CURTIS’S

BOTANICAL MAGAZINE;

BARRA OR

Flower Garden Displapen:

In which the most Ornamental Foreieén Pants cultivated in the Open Ground,

the Green-House, and the Stove, are accurately represented and coloured.

To which are added,

THEIR NAMES, CLASS, ORDER, GENERIC AND SPECIFIC CHARACTERS,

ACCORDING TO THE SYSTEM OF LINNEUS;

Their Places of Growth, Times of Flowering, and most approved

Methods of Culture.

CONDUCTED

‘By SAMUEL CURTIS, F. L. S.

‘THE DESCRIPTIONS

By Str WILLIAM JACKSON HOOKER, K. H.

LUD. F. R. A. and L. S.and Regius Professor of Botany in the

University of Glasgow.

VOu. X11. 6

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Or Vol. tx1P. of the whole Work.

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The grain, or herb, or plant that each demands;

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Bids these in elegance of form excel,

In colour these, and these delight the smell,

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Hipprastrum amBicuum: var. 1. longiflora. AmBre-

vous Knient’s-star Lity: var. 1. long-flowered.

RAR OR OR Os ON 2S Os Ons Os OS

Class and Order.

HexanpriA Monoeynta.

( Nat. Ord.—AmaryLLivEd. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium declinatum, tubo infra abbreviato, mem-

brana fauciali non annulari, limbo quater dispare ; Scapus

spathaceus cavus, capsula trivalvis, semina testa nigra.

W. Herbert.

Specific Name and Character.

Hirrrastrum ambiguum; perianthio tubuloso, sezmentis

intus rubro bistriatis, fauce leviter barbata, stylo fila-

menta superante perianthium subequante stigmate

trifido.

Var.1. Longiflora ; perianthio 8 unciali. Ex Lima, Pe-

ruvie allata. Tab. nostr. 3542.

Var. ll. Tweediana ; perianthio subsexunciali. Specim.

Herb. Hooker. (Tweedie.) Ex Brasilia meridionali ?

WH,

Several bulbs of this plant were received from J. MacLean,

Esq. by Mr. Murray, from Lima, and have flowered mag-

nificently in the Glasgow Botanic Garden. The inflores-

cence is remarkably like that of the mules obtained by the

admixture of H. solandriflorum with H. Regina-vittatum,

crossed again with vittatum. The beard is fainter than in

H. vittatum, and the plant occupies an intermediate situa-

tion between this species and H. solandriflorum. Whether

it be a garden production at Lima, or exhibits a natural

local variation of the Genus, we have no means of ascer-

taining ; it seems principally distinguished from ‘T'wEEDIE’s

specimen

VOL, XI. B

specimen gathered on the East coast of the continent by the

superior size, and, perhaps, paler colour. The Valley of

Lima is so small, the distance being only seven or eight

miles from the steep granite mountains to the sea, and the

breadth of the plain very inconsiderable, that it is probably

nota native of the immediate vicinity of Lima. W. Herbert.

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EPIDENDRUM CRASSIFOLIUM. ‘'THICK-LEAVED

EPIDENDRUM.

| Class and Order.

GynaANDRIA MonanprIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Orcuipea. )

Generic Character. i

Sepala patentia, subequalia. Petala sepalis equalia vel

angustiora, rarius latiora, patentia vel reflexa. Labellum

cum marginibus columnz omnino vel parte connatum,

limbo integro vel diviso, disco sepius calloso, costato vel

tuberculato ; nunc in calcar productum ovario accretum et

auriculum formans. Columna elongata ; clinandrio margi-

nato, sepe fimbriato. Anthera carnosa, 2—4-locularis.

Pollinia 4, caudiculis totidem replicatis annexa.—Herbez

(Americane) epiphyte, caule nunc apice vel basi pseudo-

bulboso, nunc elongato apice folioso. Folia carnosa, raris-

sme venis elevatis striata. Flores spicati racemosi, corym-

bosi, vel paniculati, terminales vel laterales. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Ermenprum crassifolium ; foliis distichis oblongo-lanceola-

tis crassiusculis acutis, caule apice longe aphyllo squa-

moso, squamis superioribus lineari-oblongis zqualibus

labelli trilobi lobis lateralibus dimidiatis denticulatis,

intermedio obcordato denticulato majore basi calloso,

callo carnoso concavo margine lobato, racemo brevi

subcorymboso.

ante og crassifolium. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p.

ee ellipticum. odd. Bot. Cab. t. 1276. (not

rah.)

This plant is a native of Rio Janeiro ; and the Glasgow

Botanic Garden is indebted for the possession of it to =

well-

well-known liberality of Mr. Loppices. It is undoubtedly

the plant figured in the Botanical Cabinet under the name

of E. ellipticum, which Dr. Linpuey refers to bis E. crassifo-

hum: but I am far from certain that the two are really the

same species. The leaves in Mr. Loppiczs are by no

means thick for this groupe of Epmenprum, they are not

obtuse, nor concave, and the shape of the middle lobe of

the lip is different. Whilst ours is a Brazilian plant, the

original E. crassifolium is a native of St. Vincent. Be that

as it may, ours is an exceedingly pretty and lively-looking

species, many stems in the same pot bearing their heads of

bright, rose-coloured flowers in the month of March.

Descr. Stems erect, wavy, terete, leafy ; leaves disti-

chous, alternate, oblong, patent, or slightly recurved,

oblongo-lanceolate, moderately thick, and somewhat cori-

aceous, rather acute, obscurely striated, sheathing at the

base, of a dark, glossy, green colour. The extremity of

the stem runs out into a long jointed peduncle, sheathed

with membranous bracteas, of which the upper ones have a

tendency to become leafy. Spike corymboso - capitate.

Flowers full rose-colour. Sepals and petals obovato-lanceo-

late, spreading, nearly equal. Lip uppermost, its claws

combined with the nearly triquetrous column, at the apex

of which, the anther is sunk in a sort of cavity ; lamine of

the lip deeply three-lobed, toothed, lateral lobes rotundato-

cuneate, entire, the middle one the largest, obcordate: the

disk fleshy, concave, with a thick wayed and lobed border.

Fig. 1. Column and Lip :—magnified.

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SISYRINCHIUM SPECIOSUM. SuHuowy Sisy-

RINCHIUM.

Class and Order.

TrianpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Irivez. )

Generic Character.

Spatha diphylla. Perianthium simplex, corollinum, pro-

funde 6-partitum, ewquale. Filamenta connata. Stylus

simplex. Stigma trifidum. Capsula 3-locularis, infera.

Specific Name and Character.

SIsyRINCHIUM speciosum ; bulbosum, caule tereti flexuoso

subramoso, foliis linearibus angustis striatis preecipue

radicalibus caulem subequantibus, spatha biflora, flo-

ribus speciosis, perianthii foliolis patentissimis oblongo-

spathulatis (purpureo-ceruleis basi intense flavis) fila-

mentis liberis, stylo tripartito ramis patentibus linea-

ribus superne canaliculatis, stigmatibus emarginatis

velutinis.

A native of Chili, whence bulbs were imported by Mr.

‘Towarr (gardener to Her Royal Highness the Dutchess of

Gloucester, Bagshot Park), and by him communicated to

Mr. Murray, at the Glasgow Botanic Garden. The same

beautiful species has been sent from Valparaiso in Chili, by

Mr. Cumine, and distributed as No. 498 of his Herbarium;

by Mr. Marnews, No. 308; and by Mr. Briners, No. 415: |

and again by the last-mentioned collector (in one instance

bearing a remarkably broad leaf) from marshy places near

Valdivia (No. 252). About Valparaiso, it is found on sandy

hills ; and a dry and light soil, with a sunny situation in the

greenhouse, are what are required to bring this beautiful

plant to perfection in our country. It has flowered with us

in June.

Descr.

Descr. Bulb ovate, enveloped with a dark brown, mem-

branous and loose coat, which forms a sheath considerably —

above the bulb. Stem three to four or five inches high, —

slender, rounded, wavy, somewhat branched, glaucous. At —

the origin ofa branch bearing a leaf with a sheathing base, —

which produces flowers like the spatha. Leaves mostly —

radical, distichous, linear, narrow-acuminate, deeply striat- —

ed, sheathing at the base, the inner ones about as long as —

the stem. Spatha of two unequal leaves, about two-flow-

ered. Peduncle an inch long, curved. Perianth of six —

oblongo-spathulate, bright purple-blue sepals, yellow atthe

base, slightly waved, spreading, the three inner ones a little _

smaller: Stamens three: Filaments inserted a little above _

the base of the perianth, nearly erect, free, yellow, broader _

at the base. Anthers orange, linear- oblong, eventually

twisted. Style yellow below, dividing into three spreading _

slender branches, which are longer than the stamens, purple,

grooved above. Stigmas velvety, emarginate. Ovary in- Q

ferior, oblong, glabrous.

Fig. 1. Flower, with the Perianth removed. 2. The same, with the Sta-

mens also removed :—magnified.

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CENOTHERA FRUTICOSA, var. ambigua.

SuruBBy Eveninc Primrose, var.

KEKE KEKE EEE ER EEEKEE

Class and Order.

OctanpriA Mownoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Onacraries. )

Generic Character.

Calyx tubulosus, 4-partitus, deciduus. Petala 4. Cap-

sula cylindrica vel prismatica, 4-locularis. Semina nuda,

cortice fungoso placente columnari centrali affixa. Spreng.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

(Enornera fruticosa; perennis glabra vel pilosa, caule

erecto herbaceo, foliis sublanceolatis dentatis punctis

linearibus pellucidis notatis, floribus terminalibus co-

rymbosis, calycibus acuminatis, capsulis pedicellatis

clavatis 4-alatis.

(«.) vera ; corymbis pedunculatis, petalis late obcordatis.

CEnornera fruticosa. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 492. Hook. Fl.

Bor. Am. 2. 1. p. 212. Nutt. Gen. Am. v. 1. p. 247.

Torrey Fl. of Un. St. p. 389.

(8.) ambigua ; corymbis pedunculatis, petalis longioribus

quam latis—(E. fruticosa, 8. ambigua. Nutt. l. c.

Torrey l. c. (Tab. nostr. 3545.)

CEnornEera ambigua. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 229.

De Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p. 50.

(Enornera Canadensis. Gold. in Ed. Phil. Journ. 1821,

p.7. De Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p. 52.

(y-) phyllopus ; pedunculo folioso, (seu corymbo sessili.)

NOTHERA fruticosa. Curtis Bot. Mag. t. 332. De Cand.

Prodr. v. 3. p. 50.

CEnornera serotina. Sw. Br. Fl. Gard. 2d Ser. t. 184.

Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1840.

(3.) incana ; foliis elliptico-lanceolatis incano-pilosis. :

CEnorHera incana. Nutt. Gen. Am.v. 1. p.52. De Cand.

Prodr. v. 3. p. 52. Torrey Fl. of Un. St. v. 1. p. 389.

(y.) Fraseri; glaberrima, foliis elliptico-lanceolatis.

CENOTHERA

CEnoruera Fraseri. Pursh Fl. Am. Suppl. p.734. Nutt.

Gen. Am. v. 1. p. 247. Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1674. De

Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p. 51.

(2.) linearifolia ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis.—An QE. linearis.

Mich. et auct. ?

(noruera fruticosa is a species, widely extended through-

out North America, from Canada to Carolina ; but so vari-

able in its foliage and hairiness, as to have suggested the

idea of there beimg the several species above enumerated.

The only kind, about which I feel at all doubtful, is the GE.

linearis of Micuaux, whose leaves, besides being very nar-

row, are more opaque, and exhibit the pellucid linear dots,

above alluded to, very imperfectly. Indeed, they are not

seen in the recent state of the true fruticosa. Linnxus

made it one of the characters of his original plant, that it

should have the raceme pedunculated ; which is very often

not the case with our species, as represented in an early

plate of this Magazine, on which account I have reduced

that toa variety. Sprencen and De Canpouze have raised

the state of the plant here figured to the rank of a species,

which, I think, it by no means merits. (8. Fraser? and

Ck. incana I consider to be broad-leaved varieties of OE.

Jruticosa; the former remarkable for its freedom from

hairs, (it is found plentifully by Dr. Suorr at Kentucky, )

while the latter, of which I possess specimens from Wabash,

gathered by Mr. Gotprg, is abundantly clothed with hairs.

An exactly intermediate state is found at West Chester, by

Mr. Townsenv. Our 6. ambigua was communicated by

Mr. Miter of the Bristol Nursery to the Glasgow Botanic

Garden ; where, slightly sheltered, it flowered in J uly.

Although the stem is very downy, the peduncle is quite

glabrous, and instead of leaves, as in var. y, there are only

small, linear bracteas at the base of the short pedicels.

It may be thus described :—

Descr. oot perennial. Stem annual and herbaceous, as in all the

varieties, erect, mostly simple, very downy. Leaves lanceolate, toothed,

more or less distinctly; slightly downy. Peduncles terminal, quite

glabrous, naked below, bearing a corymb of flowers, which afterwards

elongates into a raceme. Flowers large for the size of the plant, hand-

Some, rather pale yellow. Pedicels short, with a small, linear bractea

at the base. Calyx acuminated. Petals four, narrow, obcordate, stri-

ated, spreading. Fruit immature, oblongo-clavate, with four broad

wings, and as many moderately elevated, obtuse angles.

Fig. 1. Lower Leaf, nat, size. 2. Immature Capsule, magnified.

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TRADESCANTIA CARICIFOLIA. SEDGE-LEAVED

SpIDER-WORT.

KER KEKE KEE EERE EERE E

Class and Order.

Hexanpria Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—CommetineEa. )

Generic Character.

Calyx et Corolla profunde tripartita. Filamenta subvil-

losa. Capsula 3-locularis. Spr.

Specific Name and Character.

Trapescantia caricifolia ; erecta glaberrima gracilis, foliis

lineari-attenuatis subtus carinatis vaginis ciliatis, um-

bella sessili terminali congesta, bracteis lineari-acumi-

natis.

Allied to the common Garden Spider-wort, (T. Virginica)

differing, however, in its much smaller size, slenderer habit,

much narrower leaves and bracteas, and in the entire free-

dom from hairs of every part of the surface of the plant,

the margins of the sheath alone being ciliated. The colour

of the flowers is variable, for in some of the dried native

specimens they are decidedly of a rose-colour, and if we

look to the character usually given of T’. rosea, Micn., we

shall find it to accord pretty well with our plant, though in

reality no two species can be more distinct; the latter being

very small in every part, with pedunculated umbels. Our

plant is a native of Texas, where it was found b Mr.

Drummonp. With us it has flowered in August and Sep-

tember, under a cool frame. : :

Descr. Stem a foot or more high, quite erect, simple or

branched, rounded, glabrous, jointed. Leaves arising from

the joints, eight to ten inches long, half an inch across in

the widest part, linear-acuminated, quite glabrous, striated,

sheathing

sheathing at the base, the sheaths ciliated at the margins.

Involucre of two unequal bracteas, of the same shape as the

leaves, but shorter. Umbel sessile, terminal, of many pedi-

cels, at first curved downwards, then erect. Calyx of three

green, glabrous sepals, tipped with purplish. Corolla of

three broadly-ovate, spreading petals, thrice as long as the

calyx, and of a fine purplish-blue colour. Stamens six,

equal in length ; filaments blue, clothed with long, shaggy,

blue hairs: Anthers deep yellow. :

Fig.1. Flower: magnified.

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Tursaenia Lupwictana. Lupwie’s

TULBAGHIA.

KKK KEK KEKE KEK EKKKEE

Class and Order.

Hexanpria Monoeynia.

-( Nat. Ord.—Liniscez. Lindl. )

Generic Character.

_ Spatha bivalvis, multiflora. Corolla urceolato-infundibu-

liformis ; tubus cylindricus, erectus ; limbi lacinie 6, pro-

fundz, equales, lanceolate, patentes. Corona (vel Necta-

rium) e foliolis 3 distinctis vel in tubum connatis, fissis,

equalibus, carnosis. Stamina 3 in fauce tubi, 3 intra

tubum. Anthere subsessiles, ovate. Stylus teres, tubo

multo brevior. Stigma turbinatum, depressum. Capsula

ovata, trigona, trilocularis ; valvulis 3, emarginatis. Se-

mina numerosa, oblonga, obtusa, compressa, corrugata.

Specific Name and Character.

TuLpacuta Ludwigiana ; floribus erecto-patulis, limbo tu-

bum crassum subangulatum equante, perianthio In-

terno carnoso flavo trilobo, lobis obtuse emarginatis.

arv,

TULBAGHIA Ludwigiana. Harv. MSS.

‘een

Bulbs of this species were sent to the Ludwigsburg Gar-

dens, Cape of Good Hope, from the borders of Cafferland,

by Mr. Zier in 1834, and have now (Oct. 1835) come into

flower there for the first time. In many characters it ap-

Proaches T.. alliacea ; but is amply distinguished from that

Species by the distinctly three-lobed, bright yellow, interior

Perianth. I have great pleasure in distinguishing it with

name of my valued friend, the Baron von Lupwie, whose

well-known patr f Botany amply entitles him to any

patronage of botany amply eae

honour that Science can bestow, and to whom the South

African Botanist in particular is under great obligations.

Through his means many new plants have already been

disseminated in Europe, and many more may be expected

from the constant exertions he is making to procure bulbs

and seeds from the most remote parts of the colony. Harv.

Descr. Root (?). Root-leaves distichous, six to eight

inches long by an inch wide, numerous, patent, ensi-

formi-ligulate, somewhat acute, flexuose, rigid, glabrous,

bright green. Scape erect, glabrous, filiform, two feet

and more high. Flowers umbellate,—when in bud, droop-

ing,—afterwards patent and erect. Umbel simple, about

eight-flowered. Spatha two-valved : valves ovate, acute,

membranaceous, sphacelate ; the exterior large, and equal-

ling the peduncle in length. Peduncles one to two inches

long, slender, filiform. Exterior Perianth of one piece, in-

ferior, patent: tube short, half an inch long, its length

about equalling the breadth, obtusely angular, gibbous at

the base, greenish-purple, or green with purple streaks; the

limb six-partite, its segments ovate, obtuse, plane, as long

as the tube, green with a purple margin, in a double series,

the three inner ones a little longer and adnate with the sides

of the inner perianth, the three outer free, s reading. Inner

perianth forming a crown to the mouth se the tube, thick,

fleshy, yellow, a little shorter than the outer, mouth trian-

gular, three-lobed : lobes emarginate, or obsoletely biden-

tate. Iilaments none (or rather they are adnate with the

tube of the perianth.) Anthers six, sessile, in a double

Series: the three superior inserted under the apices, the

three inferior in the axils of the lobes, two-celled : cells

bursting longitudinally. Ovary oval, glabrous, marked

with resinous dots, obsoletely six-grooved, three-celled.

Ovules numerous: Style erect; cylindrical, about equal in

length with the germen: Stigma subcapitate, truncate.

Smell strong, resembling that of Onion. W. H. Harvey.

No apology, we trust, is necessary for representing this

and another very pretty species shortly to be figured, of

TULBAGHIA, as we are quite sure the Baron von Lupwie will

have pleasure in introducing them to our collections.

hah 1. Flower cut open. 2, Pistil. 3. Section of the Ovary :—mag-

nified.

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MADIA ELEGANS. ELecant Mapia.

KEK EEK KEK EEE EEE EEEEK

Class and Order.

SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA.

( Nat. Ord.—Composir2. )

Generic Character.

Radius femineus uniserialis. Discus hermaphroditus.

Corolla radii lingulata, lingula triloba tubum superante.

Achenium erostre, quadrigono-compressum, quadricos-

tatum disco epigyno parvo.—Herbe Chilenses, viredes,

erecte ; foliis alternis, semiamplexicaulibus, oblongis; capt-

tulis luteis, terminalibus vel axillaribus ; rachide plana,

nuda ; involucris uniserialibus pubescentibus. Less.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Mapia * elegans ; panicula multiflora, radio elongato.

Mania elegans. Don in Bot. Reg. t. 1458.

Maparia elegans. De Cand. Prodr. 2. 5. Not. sur les

Pl. rares de Geneve, n. 7. p. 17.

A hardy annual, clothed with the same clammy and fetid

pubescence as the common Mapa viscosa of Chili ; but, in-

stead of having very small and imperfect rays, as in that

species, they are developed and spreading so as to give a

totally different appearance to the plant. It 1s a native of

North-West America, where it was discovered by the late

Mr. Davin Dovetas, and through him introduced to the

: Horticultural

* From Madi, the vernacular name of the plant in Chili.

+ The volume of DE CanpoLiE’s Prodromus, where the character of

this genus, Maparia, is given, not having reached me, although published,

at the time this sheet went to press, I have been unable to avail myself of

that author’s essential characteristic marks; and have, hence, for the present,

been induced to give the plant under its old appellation.

Horticultural Society. With us it blossoms through most

of the summer months, and is already become a general

favourite in our flower borders.

Descr, Stem erect, two to four feet high, much branch-

ed and panicled above, clothed, as is the whole plant, with

unctuous fetid hairs, many of which are tipped with globu-

lar black glands. Leaves sessile, oblongo-lanceolate, the

upper ones obscurely nerved, the lower ones larger and

broader, with more evident parallel nerves, and a few trans-

verse connecting ones. Panicle much branched, leafy.

Flowers numerous, large, handsome. Involucre subglobose, _

of a nearly simple series of channelled, subulato-lanceolate

scales, their points only spreading. Corollas of the ray ob-

long, deeply and sharply three-cleft, yellow, with a blood-

coloured spot at the base, bearing pistils only. Style short.

Stigmas subulate: Achenia embraced by the scales of the

involucre, obovato-oblong, laterally compressed ; disc ob-

lique » pappus none. Filorets of the centre with abortive

pistils, tubular, hairy below and at the apex. <Anthers

protruded, as is the stigma, which is downy, and the seg-

ments are combined. Receptacle conical, downy, bearing

a row of scales only within the floret of the ray

Fig. 1, Abortive Floret of the Disk. 2, Floret of the Ray, of which the

lower part is embraced by the involucral Scale. 3, Achenium.— Magnified.

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HlippEASTRUM BREVIFLORUM. SHORT-FLOW-

ERED Kwyicut’s-STAR LILy.

SLEEK EEE EEE EEE EE

Class and Order.

HexanpriaA Monoeyntia.

( Nat. Ord.—AmarvLuiDEs. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium declinatum, tubo infra abbreviato, mem-

brana fauciali non annulari, limbo quater dispare ; Scapus

spathaceus cavus, capsula trivalvis, semina testa nigra. W.

Herbert.

Specific Character.

Hippeastrum breviflorum ; pedunculis 23 uncialibus, tubo

4 unc. rubro striato, limbo 2 unciali albo stella lutes-

cente rubro-lineata parte inferiore obsoleta, stylo fila-

menta superante perianthium vix equante, stigmate

trifido. W. Herbert.

A very distinct species of a most difficult Genus, of

which roots and dried specimens have been sent by Mr.

Tweepre from the neighbourhood of Buenos Ayres. The

specimen from which the accompanying figure was taken,

blossomed in the stove of the Glasgow Botanic Garden in

April, 1836, and promises to bea valuable acquisition to our

collections. Iam indebted to the Hon. and Rev. W. Her-

BERT, for its specific name and character.

Descr. Scape nearly three feet high, rounded, glaucous.

Spatha of two lanceolate, membranous leaflets. Umbel, in

our specimen, of six flowers, destitute of fragrance. Pedicels

obtusely tetragonal. Perianth campanulate, its length

equalling the diameter at the mouth, formed of six pieces,

of which the five upper ones are rather broader than the

rest, lanceolate and more closely placed, wavy towards the

apex,

VOL. XI. Cc

apex, white, striated ; externally slightly tinged with yellow-

green, and marked with a central broad, red streak, vanish-

ing below the middle ; within, the same red streak is sep

rated by a white line down the middle. The disk, at th

base within, closely surrounds the filaments, and is strong

ciliated. Germen obovato-trigonous. Style rather shorter

than the perianth, curved upwards, flesh-coloured. Stigma

of three linear lobes. Filaments also assurgent ; three

alternate ones shorter; all shorter than the style, flesh-

coloured.

eed

Curls, Alazenwood Borex Beb.1193

Pub, by S.

Witch dei*

( 3550 )

LOBELIA POLYPHYLLA. MANY-LEAVED

LOBELIA.

SEEK KK KEKE KEE RE ERER ERE

Class and Order.

PentTANDRIA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord. —Lose.1acez. )

Generic Character. .

Corolla tubo hinc fisso (raro integro) ; limbo 5-partito.

Anthere connate. Stigma bilobum (nunc indivisum).

Capsula 2-locularis (raro 3-locularis) apice supero bivalvi.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Lopenia polyphylla ; suffruticosa, foliis late oblongo-lan-

ceolatis brevissime petiolatis coriaceis confertis argute

serratis glaberrimis, racemo folioso, pedicellis pubes-

centibus folio brevioribus, calyce hemispherico-pubes-

cente dentibus subulatis integerrimis, corolla pubes-

cente pedicello longiore.

Loses polyphylla. Hook. et Arn. in Bot. Journ. v. 1. 9%.

277. ‘Bot. of Beech. Voy. v. 1. p. 33.

A very handsome species of Losetia, of which our first

nowledge was derived from specimens collected at Valpa-

raiso during Capt. Bercney’s Voyage. It was afterwards

gathered in the same country by Mr. Bripces and Mr.

Cumine. The var. “ 8. foliis angustioribus,” found by Mr.

UMING at Coquimbo, we now incline to consider a new

Species, having quite entire leaves. Our drawing was taken

tom a fine flowering specimen sent by Mr. Knicur of the

ing’s Road, Chelsea, to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, in

September, 1835.

Escr. It is a perennial plant, and suffruticose ; a foot,

or more high, branched ; the branches rounded, glabrous,

thickly

Ailpecs

thickly clothed with leaves, which are from two to four

inches long, erecto-patent, coriaceous, oblongo-lanceolate,

acute, scarcely petiolate, of a bluish-green, and paler be-

neath, reticulated with veins, the sides often turned upwards,

the margin furnished with numerous sharp, irregular teeth,

which, under a glass, seem enlarged or glandulose at the

extremity. Raceme terminal, leafy, the leaves often so re-

duced in size, as to resemble bracteas, as in the specimen

here figured : at other times, the leaves are as large as those

of the stem, and then the flowers may truly be said to be

solitary and axillary, often terminated with a crown of

barren leaves. Pedicel shorter than the bractea or leaf,

downy. Calyx (including the germen) with an hemispher-

ical tube, green, slightly downy, with five, erect, subulate

teeth. Corolla of a deep blackish, or blood-purple colour,

thrice as long as the calyx, curved, with adeep cleft above, _

through which the column of stamens and style ascends,

the-segments slightly downy, spathulate, combined at their

apices. Filaments purple. Anthers closely combined,

curved, brownish ash-coloured, the two lower ones slightly

bearded at the apex.

Fig. 1. Flower and Bractea; magnified. 2. Leaf: nat. size.

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( 3551 )

GAILLARDIA BICOLOR; var. Drummondii, integer-

rima. Two-coLtourep GaLarpia; Drummond’s

entire-leaved variety.

KER EEE ERE EERE KERR EERE

Class and Order.

SyNGENEsSIA F’RUSTRANEA.

( Nat. Ord.—Composirz. )

Generic Character.

Receptaculum paleaceum, hemisphericum. Pappus pa-

leaceus. Involucrum imbricatum, planum, polyphyllum. |

Corolle radii trifidi. 2

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Gaittarpra bicolor ; radii corollis 3—5-dentatis, tubo brevi

inappendiculato, involucri foliolis plurimis subulato-

lanceolatis.

Gaittarpia bicolor (for Synonyms and several varieties see

Tab. 3368). ;

Var. 8. Drummonpir integrifolia ; foliis omnibus integerri-

mis. (Tab. nostr. 3551.)

Gatarpia picta. Sw. Brit. Fl. Gard. t. 267.

This beautiful plant, which we still hold to be only a

variety of G. bicolor, is identical with the G. picta of the

** British Flower-Garden,”’ and in reality differs in no re-

spect from our var. Drummondii, except in having all the

leaves entire. It is derived too from the same country,

having been found in Texas by Mr. Drummonp, and intro-

duced by him to our gardens, in the spring of the year

1835. We have figured it the more readily, because it

affords us an opportunity of pointing out clearly the spe-

cific differences between it and our G. trifidum.

Fig. 1. Root Leaf ; nat. size. 2. Floret of the Ray. 3. Floret of the

Disc. 4. Scale of the Pappus :—magnified.

( 3552 )

LACHENALIA GLAUCINA. GLAUCOUS-FLOWERED

LACHENALIA.

SEK KR KKK KEKE KEE EERE

Class and Order.

Hexanpria Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—AspHopELE2. )

Generic Character.

Corolla 6-petala vel 6-partita, campanulato-cylindrica et

campanulata ; petalis 3 interioribus longioribus, extimis

subcalycinis magis acutis. Stamina erecta, basi petalorum

inserta. Anthere incumbentes. Stylus subulatus, stigmate

simplici vel obsolete trifido. Capsule 3-alata vel ovato-

olay cee 3-locularis. Semina plura, globosa, biseriata.

acq.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

LAcHENALIA glaucina ; foliis geminis oblongis, floribus ses-

silibus, petalis interioribus duplo longioribus apicibus

patulis obtusis, stylo staminibusque paulo longioribus

Inclusis.

Lacnenauia glaucina. Jacq. Coll. Suppl. p- 39. Ic. Rar.

t.391. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 2. p. 284. Spreng.

Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 78. i :

(«.) flore pallide cerulescenti, scapo foliisque immaculatis.

(8.) flore lilacina, scapo foliisque maculatis.

A very handsome species of LacHENALIA, for the pos-

session of which the Glasgow Botanic Garden is indebted

to Baron Lupwic, of the Cape of Good Hope. There are

two varieties, of which the principal figure here given re-

resents the original species of Jacquin, with spotless

eaves and scape, and which, with us, has the palest and

bluest flowers (always changing, however, to lilac as they

fade): while the other has its leaves and scape eau

and the flowers are, even in their youngest state, more in-

clined to lilac or rose colour. Of the latter kind a single

flower is given at fig. 5. Its flowering season in this coun-

try is August.

Descr. Bulb small, roundish, about the size of a hazel

nut. Leaves two, oblong, striated, erecto-patent, in « des-

titute of spots; in 6 spotted. The scape varies in the

same way, and is below the spike, a length about equal to

that of the leaves, covered with a glaucous bloom. Spike

many-flowered. Bracteas small, subulate. Flowers sessile,

about an inch long. Outer segments of the perianth

(which might well be called a calyx) oblongo-ovate, erect,

with a gland just below the apex, of a yellowish-green

colour at the base, blue, or rose-coloured in 8, and more or

less dotted with blue: inner segments twice as long as the

outer, spathulate, obtuse, erect, spreading only at the ex-

tremity. Stamens unequal, shorter than the style: both

are ascending and included. Filaments subulato-filiform,

white. Anthers very small, yellow. Germen ovato-glo-|

bose, three-lobed, green. Stigma capitate.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil. 3, 4. Stamens. 5. Flower of @.:—all slightly

magnified.

Pah by 5. Curtis, Glaxeneood Essex Feb. 11837

( 3553 )

DesMopium CANADENSE. CANADIAN

DeEsmMopIuM.

SE a oe ee oe

Class and Order.

Diapetpa1a Decanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—Leeuminosa, )

Generic Character.

Calyx basi bibracteolatus ad medium obscure bilabiatus,

labio superiore bifido, inferiore 3-partito. Corolla papi-

lionacea, vexillo subrotundo, carina obtusa non truncata,

alis carina longioribus. Stamina diadelpha (9 et 1), fila-

mentis subpersistentibus. Legumen constans articulis plu-

rimis ad maturitatem secedentibus compressis monospermis

membranaceis coriaceisve, non aut vix dehiscentibus. DC.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Desmoprum Canadense ; caule erecto pilosiusculo striato,

foliis pinnatim trifoliolatis, foliolis oblongo-lanceolatis

obtusis glabriusculis, stipulis filiformibus, racemis ter-

minalibus, leguminis articulis 4—5 ovalibus obtuse

triangulis pube brevi hispidis.

Desmopium Canadense. De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p. 328.

Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. v. 1. p. 154.

Hepysarum Canadense. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1054. Pursh,

Fl. Am. v. 2. p. 481. Spreng. Syst. Veg. v. 3. p. 313.

A very frequent inhabitant of North America, from Ca-

nada to the extreme Southern States; and though, I

believe, far from common in the collections of this coun-

try, it deserves a place in every garden, on account of its”

numerous racemes of handsome flowers. It is, as may be- eo

Supposed, perfectly hardy, and blossoms with us in July.

Descr. Stem one and a half to two feet and more high. 5 .

erect, branched, striated, more or less hairy, panicled

above. Leaves pinnately trifoliolate, on very short petioles,

with a linear-subulate downy stipule on each side. Leaflets

petiolulate, two to three inches long, oblongo-lanceolate,

obtuse, more or less downy. Racemes terminal, often

branched, bearing many flowers. Pedicels short. Calyx

two-lipped, hairy, reddish-green ; upper lip broad, bifid;

lower m three deep, lanceolate segments. Corolla of a fine

purple rose-colour. Vexillum large, soon reflexed, with two

white spots at the base of the limb, which are surrounded

by a dark ring: Ale nearly as long as the vexillum, ob-

long, obtuse, enclosing the carina. Legume about an inch

and a half long, of generally five oval, or obscurely and

bluntly triangular, downy joints, mostly tipped with the

permanent style.

Fig. 1. Side view of a Flower. 2. The same with the Carina reflexed.

3. Calyx. 4. Legume:—nat. size. 1—3 magnified.

Fib. by S. Curtis, Glarenwood Essex, Feb 11837,

( 3554 )

Limnantues Dovetasi. Mr. Dovenas’

LIMNANTHES.

TERRE KEE EEE ERK KEE REK

Class and Order.

Decanpria Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Limnantuez. Br. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 5-partitus. Petala5. Stamina 10. Nucula 5.—

Herba annua, carnosa, glaberrima ( Californie) ; floribus

conspicuis.

Specific Name and Synonyms.

Limnantues * Douglasii.

Limnantues Douglasii. Br. in Lond. et Ed. Phil. Mag.

July, 1833. Benth. in Hort. Trans. v. 1. N. 8. p. 409.

Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1673.

A very pretty hardy annual, with fragrant flowers, dis-

covered by the Naturalist whose name it bears in California,

whence he sent both specimens and seeds to the Horticul-

tural Society. It is not only a new Genus, but what gives

additional interest is, that Mr. Brown has made it the type

of a new Order, which, including FLoerKea, another annual,

glabrous, and succulent North American plant, he has _

called Limyanrurm, and placed near Grraniacez. The

subject of our present plate flowers in June and July. |

_Descr. Plant glabrous; the stems much branched, espe-

cially near the base, decumbent, eight to ten inches long,

rounded. Leaves alternate, on long petioles, pinnated with

one to three pairs of oblong or lanceolate leaflets, ogi

peceneemere

foreseen

_* Avwm, a lake, and avboc, a flower. The plant is believed to inhabit the

sides of watery places,

odd one: these are acute, entire, or incised, sometimes

pinnatifid. Peduncles axillary, about as long as the leaves,

solitary, single-flowered. Calyx deeply cut into five lance-

olate spreading entire segments. Petals five, inserted im-

mediately beneath the filament, oblongo-cuneate, spread-

ing, emarginate at the apex, yellow, white towards the

extremity, veined, at the base on each side having a line of

hairs. Stamens ten, shorter than the petals, pale yellow.

Filaments equal in height, every alternate one ( opposite

to the petal) with a concave gland at the back near the

base. Anther oval, fixed by the back, turned outward.

Germen of five deep, ovato-globose lobes. Style single,

shorter than the stamens. Stigmas of five rays, each tipped

with a little globose head.

Fig. 1. Petal. 2. Stamens and Pistil. 3. One of the Stamens bearing a

Gland. 4. Pistil :—magnified.

W hitch del: Fisb.by 3. Curtis, Aamo. Ess: x FeBLIG37. ywe".

( 3555 )

TULBAGHIA VIOLACEA. VIOLET-FLOWERED

TULBAGHIA.

KER KEKE EEE ERE KEE EERE

Class and Order.

Hexanprta Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Litiscez. Lindl. )

Generic Character.

Spatha bivalvis, multiflora. Corolla urceolato-infundibu-

liformis; tubus cylindricus, erectus ; limbi lacinie 6, pro-

funde, zquales, lanceolate, patentes. Corona (vel Necta-

rium) e foliolis 3 distinctis vel in tubum connatis, fissis,

equalibus, carnosis. Stamina 3 in fauce tubi, 3 intra tubum.

Anthere subsessiles, ovate. Stylus teres, tubo multo bre-

vior. Stigma turbinatum, depressum. Capsula ovata, tri-

gona, trisulca, trilocularis ; valvulis3 emarginatis. Semina

humerosa, oblonga, obtusa, compressa, corrugata. Lam.

Specific Name and Character.

Turpaeuta violacea; foliis lineari-ensiformibus numerosis,

floribus patulis, tubo gracili limbum superante, peri-

anthio interno triphyllo. Harv.

Turpacuia violacea. Harv. MSS.

This beautiful plant, a native of Southern Africa, flow-

ered in the Ludwigsburg garden, at the Cape of Good

Hope ; but its exact lneabee was not known to Mr. Har-

VEY, to whom we are indebted for the drawing and descrip-

tion here given. The roots were immediately derived from

the Government Gardens, the plant having been sent some

years previously to Lady Frances Cote.

_Descr. Root? Leaves several, sheathing at the base,

Six to eight inches long, one fourth of an inch wide, linear-

ensiform, plane, or obsoletely grooved, obtuse, quadrifari-

ous, glabrous, coriaceous and rigid, bright gree . Seape

‘erect, a foot and more high, slender, glabrous, filiform,

bearing a simple wmbel whose flowers open in succession.

Spatha of two ovate, acute, membranaceous, patent, wrin-

kled, purplish pieces. Flowers eight to nine, erect or

patent, bright, purple, shining. Peduncles slender, about

equal with the tube of the perianth. Perianth double:

outer of one piece, salver-shaped ; tube three-fourths of an

inch long, slender, triquetrous ; limb six-partite ; sepals in

a double series, linear-obtuse equal in length with the

tube, the margins incurved: interior of three leaves in-

serted at the mouth of the tube, short, oblong, one-fourth

the length of the limb, obtuse, or emarginate, or bifid,

placed opposite the three interior segments. Stamens six,

sessile, in a double row: the three upper ones opposite the

three leaves of the inner perianth just described ; the three

lower alternating with them. Ovary ovate, very short,

with six furrows, three-celled: ovules numerous. Style

cylindrical, short, somewhat angled, one-third the length

of the tube: Stigma obtuse. Scent powerful, alliaceous.

—

Ae 1. Flower laid open. 2. Pistil. 3. Section of the Ovary :—mag-

nified.

Clazenweood Asccve March! 7837.

( 3556 )

PeTuNIA vioLaceaA ; hybrida. Purpie

Petunia; hybrid var.

KEEEE EEE EERE EEE EEE EK

Class and Order.

Pentranpria Monoeyntia.

( Nat. Ord.—Sotanez. )

Generic Character.

Calyx breve tubulosus, laciniis foliosis. Corolla tubo

cylindraceo vy. ventricoso, limbo plicato inequali plano 5-

lobo. Stamina 5, inzqualia, inclusa, medio tubo corolle

Inserta. Ovarium disco insertum, dente unico utrinque ad

suturam instructo. Stigma capitatum. Capsula valvis 2

integris, seminibus sphericis reticulatis. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Perunta* violacea ; caule debili viscido-piloso, foliis brevi-

petiolatis acutis, corolla ventricose laciniis rotundatis

acutis.

Perunta violacea. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1626.

Saxricxossis integrifolia. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3113.

Nrerempereta phenicea. Sw. Brit. Fl. Gard. N. S. t. 193.

‘Hybrida. (Tab. nostr. 3556.)

The charming groupe here figured represents seedling

varieties of a hybrid between Perunia violacea and P.

nyctaginiflora, and it must be confessed that here, as in

many other vegetable productions, the art and skill of the

Horticulturist has improved nature. Cultivation, alone,

has, indeed, very much increased the size of the flowers and

foliage of this plant: so that it can scarcely be recognized

* From Petun, the Brazilian name of the Genus, according to Jussieu.

VOL. XI. D

as belonging to the same species as the native specimens sent

by Mr. Tweenie ; while in plants that are raised from seeds

which are the offspring of P. nyctaginiflora and P. violacea

(as represented in the annexed plate), the tube becomes

longer, and narrower than in the latter, and the whole

plant, save in colour, almost precisely similar to the former.

There are various shades of purple on the corollas, but in

every one the tint, though often exceedingly brilliant on the

first expansion, soon fades to a paler and less bright hue.

Some are pale pink, streaked within with deep purple lines,

very much after the manner of Satptexossis picta :—others

are nearly of a pure white ; but all have the tube dark-

coloured. These varieties are equally hardy with the

parents.

With regard to the Genus of this plant, I never can

consent to its being referred to Nrerempereia; but I do

entirely agree with Professor Linpiey in uniting it with

Perunta, and gladly adopt the amended character which

that able Botanist has given of this Genus, and the views he

has taken of its structure and affinities.

‘These varieties of Perunta and the Patox Drummondit

were decidedly among the greatest ornaments of the green-

house in the Glasgow Botanic Garden during the month of

May (1836), a season too early for them to come to perfec-

tion in the open border.

Pub by S. Curtis Glaz crpood borer March.I 7837 Swan Jt

( 3557.)

EPIDENDRUM CHLOROLEUCUM. GREEN AND

WHITE-FLOWERED EPIDENDRUM.

KKK KEE EERE EERE EE

Class and Order.

GyNANDRIA MonanpRIiA.

( Nat. Ord.—OrcuipeEz. )

Generic Character.

Sepala patentia, subequalia. Petala sepalis zqualia v.

angustiora rarius latiora, patentia v. reflexa. Labellum cum

marginibus columnz omnino vel parte connatum, limbo in-

tegro vel diviso, disco sepius calloso, costato v. tuberculato ;

nune in calcar productum ovario accretum et cuniculum

formans. Columna elongata; clinandrio marginato sepe

finbriato. Anthera carnosa 2—4 locularis. Pollinia 4,

caudiculis totidem replicatis annexa.—Herbe ( Americaneé )

epiphyte, caule nunc apice v. basi pseudo-bulboso, nunc

elongato apice folioso. Folia carnosa, rarissime venis eleva-

tis striata. Flores spicati, racemosi, corymbosi vel panicu-

lati, terminales vel laterales. Lindl.

Specific Name and Character.

Eripenprum chloroleucum ; pseudo-bulbis oblongo-ovatis

diphyllis, foliis ensiformibus racemum simplicem &-

quantibus, sepalis petalisque patentibus spathulatis,

labelli omnino liberi trilobi lobis lateralibus oblongis

erectis columnam in parte tegentibus intermedio cor-

dato acuto, disco lineis tribus elevatis.

Imported from Demerara by Joan Attcarp, Esq., who

indly communicated the flowering specimen here repre-

sented in September, 1836. That zealous cultivator justly

remarks its near affinity with my Encycr1a patens (Bot. Mag.

t. 3013), which Professor Linpey, I do not doubt properly,

refers

refers to Epmpenprum, and which he describes under the

name of Epmenprum odoratissimum (Bot. Reg. t. 1415).

The figure just quoted, indeed, more resembles our plant

than it does my Encycuia patens ; but the lip is different,

and the flowers are by no means fragrant.

Descr. Bulbs oblong-ovate, somewhat wrinkled, and —

sheathed with large scales. Leaves two, terminal, eight to

ten inches long, oblong-ensiform, coriaceous, faintly striat-

ed, the margin a little reflexed. Scape arising from the

apex of the bulb between the leaves, bearing a single ra-

ceme of eight to ten scentless flowers. Sepals and petals

spreading, equal, spathulate, green. Lip entirely free from,

but closely allied to, the column, white, three-lobed, the

lateral lobes curved upwards, and in part surrounding the

column, intermediate one cordate, acute, with three slightly

elevated lines on the disk. Column pale green, semicylin-

drical, grooved above, on each side having a projecting

white ring. Anther hemispherical.

Fig. 1. Column and Lip. 2. Lip. 3. Column.

tubby S. Curt. Glazenwoed Essex: Marl 1837.

( 3558 )

EcHINOCACTUS MAMMILLARIOIDES. MAMMIL-

LARIA-LIKE E\CHINOCACTUS.

SER KKK KKK KEKE KEE EEE

Class and Order.

IcosanpRIA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Cacrez. )

Generic Character.

Sepala numerosa imbricata, basi ovarii adnata, in tubum

brevissimum concreta, exteriora involucriformia, intima

petaliformia. Stamina numerosa. Stylus filiformis apice

multifidus. Bacca sepalorum reliquiis subsquamata. Coty-

ledones nulla ?—Frutices simplicissimi carnosi ovati aut

globosi melocactoidet costati aphylli, costis tuberculis conflu-

entibus quasi formatis, dorso aculeorum. jasciculos gerentibus.

Cephalium seu spadix nullus. Flores e fasciculis aculeorum

ad apices costarum orti, similes floribus Cerei sed tubo vix

ullo donatit. D C.

Specific Name and Character.

Ecuinocacrus mammillarioides ; subrotundo-cylindraceus

mammillosus, mammillis magnis conico-hemisphericis

subangulatis in costas 14—16 subspirales irregulares

dispositis, apicibus lanosis spinis sub-7 breviusculis

gracilibus patentibus pallidis terminatis, floribus flavo-

rubris.

Introduced by Mr. Hrrcnin from Chili, and now in the

rich collection of Cactea of Messrs. Mackre of the Laken-

ham Nursery, near Norwich, who kindly communicated the

drawing of the flowering specimen in the autumn of last

year (1836). They justly observe, that the species appears

in the structure of the stem to be intermediate between Mam-

MILLARIA and Ecuinocacrus. It iscovered with mammille of

a large size indeed, but these are arranged in cost, which

are irregular, and slightly spiral ; but the flowers appear to

be quite those of the latter genus.

Not having seen the living specimen, I do not attempt a

description ; nor does the excellent figure seem to require

it. It flowers very freely, and the blossoms continue in

perfection for several days. In one instance, there were

about sixteen flowers expanded upon the same plant at one

time.

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BrEGONIA OCTOPETALA. EIGHT-PETALED

Breconia.

Class and Order.

Monazci1a Ponyanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—Brcon1Acez. )

Generic Character.

Masc. Calyx o. Corolla polypetala, petalis plerumque

4, inequalibus—Fzm. Calyx o. Corolla petalis 4—9,

Plerumque inequalibus. Styli 3, bifidi. Capsula triquetra,

alata, trilocularis, polysperma. :

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Brconia octopetala ; acaulis, foliis longe petiolatis cordatis

lobatis serratis, pedunculo longissimo, floribus mascu-

lis subocto femineis subsexpetalis, capsule ala ob-

longa elongata porrecta.

BrcGonta octopetala. L’Hérit. Stirp. p. 101. Spreng. Syst.

Veget. v. 2. p. 627.

Queen

Tubers of this truly fine species of Beconza were sent in

5 from Lima, by Joun M‘Leay, Esq., to the Glasgow

Botanic Garden, where the large flowers, like those of an

Anemone, were produced in the stove during the months of

October and November in the following year. Dried spe-

cimens were also communicated by Mr. Maruews from the

Same country: but they do not appear in any of the sets

which were distributed by that zealous Botanist. It was

originally discovered by Domsey, and from his dried speci-

mens it would appear L’Heririer’s description was made.

Living plants also were at that time in the Jardin des Plantes,

but they did not produce flowers. We have found that

those individuals bloomed best, which were in the warmest

Situation in the stove.

Descr.

Descr. Root tuberous. Stemnone. Leaves upon long,

succulent, downy petioles, a foot and ahalf or more in length,

cordate, from six inches to a span long, deeply lobed and

serrated at the margin, slightly downy, most so upon the

prominent veins beneath, of a bright green colour. Scape

about as long as the petioles, rounded, downy, bearing the

large, greenish-white flowers in corymbs ; in the dried spe-

cimens each peduncle has two or three such corymbs, and

in each corymb of from four to six flowers, the upper flowers

are male, the lower female : pedicels with caducous bracteas.

Male flowers two inches in diameter, of eight or nine obo-

vate, spreading, unequal petals, of which the outer ones are

greener than the inner. Stamens exceedingly numerous, of

which several in the centre are abortive, club-headed ones.

—Female flowers smaller than the male. Petals fewer,

generally six. Germen downy, turbinate, triquetrous, three-

lobed, two of the angles with small, indistinct wings, the

third with a very large, oblong, porrected one, slightly

toothed and reddish at the extremity. Styles several,

branched. Stigmas lobed, penicillate.

Fig. 1. Pistil, slightly magnified. 2. Stamen. 3. Abortive ditto: mag-

nified.

Whitch det Lib by 8. Curtip Aacenwvod 255 Mat! 37

( 3560 )

MIMULUS CARDINALIS. CARDINAL MoNKEY-

FLOWER.

TKK KEKE KEK KEK KKK KKK KEK

Class and Order.

Dipynamia ANGIOSPERMIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Scropnutarin2. )

Generic Character.

Calyx tubulosus, angulatus, 5-dentatus. Corolla perso-

nata; labio superiore bilobo lateribus reflexo ; inferiore

trifido, laciniis subaqualibus. Stamina 4, didynama. An-

therarum lobis divaricatis. Stigma bilamellatum. Capsula

calyce inclusa, bilocularis, loculicido-bivalvis ; valvis inte-

gris. Kunth. :

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Mimutus cardinalis ; villosus subviscidus, foliis obovato-lan- |

ceolatis dentatis subquinquenerviis basi connatis, pe-

dunculis elongatis, dentibus calycinis subaqualibus

acutis, corolle laciniis emarginatis reflexis.

Mimvtws cardinalis. Dougl. MSS. Lindl. in Hort. Trans.

N.S. v. 2. p. 70. t. 3. Sweet, Br. Fl. Gard. t. 358.

‘ames

Of the several species of Mimutus discovered by Mr.

Doveras on the fertile shores of N. W. America, this was

among the last, as it certainly is the most beautiful, of the

Whole, though its beauty is somewhat diminished by the

rellexed position of the scarlet lobes of the corolla. It is a

hative of California, and may be considered a hardy annual,

with us, readily increasing both by seeds and cuttings.

Vescr. Stem a foot to a foot and a half high, erect,

ary and slightly viscid, bearing numerous opposite branches

and opposite leaves, which latter are two to four inches long,

obovato-lanceolate, connate toothed, except near the base,

somewhat distinctly three or five-nerved, with a few oblique

veins.

veins. Pedunceles axillary, generally longer than the flowers,

hairy. Calyx tubular, downy, marked with five prominent

ribs, the limb oblique, of five, nearly equal teeth. Tube of

the corolla a little longer than the calyx ; limb oblique, of

four deep lobes, the upper one bifid, the segments reflexed,

emarginate. Stamens and style protruded. The plant has

a faint smell of musk, when passed through the hand.

( 3561 )

Ecurnocactus Mackreanus. Mr. Mackirz’s

ECHINOCACTUS.

KKK KKK ERE EEEEE KEE ERERK

Class and Order.

IcosanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Cacteaz. )

Generic Character.

Sepala numerosa imbricata, basi ovarii adnata, in tubum

brevissimum concreta, exteriora involucriformia, intima pe-

taliformia. Stamina numerosa. Stylus filiformis, apice

multifidus. Bacca sepalorum reliquiis subsquamata. Coty-_

ledones nulla ?—Frutices simplicissimi carnosi ovati aut

globosi melocactoidei costati aphylli, costis tuberculis conflu-

entibus quasi formatis, dorso aculeorum fasciculos geren-

tibus. Cephalium seu spadix nullus. Flores e fasciculis acu-

leorum ad apices costarum orti, similes floribus Cerei sed tubo

vix ullo donati. D. C.

Specific Character.

Ecuinocactus Mackieanus ; obovatus mammillosus, mam-

millis magnis conico-depressis in costas 16—17 subre-

gulares dispositis apicibus lanosis spinis 8—10 longis

gracilibus patentibus fuscis terminatis, floribus albis

apicibus rubro-tinctis. :

‘een

This species is also from the rich collection of Messrs.

Mackie of the Lakenham Nursery, and like that given at t.

3558 has a considerable affinity with the Genus MamMIL-

LARIA : but it isa much more neatly made and elegant spe-

Cles. The drawing came marked as “ E. melocactiformis :”

but it cannot be the species so called of Dre CANnDoLLE, figur-

ed at tab. 10 of the « Revue de la Famille des Cactées”’ which

18a totally different plant. Ours, we believe, was formerly in

r. Hircuin’s collection, where it was derived from cp

It is probably a native of Chili, like the Ecuinocacrus mam-

millarioides.

The Messrs. Macxiz observe in their letter, that this is a

fine species, but of very slow growth, and more difficult to

keep in health than the genuine Ecuinocacti ; it requires

however the same treatment.

( 3562 )

RyYTIDOPHYLLUM AURICULATUM. AuRICcU-

LATED RyTIDOPHYLLUM.

Class and Order.

DipynamMiA ANGIOSPERMIA.

( Nat. Ord. —GeEsNERIACEZ. )

Generic Character.

Calyx ovario toto adnatus, limbo quinquedentato-fidove.

Corolla supera, campanulata, medio constricta, limbo quin-

quelobo. Stamina quatuor didynama: cum quinti postici

rudimento. Anthere libere aut anisogenee coherentes.

Jiscus epigynus, crassus, annularis, sinuosus. Capsula

sicca, cum calyce subquinquecostato connata, vertice plano

bivalvis, placentis duabus parietalibus, polysperma, semin-

ibus fusiformibus.—Arbuscule aut frutices, radicibus Jfibro-

sts, ramis alternis sparsisve hirtis, foliis stipulatis breviter

petiolatis sparsis, subtus insigniter hirtis, parenchymate m

Superiore pagina in bullas parvas apice pilum ferentes ele-

vato. Flores cymosi in pedunculis ex supremis foliorum alis

veredes, unicolores aut sanguineo-punctati (aut unicolores

sanguinei ?) Mart. |

Specific Name and Character.

Rytopnyttum * auriculatum ; foliis lato-lanceolatis obli-

que subfaleatis crenatis basi utrinque auriculatis ses-

silibus.

—en

The learned Martius has, I think with justice, separated

from Gesneria, G. tomentosa, L., G. grandis, Sw., and G.

scabra, all West Indian species, readily dito

eir

—____

* From pursc, os, wrinkle, and @uaroy, a leaf, from the rough, or wrinkled,

of the upper side of the foliage.

their somewhat arborescent or shrubby stems, fibrous roots,

pedunculated cymes, scattered leaves, with the parenchyme

singularly wrinkled on the upper surface, each little promi-

nence surmounted with a hair or papilla, to which characters

that author adds the presence of stipules. To this groupe

our present plant certainly belongs, although I can find

no trace of stipules. From all the previously described

species, it is known by its entirely sessile and auriculated

leaves. Seeds of it were brought to Mr. Murray by the

mate of a vessel from Rio Janeiro: but as no species of the

Genus has been described as an inhabitant of Brazil, it is

probable that it came originally from some of the West

India Islands. The figure of Gesneria grandis given in the

Nouv. Dict. des Sciences at first sight much resembles this ;

but it will be seen that the leaves are petiolated, and that

there are two heart-shaped stipules at the base ; the flowers

too, are of a very different colour. Our plant flowered in

Noy. 1836.

Descr. Stem, in our plants, three and five feet high, but

little branched, densely woolly. Leaves a foot and more

long in the older plants, broadly lanceolate, somewhat

obliquely falcate, crenato-serrated, sessile, auriculated at

the base, very wrinkled and bullate above and downy, deep

green, beneath paler and more downy, beautifully reticulat-

ed with nerves, having very depressed areola. Peduncles as

long as the leaves, erect, downy, bearing a di- trichotomous

cyme. Calyx hairy, five-fid, the tube adhering to the ger-

men: the segments acuminate, spreading. Corolla yellow-

green and silky externally, within yellow, spotted with red,

tubular: the tube short, curved: the Limb spreading, with

five rather acute lobes. Stamens curved, with the anthers

connate. Germen wholly inferior ; the apex surrounded

by a five-lobed, fleshy disk. Style as long as the stamens:

Stigma clavate, oblique.

Glazenword hssen Api L057

Pub br & Curhis

/ YOR, xr.

( 3563)

Acrorprera Loppicesit. Mr. Loppigces’

ACROPERA.

KKK KE KEKE KEE KEE EERE EEE

Class and Order.

GynanpriA MonanpriA.

( Nat. Ord.—Orcuivez. )

Generic Character.

Sepala patentia, supremum galeatum, lateralia divaricata.

Petala nana, obliqua, apice truncata, subpatentia. Label-

lum wnguiculatum, cum basi columne elastice articulatum,

trlobum, lobo intermedio minore saccato. Colwmna erec-

ta, marginata, basi saccata. Pollinia 2, linearia, convoluta,

caudicula lineari-subulata, glandula minuta, Rostellwm

subulatum.—Epiphyta, racemis cernuis multifloris, vegeta-

fone Maxillaria Colacis. Lindl. |

Specific Name and Synonyms.

Acroprra * Loddigesii.

AcropEra Loddigesii. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 172.

AXILLARIA galeata. Lindl. in Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1645.

(ees

_ Avery singular Epiphytous Orchideous plant, introduced

to the stoves of this country from Xalapa of Mexico by

'. Grorce Loppiges, whence Dr. Linpxey has been led

to distinguish it by his name: a compliment which that

iberal and able Horticulturist well merits. The habit of

and in the state of bud and after the first expansion, the

ong and regularly decurved ovaries are arranged in three

rows.

* The name is probably derived from axgos, the extremity, and sega be-

» from the little saccate appendage at the apex of the labellum.

rows. Our plants, in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, for

which we are indebted to Mr. Loppices, blossomed in Sep-

tember ; but the flowers are of very short duration.

Descr. Bulbs ovate, clustered, clothed with two or three

large, sheathing, membranaceous scales, bearing at the

summit, two, rarely one, broadly -lanceolate, nerved leaf:

Raceme six to eight inches long, arising from the base of

the bulbs, and pendent. Germen long, cylindrical, decurvy-

ed, at first arranged in three rows, tapering a little below

- into a footstalk. Sepals three, oblongo-ovate, the two side

ones spreading, their margins reflexed ; the upper one hel-

met-shaped and carinated, all of them pale brownish-yellow,

inclining to green. Petals small, oblongo-falcate, truncate _

at the apex, the angles tooth-like. Lip articulated on the —

base of the column, oblong, yellow-brown, the two large

side lobes inflexed, the extreme one saceate. Column green-

ish-yellow, spotted, somewhat winged at the margin : above

the stigma is a long beak (rostellum ), which receives the

gland of the pollen-mass. _Anther-case hemispheerical.

Pollen-masses double, oblong, compressed, cleft at the

margin above on one side: gland very long, subulate.

———

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Ditto, from which

th 1 d 2

Pollen-mass. 4. Lip— Magnified. e Sepals have been remove

ows aJ¢ p23 1 1OA4

VFitch del fub, by J. Curtis. Glavenwed kssvex for 11837

( 3564 )

BEGONIA MONOPTERA. SINGLE-WINGED

BEGonlIiaA.

BREE EER EERE REE EEE

Class and Order.

Monazcta Poxyanpria.

( Nat. Ord.— BeeontAcez. )

Generic Character.

Masc. Calyx 0. Corolla polypetala, petalis plerumque

4, inequalibus. Fam. Calyx o. Corolla petalis 4—9,

plerumque inequalibus. Styli 3, bifidi. Capsula trique-

tra, alata, trilocularis, polysperma.

Specific Name and Character.

Brcon1a monoptera ; pubescens, foliis longe petiolatis an-

gulatis crenatis subtus insigniter papillosis sanguineis

radicalibus reniformibus vix obliquis, caulinis oblique

cuneatis, racemo composito, germinis ala solitaria

elongata corniformi.

This is one of the many species of this handsome Genus,

for which our stoves are indebted to Mr. Orro of the Royal

Berlin Garden. It was introduced from Brazil to that col-

lection in 1826, by Mr. Depre. It flowers in July.

Descr. Stem erect, one to two feet high, rounded, geni-

culated and swollen at the joints, of a dall red colour,

minutely papillose and downy. Radical leaves on long,

red stalks, large, somewhat reniform, truncate at the base,

Scarcely at all oblique, those of the stem remote, much

smaller, on short petioles, roundish, obliquely cuneate, all

of them angled and crenate, of a dark rather lurid green

above, when seen under a microscope obscurely papillose, —

each papilla terminated by a short soft hair, beneath re- —

Markably papillose, except upon the nerves (which are —

radiating);

radiating) ; the papillz flattened and somewhat wrinkled

at the top, amongst them are a few scattered hairs. Séi-

pules ovate-oblong, entire, green. Raceme terminal, elon-

ted ; pedicels one to two inches long, solitary or two or |

three from the same point, simple or branched. Bracteas

two or three, bearing little gemme as well as the pedicels

from their axils. Where the pedicels are solitary, the

flower is female ; where there are two or three, one is male,

the remainder, (one or two,) female. All have mostly

flowers with four white, petaloid, spreading sepals, two

opposite ones large and oval, the other two much smaller

and oblong, or sometimes five, and sometimes six, unequal

sepals. Filaments of the stamens club-shaped, yellow, with

a cell under the apex at each side. Germen turbinate,

downy, with three angles ; one of which is expanded into a

horizontal, horn-like wing. Stigmas yellow, hairy.

Witch Bet. Pub. by S. Curtis, Glazenwoed. Essex. Aor 1, 1837,

”

( 3565 )

EPIDENDRUM DIFFUSUM. SPREADING

EpPIDENDRUM.

Class and Order.

GyNANDRIA Monanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—Orcuipez. )

Generic Character.

Sepala patentia, subequalia. Petala sepalis equalia v.

angustiora, rarius latiora, patentia v. reflexa. Labellum

cum marginibus columnz omnino v. parte connatum,

limbo integro y. diviso, disco sepius calloso, costato y.

tuberculato ; nunc in calcar productum ovario accretum et

auriculum formans. Columna elongata ; clinandrio margi-

nato, sepe fimbriato. Anthera carnosa, 2—4-locularis.

Pollinia 4, caudiculis totidem replicatis annexa—Herbe

(Americane) epiphyte, caule nunc apice vel basi pseudo-

bulboso, nunc elongato apice folioso. Folia carnosa, raris-

sume venis elevatis striata. Flores spicati racemosi, corym-

bost ». paniculati, terminales v. laterales. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

EpipenpruM diffusum ; foliis oblongis, caule ancipiti, pani-

cula terminali ramosissima, sepalis lineari-lanceolatis

petalisque setaceis erecto-patentibus striatis, labello

cordato acuminato basi bicalloso. Lindl.

Epipenprum diffusum. Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. v. 3. t. 1503.

Loddiges, Bot. Cab. t. 846. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3.

p. 737. Lindl. Gen. et. Sp. Orchid. p. 102. :

eee

Not an uncommon inhabitant of the trunks of trees in the

hilly parts of Jamaica, whence we have often received spe-_

Cimens for the Herbarium; and Professor Linpiey, upon —

the authority of Pavon, gives it as a native also of Mexico. |

Swartz

Swartz states the flowers to be red (sanguinei), but he pro-

bably made his descriptions from the dried state of the

plant, when they certainly have a reddish tinge: but in the

several recent specimens we have seen, the blossoms have

been invariably of the colour here represented. Our figure

was taken in November 1837, from plants, sent to J. AL-

carb, Esq. from St. Michael’s Mount, Jamaica: and it was

flowering also at the same time in the stoves of the Glasgow

Botanic Garden, the specimens having been transmitted to

Mr. Murray, by Mr. Niven, Overseer of White River

Estates, who sent it with Brovecuronia sanguinea and other

rarities from the same island. :

Descr. Stem five to six inches long, flexuose and more

or less reclined, compressed, leafy. Leaves eight to ten,

distichous, broadly oblong, spreading, coriaceous, dark

green, obtuse, sheathing at the base. Panicle terminal, six

or eight inches to a foot long, branched from the base,

branches and branchlets spreading, slender. Flowers small,

of a uniform pale yellow-green colour. Sepals narrow,

lanceolate, and, as well as the almost subulate or setaceous

petals, spreading. Lip cordate, acuminate, waved, with two

callous, raised hairs at the base, the claw completely united

with the column. This latter is triangular. Anther-case

hemispherical, having two small cells, in which lie the

Eee Pay pollen-masses, which are connected by a small

gland.

—e

Fig. 1. Flower, 2. Underside of Anther-case. 3. Pollen-masses:—

magnified. .

( 3566 )

CEREUS SERPENTINUS. SERPENT-LIKE CEREUS.

SERRE EEE KER EEE EREE

Class and Order.

IcosanpriA Mownoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Cactea. )

Generic Character.

Sepala numerosissima imbricata basi ovario adnata, in

tubum elongatum concretum, exteriora breviora calycinalia,

media longiora colorata, intima petaliformia. Stamina

numerosissima cum tubo concreta. Stylus filiformis apice

multifidus. Bacca sepalorum reliquiis areolata tuberculosa

aut squamata. Cotyledones nulla ?—Frutices carnosi elon-

gati axi ligneo interne medullifero donati, angulis vertical-

thus spinarum fasciculos gerentibus regulariter sulcati.

Anguli seu ale nunc plurime, nunc paucissime, rarius due

tantum et tune rami compresso-alati. Flores ampli e spina-

rum fasciculis aut crenis angulorum orti. D C.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Cereus serpentinus ; subrepens flexuosus subscandens obtu-

sissime 11—12-gonus, setis fasciculatis lanugine parca

demum obsoleta multo longioribus, tubo florali basi

valde setifero.

Cereus serpentinus. “ Lag. Annal. Cienc. Nat. 1801. p.

261.” De Cand. Diss. Cact. t. 12. :

Cactus serpentinus. Willd. Enum. Suppl. 31. Link et

Otto, Ic. Pict. t. 91.

_ For the opportunity of figuring this fine Cereus, Iam

indebted to Mr. Mackay of the Norwich Nursery, in whose

extensive collection of succulent plants (formerly Mr.

Hircnin’s) it produced flowers, from which the accompany-

ing drawing was made. Mr. Mackay observes, that it isa

hight-blooming species, that the blossom remains ee oe

, : about

about the same time as the C. grandiflorus (Tab. 3381)

is strongly scented, and that the plant is more hardy than

that species, but less so than the Ecurnocacti.

Descr. Stem long, creeping unless supported, branched,

jointed ; the joints long, cylindrical, an inch or an inch and

a half in diameter, and marked with from eleven to twelve

angles, on which are numerous fascicled, spinous sete, in-

termixed with short tufts of a woolly substance. The

flower is large, handsome, fragrant, terminating a joint of

which it seems to be a continuation, there being no well-

defined mark between the termination of the one and the

commencement of the other. Tube three to four inches

Jong, clothed with several linear, green, strongly ciliated

scales. Petals numerous, linear, acute, spreading, of a pale

whitish flesh colour within, reddish or brick colour without.

Stamens much protruded, very numerous, forming a deep

cup: filaments white: anthers yellow. Stigma of four to

five rays, white.

WFitch. del?

Pub, by SCurtic, Clareneood Firsex for 1183)

( 3567 )

CEROPEGIA STAPELIIFORMIS. STAPELIA-LIKE

CEROPEGIA.

KKK KKK KKK KEKE EKER KK EK

Class and Order.

PenTANDRIA DiGyniA.

( Nat. Ord.—AscLepiaDEz. )

Generic Character.

Corona staminea exterior abbreviata, 5-loba ; interior 5-

phylla, foliolis ligularibus indivisis. Masse pollinis basi

affixe, marginibus simplicibus. Stigma muticum. Folli-

cult cylindracei, leves. Semina comosa. Br.

Specific Name and Character.

CERoprcia stapeliiformis ; volubilis? aphylla ramosa, ramis

teretibus dentibus mollibus spiniformibus subverticil-

latis, floribus 1—2 e ramis propriis brevibus, corolle

limbo intus hirsuto-tomentoso laciniis liberis recurvis

carinatis, lobis corone staminee exterioris brevibus

emarginatis, interioris elongatis filiformibus.

Ceropreia stapeliiformis. Hort. Kew.

This remarkable plant is probably a native of the East

Indies, and was received at the Glasgow Botanic Garden

from the Royal Gardens of Kew, with the appropriate name

here adopted. It flowers in the stove in April. —

Descr. Stem, in our plant, about the thickness of one’s

finger, full of a milky juice, rounded, glabrous, of a dark

urid green colour, glabrous, marked with soft, spiniform

processes, three in a whorl, each with two little points from

within which the branches arise, these are long, slender,

4pparently climbing, of a dark purple colour, and have the

Soft, spine-like teeth above mentioned alternate and whorl-

lowers one to two, from short branches. a

two to three lines long, thickened upwards. Calyx five-

partite, the segments subulate. Corolla two inches long ;

tube curved, swelling below, and constricted just above the

base, greenish-white, spotted above and below with deep

purple : the tube expanded upwards to form the limb, which

is cut into five segments, dark purple without and glabrous,

white and hairy within, they soon separate, and are curved

backwards, the sides are closely reflexed, so that the upper

side presents a sharp keel, giving a very singular appear-

ance to the blossom. Staminal crown with the exterior lobes

short, erect, or slightly patent, emarginate, inner elon-

gated, erecto-connivent, filiform.

Fig. 1. Staminal Crown —magnified,

( 3568 )

Oncipium CEBOLLETA. RoOUNDED-LEAVED

~ QONCIDIUM.

Class and Order. :

GynanpriA Monanpri.

( Nat. Ord.—Orcuinez. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium explanatum. Sepala sepius undulata : late-

ralibus nunc sub labello connatis. Petala conformia. La-

bellum maximum, ecalcaratum, cum columna continuum,

varie lobatum, basi tuberculatum v. cristatum. Columna

libera, teres, apice utrinque alata. Anthera semibilocularis,

rostello nune abbreviato, nunc elongato rostrato. Pollinia

2, postice sulcata, caudicula plana, glandula oblonga. —

Herbe epiphyte, nunc pseudo-bulbose. Folia coriacea.

Scapi paniculati vaginati, rarius simplices. Flores speciosi,

lutet, sepius maculati, raro albi. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Oncip1um Cebolleta; bulbis minutis vaginatis unifoliatis,

foliis teretibus subulatis, scapo stricto paniculato mul-

tifloro, sepalis petalisque obovato-lanceolatis undulatis,

labello profunde trilobo, lobis lateralibus patentissimis

obovatis, lobo medio reniformi basi unguiculato apice

emarginato, crista triloba tuberculata, columne alis

rotundatis brevibus.

Oncipi1um Cebolleta. Swartz, Act. Holm. 1800, p. 240.

Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 207.

Eripenprum Cebolleta. Jacg. Amer. p. 230. t. 131. f. 2.

(without flower. )

Oncipium juncifolium. Lindl. Coll. Bot. p. 27.

Eprmwenprum juncifolium. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1351.

Cymeiprum juncifolium. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 4. p. 102.

Of this singular and handsome Orchideous plant, I am

not aware that the flowers had been seen in this country,

till

till a fine panicle appeared in the stove of the Glasgow

Botanic Garden* in April, 1836, on a plant which that

establishment derived from Mr. Locxuarr of Trinidad.

The blossoms, of long duration, have considerable bright-

ness of colour, and make a singular contrast with the harsh,

thick, dark green, and almost spindle-shaped leaves.

Descr. If the base of the leaves, which is more or less

clothed with a ragged, sheathing membrane, be examined,

it will be seen that each of them is jointed on to a small

bulb, not much larger than a pea. The leaves are erect,

terete, obscurely marked with lines, having a rather deep

furrow in front, in the middle about as thick as one’s finger,

tapering a little below, acuminated to a sharp point at the

apex : the whole of a harsh and rigid texture, and of a dark

green colour. From the base a spotted scape arises, about

two feet in height, much branched and panicled upwards,

many-flowered. Flowers rather small. Sepals spreading,

nearly equal, narrow-obovate, waved, greenish-yellow,

spotted with dull red. Lip patent, large, deeply three-

lobed, bright yellow : two lateral lobes broadly obovate,

red at the lower margin near the base ; middle lobe much

the largest, kidney-shaped, with a notch at the apex: disk

with a prominent crest with three distinct lobes or teeth,

and some lesser ones, yellow, spotted with red. Column

short: with a rounded wing on each side of the stigma.

Anther hemispherical, yellow, blotched with red-brown.

_* Since the above was printed, we learn that it is blossoming at this

time in the Collection of CHaRLEs HorsFatt, Esq., Liverpool.

Fig. 1, Column and Lip —magnified.

( 3569 )

EcHINOCACTUS SESSILIFLORUS. SESSILE-

FLOWERED E\CHINOCACTUS.

SKK KKK KK KKK EEKEKERE

Class and Order.

IcosanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Cacrez. )

Generic Character.

Sepala numerosa imbricata, basi ovarii adnata, in tubum

brevissimum concreta, exteriora involucriformia, intima

petaliformia. Stamina numerosa. Stylus filiformis apice

_multifidus. Bacca sepalorum reliquiis subsquamata. Coty-

ledones nulle ?2—Frutices simplicissimi carnosi ovati aut

globosi melocactoidei costati aphylli, costis tubercults conflu-

entibus quasi formatis, dorso aculeorum fasciculos gerentibus.

Cephalium seu spadix nullus. Flores e fascicults aculeorum

ad apices costarum orti, similes floribus Cerei sed tubo vix

ullo donatit. DC.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Ecurnocactus sessiliflorus ; parvus depresso-globosus, costis

12 acutiusculis, spinarum fasciculis paucissimis, spins

breviusculis 46 subvalidis albis recurvo-patulis, flo-

ris tubo brevi, petalis flavis lineari-spathulatis.

Ecurnocactus sessiliflorus. Hort. Mackie.

_ From the Norwich Nursery, whence the charming draw-

ing here engraved was kindly communicated by Messrs.

Mackin. The beautiful, short, white, and distinctly-placed

fascicles of spines form a singular contrast with the dark

green of the plant, and together with the short and much

depressed stem, readily distinguish it from E. Ottonis, figured

at tab. 3107 of this work. It flowers freely, producing seve-

ral blossoms every year a

Mr. Freperic Mackie, whose skill and experience in

Horticulture are very great, observes, that he is very suc-

cessful in flowering the different species of Ecurnocactus,

by growing them “ very near the glass, and during the

summer time, in a very high temperature, by keeping the

upper glasses of the house close: strong light and heat

bemg necessary for expanding their blossoms in perfection.

Some of them will close immediately upon being removed

to a cooler place. It is also very necessary to have the

pots well drained, as the roots are liable to decay if the

earth is at all sodden with moisture. I think that setting

the free growing species in poor soil is quite a mistake, for

we invariably find that they thrive better in good soil, pro-

vided it be well drained, and if they are planted in small

pots.”

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( 3570 )

EcHEVERIA RACEMOSA. RacemeD Ecue-

VERIA.

KKK EKER EEE EREEKEEES

Class and Order.

Decanpria PEenTaGynNiA.

( Nat. Ord.—CrassuLacea. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 5-partitus, sepalis folia referentibus erectis ima

basi subconcretis. Petala 5, inferne coalita erecta crassa

rigidula ad nervum medium crassiora et fere basi trigona

acuta. Stamina 10 petalis breviora basi cum petalis con-

ereta. Sguame 5 breves obtuse. Carpella 5 in stylos

subulatos abeuntia.—Frutices carnosi Mexicani. Folia

alterna caulina aut rosulata subopposita integerrima enervia.

Flores secus rachin aut secus cyme ramos sessiles, coccinet

aut flavi. DC.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Ecueveria * racemosa ; foliis rosulatis densis lingueformi-

lanceolatis acutiusculis cartilagineo-marginatis, supra

convexiusculis subtus convexo-carinatis, caule sparsim

folioso simplici vel ramoso racemoso, laciniis calycinis

equalibus acutissimis patenti-reflexis.

Ecueverta racemosa. Hort. Claremont.

Four species of this handsome Genus are. described by

Dr Canpottze, all natives of Mexico or California, and a

fifth (Mexican one) is described by Haworrn: from all

these our plant differs in the inflorescence, and still ae! "

——— i

So named by M. De CanpoLuE in honor of ECHEVERA, @ Mexican

tanical painter,

VOL. XI. FE

the foliage. The Glasgow Garden has received it from the

Berlin Garden, but without a name, and from that of Clare-

mont under the appellation here adopted. Of its history, I

regret to say I know nothing: it is probably a native of

Mexico. The flowers are produced copiously in the green-

house, in the summer and autumn months.

Descr. Succulent, suffruticose. Barren stems short,

thickly clothed with rosulate tufts of fleshy leaves, of a

brownish-green colour and glaucous hue, two to four inches

long, in form between lanceolate and linguiform, slightly

concave above, convex and keeled beneath, the margin

white and cartilaginous : flowering stems nearly a foot high,

rounded, glaucous, sparingly leafy, with leaves of the same

shape as those of the barren stems, but narrower and gra-

dually becoming smaller. Raceme elongated, many-flow-

ered. Pedicels curved. Calyx 5-partite, fleshy, glaucous,

the segments ovato-lanceolate, very sharp-pointed. Corolla

red, of five, erect, carinated petals, gibbous at the base, and

there united so as to appear monopetalous. Stamens ten,

five at the base of the petals, and alternate with them, five

shorter ones inserted a little above the middle of the petals.

Hypogynous glands five, small, white, fleshy, one at the

ase of each germen. Pistils five, standing close, erect:

Germen ovate, tapering into a rather short, slender style :

Stigma obtuse.

Fig. 1. Flower, with the Corolla laid open, 2. Sj sect weith tha

Gland at the base :—magnified. pen. 2. Single Pisti , Wi

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( 3571 )

SARCANTHUS TERETIFOLIUS. RouND-LEAVED

SARCANTHUS.

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Class and Order.

GynanpriA Monanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—Orcuwen. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium explanatum. Sepala et petala subequalia.

ellum breve calcaratum, trilobum, carnosum, cum co-

lumna articulatum ; calcare intus 4 biloculari. Coluwmna

erecta, semiteres. Anthera bilocularis. Pollinia 2, postice

lobata, caudicula glandulaque variis.—Herbe epiphyte

caulescentes. Folia disticha, plana »v. teretia. Racemi

oppositifolit, Flores speciosi. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Sarcanruus * teretifolius ; foliis teretibus, spica simplici

horizontali_ foliis equali, sepalis petalisque oblongis

obtusis reflexis, labelli caleare recto obtuso intus

pubescente in lamina ovata acuta carnosa producto,

facie columne villosa.

Sarcanrius terctifolius. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 234.

ANDA teretifolia. Lindl. Coll. Bot. t. 6.

‘tee

This singular looking plant, with the leaves of nearly

the same form and texture as the stem, is a native of China,

and we have excellent figures of it in some beautiful draw-

gs of plants executed by the Chinese. It was introduced

) Our stoves by Mr. Brooxes of Newington Green, and

described by Dr. Linney in his valuable Collectanea

: Botanica.

—=—_.

———

‘* ¥ : "

_” From cae, capnos, flesh, croc, a flower, in consequence of the fleshy

€ blossom,

Botanica. It is now not uncommon in collections of Orchi-

deous Epiphytes, flowering in September.

Descr. Stema foot or more high, erect, rounded, green

(except in the oldest parts), flexuose, jointed, sending forth

aerial, thick, fibrous roots from the various parts of their

joints, and a leaf from the top of each, which is in itself

articulated upon the stem, two to four inches long, cylin-

drical, flexuose, obtuse. Spike horizontal, and directed

towards the opposite side of the stem to that from which it

has its origin, bearing seven or eight flowers. Sepals and

petals spreading, oval, dull green with reddish lines, the lat-

ter the smallest. Lip ovate, slipper-shaped, pendent, longer

than the calyx, articulated upon the column, white, having

at the base two incurved lobes edged with red. Column

short, downy at the base : Stigma projecting : Anther-case

hemispherical.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2, Column:— Magnified.

ERRATUM.

Tas. 3565, second page, for Mr. Niven, read Mr. Cowan.

Tas. 3568. Oncidium Cebolleta. We have pleasure in stating that

Joun Hencuman, Esq., of the Clapton Nursery, introduced this fine

plant to our collections in 1834. He found it in the vicinity of Cumana

and carried it to Trinidad, whence, as above stated, Mr. Murray re-

ceived our specimen, which blossomed in the Glasgow Garden. Another

plant of it was sent to Mr. Murray from the Clapton Nursery, by Mr.

Lowe, which is now showing flower, and Mr. Horsra.t’s was received

from the same establishment. Mr. Hencuman possesses eight varieties,

one of them with much larger and handsomer flowers, than that given at

t. 3568, and which are at this time (April 1837,) in high perfection.

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Eutoca viscosa. CiraAmmy Evuroca.

KEK KEKE EEE EE EERERR ERK

Class and Order.

PentanpriA Monoeynia.

. ( Nat. Ord.—Hypropnyiacez. )

Generic Character.

Corolla decidua. Ovarium ovoideo-globosum, piloso-

hispidum. Placente lineares, dorso parietibus ovarii ad-

nate, 4-multi-ovulatea. Capsula dissepimentis incompletis

semi-bilocularis.—Herbz annue ? sepius erecta, habitu Pha-

celie, rarius diffuse vel divaricate. Flores racemosi densi

Sessiles, vel laxi pedunculati, cymis unilateralibus simplict-

bus vel dichotomis. Benth.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Evroca viscosa ; glanduloso-pilosa viscosa, caule erecto

ramoso, foliis cordato-ovatis subangulatis serratis, ra-

cemis elongatis furcatis simplicibusque, placentis mul-

tiovulatis.

Evroca viscosa. Bentham MSS. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1808.

A most lovely, hardy annual, flowering during the sum-

her, and continuing, in Scotland, in great beaut through

the month of September. The blossoms are o the most

brilliant blue, and there is a constant succession of them

during the fine weather. Native of California, where it

was discovered, and whence it was introduced, by Mr.

OUGLAs,

Descr. Whole plant, but more especially the stem and

calyx, clothed with glandular, viscid pubescence. Stem

tounded, green, erect, branched, a foot or more high.

aves alternate, petioled, cordato-ovate, somewhat lobed

and irregularly serrated: petiole scarcely an inch long.

acemes terminal, forked, at first circinnate. Flowers large,

, brilliant

brilliant deep blue, pale and dotted in the centre. Calyx

deeply cut into five linear segments. Corolla rotate, five-

lobed, lobes spreading, rounded. Stamens five, arising

from the base of the short tube: filaments purple, very

hairy in their lower half. Anthers oval, yellowish. Ger-

men ovate, hairy. Style bipartite, purple, glabrous.

Fig. 1. Corolla laid open. 2, Pistil :—magnified.

( 3573)

MAXILLARIA STEELII. Mr. STEELE’s

MAXILLARIA.

KEKE KEKE KEE EERE ERERERE

Class and Order.

GynAnDRIA MonanpRIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Orcuivez. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium connivens, raro patens. Sepala lateralia

cum basi producta columne connata. Petala subcon-

_ formia. Labellum trilobum, cucullatum, sessile, cum basi

__ Producta columne articulatum. Columna semiteres, aptera.

ie Anthera subbilocularis. Pollinia 2, bipartibilia v. integra,

caudicula brevi, glandula transversa.—Epiphyte (Amert-

cané) pseudo-bulbose, acaules, v. caulescentes. Folia pli-

cala, v. coriacea. Pedunculi radicales, axillares, v. termi-

nales, uni- wv. multiflort. Lindl.

Specific Name and Character.

Maxinaria Steelii ; pseudo-bulbis oblongis annulatis mo-

nophylilis, folio longissimo tereti hinc canaliculato,

Scapo radicali brevi unifloro, perianthio connivente,

labello trilobo basi intus glandula oblonga, lateribus

inflexis, lobo intermedio obtusissimo bifido.

[tees

This highly interesting Orchideous plant was obligingly

communicated from the stove of Joan Moss, Esq., Otters-

pool, near Liverpool, together with a drawing by Miss

‘ 98s, from which the accompanying figure was made, It

Mas introduced in July of last year (1836) by Marraew

STEELE, E'sq., from Demerara. With the flower of Maxit-

FARIA, it has a foliage quite at variance with any described

a 5 ean’ of that Genus, attaining a height of two and even

a “eng feet, and proves a most valuable addition to our

Piphytes,

Descr.

Descr. Pseudo-bulbs numerous, clustered, small, oblong,

terete, brownish-green, marked with transverse, jagged,

membranous rings ; from the top of this arises a single leaf,

which suddenly bends almost at an angle, and then hangs

down over the sides of the pot, to the length of two or

three feet, it is cylindrical, as thick as a swan’s quill, with a

narrow groove on the upper side which is chiefly seen near

the base. The scape is short and single-flowered ; the

blossom rather large, fragrant, of a dingy reddish-yellow

colour ; the perianth connivent, blotched with deep purple;

sepals oval, acute ; petals oblongo-obovate ; Lip very broad,

streaked with purple, three-lobed, the sides much incurved,

the middle lobe very obtuse : at the base of the lip within is

a large depressed, oblong, bright yellow gland, streaked

with red and crenate at the truncated apex. Column semi-

cylindrical, decurrent below with the two lower sepals, so as

to form a blunt spur. Anther hemispherical. Pollen-

masses two, bipartite, fixed to a large transverse gland, by

two short caudicule.

SESS ™ 3

Fig. 1. Front view of a Flower. 2. Side view of the Lip. 3. Inner

view of ditto to show the Gland, the sides being laid open. 4. Column, the

Perianth being removed. 5. Pollen-masses :—all but fig. 1. magnified.

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( 3574 )

LINUM MONOGYNUM. MonoGynous FLAx.

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Class and Order.

PentanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Luinez. )

Generic Character.

Flores proportione partium quinaria. Sepala integra.

ae rarissime 3, cum petalis staminibus sepalisque 5. De

and.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Linum monogynum ; perenne, foliis alternis lanceolatis acu-

tis sepalisque trinerviis, floribus corymbosis (albis),

stylo unico.

Linum monogynum. Forst. Prodr. p. 23. De Cand. Prod.

0. 1. p. 428. Spreng. Syst. Veget.v. 1. p. 963, Sweet,

Br, Fl. Gard. p. 278.

Of this species of Flax, remarkable for its corymbs of

large white flowers, nothing seems to have been known

since the days of Forsrer, who detected it in New Zealand,

till very recently, when a figure and description of it ap-

peared in Sweet's British Flower-Garden. But no mention

Jsmade of the time when, nor of the person by whom, living

Plants were introduced into this country.

ur specimens were derived from Bagshot Park, by favour

nae Mr. Towarp. The species is avery desirable one, blos-

Soming in the greenhouse in May and June, and having a

Succession of flowers for a great length of time.

Escr. Our plants are a foot and a half or more high ;

the stems erect, rounded, elaucous, branched very much at

the top in a corymbose manner. Calyx of five ovate, very

acute sepals, with one long, central rib, and two lateral and

Shorter ones, the margin white and diaphanous. on

ve,

five, handsome, large, white, broadly obovate, obtuse, at the

apex tapering into claws. Stamens five, white ; Anthers

linear-sagittate. Pistil globose ; Styles combined into one,

with five reflexed, slender branches. Capsule globose, very

acute, tipped with the withered style.

Fig. 1. Flower, from which the Petals have been removed. 2. Fruit:—

magnified.

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PLATYSTIGMA LINEARIS. MLINEAR-LEAVED

PLATYSTIGMA.

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Class and Order.

PoLyANDRIA TRIGYNIA.

( Nat. Ord.—PapavERAcEz. )

Generic Character.

Sepala 3, ovata, caduca, pilosa. Petala 4, 5. Stamina

numerosa. Filamenta filiformia. Anther@ lineares, bilo-

culares, lateraliter dehiscentes. Stigmata 3, ovata, acuta,

erecto-divergentia. Capsula oblonga, basi attenuata, 1-

locularis, 3-angularis, 3-sulcata, 3-valvis, ab apice ad basin

dehiscens : valvulis conduplicatis, margine in placentis

filiformibus productis. Semima numerosa, minuta, ovoidea,

nigra, levissima, nitida. Benth.

Specific Name and Synonyms.

PLatystiema * linearis.

Pratystigma linearis. Benth. in Hort. Trans. N. S. v. 1.

p. 407. Fischer et Meyer, Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. p.

22. Hook. Ic. Select. v. 1. t. 38.

_A very pretty annual, native of California, where 1t was

discovered by Mr. Doveras: but it does not appear that

the plant has been raised at the Horticultural Society.

Mr. Benruam’s characters were derived from dried speci-

mens. Seeds, however, have been sent from Ross in New

California to the Petersburg Garden, and from thence to

the Glasgow Botanic Garden, where our plants flowered in

August and September, in the open border.

Descr.

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* grates, large, and oryya, the stigma.

Descr. Root annual. Leaves radical, linear, acute,

glaucous, two to three inches long, glabrous, single-nerved.

Seapes several from the same root, a span high, clothed

with spreading hairs. Flowers drooping before expansion,

then erect. Calyx of three leaves, generally caducous,

sometimes remaining for a time in a withered state. Three

outer petals broadly obovate, full yellow, pale at the sides ;

three inner narrower, white, yellow at the claw. Stamens

not numerous, yellow ; filaments decidedly dilated. Anthers

oblong. Germen ovato-triquetrous, Stigmas three, ses-

sile, ovate.

Fig. 1. Outer Petal. 2. Inner ditto. 3. 3. Stamens. 4. Pistil :—mag-

nified,

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( 3576 )

GesNERIA Sceprrum, y ignea. Sceprre-

FLOWERED GesneERIA, pale-flowered var.

KKK KEKE EEE EEE EEE EEK EEE

Class and Order.

DipynamiA ANGIOSPERMIA.

( Nat. Ord.—GesneriAcez. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 5-partitus, (plerumque germini adnatus). Corolla

tubuloso-campanulata, limbo bilabiato ; labio superiore bi-

inferiore trifido. Stigma bilobum. Capsula bilocularis,

bivalvis, placentis parietalibus.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Grsneria Sceptrum ; elata molliter villosa, foliis subsessili-

bus ternatis e subcordata basi oblongis obtuse serratis,

verticillis aphyllis, pedunculis longitudine florum laci-

nlis calycinis lanceolatis appressis, labio superiore

paululum productiore, glandulis hypogynis 5.

Gesneria Sceptrum. Mart. Gen. et Sp. Pl. Brasil. v. 3. p.

32. t. 214. : c

(y.) ignea ; corollis pallide igneis versus limbi marginem

rubentibus. (Tab. nostr. 3576.)

Our intercourse with Brazil has made known to our col-

lections several species of this beautiful tropical Genus, than

which few are more ornamental to our stoves. The foliage

1S mostly of a full and vivid green, and the flowers are re-

markable, in general, for their rich colour, frequently in-

clining to, or altogether scarlet. This plant was intro-

duced by Mr. Murray to the Glasgow Garden. It flow-

ered with us in September, 1836, and proves to be the

var. ignea of G. Sceptrum of Martius. In many respects

it approaches our G. Lindleyi, Hoox. in Bot. Mag. ined.

- Tutilans, var. atro-sanguinea of Linpuey): but the

present

present has constantly ternate, nearly sessile, more cordate

leaves, shorter peduncles, larger flowers, differently-shaped

calycine segments, and the whole plant is clothed with

copious soft hairs.

Descr. Stem three feet high, simple, rounded, veiny,

hairy. Leaves three in a whorl, three to four inches long,

almost entirely sessile, from a somewhat cordate base, ob-

long, rather acute, bluntly serrated at the margin, on both

sides copiously clothed with soft pubescence, especially

beneath, where the colour is paler, and the nerves more

prominent. The leaves gradually become smaller upwards,

and pass into bracteas beneath the flowers. These latter

form several leafless whorls, of about three in a whorl, with

lanceolate bracteas at the base. Peduncles two inches long,

hairy. Calyx very hairy, cut into five deep, lanceolate,

acuminate, appressed segments. Corolla hairy, as long as

the peduncles, tubular, dull pale reddish-yellow, with a

darker edge to the limb, of which the upper lip is a little

longer than the lower; lobes all rounded. Hypogynous

glands five, two of which stand close together. Style and

Stamens included.

Fig. 1. Pistil, with the hypogynous Glands.

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Brassia Lanceana. Mr. Lance’s Brassia.

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Class and Order.

GyNANDRIA MonaAnpRIA.

( Nat. Ord.—OrcuiveEs. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium explanatum. Sepala et petala angusta,

libera, equalia, his nunc minoribus. Labellum planum,

indivisum, ecalcaratum, columna continuum, basi bicris-

tatum. Columna libera, aptera, nana. Anthera 1-locularis.

Pollinia 2, postice sulcata; caudicula brevi; glandula crassa.

—Epiphyte pseudo-bulbose. Folia pergamenca. Scapi

radicales vaginati. Flores spectosi, spicati. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Brassta Lanceana ; sepalis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis,

labello oblongo acuminato undulato sepalis lateralibus

duplo breviore. Lindl.

Brassta Lanceana. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1154.

_A truly handsome plant, apparently blossoming at very

different seasons. With Mr. Loppiees, it has flowered in

August. I received beautiful specimens from C. S. Par-

KER, Esq., of Liverpool, in December, 1836, and, at the

same season, plants that had been liberally communicated

by Mr. Lowe, blossomed in the Glasgow Garden. It is

said to be a native of Surinam, (whence it was introduced

to our gardens by Mr. Lance), and also of the Province of

Rio Negro, South Brazil.

Descr. Pseudo-bulbs ovato-oblong, compressed, furrow-

ed, especially in the old state, when they also acquire a

brownish tinge. Leaves two, from the summit of the bulb,

and two or three are often seen at the base, between oblong

and lanceolate, striated. Peduncle from the base . m3

ud,

VOL. XI. G

bulb, rounded, terminating in a long raceme of large,

handsome, fragrant subsecund flowers. Perianth spread-

ing ; sepals and petals lanceolate, acuminate, yellow, spot-

ted with blood-red: the former nearly equal in size, the

latter shorter. Lip large, oblong, waved, yellow, very

acute, spotted only at the base, and there having a large

tubercle deeply furrowed, and orange-coloured within the

furrow. Column short: Anther hemispherical.

Fig. 1. Germen, Column, and Lip: magnified.

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( 3578 )

LEPTOSIPHON DENSIFLORUS. ‘'THICKLY-

FLOWERING LEPTOSIPHON.

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Class and Order.

PenranpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—PoLemontAcE&. )

Generic Character.

Calyx tubuloso-campanulatus, equalis, semi- 5-lobus,

lobis lineari-subulatis, acutis, sinubus membranaceis. Co-

rolla infundibuliformis (hypocrateriformis) ; tubo longe

exserto tenuissimo ; limbo campanulato (patenti 5-fido) ;

lobis ovalibus obtusis integerrimis. Stamina fauce inserta ;

anthere oblongx, basi sagittate. Capsule loculi poly-

spermi—Herbe annue basi glabre, apice pubescentes.

Folia sessilia opposita, palmatisecta, segmentis linearibus

vel subulatis. Flores dense corymboso-capitati, axi subla-

nato. Bractee imbricate foliis conformes, segmentis cult-

ato-hirsutis. Bentham.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

LeprosipHon densiflorus ; foliis 7—9-partitis laciniis fili-

formi-subulatis hirsutulis, corolla tubo limbo breviore,

laciniis obovatis. :

Leprosipuon densiflorus. Benth. in Bot. Reg. ¢. 1622 (in

textu). Hort. Trans. N. S. v. 1. t. 18. f. 2.

A very handsome annual, introduced by Mr. Doveras

to the Horticultural Society’s Garden, from California, at

the same time with the L. androsaceus (tab. 3491). It is

equally hardy with that species, and, in many respects,

very similar to it; but the leaves have more numerous and

narrower segments, the flowers, varying in colour, are

much larger, the tube is shorter in proportion to ” gee

and the segments of this latter are obovate. It blossoms

at the same time with L. androsaceus, adding greatly to

the gaiety of our flower-borders.

Descr. Stem erect, slender, flexuose, rounded, gla-

brous, branched, with the branches opposite. Leaves op-

posite, often crowded immediately beneath the flowers, pla-

mately divided, almost to the base, into from seven to nine

slender, filiform-subulate segments, slightly hairy, most

so near the base. Flowers capitate. Calyx with five

subulate segments, as long as the tube of the corolla.

Corolla hypocrateriform ; the tube white: limb longer than

the tube: the segments obovate, lilac, more or less inclin-

ing to a deep rose-colour or purple, becoming almost

blue in age; the inside of the tube white ; sometimes the

corolla is wholly white. Stamens scarcely exserted. An-

thers bright orange.

( 3579 )

PLATYSTEMON CALIFORNICUM. CALIFORNIAN

PLATYSTEMON.

KKK EEE EE KEKE EEE KEE KEKE SE

Class and Order.

PotyanpriA PoLyGynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Papaveracez. )

Generic Character.

Sepala 3, ovata, caduca, pilosa. Petala6. Stamina nume-

rosa. Filamenta dilatata, membranacea, obcordata. An-

there \ineares, biloculares, lateraliter dehiscentes. Ovaria

plurima (10 et ultra) linearia, stigmate sessili lineari termi-

Nata. Capsule totidem distincte torulose, articulate,

transversim multiloculares extus piloso-hispide. Semina

im quoque loculo solitaria pendula. Benth.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

PLatystemon * Californicum ; ovariis fructibusque pilosis.

Puatystemon Californicum. Benth. in Hort. Trans. v. 1.

N.S. p. 405. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1679.

@enmeen

A highly interesting annual, for the introduction of which

to our gardens we are indebted to Mr. Dovetas, who sent

the seeds to the Horticultural Society from California. Mr.

ENziEs, however, was the first to discover it in that coun-

try, when on the voyage round the globe with Capt. Van-

couver. His specimens are preserved in my Herbarium,

and doubtless in those of other Botanists on whom he has

bestowed them with his wonted liberality. In the recent

specimen which I examined, the germen on being laid open

owed one cell, with as many projections and —_ as

there

* From trarvs, broad, and ermpw», a stamen, in allusion to the breadth of

the filaments,

there are styles : as this advances to maturity, a separation

takes place at the ridges, the sutures unite, and the fruit is

separated into carpels. Our plants, for the seeds of which

we are indebted to the Horticultural Society, flowers in

June and July, and proves perfectly hardy, ripening its

seeds very copiously.

Descr. Root annual. Stems weak, branched, rounded,

succulent, glabrous. Leaves three to four inches long,

linear-oblong, usually in whorls of three each, entire, sessile,

ciliated, marked with three to four parallel nerves, glaucous,

as is the whole plant. Peduneles axillary, longer than the

leaves, single-flowered, somewhat hispid with patent hairs.

Sepals three, oval, concave, hispid, soon falling away.

Petals six, oval-oblong, concave, spreading, of a pale sul-

phur yellow. Stamens several. Filaments broad, petaloid,

the inner ones gradually broader: Anthers linear-oblong,

terminal. Germen oval, bristly, with six to nine deep fur-

rows, and an equal number of linear, downy styles: eyen-

tually separating into as many distinct, cylindrical, knotted

carpels as there are ridges.

Fig. 1.2. Stamens. 3. Pistil. 4. Germen laid open. 5. Carpel.

(3580)

PavetTa CArrra. SoutH-AFRICAN PAVETTA.

KKK KEKE KEKE KEK EKER EEK

Class and Order.

TrerrRaANnDRIA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Rvsiacegz. )

Generic Character.

Calycis tubus ovatus, limbus parvus 4-dentatus. Corolla

hypocraterimorpha, tubo gracili tereti lobis longiore, limbo

4-partito patente. Anthere 4 ad faucem subsessiles. Stylus

longe extra tubum corolle exsertus, loborum longitudi-

nem superans, apice clavatus, subinteger aut stigmatis

cruribus adglutinatis aut vix ac ne vix subdivisis. Bacca

drupacea calyce persistente coronata subglobosa bilocu-

laris, Pyrene chartacee intus plane aut concave dorso

gibbe l-sperma. Albumen cartilagineum. Embryo dorsa-

lis erectus incurvus, cotyledonibus foliaceis, radicula longa..

—Flores albi. Species omnes Asiatice aut Africane. DC.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Paverra* Caffra ; foliis obovatis ramisque glabris, stipulis

subulatis basi herbaceo-membranaceis connatis, cymis

fastigiatis, calycibus 4-fidis segmentis subulatis, co-

rollz lobis obovato-oblongis mucronulatis tubo bre-

Vioribus. Grah.

Paverta Caffra. Thunb. Prodr. p. 29. Fl. Cap. v. 1.

p. 535. DC. Prodr. v.4.p.491. Ram. et Sch. Syst.

Veg. v.3.p.175. Spreng. Syst. Veg. v. 1. p. A407.

Ixora Caffra. © Poir. Suppl. v. 3. p. 209.

Paverra corymbosa. Houtt. Pfl. ed. 1. p. 11. ¢. 40.

‘Seen

This very pretty species, native of Southern Africa, was

received from Kew at the Botanic Garden kdb 5,

or a ea

* The name of the Shrub in the Malabar language.

1835, and flowered freely in the stove in the end of April

and beginning of May following, when scarcely nine inches

Descr. Shrub erect, branches ascending, whole plant

glabrous, except the stigma and the inside of the tube of

the corolla. Leaves (two and a half inches long, one and

a quarter broad) obovate, petioled. Stzpules subulate,

herbaceous, small, dilated, connate, and membranaceo-

herbaceous at the base, persisting. Flowers in dense ter-

minal cymes, perfumed: pedicels with two opposite fila-

mentous bracteas in the middle. Calyx four-cleft, herba-

ceous, segments subulate. Corolla white, hypocrateriform ;

tube (seven and a half lines long) slender, cylindrical,

greenish towards its base, hairy within, especially in its

upper part, hairs somewhat reflected ; limb four-parted,

(three-fourths of an inch across) flat, in the bud imbricated

and slightly convolute; segments obovato-oblong, with a

small mucro in the centre, from which a dark-green streak

passes for a little way along the back. Stamens alternate,

with the lobes in the throat of the corolla, and becoming

reflected between these. Anthers linear, cleft at the base,

pointed at the apex ; filaments short, attached to the back

of the anther at the top of the notch; pollen-granules

minute, rounded, white. Pistil more than twice as long

as the tube of the corolla ; stigma clavate, green, pubes-

cent, the hairs being arranged in many vertical lines ; style

white, erect, filiform. Germen inferior, crowned with a

small depressed disk, which is superior. Graham.

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( 3581 )

Onciprum pumitum. Mr. Hergert’s Dwarr

ONCIDIUM.

Pores eR KI EEE ER ERE

Class and Order.

GyNANDRIA MonaANDRIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Orcuipea. )

Generie Character.

Perianthium explanatum. Sepala sepius undulata ; la-

teralibus nunc sub labello connatis. Petala conformia.

Labellum maximum ecalcaratum, cum columna continuum,

varie lobatum, basi tuberculatum v. cristatum. Columna

libera, semiteres, apice utrinque alata. Anthera semibilo-

cularis, rostello nunc abbreviato, nunc elongato rostrato.

Pollinia 2, postice suleata; caudicula plana ; glandula ob-

longa. Herbe epiphyte nunc pseudo-bulbose. Folia co-

riacea, Scapi paniculali vaginati, rarius simplices. Flores

speciosi lutei, sepius maculati, raro albi. Lindl.

Specific Name and Synonyms.

Onxcipium pumilum ; pseudo-bulbis nullis, foliis rigidis ob-

longis obliquis, panicula erecta thyrsoidea foliorum

longitudine, sepalis petalisque obovatis incurvis, 1a-

bello subrotundo trilobo, lobis ovatis obtusis inter-

medio paulo minore, disco callis duobus longitudina-

libus sinubus loborum oppositis cristato, alis columne

integerrimis. Lind. :

Oxcio1um pumilum. Lind. Bot. Reg. ¢. 920. Loddiges,

Bot. Cab, t. 1732. Lindl. Gen. et Spec. Orchid. p. 205.

(8.) alis columna cuneiformibus, crista labelli obsoleta,

foliis atro-viridibus vix maculatis, statura majore.

Lindl. 1. ¢.

Geen

This singular little epiphyte was introduced by the

Hon. and Rey, Wituiam Hersert of Spofforth, in whose

collection

collection it flowered about ten years ago. It was de-

tected by one of his collectors in Brazil, between Rio

Janeiro and Botofogo, growing upon the trunk of Bompax

Ceiba. We are indebted for our plants in the stove of the

Glasgow Botanic Garden to Mr. Loppices. It flowers in

April and May.

Descr. Bulbs (or pseudo-bulbs as they are generally

called) none; a few roots proceed from the base of the

exceedingly short stem. Leaves oblong, coriaceous, rigid,

somewhat distichous, oblique, acute at the point, of a deep

green colour. The scape arises from the axils of one of

these leaves, and, including the flowers, is scarcely so long

as the foliage. Flowers small, arranged in a compound

raceme or a lax thyrsus, which is erect. Perianth spread-

ing, yellow, jagged at the margin. Sepals and petals com-

bined at the base, oblongo-spathulate, spreading, spotted

with brown. Lip roundish, three-fid, entirely yellow, ex-

cept along the margin on each side at the base where is a

deep red-brown line: the segments are acute, incurved, the

disk is furnished with a bifid crest, and each segment is

again divided into two unequal ones. Column short, fur-

rowed in front, with a long, spreading, linear-oblong wing

on each side. Anther-case large, ovato-acuminate. Ger-

men quite straight, hence the lip is superior.

Fig. 1. Back view of a Flower. 2. Front view of ditto (reversed). 3.

Column, the Anther-case being bent back —magnified.

‘

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( 3582 )

XANTHOSIA ROTUNDIFOLIA. ROUND-LEAVED

XANTHOSIA.

KERR REE KKK KEKE EKEKEEEE

Class and Order.

PEeNTANDRIA DiaynliA.

( Nat. Ord.—Unpet.irer2. )

Generic Character.

Calycis tubus ovato-compressus, limbus 5-lobus, lobis

ovatis acutis subcoloratis. Petala stipitata, ovalia, apice

cuspidata replicata. Stamina lobis calycinis opposita. Sty-

lopodia 2 crassa, villosa (vix semper) ad apices carpellorum.

Styli 2, filiformes e basibus internis stylopodiorum orti.

Fructus compressus striato-nervosus, mericarpiis ad com-

missuram contractis 7—9-jugis, jugis filiformibus, 2 latera-

libus marginantibus, valleculis evittatis, commissura an-

gustissima evittata.—Suflrutices Australasici, pilis sepius

stellatis hirsuti. Folia alterna simplicia aut tripartita.

Umbelle varie. DC.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Xantnosta* (Sect. Levcoumna) rotundifolia; glabra vel

pubescens fruticosa, foliis petiolatis cordato-rotundatis

grosse dentatis coriaceis glabris, umbella 4-radiata,

involucri tetraphylli foliolis lineari-lanceolatis, invo-

lucellis monophyllis latissimis profunde trifidis albis.

Xantnosta rotundifolia. De Cand. Prodr. v. 4. p. 75.

eee

This extremely curious umbelliferous plant, so unlike in

abit to the majority of individuals of this.extensive Na-

tural Order, is a native of New Holland, where it appears

—_=_=___

cevboc, ‘ is ith which some species

a “etn yellow ; from the yellowish tomentum wit which so: pe

to be not uncommon. We have numerous specimens from

the vicinity of Port Jackson and from King George’s Sound.

The Glasgow Botanic Garden owes the possession of it to

Mr. Loppiees, and it flowers with us in the month of June.

It may be reckoned a hardy green-house plant.

Descr. Stem a foot to a foot and a half high, shrubby,

slightly branched, clothed with a brown bark, which in

our plant is but slightly hairy. Leaves alternate, cordate,

sometimes approaching to ovate, sometimes to rotundate,

coriaceous, glabrous, or partially clothed with deciduous

down, acute, deeply and sharply toothed at the margin:

petiole one-fourth the length of the leaf, scarcely dilated at

the base. Peduncles terminal, elongated, sometimes with

a coloured bractea. Umbels of four rather short rays.

Involucre of four linear-lanceolate reddish-green leaves.

Involucels, one at the base of each partial and nearly sessile

and few-flowered umbel, large, petaloid, pure white, or

externally only slightly tinged with red, concave, deeply

three-cleft, with acute, spreading segments. Flowers few,

six to eight in each involucre, white, the anthers and the

upper margin of the germen only being red. Calyx of

five large, deciduous sepals, jointed as it were on the top

of the germen, erect. Petals erect, oval, unguiculate,

with a large involute appendage. Filaments incurved at

the apex: Anthers oval. Young fruit roundish, remark-

ably flattened on the sides, many-ribbed. Stylopodium of

two large, rounded, fleshy lobes. Some of the flowers are

imperfect.

——

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Back view, and 3, front view of a Petal. 4 Sta-

men, 95. Immature Fruit —magnificd,

Pen et. (oe a

( 3583)

CHRYSOSTEMMA TRIPTERIS. 'THREE-LEAVED

CHRYSOSTEMMA.

Class and Order.

SyNGENESIA FRUSTRANEA.

( Nat. Ord.—Composirs. )

Generic Character.

- Capitulum multiflorum heterogamum, fl. radii neutris 1-

serialibus ligulatis, disci hermaphr. tubulosis 5-dentatis.

Involucrum biseriale, squamis foliaceis basi coadunatis, ext.

paucis parvis linearibus patentibus, inter. erectis ovali-ob-

longis margine subscariosis. Receptaculum planum, paleis

linearibus angustissimis fere filiformibus. Styli rami cono

superati pubeque descendente instructi. Acheniwm plano-

obcompressum obovato-ellipticum angulis alatum glaber-

rimum apice emarginatum, pappo coroniformi lacero coro-

natum, disco epigyno minuto, alis albidis.—Herba Borealr-

Americana nitida erecta. Folia opposita petiolata, una

subpedato-pinnatifida, superiora trisecta, segmentis lanceo-

latis integerrimis. Pedunculi subgemini l-cephali. Capt-

tula radio luteo, disco brunneo.

Specific Name and Synonyms.

Curysosremma * tripteris.

CurysostemMa trinterla, Less. Syn. Compos. p. e2a7. DC.

Prodr. v. 5. p. 568.

Coreopsis tripteris. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1282. Mich. Fl. Amer.

v.2. p. 148. Pursh, Fl. Am. v. 2. p. 368. Elliott, Fl.

Carol. v. 2. p. 442. Spreng. Syst. Veg. v. 3. p. 614.

This very handsome plant, although a well-known inha-

itant of our gardens for a period of one hundred years, a

=—

* + a

From xpuce«, gold, and crtupa, a crown, from the colour of the flowers.

not (perhaps for want of novelty to recommend it) found a

place in any of our periodical botanical publications. It is

a native of Virginia, Carolina, and Georgia, chiefly in the

upper districts, and was introduced by Mr. Puitip Miiier.

{t flowers from August till October; when the cold and

frosts cause it to perish down to the root.

Descr. Stem erect, straight, rigid, five to six feet high,

glabrous, striated, branched, especially upwards, and there

in a paniculated manner. Leaves opposite, on short peti-

oles, the lower ones generally more or less bipinnate, be-

coming pinnate upwards, and the uppermost deeply tripar-

tite, when they pass into the simple bracteas of the peduncle,

all of them glabrous, somewhat rigid, spreading or recurv-

ed, of a dark green colour, the segments quite entire, of a

linear-lanceolate form, but varying somewhat in width in

different individuals. Panicle trichotomous. Peduncles

with linear bracteas. Involucre glabrous: outer of seven

to eight, linear, obtuse, spreading, green scales: inner of

as many close-pressed, ovate, brownish, and somewhat

membranaceous ones. Florets of the ray yellow, at. first

singularly involute in the margins, and entire at the extre-

mity, but soon unfolding and becoming bi- trifid at the

apex. Disk purple: base of the tubular corolla only

yellow: Anthers and filiform segments of the style dark

purple. Achenium compressed, slightly winged at the mar-

gin, especially upwards, but quite destitute of awns.

Fig. 1. Floret of the Ray. 2. Ditto of the Disk: magnified.

( 3584 )

CLIANTHUS PUNICEUS. CRIMSON GLORY-

PEa.

KKK KEKE EEE EK EK EEE EEE EEE

Class and Order.

DiapELPHIA DECANDRIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Leeuminosz. )

Generic Character.

Calyx late campanulatus, subequalis, 5-dentatus. Vex-

illum acuminatum, reflexum, alis parallelis longius ; carina

scaphiformis, vexillo alisque multo longius ; omnino mono-

petala. Stamina manifeste perigyna, diadelpha, omnia fer-

tilia, Stylus staminibus duplo longior, versus apicem hine

leviter barbatus, stigmate simplicissimo. Legumen pedi-

cellatum, coriaceum, acuminatum, ventricosum, polysper-

mum, intus lanulosum, sutura dorsali recta ventral con-

vexa. Semina reniformia, funiculis longiusculis affixa.—

Suffrutices, Herbeve ; foliis impari-pinnatis, stipulatis, flo-

ribus speciosissimis, racemosis. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Cuanrnus * puniceus ; fruticosus diffusus glaber, foliolis

alternis oblongis subemarginatis, racemis pendulis

multifloris, calyce 5-dentato, legumine glabro.

Cuiantuus puniceus. Soland. MSS. in Mus. Brit. Allan

Cunningham, in Hort. Trans. v. 1. n. 8. p- 521. t. 22.

Bot. Reg. t. 1775.

Donia punicea. Don’s Gen. Syst. of Gardening, 2. A68.

_ Wereceived at the Botanic Garden Edinburgh, this strik-

ingly handsome plant from Mr. Lowe, of the Clapton —

sery,

eee

* From xasos, glory, and avbos, a flower, in allusion to the great beauty of

the blossoms.

VOL. XI. H

sery, in 1835. It has been cultivated in Scotland, both in

the open ground and in the greenhouse. In the former it

lives, but unfortunately does not thrive, and will never be

ornamental, unless, perhaps on a good wall, and well pro-

tected in winter. In the latter situation it is most luxuriant,

but has produced no fruit with us. It first flowered in

February, 1837, and will probably exhibit a long succes-

sion of blossoms.

[In the South of England, this splendid plant bears the

wiuters with impunity, and in Devonshire and the Isle of

Wight, fully authorises the generic name given to it by the

learned Sonanver (Flower of Glory). It was discovered by

Sir Josep Banxs in New Zealand, in the northern interior,

in 1769, and again by the Missionaries in 1831. Mr. Curtis,

who has raised numerous plants of it at his extensive nursery

grounds at Glazenwood, has been furnished with the follow-

Ing particulars respecting its introduction, &c., to this

country, by Mr. Vaux of Ryde, Isle of Wight, where the

plant grows luxuriantly, and blossoms freely in the open

air without the slightest protection.“ Mr. Ricaarp Davis,

Missionary Catechist at New Zealand, sent the seed of

CuiantTuus puniceus to the Rey. Joun Nogie Coiman, 5,

Terrace, Ryde, who sowed it as soon as it was received in

the autumn of 1831. In the following spring, Mr. Conman

had several fine plants. In the autumn of 1832 some of the

plants had indications of blossoms forming, and in the

spring, or rather summer of 1833, they flowered most beau-

tifully, and produced seed-vessels, one of which was for-

warded to the London Horticultural Society, and engraved

in the Transactions of that valuable body. ‘The propaga-

tion is extremely simple. Cuttings strike readily under a

hand-glass in any soil ; indeed, where any bud of the grow-

ing plant touches the ground, it will take root like a

Mimuvus, or like Versena Melindres. The cuttings appear

to succeed equally well, whether stripped off or clean cut

out under a joint, and I have not found any difference as to

ripened or green shoots.” The native name of the plant,

according to Mr. Cunnincuam, is Kowaingutu-Kaka, ot

Parrot’s-bill. Ep.] ;

Descr. Stem shrubby. Bark cracked, but otherwise

smooth, round. Branches diffused, green, glabrous, slightly

angled. Leaves alternate, pinnated, with an odd leaflet ;

common petiole round, with a slender furrow above, taper

ing to the apex, pinne ten to twelve pairs, nearly sessile,

alternate towards the apex of the leaf, subopposite below,

largest

largest in the middle, oblong, subemarginate, minutely mu-

cronate, opaque, green and glabrous above, paler, and with

minute adpressed pubescence below, edges slightly revolute,

middle-rib channelled above, prominent and round below.

Racemes axillary, pendulous, many-flowered ; lower flow-

ers expanded first, flexuose ; common peduncle and pedicels

green and slightly pubescent, each pedicel springing from

the axil of a small, green, ovato-lanceolate, spreading

bractea, and with two subopposite bracteoles in the middle.

Calyx campanulate, green, its mouth somewhat oblique,

with five subequal, deltoideo-subulate, adpressed teeth.

Corolla of nearly uniform red, and becoming livid in fading,

very handsome, but the whole raceme is less so than it

otherwise would be, in consequence of the gradual elonga-

tion of the pedicels being disproportionately greater than

the rachis, by which the whole forms a dense and confused

ovate mass. Vexillum ovato-acuminate, reflected from near

its base, slightly striped with white near its centre, some-

what callous at the keel. Ale about half as long, narrow,

oblong-sickle-shaped, with a callous, colourless, curved

claw, and a tooth on its upper edge of nearly a similar tex-

ture, but shorter. Carina as long as the vexillum, nearly

colourless on its inside in the lower half, monopetalous, with

a colourless undivided claw and short blunt tooth on the

edge on each side, acuminate, curved forwards. Stamens

ten, diadelphous ; filaments colourless ; anthers uniform,

oblong, yellow ; pollen-granules minute, golden coloured,

shining, round. Pistil green, as long as the keel, and

closely wrapped up in it ; germen glabrous, furrowed along

its upper edge. Style covered with long, simple white

hairs in a line along its upper side, and extending nearly to

its middle. ‘ The flowers are succeeded by brownish-

lack pods, two inches and a half long, seated on a slender

Stipe, and convex on the upper instead of the lower edge,

So that unless attention be given to the manner of growth,

't would seem as if the seeds grew from the lower instead of

the upper edge. They are covered all over with a deli-

cate cottony down, in which lie the small, kidney-shaped

seeds, of a dull yellowish ochre colour, mottled with small

crown blotches and speckles.” (Hort. Trans. l. ¢.)

raham.

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( 3585 )

FNGOPETALUM COCHLEARE. SHELL-LIPPED

ZY GOPETALUM. ‘

Class and Order.

GynanpriA MonaANnpria.

( Nat. Ord —Orcuive&. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium explanatum, sepalis_petalisque ascenden-

tibus, subequalibus, cum ungue producto columne conna-

tis. Labellum muticum, indivisum, patens, ungue ascen-

dente : crista magna transversa carnosa. Columna brevis,

arcuata, semiteres. Anthera subbilocularis. Pollinia 2,

bipartibilia, in glandulam transversam subsessilia —Herbe

terrestres, subacaules ; foltis plicatis patentibus. Flores spe-

ciost, labello ceruleo. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Zycoreratum cochleare ; pseudo-bulbo nullo, foliis lato-

lanceolatis, scapo unifloro, sepalis petalisque oblongis

subequalibus, labello subquadrato basi ventricoso

lateribus inflexis crispatis callo baseos lunato depresso —

antice crenato.

Zycorrratum cochleare. Lindl. Bot. Reg. ¢. 1837.

Evuxoruia cochleata. Hort. Knight.

This very distinct species of ZyGorETALUM was sent to

the Glasgow Botanic Garden by Mr. Knieurt of the Ball’s

Pond Nursery, under the name of Evora cochleata.

It is probably a native of Brazil *. Its handsome flower is

produced in August.

Descr. —

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* Of Trinidad, according to Professor LINDLEY, who has published a

figure and description since the above was written.

Descr. Pseudo-bulb none in our specimens. The leaves

are from eight or ten inches to a foot long, and spring from

the root, they are broadly lanceolate, glossy, yellow green,

scarcely striated, waved, distichous, sheathing at the base.

From the axil of one of the outer leaves arises the scape,

scarcely of the length of one’s finger, erect, having two

membranous, sheathing bracteas on the top at the base of

the germen. Sepals and petals in one series, oblong, pale

greenish-white, spreading, combined at the base: the

petals rather smaller than the sepals, Lip very large, nearly

Square, set on by a small short claw, very broad and cordate

at the base, where it is ventricose, the sides involute and

crisped, the apex reflexed, two-lobed : at the base within

is a large, lunate, fleshy, depressed crest, lobed and cre-

nated, marked with purple lines as is the lower half of the

lip itself; but these lines soon combine, and form a large

purple blotch in the upper half of the lip. Column short,

semiterete, with two small wings above, white, the front

delicately streaked with red. Anther-case obliquely coni-

cal, obtuse.

Fig. 1. Column and upper part of the Lip : magnified.

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CoREOPSIS LONGIPES. LONG-STALKED

CorREopPsIs.

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Class and Order.

SyNGENESIA F'RUSTRANEA.

( Nat. Ord.—Composira. )

Generic Character.

(Composite, Senecionidee.) Capitulum multiflorum

heterogamum, fl. radii circ. 8 neutris ligulatis, disct her-

maphr. 5-dentatis. Inod. duplex utrumque circ. 8. phyllum

ima basi subcoadunatum, squamis ext. foliaceis angustio-

ribus subpatulis, int. latioribus submembranaceis. Recept.

pasa paleaceum, paleis persistentibus. Stylz rami apice

hispidi cono superati. Achenia obcompresso-plana, raro

incurva, margine plus minus alata, apice nunc bidentata,

nunc biaristata, aristis levibus aut sursum ciliato-serratis,

(nec retrorsum pilosis)—Herbe Americane, raro suffru-

tescentes, plerumque glabre. Folia opposita, rarius alterna.

Pedunculi 1-cephali solitarii aut corymbosi. Capituli dis-

cus luteus, radius concolor, raro albus. D C.

Specific Name and Character.

Corroprsis longipes ; debilis, foliis oppositis radicalibus spa-

thulatis, caulinis profunde pinnatifidis glabris | basi

utrinque ciliatis laciniis lineari-lanceolatis integris vel

iterum pinnatifidis, pedunculis elongatis, floribus uni-

coloribus, radii corollis apice 5-fidis.

Among the various species of Coreopsis sent by Mr.

Drummonp from North America is the present one, found

in Texas, which appears to me, both in the living and

dried state, to present characters by which it may be sepa-

rated from all others that have yet been described. In

general

general habit it comes nearest to C. tinctoria and Atkinso-

niana; and is, perhaps, as it were, intermediate between

them and C. verticillata, having broader and less divided

leaves than the former, and more flaccid foliage and stems,

and a very different inflorescence from the latter. It

appears to be annual or biennial, and flowers in the open

border in the autumn.

Descr. Stems erect, but weak and flexuose, succulent,

striated, glabrous, having many straggling and wavy

branches. Leaves opposite and connate at the base, very

variable : the lowermost ones entire, the rest more or less

pinnatifid or even bipinnatifid, with the segments from

three to five, rarely more, linear-lanceolate, flaccid, gla-

brous, generally curved, glabrous, strongly ciliated at the

base, which forms a kind of broad petiole ; and, when seen

under a lens, the rest of the margin exhibits minute hairs.

Peduncles very long, flexuose, naked, or rarely with an un-

divided leaf, single-flowered. Involucre glabrous ; outer of

about eight spreading, ovato-lanceolate, green, acute leaves,

diaphanous and ciliated at the margin: znner of about as

many erect, ovate, obtuse, membranaceous, yellow-brown

leaves. Florets all full yellow: those of the ray oblong-

obovate, with five deep, unequal teeth at the extremity :

their germen abortive, flat, but having a pappus of two

minute, plumose scales. Tubular or central floret yellow.

Fruit (immature) compressed, winged, crowned with small,

flat, ciliated awns or scales.

Fig. 1. Floret of the Ray. 2. Floret of the Disk.

( 3587 )

IMPATIENS SCAPIFLORA. STEMLEss BALSAM.

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Class and Order.

PentanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Batsaminea. )

Generic Character.

Anthere quinque, nempe 3 biloculares, 2 ante petalum

superius I-loculares. Stigmata 5 coalita. Capsula pris-

matico-teretiuscula, elongata ; valvis a basi ad apicem ex-

trorsum revolutis. Cotyledones planiuscule. Pedunculi

axillares, ramosi, multiflori. Capsule glabre.—Folia al-

terna. DC,

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Impatiens* scapiflora ; radice tuberosa, foliis radicalibus cor-

datis glanduloso-serratis, scapo apice racemoso, calyce

3-sepalo, sepalo inferiore longissime calcarato, petalo

superiore (seu anteriore) galeiformi, reliquis 4 per

paria connatis quorum lateralibus oblongo-falcatis, in-

terioribus (y. infimis) oblique cuneatis.

Impatiens scapiflora. Heyne, Wall in Fl. Ind. v. 2. p. 464.

Wall. Cat. n. 4758. Wight Cat. n. 446.

Impatiens bulbosa. “ Moon Cat. Ceyl. Pl. p. 18.”

MPATIENS acaulis. Arn. in Hook. Comp. to Bot. Mag. v. 1.

p. 325. (Exempl. in Herb. nostr.)

It has seldom been our good fortune to figure a more in-

teresting plant than the one here given ; or one that, at first

sight, would appear less to belong to the very natural Genus

of which it is, in my opinion, undoubtedly a member, Impa-

lens.

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* So called on account of the elastic nature of the valves of the capsule,

which throw out the seeds with considerable force.

tens. The Glasgow Botanic Garden is indebted for the

tubers to Witi1am Nimmo, Esq., who sent them in 1835 from

Bombay, and they flowered beautifully in the stove in

August, 1836. The plant would appear, however, not to be

peculiar to the western coast of the Peninsular of India. It

is, I think, certainly the I. scapiflora of Heyne and Watucu,

and, consequently of Wieur and Arnorr: but the station

of the plant does not seem to be known to those authors.

Small specimens in our Herbarium were gathered by Mr.

Macras at Kandy, Ceylon, and larger ones were sent to us

from the same country by Mrs. Col. Waxxzr. These are

probably the I. bulbosa of Moon’s Catalogue, and certainly

the I. acaulis of Mr. Arnorr in the paper above quoted.

There can, indeed, be no question about the identity of

these: indeed the smaller Kandyan specimens are consid-

ie by Mr. Arnorr himself to be the same with Hryne’s

plant.

Descr. Root consisting of small tubers, like those of

many Breonim, a Genus of plants to which the present bears

no inconsiderable resemblance in its leaves and inflores-

cence, and especially in its succulent habit. Leaves all aris-

ing from the root, roundish, cordate, glabrous, many-nerved,

serrated, the teeth almost intramarginal, pointing upwards,

tipped with a gland: the length of the leaf is about equal

with that of the rounded petiole. Scape a span to eight or

ten inches high, rounded, succulent, terminated by a ra-

ceme of six to ten large, handsome, one-sided flowers.

Bracteas solitary, ovato-cordate, concave, fleshy. Pedicels

quite straight, patent, an inch and a half to two inches long.

Sepals three : two lateral ones resembling the bracteas, but

rather less fleshy, pale reddish-green : lower one white,

ovate, concave, lengthened at its base into a slender spur,

curved, between three to four inches in length. Upper

petal white, helmet-shaped, covering the organs of fructifi-

cation, the other four delicate purple-rose colour, spreading,

all on the same plane, combined at the base into two pairs:

of these four, the two lateral ones are oblong, singularly

recurved like a sickle ; the two inner ones longer, straight,

obliquely cuneate. Stamens five, white, combined by the

anthers and upper part of the filaments. | Filaments dilated

upwards. Anthers ovate, forming an obtuse cone above

the pistil, opening internally by two longitudinal cells.

Pollen white. Germen oval, with five furrows : Style short,

conical, with three acute stigmas.

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, Eig. 1. Calyx, lower Petal, Stamens, and Pistil. 2. Stamens and Pistil.

3, Pistil: magnified.

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Class and Order.

HexanpriaA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—AspnopEtex. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium subcampanulatum, cum pedicello contin-

uum, 6-partitum. Stamina 6, omnia fertilia, fauce exserta,

verticillata, quorum 3 breviora ; filamenta petaloidea, bi-

loba, antheris inter lobos sessilibus. Squame hypogyne o.

Ovarium stipitatum, 3-angulare, 3-loculare, polyspermum.

Stylus simplex. Stigma trilobum. Capsula membranacea,

triptera—Herba Allii facie. Lindl.

Specific Name and Synonym.

Catuprora * lutea. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1590.

An exceedingly pretty bulbous Genus, discovered in

Northern California by the late Mr. Dovetas, and first dis-

tinguished as such by Professor Linptey in the work just

quoted, by the name of Catuirrora. That author reckons

ita hardy plant, as it flourished well in an open, but shaded

peat border in the garden of the Horticultural Society at

Chiswick ; but with us in Scotland, it is yet too rare and

valuable a plant to run any risks by exposing it to the in-

clement summer of our climate, and it is kept in a pot in the

frame, where it expands its exceedingly pretty flowers in

July. It differs, asa Genus, from Broprza and Trirecesa,

and Leucocoryne (all from the same country) not only in

the different structure of the stamens, as marked by Dr.

INDLEY ; but also in the yellow colour of the flowers.

Descr.

* xadrrmpopa, pretty face, in allusion to its beauty.

Descr. Root, a small, pale-coloured, roundish bulb,

scarcely so large as a Hasel-nut. Leaves, solitary in the

wild specimens, generally two in the cultivated ones ; linear-

lanceolate, striated, grooved, attenuated at both extremi-

ties, ten to twelve inches long. Scape much shorter than the

leaves, rounded, bearing an umbel of six to eight bright

yellow flowers on slender stalks. Bracteas four to five,

membranous, forming an imperfect involucre. Perianth of

six leaves, spreading above, united below by the filaments

of the stamens, deep yellow within, paler and with a brown

streak on the outside, below greenish. Filaments six, large,

"Sere deeply bifid, alternately smaller: Anther oblong,

xed between the segments of the filament. Germen oval-

triangular, stipitate: Style nearly as long as the germen:

Stigma glandular, of three deflexed lobes.

Fig. 1. Base of the Perianth, showing the Stamens. 2. Two of the Sta-

mens. 3. Pistil :—magnified.

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EUCHARIDIUM CONCINNUM. PrertTy

EucHARIDIUM.

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Class and Order.

TrerranpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—OnaGrarizz. )

Generic Character.

_Eucharidium, Fischer et Meyer.—Calycis tubus supra ova-

rium elongatum, filiformis, cum limbo 4-partito deciduus.

Petala 4, unguiculata (trifida). Stamina 4! Stigma bilo-

bum. Capsula 4-valvis, dehiscens. Semina numerosa, in

quovis loculo uniserialia, sursum imbricata, erecta, alato-

marginata. F. et M.

Specific Name and Synonym.

Eucuaripium * concinnum.

Evucuaripium concinnum. Fisch. et Mey. Ind. Secundus,

Sem. Hort. Petrop. p. 37.

A very remarkable and pretty little annual, allied to

Epitosium and Crarxia; and well distinguished from both

by Drs. Fiscuer and Meyer in the work above quoted,

Where many rare Californian plants are first described.

The present plant inhabits Ross, in New California. Seeds

were kindly sent by Dr. Fiscuer to the Glasgow Botanic :

Garden, where the plants produced their lively blossoms in

the open border during the months of August and Sep-

tember.

Descr. Root small, annual. Stem nearly simple, erect,

rounded, glabrous, red. Leaves below opposite, and soon

deciduous,

* Probably from «, bene, and aeapss, gaudium, from the lively appearance

of the flowers,

deciduous, the rest alternate, all of them oblong-ovate,

entire, shortly petiolate, glabrous ; flowers sessile, from the |

axils of the upper leaves, and forming a sort of leafy corymb.

Calyx with the upper part of the tube slender and crowning

the germen ; the limb four-cleft, the segments linear-lance-

olate, often cohering by the apex, sometimes free and then

reflexed, red. Petals four, unequally placed, cuneate,

trifid, rose-coloured, with pale veins and deeper spots.

Stamens four, erect : Filaments didynamous : Anthers ovate,

slightly hairy, recurved at the point: Style rather longer

than the stamens. Stigma two-lobed, white, fleshy, and

velvety.

Fig. 1. Upper part of the Calyx, Stamens, and Style. 2. Petal. 3.

Stamen: magnified,

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CATASETUM LURIDUM. LwuRIp CATASETUM.

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Class and Order.

GynanpriA MonanpriA.

( Nat. Ord.—OrcuivEz. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium sepius globosum, nunc explanatum. Se-

pala et petala subequalia. Labellum crassum, carnosum,

nudum, ventricosum v. explanatum, fimbriatum ; sub apice

saccatum obsolete trilobum. Colwmna erecta, aptera, li-

bera, apice utrinque cirrhosa. Anthera subbilocularis, an-

tice truncata. Pollinia 2, postice biloba v. sulcata, caudi-

cula maxima nuda demum elastice contractili, glandula

cartilaginea subquadrata.—Herbe terrestres v. epiphyte,

caulibus brevibus fusiformibus vestigiis foliorum vestitis.

Folia basi vaginantia, plicata. Scapi radicales. Flores

speciosi, racemosi, virides, nunc purpureo-maculati. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Cataserum luridum; pseudobulbis oblongis compressis,

foliis lato-lanceolatis, racemo brevi nutante, perianthio

subgloboso, petalis sepalisque subrotundo -ellipticis

arcte imbricatis, labello magno carnoso cucullato apice

producto truncato subreflexo.

Caraserum luridum, Lind. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 156.

Bot. Reg. t. 1667. :

Aneutoa lurida. “ Link in Verhandl. des Vereis, &e. 1.

p. 289. t. 6.”

The form of the flowers of this very distinct species of

Carasetum is no less remarkable than their powerful fra-

stance: a single raceme of flowers diffusing its odour

throughout the whole of a large apartment, and which is

too powerful if we smell closely at the blossoms fheomaiee

It seems to have been first cultivated in Prussia, and isa

native of Brazil. Our plant flowered in the stove of the

Glasgow Botanic Garden in J uly, 1836.

Descr. Pseudo-bulb oblong, striated, somewhat com-

pressed : sheathed below with large scales, above by the

bases of five to six rather large, lanceolate leaves, which

are a foot or more long and striated. Scape a foot high,

arising from the base of a pseudo-bulb, and bearing; in our

specimen, a short raceme of five, large, drooping, subglo-

bose flowers. Sepals and petals nearly equal, roundish,

oval, very concave, pale greenish, obscurely spotted,

closely imbricated above and at the sides of the lip. Lip

very large, singularly thick and fleshy, remarkably cucul-

late at the base, the mouth expanding and ending in a de-

flexed, truncated, or slightly two-lobed apex, the outside is ~

pale dull green, faintly striated, within deeply tinged with

yellow, striated with green, the sides elegantly dotted with

rich brown. Column completely enclosed in the cucullate

base of the lip, green, semicylindrical, with two purplish

set, which rest on the inside of the lip. Anther depressed,

acuminated, as is the top of the column.

Fig. 1. Section of the Lip, including the Column. 2, Pollen-masses:

magnified.

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BEGONIA PLATANIFOLIA. PLANE-LEAVED

BEGONIA.

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Class and Order.

MonaeciA PoLyANDRIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Bzeon1ace2. )

Generic Character.

_ Masc. Cal. 0. Cor. polypetala, petalis plerumque 4,

inequalibus.

_Fam. Cal. o. Cor. petalis 4—9, plerumque inequa-

libus. Styli tres, bifidi. Caps. triquetra, alata, trilocularis,

polysperma,

Specific Character and Synonym.

Beeonta platanifolia ; fruticosa ; foliis subequaliter remi-

formibus lobatis serrulato-denticulatis utrinque his-

pidis subtus purpurascentibus, lobis acutis, stipulis

ovatis acutis rigidis demum marcescentibus.

Brecon platanifolia. Schott.—Spreng. Syst. Veget. cur.

post. 407.

* We received this large and handsome species at Edin-

burgh from Berlin in 1834, but the plants did not grow

vigorously, nor flower, till this year, when our increased

accommodation at the Botanic Garden enabled us to give

them greater stove heat. 5

Descr. Stem erect, robust, of rapid growth, (in our

specimens from two and a half to five and a half feet high,)

round, joints slightly swollen and marked with a ring, from

whence the stipules fell, slightly spotted, glabrous, showing

little disposition to develop branches unless the top be

injured. Leaves (eight to ten inches across their —

diameter) alternate, petiolate, reniform, nearly equ gtr

VOL. XI. I

base, lobed, hispid on both sides, dark green above, paler

and becoming purplish below, especially on the ribs, which

are strong and prominent ; lobes acute, contorted, serrulato-

denticulate, and in the interstices between the teeth crenu-

late and ciliated ; petioles (two to three inches long) nearly

round, slightly flattened above, erect ; stipules opposite,

intrafoliaceous, ovate, acute, involute, herbaceous, rigid,

marcescent. Cymes axillary, on peduncles as long as the

petioles, dichotomous, always bearing a flower in the cleft,

fully developed only after the leaf, from the axil of which it

springs, drops off; branches slightly hairy, spreading like a

fan. Male flowers (there are no others on the only two

specimens which have yet flowered with us) tetrapetalous,

nearly white, very large (two inches across); petals very

unequal, the larger rotundato-ovate, the smaller spathulato-

linear. Stamens numerous, connected only at the base:

Jilament slender : connective thick, and clavate: anther-cells

small, on the outside of the connective, and towards its

edges.” Graham.

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CLARKIA ELEGANS. CALIFORNIAN CLARKIA.

KEK KK KEKE EERE EEE EEE EEE

Class and Order.

OctranpRIA MonocGynis.

( Nat. Ord.—Onagcrariz. )

Generic Character.

Cal. superus 4-partitus reflexus, sepe laciniis coherenti-

bus. Pet. 4, unguiculata, estivatione convoluta. Stam.

alterna sterilia, antheris demum reflexis. Stigma 4-lobum,

petaloideum. Capsula cylindracea, sulcata, 4-locularis, 4-

valvis. Semina adscendentia nuda.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Crarkta elegans ; foliis ovatis dentatis integrisque, caule

glauco racemoso, petalis rhomboideis indivisis, stig-

mate pubescente, ovario piloso. Lindl.

Crarxia elegans. “ Dougl. in litt.” Lindl. Bot. Reg. t.

1575.

This is a third species of the Genus Crargia which Mr.

Dovetas has detected on the Pacific side of North America:

two of them he found in the Hudson’s Bay Company's

territories ; while the present is a native of California, and

scarcely less worthy of a place in our flower borders, (where

it is perfectly hardy,) than the well-known Cxarkra pul-

chella, which Mr. Dovexas was also the means of introduc-

ing to our collections through the Horticultural Society.

It blossoms through the summer and autumn.

Descr. Stem erect, two to three feet high, with numer-

ous erect, twiggy, rounded, and quite glabrous, reddish

branches. Leaves ovate, on short petioles, glabrous, acute,

more or less distinctly toothed, the upper ones gradually

narrower and smaller, and taking the place of bracteas: so

that the branches, for a great part of their length, are lou

eafy,

leafy, distantly flowering spikes. Bud pendent : the flower

stands out horizontally and is quite sessile. Calyx hairy,

of four superior segments, which, however, as in G2NoTHERA,

split open for the whole length only on one side, the apices

still continuing united, and the base forming a cup-shaped

tube above the germen. Petals four, equal, spreading,

somewhat rhomboidal, with a distinct claw, of a deep rose

colour. Stamens eight, four longer and fertile: four ste-

rile. Anther linear-oblong, red, fixed by the base. Style

ascending, white: Stigma of four spreading lobes. Capsule

immature, cylindrical, hispid, marked with eight furrows.

Fig. 1. Portion of the Calyx, with two Stamens (a fertile and a sterile

one,) and the base of a Petal. 2. Immature Capsule: magnified.

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DELPHINIUM VIMINEUM. SLENDER UPRIGHT

LARKSPUR.

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Class and Order.

“PoLyAnprRiA TRIGYNIA.

( Nat. Ord.—RanuncuLacez. )

Generic Character.

Calyx deciduus petaloideus irregularis, sepalo nempe su-

periore in calcar deorsum producto. Petala 4; 2 superiora

basi in appendicibus intra calcar contentis producta. D C.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

DeLpuinium vimineum; pubescens, petiolis simplicibus,

foliis planis tripartitis, segmentis cuneatis obtusis mu-

cronulatis trilobis ; summis linearibus indivisis tripar-

titisve, racemo laxo velutino, petalorum inferiorum

limbo bifido, calcare recto calycis longitudine, ovariis

sericeis. Don.

Detpuinium vimineum. Don, in Sw. Brit. Fl. Gard. t. 374.

Raised from seeds sent to the Glasgow Botanic Garden

from Velasco, in Texas, by the late Mr. Drummonp. The

same plant has been figured by Mr. Don, with the lower

leaves smaller and broader: and I follow that Botanist in

making it a new species ; at the same time, I am far from

certain that it is not a state of D. azwreum, also found in

Texas by Mr. Drummonp,) with less divided leaves than

usual. It is a handsome hardy perennial, flowering in July

and August.

Descr. Stem slightly branched, two to three feet high,

downy. Leaves all petiolate, tripartite, the segments linear-

cuneate, entire or deeply and unequally bifid, upper oe

. e

the narrowest. Racemes lax, elongated, of several mode-

rately-sized, bright azure flowers. Rachis and _ pedicels

downy. Sepals oblong, acute, waved : Spur equal to them

in length. Upper petals resembling the carina of a papili-

onaceous flower ; its claw tubular: lower petals with the

limb spreading, purple, bifid, bearded with a yellow tuft of

hairs. Stamens numerous.

Fig.1. Flower, with the three lower Sepals removed, nat. size. 2. Lower

Petal. 3. Upper Petals: magnified.

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Lycunis BunGEANA. Dr. Bunee’s SCARLET

CAMPION.

Class and Order.

Decanpria PENTAGYNIA.

( Nat. Ord.—CaryorHv.1es. )

Generic Character.

Calyx tubulosus, 5-dentatus, nudus. Petala 5, unguicu-

lata, fauce sepius coronata. Stamina 10. Stylib. Cap-

sula 1—}-locularis, anthophoro longo vel nullo. D €.

Specific Name and Character.

Lycunis Bungeana; caule pubescenti, foliis ovato-lanceo-

latis ciliatis sessilibus, floribus axillaribus terminali-

busque solitariis, calycibus pilosis profunde 10-an-

gulatis, petalis (coccineis) obsolete coronatis angusto-

cuneatis apice profunde inciso-multifidis.

Lycunis Bungeana. Fisch. et Mey. Hort. Petrop.

I regret that the history of this most beautiful plant is

unknown to me, further than that it was received at the

Glasgow Botanic Garden, (where it flowered in a warm

open border in September, 1835,) from Mr. Boortu of Ham-

burgh, under the name here adopted, and evidently intend-

ed to commemorate the services, rendered to Science and

Botany in particular, of Dr. ALEXANDER Bunce, who not

only accompanied Professor Leprsour in his celebrated

travels in the Altai, but was attached to the Russian mission

which went to Pekin, during which he collected many

plants in the north of China. From the circumstance of

that species of Lycunis, which is perhaps the most nearly —

allied to it, (L. grandiflora, Jaca. L. coronata, Tuuns., and —

Curr. Bot. Mag. t. 233,) being a native of China and Japan,

I had hoped to have found some account of the present

among

among the plants that have been described of those two

countries : but none appears, and I am therefore ignorant

both of the region of which it is a native, and of the name

of the Botanist to whom we are indebted for its discovery *.

Descr. Appearance and mode of growth extremely simi-

lar to that of L. grandiflora ; but the stem is downy, and

the leaves, though similar in form, are decidedly ciliated at

the margin and on the nerve at the back. The flowers

aad in a similar manner ; but here the calyx is hairy and

eeply sulcated, presenting ten sharp angles. The most

striking difference, however, resides in the petals, which

instead of being of a dull orange red, very broad and

closely placed, and only fimbriated at the extremity, are of

a bright crimson, distantly placed, narrow-cuneate, and

deeply laciniated, so as to be irregularly multifid at the

extremity,

* Since the above was written, Dr. von FiscHeERr informs me, that it was

ue by Dr. Bunaz in a garden at Pekin: but its native country was not

own.

Fig. 1. Calyx. 2. Petal :—nat. size.

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EPIDENDRUM CoRIACEUM. CoRIACEOUS-

LEAVED EPIDENDRUM.

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Class and Order.

GyYNANDRIA MonanprRIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Orcuwes. )

Generic Character.

Sepala patentia, subequalia. Petala sepalis equalia, v.

angustiora, rarius latiora, patentia v. reflexa. bellum

cum marginibus column omnino v. parte connatum, limbo

integro v. diviso, disco sepius calloso, costato, v. tubercu-

lato ; nunc in calcar productum ovario accretum et cunicu-

lum formans. Columna elongata: clinandrio marginato,

sepe fimbriato. Anthera carnosa, 2—4-locularis. Pollinia

4, caudiculis totidem replicatis annexa.—Herbe (Ameri-

cane) epiphyte, caule nunc apice v. basi pseudo-bulboso,

nunc elongato apice folioso. Folia carnosa, rarissime vens

elevatis striata. Flores spicati, racemosi corymbosi, v. pa-

niculati, terminales v. laterales. Lindl.

Specific Name and Character.

Erienprum coriaceum ; pseudo-bulbis oblongo-lanceolatis

compressis, foliis subbinis coriaceis acutis oblongo-

lanceolatis, perianthii foliolis obovato-oblongis, petalis

sepalis duplo angustioribus, labelli limbo rotundato-

reflexo. Parker MSS.

This plant was sent from Demerara some years ago by

Cuarces Parker, Esq., to the Liverpool Botanic Garden,

where Mr. Henry Suepuerp considered it a variety of E.

variegatum (Bot. Mag. t. 3151.), and, I must confess, I was

myself at first disposed to look upon it in the same light :

but Mr. Parker has, I think, clearly shown, that it isa

distinct

distinct species. “‘ The leaves,’ Mr. Parker observes, “ are

invariably more coriaceous, more lanceolate, shorter, less

striated, and acute, only one or two, the segments of the

sepals more unequal (to say nothing of the difference in the

spotting).”’ It will, indeed, undoubtedly rank next to E.

variegatum. |

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Column and Lip :—magnified.

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Haprantuaus ANpDERSONI, var. «, Texanus.

ANDERSON’S HaBRANTHUS, Texas var.

Class and Order.

HexanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—AmaArRyYLLIDEZ. )

Generic Character.

Germen medio constrictum ; tubus equales. Filamenta

declinata, fasciculata, recurvata, quaterna longitudine. Sty-

lus declinatus, recurvatus. Semzna cumulata, complanata

nigra.—F los sub sole patentior. Herb.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Haprantuus* Andersoni; bulbo parvo obovato, foliis an-

gustis 5—6-uncialibus, scapo unifloro subrubescente,

3—4-unciali. Spatha unciali apice diviso, pedunculo

1i unciali, germine subrubescente, corolla 13-unciali

aurea y. cuprea striis externis et fundo subfusco-rubes-

cente, tubo 4-unciali membrana intus clauso, laciniis

externis imbricantibus, filamentis internis longioribus ;

summo brevissimo stylo longiore. Herd.

Hasrantuus Andersoni. Herb. in Bot. Reg. t. 1345, Herb.

Amaryllid. p. 167. ee

(y.) Texanus ; perianthii laciniis rotundate obtusioribus.

Herb.

Of this pretty Hasrantuus, four varieties are noticed by

Mr. Herserr in the Bot. Reg., all, apparently, from Monte

Video. The plant must have an extended range. I pos-

sess specimens from Buenos Ayres gathered by —

* From afpos, delicate, and avbos, a flower.

from Araucania, S. Chili, by Mr. Reynotps ; and Mr.

Drummonp sent the species from Texas (third Collection,

n. 410, of the dried specimens) which Mr. Hergerr has

pronounced to be the same, differing slightly in the shape

of the segments of the floral covering.

Bulbs sent home by Mr. Drummonp have flowered both

in Mr. Hergerr’s garden and in that of Glasgow ; and from

the latter collection, the drawings here given were made.

The leaves did not appear on our flowering specimens.

Fig. 1. Inner view of an inner segment of the Perianth. 2. Stamens and

Pistil. 3. Section of the Ovary.—Magnified.

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COLOURED BIFRENARIA.

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Class and Order.

GynanpriA MonanpriA.

( Nat. Ord.—Orcuipez. )

Generic Character.

Sepala patula, libera, subeequalia ; lateralia cum basi pro-

ducta columne adnata, vix basi obliqua. Petala sepalis

duplo minora. Labellum cum pede mucronato columne

articulatum, cucullatum, trilobum, medio callosum. Co-

lumna brevis, semiteres, mutica. Anthera mutica, subcris-

tata. Pollinia 4, per paria incumbentia, caudiculis duabus

distinctis materiei_ viscide rostelli adherentibus, glandula

(oblonga).—Epiphyta, pseudo-bulbosa, Maxillaria (Cola-

cs) habitu. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Birrenarta * aurantiaca ; pseudo-bulbis subrotundis com-

pressis diphyllis, foliis oblongis plicatis racemi erecti

longitudine, petalis erectis, labelli lobis lateralibus

semicordatis intermedio transverso ovali subundulato

basi bicalloso, columna pubescente. Land.

BirrenariA aurantiaca. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1875.

From the stove of the Glasgow Botanic Garden, having

been received by Mr. Murray from Demerara, where the

plant is a native.

Descr. Pseudo-bulbs broadly ovate, compressed, spotted,

bearing a single leaf at the extremity, which is oval-oblong,

striated,

* “ So named in allusion to the double strap or frenum that connects the

pollen-masses with their glands.”

striated, acute, waved, spotted with purple beneath, taper-

ing below into a short footstalk. Scape from the base of

the bulb, a span high, bearing a raceme of deep yellow

flowers, spotted with orange. Sepals and petals nearly

equal, oblong, spreading, waved. Lip clawed, articulated

upon the produced base of the column; limb three-lobed,

with a callous excrescence at the base, two side lobes

oblong, deflexed ; intermediate one much larger, bifid.

Column semicylindrical. Anther helmet-shaped, bidentate

at the back. Pollen-masses two, two-lobed, stalked: the

stalks adhering to one common gland.

Fig. 1. Side view of a Flower. 2. Column. 3. Anther-case. 4, 9.

Pollen-masses. 6. Lip:—magnified.

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Cereus ACKERMANNI. ACKERMANN’S

Mexican CEREUS.

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Class and Order.

IcosanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Cacrex. )

Generic Character.

Sepala numerosissima imbricata basi ovario adnata, in

tubum elongatum concreta, exteriora breviora calycinalia,

media longiora colorata, intima petaliformia. Stam.nume- _

rosissima cum tubo concreta. Stylus filiformis apice multi-

fidus. Bacca sepalorum reliquiis areolata tuberculosa aut

squamata. Cotyledones nulla ?—Frutices carnosi elongatt

axi ligneo interne medullifero donat, angulis verticalibus

spinarum fasciculos gerentibus regulariter sulcatt. Anguli

seu ale nunc plurime, nunc paucissime, Trarws duce tantum

et tunc rami compresso-alati. Flores ampli e spinarum fas-

ciculis aut crenis angulorum orti.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Cereus (Phyllanthus) Ackermannt ; ramis compressissimo-

alatis foliiformibus, sinuato-lobatis, floribus maxims

coccineis ad crenas ramorum sessilibus, tubo petalis

acutissimis ter breviore, antheris stigmatibusque rosels.

Cereus Ackermanni. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1331. :

Cereus oxypetalus? De Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p. 470. Ejusd.

Rev, de la fam. des Cact. p. 60. t. 14.

Mr. Murray received this truly splendid plant from Mr.

Hircuin, with the remark, that it was raised from seeds

which came direct from Mexico : thus confirming the state-

ment of Mr. Tare, with regard to its native country (as

given in the Bot. Register) which had been called in ques-

tion. An opinion seemed to prevail, that it was a se ling

hybrid :

VOL. XI. K

hybrid: and, indeed, it is an extraordinary circumstance,

that a phyllanthoid Cactus should bear flowers as large,

and almost exactly like those of Cerrus spectosissimus. 1

have referred to the present species, though, certainly, not

without hesitation, the Cereus oxypetalus of De CanpoLiEe

above quoted, and those who will be at the trouble of

comparing the two will find many striking points of resem-

blance ; added to which they are both from the same country,

Almost the only difference is in the flowers of C. oxypetalus

being less spreading, “ reddish-brown on the outside, and

white within.” But when we consider that Professor Dz

Canpo.te’s knowledge of the plant is solely derived from a

Mexican drawing, we may be allowed to suppose that there

probably exists some variation in the plant itself, or that the

artist was not a faithful colourist. ‘The sharpness of the

petals, especially in the state of the bud, is very remark-

oe in both. With us it bears its magnificent flowers in

une.

Descr. Stems a foot and a half high, rounded at the

base, and marked with little downy prominences, bearing

a few short bristles; the branches singularly dilated and

flattened, so as to be two inches to two inches and a half

broad, and leaf-like, sinuato-lobed at the margin, desti-

tute of prickles as of fascicles of hairs: in the centre

is a costa projecting on both sides, and some oblique and

broad lateral nerves. From a sinus of these branches, and

generally from near the extremity, the flower-bud arises,

which in a few days enlarges into the splendid blossom

here represented. The tube is about two inches long,

green, tinged with brown, bearing a few ovate, lax, mem-

branous scales, soon passing into petals, of which the greater

number are about four inches long, oblong, very acute,

slightly waved, of a rich scarlet colour aud satiny lustre.

Stamens numerous, declined, shorter than the petals : Fila-

ments slender, greenish white at the base, the rest scarlet:

Anther and pollen rose-colour. Style longer than the sta-

mens : Stigma of seven linear, spreading rays.

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BLUMENBACHIA MULTIFIDA. MOULTIFID-

LEAVED BLUMENBACHIA.

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Class and Order.

PoLyADELPHIA PoLYANDRIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Loasez. )

Generic Character.

Calycis tubus spiraliter striatus ovario adherens, lim-

bus 5-partitus, marcescens. Pet. 5, compresso-cucullata,

Squame 5 petalis alterne, singule filamenta 2 sterilia

includentes. Stam. oo, in fasciculos 5 petalos oppositos

disposita. Stylus 1, obtusus. Fructus fungosus in partes

10 basi spirales dehiscens, 5 alterne tenuiores (dissepi-

menta), 5 crassiores (valve). Semina plure parieti dis-

sepimentorum versus axim adfixa, epidermida indusiata ru-

gosa.—Herbe rarmose scandentes piloso-prurientes, habitu

et inflorescentia Loasex, sed fructus structura distincte.

Pedunculi axillares, uniflori, bracteati. Flores albi. DC.

Specific Name and Character.

Biumensacura multifida ; foliis palmatis lobis bipinnati-

fidis, floribus bibracteatis, petalis hispidis.

This new Biumensacuta was first detected by the late

Dr. Gituirs at Buenos Ayres, and I noticed his specimens,

preserved in my Herbarium under the description of Bt.

wmsignis, at t. 2865 of this work. Since that discovery

Mr. Tweepie has gathered the same plant in the Pampas

of Buenos Ayres, and seeds from him have been raised in

the Glasgow Botanic Garden. The plants flourish ex-

tremely well in the open border, and preserve all the

characters of my native dried ones, so that I can have little

hesitation in considering the species perfectly distinet —

Bu. insignis. It is the much stronger growing plant of the

two, more compact, more hispid with strings: the leaves

are much larger, five-partite in a palmated manner, the

middle lobe the longest, but all of them bipinnatifid and

wrinkled upon the surface. The peduncles are longer,

the bracteas constantly two at the base of each germen,

the petals are hispid; in other respects the two plants are

so closely allied that it is needless to repeat the description

already given at our tab. 2865.

BLuMENBACHIA insignis may be thus characterized: gracilis, foliis

quinquelobo-palmatis lobis inciso-pinnatifidis, floribus unibracteatis,

petalis pubescentibus.

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LopBeELIA.

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Class and Order.

PentanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—CAMPANULACE. )

Generic Character.

Cor. tubo hinc fisso (raro integro); limbo 5-partito.

Anthere connate. Stigma bilobum (nunc indivisum). Cap-

sula bilocularis (raro 3-loc.) apice supero bivalvi.—Herbe

vel suffrutices, plereque lactescentes. Folia alterna, integra

». laciniata, raro fistulosa. Flores racemosi, terminales v.

axillares, solitarii, pedicellis bibracteatis v. nudis. Anthere

sepius barbate. Br.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Lozeuta Cavanillesii ; erecta herbacea glabra, foliis sparsis

lanceolato-acuminatis serrulatis sessilibus, pedunculis

axillaribus unifloris gracilibus folio subbrevioribus,

corolla calycis basi obtusa laciniis erectis tuabulosa su-

perne fissa bilabiata, laciniis 2 superioribus liberis in-

ferioribus 3 coadunatis, antheris hirsutissimis.

- a Cavanillesii. Ram. et Sch. Syst. Veget. ». 5. p. 43.

Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 713.

Losewia eroleifolig: OB: Ic. v. 6. p. 12. #. 518 (non

Lam.).

A very graceful and desirable stove plant, a native of

New Spain, according to CavANILLEs, near Acambaro, “ fre-

quently growing with Martini annua and BartraMIA, and

more abundantly with Heriantaus giganteus, multiflorus,

tuberosus, and angustifolius, which occupy so large a space

in the borders of fields, that the corn growing ag

them is sometimes wholly concealed from the view of the

travellers.” We are indebted for the plant in the Glasgow

Botanic Garden to Professor Leumann of Hamburgh. - Its

flowering season is August and September. Its nearest

affinity is with L. Kraussii, Grah. in Bot. Mag. t. 3012,

from which the calyx, corolla, and stamens are consider-

ably different.

Descr. In our plant the stem is nearly three feet high,

erect, scarcely branched, rounded, dark purple, clothed

with scattered leaves, spreading in all directions and nearly

horizontally, four to six inches long, sessile, lanceolate,

glabrous, acuminated, acutely serrated for their whole

length. Peduneles solitary, axillary, slender, single-flow-

ered, generally shorter than the leaves, curved gracefully

downwards, but bearing the flower horizontally. Calyx

with a short wrinkled tube, very obtuse at the base; seg-

ments broadly lanceolate, erect, about as long as the tube,

glabrous as well as the corolla, which is nearly two inches

long, orange-red, tubular, but slit longitudinally above for

the whole length, (in which slit the staminal tube is

lodged,) two-lipped: upper lip of two linear, reflexed seg-

ments ; lower lip of three narrow segments, which are

combined and only three-toothed at the apex. Stamens

united for their whole length into a long red tube : Anthers

combined, very hairy : Stigma two-lobed.

Fig. 1. Flower: nat. size.

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Diney Monk-F.tower: Green-flowered var.

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Class and Order.

GyNANDRIA MonanprliA.

( Nat. Ord.—OrcuipeEx. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium explanatum. Sepala et petala zqualia, de-

orsum versa. Labellum posticum, carnosum, indivisum,

ventricosum, sepalis multo majus. Columna brevis, crassa,

mutica. Anthera et pollinia Cataseti—Epiphyte Cataseti

habitu. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Monacuantuus* discolor; racemo laxo multifloro, labello

hemispherico marginibus planis medio fimbriatis.

Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1735.

(8.) viridiflora ; floribus viridibus. (Tab. Nostr. 3601.) _

(y.) Bushnani ; floribus viridi-fulvis, labello minus fimbri-

ato. (Tab. Nostr. 3601. fig. A.)

Like so many of the epiphytal Orchidee the present

Species is probably liable to considerable variation. Three

plants of it, received at different times from Demerara,

where it is a native, have all proved different in colour and

Somewhat in the shape of the flowers. i:-. The original

M. discolor of Dr. Linptey, with the lip and sepals dingy

Steen, the petals purple. 2. The plant here figured, re-

ceived at the Glasgow Botanic Garden, amongst a splendid

Set of other Epipnyres, by favour of _— INVERARITY, pg

this

* From Movaé, a monk, and asbos, a flower, so called from the cowl-like

labellum of the original species.

this has the whole flower of nearly the same uniform pale

green ;—and 3, A noble raceme sent to us by C. Par-

KER, Esq. of Liverpool, imported from Demerara also : this

approaches nearer in colour to Dr. Linpxey’s plant, but the

colour is much more inclining to yellow or buff, and the

margin of the lip is less distinct and less fimbriated. All

are eminently singular and deserving of cultivation. Our

8. and y. flowered in August, 1836. The following de-

scription applies to the second of these varieties.

Descr. Pseudo-bulb five or six inches long in the old

state when destitute of leaves. In the flowering state of

the plant it is scarcely more than two to three inches long,

sheathed by the broad bases of the leaves, of which the

outer ones are short, the rest a foot or more in length, lance-

olate, striated, plicate, dark green above, paler and some-

what glaucous beneath. Scape a foot and a half long,

arising from the base of the young pseudo-bulb, pale

green, bearing a lax raceme of seven to nine flowers, of

a yellowish-green colour, nearly destitute of fragrance.

Sepals lanceolate, closely reflexed. Petals straight, having

the direction of the column, oblong, their margins revo-

lute. Inp large, fleshy, ventricose, yellow and downy

within, the sides much reflexed and beautifully fringed,

somewhat three-lobed at the apex, the middle lobe not

longer than the side ones, very obscurely toothed. Co-

lumn short, standing forward, quite exposed, the sides

above thickened and produced, thus forming on each side

a sort of tooth, directed downwards (corresponding with

the sete in Caraserum) under the singularly projecting

margin at the base of the stigma. Anther hemispherical.

Pollen-masses two, as in Caraserum, furrowed at the back,

fixed to a large, broad, and highly elastic membrane,

which, on separating from the column, has its sides singu-

larly reflexed; this membrane, indeed, often springs UP

from the column before the falling of the lid, and soon

turns black, giving the appearance of a black beak to the

base of the anther, as seen in the lower flower of our

figure.

Fig. 1. Front view of the Column. 2. Pollen-masses: magnified. A.

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GESNERIA.

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Class and Order.

DipynamMiA ANGIOSPERMIA.

( Nat. Ord.—GesNzRIAcEz. )

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-partitus (plerumque germini adnatus). Cor. tu-

buloso-campanulata, limbo bilabiato ; labio superiore bi-

inferiore trifido. Stigma bilobum. Capsula_bilocularis,

2-valvis, placentis parietalibus.

Specific Character and Synonym.

GrsnerrA Lindleyi; elata, pubescenti-hirsuta subscabra,

foliis petiolatis oppositis ovato-oblongis rugosis cre-

natis, verticillis sursum aphyllis in racemum elonga-

tum compositis, corolla limbo obliquo lobo superiore

majori, glandulis hypogynis 5.

Gesneria rutila: var. atrosanguinea. Lindl. Bot. Reg.

t. 1279.

This is a yery striking plant, handsome in its foliage

and in its flowers, which latter, though each is but of few

days’ duration, are succeeded by others in the same whorl

for a considerable length of time. Professor LinDLEY was

of opinion that it is merely a variety of his GESNERIA rutila,

(Bot. Reg. t. 1158.) ; but a comparison of his two figures

will, as it appears to me, show them to be different. The

original G. rutila has axillary solitary flowers of a different

colour and haying a wider mouth ; and the hypogynous

glands are only two, whereas in G. Lindleyx they are

constantly five. It is a native of Brazil, and blossoms with

us in the stove during the months of June and July.

Descr.

Descr. Root a large, somewhat globose, depressed

tuber. Stem erect, four to five feet high, rounded, purple,

hairy, below marked with darker streaks; branches oppo-

site, short, not bearing flowers. Leaves opposite, ovato-

oblong, obtuse, wrinkled, crenate, downy and somewhat

scabrous : petiole varying in length in the lower part of the

plant, nearly half as long as the leaf, channelled above.

The upper part of the stem becomes suddenly bare of

leaves, and bears numerous pseudo-verticils of flowers,

thus constituting a raceme, one or two feet in length.

Peduncles, generally in threes, from three lines to an inch

in length. Calyx inflated, five-angled, deeply cut into

five, acute, triangular segments, scabrous. Corolla bright

scarlet: tube slightly curved and a little inflated near the

middle, remarkably dilated and inflated at the base. The

limb oblique, five-lobed, within spotted with yellow, upper

lobe much broader than the rest, emarginate. Stamens

four: Anthers meeting in a cross-shaped manner. Germen

oblong, with five yellow glands, of which two larger ones

are combined. Style rather longer than the flower.

Fig. 1. Calyx and Pistil. 2. Corolla. 3, Pistil with h Glands :

magnified. — istil with hypogynous

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ONCIDIUM LURIDUM. DINGY-FLOWERED

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Class and Order.

GynanpriA Monanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—Orcuiwea. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium explanatum. Sepala sepius undulata: late-

ralibus nunc sub labello connatis. Petala conformia. La-

bellum maximum, ecalcaratum, cum columna continuum,

varie lobatum, basi tuberculatum vel cristatum. Columna

libera, semiteres, apice utrinque alata. Anthera semibilo-

cularis, rostello nunc abbreviato, nunc elongato rostrato.

Pollinia 2, postice suleata, caudicula plana, glandula ob-

longa.—Herbe epiphyte, nunc pseudo-bulbose. Folia cori-

acea. Scapi paniculati, vaginati, rarius simplices. Flores

speciosi, lutei, sepius maculati, raro albi. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Oxcip1wm lwridum ; pseudo-bulbis nullis, foliis lanceolatis

rigidis carnosis carinatis solitariis, sepalis liberis peta-

lisque subrotundo - ovalibus. unguiculatis undulatis,

labelli lobis lateralibus minimis obtusis lateribus revo-

lutis, intermedio amplo reniformi-emarginato, crista

trilamellata.

Onci1um luridum. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 727. Gen. et Sp.

Orchid. p. 201.

Oncipium cuneatum. Lindl. Coll. Bot. p. 27.

Erienprum guttatum. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1351.

: Cymeiwium guttatum. Willd. Sp. Pl. ». 4. p. 102.

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This species varies considerably as to the height and

branching of the scape, the depth of colour in its flowers,

and the size of these. We had three plants very mae

ably differing in these respects, from Mr. Cross; to whom

we owe a very excellent collection of parasitical OrcuipEz,

which he brought from Trinidad in 1835. All the varieties

flowered freely in the stove of the Royal Botanic Garden,

Edinburgh, in April, 1837, and continued for several weeks

in great perfection.

Descr. Root of strong, cylindrical, waved fibres. Pseudo-

bulbs wanting. Leaves (one foot four inches long, three

inches and a half broad) solitary, lanceolate, very thick and

rigid, dull green, having small, brown, circular spots on

both sides, folded along the middle, keeled behind. Scape

(three feet high), slender, brown, with numerous small,

greenish-yellow oblong spots, panicled or racemose, with

small alternate, subacute, membranous sheaths. Flowers

large, yellow, with large, brown, confluent spots, which

cover nearly the whole upper surface, but are somewhat less

continuous behind. Sepals all distinct, unguiculate, undu-

late, crenulate, warted on the back, the upper rotundato-

rhomboid, the lower spathulato-oblong and slightly cohering

near the insertion of their claws only. Petals resembling the

upper sepal, but larger, and without warts behind. Lip

three-lobed ; the side-lobes small, blunt, revolute in their

edges, the central lobe large, kidney-shaped, emarginate,’

rather less undulate than the other parts of the perianth, and

like them crenulate, without warts behind; crest of three

longitudinal, erect lamella, of which those at the sides are

interrupted in the middle, that in the centre is nearly

entire, becoming broader downwards. Column about as

long as the claw of the upper sepal, colourless, with two

large kidney-shaped wings, emarginate at the upper edge,

pink-coloured in front, and two smaller, rounded, entire,

internal wings. Anther-case white, helmet-shaped, crested,

emarginate at its anterior edge and sides, minutely pubes-

cent. Pollen-masses pear-shaped, furrowed behind, placed

on the upper edge of a white membrane, which has its

origin from the anterior border of the subrotund gland,

and covers the upper surface of this. Graham.

Fig. 1. Column and Lip: magnified.

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Lopeia sipHiLitica ; hybrida. Hybrid var.

of the BLuz American LoBELIA.

Class and Order.

Pentanpria Monoeynta.

( Nat. Ord.—Losetiacez. )

Generic Character.

Cor. tubo hinc fisso (raro integro) ; limbo 5-partito..

Anthere connate. Stigma bilobum (nunc indivisum). Cap-

sula bilocularis (raro 3-loc.) apice supero bivalvi.—Herbe

vel Suffrutices, plereque lactescentes. Folia alterna, integra

| v. laciniata, raro fistulosa. Flores racemosi, terminales v.

; axillares, solitarii, pedicellis bibracteatis v. nudis. Anthere

| sepius barbate. Br.

Specific Name and Synonym.

Lozetia siphilitica ; hybrida.

: Lowe’s purple Lobelia. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1445.

. Lozets speciosa, and L. Milleri, Hortulan.

_ There are few more beautiful hybrid vegetable produc-

tions than the subject of the present plate ; which, though

known in our gardens by a peculiar specific name, as if it

were a legitimate individual, is now universally acknow-

ledged to be the offspring of Losetia siphilitica on the one

hand, and of some scarlet-flowering species, L. fulgens or

. cardinalis or splendens, on the other. The foliage is most

like the first, while the size and form of the flower chiefly

4 resemble the three last; and the colour seems to partake

i of the red of the latter, combined with the blue of L. sephe-

: litica, thus producing a rich purple hue, such as is very

. difficult to be imitated by the pencil of the artist.

It is quite hardy, growing in the open air to the height

of two to three feet, blossoming through the summet

months, and with us continuing in great beauty till cut off

| ae by the autumnal frosts.

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Class and Order.

GynanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—OrcuinEz. )

Generic Character.

Sepala semipatentia v. clausa, inequalia, extus lanata

v. glabra, lateralibus basi valde obliquis cum pede columnz

connatis calcar emulantibus. Petalasepalo superiori equa-

lia v. minora. Labellum cum basi producta columne arti-

culatum, trilobum, raro subintegrum, cucullatum, disco

calloso, y. cristato. Columna basi longe producta. An-

thera terminalis, bilocularis, loculis obsolete 4-locellatis.

Pollinia 8, nunc omnino libera, nunc materie elastica glan-

dulam mentiente coherentia.—Herbe in arboribus crescen-

tes ; caulibus carnosis, vaginatis, cicatricibus foliorum nota-

tis. Folia sepius plicata. Racemi simplices erecti, bracters

sepius dilatatis. Flores nunc conspicui. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Enia® stellata ; foliis lanceolatis carnosis 5-costatis, sepalis

pubescentibus petalisque lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis

labelli tricostati lobis lateralibus obtusis intermedio

acuminato, scapo elongato radicali multifloro ovario-

que pube ferruginea lanatis. Lindl.

Era stellata. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 904. Gen. et Sp.

Orchid. p. 67.

Ocromerra stellata. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 4. p. 310.

Denprontum Javanicum. Swarts in Act. Holm. 1800. p.

247? Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 4. p. 137?

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* From «a, wool, on account of the woolly, or downy, nature of the

flowers.

VOL. XI, L

The noble specimen here figured blossomed in the Orchi-

deous stove of the Glasgow Botanic Garden in April, 1837.

It is considered to be a native of Java, but when and by

whom introduced is not known. It was first described in

this country from plants which blossomed in Mrs. Cartiey’s

collection. The long, curved spike of copious, fragrant,

stellated flowers, and the creeping habit with ample and

graceful foliage, combine to render this a most desirable

plant for our stoves.

Descr. Stems creeping, branched, covered with sheathing

scales, and bearing what may be considered pseudo-bulbs,

clothed with still larger scales, and each of these having two

broadly lanceolate leaves, marked with five longitudinal ribs.

Scape from the base of the leaves, long, curved, clothed

with ferruginous down (as well as the germens), and bear-

ing copious flowers for nearly its whole length. Bracteas

ovato-lanceolate, soon withering. Perianth pale yellow-

green. Sepals (which are downy on the outside) and petals

nearly equal, linear-lanceolate, patent, two of the former

uniting below, and forming a conspicuous, blunt spur at

the base of the labellwn. Lip nearly parallel with the

column, lanceolate, three-lobed, the disk with five elevated,

crenated lines, the side lobes obtuse, incurved, marked with

red lines, the middle lobe much acuminated and patent.

Column extended below. Anther-case hemispherical. Pol-

len-masses four.

Fig. 1. Column, Anther, and Lip. 2. Anther-case. 3. Pollen-masses -—

Magnified.

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STENACTIS SPECIOSA. SHowy STENACTIS.

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Class and Order.

PoLtyGAMIA SUPERFLUA.

( Nat. Ord.—Composir«. )

Generic Character.

~ Capitulum radiatum, radio femineo sepe bi- vel pluri-

seriali, ligulis angustis linearibus soa ne hermaphrodito

fertilibus ; involucri subhemispherici foliolis 2—3-seriali-

bus, imbricatis, subequalibus, angustis, subfoliaceis, rigi-

dulis. Receptaculum planum, v. convexum verruculoso-

punctatum, Pappus duplex: exterior brevis paleaceus,

paleolis angustis ; int. uniserialis, radiis distantibus, sube-

qualibus, filiformibus, serrulato-scabris, deciduis. Nees.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Srenactis* speciosa; caule erecto apice corymbo multifloro

glabro, foliis ciliatis acutis integerrimis, radicalibus

spathulatis caulinis ovato-lanceolatis subamplexicau-

libus, radio involucro duplo longiori.

Srenactis speciosa. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1577.

Srenactis is a Genus of plants allied in general habit to

Aster, and in the numerous narrow florets of the ray to

Ericrron ; differing from both in the peculiar nature of

the pappus. Most of the species have been referred to one

or other of these genera. The only ones described by

Ness are S. annua (Aster, L., ER1GERON of various authors)

and S. verna, (Aster, L., Er1gERON nudicaule, Micn.,) both

natives of North America : S. bellidioides, (ASTER, Don,) an

inhabitant

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* IT presume from crnns, narrow, and ag, axros, a ray; consequence of

the narrow florets of the ray.

inhabitant of Nepal, and S. glauca of Buenos Ayres. The

present plant, a native of California, discovered by Mr. .

Dovetas, and first cultivated and distributed by the Horti-

cultural Society, is, I have no doubt, correctly referred by

Professor Linptry to the same Genus. It flowers, like the

Asters, in the latter end of the summer and in the autumn,

and is equally with the Aster entitled to the appellation of

Michaelmas Daisy.

Descr. Root perennial. Stem herbaceous, a foot and a

half high, rounded, striated, glabrous, erect, branched up-

wards in a corymbose manner. Leaves sessile, oblong,

acute, entire, ciliated at the margin, the rest glabrous,

dark green, marked with nerves, which commence near the

base and run upwards, nearly parallel with the midrib : the

radical leaves spathulate, tapering into long, slender stalks.

Flowers corymbose. Peduncles single-flowered. Flowers

(or capitula) large, handsome. Involucre hemispherical,

of numerous imbricated, narrow, linear-subulate, downy

scales. Florets of the ray purple, numerous, of several

series, exceedingly narrow. Those of the disk yellow.

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CuorizeEmMaA Hencumannti. Mr. Hencu-

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Class and Order.

DecanpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Leeuminosz. )

Generic Character.

_ Cal. semiquinquefidus bilabiatus, labio superiore bifido,

inferiore 3-partito. Cor. carina ventricosa, alis breviore.

Stylus brevis uncinatus. Stigma obliquum, obtusum. Legu-

men ventricosum uniloculare polyspermum sessile aut sub-

sessile.—Suffrutices Australasici. Folia alterna simplicia

sinuato-dentata aut integra.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Cuorizema* Henchmannt ; pubescenti-hirsutum, foliis ter-

natis acicularibus, racemis elongatis foliosis, calycibus

villosissimis.

Cuorrzema Henchmanni. Br. MSS.—Lindl. Bot. Reg. €.

986. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1233.

The plant from which our drawing is copied of Cuori-

zema Henchmanni is between four and five feet high, cloth-

ed almost from the base to the extremity with numerous

branches, and every branch loaded with red blossoms, hav-

ing a yellow eye, in a similar manner to what is here

represented. If the red were of a brighter tint, and the

foliage more copious and less sombre, it would be eo

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* From xopos, a dance, and ema, a drink; so named by LABILLARDIERE

from the joyous circumstance of his party having discovered a supply of

fresh water, when much tantalized by thirst on the south-west coast of New

Holland, at the time of his finding the first species of this beautiful Genus.

most lovely of plants. The species is one of the late Mr.

Baxter’s numerous discoveries in the South-west coast of

New Holland, and was named Henchmanni by Dr. Brown,

in compliment to Francis Hencuman, Esq., through whom

it was introduced to the Clapton Nursery. In the green-

house of the Glasgow Botanic Garden the plant blossoms

in April and May, and the flowers continue in perfection a

long time.

Descr. An upright shrub, with numerous and downy

branches. Leaves small, ternate, spreading, circular, dark

green above and nearly glabrous, beneath paler, slightly

hairy, the margins revolute. Flowers solitary, or two or

three together from the axils of numerous leaves, so as to

constitute, a dense elongatedraceme. Pedicel shorter than

the flower. Calyx very hairy, tubular, two-lipped, upper

lip bifid ; under one trifid:—at the base of the calyx is a

small subulate bractea on each side. Flowers brick-red.

Standard orbiculari-reniform, with a yellow eye. Wangs

oblong, with a slight twist, the extremity bent down.

Keel very acute. Stamens ten, free, filaments broader at

the base, nearly of equal length. Germen elongated, silky:

Style short : Stigma small, capitate.

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Fig. 1. Standard. 2. Flower from which the Standard is removed. 3.

Calyx. 4. Awing, 5. The Keel. 6. Stamen, 7. Pistil:—magnifed.

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Class and Order.

GynanpriA Monanpria.

( Nat, Ord.—OrcuineE&, )

Generic Character.

Sepala carnosa erecta, lateralibus majoribus obliquis cum

basi producta columne connatis. Petala sepalo supremo

minora. Labellum cum pede columne articulatum, pos-

ticum, indiyisum vy. trilobum: limbo cristato calloso v.

nudo. Columna semiteres, basi longe producta. Anthera

sessilis, bilocularis, nunc apice membranaceo. Pollinia 4,

per paria collateralia—Herbe epiphyte, caulescentes. Folia

disticha, equitantia, ancipitia, Flores subsolitarti, e paleis

membranaceis erumpentes, septus herbacei coloris. Landl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Aporum anceps; foliis scalpelliformibus carnosis acutis,

floribus solitariis geminisve, sepalis carnosis : laterali-

bus ovatis patentibus supremo petalisque multo majo-

ribus, labello postico unguiculato ecalloso inappendi-

culato cuneato emarginato crenulato, caulibus, com-

pressis. Lindl.

Arorum anceps. Lindl. in Wall. Cat. n. 2020. Gen. et

Sp. Orchid. p. 71.

Denprozium anceps. Swarts, Act. Holm. 1800. p. 26.

Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1239. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3.

p. 738.

A very remarkable plant : agreeing indeed with Denpro-

BIuM in all that is essential, as concerns the fructification :

but differing exceedingly, as Professor Linptey well ob-

Serves, in the distichous, equitant leaves. Its native coun-

try, we learn from the same author, is the estuaries of the

rivers

rivers of Bengal and Pegu, where it is found on the trunks

of trees in swampy low situations ; and whence it was intro-

duced by Dr. Watticn to the gardens of the Horticultural

Society. In the Stove of the Glasgow Botanic Garden its

blossoming season is the month of May. We have received

fine specimens, also blossoming at the same season, from

the Edinburgh Botanic Garden.

Descr. Stems, several from the same root, six to eight

inches long, pendulous on its native trees, compressed,

jointed, leafy throughout the whole length. Leaves, ovato-

lanceolate, compressed, fleshy, very acute, distichous,

sheathing at the base. Flowers arising from the sheaths,

solitary, having two bracteas at the base, at first greenish,

then pale, almost lemon-yellow. Sepals three, combined

from above the middle downwards with the back of the

column, and running down into an obtuse spur ; the middle

sepal much the smallest ; two lateral petals, very small, ovate,

close pressed against the calyx. Lip erect, articulated to

the base of the column, cuneate, three-lobed ; middle lobe

the largest, its apex reflexed and crisped at the margin.

Fig. 1. Back view of a Flower. 2. Front view of ditto :-—magnified.

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LoBELIA ERINOIDES. ERINUS-LIKE

LoBELIA.

Class and Order.

PentanpriA Monoeynis.

( Nat. Ord.—Lopetacez. )

Generic Character.

Cor. tubo hine fisso (raro integro) ; limbo 5-partito.

Anthere connate. Stigma bilobum (nunc indivisum). Cap-

sula bilocularis (raro 3-loc.) apice supero bivalvi—Herbe

vel Suffrutices, plereque lactescentes. Folia alterna, integra

v. laciniata, raro fistulosa. Flores racemosi, terminales v.

axillares, solitarii, pedicellis bibracteatis v. nudis. Anthere

sepius barbate. Br.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Losexta erinoides ; annua glabra, caulibus filiformibus sim-

plicibus decumbentibus flexuosis, foliis dentatis radi-

calibus inferioribus spathulatis petiolatis summis linea-

ribus integerrimis, floribus solitariis axillaribus folio

brevioribus, corolla tubo campanulato limbo obliquo

subregulari lobis ovatis acutis patentibus.

Lopezia erjnoides. Linn. Mant. p. 291. Hort. Kew. ed.

2.v. 1. p. 361. Rem. et Sch. Syst. Veget. v. 5. p. 62.

Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. 2. p. 180. Spreng. Syst. Veget.

oi. p. T1572 :

Campanvxa minor Afrinana Erini facie caulibus procumben-

tibus. Herm. Ludg. 108. t. 109.

A very pretty greenhouse annual, introduced from the

Cape of Good Hope so long ago as the year 17 59 : but it

was probably soon lost, and | do not recollect having myself

Seen it any where except in the Glasgow Botanic Garden,

where seeds were received from the Baron Lupwie in oi

Our specimens displayed their small but most delicately-

marked flowers in July and August. It is very likely that

in England at least the species might be raised in the open

border.

Descr. Root annual (biennial in Hort. Kew.), throwing

out, from its crown, several spreading, decumbent, flexuose,

filiform, simple branches, three to four or five inches long.

Leaves glabrous, most of them petiolate, those from the

root (which are much the largest) and those from the lower

part of the stem spathulate, toothed, upper ones linear, ses-

sile, (or nearly so,) entire. Flowers from the axils of the

upper leaves, and shorter than they, solitary, pedunculate.

Calyx of five, erect, linear-subulate segments. Corolla

purplish-white, with a campanulate, entire tube, the limb

slightly oblique, with five spreading, ovate acute, nearly

equal lobes : the mouth is beautifully and regularly marked

with deep purple, and two yellow spots. Combined anthers

bearing two white awns. Germen almost cylindrical, a

little tapering below, and very obscurely downy.

Fig. 1. Front view ofa Flower. 2. Side view of ditto :-—Magnified.

L126. br S Curtis Cle rernwoad Lissex Oot 7 Pa £3 He

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ANTHERICUM GLAUCUM. GLAUCOUS-LEAVED

ANTHERICUM.

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Class and Order.

Hexanpria Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—AsPHODELE2. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium sexpartitum patens deciduum. Filamenta

receptaculo inserta, plerumque barbata. Stylus filiformis.

Capsula subglobosa, 3-loc. 3-valv. valvis medio septiferis.

Semina pauca, angulata.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Ayturricum glaucum ; radicibus tuberosis, foliis lineari-

elongatis carinatis striatis subtus precipue glaucis,

floribus racemosis, pedicellis ternis nutantibus demum

erectis, sepalis tribus interioribus majoribus marginatis

marginibus undulatis, filamentis superne incrassatis.

Anruericum glaucum. Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Peruv. v. 3. p.-

68. Rem. et Sch. Syst. Veget. v. 7. p- 469. Spreng.

Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 85. Lod. Bot. Cab. t. 1580.

Puatanerum glaucum. Poir. Ene. Suppl. v. 4. p. 380.

p Sn

An interesting South American, and, I believe, little

known, plant in this country, for tubers of which the Glas-

gow Botanic Garden is indebted to our often-mentioned

friend, Joun Mactean, Esq., of Lima. The species in-

habits the vicinity of that city, and requires the heat of

the stove to bring it to perfection. It flowered in August

and September.

Descr. The root consists of numerous fibres, many of

which bear oval, or oblong tubers : the top of the root 1s

Crowned with copious, rigid, erect fibres, the wither

remains

remains of old leaves, from which spring the recent ones ;

these are one and two feet long, linear, tapering, flaccid,

striated, keeled, glaucous beneath, but scarcely so above.

Scape two to three feet high, simple or branched, rounded,

glabrous, bracteated ; bracteas below somewhat leafy ; bear-

ing a long raceme of rather large pure white flowers, mostly

three together from each lanceolate bractea : but of these

three, only one opens at a time, and that only for one day.

Pedicels half an inch or more long, curved in flower, erect

before and after. Sepals six, spreading, elliptical, the three

outer the smallest, with a single broad rib; three inner

larger, with three nerves and a broad, waved margin. Sta-

mens six: Filaments erecto-patent, remarkably thickened

upwards: Anthers oblong, yellow. Germen oval: Style

larger than the stamens, somewhat spindle-shaped : Stigma

terminated with a minute pencil of hairs.

Fig. 1. Flower from which the Perianth is removed :—Magnijfied.

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THERMOPSIS FABACEA, BEAN-LEAVED

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Class and Order.

DecanpriA Monoeynis.

( Nat. Ord.—Lecuminosz2. )

Generic Character.

Cal. oblongus campanulatusve, A—}-fidus, subbilabiatus,

postice convexus, basi attenuatus. Pet. 5, subeequalia,

vexilli lateribus reflexis, carina obtusa. Stamina persis-

tentia. Legumen compressum, falcatum aut lineare, poly-

spermum.—Herbe perennes, sericeo-villose._ Folia trifolt-

ata. Stipule ovato-lanceolate, foliacee. Racemi termi-

ea floribus pedicellatis geminis aut subverticillatis flavis.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Tuermorsis* fabacea; foliis petiolatis foliolis lato-ovalibus,

stipulis lato-ovatis obtusis petiolo brevioribus, racemo

alternifloro.

Turrmorsis fabacea. De Cand: Prodr. v. 2. p. 99. Hook.

Fl. Bor. Am. v. 1. p. 128. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1272.

Turrmopsis rhombifolia. Rich. in Frankl. 1st Journ. App.

ed. 2. p. 13. De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p. 99. Hook.

Fl. Bor. Am. v. 1. p. 128. t. 47.

Tuermia rhombifolia. Nutt. Gen. v. 1. p. 283.

Cyrisus rhombifolius. Pursh, Fl. Am. v. 2. p. TAl.

Soruora fabacea. Pall. Astrag. p. 122. t. 90. f. 2.

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I think there can be little doubt of the correctness of the

above synonyms. Now that I have seen the living ee

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* From Oepuoc, a Lupine, and ofc, a resemblance : from the affinity of the

species of the Genus, with those of the Lupine.

I have no hesitation in referring to it the Tuermopsis rhom-

bifolia of Dr. Ricuarpson. Thus it appears to have a very

extended range, being found in the North-eastern parts of

Asia, and in North America on both sides of the Rocky

Mountains, but no where, as it appears, on the East side of

that vast continent. It was introduced to this country

through the Horticultural Society, having been sent by Mr.

Doveuas from dry channels of mountain torrents, in the

vallies of the Cordillera near the Columbia river. It is cul-

tivated in the greenhouse of the Glasgow Botanic Garden,

where it flowers in May: but Dr. Linptey speaks of it

as a good herbaceous plant, readily increased by the divi-

sion of its creeping roots: and it will probably prove quite

a hardy plant.

Drscr. Stem herbaceous, erect, simple, or branched only

upwards, somewhat angular, quite glabrous below. Leaves

trifoliate, petiolate : leaflets obovate, approaching to rhom-

boid, distinctly veined, glabrous above, slightly downy be-

neath. Stipules very large, foliaceous, nearly ovate, often

as long as the petiole, and nearly as large as the leaflets of

the leaf. Raceme erect, terminal, stalked, of several rather

bright, yellow, alternate flowers, about the size of those of

the Laburnum. Pedicels short, subtended by an oblongo-

ovate bractea. Calyx ovate, two-lipped, upper lp erect,

bidentate, lower trifid, reflexed: Vexillum shorter than the

rest of the petals, having a deep carina, spotted within,

the sides reflexed. Ala standing forward, oval, covering

the carina which is nearly of the same shape and very ob-

tuse. Stamens ten, free, subulate, nearly equal in length.

Germen linear, very silky: Style short, curved upwards:

Stigma minute.

Fig. 1. Calyx. 2. Vexillum. 3, Ale. ; ina. 6. Stamens. 7.

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Class and Order.

DipynamiA ANGIOSPERMIA.

( Nat. Ord.—GesnerizE. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 5-partitus (plerumque germini adnatus). Corolla

tubuloso-campanulata, limbo bilabiato ; labio superiore bi-

inferiore trifido. Stigma bilobum. Capsula bilocularis, 2-

valvis, placentis parietalibus.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Gesneria Douglasii; herbacea, radice tuberosa, foliis in

medio caulis verticillatis ovatis crenatis, cyma termi-

nali umbellata pedunculata, corollz limbo subequali,

glandulis duabus superioribus dilatatis, inferioribus

obliteratis.

Gesneria Douglasii. Lindl. in Hort. Trans. v.71. gusd. in

Bot. Reg. t. 1110.

Gesneria verticillata. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2776. _

(8.) verticillata ; pedunculis subsimplicibus densissime ver-

ticillatis. (Tas. nostr. 3612.)

Our former figure of this plant, under the name of Grs-

NERIA verticillata, from the first plant that flowered with us,

gave no idea of the beauty of this plant: but the present

variety exhibits it in the highest degree of perfection. The

tubers were imported by Mr. Auicarp from Rio, and the

noble specimen here exhibited blossomed in that gentle-

man’s collection in April, 1836. In Professor LixpLey’s

plant the inflorescence is a decided panicle. In ours, the

peduncles, generally simple, are arranged in dense whorls,

many of them quite simple, the others very slightly branch-

ed, and only near the base. The flowers too are larger than

in that figure, and more inclining to a purple tint.

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MAXILLARIA PUMILA. Dwarr MAXILLARIA.

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Class and Order.

GynanpriA MonanprIiA.

( Nat. Ord.—OrcuineEz. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium connivens raro patens. Sepala lateralia cum

basi producta column connata. Petala subconformia.

Labellum trilobum, cucullatum, sessile, cum basi producta

columne articulatum. Colwmna semiteres, aptera. Anthera

subbilocularis. Pollinia 2, bipartibilia v. integra, caudi-

cula brevi, glandula transversa.—Epiphyte ( Americane@ )

pseudo-bulbose, acaules ». caulescentes. Folia plicata v.

coriacea. Pedunculi radicales, axillares v. terminales, uni-

v. multiflori. Lindl.

Specific Name and Character.

Maxiniaria pumila; nana, caulibus brevibus squamosis

pseudo-bulbiferis, bulbis aggregatis oblongis sulcatis,

folio solitario lanceolato, pedunculis pseudo-bulbo

brevioribus unifloris, petalis sepalisque erectis oblon-

gis obtusis, labello erecto oblongo obscure trilobo

disco ealloso, lobo terminali bifido.

Sent from Demerara to the Glasgow Botanic Garden by

Mr. Inverarity, to whom we are indebted for many other

choice Orchideous plants. It is the smallest of the species

with which I am acquainted. It flowers in April and May.

Descr. Stems short, not exceeding two or three inches,

bearing many aggregated, small, pseudo-bulbs, half to three

quarters of an inch long, which are oblong, deeply furrow-

ed, and partially clothed with brown, sheathing scales.

Leaf solitary, terminal, an inch, scarcely more, in length.

Peduncle arising from the scales at the base of the bulb,

shorter

shorter than the bulb, bearing a solitary, small, dark pur-

ple flower. Sepals and petals erect, nearly equal, oblong,

obtuse. Jap erect, oblong, obscurely three-lobed, the

middle lobe very blunt, emarginate, spreading: at the

middle of the upper side is a callous disc. Column curved.

Anther-case hemispherical. Pollen-masses four, on a nearly

sessile gland.

Fig. 1. Portion of a Plant with Flower. 2. Petals, Column, and Lip.

3. Lip. 4.4. Anther-case. 5. 6. Pollen-masses :—magnified.

( 3614 )

MAXILLARIA Hencumanni. Mr. HeEnch-

MANS MAXILLARIA.

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Class and Order.

GynanpriA Monanpria.

( Nat. Ord.—Orcuipez. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium connivens, raro patens. Sepala lateralia

cum basi producta columne connata. Petala subconformia.

Labellum trilobum, cucullatum, sessile, cum basi producta

columne articulatum. Coluwmna semiteres, aptera. Anthera

subbilocularis. Pollinia 2, bipartibilia v. integra, caudi-

cula brevi, glandula transversa—Epiphyte ( Americané )

pseudo-bulbose, acaules v. caulescentes. Folia plicata v.

coriacea. Pedunculi radicales, axillares v. terminales, uni-

v. multiflori. Lindl.

Specific Name and Character.

Maxintarta Henchmanni ; pusilla, caulibus elongatis squa-

mosis pseudo-bulbiferis, pseudo-bulbis ovali-oblongis

compressis levibus, folio solitario lineari-ligulato, pe-

dunculis unifloris pseudo-bulbo longioribus, petalis

sepalisque erectis oblongis acutis, labello erecto ob-

longo obscure trilobo, lobo terminali integerrimo.

Obligingly communicated by Mr. Hencuman, from the

Clapton Nursery. It was by that gentleman imported

from Mexico, and I am anxious this very pretty species

should bear the name of one who has distinguished himself

by collecting, in climates the most inimical to the human

constitution and introducing to our collections, so many

fine species of this favorite family. It is certainly allied to,

though quite distinct from, our preceding species, M. pens,

_ It is four times the size of that individual, with more copi-

ous, paler-coloured scales on the stems and pseudo-bulbs,

these latter are broader in proportion to their length, more

compressed and even (not furrowed on the surface) ; the

leaf is much longer and more ligulate ; the peduncle exceeds

the bulb in length; the petals and sepals are acute, and

the apex of the lip is not bifid.

Fig. 1. Flower, from which the two lateral sepals are removed. 2. Lip.

3. 3. Anther-case. 4.4. Pollen-masses :—magnified.

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STENOMESSON CROCEUM. ORANGE-FLOWERED

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Class and Order.

Hexanpria Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord. —AmaryxuipE&. )

Generic Character.

Tubus sub-rectus medio constrictus superne ventricosus,

limbus brevis regularis, corona brevis. Filamenta recta, an-

there incumbentes ; Capsula late ovata, trisulca, trivalvis,

basi valde ampliata.—Folia lanceolata margine compresso ;

bulbus subrotundus. Herb.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Srenomrsson crocewm ; folio solitario lanceolato basi atten-

uato, umbella sub-septemflora, floribus nutantibus

aurantiacis, perianthio recto infundibuliformi campanu-

lato segmentis erecto-patentibus, staminibus exsertis.

Srenomesson* croceum. Dombey in Herb. Linn. Soc.

Herbert, Amaryl. p. 199. a

Pancratium croceum. Redouté’s Lilac. t. 187.

Of this charming lively-flowered plant we had many spe-

cimens flowering in the stove of the Botanic Garden, from

bulbs sent by our obliging friend J. M‘Lean, Esq. of Lima.

I was disposed to refer it to the PancratruM coccineum of

Rui and Pavon: but Mr. Hersert, whose opinion 1s

invaluable in this family, refers it to his S. eroceum above

quoted, copied from Domsey’s original specimen : which it

indeed resembles : and this excellent and laborious author

* I presume from eres narrow, and pecos, or proves, the middle : from the

contraction in the flower below the middle.

is satisfied that Revouri’s plant is the same as that of

Domery. But in the ovate, or almost oblong bulb, in

the several linear leaves, springing from the top of the

old bulb, in the shape of the flower, and especially its

dingy saffron-colour, there appears to me to be very strik-

ing differences between Repourts’s species and our’s. It

is to be observed, however, that the French author has not

made his figure from the living plant, nor from the plant at

all; but, as he has acknowledged, copied it from the col-

lection of vellum drawings in the Museum of the Jardin des

Plantes at Paris.

Descr. Old Bulb globose, leafless: in some of our

plants, a young bulb springs from the side of the old one,

terminated by a single, lanceolate leaf, tapering below into

a petiole, the margin slightly reflexed. Scape from the

top of the old bulb, a foot and more high, terete, bear-

ing an umbel of about seven flowers. Spatha of two mem-

branous, lanceolate leaves. Perianth of a bright, reddish

orange colour, nearly two inches long; for one-third of its

length at the base cylindrical, narrow, then gradually

widening into a cylindraceo-campanulate limb ; lacinia six,

ovate, erecto-patent. Stamens six, alternating with as

many linear-oblong nectaries, which are situated at the

mouth of the tube. Stamens and style much exserted.

Germen oval.

Fig. 1. Flower laid open to show the St Style, and Nectaries :—

slightly magnified. P amens, Style

( 3616 )

POLYGALA MYRTIFOLIA: var. grandiflora. Myrrie-

LEAVED Mixx-worr: large-flowered var.

KKK EKER EEK ERR RK KKK

Class and Order.

——- | DiapetpHia OctTanpRIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Potyeatez. )

Generic Character.

Calycis sepala persistentia, 2 interiora aleformia. Petala

3—5, tubo stamineo connexa, inferiore carineformi (forsan

e duobus coalitis constante). Capsula compressa, elliptica,

obovata aut obcordata. Semina pubescentia, hilo caruncu-

lata, coma destituta. D C.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Potyeata myrtifolia; foliis obovatis oblongisve submu-

cronatis, ramulis pubescentibus, bracteis persistentibus

equalibus, pedicellis flore brevioribus.

Potyeata myrtifolia. Linn. Am. v. 2. p. 138. Ait. Hort.

| Kew. ed. 2. v. 4. p. 244. Ker, Bot. Reg. t. 669. De

Cand. Prodr. 2. 1. p. 322. Spreng. Syst. Veg. v. 3.

p. 163.

Potyeaxa frutescens, foliis oblongis glabris, flore purpureo.

Burm. Afr. p. 200. t. 73. f. 1. :

(8.) grandiflora ; floribus majoribus magisque coloratis.

(Tab. nostr. 3616.)

Potyeata grandiflora. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1227. Ekl. et

Seyh, Enum. Pl. Afr. Austr. Extratrop. p. 19.

_ The Glasgow Botanic Garden is indebted for the posses-

sion of this handsome shrub to the Royal Gardens of Kew,

where it was received from Southern Africa. It came under

the name of P. grandiflora, and is first published as a spe-

cies distinct from myrtifolia by Mr. Loppiers in the place

above quoted. The species is retained by Be and

EYHER,

ZEYHER, Who have made no remark upon it; and Mr. Lop-

pigEs Only observes, that it is “ allied to myrtifolia, but

that its flowers are far more beautiful.” This is, indeed,

quite correct ; but since after the most careful examination

I find no other point of distinction, I venture here to de-

scribe it as a slight variety of P. myrtifolia. It bears its

lovely blossoms in April and May, and they continue a long

time in perfection, nestled among the yellow-green leaves

of the young shoots, at the apex of the branches.

Descr. A much-branched shrub, four to six feet high,

the young branches downy. Leaves on very short petioles,

oblong, or oblongo-ovate, glabrous, except in the young

leaves, and somewhat mucronate, of a rather thin, some-

what membranaceous texture. Flowers in short racemes,

which are terminal, but appear lateral from the proliferous

shoots. Pedicels shorter than the flowers, each with three

bracteas at the base. Three outer calycine leaves green,

ovate, mucronate, membranous at the margin: two inner,

or ale, very large, obliquely and broadly ovate, mucro-

nate, rich purple, veiny : keel large, veiny, pale, with a deep

black-purple blotch at the extremity, a very conspicuous

crest below the apex, and two bifid auricles at the base

above. Filaments diadelphous.

Fig. 1. Keel. 2. Stamens. 3. Pistil magnified.

( 3617 )

Cuysis AUREA. GOLDEN-FLOWERED CnhysIs.

KKK ERE EK EEE EEE KEE EEEE

Class and Order.

GyNANDRIA MonanpRIiA.

( Nat. Ord.—Orcuinez. )

Generic Character.

Sepala paulo connata, patula ; lateralia pedi producto

columne adnata et calcar simulantia. Petala sepalis con-

formia. Labellum trilobum, patulum, venis basi callosis.

Columna marginata, canaliculata, mutica. Anthera subro-

tunda, opercularis, glabra. Pollinia 8, in laminam luteam

- semifusa, quatuor exterioribus tenuibus quatuor interiora

erassiora abscondentibus. Rostellwm laminatum, con-

- vexum.—Herbe epiphyte, occidentales, ab arboribus pen-

dule ; caulibus Cyrtopodii depauperatis, foliis nervosis basi

vaginantibus, racemis lateralibus multifloris. Lindl.

Specific Name and Synonym.

Cnysis* aurea. Lindley Bot. Reg. t. 1937.

An Orchideous plant of great beauty, discovered by Mr.

Hencuman in 1834, in the valley of Cumancoa, in Vene-

zuela, and introduced by him to the collection of Messrs.

Low of the Clapton Nursery, to whom the Glasgow Garden

is indebted for the possession of the plant. It blossomed in

the stove in May, 1837, in great perfection. Its mode of

growth is singular; for the old stems are constantly pen-

dent, the extremities and young shoots alone curved up-

wards, characters not easily exhibited in so small a figure

as the annexed one.

Descr.

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* Xo, a melting: the pollen-masses of this plant being, as it were,

fused together. Lindley.

Descr. Stems long, pendent, branched ; the branches

clavate, some leafless, others with a tuft of foliage from the

extremity of the young shoots, which curve upwards.

Leaves broadly lanceolate, membranous, recurved, striated.

Raceme from one of the leafy scales which clothe the lower

part of the young branches, pendent, many - flowered.

Sepals and petals ovate, moderately spreading, white at the

base, the rest yellow, the two petals with deeper yellow

spots within. Lip white, mottled with yellow, and with

red streaks, recurved, three-lobed, the two lateral lobes

incurved, the terminal one roundish, crisped : at the base

are five elevated, velvety, yellow lines, sprinkled with red

dots. Column short, white, yellow dotted with red within:

above the stigma is a white, projecting lip, on the base of

which lies a part of the pollen, which is extremely curious,

and better understood by the figure, than by the description.

Professor Linptey, the learned author of the Genus, con-

siders it as “ equivalent to eight pollen-masses, of which

the straps of connection, such as exist in all Eprpenprea,

are run together in two plates, from an expansion of the

edges of which the masses appear to spring.” Anther-case

hemispherical, oblique.

Bo fe uP 2. Column. 3. Upper part of the Column, 4,” Pollen:

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PHILIBERTIA GRANDIFLORA. LARGE-FLOW-

ERED PHILIBERTIA.

Class and Order.

PewranpriA Dieynts.

( Nat. Ord.—AscLepPiADE2. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla urceolato-rotata, sinuato-quin-

queloba, lobis acutis denticulis interjectis; tuwbus brevis,

mediante toro carnoso apice quandoque annuliformi et un-

dulato gynostegii (columne staminee, Br.,) basi adnatus.

Corona staminea simplex, 5-phylla : foliolis carnosis sum-

mo gynostegio insertis, integris. Anthere membrana ter-

Minate. Masse pollinis clavato-cylindracee, ad apicem

_ fere affixe. Stigma brevissimum v. breviter rostratum

- apice biapiculatum.—Frutices volubiles. Folia opposita

basi cordata. Umbelle interpetiolares.

Specific Name and Character.

Puiinertia* grandiflora ; ubique molliter pubescens, co-

rolla rotato-campanulata, corone staminee foliolis

rotundato-gibbosis rostratis vertice depressis, stigmate

bifido.

An extremely handsome Asclepiadeous plant, of which

_ Seeds were sent by Mr. Tweepie from Buenos Ayres to Mr.

_ Morray of the Glasgow Botanic Garden, and to Mr. Niven,

_ at Glasnevin Gardens, Dublin; in both which establish-

_ Ments they flowered in the summer of 1837. The plant is

- @native of Tucuman, and will probably succeed well in a

_ $00d greenhouse.

e Descr.

* Thus named in honor of J. C. PHILIBERT, who published an elemmen~ —

tary work on Botany. te

Descr. Plant very soft with fine down, twining. Leaves

opposite, cordato-acuminate, with a deep and acute sinus,

longer than the petioles. Peduncles axillary, bearing wm-

bels of large, handsome, downy flowers. Calyx in five deep,

acuminated segments. Corolla more than an inch across,

between rotate and campanulate, with five triangular seg-

ments, and a small tooth beween them, cream-coloured,

prettily dotted and streaked with purple within. Column

of fructification short. Leaflets of the staminal crown large,

ovato-globose, gibbose, fleshy, pale-green, the apex ob-

liquely beaked, depressed on the top. Style short: Stigma

bifid.

Fig. 1. Column of Fructification. 2. The same with the leaflet removed:

—magnified.

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DomMBEYA CANNABINA. Hemp Domeeya.

Class and Order.

MonaApDELPHIA PoLYANDRIA.

( Nat. Ord.— Bytrnericez. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 5-partitus, persistens, involucello 3-phyllo unila-

terali cinctus. Petala 5. Stamina 15—20, filamentis vix (?)

basi coalitis, 3 sterilia, 2—3 fertilia inter quodque ste-

rilia (?). Stylus 1, apice in stigmata 5 subreflexa fissus.

Carpella 5 bivalvia, 1—polysperma in capsulam arcte con-

nexa. Cotyledones contortuplicate bifide. DC.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Dosey a* cannabina ; foliis cordatis integris trilobisve serra-

tis, pedunculis pendulis, floribus corymbosis, calycibus

5-fidis tomentosis bibracteatis, columna staminea lon-

gissima,

Dompeya cannabina. Hels. et Boj. in Herb. nostr.

This fine plant, which has so completely the habit of an

Asrrapa#a, that one can hardly think it ought to be sepa-

rated generically, was sent many years ago to the Glas-

gow Botanic Garden from the Mauritius, by the late Cuartes

Texrair, Esq. It is, however, not a native of that island,

but of the provinces of Emirena and Be-tani-mena in Mada-

gascar, whence I possess native specimens, gathered by

Messrs. Hersincer and Boser, and communicated by them

under the name which I have adopted. Whether it be

referred to Astrapa#A or Dompeya, the generic character

will

* Named in honour of JosepH DomMBEY, an eminent South American

Traveller and Naturalist.

VOL, XI. N

will equally require modification. It has the less spread-

ing petals and the long staminal tube of Astrapma, but the

inflorescence, and the absence of involucre of Domseya:

in the constantly bibracteated and quinquefid, not five-

leaved calyx, it differs from both: but I can hardly think

these characters of sufficient importance to constitute a

distinct Genus :—on the other hand, I would rather be

inclined to the original opinion of Dr. Wattuicu, that

Astrapma might safely be referred to Domeeya. The

fruit, however, both of that plant and of the present, is still

a desideratum. Our plant flowered with us for the first

time in March, 1837.

Descr. Stem almost arboreous, of rapid growth, with

moderately spreading branches. Leaves on long petioles,

cordate, and generally three-lobed, serrated, very slightly

downy beneath. Stipules rather large, ovato-lanceolate,

deciduous. Peduncle axillary, six to eight or ten inches

long, pendulous, and, as well as the pedicels, bracteated.

Corymb of many closely-placed Jlowers, yielding a rather

disagreeable and peculiar odour. Calyx very pale greenish-

white, downy, five-cleft ; segments erect, oblong. At the

base of the calyx, on one side, are two oblong, spathulate

bracteas, as long as the flower. Corolla (filled with a honey-

like juice) of five imbricated, convolute, nearly erect petals,

white, obcordate. Staminal tube twice or thrice as long as

the flower, white with a tinge of red : Anthers about fifteen,

two-celled, within which are a few abortive ones. Germen

nearly globose, covered with dense, white, silky hairs :

Style longer than the stamens: Stigma five-cleft.

Fig. 1. Flower with its Bracteas. 2. Pistil -—magnified.

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BoussINGAULTIA BASELLOIDES. BASELLA-

LIKE BOUSSINGAULTIA.

KEKE KEK KEKE EK EEEEERE

Class and Order.

Hexanpria Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—CueEnopopes. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium 6—8-phyllum, basi bibracteatum. Stam, 6

sepalis opposita. Ovariwm ellipticum, Stylus filiformis

basi incrassatus. Stigmata 3, claveformia. “ Fructus

subrotundus, lenticulari-compressus, membranaceus, mo-

nospermus, indehiscens, stylo persistente coronatus. Semen

reniforme, lave, sessile. Hmbryo curvatus.’’—Frutex volu-

bilis. Folia alterna, integerrima, exstipulata, carnosa. Flo-

res racemosi, fragrantes. Radix tuberosa.

Specific Name and Synonyms.

BovussincautTiA* baselloides. Humb. et Kunth, Nov. Gen. v.

7. p. 196. t. 645 bis. Spreng. Syst. Veget. cur. post. p.

108.

I cannot doubt this being the Boussincauttia of Hum-

Botpt and Kuntu, although the description of those authors

is somewhat at variance with our plant ; not more so, how-

ever, than may be accounted for on the supposition that

their description was made from a dried individual. I have

received specimens from various parts of South Ameri-

ca; but its native country appears to be near Loxa, in

the Quitinian Andes. It is indeed a most desirable stove

plant, growing rapidly, and bearing copious and graceful

racemes

* Named in honor of J. B. BousstNGAULT, a celebrated Naturalist and

South American Traveller.

racemes of flowers, which are deliciously fragrant. Mr.

T weenie introduced it to our gardens from Buenos Ayres,

and we have specimens both from the Glasgow and Glas-

nevin Botanic Gardens. Mr. Niven observes that the

quantity of mucilage contained in the root is quite remark-

able, and the bulk of roots produced altogether astonishing.

He has one root of not less than four pounds weight. At

Glasnevin, indeed, it has stood the winter in the open air at —

the bottom of a wall.

Descr. Root formed of oblong, fleshy, knotted, and in

the younger state, somewhat scaly tubers, frequently of a

large size, bearing a few fibres, and throwing up from one

extremity a rounded, and branched stem, which twines from

left to right, and is quite glabrous, (as is the whole plant,)

somewhat woody at the base, the rest herbaceous and green.

Leaves fleshy, alternate, jointed as it were upon the stem,

cordate, acute, from an inch and a half to four and five

inches long, on the lower part of the stem, penninerved,

quite entire: petiole about an inch long, compressed, broad

upwards. Stipules none. Racemes axillary, pendent, three

to five inches long, bearing many greenish-white, deliciously

fragrant flowers. Pedicels with a small, subulate bractea

at the base, and at the top are two small, ovate ones, closely

pressed to the base of the perianth. Perianth single, thin,

and membranaceous, deeply cut into six oval, soon becom-

ing reflexed sepals, of which three are more external : often

there is one or two (and these opposite) large scales or sepals

on the outside of these, in form, colour, and texture resem-

bling the segments of the perianth. Stamens six, inserted

at the base of the segments and opposite to them. Fvla-

ments subulate, spreading : Anther fixed by the back, short-

ly-oblong, opening by two clefts. Germen superior, ovate,

white, abortive : Style shorter than the filament : Stigmas

three, clavate, white, furrowed at the back. The fruit has

never been perfected in this country.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2, Pistil —magnified.

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PHILODENDRON CRASSINERVIUM. ‘THICK-

RIBBED PHILODENDRON.

RK KKK KEKE KEK EE KEEKEKEE

Class and Order.

Monasoia TEeTRANDRIA.

( Nat. Ord.—Aro1peEz. )

Generic Character.

Spatha tota persistens, post florescentiam reclusa. Spadzx

dense obsitus, appendice cereus. Anthere singuli floris

libere. Ovarium multi (5—15)-loculare, loculis pluriovu-

latis, ovulis axi affixis erectis—Plante Americane tropice,

succo decolori, rhizomate in caulem elongatum scandentem

v. arborescentem mutato, foliis remotis, vaginis petiolaribus

brevissimis stipularibus elongatis deciduis folio oppositis.

Schott.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Puiopenpron * crassinervium ; foliis lanceolatis acuminatis

costa crassissima inflata, spatha obtusa cucullata api-

culata spadicis longitudine. Lindl.

Puiopenpron crassinervium. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1958.

A singular climbing Aroideous plant, which would have

been considered a Pothos of former Botanists, a Genus now

appropriately separated into many others by Scnorr of

Vienna. Our flowering specimen was sent from the Edin-

burgh Botanic Garden, by Dr. Granam, in May, 1837.

Descr. Stem running to a considerable length, thick,

rounded, fleshy, glabrous, as is every part of the plant: at

intervals

__ * grew, to love, derdpor, a tree ; from the circumstance of the species attach-

ing themselves to trees in the tropical forests.

intervals throwing out roots from below, and there produc-

ing a large, brown, amplexicaul scale opposite to the inser-

tion of a leaf. Leaf one to two feet long, broadly lanceo-

late, coriaceous, petiolated, acute, margined with red, above

deep green, beneath pale : the costa exceedingly thick and

inflated ; from each side of the costa arise numerous parallel

nerves : petiole three to four inches long, rounded, purplish

green, having a sheath within at the base, from which the

spatha arises. Peduncle shorter and thicker than the pe-

tiole, pale green spotted with purple. Spatha somewhat

cylindrical, cucullate, acute, contracted in the middle, pale

yellow-green spotted with red, thick and fleshy, bright red

within at the base. Spadix cylindrical, as long as the spa-

tha, densely covered in the lower part with pzstils ; the rest

with stamens, those at the base abortive. Germen subglo-

bose : Stigma large, depressed, wrinkled, sessile. Stamens

peltate, angled, bearing the linear cells on the sides.

: Fig. 1. Spadix removed from the Spatha; nat. size, 2. Stamen. 3. Pis-

til :—magnified.

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DopDECATHEON INTEGRIFOLIUM. ENTIRE-

LEAVED AMERICAN COoWSLIP.

SEK KKK KK KEKE EKER EKER EERE

Class and Order.

PenranpriA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Primutacez. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 5-partitus, laciniis reflexis. Corolla 5-partita, la-

ciniis limbi reflexis. Stamina filamenta brevissima, latius-

cula, tubo insidentia. Anthere sagittate in rostrum con-

niventes. Stylus staminibus longior, simplex. Capsula

apice dehiscens dentibus 5. Spr.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

DopecatuEon* integrifolium ; foliis spathulatis integerri-"

mis, umbellis plurifloris, pedunculis divaricatis, brac-

teis ovatis, filamentis elongatis in tubum connatis.

Dopecarueon integrifolium. Mich. Fl. Am. v. 1. p. 123.

Pursh, Fl. Am. ».1. p. 136. Roem. et Sch. Syst. Veget.

v. 4. p. 132. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 673. Rich-

ards. in Frankl. Journ. ed. 2. App. p. 6.

A very distinct and beautiful species of a very small

Genus, first described by Micuaux from plants eng

* This Name is said to have been conferred by PLiny on some plant or

other, which he considered to display in itself the majesty of all the Divini-

ties. Of these it is well known that the Romans enumerated twelve princi-

pal ones; six male and six female. The DopECATHEON of modern authors

has, however, nothing to do with the individual to which Pirny applied so

grand a designation, as it is a native of the New World, and received its

name in allusion to the number of the flowers, frequently twelve, which it

bears in each head.

him in the Alleghany Mountains, since found abundantly by

Dr. Ricuarpson in the woody country of British North

America as far as Carlton House Fort, and by Mr. Drum-

monp in the Rocky Mountains. The latter Naturalist sent

seeds to this country, from which plants were raised at the

Edinburgh and Glasgow Botanic Gardens. Another en-

tire-leaved species with sessile anthers, was found by Dr.

Ricuarpson on the Arctic shores, and by other Naturalists

in North-West America: this is the D. frigidum of Cuam.

and Scuiecur. in the Linnea : and we possess another anda

new species of the Genus in Mr. Dovenas’ last collections

in the interior of North-West America.

Descr. Root perennial, throwing up a tuft of rather pale

green, spathulate, quite entire leaves. Scape eight to ten

inches high, glabrous, rounded, terminated by an umbel of

from eight to ten or twelve handsome flowers. Peduncles

spreading, surrounded by an involucre of five to seven ovate

bracteas, and several smaller bracteas within. Flowers

drooping. Calyx of five, spreading, ovate, acute segments.

Corolla rotate, soon reflexed, the short tube white with a-

yellow ring ; the limb reflexed. Filaments much exserted,

and united into a yellow, fleshy tube, almost as long as the

anthers: Anthers meeting in a cone, lanceolato-subulate,

greenish-yellow, purple on the back. Germen globose :

Style filiform, longer than the stamens : Stigma capitate.

Fig. 1. Upper part of the Scape with its Bracteas. 2. Calyx and Pistil.

3. Staminal Tube laid open :—magnified.

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( 3623 )

Papaver GARIEPINUM. SoutTu-AFRICAN

Poppy.

KKK KEKE KEKE EEK EEE EEEK

Class and Order ;

Potyanpria Monoeynt.

( Nat. Ord.—Papaveraceg. )

Generic Character.

Sepala 2 convexa, decidua. Petala4. Stamina nume-

rosa. Stylus o. Stigmata 4—20, radiantia, sessilia super

discum ovarium coronantem. Capsula obovata, 1-locula-

ris, e carpellis 4—20 in thalami productione membranacea

inclusis constans, sub stigmatum corona valvulis brevibus

dehiscens. Placente intervalvulares, intus in dissepimenta

incompleta producte.—Herbe perennes succo albo fete.

Pedunculi ante florescentiam apice inflexi. D C.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Papaver Gariepinum; capsulis glabris obovato-oblongis,

sepalis setosis, caule multifloro setis innumeris hor-

rido, foliis sessilibus hispidis sinuato-pinnatifidis, lobis

distantibus ovatis.

Paraver Gariepinum. Burchell, Afric. Trav. v. 1. p. 318.

De Cand. Prodr. v.11. p. 119. Spreng. Syst. Veg. v. 2.

p. 570.

When Mr. Burcuett reached the river Gariep in South-

ern Africa, in lat. 29° 40' 52” S., he says, in his valuable

Travels, “ Along the bank I found a Poppy four feet in

height, with a showy bright-red flower, like that of our

common English Corn: Poppy ; an interesting and unex-

pected discovery, in these southern latitudes, of a Genus so

decidedly northern.” Our figure represents this species,

which was raised by Mr. Murray in the Glasgow Botanic

Garden, from seeds sent by. Baron Lupwie. It is remark-

able

able for the strong, spreading bristles, varying in size, in-

deed, but most of them very large, with which almost every

part of the plant is clothed. There is, however, an Austra-

lian species, which seemed very nearly allied to this, the P.

horridum of Dr Canpotie: whether distinct or not I am

unable to say.

Our plant flowered under a frame the latter end of May

and beginning of June. Placed in the open border it

seemed very susceptible of our (in this year, 1836) unusually

cold and fickle summer.

Descr. Root annual, or perhaps biennial. Stem erect,

a foot and a half to two feet high, rounded, branched,

clothed, as is every part of the plant, except the flowers)

with copious, spreading, and very harsh bristles, unequal

indeed, in size, but most of them very large. Leaves ob-

long-lanceolate ; those of the root and lower part of the

stem somewhat petiolate, pinnatifid, the segments distant,

oblong-ovate, the margin every where toothed, the teeth

bristle-pointed ; upper leaves sessile, inciso-serrate, gradu-

ally smaller. Flowers scarcely two inches across, on hispid

peduncles, which are somewhat panicled. Sepals two, oval,

concave, hispid. Petals obovato-rotundate, somewhat

clawed, very obtuse, wavy, pale brick-colour approaching

to orange. Stamens numerous. Germen oblong, a little

thickened upwards, slightly furrowed and torulose, quite

glabrous. Stigma conico-depressed, of few rays. Capsule

of the same shape with the germen, opening by large aper-

tures beneath the stigma.

Fig. 1. Capsule, nat. size. 2. The same, magnified.

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DracopuyLLuM cCAPITATUM. RouUND-HEADED

DracoPpHyLLuM.

KKK KEKE EK REE KEKE EKER

Class and Order.

PentanpriaA Monoeynia.

( Nat. Ord.—Epacripe4. )

Generic Character.

Calyx bi- v. ebracteatus. Corolla tubulosa, limbo 5-

partito patenti, imberbi. Stamina epipetala v. hypogyna.

Squamule 5 hypogyne. Capsula placentis ab apice co-

lumne centralis pendulis solutis.—Frutices v. Arbuscule,

ramis dum denudatis annulatis. Spice v. racemi termi-

nales ; ille simplices, hi quandoque compositt. Br.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Dracornytium * capitatum ; ramis floriferis spica ovata

multoties longioribus, foliis caulinis ensiformi-lanceo-

latis erectiusculis, rameis adpressis.

Dracopayiium capitatum. Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p.

557. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 629.

A very pretty New Holland Plant, which has for some

years annually produced its white heads of flowers in the

greenhouse of the Glasgow Botanic Garden, in the summer

months.

Descr. A shrub about a foot and’a half high, with erect,

twiggy branches. Leaves _ensiformi-lanceolate, pungent,

dark green, tipped with red and somewhat spreading on the

stem ; paler coloured, smaller, and close-pressed upon the

branches.

* Ypaxos, draco, and Qvars, a leaf; from the resemblance of the leaves to

those of Dracana Draco.

branches. Flowers in terminal heads, pure white, very

delicate. Bracteas two at the base of the calyx. Corolla

salver-shaped, the limb of five spreading, very obtuse, obo-

vate segments: the mouth contracted. Stamens from the

tube of the corolla, included: Anthers reddish-purple :

pollen and filaments white. Germen globose, green, with

five hypogynous glands. Style thickened upwards, shorter

than the corolla. Stigma obtuse.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil and hypogynous Glands. 3. Stamens :—

magnified.

W. Fitch del* Pub. by 3. Custis, Clasenwood Hisces Dee.” 11831

( 3625 )

CHRYSOCOMA SQUAMATA. SCALY-STALKED

GOLDYLOCKS.

Class and Order.

SyNGENESIA /EQUALIs.

( Nat. Ord.—Composir. )

Generic Character.

Capitulum multiflorum homogamum : flosculi tubulosi.

Pappus pilosus, uniserialis. Achenitum erostre plano-com-

pressum.—F ruticuli vel herbacei; foliis linearibus, sparsis,

mntegris ; capitulis terminalibus solitariis, luteis ; involucris

embricatis.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Curysocoma * squamata ; pubescens, ramis elongatis gra-

cilibus, foliis lineari-oblongis acutis subtus niveo-

tomentosis, summis squameformibus, involucri squa-

mis acutis scariosis.

Cnrysocoma squamata. Labill. Nov. Holl. v. 2. p. 40. t.

184. All. Cunn. in Field’s N. S. Wales, p. 359. Spreng.

Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 429.

A very pretty, perennial, suffruticose plant, native of-

Van Diemen’s Land, where it was discovered by LaBILLAR-

piERE, (and whence seeds were sent by Ronatp Gunn, Esq.,

to the Glasgow Botanic Garden,) and about Cox’s River,

N. S. Wales, according to Mr. Annan CUNNINGHAM. it

flowers in the greenhouse during the month of May.

Descr. Stem much branched from the base, where it

appears to be shrubby, and ofa red-brown colour : branches

downy,

* spvcos, gold, and xoyn, hair ; from the golden heads of flowers.

downy, erect, slender, virgate, leafy throughout. Leaves

linear-oblong, or linear-lanceolate ; the lowermost an inch

and a half or two inches long and acute, the rest shorter

and more obtuse, passing gradually upwards into small

scales, which are numerous below the flowers, nearly gla-

brous above, beneath clothed with white down. Flowers,

or Capitula, terminal, solitary, yellow. Involucre bell-

shaped ; its scales numerous, imbricated, acute, scariose,

dark brown at the tip. Florets numerous, densely crowded.

Corolla infundibuliform, five-cleft. Anthers and Stigmas

included. Germen oblong. Hairs of the Pappus slightly

feathery.

Fig. 1. Floret. 2. Upper part of the Style and Stigmas. 3. Hair from

the Pappus :—magnified.

INDEX,

which the Latin Names of the Plants contained in the Hleventh

‘Volume of the New Series (or Siaty-fourth of the Work) are

—.—_- alphabetically arranged.

Fi. ras

3563 Acropera Loddigesii. 3542 Hippeastrum ambiguum, var.

3610 Aa eristien glaucum. t losgificn. OPE:

3608 Aporum anceps. 3549 breviflorum.

3564 Begonia monoptera.

3559 - octopetala.

3591 platanifolia.

3597 Bifrenaria aurantiaca.

3599 Blumenbachia multifida.

3620 Boussingaultia baselloides.

3577 Brassia Lanceana.

3588 Calliprora lutea.

83590 Catasetum luridum.

3598 Cereus Ackermanni.

3566 serpentinus.

3567 Ceropegia stapeliiformis.

3607 Chorizema Henchmanni.

3625 Chrysocoma squamata.

8583 Chrysostemma tripteris.

3617 Chysis aurea.

3592 Clarkia elegans.

3584 Clianthus puniceus.

3586 Coreopsis longipes.

3593 Delphinium vimineum.

~ 8553 Desmodium Canadense.

3622 Dodecatheon integrifolium.

3619 Dombeya cannabina.

3624 Dracophyllum capitatum.

3570 Echeveria racemosa.

3561 Echinocactus Mackieanus.

3558 mammillaroides.

3569 ———-———— sessiliflorus.

3557 Epidendrum chloroleucum.

8595 coriaceum.

3543 crassifolium.

3565 diffusum.

$605 Eria stellata.

3589 Eucharidium concinnum.

3572 Eutoca viscosa.

3551 Gaillardia bicolor, var. Drum-

mondii integerrima.

3612 Gesneria Douglasii, 8. verticil-

lata.

3602 Lindleyi.

3576 Sceptrum, y. ignea.

3596 Habranthus Andersoni, var €.

Texanus.

3587 Impatiens scapiflora.

3002 Lachenalia glaucina.

3578 Leptosiphon densiflorus.

3004 Limnanthes Douglasii.

3574 Linum monogynum.

3600 Lobelia Cavanillesii.

3609 erinoides,

3550 polyphylla.

3604 syphilitica, hybrida.

3594 Lychnis Bungeana.

3548 Madia elegans.

3614 Maxillaria Henchmanni.

3613 ————— pumila.

3573. —————. 5 teellii.

3560 Mimulus Cardinalis.

8601 Monacanthus discolor, 8. viridi-

florus.

3545 CEnothera fruticosa, var. am-

bigua.

3568 Oncidium Cebolleta.

3603 -———— luridum.

3581 —————. pumilum.

3623 Papaver Gariepinum.

3580 Pavetta Caffra.

3556 Petunia violacea, hybrida.

3618 Philibertia grandiflora.

3621 Philodendron crassinervium.

3579 Platystemon Californicum.

3575 Platystigma linearis.

3616 Polygala myrtifolia, var. gran-

diflora.

3562 Rytidophyllum auriculatum.

3571 Sarcanthus teretifolius.

3544 Sisyrinchium speciosum.

3606 Stenactis speciosa.

8615 Stenomesson croceum.

3611 Thermopsis fabacea,

3546 Tradescantia caricifolia.

3547 Tulbaghia Ludwigiana.

3555 violacea.

3582 Xanthozia rotundifolia.

3585 Zygopetalum cochleare.

EN) D: BX,

In which the English Names of the Plants contained in the Eleventh

Volume of the New Series (or Sizty-fourth of the Work) are

alphabetically arranged.

Fi.

3563 Acropera, Mr. Loddiges’.

3610 Anthericum, glaucous-leaved.

3608 Aporum, two-edged.

3587 Balsam, stemless.

3059 Begonia,eight-petaled.

8591 plane-leaved.

3064 single-winged.

3597 Bifrenaria, orange-coloured.

3599 Blumenbachia, multifid-leaved.

3620 Boussingaultia, Basella-like.

3577 Brassia, Mr. Lance’s.

3588 Calliprora, yellow.

3594 Campion, Dr. Bunge’s scarlet.

3590 Catasetum, lurid.

8598 Cereus, Ackerman’s Mexican.

3566 serpent-like.

3567 Ceropegia, Stapelia-like.

3607 Chorizema, Mr. Henchman’s.

- 8583 Chrysostemma, three-leaved.

_ 8617 Chysis, golden-flowered.

- 8592 Clarkia, Californian.

8586 Coreopsis, long-stalked.

_ 3622 Cowslip, American, entire-

ee —leaved.

3553 Desmodium, Canadian.

3619 Dombeya, Hemp.

3624 Dracophyllum, round-headed.

3070 Echeveria, racemed.

3561 Echinocactus, Mr. Mackie’s.

8558 : mammillaria-

like.

3569 ———_—-—— sessile-flowered

3595 Epidendrum, coriaceous-

leaved.

3057 green and white-

flowered.

reading.

3543

— thick-leaved.

3605 Eria, star-flowered. :

3589 Eucharidium, pretty.

3572 Eutoca, clammy.

3545 Evening Primrose, shrubby,

‘4, OAT.

3574 Flax, monogynous.

3551 Gaillardia two-coloured, Drum-

mond’s entire-leaved var.

3612 Gesneria, Mr. Douglas’ whorl-

eee ed var.

ao 3602 Dr. Lindley’s.

LE.

3576 Gesneria, sceptre-flowered,

pale-flowered var.

3584 Glory-Pea, crimson.

3625 Goldylocks, scaly-stalked.

3596 Habranthus, Anderson’s

Texas var.

3542 Knight’s Star Lily, ambiguous,

var. 1. long-flowered.

8549 short-flow-

ered.

3552 Lachenalia, glaucous-flowered.,

3593 Larkspur, slender, upright.

3578 Leptosiphon,thickly-flowering.

$554 Limnanthes, Mr. Douglas’.

3604 Lobelia, hybrid var, of the blue

American.

3600 — Cavanilles’.

3609 Erinus-like.

3550 — many-leaved.

3548 Madia, elegant.

3613 Maxillaria, dwarf.

3614 Mr. Henchman’s.

3573 ——__—_—— Mr. Steele’s.

3616 Milk-wort, Myrtle-leaved,

large-flowered var.

3601 Monk-flower, dingy, green-

flowered var.

$560 Monkey-flower, Cardinal.

3603 Oncidium, dingy-flowered.

3681 Mr. Herbert’s dwarf...

3568 rounded-leaved.

3580 Pavetta, South African.

3556 Petunia, purple, hybrid var.

3618 Philibertia, large-flowered.

3621 Philodendron, thick-ribbed.

8579 Platystemon, Californian.

3575 Platystigma, linear-leaved.

3623 Poppy, South-African.

3562 Rytidophyllum, auriculated.

3571 Sarcanthus, round-leaved.

3544 Sisyrinchium, showy.

3546 Spiderwort, sedge-leaved.

3606 Stenactis, showy.

8615 Stenomesson, orange-flowered.

3611 Thermopsis, bean-leaved.

3547 Tulbaghia, eae te

3555 —————- violet-flowered.

3582 Xanthozia, round-leaved.

3585 Zygopetalum, shell-lipped.