculo 5-costato

breviter acute 5-dentato, corolla roseo-purpures tubo calyce longiore

ore nudo, limbi 3 poll. lati lobis obcordatis, capsula calyce paullo longiore,

seminibus glabris angulatis minute tuberculatis.

P. megasefolia, Boiss. e¢ Bal. in Bal. Pl. Pont. Hxs. 1866. Boiss, F7, Orient.

vol, iv. p. 26. Gard. Chron, 1901, vol. i. p, 223, fig. 84.

The very remarkable Primrose here figured has hitherto

been found only near Rizeh (or Rhizé) in Lazistan, a

town on the S.E. shore of the Black Sea, forty miles east

of Trebizond, where it was discovered by the famous col-

lector, Balansa, growing in gullies at about one thousand

feet above the sea. It is referable to the large section

Aleuritia, Duby, characterized by the sides of the leaves

being revolute in vernation, and it is placed by Boissier,

** Flora Orientalis,” next to P. grandis, Trauty,, an imper-

fectly known Transcaucasian species, described as having

leaves four inches long and three broad, a scape nearly a

foot high, a very large, many-flowered umbel and linear-

- oblong corolla-lobes.

he specific name megasexfolia refers to the resem-

blance in the foliage to the species of Sawifraga (S. crassi-

folia, L., 8. ligulata, Wall., &c.), to which Haworth

gave the generic name of Megasea.

The Royal Gardens, Kew, are indebted to Miss Willmott,

of Warley Place, Great Warley, Essex, for the specimen

figured, which flowered in a cool house in February of the

present year,

Descr.—Rootstock stout, oblique, fibrilliferous. Leaves

June Ist, 1903.

variable in form, ovate, ovate-oblong or orbicular, three to

five inches long by four broad, glabrous, dark green above

with deeply sunk nerves and nervules, pale beneath with

strong papillose nerves, margin entire or remotely denticu-

late, papillose, base cordate; petiole two to three inches

long, and scapes two to five inches long, both very stout,

hairy. Umbel (sometimes two superposed) very many-

flowered, three inches in diameter. Bracts one-third of an

inch long, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, green, glabrous.

Pedicels one half to one inch and a quarter long, slender,

glabrous. Calyx half an inch long, terete, somewhat

inflated, strongly five-ribbed ; teeth short, acute. Coroiia-

tube longer than the calyx, mouth naked; limb two-thirds

of an inch broad, varying from rogauiads to

purple; lobes obcordate. Stamens

third way down the tube. Style extendi ear.

base of the anthers. Capsule rather longer sis ‘the

capsule; valves revolute.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, section of the corolla with stamens and Leta 2, ovary; 3, calyx and

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SENECIO CLIVORUM.

Native of China and Japan.

Nat. Ord. Compostra.—Tribe SENECIONIDE2.

Genus Senecio, Linn. (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 446.)

Senecio (Ligularia) clivorum; herba 4-5-pedalis, robusta, glabra v. inflores-

centia plus minusve araneoso-tomentosa, foliis radicalibus longe petivlatis

amplis 12-16 poll. latis reniformibus rotundato-cordatisve argute mucro-

nulato-dentatis 3-5-plinerviis, nervis nervulisque supra impressis subtus

validis, caulinis paucis parvis petiolo late vaginante inflato, panicula

maxima 6-8 poll. lata subcorymbosa, rachi ramis pedunculisque robustis

ebracteata v. ramis inferioribus foliaceo-bracteolatis, capitnlis 3-4 poll.

latis, crasse pedunculatis, involucri ecalyculati basi rotundati subintrusi

phyllis 8-10, 3 poll. longis roseis linearibus crassis acutis obtusisve mar-

ginibus scariosis, receptaculo plano, ligulis 12-14 lineari-oblongis 1-1}

poll. longis apice 2-3-dentatis aurantiacis, tubi fauce filamentis 5 anan-

theris instructis, disci floribus 5-lobis aurantiacis lobis. revolutis, acheeniis

linearibus compressis levibus glabris, pappi setis rigidis scaberulis rufo-

purpureis.

8. clivorum, Maxim. in Bull. Acad. Pétersb. xv. (1871), p. 374, et Mél. Biol.

vol. viii. p. 12. Franch. & Sav. Enum. Pl. Japon. vol. i. p. 247. Hemsl.

in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. xxiii. (1888) p. 451. Henry im Gard,

Chron. 1902, vol. ii. p. 217 cum tabula sine numero.

Ligularia clivorum, Maxim, Mél. Biol. vol. vii. p. 555.

Senecio clivorum is certainly the handsomest of all the

herbaceous species of the genus, and will no doubt

become a very conspicuous feature in the hardy her-

_ baceous garden. It is referable to the section or sub-

_ genus Ligularia, and its nearest affinity is to the Japanese

_ L. Hodgsoni, Hook. (Bot. Mag. t. 5417), which differs in

having lobed, coarsely toothed leaves, and more numerous,

pale yellow ray-florets. Both are remarkable for their very

| rigid red-purple pappus, of a totally different character

és from the soft, white pappus of typical Senecio.

3 Senecio clivorum varies much in the size of the flower-

heads and ray-flowers, in the amount of pubescence on

the inflorescence, and in the bracts of the involucre,

which are obtuse, acute or acuminate. In the Chinese

specimens, but not in the Japanese, I find the ray-corollas

bearing five filaments (see fig. 1), represer.ting the stamens

of the disk-flowers, a character which has been observed

in other species of the section. The species was dis-

JuLy lst, 1903. .

covered in Japan by the late Prof. Maximovicz, growing

in mountain meadows of Hakodate, at two thousand to seven

thousand feet elevation, and has more recently been found

in the Chinese provinces of Hupeh, Kansu and Szechuen.

In 1900 plants of it were sent to Messrs. James Veitch &

Sons from the mountains of Western Hupeh by their

traveller, Mr. K. H. Wilson. In 1902 a plant of it was

exhibited at the Royal Horticultural Society by Messrs.

Veitch, who kindly supplied the specimen here figured.

Descr.—A robust herb four to five feet high, glabrous

or the inflorescence more or less clothed with a cobweb-

like tomentum. Radical leaves on long, stout petioles ;

blade reniform or orbicular-cordate, twelve to sixteen

inches across, coarsely callous-toothed, three- or five-

nerved from the base; nerves depressed in the upper

surface, and raised on the lower. Stem-leaves few and

relatively small; petiole with a large, inflated, stem-

clasping sheath. Inflorescence loosely corymbose-panicu-

late, six to eight inches across; branches and peduncles

thick, bractless or the lower branches with leaty bracis

at the base. Flower-heads erect, three to four inches

across. Involucre rounded, and broader at the base ; bracts

eight to ten, thick, red, linear, half an inch long, acute or

obtuse, margin scarious. Receptacle flat. Ray-flowers

twelve to fourteen, linear-lanceolate, one to one and a

half inch long, minutely two- or three-toothed at the tip,

orange-coloured. Disk-flowers orange, with exserted,

dark brownanthers. Achenes linear, compressed, glabrous ;

bristles of the pappus rigid, rough, purple-red.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, ray-flower with most of the ligule removed; 2, the same with the

tube laid open showing the attachment of the barren stamens; 3, disk-flower ;

4, hair of pappus; 5, anthers ; 6, arms of style :—all enlarged.

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HELLEBORUS trvipus.

Native of Majorca.

Nat. Ord. RanuncuLacea.—Tribe HELLEBORER,

Genus Hetezorus, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 7.)

HELLEBORUS (caulescentes). lividus; erectus, robustus, caule foliisque subtus

pallide rubescentibus, foliis radicalibus simplicibus cordatis, caulinis

trifcliolatis, foliolis ad 6 poll. longis sessilibus crasse coriaceis ovato-

oblongis vel oblongo-lanceolatis integris lateralibus basi oblique semi-

coi datis, terminali basi cuneato petiolulato, supra lete viridibus nervis

subtus reticulatis, petiolo crasso, panicula ramosa pauciflora, bracteis

ovato-oblongis majusculis serratis, floribus cernuis ad 2 poll. latis,

sepalis rotundatis concavis intus pallide griseo-viridibus, petalis tubulosis,

ore obliquo, viridibus, filamentis viridibus, antheris aureis, carpellis 4-6

coriaceis.

H. lividus, Ait. ex Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 72; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. I. vol. ii. p. 272,

ed. IT. vol. iii. p. 361. Willk. & Lange, Prodr. Fl. Hisp. vol. iii. p. 974.

Trattin, Archiv. tt. 205, 205a. Colm. Enum. Pl. Penins. Hisp. Lusit.

vol. i, p. 69, excl. syn. H. argutifolius. Schiff. Monogr. Helleb. p. 63

(subspecies.) ;

H. lividus, var. integrilobus, DC. Prodr. vol. i. p. 47. H. trifolius, Mill.

Gard. Dict. ed. VIII. n. 4 (non Linn.).

Helleborus lividus was first published and figured by

Curtis in the Botanical Magazine in 1789, and he cites for

it Aiton’s ‘‘ Hort. Kewensis,”’ ined., which work appeared

inthe same year. That figure is so unsatisfactory, and

indeed inaccurate, representing the sepals as acute, that

1 have deemed it right to introduce a better, together

_ with the full synonymy of the species as here restricted.

When first published its native country was unknown, and

remained so till after the date of the second edition of the

“Hortus Kewensis” (1811). The plant had, however,

been in cultivation in England since 1710, according to

Aiton, who cites for it the “ Philosophical Transactions of

the Royal Society,” n.325, p. 48, implying that it was one

of a selection of plants sent annually to that Society from

the gardens of the Apothecaries’ Company at Chelsea.

Botanically H. lividus, Ait., is hardly separable from

H. corsicus, Willd. (HH. argutifolius, Viv.), and it has been

included under that species by many authors, including

Lindley (Bot. Reg. xxiv. t. 54); but from a horticultural

standpoint they are quite distinct, as may be proved by a

JuLY Ist, 1903.

comparison of our figure with Lindley’s. The sharply,

coarsely, prickly-toothed leaflets and yellowish green flowers

characterize typical H. corsicus. Schiffner, the most

recent (1890) monographer of the genus, says of H. livi-

dus, Ait., that it was only known to him, in a wild state,

from Majorca, Balearic Islands, but that it might possibly

occur in Corsica and Sardinia, though he believed the

records for those islands referred to typical H. corsicus.

The specimen figured is from a plant brought by Miss

Fanny Geoghegan to Dublin from Majorca in 1900. It

flowered in February, 1902, and again this year, in the

Botanic Garden of Trinity College, and I am indebted to

Mr. F. W. Burbidge, the Curator, for excellent specimens

sent both seasons.

Descr.—Under cultivation this is a robust plant, with

thick, fleshy stems, more or less deeply tinged and

mottled with red, as is also the under surface of the

leaves. Radical leaves simple, cordate ; cauline trifoliolate ;

leaflets thick, coriaceous, pale green above, ovate-oblong

or oblong-lanceolate, about six inches long, entire or

Sometimes obscurely toothed, lateral sessile and semi-

cordate at the base, terminal shortly petiolulate and

cuneate at the base. Fiowers about two and a half inches

across, dull purple-grey, tinged with green, nodding, in

panicles of about six to eight, overtopping the leaves,

Sepals orbicular, concave, paler within. Petals tubular,

with an oblique mouth, green. Anthers yellow. Carpels

four to seven, coriaceous, tipped with the long, persistent

style.—J. D. I.

Figs. 1 and 2, petals; 3, an anther; 4, gynzeceum :—all enlarged.

7904

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Tas. 7904.

IRIS upina.

Native of Armenia.

Nat. Ord. In1tpkEx%.—Tribe MorxeEz.

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

Iris (Oncocyclus) /upina; rhizomate carnoso breviter repente, foliis 5-6

linearibus suberectis pallide viridibus, pedunculo monocephalo foliis

breviore, spathz valvis magnis lanceolatis acuminatis, perianthii tubo

elongato, segmentis exterioribus reflexis obovato-cnneatis sordide flavo-

viridibas, venis copiosis lilacino-branneis percursis, in limbimedio macula

pilosa fusca decoratis, segmentis interioribus majoribus, arcuatis obovato-

unguiculatis, styli cristis latis magnis, fructu oblongo-trigono, semini-

bus rubro-brunneis conspicue strophiolatis.

I. lupina, Foster in Gard. Chron. 1887, p. 738.

This very interesting new Iris was sent to Professor

(Sir Michael) Foster about 1886, from the mountains a

few miles south of Kharput, in Turkish Armenia, by Mrs.

Barnum, of the American Mission, who also discovered

the Iris, which has been named after her, as well as other

novelties. It was also gathered by Sintenis, and distributed

in his sets of herbarium specimens. It belongs to the

section Oncocyclus, and is nearly allied to the old, well-

known Iris susiana (Bot. Mag. t. 91). The Armenians

call it the “ Wolf's Ear,” from the tawny tips of the

outer segments as they emerge from the opening bud, and

this suggested to Professor Foster its specific name. Our

drawing was made from plants presented by him to the

Royal Gardens, Kew, which flowered for the first time in

June, 1887.

Descr.—footstock fleshy, short, creeping. Leaves about

six in a tuft, linear, weak, sub-erect, pale green, channelled

down the face, six inches to a foot long at the flowering

time. Peduncle erect, one-headed, shorter than the leaves.

Spathe-valves two, lanceolate, acuminate, pale green, the

outer three inches long. Perianth-tube about two inches

long; outer segments obovate-cuneate, reflexing, three

inches long, marked with copious, fine, lilac-brown, anasto-

mosing veins on a dull, yellowish-brown ground-work,

and in the centre with a large pilose spot of dark brown ;

JuLy Ist, 1903.

inner segments larger, ascending, obovate, unguiculate,

without a dark spot in the centre of the blade. Styles

above an inch long; crests large, broad. Capsule oblong-

trigonous, dehiscing in the upper half. Seeds large,

reddish-brown, with a wrinkled testa, and a conspicuous

white strophiole.—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, stamen ; 2, apex of style-branch with crest and stigma :—both enlarged.

MS. del INFitchlith.

Tani 7905.

HUERNIA concrnna,

Native of Somaliland,

Nat. Ord. AScLEPIADACE#.—Tribe STaPeLiEs.

Genus Huernia, R. Br.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 784.)

Huerta concinna; canlibus 1-2} poll. longis cwspitosis 5-gonis, spinis ad

1 poll. longis subulatis, floribus solitariis binisve, pedicellis brevibus

glabris, corolla late campanulata extus g'abra alba intus ubique pro-

cessibus subulatis conspersa pallide sulphurea punctis rubro-purpureis

maculata, lobis 3 poll. longis deltoideis acuminatis purpureo-marginatis,

sinibus latis fundo apiculatis, coronsz exterioris breviter 5-lobs velutins

purpureze lobis transverse oblongis emarginatis, coronz interioris lobis

late ovatis conniventibus flavis purpureo punctatis et marginatis.

H. concinna, V.H. Br. in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. iv. p. 497.

H. macrocarpa, Taubert in Gartenfl. 1895, p. 353, t. 1416, non alior.

The genus Huernia, estimated in the “Genera Planta-

rum” in 1886 to contain eleven species, all South African,

has been largely increased by recent discoveries in tropical

Africa, whence eight additional species have been described

by Mr. N. E. Brown in the very recently issued Flora of

that region; and an Arabian congener, H. arabica, N. KH.

Br., has added Asia to the geographical range of the genus.

H. concinna was, together with another new species (H.

Somalica, N. E. Br.) brought from Somaliland by Mrs. Lort

Phillips, and presented to the Cambridge Botanic Garden,

where it flowered in the midsummer of 1900, and was

described by Mr. N. E. Brown, whose description I have

followed above. The individual specimen is that here

figured, which was forwarded by Mr. Lynch to the Royal

Gardens, Kew, in June, 1900.

Descr.—Stems clustered, one to two and a half inches

long, five-angled, spiny; spines about a quarter of an inch

long, subulate. Flowers solitary or in pairs, on short,

glabrous pedicels. Sepals a quarter of an inch long,

gradually tapering from a broad base to fine hair-like

points, glabrous. Corolla broadly campanulate, about one

inch across, glabrous outside, smooth, yellowish white,

covered everywhere inside with bristle-like appendages,

pale yellow, dotted with purple-brown; lobes about one-

Juty Ist, 1903.

third of an inch long, deltoid, acuminate, not fringed,

alternating with as many teeth. Outer corona very shortly

five-lobed ; lobes transversely oblong, emarginate, velvety,

purple-brown. Inner coronal-lobes broadly ovate, conni-

vent in a cone over the tips of the anthers, yellow, edged

and speckled with purple-brown.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, portion of inner surface of corolla; 2, corona; 3, the same with the

inner lobes removed; 4 and 5, pollinia:—all enlarged.

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CALOTHAMNUS ruvpssinis.

Native of Western Australia.

Nat. Ord. Myrracea.—Tribe LeprospERME#.

Genus Catotuamnts, Labill.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 706.)

CaLoTHaMNUS rupestris; frutex sempervirens, robustus cortice brunneo ~

primum pubescente simul pilis paucis longis tenuissimis instructo, foliis

confertis spiraliter dispositis pollicaribus acicularibus strictis v. incurvis

rigidis teretibus primum pilis longis ut in ramis parce instructis cito

glabrescentibus glaberrimis pungentibus, floribus in ramulis_ sessilibas

fasciculatis v. breviter spicatis, calycis 4 poll. longi albo-villosi hemi-

spherici crassi tubo brevi basi libero rotundato ramo non immerso, lobis

4 ovatis obtusis coriaceis, petalis 1-4, % poll. longis fere orbicularibus

concavis subtrilobis, disco intus papilloso, staminum, phalangibus 13 polli-

caribus filamentis perplurimis infra medium in laminam late linearum

coccineam confluentibus, antheris lineari-oblongis aureis, capsula glabres-

cente fere globosa vel elliproidea 3-} poll. longa lignosa haud immersa,

calysis lobis 2 oppositis tantum auctis incurvis more psittaci rostram.

C. rupestris, Schauer in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. vol. xxi. p. 26; Lehm. Plant.

Preiss. yol. i. p. 152. Benth. Flor. Austral. vol. iii. p. 179.

Of the genus Calothamnus, which consists of twenty-

two species, all restricted to S. Western Australia, only

one has been previously figured in this work, namely, C.

quadrifidus, R. Be. (Bot. Mag. t. 1506), which appeared in

1812. One other species, C. villosus, R. Br., is known to

have flowered in Kurope, and it is figured in the Botanical

Gardens, Kew, including rupestris and quadrifidus. Iam

indebted to Mr. R. I. Lynch for the specimen of C. rupes-

tris here figured, which flowered in the Cambridge

Botanical Gardens in March of the present year. The

plant from which it was taken was obtained from Berlin

in 1896, and is about four feet high, and as broad across

the branches. Its brilliantly coloured stamens are a con-

spicuous feature, and Mr. Lynch informs me that they retain

their beauty for nearly, if not quite, three weeks. James

Drummond first discovered this, and several other species

of the genus, in the Swan River district. It is very

doubtful whether C. pinifolius, ¥. Muell., can be accepted

as a distinct species, because the characters relied upon

are inconstant. C. rupestris is generally described as

JULY lst, 1903.

having glabrous leaves, but on close examination they are

found to be more or less furnished with long, exceedingly

fine hairs, which sometimes persist a season or more,

sometimes fall very soon.

Descr.—A robust, evergreen shrub, sometimes attaining

a height of seven or eight feet, but usually less. Branches

thick, at first pubescent, and at the same time furnished

with long, thin, deciduous hairs, and densely clothed with

needle-like leaves, resembling those of a small Pinus.

Leaves spirally arranged, one to one and a half inch

long, rigid, straight or curved, sharp-pointed, at first

more or less furnished with long, very thin, almost in-

visible hairs, but soon quite glabrous. lowers crimson,

one and a third to one and a half of an inch long,

sessile, in small clusters on the previous year’s branches.

Calyx densely woolly, four-lobed ; lobes ovate. Petals one

to four, small and scale-like. Stamens forming the

most conspicuous part of the flower, numerous ; filaments

crimson, connate the greater part of their length in four

flattened clusters; anthers yellow. Capsule sessile but

not immersed in the branch, persistent long after the seeds

have fallen out, becoming quite glabrous, nearly globose

or elliptical, one half to three-quarters of an inch long,

woody and very hard ; two opposite calyx-lobes grow out

and are incurved, giving them the appearance of a parrot’s

beak.—J. D. H. — |

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ISOLOMA epiantoum.

Native of Colombia.

Nat. Ord. GEsNERACEZ.—Tribe GESNERER.

Genus Isotoma, Decne.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1001.)

Isotoma erianthum ; fruticulus 4-pedalis (Hartweg) sed forsan herba perennis

rhizomatibus hypogwis squamosis, squamis confertis carnosis orbicularibus

compressis sanguineis, caulibus erectis simplicibus crassis subcarnosis

dense fulvo-lanatis, foliis oppositis crassis longe petiolatis ovato-lanceo-

latis cum petiolo 4--6 poll. longis acutis basi cuneatis interdum leviter

obliquis crenato-dentatis supra hispidulis subtus lanatis costa atque

venis primariis crassiusculis subtus conspicuis, floribus 1$-2 poll. longis

velutinis cinnabarinis in axillis foliorum superiorum fasciculatis pendulis,

pedicellis ebracteatis flores equantibus vel longioribus, calycis parvi atro-

rubri lobis ovatis acutis tubo vix longioribus, corolle tubo leviter curvato

ventricoso apice leviter constricto, limbi lobis parvis rotundatis sub-

zequalibus planis divaricatis 3 inferioribus maculatis, staminibus 4 didy-

pamis inclusis ima basi corolle affixis filamentis filiformibus glabris

antheris glabris per paria cohwrentibus vel conniventibus, staminodio

minuto subulato, disci glandulis 5 reniformibus, ovario apice villosissimo,

stylo pubescente apice leviter recurvo, stigmate parvo bilamellato.

Isoloma erianthum, Decne, in Rev. Hort. 1848, p. 465 (nomen tantum).

Gesneria eriantha, Benth, Pl. Hartw. (1846), p. 228.

Brachyloma erianthum, Hanst. in Linnea, vol. xxix. p. 573.

Kohleria eriantha, Hanst. in Linnea, vol. xxxiv. p. 442.

The genera of the Gesneraceze have been so diversely

defined and limited by different botanists at different

periods that it is difficult to understand what really con-

stitutes a genus in this natural order. Bentham first used

the name Isoloma (Pl. Hartw. p. 229) to designate a

section of Gesneria (sic), in which, however, he did not in-

clude the species here figured. Decaisne (in loco supra

citato) raised it to generic rank, and enumerated the

species, previously referred to various genera, which he

considered to belong to it. Bentham and Hooker adopted

it, with some modifications in the “Genera Plantarum ”

(vol. ii. p. 1001), and as there constituted it comprises

between sixty and seventy species, all native of Central

and South America, ranging from Mexico to Bolivia and

Peru, and mostly growing at considerable elevations.

Isoloma is technically distinguished from the neighbour-

ing genera Diastema and Houttea by the open estivation of

Aveust Ist, 1893.

the small calyx and large anthers. J. erianthum, Decne.,

was first discovered by Hartweg between the villages of

Villeta and Guaduas, in the Province of Bogota, and the

species was described from dried specimens sent by him

to the Royal Horticultural Society of London. There are

also specimens in the Kew Herbarium collected by the

late Dr. J. Triana in the same Province, at an elevation

of two thousand four hundred metres, or nearly eight

thousand feet. It is a handsome, free-growing plant, and

the specimen from which the plate was prepared was

cultivated and presented to Kew by Mr. R. I. Lynch, the

Curator of the Cambridge Botanic Garden. It flowered in

March of the present year.

Deser.—A robust, erect, herbaceous plant, two to four

feet high, with underground scaly rhizomes, and thick,

more or less fleshy stems and leaves, more or less clothed

with soft, fulvous hairs. Scales of the rhizomes crowded,

fleshy, orbicular, compressed, crimson. Leaves opposite,

on long petioles, ovate-lanceolate, including the petioles

four to six inches long, acute, cuneate at the base, some-

times slightly rough on the upper surface and woolly

beneath; midrib and primary nerves thick and con-

spicuous. Flowers one and a half to two inches long,

velvety, orange-red or cinnabar, clustered at the axils of

the upper leaves, pendulous on bractless pedicels of about

the same length. Calye small, dark red, equally five-

lobed; lobes ovate, acute. Corolla slightly curved and

ventricose; limb almost equally five-lobed; lobes flat,

rotundate, about a quarter of an inch across, the three

lower spotted. Stamens four, didynamous, included in the

corolla; filaments filiform, glabrous, attached near the

base of the corolla; anthers glabrous, connivent in pairs.

Staminode minute, subulate. Disk of five reniform glands.

Ovary densely villous at the top ; style pubescent, slightly

recurved at the tip; stigma small, bilamellate.—W. B. i

Fig. 1, portion of calyx, disk and gyneceum: 2 ti

showing insertion of stamens and Wherieoda: Bash cit egg Mpctarslis.

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SEDUM Sraauu.

Native of Mexico.

Nat, Ord, CRAssuLACES.

Genus Sepum, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 659.)

Sepum Stahlii; herba perennis, multicaulis, dense ramosa, caulibus vel ramis

florigeris erectis vel adscendentibus graciliusculis foliisque primum

minutissime puberulis 4-6 poll. longis, foliis oppositis vel suboppositis

sessilibuscrassis carnosis oblongo-ovoideis ellipticisve }-3 poll. longis ambitu

circiter 3 poll. rubescentibus vel rubiginosis, floribus pentameris luteis

7-9 lin. diametro in cymas terminales pauciramosas dispositis, cyms

ramulis recurvis, pedicellis brevissimis, sepalis puberulis subcarnosis

erectis lineari-oblongis obtusis petalis saltem dimidiv brevioribus, petalis

lanceolatis dorso infra apicem corniculatis divaricatis, staminibus 10

erectis petalis brevioribus, disci squamis truncatis, carpellis 5 clavatis

glabris.

S. Stahlii, Solms; Rehnelt in Gartenwelt, 1902, p. 316, ex Wiener Illustrirte

Gartenzeitung, 1902, p. 220.

This Sedum was sent by Professor Count H. von Solms

Laubach to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in May,

1900, for identification, with the information that it had

been collected in Mexico by a Mr. Stahl, of Jena, and

had been in cultivation several years without producing

flowers. He was informed that it was different from

anything at Kew, either in the herbarium or garden.

Thereupon he sent a living plant to Kew, with the name

S. Stahlit; yet he does not appear to have published a

description of the plant. In an editorial paragraph in the

Wiener Gartenzeitung, cited above, it is stated that a Mr.

Rehnelt had described it in the Gartenwelt (1902, p. 316),

a publication to which I have not access at the present

time; therefore the description has been wholly drawn up

from the plant that flowered at Kew. Count Solms states,

in his original communication concerning this species, that

the leaves readily fall off, when a bud is soon formed at

the base and develops into an independent plant. I have

not been able to ascertain whether the foundation of this

bud is formed before the leaf falls, but I think it is quite

probable that it is. 8S. Stahlii is a very rapid growing

Species, speedily forming a carpet, planted out or in

AuveGust Ist, 1903.

shallow pans, and is suitable for a greenhouse. The —

genus Sedum comprises about 150 species, spread all round

the northern hemisphere, and about thirty are known to

inhabit Mexico. They present great variety in habit and

aspect, from the lowly 8S. cupressoides to S. dendroidewm,

an erect, branching shrub. |

Deser.—A trailing, much-branched, succulent, obscurely

puberulous, perennial herb, with erect or ascending

flowering-stems, four to six inches high. Leaves opposite,

or sub-opposite, sessile, slightly flattened at the point of

attachment, longer than the internodes, thick, fleshy,

ovoid or ellipsoid in shape, a quarter of an inch to half an

inch long, and about three-quarters of an inch in girth,

becoming red-brown. Flowers yellow, pentamerous, seven

to nine lines in diameter, arranged in few-branched,

terminal cymes; branches of the cymes recurved ; pedicels

very short. Sepals puberulous, somewhat fleshy, erect,

linear-oblong, obtuse, scarcely half as long as the petals.

Petals lanceolate, with a short, dorsal, horn-like appendage

just below the apex, spreading horizontally from below

the middle. Stamens ten, erect, shorter than the petals.

Carpels clavate, glabrous.x—W. B. H.

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CHLORAA LONGIBRACTEATA,

Native of Chili.

Nat. Ord. OrcuipEa.—Tribe Neorrie.

Genus Cutoraa, Lindl. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Flant. vol. iii. p. 618.)

CutorZa longibracteata; herba terrestris, glaberrima, tuberosa, 12-18 poll.

alta, tuberibus cylindricis elongatis }-1 poll. crassis usque ad 6-8 poll.

longis, caule simplici crasso carnoso infra flores per totam longitudinem

foliis spathaceis acutis arcte appressis vestito, foliis radicalibus subrosu-

latis subcarnosis late obovato-rotundatis 3-5 poll. longis 2-24 poll.

latis apice recurvis pluricostatis inter costas reticulato-venosis, floribus

3-13 poll. diametro albido-aurantiacis demum laxiuscule spicatis, spicis

4-8 poll. longis, bracteis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis floribus paulo —

brevioribus vel in speciminibus agrestibus paulo longioribus, sepalis

albis dissimilibus, 2 lateralibus majoribus longe cornutis cornu tereti

carnoso viridi, terminali petalis simili, petalis oblique ovato-oblongis,

labelli aurantiaci sessilis basi cordati supra cristati lobis lateralibus

brevibus rotundatis lobo terminali sinuato apice incrassaio, columna

labello dimidio breviore.

Chlorsxa longibracteata, Lindl. in Brand Quart. Journ. Roy. Inst. n.s. vol. i,

(1827) p. 48; Benth. in Maund Bot. vol. ii. t. 94. ,

Saar ia Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. p. 408; C0. Gay, Fl. Chil. vol. i.

p. 468.

Chlorea is the characteristic genus of ground orchids in

extratropical South America, especially on the western

side, Altogether about eighty species have been described ;

but many of them are only very imperfectly known from

_ dried specimens. Since the drawing of the present species

was made several other species have flowered at Kew from

tubers collected and presented by H. J. Elwes, Esq., and

drawings having been made it is probable that some of

them may appear in this publication. Chlorea differs

from most of the allied genera in having no spur. Our

drawing of C. longibracteata was made from a plant pre-

sented to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, by Mr. F. W.

Burbidge, the enthusiastic Curator of Trinity College

Botanic Gardens, Dublin. It was presented to Trinity by

Mr. Thornhill, whose father-in-law, Mr. J. W. Warburton,

formerly H.M. Consul-General at Valparaiso, introduced

it from Chili. Incidentally it may be mentioned that Kew

was indebted to the latter gentleman for several interesting

Aveust lst, 1903.

plants during his tenure of office, amongst them the diminu-

tive, leafless Viscum that grows parasitically on a columnar

species of Cereus. At Mr. Burbidge’s request, Mr. Warbur-

ton furnished the following particulars of the conditions

under which Chlorxa longibracteata grows wild:—* Unless I

confuse two kinds of orchids, it is the commonest I found.

The ground rises very rapidly from the sea-shore, much

broken into glens (quebrada) full of scrub, and very rocky.

The rock is all granite or granitic, and the surface much

decomposed. Here and there you come across little

plateaux among the rough slopes and rising ground, with

very little soil on them formed of disintegrated granite,

clay and gravel. These plateaux usually have a very

sparse vegetation, consisting of bulbous plants, orchids, a

- little grass, &c. Near the tops and on the tops grew

what my friends and I called the green orchis, in

hundreds. It always seemed to us that they grew in what

were about the driest places possible, where the ground

was so hard that it was difficult to dig them up with a _

garden trowel.” Mr. Warburton goes on to say that this

orchid, and other less abundant species, were usually of

stunted, dwarf growth, owing to the great dryness of the

soil, and the cultivated plants were much more vigorous.

Evidently, then, this is one of the numerous instances in

which plants are not found growing naturally where the

conditions are most favourable to full development.

Descr.—A terrestrial, glabrous, tuberous-rooted herb,

twelve to eighteen inches high. Tubers cylindrical, a

quarter of an inch to one inch thick, the longest six to

eight inches long. Stem simple, thick, fleshy, clothed

throughout below the flowers with spathaceous, acute,

closely appressed leaves. Radical leaves somewhat rosu-

late, rather fleshy, broadly obovate-rotundate, three to

five inches long, two to two and a half inches broad,

recurved at the tip, longitudinally ribbed, with reticulated

venation between the ribs. Flowers one and a half to one

and one-third of an inch in diameter, becoming loosely

spicate; spikes four to eight inches long; bracts linear-

lanceolate, acuminate, somewhat shorter than the flowers

in cultivated specimens, somewhat longer in wild speci-

mens. Sepals white, dissimilar, the two lateral larger,

terminating in cylindrical, solid, fleshy, green, horn-like

tips; terminal one similar to the petals. Petals obliquely

ovate-oblong. Labellum orange-coloured, sessile, cordate

at the base, crested above; lateral lobes short, rounded ;

terminal one sinuate, thickened at the tip. Column half

as long as the labellum.—W. B. H.

Fig. 1, side view of labellum and column ; 2, front view of labellum ; 8, front

view of column; 4, anther; 5, pollinia:—all enlarged.

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ARISASMA sapontcum, o.

Native of China and Japan.

Nat. Ord. ArnoipE#.—Tribe ARINEA.

Genus Arisama, Mart.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p, 965.)

ARISHMA japonicum; herba dioica, tuberosa, tubere globoso, glaberrima,

1-2-pedalis, caulibus swpissime bifoliatis inflorescentia terminatis,

foliis pedatisectis longe petiolatis, petiolis ultra medium vaginatis,

lamin tenuis segmentis 5-11 sessilibus vel intermedio interdum ansato

oblongis vel lanceolatis 13-6 poll. longis sed plerumque 3-5 poll. longis acutis

vel caudato-acuminatis basi cuneatis integris, spatha pedunculata folia

sequante vel seepius superante, spathe 4-pollicaris viridis longitudinaliter

albo-striats tubo cylindrico sursum leviter ampliato, fauce aperto, limbo

recurvo, lamina ovata acuta vel acuminata fornicato-incurva, spadicis

unisexualis g appendice stipitata (ie. paulo supra flores incrassata)

clavata spathe tubum paulo superante, floribus masculis achlamydeis

breviter stipitatis 2~4-andris.

Arisema japonicum, Blume, Rumphia, vol. i. p. 106; Schott, Synops. p. 29, et

Prodr, p. 40; Engler in DO. Monogr. Phaner. vol. ii. p. 549 ; Franch. et

Savat. Enum. Pl. Jap. vol. ii. p. 5; Somoku Zusetsu, vol. xix. t. 16 (12);

Honzo Zufu, vol, xxii. t. 19.

Aram Dracunculus, Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 233, haud Linn.

Arisema latisectum, Blwme, loc. cit. p. 110, fide Engler, loc. cit.

The genus Arisema comprises between fifty and sixty

described species, chiefly inhabiting temperate and sub-

tropical Asia. One occurs in Abyssinia, and a few. are

natives of North America, southward to Mexico. Some of

the species are amongst the most graceful and elegant

members of the order, presenting great variety in the

foliage, and more especially in the form and shape of the

spathe and spadix, and several have been figured in this

work. In some species, A. concinnum (tab. 5914), for

example, the spathe is prolonged into a long slender tail ;

in A. curratum (tab. 5931) the spadix is elongated ; in

A, fimbriatum (tab. 7150) it is plumose. A. costatum has

both spathe and spadix elongated. A. Griffithii (tab.

6491) and A. speciosum (tab. 5964) may be mentioned as

representatives of the more showy, ornamental species.

A. japonicum is apparently very common in Japan, as it

is represented in almost every collection of dried plants

from that country. It also occurs in Formosa, and Dr. A.

Aveust Isr, 1903.

Henry collected it abundantly in the Chinese Provinces of

Hupeh and Szechuen. This species represents a group in

which neither the spathe nor the spadix is elongated.

The plant figured was raised at Kew from seeds received

in 1899 from the Botanic Garden, Imperial University,

Tokyo, Japan. It flowered in the Alpine House in March,

1903.

Descr.—A tuberous-rooted, perennial, dicecious, glabrous

herb. Tuber globose. Stems one to two feet high, two-

leaved, terminating in a single inflorescence. Leaves

pedately compound, on long petioles; petioles sheathing

to above the middle, thence free and terete; leaflets or leaf-

segments five to eleven, thin, sessile or the intermediate

sometimes stalked, oblong or lanceolate, one and a half to

six, but usually three to five inches long, acute or caudate-

acuminate, cuneate at the base, entire. Spathe pedun-

culate, equalling or overtopping the leaves, green with

longitudinal white stripes ; tube cylindrical, slightly widen-.

ing upwards; limb ovate, acute or acuminate, incurved,

margin recurved below the middle. Male spadix with a

stalked, clavate appendage, longer than the tube of the

spathe. Male flowers without a perianth; stamens two to

four; filaments confluent.—W. B. H.

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CISTANCHE vioracra.

Native of Marocco and Algeria.

Nat. Ord. OROBANCHACEA,

Genus CistancnE, Hoffmg. et Link; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. .

p. 893.) ;

CisTaNCHE violacea; herba crassa, carnosa, in radicibus Chenopodiacearum

frutescentium, Gypsophile albe, Staticis monopetale, ets., parasitica,

caule 6-15 poll. alto (forsan interdum altiore) simplici vel rarius ramoso

carnoso seepius 1-2 poll. crasso “ sed interdum crassitie brachii,” squamis

carnosis latis deltoideis vel rotundatis densissime imbricatis, superioribus

interdum laxioribus longioribus tenuioribus ovatis lanceolatis lineari-

busve fere foliaceis, omnibus demum exsiccatis marcidisque, floribus

purpureis vel purpureo-violaceis circiter 1 poll. diametro 14 poll. longis

panes densissime congestis, spicis demum elongatis interdum 6-8 poll.

ongis, bracteis coloratis ovato-oblongis obtusis calycem squantibus,

calycis scariosi pag et lobis fere zqualibus oblongis rotundatis,

corolla arcuata, ore obliquo, limbi lobis fere squalibus rotundatis recurvis

licis 2 longitudinalibus cristatis aureis inter lobos laterales et lobum

inferiorem ornatis, staminibus vix exsertis, filamentis basi barbatis apice

incurvis, antheris approximatis barbatis, ovario glabro, stylo staminibus

paulo longiore apice recurvo, stigmate lato obscure bilobo, capsula ovoidea

obtusa compressa, seminibus numerosissimis minutis.

Phelipxa violacea, Desf. Flor. Atlant. vol. ii. p. 60, t. 145; Battand. et Trab,

Flor. de Algérie, p. 656; Reut. in DC. Prodr. vol. xi. p. 12; Viviani,

Flor, Lyb. Specim. p. 34.

Orobanche Phelypwa, Willd. Sp. Pl. vol. iti. p, 352.

The genus Cistanche, regarded by most authors as a

section of Phelipxa, is retained in the ‘* Genera Plantarum,”

because of the peculiar habit of the species, the sub-equal,

obtuse lobes of the calyx, and the dense inflorescence. It

consists of about a dozen species inhabiting the Mediter-

ranean region and the Orient, from Portugal and Marocco

eastward to the Punjab. C. violacea is a rather common

plant in North Africa, from Marocco through Algeria to

Tunis, growing both on the sea-shore and in the saline

districts of the interior. The plant figured here was sent

to Kew, in March of the present year, to be named by

Mrs. R. W. Dent, of Flass, Crosby Ravensworth, Shap,

Westmoreland, who received it from a friend staying at

Biskra, Algeria, who found it “in the desert growing

straight out of the sand, where it is brackish.” The

plant reached Kew in fairly good condition, except that

Aveust Ist, 1893,

the flowers were partly decayed and discoloured in conse-

quence of having been packed in wet moss. Otherwise

it might have gone on growing, and attained complete

development, as there was a great store of reserve

food in the thickened caudex. The whole plant weighed

ten ounces, and the fleshy caudex or stem was eight

inches in its greatest circumference. From the speci-

mens in the Kew Herbarium and Desfontaine’s de-

scription in the work cited above, it would appear that

Cistanche violacea sometimes flowers the first season, when

the stem grows relatively tall, and only about an inch

thick at the base; and sometimes it forms a very thick

caudex the first season, and flowers the second, after the

disappearance of the host-plant from which it derived its

great store of food. The plants that flower the first season

have altogether the habit and aspect of an ordinary broom-

rape; and a very careful examination is necessary to

establish the specific identity of the two conditions. ‘Mrs.

Dent’s friend, who sent the specimen, states that the

people of Biskra scrape the root, and take it as a remedy

for colic. At the request of Kew, with a view to cultiva-

tion, a second consignment was made, but unfortunately

the specimens were cut off at the base of the inflorescence.

It should be added that the colour of the flowers in the

plate is perhaps not quite exact, in consequence of deterio-

ration in transit. = : ee

Descr.—A fleshy, leafless herb, destitute of chlorophyll, —

and parasitic on the roots of various Chenopodiacee,

Gypsophila alba, Statice monopetala, &c. Stem six to

fifteen inches high, simple or rarely branched, usually

about one inch thick, but sometimes as much as six to eight

in girth, densely clothed with fleshy, imbricating scales, the

lower deltoid or rounded, the upper gradually thinner,

longer, narrower and less crowded, uppermost free and

bract-like; at length all dry and shrivelled. Flowers

purple or violet-purple, about an inch in diameter, and one

and a half inch long, at first very densely crowded. Spikes

elongating in development, and sometimes as much as S1x

to eight inches long. Bracts ovate-oblong, obtuse, equal-

ling the calyx. Calyx scarious, five-lobed; lobes nearly

equal, oblong, rotundate. Corolla curved with an oblique

limb; lobes of the limb nearly equal, rotundate, recurved,

with two longitudinal, crested, yellow folds between the

two lateral and lowermost ones. Stamens scarcely exserted ;

filaments and corolla bearded at the point of insertion or

attachment; anthers connivent, bearded. Ovary glabrous;

style slightly longer than the stamens, recurved at the tip;

stigma broad, two-lobed. Capsule ovoid, compressed ;

seeds exceedingly numerous and minute.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, part of calyx and gynwceum; 2, part of the corolla, showing the

three lower lobes with the two intermediate, crested folds and the stamens ;

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SENECIO tanavrious.

Native of Western Ohina.

Nat. Ord. Comrosita.—Tribe SENECIONIDEA,

Genus Srnxctio, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 446.)

Senecio (Synotis) tanguticus; herba elata, superne ramosa, glabrescens, caule

tereti robusto, foliis amplis 5-7-poll. longis, inferioribus longe petiolatis late

ovatis deltoideisve subdigitatim pinnatifido-lobatis et laceris v. subbipina-

tifidis pinnis lobisve argute profunde que serratis basi truncatis cordatis

v. acutis, supra saturate viridibus subtus pallidis, petiolo lamina breviore

dilatata semiamplexicauli, capitulis numerosissimis suberectis ig swprbea

in paniculam amplam pyramidatam dispositis, pedicellis brevibus, bracteis

arvis, involucri anguste tubulosi 3 poll. longi basi 3-4-bracteolati

racteis 3-4 anguste linearibus obtusis herbaceis viridibus glabris fl.

radii sepius 3-4 raro 0, corolle# tubo elongato, ligula } poll. longa anguste

linearia apice 3-crenata, fl. disci ad 3 tubo elongato lobis 5 revolutis,

antheris anguste linearibus breviter caudatis flavo-brunneis, pappo

copioso molli albo, acheniis parvis oblongis glabris.

S. tanguticus, Mawim. in Bull. Acad. Pétersb, xxvii. (1881) p. 486, et Mél,

Biol. xi, 244,

S. Henryi, Hemsl. in Journ. Linn, Soc. Bot. vol. xxiii. (1888) p. 452.

It is difficult to find something to say that is specially

applicable to a given species in a genus numbering upwards

of a thousand species, but Senecio tanguticus belongs to a

comparatively small section, characterized by having a

very small number of flowers, rarely only one, in each

head. Without close examination, the flower-heads of

_ S. tanguticus might be taken for separate flowers, with

three or four petals each.

A dried specimen of S. tanguticus was first sent to Kew

in 1886, by Dr. A. Henry, who collected it near Patung,

in the Province of Hupeh; and he subsequently sent

numerous specimens from various other localities in the

same Province. In 1887, Kew received specimens of the

same species, collected by the Rev. E. Faber, at an

elevation of four thousand feet, on Mount Omei, in the

Province of Szechuen. Mr. Hemsley, failing to identify

these specimens, from the description of S. tanguti-

cus of Maximowicz, described it under the name of S.

Henryt. Since then Kew has received an authentic

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1903.

specimen of 8. tanguticus, and it was Dr. Henry himself,

as I am informed by Mr. Hemsley, who first recognized

the identity of the two.

Mr. Wilson, collector for Messrs. James Veitch & Sons,

subsequently sent home seed of this handsome herbaceous

plant, and our plate was prepared from successfully

cultivated examples raised at Coombe Wood in 1902.

Judging from the vigorous plant, between six and seven

feet high, sent to Kew by Messrs. Veitch, 8S. tanguticus 18

a very striking object, suitable both for mixed planting

and grouping.

It may be added that since the publication of Forbes’

and Hemsley’s Enumeration of the Chinese Composite

(‘‘ Journal of the Linnean Society,” vol. xxiii.) in 1888,

the number of known Chinese species of Senecio has been

raised from sixty-three to nearly 150. Many of them are

very pretty, and some of a highly ornamental character.

Deser.—A tall, stout, glabrous or glabrescent, leafy

herb, six to seven feet high, branching upwards. Stem

as thick as the thumb below, terete, green; branches

erect. Leaves five to seven inches broad and long, lower

long-petioled, broadly ovate or deltoid, pinnatifidly lobed

or sub-pinnatifid, lobes linear-lanceolate, acuminate,

acutely, rather distantly coarsely irregularly serrate, dark

green above, paler beneath, base truncate or broadly

sub-cordate, sinus rounded; petiole of lower leaves

very long, base dilated and semi-amplexicaul. leads

in erect, very many-flowered, pyramidal panicles six

to seven inches long, terminating the branches;

bracts small, green, lanceolate; pedicels one-sixth of an

inch long. Involucre narrow, cylindric, one-third of an

inch long, calyculate with short, subulate bracts at the

base; bracts three or four, linear, tips rounded. Ray-

flowers three or four, rarely absent ; ligule half an inch

long, linear, three-toothed, four- to five-nerved, golden-

yellow. Disk-flowers three or four, lobes revolute. Anthers

linear, exserted, pale brown ; style-arms revolute. Pappus

copious, soft, white. Achene short, glabrous.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, capitulum ; 2, ray-flower ; 3, pappus hair ; 4, disk-flower ; 5, stamens;

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DRABA GILLIESII.

Native of Chili.

Nat. Ord. Crucirernx.—Tribe ALYSSINE.

Genus DraBa, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 74.)

Drazpa (Leucodrabra) Gilliesii; perennis, molliter substellatim pubescens,

caule pedali erecto basi ramoso folioso, foliis 1-1}-poll. longis sessilibus

v. semiamplexicaulibus patulis ovatis oblongisve acatis undulatis

remote dentatis infimis nunc breviter petiolatis lete viridibus, racemis

elongatis laxe multifloris, floribus 3-3 poll. latis longe pedicellatis, petalis

} poll. longis oblongis apice rotundatis, petalis sepalis multo majoribus

albis, ovario laxe stellatim pubescente, stylo elongato filiformi, siliculis

4-3 poll. longis ellipsoideis planis acutis stylo persistente terminatis

tortis, seminibus oblongis =; poll. longis compressis pallide castaneis.

D. Gilliesii, Hook. et Arn. in Hook. Bot. Mise. vol. iii. (1833) p. 137. Walp.

Rep, vol. i. p. 157. Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. vol. ii. p. 236. C. Gay, Fl.

Chil. vol. i. p. 154. Reitche, Flora de Chile, vol. i. (1896) p. 112.

D. araucana, Phil. in Anal. Univ. Chil. 1872, p. 672.

D. Davila, Phil. le.

D. rosulata, Phil. in Linnea, vol. xxviii. (1856) p. 669.

D. stolonifera, Barn. ex C. Gay, l.c. p, 155.

The foregoing synonymy is that of the “ Index Kew-

ensis,’ but I have not succeeded in ascertaining on whose

authority the reductions were made, and I have not been

able to examine the specimens critically. 1 had hoped to

_ get the views of Dr. H. Gilg, of Berlin, who is engaged on

-@ monograph of the Andine species of Draba, on this

point ; but as no reply has been received, he was probably

from home when the application reached Berlin. In

Reiche’s recent ‘ Flora de Chile” (vol. i. p. 112), however,

D. stolonifera, Barn., D. rosulata, Phil., and D. colchaguen-

sis, Phil., are reduced to D, Gilliesti. On the other hand,

D. araucana, Phil., and D. Davilx, Phil., are treated as

distinct species; the former described as differing from

D, Gilliesit in having flat pods, and the latter in having

numerous stems from the same root. D. Gilliesii, as re-

presented in the accompanying plate, is an interesting

example of cultivation, being nearly three times the size

of the wild specimens, and a really attractive plant.

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Draba is one of the few genera amongst the higher

orders of flowering plants that is well represented through

nearly 140 degrees of latitude. This is, of course, in the

New World. Throughout, excepting the low countries of

Central America, Draba is frequent, at low elevations in the

north temperate regions, at high elevations in the tropical

and south temperate, the genus having its maximum

number of species in the Andes. In the Old World, on

the contrary, the genus Draba is confined to the north

temperate zone, bounded on the south by the Mediter-

ranean in Europe, and the Himalaya in Asia.

Draba Gilliesit was discovered by Dr. Gillies in the

Cordillera of Cumbre, at about eight thousand feet eleva-

tion, and has been collected at various other localities,

always at a great elevation, of the Chilian chain. It varies

very much in habit, according to locality. The specimen

figured was presented to the Royal Gardens, Kew, in

1902, by A. K. Bulley, Esq., of Ness, Neston. It flowered

in the Alpine House in March, 1903.

Deser.—A perennial tufted, laxly stellately hairy herb,

one to ten inches high, of various habit and leafage.

Stem stout or slender, simple or branched, leafy. Leaves

sessile, coarsely toothed, half an inch to one and a half inch

long, lower or radical linear or ovate-oblong, cauline ovate-

cordate, more irregularly toothed. Racemes short or long,

few- or many-flowered, erect, pedicels three-quarters of an

inch to one and a half inch long, slender, spreading.

Flowers one half to three-fourths of an inch in diameter in

large states of the plant, much smaller in others, white.

Sepals oblong, obtuse, laxly stellately hairy. Petals obo-

vate-spathulate. Hilaments glabrous ; anthers rather small,

oblong. Capsules elliptic-oblong or oblong-lanceolate,

acuminate, with the persistent style, strongly compressed

and twisted. Seeds very small.—J. D. H. ?

Fig. 1, flower with petals removed; 2 and 3, anthers;

disk :—all enlarged; 5, fruit, ar 1G and 3, anthers; 4, gynaceum and

Note.—Since the foregoing was set up, a reply has been received from Dr.

Gilg, who makes the synonymy the same as ours, with the addition of

D. colehaguensis, Phil.

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TRIS spucwarica.

Native of Bokhara.

Nat. Ord. IntipEa,—Tribe Mora#Ez.

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

Iris (Juno) bucharica; ex affinitate I. orchioidei (B. M. t. 7111) et forsan

hujus species mere varietas, bulbo subgloboso, caule erecto 1-2 ped. alto

internodiis distinctis, foliis 7-11 lanceolatis acute acuminatis usque ad

1 ped. longis sed spe brevioribus arcuatis nitidis, spathis in axillis

foliorum solitariis 1-foris vix acutis haud inflatis, floribus breviter pedun-

culatis albido-luteis circiter 24 poll. diametro, perianthii tubo elongato,

limbi segmentis omnibus longe unguiculatis, exterioribus lamina oblonga

apice rotundata recurva cristata crista aurantiaca, interioribus parvis

arcte deflexis trilobulatis lobis lateralibus obtusis intermedio acutissimo,

“i he yeatey oblique ovatis interdum in margine exteriore irregulariter

-lobulatis.

I. bucharica, Foster in Gard. Chron. 1902, vol. i. pp. 385-387, tig. 135; 1903,

vol. i. p. 251. Journ. Hort. ser. 3, vol. xlv. p. 260-261.

This pretty Iris is one of a series of four which Sir

Michael Foster, one of the first authorities on the genus,

says might well be regarded as varieties of one species,

namely, orchioides, Carr. in Rev. Hortic. 1880, p. 387, fig.

68 (B. M. t. 7111). But he argues that as they present

distinctive characters, which, from a gardener’s stand-

point, constitute species, they may as well be accepted as

such. This may be a convenient course so long as there

are only the four to deal with; but, judging from very

scanty material, there is considerable individual variation,

and 1 am not quite certain that our plant is exactly his

I. bucharica. He himself says that one of the four of this

series, the one known as J. orchioides cerulea, was referred

by Regel to J. caucasica, Hoffm., and 1 find that Regel

(Gartenflora, t. 800) figures a plant exceedingly like ours,

especially in the three-lobed deflexed inner petals or

standards, as I. caucasica.

The plant here figured was purchased from Messrs. Van

Tubergen, Dutch N urserymen, and it flowered in the

Alpine House at Kew in March of the present year.

Sir Michael Foster obtained his from the same source,

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1903,

as well as the closely allied, though very differently

coloured J. warleyensis, described and figured in the

same place, and which will shortly be figured in this

Magazine. He describes the standards of I. bucharica

in the following words: ‘‘small, pure white, extended

horizontally, with a canaliculate claw expanding into a

broader, flat, distinctly: mucronate blade.’? On the other

hand, the figure in the “ Journal of Horticulture” cited

above, has distinctly lobed standards. )

Descr.—Closely allied to I. orchioides and I. caucasica,

and having a nearly globose bulb. Stem erect, one to two

feet high; internodes distinct. Leaves seven to eleven,

lanceolate, acuminate, acute, lower ones nine to twelve

inches long, shorter upwards, curved, shining. Spathes

solitary in the axils of the leaves, one-flowered, scarcely

acute, not inflated. lowers shortly peduncled, yellow

and white, about two and a half inches across. Perianth-

_ tube elongated. Petals all having long claws; the three

outer (falls) with an oblong, rounded, pendulous, crested

blade ; the three inner (standards) much smaller, protrud-

ing between the outer, pendulous, three-lobed ; lateral lobes

rounded, central one acuminate.—-W. Botting Hemsley.

Figs. 1 and 2, anthers; 3, stigmatic surface :—enlarged; 4, entire plant,

reduced,

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ALOE Cameront.

Native of Hastern Tropical Africa.

Nat. Ord. Littacrex.—Tribe ALOINEA,

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

Aor Cameroni ; frutex caulescens, erectus, omnino glaber (stirps depicta caule

simplici circiter bipedali), foliis sparsis patenti-recurvis angustis lanceolatis

9-12 poll. longis infra medium circiter 1} poll. latis acutis concavo-convexis

plano-convexisve circiter 3-4 lin. crassis viridibus margine remote

breviterque spinoso-dentatis spinis basi latis apice incurvis, inflorescentia

axillari simplici suberecta cum pedunculo elongato circiter pedali, bracteis

scariosis basi latis acute acuminatis pedicellis brevioribus, pedicellis 13-2

lin. longis, floribus rubro-luteis ad apicem pedunculi confertis pendulis

cum staminibus exsertis circiter bipollicaribus, perianthii tubo fere

_eylindrico leviter curvato infra medium leviter constricto, limbi lobis

shlongis apice tantum leviter recurvis obtusis vel rotundatis, ovario

obscure verruculoso, stylo breviter exserto.

Aloe Cameroni, Hemsl.

A. macrosiphon, Kew Hand-list of Tender Monocotyledons (1897), p. 173, non

Baker Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. vii. p. 459.

It is not without some misgivings that I have described

this Aloe as a new species, but being unable to identify it

with any of the fifty species described by Mr. J. G. Baker

in the “ Flora of Tropical Africa” (vol. vii. pp. 454-469), F

must perforce give it a name. There is always a risk in

dealing with a single species of a large and critical genus

such as the present, especially as many, probably most,

of the species are imperfectly known. The plant from

which our drawing was made was sent to the Royal Botanic

Gardens, Kew, in 1894, by Mr. K. J. Cameron, of the

African Lakes Corporation, and was received in 1895, and

flowered in February of the present year. Ina letter to

the Director, Mr. Cameron says, “* At the request and with

the assistance of Mr. Scott Elliot [whose travels in E. and

W. tropical Africa and Madagascar are well known to

botanists], I have selected the following plants from our

garden at Mandala,” Then follows a list. In con-

sequence, perhaps, of Mr. Scott Hlliot’s action in connec-

tion with sending the plants in question, it was assumed

before it flowered, that this Aloe was the same as one

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1903.

which he collected between Urundi and Karagwe, in

German Hast Africa. This has been described by Mr.

Baker (Fl. Trop. Afr., vol. vii. p. 459) under the name of

A, macrosiphon. The specimen consists of a crumpled,

imperfect leaf, the upper part of an inflorescence, and

a few old flowers; and although the species is closely

allied to A. Cameroni, Hemsl., the material is sufficient to

prove that it is specifically different. The most pro-

minent differences are the very much larger bracts and

longer pedicels.

Descr.—An erect shrub with an unbranched stem about

two feet high when the drawing was made. Leaves

separated by short but distinct internodes, spreading, re-

curved, narrow-lanceolate or almost linear, nine to twelve

inches long, about one and a half inch broad below the

middle, acute, concavo-convex or plano-convex, one-third

to a half inch thick, green, margin furnished with rather

distant, spinous teeth having a broad base and an in-

curved tip. Inflorescence axillary, unbranched, sub-erect,

including the elongated peduncle about a foot long.

Bracts small, scarious, broad at the base, sharply acumi-

nate, shorter than the pedicels. Pedicels about one-sixth

of aninchlong. Flowers almost cinnabar red, passing into

yellow towards the top, including the exserted stamens

two inches long, crowded at the top of the peduncle, pen-

dulous. Perianth-tube nearly cylindrical, slightly curved,

slightly constricted below the middle; lobes oblong,

obtuse, recurved at the tip. Ovary obscurely warted ;

style shortly exserted— W. Botting Hemsley.

Fig. 1, a flower; 2 and 3, anthers; 4, gynseceum :—all slightly enlarged.

7916

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PSYCHOTRIA oaPensis.

Native of South Africa.

Nat. Ord. Rupracex.—Tribe PsycHoTriges,

Genus Psycuorria, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 123.)

Psycnorria (Mapouria) capensis; frutex compactus, paucipedalis, fere undi-

que glaber, ramulis teretibus, internodiis foliis multo brevioribus, foliis

magnitudine ac circumseriptione variabilibus coriaceis petiolatis oblongis

lanceolatis oblanceolatis obovatis ellipticisve cum petiolo interdum

elongato usque ad 6-7 poll. longis sed swpius 2-4 poll. longis obtusis vel

rotundatis basi semper cuneatis margine integerrimis venis inconspicuis,

stipulis amplis subcoriaceis ovato-rotundatis intus pubescentibus brun-

neis cito deciduis, floribus fragrantibus luteis pentameris vix semipoll.

diametro in cymas parvas densas terminales breviter pedunculatas dis-

positis, pedicellis floribus brevioribus parce puberulis, calycis minuti

limbo ad annulum fimbrillatum reducto, corolla infundibularis tubo

sursum leviter dilatato vix 3 lin. longo fauce barbato, limbi lobis ovatis

tubo fere dimidio brevioribus vix acutis leviter recurvis, staminibus

breviter exsertis, fructu globoso circiter 2$ lin. diametro 2-spermo,

_seminibus albumine insigniter ruminato.

wgcreed capensis, Vatke in Gister. Bot. Zeitschr. vol. xxv. (1875)

Grumilea capensis, Sond. in Harv. & Sond, FI. Cap. vol. iii. p. 21.

Logania capensis, Eckl. in 8. Afr. Quart. Journ. vol. i. (1830), p. 371.

Grumilea globosa, Hochst. in Flora, vol, xxvii. (1844), p. 554.

As limited in Bentham and Hooker’s *‘ Genera Planta-

rum,” the genus Psychotria numbers between five and six

hundred species, spread over nearly all tropical and sub-

tropical regions, including Polynesia; but other botanists

have variously extended and restricted it. The late Dr.

Baillon, for instance, reduced (Hist. Pl. vol. vil. p. 280)

Palicourea, Cephelis, and several other genera, to it,

bringing up the total number of species to upwards of

eight hundred. For this unwieldly agglomeration he used

the earlier Linnean name Uvagoga. Schumann, on the

other hand (Engler & Prantl. Natwrl Pflanzenf. vol. iv.

pp. 111-120) treats Psychotria, Uragoga, Mapouria,

Grumilea, &c., as distinct genera. A middle course is,

perhaps, the best. Grumilea, as a genus, stands upon the

ruminated albumen, which is well developed in the species

figured. But the disadvantages of being unable to deter-

SrerTeMBER Ist, 1903.

mine the genus in the absence of seeds are obvious,

especially where the species are so numerous.

Psychotria capensis is apparently a common shrub in

South-eastern Africa, ranging from Somerset, Bathurst,

and Albany northward to Durban and Inanda. The

history of its introduction is unknown, but there is a

specimen in the Herbarium which flowered at Kew in

April, 1858. Mr. W. Watson, the Curator, to whom the

freely in spring. Its com

are its greatest attractio

Descr.—A dwarf, compact shr nearly all

parts. Branches terete, with internodes much shorter

than the leaves. Leaves very variable in size and outline,

coriaceous, petiolate, oblong, lanceolate, oblanceolate,

obovate or elliptical, including the sometimes elon-

gated petiole six to seven inches long, but usually —

two to four, obtuse or rounded, always cuneate at

the base, quite entire, veins inconspicuous; stipules

large, thick, ova ound, hairy within,

brown, very deci cented, yellow,

pentamerous, abou d in

dense, terminal, shortl

than the flowers, slighth

to a fringed rim. Corolla-tub od upwards,

straight, scarcely three lines Ic ng, bearded at the top

within; lobes ovate, about half as long as the tube,

scarcely acute, slightly recurved. Stamens slightly pro-

truded. Style scarcely as long as the stamens. Fruit

globose, about one-fifth of an inch in diameter, two-seeded; __

seeds having conspicuously ruminated albumen.—W. _

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ARECA? Micuonirzit.

Native of New Guinea. -

Nat. Ord. Patma.—Tribe ARRCE.

Genus Areca, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Flant. vol. iii. p. 883.)

Areca? Micholitzii; palma parva, dum juvenis florens; stirps huc depicta inter

5 et 6 ped. alta (interdum usque ad 9 ped. alta, fide Micholitz), caudice

gracili circiter 15 poll. diametro levi glabro annulato, internodiis 1-2-

pollicaribus, basi valde attenuato supra terram omnino radicibas aereis

sustentato, foliis glabris petiolatis pinnatisectis apice furcatis circiter

33 ped. longis, segmentis nunc 5 vel 7 duobus superivribus alte con-

fluentibus exceptis alternis nunc 6 vel 8 oppositis pauci-vel pluriplicatis

costatis que basi latis discretis inferioribus falcato-oblongis acuminatis

integris ceteris quadrato-oblongis pluri- vel multifidis apicibus sub-

acutis, petioli vagina elongata turgida inflorescentiam juvenilem

vestiente, petiolo supra vaginam subtrigono, spathis evolutis in

axillis folioruam delapsorum solitariis simplicibus cymbiformibus 8-9 —

poll. longis levibus glabris nitidis flavo-viridibus intus argenteo-

nitidis longitudinaliter multistriatis breviter valideque stipitatis apice

rotundatis ante dehiscentiam ventre leviter concavis cito deciduis, spathis

secundariis ad bracteas parvas vel minimas reductis, spadice monoico

arrecto simpliciter ramoso circiter 1 ped. longo 9 poll. lato pallide viridi

undique minute lepidoto ramis sepius circiter 8 distichis divaricatis

crassis compressis flexuosis continnis sursum gradatim attenuatis (nec

subito fere filiformibus ut in speciebus nonnullis Arece genuine), bracteis

bracteolisque minutis vel obsoletis, floribus sessilibus subdistichis in

ramorum dimidio inferiore ternis quorum 2 exterioribus J intermedio?

in dimidio superiore geminatis utroque ¢, floribus ¢ glabris eburneis 3-4

lin. longis articulatis inferioribus juxta ? positis ante spathe dehiscentiam

expansis cito deciduis, calyce minuto tridentato, petalis 3 valvatis crassis

* _ oblongo-ovatis obtusis, staminibus 6 petalis paullo brevioribus, pistillodio

oblongo trifurco, floribus 2 glabris viridibus, sepalis 3 crassis coriaceis late

ovatis obtusis circiter 4 lin. longis arcte imbricatis, petalis 3 sepalis

similibus tenuioribus arcte imbricatis, staminodiis 6 minutis e basi lata

_ gubito acuminatis, ovario oblongo glabro uniloculari uniovulato, stigmate

-____- sessili, ovulo basilari, fructuignoto. :

_ A. Micholitzii, Sander, Uat. Pl. 1895, p. 46. Kew Bulletin, Additional

Series, vol. iv. (1900), p. 40 (absque deseriptione). ;

This palm was discovered in New Guinea by Mr.

Micholitz, collector for Messrs. Sander & Co., of St. Albans,

and it was advertised for sale in 1895, when a plant was

acquired for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. It flowered

in March of the present year, but it has produced no fruit.

In reply to our inquiries, Messrs. Sander report that they

received only a few seeds and the plants are all dispersed,

OctToBER lst, 1903.

and they could give no particulars beyond Mr. Micholitz’s

note that it was very distinct and ornamental, and the

tallest stems he had seen were about nine feet high.

Until fruit and seed are known, the genus of this palm

must remain doubtful; but it will probably prove gene-

rically distinct from Areca. A detailed description is

given above, from which it will be seen that it differs in

several particulars from the typical species of Areca, such

as A. Catechu, L. and A. triandia, Roxb., and it is still

further removed from the section Balanocarpus. It is one

of the comparatively few palms of which the stem or

caudex is entirely supported by aerial roots from a very

early stage of growth, if not actually from the first stage

-after germination. : :

_ Deser.—A small palm, glabrous in all parts, flowering

when quite young. Stem slender, not known to exceed

nine or ten feet in height, as figured here, between five

and six feet high, and one and a half inch in diameter,

tapering at the base, and entirely supported above ground

by aerial roots, banded, unarmed; internodes one to two

inches long. Leaves glabrous, petiolate, pinnatisect,

forked at the apex, about three and a half feet long; seg-

ments either five or seven and alternate, except the

uppermost confluent pair, or six or eight and opposite,

usually four- to eight-ribbed and folded, broad at the base,

distinctly separated or contiguous, lower ones falcate-

oblong, acuminate, entire, the rest quadrate-oblong, about

four- to eight-fid, the tips acute ; petiole having an elongated,’

turgid sheath usually enclosing a young inflorescence,

somewhat trigonous above the sheath. Syathes solitary

in the axils of fallen leaves, shortly and stoutly stalked,

simple, boat-shaped, eight to nine inches long, outside |

smooth, shining, yellow-green, inside silvery, shining, |

striated longitudinally, rounded at the tip, slightly con-

cave on the upper side before opening, falling away almost

directly after opening ; secondary spathes reduced to

small or minute bracts. Spadiz moneecious, ascending,

simply branched, about a foot long and nine inches across,

pale green, studded with minute scales; branches usually —

about eight, in two rows, spreading, thick, compressed,

zigzag, gradually tapering upwards (not almost thread-like

- ain some of the genuine species of Areca); bracts and

bracteoles very small or obsolete. lowers glabrous,

sessile, in two rows, clustered in threes in the lower part

of the branches, the lateral male, the central female, in

pairs in the upper part of the branches, both male. Male

flowers ivory-white, one-quarter to one-third of an inch

long, the lower ones opening before the spathe; calyx

minute, three-toothed ; petals three, valvate, thick, oblong-

ovate, obtuse ; stamens six, shorter than the petals ; pistil-

lode oblong, trifurcate. Female flowers larger, green, or

yellow-green; sepals three, thick, coriaceous, broadly

ovate, obtuse, about one-third of an inch long, closely im-

bricate; petals three, similar to the sepals but thinner,

closely imbricate; staminodes six, minute, broad at the

base, and abruptly acuminate; ovary oblong, glabrous,

one-celled ; stigma sessile; ovule solitary, basal. Pruit

unknown.— VW. B. H. :

Fig. 1, a female flower and two lateral male flowers; 2, a male flower; 3, a

section of the same, showing the pistillode and some of the stamens; 4, a

. female flower in a more advanced stage attached to the branch; 5, section of

a female flower showing three staminodes; 6, gyneceum, with a portion

of the wall of the ovary removed, showing the solitary basal ovule:—all

enlarged, ;

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Tas. 7918.

COTYLEDON (EKcheveria) putvinata.

Native of Mexico.

Nat. Ord. CrassuLacea.

Genus Corrtepon, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 659.)

Cotrtepon (Echeveria) pulvinata; fruticulus pedalis, robustus, carnosus,

pluricaulis v. a basi ramosus, caulibus ramisve divaricatis 3-$ poll.

ms : crassis primum dense argenteo-velutinis demum ferrugineis, internodiis

brevibus, foliis patulis 2-3 poll. longis sessilibus spathulato-obovatis

oblongisve obtusis crasse carnosis utringue convexis densissime argenteo-

velutinis pilis demum retrorsis pallide viridibus, floribus 3-pollicaribus in

ramulos simplices elongatos foliosos ascendentes dispositis spicatim race-

mosis velutinis, bracteis foliaceis inferioribus pollicaribus, pedicellis brevi-

bus crassis, calycis segmentis ovato-lanceolatis acutis erectis viridibus,

corolla ealyce duplo longiore urceolato-campanulato rubro-aurantiaco, tubo

brevi, segmentis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis apicibus recurvis dorso

obtuse carinatis marginibus pallidis, staminibus corolla triente brevioribus,

antheris lineari-oblongis apiculatis, disci glandulis depressis lunatis,

Ovarii carpellis oblongo-ovoideis teretibus in stylos breves inclusos

attenuatis, stigmatibus capitellatis.

C. pulvinata, Hook. f.

Kcheveria pulvinata, Rose, ined.

Cotyledon pulvinata differs from the majority of its con-

geners in its branching habit, scattered leaves, spiciform

raceme and clothing of velvety, silvery, white hairs, which

turn brown on the branches, and are reflexed in age on the

leaves. It has slight claims to be placed in the genus

_ Kcheveria of De Candolle, which is reduced to Cotyledon in

_the “ Genera Plantarum,” but this rests only on the costate

corolla-lobes, for it has not the foliaceous sepals upon—

which mainly the genus was established. But I under-

stand that Dr. J. N. Rose and Dr. N. L. Britton are

engaged on a revision of the whole of the North American

Crassulacex, and that they propose considerable generic

alterations by the creation of several new ones. There-

fore I will not further discuss the question of generic

limits here.

The plant figured was received at Kew in 1900 from the

United States National Museum, Washington, and it

flowered in the Succulent House in March of the present

year.

Ocrozer Ist, 1903,

Descr.—A small, very stout, fleshy shrub, seven to eight

inches high (in the specimen figured), branching below and

upwards, sometimes from the root; covered densely. with

a silvery, velvety tomentum, which becomes rusty on the

stems, and retrorse on the foliage. Leaves two to three

inches long, sessile, sub-rosulate towards the tips of the

spreading branches, spathulately obovate or oblong, obtuse,

thickly fleshy, convex on both surfaces, nerveless, pale

green. lowers three-fourths of an inch long, erect or

inclined, disposed in a spiciform raceme terminating an

elongate, ascending, stout, leafy branch, orange-red.

Bracts leaf-like, the lower an inch long, the upper gradually

smaller. Pedicels very short and stout. Oalyz about half

as long as the corolla, green; segments ovate-lanceolate,

acute, erect. Corolla urceolately campanulate, tube short;

Segments oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, dorsally’ velvety —

and obtusely keeled, margins nearly glabrous, pale, tips

spreading or recurved. Stamens about one-third shorter

than the corolla-segments ; anthers linear-oblong, apicu-

late. Disk-glands lunate. Carpels narrowly ovoid, terete,

narrowed into short, subulate styles ; stigmas capitellate.—

J.D: HA, es

_ Fig. 1, flower; 2, segment of corolla and stamens; 3, glands of disk and

pistil :—all enlarged; 4, reduced view of whole plant.

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LYSIMACHIA crisprpens,

” Native of Central China.

Nat. Ord. PrarmuLacez.—Tribe LystmacniEm.

Genus LysrmacutA, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 635.)

Lysimacata crispidens; herba perennis, nunc subscaposa, scapis numerosis

gracilibus, nunc, ut in figura, caule ramoso vere foliato, undique glaber-

rima, 5-10 poll. alta, foliis crassiusculis subcarnosis margine crispato-

dentatis undulatis rubro tinctis radicalibus rosulatis obovato-spathulatis

vel interdum fere orbicularibus 1-3 poll. longis deorsum attenuatis vel

interdum subpetiolatis caulinis interdum nonnullis radicalibus similibus

sepius omnibus multo minoribus bracteiformibus alternis ovatis vel

lanceolatis sessilibus semiamplexicaulibus sursum gradatim minoribus,

floribus numerosissimis in axillis bractearum solitariis longe graciliterque

pedicellatis nutantibus roseis 6-9 lin. diametro, pedicellis bracteis longiori-

bus post anthesin arcuatim recurvis, calycis segmentis fere liberis ovato-

lanceolatis corolla tubum excedentibus acutis paucidenticulatis, corollgs

tubo brevi cylindrico lobis obovatis rotundatis denticulatis, stamivibus

inclusis filamentis medio connatis, antheris pilis paucis instructis, gynzeceo

glabro, stylo stamina vix wquante stigmate parvo capitato, capsula

globosa glabra 5-valvi valvis calycis segmentis oppositis brevioribus,

seminibus parvis circiter 20-25 angulatis minute punctatis.

Lysimachia crispidens, Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. xxvi. (1889)

2p, BO pl ts

Stimpsonia crispidens, Hance in Journ. Bot. vol. xviii. (1880), p. 234.

Lysimachia, Chrysosplenium, and several other genera

represented in the British Flora by two or three species,

have attained their maximum development in China, where

the species are numerous and highly diversified. Of Lysi-

= — machia alone thirty-five Chinese species are enumerated in

the work cited above, including thirteen previously un-

described, and since then twenty-five additional new species

have been recorded from the same country, making a total

of sixty species! They present a great variety in habit,

foliage, and flowers. Specially remarkable are: L. pavidi-

formis, Franch. (Bot. Mag. t. 7226); Z. insignis, Hemsl.

(Hook, Ic. Pl. t. 2634); L. pterantha, Hemsl. (Journ. Linn.

Soc. vol. xxvi. p. 56, t. 2); LZ. involucrata, Hemsl. (Journ.

Linn, Soe. vol. xxix. t. 81), and LD. alpestris, Champ., the

last having rosulate leaves, resembling those of a Drosera.

The genus Lysimachia numbers upwards of one hundred

Species, and it has a wide range in the northern hemisphere,

Octoper Ist, 1903.

and it is also represented in South America, South Africa,

Australia, and the Pacific Islands, including six species in

the Hawaian group. Some of the last are shrubs five to

eight feet high,

L. erispidens, Hemsl., was first collected by Mr. T.

Watters, near Ichang, Hupeh, and described by Dr.

Hance, who erroneously referred it to the genus Stimp-

sonia. It has since been collected in the same Province

by Dr. A. Henry and Mr. E. H. Wilson, Collector for

Messrs. James Veitch & Sons. The plant figured was

raised from seed sent home by Mr. Wilson. It is a very

pretty and highly floriferous plant, which has not yet, so.

far as I am aware, reached its best under cultivation.

Judging rather from the wild specimens than those

cultivated, it ought to have a future in European gardens.

_Deser.—A perennial herb, sometimes sub-scapose with

numerous slender scapes, sometimes with a branched stem

(as in the plant figured) bearing true leaves, glabrous

throughout, five to six inches high. Leaves rather thick,

and somewhat fleshy, margin crisply toothed, undulate,

tinged with red; radical ones rogulate, obovate, spathulate,

or sometimes nearly orbicular, one to three inches long,

tapering downwards or sub-petiolate; cauline some-

times hke the radical in the lower part of the stem, but

usually all smaller and bract-like, alternate, ovate, or lan-

ceolate, sessile, more or less stem-clasping, and gradually

smaller upwards. Flowers numerous, solitary in the axils”

of the bracts, on long, slender pedicels, rose-pink, half to |

three-quarters of an inch in diameter. Pedicels longer

than the bracts, strongly recurved in fruit. Calyz-

segments ovate-lanceolate, longer than the corolla-tube, |

acute, few-toothed. Corolla-tube short, cylindrical; lobes

obovate-oblong, minutely toothed. Stamens included in the

corolla; filaments connate to the middle; anthers having a

few hairs near the tips. Ovary glabrous; style scarcely

equalling the stamens; stigma small, capitate. Capsule

small, globose, five-valved, valves opposite to and shorter

than the calyx-lobes. Seeds about twenty to twenty-five,

very small, angular, minutely punctate.—W. B. H.

Fig. 1, gynaeceum and part of calyx ; 2, part of corolla and three stamens;

3, andreecium; 4a stamen showing inner face of anther :—all enlarged.

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TULIPA prastans,

— Native of Bokhara,

N at. Ord, Lintacez.—Tribe TuLipex.

Genus Tuxipa, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 818.)

TouLipa prestans; species ex affinitate T. Kaufmanniane, Regel, a qua differt

foliis puberulis petalis basi immaculatis ovario staminibus longiore.

T. preestans ? Mast. in Gard. Chron. 1903, vol. i. p. 824, f. 126.

T. prestans, Hoog, loc. cit. p. 364. Journ. Hort. 3rd Series, vol. xxxiv.-p.335.

The genus Tulipa is now illustrated in the Magazine by

thirty plates, mostly of distinct species. In 1805 a

figure (t. 839) was given of 7. suaveolens, Roth, then and

now generally recognized as the Duc van Thol tulip of

the Dutch, the origin of which was unknown. The late

Dr. HE. Regel, who was a specialist in tulips, first recorded

T’. suaveolens (Acta Horts Petropolitani, vol. 11. (1873),

p- 495) as a native of the South of Europe; but he sub-

sequently received specimens from his son Albert of the

plant here figured, from Bokhara, and at once came to the

conclusion that it was the wild state of 7. suaveolens,

Roth, Among the specimens sent he distinguished three

varieties (Act. Hort. Petrop. vol. viii. (1884), p. 650), but

the cultivation of bulbs from the same source caused him

_ to modify his views, and he combined the varieties under

the name of Tulipa suaveolens var. sylvestris.

Following the appearance in the Gardener’s Chronicle of

an uncoloured figure, cited above, of 7. prestans, Mr. John |

Hoog oonfeibited a concise history of the plant and its

affinities. He agrees with other writers in identifying

T’. suaveolens, Roth, with the Due Van Thol tulip, having

himself examined Roth’s herbarium specimens still pre-

served in the State Museum of Oldenburg. But he regards

T. prestans as specifically distinct from that species; a

view ultimately shared, it seems, by the late Dr. H. Regel,

who was prevented by bad health from publishing it as a

new species. Mr. Hoog gives the following description

Octoner Ist, 1903.

of 7. prestans, which he considers neither complete nor

final :—

* Bulb rounded, about one inch in diameter, with a

particularly thick, leathery skin, the latter being almost

glabrous inside. Peduncle varying in height from a few

inches to one and a half feet, covered, as well as the

leaves, with minute, closely set, white hairs, and bearing

from one to many flowers. Flower-segments all uniform

in shape, pointed, and of a peculiar light, scarlet-vermilion

colour.” Botanically, he says, it is perhaps nearest 7’.

Kaufmanniana, Regel. This is figured in the Magazine

(tab. 6837), and is very variable in colour, but not

including scarlet and vermilion shades.

I must confess that I cannot follow the late Dr. E.

Regel and Mr. Hoog in regarding 1. prestans as a tulip

specifically distinct from 7. suaveolens, and “ more deserv-

ing of a specific name than any other;” but then I am

not an expert in tulips. Still it doubtless ranks high

among the early-flowering kinds,

The plant here figured was purchased by Kew from

Messrs. Van Tubergen (J. Hoog), and it flowered in the

_ Alpine House in March of the present year.

It may be useful to give the corrections here of two

errors in the names of tulips figured in the Magazine,

due, in part, it may be added, to conflicting views at

different periods. Tab. 6635, to which the name iif

Borszezowi is given, is T. Kolpakowskiana, Regel; and that —

figured under the latter name (t. 6710) is T. Ostrowskiana,

Regel, as explained by him (Gartenflora, vol. xxxiii. p. 355).

T’. Borszczowi, or, as Regel himself afterwards wrote it,

Borsczowi, is a very distinct species, of which no figure has

yet appeared in the Magazine.—W. B. H.

Fig. 1, portion of leaf showing the hairs; 2, androecium and gyneceum;

3, front view of a stamen; 4, back view of the same; 5, gyneceum :—all

enlarsed.

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LISSOCHILUS purroratus.

Native of Tropical Africa. .

Nat. Ord. Orcuipr#.—T'ribe VanpDrEm.

Genus Lissocuitus, R. Br.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 586.)

Lissocui.us, purpuratus ; herba terrestris, tuberosa, glabra, foliis hysteranthiis,

tuberibus reniformibus iis Solani tuberosi similibus in catenas fere tripe-

dales dispositis (Barter), foliis lanceolatis 1-2-ped. longis medio usque ad

2 poll. latis acutis plicatis circiter 7-nervis, nervis secundariis numero-

sissimis, scapis plantaram vetustarum numerosis erectis 2-4} ped altis,

parte florente 9-15 poll. longa, basi dense vaginatis vaginis sursum gradatim

remotioribus minoribusque supremis bracteiformibns acutis, floribus

roseo-purpureis circiter 1} poll. diametro, pedicello com ovario 9-18 lin.

longo, bracteis membranaceis linearibus acutis pedicello brevioribus

marcescentibus, sepalis petalisque similibus concoloribus roseis anguste

oblongis vix acutis nndulatis, labello trilobato lobis lateralibus brevioribus

rotundatis pallidis intermedio purpureo ovato-oblongo supra 3-carinato

carinis cristato-undulatis atropurpureis, calcare brevi obtuso.

L. purpuratns, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. vi. (1862), p. 133. Reichb. f.in

Flora, 1865, p. 188; Otia Bot. Hamb. vol. ii. pp. 75,114. Rolfe in FI.

Trop. Afr. vol. vii. p. 79.

Limodorum cristatum, Sw. in Schrad. Neues Journ. vol. i. p. 86; Lindl. Gen.

& Sp. Orch. p. 185.

Limodorum articulatum, Schum. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. Pl. p. 399.

Enlophia articulata, Lind/, Gen. & Sp. Orch, p. 181 ede

Galeandra longibracteata, Lindl. in Journ, Linn. Soe. vol. vi. p. 133.

Eulophia longibracteata, Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fil. Afr. vol. v. p. 22.

- Lissochilus and Eulophia, established by R. Brown,

mainly on characters of the lip, the one smooth the oe

crested, now number between them about one hundred and

fifty tropical African species, and, altogether, nearly three

hundred species, very difficult to allocate between the two

proposed genera. Mr. Rolfe (fl. Trop. Afr. vol. vii. p. 70),

notes that Dissochilus “ approaches Hulophia very closely,

but the majority of the species are very easily separated —

by the small spreading or reflexed petals [sepals], and the

broad, often differently coloured petals.” And he retains

purpuratus in Lissochilus, though it is not one of those

easily separated from Hulophia, as it has similar sepals and

petals and a crested lip. However, as Tissochilus is the

older genus there is no question of a transfer here.

OcropeR Ist, 1903.

L, purpuratus, Lindl., appears to be very common in

Upper Guinea, W. tropical Africa, and it has also been —

collected by De Schweinfurth in British. East Africa, and.

in the Congo Free State by J. Dybowski. The plant

figured was sent from Abyssinia to Kew by A. B. Wylde,

Esq., author of ** Modern Abyssinia,” with a note that it

‘erows anywhere above seven thousand feet.” But con-

sidering that this plant inhabits the lowlands of western

tropical Africa, it is very probable that this note was

intended for some other plant sent at the same time.

L. purpuratus, Lindl., should not be confused with

L. Krebsii, var. purpurata, H. N. Ridley (Gard. Chron.

1885, vol. ii. p. 102; Warner's Orchid Album, vol. vi. ple

259), a native of South Africa 49% See ee

Descr.—A terrestrial, tuberous, glabrous ek ‘ fronds

large clumps” (Dr. Rowland). Tubers * similar to those i

of a kidney potato, produced in chains nearly a yard long”

(Barter). Leaves ianceolate, one to two feet long, and | as

much as two inches broad in the middle, acute, plicate,

about seven-nerved, with numerous secondary nerves.

Scapes numerous in old plants, erect, two to four anda

half feet high, flower om nine to fifteen inches

long, closely shea ths smaller, and

more distant uy

Flowers rose an neh in —

diameter; pedicels, in =

and a half inch long.

shorter than the pedicels pals and

petals similar in shape and colour, arrow-oblong, scarcely

acute, wavy, rose-pink. Labellum three-lobed; lateral

lobes short, rounded, paler coloured; intermediate lobe

much larger, purple, ovate-oblong, with three crested,

longitudinal, dark purple ridges. “Spur short, obtuse.—

W. B. H.

Fig. 1, labellum and column; 2, anther-case; 3 and 4, pollinia:—all

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CONTENTS OF No. 706, OCTOBER, 1903.

Tar. 7917. 1.—ARECA - MICHOLITZII.

» 7918.—COTYLEDON PULVINATA.

4, .7919—LYSIMACHIA CRISPIDENS.

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CLERODENDRON oceprHatantuum.

Native of Zanzibar Island,

Nat. Ord. VERBENACE.

Genus CLEropENDRON, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1155.)

CLERopENDRON cephalanthum ; frutex ope petiolorum alte scandens, undique

glaber vel cito glabrescens, petiolis nonnullis incrassatis induratis spini-

formibus recurvis armatus; planta in horto Kewensi culta caulibus

pluribus fere 20 ped. longis usque ad 3 poll. diametro cavis, foliis

oppositis vel interdum alternis distincte petiolatis tenuibus demum

coriaceis ovato-lanceolatis vel oblongo-lanceolatis usque ad 10 poll. longis

- sed sepius minoribus acuminatis subobtusis basi cuneatis vel rotundatis,

venis primariis lateralibus utrinque 3 vel 4 subtus elevatis, petiolis

nonnullis medio abscissis auctis persistentibus, floribus dense cymoso-

capitatis albo-roseis cam staminibus exsertis 4-5 poll. longis brevissime

pedicellatis, inflorescentiis swpius terminalibus interdum 9-10 poll.

diametro, additis nonnullis lateralibus minoribus, bracteis bracteolisque

parvis lanceolatis ovatisve, calycis roseo-purpurei lobis oblongo-lanceolatis

apiculatis tubo longioribus 4-5 lin. longis, corolle albe tubo gracillimo

apicem versus curvato 3-33 poll. longo, limbi lobis oblongis leviter

recurvis inequalibus 6-9 lin. longis, staminibus lenge exsertis, filamentis

filiformibus rubris, stylo stamina equante.

C. a gamma Oliver in Hook. Ie. Pl. t. 1559. Gard. Chron. 1888, vol. i.

. 652.

C. capitatum ver. cephalanthum, Baker in Dyer Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. v. p. 305.

This handsome climbing shrub was brought to Kew by |

Sir John Kirk from the Island of Zanzibar, in 1886, and

it grows vigorously and flowers freely in the Palm House.

There are flowering specimens in the Herbarium from this

source bearing the dates, May 9th, 1888, and June 19th,

1889 ; and the inflorescence here figured was produced in

March of the present year. It is of only medium dimen-

sions, as our space is insufficient to show the largest ones.

Though not so brilliantly coloured as some of its con-

geners, Clerodendron cephalanthum is a very showy object

where it has space todevelop. Mr. J. G. Baker, in the place

cited above, treats it as a variety of C. capitatum, Schum.

& Thonn. (Bot. Mag. t. 4355), and it has very slender

claims to specific rank; but from a horticultural stand-

point it is quite distinct from typical capitatum. It

climbs, in part at least, by means of the modified petioles

of some of the leaves. During development, the lower

Novemzer Isr, 1903,

half of the petiole thickens, and the upper part at length

disarticulates, carrying the blade with it. The hardened

lower part persists in the form of a rigid, woody, recurved

spine.

Stop Africa is the centre of the greatest concen-

tration of the genus Clerodendron, no less than seventy

species being already on record therefrom. Noteworthy

among the African species in cultivation are C. Thomsone,

Balf., and C. macrosiphon, Hook. f. (Bot. Mag. t. 6695);

the latter is another of Sir John Kirk’s numerous intro-

ductions.

Descr.—A tall shrub, climbing by means of modified

armed with the spine-like, persistent petioles. Stems as

much as twenty feet long, and half an inch thick, hollow

between the nodes. Leaves distinctly stalked, thin, at

length somewhat coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate or oblong-

lanceolate, as much as ten inches long, but usually smaller,

acuminate, somewhat obtuse, cuneate or rounded at the

base; primary lateral veins three or four on each side.

Flowers densely cymose-capitate ; cymes terminal, some- —

times with lateral, smaller ones. Bracts and bracteoles

small and inconspicuous. Calyx showy, about nine lines

long, red, with oblong-lanceolate lobes. Corolla white ;

tube very slender, three to three and a half inches long,

curved near the top; lobes of the limb oblong, unequal,

slightly recurved, six to ninelineslong. Stamensexserted;

filaments filiform, red.—W. B. H.

Fig. 1, a young corolla laid open, showing the position of the stamens in

the bud ; 2, ovary ; 3 upper part of style and stigma :—all enlarged.

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IMPATIENS FALCIFER.

Native of the Sikkim Himalaya.

Nat. Ord. Geranracex%.—Tribe BatsaMInE x.

Genus Impatiens, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 277.)

Imratiens falcifer; herba annua, 1-2 pedalis, glaberrima, caule decumhente

ramoso terete folioso, foliis 1-4 poll. longis alternis sessilibus et petiolatis

ovatis ovato-oblongisve acutis acuminatisve serratis basi acutis, margini-

bus minute ciliolatis eglandulosis, nervis 6-8-jugi:, petiolo {-1 poll.

longo, glandulis stipularibus minutis pulvinatis, pedunculis axillaribus

4-} poll. longis solitariis l-rarissime 2-floris medio bracteolatis basi

ebracteatis fructu deflexis, bracteolis setaceis v. lanceolatis viridibus,

floribus ringentibus 1-1} poll. longis aureis vexillo loboque falciformi

alarum sanguineo maculatis, sepalis 2 }-} poll. longis ovatis ovato-

rotundatisve apiculatis viridibus, vexillo erecto galewformi costa dorso

incrassato apice mucronato, alaram lobo basilari parvo rotundato integro

v. lobulato, distali multo majore bilobulato lobulis divaricatis laterale

lineari-oblongo recurvo falcato terminali amplo oblongo apice rotundato,

auricula dorsali 0, labelli parvi limbo infundibulari in calcar 3~1 poll.

longum rectum v.incurvum attenuato, filamentis linearibus, antheris

minutis, capsulis 1-1} poll. longis pendulis, linearibus cylindraceis,

seminibus ;/,-3 poll. longis oblongis rugulosis funiculo carnosulo.

I. falcifer, Hook. f.

I. serrata, Benth. partim, Hook. f. & Thoms. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. iv.

(1860) p. 136. Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. i. p. 473. Herb. Ind. Or.

Hook. f. & Thoms. n. 88.

Impatiens falcifer belongs to a group of the genus with

axillary, simple or forked, one to three-flowered peduncles,

_ which are bracteate usually in the middle, or when forked

_ on one of the pedicels, and pendulous, very slender, elon-

gate capsules. Of this group there are several North

Indian species, including £ scabrida, DC. (I. tricornu,

Lind].; Bot. Mag. t. 4051). Its nearest ally is I. serrata,

Benth. in Wall. Cat. n. 4771, also a Sikkim plant, growing

at similar elevations, which is so similar in habit, foliage,

inflorescence, and capsule that it is impossible to dis-

tinguish them without the flower. The description of the

latter in the ‘‘ Flora of British India” includes both. The

chief differences between them are, that in J. serrata the

flowers are white, the sepals lanceolate and acuminate, and

the distal lobe of the wings quite entire. The condition

of the flowers of Wallich’s specimens of I. serrata in the

-Novemuser Ist, 1903.

Linnean Herbarium is so bad, that it was with great

difficulty that I determined their structure. The Sikkim

specimens were distributed under No, 89, those of I. falcifer

are numbered 88.

I, falcifer is a rather common species in pastures and

shaded places of the Sikkim Himalaya, at elevations of

eight to ten thousand feet. The figure here given is from

plants raised at Kew from seeds received by the writer in

1902 from Major Prain, Superintendent of the Royal

Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, which flowered in a frame in

May of the present year, but failed to ripen seed.

Descr,—A weak, glabrous, usually decumbent, branched

annual, one to two feet high or long. Leaves one to four

inches long, alternate, sessile, or petioled, ovate, or ovate-

lanceolate, serrate, acuminate, base acute, or narrowed

into a petiole an inch long or shorter; margins minutely

ciliolate, eglandular; stipular glands minute, pulvinate.

Peduneles solitary, simple, one-flowered, and bracteolate in

the middle, never at the base, very rarely forked and two-

flowered, with a bracteole on one or more of the pedicels,

defiexed in fruit. lowers ringent, one to one and a half

inches long, golden-yellow, spotted with blood-red on the

standard, and on the faleate lobule of the distal lobe of the

hip. Sepals two, one-seventh to one-fourth of an inch

long, broadly ovate, or sub-orbicular, cuspidate, green.

Standard erect, galeate, trapezoid when spread out, mucro-

nate. Wing-petal with a small basal lobe, and a large, —

spreading distal of two divaricate lobules; a lower lobule |

linear-oblong, faleately recurved, and a much larger,

oblong terminal one, rounded at the tip. Lip with a

small, funnel-shaped limb, narrowed into a straight, slender,

incurved or straight spur, one half to one inch long.

Capsule one to one and three-quarters of an inch long,

Slender, strict, terete, pendulous. Seeds small, testa

rugose.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, portion of stem and petiole with stipulary gland; 2, portion of leaf-

margin ; 3, sepal; 4, wing-petal ; 5, young capsule :—all enlarged,

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FENDLERA ropicota.

Nutive of South-western North America,

Nat. Ord. SaxirraGacex.—Tribe HypRAnGes.

Genus Fenpizra, Engelm. & A. Gr.; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i.

p. 643.)

Fenprera rupicola; frutex erectus, dense ramosus, 8-6 ped. altus, ramis

rigidissimis cortice striato, foliisin ramulis lateralibus confertis oppositis

subsessilibns rigide coriaceis deciduis lineari-lanceolatis majoribus circiter

pollicaribus acutis trinerviis supra scaberulis subtas sericeis floribus

albis 1]~13 poll. diametro solitariis vel tenuis ramulis brevibus lateralibus

terminantibus, pedicellis brevibus puberulis ebracteolatis, calycis pubes-

centis 4-fidi segmentis ovatis subobtusis valvatis, petalis 4 perigynis

imbricatis extus puberulis ciliolatis ovato-spathulatis unguiculatis venosis

circiter 9 lin. longis deciduis, staminibus 8 uniseriatis cum petalis in-

sertis erectis, filamentis petaloideis apice bicruribus lobis linearibus

acutis erectis ultra antheram productis antheris introrsis, ovario semi-

supero glabro 4-loculari, loculis multiovulatis, stylo pubescenti, capsula

fere omnino supera crustacea vel fere lignosa oblongo-ovoidea 5-7 lin.

longa septicide 4-valvi, valvis mucronatis, loculis oligospermis, seminibus

in loculis paucis pendulis imbricatis oblongis 25-3} lin. longis, testa

crassa laxa dorso basique alato, embryone parvo recto angustissimo 1-1}

lin. longo } lin. lato in albuminis axe posito, cotyledonibus radicula

supera longioribus.

F. rupicola, Engelm. § A. Gray in Smithson, Contrib, vol, iii. (Pl. Wright,

vol. i.) p. 77, t. 5, e¢ vol. v. (Pl. Wright. vol. ii.) p. 64. Coulter, Man.

Bot. Rocky Mts. p.95. Greene in Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, vol. viii. (1881),

p. 25. Rev. Hort. 1891, p. 42, £. 12, et 1899, p. 129, f. 44. Garden §

forest, vol. ii. (1889), p. 112, f. 98.

Fendlera is a genus of two known species, the second

being I’. utahensis, Greene (Whipplea utahensis, S. Wats.)

in the publication cited above. Both, as Prof. Greene

_ states, grow on the dry, sunburnt rocks of the interior

desert region of the south-west—that is of Texas, New

Mexico, Arizona, and Utab. ‘his information gives some

clue to the treatment they should receive under cultivation.

All writers who are familiar with F. rupicola in a wild

condition, describe it as a very attractive, highly floriferous

shrub, and Prof. Greene says of it: “ A beautiful shrub of

the mountains of ‘Texas and New Mexico putting forth in

May a profusion of large white or rose-coloured flowers,

which give it the aspect of a small peach-tree.”

According to Prof. C. §. Sargent (Garden & Forest,

vol. il. (1889), p. 112, f. 98) it had already, at that date,

been some years in cultivation in the Arnold Arboretum,

where it was quite hardy, flowered profusely, and ripened

November Ist, 1903.

seed. He describes the petals as bluish white, associated

with conspicuous, yellow stamens.

With regard to its introduction into European gardens,

the date usually given is 1888; but there is a specimen

in the Kew Herbarium, from the garden of Mr. Max

Leichtlin, of Baden Baden, received through Mr. Gum-

bleton, of Cork,in 18$2. As will be seen, all our references

to horticultural publications are of a later date. Mr.

Ed. André, writing in 1899, says ‘‘ that it succeeds well

at Lacroix, in Touraine, where it was covered with flowers

every spring.” It has been in cultivation at Kew for

some years, and it flowered last May, when the drawing

was made. The plant is growing against the south wall

of the Orchid House, and is bearing a few more flowers

now in mid-October.

There is also a second plant in the Arboretum, four to

five feet high and three feet through; but it has, I believe,

never flowered, and has much deteriorated during the two

last wet seasons.

Descr.—An erect, densely branched shrub, three to six

feet high, with very rigid branches and striated bark.

Leaves usually clustered on short, lateral branchlets,

opposite, nearly sessile, rigidly coriaceous, linear-lanceolate,

the Jargest about an inch long, acute, three-nerved, scabrid

above, silky beneath. Flowers white, with yellow anthers,

one and a quarter to one and a half inches in diameter, soli-

tary, or in threes, on the lateral branchlets ; pedicels very -

short, slightly hairy, bractless. Caly pubescent, deeply four-

lobed ; segments ovate, somewhat obtuse, valvate. Petals

four, perigynous, imbricate, slightly hairy on the outside

and ciliolate, ovate-spathulate, distinctly clawed, veined,

about nine lines long, deciduous. Stamens eight, erect ;

filaments petaloid, with two narrow, acute, apical lobes

overtopping the anther. Ovary glabrous at the top, four-

celled; cells containing many ovules; style hairy. Cap- |

sule almost wholly, superior, crustaceous, or almost woody,

oblong-ovoid or conical, five to seven lines long, septici-

dally four-valved ; valves mucronate ; cells several-seeded.

Seeds oblong, with a loose-celled, thick testa, winged

dorsally and at the base; embryo small, straight, in the

centre of the albumen.— lV. B. H.

Fig. 1, flower from which the petals have been removed; 2, ventral view of

a stamen ; 3, dorsal view of the same; 4, pistil :—all enlurged.

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SPH HROCODON ostvsirori0m.

Native of Tropical Africa.

Nat. Ord. AscLEpIapAcE2%,—Tribe MarspENIEA.

Genus Spuxrocopon, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 772.)

Spu#rocopoy, obtusifolium ; planta lignosa candice nano incrassato perenni,

caulibus annuis (vel interdum perennis?) nune (hospitorum absentia P)

suberectis vel vagantibus nunc volubilibus subsimplicibus florentibus 1-3

ped. longis pubescentibus, internodiis foliis sapius brevioribus (fere

semper in exemplariis agrestibus), foliis distincte petiolatis molliter

chartaceis circumscriptione variabilibus ellipticis ovato-oblongis ovatis

vel obovato-oblongis szpius 13-3 poll. longis plus minusve acuminatis

vel utrinque rotundatis praecipue subtus secus venas paucas primarias

pubescentibus, cymis umbelliformibus ad nodos solitariis breviter pedun-

culatis 5-15 floris pubescentibus, bracteis minutis, floribus rubro-purpureis

6-8 lin. diametro pendulis, pedicellis gracilibus 4-8 lin. longis, calycis

pubescentis segmentis lineari-lanceolatis acutis circiter 2 lin. longis,

corolle campanulate puberule lobis deltoideis acutis tubo paullo breviori-

bus demum recurvis, coronf@ squamis 5 parvis glanduliformibus tubo

stamineo supra basin adnatis, staminibus basi corolla affixis flamentis

in tubum connatis, antheris erectis, polliniis in quoque loculo solitariis

caudiculis gracillimis, fructu ignoto.

S. obtusifolium, Benth. in Hook. Ic. Pl. vol. xii. p. 78, t. 1190. N. E. Brown

in Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. iv. p. 412. Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl, Welw. vol. i.

p. 692. K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost. Afr. C. p. 326, et in Engl. & Prantl,

Pflanzenf. vol. iv. pars 2, p. 283, fig. 85.

S. natalense, Benth. in Hook. Ic. Pl. vol. xii. p. 79.

S. caffram, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1895, p. 339.

Tylophora caffra, Meisn.in Hook, Lond. Journ. Bot. vol. ii. (1843), p. 542—

errore, 442, ‘

Gongronema Welwitschii, K. Schum. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. vol. xvii. p. 145.

Spherocodon is a somewhat obscure African genus, of

which the fruit is unknown. A second species, S. melan-

anthus, N. KH. Brown, is recorded from W. tropical Africa.

S. obtusifolium, Benth., inhabits both western and eastern

regions, ranging in the east from Nile Land to Natal.

The plant figured was raised from seed sent to Kew

from Namasi, Nyasa Land, in 1897, by Mr. Kenneth J.

Cameron, who also sent a dried specimen at the same time.

The cultivated plant is so much more vigorous than the

wild, and the flowers so much larger, that they might be

taken for different species. All the wild specimens are

NovemBer Ist, 1903.

dwarf in stature, and sub-erect in habit; but the cultivated

plant shows a tendency to twining, insomuch as some of

the branches twine around each other. It is possible that

it has lost the twining habit so common in the Asclepia-

dacee through changes in environment in some of the

districts where it has been collected.

Descr.—A perennial, woody plant, with a dwarf, thick

stock, which produces annual (sometimes perennial ?)

flowering stems of sub-erect or twining habit. Stems one

to three feet long, pubescent; internodes usually shorter

than the leaves, at least in the wild specimens. Leaves

petiolate, soft and papery in texture, very variable in out-

line, from oval to oblong or ovate, mostly from one and a

half to three inches long, acuminate, or rounded at both

ends, more or less hairy, especially along the veins

on the under surface. Cymes or false umbels solitary

at the joints, shortly stalked, five- to fifteen-flowered,

pubescent; bracts very small. Flowers purple-red, six

to eight lines in diameter, pendulous on slender pedi-

cels. Calyx pubescent ; segments linear-lanceolate, acute,

about two lines long. Corolla campanulate, puberulous ;

lobes deltoid, acute, somewhat shorter than the tube, at

length recurved. Coronal scales five, small, gland-like,

adnate to the middle of the staminal-tube. Stamens

attached to the base of the corolla; filaments connate in a

tube. Anthers erect; pollen-masses solitary in each cell,

with slender caudicles, Fruit unknown. —W. BH.

Fig.1,an unexpanded flower; 2, corona and gyneceum; 3, pollinia :—all

enlaryed.

M. S.dél. INPitch hth.

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IRIS GRAcILIPES.

Native of Japan.

Nat. Ord. In1pacea#.—Tribe Morzex.

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

Iris (Evansea) gracilipes; cespitosa, subscaposa, gracilis, 6-12 poll. alta,

rhizomate gracili ramoso, caulibus sterilibus brevissimis, foliis, absque

paucis inferioribus minoribus, membranaceis 3-5 tenuibus linearibus inter-

dum latiusculis 6-12 poll. longis acutissimis circiter 6-nerviis cum inter-

mediis tenuioribus, caulibus floriferis folia caulorum sterilium vix excedenti-

bus 2-vel 3-foliatis 2-vel 3-floris, foliis 2-3 poll. longis, pedunculis gracillimis,

floribus in spathis brevibus tenuissimis solitariis sessilibus erectis pur-

pureis vel lilacinis circiter 2 poll. diametro, perianthii tubo brevissimo,

limbi segmentis exterioribus oblongis apice emarginatis recurvis medio

albis purpureo-striatis luteo-cristatis, interioribus minoribus concoloribus,

styli cristis concoloribus fimbriato-dentatis.

I. gracilipes, A. Gray Bot. Jap. in Mem. Amer. Acad. n.s. vol. vi. p. 412.

Franch. et Savat. Enum. Pl. Jap. pars ii. p. 41. Honzo Zufu, vol. xxiii.

p- 11, fig. dertr. Baker, Handb. Ivrid. p. 22.

I. sibirica, Somoku Zusetsu, vol. ii. p. 10 (11 Jap.), non Linn.

This elegant little [vis belongs to the small section or

sub-genus Hvansea, distinguished among the rhizomatous

series by having a distinct crest on the lower part of the

blade and claw of the outer segments of the perianth.

Mr. Baker, in his ‘‘ Handbook of the Iridex,” enumerates

eight species, all of which, except the North American

I. lacustris, Nutt., are, or have been, in cultivation. They

are:—JI. nepalensis, D. Don. (Sweet’s British Flower

Garden, series 2, t. 11); I. speculatriz, Hance (Bot. Mag.

t. 6306); I. cristata, Ait. (Bot. Mag. t. 412); I. Milesit,

Foster (Bot. Mag. t. 6889) ; I. tectorum, Maxim. (Bot. Mag.

t. 6118), and I. japonica, Thunb., syn. I. chinensis, Curt.

(Bot. Mag. t. 373). With the exception of I. cristata, a

native of the Eastern States of North America, all the

species named inhabit Asia, ranging from the North-west

Himalaya to China and Japan.

I. gracilipes is in cultivation both at Kew and Cam-

bridge. Kew procured it from Mr. Max Leichtlin in

September, 1902, and it flowered in pots in a cold frame,

and also in an open bed during last spring. Mr. R. I.

NovemsBer Ist, 1903.

Lynch sent flowering specimens from Cambridge in April,

without any information of their origin. It is one of the

most graceful species of the genus, ‘and merits attention

where the larger, more showy ones would be out of place.

There are several Japanese, not specially localized speci-

mens in the Kew Herbarium, including one of Gray’s type ;

but there is a note that the species grows in humid

situations.

Descr.—A tufted, slender herb, six to twelve inches

high, with a slender, branching rootainck. Stems of two

kinds, flowerless and flowering; the former very short,

and bearing from three to five. narrow, thin leaves, six to

twelve inches long, very acute, six-nerved, with secondary,

thinner nerves. Scapes or flowering stems about the same

height, bearing two or three short leaves, and about the

same number of flowers. Spathes one-flowered, on very

slender peduncles. lowers sessile, erect, purple or lilac,

about two inches in diameter. Falls oblong, notched at

the tip, recurved, white in the middle, striped with purple,

and _ yellow- crested. Standards — smaller, self-coloured.

Style-crests of tie same e colour, irregularly fringe-toothed. aa

W. Bo : :

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MERYTA Deynamt.

Native of New Caledonia and New Hebrides.

Nat. Ord. ARaLIACE.

Genus Meryta, Forst.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 940.)

Meryta Denhami; arbor parva, dioica, trunco gracili s#pius simplici interdum

forcato vel pauci ramoso (specimen in horto kewensi cultum @ circiter

17 ped. altum, trunco supra medium furcato basi 3 poll. diametro, foliis

maximis 34 ped. longis), foliis alternis coriaceis glabris dimorphis vel

heteromorphis, iis plantarum omnino juvenilium linearibus 6-12 poll.

longis 4-6 lin. latis, iis plantarum adultarum distincte petiolatis ligulatis

lanceolatis vel oblanceolatis 13-4 ped. longis 2-9 poll. latis grosse undu-

lato-crenatis apice acutis, vel rutundatis deorsum attenuatis, costa

crassa, venis primariis lateralibus prominentibus in crenas excurrentibus,

petiolo compresso-tereti, inflorescentiis ? capitato-paniculatis folia fere

zquantibus in axillis folioram superiorum subsessilibus, ramis crassis

— carnosis, capitulis multifloris subglobosis 13-1} poll. diametro pedun-

eS culatis, pedunculis crassis 1-2 poll. longis basi bractea ampla acuminata

sce membranacea cito decidua instructis, floribus ? sessilibus vel arcte con-

fertis ima basi connatis flavo-virentibus, calycis limbo obsoleto, petalis

: circiter 10 (7-12) ligulatis recurvis quam stylis vix longioribus, staminibus

imperfectis 10; ovario 10—(7-12-) loculari, stylis late stigmatosis sulcatis

: undulatis recurvis, ovulis in loculis solitariis ab apice loculorum pendulis,

fructu ignoto.

y M. Denhami, Seem. Bonplandia, vol. x. 1862, p. 295.

J Aralia reticulata, Hort.

z There are specimens of Meryta Denhami in the Kew

Herbarium, from a plant which flowered in the Palm

House in 1860, accompanied by drawings and a brief

escription of the floral structure by A. A. Black, then,

for too brief a period thereafter, Curator. He found

the parts of the flower varying from five to nine, and we

have found them from seven to twelve in the same in-

_ florescence. It was introduced to Kew by William Grant

_ Milne, a gardener who was on Captain Denham’s Expedi-

tion to the South Sea. He collected it in the Isle of

‘Pines, New Caledonia, in 1853, and what appears to be

the same species has since been collected by Archdeacon

Comins in the island of Santa Maria, Banks’s Group,

Northern New Hebrides, where it attains a height of

hirty feet or more, with leaves one to two feet long.

_ Apparently all the plants in cultivation were raised from

DECEMBER Ist, 1903.

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Milne’s introduction, and only the female is known.

According to Seemann, in the publication cited above, it

flowered at Kew again in 1862, and it has often flowered

since in the Palm House, and more recently in the warm

end of the Temperate House.

There are also flowering specimens in the Herbarium,

and a photograph of the plant from the Botanic Garden,

Cork, sent by Professor Hartog in 1890. Mr. Watson

notes that it is propagated from eyes, and that it is used

as a stock on which Aralia Veitchii and several other stove

species are grafted.

Descr.—A small, dicecious tree. Trunk slender, usually

simple, sometimes forked or sparingly branched; the

female specimen here figured, cultivated at Kew, about

seventeen feet high, with a trunk three inches in diameter

at the base, and leaves as much as three feet and a half

long. Leaves alternate, coriaceous, glabrous, very variable

in size and shape; of quite young plants linear, six to

twelve inches long, and a third to half an inch wide; of

flowering plants strap-shaped, lanceolate or oblanceolate,

one and a half to four feet long, two to nine inches broad,

coarsely undulate-crenate, acute or rounded at the tip,

tapering to the base; midrib thick ; ‘primary lateral veins

running out at the crenatures; petiole stout, compressed. |

Female flowers capitate, in panicles two or three feet long,

springing from the axils of the upper leaves. Branches of

the panicles and the peduncles thick and fleshy. Flowers

sessile, densely crowded, connate at the very base only,

yellow-green, Calyz-limb obsolete. Petals usually about

ten, ligulate or oblong, recurved, persistent, scarcely longer

than the styles. Stamens ten, imperfect. Ovary usually

ten-celled ; ovules solitary, pendulous. Fruit unknown.—

WBE;

Fig. 1, a female flower containing imperfect stamens; 2 and 3, stamens

from the same; 4, another view of a female flower; 5, cross section of an

ovary; 6, tangential section of the same; 7, reduced sketch of plant :—all

exlarged, except 7, which is about one-fortieth of the natural size.

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AGAPETES Moors.

Native of Sikkim.

Nat. Ord. Vaccintacea&.—Tribe THIBAUDIEZ.

Genus Acapetes, G. Don; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 571.)

Acarrtes Moorei; species fruticosa adspectu A. setigere et A. verticillate

simillima, sed calycis tubo supra ovarium producto et staminum

structura distinctissima; planta depicta caudice incrassato terete 4-

poll. diametro, caulibus 3 erectis rigidis 2} ped. altis pauciramosis, ramus

brevibus graciliusculis, foliis nunc subverticillatis nunc sparsis sepe

quinatis (verticillis in apicibus innovationum singulis), brevissime petio-

latis crassis coriaceis glabris vel cito glabrescentibus oblongo-lanceolatis

2-34 poll. longis apicnlatis basi rotundatis vel subcordatis, costa valida,

venis inconspicuis, floribus coccineis vel rubro-aurantiacis circiter sesqui-

pollicaribus pendulis 6-9 in racemos axillares subterminales et laterales

dispositis, racemis quam foliis brevioribus, pedanculis pedicellis calyci-

busque molliter breviterque pubescentibus, pedicellis 3-4 lin. longis

bracteis parvis acutis cito deciduis basi suffultis, calycis 5-6 lin. longi

tubo supra ovarium manifeste producto, lobis deltoideis vix acutis,

corolla subcylindrica circiter 1} poll. longa fere ad medium 5-loba, lobis

angustis acutis recurvis vel revolutis intus flavis extus minute puberulis,

staminibus 10 exsertis a corolla liberis, filamentis liberis planis prope

basin insigniter geniculatis quam antheris longioribus parte antheris

adnata apicem versus attenuata parce puberula, antheris dorsifixis

adglutinatis basi facie 1-calearatis parte superiore tubifera libera, ovario

5-loculari vel spurie 10-loculari, loculis multiovulatis, stylo glabro basi

geniculato disco parvo annulato cincto stamina paullo superante apice

vix incrassato, capsula ignota.

A. Moorei, Hemsl.

‘This handsome shrub was sent to Kew last March by

Mr. F. W. Moore, Keeper of the Glasnevin Botanic

Garden, to be named, with the information that it was

imported with Cirrhopetalum Rothschildianum, O’Brien.

But the habitat of the latter is somewhat obscure, being

described (Gard. Chron. 1895, vol. ii. p. 608) as “ some-

where beyond Darjeeling.” However, there is little doubt

that it is a native of Sikkim. We have much pleasure in

giving the name of that eminent horticulturist to one of

the numerous gems of his successful cultivation.

In foliage it strongly resembles Agapetes setigera, D. Don,

a species introduced in 1837, but in floral structure it 1s more

closely related to A. buwifolia, Nutt. (Bot. Mag. t. 5012).

At least two other very showy species of this genus

had previously been figured in the Magazine, namely,

DeEceMBER Ist, 1903.

A. macrantha, Benth, & Hook. f. (t. 4566), and A. pulcher-

rima, Benth. & Hook. f. = A. variegata, D. Don (t. 4303) ;

both under Thibaudia.,

Mr. Moore obtained his plant of A. Moorei in 1900, and

he cultivates it in a cool orchid house.

Deser.—A handsome shrub, closely resembling the old

A. setigera, but very different in the structure of the

flowers. Caudex of the plant figured four inches in

diameter, and bearing three slender, stiff stems two and a

half feet high. Branches slender and stiff, glabrous or

soon glabrescent. Leaves alternately sub-verticillate,

and scattered, usually in fives at the tips of the annual

growths, shortly petiolate, thick, coriaceous, glabrous or

nearly so, oblong-lanceolate, two to three and a half inches

long, apiculate, rounded or somewhat cordate at the

base ; midrib thick ; veins inconspicuous. Flowers scarlet

or orange-red, about one and a half inch long, in short, |

axillary or sub-terminal racemes. Racemes six- to nine-

flowered, shorter than the leaves ; peduncles, pedicels and

calyx softly pubescent. Pedicels three to four lines long,

furnished at the base with small, acute bracts, which fall

away early. Calyz five to six lines long; tube distinctly

produced above the ovary; lobes deltoid, sub-acute.

Corolla nearly cylindrical, about one and a quarter inch

long, five-lobed almost to the middle ; lobes narrow, acute,

revolute, yellow within, obscurely puberulous on the out-

side. Stamens ten, exserted, free from the corolla ;

filaments free, flat, with a remarkable knee-like bend near

the base, longer than the anthers, slightly puberulous on |

the back of the part attached to the anthers ; anthers

dorsifixed, slightly connate, and produced below the

attachment in the form of a spur; the upper slender,

tubular part free. Ovary spuriously ten-celled ; cells con-

taining many ovules; style glabrous, bent near the base

_ Similarly to the stamens, slightly exceeding the latter, and

surrounded at the base by a small, ring-like disk. Capsule

unknown.—W. B. H.

Fig. 1, longitudinal section of an ovary with a portion of the calyx and

base of style; 2, three stamens, showing the geniculate, glabrous filaments;

3, two anthers, showing the basal spurs and the oblique, apical pores; 4, apex

of style; 5, cross section of an ovary, showing that it is spuriously ten-celled :

—all enlarged.

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ECHIDNOPSIS SOMALENSIS.

Native of Somaliland.

Nat. Ord. ASCLEPIADACER.— Tribe STAPELIE.

Genus Ecuxorsis, Hook, f.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 781.)

Ecurpnorsis somalensis ; frutex nanus (planta depicta semipedalis) carnosus

aphyllus, cereiformis, glaber, caulibus ramisque viridibus cylindricis 4-1

poll. diametro 6-8-sulcatis tessellatis inermibus, floribus subsessilibus svli-

tariis vel 2 vel 3 aggregatis 4-5 lin. diametro atropurpureis luteo-

punctatis puberulis vel papillosis, calycis lobis ovatis acutis circiter 4 lin.

longis, corolle hemispherico-rotate lobis ovatis incurvis vel demum

patentibus acutis, coronz exterioris lobis angustis curvatis apice breviter

recurvis intus canaliculatis glabris, corone interioris lobis deltoideis

obtusis antheris incumbentibus.

E, somalensis, V. LZ. Brown in Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. iv. p. 477.

The genus Hchidnopsis was founded on a cultivated plant

of EF. cereiformis, Hook. f. (Bot. Mag. t. 5930), which is

very similar to the present species in habit, but it has

bright yellow flowers. The stems, too, are longer, but

that may be due to age, and more flexible. LH. cereiformis

was originally recorded as a native of South Africa, but it

is now known to inhabit Eritrea, Abyssinia and Somali-

land; possibly Socotra also. H. Bentii, N. E. Brown

(Bot. Mag. t. 7760), a native of tropical Arabia, has some-

what larger, crimson flowers. About half-a-dozen species

are now known from Eastern Tropical Africa, and the

genus is also represented in Arabia and the island of

Socotra.

The plant figured was cultivated by Mr. R. I. Lynch,

Curator of the Cambridge Botanic Garden. It was also

among the plants collected and presented to Kew by Mrs.

Lort Philips and Miss Edith Cole ; and Cambridge obtained

it from the same source.

Descr.—A dwarf, fleshy, leafless shrub, resembling a

small, columnar Cereus, glabrous, except the flowers; the

_ plant figured, about six inches high. Stems and branches

green, cylindrical, half to one inch in diameter, six- to

eight-furrowed, tessellated, unarmed. Flowers nearly

sessile, solitary, or two or three in a cluster, four to five

DecemBER Ist, 1903,

lines in diameter, dark purple spotted with yellow,

minutely papillose or puberulous. Calyz-lobes ovate, acute,

about half a line long. Corolla almost rotate when fully

expanded ; lobes ovate, at first incurved, afterwards spread-

ing, acute. Lobes of the outer corona narrow, sub-erect,

incurved, tips shortly recurved. Lobes of the inner corona

deltoid, obtuse, incumbent on the anthers.—W. B. H.

Fig. 1,a portion of a branch; 2, a flower-bud; 3, a partially expanded

flower ; 4, coronas and genitalia; 5, pollen :—all enlarged.

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RESTREPIA ANTENNIFERA.

Native of Colombia.

Nat. Ord. Orcuipra.—Tribe EripENDREA.

Genus Restreris, H, B. K.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 491.)

ReEstTrEPIA antennifera; species ex affinitate A. striate, Rolfe (Bot. Mag. t.

7233) sed robustior floribus folia vix excedentibus, caulibus czspitosis

6-8 poll. altis vaginis amplis membranaceis albidis inconspicue striatis

vestitis, foliis crasse coriaceis oblongo-ovalibus 2-3 poll. longis, floribus

1-3 tenuiter pedicellatis circiter 2} poll. longis purpureo-striatis, sepalo

dorsali e basi latiuscula in filum apice leviter incrassatum producto

incurvo, lateralibus laminam oblongo-lanceolatam apice emarginatam

labello duplo majorem formantibus, petalis sepalo dorsali similibus sed

fere dimidio minuribus, labello oblongo apice emarginato lobis lateralibus

ad aristas parvas basilares recurvatas redactis, columna clavata incurva.

R. antennifera, H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Sp. vol. i. p. 367, t. 94. Por. in Lam.

Encycl. Meth. Suppl. vol. iv. p. 672, t. 991. Indl. Gen. et Sp. Orch.

p. 14. Reichb. f. in Bonplandia, 1855, p. 70. Rolfe Orch. Rev, 1894,

p- 237. Non Bot. Mag. t. 6288, que eadem ac R. maculata, Lindl.

The genus Restrepia was founded in 1815, on the

present species, which was the only one known for many

years. - Now nearly forty species have been described.

For a long time 22. maculata, Lindl., was cultivated and

figured in various publications, including this Magazine

(t. 6288), under the name of 22. antennifera. Mr. Rolfe

detected the error, and rectified it in the publication cited

above. &. maculata, Lindl., with which it has been

confused, has spotted, not striped flowers.

R. antennifera was discovered by Humboldt’s expedition

near Pasto, at an elevation of upwards of nine thousand

feet, and it has since been collected in the Province of

Ocafia (Schlim, 738) at about the same elevation.

All three of the species mentioned in this connection are

at the present time in cultivation at Kew.

Deser.—Similar to Rf. striata, Rolfe (Bot. Mag. t. 7233),

but a more robust plant with flowers scarcely, if at all,

overtopping the leaves. Stems clustered, six to eight

inches high, clothed with membranous, dirty-white sheaths.

Leaves thick, coriaceous, oblong-oval, two to three inches

long. Flowers one to three on each stem, slenderly

DecEeMBER Ist, 1903,

stalked, about two and a half inches across, striped with

dark purple on a whitish ground. Dorsal sepal almost

filiform from a broad base, thickened at the tip, incurved.

Lateral sepals conjoined in an oblong blade, notched at the

tip, and twice as large as the labellum. Petals similar to

the dorsal sepal, but only about half the size. Labellum

oblong, notched at the tip; lateral lobes reduced to small,

ne recurved awns. Column club-shaped, incurved.—

She os

Fig. 1, column and labellum; 2, column; 3, anther-cap; 4 and 5, pollen:

—all enlarged.

7931 ~

MS. del, JN Fitch th

Tans 7981:

COTYLEDON UNDULATA,

: Native of South Africa.

Nat. Ord. CrRassuLACER.

Genus CotyLEpon, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 659.)

Corytepon (§ Paniculate) wndulata; species adhuc imperfecte cognita,

C. orbiculate, Linn. (Bot. Mag. t. 321) affinis, a qua differt foliis obovato-

spathulatis apice rotundatis vel fere truncatis grosse undulato-crenatis

cuspidatisque ; frutex erectus, carnosus, albo-farinosus, caule subsimplici

cum inflorescentia circiter 3-pedali, foliis oppositis, internodiis brevibus vel

brevissimis, crassis carnosis 33-5 poll. longis maximis supra medium 2}

poll. latis margine in parte superiore interdum rubrescente, pedunculis 12-

18 poll. longis nudis vel foliis paucis parvis ovatis subacutis infra medium

instructis, floribus subdichotomo-cymosis longe pedicellatis pendulis

circiter 14 poll. longis luteo-rubris, calycis segmentis parvis deltoideis

subacutis, corolle tubo cylindrico lobis duplo longioribus, lobis acutis

recurvis, staminibus vix exsertis, carpellis 5 glabris, stylis stamina vix

zequantibus.

C, undulata, Haw. Suppl. Pl. Succ. (1819), p. 20 (“ Plante Kewenses solum

juveniles”); Revis Pl. Succ. (1821) p. 20 (“Simulat C. orbicularem, at

longe humilior, foliis incipientibus apice magis undulatis cuspidatisque ”).

DO. Prod. vol. iii. p. 396 (sine florum descriptione). Harv. & Sond. Fl.

Cap. vol. ii. 377 (“probably a form of C. orbiculata”). Schinland &

E. G. Baker in Journ. Bot. 1902, pp. 13 et 17, t. 481.

Ostrleae foliis latis undulatis, &c., Burm. Rar. Afr. Pl. Dec. p. 44, t. 19,

fig. 2

As the above references and quotations show, Cotyledon

— undulata was first partially described by Haworth in 1819,

from young plants at Kew; but he adds nothing of im-

portance to that description in 1821, although a flowering

specimen in his herbarium, now at Oxford, is labelled :

_ “ Kew, June, 1820.” <A drawing of his specimen, by

Miss M. Smith, with a copy of all the writing on the

sheet on which it is mounted, is in the Kew Herbarium;

and in the collection of old Kew drawings there is a fine,

bold, coloured figure of this species dated: ‘* Kew, May

23rd, 1825.” The drawing is endorsed: “ Raised from

seeds in 1817, received from Mr. Bowie from the Cape of

Good Hope.”

Apparently Haworth never described the flowers of

C. undulata, but there is no doubt that his specimen and

the old Kew drawing represent the same species, And there

is little doubt that our plant is the same species, though the

flowers are purple in the original drawing, the segments of

DecemBer Ist, 1903.

the perianth more revolute, and the stamens distinctly

exserted; all of which may, perhaps, be accounted for by

the advanced stage of the inflorescence. But the South

African species of Cotyledon are generally badly defined,

as is fully exemplified by Baker and Schénland’s paper

in the Journal of Botany, cited above; the one working

with the advantage of Haworth’s types before him, and

the other in South Africa with living plants under

observation, they were still unable to define the limits

of the species allied to C. orbiculata, Lindl., and could

only suggest, in many instances, that certain specimens

and figures represented the same species.

Haworth cites, in the first instance, Burman’s Cotyledon

foliis latis sinuosis, &c. (Rariorum Africanarum Plantarum

Decades, p. 44, t. 19, fig. 2) as synonymous with his

C. undulata; but he subsequently cited it with the sign of

interrogation. Lamarck (HMneycel. vol. ii. p. 142) founded

his C. mucronata on the same figure. Schénland and

Baker, Jun. (Journ. Bot. 1902, p. 15), regard C. mucronata as

distinct from C. undulata, and describe a specimen from

Graaf Reinet as belonging to the former. Burman’s

figure was evidently drawn from a plant bearing an in-

florescence in a very advanced stage; but I think myself,

judging from the variation in the colour and position of

the flowers at different stages of development, that

C. undulata and CO. mucronata may be the same. Le

C. orbiculata was figured in the Magazine (t. 321) as

long ago as 1795, and it is recorded by Aiton (Hort. Kew.

ed. 1, vol. ii. p. 106) as having been introduced by a Mr. —

Bentick in 1690.

A century ago these showy and easily cultivated suc-

culent shrubs were much in favour, and they certainly

deserve more attention than they get at the present time.

Curtis wrote of C. orbiculata that it flowered freely and

grew rapidly.

Our plate was prepared from a specimen received from

Mr. R. I. Lynch, Curator of the Cambridge Botanic

Garden.

It may be added that C. gibbiflora, Moc. & Sessé, a

Mexican species of the section Hcheveria, having foliage

similar to that of our plant, is sometimes met with under

the name of C. undulata.

Descr.—A succulent, erect shrub, two to three feet high,

the young parts covered with a white meal. Leaves oppo-

site, crowded, very thick and fleshy, obovate-spathulate,

three and a half to five inches long, the largest two and a

half inches broad above the middle, rounded at the top or

almost truncate, usually undulate-crenate above the middle

with a terminal cusp; margin often red in the older

leaves. Peduncles twelve to eighteen inches long, naked

or bearing a few small, ovate, somewhat acute leaves

below the middle. Jlowers borne in paniculate cymes

about six inches in diameter, one and a half inch long,

yellow and orange-red, pendulous. Pedicels usually shorter

than the flowers. Calywx-lobes small, deltoid, sub-acute.

Corolla-tube cylindrical, twice as long as the recurved,

acute lobes. Stamens scarcely overtopping the recurved

corolla-lobes. Carpels five (ripe ones not seen) glabrous ;

styles scarcely as long as the stamens.—W. B. H.

Fig. 1, a petal and three stamens; 2 and 3, anthers; 4, gynwceum; 5, a

young plant about one-sixth of the natural size:—all the other figures en-

larged,

INDEX

To Vol. LIX. of the Tuto Sexins, or Vol. CXXIX, of the

whole Work.

7879 Acidanthera candida.

7928 Agapetes Moorei.

7890 Agave Bakeri.

7875 Allium Ellisii. -

7915 Aloe Cameroni.

7882 ,, rubroviolacea.

7917 Areca Micholitzii.

7910 Ariszema japonicum.

7880 Astilbe Davidii.

7906 Calothamnus rupestris.

7909 Chlorzea longibracteata.

7886 Chrysanthemum grande.

7874 i indicum.

7911 Cistanche violacea.

7897 Clematis Meyeniana.

7922 Clerodendron cephalanthum.

myrmecophila.

7887 es

7918 Cotyledon pulvinata.

7931 Cotyledon undulata.

7900 Dendrobium Madonne.

7876 Diervilla Middendorffiana.

7896 Dissotis Mahoni,

7913 Draba Gilliesii.

7929 Echidn»psis somalensis,

7888 Euphorbia obesa.

7924 Fendlera rupicola,

7884 Hamamelis mollis.

7895 Hebenstretia comosa.

7903 Helleborus lividus.

7905 Huernia concinna.

7878 Impatiens Balfourii.

7923 Pe falcifer,

7914 Iris bucharica.

7889 ,, Collettii.

7926 ,, gracilipes,

7904 ,, lupina..

7907 Isoloma erianthum.

7898 Laburnum ecaramanicum.

7891 Lathyrus pubescens.

7921 Lissochilus purpuratus.

7919 Lysimachia crispidens.

7927 Meryta Denhami.

7899 Mimosa Spegazzinii.

7873 Muscari paradoxum.

7885 Phalenopsis Kunstleri.

7901 Primula megasezfolia.

7916 Psychotria capensis.

7930 Restrepia antennifera.

7881 Rhododendron brachycarpum.

7892 Rodgersia pinnata.

7872 Ruellia macrantha.

7877 Sansevieria grandis.

7908 Sedum Stahlii.

7893 Sempervivum urbicum.

7902 Senecio clivorum.

7912 ~=«,,_~—s tanguticus.

7883 Sophora viciifolia.

7925 Spheroeodon obtusifolium.

7894 Sphedamnocarpus pruriens.

7920 Tulipa preestans,

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