Tap. 7682,

ACALYPHA uarspipa.

Native of New Guinea.

Nat. Ord. EupHorspiace#.—Tribe Crotrone.

Genus AcatypnHa, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 311.)

AcatypHa (Euacalypha) hispida; frutex dioicus, 10-15-pedalis, foliis longe

petiolatis late ovato-cordatis v. rhombeo-ovatis, acuminatis subacute v.

obtuse crenato-serratis basi rotundatis vel late cuneatis utrinque glabris

puberulisve supra laete viridibus subtus pallidis, petiolo lamina breviore

pubescenti-tomentellis, spicis femineis longissimis pendulis fere a basi

densissime floriferis, floribus in glomerulos bracteatos et hbracteolatos

confertissimis, bracteis inconspicuis, bracteolis minutis subulatis lan-

ceolatisve, sepalis 4 ovatis acutis hispidis, ovario minuto pilis albis

stellatim hispido, stylo brevi, stigmatibus 3 longissimis sanguineis in

lacinias valde elongatas capillares fissis.

A. hispida, Burm. Fl. Ind. p. 203 (sphalm, 303), t. 61, fig. 1 (excl. cit. Rheede).

Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vol. ii. (1843), p. 232; Muell. Arg.in DO.

Prodr. vol. xv. pars. II. p. 815. Schum. in Notizblatt K. Bot. Gart. et

Mus. Berl. vol. ii. p. 127. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. v. p. 417.

A. densiflora, Bl. Bijd. p. 628. Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat, vol. i. pars II. p. 405.

A, Sanderi, V.H. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1896, vol. ii. p. 392; 1898, vol, i.

p. 248, fig. 98. André im Rev, Hortic. vol. lxx. (1898), p. 458, cum ic.

Gartenfl. 1898, p. 276.

A. rubra, Noronh. ex Hassk. in Hoev. et de Vr. Tijdschr. Nat. Ges. vol. xi.

(1844), p. 216 nomen tantum.

Caturus spiciflorus, Row. Fl. Ind. vol. iii. p. 760, A. Juss. Tent. Euphorb,

pp. 45, 115, t. 14, fig. 45 (non Linn.). >

Cauda felis, Rumph. Herb. Amb. vol. iv. t. 36.

It is singular that so remarkable and ornamental a plant

as that here figured, and one so long known in cultivation —

In India and the Malay Islands, should have been only quite

_ recently introduced into Europe. Rumphius, writing in

_ 1690, described and figured it for his ‘‘ Herbarium Amboy-

nense”’ (published in 1750), as rare in Amboyna, and

known only in gardens and where planted in shrubberies.

Roxburgh, upwards of sixty years ago, described it (under

the wrong name of Caturus spiciflorus, Willd.) from speci-

mens growing in the Garden of the Honourable East India

Company, Calcutta. It is entered in works on Malayan

botany as cultivated in Singapore and Java; and Bentham

is the authority for its being found in the Fiji Islands,

_ of which it has never been proved to be a native. Under

| January Ist, 1899,

these circumstances its discovery, no doubt in a wild state,

on the shores of the Bismarck Archipelago, in Eastern

New Guinea, by Mr. Micholitz, when collecting for Messrs.

Sander in 1896, is a notable one in the annals of horticul-

ture. Hitherto, only the female plant has been described,

for it appears to me doubtful whether that figured at

tab. 37 of Herb. Amboin., which has been considered to be

the male (but which is not described as such by Rumphius)

can safely be referred to the same species.

Acalypha hispida cannot fail to become an exceptionally

popular stove plant, not only because of its great beauty

and striking habit, but from its flowering literally all the

year round. The largest plant now at Kew, procured

from Messrs. Sander in 1898, has been in fine condition

ever since, having now upwards of fifty flowering spikes,

and others still to expand. It must, however, be borne in

mind, that the introduction of the male plant and pollina-

tion of the female thereby, would in all probability check

further flowering of the female for a definite period

devoted to the maturation of seed. :

Desevr.—An erect, dioecious shrub, ten to fifteen feet

high, with brown bark, and spreading leafy green branches.

Leaves eight to ten inches long, opposite and alternate,

broadly ovate or rhombic-ovate, acuminate, base rounded

or broadly cuneate, often notched at the insertion of the

petiole, surfaces glabrous or puberulous, upper dark green,

lower pale, margins irregularly acutely or obtusely crenate-

toothed ; nerves eight to ten pairs, petiole one-fifth to one-

fourth shorter than the blade, terete, tomentosely pubescent.

Female spikes axillary, pendulous, twelve to eighteen inches

long by one in diameter, terete, shortly peduncled, obtuse,

flexuous, scarlet. lowers minute, sessile in densely

crowded glomerules, minutely bracteate and bracteolate.

Sepals four, ovate, hispidly pubescent. Ovary three-

lobed, hispid with white, stellately spreading hairs, style

very short, stigmas three, each forming a brush of very

long capillary scarlet filaments.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Female flowers, with bract and bracteoles; 2, sepals; 3, ovary with

style and stigmas; 4, peri and ovary with stigmas removed; 5, transverse

section of the same :—A// enlarged.

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LEWISIA Twexpyt.

Native of Washington Territory.

Nat. Ord. PortTULACER.

Genus Lewista, Pursh.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 159.)

Lewista (Oreobroma) Tweedyi; herba acaulis, glaberrima, multiflora, caudice

brevissimo radiceque elongato carnuso, foliis omnibus radicalibus

patenti-recurvis late ovatis obovatisve carnosulis apice rotundatis basi

in petiolum crassum anguste alatum angustatis, supra saturate viridibus

subtus pallidis, pedunculis foliis paullo longioribus 1- rarissime 2-floris

eglandulosis hinc illinc bracteatis, floribus amplis, sepalis orbiculari-

oblongis, petalis 8 14-2-pollicaribus sepalis quadruplo longioribus anguste

obovato-oblongis obtusis, staminibus ad 20, filamentis basi pilosis,

antheris parvis aureis, ovario oblongo, stylo gracili, stigmatibus 3

brevibus recurvis, capsula polysperma basi circumscisse 3 valvi, valvis a

basi ad apicem dehiscentibus, seminibus globosis granulatis, arillo laxo.

L. Tweedyi, B. Robins. in A. Gray, Synopt. Fl. N. Am. vol. i. p. 268.

Calandrinia Tweedyi, A. Gray, in Am. Acad. Arts § Sc. vol. xxii. (1887),

p. 277.

Oreobroma Tweedyi, Howell in Erythea, vol. i. p, 32 (1898).

Owing to the difficulty of defining the limits of the

closely allied genera Lewisia, Pursh, and Calandrinia,

H. B. K., the plant here figured has by American

authors been placed under both, and also referred to a

separate genus, Oreobroma, Howell. I have here adopted

Mr. B. Robinson’s view, who, after an examination of all

the N. American species of the two genera, separates

them according to the dehiscence of the capsule, which in

Calandrinia dehisces from the apex to the base, and in

Lewisia in the opposite direction. Oreobroma, the chief

character of which is the fleshy roots (eaten by the Indians),

he reduces to a section of Lewisia.

The type of the genus Lewisia is L. rediviva, figured at

tab. 5395 of this work. It differs greatly from L. Tweedyi

in the leaves being cylindric, the bracts of the peduncles

collected in a whorl, the very numerous petals, and the

eight filiform style branches.

L. Tweedyi is a native of the alpine region of the

Wenatchee Mts. in Washington State, at an elevation of six

thousand to seven thousand feet. The specimen figured

January Ist, 1899,

was purchased from Mr, A. J. Johnson of Columbia

Nursery, Astoria, Oregon, in January, 1898. It flowered

in the following May in the Alpine House of the Royal

Gardens, Kew.

Deser.—A glabrous, rather succulent, many-flowered,

stemless herb, with a stout fleshy root. Leaves many, all

radical, two to three and a half inches long, including the

short, narrowly winged petiole, spreading and recurved,

blade one and a half to two inches long, broadly ovate or

obovate, obtuse, base narrowed into the petiole, bright

green above, paler beneath, Peduwneles rather longer than

the leaves, one- rarely two-flowered, bearing one or a few

small green bracts. Flowers three inches in diameter.

Sepals about half an inch long, orbicular-oblong, obtuse,

green, clouded with pink. Petals eight, one and a half to

two inches long, narrowly oboyate-oblong, obtuse, straw-

coloured, passing into bright pink in the tips and sides

above the middle. Stamens about 20, filaments hairy,

anthers small. Ovary oblong, style long, slender, stigmas

three, very short, recurved. Capsule not seen—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Stamens; 2, a stamen, showing insertion of Hamauts 3, ovary;

4, longitudinal section of the same, showing ovules :—AU/ enlarged. Pate

Tas. 7684.

LILIUM rvupetivm.

Native of Japan.

Nat. Ord. LitiaceE2.—Tribe TuLIrPEz.

Genus Litium, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 816.)

Linium (Eulirion) rubellum; bulbo globoso squamis multis lanceolatis, caule

gracili ad apicem foliato, foliis alternis laxe dispositis oblongo-lanceolatis

vel lanceolatis viridibus glabris distincte 3-5-nervatis, floribus paucis

corymbosis, perianthio infundibulari rubello immaculato segmentis

oblanceolato-oblongis obtusis supra medinm patulis, staminibus perianthio

2-3-plo brevioribus, stylo staminibus longiore.

L. rubellum, Baker in Gard. Chron. 1898, vol. ii. p. 321, fig. 128.

This beautiful Lily is allied most closely to L. japonicum,

Thunb. (LZ. Krameri, Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. t. 6058), from

which it differs by its broad leaves, like those of L. speciosum,

and smaller pink flowers. Although it is new to cultivation,

and had not received any botanical name, there is a good

figure of it in the Honzo Zufu (vol. li., tab. 6), a work of.

coloured drawings in ninety-six volumes, published in

1828 by the Japanese artist Iwasaki Tsunemasa, for an

account of which see Dickins in Journal of Botany, 1887,

p. 147. Kew first received it in flower from Messrs.

Bunting of Chelmsford in February, 1498. Their stock of

the plant was purchased by Messrs. Wallace of Colchester,

by whom it was exhibited at the Temple show of the

Royal Horticultural Society in May. Probably it will

grow larger under cultivation. At any rate, it is a very

distinct plant, and sure to be a general favourite.

Deser.—Bulb globose, middle-sized; scales many, lan-

ceolate. Stem slender, terete, green, spotted with red-

brown, laxly leafy from the apex to the base. Leaves all

alternate, about twenty to a stem, oblong-lanceolate or

lanceolate, two to three inches long, firm, bright green,

distinctly three-nerved or five-nerved. Flowers few,

__ corymbose. Perianth funnel-shaped, pink, unspotted,

_ three inches long, three inches in diameter when expanded ;

_ segments oblanceolate-oblong, obtuse, spreading in the

January Ist, 1899,

upper half, the three inner an inch broad, the outer

narrower. Stamens less than half as long as the perianth ;

anthers small, linear, bright yellow. Style arcuate, much

overtopping the anthers. —/. (. Baker.

Fig. 1, Front view of anther; 2, back view of anther; 3, pistil :—A/1 more

or less enlarged.

Tas. 7635.

GAULTHERIA rricnorHyiua.

Native of the Himalaya and W. China.

Nat. Ord. Ericacra#.—Tribe ANDROMEDE.

Genus Gauituerta, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 582.)

GaULTHERIA trichophylla; fruticulus sempervirens, humilis, coespitosus,

ramosissimus, caulibus subterraneis filiformibus vage ramosis elongatis

intertextis repentibus nudis, emersis erectis setosis foliosis 4—6-pollicaribus,

foliis 2-3 poll. longis, subsessilibus patulis ovato-oblongis subacutis

obtusisve obscure crenato-dentatis coriaceis supra saturate viridibus

nervis impressis, subtus pallidis nervis prominulis, crenis setula nigra

decidua instructis, floribus axillaribus solitariis breviter pedicellatis

roseis, pedicellis bracteolatis calyceque glabris, sepalis ovatis, corolla

globosa rosea ore constricto, lobis parvis ovatis revolutis, filamentis

globosis puberulis, antherarum loculis aristato-acuminatis, connectivo

dorso 2-cuspidato, disci dentibus 10 obtusis, ovario glaberrimo, baccis

parvis pendulis turbinatis obtuse 5-lobis azureis.

G. trichophylla, Royle, Ill. Bot. Himal. p. 260, t. 63, f. 3. DO. Prodr. vol.

vii. p. 592. Clarke in Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. iii. p. 457.

This, the smallest known species of its genus, is a

common plant in the alpine and sub-alpine regions of the

Himalaya, from Kashmir to Bhotan, in moist peaty places,

at elevations of ten to thirteen thousand feet, where it

sometimes forms bright green patches of considerable area,

studded with pink bells, followed by dark blue berries.

Quite recently it has been collected on the mountains of

Western Szechuen, on the Tibetan frontier of China, at

elevations of nine to thirteen thousand feet by Mr. A. E.

Pratt. Therefore it no doubt extends continucusly from

Bhotan to this region, as do many other Himalayan

plants.

The Royal Gardens are indebted to the Hon. Charles

Kllis, of Frensham Hall, Haslemere, for this interesting

little plant. It flowers both in the Arboretum and in the

Rock Garden early in May.

Descr,—__A dwarf, tufted, evergreen shrub, with wiry,

much-branched, creeping, underground stems, and erect

leafing dark brown slender branches, bearing scattered

black bristles. Leaves one-sixth to half an inch long,

_very shortly petioled, spreading, ovate-oblong, subacute or

January 1st, 1899.

obtuse, entire or obscurely crenulate, with a rigid black

deciduous bristle on the margin, or in each crenature,

coriaceous, dark green shining above, with impressed

nerves, pale beneath, with prominent nerves. lowers very

shortly pedicelled, solitary, axillary, nodding, pink, about

as long as the leaves; pedicel bracteolate. Sepals ovate.

Corolla globosely campanulate, mouth contracted, with

five revolute teeth. Filaments globose, puberulous, anther-

cells sub-aristately acuminate, connective with a_ bifid

dorsal spur. Berry turbinate, 5-lobed, blue.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Leaf; 2, flower with pedicel and bracteoles; 3 and 4, stamens;

lg ees disk; 6, transverse section of ovary :—A/l/ enlarged ; 7, fruit of

. size,

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MECONOPSIS uereropuyita.

Native of California.

Nat. Ord. ParpavERACEa.—Tribe HuPAPAVERES.

Genus Meconopsis, Vig.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 52.)

Merconopsis heterophylla; herba erecta, fere glaberrima, carnosula, pallide

viridis, caule 1-2-pedali gracili parce ramoso, foliis radicalibus 3-5-

pollicaribus patentibus petiolatis linearibus pinnatipartitis sparse pilosis

segmentis 4—]-pollicaribus suboppositis ovalibus oblongis lineari-oblongisve

obtusis integerrimis v. grosse pauci-erenatis rhachi valida, foliis caulinis

majoribus, supremis longioribus simplicibus integris v. crenatis, floribus

longe pedunculatis 2 poll. latis, sepalis lineari-oblongis glaberrimis,

petalis orbicularibus rubro-aurantiacis basi rubro-purpureis, filamentis

breviusculis, antheris parvis oblongis aureis, capsula turbinata crasse

costata vertice convexa, stylo brevi, stigmate capitato 4-6-lobo, seminibus

orbicularibus compressis.

M. heterophylla, Benth. in Trans. Hort. Soc. Ser. 11. vol. i. (1835), p. 408.

Torr. § Gray, Fl. N. Am. vol.i. p. 61. Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy.

p- 320. Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 732. Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif. vol. i. p. 22.

M. crassifolia, Benth. l.c. Torr. & Gray l.c. Hook. § Arn. Le.

Meconopsis heterophylla is the sole American representa-

tive, as M. cambrica is the sole European, of a genus which

is well represented only in the loftier Himalaya and the

mountains of W.China. Both the European and American

species are of very limited range, the former to Wales,

Ireland, and the Pyrenees, the latter to a very few

localities in W. America, from Clear Lake, in lat. 42° N. to

San Quintin Bay in the California Peninsula, lat. 303° N.

It also inhabits the Humboldt range in W. Nevada. As

might be anticipated from the remoteness of its native

country from those of its Old World congeners, and

especially from its inhabiting so much hotter and drier a

climate than these do, it exhibits some structural pecu-

liarities. Such are the pinnatipartite foliage, the re-

markable elongate obconical truncate smooth capsule, and

smooth, orbicular seeds.

David Douglas was the discoverer of M. heterophylla,

during his journey across the continent of N. America in

1833. Though covering so wide a range of latitude it

cannot be a common plant, few collectors having met with

January Ist, 1899. ce 3

it. The specimen figured was raised at the Royal Gardens,

Kew, from seeds received from a Californian nurseryman.

It flowered in the month of June in the Herbaceous

ground.

Descr.—A pale green, rather succulent herb. Stem

one to two feet high, erect, sparingly branched, glabrous.

Leaves linear-oblong, pinnatipartite, radical two to four

inches long, spreading, sparsely hairy, soon withering,

segments sub-opposite, three to six pairs, and a terminal,

about half an inch long, ovate-oblong or linear, obtuse,

entire, or distantly crenate, rhachis pilose; cauline leaves

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diameter. Sepals linear-oblong, glabrous. Petals orbi-

cular, orange-red, dark red-purple towards the base.

Stamens numerous, anthers short, yellow. Capsule

narrowly turbinate, truncate, crown tumid, four to six-

lobed, terminated by the short style, stigma globose, four

to six-lobed. Seeds small, orbicular, compressed, smooth.

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GENTIANA Borszrt.

Native of the Pyrenees and Western Alps.

Nat. Ord. GentTIANACEHZ.—Tribe SwertTiex.

Genns Gentian, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 815.)

Gentrana (Coelanthe) Purseri; elata, robusta, glaberrima, foliis infimis

maximis breviter petiolatis elliptico-oblongis 7-nerviis marginibus levibus,

caulinis sessilibusacutis acuminatisve, floribusinavxillis foliorum superioram

cymoso-fasciculatis 1}-pollicaribus breviter pedicellatis, calycis mem-

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5-denticulato, corolla clavato-campanulata pallide anrea 5-7-loba, lobis

tubo basi intus eglanduloso ter brevioribus late ovatis obtusis, plicarum

lobulis brevibus rotundatis, filamentis gracilibus, antheris lineari-

oblongis primum coherentibus, loculis extrorsum dehiscentibus, ovario

cylindraceo basi dilatato 5-7-lobo apice in stylum robustum attenuato,

stigmatibus brevibus, capsula stipitata anguste ellipsoidea rostrata.

G. Burseri, Lapeyr. Hist. Abr. Pl. Pyr. p. 132. Griseb. Gen. et Sp. Gent. p. 298,

et in DOC. Prodr. vol. ix. p. 116. Duby, Bot. Gall. p. 326. Loisel. Fl.

Gall. vol. i. p. 178. Gren. & Godr. Fl. Franc. vol. ii. p. 89. Benth. Cat.

Pl. Pyren., &c., p. 81.

G. punctata, Vill. Hist. Pl. Dawph. vol. ii. p. 512 (non Linn.).

G: biloba, DC. Fl. Fr. vol. iii. p. 653 ; Ic. Pl. Gall. Rar. t. 15.

G. macrophylla, Bertol. Fl. Ital. vol. iii. p. 79 (non Pall.).

Coslanthe Burseri, G. Don, Gen. Syst. Gard, vol. iv. p. 185.

This noble Gentian is a very near ally of G. punctata,

a native of mountain regions, from Provence to the

Carpathians, thence extending to the Balkans of Roumelia.

It differs from that plant chiefly in the larger leaves, with

more (seven) nerves. Forms occur of both with the corolla

speckled with black dots. The headquarters of G. Burseri

are the Pyrenees, where, according to Bentham, it is “ assez

commune.” It also occurs in the Alps of Piedmont, Pro-

vence, and Dauphine. Bentham recognized two varieties

of it in the Pyrenees, the type, with punctate corolla, and

B, hybrida, with impunctate corolla, which, though a much

rarer plant, is Lapeyrouse’s type. This var. 8 he found

near Mont Louis, where it grew intermixed with the type

and G. lutea, Linn., and as he there found every

intermediate between these two species, he regarded var.

8B as a hybrid, and so designated it. J may remind the

reader that G. lutea is a very widely distributed plant

Fesrvary Ist, 1899.

belonging to a totally different section of the genus, with

a rotate corolla, sessile ovary, and winged seeds, and that

it hybridizes freely with various other species of the

Celanthe section. Of these hybrids Grisebach (in DC.

lc. p. 86) enumerates five, but that with G. Bursert 1s not

amongst them. The latter is, however, included in the

hybrids of lutea by Focke (Pflanzen-Mischlinge, p. 256).

I am indebted to the Rey. Canon C. J. Parker, of Upton

Cheyney, Bristol, for the specimen here figured of this

fine Gentian, which flowered in his garden in July, 1898.

That gentleman informs me that he found the plant

in quantities on damp, decaying wood, near the top of

Rue d’Enfer, in the Val de Lys, above Luchon, where one

fine specimen was actually growing on a fallen tree. The

roots which he sent home he planted in half paraffin tubs,

full of leaf mould and the debris of a faggot pile, which

he placed on a slope twenty feet above a brook, and there — :

they have thriven amazingly.

Descr.—Stem three to four feet high, robust, terete.

Lower leaves eight to ten inches long, elliptic-ovate,

obtuse, seven-nerved, narrowed into a short, stout petiole, Po

nerves very strong beneath ; upper and floral leaves sessile,

ovate, sub-cordate, five-nerved. lowers in very short

cymes, densely crowded in the axils of the upper leaves, __

very shortly and stoutly pedicelled ; bracts elliptic, sub-

acute, three-nerved, an inch long, or longer. Calyx three-

quarters of an inch long, membranous, split to the base,

mouth truncate, five-toothed, and denticulate. Corolla-

tube one and a half inches long, between clavate and | :

campanulate, pale yellow, clouded with green; lobes five

to seven, one-third the length of the tube, broadly ovate, |

very obtuse, pale golden-yellow, speckled (as is the throat)

with minute black dots, lobules in the sinus about a tenth —

of an inch long and broad, rounded. Anthers shorter than

the slender filaments, bursting outwardly. Hypogynous

glands 0. Ovary narrow, cylindric, tapering into a stout — 4

style, with reflexed, short, broad stigmas, base dilated into — a

five to seven spreading lobes. Capsule stipitate, narrowly — ;

ellipsoid, valves beaked. Seeds minute, sub-orbicular.—

Je Dike ae

Fig. 1, Calyx and ovary ; 2, portion of corolla laid open, and four stamens; -

3, fruit; 4, seed :—A/I enlarged. ee

belonging to a totally different section of the genus, with

a rotate corolla, sessile ovary, and winged seeds, and that

it hybridizes freely with various other species of the

Celanthe section. Of these hybrids Grisebach (in DC.

l.c. p. 86) enumerates five, but that with G. Burseri is not

amongst them. The latter is, however, included in the

hybrids of lutea by Focke (Pflanzen-Mischlinge, p. 256).

I am indebted to the Rey. Canon C. J. Parker, of Upton

Cheyney, Bristol, for the specimen here figured of this

fine Gentian, which flowered in his garden in July, 1898.

That gentleman informs me that he found the plant

in quantities on damp, decaying wood, near the top of

Rue d’Enfer, in the Val de Lys, above Luchon, where one

fine specimen was actually growing on a fallen tree. The

roots which he sent home he planted in half paraffin tubs,

full of leaf mould and the debris of a faggot pile, which

he placed on a slope twenty feet above a brook, and there’

they have thriven amazingly.

Descr.—Stem three to four feet high, robust, terete.

Lower leaves eight to ten inches long, elliptic-ovate,

obtuse, seven-nerved, narrowed into a short, stout petiole, ,

“nerves very strong beneath ; upper and floral leaves sessiley

ovate, sub-cordate, five-nerved. Flowers in very short

_ cymes, densely crowded in the axils of the upper leaves,

very shortly and stoutly pedicelled ; bracts alliptio, sub-

acute, three-nerved, an inch long, or longer. Calyz three-

quarters of an inch long, membranous, split to the base,

mouth truncate, five-toothed, and denticulate. Corolla-

tube one and a half inches long, between clavate and

campanulate, pale yellow, clouded with green; lobes five

to seven, one-third the length of the tube, broadly ovate,

very obtuse, pale golden-yellow, speckled (as is the throat)

with minute black dots, lobules in the sinus about a tenth

of an inch long and broad, rounded. Anthers shorter than

the slender filaments, bursting outwardly. Hypogynous

glands 0. Ovary narrow, cylindric, tapering into a stout

style, with reflexed, short, broad stigmas, base dilated into

five to seven spreading lobes. Capsule stipitate, narrowly

ellipsoid, valves beaked. Seeds minute, sub-orbicular.—-

J.D. H. oe |

Fig. 1, Calyx and ovary ; 2, portion of corolla laid open, and four stamens;

3, fruit; 4, seed :—AU/ enlarged. 7 oe -

ES ae

Tas. 7638.

EKLASAGNUS MacropHy.ta.

Native of Japan and Formosa.

Nat, Ord. EnxaGNacEz. ;

Genus E.maenvs, Linn. (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 204.)

E.zaenvs macrophylla ; frutex v. arbuscula inermis, ramis cortice fusco obtec-

tis, ramulis fol1is subtus et inflorescentia copiosissime argenteo-lepidotis ;

foliis 3-4-pollicaribus breviter petiolatis late ovatis obtusis utrinque sub

6-nerviis, nervis subtus marginibusque undulatis rubro-brunneis, supra

saturate viridibus sparse argenteo-lepidotis, petiolo ad 4-poll. longo,

floribus 2 poll. longis confertis nutantibus v. pendulis, pedicellis }-}

poll. longis, gracilibus decurvis, basi squamis parvis brunneis instructis,

perianthii tubo anguste ellipsoideo terete, apice constricto et in limbum

campanulatum obscure tetragonum repente dilatato, limbo intus basi et

ore annulato, lobis limbo eequilongis triangulari-ovatis obtusis intus

stellato-puberulis, stylo gracili, stigmate elongato obtuso recurvo, drupis

% poll. longis ellipsoideis roseis lepidotis limbo perianthii griseo coronatis,

putamine tenui fibroso-coriaceo sulcato.

EB. macrophylla, Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 67, Schlecht. in DO. Prodr. vol. xiv.

p- 614. Mawim, in Bull. Acad. Imp. Pétersb. vol. xvi. p. 877; Mél. Biol.

Pars. vil. p. 560.

Of the genus Hlxagnus, of which there are upwards

of twenty-five reported species, only one has previously

been figured in this work. It is the H. multiflora,

Thunb. (tab. 7341) also a native of Japan. Hight

species, including that here figured, are cultivated in the

Arboretum of the Royal Gardens, Kew, the fruit of one of

which, H. angustifolia, L., is a favourite ingredient in the

sherbet of some Eastern countries. on

Elzagnus macrophylla has a wide, far Eastern distribu-

tion, from the Korean Archipelago to Japan and Formosa,

where, according to Mr. Maries, it ascends to seven thousand.

feet elevation. The specimen here figured was ¢om-

municated by Messrs. Veitch, from their nursery at Coombe

Wood, where the plant flowers in October, and fruits in the

following May. Mr. Veitch informs me that it was im-

ported from Japan through their collector, Mr. Maries, in

1879, and that their largest plant is six feet high, and but

for pruning would have been higher. As with other

species of the genus, the lepidote scales on the young

Fexsrvary 1st, 1899, E

branches, leaves, and flowers are beautiful microscopic

objects. The fruit is very ornamental.

Descr.—A shrub, or small, ramous, thornless tree ;

branches covered with grey brown bark ; branchlets, leaves

beneath, inflorescence and fruit silvery white, with a

dense clothing of lepidote scales, branchlets speckled with

red-brown. Leaves three to four inches long, shortly

petioled, ovate, obtuse, deep green above, and sparsely

lepidote, midrib and six pairs of nerves beneath red brown,

as are their undulate margins ; petiole stout, about half an

inch long. Flowers very many, in axillary clusters, nod-

ding and drooping; pedicels slender, about three-quarters

of an inch long, with small, brown, linear bud-scales at the

base. Perianth two-thirds of an inch long, tube se

ellipsoid, suddenly dilated into a campanulate limb, whic

is cleft about halfway up into four triangular-ovate, obtuse

lobes, pubescent on their inner faces. Anthers small, oblong.

Style slender, stigma elongated, obtuse, recurved. /ruit

two-thirds of an inch long, ellipsoid, bright rose-red, lepi-

dote, crowned with the persistent withered limb of the | :

perianth.—J, D. H. ,

Fig. 1, Flower; 2, half of the perianth viewed from within; 3, stigma and

portion of style; 4, ripe fruit ; 5, lepidote scales :—All but fig. 4 enlarged.

Tas. 7639.

DENDROBIUM oapriuuires.

Native of Burma.

Nat. Ord. OncnuipE#.—Tribe DENDROBIEZ.

Genus Denprosium, Swartz, (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 498.)

Deypropium (Eudendrobium) capillipes ; pseudobulbis 2-3-pollicaribus erectis

adultis fusiformis-clavatis ad 3 poll. diam. leviter compressis, internodiis

5-6 vaginis pallidis membranaceis rubro-fusco marginatis velatis, foliis

paucis 5-6 poll. longis ad } poll. latis obtuse acuminatis late viridibus,

pedunculo gracili laterali erecto foliis subequilongo 4-floro vaginis parvis

distantibus instructo, floribus nutantibus, bracteis lanceolatis pedicellis

(cum ovario) 4 poll. longis gracilibus dimidio brevioribus, perianthio

explanato pollicem diametro aureo, sepalis lineari-oblongis acutis quam

petalis orbicularibus brevioribus, mento subcorniforme obtuso, labello orbi-

culari emarginato, ima basi convoluto et in unguem brevem latam

angustatos, disco basin versus costa crassa lata elevata postice rotundata

instructo, anthera mitriforme apice truncata 3-loba.

D. capillipes, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1867, p. 997, and 1880, vol. i. p.

743; Xen. Orchid. vol. ii. p. 164, t. 169. Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. v.

p. 751. Veiteh, Man. Orchid. Pl. Dendrob. p. 26.

A very attractive little Dendrobe, procured by the late

Rey. C. Parish, from hills north of Thayet-myo (?Thayetpa-

mein, on the Sittang river), and of which he sent to Kew

living and dried specimens in 1872. It has probably a

wide range in the Burmese mountains, for, on a ticket

attached to other specimens, he gives as habitat, ** Yanza-

lin district, 1875, latterly on Ta-ok,” and Sir H. Collett

collected a large flowered variety of it on the Shan Hills,

at 3000 feet elevation.

It may be seen from all the descriptions previously pub-

lished, that the specimen here figured represents a much

finer state of D. capillipes than those hitherto cultivated,

in which the pseudobulb has three or four internodes, and

the leaves are small and lanceolate. Further, the lip is

described as having an orange blotch, or as in capillipes,

var. elegans of Reichenbach (in Gard. Chron. 1880, vol. i.

p. 743) has a dark orange base, which in our plant is

replaced by a few red streaks on each side of the base

above the claw.

Fesrvary Ist, 1899.

D. capillipes has been for many years in cultivation in

the Orchid House of the Royal Gardens, Kew, where it

flowers annually between April and July.

Deser.—Pseudobulb erect, fusiformly clavate, about four

inches long, by half an inch thick, of six to eight inter-

nodes, clothed with pale membranous sheaths bordered

with red-brown. Leaves five to six inches long, by about

half an inch wide, acute, bright green. Peduncele lateral

on the pseudobulb, very slender, erect, bearing two to four

nodding flowers, and a few distant, small sheaths. Bracts

lanceolate, half the length of the slender, decurved pedicel

and ovary. Perianth about an inch in diameter, golden-

yellow, segments spreading. Sepals linear-oblong, acute,

shorter than the orbicular petals. Mentwm stout, about

half as long as the sepals, conico-cylindric, obtuse. Lip

nearly as large as the rest of the perianth, orbicular,

emarginate, explanate, base narrowed into a very short

_ claw, with an orange blotch at the base, or a few red

‘streaks on each side, disk with a short, broad, thickened

_Tidge at the base that ends posticously in a rounded knob

over the claw. Anther mitriform, to te

acim ee,

= Fig. 1, Base and claw of li ; 2, interi ;

3, anther; 4 pollinia :—All en Aas mg zeae of sentum, solemn, ond cates

Tas. 7640.

CEANOTHUS Intecerrimes.

Native of California.

Nat. Ord. Roamnacez.—Tribe RHAMNEH.

Genus Ceanotuvus, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. i. p. 378.)

CreanotHus (Euceanothus) integerrimus; frutex erectus, inermis, glaber v.

partibus novellis puberulis, ramis gracilibus, foliis alternis gracile petiolatis

oblongis ovatis v. ovato-cordatis acutis v. obtusis integerrimis supra

saturate viridibus subtus pallidis, stipulis parvis subulatis, floribus

minutis in glomerulos unculatos confertis, glomerulis cylindricis

axillaribus et in paniculos terminales dispositis albis v. pallide cceruleis,

sepalis late ovatis, petalis duplo longioribus ungue laminam cymbi-

formem xquante, antheris rubro-purpureis, capsula subglobosa leevi.

C. integerrimus, Hook. et Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 329. Torr. & Gr. Fl. N.

Am. vol. i. p. 686. A. Gray, Synopt. Fl. vol. i. part IT. p. 411. Benth.

Pl. Hartw. p. 302. Durand, Pl. Pratten. p. 85. Torrey, Pacific Raiir.

Rep. pp. 4, 75; Newb. lc. pp. 6, 69. Boland. Cat. Pl. Calif. p. 8.

S. Watson, in Proc. Am. Acad, vol. x. p. 334; Bibl. Ind. N. Am. Bot.

p- 165. Lindl. in Gard. Chron, 1856, p. 36, eum ic. xylog.

C. californicus, Kellogg in Proc. Calif. Acad. vol. i. 1855, p. 55,

C, nevadensis, Kellogg, l.c. vol. ii. 1863, p. 152, fig. 45.

C. thyrsiflorus, var. macrothyrsus, Torr. Bot. Wilkes Exped. p. 263.

C. integerrimus is a native of the Sierra Nevada of Cali-

fornia and British Columbia, at elevations of two thousand to

four thousand feet, from Washington to St. Bernardino and

S.E. Arizona. It is one of the many discoveries of David

Douglas in 1833, who collected a small-leaved variety,

that occurs at various points of the range of the species. I

found it when travelling with Dr. Gray, fruiting in Septem-

ber, 1877, in Strawberry Hill Valley, near Mt. Shasta, and

in the Wellingtonia Grove of Calaveras. It was intro-

duced into this country by Mr. Robert Wrench, who gave

seeds of it to the Royal Horticultural Society, in whose

gardens it flowered in 1856, and was figured at the time

by Lindley in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, cited above. It

has been in cultivation in the Arboretum, Kew, for many

years, growing in a sheltered position, and flowering freely

in June.

Descr.—An erect shrub, with very slender branches,

young branches puberulous, quite glabrous in maturity.

Fesavary Ist, 1899. :

Leaves all alternate, shortly petioled, one to three inches

long, ovate, ovate-cordate or oblong, obtuse or acute, quite

entire, deep green above, pale, and sometimes pubescent

beneath; stipules very small, subulate, Flowers minute,

white or pale blue, on very slender pedicels, which are —

collected in globose, sessilé or peduncled heads, which

again are disposed in axillary and terminal panicled,

globose or cylindric thyrsi, two to four inches long,

Sepals triangular-ovate, incurved. Petals twice as long,

their claw as long as the boat-shaped limb. Anthers red«

_ purple. Capsule nearly globose, quite smooth.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flowers ; 2, petal ; 3, ovary :—All enlarged.

Tas. 7641,

EPILOBIUM oscorpatom.

Native of California.

Nat. Ord. ONAGRARIER.

Genus Epttosium, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 787.)

Erinosium (Schizostigma) obcordatum; glabrum, caulibus e rhizomate decum-

bente ramoso ascendentibus 6-8-joll. longis teretibus, internodiis

brevibus, foliis pollicaribus oppositis patulis sessilibus v. breviter petiolatis

orbiculari-ovatis subacutis obscure dentatis basi rotundatis saturate

viridibus glaucis opacis, floribus magnis 1} poll. expans. in axillis.

supremis quasi corymbosis, alabastris nutantibus, pedicellis brevibus,

ovario pruinoso, calycis tubo ultra ovarium producto infundibulari,

lobis lineari-oblongis obtusis, petalis late saturate roseis profunde

bifidis patentibus, antheris flavis, stylo longe exserto declinato, stigmate

4-lobo purpureo lobis revolutis, capsulis 1-]}-pollicaribus linearibus

robustis obtusis, seminibus minute papillosis.

E. obecordatum, A. Gray in Proc. Am. Acad. vol. vi. (1865) p. 532. Wats.

in King’s Rep. vol. v. p. 104. Brew. §& Wats. Bot, Calif. vol. i. p. 218.

Barbey, Epilob. t. 3. Trelease in Second Report Missuuri Bot. Gard,

p- 83, t. 6. Hausskn. Monogr. Epilob. p. 250, t.15, f. 69. Journ. Hortic,

Ser. 3, vol. xxvii. t. 179.

Epilobium obcordatum is decidédly the most attractive

species of the genus in cultivation, if not in nature; and

as a rock-garden plant it has few rivals. It is a native of

the Sierra Nevada of California, at elevations of eight

thousand to eleven thousand feet, from the Tulare County

(the Sequoia gigantea region) in lat. 36° N., northward to

the head waters of the Sacramento River, in 42° N. In

company with Dr. Gray I found it in fruit in rocky places

on Mt. Stanford, above Truckee, where the railroad crosses

the Sierra Nevada, in September, 1877. It also inhabits

the Hast Humboldt Mts. in Nevada. The capsules are

described by all authors as clavate, but they are truly

linear, and rather stout, previous to dehiscence, when the

valves contract. The Royal Gardens, Kew, received a

living plant of H. obcordatum in 1894, from H. Selfe

Leonard, Esq., of Hitherbury, Guildford, which has

flowered annually in the rock-garden in July.

Descr.—Quite glabrous. Stems six to eight inches high,

ascending from a decumbent, branching rootstock, rather

stout, terete, leafy. Leaves rather longer than the inter-

Fesruary Ist, 1899,

nodes, opposite, sessile, or sub-sessile, about an inch long,

orbicular-ovate, sub-acute, obscurely toothed, deep green,

opaque, base rounded. Flowers from the upper leaf axils,

corymbosely arranged, an inch and a quarter in diameter,

pedicels shorter than the rather stout pruinose ovary,

which is produced at the top into a funnel-shaped limb.

Calyzx-lobes linear-oblong, dull red. Petals broadly ob-

ovate, spreading, bright rose-coloured, deeply bifid.

Anthers included, yellow. Style elongate, slender, decli-

nate; stigma purple, lobes four, revolute. Capsule an

ns os a half long, rather stout, obtuse. Seeds few.—

_ Figs. 1 and 2, Anthers; 3, top of style and stigmas ; 4, ripe capsule, of nat.

size; 5, seed :—All but fig. 4 enlarged.

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DRYANDRA caLopHyLta.

Native of King George’s Sound.

Nat. Ord. ProtEacr#.—Tribe BANKSIEx.

Genus Dryanpra, Br.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 185.)

Dryanpra (Aphragmia) calophylla ; fruticulus depressus, caule petiolis costis

foliorum subtus bracteis extus receptaculoque villis rubro-aurantiacis

dense vestitis, caule brevi crasso, foliis pedalibus stellatim patentibus

breviter petiolatis coriaceis linearibus pinnatifidis v. pinnatisectis, supra

glabris nervis subtus sparsim rufo-villosis, pinnis lobisve 30-50 3-1} poll.

longis triangulari-ovatis ovato-lanceolatisve obtusis 3-5-nerviis inferiori-

bus sensim minoribus, sinubus acutis v. obtusis, petiolo brevi basi

incrassato, floribus in capitulum basi involucratum 2-3 poll. diam.

congestis aureis, receptaculo longe villoso, involucri bracteis exterioribus

elongatis foliaceis, interioribus parvis ovatis, perianthii 1}-14 poll. longi

tubo brevi angusto sericeo, lobis lineari-elongatis obtusis aureo-villosis,

saepe rubro tinctis, antheris linearibus cuspidatis, ovario glabro, stylo

perianthio longiore, stigmate elongato cylindraceo apice oblique trun-

cato.

D. calophylla, Br. Prodr. Suppl. I. Proteacex, p. 40. Meissn. in DC. Prodr.

vol, xiv. p. 481. Benth. Fl. Austral. vol. v. p. 583.

D. Drummondii, Meissn. in Lehm. Pl. Preiss. vol. ii. p. 267, et in DC. Le.

The genus Dryandra, of which forty-seven species are

described in Bentham’s Flora Australiensis, is one of the

most. striking proofs of the endemic character of the

Western Australian Flora, not a single species being found

elsewhere in the Australian continent. Of these nine are

enumerated in Aiton’s ‘“‘ Hortus Kewensis,’ as being in cul-

tivation in the Royal Gardens in 1810, almost all of them

raised from seeds collected in 1802-3 by Peter Good, the

gardener who accompanied Brown on Flinder’s voyage.

None of these now exist at Kew. Nine species have pre-

viously been figured in this Magazine, the last, D. nobilis,

tab. 4633, so early as 1852, an evidence of the decline

of interest once taken in the cultivation of Australian

plants.

D. calophylla was raised in the Royal Gardens, Kew, from

seeds presented by Messrs. Veitch in 1893, and flowered in

_ the Temperate House in May, 1898. |

Deser.—A small depressed shrub. Stem very short,

erect, or prostrate, thickly clothed with thick. bright,

Marcu Ist, 1899,

orange-red, villous hairs, as are the petiole and rhachis of

the leaves, the outer surface of the bracts and the receptacle.

Leaves about a foot long, stellately spreading, linear,

pinnatifid or pinnatisect, dark green above, pale beneath ;

lobes or pinne an inch long or less, triangular-ovate to

ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, three- to five-nerved beneath, with

the nerves loosely villous, sinus between the lobes obtuse or

acute. Inflorescence a sessile bracteate head of flowers two —

to three inches in diameter, golden-yellow, outer bracts

passing into leaves, inner very short, ovate, obtuse.

Flowers densely crowded; perianth with a short, slender,

silky tube, pat | four long, very narrow, obtuse, shaggy

lobes, each bearing a linear, cuspidate, sessile anther on

the inner face towards the tip. Style longer than the

perianth-lobes, slightly thickened towards the tip, which

is obliquely truncate.—J. D, H.

“Bigs. 1,2, and 3, inner bracts of nat. size; 4, flower; 5, hairs of receptacle 4

— eel with three innermost bracts ; 6, innermost hie 7, tip of peat

lobe and anther ; 8, section of ovary with ovules :—All but 1-3 en/arged.

Tas. 7643,

PASSIFLORA PRUINOSA.

Native of British Guiana.

Nat. Ord. PassirLOREZ.—Tribe EurassiFLoRea.

Genus Passirtora, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 810.)

PassirLora (Granadilla) pruinosa ; frutex glaberrimus, scandens, ramis tereti-

bus fistulosis rufo-brunneis, foliis longiuscule petiolatis orbiculari-ovatis

ad medium 3-lobis supra saturate viridibus subtus glaucis, nervis 5

rufescentibus, lobis ovato-oblongis v. lanceolatis acutis v. obtusis, petiolo

subpeltatim affixo glandulis cupulatis sparso, stipulis magnis dimidiato-

oblongis foliaceis, floribus 2$ poll. latis solitariis cum cirrho valido rufo-

brunneo enatis, pedunculo 2-pollicari viridi, bracteis parvis ovato-lanceclatis

acuminatis, calycis tubo brevi basi truncato, sepalis pollicaribus oblongis

viridibus, petalis 5 oblongis obtusis pallide lilacinis, corone filamentis

pluriseriatis infra medium in annulum intus glandulosum connatis, filis

exterioribus infra medium violaceis apicibus cirrhosis, intimis brevioribus

crassioribus apicibus dilatatis 3-4-lobis, gynophoro brevi cylindraceo,

fructu? seminibus oblongis obtusis.

P, pruinosa, Mast. in Gard. Chron. 1897, vol. ii. p. 393, fig. 17.

A handsome evergreen stove climber, raised from seed

sent to Kew in 1897 by Everard im Thurn, C.M.G., Govern- _

ment Agent, N.W. District, British Guiana, a gentleman

well known for his many contributions to a knowledge of

the natural history of his adopted country, and especially

for his having accomplished the ascent of the previously

unconquered precipitous table-mountain of Roraima; and

also for his admirable description of the very peculiar vege-

- tation of that mountain and of the surrounding district,

which is published in the ‘‘ Transactions of the Linnean

Society ” (Ser. II. Bot. ii. 249).

Passiflora pruinosa is a species of remarkably rapid

growth, plants raised from seeds sent to the Royal

Gardens in 1897, having flowered in September, 1898.

Deser.—A tall, stout, glabrous climber. Branches

terete, fistular, red-brown; tendrils strong, red-brown.

Leaves three to four inches in diam., orbicular-ovate in

outline, five-cleft to the middle, dark green above, with

five spreading pale nerves from the base, glaucous beneath,

with red-brown uerves, lobes ovate-oblong or -lanceolate,

Marcu Ist, 1899,

obtuse, acute, or acuminate ; stipules foliaceous, one to two

inches long, dimidiate-oblong, acuminate; petiole three

inches long, sub-peltately attached, green, with a few

scattered cupular glands. Flowers solitary, axillary, two

and a half inches broad; peduncle shorter than the

stipules, green; bracts small, lanceolate, acuminate.

Calyzx-tube short, cup-shaped, base truncate and intruded,

lobes an inch long, oblong, obtuse, green, white within.

Petals rather longer than the sepals, oblong, obtuse, re-

flexed, white, suffused with lilac. Corona longer than

the petals, of several series of many spreading violet

filaments, with white bases and cirrhose tips, all connate

at the base in a membrane that is glandular within, inner-

most filaments stouter, with sub-clavate three- to five-

lobed tips. Gynophore short, cylindric. Anthers large,

yellow. Ovary oblong, styles and large globose stigmas

streaked with red.—J. D. H.

_ . Fig. 1, Longitudinal section of calyx-tube with portion of the corona;

_ 2, base and innermost filaments of the corona :—Both enlarged.

Tas. 7644,

KNIPHOFIA TUOKI.

Native of Cape Colony.

Nat. Ord, Lintace#.—Tribe HemErocaLLes.

Genus Knienoria, Moench; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 775.)

Kyirnorta Yuckii; foliis dense rosulatis recurvatis linearibus acuminatis

viridibus firmis acute carinatis margine serrulatis, pedunculo stricto

erecto foliis breviore, racemo denso oblongo-cylindrico, floribus omnibus

deflexis expansis sulphureis in statu juniore rubro tinctis, pedicellis

brevissimis, bracteis oblongo-lanceolatis scariosis albidis, perianthio

_ anguste infundibulari supra ovarium leviter constricto, lobis brevibus late

er staminibus biseriatis omnibus distincte exsertis, stylo staminibus

ongiore.

K. Tuckii, Baker in Gard. Chron. 1893, vol. i. p. 68; Fl. Cap, vol. vi.

p. 278.

This very distinct species of Kniphofia is a native of

Colesberg, the central province of Cape Colony, all of

which is at least four thousand feet above sea-level. It

is allied most nearly to K. pumila, Kunth. (Aletris pumila,

Gawl. in Bot. Mag. t. 764) a species which was early

introduced into cultivation in this country, but is now lost.

From this it differs by its more robust habit and broader

leaves. It was collected for Mr. Max-Leichtlin by Mr. W.

Tuck about 1892. The Kew plant, from which our draw-

ing was made, was received from the Cambridge Botanic

Garden in February, 1897, and flowered for the first time

in the Temperate House in April, 1898.

Descr.—Leaves densely tufted, reflexed, linear, acumi-

nate, above two feet long in cultivation, an inch broad

low down, green on both surfaces, acutely keeled, firm in

texture, serrulate on the margin. Peduncle moderately

stout, stiffly erect, furnished with several erecto-patent

rudimentary leaves. Raceme oblong-cylindrical, half a foot

long, very dense ; flowers all deflexed, sulphur-yellow when

mature, tinged with crimson in an early Stage; pedicels

very short; bracts oblong-lanceolate, scariose, whitish.

Perianth narrowly funnel-shaped, above half an inch long,

slightly constricted above the ovary ; lobes short, broadly

Marcu Ist, 1899,

ovate. Stamens biseriate, all distinctly exserted, the three

longest half as long again as the perianth. Style much

overtopping the anthers. —J. G. Baker.

8, pistil :—A

ed a eens cree Be So Tit™ ation! ana bract

Tas. 7645.

GYNOPLEURA HUMILIS.

Native of Chili.

Nat. Ord. PassiFLoREx%.—Tribe MaLEsHERBIE®.

Genus Gynopteura, Cav.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 810.)

GynopLevra Aumilis; herba annua, humilis, gracilis, patentim ramosissima,

foliosa, pubescens, foliis pollicaribus obovato-oblongis obtusis grosse

crenato-serratis utrinque pubescentibus v. villosis, basi angustatis vix —

a" pallide viridibus, foribus ad apices ramulorum subcorymbosis

reviter pedicellatis % poll. diam., calycis sericeo-villosi tubo dilatato,

lobis oblongis obtusis rubro striatis, petalis calycis lobis aquilongis late

ovatis subacutis albis, corona faucem calycis coronante brevi crenata,

gynophoro cylindraceo, filamentis elongatis, ovario ellipsoideo hirsuto.

G. humilis, Roem. Syn. Pepon. p. 211.

G. dilatata, Walp. Rep. vol. ii. p. 223.

Malesherbia humilis, D. Don in Edinb. N. Phil. Journ. 1831-2, p. 111. Hook.

et Arn. in Hook. Bot. Miscell. vol. iii. p. 327. OC. Gay, Flor. Chilen. vol. ii.

p. 425.

M. dilatata, Phil. f. Cat. Pl. Vase. Chil. p. 81.

The small genus Gynopleura inhabits the dry Sierras of

Peru and Chili. G. humilis has a wide range in distribu-

tion, chiefly along the seaward ranges of the Andes, from

the neighbourhood of Arica in S. Peru (lat. 183° 8.) to

Concepcion in Chili (lat. 37° S.), and probably further in

both directions. Even the desert of Atacama is not too

dry for it. There it forms hemispherical masses a foot

in diameter. Only one species has previously been figured

from living specimens, namely G. linearifolia, Cav., tab.

3362 of this work, where it is described under the generic

name of Malesherbia, with which Gynopleura had been

confounded.

The plant here figured was raised from seeds sent to the

Royal Gardens, Kew, from the Botanic Garden of San-

tiago in Chili, in 1898. It flowered in the herbaceous

ground in September of the same year.

Descr.—A low growing, excessively branched, slender,

leafy, pubescent or villous annual. Leaves about an inch

long, obovate-oblong, obtuse, coarsely crenate-serrate,

narrowed to the base, but hardly petioled, pale green,

Marcu Ist, 1899.

villously pubescent with silky hairs on both surfaces,

Flowers about two-thirds of an inch in diameter, corym-

bosely crowded at the tips of the branches, very shortly

pedicelled. Calyw-tube villously-hairy, funnel-shaped, mem-

branous; lobes oblong, obtuse, white, streaked with

purplish-red. Corona a very low, crenate membrane,

surrounding the mouth of the calyx-tube. Gynophore

much shorter than the calyx-tube, cylindric, glabrous.

Filaments erect, very slender; anthers yellow. Ovary

ellipsoid, hirsute ; styles three, filiform, divergent, inserted

on the sides of the ovary below its summit; stigmas small,

dilated. —J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower laid open; 2 and 3, anthers; 4, ovary :—A// enlaryed.

TAB. 7646.

ROSA AOICULARIS, var. NIPPONENSIS.

Native of Japan.

Nat. Ord. Rosace#.—Tribe Rose x.

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

Rosa. (Pimpinellifolie) oe i frutex ‘encins, ramosus, trunco setoso v.

subinerme, ramis ramulis gracilibus pedanculisque setosis, foliis 2-4-

pollicaribus, rhachi gracile setoso, foliolis ellipticis, stipulis oblongis,

. floribus solitariis gracile pedunculatis ebracteatis, calycis tubo oblongo, |

-__ lobis anguste linearibus corollam squantibus v. superantibus i integerrimis —

: ce tomentosis apicibus dilatatis, petalis sanguineo-roseis, }

.- subereetis pharrell: ealycis laciniis conniventibus coronatis. ‘

~ as acicularis, Lindl. Monog. Ros. p: 44, t. 8. C. A. Meyer in Mém. ;

Pétersb, Sér. 6, vol. vi. p. 15. Regel i in Act. Hort. Petrop. vol. y. Pp.

& 525.

R. Gmelini, Bunge in Ledeb. Fl. Altaic. vol. ii. p. 228. Bong. Veg. Saiouiti 4

Nor. Pf. 33. Fl. Ross. vol. ii. p..75. Karel & Kiril. in * Soc. Nat. —

Mose. (1841), p. 419. C. A. Meyer, lc. p. 17.

R. alpina, Pall. Fl. Ross. vol. ii. p. 61 (non Linzn.).

R. carelica, Fries, Summ. Veg. Scand. p. 171.

R. acicularis, var. 8 Gmelini, Regel ex Maxim. in Herb. It. Seeund. (vmen).

“ar. NIPPONENSIS ; ramulis pedunculisque glanduloso-setosis.

R. nipponensis, Crepin in Bull: Soc. Bot. ~ vol. xiv. atin! Pp 7, me

in textu, :

> a

Not. being a specialist in the , genus %

my determinatio Sa name

git the leaves. wi béon ecaiolis led by De

) - ji, 611) and others with R. alpina, L., of

a Pyrenees, &e., of which it is the northern representat

and which is distinguished, amongst other characters, by

its nodding oblong or ellipsoid fruits. —

- The var. nipponensis has no other character than iis

glandular prickles of the young branches and peduncles. =.

These glandular prickles I find on Siberian spon of

Marcu Ist, 1899.

R. acicularis, and they are described by Fries as occurring

-in the peduncles of R. carelica. |

Lindley’s figure of &. acicularis, taken from a cultivated

specimen, represents a plant with much larger and paler |

_ flowers than the Japanese specimen, or than the Finland

- one, which Fries describes as ‘‘ sanguineo-rosei.”’

_ - Seeds of this rose were received at the Royal Gardens,

_ Kew, in 1894, from the Botanic Garden of Copenhagen,

under the name. of #&. nipponensis. Plants raised from

_ these flowered in June, 1898, and fruited in the following

_ August, The name has been obligingly verified by Mr.

_Crépin. The only Japanese habitat in the Kew Her-

_. barium is the mountain Fujiyama, in Nippon, collected by

| -iechonoski, . oe . .

--Desev, of var. nipponensis.—An erect bush, trunk naked

or prickly ; branches slender, and peduncles more or less_

covered with glandular bristles. Leaves two to four inches”

petiole short and slender, rhachis setulose, leaflets”

rely three, one half to two-thirds of an inch

iptic, finely serrulate, pale green; stipule

e, entire. “rs solitary, an inch and

peduncle very slender, one to one and

Caly«-tube oblong, glabrous, lobes +

ender, linear, tips dilated, pubescent 0

n fruit. Petals rather shorter than

E=LODG: sp rose-coloured. Fruit sub-erect, abo

e-fourths of an inch long, ovoid, smooth, crowne

he lo vent calyx-lobes,—J, D. H. | .

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IMPATIENS ROYLEI, var. PALLIDIFLORA.

2 Native of the Himalaya,

Nat. Ord. GrrantaceE®.—Tribe BaLsaMINES.

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

I. Roylei, Walp. Rep. i. 475. Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. i. p. 468.

1. glandulifera, Royle Illustr. Bot. Himal. p. 151, t. 28, £. 2 (non Arn.)

I. glanduligera, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1840, t. 22. Hook, Bot. Mag. t. 4020.

Var. pallidiflora; elatior, 5-6-pedalis, foliis majoribus 6-8 poll. longis, floribus

majoribus in corymbos amplos 6-10 poll. latos dispositis lide roseis

rubro maculatis.

The plant here figured may be assumed to be Himalayan,

but of this I have no certain knowledge. It appeared for

the first time in the shrubberies of my garden near

Sunningdale three or four years ago, and rapidly increased,

so as to become a weed, until 1598, when the long-

continued drought decimated the plants, and prevented the

seeding of the few that were spared. How or whence it

was introduced I cannot form an idea. I have never raised

an Indian Balsam in ‘my garden, nor had I at that time

received the seeds of any, and it is not in the Kew collec-

tion, or in that of other botanical gardens to which I have

directed inquiries. On the other hand, [ have seen it in

several cottage gardens, one at Marlow being the nearest

to my place (about fifteen miles in a straight line). Also I

saw it growing in profusion in a cottage garden near Mr.

Mitford’s residence, Batsford Park, Worcestershire, but

not a specimen of it was to be found in that gentleman’s

fine garden, or in his magnificent miscellaneous collection

of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants, where

I. Roylei abounds in a naturalized state. In stature,

foliage, inflorescence, flowers and fruit, my plant altogether

agrees with one which I found in the upper valleys of

the Sikkim Himalaya, and of which I made a coloured

drawing on the spot, differing only in having subulate

stipuliform glands, whereas in the Sikkim plant these are —

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flat or pulvinate. The latter I referred, on this account,

to Wallich’s I. sulcata.*

_ Since the publication of the first volume of the ‘Flora

of British India” in 1873, very large collections of

Himalayan species of Impatiens have been received at

Kew, which, together with those of the Herbaria of the

Calcutta and Saharunpore Gardens, kindly lent by Messrs.

Prain and Duthie, will, I hope, enable me to revise the

species (124) published in that work, introducing some

new ones, and correcting the characters and synonymy of

others. Unfortunately the plants of this genus wither so

rapidly after being gathered, and suffer so greatly from _

the pressure in transformation into Herbarium specimen

that a great many examples in all herbaria are quit

insufficient for correct determination. Furthermore, fruit-

ing specimens are essential, and it is only from living

ones, or carefully executed drawings, that dependable 4

characters can be obtained. J

Descr.—Habit, foliage, inflorescence, flower and fruit of

I. Roylei, but leaves larger, attaining eight inches im —

length, with petioles of the lower three to four inches

Jong, corymbs of flower much larger, more spreadingy

Sometimes ten inches in diameter, peduncles longer, nd

more robust, bracts and flowers larger, the latter very pale

_ Tose, speckled with dark red, especially on the stan

; bia y if the Sane on tea, Fdgw., is referred to I. suleata, erto

e ightly named, for I. gigantea has, 1 find,

‘ elongated s. Wallich’ rightly ’ giga ee ae

Metiauee of the Sikkim p men of I. sulcata not being in fruit, t

acai

nt with it is not sure.

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capsule; 5, seeds on placentas: 6 4 ho oe icle;

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CEREUS Paxrontanus.

| Native of Brasil ?

Nat. Ord, Cactea.—Tribe Ecu1nocactex.

Genus Cereus, Haw.; (Benth, & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 849.)

Cereus (Colubrini) Pawtonianus; caule gracili colamnari 5-6-gono flexuoso

ad 1 poll. diam. parce ramoso luride viridi, costis compressis obtusis

sinuatis vix lobatis, pulvillis subeonfertis vix } poll. distantibus par-

vulis glabris, aculeis 8-10 acicularibus radiantibus levibus 2 interiori-

bus longioribus inéequilongis longiore } poll. longo, floribus amplis, 3-4

poll. diam., calycis tubo 23 poll. longo cylindraceo } poll. diam. levi

glabro pallide viridi bracteolis paucis dentiformibus brunneis instructo,

perianthii segmentis 4—5-seriatis patenti-incurvis lanceolatis subacutis

exterioribus dorso viridibus brunneo marginatis et variegatis, interioribu

albis, filamentis brevibus, antheris minutis, stylo valido exserto, stigmati-

bus 12 linearibus fere $ poll. longis obtusis radiantibus.

C. Paxtonianus, Monv. ew Salm-Dyck, Cact. Hort. Dyck, Fd. If. p. 211.

Foerst. Handb. Cact. p. 727. Labouret, Monogr. Cact. p. 371. K.

Schumann, Gesam. Beschr. der Kakteen, p. 135,

C. Cavendishii, Monv. 1.c. Rev. Hortic. 1857, p. 521.

The name Cereus Paztonianus first appeared in Mon-

ville’s trade catalogue of Cactex, from which it was taken

up by Prinée Salm-Dyck, together with C. Cavendishii,

which was assumed to bea different species. Of course

both came from the magnificent collection of the Duke of ©

Devonshire at Chatsworth, of which Mr. (afterwards Sir

Joseph) Paxton was the keeper, whence the names.

Their native country was and is unknown. Differing a

little in habit and colour, they came to be regarded as

different species, and it was many years before either

flowered; and until C. Pazxtonianus did so at Kew,

C. Cavendishii alone had done so. The flower of the latter

is briefly described in the ‘ Revue Horticole,” 1857, p.

521, and the description precisely accords with that of the

plant here figured. Schumann was the first to unite the

two plants under the one name.

The specimen here figured of Cereus Paxtonianus was

purchased for the Royal Gardens, Kew, from Mr. A.

Benecke, dealer in Cacti, &c., Birkenwerder, near Berlin,

Aprit 1st, 1899,

in whose catalogue-it appears as ‘ (. Paxtonianus, Monv.,

Syn. C. Cavendishit, Mony.” It flowered for the first time

in the Cactus House in September, 1898.

Descr.—Stem of the Kew specimen four feet high, and

about an inch in diameter, erect, flexuous, branching to-

wards the top, five to six angled, very lurid green, angles

compressed, sinuate, studded with spine-bearing pulvilli at

intervals of about a quarter of an inch, the larger spines

of which cross one another. Pulvilli glabrous, bearing

about twelve radiating, smooth, straight, dark brown

spines of unequal length, two of which are more than

twice as long as the others, the longest being about a

quarter of an inch long. Flowers three to four inches in

diameter, white. Calyw-tube two and a half inches long by

about half an inch in diameter, cylindric, funnel-shaped

below the sepals, quite smooth, unarmed, pale bright —

green, bearing few distant minute brown tooth-like scales,

which become much longer upwards passing into the outer

sepals. Perianth-segments very many, in several series;

_linear-lanceolate, sub-acute, spreading and incurved;

outer segments (sepals) dorsally green, edged, and clouded

towards the tip, and sometimes on the inner surface #

with light brown, inner segments (petals) quite white.

Stamens very numerous, many-seriate, filaments slender;

shortly exserted at the mouth of the perianth, anthers

- Ininute, yellow. Style stout, much longer than the stamens,

bearing a dozen linear obtuse stout, radiating stigmas,

about half an inch long.—J. D. H. “bg

Fig. 1, Pulvill ith spines; 2 ; ; :—Both —

etoeak us with spines; 2, summit of style and stigmas

Tas. 7649,

SILENE Forrvunet.

Native of China and Formosa.

Nat, Ord. Canyornytiace2.—Tribe Smrevex.

Genus Sitenz, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 147.)

oblanceolatis subacutis acuminatisve, basi angustatis ciliolatis v. in

v. ad apices ramorum ternis breviter pedicellatis,

bibracteolatis,

Tine 1j-pollicari angusto cylindraceo striato

basi ‘Satie inflato, dentibus parvis erectis

- ovatis albo-marginatis et ciliolatis, petalis albis v. roseis, w

ungue supra

medium dentata, lamina flabelliformi } poll. pee bifida Manes oft

lacinia lineari quasi auriculata, lobis multifidis, antheris brevibus exsertis, _

gynophoro elongato capsula oblonga bis longiore, capsule dentibus recurvis,

seminibus tuberculatis dorso canaliculatis ventne planis.

S. Fortunei, Vis. Ind. Sem. Hort. Patav. (1847), ex Linnza, vol. xxiv. (1851)

p. 181. Rohkrb. Monogr. Silene, p. 222. Mazim. Fl. As. Or. Fragm., p. 6.

Franch. Pl. David. pars i. p. 47. Forbes et Hemsl. in Jowrn. Linn. Soe.

vol. xxiii. (1886) p. 65. Williams in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xxxii. (1896)

p- 178.

8. fissipetala, Turez. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. vol. xvii. (1854) pars II. p. 371.

?S. sinensis, Hook, ex Bosse, Handb. Blumengart. Ed. 2, vol. ii. p. 371,em

Williams l.c.

PS. chinensis, Hook, er Rossi, 1. c. Ed. 3, vol. iii. p. 445.

Lychnis Fortunei, Hort.

Silene Fortunei appears to be a common plant in

China, where it was first found by Fortune. It also occurs _

in the Island of Formosa, on sandy downs near Tamsing.

One of its nearest allies in the great genus Silene (numbering

390 species in Mr. Williams’ ‘encsland monograph in the

Linnean Journal) is the West European 8. italica, a denizen

of some southern English counties. With regard to the

authority ‘‘ Hook.” given by Bosse for his S. sinensis or

_ chinensis, Mr. Williams has suggested to me that it is

__ possibly an error for Hort. It is a garden name not

_ Introduced into the Index Kewensis.

The plant here figured was raised from seeds collected in

Arrit Ist, 1899.

the Province of Shensi by Father Piccoli, of the Jesuit

Mission in Hankow, which were received at the Royal

Gardens through George Murray, Esq., F.RS., Keeper

of the Botanical Department of the British Museum.

It flowered in the Herbaceous collection in September,

1898.

Deser.—An erect, nearly glabrous, slender perennial, one

to three feet high, branching and puberulous below,

above and flowering branches very viscid. Leaves one

to two and a half inches long, spreading and recurved,

linear-oblanceolate, sub-acute or acuminate, nerveless,

midrib deeply impressed above, base ciliate, contracted —

sometimes into a very short petiole. Flowers erect, i

rather large panicles with opposite erecto-patent branche

in axillary pairs, or ternate at the tips of the branches;

pedicels about half an inch long, with two small

opposite linear obtuse bracteoles below the middle. Caly#

an inch and a quarter long; tube narrow, cylindric, striate

with close-set nerves, selioir fruiting inflated above the

middle, base rounded; teeth small, erect, ovate, obtuse,

_ Margins white, ciliolate. Petals white or rose-red, claw

_ rather broad, margins toothed ; limb fan-shaped, half an

inch long or more, bifid, base with a long linear segment

es each side; lobes unequally lacerate. Anthers shortly

_ exserted, broadly oblong. Gynophore twice as long as the

_ capsule, slender, glabrous, Styles three, very short. Seeds

= eRe flat on one surface, tubercled on the other.—

Fig. 1, Cal

amen 8 yx-tube laid open with gynophore and ovary; 2, petal and

stamen :—all enlarged ; 4, calyx and ripe capsule, nat. size.

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YUCCA nama.

Native of the South-Western United States.

Nat. Ord. Littacra2.—Tribe Dracayea,

Genus Yucca, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 778.)

Yucca elata; caule fruticoso interdum furcato, foliis dense rosulatis lineari-

bus strictis pallide viridibus pungentibus margine copiose filiferis,

pedunculo foliis subduplo longiore, racemis multis laxis in paniculam

densam rhomboideam dispositis, bracteis ovato-lanceolatis scariosis pedi-

cellis longioribus, perianthio amplo albo extus leviter viride tincto,

staminibus perianthio subtriplo brevioribus filamentis pubescentibus,

stylo brevi columnari pubescente, fructa magno oblongo coriaceo tarde

dehiscente, seminibus discoideis nigris.

Y. elata, Engelm. in Coult. Bot. Gaz. vol. vii. (1882) p.17; Collected Works,

. 299. Sergeant in Garden & Forest, 1889, p. 568, fig. 146. Trelease in

eport Missouri Gard. 1893, p. 201, tab. 10, 15, 22.

Y. angustifolia var. elata, Engelm. Notes on Yucca, p. 50. S, Wats. in Proc.

Amer. Acad. vol. xiv, p. 253.

Y. constricta, Baker in Journ. Linn, Soc. vol. xviii. p. 229, non Buckley.

This shrubby Yucca is peculiar to the desert region of

Arizona and the neighbouring states west of the goaer |

Mountains. In the wild state the stem reaches a lengt

of ten or twelve feet. In leaf and flower it closel

resembles Y. angustifolia, Pursh (Bot. Mag. tab. 2236),

but that is more hardy, and never has a long stem. The

peduncle of the present plant is longer, and the inflores-—

_ cence much more compound. It was first discovered by |

the botanists of the Mexican boundary survey more than

thirty years ago, but has only lately been introduced into

cultivation. The plant in the Royal Gardens, Kew, from

which the present drawing was made, is growing in the

large Temperate House, and flowered for the first time in-

Yuccas, in 1893, from Mr. J. N. Gilerease, of Sierra

Blanca, Texas. + ee

forked at the top, covered down to the base with reflexed :

withered leaves. Leaves densely rosulate, stiffly erect

Aprit 1st, 1899, a

the summer of 1896. It was purchased, along with other

Descr.—Trunk, of the Kew plant, about a yard Jong, -

spreading, linear from a_ suddenly-dilated base, one

and a half or two feet long, pale green, pungent,

copiously filiferous on the margin. Peduncle twice as long

as the leaves, furnished with copious spreading, linear

bracts leafy. Inflorescence an ample, dense, rhomboid

panicle; racemes lax, the lower six or nine inches long ;

pedicels in pairs, articulated at the apex; bracts ovate-

lanceolate, scariose, longer than the pedicels. Perianth

white, two inches long, hardly at all tinged with green on

the outside when mature. Stamens one-third the length

of the perianth ; filaments pubescent. Ovary with a short,

pubescent, columnar style. Capsule oblong, coriaceous, -

two inches or more long, finally dehiscent. Seeds large,

black, discoid.—J. G. Baker. :

Fig. 1, Stamen ; 2, pistil, both enlarged; 3, whole plant, much reduced.

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INCARVILLEA varraBiILis.

Native of Western China.

Nat. Ord. Bignonracea.—Tribe TEcomMEx.

Genus IncaRvILLEA, Juss. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1049.)

IncaRVILLEA variabilis; perennis, caule gracili erecto ramoso angulato

folioso glabro v. puberulo, foliis omnibus alternis, ambitu ovatis pin-

natis, foliolis oppositis ovato-lanceolatis pinnatifidis pinnatisectisve

incisis, floribus in racemos graciles dispositis breviter pedicellatis, pedi-

cellis basi foliolo tripartito bracteatis, calyeis brevis tubo obconico

pentagono, lobis brevibus in tubereulos crassos globosos seta valida

scabrida instructos desinentibus et cum lobulis late ovatis membranaceis

alternantibus, corolla tubo pollicari infundibulari, limbi 1-14 poll. lati

lobis rotundatis patenti-recurvis, staminodiis 0, stigmatis lobis orbiculatis,

capsula bipollicari anguste fusiformi utrinque altenuata terete ternuiter

coriacea, seminibus ala hyalina cinctis.

Incarvillea variabilis, Batalin in Act. Hort. Petrop. vol. xii. (1892) p. 177,

et vol. xiv. (1895) pp. 178, 18>.

Of the beautiful genus Incarvillea only one species was

known in 1876, the date of the publication of the third

part of vol. ii. of the “‘Genera Plantarum;” since which

time, so great has been the influx of new plants from

Western China and LHastern Tibet, that Dr. Batalin

enumerates nine species from Eastern Tibet and China

alone, in a paper published three years ago in the * Acta”

of the Imperial Botanical Gardens of St. Petersburg.

Amongst these is his I. variabilis, a well-named species, of

which he enumerates 4 varieties, distinguished chiefly by

the amount of the division of the leaves, and the form of

their segments. With none of these varieties does the

plant here figured perfectly accord, whilst approaching

nearest to var. y fumarizxfolia, itself a protean form in

foliage as the suite of authentically named specimens in the

Kew Herbarium demonstrates. From this the plant here

figured differs in the shorter, more equally pinnate leaves,

with the leaflets much shorter, broader, and more uniform

in shape and incision. The curious character of the seti-

form or horned calyx-lobes, each lobe seated on a large

tubercle, is common to several species. JI. variabilis is

remarkable in having no trace of a staminode between

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the shorter stamens, in either the cultivated or wild

specimens.

I. variabilis was discovered by Mr. Potanin on the

mountains of the Chinese provinces of Szechuen and

Kansu. A _ yellow-flowered variety is described by Mr.

Batalin as inhabiting the valley of the Po-ho river in

Eastern Tibet. The Royal -Gardens received seeds of

I. variabilis from Mr. W. Thompson of Haslemere, Ipswich,

plants from which flowered in the Herbaceous ground in

August, 1898. Its nearest ally is I. sinensis, Lamk., which

has smaller flowers and a much larger pod.

Descr.—A slender, perennial, glabrous, or faintly pubes-

cent herb, twelve to eighteen inches high. Leaves all

alternate, two to four inches long, shortly petioled, ovate

in outline, pinnate; leaflets six to eight pairs, opposite,

shortly petiolulate, ovate-lanceolate, pinnatifidly cut into

obtusely toothed pinnules. Flowers in loose, erect racemes,

shortly pedicelled, with a tripartite leafy bract at the base

of each pedicel. Calyx small, tube obconic, five-angled,

lobes setiform, as long as the tube, scabrid, seated on

a globose tubercle, alternating with as many short, mem-

branous teeth. Corolla bright rose-purple, tube an inch

long, slightly curved, limb more than an inch across the

orbicular spreading and recurved lobes. Follicle an inch

long, narrowly fusiform, acuminate. Seeds surrounded

with a hyaline wing.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Calyx, style, and stigma; 2, portion of calyx laid open, showing disk

and ovary; 3, portion of corolla laid open and stamens; 4, anther :—A/Z

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NICOTIANA sytvestris,

Native of Argentina,

Nat. Ord. Sonaneac%.—Tribe CesTRINEx.

Genus Nicotiana, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 906.)

Nicotiana sylvestris; herba eiata, robusta, foliosa, ramosa, glanduloso-

puberula, foliis pedalibus amplis omnibus basi cordatis semi-amplexi-

caulibus lyrato-obovatis-oblongisve obtusis v. cuspidatis costa crassa,

nervis patalis subtus prominulis, inflorescentia subcapitata, e cymis—

brevibus fasciculatis multifloris subsessilibus composita, floribus breve

icellatis nutantibus, calyce ovoideo 5-fido basi rotundato, lobis tubo

revioribus erectis inzqualibus lanceolatis ovatis v. triangularibus,

corolla alba tubo gracili 3-pollicari tereti glanduloso-puberulo medium

versus paulo inflato, limbi 14 poll. lati lobis triangularibus obtusiusculis

patenti-recurvis, filamentis medio tubi insertis filiformibus glabris,

antheris vix exsertis oblongis, capsula corolla paulo longiore.

N. sylvestris, Spegaz. et Comes in Gartenflora (1898) p. 180, fig. 38.

Nicotiana sylvestr's belongs to the group of tall her-

baceous species that abound in South America, but

amongst which I find none with the characters above

described. In foliage it closely resembles NV. tomentosa,

Ruiz & Pav., figured at tab. 7252 of this work, but in

inflorescence and flowers it entirely differs. a8

N. sylvestris is a native of the Province of Salta, a —

country of lofty mountains with fertile valleys, on the

confines of Bolivia, in lat. 26° S., where it grows at an

elevation of 5000 to 6000 feet above the sea. Seeds were

received at the Royal Gardens, Kew, from Messrs.

Dammann & Co. of Naples, in 1898, plants raised from

which flowered in the herbaceous collection in August of

the same year.

Descr.—A tall, stout, branching, closely leafy, glandular-

puberulous herb, five feet high. Leaves a foot long and

upwards, lyrate-obovate from a cordate semi-amplexicaul

base two inches broad, cuspidate, upper part six inches

broad, dark green above, paler beneath, midrib very stout,

and spreading nerves prominent beneath. Inflorescence

terminal, peduncled, almost hemispheric, formed of sub-

May Ist, 1899.

sessile fascicles of short, many- and dense-flowered nod-

ding cymes, two to three inches long, flowering to the

base; pedicels shorter than the calyces, except the lowest

in the cyme. Calyx one-half to two-thirds of an inch long,

ovoid, terete, cleft to about one-third into five, unequal,

broad or narrow, erect lobes. Corolla white, tube three

inches long, very slender, terete, glandular-pubescent,

slightly inflated about the middle; limb an inch and a half

broad, of five triangular, sub-acute, spreading and re-

curved lobes. Stamens inserted where the inflation of the

corolla-tube commences ; filaments very slender, glabrous ;

anthers oblong, tips hardly exserted from the mouth of —

the corolla.. Style very slender, glabrous, stigma included.

Capsule four-toothed.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Calyx and style; 2, portion of corolla-tube and stamens; 3, imma-

ture capsule ; 4, calyx and capsule :-—AJ/ enlarged.

M.S. del. IN Fitch lith

Tas. 7653.

CYRTANTHUS parvirtorvs.

Native of Cape Colony.

Nat. Ord. AMarYLLIDE#.—Tribe AMARYLLEA.

Genus Cyrtantuvs, Ait.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 729.)

Crrtantuus (Monella) parviflorus; bulbo globoso tunicis membranaceis supra

colluam productis, foliis 3-6 linearibus viridibus suberectis floribus

costaneis facie canaliculatis, scapo gracili tereti elongato, umbellis

6-12-floris, pedicellis flore aequilongis vel brevioribus, spathew valvis 2

parvis oppositis lanceolatis, fluribus inodoris splendide rubris, perianthii

tubo subcylindrico curvato ad basin attenuato, lobis brevissimis late

ovatis, staminibus biseriatis filamentis brevissimis, stylo perianthio

zequilongo apice stigmatoso tricuspidato.

C. parviflorus, Baker in Gard. Chron. 1891, vol. i. p. 104; ef in Dyer Fl. Cap.

vol. vi. p. 221.

This pretty little Cyrtanthus was first introduced into

cultivation by Mr. James O’Brien of Harrow, in 1889.

In a wild state it is widely distributed through the

eastern provinces of Cape Colony, from Port Elizabeth

northward to the Transvaal, where Mr, E. Galpin has

found it at an altitude of 4500 feet above sea-level. It

is nearly allied to the well-known C. angustifolius, Ait.

(Bot. Mag. t. 271), but the flowers are much smaller and

brighter in colour. It flowers freely in a cool house at

Kew in April and May. The bulbs were presented to the

Royal Gardens by E. H. Woodall, Esq., of St. Nicholas

House, Scarborough.

Descr.—Bulb globose, about an inch in diameter, with

the outer brown, membranous tunics produced some

distance above its neck. Leaves three to six to a bulb,

contemporary with the flowers, linear, sub-erect, green,

channelled down the face. Pedunele slender, terete.

Flowers inodorous, bright red, six to twelve in an umbet;

pedicels as long as, or shorter than the flowers ; spathe-

valves two, small, opposite, lanceolate. Perianth sub-

cylindrical, curved, about an inch long, narrowed to the

base; lobes very small, broadly ovate. Stamens inserted

May Ist, 1899.

——

in two rows above the middle of the perianth-tube;

filaments very short. Style reaching to the tip of the

perianth, distinctly tricuspidate at the stigmatose apex.

—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, A flower opened out to show the stamens; 2, back view of anther;

3 front view of anther; 4, pistil:—AJl enlarged.

Tas. 7654.

ALNUS niripa.

Native of the Western Himalaya.

Nat. Ord. Curutirera.—Tribe BETULEA.

Genus Anus, Geertn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. iti. p. 404.)

Anus (Clethropsis) nitida; arbor elata, ramulis brunneis novellis puberulis,

foliis ovatis v. ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis integerrimis v. crenato-

serratis glaberrimis lete viridibus lucidis basi rotundatis v. cuneatis

subtus pallidioribus punctulis resiniferis notatis, axillis nervorum bar-

bellatis, infl. masc. et fem. cowtaneis, spicis masc. apices versus

-ramulorum solitariis v. paucis elongatis filiformibus puberulis, floribus

glomeratis bracteatis miuutis tetrandris, sepalis 4 obovatis apicibus

dentatis, spicis fem. 1-2-pcllicaribus axillaribus solitariis binisve erectis

breviter pedunculatis florentibus sanguineis maturis oblongis obtusis

-viridibus, bracteis minutis arcte imbricatis, bracteolis quadrifidis demum

in laminam 4-fidam stipitatam connatis, ovariis minimis orbicularibus

compressis, stylis 2 linearibus obtusis complanatis, nuculis orbicularibus

obcordatisve stylis coronatis marginibus incrassatis.

A. nitida, Endl. Gen. Pl. Suppl. iv. pars II. p. 20. Regel in DO. Prodr.

vol. xvi. pars I. p. 181, et Monogr. Bet. p. 82, t. 14, fig. 23-30. Brand. For.

Flor, p. 460, t. 57. Gamble Man. Ind. Timbers, p. 373. Hook, f. Fl.

Brit. Ind. vol. v. p. 600.

Clethropsis nitida, Spach in Ann. Se. Nat. Sér. IL. vol. xv. p. 202; et in

Jacquem. Voy. Bot. p. 158, t. 159.

The Western Himalayan Alder (A. nitida) is a very

handsome tree, that does not occur-east of the Sutlej river,

but extends from thence westward, at elevations of 4000 to

9000 ft., to Kashmir and Afghanistan. In the Eastern

Himalaya it is replaced by A. nepalensis, Don, which,

commencing from a little westward of the Sutlej (in

Chamba) extends thence throughout the range to Burma

and Western China. It has not as yet been introduced

into England. The wood of A. nitida is used in the

manufacture of bedsteads, and the lithe branches form

ropes for the construction of suspension bridges, and for

tying loads of wood. The bark is used for dyeing and

tanning purposes.

Seeds of A. nitida were sent to the Royal Gardens, Kew,

together with those of many other western Himalayan

plants, by the late R. Ellis, Esq., of the Forest Depart-

ment, from Pangi, in 1882, from which the plant here

May Ist, 1899,

figured was raised. It flowered in the Arboretum in

September, 1897.

Descr.—A tall, fast-growing, deciduous tree, attaining

a hundred feet in height, with a trunk ten to fifteen feet in

girth, covered with rough brown furrowed bark ; wood soft,

reddish. Leaves four to five inches long, ovate, acuminate,

entire or serrate, bright green, and polished above, pale

beneath, nerves eight to ten pairs, arched; petiole about

an inch long, slender. J/ale and fem. inflorescence cre-

taneous. Male spikes solitary or few, towards the tops of

the branchlets, shortly peduncled, four to six inches

long, very slender, pendulous. Flowers small, in globose

clusters, surrounded by minute green bracts; perianth-

scales four, obovate, tips toothed. Stamens four, anthers

didymous, red. em. spikes axillary, and at the base ot

the males, one to two inches long, sub-sessile, strict,

linear, blood-red. Flowers minute, in broad, short, im-

bricating bracts; bracteoles four, orbicular, which even-

tually coalesce, and are raised on a hardened stipes.

Ovary very minute, orbicular, compressed, with two

linear, flattened stigmas. Nutlets orbicular or obcordate,

crowned with the persistent stigmas.—J. D. H.

__ Fig. 1, Clusters of male f.; 2, bracteole; 3, male A. and v

———s and bract ; 5, two fem. fl.; 6, a fem. fl.; 7, young os are ie ‘

bes catty col 9, — bracteoles; 10, longitudinal section of nutlet:—4J/

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DAHLIA MAXIMILIANA.

Native of Mezxico.

Nat. Ord. Composit2.—Tribe HELIANTHOIDER.

Genus Dautia, Cav.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 386.)

Danita Mazimiliana; elata, ramosa, caule fistuloso? lenticellato, foliis

plerisque bipinnatis superioribus pinnatis v. 3-foliolatis, summis interdum

unifoliolatis, petiolo gracili inferioram fistuloso, foliolis paucis 3-5-poll.

longis sessilibus v. graciliter petiolulatis ovatis ovato-oblongisve acutis

acuminatis caudatisve grosse serratis basi acutis obtusis v. repente

angustatis et in petiolulam decurrentibus glabris v. utrinque puberulis,

terminali paullo majore oblongo sessili v. (interdum longe) petiolulato,

floribus in axillis superioribus solitariis et ad apices ramuJorum sub-

corymbosis, pedunculis elongatis gracilibus, capitulis ad 3-poll. latis,

involucri bracteis exterioribus 5-7 herbaceis lineari-oblongis patentibus

tortis 3-nerviis basi tumidis, interioribus erectis oblongis snbmembrana-

ceis obtusis acutisve, fl. radii ad 8 tubo brevi puberulo, limbo elliptico

obtuso multinervi roseo-purpureo, disci floribus aurantiacis.

D. Maximiliana, Hort. in Gard. Chron, 1879, vol. i. p. 216; Hemsl. in Gard.

Chron. 1879, vol. ii. p. 525, et Biolog. Cent. Am, Bot. vol. ii. p. 197.

The earliest notice which I find of this plant is that

specimens of it were exhibited at a show of the Royal

Horticultural Society in February, 1879, by Mr. Green,

gardener to Sir George Macleay, K.C.M.G., of Pendel

Court, Bletchingly. There are excellent specimens, com-

municated by Sir George, preserved in the Herbarium

at Kew. As stated in the Gardener’s Chronicle of that

date, it attains eight feet in height, four feet in diameter,

and blooms for a long-time. This was followed by Mr.

Hemsley’s notice of the plant as D. Mawimiliana, Hort.,

in October of the same year, in his account of the

known species of Dahlia, with the observations that the

stem, seven feet high, is lenticellate, the leaves bipin-

nate, with relatively slender petioles, and the flowers

unknown. In December of the following year I received

some flowers of it as D. Mawzimiliana?, from EK. H.

Woodall, Esq., of St. Nicholas House, Scarborough, with

the information that the plant producing them was eight

feet high, had excited great admiration, from the delica

mauve colour of its anemone-like flowers, and that, as

May lst, 1899, .

succeeds the chrysanthemum, it should prove a valuable

addition to winter-flowering conservatory plants. Up to

the present time there has been no description of the

species but that I here give. Of the origin or introduction

of the species I have found no record. It is regarded as

Mexican, probably correctly, as that country is the head-

quarters of the genus. —

As a species it is difficult to assign to D. Maximiliana

botanical characters that would by words distinguish 16

from some of the forms of the common D. variabilis, Desf.,

than which it is a very much larger plant, with a more

branching fistular ? stem; the foliage more resembles that

of D. imperialis, but is less divided, and with comparatively

slender petioles. The flowers are totally unlike those of

D. imperialis, and, except in the lovely colour, resemble

those of D. variabilis.

The specimen from which the accompanying figure was

made was kindly sent in February of this year (along with

other interesting plants to be figured in this work) by

Commendatore Hanbury, F.L.S., from his unrivalled

garden at Palazzo Orengo, La Mortola, Ventimiglia.

_ Descr,—Stem six to eight feet high, copiously branched,

fistular, glabrous, green, lenticellate; branches long,

spreading, leafing and flowering. Leaves spreading, lower

two to three feet long, bipinnate, with slender, fistular

petioles, and few sessile or petiolulate leaflets, one to three

inches long; leaflets few, ovate, or oblong-ovate, coarsely _

serrate, from acute to caudate-acuminate, thin, glabrous or —

puberulous on both surfaces, terminal rather the largest,

oblong, base rounded, obtuse, or acute, or suddenly

narrowed and decurrent on the petiole. Flowers copiously

produced in the axils of the upper leaves, and in loose

corymbs terminating the main stem and branches. IJn-

voluere, ray, and disk-florets as in D. variabilis, with rays

of a lovely mauve colour,—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Inner involucral bract and disk flower; 2, ovary, tube, and part

of the corolla with style of a ray-flowar; 3, stamens :—A// enlarged,

‘Tas. 7656.

VERONICA Dterrensacuit.

Native of the Chatham Islands.

Nat. Ord. ScROPHULARINEX.—Tribe DrerraLe2.

Genus Veronica, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 964.)

Veronica (Hebe) Dieffenbachii; frutex glaber v. puberulus, ramosns, ramis

elongatis divaricatis teretibus viridibus, foliis 3—-4-pollicaribus sessilibus

patenti-recurvis lineari-oblongis acutis coriaceis enerviis basi late cor-

datis semiamplexicaulibus costa valida marginibus recurvis supra

levibus subtus pallidis, racemis axillaribus oppositis foliis squilongis

breviter pedunculatis cylindraceis obtusis densifloris,-rhachi robusto

viridi, floribus parvis, pedicellis ad 3 poll. longis basi bracteis minutis

ovatis instructis, sepalis , poll. longis ovata oblongis obtusis ciliolatis,

corollze lilacinze tubo peas be duplo longiore, limbi } poll. lati lobis

lateralibus et dorsali orbiculatis, antico minore, filamentis corolle

lobis paullo longioribus, antheris oblongis ceruleis, stylo brevi, capsulis

parvis ovatis obtusis dorso compressis, seminibus orbiculatis plano-

convexis.

V. Dieffenbachii, Benth. in DC. Prodr. vol. x. p. 459. Hook. f. Fl. Nov.

Zel. vol. i. p. 191; Handb. Fl. NN. Zeal. p. 206. F. Muell. Vegetation

of Chatham Isids. (sub V. salicifolia) p. 45. Armstrong in Trans. J.

Zeal. Instit. vol. xiii. (1880) p. 351. Kirk, l.c. xxviii. (1895) p. 531.

Gard. Chron, 1898, vol. ii. p. 154, fig. 41.

A very handsome and well-marked, shrubby Speedwell,

confined to the Chatham Islds., where it was discovered by

Dr. Dieffenbach, the first naturalist who visited that in-

teresting dependency of New Zealand, now nearly sixty

years ago. Asa species it stands between J. speciosa, R.

Cunn. (see tab. 4057), and V. macroura, Hook. f. (a plant

not hitherto figured), and, as I have observed in FI. Nov.

Zel., it quite resembles what a cross between these two

species might yield. The only indigenous specimen that

I have seen is Dieffenbach’s in Herb. Kew, and I have

no other information as to the habit of the plant in its

native country than an observation by Kirk, in his

enumeration of the N. Zealand species of Veronica, in

the “‘ Transactions of the New Zealand Institute,” who

says of it, “The rather stout branches are given off in

a divaricating manner, so that a single specimen may

cover an area many yards in diameter. The stem and

leaves are sometimes pubescent.’

May Ist, 1899.

Sir F. von Mueller, in his little volume on the “ Vegeta-

tion of the Chatham Islds.,”’ has the hardihood to refer this

and twenty other well characterized New Zealand species

of Veronica to V. salicifolia! Under the same inspiration,

in the same work, he reduces thirty-five species of Hpilo-

bium, including EH. alpinum, L., to H. tetragonum, L. It

is unfortunate that Mueller never visited either New ~

Zealand or the Chatham Islds., for a little knowledge of

the species of both genera in their native countries might

have modified his views.

The figure of V. Dieffenbachii was made from a specimen

sent me by Robert Lindsay, Esq., of Kaimes Lodge,

Murray-field, Midlothian, in August, 1898, The plant 1s

cultivated at Kew, where it flowers freely in a sheltered

border in October.

Deser.—A glabrous or puberulous shrub, with long,

divaricating, terete, green, leafy branches. Leaves sessile,

spreading, and recurved, three to four inches long, linear- ~~

oblong, acute, coriaceous, midrib stout otherwise, veinless,

base broadly cordate, semi-amplexicaul, margins recurved,

bright green above, pale beneath. Flowers very small,

bright lilac, crowded in axillary, opposite, shortly pedun-

cled, sub-erect, cylindric dense racemes; peduncle and

rhachis stout, terete; pedicels about one-tenth of an inch

long, with a minute bract at the base. Sepals about as

long as the pedicels, narrowly oblong, acute, ciliolate.

Corolla tube longer than the sepals, funnel-shaped, limb a

quarter of an inch broad, lateral and dorsal lobes sub-

equal, orbicular, anterior lobe smaller. Filaments about as

long as the corolla-lobes, anthers blue. Capsule very small,

ovate, obtuse, or acute, dorsally compressed. Seeds

minute, orbicular.—/. D. H.

Fig. 1, Two flowers, with pedicels and bracts; 2, two sepals, ovary, and

base of style; 3, portion of raceme and capsule; 4, calyx and capsule ;

5, seed; all but 3 (which is of the natural size) enlarged.

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BEGONIA venosa.

Native of Brasil,

Nat. Ord. BrGonracEa,

Genus Breonta, L.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 841.)

Bzconia (Rachia) venosa; caule erecto elato valde robusto folioso sublanugi-

noso, foliis amplis subpeltatim petiolatis auriformibus obtusis basi late

bilobis margine undulatis palmatinerviis crassiusculis supra luride

viridibus pilis flaccidis albis rufisque sublanatis, subtus densius lanatis

nervis subsimplicibus validis, stipulis maximis (2-pollicaribus) inter-

nodio exquilongis erectis oblongis subacutis inflatis tenuiter rigide

membranaceis pallide rufis parallelinerviis venulis transversis reti-

culatis, pedunculis valde elongatis erectis, cymis corymbiformibus medio-

cribus bisexualibus, bracteis parvis lineari-oblongis caducis, floribus

breviuscule pedicellatis ad ? poll. latis albis, mase. sepalis 2 orbiculatis

dorso tomentosis v. — petalis 2 minoribus et angustioribus,

staminibus numerosis, filamentis brevissimis, antheris oblongis, connective

producto crasso apice rotundato, fl. fem. sepalis 4 orbiculatis, petalo

unico minore oblongo, ovario 3-loculari, placentis bipartitis segmentis

undique ovuliferis, stylis brevibus hippocrepiformibus undique stigma-

tosis cornubus brevibus tortis.

B. venosa, Skaz in Kew Bulletin, 1899, ined.

A magnificent and very distinct species, remarkable for

the frosted, silvery appearance of the upper surface of the

leaves, and the very large inflated stipules, which are of

a membranous, transparent, but firm consistence, and

are traversed by strong, straight, parallel veins, the inter-

spaces being crossed by capillary reticulating venules. They

contrast by their pale, reddish colour with the bright green

of the stems which they embrace, all but concealing the

internodes. The flowers are comparatively inconspicuous.

B. venosa falls into none of the sections of the genus

as these are defined by Klotzsch and A. de Candolle, but

its close affinity in habit, indumentum, foliage, stamens,

styles and placentation with B. incana, Lindl. deter-

mines its place to be with that plant in sect. Rachia,

A.DC., providing that the character hitherto given to

Rachia, of sepals 3, petals 2, be altered to sepals 2-4,

petals 1-2. B. incana is a native of hot, dry, sunny

places in Mexico. The native country of B. venosa is not

satisfactorily known. Mr. Thos. Christy, F.L.8., who

sent to Kew Herbarium the specimen here figured, together

Junge lst, 1899.

with a living plant for the Royal Gardens (which has already

flowered), informs me that it was discovered by Professor

Lofgren, head of the Botanical Dept. of the state of

Sao Paolo, in an island off the coast of Brasil, but whether

off Para, or off the mouth of the river Santos (Prov. Sao

Paolo), Mr. Christy cannot inform me. That gentleman

has observed that the female flowers are not fully developed

until the males have fallen away.

Deser.—Stem tall, erect, very robust, upwards of half

an inch in diameter, and as well as the leaves covered with

a cottony white or reddish tomentum. Leaves long-

petioled, thick in texture, ear-shaped, with a deeply 2-

lobed base, six inches long, dull green, frosted above with —

sparse white tomentum, mixed with rufous hairs, more

densely rufously tomentose beneath, margin undulate;

nerves few, strong, radiating from the sub-peltately

attached petiole, which is three to five inches long, stout,

terete, and like the peduncle sparsely clothed with hairs ;

stipules two inches long, oblong, ventricose, sub-acute,

almost concealing the internodes of the stem, of a very

thin but rigidly membranous texture, pale rufous, with

about eight parallel strong nerves, and very delicate anas-

tomosing cross nervules. Oymes about four inches broad,

on rather slender, erect, axillary, red peduncles, eight to ten

inches long, bisexual ; bracts small, linear-oblong, caducous.

towers shortly pedicelled, about three-fourths of an inch

broad, pure white; males with two orbicular sepals, and

two much smaller, narrowly oblong petals ; female of four

orbicular sepals and one oblong petal. Stamens many,

crowded on asmall receptacle ; anthers oblong, much longer

than the filaments, connective thickened upwards, with a

produced rounded top, cells narrow, diverging upward.

Styles very short, horse-shoe shaped, with short, erect

arms, terminating in twisted tips, all clothed with papillose

hairs. Ovary trigonous, narrowly three-winged ; placentas

ae segments covered with ovules on both faces.—

Fig. 1, Stamen; 2, fem. flowers: 3 ea tion

of ovary :—All enlaryed. ers; J, ovary and styles; 4, transverse sec

Tan. 7658,

MORAA SULPHUREA.

Native of Cape Colony.

Nat. Ord. In1prE*.—Tribe Mor#E&.

Genus Morwa, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 688.)

Mora sulphurea; cormo globoso parvo, foliis productis linearibus firmis

glabris canlis basin vaginantibus, caule gracili monocephalo, spatha

cylindric valvis linearibus viridibus inzqualibus, exteriore minore,

perianthio sulphureo segmentis omnibus e medio reflexis ad basin limbi

aurantiaco maculato punctis et lineis brunneis decoratis, exterioribus

obovato-cuneatis, interioribus paulo angustioribus, styli ramis brevibus

sulphureis appendicibus lanceolatis.

This new, slender little Morza belongs to a group dis-

tinguished by the stems bearing only a single terminal

cluster of flowers, and resembles in habit MZ. Baurii,

Baker, and M. lurida, Ker. Corms were received from

Mr. J. Matthews, of Capetown, in 1896, and which

flowered for the first time in a cool stove at the Royal

Gardens, Kew, in April, 1898. Very few of the Morzas

are now in cultivation, but the number of _ species

known has gone on, of late years, steadily increasing,

till it has reached forty-seven species at the Cape, and

eighteen in tropical Africa, in addition to the gigantic

M. Robinsoniana of Lord Howe’s island. Many of them

are very fine plants, with leaves as broad, and flowers as

_ large as in the European Irises, whilst in others the flowers

are small and fugitive.

Descr.—Corm small, globose. Produced leaves two,

sheathing the base of the stem for some distance, linear,

firm, dark green, glabrous, three or four inches long.

Stem slender, terete, under a foot long, bearing a single

terminal cluster of flowers, and two small sheathing leaves,

Spathe cylindrical, under an inch long; outer valves firm,

linear, green, the exterior one small. Perianth sulphur-

yellow, an inch long, segments all reflexing from the

middle, and marked at the throat with a spot of darker

yellow, with radiating brown lines and spots; outer

segments obovate-cuneate, a third of an inch broad; inner

June Ist, 1899.

rather narrow. Ovary clavate, small; style-branches

pale yellow; appendages large, lanceolate, erect.—J. G.

Baker.

Fig. 1, Stamen, front view; 2, stamen, back view; 3, style-branch, with

appendages :—AI/l enlarged,

Tap. 7659,

KLEINIA peyputa.

Native of Somaliland and Arabia.

Nat. Ord. Composita.—Tribe SENECIONIDEX.

Genus Ktietnia, Linn.; Senecio (Kietnta) (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant.

vol. ti. p. 449.)

Kurinia pendula; glaberrima, fere aphylla, caule decumbente carnoso miro

modo tortuoso e articulis paucis crasse carnosis divaricatis constante,

articulis cylindricis 4-15 poll. longis $-3 poll. diam. incurvis v. inflexis

sparse spinulosis luride viridibus striatis basi rotundatis apice attenuatis

- superiore areola parva inferiori infra apicem adnata, foliis apicibus

nascentibus articulorum fasciculatis : longis teretibus carnosis

demum in spinulas rigidas decurvas tumidas mutatis, pedunculis

1-2 terminalibus, unifloris bracteis paucis linearibus sparsis, capitulo multi-

floro, involucri pollicaris cylindrici basi nudi bracteis anguste linearibus

acutis striatis tubis florum brevioribus, floribus miniato-aurantiacis,

styli ramis fl, radii lineari-elongatis obtusis, fl .disci brevioribus cono parvo

terminatis, acheniis hirtulis, pappi setis tenuissimis subscaberulis albis.

K. ? pendula, DC. Prodr. vol. vi. p. 339.

Cacalia pendula, Forsk. Fl. Atgypt. Arab. p. 145. Vah!, Symb. vol. iii. p. 90.

Senecio pendulus, Sch. Bip. in Flora, vol. xxviii. (1845) p. 500.

S. Gunnisii, Baker in Kew Bullet. 1895, p. 217.

Notonia trachycarpa, Klotz. (Pl. Bind.) in Sitzh. Acad. Wien. Math.-Nat. li.

Abth. ii. (1865) 370, t.8. Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afric. vol. iii. p. 408, excl. syn.

omn.

Kaad, Arab.

A very singular plant, the distorted form of which, as

shown in the reduced figure given in the accompanying

plate, suggests the idea of its not being merely tortuous,

but distorted. The serpentine branches of the stem are

divaricate at all manner of angles, are curved or twisted in

various ways, and are superposed on one another, with the

upper never terminating the lower, but attached at its

side below the apex by a very narrow point of junction.

K. pendula is a native of dry, rocky mountains in Arabia,

Abyssinia, and Somaliland. It was discovered in Yemen

by the Swedish naturalist Forskoel, in 1762, and has been

collected in Hadramaut by Bent, in Abyssinia by Schim-

per, and in Somaliland by Hildebrandt, and by Mrs. Lort

Phillips and Miss Edith Cole.

A specimen was brought by these ladies to the Cam-

bridge Botanical Gardens, where it flowered in October,

1893, and was kindly sent to Kew for figuring in this

Junr Isr, 1899.

work by Mr. Lynch. Specimens from both Mr. Bent and

Mrs. Lort Phillips are growing most luxuriantly at Kew,

and have attained much longer stems than the native ones,

or than that figured in the plate. The joints root freely

at the articulations, and often at the tips also. As to the

genus of this plant, that depends on the value attached to

Kleinia, Linn., as distinct from Senecio. Of absolute dis-

tinction between these there is none, but Kleinia forms a

fairly circumscribed group, distinguished by a succulent

habit, cylindric, ecalyculate involucre, long, narrow, uni-

seriate bracts, and homogamous discoid flowers, the outer

of which have small conical appendices to the style-arms.

For horticultural usage the name is very convenient.

Notonia, DC., is absolutely identical with Aleina.

Descr.—A decumbent, almost leafless, fleshy perennial.

Stem consisting of a few superposed curved or crooked,

fleshy, cylindric joints, the upper of which is laterally arti-

culate with that below it by a very narrow area below the

point; joints four to fifteen inches long, by one half to

three-quarters of an inch in diameter, sparsely spinulose,

incurved or inflexed, dull green, striated, base rounded, tip

narrowed, obtuse. Leaves produced only at the growing

tips of the young joints, about a quarter of an inch long,

filiform, terete, fleshy, transformed into shining recurved

spinules, with a swollen base as the joint develops. Peduncles

one or two, terminal, erect, deflexed, or horizontal, three

or more inches long, furnished with a few small, narrow

bracts. Involuere about an inch long, by half an inch in

diameter, cylindric, naked at the base; bracts narrowly

linear, acute, shorter than the flowers, striate. Flowers

forming a depressed head, much broader than the in-

volucre, about an inch and a half in diameter, of a bright

vermilion colour mixed with orange-yellow.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Ray-flower ; 2,

arms of ray

specimen,

disk-flower; 3, hair of pappus; 4, stamen; 95, style-

-flower :—All enlarged :—6, reduced view of the Cambridge Garden

7660

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CHRYSANTHEMUM wnipponicum.

Native of Japan.

Nat. Ord. Compositz.—Tribe ANTHEMIDER.

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

CHRYSANTHEMUM nipponicum; fruticulus 1-2-pedalis, erectus, caule simplici

robasto paucifloro, foliis confertis 3~4-pollicaribus, sessilibus oblongo-

obovatis oblanceolatisve obtusis basi angustatis integerrimis sursum

crenato-serratis coriaceis supra late viridibus subtus pallidis, pedunculis

monocephalis robustis foliis paucis abbreviatis instructis, capitulis 2-3}

poll. diam., involucri hemispherici bracteis late ovatis obtusis herbaceis

fusco marginatis, fl. radii ligulis linearibus albis apice 5-dentatis, fl.

disci tubulosis pallide flavido-virescentibus, tubo tereti, dentibus brevibus

erectis, antheris breviter appendiculatis, styli fl. fem. ramis brevibus

ee truncatis stigmatosis, achzeniis teretibus glabris, pappo squamu-

oso.

C. nipponicum, Wien. Ili. Gartenzeit. 1895, p. 12. W. Watson in Gard,

Chron. 1897, vo). i. p. 46; 1898, vol. ii. p. 348, fig. 104.

Leucanthemnm nipponicum, Franch. ee Mawxim. in Bull. Acad, Pétersb.

vol. xvii. (1872) p. 420; Mél. Biol. vol. viii. p. 512.

Somoko Zusetsu, vol. xvii. t. 15 (13 litt. Jap.)

Hama-giku, Jap.

A very distinct species, cultivated in the gardens of

Japan, where, according to a note by Maximowicz

attached to specimens collected by him at Jedo on

his second journey (1862), it is considered to be a plant

introduced into Japan, but from what country is not

known. There are specimens in the Kew Herbarium

from Father Faurie, ticketed *‘ Yokohama,” probably pro-

cured from a nursery. The species was introduced into

Europe by Messrs. Damman & Co. of Naples, from whom

the plant grown at Kew, from which the accompanying

figure is taken, was purchased.

But for its sensitiveness to frosts, C. nipponicum would

be a very valuable open border plant. The specimen

figured flowered in the Temperate House of the Royal

Gardens in October, 1898. This year, owing to the

absence of frosts, it has flowered freely in the open air in

the same month; but it has in former years been so often

cut " by early frosts that it cannot be regarded as

hardy.

JUNE Ist, 1899,

Deser.—A stout, glabrous undershrub, one to two feet

high, with a simple leafy stem, woody at the base, and

few-fld., corymbose inflorescence. Leaves crowded, three

to four inches long, oblanceolate, or obovate-oblong,

obtuse, narrowed into an entire sessile base, crenate-

serrate above it, rather thickly coriaceous, dark green

above, pale beneath. Head variable in size, up to three

and a half inches in diameter, on long, stout one-flowered

peduncles, that bear a few very short leaves. Involucre

hemispheric; bracts short, broadly ovate, obtuse, her-

baceous, green, with broad, red-brown, scarious margins. _

Ray-flowers very many, ligules linear, tips minutely five-

toothed. Disk-jflowers greenish-yellow, tube terete, lobes

minute, erect. Anther with short tips. Style-arms of

disk-flowers with truncate, papillose tips. Achenes (imma-

rae terete, crowned with a minute paleaceous pappus.—

iv. H.

Fig. 1, Ray-flower; 2, disk-flower ; 3, stamens; 4, style-arms of disk-flower :

All enlarged; 5, reduced view of whole plant.

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JRIS Detavayt.

Native of Yunnan.

Nat. Ord. Intpea.—Tribe Moran.

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

In1s (Apogon) Delavayi; rhizomate repente elongato, foliis 2-23 ped. longis

3-3 poll. latis strictis erectis lincaribus acuminatis costatis glauco-viridi-

bus, pedunculo 3-4 pedale valido erecto fistuloso foliis 1-2 minoribus

angustioribus instructo superne furcato paucifloro, spathis 23-3 poll.

longis, foliaceis lanceolatis acuminatis carinatis apicibus scariosis, pedi-

cellis bracteis subsequilongis, perianthii 2-2} poll. expans. tubo ad 4

poll. longo, segmentis exterioribus reflexis, limbo oblongo obtuso

saturate violaceo basin versus albo striolato, ungue limbo wquilongo nudo

viridi late alato alis violaceis albo-punctatis, interioribus erectis oblongo-

lanceolatis subacutis, stigmatibus oblongis apice 2-lobis violaceis lobis

orbicularibus crenulatis, antheris aureis, capsula 2 poll. longa trigona.

I. Delavayi, Micheli in Rev. Hortic. 1895, p. 399, fig. 128, 129; Jard. du

Crest, p. 189.

As pointed out by its author, Mr. Micheli, Iris Delavayi

is closely allied to J. sibirica, which has a very wide range,

from Central and Southern Europe to Eastern Siberia and

Japan. No further evidence of this is necessary than a

reference to the figure of the latter plant at tab. 50 of this

work. The differences indicated by Mr. Micheli are, that in

I. Delavayi the peduncle is longer than the leaves, the

spathes are foliaceous, not scarious, the flowers are longer

pedicelled, the tube of the perianth is longer, and the

capsule larger and triquetrous. Of which characters,

however, that of the longer pedicels does not hold good.

It is also very near the Japanese J. levigata, Fisch & Mey.

(I. Kampferi, Sieb.), to which J. sibirica, var. sanguinea,

Ker (J. sibirica, var. orientalis, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc.

Bot. vol. xvi. (1878) p. 139), tab. 1€04 of this work is re-

ferable, in which the spathes are herbaceous, and perianth

tube long.

I, Delavayi is a native of marshes in the Yunnan pro-

vince of China. It was introduced into the Jardin des

Plantes in 1889 by seeds sent by the Abbé Delavay.

The specimens figured here are of plants raised from

Jone Ist, 1899.

S inches long, triquetrous—J, D, Ff.

|. figure of plant.

‘Seed presented by Mr. Micheli to the Royal G

ardens, which

flowered in the open air in October, 1898 :

they are con-

Deser.—Rootstock: Stout, creeping. Leave

and a half feet long, by one h

an inch broad, strict

8 two to two

alf to two-thirds of

» erect, narrowly linear, acuminate,

ger than the leaves, erect, *

, with two or three very narrow leaves, forked at

nd a half inches long,

» with scarious tips. Pedicels |

Perianth two to two

gments, tube half an inch —

» limb oblong, obtuse, deep

nb, green, with violet white-spotted _

: ; » ODlong-lanceolate, sub-acute,

_ paler violet, Anthers linear, yellow ; stigmas oblong, pale,

Violet, crests orbicular, crenulate, Capsule two and a half

Fig. 1 and 2, Stamens; 3, upper half of stigma :—enlarged ; 4, reduced

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CISTINEA 80

clumps on the garden beds. On. the rocks of Greece, as well as those of

Palestine, the Cistus shrubs are very abundant, and all the genera abound

most on dry and elevated spots, some of them being natives of almost all the

countries of the world. The balsam called Ladanum, which is so much

used as a perfume in Greece and in Oriental countries, and which is prized for

its tonic and stomachic properties, is produced by the Cistus creticus. Southey

has described the fragrance of the Cistus plants :

‘The forest or the lonely heath wide spread,

Where Cistus shrubs sole seen, exhaled at noon

Their fine balsamic odour all around,

Strew’d with their blossoms, frail as beautiful,

The thirsty soil at eve ; and when the sun

Relumed the gladden‘d earth, opening anew

Their stores exuberant, prodigal! as frail,

Whiten’d again the wilderness.”

1. Rock-RosE (Helidnthemum).—Sepals 5, the two outer either smaller or

wanting; petals 5; stamens numerous; capsule 3-valved. Named from the

Greek héelios, the sun, and anthos, a flower, because the flowers expand in

the sunshine.

1. RocK-RoseE (Helidnthemum).

1. Common Rock-rose (H. vulgdre).—Stem shrubby, prostrate ; leaves

with fringed stipules, opposite, oblong, green above, hoary beneath ; calyx of

five leaves, the two outer very small and fringed; seeds black. Plant

perennial. Anyone used to roam over the chalky or gravelly soils of this

country must have often seen, early in spring and late in autumn, the pros-

trate branches of this Rock-rose, covered with their leaves. In spring these

are of a tender verdant tint; but late in the year they are rigid, of a dark

myrtle-colour, and shine with the deepest green hue on the reddened leaf-

stems. When the sunshine of July pours down on the grassy slopes, and

tinges their sides with its gleams, the clumps of brilliant yellow flowers are

bright, as if the sun had turned them into gold. They are truly, as the

ancients called them, Beauties of the Sun, or, as some country people term

them, Sun-Roses; never opening save when skies are bright, and never

_ lingering on till the late autumnal season. Their petals are crumpled and

fragile, and the little unblown buds are very pretty, standing by thousands

as they do among the grass on a cloudy day, waiting for the morrow’s sun.

_ The stamens are very sensitive, and if only touched by the wing of an insect

or the point of a needle, they all lie down on the petals. It is long before

they resume their erect position, and in some cases they appear not to do

3o at all. The bees seem very fond of these flowers, flying from one clump

to another, with their deep joyous humming, passing by their favourite wild

thyme, to rob the Cistus flower, which first invited them ; for these sagacious

insects keep throughout the morning to the same kind of blossom as that

from which they first gathered the honey, and never mingle the sweets of

the thyme and the Cistus.

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Rock-rose is the plant alluded to in the Canticles, as the Rose of Sharon. It

does not appear that the Hebrew word, Chabazzeleth, which our translators

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YUCCA Wurpptet.

Native of California.

Nat. Ord. Linracra.—Tribe Draca|nes.

Genus Yucca, Dill.; (Benth. & Hook, f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 778.)

Yucca (Hesperoyucca) Whipplet; caule brevissimo ahaa ot stolonifero,

foliis numerosissimis densissime confertis patentibus lineari-subulatis

falcatis v. strictis rigidis 10-20 poll. longis a basi 4 poll. lata sensim

angustatis glaucis striatis dorso carinatis, apicem trigonum pungen-

tem versus concavis, marginibus serrulato-asperis, scapo 4-12-pedali

robusto stricto, bracteis 6-9 poll. longis e basi lata foliaceis recurvis

inferioribus confertis foliiformibus, supremis ad basin panicule latioribus,

panicula cylindracea densiflora, perianthii 2-4 poll. diam. subglobosi seg-

mentis incurvis albo-virescentibus apices versus rubro-purpureo margina-

tis exterioribus oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis interioribus multolatioribus,

filamentis erectis sursum incrassatis levibus, antheris didymis, ovario

oblongo, stylo brevi, stigmate crasso trilobo, capsula globoso-ovoidea 1-2

poll. longa, erecta, obtusa, loculicide 3-valvi, valvis integris, seminibus

parvis valde compressis levibus anguste marginatis.

Y. Whipplei, Torr. in Bot. Mex, Bound. p. 222 (textu). Bot. Bxped. Ives, p. 29.

Bot. Works Engelmann, pp. 277, 296, 297, 298, 307. Gard. Chron. 1876,

vol. ii. p. 197, fig. 42. S. Wats. in. Bot. Calif. vol. ii p. 164, e¢ in Proc.

Amer. Acad. vol. xiv. p. 254. Baker, Rivist. Yucchi, Beaucarn. e Dasylir.

in Bull. R. Soc. Tosc. di Ortic. 1881-2, p. 23. The Cactus Journal,

June, 1899, p. 73 cum ic.

Y. graminifolia, Wood in Proc. Acad. Sc. Philadelph. 1868, p. 167.

Y. aloifolia, Torr. Pacific R. Rep. vol. iv. p. 147.

PAgave californica, Hort. Kew. ex Jacobi, Agave, App. p. 117. Lemaire, Iii.

Hortic. 1863, sub tab, 372. :

Yucca Whipplei is a native of rocky mountains in

California, from San Bernardino to Monterey, extending

thence eastwards to N.W. Arizona. It is a very stately

species, attaining twice the height of an ordinary man,

with copious bright green foliage, a stout, bracteate -

scape, and a noble panicle of large, sub-globose flowers.

The figure here given was drawn by Lady Thiselton-Dyer,

during a visit to the Commendatore Hanbury, Palazzo

Orengo, Ventimiglia, in April, 1891, when the plant was

flowering for the first time in that gentleman’s magnificent

garden. From a record, preserved at the Palazzo, and

communicated to me by Commendatore Hanbury, it appears

JuLy Ist, 1899.

that ripe seeds of this Yucca were received in January,

1882, from Ludwig Winter, of Bordighera. These would

give the age of the specimen at first flowering as nine

years. It flowered a second time in the autumn or winter

of 1896, but not since, though it is alive and well.

Descr.—Stoloniferous. Stem very short and prostrate,

or none. Leaves most densely crowded, in an almost

globose mass, two to three feet in diameter, spreading on

all sides, linear-subulate, ten to twenty inches long, sud-

denly tapering from a base about half an inch broad to a

trigonous pungent tip, rigid, straight, or curved, glaucous-

green, striate, dorsally keeled, margins minutely serrulate.

Scape four to twelve feet high, very stout, erect, loosely

covered above, densely below, with erect or recurved

foliaceous bracts, six to nine inches long. Panicle erect,

cylindric, dense-flowered, two to four inches in diameter,

quite glabrous; branches many-flowered; floral bracts

small. Flowers globose, two to two and a half inches in

diameter, pendulous from stout, decurved pedicels, an inch

and a half long; perianth-segments incurved, concave,

acute, greenish-white, margined with dull purple, outer

broadly oblong-lanceolate, inner narrower. Stamens about

half as long as the perianth-segments ; filaments stout,

thickened in the middle, quite smooth ; anthers didymous.

Ovary oblong, laterally six-lobed ; style very short, stigma

three-lobed. Capsule two and a half inches long, broadly

oblong, trigonous —J. D, H.

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ACACIA SPHHEROCEPHALA.

Native of Mexico.

Nat. Ord. Lecuminos&.—Tribe AcaciEz.

Genus Acacia, Willd.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 594.)

Acacia (Gummifere) spherocephala; frutex rigidus, ramosus, stipulis

spinescentibus demum maximis 1}-pollicaribus corniformibus rectis

curvisve ima basi connatis, foliis bi-pinnatis, pinnis 2-3-jugis, foliolis

- 20-30-jugis oblongis subacutis $-} poll. longis glaberrimis saturate

viridibus apicibus nudis v. appendicula fusiformi carnosula caduca flavida

instructis, spicis globosis ochroleucis in paniculas ramosas ramis ramulis-

que robustis glaberrimis dispositis breviter pedicellatis, floribus densissime

congestis, squamulis peltatis gracillime stipitatis immixtis, calycis

urceolati puberuli lobis brevibus rotundatis, corolla calyce paullo longiore

ore vix lobato, staminibus breviter exsertis.

A. spherocephala, Cham. § Schlecht. in Linnea, vol. v. (1830), p. 594.

enth, in Trans, Linn. Soc. vol. xxx. p. 514. Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Am.

Bot. vol. i. p. 355,

Acacia No. 12, Mill. Gard. Dict. Ed. ITI. (1737).

Acacia spinosa, &c., Mill. Fig. Plant. vol. i. p. 4, t. 6 (1755).

? Mimosa campeachyana, Mill. Gard. Dict. Ed. viii. (1768) No. 20; ed. Martyn,

No. 75 (1807).

M. cornigera, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 520, pro parte.

Arbor cornigera, Commel. Hort. Med. Amstelod. vol. i. p. 209, t. 207. ~~

This is one of the two plants long known in cultivation

under the name of Mimosa cornigera, the intricate syno-

nymy of which I have discussed under Acacia spadicigera,

tab. 7395. Though very different in inflorescence, these

two species come from the same country, closely resemble

one another in habit of growth, foliage, the stipules,

and in the more remarkable character of bearing on

the tips of some of their leaflets, fleshy, oblong appen- |

dages, that supply food to stinging ants which nest in

the accrescent hollow stipules. Under the same tab. I

have extracted from the late Mr. Belt’s ‘‘ Naturalist in

Nicaragua,’ that gentleman’s fascinating description of

the habits of these ants, of which there are at least two

species belonging to different genera. To that full

description I must refer for the functions of the organs of

A, sphexrocephala.

JuLy Ist, 1899,

Whether A. spherocephala or A. spadicigera was the

species cultivated as the Cuckold tree so long ago as 1692,

in the Royal Gardens of Hampton Court, remains doubtful ;

as also whether or no it is the ‘‘ Arbor cornigera”’ of Her-

nandez, *‘ Rerum Med. Nov. Hisp. Thes.,”’ p. 86, published

in 1651. The former species was certainly known to Breyn

in 1680, and it may be reasonably surmised that the Hamp-

ton Court plant was procured from Amsterdam. It has long

been known in European gardens, and there are specimens

in the Kew Herbarium from the Montpellier and Liverpool

Botanical Gardens, collected early in the century ; how long

it has been at Kew is not known. The A. cornigera of

Aiton’s “ Hortus Kewensis” is certainly A. spadicigera,

for the spadix-like inflorescence is described in that work.

A, sphexrocephala is a native of Mexico and Central

America, and there are specimens in the Kew Herbarium —

collected in Texas.

Descr.—A shrub with the habit and characters of A.

spadicigera, Cham. & Schlecht. tab. 7395, but with fewer

leaflets, and with panicled, globose heads of flowers ; the

fruit is unknown.—J. D. H.

oe. eta stipules, of the nat. size ; 2, flower; 3, stamens ; 4, pistil:—

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MASDEVALLIA muscosa.

Native of Colombia and_ Ecuador,

Nat. Ord. OncuipEm.—Tribe EripenpREa&.

Genus Maspnevatiia, Ruiz & Pav.; ( — & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii.

p- 492.)

MAsDEVALLIA muscosa ; caespitosa, folio 1}-2 pollicari ovato-oblongo y. oblan-

ceolato in petiolum 4-1 poll. longum sulcatum angustato coriaceo

glaberrimo supra papilloso saturate viridi subtus pallidiore purpureo

suffuso petiolo ima basi vaginato, scapo unifloro 5-6-pollicari gracillimo

pilis glanduligeris laxis patentibus obsito, medium versus vagina parva

cylindracea obtusa glaberrima instructo, bractea vagina simili } poll.

longa membranacea brunnea, pedicello brevi decurvo glaberrimo,

ovario hispido, sepalis basi pallide flavis purpureo striatis in tubum

campanulatum gibbum connatis sursum in caudas pollicares apicibus

clavellatis productis, petalis poll. longis linearibus apicibus rotundatis

margine superiore supra medium unidentatis, labelli } poll. longi ungne

limbo equilongo tomentoso aureo rubro punctulato, limbo triangalari-

obovato velutino lateribus rotnndatis purpureo basi aureo marginibus

incurvis setulosis, columna anguste alata, anthera dorsali.

M. muscosa, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1875, vol. i. p. 460; 1881, vol. ii

p. 336. Bean wm Gard. Chron. 1887, vol. i. p. 836. Veitch Man.

Orchid. part v. p. 54. Woodward, Masdevall, t. 39. F. Oliver in Ann,

Bot. vol. i. (1887-8), p. 237, tab. xii.

M. muscosa is a very interesting plant, being the only

one of the seventy or eighty species of Masdevallia that

have been described or enumerated, in which the lip has

been shown to be sensitive, and to entrap insects in the

flower. This discovery was made by Mr. Bean, when

foreman of the Orchid Collection of the Royal Gardens in

1887, and is described by him in the Gardeners Chronicle

for that year (vol. i. p. 836) ; and later by Prof. F. Oliver,

in an elaborate paper, illustrated with anatomical details,

which appeared in the “Annals of Botany’”’ of the same

year. It may briefly be described as follows. The claw

of the lip is sensitive, and on being touched, however

lightly, by an insect alighting on the blade, the latter

springs up, imprisoning the insect between it and the

column. The insect is then in a position to detach the

pollen, which on its release by the blade falling back, is

carried off. On visiting the lip of another flower the insect

Jury Ist, 1899,

is in a position to place the pollen on its stigmatic surface,

and thus effect cross-fertilization.

In the Australian genus Pterostylis (see tab. 6351) the

lip plays the same part as in this Masdevallia. The

filament of the stamen in Stylidiwm is similarly irritable.

M. muscosa is a native of the Andes of Colombia and ©

Ecuador, at elevations of 5850 to 7475 ft., where the

mean temperature ranges from 59° to 62° Fahr., flowering

in September and October. The specimen here figured

flowered in the Royal Gardens, Kew, in May, 1887.

Descr.—Leaves one and a half to two inches long, oval-

or -oblanceolate-oblong, coriaceous, deep green and papil-

lose on the surface, clouded with purple beneath, tip

minutely three-toothed, base narrowed into a channelled

petiole shorter than the blade. Scape five to six inches

high, one-flowered, very slender, covered with flexuous,

glandular hairs, girt at about the middle by a small,

tubular, obtuse, brown, membranous sheath. Bract a

quarter of an inch long, like the sheath on the scape;

pedicel rather longer than the bract, glabrous. Ovary

decurved, hispid. Sepals yellow, streaked with purple,

united into a campanulate tube gibbous at the base, then

suddenly narrowed from a triangular base into slender,

erect, or recurved tails one inch long, with clavellate tips.

Petals small, linear, yellow, with a red midline, tip rounded,

outer margin toothed above the base. Lip small, claw as

long as the blade, tomentose with yellow hairs; blade

triangular, golden-yellow towards the base, purple beyond

it. Anther dorsal on the top of the column.—J. D. A.

Fig. 1, Lip; 2, transverse section of Al i i ition of

the anther :—Both enlarged. ion of Hower, showing the dorsal position 0

Tan. 7665. 7

CRASSULA pyraMipALis.

Native of the Oape of Good Hope.

Nat. Ord. CrassuLAcEa.

Genus Orassuna, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 657.)

Crassuta (Pyramidella) pyramidalis; nana, caulibus 2-8 pollicaribus foliis

omnino velatis cum foliis tetragonis simplicibus vel ramulis brevissi-

mis instructis, foliis quadrifariam imbricatis horizontalibus arctissime

imbricatis carnosulis triangulari-ovatis basi subcordatis liberis semi-

am plexicaulibus marginibus puberulis, floribus pentameris, in capitula

globosa terminalia $-1 poll. diam. confertis albis pentameris, sepalis

parvis anguste spathulatis marginibus ciliatis, corolle glaberrime

tubo ovoideo sepalis duplo longiore, lobis tubo longioribus linearibus

obtusis recurvis, filamentis brevibus, antheris longiusculis ovato-oblongis,

squamulis e stipite gracili sursum dilatatis truncatis rubro-aurantiacis,

carpellis ovoideis, stylis brevibus.

C. pyramidalis, Linn. f. Suppl. p. 189. Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 287, et in Nov. Act.

Nat. Cur. vol. vi. p. 336, t. 5b. DC. Prodr. vol. iii. p. 388. Harv. et

Sond. Fl. Cap. vol. tii. p. 338. Burbidge in Gard. Chron. 1872, p. 289,

fig. 108, et 1885, vol. i. p. 545, fig. 101 (icon. iterat.).

C. quadrangula, Hndi. ex Walp. Rep. vol. ii. p. 253.

Tetraphyle pyramidalis & quadrangula, Eckl. & Zeyh. Enum, p. 292, 293.

The plant here figured is that known in gardens as

Crassula pyramidalis, Linn. f. and of Thunberg’s ‘ Flora

Capensis,”’ but it differs from the description of these

authors in the leaves being much larger than one line

long, and not being connate, as also in the heads of

flowers being sometimes upwards of an inch across, and ©

not merely “ larger than a pea.” It is possible that in its

native state the plant never assumes the size which it does

under cultivation, but this small size would not account

for the leaves being connate. It must be left to Cape

botanists to settle the question by a visit to the spot where

Thunberg discovered C. pyramidalis, namely, near Olifant’s

River, by the thermal springs, ‘‘(Juxta flum. Olyfant’s

orientalem, prope thermas,” fl. Octob.). Other habitats

given by Harvey in the “ Flora Capensis’’ are Karroo,

between Uitenhage and Graaf Reynet; Kleplaat river;

Juty Ist, 1899.

Driekoppen, Zwaanepoetsport berge, and Gamka river, all

in the South-western region of the Cape Colony.

CO. pyramidalis has been long in cultivation at Kew,

where it flowers in the Succulent House in May and June,

Descr.—Stems two to three inches high, entirely hidden

from base to tip by the leaves, which are most densely

quadrifariously imbricate, together forming a rather

acutely four-angled, green column. Leaves spreading

almost horizontally, nearly half an inch broad, those

of each series being closely appressed to one another,

broadly triangular, with rounded sides, thinly fleshy,

green, margins puberulous in a young state, base con-

tracted and semi-amplexicaul, with a semi-lunar insertion.

Plowers capitately corymbose, forming a sessile head an —

inch in diameter or less, pentamerous, very shortly pedi-

celled, white. Sepals very small, narrowly spathulate,

with ciliate margins. Petals united below into a tube

twice as long as the sepals; free portions as long as the

tube, linear, obtuse, sub-flexuously spreading. Stamens in-

serted in the corolla-tube, filaments very short, anthers

large, ovate-oblong. Hypogynous scales dilated upwards

from a very narrow base, truncate. Carpels narrowed into

short styles—J. D. H. —

Fig. 1, Top of stem and leaves; 2, flower: 3 ; J cei

5, hypogynous glands and carpels :—All one p oy corolla Tr

Tas. 7666.

ROSA XANTHINA.

Native of Central Asia and Afyhanistan.

Nat. Ord. Rosacea.—Tribe Roszz.

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

Rosa (Pimpinellifoliw) wanthina; frutex 3-4-pedalis, erectus, ramosissimus,

spinosus, fere eglandulosus, ramulis rubris glabris, aculeis semipollicaribus

homomorphis confertis rectis rigidis basi compressis et valde dilatatis,

foliis ramulis floriferis confertis 3-1 poll. longis 6-9-foliolatis, foliolis

ovato-oblongis oblongis v. orbicularibus ad } poll. longis serrulato-dentatis

subtus praecipue glandulosis, stipulis oblongis subacutis integerrimis,

floribus in ramulos brevissimos terminales solitariis ad 1 poll. diam.

aureis, pedunculis brevibus glaberrimis v. glanduloso-pilosis, sepalis

lanceolatis integerrimis v. apices versus paucidentatis extus glandulosis

intus tomentosis, petalis sepalis longioribus obovato-oblongis, stylis

liberis lanuginosis apicibus glabris, fructibus globosis ad 3} poll.. diam.

gracile pedunculatis glaberrimis nitidis sepalis reflexis coronatis,

acheniis primum villosis demum glabris.

R. xanthina, Lindl. Ros. Monog. p. 132 (nomen). Crépin in Comptes rendus

Soc. Bot. Belg. vol. xxv. pars ii. p. 14. Franch. in Nouv. Arch. Mus.

Par. Ser. II. vol. v. (Plant. David.), p. 117, t. 15/2. Forbes et Hemsl. in

Journ, Linn, Soc. Bot. vol. xxiii. p. 255. Koehne, Deutsch. Dendrolog.

p. 300,

R. platyacantha, Schrenk in Bull. Acad. Petersb. vol. x. (1842), p. 254. —

Tedeb. Fl. Ross. vol. ii. p. 75.

R. pimpinellifolia, var. platyacantha, Crép. Mater., fase. v. p. 319.

R. Ecae, Aitchis. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. xviii. (1880), p. 54, et xix. (1882),

p- 162, t. viii. Oliv. in Hook, Ic. Plant. vol. xiv. p. 21, t. 1829, Christ. in

Boiss. Fl. Orient. Suppl. p. 207.

The discovery of Rosa xanthina,a central Asiatic species,

in a single valley of Afghanistan, is a noteworthy fact

in geographical distribution, for no other collector in

that country had met with it. In the Kuram Valley of

Afghanistan it abounds, both wild, and cultivated (for

hedges), forming with Amygdalus eburnea the greater part

of the scrub in the stony ridges of the Harieb district,

at an elevation of six thousand to seven thousand feet,

where it was found by the late Dr. Aitchison, F.R.S., when

accompanying General (now Lord) Roberts, on the survey

of that valley. It is a plant of very wide distribution.

Lat. 33° N. is its southern as well as its western limit,

Jutx 1st, 1899,

so far as is known, but it reappears in Turkestan, and

spreads into Soongaria, the Altai Mts., Mongolia, and N.

China, its northern limit being probably about lat. 45°

N. ‘The specific name Hcae is derived from the initials

of Mrs. Aitchison’s name, given before the plant was

identified with Lindley’s Rosa xanthina. The specimen

figured is from a plant raised at the Royal Gardens from

seed sent by Dr. Aitchison in 1880. It flowers in June.

Deser.—A rigid, erect shrub, three to four feet high,

stem and branches armed with crowded, straight prickles

about half an inch long, with dilated, compressed bases,

branches and branchlets leafy, glandular, red when young.

Leaves small, hardly an inch long, crowded on the branch

lets, rhachis eglandular, stipules oblong, entire, sub-acute;

leaflets five to nine, about a quarter of an inch long, from

oblong to orbicular, serrulate-toothed, glandular beneath.

Flowers peduncled, solitary at the base of the branchlets,

about an inch in diameter, golden-yellow ;. peduncles

glabrous, or glandular-hairy. Calyx tube globose; sepals

lanceolate, entire, or toothed towards the tips, glandular

externally, tomentose within. Petals orbicular. Styles

free, tomentose, tips glabrous. Fruit globose, about a

_ quarter of an inch in diameter, glabrous, crowned with the

reflexed sepals. Achenes at length glabrous.—J. D. H.

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ALOE Scuweinerurrutt,

Native of tropical N. EB. Africa.

Nat. Ord. Liniacka.—Tribe Atomwes.

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

ALOok (Eualoe) Schweinfurthii; acaulis v. caulescens, foliis perplurimis con-

fertis incurvo-erectis 2-25-pedalibus a basi compressa biconvexa 7 poll.

_ lata sensim in apicem angustatis medium versus 2 poll. latis plano-

-convexis pallide viridibus marginibus rubris et aculeis brevibus remotis

deltoideis incurvis rubris armatis, scapis pedalibus, inflorescentiwe pani-

culate ramis ascendentibus simplicibus robustis fusco-rubris apicibus

floriferis infimis 6-pollicaribus, omnibus bracteis parvis late ovatis

acuminatis conspersis, floruam racemulis 3-4-pollicaribus erectis densi-

floris, pedicellis gracilibus erectis apice decurvis, bracteis iis ramuloram

consimilibus, floribus 1} poll, longis pendulis, perianthio cylindraceo recto

v. lente curvo basi rotundato infra medium corallino dein aureo, lobis

parvis ovatis recurvis, antheris exsertis flavidis, ovario oblongo, stylo recto

deflexo, stigmate punctiforme, capsula parva late oblonga obtusa obtuse

trigona, valvis coriaceis transverse reticulatis, seminibus parvis late alatis.

A. Schweinfurthii, Baker in Journ. Linn, Soe. vol. xviii. (1885) p.175; in Fi.

Trop. Afr. vol. vii. p. 467. Gard. Chron, 1898, vol. i. p. 197, fig. 76. :

Aloe Schweinfurthii is certainly the handsomest of all

the species hitherto figured in this work. Of these its

nearest tropical African ally is A. Kirkii, Baker, tab.

_ 7386, which differs conspicuously in the short pedicels of

the flowers, and in the spines of the leaves. Amongst the

South African species it comes nearest to A. virens, Haw.

tab. 1355, a much smaller plant, with a simple raceme,

leaves dorsally tubercled, and bright red flowers, with

perianth-segments longer than the tube.

The discoverer of this stately plant is Dr. Schwein-

furth, who found it in the granite hill of Makporvu, in

the Nyam Nyam county of N.E. tropical Africa, lat. 4° 45’

N., long. 28° 30° E.; that is on the confines of the Bahr el

Ghazal.

It was described originally by Mr. Baker, from dried

specimens (distributed by its discoverer, Ser. iil. n. 167 of

his Herbarium) as being caulescent; with close set mar-

Auvueust lst, 1899.

ginal teeth on the leaves, a compressed peduncle, and a

short, campanulate perianth-tube.

For the specimen from which the accompanying figure |

was made, and for a sketch of the whole plant, I am in-

debted to Commendatore Hanbury, F.L.S., who flowered

it in his renowned garden of Pal. Orengo, La Mortola, in

February of this year. I have also received a photograph

of the whole plant through the kindness of Miss Wilmott,

of Gt. Warley, Essex, with which Mr. Hanbury’s sketch

given here, perfectly corresponds.

Descr.—Stemless (as grown at La Mortola). Leaves two —

to three feet long, very numerous, all radical, sub-erect and

incurved, tapering from a compressed base seven inches

broad to an acute tip, section above the base biconvex,

about an inch thick, and across the middle plano-convex,

pale green, margins red, armed with rather distant

short deltoid incurved red spines about one-sixth of an —

inch long, and as broad. Peduncle about a foot high, —

terete, red-brown, naked, branching above into a panicle

as long as the leaves ; branches of panicle rather distant,

ascending, pale red-brown, lower a span long, girt at

the very base by two short appressed bracts, an inner

annular, and an outer broadly ovate acute, bearing above

solitary acuminate bracts a quarter to a third of an inch

long, of the colour of the branch. Flowers in short

oblong racemes, three to four inches long, terminating

the branches, crowded, pendulous ; pedicels about as long —

as the flowers, very slender, erect with decurved tips}

bracts like those on the branch, but narrower and paler:

Perianth about an inch long, cylindric, straight or slightly

curved, bright red in the lower half, golden-yellow in the

upper; lobes very short, obtuse, recurved. Stamens

shortly exserted, anthers dull yellow. Capsule two-thirds

of an inch long, broadly oblong, obtuse at both ends, valves

very coriaceous, transversely wrinkled. Seeds many, ODe —

fifth of an inch long, oblong, surrounded by a hyaline —

— wing.—J, D. H,

‘ bg 1, Transverse section of a leaf towards the base; 2, upper part of a

eaf; 3, portion of a panicle :—all of the nat. size; 4,a flower; 5, pistil :

Both enlarged.

Tas. 7668,

HELIOPHILA scanpens,

Native of Natal.

Nat. Ord. Crucirerx.—Tribe SisyMBRIExX.

Genus Henioruia, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 81.)

Hettornita (Selenocarpwa) scandens; perennis, glaberrima, caule elongato

gracili volubile ramoso folioso, foliis sparsis elliptico-oblongis v. lanceolatis

acuminatis in petiolum angustatis, racemis subcorymbosis laxifloris,

pedicellis gracilibus ebracteatis, floribus fere 1 poll. diam., sepalis sub-

zquilongis oblongis obtusis 2 lateralibus multo latioribus dorso breviter

crasse alatis, petalis spathulatis albis v. pallide roseis, filameatis nadis,

antheris 4 majoribus recurvis, ovario subgloboso, stylo brevi, stigmate

didymo, silicula 1}-pollicari elliptico-oblonga utrinque acuta 1-3-sperma

complanata, valvis membranaceis enerviis, seminibus orbicularibus valde

compressis } poll. latis.

H. scandens, Harv. Thes. Capens. vol. ii. p. 44, t. 166.

In the whole large natural Order of Crucifere, embracing

about 180 genera, only two of these are recorded as bearing

scandent species. They are the 8. African genus Helio-

phila, and the Peruvian Cremolobus, DC., and in these the

scandent habit is quite exceptional. Heliophila itself is

rather an anomalous genus. It consists of nearly seventy

species, confined to Africa South of the tropic, and as

monographed in the ‘‘ Flora Capensis”’ of Harvey & Sonder,

it presents so much variety in the form of the fruit, as to

have been broken up into six genera, some of which will,

no doubt, be re-established. Amongst these is Seleno-—

carpea, Kekl. & Zey., to which H. scandens belongs, dis-

tinguished by its flat pods. These are beautiful objects in

HH. scandens, the membranous valves being veined, and the

septum between the cells, one of which is usually empty,

is of a silvery appearance, of extreme tenuity, and nerve-

less. The orbicular flat seeds have a membranous testa,

with a very narrow, delicate, hyaline border. The con-

torted and convolute narrow cotyledons are exceedingly

curious.

H., scandens inhabits shady places amongst shrubs

near D’Urban, and at Inanda, in Natal. A plant of it was

received at the Royal Gardens, Kew, from Mr. J. Medley

Wood, Curator of the Botanical Garden of D’Urban, in

Aveust Ist, 1899,

1885, which flowered in the Succulent House in the follow-

ing year, and has continued to do so about midwinter ever

since. It now forms a climber on one of the rafters of

the house, about fifteen feet high, with a woody stem

covered with brown bark. The fragrant flowers are said

to vary from white to pinkish, and the racemes are some-

times ten to fifteen-fid.

Descr.—A tall, slender, sparingly branched, woody

climber, with pale brown bark; young branches terete,

green. Leaves scattered, one and a half to two inches

long, elliptic- or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, pale green, —

penninerved ; base acute, narrowed into a slender petiole.

Flowers in pendulous or ascending sub-corymbiform, loose —

racemes, fragrant ; pedicels ebracteate, slender, one half to

nearly an inch long. Sepals pale green, oblong, obtuse,

two lateral with thickened dorsal wings. Anthers large,

those of the longest stamens recurved, tips exserted. Petals

spathulate, white, limb oblong, longer than the claw.

Style short, stigma capitate. Pod one to two and a half

inches long, elliptic-oblong, quite flat, very shortly stipi-

tate, one- to two-seeded, tipped by a short, straight style;

valves membranous, delicately veined, septum hyaline.

Seeds orbicular, flat, about one-eighth of an inch in

diameter, shortly thickly winged ; F

contorted, BE as t3 D-H ged; embryo convolute an

Fig. 1, Calyx-and stamens: 2. to i +4 . $b oe

we ; 2, top of pedicel and pistil; 3, ripe fruit;

4, seed; 5, embryo :—all enlarged, except fig. 3, which is at nak size, : Pg

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ASTER Picco.t.

Native of Northern China.

Nat. Ord. Comrosir#.—Tribe AsTEROIDER,

Genus AstEr, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 271.)

Asrer (Hisutsua) Piccolit; herba perennis, 3-pedalis, suberecta, ramosa,

foliosa, ramulis pedunculisque teretibus scaberulo-puberulis, foliis sessili-

bus inferioribus 3-4 poll, sonia oblongo-oblanceolatis acutis apiculatis

grosse subineequaliter serratis, superioribus minoribus ovatis subintegris,

omnibus supra saturate viridibus nervis impressis margines versus

scaberulis, subtus pallidis alte 3-costatis nervis grosse reticulatis, capitulis

subcorymbosis 1}-2-poll. diam., pedunculis 3-4 poll longis robustis foliis

1-2 parvis oblongis bracteatis, involucro subhemispherico basi foliolo

instructo, bracteis exterioribus 3-4 seriatis, superioribus sensim longioribus

late oblongis herbaceis apicibus rotundatis recurvis purpureis, interioribus

1-2-seriatis obovato-oblongis obtusis albis marginibus late membranaceis

scariosis fimbriatis, receptaculo conico-hemispherico, fl. radii biseriatis, tubo

gianduloso-puberulo, ligula incurvo-patula lineari-oblonga apice 5-denti-

culata pallide lilacina, fl. radii tubulosis aureis, tubo glanduloso-puberulo,

lobis revolutis glabris, acheniis immaturis obovato-oblongis compressis

annulo minuto coronatis, pappo 0.

Aster Piccolii is a very interesting as well as handsome

plant, being referable to the much misunderstood Chinese

genus Hisutsua, which was founded by De Candolle (Prodr,

xi. 44) on Matricaria cantoniensis, Lour., an epappose

plant, erroneously but doubtfully referred by its author to

the tribe Senecionider. Hisutsua was next taken up by

Hooker & Arnott (Fl. Bot. Beech. Voy.,” p. 265),

who referred to it as H. serrata, a plant which belongs

to Blume’s genus Asteromoca. Bentham followed, in the

Flora of Hong Kong,” p. 174, where he brings together

as synonyms of H. cantoniensis, two very different plants,

H. serrata, H. & A., and Asteromoea indica, Blume, referring

all three, erroneously, I think, to the N. American genus

Boltonia (as B. indica, Benth.). With regard to Asteromoea,

it was founded by Blume on Aster indicus, L., a plant

differing from Aster and Hisutsua in its imperfect pappus.

It has been referred by Schult. Bip. to the genus Calimeris

of Nees, which does not differ from Aster; quite

recently it has been rightly regarded as a section of the

latter genus by Mr. Makino in the Tokyo Botanical Maga-

- -Aveosr Isr, 1899,

zine (July 20th, 1898, p. 60, English part). Hitsusoa re-

mains as a sectional name for a few species of Aster —

wholly, or almost wholly, wanting a pappus, and which —

includes besides H. cantoniensis, DO. (syn. H. pekinensis,

Hance), A. Piccolii, one, or perhaps more, unpublished

Chinese plants.

Aster Piccolit was raised at the Royal Botanical Gardens,

Kew, from seeds collected in the province of Shensi, in H,

China, by Father Piccoli, of the Jesuit Mission, Hankow,

and which were sent to Kew in 1897 by G. Murray, Hsq,.,

F.R.S., Keeper of the Herbarium of the British Museum.

It flowered in the Herbaceous collection in September,

1898, and is quite hardy. wi

Deser.—A stout, leafy, hispidly scaberulous, sub-erect,

perennial herb, two to three feet high; stem and branches

terete, green. Leaves three to four inches long, sessile,

oblong, or oblong-lanceolate, acute or apiculate, coarsely

unequally serrate, dark green above, paler beneath, three-

nerved at the base, nerves impressed above, very stout

beneath. Heads many, sub-corymbose, two inches in

diameter; peduncles with a-small oblong leaf at the base

of the involucre, otherwise naked, or with one or two

sessile leaves at or above the middle. Involuere sub-

hemispheric, outer bracts three- to four-seriate, broadly

oblong, herbaceous, with purple, reflexed, rounded tips;

inner one- to two-seriate, obovate-oblong, obtuse, margins

broadly scarious, fimbriate. fteceptacle conico-hemispheri¢.

Ray-flowers biseriate, tube (and of the disk-fl.) glandular,

ligule linear, lilac-purple. Dish-flowers golden-yellow;

pappus 0.—J. D. H.

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flower;

enlarged,

1, Section of involucre showing the receptacle; 2, inner bract; 3, Tay

4, disk-Hower; 5, stamens; 6, style-arms of disk-flowers :—

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EPHEDRA AttissiMa.

Native of N. Africa.

Nat. Ord. GnetacEz.

Genus Eruepra, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 418.)

EruEpRa altissima; suffrutex dioica, scandens, ramossissima, caule basi

lignoso, ramis dependentibus ramulisque divaricatis oppositis et ternatim

verticillatis gracilibus glaucis aliis persistentibus teretibus aliis tenuiori-

bus compressis et tetragonis, foliis 2-natis v. 3-4 natim verticillatis

linearibus v. setaceis basi breviter connatis, spicis masculis solitaris

binis ternatis fasciculatis v. paniculatis ovoideis v. subglobosis ad 2 poll.

diam., bracteis floralibus plurimis late ovatis orbicularibusve mem brana-

ceis basi connatis, perianthio obovoideo bilabiato, staminum columna

exserta, antheris 1~3 sessilibus, galbulis foemineis solitariis globosis ad }

poll. diam., fructiferis majoribus, bracteis 2-3 paribus, infimis minutis

supremis multo majoribus ad }? connatis herbaceis obtusis marginibus

membranaceis fimbrillatis demum carnosis rubris, integumento anguste

ellipsoideo, apice exserto, tubillo elongato recto v. torto, seminibus 1-3 fere

2 poll. longis, solitariis trigonis v. angulatis, binis plano-convexis.

E. altissima, Desf. FU. Atlant. vol. ii. p. 371, t. 253. Parl. in DC. Prodr. vol.

xvi. pars ii. p. 356. C. A. Meyer, Ephed. p. 67. Endl. Syn. Conif. p. 261.

Ball, Spicil. Fl. Maroce. (Journ. Linn. Soc, Bot. vol. xvi.) p. 669. Stapf,

Ephed. p. 46, t. ii. et ix. fig. 1-15. Gard. Chron. 1890, vel. i. p. 791, fig. 129.

Upwards of thirty species of Ephedra have been described,

of which seven are cultivated in the Royal Gardens, but

not L, altissima, which is not hardy. Of these, the latter

is the only one figured from living specimens in any

_ English botanical work ; first in the Gardeners’ Chronicle

(1.c.), nine years ago, and now in this magazine; in both

cases from a plant cultivated in Commendatore Hanbury’s

garden at La Mortola, where it is a very attractive shrub

when in fruit in December. It is a native of the North

African coast, from the city of Marocco to Sus, on the

Atlantic side, and extending to Tunis on the Mediterranean

Descr.—A tall, dicecious, glabrous, scandent, excessively

branched, green, almost leafless glaucous green shrub;

stem woody at the base, very slender, branches and branch-

lets drooping or pendulous, opposite or ternately whorled,

the ultimate opposite, divaricate, compressed, and four-

angled, bearing small ovate acuminate brown scales

at the axils. Leaves minute, linear or setaceous. Male

AvGust Ist, 1899.

cones in very lax panicles, solitary, binate, or ternate

at the ends of decurved branchlets, sessile, ovoid-oblong,

about one-sixth of an inch long, many-fid., yellow, with

red-brown anthers; bracts in several series, orbicular;

stamens 1-3, exserted from a bilabiate tubular perianth. —

Fem. cones much larger, solitary at the ends of the

branchlets, one-half to three-quarters of an inch long;

bracts in about three pairs, orbicular, lower pair or pairs

very small, uppermost pair much larger, connate for two- _

thirds of their length, swelling greatly, and forming a —

red fleshy cup as the seed ripens. Integument of the se

thin, tip exserted, terminating in a usually twisted tubulus

Seeds one to three, ellipsoid, if solitary angular, if binate

plano-convex, if three trigonous.—J. D. H. ;

Fig. 1, Male cone; 2, bracts of the same; 3, bract and perianth; 4, unripe

fem. cone ; 5, ripe ditto, with peduncle and portion of stem ; 6, single ripe fem.

cone ; 7, seed : all enlarged ; 8, panicle of male spikes of the zat. size.

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MUSSASNDA oapsorirera.

Native of Socotra.

Nat. Ord. Rustacrs.—Tribe Muss #NDE.

Genus Mussenna, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 64.)

Muss2£nDa capsulifera; frutex, ramulis teretibus calycibus tuboque corolle

strigilloso-puberulis, foliis 14-23 poll. longis elliptico-oblongis obovatis v.

rarius oblongo-lanceolatis acutis obtusisve subcoriaceis glaberrimis v.

subtus secus nervos puberulis basi in petiolum brevem angustatis lete

viridibus, stipulis minutis utrinqne solitariis dentiformibus integerrimis,

floribus corymboso-cymosis breviter pedicellatis pentameris albis odoris,

bracteolis minimis, calycis tubo ovoideo, limbi segmentis linearibus sequali-

bus persistentibus, corolle tubo 1-1 poll. longo gracili tereti intus piloso,

fauce paullo dilatato strigoso-piloso, limbi } poll. diam. segmentis patulis

cuneiformibus cordatisve apice retusis sinu obtuse cuspidatis alabastro

apice 5-cornuto reduplicatim valvatis, staminibus infra faucem corolle

insertis, filamentis brevissimis, antheris linearibus, connectivo apice pro-

ducto, disco pulvinari, stylo filiformi, sti, matibus brevibus oblongis intus

papillosis, capsula parva breviter oblonga calycis segmentis coronata,

loculicide polysperma, valvis coriaceis, seminibus striatis angulatis et

foveolatis.

M. capsulifera, Balf. f. in Proc. R. 8. Edinb, vol. xi. (1882), p. 836, et in Trans.

Soc. ejusd. vol. xxxi. (1888), p. 116, Tab. xxix.

Od el Ksth, Arad.

A very interesting plant, discovered by Dr. Balfour on

hills about 800 feet high in Socotra, in 1880, and since

then collected there by Dr. Schweinfurth, and in 1887 by

Mr. Bent, from whose specimens seeds were taken, which

produced in the Royal Gardens, Kew, the specimen here

figured. As pointed out by Dr. Balfour, it differs from the

type of Mussenda, not only in the absence of a dilated

calycine segment, but in the loculicidal capsule. Its very

near ally in the latter character is the M. luteola, Del., of

Nile land. In the obconic flower-bud crowned by the five

cusps of the lobes of the corolla, it is quite peculiar.

M. capsulifera has been described as a tree ; but judging

from the dried specimens I should think it was rather a

small shrub, especially as the Kew specimen is fully deve-

loped and flowering at eighteen inches high in a stove,

first in April, 1899, and now in July. The latter further

differs from the description in the quite entire stipules, and

Aveust Ist, 1899.

white, not yellow corolla. There is a remarkable difference

between the hairs in the outer and inner surfaces of th

tube of the corolla. The former are stiff, subulate, acute,

the latter are cylindric, flaccid, very thin-walled tubes

surmounted by 1-3 very minute globular cells.

Descr.—An erect shrub, branches slender, terete, as wel

as the pedicels, calyx, and corolla-tube minutely strigillose.

Leaves one and a half to two and a half inches long,

opposite, oblong-lanceolate or obovate, obtuse or acute, nar

rowed into avery short petiole, nerves five to six pairs, very

slender. Stipules very small, triangular, glabrous, eciliate

Flowers in terminal corymbose cymes, very shortly pedi-

celled. Calyx tube ovoid, limb of five equal, linear, erect,

green segments. Corolla many times longer than the

calyx-limb, tube very slender, one to one and a half inches

long, hairy within, throat slightly dilated; limb three

fourths of an inch broad, of five, cuneiform, or obcordate,

truncate, spreading segments, with an obtuse conical tooth

in the middle of the sinus of the apex, white, fragrant; in

bud the lobes are deeply induplicate-valvate, and together

form a deeply five-lobed clavate body, with a truncate,

intruded top. Stamens sub-sessile in the throat of the

2 bhai: included, linear, connective produced a8 ®

ort, papillose horn. Style very slender, tip cleft into

two shortly exserted obl sah - dal

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COLEUS tuyrsorpevs.

Native of British Central Africa.

Nat. Ord. Lasiat#,—Tribe OcimorpEes.

Genus Coteus, Lour.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1176.)

Coteus (paniculate) thyrsoideus; suffrutex elatus, ramosus, caule ramis petiolis

aque inflorescentia laxe pilosis, foliis longe petiolatis amplis ovatis ovato-

cordatisve subacutis marginibus grosse inciso- v. lobulato-crenatis, crenis

obtusis, supra late viridibus, utrinque puberulis, subtus pallidioribus,

ramulos inflorescentia elongata paniculeeformi, cymis, multifloris pedun-

culos 4-1-pollicares terminantibus, pedicellis brevibus, calycis tubo brevis-

simo setuloso, segmentis obtusis postico oblongo-obovato lateralibus

anticisque lineari-oblongis fere duplo longiore, corollw 3-poll. longa tubo

medium versus defracto, fauce bapdins ampliata, limbi lete czrulei labio

inferiore cymbiformi acuto, superiore 4-lobulato lobulis rotundatis, fila-

mentis basi monadelphis labium inferius corolla wquantibus.

C. thyrsoides, Baker in Kew Bulletin ined.

Recent collectors in Eastern and Central tropical Africa

have largely extended our knowledge of the Flora of those

regions, in every case tending to prove its close affinity

with that of British India. In respect of the natural

order Labiatz this affinity is very marked, as evidenced by

the ocimoid genera Coleus and Plectranthus, of which there

are many undescribed African species in herbaria, over

and above those published of late by Schweinfurth and

Engler in their monographs of African plants.

Coleus thyrsoideus inhabits the plateau east of the

northern extremity of Lake Nyassa, in the Mozambique

district, at elevations of six thousand to seven thousand

feet, and the Tanganyika plateau at two thousand feet to

three thousand feet. Plants of it were raised at the Royal

Gardens, Kew, from seeds taken from a Herbarium speci-

men collected by Mr. A. Whyte in British Central Africa.

These, sown in April, 1897, produced bushy plants three

feet high, that flowered in a stove in February of the

following year. It is a very ornamental plant; the copious

branches terminating in racemes six inches to ten inches

long, of bright blue flowers.

Deser.—A_ rather tall, leafy, much branched perennial

undershrub, two to three feet high, the branches termi-

SepTEMBER Ist, 1899.

nating in narrow, erect, panicle-like — Kee ae

inches long, of bright blue flowers. oT a eh Lape

rescence sparsely pubescent, with a eee wate corm

leaves up to seven inches long by four broad, ov to, brighe

acuminate, margin coarsely lobulate and aaee oa

green above, and reticulately nerved, paler ar : ae

prominent pubescent nerves, base decurrent on nese ;

which is two inches long, or more, stout ; gO ae

and lower floral smaller, shorter-petioled, a anal

deeply cleft. Raceme about three inches _ eS

lets sub-erect or spreading, one inch long to eee

bearing dense fid. dichotomous cymes of sa ie

Shortly pedicelled flowers; bracteoles porate oe

Calyx very small, tube sub-globose, 4 du on ette a

Stellately spreading hairs; dorsal sepal ag pia

puberulous, nearly as long as the corolla-tube : e ied

flexure, lateral about half as long, and two small ae ee

Segments linear, obtuse. Corolla about half an aie i: i

tube suddenly deflexed a little above the short ae

ascending, and again deflexed forming a sub-camp ot lid

laterally compressed throat; mouth two-lipped ; NP de a

reflexed, obovate, broadly shortly four-cleft, lobes oe ae

lower lip rather longer, cymbiform, sub-acute. [1 : bbe

connate at the base, forming an open concave . ee

adnate to throat and base of the lower lip of the corolla.

J.D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower; 2, the same,

insertion of the stam

: the

with half the lower lip removed, short

ens; 3, section of calyx, showing the disk an

ovary :—All enlarged.

bed

7673

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M.S. del, IN-Fitch ih

Tan. 70158.

BEGONIA SINENSIS.

Native of China and Japan.

Nat. Ord. BEGonrIACcES.

Genus Beeonta, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 841.)

Berconia sinensis; pilosula, tubero subgloboso, canle annuo erecto herbaceo

ramoso, foliis 3-5-poll. longis oblique ovato-cordatis longe acuminatis

basi palmatim 5-9-nerviis grosse sublobulato-dentatis creberrime in-

zequaliter argute serratis serrulatisque membranaceis supra lete viri-

dibus subtus pallidis junioribus roseo irroratis, petiolis 1-2-poll. longis,

stipulis majusculis ovatis acuminatis herbaceis recarvis, axillis sepe

bulbilliferis, pedunculis dichotomis inferioribus petiolis longioribus,

cymis bisexualibus, bracteis ovato-lanceolatis caducis, floribus roseis

breviuscule pedicellatis ad } poll. latis, fl. masc. bibracteolatis, sepalis 2

fere orbiculatis concavis, petalis 2 multo minoribus ovalibus, fl. fem. ebrac-

teolatis, sepalis 2, petalis 1 v. 2 parvis, staminum columna brevissima,

. filamentis brevibus, antheris oblongis, ovario obconico 3-gono, stigmatibus

- veniformibus undique papillosis, placentis 3 bipartitis, segmentis extus

tantum ovuliferis, capsula 3-alata, alis 2 angustis tertia trigona.

-B. sinensis, A.DC. in Ann. Soc. Nat. Ser. iv. vol. ii. p. 125; in DO. Prodr.

vol. xv. pars i, p. 313. Hance in Jowrn. Bot. vol. xii. (1874) p. 260,

Hems\. § Forbes in Journ. Linn. Soc, vol. xxiii. (1887) p. 323.

PB. Evansiana, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 627, non Bot. Mag. t. 1473, nec Bonpl.

Malm. t. 63.

Begonia sine nomine, Buc’hoz, Coll. Prec, des Fleurs, Parti. t. xxxv.

Begonia sinensis is well described by A. de Candolle, but

is placed in the section Knesebeckia, from his character of

which it differs in the segments of the placentas being

ovuliferous on the outer faces only. He rightly compares

it with B. Hvansiana, Andr. (non Bot. Mag. t. 1473), but

_ overlooks the fact that two plants are confounded under

~~ ~“that name. One, the original, figured by Andrews (Bot.

Rep. t. 627) said to have been found at the waterfall of

Penang, with hardly any stipes to the head of stamens;

the other, that of Bonpland (Jard. Malm. t. 63, and of this

magazine, t. 1473), a much larger-flowered plant, with a

long stipes supporting the head of stamens. Unfortunately

de Candolle has selected the latter as Andrews’ species.

Clarke, in “ Flora Brit. Ind.,” vol. ii. p. 638, cites B.

sinensis (from the description) as a synonym of B. Hvan-

siana, with which he unites the Bot. Mag. plant and

B. obliqua, Thunb. With regard to “the waterfall in

Penang” which Andrews gives as the habitat of B. Hvan-

siana, this is no doubt an error; for OC. Curtis, in his

Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of that

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1899,

Island, says, ‘The plant has not been met with here, and

could hardly be overlooked.” Aiton (Hort. Kew, ed. I.

v. 313), who describes B. Hvansiana as B. discolor (quoting

both Bot. Rep. and Bot. Mag.), gives China as the native

country whence it was introduced in 1804 by the Hon.

E. I. Company.

Though retaining the name of B. sinensis for this plant, I

do not feel sure that it is not B. Hvansiana of Andrews, from

the figure of which it differs only in the deeply irregularly

cut margins of the leaves. It is a widely diffused Chinese

plant, there being specimens in Kew Herbarium from the

neighbourhood of Peking, the provinces of Hupeh and

Kwangtung, and Island of Formosa.

Seeds of B. sinensis, collected in Yunnan by Dr. Henry,

M.A., F.L.S., of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs,

were received at the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1898 ; plants

raised from which flowered in October of the following

year in a greenhouse. 3

Deser—Tuber brown, about the size of a large cob-

nut, giving off copious long flexuous brown fibres from

1ts crown. Stem one and a half to two feet high, rather

slender, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, simple or sparingly

branched, pale green. Leaves three to five inches long, more

or less unequal-sided, ovate-cordate, acuminate, margin

acutely lobulate, lobules coarsely, very irregularly, acutely

serrate and serrulate, palmately five to nine-nerved at the

base, thin, bright green above, paler, and often rose-colrd.

beneath, with hairy veins, axils often bulbiferous; petiole

one to two inches long; stipules ovate, or ovate-lanceolate,

acuminate, green, Flowers moncecious, in axillary 22

_ terminal peduncled cymes, male rather shortly pedicelled,

female with much longer decurved pedicels. Male ft

three-fourths of an inch in diam., bright rose-red ; sepals

two, orbicular-ovate; petals two, very much smaller, oblong ;

carey numerous, in avery shortly stipitate head, anthers

‘ long, obtuse. Female jl. rather larger, sepals and petals

ike the male, but petals broader, very unequal, or one

only; styles short, stigmas reniform, papillose all over.

vary with two short and one long wing; placentas bifid,

arms ovuliferous on the outer surfaces.—J. D. H

Fig. 1, Portion

3, styles and sti

he nat. size.

of stem with stipules and bulbils; 2, staminal columns;

gmas; 4, transverse section of ovary: all enlarged; 5, tuber of

“

Tas. 7674.

CALATHEA piorta.

Native of Brazil.

Nat. Ord. ScrtaMINEzZ.—Tribe MaranTE&.

Genus CatatuEa, G. F, W. Mey; ont & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii

p. 653.)

Catatnea (Eucalathea) picta; caule robusto basin versus paucifoliato dein

elongato nudo infra pedunculum terminalem crassum bifoliato, foliis

6-8-pollicaribus patentibus petiolatis ovato-oblongis lanceolatisve acumi-

natis supra saturate viridibus costam versus albo-variegatis, subtus rubro-

pureis, petiolo crasso fusco-purpureo, vagine auriculis rotundatis, in-

Rarcocantes terminali strobiliformi 4 poll. longa ad 1}-poll. diam., bracteis

quaquaversum laxe imbricatis, 1-14 poll. latis late obovato-rotundatis

acutis erecto-patentibus basi breviter vaginantibus stramineis rubro

marginatis infima majore, floribus ad 1} poll. longis bracteis paullo

longioribus albis, sepalis linearibus acutis, corolla tubo sepalis squilongo

lobis zquilongis late ovatis obtusis postico paullo latiore suberecto

lateralibus patenti-recurvis, androscii breviter exserti lobis subaquilongis,

labello apice 3-lobo.

C. picta, Hook. f.

Maranta (Calathea) picta, Bull. Cat. New Pl. (1898) No. 324, p. 6, et ic. p. 4.

A very handsome species of a large tropical chiefly

S. American genus, of which nothing more is known than

that it was imported from Brazil by Mr. Bull, when it re-

ceived an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural

Society. The figure given by Mr. Bull in his Catalogue is

evidently of a plant in a very young state, with much

broader leaves than those of the flowering specimen here

figured, and with much more pronounced white markings

on the leaves, extending in a fan-shape from the midrib

more than half way across the blade. It flowered in a

stove in the Royal Gardens, Kew, in December, 1898.

Descv.—Quite glabrous. Stem three to four feet high,

very stout, with a few leaves towards the base, above

which it is naked till just below the peduncle of the in-

florescence, where two smaller sub-opposite leaves appear.

Leaves (lower) six to eight inches long, by two to two and

a half broad, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, base

sub-acute, rather thick, dark velvety green above, with

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1899,

pale, fan-like blotches of pale green, extending between the

nerves from the midrib to about half way across the blade,

beneath of a fine vinous purple ; petiole about an inch long,

very stout, purplish brown, auricles of sheath rounded.

Spike cylindric, four inches long by one and a half in

diameter, erect; peduncle two inches long, stout, terete,

dirty green. Bracts large, loosely imbricate, one to one

and a half inches broad, orbicular-obovate, suddenly acute,

base shortly sheathing, bright straw-coloured, margined

with red.. Flowers rather longer than the bracts, white.

Sepals linear, acute. Corolla-tube one and a half inches

long, lobes broadly ovate, obtuse.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower-bud with the corolla-lobes spread out; 2, androecium;

3, staminode; 4, ¢ £ ; ieee d view of

ea duae op of style and stigma :—All enlarged. 5, Reduced vi

NA) JZ

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Tas. 7675.

ASPARAGUS SCANDENS.

Native of South Africa.

Nat. Ord. Lin1acr#.—Tribe ASPARAGER.

Genus Asraracus, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ili. p. 765.)

Asparacus (Aspargopsis) scandens; glaberrimus, gracilis, scandens, caule

tereti ramoso, ramis dependentibus gracillimis, ramulis simplicibus 3-3-

poll. longis multinodis, internodiis cladodiis brevioribus, foliis ad basin

ramulorum minutis subulatis vix spinescentibus, cladodiis 3-4 poll. longis

ternis (floriferis ssepius solitariis) lineari-subulatis leviter incurvis

acuminatis trigonis, floribus solitariis, pedicellis cladodiis fere duplo

longioribus medio articulatis, floribus ad 3 poll. latis bisexualibus,

perianthii segmentis exterioribus obovato-oblongis obtusis, interioribus

paullo angustioribus, staminibus segmentis perianthii equilongis, antheris

oblongis, baccis globosis 4-} poll. diam. rubris apiculatis monospermis.

A. scandens, Thunb. Prodr. Fl. Cap. p. 63; Fl. Cap. ed. Sch. p. 334. Ait.

Hort. Kew. ed. IT. vol. ii. p. 273. Baker in Saund. Refug. Bot. vol. i. t.

21; in Journ, Linn. Soc. vol. xiv. p. 622; in Fl. Capens. vol. vi. p. 268.

Wats. in Gard. Chron. 1898, vol. i. p. 178.

A. pectinatus, Red. Liliac. vol. vii. t. 407.

Asparacopsis scandens, Kunth, Enum. Pl. vol. v. p. 78.

Dracana volubilis, Linn. f. Suppl. p. 204.

It is noteworthy that of a genus containing nearly 150

reputed species, some long known as ornamental green-

house plants, easy of culture, not one should have hitherto

found a place in “‘ The Botanical Magazine.” Fourteen are

recorded as cultivated at Kew in 181], by Aiton, in the

second edition of the ‘‘ Hortus Kewensis.” There are now

twenty-five in cultivation in European gardens, as enume-

rated in Mr. Watson’s list, published last year in the

Gardener’s Chronicle. The headquarters of the genus is

South Africa, from which country Mr. Baker describes

forty-four species in the “ Flora Capensis”’ (1896).

A. scandens is a native of the coast region.of the Cape

Colony, extending from Capetown itself to King William’s

Town, and inland no further than Somerset. It was in-

troduced into England by the Kew collector, Mr. Mason,

in 1795, and flowers and fruits annually in the Royal

Gardens in summer and winter respectively. The figure

was made from a fruiting specimen sent by Mr. Leech, of the

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1899,

gardens, Woodhall, Dulwich, under the name of A, deflewus;

but it is not the A. deflewus, Baker, of Angola, nor the var.

deflecus, Baker, of A. scandens, which has zigzag branches —

and smaller cladodes. |

Descr.—A very slender, diffusely branching, unarmed ~

climber, with dependent filiform branches. Ultimate

branchlets simple, one half to three inches long, sub-tri-

gonous, with few or many internodes bearing normally three

cladodes in a whorl, which are longer than the internodes.

Leaves at the axils of the branches and branchlets, minute,

membranous, rarely sub-spinescent. Cladodes one-third

to half an inch long, rather broadly subulate, acuminate,

trigonous, slightly incurved, the flower-bearing often soli-

tary. Flowers solitary, rarely binate, axillary, pendulous ;

pedicels about twice as long as the cladodes, but very

variable in length, filiform, jointed about the middle;

perianth about a fourth of an inch in diameter, outer

segments oblong-obovate, obtuse, spreading and incurved,

inner rather smaller and narrower. Stamens not longer

than the’perianth-segments, anthers oblong, yellow. Ovary

oblong, stigma erect. Berry globose, one-sixth to one-

oe Cha ong in diam., apiculate, bright red, one-

Fig. 1, Portion of branchlet with clad. : : : 4, seed;

5, section of do., showing embryo i etacrra.” hone: aa

MS del IN Fitch lith

Tap. 7676.

DORSTENIA PaItuipsiz.

Native of Somaliland.

Nat. Ord. Urticacex.—Tribe Mores,

Genus Dorstenta, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 366.)

Dorstenta Phillipsie; caule 8-4-pollicari crassitie digiti minimi erecto

lignoso cylindrico basi dilatato conico 1} poll. diam., superne } in. diam.,

undique grosse cicatricato, apice in ramos breves crassos cylindricos

desinente, ramis foliis et inflorescentia terminatis, foliis 1}—-2-pollicaribus

breviter crasse que petiolatis lineari-oblongis acutis argute dentatis satu-

rate viridibus glaberrimis, costa valida, nervis utrinque 8-10 patulis, pedun-

.eulis axillaribus 1}-2-pollicaribus, receptaculo carnoso late campanulato

puberalo, disco plano $-} poll. lato margine incrassato in lacinias 6-8

crassas subulatas radiatas flexuosas pollicares fisso, fl. masc. non immersis,

erianthio minimo papilloso, stamivibus 2, fl. fem. alveolis profundis

immersis, stylo filiformi integro exserto, stigmate punctiforme.

D. Phillipsie, Hook. f.

This remarkable plant belongs to a section of the genus

Dorstenia, the species of which have the habit of diminutive

trees, with very stout, leafless, cylindric, scarred trunks,

sparingly, shortly branched above, and terminal clusters of

leaves. The type of the section is D. fetida, Schweinf. &

Engler (Monogr. Afr. Pl. p. 26) which is Kosaria fetida of

Forskahl’s Fl. Aigypt. Arab., well figured at tab. 20 of his

Icones, a native of Arabia Felix. (Other synonyms are

Cosaria Forskahlii, Gmel., and Dorstenia radiata, Lamk.).

A few other species are natives of Nileland, Abyssinia,

and Arabia. Amongst the latter is D. arabica, Hemsl.

(Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 2503), collected in S.W. Arabia by the

late Mr. Bent. D. Phiilipsiz is closely allied to D. fetida,

but differs in the stem being erect from a dilated conical

base, in the sharply toothed leaves, in the long peduncles

of the receptacle, and in the much larger size of the latter,

which has thickened margins, and fewer, much longer rays.

D, Phillipsix is another of the new and very interesting

plants brought by Mrs. Lort Phillips and Miss Edith Cole

from Somaliland, of which Kleinia pendula, t. 7659, and

Kalanchoe flammea, t. 7595, are other examples. A plant

was presented to the Botanic Garden of the University

SerremBer Isr, 1899.

of Cambridge, which flowered there in November, 1898,

and was sent to me for figuring by the Curator, Mr.

Lynch, A.L.S. |

Descr.— Stem three and a half inches high, erect from a

conical base an inch and a half in diameter, thence tapering

upwards to half an inch diam., terminating in short, thick,

spreading branches with leafy tips, whole surface of

stem pale brown, covered with large quadrate scars.

Leaves one and a half to two inches long, shortly stoutly

petioled, linear-oblong, acute, sharply toothed, dark green,

glabrous, paler beneath, nerves eight or ten pairs, spread-

ing, prominent beneath. Pedwncles axillary, one and a half

to two inches long, stout, smooth. Receptacle broadly

campanulate, with as many ribs as there are arms, disk

one half to three-quarters of an inchin diam., flat, margins”

thickened all round, giving off six to eight subulate,

tortuous or flexuous arms an inch long. Male fl. minute,

superficial on the disk, two-lipped, thickly papillose;

Stamens two. Fem. fl. Ovaries sunk in cavities of the

2 re ; Style basal, filiform, quite entire, glandular, exserted.

. .

Fig. 1, Section of receptacle with : i sab atwiei

3, male fl.; 4, ovary sated ot asa pre ten.<8 1 9, apper pen

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LONICERA HIitpEsranDIana,

Native of the Shan Hills, and Munnepore.

Nat. Ord. CapriroLtiacE#.—Tribe LoNIcEREs.

Genus Lonicera, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 5.)

Lonicera (Xylosteum) Hildebrandii; frutex glaberrimus, alte scandens,

ramis ramulisque teretibus, foliis amplis breviter petiolatis late ovatis

ovalibus v. orbiculari-oblongis cuspidatis, remote glandulosis, basi rotun-

datis vy. acutis et in petiolum decurrentibus, supra lete viridibus subtus

pallidis, nervis utrinque costw 4-5, pesiolo ad }-poll. longo, floribus

geminis pedunculo tereti petiolo subduplo longiore, bracteis dentiformibus,

bracteolis minutis ciliolatis, calycis tubo oblongo, limbo 5-dentato, corolle

tubo 4 poll. longo cylindraceo, limbi bilabiati tubo triente breviore,

labiis revolutis, superiore cuneiformi 4-fido lobis apice incurvis, inferiore

anguste lineari, filamentis gracilibus sparsim puberulis, antheris versatili-

bus lunatis, stylo glaberrimo, stigmate capitato. :

L. Hildebrandiana, Coll. & Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxviii. (1891)

pp. 6 and 64, t. xi. N. H. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1898, vol. ii. p. 210, fig.

58. Kew Bulletin, 1898, p. 317.

It is remarkable that by far the largest flowered species

of Rose and of Honeysuckle, both almost exclusively

genera of temperate climates, should inhabit the same

country, and that a thoroughly tropical one (lat. 21° N.).

The Rose, Rosa gigantea, Collett, has not hitherto flowered

in England, though it has been in cultivation since 1888,

when it was introduced by seed collected by Col. Sir H.

Collett, K.C.B., in the Shan hills. Its discoverer was Dr.

George Watt, F.L.S., who found it in Munnepore in 1882.

Lonicera Hildebrandiana, of which also Sir H. Collett

is the discoverer, has proved more amenable; _ it

flowered with Mr. Moore, A.L.S., in the Royal Botanic

Gardens, Glasnevin, in August, 1898; and profusely in

the new south wing of the Temperate House of the Royal

Gardens, Kew, in the present year. The plant in the

latter case was received in 1894 from A. H, Hildebrand

Hsq., C.I.E. Its nearest ally is L. Braceana, Hemal,

(Journ, Linn. Soe. I.c. in footnote) a native of the Khasia

hills, at elevations of 3000 to 5600 ft., which differs in

the much smaller, narrower, acutely acuminate, longer

OcroBEer Ist, 1899,

petioled leaves, smaller flowers with larger calyx-lobes,

and a corolla-tube of less than three inches long. é

The flowers of L. Iildebrandiana change colour with

age, which has given rise to strange discrepancies

in the descriptions of them. Sir H. Collett was

told that the flowers were crimson, and much used for

decorating temples. Those of Mr. Moore’s plant are

described in the. Gardener’s Chronicle, at p. 210, as of

a brilliant flame colour, and under fig. 58 as orange-

scarlet. In the Kew plant the buds are white, faintly

tinged with pink, the fully opened flowers a eolden-buff

- (as in the figure here given) passing into yellow-brown in

age. Referring to Mr. Moore, that gentleman kindly

informs me that at Glasnevin the flowers were of a soft

yellow when first opened, gradually getting darker, so

that the fully opened were reddish-orange on the sides

fully exposed to the light, and almost wholly of that colour

when they fall off.

L. Hildebrandiana is a native of the Shan hills, at an

elevation of about 5000 ft., near Pwehla, lat. 21° N., long.

97° E., and, as stated above, of Munnepore.

Deser.—A tall, woody, glabrous climber, with terete

branches and branchlets. Leaves five to six inches long;

broadly ovate, oblong or orbicular-oblong, broadly euspt-

date, bright green above, paler beneath, marked with a few

distantly scattered brown glands ; base rounded, or shortly

narrowed into a petiole half an inch long or more; nerves

four to five pairs, Flowers geminate, on a stout terete

peduncle about twice as long as the petiole. Bracts very

short, tooth-like ; bracteoles very minute, ciliolate. Caly®-

tube oblong, terete; limb very shortly five-toothed.

Corolla seven inches long; tube four inches, cylindric 5

lips revolute, upper cuneate, shortly four-lobed, lobes

with incurved tips; lower narrowly linear. Filaments

and style very slender; anthers crescent-shaped. Stigma

globose. Fruit an inch long, ovoid—J, D. H.

Pe 1, Top of peduncle, with bracts, bracteoles, and an ovary; 2, top of

ament and anther; 8, top of style and stigma :—AUl enlarged.

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KALANCHOE tayrsif.ora.

Native of South Africa.

Nat. Ord. CRASSULACE.

Genus Katancuor, Adans. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 659.)

Katancuor thyrsiflora; herba crasse carnosa, glaberrima, glauca, caule erecto

tereti folioso, foliis decussatim oppositis sessilibus obovato-spathulatis

obtusis integerrimis ‘enerviis utrinque concoloribus inferioribus 3-4 poll.

longis superioribus gradatim minoribus, inflorescentia terminali sessili

oblonga cylindracea 6 poll. longa glauca e racemulis suberectis axi_

communi densissime confertis constante, floribus 34 poll. longis breviter

edicellatis, bracteolis parvis oblongis obtusis, sepalis corolla ter breviori-

Sas linearibus obtusis, corollz tubo ovoileo-oblongo tereti glauco-viridi ore

constricto, lobis 4 parvis orbiculari-ovatis subacuti-patenti-recurvis intus

aureis, disci glandulis oblongis retusis, staminibus 8 ore corollw biseri-

atis, filamentis brevibus, antheris fere rotundatis apiculatis, carpellis 3

elongatis in stylos breves attenuatis, stigmatibus parvis subsimplicibus

truncatis.

K. thyrsiflora, Harv. § Sond. Fl. Capens. vol, ii. p, 380.

K. alternans, Eckl. §& Zey. ex Harv. & Sond. lc.

Kalanchoe thyrsiflora was introduced from the Cape of

Good Hope into the gardens of Commendatore Hanbury,

La Mortola, by whom seeds were distributed to various

botanical gardens in 1891. It has been in cultivation at

the Royal Gardens, Kew, since 1891, and was first flowered

in the Cambridge University Botanical Gardens by Mr.

Lynch, to whom I am indebted for sending me the fine

‘specimen here figured. It is a native of the castern

districts of the Cape Colony, where it was found first by

Ecklon & Zeyher. There are also specimens in the Kew

Herbarium from the Kei and Vaal rivers, from Basutoland,

and from Inanda in Natal. In its native country it flowers

in May; in England, in December.

Descr.—A very stout, erect, pale glaucous green, quite

glabrous, leafy herb, one to two and a half feet hich.

Stem simple, terete, smooth, nearly an inch in diameter

below the middle, and half an inch below the inflorescence.

Leaves decussately opposite, in rather close pairs, lowest

three to four inches long, gradually smaller upwards,

sessile, obovate-spathulate, quite entire, tip rounded, thiek

OcToBER Ist, 1899. : :

fleshy, uniformly coloured on both surfaces. Inflorescence

an erect, sessile, cylindric, thyrsiform, most dense-flowered

glaucous panicle, six to twelve inches high, and three in

diameter, formed of crowded, few-flowered, bracteate

racemes; bracts oblong or cylindric, obtuse. Flowers

shortly pedicelled, about half an inch long. Sepals about

one-third the length of the corolla, linear, obtuse, fleshy.

Corolla-tube ovoid-oblong, terete, glaucous green, mouth

constricted ; lobes small, broadly ovate, spreading and

recurved, bright yellow within. Stamens eight, in two series

at the mouth of the corolla; filaments very short, anthers

small, broad. Glands oblong, truncate, retuse. Carpels

three, narrowed into short, recurved styles, with truncate

stigmas.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Top of pedicel with two sepals, hypogynous glands and ovaries;

2, corolla laid open; 3, stamen:—AU/ enlarged.

Tas. 7679.

STYLIDIUM orasstrotivum.

Native of South-western Australia.

Nat. Ord. SryLiwiEa.

Genus Styzipium, Br.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iv. p, 29.)

Sryiiprum (Thyrsiformes) crassifolium ; perennee acaule, rhizomate indurato

ebulboso, foliis coespitosis radicalibus 4~8-pollicaribus anguste lineari-

oblanceolatis acutis crasse coriaceis glaberrimis, supra saturate viridibus

enerviis, subtus pallidis obtuse subcarinatis, seapo robusto, inflorescentia

angusta valde elongata 1-2 pedali glanduloso-pubescente multi-laxiflora

basi ramosa, ramis brevibus paucifloris, bracteis bracteolisque parvis

subulatis, floribus breviter pedicellatis, ovario stricto $-2 poll. longo,

calycis bilabiati lobis brevibus acutis, petalis paribus oppositis patulis

dispositis subeequalibus oblongo-lanceolatis acutis roseis basi appendi-

cibus setaceis instructis, labello parvo oblongo decurvo appendicibus

utrinque 2 patentibus setiformibus instructo, columna apice (ad basin

antherarum) fimbriata, capsula lineari v. lineari-oblongi 4-3 poll. longa.

S. crassifolium, Br. Prodr. p. 571. DC. Prodr. vol. vii. p. 385. Sond. in Lehm.

Pl. Preiss, vol. i. p. 384. Benth. Fl. Austral. vol. iv. p. 29.

8S. leptobotrys, DC. /.c. p. 783. Sond. Lc. p. 384?

Dampiera? innandata, De Vriese in Lehm. Pl. Preiss. vol. i. p. 404,

Of nearly ninety species of Stylidiwm described by Ben-

tham in the “ Flora Australiensis,” S. crassifolium is the

twelfth that has been figured in this magazine. It is a

native of the south-western extremity of Australia, extend-

ing from Phillips flats on the south coast, westward and

northward to Fremantle on the west coast.

It was raised at the Royal Gardens, Kew, from seeds

received in 1898 from Quartermaster-Sergeant B. T.

Goadby, of the West Australian Engineers, collected at

Albany, King George’s Sound, where it grows on wet

land, flowering in November. It thrives in a greenhouse,

producing in spring racemes nearly two feet high. Ben-

tham describes it as having no appendages, or very

small ones on the lip, but there is a pair of long setiform

ones on either side of that organ in the specimen here

figured.

Descr.—A tall, rigid, erect, nearly glabrous herb, with

radical leaves four to eight inches long, and a narrow °

inflorescence up to two feet long. Leaves tufted, narrowly

OcroBER Ist, 1899,

linear-oblanceolate, acute, thickly coriaceous, hard, as much

as half an inch at the broadest part, concave, dark green,

and shining on the upper surface, pale, and almost green

beneath. Scape with the sub-paniculate raceme erect or —

inclined ; branches very short, rather distant, about three-

flawered ; bracts and bracteoles small, coriaceous, green.

Calyx-tube three-quarters of an inch long, cylindric,

pubescent, limb small, two-lipped, lobes free, dentiform.

Corolla of four spreading, oblong, pink lobes in opposite,

spreading pairs, each about half an inch long, bearing a

setiform appendage, and a very small, obovate, deflexed

lip, armed with a pair of bristles on either side towards

the base. Column sigmoid, about as long as the petals,

white. Anthers brown. Capsule narrow, half an inch

long, or rather longer.—J. D. H.

_Fig. 1, Branch of panicle with buds and flower; 2, fruit, and 3, dorsal

view of anthers :—A// enlarged.

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BERLANDIERA TomentTosa.

Native of the Southern United States.

Nat. Ord. Composit#2.—Tribe HELIANTHOIDES,

Genus Bertanviera, DC.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 350.)

BERLANDIERA tomentosa; tota pannoso-tomentosa, canescens v. glabrata,

caule 1-14-pedali simplici v. ramoso, foliis inferioribus oblongis v. ovato-

oblongis obtusis crenatis basi in petiolum sewpissime elongatum superne

anguste alatum angustatis, supra Jete viridibus, nervis subtus validis,

supremis sessilibus dentatis, capitulis subeorymbosis 1-2 poll. latis,

involucri hemispherici bracteis orbicularibus. herbaceis villosis, fl. radii

‘ ad 8 fem., corollae tubo brevissimo limbo aureo oyali-oblongo 2-lobo,

lobis rotundatis, styli ramis filiformibus elongatis obtusis brunneis, fl.

disci masc., ovario gracili stipitiformi elongato piloso, corolla tubo

cylindraceo glaberrimo lobis 4 brevibus intus pubescentibus brunneis,

antheris exsertis, stylo columnari integro pubescente, acheniis late

obovatis compressis facie interiore villosis.

B. tomentosa, Nutt. mn Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. Ser. ii. vol. vii. (1841) p. 343.

Torr. & Gr. Fl. N. Am. vol. ii. p. 282. Chapm. Fl. 8. U. States,

p. 221. Gray Synopt. Flor. N. Am, vol. ii. pt. i. p. 243,

B. pumila, Nutt. l.c.

Silphiam pumilum, Micha. Fl. Bor. Am, vol. ii. p. 246.

S. tomentosum pumilum & reticulatum ? Pursh. Fl. Am. Sept. vol. ii. pp. 578,

579.

S. asteriscus, var. pumilum, Wood, Class-book of Bot. p. 442.

Polymnia caroliniana, Poir. Dict. vol. v. p. 505.

J. L. Berlandier was a Genevese botanist who explored

parts of Texas and Mexico, and who died at Matamoros on

the Gulf of Mexico in 1851. The genus named after

him consists of four species, natives of the south-eastern

United States. B. tomentosa inhabits Pine barrens from

N. Carolina to Florida, and westward to Arkansas and

Missouri. Seeds of it were presented to the Royal Gardens,

Kew, in 1898, by the Rev. L. H. Lighthipe of Jackson-

ville, Florida, plants from which flowered in a cool green-

house in May and June of this year. The flowers proved

very persistent.

Descr.—A slender, herbaceous, sparsely leafy perennial,

twelve to twenty-four inches high, more or less hoary or

cottony, or glabrate. Lower leaves oblong, or ovate-

oblong, obtuse, crenate, narrowed into a petiole two to

OctToBER Ist, 1899,

three inches long, which is winged above the middle, pale

green above, with a reddish costa, and five to seven pairs of

slender nerves, paler beneath, with stouter nerves; upper

leaves small, sessile, acutely toothed. Heads few, in a ter-

minal corymb, rather shortly peduncled, one and a half to

two inches in diameter. Jnvolucre of about three series of

orbicular, green, spreading, tomentose bracts. ay-flowers

about eight, tube of corolla hardly any; limb broadly ovate-

oblong, ending in two rounded lobes; style-arms two,

filiform, brown. Disk-flowers enveloped in green bracteoles,

stipitate by the imperfect, slender, cylindric, hairy ovary ;

corolla-lobes four, dark red-brown, pubescent. Style

columnar, entire, pubescent. Achenes broadly obovate,

compressed, villous on the inner surface.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Invol. bract and ray-flower; 2, bracteole of outer series of disk-

flowers; 3, inner disk-flower and bracteole; 4, anthers; 5, style of disk-

flower :—All enlarged.

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RHODODENDRON opitaratvum.

vative of Jupan.

Nat. Ord. Ertcacex.—Tribe RuoporEx.

Genus RuopopEenDron, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 599.)

RHODODENDRON (Azalea) di/atatum; frutex fere glaberrimus, ramis ramulisque

ternis gracilibus cortice atro-fusco indutis, novellis roseis, foliis apicibus

ramulorum solum evolutis ternis petiolatis 1}-2-pollicaribus rhombeo-

ovatis subacutis basi acutis tenuiter chartaceis supra lete viridibus

sanguineo-tinctis, subtus pallide viridibas subglaucis, nervis utrinque

cost 3-5 supra gracillimis subtus prominulis ultimis reticulatis, petiolo

4-3 poll. longo gracile roseo, floribus preecocibus apicibus ramulorum binis,

geminis apbyllis bracteis multiseriatim imbricatis ovatis viridibus demum

recurvis tectis, pedicellis breviusculis rubris setulosis et glandulosis, calyce

truncato glanduloso, corolla profunde bilabiata rosea 2-poll. diam., intus

basin versus ecolorata, tubo brevi campanulato, Jabio superiore ad

medium trifido lobis ovato-oblongis obtusis, inferiore bipartito segmentis

oblongis obtusis, staminibus 5 declinatis filamentis 3 corolla longioribus

2 brevioribus omnibus glaberrimis roseis, antheris parvis fuscis, ovario

oblongo lepidoto, stylo filiformi declinato stigmate minuto.

R. dilatatum, Mig. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. vol. i. p. 34. Franch. & Sav.

Enum. Pl. Jap. vol. ii. p. 164. Maxim. Rhod. As. Or. in Mem, Acad.

Petersb. ser. vii. vol. xvi. No. 9, pp. 25, 27.

Aza ea dilatata, Hort.

The nearest, and indeed very near ally of Rhododendron

dilatatum is R. rhombicum, Mig. (see tab. 6972), also a

native of Japan, which differs in being of a stouter habit,

with more persistent pubescent leaves, hirsute branchlets,

smaller flowers, ten much shorter stamens, and the ovary

and lower part of the style villous. :

fk. dilatatum was discovered by Siebold early in the

century. There are native specimens in the Kew Her-

barium from the mountains of Okayama and Hakone,

in the province of Sagami, Nippon; and a cultivated

one from Messrs. Veitch, dated April, 1885, who were,

no doubt, the introducers of the species into England.

The drawing here given is from a plant which flowered

in the Royal Gardens, Kew, in April, 1899, and was in

full leaf in June of the same year. It was procured in

1893 from the Yokohama Gardeners’ Association in

Japan, and appears to be hardy. Both foliage and

flowers are quite inodorous.

OctToBER Ist, 1899.

Descr.—A small, much-branched, nearly glabrous bush.

Branches very slender, leafy at the tips only, covered with

a very dark brown bark, young branchlets red. Leaves —

ternate, one and a half to two inches long, rhombic-ovate,

sub-acute, base cuneate, thin in texture, bright green

above clouded with blood-red, very pale beneath, nerves

three to five pairs, very slender above, stouter, and with

reticulate branches beneath ; petiole one-third to one-half

an inch, long, very slender, red. Inflorescence terminal,

clothed with imbricating, ovate, pale green, recurved,

glabrous bracts. lowers geminate; pedicels short, red,

setulose, and glandular. Calyx truncate. Corolla two

inches in diameter, deeply two-lipped, bright rose colour,

fading to white towards the base within, tube very short ;

lips divaricate, upper erect, three-cleft to the middle, lobes

shortly ovate-oblong, obtuse ; lower lip deflexed, bipartite,

segments oblong, obtuse. Stamens 5, declinate and in-

curved, filaments very slender, rose-red, three longer than

the corolla, two upper shorter ; anthers small, pale brown.

Ovary oblong, truncate, glandular; style very slender,

stigma minute.—J. D. H.

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CYPHOMANDRA BETACEA.

N. Grenada and Peru.

Nat. Ord. SoLanacea.—Tribe SoLaNnE&.

Genus CyrHomanpra, Sendén.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 889.)

CrpHomanpra betacea; arbuscula molliter pubescens, contusa odore ingrato,

caule superne ramoso, cortice pallido, ramis crassis, foliis amplis longe

petiolatis 4-8 poll. longis ovato-cordatis acuminatis mollibus supra luride

viridibus subtus pallidis, nervis utrinque coste 5-9 subtus prominulis

pallide purpureis, petiolo 4-12 poll. longo crassiusculo tereti, cymis seepius

supra- vel extra-alaribus corymbiformibus laxe di- tri-chotome ramosis,

peduneulo valido petiolo breviore viridi, floribus longiuscule pedicellatis,

pedicellis flexuosis fructiferis elongatis crassis, calyce parvo crateriforme

5-lobo, lobis rotundatis, corolla pollicem diametro rutato-campanulata alba

roseo pallide tincta, segmentis lanceolatis recurvis, filamentis brevibus,

antheris oblongis corolla dimidio brevioribus, stylo brevi columnari,

stigmate simplici, bacca carnosa 2-3-pollicari ovoidea flavida v. aurea

rubro-tincta 2-loculari polysperma, seminibus orbicularibus compressis.

C. betacea, Senditn. in Flora, vol. xxviii. (1845) p. 172, t. 1; et in Mart.

Fl. Bras. vol. x. p. 119. Dunal in DC. Prodr. vol. xiii. pars i. p. 393.

Morris in Gard. Chron. 1884, vol. i. p. 510; 1887, vol. i. -p. 386, fig. 77;

1899, vol. i. p. 15, fig. 104 (the Kew plant). Journ. Hortic, ser. 3, vol.

xxxi. p. 470. Kew Bulletin, Aug. 1887, p.2. Maiden in Agric. Gazette

N.S. Wales, vol. v. (1894) p. 214, ewm ie. :

Soranum betaceum, Cav. Ic. vol. vi. p. 15, t. 524. Anal. Hist. Nat. Madr. vol. i.

(1799) p. 44. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. ii. vol. i. p. 400. Dunal, Hist. Solan.

p. 169. Andrews, Bot. Rep. vol. viii. t. 511. Rev. Hortic. 1880, p. 150;

1881, p. 470.

8. crassifolium, Ortega, Hort. Matr. Dee. ix. p. 117.

8. obliqnum, Bert. in Herb. DC. ex Dunal in DC. Prodr. Lc.

PIoNANDRA betacea, Miers in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vol. iv. (1845) p. 358.

Cyphomandra betacea is the Tomate de la Paz of

Mexico and Central America, known also as the Tree

Tomato and Vegetable Mercury in the West Indies, the

latter name being given for the real or supposed value of

the fruit in relieving disorders of the liver. It is a native

of New Grenada, and Peru, whence it has been intro-

duced into other parts of tropical and sub-tropical

S. America, the West Indies, Spain, and, of late years,

into India, China, Australia, and S. Africa. Its ex-

tended cultivation is due to the facility with which it

is grown, adapting itself to many soils and climates, to

the great beauty of its abundantly produced edible fruits,

NovemBER -lst, 1899,

and to the value of these, when perfectly ripe, as a sub-

stitute for the Tomato, for making preserves, and even for

dessert. In the latter case it is the sub-acid pulp alone

which is eaten. This resembles that of Passiflora edulis,

Sims (t. 1989), but whereas the rind of the fruit of the

Pass ‘flora is tasteless, that of Cyphomandra is very dis-

agreeable, Other differences between the fruits of these

plants are that the pulp of that of Cyphomandra is less

watery, more acid, and has an aromatic flavour.

According to Aiton, Cyphomandia betacea was introduced

into England in 1803, by Sir James Edward Smith. It

has been long (perhaps ever since that date) in cultivation

at Kew, where it flowers and ripens its fruit abundantly

in the Temperate House.

Descr.—A small, erect tree, with pale bark, soft wood,

and stout branches. Leaves four to eight inches

long, ovate-cordate, acuminate, softly puberulous, lurid

geeen above, paler beneath, with five to nine pairs of

spreading nerves ; petiole four to twelve inches long, stout,

terete, pubescent. Cymes up to five inches broad, sub-

corymbiform, di- tri-chotomously divided ; peduncle shorter

than the petiole, green; pedicels an inch long, flexuous,

fruiting thickened upwards. Flowers an inch in diameter.

Calye cupular, obtusely 5-lobed. Corolla campanulate-

rotate; segments recurved, lanceolate, white with a pink

tinge. Filaments much shorter than the oblong anthers,

which are about half as long as the corolla, Style short,

columnar, stigma small. Berry two to three inches long,

ovoid, fleshy, orange-yellow, often suffused with red, two-

celled, many-seeded. Seeds orbicular, compressed, nar-

rowly winged all round.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Calyx, stamens, and style; 2

4, seed of nat. » Stamen; 3, pistil: all enlarged;

size; 5, the same, enlarged.

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Native of New Grenada,

Nat. Ord. Panpane&.—Tribe CaRLUDOVICEA,

Genus Cartupovica, Ruiz & Pav.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii.

p- 953.)

Cartupovica Laucheana; caule brevissimo, foliis subdistichis cuneiformi-

oblongis basi acutis lete viridibus coriaceis profunde bifidis laciniis lineari-

oblongis acuminatis plicatim 5-7-costatis, petiolo lamina breviore in

vaginam margine scariosam brunneam sensim desinente, pedunculo brevi

crasso, cataphyllis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis scariosis brunneis, spadice

4-6-pollicari oblongo cylindraceo 2-2} poll. diam. staminodiis flexuosis

albis densissime crinito, spathis spadice subzequilongis oblongo-lanceolatis

acuminatis pallide primulinis apice fuscis, fl. masc. basi compresso

cuneato, perianthii segmentis ad 12 brevibus ovatis recurvis, staminibus per-

plurimis, antheris oblongis filamento basi mammilleeformi paullo longiori-

bus, fl. fem. perianthii segmentis 4 orbiculari-ovatis cuspidatis, stigmatibus

4 sessilibus brevibus uncinatim recurvis marginibus glandulosis, stamino-

diis longissimis filiformibus flexuosis apicibus incrassatis.

Sartmia Laucheana, Hort. Sand. ex Gard. Chron. 1893, vol. i. pp. 442, 481,

fig. 72. Rev. Hort. Belg. vol. xix, (1893) p. 194, fig. 39.

Of the large and curious genus Carludovica, containing

thirty-eight described species, according to the census in

the Kew Index, very few are to be found in cultivation.

Five only before that here figured have appeared in this

Magazine, namely, C. latifolia, Ruiz & Pavon, t. 2950-1

(Ludovia latifolia, Pers.), C. ensiformis, Hk. f. t. 6418,

C. rotundifolia, Wendl. t. 7083, C. caput-Meduse, t. 7118,

and C. microcephala, Hort. Berol. t. 7263. In the character

of the bifid leaf C. Laucheana agrees with CO. ensiformis,

but it differs in the much shorter, broader leaf-lobes with

many more nerves in each, in the stouter, shorter petiole

and peduncle, in the very much larger spadix, and in

the uncinate stigmas. Another nearly allied species is

QC. plicata, Klotzsch (Linnea, vol. xx. (1847) p. 468),

which has more oblong leaves, with longer petioles.

CG. Laucheana was imported from Antioquia, New

Grenada, by Messrs. Sander & Co., of St. Albans. A

plant of it received from that firm by the Royal Gardens,

NoveEMBER Ist, 1899,

Kew, in 1895, flowered in a stove in May, 1897. As in

other species of the genus, it is remarkable for the envelope

of milk-white, thread-like staminodes of the female flowers,

which thickly clothe the spadix, wholly concealing the

flowers. The function of this envelope may possibly be,

like the spathe of many Aroidex, to protect the flowers

from the attacks of insects from without, whilst fertilization

is effected under it by minute pollen-feeding insects.

Descer.—Stem very short. Leaves eight to twelve inches

long, cuneiformly oblong, coriaceous, bright green, split to

‘the middle or below it into two linear-oblong, acuminate

lobes, each plicately five to seven-ribbed, base acute ;

petiole stout, shorter than the blade, dilating gradually

downwards into a coriaceous sheath, with narrow, scarious,

brown margins. Peduncle very short, stout, erect, bearing

__ below several brown, scarious sheaths, and under the spadix

two oblong-lanceolate, acuminate spathes, six inches

long, | of a pale yellowish colour, with scarious tips.

Spadiz as long as the spathes, oblong, cylindric, two to

two and a half inches in diameter, including the dense °

envelope of waving, white, filiform staminodes. Male ji.

cuneiform, fleshy, with about twelve marginal, broadly

ovate, short, recurved lobes. Stamens very many, crowded,

filaments rather shorter than the oblong (swollen, with

short, tender tips) anthers. Fem. fl. with four, small, very

broadly ovate, cuspidate, ereet, fleshy lobes ; staminodes

four, upward of an

i inch long, whi ous, tips

thickened. Stigmas fo g¢, white, flexu p

ur, uncinate, |; ressed,

glandular on the margin.—J, DH. spo es

Fig. 1, Petiole and infloresc J

» Pet ence of zat. size; 2, male fi.; 3, stamens;

4, fem. f.; all enlarged :—5, reduced view of whole plant. ar:

7CB4

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HIDALGOA Wercxktel.

Native of Costa Rica.

Nat. Ord. Composita.—Tribe HELIANTHOIDE A.

Genus Hinaxeoa, Llav. § Lewx.; (Benth. & Hvok. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 386.)

Hipatcoa Wercklei; herba suffrnticosa, ope petiolorum scandens, fere

glaberrima, foliis oppositis longe petiolatis ternatim pinnatisectis supra

parce pilosis, pinnulis 3 late ovatis trisectis grosse dentato-serratis,

dentibus apice discoloribus, petiolo 13-2-pollicari basin versus volubili,

stipulis orbicularibus herbaceis, capitulis 2} poll. diam. axillaribus soli-

tariis, pedunculo 3-4-pollicari nudo, involucri bracteis herbaceis biseriatis

linearibus, exterioribus 5 stellatim patentibus, interioribus duplo longiori-

bus et latioribus obtusis in tubum cylindricum dispositis, fl. radii ad 10

femineis, corolle tubo brevissimo, limbo patente oblongo 3-dentato miniato,

fl. disci capitulo exsertis flavidis, tubo angusto elongato lobis 5 revolutis

intus papillosis, antheris elongatis basi obtusis connectivo apice breviter

unguiculato, styli fl. radii ramis filiformibus longe exsertis, fl. disci stylo

nisi basin versus ubique papilloso apice breviter bilobo, acheeniis apice

bicornutis, disci angustis sterilibus, radii latioribus compressis.

Cuitpsia Wercklei, Childs, Cat. Rar. Fl. &., 1899, p. 1 cum ie. (New York.)

The genus Hidalgoa is closely allied to Dahlia and

Coreopsis, but differs from both in habit, in the large fertile

achene of the ray-flowers, and in the sterile disk-flowers,

the styles of which are entire or veryshortly two-lobed. Only

two species have hitherto been recognized, the H. ternata,

Llav. & Lex. of Mexico and Central America, and a closely

allied one (or possibly a variety) from Guayaquil. From

both of these H. Wercklei differs in its more compound

leaves and much larger heads, the ray-flowers of which are

bright scarlet...

According to Mr. John Lewis Childs, of Floral Park,

New York, who published it as Childsia Wercklei, with a

coloured illustration, on the back of his sale-catalogue, cited

above, it is a native of Costa Rica, where it was discovered

on a mountain, by Mr. Carlo Werckle, in 1598. <A plant

was sent to the Royal Gardens, Kew, by Mr. J. L

Childs, which flowered in a greenhouse in July, 1899.

Descr.—A tall, suffruticose, much-branched herb, climb-

ing by means of the petioles, which twist round objects of

support, glabrous, except for a slight pubescence on the

NovemBer Ist, 1899.

_ upper surface of theleaves. Leaves opposite, long petioled,

broadly ovate, pinnately ternatisect, one and a half to two

and a half inches long, by two across the two lower

pinnules, which are ternatisect and deeply toothed or

serrate, the teeth tipped with red-brown, which colour

sometimes extends all round the leaf-lobes ; petiole one and

a half to two inches long, coiled at the base. Peduncle

axillary, solitary, as long as the leaves or longer, erect,

naked, bearing a solitary head two and a half inches in

diameter. IJnvolucral bracts herbaceous, biseriate, linear,

obtuse ; outer series five, stellately spreading, about half

as long and broad as the inner, which are erect, connivent

in a cylindric tube three-fourths of an inch long. Ray-

flowers about 10; corolla-tube very short, limb spreading,

oblong, two-nerved, three-toothed, bright scarlet above,

dirty yellow beneath; style-arms long, very slender ;

achene fertile, oblong, flattened, tip two-horned ; pappus 0.

Disk-flowers many, yellow ; corolla-tube long, slender, lobes

five, recurved ; anthers elongate, base obtuse ; style slender,

pubescent, except towards the base, tip shortly bifid;

achene slender, cylindric, barren ; pappus 0.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Ray-flower and inc a ae : : :

3, stamen ; 4, style :—Al/ 2) ae at eee emer: 2 disk-Tomte

Tas. 7685.

BEGONIA Hemsrryana.

Native of Yunnan.

Nat. Ord. Brcontacex.

Genus Brconta, Linn. ; ( Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 841.)

Beconta (Platycentrum) Hemsleyana; dense coespitosa, radice tuberosa, tuberi-

bus carnosis fasciculatis fusiformibus, caulibus 1-1}-pedalibus parce ra-

mosis petiolisque gracilibus elongatis erectis puberulis pallide roseis, foliis

palmatipartitis, segmentis radiatis lanceolatis acuminatis remote serratis

sessilibus v. in petiolulum brevem angustatis glaberrimis supra lete viri-

dibus rubro anguste marginatis penninerviis, stipulis ovato-lanceolatis

herbaceis, pedunculis axillaribus petiolis longioribus glaberrimis, cymis

dichotomis paucifloris, bracteis lanceolatis caducis, floribus roseis, mase.

sepalis 2 ovato-rotundatis subacutis, petalis 2 multo minoribus oblongo-

ovatis, staminibus in capitulum globosum brevissime stipitatum dense

confertis, filamentis gracilibus antheris pyriformibus apice rotundatis

zequilongis, loculis lateralibus, fl. fem. longius pedicellatis nutantibus,

perianthii segmentis 5 equalibus oblongis obtusis, ovario 2-loculari

3-alato, ala una multo majore oblonga apice rotundata, stylis 2 subsessili-

‘bus stigmatorum crucibus brevibus spiraliter incurvis, fascia stigmatosa

continua, placentis septo medio insertis bipartitis undique ovuliferis,

capsula latiore quam longa pendula 3-alata, alis 2 brevibus tertia fere

pollicari oblonga apice rotundata nervis validis costata, dehiscentia inter

alas breviores imperfecte operculari.

The discovery of a palmatipartite-leaved Begonia in the

Old World is a very remarkable one, the few known

species with this character being all American. £8. Hems-

leyana has, however, no affinity with the latter; it belongs

to the section Platycentrum of A. de Candolle (Prodr. vol.

xv. p. 3847), which is represented by eighteen species in

India, and is regarded as a sub-genus by C. B. Clarke, in

his paper on Indian Begonias (Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xviii.

p- 118). Its nearest ally is an undescribed Chinese species,

also discovered by Dr. Henry, in which the leaves are

orbicular, and seven to nine-lobed to the middle.

B. Hemsleyana was raised in the Royal Gardens, Kew,

from seed collected at Mengtse; in Yunnan, at an elevation

of four thousand to five thousand feet, by Dr. Henry,

F.L.S., in 1898, who describes it as a very pretty plant,

a foot to a foot and a half high. It flowered freely and

NovemBER Ist, 1899.

continuously in a warm greenhouse, from April, 1899,

onwards, forming a compact mass of foliage, suggestive of

a well-furnished Hellebore. I have named it in com-

memoration of the services rendered to botanical science

by the researches into the Chinese Flora of my friend,

Mr. W. B. Hemsley, F.R.S.

Descr.—Roots of fleshy, fascicled, fusiform tubers, with

copious, black rootlets. Stem one to one and a half feet

high, densely tufted, erect, sparingly branched, leafy,

succulent, rose-pink, slightly hairy. Leaves erect, long-

petioled, orbicular, four to five inches in diameter, palmati-

partite’ or sub-pedate; segments seven to nine, radiating”

from the top of the peduncle, sessile or narrowed into a

short petiolule, lanceolate, acuminate, irregularly, rather

distantly serrate, lateral pair sometimes lobulate, bright

green above, pale beneath, young sometimes edged with

red; petiole three to four inches long, erect, glabrous,

rose-pink ; stipules half an inch long, oblong-lanceolate,

herbaceous. Cyme dichotomous, few flowered, monccious ;

bracts lanceolate, caducous ; pedicels of fem. lengthening

and decurved in fruit. Male jl. one and a quarter inch

diam. ; sepals orbicular-ovate, pale pink, darker coloured

towards the tips; petals half as large, oblong. Stamens

very many, capitate, filaments short, crowded on a° very

short stipes; anthers pyriform, tip rounded, slits narrow;

lateral. Fem. fl. :—perianth rather larger than the male;

Segments five, sub-equal, oblong, obtuse ; style very short,

stigmas two, hippocrepiform, with circinately incurved

tae stigmatic band continuous. Capsule on an elongate,

ecurved pedicel two inches long, broader than long,

coriaceous, three-winged, dorsal wing much the longest,

oblong, tip rounded

: » Strongly many-ribbed, dehiscence

meet ate opercular between the narrow wings.—

alos = and 2, Anthers; 3, stigmas; 4, section of ovary; 5, capsule :—Al/

186

MS.del, JN-Fitch lith.

Tas. 7686.

RHODODENDRON wmopzstum.

Native of the Sikkim Himalaya.

Nat. Ord. Ertcace®.—Tribe RHoDORE.

Genus Ruopopenpron, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 599.)

RHODODENDRON (Eurhododendron) modestum; frutex glaberrimus, ramulis

erectis foliosis, foliis 2-3-pollicaribus breviter petiolatis oblongis acutis

apiculatis basi acutis cuneatisve coriaceis, supra saturate viridibus sparsim

glanduloso-puberulis, subtus fulvo-viridibus lepidotis, nervis utrinque

costee 8-10 supra inconspicuis subtus vix prominulis costa subtus valida in

mucronem obtusum producta, gemmis floriferis basi foliatis pauci-

bracteatis, floribus 6-10 laxe umbellatis pendulis, pedicellis ad 3$-poll.

longis calyceque lepidotis, calycis segmentis inequilongis oblongis aris-

tato-acuminatis posticis }-poll. longis, anticis fere duplo brevioribus,

corolla infundibulari 5-loba pallide rosea, lobis rotundatis tubo paullo

brevioribus 3 posticis sanguineo maculatis, staminibus 10 corolla paullo

brevioribus subdeclinatis, filamentis basin versus villosis, antheris brun-

neis, stylo declinato stigmate clavato truncato.

R. modestum is a singularly beautiful addition to the

list, of about thirty species, of Sikkim Himalayan Rhodo-

dendrons now described. Though not nearly allied to

any of those known to me, it is perhaps most nearly to

LR. cviliatum, which differs in being very hairy, in its more

erect flowers, campanulate corolla, and its sub-equal,

obtuse calyx-segments. These latter in R. modestum are

very unequal, and all aristulate, a character which I have

not seen in any other Sikkim species. It is also remark-

able for the brilliant spotting of the dorsal half of the

corolla, which coloration is, from the drooping habit of

the flower, exposed to the eye, and is very effective. Its

exact habitat is not known. It came up amongst seedlings

raised from a packet of seeds of Sikkim Rhododendrons

(ticketed R. pendulum, a totally different plant), which was

sent from the Royal Gardens of Calcutta to Kew by Sir

George King in 1887. It flowered for the first time in

May of this year, in the Himalayan wing of the Temperate

House.

Deser.—A small, glabrous, much-branched, leafy shrub,

bark of old branches brown, of young green sparsely

NovemsBer lst, 1899.

lepidote. Leaves rather crowded, very shortly petioled,

two to three inches long, coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, acute,

tip apiculate, base acute, above yellowish-green, opaque,

sparsely glandular, puberulous, beneath greenish-yellow,

closely lepidote ; costa yellow above, produced beyond the

tip of the leaf as a stout, obtuse mucro; nerves eight or

ten on each side of the costa, very slender above, more

_ prominent beneath ; petiole about an eighth of an inch

long. Flowers six to ten, loosely umbelled at the leafy

tips of the branches, drooping; bud-scales few, linear-

oblong, deciduous; pedicels one-half to one inch long,

decurved, lepidote. Calyx deflexed, very oblique, lepidote ;

segments five, oblong, obtuse, the tips acuminate and

aristulate, dorsal one-third of an inch long, anterior

about half as long, two lateral intermediate in s1Ze.

Corolla broadly infundibular, pale pink, with bright, blood-

red spots on the dorsal half of the tube, extending half

way up the dorsal lobe ; lobes nearly half the Jength of the

tube, orbicular, recurved, but not strongly. Stamens ten,

sub-declinate, upcurved, shorter than the corolla, filaments

villous towards the base; anthers small, pale brown.

Ovary short, five-celled, lepidote ; style rather longer than

the stamens, declinate, glabrous, stigma clavate.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Tip-of ] . i bao :

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ODONTOGLOSSUM sbrevirontum.

Native of Peru.

Nat. Ord. OrncHipe#.—Tribe VaANDEX.

Genus Opvontoeuossum, H. B. et K.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii.

p- 561.)

OpvontToetossum brevifolium; candice robusto vaginato, vaginis ovatis acumi-

natis brunneis, pseudobulbis approximatis ovato-sblongis compressis

marginibus acutis unifoliatis, folio 6-10 poll. longo ovato-oblongo obtuso

v. retuso basi in petiolum brevem crassum canaliculatum constricto

crasse coriaceo, supra saturate lurile viridi, subtus pallidiore, nervis

numerosis, scapo simplici robusto squamis ovatis scariosis brauneis

distantibus 4 poll. longis instructo, racemo fere pedali cernuo vy. in-

clinato multifloro, rachi robusto viridi, bracteis squamis pedunculi con-

similibus, pedicellis cum ovariis 2-pollicaribus, floribus 2-2} poll. diam.

ambitu orbicularibus, sepalis petalisque consimilibus orbicularibus

breviter unguiculatis crassiusculis castaneo-rufis vernicosis marginibus

crispatis auteis, labello sepalis breviore unguiculato late obovato v.

obcordato, ungue rubro basi utrinque auriculato medio calloso, colamna

brevi crassa bialata alis obtusis, clinandrio apice denticulato.

O. brevifolium, Lindl. in Benth. Pl. Hartweg. p. 152; Fol. Orchid , Odonto-

gloss. p. 21. André in Illustr, Hortic. vol. xxi. (1874) p. 74, t. 170.

Walp. Ann. vol. vi. p. 846. Warn. § Williams, Orehid. Album, vol. i. t.

27. Cogn. Diet. Icon. Orchid., Odontogloss. t. 18.

O. coronarium var, miniatum, Veitch, Man. Orchid. part i. p. 23.

O. miniatum, Hort. ex Veitch Z.c.

O. Candelabrum, Hort. Linden ew Veitch.

Opinions differ as to the claims of Odontoglosswim brevi-

_ folium to be considered specifically distinct from 0. coro-

~ narium, Lindl. They are regarded as varieties in Veitch’s

_ excellent ‘‘ Manual ;”’ to which is added as another variety

O. chiriquense, Reichb. f., but which latter, as Rolfe has

pointed out (Orchid. Rev. vii. p. 49), differs far more from

both than these do from one another. Referring to Mr.

Rolfe, who kindly aids me in all my labours on Orchids for

the Magazine, he informs me that O. brevifolium is well

distinguished from O. coronarium by habit, by the closer

pseudobulbs, larger (not smaller, as stated in Veitch’s

* Manual’’) flowers, and shorter column. Theyfurther come

from different countries, 0. coronarium from New Grenada,

O. brevifolium from Peru, near Loxa, and differ in the first

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named being avery shy, and the latter a very free flowerer.

The figure of a flower of O. coronariwm in the “ Manual”

exactly corresponds to that of our plant, except in being

rather smaller, and having a longer column. It should be

borne in mind that O. brevifoliwm had not flowered in

Europe when the ‘‘ Manual” appeared, and that the size

of its flowers was presumably taken from the original

Herbarium specimens of Hartweg. How the name

miniatum, Hort., arose is unknown, it would imply that

the flowers were vermilion coloured or scarlet.

O. brevifolium was introduced by Linden, under the

name of O. Candelabrum. For the loan of the magnificent

‘specimen here figured I am indebted to Sir Trevor Law-

rence, bt., M.P., in whose unique collection it flowered in

April of this year. :

quill, clothed with distichous, imbricating, brown, ovate,

acuminate, imbricating scales an inch long. Pseudobulbs

two inches long, rather crowded, ovate-oblong, compressed,

With acute margins, smooth, green. Leaf solitary, six

inches long by three broad, ovate-oblong, tip retuse, base

contracted into a very stout, short, channelled petiole,

thickly coriaceous, lurid green and shining above, paler

beneath. Pedwnele stout, green, with a few ovate or lan-

ceolate, scarious, red brown sheaths an inch long. Raceme

a foot long, inclined or drooping, many-fld., rhachis green 5

bracts like the sheaths on the peduncle; pedicels with

ovary two inches long. Flowers orbicular in outline, two

to two and a half inches broad. Sepals and petals sub-

similar, nearly orbicular, shortly clawed, bright reddish-

chestnut coloured, with narrow crisped golden margins.

Lip shorter than the sepals, clawed, limb broadly obovate

or obcordate, golden-yellow; claw with two short basal

wings, and a complicate lobed callus between them.

Column very short, red-brown, two-winged.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Lip and column; 2. side vic fb : 3 anther;

4and 5, pollinia :-— All enlarged. ew of base of lip and column; 3,

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CEREUS viripirLorus.

Native of New Mexico and Colorado.

Nat. Ord. Cactem.—Tribe EcHINOCACTEAR,

Genus Cuma. Haw. ,; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 849.)

CzreEvs (Echinocereus) viridiflorus; subglobosus ovoideus oblongus v. demum

cylindraceus, parce ramosus, ad 13-sulcatus, lete viridis, areolis ovato-

lanceolatis oblongisve, aculeis 12-18 arcte radiantibus cum superioribus

2-6 setaceis rubris albis variegatisve, lateralibus caeteris longioribus,

centralibus 1-2 robustis rarius 0, floribus ad 1} poil. diam. apicem versus

caulis lateralibus e flavo virescentibus, calycis tubo brevi aculeato, petalis

apice bilobis, baccis parvis ellipsoideis spinulosis, seminibus tuberculatis.

C. viridiflorus, Hngelm. in Gray Pl. Fendl. in Mem. Am. Acad. vol. iv. (1849) p.

50; Syn. Cact. U.S. in Proc. Am. Acad. vol. iii. (1856) p. 278, et Addend. in

Trans. Acad, St. Louis, vol. ii. p. 199; Cact. Whipple Exped. p 32; Cact.

Mex. Bound. p. 28, t. xxxvi.; Cact. in King’s Expl. Rep. vk v. p. 118;

in. Simpson’s Rep. 440. Bigelow, ay Rail. Rep. vol. iv. pp. 32, 36.

S. Wats. Pl. Wheeler, p.9. Porter & Coulter Fl. Colorad. p.48. Coulter —

Man. Rocky Mt. Bot. p. 110. Salm. Cact. Hort. Dyck. p. 192. Lab.

Monogr. Cact. p. 319.—Bot. Works Engelm. pp. 124, 136, 158, 224, 227,

231.

Echinocereus viridiflorus, Hngelm. in Wisliz. Tour N. Mewic. p. 91. Férst.

Handb. Cact. Ed. 2, p. 811. Schum. Gesamtbeschr. Kakt. p. 267.

EK. Labouretianus, Lem. Cact. p. 57.

E. Laboureti, Férst. /.c.

Cereus viridiflorus is an interesting plant, as being the

most northern representative of the vast genus to which

it belongs, and which numbers upwards of 300 species.

It is a native of Rocky Mountains of N. America, and its

subsidiary chains, from the upper Platte River in Wyomin

(about lat. 43° N.), south to the Rio Grande del Norte

in New Mexico (about lat. 35° N.), Colorado being its

headquarters. It would be interesting to know to what

elevation it is found, but of this I find no record. Plants

of it were received at the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1897,

along with other Cacti, from Mr. D. M. Andrews, N ursery-

man, of Boulder, Colorado; they have proved to be so

far hardy as to require the protection of a screen only in

very cold weather. They flower in July.

Deser.—Plant subglobose or ovoid, or elongating into

DECEMBER Ist, 1899.

oblong or cylindric, two to eight inches high, by one and a

half to two in diameter, simple or sparingly branched ;

furrows about thirteen, separated by obtusely triangular

ribs, one-third to one-half of an inch broad at the base.

Areolex of spines ovate-lanceolate or oblong, about their

own length apart. Spines twelve to eighteen, with often a

few much shorter and more slender at the apex of the

areole, pectinately spreading, about a sixth of an inch long,

with usually one (rarely two) stouter, longer, central, erect

spines; colour of spines very variable, from red-brown

to white, or variegated, especially the central. Flowers

laterally produced on the ribs above the middle of the plant,

an inch and a half in diameter. Calyz-tube short, spinose,

green. Sepals and petals narrowly cuneiformly oblong,

yellow, with a faint pink or greenish tinge, tip two-lobed. |

Anthers yellow. Stigmas green. Fruit small, ellipsoid,

spinulose. Seeds tubercled.—J. D. H.

Figs. 1 and 2, Areole with spines; 3, petal; 4, stamen :—AU/ enlarged.

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MINA tosata.

Native of Mezico.

Nat. Ord. ConvoLvuLACE&.—Tribe CoNvOLVULE.

Genus Mina, La Llav. & Lew. Ipomoee sect. Quamoclit (Benth. & Hook. f.

Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 871.)

Mina lobata; suffrutex glaberrimus, caule gracili volubili ramoso tereti, foliis

longe petiolatis late ovato-cordatis acuminatis integris v. late 3-5-lobis

integerrimis supra late viridibus subtus pallidis, nervis utrinque cost

5-6 arcuatis, nervulis laxe anastomosantibus, floribus numerosis in

racemos adscendentes simplices vy. bifidos longe pedunculatos sub-recurvos

secundis breviter pedicellatis, pedicellis basi minute bracteatis, calycis

tubo brevi, segmentis inwquilongis erectis ovatis apiculatis v. subulatis

basi dilatatis, corolle coccinesee demum aures tubo brevi valde constricto

limbo elongato ampulleformi subpentagono curvo ore constricto, lobis

arvis rotundatis, staminibus basi tubi insertis, filamentis gracillimis

inequilongis corolla duplo longioribus basin versus puberulis, antheris

oblongis, disco sub 5-lobo, ovario 4-loculari, stylo staminibus sequilongo,

stigmate capitato.

M. lobata, Cerv. in La Llav. & Lex. Nov. Veg. Deser. fase. i. p. 3 (1824). Lindl.

in Bot, Reg. vol. xxviii. (1842) Mise. p. 5, et t. 24. Chois. in DC. Prodr.

vol. ix. p. 337. Paat. Mag. Bot. vol. xvi. p. 100, cum ic. pict. Gard.

Chron. 1886, vol. ii. p. 684, figs. 232, 233. Regel, Gartenfl. 1886, p. 644,

cum ic. ec Gard. Chron.iterat. Perringin Deutsch. Gartenzeit, 1866, p. 544,

cum ic, ex Gard. Chron. iterat. Morren in Ann. Soc. Agric. Gand., vol. v.

(1849) p. 211, t. 259. Bull. Soc. Tosc. Hort. 1889, p. 106. Duren in

Rev. Hort. Belg. 1891, p. 60, eum te. pict.

MM. cordata, Micheli in Rev. Hortic. 1898, p. 554, et 1899, p. 308, cum ic. pict.

Qvuamocuit Mina, G. Don, Gen. Syst. vol. iv. p. 259.

Iromama versicolor, Meissn. in Mart. Fl. Bras. vol. vii. p. 220. Hemsl. Biol.

Centr. Am. Bot. vol. ii. p. 395, iv. p. 74.

I have no reason to doubt that the plant here figured is

Mina lobata, Cerv., and of Lindley in the Botanical

scriptions and figures of some later authors who have taken

it up, that it might be supposed that two or more species

have been included under the name. Of the authors re-

ferred to above, Paxton describes the leaves as slightly

villous beneath, and the corolla-limb as _five-angled.

Morren also says of the leaves that they are villous beneath,

and the limb of the corolla he represents as strongly five-

DecemBER Ist, 1899,

ribbed and five-lobed at the base; more different from any

other figure is his of the tube of the calyx, which is repre-

sented as perfectly globose, crowned with a lobed limb,

the whole resembling the inferior ovary and calyx of a

Rubiaceous plant. G. Don describes the corolla-limb as

five-angled; Meissner does not, but says that the raceme

is a scorpioid cyme, which it appears to be on a hasty

glance, but it is only at first slightly recurved, with secund

flowers. Micheli’s M. cordata represents a very weak,

undeveloped state of the species, with all the leaves cor-_

date and undivided, and the very short racemes very few-

flowered.

I have retained the generic name of Mina for this plant,

whilst recognizing its very close affinity with the section

Quamoclit of Ipomaa, from which it differs in inflorescence,

in the ampulliform limb of the corolla narrowed upwards

to the mouth, and in the very small lobes of the limb.

Meissner reduced Mina to Ipomea, and being obliged to

discard the specific name (lobata) as being preoccupied,

gave that of versicolor as descriptive of the change of

colour in the corolla from red to yellow.

Mina lobata is a native of Mexico, where it is frequently

cultivated. There are specimens in the Kew Herbarium

from Mr. Parkinson, late Consul-General in Mexico; from

San Luis, Potosi, collected by Schaffner, and from a

garden in Orizaba, by Botteri. Prof. Micheli’s plant

(M. cordata) was raised from seeds collected in the States of

~ Michoacan and Guerrero, in Western Mexico, whether

from an indigenous plant is not stated.

Descr.—A tall, very slender, branching, leafy climber,

With terete, green, twining stem and branches. Leaves

long-petioled, one to four inches long and broad, ovate- or

orbicular-cordate, acuminate, entire or broadly three- to

five-lobed, quite entire, thin, bright green above, pale be-

neath, with arching nerves, and loosely anastomosing

nervules. acemes three to five inches long, terminal,

ascending, slender, curved, simple or forked at the base,

many-flowered. Flowers secund, about an inch long,

shortly pedicelled ; pedicels minutely bracteate at the base.

Calyzx-tube short; lobes five, more or less unequal, from

subulate with a dilated base to ovate and apiculate.

Corolla bright red, passing into orange-yellow ; tube very

short, narrow, contracted; limb long, narrowly am-

pulliform, truncate at the base, narrowed upwards to a

small mouth with five short rounded lobes. Stamens

twice as long as the corolla; anthers oblong, yellow.

Stigma capitate.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Calyx and pistil; 2, portion of corolla laid open, and stamens;

3 and 4, anthers; 5, base of calyx, disk and ovary ; 6, stigmas :—A// enlarged.

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EPIPACTIS gicanrga.

Native of Western N. America and Temperate Asia.

Nat. Ord. OxcHipEz.—Tribe NEOTTIER.

Genus Epiractis, Haller; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 619.)

Eripactis gigantea ; caule elato robusto folioso, foliis inferioribus ovatis oblong-

isve superioribus 4-8 pollicaribus sensim in bracteas abeuntibus lanceo-

latis acuminatis acutisye glaberrimis v. nervis subtus subscaberulis,

racemo glabro v. puberulo, bracteis foliaceis inferioribus 3-4 poll. longis

lanceolatis acuminatis, floribus remotis breviter graciliterque pedicellatis,

sepalis ? poll. longis viridibus rubro striatis, dorsali late ovato erecto

subgaleato,'lateralibus ovato-lanceolatis subacutis, petalis sepalis breviori-

bus oblique ovatis obtusis pallide roseis rubro-striatis, labello roseo

sepalis zequilongo, hypochilio saccato lobis lateralibus erectis late ovatis

apice rotundatis, epichilio ovato v. ovato-lanceolato subacuto rubro,

capsula patula v. pendula brevi et ellipsoidea, v. longiore lineari-oblonga.

E. gigantea, Dougl. ex Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. vol. ii. p. 220, +. 202. S. Wats.

Bot. King’s Exped. p. 341; Bot. Calif. vol. ii. p. 137. Coulter, Man. Rocky

Mt. Flor. p. 348. Hemsl. Biol. Cent. Amer. Bot. vol. iii. p. 304. Lindl.

in Benth. Pl. Hartweg. p. 53.

E. americana, Lindl. in Ann. Sc. Nat. vol. iv. (1840) p. 385; Gen. &. Sp.

Orchid, p. 462.

E. Royleana, Lindl. in Royle, Til. Bot. Himal. p. 368; Gen. & Sp. Orchid.

p. 461; in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. i. (1857) p. 174. Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind.

vol. vi. p. 126.

PE. Thunbergii, A. Gray, in Perry Exped. Japan. vol. ii. p. 319.

CrPHaALANTHERA Royleana, Regel in Act. Hort. Petrop. vol. vi. (1879) p. 490.

Boiss. Fl. Orient. vol. v. p. 63.

The species of Hpipactis have never been satisfactorily

discriminated or described. They are extremely variable,

both in foliage and floral characters ; as many as seventeen

forms, varieties, or species having been referred to the

European H. latifolia, All. One alone, H. gigantea, is

known as a native of N. America, and it is there confined

to the western half of the continent, ranging from British

Columbia to California and Mexico, and further east from

Idaho to Texas. It reappears in the Old World in the

Corea (and Japan, if A. Gray’s L. Thunbergit is conspecific),

and Manchuria, and thence extends to the mountains of

Western China, and along the Himalaya at elevations of

seven thousand to twelve thousand feet to Kashmir. It is

quite hardy at the Royal Gardens, Kew, flowering in June.

DeEcEMBER Ist, 1899.

Descr.—Stem tall, stout, leafy. Lower leaves ovate or

oblong, upper much longer, four to eight inches long,

lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, or with the nerves beneath

minutely scaberulous. aceme glabrous, or minutely

puberulous, elongate; flowers distant; bracts foliaceous,

lower three to four inches long, lanceolate, acuminate ;

pedicels with the ovary one-sixth to one-fourth of an inch

long. Sepals three-fourths of an inch long, green,

streaked with dull red nerves; dorsal erect, broadly ovate,

concave; lateral ovate-lanceolate, sub-acute, recurved.

Petals rather shorter than the sepals, erect, obliquely

ovate, obtuse, pale pink, with red nerves. Lip as long as

the sepals ; hypochile saccate, its lateral lobes erect, broadly

ovate, strongly nerved, tip rounded, pale rose-coloured

tuft streaked with dark red externally, deeper red within;

epichile ovate or ovate-lanceolate, from a dilated, almost

two-lobed base, sub-acute, dark red. Oolwmn stout, with

two bluish lateral horns below the clinandrium.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Lip; 2, side, and 3, front view of column and anther :—AIl enlarged.

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LABEL (OUT,

KLEINIA GRANXTII.

Native of FE, trop. Africa.

Nat. Ord. Comrosira.—Tribe SENECIONIDEA.

Genus Kveinta, Haw.; Senecio sect. Kleinia (Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant.

vol, ii. p. 449.)

Kuernta Grantii; glaberrima, carnosa, rhizomate nodoso, caule robusto

decumbente folioso dein adscendente, foliis confertis 2-24 poll. longis

ovalibus v. spathulato-oblongis obtusis (exsiccitatis apiculatis) integerrimis

in petiolum crassum angustatis crasse carnosis pallide viridibus utrinque

concoloribus, pedunculo terminali 10-pollicari robusto nudo infra medium

pallide purpureo superne pallide viridi ramoso, ramis 3 3~4-pollicaribus

erectis viridibus monocephalis squamis paucis parvis lanceolatis mem-

branaceis deciduis instructis, capitulis erectis magnis, involucro % poll.

longo cylindraceo } poll. diam. herbaceo basi nudo rotundato v. subin-

truso, bracteis ad 12 3 poll. longis glaberrimis levibus (exsiccatis sul catis)

marginibus coherentibus apicibus liberis lanceolatis acuminatis, floribus

bracteis longioribus in capitulum hemisphericum sanguineum 2 poll. diam.

confertis radii femineis disci hermaphroditis, corolle tubo elongato gracili,

lobis lanceolatis obtusis papillosis, antherarum connectivo elongato,

stylorum ramis fl. fem. elongatis Jonge penicillatis recurvis, fl. hermaph.

brevioribus, acheniis teretibus glabris, pappo albo involucro vix excedente.

Noronia Grantii, Oliv. & Hiern, Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. iii. p. 407.

N. sempervirens, Aschers. in Schweinf, Beitr. Fl. Aithiop. p. 152.

Senecio (Kleinia) longipes, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1895, p. 217.

Kleinia Grantii was discovered by the late Lt.-Col.

Grant, during his adventurous journey with Capt. Speke,

in the Usagora district, or province, of what is now German

Hast Africa. The precise locality of the specimen in the

Kew Herbarium is M‘btmi, lat. 6° 56’ 30” 8., which is on

the coast range. The species is not indicated in Col.

Grant’s enumeration of his collections in the “ Linnean

Transactions ” (vol. xxix. 1875), but in a note attached

to the specimen he refers to the Appendix to Speke’s

narrative, where the plant is alluded to as “ Kleinia ? sp.,

diminutive, with pale port-wine flowers. Alt. 1750 ft.,

fl. October.” It has since been found in Abyssinia by

Schweinfurth and de Riva; and more recently in Somali-

land, on the Golis range, by Miss Edith Cole, whose

DecemBer Ist, 1899.

specimens were described by Mr. Baker as Senecio

(Kleinia) longipes. A plant of it, given by Miss Cole to

the Botanic Garden of the University of Cambridge,

flowered there in June, 1899, and was sent for figuring in

this Magazine by Mr. Lynch.

Deser.—A fleshy, perfectly glabrous herb. ootstock

nodose, emitting stout vermiform roots. Stem six to eight

inches long, decumbent, copiously leafy, pale purplish.

Leaves crowded, spreading and recurved, thickly fleshy,

two to two and a half inches long, oval, oval-oblong,

or spathulately oblong, obtuse (apiculate when dry), quite

entire, very pale green, concolorous on both surfaces, base

narrowed into a short, very stout petiole. Pedunele ter-

minal, ten inches high, stout, quite naked, pale, grey-

purple below the middle, green above it, dividing at the

top into three stout branches or pedicels, each bearing a

solitary large head of flowers. Pedicels green, bearing

Scattered, small, lanceolate, membranous, deciduous scales.

Inwolucre quite naked at the rounded and slightly intruded

base, bright green, cylindric, two-thirds of an inch long

by half an inch in diameter; bracts about twelve, cohering

in a smooth tube for two-thirds of their length, above it

free, lanceolate, acuminate, quite smooth and green to the

tips, grooved when dry, Flowers forming a hemispheric

scarlet head two inches in diameter, all much longer than

the bracts, outer female, inner hermaphrodite. Corolla-

tube slender, lobes lanceolate, obtuse, papillose. Style-

arms of fem. fl. very long, with long, linear penicillate tips,

of kermaph, fl. much shorter, with shorter tips. Anthers

with the connective produced into a subulate erect append-

age nearly half as long as the cells. Achenes quite smooth,

cylindric, glabrous. Pappus copious, white ; hairs flexuous,

shorter than the corolla-tube.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Female flower ;

flower :—Ad/ enlarged, 2, hermaph. do.; 3, stamens; 4, styles of hermaph.

INDEX

To Vol. LV. of the Tarrp Sabina, or

Vol. OXXV. of

the whole Work.

7663 Acacia spherocephala.

7632 Acalypha hispida.

7654 Alnus nitida.

7667 Aloe Schweinfurthii.

7675 Asparagus scandens.

7669 Aster Piccolii.

7685 Begonia Hemsleyana.

1678... 3). sinensian:

7657 =, +~—-venosa.

7680 Berlandiera tomentosa.

7674 Calathea picta.

7683 Carludovica Laucheana.

7640 Ceanothus integerrimus.

7648 Cereus Paxtonianus.

7688 ,, viridiflorus.

7672 Coleus thyrsoideus,

7665 Crassula pyramidalis.

7682 Cyphomandra betacea.

7653 Cyrtanthus parviflorus.

7655 Dahlia Maximiliana.

7639 Dendrobium capillipes.

7676 Dorstenia Phillipsiz.

7642 Dryandra ealophylla.

7638 Eleagnus macrophylla.

7670 Ephedra altissima.

7641 Epilobium obcordatum.

7690 Epipactis gigantea.

7635 Gaultheria trichophylla.

- 7637. Gentiana Burseri.

7645 Gynopleura humilis.

7660 Chrysanthemui nipponicum.

7668 Heliophila scandens,

7684 Hidalgoa Wercklei.

7647 Impatiens Roylei, var.

pallidiflora.

7651 Incarvillea variabilis.

7661 Iris Delavayi.

7678 Kalanchoe thyrsiflora,

7691 Kleinia Grantii.

7659 ~=—,, -_ pendula.

7644 Kniphofia Tuckii.

| 7633 Lewisia Tweedyi.

7634 Lilium rubellim.

7677 Lonicera Hildebrandiana.

7664 Masdevallia museosa,

7636 Meconopsis heterophylla.

| 7658 Morea sulphurea.

| 7068s

7671 Mussenda capsulifera.

7652 Nicotiana sylvestris.

7687 Odontoglossum brevifolium,

7643 Passiflora pruinosa.

7681 Rhododendron dilatatum.

7686 e: modestum,

7646 Rosa acicularis, var.

nipponensis.

7666 Rosa xanthina.

7649 Silene Fortunei.

7679 Stylidium crassifolium.

7656 Veronica Dieffenbachii.

7650 Yueca elata.

Whipplei.

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