CURTIS’S

BOTANICAL MAGAZINE,

COMPRISING THE

Plants. of the Ropal Gardens of Kev,

OF OTHER BOTANICAL ESTABLISHMENTS IN GREAT BRITAIN ;

WITH SUITABLE DESCRIPTIONS ;

AND

A SUPPLEMENT OF BOTANICAL AND HORTICULTURAL INFORMATION ;

BY

SIR WILLIAM JACKSON HOOKER, K.H., D.C.L. Oxon.

LL.D., F.R.S., and L.S., Vice-President of the Linnzan Society, and Director of the Royal Gardens of Kew.

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1846.

Co the Memory

OF

THE REV. JOHN CLOWES,

LATE OF

BROUGHTON HALL, MANCHESTER,

IN GRATEFUL TESTIMONY OF THE MUNIFICENT DONATION

OF HIS

COLLECTION OF ORCHIDEOUS PLANTS

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ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS OF KEW,

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Tas. 4203.

PERISTERIA Barker.

Mr. Barker's Peristeria or Dove-flower.

Nat. Ord. Orncurpe®.—GyYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tab. 4156.)

Perister1a Barkeri; pseudo-bulbis ovatis profunde sulcatis 3—4-phyllis, scapis

pendulis multifloris foliis subzquantibus, floribus carnosis fere clausis, se-

palis petalisque subeequalibus concavis obtusis, earpelli trilobi lobis latera-

libus integris erectis, intermedio angustiore basi calloso, columna aptera

breviter pubescente. Batem.

PERISTERIA Barkeri. Batem. Orchid. Mexic. et Guatem. t. 8.

The only figure yet given of this fine Orchideous plant is in

Mr. Bateman’s splendid work above quoted : but admirable as is

his representation, even an imperial folio page does not suffice to

render justice to this species of Peristeria. Its leaves are two

feet long and are erect, or nearly so, from the summit of a pseu-

do-bulb which is from five to seven inches long. The scape

emerges from the base of the pseudo-bulb and is pendent, thus

adding a foot or a foot and a half to the space required to include

a whole-length figure. It justly bears the name of Mr. Barker of

Birmingham, whose collector, Mr. Ross, detected and introduced

it to this country from the dark ravines with which the neighbour-

hood of Xalapa, in Mexico, abounds. Like the other species of the

genus it flowers rather freely and, as Mr. Bateman remarks, loves

a powerful heat, plenty of water, and abundance of pot-room.

Our plant flowered in Nov. 1843, in the Royal Gardens of Kew.

Descr. This has very long pseudo-bulbs, which are broadly

ovate, deeply furrowed, with the ridges wrinkled, of a dark green

colour. Leaves, in our plant, three, from the summit of the

pseudo-bulb, two feet and more long, broadly lanceolate, tapermg

at each end, membranaceous, plaited. Scapes pendent from the

base of the pseudo-bulb, a foot and more long, bearing flowers in _

a raceme almost to the very base, which latter is sheathed with

several brown scales. Each flower is subglobose, of a rather full

yellow colour, the unexpanded ones tinged with green. Sepals

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and petals very concave, obtuse, nearly equal, scarcely spreading.

Lip small, articulate upon the elongated base of the column,

deeply three-lobed : lateral lobes large, erect, embracing the co-

lumn ; middle one much smaller, retuse, within is a large gland

spotted with red. Column semicylindrical ; its wings short ; the

back slightly downy. Azthers as in the genus.

Fig. 1. Column and lip. 2. Column. 3. Anterior view of the lip :—slightly

magnified.

Tas. 4204.

MILTONIA spEctTABILIS.

Showy Miltonia.

Nat, Ord. OncHrpE®.—GyYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Gen. Char, Perianthium explanatum, petalis revolutis sepalisque lateralibus

basi connatis sessilibus conformibus. Ladsellum maximum, dilatatum, indivisum,

sessile, cum columna leviter connatum, basi lamellatum. Colwmna nana semi-

teres, apice aurita. Pollinia 2, caudicule oblong adnata.—Herbe epiphyte,

oe eon Scapi uniflori, vaginati, squamis equitantibus. Flores speciosissimt.

indl.

erie na LPNS

Mitronra spectabilis. Lindl. Bot. Reg. sub. fol. 1976. et Tab. 1992.

Microcut.us Fryanus. ‘ Floral Cabinet,’ t. 45.

It was a most just compliment paid to Lord Fitzwilliam,

when Dr. Lindley gave to the present plant the name it bears.

Under his Lordship’s auspices, Orchidee were first success-

fully cultivated at Wentworth by his able gardener, Mr. Cooper.

A more lovely genus or a more distinct one, the whole family of

Orchidee cannot boast, and it has the advantage of its blossoms

remaining a long time in perfection. With us it flowers in the

ordinary Orchideous House, in the month of August.

Descr. This plant has a sort of creeping riizoma, sheathed

with scales and sending out rather slender roots or fibres below,

and pseudo-bulbs, distantly placed, above. These latter are ob-

long, compressed, smooth, with two large membranous scales, one

on each side at the base. eaves two, terminal on the pseudo-

bulb, ligulate, subcoriaceous, curved downward. Scape from

the base of the pseudo-bulb, erect, a foot or more high, sheathed

at the joints with compressed equitant membranous scales,

and bearing a solitary large flower of great beauty and delicacy.

Sepals and petals nearly alike, all spreading, or more or less

recurved, oblong, obtuse, slightly waved, white or cream-colored,

with a tinge of rose at the base. Jip very large, pendent,

obovate, subunguiculated, waved, longitudinally plicate and ob-

scurely obliquely veined, terminating at the base in a short claw,

and there having three distinct lamelle. The poe color may

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be said to be whitish, but it is suffused with a fine rosy tint,

deepest towards the base and in all the furrows of the plicee.

Column small, white, with two dark rose-red ears or wings.

Anther-case conico-hemispherical. Pollen-masses two.

Fig. 1. Pollen-masses :—magnijied.

Reeve imp:

Fitch, del-et ith.

Tas. 4205.

FAGRAEA OBOVATA.

Obovate-leaved Fagrea.

Nat. Ord. LoGanrtacE&®.—PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx basi bibracteatus, 5-partitus, lobis imbricatis, obtusis. Co-

rolla infundibuliformis tubo superne subampliato, lobis obliquis per estivatione

imbricatis demum patentibus. Stamina 5, medio tubo inserta, filam. subulatis

subexsertis, anth. bilocul. subincumbentibus. Ovarium biloculare. Stylus fili-

formis. Stigma peltato-depressum, Bacca corticata, ovalis, bilocularis, septo e

valvis induplicatis duplici, (in F. awriculata demum 4-valvis, ex Blum.). Pla-

cente pulpose. Semina pulposa, pulpa immersa, parva, crustacea. Albumen

(ex Blum.) corneum, ex Wall. carnosum.—Frutices arboresve Indici, glabri.

Ramuli sepius tetragoni. Folia opposita, ovalia, petiolata, integra, coriacea. Sti-

pulee interpetiolares. Flores albi, in corymbum racemumve trichotomum terminalem

dispositi. De Cand.

Facra obovata; arborea, ramis obtuse tetragonis, foliis ellipticis obovatisve

apice rotundatis seepe acuminulatis, panicula subeymosa, 3—6-flora ramis

brachiatis, corollee limbo tubum equante, lobis obovato-rotundatis paten-

tibus.

Facrma obovata. Wall. in Fl. Ind. ed. 2. p. 33. (aon Bl. Rumph. v.1. t. 75.)

De Cand. Prodr. v. 9. p. 29.

An exceedingly handsome stove-plant, both as to its foliage and

the large cream-coloured flowers, which moreover are very fragrant.

It has been long cultivated in the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew,

plants having been sent by Dr. Wallich from Sylhet, where, as

at Singapore, according to the same botanist, it is a native. With

us it has never blossomed. For flowering specimens I am in-

debted to the kindness of Mr. Shepherd, of the Botanic Garden,

Liverpool. It flourishes in a moist hot stove and succeeds best

with bottom heat. : ee

The genus was named by Thunberg in compliment to his friend

J. T. Fagreus, a Doctor of Medicine.

Descr. With us, cultivated in a pot, it only becomes a shrub,

five to six feet high ; in its native soil a middling sized tree, with

stout stems and branches, the latter, at their extremities at least,

green and herbaceous, four-sided. Leaves opposite, rather large,

coriaceous, glabrous, as is every part of the plant, oval or subel-_

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liptic, more generally obovate, with a rather short and sudden

point at the end of the rounded extremity, penninerved, quite

entire, rather obtuse at the base. _Petioles about an inch long,

stout, with an interpetiolary auricle or stipule. FVowers in a short

subcymose panicle, terminal; the branches of it brachiate, each

bibracteated. Calyx somewhat turbinate, thick and fleshy, five-

lobed, the lobes ovate, blunt, erect. Corol/a large, fragrant, cream-

coloured, thickish, subcoriaceous, between campanulate and fun-

nel-shaped, Ze two inches long, gradually enlarging upwards,

where it becomes the five-lobed spreading limb. Stamens five,

Filaments exserted beyond the tube, slightly declined. Anthers

large, ovate. Style as long as the stamens. Stigma depressed,

orbicular, peltate.

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Tas. 4206.

IPOM/MA sImpPuex.

Simple-stalked Ipomea.

Nat. Ord. ConvoLvuLacE®.—PENTANDRIA MoNoGyNIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx 5-sepalus. Corolla campanulata. Stamina inclusa. Stylus ?

Stigma capitatum, seepius bilobum. Ovariwm biloculare, loculis dispermis. Cap-

sula bilocularis. Choisy in DC.

[pom simplex ; glabra, radice tuberosa, caule ad basin suffruticoso subramoso

dein erectiusculo debili foliisque lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis subundulatis,

pedunculis brevibus solitariis unifloris e parte inferiori caulis, sepalis ovato-

lanceolatis apice acuminatis recurvis, corolla tubo superne sensim dilatato,

limbo patente.

Ipomma simplex. Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. p.170. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1.

p. 607.

When the rounded uncouth-looking tuber of this plant was

presented to our Garden by the Earl of Derby, in 1844, brought

home from the eastern Colonies of South Africa by Mr. Bender,

we were not prepared for a cluster of such lovely flowers as ap-

peared at the base of the stems in July 1845. It is one of the

Ipomeas that is best worth cultivating, for it only needs a small

pot, placed in a green-house, and no trellis or apparatus to support

the stems, which, at most, do not exceed a foot in length, and

are clothed with long slender almost grass-like leaves. It is how-

ever difficult of increase. 2

Every one, who has occasion to study the Cape plants, 1s aware

of the extreme difficulty of determining the species. Imperfect

as is Thunberg’s character of Jpomea simplex, “ foliis lanceolatis

integris, floribus solitariis,” I was yet of opinion it was intended

for this plant, especially on seeing the character followed by the

observation, “ caulis filiformis, totus glaber, vix palmaris, and

my idea was confirmed by having received specimens of the same :

plant from Dr. Harvey and from Drége, marked I. simpler. The

latter, indeed, adds a mark of doubt. The Z. simplex of Thun-

berg we find, in the last volume of De Candolle’s Prodromus,

(vol. ix. p. 357.) referred, (not without a note of interrogation) to

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the L. suffruticosa of Burchell, Trav. vol. ii. p- 226, with the fol-

lowing characters, “incano-tomentosa, foliis ovato-cordatis apice

subacutis, &c.” Still more strangely, the Convolvulus of Sprengel

is made the same as the J. suffruticosa, without any query,

although Sprengel’s character is a mere transcript from 'Thun-

berg’s.—After flowering, the stems die down nearly to the tuber.

Descr. oot a solitary tuber, larger than a good-sized apple,

subglobose. Stems from six inches to a foot long, slender, sub-

erect, but feeble and scarcely able to support themselves, woody

at the base and there more or less divided, glabrous, as is every

part of the plant. Leaves alternate, nearly sessile, three, four,

or more inches long, narrow, almost linear-lanceolate, tapering at

both extremities, frequently recurved, the margins waved, quite

entire. Mowers large, handsome, from the lower part of the

stem, each on a short peduncle. Calyx of five broadly lanceolate,

acuminated, and at the apex somewhat recurved, sepals. Corolla

large, fine rose-colour: the tude slightly enlarged upwards and ex-

panding into the broad spreading dims. Stamens five, inserted

at the base of the tube, included, two long, and three short.

Filaments subulate, downy at the base. Style included. Stigma

large, capitate, two-lobed, granulated,

Fig. 1. Pistil. 2. Section of ovary :—magnified.

#207.

Fitch, del et.lith

Reeve imp

Tas. 4207.

HEINSIA JSASMINIFLORA.

Jessamine-flowered Heinsia.

Nat. Ord. RusracE®.—PENTANDRIA MonoeynIa.

Gen. Char. Calycis tubus obovatus, limbus 5-partitus, lobis foliaceis oblongis

persistentibus. Corolla hypocraterimorpha, tubo tereti lobis calycinis longiore,

intus ad partem superiorem hirsutissimo, lobis 5 ovalibus acutis undulatis. dn-

there 5 lineares acute versus apicem tubi sessiles intra pilos quasi occultate in-

cluse. Stylus filiformis tubo corolle brevior ; stigmata 2 linearia. Fructus glo-

bosus calyce coronatus siccus durus indehiscens bilocularis. Placente 2 crasse

septo adnate. Semina plurima aptera in placente superficie nidulantia.—Frutex

(sew arbuscula) ramosissimus inermis, sed ramulis persistentibus spinas Sere simu-

lantibus horridus. Folia opposita ovali oblonga acuminata breve petiolata. Stipulee

utringue bine minime acute. Flores 3—4 ad apicem ramorum subracemosi pedi-

cellati albi, Gardenize aut Randize sat similes. D.C.

TLernsta jasminiflora. De Cand. Prodr. v. 4. p. 390.

A very little known shrub, from Western Tropical Africa, pre-

sented to the Royal Gardens of Kew by the Earl of Derby, who

imported it from Sierra Leone, through Mr. Whitfield. The only

description we have of it is by De Candolle, in the Prodromus—

above quoted, where it is taken up from a specimen gathered by

Smeathman, and deposited in the Herbarium of L’Héritier. It

was named in compliment to the Philologist Heinsius, translator

of Theophrastus. The shrub has a good deal the appearance of

a Gardenia or Randia; with flowers, shaped indeed something

like those of a Jessamine, that is, salver-shaped, but very much —

larger :—the segments of the corolla broad and singularly striated,

and often puckered (in those respects much resembling the sepals of

some species of Clematis, particularly Clematis Viticella). It re- |

quires the heat of a stove and has flowered with us in September.

Descr. A middling-sized shrub in the solitary plant we have

seen, glabrous in every part, with opposite and nearly erect

branches, which are rounded, and green when young, soon turning»

brown ; in age losing their leaves and often becoming spinescent.

Leaves opposite, on very short petioles, alt

or oblong-ovate, acuminate, rigid, subcoriaceous,

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almost sessile, narrow-

entire, penml-

nerved, the apex generally curved downward. Stipules very small,

subulate, two on each side the branches between each pair of

leaves. Flowers three or four, terminal upon the branches. Pe-

dicels halt to three-quarters of an inch long. whe of the calyx

(adherent with the ovary) obovate, glabrous or nearly so, crowned

with five linear-oblong, almost leafy, recurved, persistent seg-

ments. Corolla hypocrateriform : the tube cylindrical, green : the

limé of five obovate pure white segments, marked with three to

five longitudinal striz on the disk, the margins crisped. Stamens

wholly included within the tube, which is much contracted at

the mouth. Sfy/e also included. Stigma bifid.

Fig. 1. Transverse section of an ovary. 2. Pistil :—magnified.

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Tas. 4208.

CUPHEA corpata.

Large redflowered Cuphea.

Nat. Ord. LyTHRARIEZ.—DoDECANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Gen.Char. Calya tubulosus basi superiore gibbus limbo ampliatus, dentibus

6 erectis, sinubus 6 nunc productis parvis nune obsoletis. Petala 6—7 inequalia.

Stamina 11-14 rarius 6—7, fauci calycis inserta ineequalia. Glandula crassa sub

ovario. Stylus filiformis. Stigma simplex aut subbifidum. Capsu/a membranacea

calyce obtecta 1-2-locularis, demum per placentam deflexam simul cum calyce

fissa. Semina suborbiculata compressa aptera—Herbe aut Suffrutices. Folia

opposita rarius verticillata integerrima. Pedunculi inferpetiolares uni- aut rarius

multiflori. Flores sepius cernui. Calyces colorati. Petala violacea aut alba. D.C.

Cupnea cordata; pubescens, caule suffruticoso, foliis ovatis (vix cordato-ovatis)

oppositis subsessilibus integerrimis, racemis paniculatis bracteatis, calyce

(inter majores) colorato basi superne obtuse calcarato ore oblique 6-dentato,

staminibus 11 triseriatis, petalis 2 superioribus subrotundatis maximis 4

minutissimis.

Cupnea cordata. Ruiz et Pav. Syst. Veget. p. 119. Fl. Peruv. et Chil. Prodr,

p. 66. 4.11. Ruiz et Pav. Ic. ined. t.114 C. De Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p. 88.

A truly beautiful plant, from the rich scarlet of its two large

petals and calyces. Would that all the species of this extensive

-genus were as distinctly marked as the present one! It is a na-

tive of hills and woods in Peru, about Huassahuass1, Chaclla,

Acomayo and Huanuco, and from that country seeds were sent

to Mr. Veitch of Exeter by his collector, Wm. Lobb, in 1842,

from which plants were raised that blossomed in August, 1845.

The plant is kept in the stove and seems to flower freely there: _

it may be increased by cuttings. ‘The generic name is derived by

Jacquin from «iss curved, in allusion to the, curvature of the base

of the calyx. :

Various properties are attributed by the Peruvians to this plant,

which are probably analogous to those of the nearly allied Lythrum

or Loose-strife. “ Vi vulneraria,” say Ruiz and Pavon, “ apertiva

et desobstruente pollet. Folia floresque contusi ad partes luxa-

tas roborandas inserviunt. Flores antiepilectici, saporem parum

_ viscosum, salino-dulcem, non ingratum habent,” ie

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Descr. A suffruticose plant, with terete or very obtusely

four-sided stems, downy, as well as the foliage, the dranches her-

baceous, erect. Leaves opposite, ovate, or rarely the lower ones

subcordato-ovate, sharply acuminated, entire, penninerved ; the

largest of them are two inches long, they gradually become

smaller and pass insensibly into dracteas as they approach the

owers. Panicle terminal, formed of lax racemes, each bearing two

to four drooping large (for the genus) almost entirely bright red,

or rather scarlet, fowers. Calyx tubular, very gibbous at the

base above, broader towards the mouth, which is oblique and six-

toothed, strongly ribbed. Corolla of six petals, four extremely small,

lanceolate, erect, scarcely longer than the calyces ; two upper ones

very large, unguiculate, the limb obovato-rotundate, reflexed.

Stamens eleven, inserted into the lower side of the faux of the

calyz, in three rows or series ; filaments exserted, hairy. Anthers

small.. Ovary seated upon an oblique gland, oblong, tapering

into a subulate style.

Fig. 1. Flower, the two larger upper petals removed. 2. The same, laid

open. 3. Pistil :—magnified.

Fitch, del et ith

Tas. 4209.

FRANCISCEA HypRANGEAFORMIS.

Hydrangea-like Pranciscea.

Nat, Ord. ScROPHULARINES.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4189.)

Franciscea hydrangeeformis ; caule subramoso, foliis (amplis) obovato-oblongis

breviter acuminatis basi in petiolum brevem cuneato-attenuatis, bracteis

(deciduis) lanceolatis pilosis ciliatis squamulisque aggregatis, calyce hirsuto,

florum racemis (compositis) terminalibus hemisphericis amplis. Pod.

Franciscea hydrangezformis. Pohl, Pl. Bras. v.1. p.7. t.7. Benth. in De

Cand. Prodr. ined.

8, calycibus latioribus bracteisque glabriusculis.

FRANCISCEA capitata, Benth. 1. c. (Tas. NosTR. 4209.)

Ever since the publication of the 1st fasciculus of Pohl’s splen-

did work on Brazilian Plants, it has been an object with collectors

and horticulturists to procure the F. Aydrangeaformis for culti-

vation in our stoves. Pohl found it at Olaria, near Rio Parahy-

buna, in 1818. Mr. Gardner was so fortunate as to meet with

it, in the Organ Mountains, (n. 563 of his collections) in 1837;

and he wrote from Rio, upon the label attached to our specimens,

“this, from my recollection of the figure, I had considered to be 7.

hydrangeeformis of Pohl; but by the kindness of Mr. Miers lam

informed that Pohl’s description is ‘ bracteis lanceolatis pilosis

ciliatis, calyce hirsuto’; while here the bracts and calyx are

quite glabrous. It is a shrub, about four feet high, growing in

_ Tather moist places in virgin forests, and attaining an elevation,

upon the hills, of about 4500 feet. All the species are called

Manacd (the Indian name) by the Brazilians, and this receives

the name of Manacdé dobrado. Mt is a beautiful plant ; but does

not ripen its seeds freely. I have only been able to procure a

few, which I send.” These seeds have been reared in Glasgow

and Kew, and from the produce of them our present figure was

taken. In 1840 Mr. Gardner met again, in Minas Geraes, with

Specimens (n. 5065 of his collections), which he considered the true

plant of Pohl, in which opinion he is no doubt correct, the calyees_

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being narrower and rather more hairy; but the leaves are longer

and narrower than our var., or in Pohl’s figure. This it is which

Mr. Bentham refers, in De Candolle’s forthcoming volume, to

Pohl’s F. hydrangeeformis, whereas the present he has looked

upon as a distinct species, his # capitata. 1 fear they are only

slight varieties ; though neither yields to the other in beauty. It

is cultivated in the stove and seems to have no particular season

for flowering. Our drawing was made in October of the pre-

sent year, and the plant is now showing bloom again (Dec. 1845).

It is, with difficulty, increased by cuttings and does not bear

seed with us.

Dzscr. A low growing shrub, of robust habit, sparingly

branched. eaves alternate, more crowded towards the apices

of the éranch, six to eight or even ten inches long, firm, glabrous,

oblong-obovate, quite entire, penninerved, the apex shortly acu-

minate, the base cuneate, tapering gradually into a short thick

foot-stalk. FYowers in a dense compound raceme or cyme, forming

a rather large compact head, and in that respect resembling the

Hydrangea hortensis. Bracteas and squamules at the base of the

pedicels, lanceolate, membranaceous, ciliate or glabrous. Calyw

in our plant oblong, broader upwards (in a, almost of equal dia-

meter throughout), slightly hairy even in our var. g, with five

sharp teeth or lobes. Coro//as large, of a fine rich blue-purple,

becoming paler and almost white in age. Stamens included.

Ovary seated upon a glandular ring; sfy/e included. Stigma

bifid.

Fig. 1. Calyx, with pistil. 2. Pistil :—smagnified.

Tas. 4210.

ADENOCALYMNA comosvum.

Hlop-lowered Adenocalymna.

Nat. Ord. Branonrace®.—D1pYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. Adenocalymna, Mart.— Calyx tubuloso-campanulatus, seepius

_3-dentatus, rarius truncatus aut spathaceo-fissus, versus apicem glandulas cir-

citer 10 grossas planiusculas fuscas fere calyciformes gerens. Corolla tubulosa,

basi subcontracta, extus pulverulento-velutina, limbo rotunde et subeequaliter

3-lobo. Stamina 4 fertilia et 1 sterile. -Anthere lobis 2 divaricatis glabris. —

Stigma bilamellatum. Fructus ignotus.—Frutices vel suffrutices, fere omnes

scandentes, Rami teretes ex lenticellis punctato-scabrioli. Folia opposita, nune

trifoliata, foliolo medio longius petiolulato, nunc bifoliata cum cirrho simplicissimo

intermedio. oliola integerrima. Racemi axillares terminalesve, pube brevi con-

Serta subpulverulenta ex omni parte velutini. Flores secus rachin oppositi, brevissime

pedicellati. Bractex ample, ovate, concave, decidua, et bracteole breviores angus-

tiores glandulas calycinis similes sepius dorso gerentes. Corolle flava, auranti-

acee aut forte purpurascentes, in sicco sepius sordide purpurascentes, 1-3 poll.

longa. DC. :

ADENOCALYMNA comosum; preter inflorescentiam subpubescentem glabrum,

foliis 3-foliatis et conjugatis simpliciter cirrhosis, foliolis ovatis subcoriaceis

supra planis lucidis reticulato-venosis sparsim glandulosis margine reflexo,

racemis spiciformibus axillaribus et terminalibus, bracteis sub vernatione

comosis oblongis acutis subglandulosis mox deciduis, bracteolis calycem 5-

dentatum glanduliferum superantibus.

ADENOCALYMNA comosum. De Cand. Prodr. v. 9. p. 201.

BiGNonia comosa. Cham. in Linnea t. 832. p. 693.

A highly natural group of the old and very extensive Genus

Bignonia, inhabiting Brazil and Guiana, distinguished by their

scandent scabrous stems, ternate leaves, (or geminate with a

simple cirrhus, in lieu of a terminal leaflet), and racemes of large,

handsome, generally yellow, trumpet-shaped flowers, glabrous or

pulverulento-tomentose, with large deciduous bracteas and smaller _

bracteoles ; the leaves, bracts, and calyces beset with conspicuous

pateriform dark-coloured glands. These constitute the Genus ~

Adenocalymna of Martius, adopted by De Candolle, and so named

from asiv, a gland; xédypa, a covering. It must be confessed

that the species, nineteen in number, are difficult to be defined

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x2 ee ae :

by words, and we should have failed to determine cur present

plant (sent from Rio to the Royal Gardens, by J. Lynd, Esq., in

1841), were it not that we possess an authentic specimen of /.

comosum from Chamisso. The A. longibracteatum, Mart., is con-

sidered by De Candolle to be scarcely distinct from this. Our

plant is a beautiful climber, and trained to the rafter of a stove

makes a fine appearance with its copious flower-buds, which look

like large clusters of hops in September and October, and as soon

as the bracteas fall, the conspicuous yellow flowers burst forth.

The species is increased by cuttings.

Descr. A tall climber, with fruticose, punctato-scabrous stems

and opposite ovate /eaves, sometimes approaching to a lanceolate

figure; the petiolules incrassated at their apex. Racemes both

axillary and terminal, at first so densely clothed with large con-

cave bracteas as to look like the large aments of the Hop; these

fall away before the corollas expand, except two lesser bracts upon

each pedicel, but which, still, are larger than the calyx, and event-

ually fall away also. Calyx tubulose, five-toothed, with about five

large glands below the teeth, similar to those on the leaves and

bracts. Corolla large, handsome, bright yellow, trumpet-shaped,

the /imé very large, spreading, two-lipped, upper lip of two, lower

of three, large, rounded, waved lobes. Stamens and style, with

the two-lipped stigma, included.

Fig. 1, Bracteoles and calyx (including the pistil), with glands. 2. Portion

of a leaf with a gland :—magnified.

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Tas. 4211.

STACHYTARPHETA aristatTa.

Aristate Bastard-Vervain.

Nat. Ord. VERBENACE®.—DIANDRIA MoNOGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx tubulosus, quadridentatus. Corolla tubo curvato ; limbo

quinquefido, inequali. Stamina quatuor quorum duo sterilia. Stigma subcapi-

tatum. Drupa exsucca, bilocularis, bipartibilis ; loculis monospermis.—Herbe,

suffrutices, aut frutices. Folia opposita, serrata aut crenata, Spice terminales,

demum alares, solitaria, teretes, graciles. Flores alterni, sessiles, bracteati ; rachi

carnose semi-immersi, Corolle violacea, cerule, coccinee aut rosee. Kunth.

STaAcHYTARPHETA aristata; suffruticosa pubescenti-incana, foliis rhombeo-ovatis

acuminatis grosse serratis reticulatim venosis basi in petiolum attenuatis

integerrimis subtus pubescentibus, spica elongata crassa densiflora, brac-

teis orbiculari-ovatis longe cuspidato-aristatis, corollz limbo tubum curvatum

zequante v. superante.

Sracnytarpuera aristata. Vahl, Eel. Am. v. 2. p. 2. Ice. 11. Enum. Plant. v. 1.

p. 206.

This fine plant was detected in South America, and probably

at Santa Martha, by Von Rohr, and seems to have been known

to no author but Vahl, who has given so accurate a description

of it in his ‘ Hxumeratio’ that the species cannot be mistaken.

It has, again, been found by our collector, Mr. Purdie, and sent

from Santa Martha to the Royal Gardens, where in a moist stove

it produced its handsome dense spikes of extremely rich_deep

almost black-purple flowers, in Oct. 1845. These flowers begin

to expand from below and continue opening upwards in succes-

sion throughout the whole length of the elongated spike. No

species of this genus yet cultivated is comparable to this for rich-

ness of color. The generic name 1s derived from ordxvs a spike,

and rap$ews crowded: a character which is fully borne out by the

present species. Oe

Descr. Whole plant uniformly pubescenti-hirsute. Stems

terete, herbaceous, with opposite branches. Leaves opposite,

ovate or rhombeo-ovate, acute, coarsely serrated, the base entire,

tapering into a short foot-stalk, the surface wrinkled, as it were,

with the copious oblique veins and transverse reticulations. Spike

FEBRUARY Ist, 1846.

terminal, very long, clothed with numerous densely-imbricated

orbicular-ovate leafy dracteas, tapering suddenly into a long sub-

ulation, whence the specific name given by Vahl. Calyx tubular,

curved, with five angles and five small but unequal teeth, the angles

hispid. Corolla rich deep blackish-purple, with the tude curved,

(downy within), the Zimé of five rounded or almost obcordate,

spreading, nearly equal, waved lobes. At the upper side of the

mouth is a bifid scale. Stamens situated at the mouth, two are per-

fect, with short filaments and two-celled anthers, the anther-cclls

diverging: and two are sterile filaments, wholly destitute of an-

thers. Ovary arising from a fleshy base or gland. Style long,

filiform. Stigma capitate, somewhat two-lobed.

Fig. 1. Calyx, including the pistil. 2. Corolla, laid open. 3. Pistil:—smagnified.

Reeve Brothers imp.

Fitch, del. et.tith

Tas. 4212.

SINNINGIA vELuTINA.

Velvety Sinningia.

Nat. Ord. GEsSNERIACEZ.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx tubulosus 5-angulatus, foliaceo-alatus, ore quinquefido.

Corolla fauce inflata, sub-bilabiata. Rudimentum filamenti quinti, basi corolle

superne insertum. Nectarii glandule cum filamentis alternantes. Fructus cap-

sularis. Capsula subcarnosa. C. G. Nees.

SINNINGIA velutina ; caule suffruticoso erecto crasso brevi, foliis ad apicem caulis

late ovato-ellipticis acutis crenato-serratis velutinis, pedicellis unifloris ca-

lyce ovato alte alato (colorato) brevioribus, ovario calyce 4-plo breviore, co-

rolla longe exserta limbo amplo obliquo.

SINNINGIA velutina. Lindl. Bot. Reg. sub. tab. 1112.

This is the handsomest of the Genus Sinuingia*, with large

ample dark green velvety leaves, the younger ones and _ petioles

tinged with red, very large red calyces and large flowers. Inde-

pendent of the angled or winged calyx, there is something in the

form and colour of the flower and general habit that mdicates

the propriety of keeping the genus distinct from Gloxinia; with

which, however, De Candolle unites it. All the species are natives

of Brazil, whence the present was introduced to the Garden of

the Horticultural Society in 1826. A plant of it, sent by Messrs.

Rollison, under the name of 8. Hellert (which it cannot be if the

descriptions of that species are accuraté), flowered in the Royal

Gardens of Kew, in June 1845. It requires the heat of a stove.

Descr. The sfem short, stout, and uneven, scarcely three

inches high, and almost one-third of an inch thick ; bare of foli-

age for the greater part of its length from the base. Leaves from

the summit of the short stem, opposite, spreading, dark-green

velvety, elliptico-ovate, broad, obtuse at the base, acute at the

point, the margin rather obscurely crenato-serrate, penninerved,

the nerves prominent in the young leaves beneath. Pe/ioles ra-

ther long, very thick and fleshy, grooved above. Peduncles axil-

* So named in compliment to Mr. Sinning, Gardener to the University of Bonn. | .

lary, solitary, single-flowered ; shorter than the calyx, and much

shorter than the petioles. Calyx ovato-oblong, red, contracted

and split on one side upwards, and having five prominent

longitudinal angles or wings, the mouth with five sharp teeth

pressed close to the corolla. Corolla large, much exserted, pale

greenish-yellow, spotless ; the we inflated, the ims spreading,

very oblique, deeply five-lobed, the lobes large, rounded, imbri-

cated, and somewhat waved. Stamens slightly exserted. Ovary

short, united with the winged base of the calyx. There are five

linear glands at the base of the style. :

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section of the same :—magnified.

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GLOXINIA PALuipiIrLorRaA.

Paleflowered Gloxinia.

Nat. Ord. GesNERIACEH.—D1IpYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. Calycis tubus imo ovario adnatus, limbus 5-fidus aut 5-partitus.

Corolla infundibuliformi- aut campanulato-subringens, hinc postice ad basin

gibba, aut subcalcarata, tubo ventricoso, limbo patulo sub-bilabiato, lobis 5 rotun-

datis. Stamina 4 didynama cum quinti rudimento. Anthere coherentes. Glan-

dule 5 perigynze. Stylus in stigma orbiculatum concavum subinfundibuliforme

abeuns. Capsula 1-locularis, bivalvis, placentis 2-parietalibus bilobis, seminibus

numerosis oblongis.—Herbe aut suffrutices Australi-Americane, plereque Bra-

silienses. Folia opposita, interdum radicalia, petiolata, crenata, Flores ampli,

axillares aut radicales, pedicellati, sepius nutantes. DC.

Gioxinia pallidiflora; caule erecto simplici immaculato, foliis latis suboblique

ovatis hirsutulis obscure serratis supra pilosiusculis subtus pallidis con-

coloribus, calycis segmentis linearibus patenti-reflexis, corolle lobis omnibus

concavis.

A comparison of this figure with Tab. 4212, given in this

number, will show the dissimilarity of Glovinia and Sinningia ;

while a comparison again with Tab. 1191, exhibits the difference

of the present plant, as a species, from G. maculata, the original

species on which the genus was founded. Our G. pallidiflora is

of much more weak and slender habit; the leaves are thinner,

pale, less serrated, and somewhat oblique at the base ; the petioles

are generally longer, the stem spotless, the corolla smaller, pale-

coloured, the lobes all concave (but not equally, the lowest, most

so, but in itself less concave than the lower one of G. maculata),

the gibbosity at the lower base of the corolla is greater; and,

above all, the lobes of the calyx are much narrower and more re-

curved. It was sent from Santa Martha by our collector Mr.

Purdie, and flowered with us in Oct. 1845. Seen growing in

the same stove with G. maculata, the differences are at once per-

ceived, though they are not so easily defined in a few words. It

increases by its curious, caterpillar-like tubers, in the same way —

as Gloxinia maculata.

Descr. Stem herbaceous, erect, obscurely four-angled, green,

FEBRUARY lst, 1846. Y

spotless, slightly and partially hairy. Zeaves opposite, petioled,

broadly and obliquely ovate, acute, somewhat fleshy, remotely

and coarsely serrated. Petioles one to two inches long, shorter

in the upper leaves. Pedwncles longer than the petioles, axillary,

solitary, single-flowered. Flowers slightly drooping, large, but

smaller than in the old G. maculata. Calyzx-tube clavate, fur-

rowed, adnate with the germen; the segments linear, spreading,

striated, patent, and, at the apices especially, reflexed. Corolla

similar in shape to that of G. maculata; but smaller, much paler

coloured, more inclining to blue, the limb less spreading, and the

middle lobe of the lower lip less concave, and not so much ser-

rated. Stamens and style included. .

Reeve Brothers,imp 7

Fitch, del et. hith.

Tas. 4214.

MORMODES Carront.

Mr. Carton’s Mormodes.

Nat. Ord. OncHIDE2Z.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Sepalum superius subfornicatum, angustum, lateralia conformia

reflexa. Petala latiora, conformia, erecta. Labellum selleforme, ascendens, tri-

lobatum, subcuneatum, apiculatum, cum columna articulatum. Columna semi-

teres, mutica; gynizus longus angustus ; clinandrium postice acuminatum. Pol-

linia 4, per paria connata, caudicule crass affixa, glandule carnose crassi

adhzrentii—Habitus Cataseti. Lindl.

Mormopss* Cartoni ; pseudo-bulbis elongatis teretibus articulatis vaginatis apice

di-triphyllis, foliis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis, spica elongata multiflora,

sepalis petalisque patentibus conformibus oblongo-lanceolatis acutis, labello

oblongo torquato basi angustato infra medium utrinque unidentato margi-

nibus reflexis apice aristato-acutis, columna antheraque cuspidato-acu-

minatis.

From the collection of Orchideous Plants, sent home by Mr.

Purdie, from the interior of Santa Martha, at the foot of Sierra

Nevada. It first flowered at Syon Gardens, the seat of His Grace

the Duke of Northumberland, and I have much pleasure in

naming this new species of Mormodes in compliment to Mr.

Carton, under whose skilful management tropical plants especially

are most successfully cultivated. It is very unlike any described

species of the genus, though perhaps its nearest affinity is with

M. aromaticum, Lindl. Bot. Reg., 1843, t. 56 ; but it is at once

distinguishable by the lip and various other discrepancies. It

first flowered in Noy. 1845.

Descr. Pseudo-bulbs almost a span long, clustered, subcylin-

drical, articulated, and sheathed at the joints by the membrana-

ceous bases of the old leaves. Perfect /eaves, three to four, are

produced from the apex of the bulb, a foot or more long, narrow,

linear-lanceolate, membranaceous, striated, acuminated. Scapes,

one or two, from an articulation of the pseudo-bulb, erect, bear-

ing a rather long oblong spike of numerous rather gay-coloured

* Named by Dr. Lindley from poppe, a frightful-looking object, or a goblin, in

allusion to the strange appearance of the flowers.

FEBRUARY IsT, 1846.

flowers. The sepals and petals are nearly uniform in size and

shape, much spreading, almost reflexed, oblong-lanceolate, acute,

yellow with red longitudinal streaks. Lip equal in length with

the petals, but singularly obliquely twisted, of a pale yellow co-

lour, with a few red interrupted streaks ; the form is an regular

oblong, tapering at the base, with a short blunt tooth on each

side below the middle, the apex very acute, almost aristate. Co-

umn slightly oblique, tapering at the extremity into a long sub-

ulate point. Anther-case corresponding with it and applied to

the anterior face. Pol/en-masses two, each with an obscure fissure,

attached to a broad, curved, strap-shaped appendage, and that

again, by its base to a large gland.

Fig. 1. Column and Lip. 2. Pollen-masses :—magnified.

4215.

Taps. 4215.

CYCNOCHES Loppigest:.

Mr. Loddiges’ Swanwort.

Nat, Ord. OrcHIDE%.—GyYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

_ Gen, Char. Perianthium explanatum. Sepala lateralia lanceolata basi pau-

lulum sub labello connata, supremo angustiore. Pefala latiora falcata, decurva.

Labellum \iberum, calcaratum, columna continuum, lanceolatum, integerrimum,

ungue abrupto calloso. Columna elongata, arcuata, teres, apice clavata, auricu-

lis 2 faleatis ad latera clinandrii. Anthera bdilocularis. Pollinia 2, postice

sulcata, subpedicellata; caudicula lineari, glandula grossa.—Habitus Cadasedi

(sed racemus terminalis). Lindl.

Cyrcnocuss Loddigesii; floribus maximis, petalis falcatis sepalisque lateralibus

lato-lanceolatis, labello lanceolato recto carnoso acuminato, ungue lato brevi,

columna elongata arcuata sepalo supremo lineari-lanceolato vix breviore.

Cycnocues Loddigesii. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p.154. Bot. Reg. t. 1742.

This very striking Orchideous plant, the species upon which

the genus was founded, is a native of Surinam, and was intro-

duced from thence, by Messrs. Loddiges through J. H. Lance,

Esq. As may be expected, it requires great heat and moisture,

and, thus treated, it flowers readily in the autumnal months, at

which season our specimen bloomed in the Royal Gardens of

Kew. The column, long and slender and much convex, has not

inaptly been compared to a swan’s neck, whence, as is well known,

the generic appellation is derived ; but to us it appears to have a

still greater similarity to a Cobra de Capella, the swollen and

dilated apex below the anther very accurately representing the

inflated throat of that dreaded reptile, while the colour and marking

serve to increase the resemblance. ne

Descr. Pseudo-bulbs large, stout, elongated, subcylindrical,

clustered, sheathed with large, distichous, pale green, striated

scales, on the upper ones of which the broad-lanceolate membra-

nous leaves are articulated. Raceme terminal, drooping, not

much longer than the pseudo-bulbs, flowering almost to the

base of the peduncle ; flowers 5-6, very large. Sepals and petals —

nearly uniform in colour, greenish-brown, the former blotched ©

with brown :—in shape the two lower sepals and the petals are

z, :

MARCH Ist, 1846.

nearly alike, broadly lanceolate, but the latter are larger and

falcate : upper sepal linear-lanceolate, elongated. Zi somewhat

trowel-shaped, the wnguwis broad; the limb broadly lanceolate,

straight, convex, fleshy, white or flesh-coloured, with scattered

blood-coloured spots. _ Column very long, slender, cylindrical,

singularly incurved, dark purple, paler and almost yellow above,

where it is inflated and dilated, and spotted with deep purple

just below the axther.

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Tas. 4216.

ALLOPLECTUS picurovs.

Two-coloured Alloplectus.

Nat. Ord. GESNERIACE#.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx liber coloratus 5-sepalus, sepalis imbricatis varie basi con-

nexis, 2 interioribus. Corolla tubulosa v. claviformis rectiuscula, limbo brevi

5-lobo aut 5-dentato. Stamina didynama cum quinti postici rudimento e basi

tubi. Stigma capitato-infundibuliforme. -dunulus hypogynus in glandulam

posticam tumens. Capsula baccans coriacea 1-locularis 2-valvis. Semina co

oblonga.—Frutices Australi-Americani scandentes radicantes. Caules teretes aut

subtetragoni flexiles, epidermide nitida, Rami oppositi. Folia opposita hine inde

inequalia petiolata pinguicula, sepe pubentia, interdum subtus rubentia. Gem-

matio nuda. Flores avillares, aggregati, rarius solitarit, bracteis rubro-coloratis

instructi aut nudi. Corolle flave. DC.

AtLop.ectus dichrous : fruticosus erectus, foliis ovato-oblongis acutis integerri-

mis substrigillosis, floribus axillaribus subsessilibus aggregatis, sepalis atro-

sanguineis triangularibus subdenticulatis glabris, corolle hirsutissimee clavate

(flavee) limbo erectiusculo.

Atiopiectus dichrous, De Cand. Prodr. v. 7. p. 546.

Bestertia dichrous, Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 840.

Besterta bicolor, Schott, in Flora, 1821, p.197 (non iB: &:).

ALLopLectvs Schottii, Donn, Gard. Dict. v. 4. p. 655.

Attop.ectus sparsiflorus, Mart. Nov. Gen. et Sp. Bras. 0.3. p. 55. 2. 223. f. 1.

Hypocyrta discolor, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1845. Suppl. p. 19.

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Of this singular stove-plant, I think it will be found that the

above synonymes are correct. To this country the plant was

introduced from Brazil by T..G. Lorraine, Esq.,and has been distri-

buted under the name of Zypocyrta discolor of Lindley, in the work

above quoted. We have frequently had occasion to remark how

very ill-defined are the genera of the Gesnertaceous plants : still

we think this can hardly be referred to Hypocyrta of Martius ;

but rather to Al/oplectus of the same author, destined to receive the

well-known Besleria coccinea, Linn., and the other allied species,

which have the margins of some of the sepals variously complicate

or plicate (whence the name aos, diverse, and mréxew, to plait or

fold). t seems with equal certainty to be the 2. dichrous of

Z

MARCH Ist, 1846.

De Candolle, (Besleria bicolor, Schott). Schott’s original cha-

racter (l.c.) entirely accords with it; and he says nothing about

the colour of the corolla, which De Candolle (who appears to

have seen the species), perhaps by some error, states to be red

in the ¢wbe, whereas it is yellow. Martius’ figure and description —

of 4. sparsiflorus leave no doubt of that being a synonyme ; and

not happily named, for he correctly represents the flowers as

gregated.

Cultivated as this plant is at Kew among the various red

and orange-coloured and purple flowered Gesneriaceous plants,

it makes a singular contrast with its dark black-purple or blood-

coloured calyces and pale yellow, very woolly corollas. It may

be increased by cuttings.

Descr. Stem erect, shrubby below, herbaceous above, terete,

glabrous. Leaves opposite, petiolate, ovato-oblong, acute, entire,

fleshy, penninerved, strigillose: petiole about as long as the

cluster of flowers, red ; zerves often red beneath. Mowers aggre-

gate, nearly sessile, bracteated ; dracteas soon deciduous. Calya

of five cordate or triangular, dark blood-coloured sepa/s, the three

outer larger and including the two inner ones, their margins

complicate. Corolla clavate, the tube curved at the base; the

rest densely clothed with close spreading yellow hairs. Limé ot

five, nearly erect, small, rounded lobes. Sfamens included. Ovary

ovate, glabrous, with a large gland at the base beneath. Style

curved. Stigma oblique, small, two-lobed.

Fig. 1. Corolla. 2. Stamens. 3. Pistil and hypogynous gland :—magnified.

fitch del et hth

Reeve tup

Tas. 4217.

GESNERIA Honpensis.

Honda Gesneria.

Nat. Ord. GESNERIACEZ.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx ovarii basi adnatus, limbo subinzqualiter 5-partito libero.

Corolla tubulosa ima basi 5-gibberosa aut equaliter subtumida, limbo 5-lobo,

lobis nunc in labia duo dispositis, nune subequalibus. Stamina 4 ime corolle

adnata, didynama cum quinti rudimento. Anthere juniores coherentes. Stylus

filiformis, stigmate capitato aut bilobo. Glandule perigyne 2-5 circa ovarii

basin. Capsula hirsuta coriacea 1-locularis, 2-vavlis, valvis convexis placentis

2-parietalibus polyspermis. Semina scobiformia—Herbe perennes radice tube-

rosa, rarius frutices. Caulis simplew aut opposite ramosus. Folia opposita aut

verticillata dentata. Pedunculi simplices uniflori aut ramosi multiflori, axillares

aut in thyrsum racemumve terminalem dispositi. DC.

GrsneERt1A Hondensis ; caule herbaceo erecto superne ramisque tetragonis, foliis

oppositis ovatis subacuminatis serratis rugosis brevi-petiolatis subtus magis

hirsutis, pedunculis solitariis geminatis ternisve petiolo triplo floreque lon-

gioribus unifloris, calyce hemispherico dentibus acutis, corolla hirsuta

tubuloso-ventricosa fauce contracta lobis equalibus patentibus glandulis,

hypogynis 5.

GesNeRr1a Hondensis, H. B. K. Nov. Gen. Am. v. 2. p. 395. ¢.190. De Cand.

Prodr. v. 8. p. 530.

A very handsome Gesneria, new to our gardens, discovered by

Humboldt, at Honda, New Grenada. ‘Tubers were sent to the

Royal Gardens of Kew by Mr. Purdie, early in 1845, one of them,

from which the drawing is here made, flowered at Syon Gardens

in December of the same year. ‘The rich scarlet of the flowers,

yellow at the mouth, remind one of the well-known Manettia

bicolor ; but here the red is due to the shaggy hair, altogether of

that colour, with which the tube of the corolla is clothed for almost

its whole length. It requires the same kind of treatment as

other species of this fine genus; and it appears that, by a little

management in forcing or retarding the tubers, they may be made

to blossom at almost every season of the year.

Descr. Roots tuberous ; stem erect, about a foot long, very

leafy, subterete below, above and the dranches tetragonal, hairy.

Leaves opposite, spreading, ovate, acute or subacuminate, serrate

MARCH Ist, 1846,

hairy especially beneath, wrinkled with the copious reticulated

veins. Petioles from half to three quarters of an inch long.

Peduncles much longer than the petioles and somewhat longer

than the flower, axillary, solitary or two or three together, single-

flowered, hairy, frequently with a pair of small leaves in the same

axil. Calyx cup-shaped, or hemispherical, five-toothed, teeth

acute, spreading, tipped with red. Corolla an inch or rather

more long, tubular and subventricose, slightly unequal (not gib-

bous at the base), the mouth contracted, the Jimd of five short

rounded, equal, spreading lobes :—the colour is yellow, but the

tube for nearly the whole length is clothed with shaggy bright

red, almost vermillion-coloured hairs. Stamens included. Ovary

ovate, hairy, surrounded by five hypogynous emarginate glands,

half as long as the ovary. Style thick, downy. Stigma two-

lipped.

Fig. 1. Pistil and hypogynous glands :—magnified.

4ild

Reeve imp.

Fitch del et ith.

Tas. 4218.

FUGOSIA HETEROPHYLLA.

Various-leaved Fugosia.

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Nat. Ord. Matvace®.—MonapDELPHIA PoLyaNpRIA.

Gen. Char. Involucellum hexa-polyphyllum. Calyx quinquefidus, laciniis

estivatione valvatis. Corolle petala 5, hypogyna, obovato-inzequilatera, unguibus

imo tubo stamineo adnata, zstivatione convolutiva. Tubus stamineus columne-

formis, infra apicem nudum, quinquedentatum, /i/amenta plus minus copiosa,

brevia exserens, anthere reniformes. Ovarium sessile, simplex, tri-quadriloculare.

Ovula in loculis 4-8, angulo centrali inserta, adscendentia. Sty/us terminalis,

apice exserta breviter tri-quadrifidus vel indivisus ; stigmata distincta v. conglu-

tinata. Capsula tri-quadrilocularis, loculicide tri-quadrivalvis, valvis medio sep-

tiferis. | Semina in loculis pauca y. abortu interdum subsolitaria, reniformia,

testa crustacea, sinu umbilicata, pilis gossypinis plus minus lanuginosa. Himbryo

intra albumen parcissimum, mucilaginosum, homotrope arcuatus: cotyledonibus

foliaceis, sese plicato-involventibus ; radicula infera.—Frutices vel suffrutices in

America et Africa tropica indigeni ; foliis alternis, petiolatis, integris v. palmatim

lobatis, stipulis petiolaribus geminis linearibus, pedunculis avillaribus solitaris,

unifloris, corollis duteis, calycibus granulis nigris punctatis. Endl.

Fuaosta heterophylla ; caule erecto, foliis ellipticis lanceolatisve integris v. trifi-

dis trinerviis, pedunculis axillaribus solitariis unifloris longitudine folii

superne incrassatis, calycibus nigro-glandulosis, corolla (flava) basi maculis:

5 sanguineis pectinatis.

Fucosra heterophylla. Spach, Hist. des Veget. v. 3. p. 397.

Repovurea heterophylla. Vent. Hort. Cels. t.11. H.B. K. Nov. Gen. Am. v. 5.

p.293. De Cand. Prodr. v.1. p.457. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3 p. 309.

A very pretty shrub, named by Cavanilles in honour of Ber-

nard Cienfuegos, a Spanish botanist of the 16th century, and now,

we believe, first cultivated in England, from seeds sent home

from St. Martha, by our collector, Mr. Purdie, in 1845. At the

Syon Gardens, where our figure was made, plants flowered in

October of the same year. ‘The general appearance of the blos-

soms is not much unlike those of Zurnera ulmifolia; but when

the centre of the flower is examined, each of the five petals will

be found to have a rich scarlet or blood-coloured pectinated spot,

the teeth or rays arranged with the most perfect regularity. Mr.

Spach has, we think, correctly referred the Redoutea of Ventenast

MARCH Ist, 1846.

to Fugosia; for there seems to be no generic distinction. The

present species was originally found in the Island of St. Thomas

and on the banks of the Orinoco. Its specific name is derived

from the varying form of the leaves, very evident in our dried

specimens, but less remarkable in cultivated ones.

Descr. A rather twiggy, erect, branching, glabrous shrud ;

the young dranches herbaceous, terete. Leaves alternate, some-

what remote, upon rather long slender footstalks, oval or oblong,

obtuse or acute, entire, waved, three or five-nerved at the base.

Stipules small, subulate, deciduous. Peduncles solitary, axillary,

single-flowered, longer than the leaf, singularly thickened upwards,

and articulated to the base of the calyx, where there are about

five, small, subulate bracts forming an involucre. Calyx of five

lanceolate, much acuminated pieces or sepals, three-ribbed, with

conspicuous black glands placed in rows or series between the

ribs. Corolla of five broadly cuneate, oblique and imbricated,

almost twisted pefals, tapering into a short claw, of a yellow

colour, with a deep blood-coloured blotch, which, on being seen

with a microscope (fig. 3), is found to arise from five deep blood-

coloured spots, each pectinated or marked with parallel lines or

rays resembling the teeth of a comb. Filaments often bifid.

Anthers reniform, one-celled. Ovary ovate, glabrous, three-celled,

with several seeds arranged in two rows in each cell. Style gradu-

ally widening upwards and there red. Stigmas five, small, erect.

Fig. 1. Flower, the petals scarcely expanded. 2. Portion of a sepal, to show

the glands. 3. Petal. 4. Pistil. “5. Ovary, cut through transversely, to show

the ovules :—more or less magnified.

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CATASETUM ca.Luosum; var. GRANDIFLORUM.

Tumour-lipped Catasetum ; large-flowered var.

Nat. Ord. OncH1pE®.—GyNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Gen. Char. _Perianthium sepius globosum, nunc explanatum. Sepala et petala

subzequalia. Labellum crassum, carnosum, nudum, ventricosum vel explanatum,

fimbriatum ; sub apice saccatum obsolete trilobum. Columna erecta, aptera,

libera, apice utrinque cirrhosa. 4nthera sub-bilocularis, antice truncata. Pollinia

2 postice biloba vel sulcata; caudicula maxima nuda demum elastice contractili ;

glandula cartilaginea subquadrata——Herbee terrestres vel epiphyte ; caulibus bre-

vibus fusiformibus, vestigiis foliorum vestitis. Folia basi vaginantia, plicata. Scapi

radicales. Flores speciosi, racemosi, virides, nunc purpureo-maculati. Lindl.

Catasetum callosum ; petalis concoloribus lineari-lanceolatis sepalo dorsali con-

formi suppositis, labello ovato-deltoideo acuminato margine reflexo basin

versus solummodo saccato supra saccum callo magno conico instructo,

column acuminate cirrhis vix ultra callum extensis.

Catasntum callosum. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1840. Mise. 183. et 1841. tab. 5. f. 1.

B. grandiflorum ; floribus majoribus labello magis acuminato viridi-rubro punctis

sanguineis irroratis, callo roseo. (TaB. NosTR. 4219.)

This singular plant, of which the flowers may, I think, be

likened to the body and legs of a great spider, is from the rich

collection in Syon Gardens, and was received by His Grace the

Duke of Northumberland from Columbia. Notwithstanding the

large size of the blossoms, and the slightly dissimilar form and

different colour of the lip, I fear it can only be considered a

variety of C. callosum of Dr. Lindley, and I am the more confirmed

in this opinion from afterwards receiving from Syon a smaller

state of the same plant, exactly, as it were, intermediate between

the two. Its long pendent spikes of dingy purple flowers, of

which the floral coverings are singularly divaricated, the three

upper pieces being applied to the back of the column, the two

lower to the under-side of the lip, are produced in December.

Descr. Pseudo-bulbs oblong, terete, sheathed with the large

-membranaceous bases of the lower and smaller leaves. Large

Zeaves a foot or more in length, terminal, lanceolate, membrana-

ceous, striated. Scape from the base of the pseudo-bulb, in-

cluding the flowers, a foot and more long, the base green, the

Marca Ist, 1846. 2A

rest having the same dull tinge of purple as the flowers. Sepa/s

and petals uniform in shape and size and colour, linear-lanceolate,

concave, dull, somewhat greenish-purple. The dorsal sepal and

the petals approximated, parallel, all at the back of the column,

the petals with their backs to the margin of the dorsal sepal, the

two other sepals having an opposite direction and placed at the

back of the lip. Lip ovato-deltoid, acuminate, thick and fleshy,

variegated with dark green and red purple, the margin recurved,

the base saccate, and above the sack is a conical callosity of a

red colour (yellow in <); the whole sprinkled with deep blood-

coloured dots. Column half the length of the sepals, acuminated,

grooved in front, below having two sete, which extend downwards

a little beyond the callosity of the lip.

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KoOPSIA FRUTICOSA

Shrubby Kopsia.

Nat. Ord. ApocyNacE#.—PENTANDRIA MoNoGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Kopsta, Bl.—Calyx 5-partitus; lobis oblongis, obtusis, ciliolatis,

imbricatis, erectis, externe ad apicem glandulosis, interne eglandulosis. Corolla

hypocraterimorpha ; tubo calyce multo longiore, apice inflato, intus piloso; ore

calloso, piloso, exappendiculato ; lobis tubo brevioribus estivatione sinistrorsum

contortis. Stamina 5, parte inflata tubi inserta; filamentis tenuibus ; antheris

lanceolatis, acuminatis, filamento longioribus. Nectarium e ligulis 2 cum ovariis

alternantibus, glabris. Ovaria 2 ovata, facie interna adpressa. Ovula 2 (nec 1

ut dicitur), medio placente in ovario prominentis nascentia, amphitropa. Stylus

tubum corollze subequans. Stigma incrassatum, apice bilobum. Drape abortu

seepius solitarize, coriaceze, monospermee. Semen ovato-oblongum, exalbuminosum,

radicula supera.—Frutices vel arbuscule elegantes ; foliis stricte oppositis, ellipticis,

apice obtuse acuminatis, basi acuminatis, integris, glabris, nervis lateralibus patenti-

bus subarcuatis, venis reticulatis, petiolo basi dilatato, canaliculato ; gemmis glandu-

lisve avillaribus stipuleformibus ; cymis terminalibus, abbreviatis, multifloris,

bracteis ovato-acutis, roseis. DC.

Kopsta fruticosa ; lobis corolle elliptico-obovatis obtusiusculis tubo duplo bre-

vioribus, ligulis nectarii ovario hirsuto subbrevioribus.

Kopsta fruticosa, De Cand. Prodr. v. 8. p. 352.

Crrpera fruticosa, Carey, Hort. Beng. 19. Ker, Bot. Reg. t. 391. Rozd. Fi.

Ind, v. 2. p. 526. Wall. Cat. n.1583. Wight, Ic. t.431.

CaupicarpuM Roxburghii, Don. Dict. v. 4. p. 100.

“From Pegu,” says Dr. Roxburgh, “this elegant shrub has

been introduced into the Botanic Garden of Calcutta, where it 1s

in constant blossom. The flowers are like those of Vinca rosea,

but larger, and faintly fragrant. It is, in fact, one of the most

ornamental shrubs in the garden.”—This is not saying too much

for certamly in cultivation this plant is a great ornament to

our stoves, and though not in constant flower, it blooms several

times in the year and at very uncertain seasons, and continues

some time in beauty. From Cerbera, in which genus Roxburgh —

and others placed it, De Candolle says, “valde distinctum, non

solum squamis juxta ovaria, aliisque characteribus cognitis, sed_

zestivatione corolla.” Finding it to correspond with Kopsia of

MARCH Ist, 1846. | Sag

Blume, that author has no doubt rightly referred it to that genus,

of which he gives three specimens and one doubtful one. All

are natives of the Malayan peninsula or islands. Messrs. Whitley

and Brame, appear to have first imported it into Europe.

The name is probably given in compliment to some botanist

with whose merits I am unacquainted.

Dzscr. Our plant is scarcely a foot high, dichotomously

branching, woody below, everywhere glabrous. eaves opposite,

subsessile, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, entire, somewhat waved,

penninerved, the nerves almost horizontally patent. Corymds

terminal, almost sessile. Bracteas minute, squamiform, acute,

appressed. Calyz of five, deep, ovate, obtuse, imbricating seg-

ments, each with a large, oval gland at the apex. Corolla salver-

shaped; tube very long, slender, white, dilated at the mouth

and there hairy within, where the small, almost sessile, linear

anthers are inserted and included. imé of five large spreading

obovato-elliptical segments, of a pale very delicate rose-colour,

and having a deep rose-coloured rmg round the faux. Ovaries

two, small, hairy, combined, obtuse, at each side of which is a

subulate gland. Style as long as the tube, slender, filiform.

Stigma thickened, and two-lobed at the joint.

Fig. 1. Calyx and Portion of the style. 2. Pistil. 3. Tube of the corolla

laid open. 4. Ovaries and two glands cut through transversely :—magnified.

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Tas. 4221.

ARISTOLOCHIA GiIGAnTEA.

Giganticflowered Birthwort.

Nat. Ord. ARISTOLOCHIE®.—GYNANDRIA HEXANDRIA.

_ Gen. Char. Perianthium monophyllum tubulosum basi ventricosum, limbo

ligulato-extenso, Anthere 6, stigmatis lateribus adnate. Stigma subsessile,

sex-partitum. Capsula 6, locularis, polysperma.

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ARISTOLOCHTA gigantea ; foliis cordatis acutis, pedunculo unifloro, perianthio

amplo unilabiato oblique pendente, tubo sursum curvato, parte inferiore

oblonga angulato-suleata demum contracta, parte superiore assurgente hinc

inflato-globoso, superne in limbum maximum concavo-conchiformem venosum

album maculis purpureis reticulatis irroratum, margine anteriore fisso, apice

mucronato-caudato.

ARISTOLOCHIA gigantea. Martius, Nov. Gen.et Sp. Bras. v.1.p. 15. t.48. Spreng.

Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 150.

At the first view of the figure of Martius above quoted, few

would be bold enough to say that that representation and our

plant are identical, yet. such I believe to be the fact, though no

two flowers can well be more unlike, whether as regards form or

colour, and yet belong to the same genus. ‘The difference may

be accounted for by supposing the drawing to be made from a

dried specimen, when the pressure vertically upon the mouth of

the perianth, would destroy the conchiform limb, and render that

which is remarkably concave, in appearance flat; and the same

kind of pressure would in all probability render very indistinct

or altogether obsolete, the singular inflation of the tube of the

perianth just below the ample limb. It is in reality a very striking

and handsome flower, and rendered more worthy of cultivation

in consequence of the absence of the horrid stench which will

prevent the much larger blossoms of 4. gigas, Lindl., from ever

becoming favourite inmates of our stoves. I am indebted to

Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., for the very fine specimen

here figured. Those successful cultivators received it from

Germany. Its native country is, according to Martius, in the

province of Bahia, Brazil, from which territory it was probably —

introduced to the stoves in Germany. It flowered in April (1845).

prin 1st, 1846. 2B

Descr. An extensive climber, with the young éranches terete

glabrous. Petioles scarcely two inches long, surrounded at their

base by a perfoliate stipule. Leaves rather large, cordate, acute,

with the sinus shallow and broad, so that the outlme approaches

to reniform, five-nerved and reticulated with transverse veins,

somewhat glaucous beneath, glabrous on both sides. Peduncle

axillary pendent, having a perfoliate bractea below the middle, and

gradually enlarging above into the clavate, angled, ovary. Peri-

anth very large, 9-10 inches long, if the curvature of the tube is

taken into consideration. The tube is cream-white, tinged with

green; the lower (pendent) half is oblong, inflated, obscurely

veined, three-angled at the back, and having two pairs of oval

depressions or glands at the base ; the tube thence becomes con-

- tracted, bent like a syphon, then enlarging and becoming ex-

cessively inflated on one (the anterior) side; again it becomes

contracted, and at once expands into the ample, singularly con-

cave, almost conchiform limb, reticulated with ves, prominent

on the outside, where it is cream-coloured, mottled with pale

purple ; within, it is white or nearly so, but the veins are purple

and the areole sprinkled with purple: the margin is waved,

and is split down at the anterior edge: the apex is tipped with

an apiculus or short tail scarcely an inch long. Within, towards

the mouth of the tube, the colour is much deeper and of a more

uniform purple. Co/wma of stamens an oblong fleshy body, with

six incurved teeth and as many linear anthers.

Fig. 1. Column of stamens of which the apex forms the stigma :—natural size.

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ARIOPSIS pELTATA.

Peltate Ariopsis.

Nat. Ord. ArnorpE#.—Monecra PoLyANDRIA.

Gen. Char. ARIOPSIS, J. Grak. Spadix inferne spathe marcescentis cymbi-

formi carinat adhzrens, inferne foemineus, superne masculus. Masc. Authere in

cavitatibus partis superioris clavate spadicis immerse, annulatim dispositz,

globose apice uniporose, in singula cavitate 6.—Fam. Ovaria subsex, distiche

disposita oblique ovata, angulata, stigmatibus 3-5 erectis, sessilibus. Bacca

subsicca, epulposa, ovata, 3—5-angulata, unilocularis, placentis 3-5 longitudina-

libus angulis alternantibus, polyspermis. Semina numerosa, in singula placenta

biseriatim inserta, oblongo-cylindracea, basi incrassata, minutissime striata. Hm-

bryo fusiformi-cylindraceus.—Herba parva, acaulis, Indica. Rhizoma glomerato-

tuberiforme, subtus fibrosum. Folia glaucescentia cordata, concava, longe petiolata

peltata, glabra. Scapi petiolo breviores, e basi vaginante petiol orti, Spatha nutans,

cymbiformis, carinata, acuta. Spadix parte inferiore foemineus spathe omnino ad-

herens, reliqua clavata, substipitata, foraminosa. Antheree omnino immerse.

Artopsis peltata. J. Graham in Cat. Pl. Bomb. Addend. p. 252.

Ramusatia * vivipara. Wight, Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. 0. 3. t. 900 (not ¢. 798, and not

of Schott.).

An extremely curious new genus of drordee, discovered by

our friend J. S. Law, Esq., in the neighbourhood of his residence,

‘Tanna, district of Bombay, and of which tubers were kindly sent

by him to the Royal Gardens, where they flowered in August,

1845. It is one of the best marked and smallest of any genus

of the Natural Order, and reminds one more of the growth of a

Cyclamen than of an Aroideous plant.

Descr. From under the side of and all round a cluster of

brown tuber-like root-stocks, half buried in the earth, spring the

* 'The figure of Dr. Wright above quoted leaves not a shadow of doubt in my

mind of the correctness of this synonyme, but that zealous and ane oe

considers this plant to be identical with a very remarkable aroideous plant which

we have long cultivated in our stove, the Arum (Ramusatia, Schott) cwvipariin —

of Roxburgh, in short, that it is the normal state of that plant ; whereas, in his

own representation of the two plants, the leaves are quite different, espe ae Bons

Herin : nor does Schott’s description of the genus Ramusatia at all accord with

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APRIL Ist, 1846. 2n2

petioles, which then curve upwards, and bear the small, delicate,

peltate /eaf. From the slightly sheathing bases of these petioles

arise one or two scapes, little more than half the length of the

petiole, terminated by a slightly drooping, cymbiform, carinate,

purple-brown, acute syatha. The lower part of the spadix is

mcorporated with the deep purple-coloured spatha, and bears the .

green ovaries: the upper is purple, club-shaped and substipitate,

and bears the yellow sessile authers arranged in a circle within

the cup-shaped cavities: the whole spadix is shorter than the

spatha. The free portion of the spadix then withers and the

ovaries become greatly enlarged, when the weight occasions the

scapes to bend down towards the ground, sometimes becoming

more or less spiral, and thus giving still more the appearance of

a Cyclamen. ‘The immature éerry is nearly dry, having no pulp

within, and very numerous seeds are arranged in two rows along

as many placentz as there are angles and stigmas, 3-5.

The name is doubtless from doy, the Arum, united with éyis,

implying resemblance, from its close affinity with the genus Arum.

Fig. 1. Side view, and 2, frond view (or nearly so) of the spadix and spatha,

the base of the former incorporated with the base of the latter. 3. Vertical sec-

tion of the antheriferous portion of the spadix. 4. Circle of anthers in the

foramen. 5. Single anther. 6. Pistils. 7. Nearly mature fruits on the withery

spadix and spatha. 8. Transverse section of scarcely mature fruit. 9. Vertical

section of ditto. 10. Seed and podosperm. 11. Embryo:—all more or less

magnified.

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BOUVARDIA tonerrtora.

Long-flowered Bouvardia.

Nat. Ord. Ruspiacez.—Tetranpria Monoaynta,

Gen. Char. Calycis tubus subglobosus, limbus 4-partitus, lobis lineari-subula-

tis, dentibus interdum interjectis. Corolla infundibuliformis tubulosa elongata

extus velutino-papillosa, face nuda, limbo 4-partito patente brevi. Staminum

jilamenta tubo inferne adnata a medio circiter libera, anthere lineares inclusa.

Stigma bilamellatum exsertum. Ovarii pars superior nuda. Capsula membra-

nacea globoso-compressa bilocularis superne loculicide dehiscens, valvis semi-

septiferis. Placente orbiculares. Semina in quoque loculo plurima compressa,

deorsum (seu sursum) imbricata, ala membranacea cincta.—Frutices Mericani.

Folia opposita aut verticillata. Stipulee anguste acute petiolis utringue adnate.

Pedunculi terminales triflori aut trichotome corymbosi. DC.

Bouvarpta longiflora ; ramis compresso-tetragonis glabris, foliis ovatis acumi-

natis basi in petiolum attenuatis integerrimis glabris, stipulis latis petiolis

adnatis ciliatis, floribus terminalibus subtrichotome corymbosis, pedunculis

foliosis, calycis lobis lanceolatis subfoliaceis tubo gracili corolle triplo-

quadruplove brevioribus.

Bovvarpta longiflora, H. B. K. Nov. Gen. Am. v.38. p.386. De Cand. Prodr.

v. 4. p. 366.

Agtnetza longiflora, Cav. Ic. v. 6. p. 51. ¢. 572. 7.1.

Bouvardia is a Mexican genus of Rubiaceous plants, named

by Mr. Salisbury in compliment to Dr. Charles Bouvard, who

was formerly superintendent of the Jardin du Roi at Paris. In

most of the species the flowers are small; here they are large,

pure white, and exhaling a delicious Jessamine-like fragrance,

whence it becomes a most desirable stove plant. We know not

if any garden possesses this charming Bouwvardia, save that of

the Earl of Derby, to whom I am indebted for the specimen here

figured, and who received it from Ifzabal. It habits also Santa

Anista, according to Humboldt, where it is called “‘ Flor de San

Juan,” and the vicinity of Queretaro and Huanajuato. My

Herbarium possesses also native specimens from Mr. Skinner,

gathered iu Guatemala. In habit and form of corolla this is

closely allied to Hindsia, but the seeds, according to Cavanilles’

figure, are those of Coffeacee, not of Cinchonacee.

Drscr. A branching shrud, with slender, glabrous, slightly com-

pressed, but tetragonal dranches. Leaves ovate, acuminate, entire,

glabrous, cuneate at the base, petioled, the base of each pair of

petioles united on either side by a pair of small scale-like, fim-

briated or ciliated stipules. Flowers terminal, sometimes two or

three together, at other times the upper part of the branch is tri-

chotomously divided into a corymé of several, 10-12, large, snowy,

very fragrant S/ossoms: the main branches are furnished with a

pair of small leaves. Calyzx-tube subglobose, with erecto-patent,

lanceolate, leafy segments, obscurely ciliated at the margins,

Corolla hypocrateriform, the tube long, slender, enlarged at the

summit and partially closed with four obtuse scales. ims of

four, ovato-lanceolate, spreading segments. Stamens four, included.

Style short. Stigma bifid.

Fig. 1. Calyx and pistil. 2. Mouth of corolla Jaid open. 3. Ovary. 4. The

same cut through transversely :—magnified.

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APHELANDRA AURANTIACA

Orange Aphelandra.

Nat. Ord. AcANTHACE2.—D1IpYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx quinquepartitus, ineequalis. Corolla hypogyna, ringens,

labio superiore subfornicato, bidentato, inferioris tripartiti laciniis lateralibus

multo minoribus. Stamina 4, corolle tubo inserta, inclusa, didynama, anthere

uniloculares, muticas. Ovariwm biloculare, loculis biovulatis. Stylus simplex ;

stigma bifidum. Capsula teretiuscula, bilocularis, tetrasperma, loculicide bivalvis,

valvis medio septiferis. | Semina compressa, retinaculis subtensa.—Frutices

Americe tropice ; foliis oppositis, spicis axillaribus et terminalibus tetragonis,

bracteis oppositis, submembranaceis, bracteolis angustis, corollis speciosis rubicundis.

Endlich. .

APHELANDRA aurantiaca; foliis ovatis glabris basi undulatis in petiolum cras-

sum alatum decurrentibus, spicis simplicibus incrassatis subtetragonis, brac-

teis ovatis acuminatis carinatis serratis, corollz (aurantiace) labio superiore

erecto lanceolato parvo, inferiore amplo, lobis ovatis lateralibus triplo

minoribus.

APHELANDRa aurantiaca. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1845, ¢.12.

Handsome as is the well-known Aphelandra cristata, the

present species far exceeds it in the size and rich orange-colour

of the spikes, and it possesses another advantage, in the flowers

appearing upon small handsome looking plants. We regret that

we cannot add to the little information given by Dr. Lindley

respecting the history of this plant. Nothing certain is known

of the country. It was presented by Mr. Henderson, of Pine-

apple Place, to the Royal Gardens of Kew, where it flowered

in the stove in the autumn of 1845, and where it made a very

striking appearance. It blossomed at the same season, with

even larger spikes of flowers, at the Nursery of Messrs. Lucombe,

Pince, and Co., Exeter. The generic name was given by Dr. Brown,

and is derived from apédys, simple, and drip, stamen ; 10 allusion,

I presume, to the single-celled anther, as distinguishing the genus

from Justicia.

Descr. A small shrub, not much branched; the young

branches green, rounded, glabrous as is every part of the plant.

Leaves rather large, handsome, decurved, ovate, strongly nerved,

the margin below waved, and then running down into a thick

winged petiole. Petioles connate at the base. Spikes solitary,

terminal, large and thick, five to six inches long, almost four-

sided before the flowers burst forth, and formed by a number of

ovato-acuminate, serrated, imbricated, pale yellow-green dracteas.

From a number of these dracteas’several very rich, deep orange-

coloured flowers expand at a time, gradually opening from below

upwards. Calye cylindrical, of five linear-lanceolate sepals, with

two subulate bracteas at the base. Tube of the corolla almost

wholly concealed by the bracteas ; dimd ringent, upper lip small,

lanceolate, bidentate, the sides almost meeting in front and con-

cealing the stamens ; lower lip ample, deflexed, deeply three-lobed,

lobes ovate, middle lobe very large, often three-toothed at the

apex; lateral lobes small. Stamen, with the Jilaments glandular,

the anthers sagittate, one-celled. Ovary oblong-ovate, on a large

fleshy disk. Style filiform, as long as the corolla.

Fig. 1. Inner bracteas, calyx and pistil. 2. Stamen. 3. Ovary :—magnified.

Os SERED AR eee Rea ee

4 ARS.

Fitch del et hith

Tas. 4225.

ERANTHEMUM atpsirtorvum.

White-flowered Eranthemum

Nat. Ord. AcANTHACE®.—D1ANpDRIA MonoGyNIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx 5-fidus, eequalis. Corolla hypocrateriformis, v. elongato-

infundibuliformis, ¢#bo longo gracili, dimbo subeequali. Stamina duo fertilia circa

os tubi adnata, longe decurrentia; duo sterilia brevissima, filamentis longiorum

basi connexa; in speciebus nonnullis anomalis hec rudimenta omnino desunt.

Anthere exsertz, bilocellate, mutice, locellis parallelis contiguis, texture densioris.

Capsula inferne compressa, valvulis contiguis, asperma ; superne bilocularis tetras-

perma. Dissepimentum adnatum. Semina discoidea, retinaculis suffulta. In-

florescentia spicata, bracteis communibus majoribus aut minoribus bracteolis omnium

parvis oppositis. Nees.

ERANTHEMUM albiflorum ; fruticosum glabrum, ramis teretibus, foliis oppositis

sessilibus obovato-oblongis brevi-acuminatis subpanduriformibus, racemis

terminalibus erectis elongatis multifloris, pedicellis brevissimis minute brac-

teatis, calyce nudo parvo 5-fido, corolle (albze) tubo curvato superne inflato

calyce 4-plo longiore, limbi laciniis ovalibus obtusis subeequalibus plicato-

striatis.

We are so accustomed to the bright blue of the flowers of an

Lranthemum, that it is not easy at first sight to persuade oneself

that the present plant is of that genus, with its long almost vir-

gate racemes of snow-white flowers: yet a nearer inspection

will show that it has all the essential characters of it. The

fertile stamens, it is true, are not exserted; but neither are

they in 2. montanum, an acknowledged species of Eranthemum.

It was raised from seed from Bahia, by Messrs. Lucombe, Pince,

and Co., of Exeter, and by them kindly sent for the pages of this

Magazine in November, 1845. Its foliage is large and handsome,

dark-green, and its long spikes or racemes of pure white blossoms

render the plant a pretty, though not a gaily-coloured object. It

is cultivated in the stove.

Descr. A shrub, about two and a half feet high, with rounded

or slightly striated stems, and opposite ascending branches. Leaves

large (especially the lower ones), handsome, full deep-green,

opposite, sessile, obovato-oblong, entire, shortly acuminated,

penninerved, obtuse at the base, and a little contracted above

APRIL Ist, 1846. bod 2c

the base so as to be subpanduriform. Racemes elongated, tapering,

pedunculated ; peduncles terminal, solitary or three together.

Flowers copious, white. Pedicels very short, clustered, havin

one or two minute dracteas at the base. Calyx small (for the

size of the corolla), cut about half way down into five subulate

teeth. Corolla white; the tube three or four times as long as

the calyx, curved, dilated upwards ; mouth, however, again con-

tracted ; the Zim of five spreading, oval, obtuse, nearly equal

segments, striated and transversely plicate. Sfamen included,

white; two perfect with two-celled anthers, approximate ; two

small filaments abortive. Ovary oblong. Style included ; stigma

obtuse.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Stamens. 3. Pistil :—magnified.

Reeve, imp:

Fitch, del. et. lith

Tas. 4226.

ANONA PALUSTRIS.

Water or Alligator-Apple Tree.

Nat. Ord. ANONACEH.—PoLyanpRIA MonoGynia.

Gen. Char. Sepala 3 basi coalita concava subcordata acutiuscula. Petala

5 crassiuscula, interiora minora aut nulla ; anthere plurimee subsessiles apice angu-

late dilatatee torum obtegentes. Carpella plurima coalita in baccam unicam

sessilem cortice muricato squamoso aut reticulato, intus pulposam, ad ambitum

pluri-locularem, loculis 1-spermis. DC.

Anona palustris ; foliis ovato-ellipticis subcuspidatis basi obtusiusculis glaber-

rimis, pedunculis extra-axillaribus solitariis unifloris, petalis rotundato-ovatis

acutis crassis interioribus dimidio minoribus, ovariis in massam compactam

coadunatis, fructu areolato areolis oblongis planiusculis.

Avona palustris, Linn. Sp. Pl. p.754. Sw. Obs. p. 223. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 3.

p. 335. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v.2. p.640. De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p. 84.

Macfad. Jam. p.8. St. Hil. Pl. Us. Bras. t. 30.

Anona glabra, Dun. Anon. p. 14. De Cand. Prodr.v. 1. p. 473. —

ANONA aquatica, Sloane, Jam. Hist. v. 2. p. 169. t. 228. f.1.

Anona uliginosa, foliis nitidis ovatis, &e. Brown, Jam. p. 256.

Introduced to our gardens from the West Indies by Ph. Miller

in 1731, and long cultivated at Kew, where it has never flowered.

For blooming specimens, and others with their rich and fragrant —

and tempting-looking fruit, I am indebted to Mrs. Sherbourne,

_ of Hurst House, Prescott, a lady whose name has already appeared

~ in these pages as the importer of rare flowering plants, but whose

success in cultivating tropical fruits is, beyond anything, great ;

t of such a basket of different

as I can testify by a recent presen 1

kinds of the Citron tribe as were deemed worthy of gracing the

table of royalty itself. In regard to the fruit here represented,

it is only to be regretted that the flavour is not equal to its

beauty. But though closely allied to the famous Cherimolia,

Anona tripetala (Bot. Mag. Tab. 2011), it is scarcely eatable.

Sloane indeed says, “ the country people could say nothing of it,

except that it was edible ;” but Dr. M’c Fadyen remarks, “ the

fruit has a somewhat grateful smell, but to the taste it 1s very

disagreeable, and is said to be narcotic and even poisonous. The

APRIL Ist, 1846. 9c2

Alligators, according to Long, subsist ‘at certain seasons on the

fruit of this tree, and he describes them as watching for it, when

ripe, to drop into the water. The wood is very light, and is

employed by the negroes as a substitute for cork, to stop up the

mouths of their calabashes and other rude vessels. The floats of

fishing nets are also made of it. Anona palustris flowered for

the first time in June, 1843, in the stove at Hurst House. The

fruit here figured ripened in August, 1845.

Descr. A free, six to fifteen feet in height, with ever-green,

elliptical-ovate, very acute, glabrous Zeaves, on rather short petioles.

Peduncles lateral, but not axillary, solitary, single-flowered. Calyz

of three small rounded lobes. Pefals thick and fleshy, pale

greemish yellow, each with a red blotch within, deeper in the

inner petals. Stamens and pistils numerous, crowded. Fruit

ovato-rotundate, yellowish-brown when ripe, deep orange within,

formed of a congeries of closely compact acini. Seed conferrumi-

nated, as in the Genus.

Fig. 1. Fruit. 2. The same laid open. 3. Seed in its pulp :—natural size.

4. Seed laid open :—magnified.

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Reeve, map

ame

sal. au J

Tas. 4227.

SIDA (ABuTILON) VITIFOLIA.

Vine-leaved Sida.

Nat. Ord. MaLvace®.—MoNADELPHIA POLYANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx nudus, 5—fidus, seepe angulatus. Stylus apice multifidus.

Carpella capsularia 5-30 circa axim verticillata, plus minusve inter se coalita,

1-locularia, mono- aut oligo-sperma, apice mutica aut aristata. DC.

Sra vitifolia : foliis-cordatis 3-5—7-lobatis lobis acuminatis serratis, pedunculis

terminalibus racemoso-umbellatis petiolo longioribus, carpellis 9 apice longe

biaristatis.

Sra vitifolia. Cav. Ic. v.5. p. 428. De Cand. Prodr. 0.1. p. 472. Spreng. Syst.

Veget. v.83. p.116. Hook. et Arn. Bot. Misc. v. 3. p. 154.

AsurTILon vitifolium. Presi, Relig. Henk. v. 2. p.116. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1844,

t. 57.

One of the handsomest of the genus, but too much of the‘ Mal-

low’ kind to be a general favourite with cultivators. Seeds were

sent from Chili to Mr. Veitch, by his collector, Mr. W. Lobb,

in 1844, and plants blossomed in the greenhouse in May, 1845.

The plant was first, however, brought to Europe by Capt. Cot-

tingham, in 1836, and was cultivated in the open border, in

Dublin, for three years without any shelter. In England, gene-

rally, however, it requires the protection of a greenhouse.

Duscr. A Shrub, 4-6 feet high, downy in almost every

part, with terete dranches. Leaves alternate, petiolate, cordate,

3-7-lobed, lobes acuminate, especially the terminal one, all

coarsely but bluntly doubly serrated ; petioles shorter than the

blade. FYowers terminal, forming corymbose racemes, which are

longer than the petioles, large, showy. Pedicels rounded. Calyx

almost campanulate, blunt at the base, deeply five-cleft, with

broad, acute segments ; dracteas under the calyx none. Corolla

of 5, large, spreading, obcordate, blueish lilac, striated petals,

united at the base by their hairy claws. Stamens in five, rather

short fascicles, united below into a still shorter tube. Anthers

one-celled, yellow. Ovaries 9-10, united in a circle, each ovary

MAY Isr, 1846. 2D

or each cell with several ovules. Styles as many as ovaries,

reflexed, clubbed, united below into one.

Fig. 1. Portion of the base of the corolla with three fascicles of stamens.

2. Pistils. 3. Section of the united ovaries :—magnified.

Tas. 4228.

MAXILLARIA macrospuLpon.

Large-bulbed Mazillaria.

Nat. Ord. OncutpE®.—GyNANDRIA MoNANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Perianthium connivens raro patens. Sepala lateralia cum basi

producta column connata. Petala subconformia. Labellum trilobum, cuculla-.

tum, sessile, cum basi producta column articulatum. Colwmna semiteres,

aptera. Anthera subbilocularis. Pollinia 2, bipartibilia vel integra, caudicula

brevi, glandula transversa.—Epiphyte (Americana), pseudo-bulbose, acaules v.

caulescentes. Folia plicata vel coriacea. Pedunculi radicales, axillares v. termi-

nales, uni-~ vel multiflort. Lindl.

MAXILLarta macrobulbon ; pseudo-bulbis magnis ovatis compressis, foliis plu-

rimis oblongis membranaceis nervosis, pedunculis radicalibus solitariis uni-

floris, vaginis distantibus inflatis, sepalis oblongo-ovatis patentibus basi

parum productis, petalis minoribus latioribus, labello longitudine petalorum

oblongo trilobo disco lamella oblonga, lobo intermedio oblongo-ovato re-

curvo crispatulo.

Sent from Sierra Nevada, Santa Martha, by our collector, Mr.

Purdie, to the Royal Gardens of Kew. It has some characters

in common with JZ. aromatica, Hook. Exot. Fl. t. 219, and with

M. cruenta, Lindl. Bot. Reg., 1842, t. 13.; from the former it may

be known by the larger size in every part of the plant, by the

Scentless flowers and different shape of the lip; from the latter

by its smaller differently coloured blossoms, by the very dissimilar

labellum and the absence of the crimson blotch on its under side.

Derscr. Pseudo-bulbs large, ovate, compressed, in age slightly

wrinkled, bearing from the summit several large, oblong, mem-

branaceous, waved, acute, Jeaves. Peduncles generally two, one on

each side of a pseudo-bulb, much shorter than the leaves, partially

sheathed with distant inflated scales, single-flowered. Flowers

rather large, paleish yellow. Sepals ovato-oblong, spreading, .

little waved, united at the base so as to form a short blunt spur.

Petals shorter and broader than the sepals. Zip the length of the —

petals, oblong, concave, three-lobed, spotted on the disc and with

MAY Ist, 1846, | SA ies

a tongue-shaped lamella, lateral lobes short, terminal lobe ovato-

oblong, reflexed, a little crisped.

Fig.1. Lip :—slightly magnified.

BRAG

Tas. 4229.

TORENIA Kenan

Purple-blotched Torenta.

Nat. Ord. ScRopHULARINE#.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx tubulosus, plicatus, apice oblique 5-dentatus v. bilabiatus,

labiis 2—3-dentatis. Corolla ringens, labio' superiore bifido, inferiore trifido,

laciniis subplanis. Stamina fertilia 4, didynama, 2 superiora brevia filamentis

integris, 2 inferiora ad basin labii inferioris inserta, filamentis elongatis arcuatis,

basi appendice dentiformi vel filiformi auctis. Anthere per paria cohzerentes

approximate, biloculares, loculis divergentibus divaricatisve apice confluentibus.

Stylus simplex, stigmate complanato bilamellato v. simplici (°). Capsula ob-

longa calyce brevior, bivalvis, valvulis integris margine planis, dissepimento

parallelo placentifero demum libero.—Herbe ramose, glabre v. villosa, haud

diffuse. Folia opposita sepius dentata. Flores awillares, oppositi v. fasciculati,

interdum racemost. Benth.

Toren edentula; pubescens, foliis late ovatis subcordatis grosse serratis,

pedunculis axillaribus solitariis vel terminalibus subaggregatis nunc race-

mosis folio brevioribus demum fructiferis refractis, corollis calyce ovato vix

longioribus, filamentis omnibus edentulis.

Torenta edentula. Benth. in Hook. Herb.

This very pretty annual made its appearance in some earth in

flower-pots in the stove at Kew, and had no doubt come from

some part of the East Indies. I at first supposed it was the

Torenia Asiatica, L., but a slight comparison of the calyx and

flowers convinced me of my error; and I find it to corrrespond

exactly with a species from Assam, in my Herbarium, marked

by Mr. Bentham, ‘ 7. edentula.’ It is, probably, found also in

other parts of our eastern possessions, and will doubtless appear

under that name in the forthcoming volume of De Candolle’s

Prodromus. ‘The broad calyx, as long, or nearly so, as the tube

of the corolla, is very characteristic of this species, and the two

deep purple blotches which render the blossoms so bright and

lively are conspicuous even in my dried specimens. The genus

was named in honour of Olof Toreen, chaplain of a vessel in the

Swedish East India Company, who published a voyage to China

between the years 1750, and 1752. The present species flowered

with us during the months of July and August.

MAY Ist, 1846.

Derscr. Root annual. Stem erect, but weak, much branched

with opposite square branches, the lower ones spreading. Leaves

opposite, petiolate, ovate, acuminate, approaching to cordate,

coarsely serrated, downy or slightly hairy, as is nearly the whole

plant, more or less. Peduncles axillary, solitary, single-flowered

or terminal, and more or less clustered, often three together, and

thus the middle is frequently a three-flowered raceme, always

shorter than the leaves, or only in fruit elongated, the same length,

or longer than the leaves, and refracted. Calyx ovate, plicate, so

as to appear winged at the angles, two-lipped, glabrous. Corolla

with the tube inflated above, almost wholly included in the calyx,

green, tinged with purple. Limé of five, nearly equal, rounded

lobes, yellowish-white, variegated with pale purple, two upper

lobes (forming the upper lip) standing forward and the apices a

little incurved when perfect (not well represented in our figure) ;

lower lip three-lobed, the two lateral lobes each with a deep purple

blotch. ‘Two inferior stamens included; the two upper ones

exserted. Ovary oblong, arising from a glandular disc or ring.

Style geniculated at the base. Stigma two-lipped, downy.

Fig. 1. Portion of the tube of the corolla with the stamens. 2. Pistil.

Tas. 4230.

AXGIPHILA GRANDIFLORA.

Large yellow-flowered Hyiphila.

Nat. Ord. VeRBENACE®.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx campanulatus vy. turbinatus, quadridentatus. Corolla

hypogyna, infundibuliformis v. hypocrateriformis, tubo calyce multo longiore,

limbo quadripartito sequali. Stamina 4, corolle tubo inserta, exserta, equalia.

Ovarium 4-loculare, loculis uniovulatis. Stylus terminalis, bifidus. Bacea quadri-

locularis v. abortu bilocularis. Semina in loculo solitaria—Arbores v. frutices

Americe tropice ; foliis oppositis simplicibus, corymbis axillaribus et terminalibus

dichotomis, paniculatis ; corollis flavis albis. Endl.

AlerPHtLa grandiflora; glabra, ramis teretibus, foliis verticillatis oblongo-subob-

- ovatis brevissime petiolatis integerrimis basi obtusis subcordatis apice

acutis, corymbo trichotome diviso pedunculato terminali basi bibracteato,

calycis tubo brevi 5-dentato, 5-angulato, corolla (magna) longe tubulosa

pubescente (flava), limbo 5-lobo, lobis patentibus acutis, staminibus exsertis,

bacca obovato-rotundata compressa cyanea.

v

Of the native country of this very pretty shrub I regret to say

we are ignorant. We are indebted for flowermg specimens, 1m

December, 1845, to Mr. Henderson, of Pine-apple Place, Ken-

sington, who received plants from Mr. Makoy, of Liege, under

the erroneous name of “ yellow Rondeletia”; and about the same

time also, from Messrs. Lucombe and Pince, of the Exeter Nur-

sery. It is quite clear that this is no Rondeletia, nor any Rubi-

aceous plant, but a true yiphila, with singularly large y ellow

tubular flowers, well worthy a place in every collection, flowering

as it does in the middle of winter in a warm stove, and then the

flowers are succeeded by the glaucous-blue berries.

Descr. Our Plants are shrubdy, one and a half to two feet

high, every where glabrous (except the corolla). Branches terete,

pale brown, woody. Leaves in rather distant whorls, four or

five in a whorl, oblong, or rather approaching to obovate, entire,

slightly waved, penninerved, very shortly petiolate, obtuse and

even subcordate at the base, acute at the point. Peduncle

terminal, 2-3 inches long, with a pair of dracteas immediately

beneath the trichotomously divided, rather compact, many-

flowered corymb. Calye short, cup-shaped, pentagonal, with at

May Ist, 1846.

short upright teeth. Corolla very large for the genus, yellow,

slightly downy; the tube an inch long, nearly cylindrical; the

limd of five spreading nearly equal segments. Stamens protruded,

didynamous, yellow ; filaments glabrous ; anthers oblongo-sagit-

tate. Ovary globose, four-celled, with a solitary ovu/e in each

cell. Style as long as the tube of the corolla. Stigma bifid.

Berry subglobose, but broadish at the top and compressed, of a

rich blue colour (cyaneous) containing two perfect, elongated,

semicylindrical stony seeds in a greenish pulp.

Fig. 1. Anther. 2. Pistil. 3. Section of an ovary :—magnified.

cae

#231.

Fitch, del.-et.lith: Re imp

eeve, ‘

Tas. 423].

PINGUICULA orcuIpDIoIDEs.

Orchis-like Butterwort.

Nat. Ord. LENTIBULARIE®.—DIANDRIA Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. Calyx bilabiatus, labio superiore 3-fido v. 3-partito, altero bifido v.

bipartito. Corolla bilabiata aut rarius subregularis, labio ante florationem supe-

riore bifido y. bipartito, inferiore trifido v. tripartito majore basi calcarato, lobis

integris v. dentatis: palato sepius maculato et villoso nunc gibbo. Stamina

geminata, arcuata, corolla multo breviora, antheris approximatis, unilocularibus,

globosis, vertice rima dehiscentibus. Pollen ovoideo-globosum. Ovariwm ovoi-

deum. Stigma sessile bilobum, lobo inferiore (id est, labio majori et staminibus

opposito) plano rotundato fimbriato, supra antheras revoluto, superiore lanceolato

minimo, sepe abortiente. Placenta centralis libera stipitata. Ovula numerosa.

Capsula erecta, sepius ovoidea, valvis duabus lateralibus dehiscens. Semina

numerosa, oblonga, minutissima, rugosa, extremitate angustiori affixa—Herbe

parve perennes in paludosis et humidis hemispherici borealis extra tropicum et

Americe merid. presertim in montibus habitantes ; foliis omnibus rosulatis integerri-

mis, sessilibus v. brevissime petiolatis, glabris v. glanduloso-pilosis, margine plerumque

involutis sepe pinguibus ; scapis 1-3, unifloris, nudis. DC.

Pineurcuna orchidioides ; foliis biformibus extus parvis erectiusculis imbricatis

copiosis ovatis acutis interioribus paucioribuslaxis patentibus obovato-spathu-

latis obtusis concavis, scapo superne calyceque pubescentibus, corolle bila-

biate lobis subsequalibus obovatis retusis patenti-reflexis, tubo brevissimo,

calcare vorrecto curvato cylindraceo-acuminato, ovarlo villoso.

Pineuicuna orchidioides. Alph. De Cand. Prodr. v. 8. p. 27.

Among the many interesting objects, to be seen at the Royal

Gardens of Kew during the latter part of the present winter,

(1845-6) was a number of pots of this most lovely species of Pin-

guicula in full blossom, plunged in Sphagnum and other mosses,

in cool stoves, where they flourished as well as if they had been

in their native mountains of Mexico. Living roots were sent to

us by Mr. Repper, from the Real del Monte, which as soon as

planted, began to exhibit the two forms of leaves here repre-

sented, the upper, or inner ones, almost resembling those of an

Echeveria. ;

Descr. Root perennial. Leaves of two kinds; outer, or lower

ones, small, numerous, closely imbricated, ovate, acute, the apex

MAY Ist, 1846,

a little reflexed ; the upper, or inner ones, large, fewer, obovato-

spathulate, concave ; all of them pale, somewhat glaucous green

colour. Scapes 3-5 from the same root, 4-5 inches high, each

bearing a handsome purple flower, with a white throat and _red-

purple lines. Calyx 4-fid, the lower lobe bifid. Corolla of five

nearly equal, reflexo-patent, retuse lobes, the two upper ones

forming the upper lip, the three lower ones the lower lip. Spur

as long as the corolla, porrected, curved, cylindrical and acumi-

nate. Stamens two, as in the genus. Pistil hairy.

Fig. 1. Calyx, stamens, and pistil. 2. Pistil :—magnified.

Hitch delet hth.

Reeve, imp:

es Tas. 4232.

BARNADESIA Rossa.

Rose-coloured Barnadesia.

Nat. Ord. Compos.-MuTISIANZ.—SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA.

Gen. Char. Capitulum multiflorum homogamum. Jnvol. turbinatum multi-

seriale imbricatum, squamis interioribus radiantibus. Recept. paleis tenuissimis

iliformibus spiraliter tortis dense vestitum. Flores aut dissimiles, exteriores

biligulati, labio externo amplo 4-dentato int. filiformi, centrales tubulosi 5-den-

tati, aut omnes bilabiati. Stam. filam. aut omnium aut exteriorum monadelpha!

Anthere ecaudate. Achenium turbinatum dense sericeo-villosum. Pappus 1-

serialis, nunc ubique plumosus, nunc in peripheria plumosus in disco setis hir-

sutis subrigidis constans.—Frutices in Amer. austr. habitantes. Aculei sepius

stipulares subulati gemini. Folia alterna integerrima mucronata. Capitula termi-

nalia. Cor. purpuree villoso-sericee. Pappus et recept. pili fulvi. De Cand.

BaRNADESIA rosea; capitulis solitariis ovato-cylindraceis pubescentibus sessi-

libus, flosculorum labio altero oblongo emarginato extug villoso altero fili-

formi, flore tubuloso centrali nullo, filamentis liberis, pilis receptaculi haud

tortilibus, pappo rigido plumoso. Lindl.

BaRNavEstA rosea. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1843. p. 29.

This singular and beautiful genus was named, by Linneus, in

honour of a Spanish botanist, Michael Barnadez. ight spe-

cies are characterized in the Prodromus of De Candolle, but,

so imperfectly, that though probably the present 1s included

among them, I think Dr. Lindley has done wisely in making

of it a new species, and he has given an excellent specific cha-

racter, here quoted, and a very characteristic figure. It is a

native of South America, like all the other species, but its exact

locality is not noted. All that seems to be known about it is,

that it first flowered in the Duke of Northumberland’s collection.

With us it blossoms in the stove in the winter months, and is

really a plant of great beauty, from the bright deep pink of its

flowers. I possess specimens of what I consider the same, both

from Peru and Brazil, and it probably has a very extensive range

in the continent of South America. ig ee

Descr. A Shrub, with slender, weak, and, probably, in its wild

state, trailing stems, rounded, slender, glabrous. Leaves alter-

MAY, 1846,

nate, or sometimes opposite or ternate, obovato-lanceolate, acute

and mucronate, entire, tapering below into a very short petiole.

At the setting on of a branch or of a leaf, are frequently one or

two short straight acicular spines, half an inch long. Head or

capitulum of flowers large, handsome, solitary, sessile upon the

apex of a branch, with two or three leaves at the base. Jnvo-

lucre long, cylindrical, swollen at the base. Scales numerous,

imbricated, appressed, the lower ones broadly ovate, crowded,

acute or mucronate, the upper ones gradually becoming longer,

almost linear, erect, rose-coloured, with a white edge. Florets ligu-

late, two-lipped ; outer lip deep rich rose-colour, with about four

teeth, inner filiform, spreading : tube of the corolla hairy. Anthers

united, shorter than the style ; stigma obliquely truncate. Ache-

mum (ummature) hairy. Pappus likewise hairy or villous.

Fig. 2. Floret. 2. Portion of the hairy pappus. 3. Young floret, the corolla

not yet expanded :—magnified.

Tas. 4233.

FUCHSIA macrantua.

Largeflowered apetalous Fuchsia.

SF

Nat. Ord. ONaGRARIEe.—OcTANDRIA MonoeGynIa.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tan. 4174.)

Fucusta macrantha ; apetala, fruticosa pubescens, foliis ovatis acutis integerrimis,

pedunculis axillaribus solitariis v. aggregatis unifloris, floribus pendentibus

calycis tubo longissimo subcylindraceo superne sensim latiore limbo quadri-

fido laciniis late ovatis erecto-patentibus, staminibus inclusis, ovario elongato-

turbinato 4-sulcato, stylo exserto, stigmate capitato.

If this be not the most brilliantly coloured of Fuchsias it

certamly can boast the largest flowers, and it bears them more

copiously than any other species. It is moreover quite an un-

described species, first, however, found by Mr. Mathews, climbing

on trees in lofty mountains at Andimarca, Peru (n. 1 197 of

Mathews’ Collections), and it has been long in our Herbarium

from that source, and next by Mr. Veitch’s collector, Mr. William

Lobb, detected in woods near Chasula, Columbia, at an elevation

of 5,000 feet above the sea. It was exhibited by Mr. Veitch

at the Horticultural Society’s rooms, on the 7th of April, and

attracted much attention.

The absence of petals in the flower of our plant, and the

imperfect descriptions of F. apetala, would at first lead to the

supposition that it was that rare and splendid species, but if the

two plants be compared, or if F. macrantha be compared with

Ruiz and Pavon’s figure of F. apetala, the differences will be very

apparent. It is quite a hardy Greenhouse species, and promises to

succeed well in the open border in the summer months. As the

season advances, the colour becomes more brilliant, and then the

effect, with the numerous flowers quite concealing the stem and

branches, is peculiarly striking. The plant seems scarcely to

exceed two feet in height, and it is so free a flowerer that

blossoms appear when the plant is only six inches high.

Descr. A rather low, straggling shrub, the side branches _

JUNE Ist, 1846. 2x

spreading. eaves rather large, ovate, acute, entire, petiolate.

Peduncle single-flowered, solitary or aggregate, often among

terminal leaves which are so small: as to give the appearance of

termimal corymbs, at other times the flowering branches are

crowned with a tuft of leaves. Flowers pendulous, apetalous.

Calyx very long, cylindrical, a little widening upwards, of a fine

rose-red colour, the limb four-cleft ; segments ovate, moderately

spreading. Corolla none. Stamens included, that is, not longer

than the segments of the calyx. Ovary inferior, turbinate, tapering

at the base, furrowed. Style exserted. Stigma capitate.

RGA,

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Reeve, 7p

Tas. 4234.

CYPRIPEDIUM sBarsartvum.

Bearded Ladies’ Slipper.

Nat. Ord. Oncnuipr“.—GyNaNpDRIA DIanpDRIA.

Gen. Char. Perianthium patens. Sepala: lateralia connata aut distincta,

labello supposita. Petala libera, seepius angustiora. Lade/lum inflatum, margine

utrinque auriculato inflexo. Colwmna nana. Stamina 3, quorum unum sterile.

centrale dilatatum inflexum, et 2 fertilia lateralia. 4nthere sub stamine sterili

latentes, subrotunde, 2-loculares. Pollen pulvereo-granulosum. Stylus subliber,

teres, stigmate disciformi terminatus.—Herbe terrestres utriusque orbis, ab equa-

tore fere ad circulum arcticum vagantes. Folia radicalia aut caulinia, coriacea aut

plicata. Flores solitarii racemosi v. paniculati, speciosi. Lindl.

Cyprirepium barbatum; acaule, foliis coriaceis acutis | canaliculatis maculatis,

scapo pubescente, sepalo dorsali cuspidato obtuso ciliato margine revoluto,

petalis lineari-oblongis subundulatis fimbriatis margine superiore verrucoso,

stamine sterili lunato pubescente. Lindt.

Cyprtpepium barbatum. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1841. Misc. n.110. Bot. Reg. 1842.

£.£f,

Cyprrpepium Javanicum. Bl. Cat. 98. -Hassk. Cat. Hort. Bogor. p. 48.

It is with no small reluctance that I represent this as a species

distinct from Cypripedium venustum, Wall. in Bot. Mag. t. 2129,

and Exot. Fl. t. 35; or even from the C. purpuratum, Lindl. Bot.

Reg. t. 1991, the only distinguishing character being in the

“purple hairy shining warts which border the upper edge of

the petals” in our present plant. But assuredly such warts, in a

greater or less degree do exist on those of C. venustum, though

they are obsolete in C. purpuratum. Probably the different localities

were considered to strengthen the idea of specific difference, the

C. venustum inhabiting the north of India, about Nepal, and the

two others the Malayan islands: but the mountains of tropical

India are now well known to produce similar species to those of

the less elevated regions of the north, and such appears to be the

case in the present instance. The colour of the lip in C. barbatum

is different from that of C. venustum; but m two beautiful

flowering specimens, sent to us by our friend Mr. Veitch, ae

Java (from which our figure was taken), one eee the dar

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JUNE lst, 1846.

purple of C. darbatum, the other the pale colour of C. venustum.

The leaves, in like manner, vary in intensity of colour and

marking, and in the absence or presence of brown dots on the

under side of the foliage.

The C. venustum having been fully described at Tab. 2129 of

the present work, and familiar to all cultivators of Orchidee, and

the differences such as they are, herepointed out, we need not

enter into more lengthy observations on the present occasion.

Fig. 1. Upper view of the column with anthers. 2. Lower view of the same :-—

magnified.

Fitch,

del. et. hth

Reeve, mp’

Tas. 4235.

MAXILLARIA Warreana.

Mr. Warre’s Mazillaria.

&

Nat. Ord. OncHIDEZ.—GyNanpria MonaANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4228.)

MaxiILLaRta Warreana; pseudo-bulbis oblongis attenuatis articulatis, foliis

sub-4 lanceolatis basi longe attenuatis nervosis plicatis, scapo radicali erecto

elongato vaginato multifloro, floribus subglobosis sepalis petalisque sub-

eequalibus rotundato-ovatis concavis acutis, labello obovato basi cucullato

intus medio jugis tribus elevatis carnosis, apice dilatata sublobata supra plu-

rilamellata, columna inclusa. ,

MaxitLarta Warreana. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t.2884. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p.148.

This is a very distinct and very lovely species of Maaillaria,

first detected, as it would appear, in Brazil, at least it was, ac-

cording to Mr. Loddiges, cultivated there by Mr. Warre, after

whom it is named. Our plants were sent from St. Martha, New

Grenada, by our collector, Mr. Purdie, and flowered in the Royal

Gardens, and at Syon, in August, 1845. The delicate and

almost snowy or yellow white of the ground of the flowers

is beautifully contrasted with the rich purple of the inside of

the lip.

ae. Pseudo-bulbs, in age, four to five inches long, oblong,

terete, attenuated, jointed, the articulations partly sheathed by

the withered bases of the leaves. In the flowering state the /eaves

do not spring from any apparent pseudo-bulbs, but directly from

a cormus or short rootstock; these leaves are long, much at-

tenuated at the base, and gradually expand into a lanceolate

acuminated, striated and plaited blade. Scape arising from the

same rootstock at the outer base of the leaves, one and a half or

two feet high, rounded, jointed, purple, sheathed with close-

pressed scales or dracteas. Racemes of eight, or ten, or more

Jlowers, which are drooping and subglobose, rather large. Sepals

and petals nearly similar (the latter rather smaller) roundish

ovate, very concave, acute, white tinged externally with yellow,

the two lateral sepals below ending in a kind of obtuse spur.

JUNE Ist, 1846,

Lip about equal in length with the perianth, white, beautifully

painted within with yellow and deep purple, obovate, the lower

half concave, subcucullate, within having three elevated fleshy

ridges, the upper half, or apex, spreading, obscurely lobed and

waved, the upper surface with several, membranous, crisped

lamella. | Column rather short, semi-cylindrical, included.

Fig. 1. Column and anther. 2. Lip:—slightly magnified.

4#R SE.

Tas. 4236.

JESCHINANTHUS purRPuRASCENS.

Purplish-green ischinanthus.

Nat. Ord. DipyMOcARPE%.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx ventricoso-tubulosus apice 5-lobus, 3-fidus vel 3-partitus,

lobis equalibus. Corolla tubulosa incurva limbo obliquo subineequaliter 5-fido

subbilabiato.| |Stamina 4 antherifera didynama sepe exserta cum rudimento

amg Loculi antherarum paralleli. Ovarium annulo cyathiformi basi cinctum.

'ylus filiformis. Stigma integrum depresso-concavum. Capsula siliqueeformis

elongata acuminata valvis duabus strictis, placentis bifidis bilamellatis margine

revolutis quasi 4-locularis. Semina plurima minuta oblonga pendula utrinque

setis longis paucis aut solitariis appendiculata.—Suffrutices indict pseudo-parasi-

tic scandentes sepius radicantes. Caules teretes geniculate glabri. Folia opposita

petiolata carnosa integerrima sepius glabra. Pediculi terminales aut axillares uni- -

bi- rarius pauciflori. Cor. rubra (rarius virides), De Cand.

AscHINaNtHUS purpurascens ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis sinuato-den-

tatis obscure venosis glabris, floribus fasciculatis axillaribus, bracteis minutis

subulatis, calycis tubo brevi laciniis subulatis corollam subsequantibus,

corolle limbo fimbriato, staminibus longe exsertis.

Alscuinantuvs purpurascens. Hassk. Cat. Hort. Bot. Bogor. ed, 2. p. 154.

Alscurnantuvs albida. Alph. De Cand. Prodr. v. 9. p. 262.

Brenonta albida. Bl. Cat. Hort. Bot. Bogor. ed. 1. p. 87.

TricHosporum albidum. Nees, in Bot. Zeit. 1825, p. 144.

Lysronorus albidus. Bl. Bjdr. p. 765.

This little-known plant has been unfortunate in the number of

generic names it has received, and scarcely less so in the map-

propriateness of its specific names. In the first edition of the

‘Catalogue Plant. Horti Botanici Bogoriensis it received the

name of “ albida,” of Blume; in the second edition, the author

(Hasskarl) observes, “nomen incaute creatum, folia subtus in

nervo atropurpurea et preeterea purpureo-maculata, ceeterum

pallide viridia nec (viva) albida”; and then he gives the scarcely

more happy one of “ purpurascens. It is a species readily dis-

tinguished from the rest of the genus by its sinuato-toothed

leaves, by the dark purple-brown prominent mid-rib on the

under side, by the long, purple, subulate lacinize of the calyx,

JUNE Ist, 1846.

the green corolla, having its limb spotted with dark purple or

blood-colour, and its ciliated or fringed margin. It has recent

been introduced to our own stoves by Mr. Veitch, through his

collector, Mr. Thomas Lobb, from Java. It inhabits the moun-

tains. It is a free and abundant flowerer, and blossoms in

March, and loves heat and moisture.

Descr. Straggling shrub, everywhere glabrous, branched.

Branches rounded, greenish. Leaves opposite, distichous, on

short thick petioles, oblong-lanceolate, thick and fleshy, almost

coriaceous, obtuse at the base, acuminated at the point, the

margin sinuato-dentate, the colour dark green above, paler below,

where it is sometimes tinged (but not spotted) with purple, and

having a very prominent dark purple costa. Pedicels short,

clustered, axillary, single-flowered, with very minute subulate

bracteas at the base. Calyx with the tube, short, green, the

segments very long, subulate, dark purple, as long as the tube of

the corolla. Corolla green, the tube infundibuliform, a little

curved, the mouth very oblique, the limb of five rounded, spread-

ing segments, spotted with blood-colour and ciliated. Stamens

four, didynamous (with a fifth small abortive one), much exserted,

curved. Filaments hairy above. Anthers oblong. Ovary seated

on a fleshy disk, linear, glabrous. Sfyle long, hairy. Stigma

depressed, obscurely two-lobed.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Corolla laid open, 3. Pistil. 4. Ovary cut through

transversely :—magnified.

Tas. 4237.

CIRRHOPETALUM Tuovarsit.

Thouars’ Cirrhopetalum.

Nat. Ord. OrcHripExZ.—GyYNANDRIA MONANDBIA.

Gen. Char. Sepala vingentia, lateralibus acuminatis, valde obliquis basi pro-

ductze column adnatis, supremo multo longioribus. Petala nana apiculata.

Labellum integrum, cum basi columne articulatum. Co/wmna minima basi longe

producta, apice cornubus duobus petaloideis. -Authera bilocularis. Pollinia 4,

quorum 2 interiora multo minora, lamelliformia.—Herbe epiphyte, rhizomate

repente, pseudo-bulbos monophyllos gerente. Folia coriacea avenia. Flores dense

racemosi, nunc radiati in apice scapi radicalis. Lindl.

CrrrHopetatum Thouarsii; petalis ciliatis sepaloque supremo aristatis, foliis

oblongis obtusis emarginatis scapo brevioribus. Lindl.

Crrrnopetatum Thouarsii. Lindl. Gen.et Sp. Orchid. p.58. Bot. Reg.1838, ¢.11.

EprpenpRUM umbellatum. Forst. Prodr. p.321 (not Sw.).

BuiBoruyiium longiflorum. Thouars, Orch. Afr. t. 98.

ZYGoGLossuM umbellatum. Reinw. in Bot. Zeit. 1825. v. 2. p. 4.

CymBIp1uM umbellatum. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 723.

For the illustration of this exceedingly curious Orchideous

plant, and for the above synonymes, we are indebted to Dr.

Lindley, who observes that the species inhabits the Society Islands,

Java, the Isles of France and Madagascar, and Manilla. It

requires a little dissection, and the removal of the long lateral

sepals, to distinguish the beauty and the elegant marking of its

flower. The generic name was given by Dr. Lindley, from the

prevailing tawny colour of the blossoms, as exhibited chiefly in

the sepals: xijos, tawny, and seradov. The plant requires heat

and moisture to bring it to perfection, and it then seems to

flower at various seasons of the year. Our figure was made at

the Royal Gardens, in December, 1845.

Descr. Rhizoma creeping and rooting, bearing, at distant

intervals, small ovate, angled, dark green, smooth pseudo-bulbs,

with a few long bristly seales at their base, terminated at the

apex by a solitary, oblong, subpetiolated coriaceous, recurved

leaf, jointed upon the pseudo-bulb. Scape radical, slender, erect,

JUNE Isr, 1846.

of few joints, and sheathed with brown scales at the joints.

Flowers in a one-sided umbel, radiating, pedicellate; pedicels

slender, spreading, with a subulate bractea at the base of each.

Sepals connivent, very unequal; superior ones ovate, cuspidate,

concave, straight, tawny, spotted on both sides; Jateral sepals

very long, lanceolate, with a twist at the base, tawny without,

yellow dotted with red-brown within. Petals ovato-lanceolate,

cuspidate, ciliated, yellow with red dots. zp oblong, reflexed,

entire, obtuse, fleshy, jointed on the produced base of the column.

Column short, with two cuspidate serrated points, one on each

side the hemispherical anther. Pol/en-mass in two unequal pairs.

Fig. 1. Flower with much of the lateral sepals removed. 2. Pollen-masses :—

Tas. 4238. : a

CALLIANDRA Harrisii.

Mr. Harris’ Calliandra.

Nat. Ord. Leguminos£.—MonabgELPHIA POLYANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Flores plerique hermaphroditi. Calyx campanulatus 2-dentatus v.

rarius 5-fidus, seepius striatus. Corolla infundibuliformi-campanulata, rarius

subtubulosa, laciniis striatis v. tenuiter membranaceis. Stamina indefinita sepius

numerosa corolla pluries longiora, basi in tubum coalita et corolle sepius plus

minus adnata. Legumen lineare, rectum v. vix falcatum, compressum, in val-

vulas 2 lignosas coriaceas v. submembranaceas marginibus valde incrassatis ab

apice ad basin elastice dehiscens, intus uniloculare epulposum. Seminum funiculus

sepius brevis.—Frutices v. arbores parve, America calidioris incole, sepius

inermes. Folia bipinnata, petiolo rachique fere in omnibus eglandulosis. Stipule

in ramulis floriferis v.ad basin pedunculorum sepe persistentes, subimbricate, folia-

cee, membranacee v. indurate, in ramulis vegetioribus nonnunquam decidue, rarius

postice in spinam ut primum reflexam mox patentem v. surrectam producte. Capi-

tula florum globosa, pedunculata v. rarius sessilia, in axillis foliorum superiorum v.

in racemo terminali solitaria gemina v. rarius plura, staminibus (ultrapollicaribus)

purpureis v. albis, comosa speciosa. Flores centrales sepius quam in Abizzia

difformes, corolla elongato-tubulosa, staminum tubo longe exserto. Benth.

Catti1anpra (§ Macrophylle) Harrisii; ramulis puberulis, stipulis parvis fal-

catis, pinnis unijugis, foliolis sesquijugis oblique obovato-falcatis utrinque

puberulis uninerviis reticulato-venosis, pedunculis axillaribus fasciculatis

villosis, calycis dentibus glanduloso-puberulis, corolla infundibuliformi calyce

triplo longiore. Benth.

CALLIANDRA Harrisii. Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ, Bot. v. 3. p. 95.

Inca Harrisii. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1839, t. 41.

A very handsome stove plant, of straggling habit, but if sup-

ported by sticks, easily kept in good form, and highly ornamental,

with its copious, rather large leaves, and its very handsome

crested tufts of flowers, consisting, indeed, almost wholly of

stamens, but those stamens so long, so numerous, and of so

bright a red, as to be highly ornamental. ‘The species is a

native of Mexico; it is of easy cultivation, and easily increased

by cuttings. It was introduced to our gardens by Thos. Harris,

Esq., of Kingsbury, whose name it bears. As a genus, Calh-

andra (from xéddos, beauty, and avip,Spss, the stamen, in allusion to

one of its most striking characters, the beauty of the stamens)

JUNE lst, 1846,

is dismembered very judiciously by Mr. Bentham, from the over-

loaded genus, Jaga, and includes such as, altogether natives of

the American continent, resemble Inga in the flowers, and Acacia

in the fruit. Sixty species are described by Mr. Bentham, 1. c.

Descr. A straggling shrub, three to four feet high, with

spreading zigzag branches, of which the younger ones are downy.

Leaves bipimnate, primary pinne of one pair, and each pinna

bearing three, obovate, oblique, rather large leaflets ; of these three,

two are opposite and terminal, and one solitary and lateral. Ra-

chis hairy. Stipules subulate, hooked. Peduncles short, axillary,

solitary, having a single head of flowers, very small and compact

in bud, but soon expanding into very beautiful crested tufts, of

which the small yellow calyx and corolla are very much concealed

by the copious long stamens; each flower giving out a large

pencil, as it were, of scarlet hairs, tipped with the anthers, which

latter are at first also red, then yellow from the copious pollen.

Calyz urceolate, downy and slightly glandular, its teeth obtuse.

Corolla funnel-shaped, three times as long as the calyx ; the teeth

ovate. Svamens an inch and a half long, monadelphous at the

base. Pistil, as far as I have observed, wanting.

Fig. 1. Calyx and corolla with the base of the filaments :—magnified,

>a oY,

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Tas. 4239.

THEOPHRASTA Jusstat.

Jussiceu’s Theophrasta.

Nat. Ord. TuropHrastaces, De Cand—PrnTANDRIA MonoGynia.

Gen. Char. THEOPHRASTA, Juss. (not Linn. nor Phum.).—Calyx campanu-

latus, profunde 5-fidus : lobis ovatis, erectis, obtusiusculis, margine membranaceis,

-subciliatis, nervis centro parallelis, eestivatione imbricatis, uno exteriore, uno in-

teriore, 3 intermediis. Corolla cylindraceo-campanulata, apice 5-loba, calyce

quadruplo longior: lobis obtusis, imbricatis, estivatione calycis? lobo saltem

uno exteriore. Appendices 5, ad basin corolle, carnose, truncate, late, cum

lobis corolle alternantes. Pars corolle infra appendices parte superiore quintu-

plo brevior. Stamina 5, corolla quadruplo breviora, ejus lobis opposita, ima

basi tubi inserta, libera. Filamenta lanceolata. Anthere erectze, filamentis

sublongiores latioresque, extrorse, apice connectivo elongato cuspidate, lanceo-

latee, loculis longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. Pollen (siccum) late ellipsoideum,

areolatum leve. Pistidlum calycem longitudine subequans. Ovarium ovoideum.

Stylus brevis. Stigma capitatum obscure bilobatum? Ovula plurima adscen-

dentia, placentee centrali stipitatee globose inserta. Fructus globosus, crustaceo-

carnosus, unilocularis. Semina pauca (3-6?) ovoidea subcuneata, apice stipitis

placente glomerata, extremitate quadam foveolata? testa mucilaginea? magni-

tudine pomi minoris. _4léwnen corneum. Embryo paulo excentricus, rectus.

Radicyla cylindrica extremitatem foveolatam spectante. Cotyledones ovate

plan&, radicula latiores.—Arbuscula Americana, trunco apice comoso: foliis

confertis subverticillatis, lineari-oblongis, obtusis cartilagineis sesquipedalibus, 3 poll.

latis, sessilibus, grosse spinoso-dentatis, venis creberrimis subpellucidis parallelis

punctis rotundis minutis centro quasi perforatis utrinque sitis: spinis axillaribus

minimis, caducis: racemis terminalibus 5-6-floris corymbiformibus pubescentibus ;

bracteis linearibus pedicello elongato triplo brevioribus ; bracteolis solitariis supra

medium pedicelli : Jloribus albis, subnutantibus : fructu luteo. DC.

Tuopurasta Jussiei. Lindl. Coll. Bot. t.26. De Cand. Prodr. v. 8. p. 146.

TuropHrasta Henrici. Hamilt. Prodr. Ind. Occ. p. 27.

THEOPHRASTA Americana. Sw. Obs. p.58 (non Linn.).

A stately unbranched plant, with something of a Palmn-like

habit, the upper part being comose or crowned with a tuft of

leaves, and bearmg in the centre of those leaves a pretty large

cluster of good-sized flowers. Few have had the opportunity of

studying this, save from dried specimens, yet it has occupied

the attention of some of our ablest botanists, and is considered

worthy (by Don and De Candolle), in conjunction with Clavija

JULY Ist, 1846, 2F

and Jacguinia and two or three less known genera, to form a dis-

tinct order, Theophrastacee ; allied on the one hand to Myrsi-

nace@, on the other to Sapotacee. Our present species, and the

only known one of the recognized, is a native of St. Domingo,

and of course requires the heat of a stove to bring its blossoms

to perfection. The fruit, so far as I am aware, does not ripen in

our collections, but is well represented, from dried specimens, by

Dr. Lindley, in the figure above quoted.

Dusc. Our Plant of this, about six feet high, presents an

unbranched woody stem, erect, rounded, clothed in the upper

part between and below the leaves, with soft, subulate, blackish

spines. Leaves from the apex of the stem, subverticillate, but

in such a way that three are placed close together on the stem,

sessile, oblong-lanceolate, 8-10 inches or a foot long, obtuse,

coriaceous, penninerved, glabrous, waved at the margin, and

bordered with very unequal spinous teeth. Flowers in corymbose

racemes, terminal, collected into a head and sunk, as it were,

in the hollow of the terminal mass of leaves. Each flower is

dirty white, nearly an inch long. Culye campanulate, with five

erect ovate subciliated lobes. Corolla broadly cylindraceo-cam-

panulate, with five spreading rounded lobes. Near the base of

the corolla within are five arched sca/es, with a little spine at

the back, these alternate with the lobes of the corolla: and alter-

nating with these are five stamens inserted at the very base of

the corolla. Filaments subulate, curved. Anthers oblong, two-

celled, with the counectivum extended beyond the point into an.

oblong appendage. Ovary globose, containing several ovu/es on

a globose central placenta. Style short. Stigma capitate.

Fig. 1. Calyx and pistil. 2. Corolla, laid open. 3. Portion of the base of

the corolla with the stamens removed. 4. Stamen. 5. Ovary, cut through trans-

versely.—magnified.

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Tas. 4240.

GESNERIA suusosa; Far. lateritia.

Tuberous-rooted Gesneria ; brick-coloured variety.

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Nat. Ord. GESNERIACE2®.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4217.)

GesNERIA bulbosa; herbacea tota pubescenti-villosa, foliis oppositis petiolatis

- ovato-ellipticis basi cordatis serrato-crenatis, racemis cymosis multifloris

ex axillis foliorum supremorum, pedicellis bracteatis, calycis lobis acutis,

corollee (ample) tubo cylindraceo basi 5-gibboso superne sensim ampliato,

ore valde oblique superne longissime producto. é

GeEsNeRtIA bulbosa. Gawler, Bot. Reg. t. 343. Hook. Bot. Mag. t.3886. De Cand.

Prodr. v. 7. p.529. °

_ 8. Yracemis cernuis, floribus lateritiis. Zab. nostr. 4240.

I much fear that the Gesneria faucialis, Lindl., (Bot. Mag.

t. 3659.), and the G. Suttoni, Lindl., (@. dulbosa, nob. in Bot.

Mag. t. 3041), should be united with G. du/bosa, which is evi-

dently a highly variable plant, and one that has apparently an

extensive geographical range, extending from Brazil to New

Grenada. In the latter country, about Santa Martha, the present

singular variety of this species, for such I take it to be, was detected

and sent to Kew by our collector Mr. Purdie. It first produced

its blossoms at Syon House, under the skilful management of

Mr. Carton. At first sight it is distinguished from the true

G. bulbosa by its pale brick-coloured flowers, and by the drooping

racemes. The arrangement of these flowers, in the raceme, on

simple pedicels, would rather induce me to refer this to @. fau-

cialis than to dulbosa, could I persuade myself they are really

distinct ; but, as far as I can find, the leaves and flowers are alike

in both, and the only difference discernible is in the large and

more divided raceme or panicle of the true G. bulbosa. —

~The species loves heat and moisture, and may be increased

both by tubers and cuttings.

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PITCAIRNIA unpvuuatirouia

Broad waved-leaved Piteairnia.

Nat. Ord. BromELIACEH.—HEXANDRIA MonoGyntA.

Gen. Char. Perigonii semisuperi sexpartiti lacinia exteriores calycine, basi

inter se connate, lanceolate, acuminate, carinate, erectze, interiores petaloidee,

longiores, inferne in tubum approximate, apice galeatim incumbentes v. aequa-

liter patentes, basi intus squamosa v. rarius nude. Stamina 6, annulo perigyno

inserta ; filamenta libera, subulata, anthere lineares, basi sagittate. Ovarium

seminiferum triloculare. Ovuda in loculorum angulo centrali plurima, adscen-

dentia, anatropa. Stylus filiformis, stigmata 3 linearia, spiraliter contorta. Cap-

sula semisupera, ovato-pyramidata, trilocularis, apice septicido-trivalvis, valvis

introrsum demum fissis. Semina plurima, adscendentia, teretiuscula, festa fusca

scrobiculata, chalaza late discolore umbilicum setiformem chalaze apicali in

acumen longe producte jungente. ZHmbryo minimus rectus in basi albuminis

dense farinosi, extremitate radiculari wmbilicum attingente, infera—Herbe

Americane tropice, foliis linearibus v. ligulatis sepe spinoso-dentatis, caule erecto,

simplici, floribus racemosis, bracteatis. Endl.

Prrcarrn1a wndulatifolia ; foliis lato-ensiformibus acuminatissimis membranaceis

striatis inermibus glabris hic illic margine undulatis, basi vaginantibus distiche

insertis, pedunculo breviuseulo vaginato, bracteis lato-lanceolatis convolutis

purpuraceis coloratis, spica simplici strobiliformi, bracteis unifloris ovato-

lanceolatis subconvolutis glabris, calyce bractea breviore, petalis (albis)

longissime exsertis.

PITCAIRNIA undulatifolia. Hortul.

A native, probably, of Brazil, but of the history of which we

know nothing, save that it was sent to the Royal Gardens of

Kew from Liverpool, by our obliging friend Mr. Shepherd,

under the name here adopted. It is a very showy plant, and no

stove collection should be without it. The leaves are handsome,

and of a light green, the lower bracteas are furfuraceous below,

red tipped with green, and the long, protruded corollas are quite

white. It flowers in May and easily bears parting at the root.

Desc. Plant about a foot and a half high to the top of the

Spike. Stem rounded, sheathed in a dichotomous manner with

_ the bases of the leaves. Leaves long-lanceolate or reniform, thin,

membranaceous, striated, entire, glabrous, very much acumi-

JULY lst, 1846.

nated, the margin sometimes a little waved, especially near the

base, everywhere unarmed. The sfem runs up into a bracteated

flower-disk : dracteas sheathing, long, acuminated, red and fur-

furaceous below, green and glabrous towards the apex. Spike

oblong, strobiliform. Its dracteas large, scarlet, imbricated, ovate,

acute, each sheathing the base of a flower. Calyx almost en-

tirely inferior, conical, elongated, of three imbricating coloured

lanceolate convolute pieces or sepals, an inch or more long, but

quite concealed by the bractea of the spike. Corolla very long,

of three white almost lmear pefa/s, with no scale at the base

within. Stamens as long as the petals. Style longer than the

stamens. Stigma spirally twisted.

Fig. 1. Pistil. 2. Transverse section of the ovary :—magnified.

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Tas. 4242.

GESNERIA exuiptica; Var. lutea.

Elliptic-leaved Gesneria ; yellow variety.

Nat. Ord. GesNERIACER.—DipyNaMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4217.)

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GuESNERIA elliptica ; pubescenti-velutina, foliis ellipticis rugosis crenato-serratis,

inferioribus petiolatis superioribus sensim minoribus sessilibus, pedunculis

terminalibus racemosis axillaribusque solitariis, ealycis lobis acutis, corolle

tubo basi 5-gibboso superne sensim ampliato, ore oblique bilabiato, labio

superiore minore recto bilobo, inferiore 3-lobo dependente lobis rotundatis,

glandulis hypogynis 4 quorum unico magno reliquis parvis linearibus, stylo

subincluso.

a. corollis rubris vel lateritiis.

8. corollis flavis. Tab. nostr. 4242.

We have here the pleasure of figuring another Gesneria, one

of the results of Mr. Purdie’s mission to the mountains of St.

Martha, New Grenada. he flowers of this species, however,

exhibit much variation in hue, and we have chosen the most

unusual of these colours in the genus, namely, the yellow. Others

are brick-coloured, and some bright red. All are graceful in

their growth and handsome in their blossoms. As a species it

will rank near G. rutila, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1158, and especially

that variety of it afterwards given at t.1279 of the same work

and called var. atrosanguinea; but the shape of the upper part

of the corolla and the relative size of the lips afford distinguishing

characters. It flowers in a warm moist stove in May, and

through most of the summer months. :

Dusc. Stem herbaceous, nearly terete, clothed, as is almost

every part of the plant, with a short and soft hair-like pubescence.

eaves opposite, elliptical, obtuse, crenato-serrate, somewhat

cuneate at the base; the lower ones petiolate, upper ones sessile

and gradually passing into small leaf-lke bracteas, situated

among the terminal flowers. FYowers forming a handsome

raceme at the extremity of the stem or branches, pedicels opposite,

bracteated, but in the lower pair or pairs the bracteas are so

JULY Ist, 1846,

large and foliaceous, that those pedicels may be said to be axil-

lary. Calyx ample, hemispherical, 5-cleft, the segments broad,

acute, spreading in consequence of the inflated base of the corolla.

Corolla, in the present variety, yellow ; the tude gradually widen-

ing upwards, but again contracting at the oblique mouth; the

base swelling into five inflated lobes: the Zimb two-lipped, upper

lip the smaller, two-lobed, standing forward; the lower one

hanging down, cut into three broad rounded lobes. Stamens

scarcely exserted. Filaments red. Anthers purple. Style alittle

protruded beyond the mouth of the corolla.

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LEIANTHUS vumsetuartuvs.

Umbellate Leianthus.

Nat. Ord. Genrranea.—Prntanpria Monoeynta.

Gen. Char. Calyx 5-fidus, 5-carinatus vel 5-alatus, lobis valvaribus planius-

culis acuminatis, carinis alisve dorsalibus. Corolla infundibuliformis, nuda, tubi

fundo tenui supra germen in faucem longiorem cum limbo 5-partito confluentem

equalem ampliato. Stamina 5, supra fundum corolle inserta, filamentis elongatis

ineequalibus. Anthere incumbentes, immutate neque apiculate. Ovarium annulo

basilari destitutum, valvulis introflexis semibiloculare, ovalis ipsarum margini in-

sertis. Stylus distinctus, persistens, stigmate indiviso capitulato. Capsula

bivalvis, septicida, semi-bilocularis, placentis margini valvarum insertis. Semina

placentis immersa.—Herbe vel frutices Jamaice et Americe centralis, cymis

terminalibus, floribus albidis vel flavis rarius cyaneis, gracilibus. DC.

LEIANTHUS umbellatus ; fruticosus robustus, foliis obovato-lanceolatis acuminatis

petiolatis, petiolis basi quasi stipulatim connatis, pedunculis axillaribus com-

pressis monocephalis, umbellis multifloris involucratis, calyce exalato, stami-

nibus longissime exsertis stylum subsequantibus.

LEIANTHUS umbellatus. Griseb. Gen. et Sp. Gent. p.189. De Cand. Prodr. v. 9.

p. 83. Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 687,688 (stamens not fully developed).

ListaNtHus umbellatus, Sw. Prodr. p.40. Fl. Ind. Oce. v. 1. p.350. Spreng.

Syst. Veget. 1. p. 585.

_ Ayrare and little known species, handsome in its habit and

in its ample foliage, and singular large involucrated umbels of

flowers, but these last are wanting. in colour to render the plant

a very striking one. It is a native of Jamaica, and seems to have

been unnoticed by any one till my excellent friend Dr. Macfacdyen

transmitted dried specimens some years ago, and more recently (in

1843), our collector, Mr. Purdie, has sent both specimens and seeds

to the Royal Gardens of Kew. ‘The latter were reared and pro-

duced fine flowering plants. It is a mountain plant, which

Swartz gathered in the Parish of St. James, and Mr. Purdie on

“the summit of the Dolphin, Hanover,” where this noble species

attains a height of twenty feet. It flowers in May, and succeeds

best in a hot moist stove heat. os

Dxsc. An erect Shrub, from three to twenty feet in height.

Stems and branches rounded, glabrous as is every part of the

JULY Ist, 1846,

plant. Leaves opposite and, indeed, united in pairs by the

dilated and stipulated bases of the petioles which form a kind of

cup around the branch; these leaves are often a foot or more

long (including the petiole of about two inches), lanceolate but

broader upwards, acuminated, in our living plant often spotted

with blistery swellings, alternate at the base, penninerved. Pe-

_ duncle often as long as the leaf, axillary, compressed or flattened

and dilated upwards, when it bears an involucre of two large

subovate and two smaller lanceolate leaves: within which, upon

the convex disc of the petiole, is a dense capitate umbel of nume-

rous greenish yellow. Pedicels short, bibracteate. Calyx very

thin and membranous, diaphanous, cut half-way down into five

narrow acuminated appressed segments. Corolla funnel-shaped,

the limb campanulate, divided into five nearly equal erect slightly

imbricating ovato-cordate acute segments. Stamens varying in

length at different periods of the inflorescence, when fully de-

veloped twice or thrice longer than the corolla. Filaments gla-

brous: anthers oblong, sagittate ; style rather longer than the

stamens: stigma two-lobed. Capsule oblong, two-celled.

Fig. 1. Flower :—natural size, 2. Ovary :—magnified.

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Tas. 4244.

DAVIESIA puysopes.

Hatchet-leaved Daviesia.

Nat. Ord. Leauminos#.—DEcANDRIA MonoeGynIa.

Gen. Char. Calye angulatus ebracteatus 5-dentatus interdum subbilabiatus.

Corolla carina vexillo breviore. Ovarian pedicellatum dispermum. Stylus

strictus. Stigma simplex. Legumen compressum angulatum elastice dehiscens

at suturam infer. dilatatum, fere semitrapezoideum. Strophiola seminis postice

integra.—Frutices Australasici glabri, spinosi aut inermes. Folia simplicia aut

nulla. Pediculi basi bracteolati awillares. DC.

Daviesta physodes; glauca, ramis erectis sulcatis, foliis linearibus teretibus

superioribus versus apicem precipue verticaliter dilatatis securigeriformibus

utrinque binervibus oblique mucronatis, calyce brevi campanulato, carina

subrostrata alis longiore.

Davresta physodes. Cunn. in Don, Gard. Dict. v. 2. p. 125. Benth. in Hug.

Enum. p.31. Walp. Repert.v.1 p.570. Lehm. Plant. Preiss. v. 1. p. 49.

A very singular species of the very pretty genus Daviesia, in

habit, as Mr. Bentham well remarks, resembling Genista Scorpius ;

but why named physodes by Mr. Cunningham is not apparent ;

for (unless it be in the fruit, which is, however, not noticed by

Mr. Cunningham) there is nothing inflated or bladdery about the

plant. The whole is rigid and glaucous, the lower leaves often small

and terete, the upper ones oblong and obliquely cuneate, so that

the shape a good deal resembles a hatchet, more dilated at the

upper angle, mucronated on the other and marked with two

nerves on each side. The flowers are exceedingly handsome,

variegated with several colours, orange, red, green and black,

produced copiously on the branches, and they continue a long

time in perfection ; so that the plant is highly ornamental to the

greenhouse in the months of April and May. It is a native of

Western Australia. The precise locality where Mr. Cunningham

discovered it is not recorded ; but Mr. Drummond and Mr. Preiss

have detected it in the Swan River settlement, and from seeds

sent by the former of these two botanists, our plants were reared

at the Royal Gardens of Kew.

Desc. A glaucous shrub, two to three or four feet high, with ©

JULY Ist, 1846.

an erect habit. Branches angled, and more or less compressed

or furrowed. Leaves articulated upon the branches, rigid, the

lower ones linear, terete, the upper ones vertically compressed,

cuneate, with the upper edge towards the apex more dilated so as

to be hatchet-shaped, on each side are two nerves and at the

apex at the lower margin is a mucro. Flowers in short racemes

from the axils of the leaves, so close as to form a leafy spike.

Calyx short, obliquely campanulate, with very short teeth.

Vevillum \arge, suborbiculari-cordate, orange-red at the back,

below black, internally also orange-red with a dark green eye,

which in decay changes to deep purple. Wings orange, shorter

than the keel. Keel orange, with a subrostrate black acumen,

pointing upwards. Stamens ten. Ovary and style glabrous.

Fig.1. Leaf. 2. Flower. 3. Back view of the vexillum. 4. One of the

wings. 5. Keel. 6. Flower with the petals removed. 7. Pistil :—magnified.

Fitch, del. et. lith,

Tas. 4245.

TROPA.OLUM crENATIFLORUM.

Notched-petaled Indian- Cress.

Nat. Ord. TropmoLex2®.—Ocranpria Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, ‘Tas. 4097.)

TropxoLum crenatiflorum ; glaberrimum, scandens, foliis peltatis semiorbiculatis

5-lobis, lobis obtusis v. retusis cum mucronulo, petalis calyeem attenuato-

calcaratum subsuperantibus, obovatis patentibus subsequalibus apicibus

truncatis subbicrenatis, 2 superioribus sanguineo-lineatis.

This is another new Peruvian Jndian-Cress introduced by

Mr. Veitch, through his collector, Mr. W. Lobb, from Pillao and

Chagula, Peru; and may be treated like the other well-known

species of the same genus, that is as hardy during the summer

months. Its nearest affinity is perhaps with 7: Loddianum (Bot.

Mag. t. 4097), but the foliage, the colour of the flowers, the

edge of the petals, and the relative length of those petals, as

compared with the spur, at once distinguish it. |

Descr. A long, straggling and climbing plant, glabrous in

every part. eaves alternate, petioled, generally small, semi-

orbicular or nearly orbicular, with a broad truncate base, peltate,

but the point of attachment of the pediole is nearer the base than

the middle ; five-lobed, the lobes rounded, very obtuse, or more

generally retuse, with a very small soft mucro. Peduncles axil-

lary, slender, single-flowered, flexuose or even cirrhose, longer

than the petioles. Calyz deeply cleft into five, appressed, lan-

ceolate, rather obtuse segments, at the base above extended into

a rather alternated spur, suddenly ending in a narrow curved

point or mucro, scarcely twice the length of the calyx : segments

and spur yellow, tipped with green. Petals about twice as long

as the segments of the calyx, obovate, retuse, nearly equal, the

apex truncate or retuse with generally two notches and three

obtuse teeth: all yellow, the two upper petals only with a few

black purple streaks. Stamens eight, unequal, much shorter

than the petals. Style shorter than the stamens.

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Tas. 4246.

FRIESIA pepuNcCULARIS.

Jointed-pedicelled Friesia.

Nat. Ord. ELzocarre®.—DopEcANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus. Pet. 4 apice triloba. Anthere 12 cordato-

oblong, acuminate, apice dehiscentes. Bacca sicca substipitata, indehiscens,

2—4-sulca, 2—4-locularis, loculis dispermis. DC.

Friesia peduncularis.

Friesta peduncularis. De Cand. Prodr. v.1. p.520. Hook. in Journ. of Bot.

p. 250.

ELxocarpus peduncularis. Labill. Nov. Holl. v. 2. p.15. ¢. 155.

An elegant shrub, from three to six feet high, with something

of Myrtle-like habit, as seen in our gardens, and with copious,

delicate, drooping flowers on pendent stalks. It is a native of

Van Diemen’s Land, and requires a cool frame or greenhouse for

its successful cultivation. It is not improbable that near the

coasts of the middle and south of England, this pretty plant

may be found to brave the winters in the open air. Only one

species is known: the Friesia racemosa of All. Cunningham

(from New Zealand) being, as long ago correctly indicated by

Vahl, a true Eleocarpus. The genus was named by De Candolle

in compliment to Elias Fries, Professor of Botany in the Uni-

versity of Lund, and author of various Cryptogamic works, and

other publications relating to the Flora of Sweden.

Descr. A small shrub, with erect, brown Jranches, green in

the young state, everywhere, as well as the foliage, glabrous.

Leaves opposite, rarely ternate, lanceolate, acuminated, coarsely

serrated, penninerved ; from the axil of the branches are leaf-

buds; and from these leaf-buds the peduncles spring about an

ch long, slender, pendent, one or two from each bud, articulated

below the flower, at length, in fruit, erect. Flowers pendent,

solitary on each peduncle. Calyx deeply four-partite, deciduous ;

segments ovate, acute, pale green. Petals four, erecto-patent,

longer than the calyx, broadly obovate, three-lobed, white with

AUGUST Ist, 1846. 962

spots at the base, and two. orange dots in the sinuses

ie lobes. In the centre of the flower is a large almost globose

_ torus or fleshy disc, bearing the petals and stamens, and in which —

_ the ovary is partly immersed. S/amens twelve, hairy. Filaments

subulate, the upper much incurved, and bearing the oblong

anther, a little cordate at the base, acute at the point and there

opening with two oval pores. Ovary small, ovate. Style short,

lobe : little longer than the stamens. Stigma obtuse, obscurely

lo ' | |

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Petal. 3. Torus with stamens and pistil. 4. Single

-stamen. 5. Torus and Pistil:—all more or less magnified.

bes

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Tas. 4247.

COLLANIA AnpDINAMARCANA.

Andinamare Collania.

Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDE®.—HeExanpria Monogynia.

Gen. Char. Caulis rigidus, erectus, apice curvatus. Folia rigida (?). Germen

pendulum turbinatum, operculo ad basin styli tardius maxime amplificato. Peri-

anthium sex-partitum, sepalis petalisque disparibus, sub-tubiforme inter se paribus;

Jilamenta et stylus recti; anthere basi affixee; pericarpium parte majore opercu-

losum (molle? pulpaceum? edule?). Herd.

CoLLANIA Andinamarcana ; caule glabro folioso, foliis lanceolatis lato-lanceolatisve —

glaucis subtus pallidioribus pubescentibus, racemis umbellatis terminalibus

pendulis basi involucratis, pedicellis basi foliosis, perianthio subcylindraceo,

sepalis oblongo-ellipticis petalis spathulatis brevioribus omnibus rectis,

ovario hemispherico superne glanduloso, staminibus exsertis, stylo incluso.

CouLanta Andinamarcana. Herb. Amaryll. p. 105. t. 8. f. 1-8.

The original specimen of this beautiful plant was described by

the Hon. and very Rev. Mr. Herbert, from a native sample in

my Herbarium, gathered by Mr. Mathews on the lofty mountains

of Andinamarca in Peru. Mr. Wm. Lobb collected seeds of this

plant in Peru, and probably in the same or in a neighbouring

locality, and these have succeeded so well as to produce the |

noble flowering specimen here represented in April of the present

year (1846). Respecting this genus, it will be seen that I adopt

Mr. Herbert’s character, although the habit (climbing, not erect)

is at variance with one of that gentleman’s generic distinctions,

and the fruit is imperfectly known. ‘The present only differs

from our native specimens in its more luxuriant growth, and, as

& species, is remarkable for its leafy racemes. It was reared in

a hot-bed, and then removed to a cool greenhouse. ‘The open

border would, in all probability suit this species best im the

summer. ao

Descr. A tall straggling and, no doubt, on its native hills, a

climbing plant, with rounded, glabrous, herbaceous stems, and

alternate scattered Jeaves, three, four, or five inches long, lanceo-

late or oblongo-lanceolate, twisted as in its allies, striated, glau-

cous, paler and downy beneath. The decurved apex of the stem

AUGUST Ist, 1846,

bears a drooping wmbel of racemes of flowers ; the umbel involu-

_ crated with about four leaves, and each pedicel, which is long

_ and slender, bearing a leafy bract at its base. /owers pendent.

Sepals three, oblong, straight, orange-red, tipped with black.

_ Petals three, straight, spathulate, pale yellow, tipped with green,

and that green streaked with brown: within, at the base, is a

grooved triangular scale or nectary. Stamens a little longer than

the petals. Ovary turbinate with a circle of glands just below

the insertion of the perianth. Sfy/e shorter than the stamens.

Stigma obtuse. :

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Fig. 1. Petal. 2. Pistil :-—natural size.

4248,

Tas. 4248.

ASYSTASIA CoROMANDELIANA,

Coromandel Asystasia.

Nat. Ord. AcANTHACE£.—D1pYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus, equalis. Corolla hypogyna, sub-infundibuliformis,

limbi quinquefidi laciniis subzequalibus, postica concaviuscula. Stamina 4,

coroll tubo inserta, inclusa, didynama ; filamenta basi per paria connata ; an-

there biloculares, loculis angustis, parallelis, basi callosis v. appendiculatis.

Ovarium biloculare, loculis biovulatis. Stylus simplex; stigma capitatum, bilo-

bum v. bidentatum. Capsula unguiculata, tetragona, bilocularis, tetrasperma,

loculicide bivalvis, valvis medio septiferis. Semina discoidea, retinaculis sub-

tensa.—Herbe v. fruticuli debiles, in Asia tropica crescentes ; foliis oppositis,

racemis spiciformibus, secundis, axillaribus v. terminalibus, bracteis bracteolisgue

exiguis equalibus. Endl.

Asystast, Coromandeliana; caule ramoso ramis diffusis, foliis cordato-ovatis

supra lineolato-asperis, racemis axillaribus elongatis secundis strictis, caly-

cibus acuminatis.

Asystasta Coromandeliana. Nees, in Wall. Pl. Asiat. Rar. v. 3. p. 89.

Rvewwia Coromandeliana. Herb. Madras.—Wall. Cat. n. 2399. a. ex parte, et

nm. 2401. a. b. cx parte.

JUSTICIA Gangelica. Linn. Amen. Ac. v. 4. p. 290. excl. omn. syn.

8. RugLura secunda. il. Cat. n. 2401. d.

Rverta intrusa. Vahl, Symb. v. 1. p. 45. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 3. p. 367.

y- RUELLIA secunda. Vahl, Symb. v. 3. p. 84. Spr. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 824.

RUELLIA obliqua. Herb. Wight. Wall. Cat. n. 2399. d.

A frequent plant in India, according to Dr. Wallich ; and the

Wonder is that it has not before now been introduced ito our

collections. The Kew Gardens owe the possession of it to

Mr. Henderson, of Pine Apple Place, Edgeware Road. It flou-

rishes in stove-heat, and flowers throughout the autumn. The

genus Asystasia (of the meaning of the word as applicable to the

plants that bear it, I am ignorant) was founded by Blume on :

Java species, and Nees has abstracted ten others from the ol

tuellia, and among them the handsome 4. Neesvana, figured in

the ‘ Pl. Asiat. Rar’ t. 83; and to which genus, I presume, may

AUGUST 1sT, 1846.

be also referred the Ruellia lilacina,* Bot. Mag. 't.4147. The

present one is perhaps the handsomest of the genus, from the

large racemes of deep lilac flowers ; Nees calls them blue, but he

judges, perhaps, from the colour in dried specimens.

Descr. Somewhat shrubby, branched ; branches zigzag, slightly

downy as well as the leaves. Leaves opposite, ovato-cordate,

soft, somewhat waved, pale beneath. Pezioles shorter than the

leaves, connate at the base. Racemes axillary, six- to ten-flowered.

Flowers nearly sessile.. Calyx of five, deep, lanceolato-subulate,

erect segments, slightly hairy ; at its base are small appressed

bracteas. Corolla with the tube, long, infundibuliform, pale

green, sprinkled with purple, bent at the contraction; limb

_ deep lilac, spotted with darker dots, of five spreading, rounded,

waved, unequal segments. Stamens four, didynamous, united

at the base of the filaments, included. Ovary oblong, hairy,

inserted in a cup-shaped disc ; style inserted obliquely at the

top of the germen, hairy at the base. Stigma two-lobed.

_* Dr. Lindley has, by some strange error, quoted this under his Ruellia lila-

cina (Bot. Reg. 1846. t. 13), and criticised the figure: whereas it is quite clear

that the Ruellia lilacina of Dr. Lindley, is our Eranthemum montanum, Bot. Mag.

(1843), t. 4031, and has nothing to do with the original 2. lilacina, Hook.

Fig. 1. Portion of corolla to show the stamens. 2. Calyx and Pistil. 3. Ovary

and cup-shaped dise :—magnified.

Tas. 4249, i,

TORENIA Asratica.

4

Large-flowered Torenia.

Nat. Ord. ScropHuLaRINE®.—D1IpYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4229.)

ToreNta Asiatica; diffusa glabra y. tenuiter hirtella scabrella, foliis petiolatis

ovatis v. ovato-lanceolatis tenui-acuminatis, serrato-crenatis, calycibus elon-

gatis basi acutis costis 5 subzequalibus v. 3 anguste alatis, corolla calyce

plus duplo longiore, filamentorum anticorum appendicula subulata.

Torenta Asiatica. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 862. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 800. Lam.

Lil. t.523. f.1. Wight. Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 862. Benth. in De Cand. Prodr.

v.10. p.410. Wail. Cat. n. 3953.

ToreNtA vagans. Roxb. Fl. Ind. v. 3. p. 96.

Torentra hians. Rowd. J. ¢.

It is not by any means easy for a painter to do justice to the

rich purple-blue tinge of the flowers of this plant, which, with the

size of the blossoms, the three dark purple blotches on the pale

ground, together with the delicate yellow green of the rather

copious foliage, renders this one of the most lovely plants that

has lately been introduced to our stove-collections. It is an

annual, and we are indebted for the seeds to W. Strachan, Esq.,

Twickenham, who received them from Curtallam. The plants

blossomed through the summer of 1846, and as the cuttings

strike freely, we find ourselves readily able to propagate the species

Should the parent plants fail to bear seeds. Even amidst the

splendid display of vegetable productions exhibited at the June

show of the Chiswick Gardens, this attracted no small degree of

public attention. It seems to have a very extensive range in the

East Indies, growing throughout Bengal, in Amboyna, Ceylon,

Mergui, Chittagong, Sylhet, in the Madras Peninsula, and, Dr.

Wight adds, it is widely diffused in alpine regions.

Descr. An annual, with quadrangular, pale green stems,

exuous, erect or diffuse, branched, the dranches opposite. Leaves”

Spposite, on short petioles, ovate, or ovato-lanceolate, much acu-

Mnate, coarsely serrated, obtuse, scarcely cordate at the base,

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penninerved, glabrous, as is every part of our plant, but rough

to the touch. Peduacles axillary, fasciculate, spreading, angled, —

single-flowered. Calya ovato-acuminate, two-lipped, arched or

decurved, with three wings which are decurved on the petiole.

Corolla large, more than twice as long as the calyx; the tube

dark purple, between campanulate and infundibuliform, with a

spreading, nearly equal, four-lobed limb, of a delicate purple

blue, pale, with a blotch on three of the lobes. ‘Two longer

stamens with a subulate spur. Ovary oblong. Style geniculated.

Stigma two-lipped.

Fig. 1. Corolla laid open. 2. Pistil and winged apex of the peduncle :—

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4250.

ALLOPLECTUS repens.

Creeping Alloplectus.

Nat. Ord. GesnERIACE®.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4216.)

ALLOPLECTUS repens ; hic illic pubescens, suffruticosus, repens, foliis late ovatis

grosse crenato-scrratis subcarnosis brevi-petiolatis, pedunculis axillaribus

solitariis unifloris petiolum Jonge superantibus, sepalis late ovatis acutis

maculatis patentibus, corolle parce pilose tubo infundibuliformi curvato,

limbo 4-lobo, lobo superiore latiore bifido, reliquis ovatis patentibus.

A-pretty Gesneriaceous plant, probably scandent upon the

trunks of trees and rooting among the dead bark and moss. It

is a stove plant, native of the damp woods in the ascent of the

Sierra Nivada, St. Martha, and was thence sent to the Royal

Gardens of Kew by our collector, Mr. Purdie. A comparison of

this with the figure of Alloplectus dichrous, at Tab. 4216. will

show that the essential characters of the two are the same as to

genus. It flowers in February.

Descr. A small shrubby plant, with trailing stems and branches,

and throwing out roots from between the pairs of leaves, so as

to constitute a creeping stem. Leaves rather small, ovate, fleshy,

coarsely serrated, hairy or glabrous. Petiole much shorter than

the leaf. Peduncle shorter than the leaf, but longer than the

petiole, axillary, single-flowered, dark purple, four-angular up-

wards. Calyz very \arge and loose, spreading and standing off,

as it were, from the tube of the corolla, of five broadly ovate,

acute, almost leafy segments, pale green blotched with purple.

Corolla yellow tinged with red, twice as long as the calyx. Tube

curved, funnel-shaped, swollen at the base ; /imé of four, spreading

Segments, of which the uppermost one is broad and bifid, the

rest ovate and entire. Stamens four, didynamous (with a minute

scale, the rudiment of a fifth), inserted near the base of the tube

of the corolla, and each pair united by the base of the filaments.

AUGUST Ist, 1846.

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TALAUMA Canpo.uun.

De Candolle’s Talauma.

Nat. Ord. MaGnoniaceE®.—PoLyanpRIA PoLyGynia.

Gen. Char. Petala 9-15, ordine ternario serialia. Stamina numerosa, antheris

anticis. Ovaria plura, coadunata, biovulata. Fructus coadunatione unicus,

strobiliformis, lignosus, irregulariter dehiscens, seminibus 1-2 pendulis, in foveo-

lis receptaculi centralis cylindraceo-elongati dehiscentia liberi. BU.

TaLAuUMA Candollii ; foliis oblongis utrinque acuminatis glabris, floribus 9-12

petalis exterioribus calycinis reliquis triente brevioribus. BU.

TaLauma Candollii. Bl. ix Batav. Verhand. p. 147-149. Bydr.v.1.p.9. Fl.

Jav. Magnol. p. 32. t.9 et 12 A. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t.1709.

MAGNotta odoratissima. Reinw. ined.

MaGnorta pumila. Spreng. Syst. Veget. 0. 4. p. 2. excl. syn. (fide Bl.)

A very charming shrué, whether its foliage, or its flowers, or

the fragrance of the blossoms, be considered. It is a native

of Java, and therefore requires the heat of a stove, where it

flowers annually about the month of June. When in perfection,

the flowers are a cream-colour, and more or less connivent,

but they soon become tawny and more expanded. ‘The fruit of

the natural size is given from Blume, at fig. 3.

Derscr. A shrub, as cultivated in pots, four to five feet

high; in its native country attaining a height of fifteen feet.

Leaves alternate, from seven inches to a foot long, according to

lume, ovate-oblong, petiolate, acuminate at both extremities,

entire, dark green above, paler beneath. Peduncle terminal,

solitary, arched, single-flowered. FVower drooping, large, hand-

Some, cream-coloured, fragrant. Peta/s, in our plant, nine, of

which the three outer are more patent, and often slightly tinged

with green, all of them oblong-ovate, acute. Stamens several,

Shorter than the pistils. Anther-cells forming a line at the inner

edge of the acute filament. Pistils numerous: ovary linear-

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DATURA corniGera.

Horn-bearing Datura.

Nat. Ord. Sotane®.—Pentanpria Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. Calyx tubulosus seepe angulatus, apice 5-fidus y. hine longitudi-

naliter fissus, supra basin peltatum persistentem circumscisse deciduus. Corolla

hypogyna, infundibuliformis, limbo amplo, patente, plicato, 5-10-dentato. Séa- -

mina 5, corolle tubo inserta, inclusa v. subexserta; anthere longitudinaliter

dehiscentes. Ovariwm incomplete 4-loculare, dissepimento altero supra medium

deliquescente, altero completo, medio utrinque placentifero, placentis porrectis

multiovulatis. Stylus simplex. Stigma bilamellatum. Capsula ovata y. sub-

globosa, muricata v. aculeata, rarius levis, semiquadrilocularis, incomplete ad

septa 4-valvis. Semina plurima reniformia. Hméryo intra albumen carnosum

subperiphericus, arcuatus.— Herbee virose, annue v. perennes, nunc suffrutescentes

v. arborescentes, in America et Asia tropica indigene, nec nunc per orbem diffuse,

alie in hortis culte ; foliis alternis, petiolatis, oblongis v. ovatis, sepius angulato-

dentatis ; floribus alaribus, solitariis, sepius magnis, albis, violaceis v. coccineis.

Endl.

Datura cornigera ; fruticosa pubescens, foliis integris sinuatis angulatisve, ca-

lyce cylindraceo 5-costato hinc infra apicem longe tereti-acuminatum reflexum

longitudinaliter fissum, corollz limbo patentissimo laciniis longissime acu-

minatis, filamentis inferne hirsutis, ovario glabro.

Avery singular Datura, the one here figured, has appeared in

our gardens lately (the origin of which I have failed to ascertain),

sometimes under the name of Brugmansia Knightii, and some-

times under that of Datura frutescens; it 18 unrecorded, so

far as I can discover, in any book to which I have access. With

* the habit of Brugmansia, it has not the calyx of that supposed

genus, which seems to have been founded upon the well-known

Datura arborea of our gardens, which has an inflated, tubular,

obtuse calyx, cut at the mouth into several segments. But. this

18 not the D. arborea, Linn., and of Feuillée, Chil. t. 46 (which is

the authority for Linnzus’ plant) nor of Ruiz and Pavon, t. 128,

Where the calyx is acute and deeply cleft on one side, but ap-

Pressed to the corolla, in that respect differing from our plant,

of which the calyx is similarly cleft on one side, but runs out

into a long, subulate, spreading point. The Linnzan plant 1s the

SEPTEMBER lst, 1846, 2n2

* Floripondio” of the Spaniards, according to Father Feuillée,

and Ruiz and Pavon, and is commonly cultivated both in Chili and

Peru ; but I possess native specimens from the Andes of El Equa-

dor, where, Colonel Hall remarks, “ it flourishes on the table-lands

to an elevation of 9,500 feet, and where the mean temperature

is about 50°.” The Datura arborea of our gardens, which I

possess from the West Indies, where, however, it is probably

only in a state of cultivation, must therefore have a new name,

and I shall suggest that of D. Gardneri for it*, in compliment to

Mr. Gardner, who was not only the first (as far as I know) to

distinguish it from the western or Pacific species, but to determine

its locality. In his Brazilian collection, my specimen (n. 560)

of this plant, bears the remark, “Is this quite the same as the

plant from the other side of the South American continent?

This is a small tree, ten to twelve feet high, common on the

banks of all the small rivers in the Organ Mountains. ‘Tab.

1837.” The plant, here figured, thus makes a third clearly defined

white-flowered shrubby Datura. It merely requires the pro-

tection of a cool greenhouse. In the summer it succeeds best in

the open air, and bears its fine blossoms at that period.

_ Descr. Our plant has a shrubby stem, about three feet high :

the young branches, and almost every part of the plant, clothed

with soft down. Leaves chiefly confined to the extremity of the

branches, ovate, petiolate, acuminate, entire, or sinuate or angled.

Peduncles axillary, single-flowerd, curved downward, so that the

flower is drooping. Calyx spathaceous, long, narrow, cylindrical,

split on one side for more than three quarters of its length with

five prominent ribs, gradually tapering into an entire, long, subu-

late, patent, or recurved point, nearly as long as the tube of

the corolla. Corolla large, funnel-shaped, white or cream-

coloured, striated, the mouth spreading, 5-lobed, the lobes ter-

minated by a long, subulate, spreading or recurved point.

Stamens included, inserted at the top of the contracted part of

the tube. Filaments subulate, hairy below. Azthers limear-

oblong. Germen ovate, inserted in a fleshy disk. Style as long

as the tube. Stigma capitate.

* D. Gardneri, Hook.; fruticosa glabriuscula, foliis integerrimis, calyce cylin-

draceo inflato apice obtuso ineequaliter 4—5-lobato, corolle limbo patentissimo,

laciniis tenui-acuminatis.

D. arborea. Hort. (non Linn.)

Apt are of streams in the Organ Mountains, Brazil, abundant; G.

Fig. 1. Portion of the tube of the corolla with a stamen. 2. Pistil :-—magnified.

.

Tas. 4253.

HYDRANGEA Japonica ; var. cerulea.

Japan Hydrangea ; blue-flowered var.

Nat. Ord. Sax1rFRAGACE®.—Trib. HyDRANGEEZ.—DECANDRIA TRIGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Flores sepe difformes: alii fertiles hermaphroditi. Calycis tubus

hemisphericus decemcostatus subtruncatus ovario adnatus, limbus _persistens

5-dentatus. . Petala 5 regularia. Stamina 10. Styli 2 distincti. Capsula

valvis introflexis bilocularis, calycinis dentibus stylisque coronata, supra planius-

cula, foramina inter stylos dehiscens. Semina reticulata numerosa.—Frutices.

Folia opposita. Flores corymbosi albi, alii marginales pauciores steriles insignitt,

calycis dentibus amplis corollatis petaliformibus, ceteris floris partibus abortivis. DC.

HyprancEa Japonica; foliis oppositis breviter petiolatis e basi rotundata v.

late cuneata ovato-oblongis acuminatis argute serrulatis glabris, cyme plane

dense, ramis pubescentibus, florum radiantium 4—6 pedunculis horizonta-

liter patentibus, sepalis plerumque 4 obovato-rhombeis acutiusculis serratis.

Sied.

Hrpraneea Japonica. Siebold, in Nov. Act. Leopold-Carol. v. 14. p. 689. Fi.

Jap. p. 106. ¢.53. De Cand. Prodr. v.4. p. 666. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1841, ¢.61.

8. cerulea; floribus cxeruleis. Tas. NostR. 4253. D

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For the introduction of this Hydrangea to European gardens,

the botanic world is indebted to Dr. Siebold, who found it wild

on the Island of Nipon, and abundantly cultivated by the

Japanese. ~ ‘wo varieties are distinguished by that eminent

Japanese traveller ; “‘ Benikaku,” with yose-coloured flowers, and

“Konkaku,” with blue flowers. The former. state of the plant

is figured by Siebold and Dr. Lindley; our plants, the gifts of

Mr. Knight, of the King’s Road, Chelsea, and of Mr. Henderson,

Pine Apple Nursery, Edgeware Road, happen to be the blue-

flowered variety, and infinitely the handsomer of the two. Whether

is variety is permanent, or, as many suspect, depending upon

cultivation and the nature*of the soil, and therefore liable to

change again, I am unable to determine. It succeeds with the

same treatment. as the Hydrangea hortensis, and will probably

soon become as common as the blue-flowered kind, and as great

a favourite.

‘Descr. A shruéd, three to four feet high, with the old branches

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wa

brown, the young terete and green, spotted with brown. Leaves

opposite, ovate, acute, serrated, reticulate, cuneate and entire at

the base and there tapering into a rather short thick footstalk.

Cyme or compound wmbe/ terminal, flat. Perfect flowers blue,

tetra- or pentamerous. Styles three. Sterile Z/ossoms about five,

sometimes with abortive stamens, sometimes abortive pistils, and

bearing three to five large petaloid, rhomboidal sepa/s, more or

less toothed or angled, blue at the base, the rest white.

Fig. 1. Bud. 2. Expanded flower :—magnified.

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Tas. 4254.

DIASTEMA ocuHROLEvUCA.

Pale yellow Diastema.

Nat. Ord. GEsNERIACEZ.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. Calye basi breviter adnatus, limbo 5-partito. Corolle tubus

subsequalis, exsertus, declinatus ; Jimbus patens, 5-fidus. Stamina 4, didynama,

cum rudimento quinti; anthere libere, subrotunde. Glandule perigyne 5.

Stylus apice bilamellatus, lobis membranaceis intus stigmatosis, valvulis medio

placentiferis. Semina numerosa. Benth.

DiasteMa ochroleuca; erecta herbacea pubescenti-hirsuta, foliis sublonge petio-

latis ovatis acutis grosse serratis rugosis, paniculis terminalibus trichotomis

subfoliosis, corollis glabris, glandulis hypogynis clavatis ovario longioribus.

A very pretty and ready-flowering Gesneriaceous plant, of

which tubers were sent to the Royal Gardens of Kew by Mr.

Purdie, from the Sierra Nivada of Santa Martha, New Grenada.

It is evidently nearly allied to Achimenes, and apparently identical

with Mr. Bentham’s Diastema,* (Saornpa, intervallum ; mm allusion

probably to the genus being intermediate between <Achimenes

and Gesneria), of which he remarks, “the free stamens of this

plant indicate an affinity with Achimenes, and the form of

the corolla is not unlike that of some of the small-flowered

Species of that genus, but the tube is neither gibbous nor spurred

at the base, and the five equal perigynous glands are more

prominent even than in Gesneria and Gloxinia. It is not

improbable, however, that 4.erinoides, DC., and A. conifera, DC.,

may be congeners of our plant.” It flowered in August, 1846,

and requires the heat of a stove.

Desor. Stems herbaceous, erect, branched, rather stout, ve

obtusely four-sided, slightly downy, more or less tinged wit

purple. Leaves opposite, hairy, especially above, on rather long,

stout, succulent petioles, ovate, acute, wrinkled with veins, paler

and less hairy beneath. Panicles terminal, trichotomously di-

* In ‘Botany of the Voyage of the Sulphur,’ p. 132.

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vided, many-flowered, pedicels often leafy or bracteated at the

base. Calyx more than half superior; the segments acute,

spreading. Corolla straw-colour, about the size of that of

Achimenes coccinea: the tube nearly straight, slightly dilated at

the base, the mouth oblique, with five nearly equal, rounded,

spreading Jobes. Stamens four, quite included. Ovary ovate ;

stigma two-lipped. Hypogynous glands five, clavate, longer than

the ovary.

Fig. 1. Corolla laid open. 2. Pistil or hypogynous glands :—magnified

Tas. 4255.

CLERODENDRON srtnvartvuo.

Sinuate-leaved Clerodendron

Nat. Ord. VERBENACE®.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx campanulatus, 5-fidus, v. 5-dentatus. Corolla tubo cylin-

draceo seepius elongato; limbo 5-partito, laciniis wqualibus. Stamina 4, didy-

nama, exserta, secunda. Ovarium 4-loculare, loculis monospermis. Stigma

bifidum, acutum. Bacca tetrapyrena, calyce sepius ampliato cincta—Arbores

v. frutices. Folia opposita, simplicia, indivisa, nune lobata, petiolorum basi per-

sistenti. Corymbi ¢erminales et axillares, trichotomi. Br.

CLERODENDRON sixuatum ; pubescens, ramis copiosis gracilibus, foliis elliptico-

ovatis acuminatis sinuatis angulatisve basi subcordatis, cymis multifloris

capitatis, calycis pubescentis basi bi-bracteati tubo cylindraceo laciniis subu-

latis tubum subequantibus patentibus, corollze hypocrateriformis (alba) tubo

gracili calycem triplo excedente, limbo 5-lobo laciniis ovalibus, staminibus

styloque longissime exsertis.

Sent in July, 1846, from the rich collection of Messrs. Lucombe,

Pince, and Co. of Exeter, who received it from Sierra Leone,

discovered by Mr. Whitfield. It is one of those plants to which

a drawing cannot do justice, and whose charm depends on the

gracefulness of the entire plant, flowering at an early period, and

bearing dense many-flowered heads from the extremity of every

branch ; and these blossoms, too, are highly fragrant and of the

tenderest and purest white. It deserves a place in every stove-

collection.

Descr. A low shrub, downy in almost every part, much

branched; the éranches obtusely tetragonal, the younger ones

green. Leaves opposite, petiolate, ovate or ovate-oblong, acute,

not serrated, but sinuated or angled at the margins, penninerved,

and the nerves united by transverse nervelets, the base somewhat

cordate. Corymbs solitary, many-flowered, the flowers collected

into a large head or capitulum at the extremity of almost every

branch, peduncled. Pedicels short. Caly« small, downy, bi-

bracteolate at the base, the éve cylindrical, the segments subulated,

about as long as the tube, spreading. Corolla pure white, hypo-

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crateriform, glabrous: the ¢ue thrice as long as the calyx,

slender, terete: the Jim cut into five nearly equal, spreading,

oblong, obtuse, segments. Stamens very long, longer than the

whole flower from the mouth of the tube. Anther small. Ovary

sub-globose. Séy/e filiform, equalling the length of the stamens :

stigma bifid.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil:—natural size.

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4256.

LESCHENAULTIA spienpens.

Splendid scarlet-flowered Leschenaultia.

Nat. Ord. GoopENovie#.—PENTANDRIA MonoeyYnta.

Gen. Char. Calycis tubus ovario adnatus, lobis 5 lineari-subulatis. Corolla

tubo longitudinaliter fisso, limbo subbilabiato, lobis subserratis. 4nthere sub-

anthesi coherentes. Pollinis granula spherulis 4 coalitis composita. Capsula

prismatica bilocularis 4-valvis, valvis oppositis medio septiferis. Semina nucu-

mentacea.—Frutices, varius herbe, omnes e Nova Hollandia, glabri. Folia alterna

angusta integerrima. Flores azillares v. terminales v. oppositifolii subsolitarii

pedicellati. DC.

LescHENAULTIA splendens ; suffruticosa erecta ramosissima, foliis subflexuosis

filiformibus compressis apiculatis patentibus, calycibus ebracteatis, corymbis

3—5-floris, (floribus nunc subsolitariis), calyce ebracteato, corolle coccinese

tubo elongato intus inferne hirsuto, reliquo glabro, segmentis cuneatis

patentibus subeequalibus bifidis cum mucrone tubum subequantibus.

8. stricta ; floribus plerisque solitariis, corolla intensius coccinex laciniis angus-

tioribus, ramis magis virgatis.

The splendid colour of the flowers of this plant is only to be

compared with that of the Verbena Melindres. Seeds of it were

sent to Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., by Mr. James Drum-

mond, and those excellent cultivators have succeeded in rearing

flowering plants in their Nursery at Exeter, and of two varieties :

one which we consider the type of the species, with broader

segments to the corolla, and flowers in a corymb ; the other with —

nearly, but by no means constantly, solitary flowers, and broader

segments to the corolla, which, moreover, is of a deeper, but not

so bright a scarlet. In the colour of the blossoms this species

approaches the well-known Z. formosa; but that has an orange

hue, and the two anterior segments of the corolla are small and

acute, and the larger segments are bent back on the short tube.

In the foliage, and in the general structure and size of the

corolla, indeed, our plants resemble the Z. d:/oba, but the bright

blue flowers of the latter, the shorter tube, and much more

hairy corolla will distinguish it from that ; while from JZ. laricina

of Dr. Lindley, it may be recognized by the leaves by no means

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1846.

“ closely imbricated ”, and by the relative length of the segments

of the corolla with the tube. If I am not greatly deceived, it is

the present. Leschenaultia which is spoken of by Mr. James

Drummond at p. 369 of vol. iii. of Hook. Journal of Botany, as

found on the banks of the Salt Hill River, and near Mr. Hall’s

residence on the Avon, Swan River Colony, “ with bright scarlet

flowers, about two feet high, and yellowish-green leaves”’: and then

he speaks of the same species, at p. 371 of the same volume, as

varying much in the colour of its flowers “ producing rich dark

purple inflorescence, also light purple, lilac, white, blood-red, bright

scarlet, pink, rose-coloured, and through every possible interme-

diate shade of purple and scarlet.” “It is curious,” continues this —

indefatigable botanist, “to observe the great variety that prevails

in the colour of the flowers of the same species, in many plants of

this country.” Handsome as is the var. stricta, it is far exceeded

by the true splendens, which is of a more bushy character and

the whole surface is literally covered with its brilliant blossoms,

continuing a long time in perfection. The two kinds were exhi-

bited at the Exeter Horticultural Show in August of this year,

and we are much mistaken if anything more brilliant or more

deserving of attention could be seen at that or any other recent

exhibition of the kind. There is a tenderness and delicacy, too,

in the foliage, which contrast admirably with the rich colour of

the blossoms, of which there were, on the 2nd of August, more

than three hundred expanded on one plant !

Descr. A shrub from one to two feet high, copiously branched,

bushy and spreading in a, erect and with somewhat virgate

branches in 8. Leaves numerous, scattered, rather distant,

patent and generally reflexed, filiform, slightly grooved on the

upper side, apiculate. lowers in terminal corymbs, each of

from three to five or six flowers, on all the numerous branches.

Calye without bracts: the segments linear-subulate, almost as

long as the tube of the corolla. Corolla of the richest scarlet

(without and the tube pale), the segments nearly equal, about the

length of the ¢ube, broadly cuneate, bifid with a recurved mucro in

the sinus: within, towards the base of the tube, is a hairy ring.

Stamens, with the filaments, glabrous. Style glabrous : stigma

two-lipped, oblique with a short pencil of hairs at the bend.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Portion of the tube of the corolla. 3. Flower with the

corolla removed >—magnified,

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Tas. 4257.

NYMPHAEA pDENTATA.

Tooth-leaved Lotus.

Nat. Ord. NympHa#acex.—PoLyanpria Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. Sepala ad basin tori. Petala staminaque cum toro carpella tegente

longe adnata et bacca ideo quasi semi-infera cicatrisata—Flores ampli, albi, rosei,

rubri aut cerulei, nunquam lutei. DC.

Nyrmpu#a dentata ; foliis peltatis argute dentatis utrinque glabris nervis subtus

valde prominentibus, calyce tetraphyllo vittato basi insigniter truncatim

depresso.

Nympu#a dentata. Schum. et Thonn., Guin. Plant. p. 249. Walp. Repert. v. 1.

p. 107.

From the rich collection of Messrs. Lucombe and Pince,

Exeter. The roots were brought from Sierra Leone by Mr.

Whitfield, and produced their handsome flowers in the aquarium

of the stove in August, 1846. Aquatic plants are, generally

speaking, widely dispersed and not a little variable ; so that it

behoves us to adopt new species among them with great caution.

There can be no doubt that the plant here figured is nearly allied

to the celebrated Mymphea Lotus, an inhabitant of the Nile,

figured in Andrews’ ‘ Botanist’s Repository,’ tab. 391, and to

NV. thermalis, DC., a native of Hungary, represented in Sims

Bot. Mag. t. 797 (under the name of WV. Lotus); but if those

delineations be accurate, the present is surely a different species,

as well as an inhabitant of a widely different country: or, if

the same, then are the plates most inaccurate, for neither in the

base of the calyx, nor in the underside of the leaf, 1s there any

similarity. Our plant seems to be unquestionably the NV. dentata

of Schumacher and Thonning, above quoted, which is a native

of still waters on the coast of Guinea; and we have therefore so

called it. Palisot de Beauvois’ species of NV. Lotus from the west

coast of Africa, appears to be identical with ours, and perhaps

should be quoted under WV. dentata. The singularly prominent

and glabrous venation on the underside of the leaf (similar to that

of Huryale ferox, and of the Victoria regia), the large flowers, and

OCTOBER Ist, 1846. 21

the calyx striped green and white, together with the white base

of the calyx, and the peculiar contraction there, are characteristic

of the present species.

Dzxsor. An aquatic plant, with the /eaves on long terete petioles,

floating, orbicular-ovate, peltate, strongly but irregularly toothed,

dark green, glabrous and smooth above, equally glabrous beneath,

paler and with singularly prominent veins especially at their bases ;

these veins radiating, dichotomous, particularly so towards the

margins, and united by slender transverse and often branched

and reticulated veinlets. Flowers rising above the water, on

terete peduncles. The bud elliptical. Calyx of four elliptical

obtuse sepals, veined and striated green and white; the base

singularly depressed and white. Pefa/s numerous, white. Sta-

mens and stigmas yellow.

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Tas. 4258.

GOMPHOLOBIUM venusrum.

Graceful Gompholobium.

Nat. Ord. Leguminos™.—Dercanpria Monoaynra.

Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus subeequalis. Corolla petalis 2 carinalibus concretis,

vexillo explanato. Stigma simplex. Legumen polyspermum subsphericum ob-

tusissimum.—Frutices Australasici rigiduli. Folia alterna composita breviter

petiolata. Fructus intus extusque glabri. Pedicelli forum medio aut basi bibrac-

teolati. Calyces sepe lana subtili ciliati. Corolle flave (v. purpuree,).

GoMPHOLOBIUM venustum; glabrum, ramis elongatis flexuosis laxis, foliis

impari-pinnatis multijugis, foliolis anguste linearibus mucronatis (siccitate

rugosis) marginibus revolutis, corymbo pedunculato multifloro, calycibus

glabris ciliatis.

GoMPHOLOBIUM venustum. Br. in De Candolle Prodr. v.2. p.106. Lehm. Pl.

Preiss. p. 40. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 550.

A lovely greenhouse plant, from South-west Australia ; first

detected by Mr. Brown; Mr. Fraser gathered it in King George's

Sound, and Mr. Drummond sends specimens and seeds from the

Swan River settlement. From the latter, Messrs. Lucombe and

Pince of Exeter have raised plants; which produced their copious

corymbs of rich purple flowers in July, 1845. In the dried

state the leaflets have a singularly rugose and almost beaded

appearance, from the shrinking of the parenchyme between the

transverse veins.

Descr. A shrub a foot or more high, with terete, long, flexuous,

lax dranches, glabrous, as is almost every part of the plant.

Leaves remote, alternate, sessile or nearly so, pinnate ; pinne

numerous (eight to ten pair), opposite, spreading, the lower ones

reflexed, all of them articulated on the rachis, narrow-linear,

almost filiform, mucronulate; the margins or sides singularly

revolute, so as to leave only a narrow furrow on the back = Yea

dry, the leaves become rugose or submoniliform, from the shrinking

of the parenchyme between the transverse veins. Flowers in

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terminal pedunculated corymds, of a rich rose-purple co

Pedicels hace (drooping in bud), —— a: base, and

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with two slender opposite subulate dracteas below the middle.

Calyx of five spreading, dark green, oblong, acute, glabrous

sepals, ciliated at the margin. Vezillum broadly reniformi-

rotundate, waved and subcrenated at the margin with a lunate,

yellow spot at the claw. A/@ obovate, waved. Carina almost

elliptical, concave, smooth. Stamens ten, free. Ovary semi-ovate.

Style subulate. Legume subglobose, brown, glabrous, longer

than the calyx.

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Fig. 1. Flower. 2. The same, deprived of the petals. 3. Back view of the

vexillum. 4. One of the ale. 5. Carina. 6. Pistil :-—smagnified. 7. Fruit:—

natural size.

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Tas 4259.

CLEMATIS sminactrotia.

Smilazx-leaved Clematis.

Nat. Ord. RanuNcULACEH.—POLYANDRIA PoLyGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Involucrum nullum, aut calyciforme sub flore. Sepala 4—8 colorata.

Petala nulla, aut sepalis breviora. Caryopsides numerose, in caudam sepius bar-

bato-plumosam productz.—Radices perennes. Folia exacte opposita. DC.

CLEMATIS smilacifolia ; scandens dioica, foliis amplis longe petiolatis simplicibus

cordato-ovatis breviter acuminatis glabris 5—7-nerviis integerrimis vel obso-

lete et glanduloso-serratis, racemis paniculatis axillaribus vel terminalibus,

sepalis 4 oblongis acutis extus ferrugineo-tomentosis cito revolutis, fructus

caudibus plumosis.

CLEMATIS smilacifolia. Wall. in Asiat. Res. v.13. p.420. De Cand. Prodr. v. 1.

p. 10. ;

CLEMATIS smilacina. Bl. Bijdr. p. 1.

Ciematis glandulosa ? Bi. J. ¢.

CLEMATIS subpeltata. Wall. Pl. Asiat. Rar. p. 19. t. 20.

A fine but very little known species of “ Traveller's Joy ”, with

large scandent stems, handsome undivided leaves, marked with

from five to seven nerves, much resembling those of some Smilaz,

large paniculated racemes of dicecious or moncecious flowers,

having singularly revolute sepals, dark rusty brown and downy

without, almost black and glabrous within. Four allied species,

with these characters, have been described by Blume and

Wallich : but which, judging from the diagnoses of the authors,

as well as by herbarium specimens, might reasonably be united

into one, the original smilacifolia of Dr. Wallich from Nepal.

Of the identity of our plant, introduced from Java to the stoves

of this country (where it flowers in June and July), I have satis-

fied myself by comparison with authentic specimens. The Cle-

matis, n. 1006 of Zollinger’s ‘ Java Plants,’ seems quite to agree

with the C7. glandulosa of Blume, but I can in no way distinguish

it from C/. smilacifolia. The C7. smilacina of Blume 1s probably

a misprint for “ smilacifolia”’, and intended to be considered

the plant of Wallich; and lastly, of the Clematis subpeltata of

OCTOBER Ist, 1846.

Dr. Wallich, from Tavoy, that distinguished author observes

that it differs from CV. smilacifolia only “ in its having subpeltate,

broad-cordate leaves, in the panicles being shorter, the sepals

ovate.”

Cl. smilacifolia has been introduced by Mr. Veitch of the

Nursery, Exeter, from Java, and hitherto treated as a stove-plant :

but being a mountain species, it will perhaps succeed well in a

greenhouse, where it would make a handsome climber.

Descr. Stem scandent, apparently extending to a great length,

glabrous. Leaves large, on long petioles, cordato-ovate, shortly

acuminate, entire or obscurely and slightly glanduloso-serrate,

glabrous, five- to seven-nerved, the nerves more or less united

by transverse nervelets, which are branched. Racemes or pani-

cles axillary or terminal. Pedicels very long, flexuose, bracteated

at the base, opposite, tinged with purple. FVower, in bud ovate,

acute, rusty coloured: opening into four oblong-lanceolate sub-

coriaceous acute sepals, which soon become revolute, and are

glabrous and almost black within and glossy, externally clothed

with ferruginous down. Female flowers with numerous pistils,

each terminated with long, feathery, white and silky awas.

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Tas. 4260.

ZESCHINANTHUS Lossianvs.

Mr. Lobb’s Aischinanthus.

Nat. Ord. CyrranpracEs—Diprnamia ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4236.)

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AiscutInantuvs Lodbianus; subscandens, foliis ellipticis carnosis aveniis integer-

rimis v. obscure serratis glaucis, corymbis terminalibus bracteatis, calyce

amplo cylindraceo-subcampanulato dense nigro-tomentoso segmentis brevi-

bus acutis patentibus, corolla calyce vix duplo longiore pubescente.

AEscHINantuus Lobbianus. Hort. Veitch.

Splendid as is the present species of schinanthus, this figure

will soon be followed by that of an allied one (4. pulcher) not less

beautiful, and both imported by Mr. Veitch of the Nursery,

Exeter, through the medium of his collector, Mr. Thomas Lobb,

from Java. They are there probably Epiphytes, therein resembling

many Orchideous plants; and seem to be amongst the most

brilliant of the vegetation of that fertile country. Like the

Orchideous Epiphytes, too, they seem to be by no means difficult

of cultivation in a moist stove, and they are assuredly very free

flowerers. Of all the species with which we are acquainted,

however, and there are not a few which we possess in our

Herbaria, the two now alluded to are certainly the most striking,

the present especially so, from the strong contrast between the

purplish-black calyx and the brilliant hue of the corolla. It

flowers from June to August.

Duscr. A straggling branching shrwé, of a succulent character.

Stem and branches deep purple, terete, glabrous. Leaves oppo-

site, fleshy, but very firm, almost cartilaginous, on short petioles,

spreading, elliptic, glaucous, with the edge or margin generally

purple, entire or slightly serrated, having a depressed line in the

middle, but no conspicuous veins, obtuse at the base, rather

more acute at the point. Corymd terminal, bracteated. Pedicels

short, purple, downy; dracts cordate, membranaceous, dark

purple, entire, about as long as the pedicels. Calyx large, ample,

OCTOBER Ist, 1846.

cylindrical, but enlarging a little upwards, hence approaching to

campanulate, the limb of five short, spreading, rather acute

segments, the whole black-purple, glossy, and clothed with dense

blackish tomentum. Corolla about twice as long as the calyx,

rich scarlet, everywhere downy, curved ; the ve much contracted

above the bulbiform ovate base; the /imé oblique, of four nearly

equal, erecto-patent ovate segments, of which the upper one alone

is bifid; at the fava of the corolla are four, double, radiating,

pale lines, two on each segment, accompanied by dark spots.

Stamens and pistil extending to the apex of the upper lobe

of the corolla. Perigynous gland a five-lobed fleshy cup. Ovary

cylindrical, downy. StyZe equal in thickness to the ovary, downy.

Stigma a transversely oblong disc, also downy.

Fig. 1. Corolla :—natural size. 2. Pistil and perigynous disc :—magnified.

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Taw. 4261.

FUGOSIA HAKEFOLIA.

Hakeua-leaved Fugosia.

Nat. Ord. Matvace®.— MoNAaDELPHIA POLYANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (vide supra, TaB. 4218.)

Fucosra hakeefolia ; fruticosa erecta, foliis bipinnatis trifidis (summisque) in-

tegris, laciniis linearibus acuminatis integerrimis canaliculatis subcarnosis,

pedunculis axillaribus solitariis unifloris folio breviore superne paululum

incrassatis inferne bi-bracteolatis, calycibus eglandulosis, corolla (purpurea)

basi maculis 5 sanguineis.

Hisiscvus hakeefolius. ‘ Giordano, Mem. Nuov. Ibise. eum icone.” (Linnea,

v.. 11. Lieterb. p.9.). Walp. Repert. v.1. p. 306. Lehmann, Plant. Preiss,

p. 239.

A lovely hibiscoid plant, flowering at an early period of growth,

bearing copious large blossoms of a rich lilac-purple, with a deep

red-purple eye, surrounding the long staminal column, and these

flowers, contrary to what is usual in the Hidiscus family, re-

maining many days expanded. This most desirable shrub was

introduced by Messrs. Lucombe and Pince, being raised by them

from Swan River seeds in the spring of 1846. In the summer

the plants flowered profusely. An allied species (if it be really

distinct) is the Hidiseus lilacinus, of Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 2009,

from the same region of Australia; but the leaves of the latter

are broader, and the corolla is destitute of the deep purple eye

which gives such a brightness to the blossoms of the present

Species. Strangely enough, Walpers retains H. hakeefolius in

Hibiscus, and refers H. lilacinus to Lagunaria of Don; whereas

a very slight inspection will show that both are naturally placed

In the genus Fugosia, of which the character is given at Tab.

4218, of the present volume. I possess native specimens

gathered by Mr. Fraser at Swan River and King George's Sound,

by Mr. Drummond in the same localities in 1843 (a. 57), and

by Mr. Collie at Flinders Bay. Flowers in August.

Descr. A shrud, four to five feet high, erect, sparingly branched,

the branches twiggy, rounded, dark green, glabrous, as is every

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OCTOBER Ist, 1846. ~K

part of the plant. Leaves distant, very variable, the lower ones

the most compound, bipinnatifid, the intermediate ones commonly

trifid, the uppermost ones entire, the latter and the segments

of the others linear, attenuated, somewhat fleshy, grooved above.

Flowers large, handsome. Peduncles axillary from the upper

leaves, but shorter than they, slightly incrassated upwards and.

there forming a toothed cup with the small subulate involucral

scales: below bearing two small dracteoles. Sepals lanceolate,

much acuminated, with two or three strong ribs. Corolla large,

soon reflected, purple-lilac, paler below the middle; at the

bottom each petal has a dark red-purple radiating spot. Staminal

tube long. Anthers very numerous. Ovary oblong-ovate, downy,

five-celled. Style longer than the staminal tube, thickened

upwards with five blunt stigmas.

Fig. 1. Pistil, 2. Section of ditto, shewing the ovules :—magnified.

72.

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Tas. 4262.

PLEROMA ELEGANs.

Hlegant Pleroma.

Nat. Ord. MeLastomace2.—Dercanpria Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. Calycis tubus ovatus, junior bracteis 2 deciduis involutus, lobi 5

decidui. Petala 5 obcordata. Stamina 10. Filamenta pilosa v. glabra. An-

there elongate basi arcuate, connectivo stipitiformi basi breve biauriculato.

Ovarium calyci adnatum, apice setosum. Capsula baccata subsicca 4-locularis.

Semina cochleata.—Frutices Australi-Americani, sepissime setis appressis scabri.

Folia subrigida, 5-nervia. Flores ampli, purpuret, in racemum paniculamve dis-

positi.

PLEROMA elegans; ramulis teretiusculis adpresse setoso-hispidis, foliis petiolatis

ovato-oblongis utrinque acutis supra glaberrimis rugosis subtus adpressa

pilosis 3-nerviis ciliatis, floribus subternis terminalibus, pedicellis brevibus

hispidis, bracteis lanceolatis ciliatis, calycis setosi lobis angustis petalis

glabris, filamentis subpilosis. Gardn.

Pieroma elegans. Gardn. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. v. 2. p. 350.

A plant of great beauty, with copious, glossy, strongly nerved

“Sha and dia of a he size and peculiarly splendid colour,

to the rich velvety purple of whose hue no pencil can do justice.

It is a native of the Organ Mountains, growing at an eleva-

tion of 4,500 feet, where it was first detected by Mr. Gardner

(n. 405 of his collection), and subsequently by Mr. W.Lobb, who

sent it to Mr. Veitch. In that gentleman’s Nursery at Exeter,

it bore its splendid blossoms in June, 1846. _

Descr. A shrub four to six feet high, erect, branched ; the

branches opposite, deeply tinged with red and rough with closely-

pressed rigid scale-like bristles. Leaves opposite, on short petioles,

ovate, or rather elliptical, acute, three-ribbed, glabrous and glossy

and dark-green above, beneath more or less clothed with ap-

pressed leaves, and very pale-coloured, the margins entire, ciliated,

often tinged with red. Vowers terminal, solitary, or ternate ;

bedicels short, generally bearing two small leaves, and, around the

calyx, two or three large deciduous coloured bracts. Calye-tube

globose, hispid ; segments five, spreading, lanceolate and hispid,

Ciliated, deciduous. Stamens 10, four small, four larger. Fila

OCTOBER Ist, 1846. 7 the

ments subulate, slightly hairy; anther sickle-shaped, terminating

- in a long tube opening with a pore: at the base, on the junction

with the filament, is a globose gland. Fruit, with its enveloping

calyx-tube, globose, hispid.

Fig. 1. Stamens. 2. Calyx and Pistil (with two segments cut away). 3. im-

mature fruit :—imagnified.

We gladly occupy a vacant space on this leaf, which the Supplement

does not afford this month, with the mention of a plant of great rarity and

beauty, which promises to be a highly ornamental stove-plant.

Compretum Pincianum ; foliis brevi-petiolatis oppositis amplis obovato-oblongis glabris punc-

* tulatis integerrimis reticulatis tenui-acuminatis basi acutis, floribus parvis numerosissimis

(coccineis) racemos compositos paniculatos speciosos formantibus, bracteis (seu foliis floralibus)

ovatis, ramulis pedicellisque rufo-pilosis, calycibus subcylindraceis, dentibus rectis brevibus,

petalis vix exsertis, staminibus styloque longe exsertis.

Has, Sierra Leone; Mr. Whitfield.

We trust, ere long, to be able to give a figure of this splendid species,

which Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., cultivate successfully in their

Nursery at Exeter. Our specific character is drawn up from original dried

specimens, aided by a branch of the living plant, which shows the leaves

to be above a foot long, of arich but delicate green, with a sort of metallic

lustre, when viewed in a particular light. The panicles of flowers, in the —

Herbarium, measure a foot and a half, clothing the copious terminal

branches with innumerable red or purplish-red blossoms, having long

exserted red stamens and styles. The bracteas, numerous as they are, by

no means conceal the blossoms, but rather serve to increase their beauty

by the admixture of another colour. The shrub cannot be called a climber,

though there seems a slight tendency to lengthen itself: it is, in reality, of

a stout and sturdy habit. In its native country, Mr. Whitfield observes,

it forms a dense bush, not exceeding six feet in height, loaded with innu-

merable richly-coloured blossoms. Its nearest affinity is probably the

C. comosum of Don, whose panicles of flowers are said to be truly splendid ;

but that species has the leaves “subcordate at the base”, whereas the

leaves of C. Pincianum are remarkable acute at the setting on of the

petioles.

Tas 4263.

STENOCARPUS Cunnincuamt

Mr. Cunningham's Stenocarpus.

Nat. Ord. ProrEAcrEs#.—Tertranpria Monoeynia.

Gen. Char, Perianthium irregulare, foliolis distinctis, secundis. Stamina api-

cibus cavis foliolorum immersis. Glandula hypogyna unica, semi-annularis.

Ovarium pedicellatum, polyspermum. Stylus deciduus. Stigma obliquum, orbi-

culato-dilatatum, planiusculum. Fodliculus linearis. Semina basi alata '|—Frutices

glaberrimi. Folia alterna integerrima. Umbelle azillares v. terminales, pedun-

culate. Flores ochroleuci, (v. aurantiaci). Br.

STENocaRPUS Cunninghami ; foliis amplis obovato-lanceolatis integris sinuatis

pinnatifidisve, umbellis compositis, floribus sericeo-aurantiacis.

AGNostus sinuatus. 4//. Cunn. Loudon Hort. Brit. p.580. (name only).

So long ago as 1828 the lamented Allan Cunningham dis-

covered this plant on the banks of the Brisbane River, Moreton

Bay, with other interesting novelties, described by him in the

Ist vol. of the Botanical Miscellany: such as Grevillea robusta,

Oxleya xanthoxyla, Custanospermum australe, Gyrostemon attenua-

tum, Acrostichum grande, &c., &c. Not, however, meeting with

the subject of our present plate in flower, he took no further

notice of it in his Journal than to remark (as I am kindly in-

formed by Mr. Heward) that “it is a slender tree, of most

remarkable habit ; with leaves large, from the extremities of

the branches, glossy and lobed, or laciniated ;—without flower

or fruit. No. 193.” Had he seen its blossoms, elegantly ar-

ranged in candelabrum-like umbels, clothed with the most vivid

orange-scarlet silky pubescence, he would assuredly have ranked

it among the most important of his numerous additions to the

Australian Flora. Two rooted plants were sent home and culti-

vated with great care by Mr. Smith, (from which all others in the

country have had their origin), but although they have attained

a height of 16 feet, he has never been rewarded by seeing them

blossom ; nevertheless he rightly suspected the tree to belong

to the family of Proteaceae. ‘This idea is confirmed by some fruits

(destitute of seeds) which I received in 1843 from T. Bidwill,

Sq-, Who gathered them in the same locality; and from this

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fruit, Mr. Brown pronounced the plant to belong to the genus

Stenocarpus. For fine flowering specimens I am indebted, in

August, 1847, to the kindness of Messrs. Weeks and Day, from

, the greenhouse of the ‘ United Gardeners’ Society’, King’s Road,

Chelsea, and I learn from Mr. Makowski of that establishment,

that its blossoming is considered to be owing to the plant having

been much cut in for the purpose of increase.* The handsome

evergreen, glossy foliage, has, indeed,’/long recommended this

plant to the attention of cultivators, and now that its beautiful

inflorescence is known, there can be little doubt but the demand

for it will be in proportion to its loveliness. Mr. Smith remarks

that it is a robust growing plant, and’ not, like many of the Pro-

teacee, apt to die off suddenly. )

‘Dascr. Plant, constituting a small tree 16 feet and more high,

with a'slender ¢rwnk, branched, and bearing the ample and glossy

evergreen foliage at the extremities of the branches. Leaves

alternate, one to two feet in length, obovato-lanceolate, petiolate,

obtuse, entire or sinuated, lobed and pinnatifid, penninerved,

the segments oblong, obtuse, everywhere entire and glabrous. —

Flowers umbellate : umbel compound, peduncled, lateral from an

old branch, or sometimes terminal; in the umbel before us

consisting of five rays, of which four are in a whorl, horizontal

(as respects the axis), the fifth central and vertical, terete, clothed

with deciduous golden down, articulated upon the main rachis:

the extremity curved downwards and the very apex dilated into a

flattened and angled disc, the edge of which bears about thirteen

or fourteen partial rays or pedicels of the umbel, radiating like _

the spokes of a wheel and with the most perfect regularity, all

inclining a little upwards, each bearing a single downy flower and

spreading almost exactly horizontally, all on the same plane.

Before expansion the perianth is club-shaped, tawny- or golden-

green, the underside of the club, or head, yellow-green. The

mode of expansion of the five linear-clavate sepals is very curious

and adds greatly to the beauty of the flower, when all are alike

expanded. ‘The colour within is a most brilliant orange-scarlet,

the pistil the same, the clubbed (or rather spathulate) apices of

the sepals and the large stigmas only being a golden yellow.

At first the three outer segments of each flower become deflexed,

all hanging down around, and at a certain distance from, the axis,

resembling the deflexed ray of some splendid composite plant:

and at the same time the pistil suddenly becomes bent in the

_* The great heat and much sun of the present season have also no doubt con-

tributed to the flowering of Stenocarpus Cunninghami ; for while this sheet 18 0

the press, I learn from Dr. Balfour, who has obligingly sent a specimen, that it

has blossomed in the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, and also at the Birmingham

Botanic Garden, under the care of Mr. Cameron.

middle (geniculated) and rises upwards, so that the rich coloured

stipites are erect, the style standing forward, and the whole circle

of brilliantly coloured pistils forming a, corona to the umbel ; the

fourth sepal within the crown. is the last to separate | from the

stigma, and collectively,| for atime, they form ‘a sort. of inner

corona: they soon become flaccid and. deciduous, when the

richly-coloured pistils remain like the skeleton or frame of some

beautiful piece of basket-work: the lower half vertical, the upper

half inclining outwards nearly horizontally... The lower. half is

constituted by the stipes, which has a long adnate deep, blood-

coloured scale at the base. |The geniculation takes place at the

ovary, which is small, silky, and contains several ovules. The

style exactly resembles the stipes. Stigma an oblique compressed

lateral dilated golden disc.) Fruita follicular nearly terete capsule,

about. as large as the little finger, apiculate, woody, chocolate-

brown, opening longitudinally on one side for its whole length.

From some remnants of seeds, it is evident they are winged.

* In the specimen sent by Dr. Balfour, two peduncles spring from the apex of

a branch, each bearing an umbel. :

Fig.1. Bud, 2. Expanded. flower:—slightly magnified. 8. Follicle :-—

natural size.

Tas. 4264.

AESCHINANTHUS putcuer.

Beautiful dischinanthus.

Nat. Ord. CrrTaNDRACEZ.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4236.)

AiscHInantuus pulcher; scandens, foliis ovatis coriaceo-carnosis immerse

venosis obscure dentatis, corymbis terminalibus bracteatis, calyce ovato-

cylindraceo glabro basi obtuso segmentis brevibus erectis, corolla calyce

triplo longiore glabro.

Alscninantuus pulcher. De Cand. Prodr, v. 9. p. 262.

TRricHosPoruM pulchrum. Bl. Bijdr. p. 764. Hassk. Oat. Bogor. p. 153.

To this splendid plant we alluded, under an equally handsome

species, sch. Lobbianus, figured in our last Number, Tab. 4261.

It was sent from Java to Mr. Veitch of the Exeter Nursery, by

his collector, Mr. T. Lobb, under the name here adopted, and is

probably known in that Island as the true species so called;

otherwise we should scarcely have guessed it to be the same plant ;

since that species comes into De Candolle’s division, “ pedunculis

axillaribus bifloris”. The description, however, is in that parti-

cular at variance with that of the section: for the peduncles are

said to be “fasciculated”, axillary, and “ terminal a

chiefly distinguished from 2. Lodécanus by its broader leaves,

shorter tube of the calyx, quite glabrous and very much more

exserted tube of the corolla. It flowers in June and July, and

was exhibited at the Chiswick Horticultural Show about that

period.

Duscr. Probably an epiphytal plant, with slender branches,

Opposite, shortly petiotesd Be which are broadly ovate, thick,

fleshy, but firm, very obscurely toothed at the thin edge; veins

pumated, conspicuous. Corymdb terminal, sessile, bracteated ;

bracteas small, cordate, leafy. Pedicels short, rather thick. Calyx

cylindrical-urceolate or ovate, quite glabrous, yellow-green,

reddish above: Jimd of five blunt, nearly equal, erect teeth.

Corolla three or four times as long as the calyx, rich scarlet ; the

tube enlarged and then a little gibbous veneath, the base globose ;

above the base the tube is constricted and very narrow; the

mouth oblique, the /imb scarcely two-lipped; upper segment

bifid, the other three entire ; all of them ovate. Stamens a little

longer than the faux of the corolla. Style generally exserted.

Stigma peltate, oblique. Ovary almost linear, the base surrounded

by a fleshy ring. :

Fig. 1. Corolla:—natural size. 2. Pistil:—slightly magnified.

Tas. 4265.

LESCHENAULTIA arcvata.

Drooping Leschenaultia,

Nat. Ord. GoopENOVIEZ.—PENTANDRIA MoNnoGYNIA.

Gen. Char. (vide supra, Tas. 4256.)

LESCHENAULTIA arcuata ; suffruticosa, ramosissima, ramis primariis divaricatis

subarcuatis, foliis sparsis filiformibus acutis, floribus in ramulos numerosis-

«Simos terminalibus, calyce ebracteolato, laciniis oblongis acutis, corolla

(generis) magn laciniis 3 latissimis patentibus bifidis, 2 superioribus

minoribus integris stamina stylumque includentibus, tubo brevi ventricoso,

intus hinc sericeo.

LESCHENAULTIA arcuata. De Vriese in Lehm. Plant. Preiss. p.416.

A singular and truly handsome species of Leschenaultia, ex-

ceedingly different from every other known one, having copious,

spreading, decurved branches, with innumerable branchlets, almost

every one of which is terminated with a large red-purple and

yellow flower. Raised by Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., at

their extensive Nursery, Exeter, from Swan River seeds, sent by

by Mr. Drummond. It is a greenhouse plant, and noble samples

were communicated by the cultivator, from which our figure 1s

made. The flowers have a good deal the appearance of those of

the large shrubby Polygale of South Africa, but here they are

exceedingly numerous upon a small plant. Flowers in August.

Mr. Drummond has long ago sent home copious dried specimens

of the species,

Descr. A low, prostrate, half-shrubby plant, with the main

branches spreading and curved downward (whence the specific

name), striated; éranchlets raore erect, but flexuose. Leaves

scattered, patent, small, filiform, acute. Flowers large, on the

humerous small branches, terminal, solitary. Ca/yz-sepals ob-

long, acute, concave. Corolla with the tude very short, ventricose

on one side, cleft on the opposite one, silky within ; /imé two-

lipped ; segments five, three spreading, large, broadly obcordate,

bifid and mucronate, sulphur-yellow, the wings very wide; two

NOVEMBER lst, 1846.

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Tas. 4266.

EUCALYPTUS Prerss1ana.

Dr. Preiss’ Eucalyptus.

Nat. Ord. Myrrace2.—Icosanpria Monoeynta.

Gen. Char. Calycis tubus persistens obovatus aut globosus cupulformis,

limbus operculiformis integer basi circumscissa et regulariter dehiscens deci-

duus. Petala 0. Stamina filamenta numerosa libera. Capsula 4-locularis aut

abortu 3-locularis apice dehiscens polysperma.—Arbores (Nove Hollandia)

excelse. Folia integerrima coriacea sepius alterna, rarius opposita, interdum in

wsdem. Pedunculi avillares breves umbellam 3-15-floram gerentes. Operculum

in nonnullis (excl. Brown) duplex, exterius calycinum, interius corollinum. DC.

Evucatyprus Preissiana ; fruticosa, ramulis 4-angularibus rigidis strictis, foliis

verticalibus oppositis ellipticis petiolatis penninerviis viridibus, pedunculis

axillaribus solitariis trifloris ancipiti-compressis latissimis petiolo longioribus,

cupula turbinata brevissime pedicellata.

EucaLyptus Preissiana. Schauer, in Lehm. Pl. Preiss. p. 131.

A handsome tree-like shrub, of which Dr. Schauer says,

“species inter omnes tam habitu quam characteribus maxima

insignis”; with the foliage fragrant (like that of the Myrtle),

when bruised, and flowers of rather a large size; rendered more

conspicuous by the copious yellow stamens, spreading far beyond

the diameter of the cupula. It is a native of Western Australia

Whence seeds have been sent from Dr. Preiss of Swan River, to

the Royal Gardens of Kew, and dried specimens both by him

and by Mr. Jas. Drummond. Dr. Preiss’ specimens are more

distinctly indicated as natives of Cape Riche (no. 209, Preiss.

Herb.), and as rising to a height of eight feet. Our plant

flowered in the summer of 1846, when it had attained a height

of five feet. It thrives in a cool Greenhouse, and in the summer

is the better for standing in the open air.

Descr. Shrub, having a tree-like mode of growth, from five

to eight feet high, erect, branched ; branches spreading, the main

ones like the stem rounded and pale-brown : the ultimate ones

red-purple, with usually four sharp angles. Leaves opposite, on

short petioles, elliptical, vertical, dark green (costa prominent

and red on both sides), the margin entire, often edged with red,

NOVEMBER IsT, 1846.

the surface penninerved, the interstices reticulated, the colour

dark, full green, (not in the least glaucous). Peduacle solitary,

short, scarcely longer than the petiole, very broad, flat, anci-

pitate, bearing at the extremity three flowers. ‘The Zid or oper-

culum I have not seen. Cupula turbinate, thick and leathery, on

a very. short, but thick, pedicel, its breadth at the mouth rather

greater than the length. Ovary immersed in the base of the

cupule, its summit angled and radiated. Stamens very numerous,

spreading: filaments pale yellow: anthers full yellow, almost

orange. Style protruded.

Fig. 1. Cupule and ovary :—magnified.

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Tas. 4267.

BOLBOPHYLLUM umpeuuatum.

Unbelled Bolbophyllum.

Nat. Ord. OncuipEa%.—GyNaNDRIA MONANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4166.)

BoLBOPHYLLUM wmbellatum ; rhizomate repente, pseudo-bulbis oblongis angu-

latis, foliis solitariis oblongis loratis obtusis subemarginatis, scapis foliis

zequalibus, floribus umbellatis, sepalis lateralibus obliquis faleatis obtusis

majoribus supremo rotundato nano, petalis ovatis obtusis, labello cordato

ovato complicato integerrimo emarginato, columna marginata setis duabus

hine unidentatis aucta, polliniis 4 reniformibus posticis minimis muco apice

coherentibus. Lindl.

BoLBorpHYLLUM umbellatum. Lindl. in Wall. Cat. n. 1984. Gen. et Sp. Orchid.

p.56. Bot. Reg. 1845, t. 44.

This pretty Orchideous plant was presented, with many other

rarities, by Dr. Wallich, to the Royal Gardens of Kew, where it

flowered in August, 1846. It is a native of northern India,

of Nepal and Khasiya hills, and recommends itself to our collec-

a. by its prettily spotted flowers and the curious column

and lip.

Diack. From a creeping cylindrical root-stock arise several

pseudo-bulbs, oblong-ovate, compressed, furrowed in age, while

young partially sheathed by a brown membrane. Leaf solitary

from the top of the pseudo-bulb, a span or more long, narrow

oblong, obtuse, subcoriaceous. Scape from the base of the

pseudo-bulb, articulated, and with sheathing bracts. lowers

umbellate, the pedicels bracteated at the base. Sepals and petals

pale yellow, spotted with blood-colour ; of the former, the two

lateral sepals ave the largest, with an oblique twist, the upper

one smaller, and the petals smaller still, all of them nearly oval

and obtuse. Zip very small, cordato-oblong, white with purple

spots, fleshy, the lower part appressed to the decurrent base of

the column, then reflexed; the apex emarginate. Column short,

with two projecting wings, terminating above in two projecting

NOVEMBER Ist, 1846.

subulate horns on each side the anther-case. Pollen-masses

yellow.

Fig. 1. Front view of the column and lip, together with the base of the peri-

anth. 2. Side view of the column and lip. 3. Pollen-masses :—magnijied.

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Tas. 4268.

SCUTELLARIA incarnata.

Flesh-coloured Skull-cap.

Nat. Ord. Lapiata.— Dipynamra GYMNOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char, Calyx campanulatus, bilabiatus, labia integra, post anthesin clausa,

demum usque ad basin fissa, superius supra squama dilatata supra concava auctum,

ad maturationen deciduum, inferius persistens. Corolla tubo longe exserto, intus

nudo, recto y. sepius extra calycem recurvo-adscendente, superne in faucem

dilatato, limbo bilabiato, labio superiore apice integro v. emarginato, inferiore

patenti-dilatato convexo, apice emarginato, lobis lateralibus nunc liberis patenti-

bus, sepius cum labio superiore coalitis, rarissime cum inferiore. Stamina 4,

sub galea adscendentia, didynama, inferioribus longioribus. _Anthere per paria

approximate, ciliate, staminum inferiorum dimidiate, superiorum biloculares,

cordate, loculis subdivaricatis, dorso oppositis. Styli lobus superior brevissimus,

inferior apice stigmatifer. Ovarium gynophoro incurvo elevatum, obliquum.

Achenia sicca, mada, tuberculosa, glabra v. tomento adpresso pubescentia.—Herbee

annua v. perennes, rarius frutices: Inflorescentia nune tetragono-spicata, foliis

Jtoralibus membranaceis subimbricatis coloratis ; nune racemosa, floralibus parvis ;

nune axillaris, foliis floralibus caulinis subconformibus. Peduneuli_ in awillis

solitarii uniflori breves, sepius oppositi, at in sect. Heteranthesia cum foliis floralibus

sparsi! Bractese subnulle. Corolle cerulee v. flavide, rarius purpurascentes

v. coccinet. Benth.

ScUTELLARIA incarnata ; erecta ramosa, foliis ovatis ovato-lanceolatisque grosse

serratis acuminatis subtus pubescentibus, racemis terminalibus plurifloris

bracteis lineari-lanceolatis pedicello longioribus, calycis appendice calyce

longiore, corollz tubo elongato superne dilatato, lobo superiore vix fisso.

SCUTELLARIA incarnata. Vent. Choix des Pl. tab. 39°(upper figure var. 8.minor).

Benth. Lab. p. 429. var. B. ;

>

From the rich collection of the Exeter Nursery of Messrs.

Veitch, who received the seeds from Professor W. Jameson of

Quito, gathered on the western declivities of the Andes.* - was

led on the first investigation of the plant to consider it the

same with the §. coccinea of Humboldt, but a stricter com-

parison with the description in the Nov. Gen. et Sp. Am. Merid.,

soon convinced me of this error; and I now refer it with little

hesitation to 8. incarnata of Ventenat. I am, however, disposed

to think that author has confounded the S. coccinea, or some

* It is no. 301 of that gentleman’s distributed collections.

NOVEMBER Ist, 1846.

other species, with this; and that his var. 8. alone is our plant.

The very different colour and shape of the flowers would suffice

to distinguish them. In his specific character, Ventenat calls the

flowers “ incarnates”’; and in his description he speaks of them as

“dun beau rouge”. If this latter colour applies to the lower

figure, and the flesh-colour to the upper one, it would tend to

confirm my opinion, that the latter is a representation of our

present plant; the former being another species which we think

we possess, and trust to be able to figure in this Magazine,

in the next month’s Number. S. izcarnata differs from that in

its narrower and more membranous leaves, borne on short foot-

stalks, in the larger appendage to the calyx, deep-rose (rather

than flesh-colour), with a shorter tube of the corolla, more

dilated upwards, and in the almost entire upper lobe of the

limb. It is a greenhouse plant, and being readily increased

by cuttings, will doubtless be a great ornament to our flower-

borders, if an entire bed is devoted to it. Flowers in July

and August.

Derscr. Stem a foot to a foot and a half high, erect, slender,

branches opposite. Leaves opposite, on short petioles, ovate or

ovato-lanceolate, slightly acuminate, membranaceous, coarsely

serrated, penninerved, paler and downy beneath. Racemes

terminal, many-flowered, the lower flowers opposite and some-

times leafy, the rest alternate, bracteated ; dracteas small, but

longer than the pedicels, linear-lanceolate. Pedice/s shorter than

the calyx, which is slightly downy, two-lipped, bearing a red

appendage or crest on the back, larger than the calyx. Corolla

deep purplish rose-colour, glabrous; the dude slightly curved

at the base, dilated upwards, two-lipped, lower Zip entire, ovate,

upper fornicate, three-lobed (the lateral lobes entire, united with

the superior one, which is scarcely emarginate). Stamens in-

cluded. Ovaries four, small, glabrous, seated on a large fleshy

gland or gynobase, which is downy in front. Style included,

slender, curved at the base ; stigma bifid. :

Fig. 1. Corolla laid open. 2. Calyx. 3. Pistil :—magnified.

Tas. 4269.

CLEMATIS rusvtosa.

Tubular flowered Clematis or Virgin's Bower.

Nat. Ord. RanuNcULACE®.—PoOLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4259.)

Ciematis tubulosa; erecta subpubescens dioica (?), foliis longe petiolatis tri-

foliolatis, foliolis rhombeo-ovatis sublobatis mucronato-dentatis venosis

lateralibus inzequilateris brevi- intermedio longe petiolatis, corymbis termi-

nalibus axillaribusque subcompositis, sepalis lineari-oblongis primum tubu-

losis demum revolutis (ceruleis) extus pubescentibus, staminibus uniseriali-

bus, filamentis (sub 16) dilatatis, ovariis stylisque sericeis, stigmate recurvato.

CLEMATIS tubulosa. “ Turczan. Bullet. Se. Nat. Mosc. xi. 148.” Walp. Enum.

0.1. p. 5.

A handsome but singular-looking Clematis, with an upright,

slightly branched stem, long petioled leaves, and clusters of

blue flowers. These leaves have rather the appearance of some

Actea. It is a native of northern China, and has flowered

in the greenhouse of the “‘ United Gardeners’ Nursery Society ”,

King’s Road, Chelsea, under the care of Messrs. Weeks and

Day, whence it was obligingly sent, in great beauty, by Mr.

Makowski.

Dauscr. Stem two feet high, erect, slightly branched, somewhat

woody at the base, the rest herbaceous, striated and tinged with

purple. Leaves in opposite pairs, remote, on long footstalks,

swollen at the base, terete, grooved above, trifoliolate ; the /eaflets

rigid, slightly downy, rhombeo-ovate, the two lower, or lateral

ones, unequally sided and on short opposite petiolules ; the inter-

mediate one on much the longest petiole, equal ; all of them lobed

and toothed, each tooth mucronate, the surface reticulated, the

veins very prominent beneath. F/owers in axillary and terminal :

corymbs, simple or compound ; peduncles and pedicels downy.

Sepals four, linear-oblong, thick and rather fleshy, distinct, but

approximate, bluish-purple, silky, at first erect and forming a tube,

then reflexed, the lower half slightly swollen, base only tubular.

Stamens about sixteen, in a single series. Fi/aments dilated :

DECEMBER Ist, 1846. 2M

anthers linear, longer than the tubular portion of the corolla.

Pistils (fertile?) small, several, closely compacted. Ovary ovate,

silky. Sty/e erect, clothed with long silky hairs which terminate

in two erect tufts or pencils: stigma recurved, club-shaped.

Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Pistil :—magnified.

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Tas. 4270;

CATTLEYA Sxinnert.

Mr. Skinner's Cattleya.

Nat. Ord. OncHIDEZ.—GyYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Sepala membranacea vy. carnosa, patentia, equalia. Petala seepius

majora. Labdellum cucullatum, columnam involvens, trilobum vy. indivisum. Co-

lumna clavata, elongata, semiteres, marginata, cum labello articulata. Anthera

carnosa, 4-locularis, septorum marginibus membranaceis. Pollinia 4, caudiculis

totidem replicatis—Herbe epiphyte (Americane), pseudo-bulbose. Folia soli-

taria vel bina coriacea. Flores terminales speciosissimi, sepe e spatha magna erum-

pentes. Lindl.

CaTTLEYA Skinneri; pseudo-bulbis valde incrassatis oblongis basi attenuatis,

foliis binis oblongis obtusis, pedunculo plurifloro, sepalis oblongis,petalis

ovato-rotundatis, labello panduriformi obscure trilobo lobis lateralibus con-

volutis terminali lato brevi retuso disco canaliculato, columna perbrevi.

CartLeya Skinneri. Batem. Orchid. Mexic. et Guatem. t.13. Lindl. Bot. Reg.

1840. Mise. n. 83.

No colour that we can employ does justice to the brilliant rosy

hue of this flower, justly named by Mr. Bateman in compliment

to its indefatigable discoverer, Mr. Skinner, who detected it ex-

clusively in the warm parts of Guatemala and along the shores

of the Pacific. There it is called “Flor de San Sebastian”, and

is eagerly sought for, when in season, by the people of the

country, to ornament the temples and shrines of their favourite

saints. It is described by Mr. Skinner as “inhabiting the

hot damp coasts,” and as “a plant that will require treatment

accordingly. It is always found on very high trees and is most

difficult to get at, except after a storm that may have chanced to

throw down some of the largest forest trees.” Mr. Bateman

mentions the plant as producing flowers sometimes much larger

than those here represented. We only give them as they appeared

with us in June, 1843. :

Duscr. Rhizoma creeping and throwing out fibrous roots below,

bearing, above, oblong elongated pseudo-bulbs, which are com-

pressed, sulcated, attenuated into a terete jointed stalk, and the

_ DECEMBER Isr, 1846. 2M2

flower-bearing ones, at least, sheathed with large membranaceous

striated scales, above producing two oblong, obtuse, coriaceous

and spreading /eaves, and from between these a peduncle

with a raceme or corymb of four or more flowers, of a large size

and of the most lovely lilac-purple tmt imaginable. Sepals

spreading, oblong, obtuse. Pefa/s spreading, broadly ovate,

rather acute, plaited or waved at the margin. zp panduriform,

obscurely three-lobed, the side lobes convolute over the column,

the intermediate one patent, large, retuse, or two-lobed. The

colour of the lip is yellowish on the disc, the rest rich rose-purple,

with a deep transverse band next the pale disc. Column very

short. Anther-case small. Pollen-masses four. 3

Fig. 1. Front view of lip, the side lobes partially laid open. 2. Pollen-

masses.

Tas. 4271.

‘ SCUTELLARIA Venrtenatu.

Ventenat’s Skull-cap.

Nat. Ord. Lagiat2.— DIpyNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4268.)

ScureLiartra Ventenatii; perennis, herbacea, erecta, ramosa, ubique molliter tenui-

pubescens, pilis glandulosis, ramis subteretibus, foliis longe petiolatis cras-

siusculis cordato-ovatis obtusiusculis grosse serratis penninerviis subreti-

- eulatis atro-viridibus, racemis terminalibus elongatis subsecundis (yv. sub-

distichis), bracteis valde deciduis angustis (inf. subovatis), calyce parvo,

corollis elongatis (coccineis) calyce multoties longioribus, labio superiore

profunde 4-fido.

ScuTELLARIA incarnata. Vent. Choix des Pl. t. 29, lower figure.

We have here the pleasure to figure a still more beautiful

Scutellaria than that represented at our Tab. 4268 (S. xcarnata),

to which we there alluded, with far richer coloured flowers, and

in other respects a good deal resembling it. Indeed, we have

already, in that description, given it as our opinion that Ventenat

had confounded this plant with the ixcarnata. They are, how-

ever, truly distinct from each other, as indicated by the above

characters, and from S. coccinea, H.B.K., in the cordato-ovate

and serrated (not oblong and entire) leaves. The present species

was detected in the mountains near Sta. Martha by Mr. Purdie,

and seeds were sent home by him in 1845, which were reared in

the summer and autumn of 1846. It has been treated as a

Greenhouse plant, but would doubtless flourish and prove highly

ornamental to our flower-borders. Z

Descr. Root perennial. Stem erect, simple or branched, four-

sided. Leaves opposite, on rather long petioles, cordato-ovate,

soft and downy, but of a thickish and rather fleshy texture,

reticulately veined, and coarsely serrated. Racemes terminal,

elongated. Pedicels short, the lower ones opposite, the rest

alternate. Bractee deciduous. Calyx as m the genus, green,

the crest smaller than in S. incarnata, downy. Corolla deep and

bright scarlet, with the ‘ude much elongated, slender below,

DECEMBER Ist, 1846. *

gradually dilated upwards. Zimé two-lipped ; upper lip fornicate,

four-lobed; lower lip of one oval piece. Stamens included.

Ovary on a large fleshy gynobase.

-Fig. 1. Corolla laid open. 2. Calyx with the pistil. 3. Ovule.

Tas. 4272.

ODONTOGLOSSUM $uwastizarium.

Halberd-lipped Odontoglossum.

Nat. Ord. OncuIpDE®.—GyYNANDRIA MoNANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Sepala \ateralia patula, libera. Labellum planum, unguiculatum,

ascendens, limbo reflexo diviso dentato apice angustato, basi concavum crista

bilamellata raro fimbriata sepius antice bidentata auctum. Columna elongata,

apice auriculata aut aptera. Lindl.

OpontoatossumM hastilabium ; foliis oblongis coriaceis, panicule ramis spicatis,

bracteis cymbiformibus acuminatis ovario equalibus, sepalis petalisque

lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis undulatis, labello apice subrotundo-ovato acuto

basi auriculis acutis lanceolatis porrectis aucto lamellis 5 elevatis, column

pubescentis alis obsoletis undulatis. Lind.

Opontoe.ossvm hastilabium. Lindl. in Orchidacee Lindeniane, p. 16. ined.

A truly lovely Orchideous plant, wholly new to our living

collections, but known to Dr. Lindley through Linden’s specimens

of New Grenada. Sent to Kew by our Collector, Mr. Purdie,

who gathered it in woods on the route from Santa Martha to the

Sierra Nivada. Linden detected it in the province of Pamplona,

at an elevation of 2,500 feet. The flowers are numerous on the

raceme, large, handsome, elegantly varied with pale green purple

and white, and moreover highly fragrant. Our drawing was

made from the plant at Syon Gardens, where the species blossomed

in August, 1846.

Descr. Pseudo-bulés oblong, compressed, ribbed, pale green,

while young sheathed below by the bases of two /eaves; two

other leaves spring from the summit of the pseudo-bulb, these

are linear-oblong, obtuse, subcoriaceous, without strie. Scape

from an axil of a lower leaf at the base of the pseudo-bulb, a

foot and a half or two feet long. Bracteas long, membranaceous,

lanceolato-subulate, deciduous. Sepals and petals” spreading,

uniform, lanceolate, much acuminated, pale green, with copious

transverse purple dots or lines. Lip large, as long as the peri-

anth, its entire shape broadly hastate ; in other words, three-

lobed, the two lateral lobes forming two horns at the base, the

DECEMBER Ist, 1846.

intermediate lobe very large, contracted, purple, and crested with

irregular lamellae, then expanded, white, orbicular-ovate, acute.

Column slender, purple, winged on each side. Anther-case

hemispherical.

Fig. 1. Column. 2. Base of the lip :—magnified.

Tas 4273.

LYONIA Jamalicensis.

Jamaica Lyonia.

Nat. Ord. Ertcackm—Dzrcanpria Monocynta.

Gen. Char. Calyx 5-lobus. Corolla subglobosa extus pubescens 5-dentata.

Stamina 10 ; filam. pubescentibus complanatis, antheris muticis. Capsula 5-locu-

laris, 5-valvis, suturis crassis dense conferruminatis per dehiscentiam indivisis et

valvulas surnumerarias inter valvulas veras conficientibus. Semina numerosa,

subulata.—Frutices boreali- Americani (Antillanique). De Cand.

Lyon1a Jamaicensis ; fruticosa lepidota, ramulis angulosis, foliis persistentibus

ovato-lanceolatis obtuse subacuminatis obscure serratis coriaceis supra nitidis

subtus (siccitate preecipue) reticulatim venosis, floribus axillaribus numerosis

fasciculatim subracemosis, corolla ovata, ovariis hirsutis, filamentis basi

dilatatis subpubescentibus, antheris acuminatis apice bifidis.

Lyonta Jamaicensis. Don, Syst. Gard. and Bot. v.3. p. 832. De Cand. Prodr.

v. 7. p. 600.

ANDROMEDA Jamaicensis. Sw. FU. Ind. Occ. v. 2. p. 838.

ANDROMEDA fasciculata. Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. v. 2. p. 836.

From the high mountains of Jamaica, where it was first detected

by Swartz, and it has been since sent to us by Dr. M’Fadyen

and Mr. Purdie. Mr. Linden finds it in Jamaica, and it is

‘n. 1694 of his collection from that country. It flowers copiously

in June and July in a cool frame, and only requires to be kept

from frost in the winter. We are indebted for the living plant

to Mr. Makoy of Liege. I have ventured to unite the Andro-

meda fasciculata of Swartz with this, for the differences described

in the two are no more than are evident on slight varieties of

the same plant. The flowers are extremely delicate, semi-trans-

parent, and of a waxy appearance; they are, moreover, fragrant

with a honey-like scent.

Descr. A shrub of moderate size, with spreading angular

green branches, more or less clothed, as is every part of the plant,

even the pedicels, calyx and corolla, with minute furfuraceous

scales, most copious on the very young branches and pedicels,

and there giving a ferrugineous downy appearance : less plentiful

and eventually deciduous on the upper side of the foliage.

DECEMBER Ist, 1846.

Leaves alternate, coriaceous, about two inches long, ovato-

- lanceolate, obscurely serrate, or crenulate, or entire, obtusely

acuminated, acute at the base, with a very short petiole, above

shining, beneath, when dry, reticulated with veins ; the margins

entire or obscurely and obtusely serrated. The flowers are thickly

crowded in the axils of the leaves, chiefly from the underside of the

spreading’ branches, but with an inclination upwards. The pedicels

appear at first sight to be in fascicles and single-flowered ; but,

if closely examined, they will be found to be arranged in short

racemes, each with a small bracteal scale at its base. Calya

flat, five-cleft, small, segments obtuse. Corolla ovate, white,

semi-pellucid, waxy, slightly tinged with green and blush: the

mouth contracted, the limb of five short spreading teeth. Stamens

ten ; filaments long, flexuose, subulate, slightly pubescent at the

base. Anther oblong-ovate, bifid at the apex, and opening with

a long slit in the bifid points. Ovary subglobose, green, hairy.

Style as long as the corolla, thick. Stigma truncate, obscurely

five-toothed.

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ESCALLONIA Orcanensis.

Organ Mountains Escallonia.

Nat. Ord. EscaLLONIaAce®.—PENTANDRIA MoNOGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Calycis tubus semiglobosus ovario adnatus, limbus 5-dentatus

5-lobusve. Petala 5 calyci inserta. Stamina 5; anthere ovato-oblonge. Stylus

filiformis persistens. Stigma peltatum, sulco subbilobum. Capsula baccata,

calycinis lobis styloque coronata, subbilocularis, basi poris irregulariter rampens

dissepimento superne incompleto et ibi placentifero. Semina numerosissima

scrobiculata.—Arbores fruticesve ex Amer. austr. orte sepe resinose. Folia sparsa

eee aut integra. Flores subterminales varie dispositi, bracteati, albi v. rosei.

Cand.

EscaLLonta Organensis ; glabra, ramis erectis, foliis oblongis obtusis basi cuneatis

breviter petiolatis supra medium serrulatis leviter resinoso-punctatis, pani-

culis terminalibus multifloris, calycis lobis subulatis, petalis spathulatis.

Escautonta Organensis. Gardn. Herb. Brazil. n.5720. Hook. Ic. Pl. 6. t. 514.

Var. 8. foliis angustioribus, (TaB. NosTR. 4274.)

A lovely shrub, which will probably prove hardy, first detected

in the Organ Mountains by Mr. Gardner, and about the same

time by Mr. Wm. Lobb, whose seeds, sent to Mr. Veitch of Mount

Radford Nursery, Exeter, produced the plant from which this

representation is taken. ‘The stem and branches are of a

rich red brown, extending to the calyx: the leaves have their

mid-rib, in part, and the serrated margins red, and the petals are

deep rose-colour. Mr. Lobb’s plant has the leaves narrower

than in Mr. Gardner’s specimens ; but that is the only difference

between them.

Descr. A shrub, in its native mountains, according to Mr.

Gardner, from two to four feet high, branched: dranches erect,

angled, leafy. Zeaves alternate, oblong, copious, erect, somewhat

imbricated, narrower in our present plant than in that found by

Mr. Gardner, glossy, rigid, dark green above with a red margin,

rather obtuse at the point, tapering at the base into a short

petiole; jetiole (in part) and serrated margins red. Canicle

cymose, terminal, of numerous deep rose-coloured flowers. Calyz-

‘ube hemispherical, somewhat angular : the /zmé of five, spreading

DECEMBER Ist, 1846.

or recurved, subulate odes. Petals five, spathulate, the claws

erect, linear, so closely placed as to form a tube ; the dmb exactly

horizontally patent, oval or obovate, obscurely crenate at the

margin. Sfamens cylindrical; sfy/e nearly equal in height and

equal to the claws of the corolla, not protruded beyond the faux.

Filaments between filiform and subulate ; anthers oblong. Stigma

capitate, two-lobed.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2 The same with the petals removed :—magnified.

INDEX,

In which the Latin Names of the Plants contained in the Second

Volume of the Tarp Sgries (or Seventy-second Volume

of the Work) are alphabetically arranged.

Plate.

4210 Adenocalymna comosum.

4260 Aschinanthus Lobbianus.

4264 — pulcher.

4236 ———_—_-———_ purpurascens.

4230 Agiphila grandiflora.

4216 Alloplectus dichrous.

4250 repens.

4226 Anona palustris.

4224 Aphelandra aurantiaca.

4222 Ariopsis peltata.

4221 Aristolochia gigantea.

4248 Asystasia Coromandeliana.

4232 Barnadesia rosea.

4267 Bolbophyllum umbellatum.

4223 Bouvardia longiflora.

4238 Calliandra Harrisii.

4219 Catasetum callosum; var. gran-

diflorum.

4270 Cattleya Skinneri.

4237 Cirrhopetalum Thouarsii.

4259 Clematis smilacifolia.

4269 tubulosa.

4255 Clerodendron sinuatum.

4247 Collania Andinamarcana.

4208 Cuphea cordata.

4215 Cyenoches Loddigesii.

4234 Cypripedium barbatum.

4252 Datura cornigera.

4244 Daviesia physodes.

4254 Diastema ochroleuca.

4225 Eranthemum albiflorum.

4274 Escallonia Organensis.

4266 Eucalyptus Preissiana.

4205 Fagrea obovata.

4209 Franciscea hydrangezeformis.

4246 Friesia peduncularis.

4233 Fuchsia macrantha.

Plate.

4261 Fugosia hakeefolia.

4218 heterophylla.

4240 Gesneria bulbosa; var, lateritia.

4242 elliptica ; var. lutea.

4217 Hondensis.

4213 Gloxinia pallidiflora.

4258 Gompholobium venustum.

4207 Heinsia jasminiflora.

4253 Hydrangea Japonica ;

var. cerulea.

4206 Ipomea simplex.

4220 Kopsia fruticosa.

4243 Leianthus umbellatus.

4265 Leschenaultia arcuata.

4256 splendens.

4273 Lyonia Jamaicensis.

4228 Maxillaria macrobulbon.

4235 Warreana.

4204 Miltonia spectabilis.

4214 Mormodes Cartoni.

4257 Nymphea dentata.

4272 Odontoglossum hastilabium.

4203 Peristeria Barkeri.

4231 Pinguicula orchidioides.

4241 Pitcairnia undulatifolia.

4262 Pleroma elegans.

4268 Scutellaria incarnata.

4271 Ventenatii.

4227 Sida (Abutilon) vitifolia.

4212 Sinningia velutina.

4211 Stachytarpheta aristata.

4263 Stenocarpus Cunninghami.

4251 Talauma Candollii.

4239 Theophrastus Jussizi.

4249 Torenia Asiatica

4229 edentula.

4245 Tropeolum crenatiflorum.

INDEX,

In which the English Names of the Plants contained in the Second

Volume of the Tuirp Szrizs (or Seventy-second Volume

of the Work) are alphabetically arranged.

PRA REA ARRAN

4210 Adenocalymna, Hop-flowered.

4230 Agiphila, large yellow-flowered.

4264 Aschinanthus, beautiful.

4260 Mr. Lobb’s.

4236 purplish-green.

4226 Alligator-Apple Tree, or water.

4250 Alloplectus, creeping.

4216 two-coloured.

4224 Aphelandra, orange.

4222 Ariopsis, peltate.

4248 Asystasia, Coromandel.

4232 Barnadesia, rose-coloured.

4221 Birthwort, gigantic-flowered.

4267 Bolbophyllum, umbelled.

4223 Bouvardia, long-flowered.

4231 Butterwort, Orchis-like.

4238 Calliandra, Mr. Harris’.

4219 Catasetum, tumour-lipped ; large

flowered var.

4270 Cattleya, Mr. Skinner’s.

4237 Cirrhopetalum, Thouars’.

4259 Clematis or Virgin’s Bower,

Smilax-leaved.

4269 tubular-flowered.

4255 Clerodendron, sinuate-leaved.

4247 Collania, Andinamare.

4208 Cuphea, large red-flowered.

4252 Datura, horn-bearing.

4244 Daviesia, hatchet-leaved.

4254 Diastema, pale yellow.

4203 Dove-flower, or Peristeria, Mr.

Barker's.

4225 Eranthemum, white-flowered.

_ 4274 Esecallonia, Organ Mountains.

4266 Eucalyptus, Dr. Preiss’.

4205 Fagreea, obovate-leaved.

4209 Franciscea, Hydrangea-like.

4246 Friesia, jointed-pedicelled. _

4233 Fuchsia, large-flowered, ape-

talous.

4218 Fugosia, various-leaved.

Plate.

4261 Fugosia, Hakea-leaved.

4242 Gesneria, elliptic-leaved ; yellow

var.

4217 Honda.

4240 tuberous-rooted ;_ brick-

coloured var.

4213 Gloxinia, pale-flowered.

4258 Gompholobium, graceful.

4207 Heinsia, Jessamine-flowered.

4253 Hydrangea, Japan; blue-

flowered var.

4245 Indian-Cress, notch-petaled.

4206 Ipomea, simple-stalked.

4220 Kopsia, shrubby.

4234 Lady’s Slipper, bearded.

4243 Leianthus, umbellate.

4265 Leschenaultia, drooping.

4256 splendid scarlet-

flowered.

4257 Lotus, tooth-leaved.

4273 Lyonia, Jamaica.

4228 Maxillaria, large splendid.

4235 Mr. Warre’s.

4204 Miltonia, showy.

4214 Mormodes, Carton’s.

4272 Odontoglossum, halberd-leaved.

4241 Pitcairnia, broad waved-leaved.

4262 Pleroma, elegant.

4227 Sida, vine-leaved.

4212 Sinningia, velvety.

4268 Skull-cap, flesh-coloured.

4271 Ventenat’s.

4263 Stenocarpus, Mr. Cunningham’s.

4215 Swanwort, Mr. Loddiges’.

4251 Talauma, De Candolle’s.

4239 Theophrasta, Jussieu’s.

4249 Torenia, large-flowered.

4229 ———., purple-blotched.

4211 Vervain, Bastard, aristate.

4269 Virgin’s Bower, or Clematis,

tubular-flowered.

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ADDITIONS TO THE “ HORTUS KEWENSIS.”

When the collection of plants in the Royal Botanic Gardens

of Kew, for a long time perhaps the richest in species of any in

Europe, was comparatively stationary, the publication of the

“ Hortus Kewensis”’ of Mr. Aiton proved a great boon to culti-

vators in general. The first edition appeared in 1789, and the

whole impression was sold off in two years; and we well remem-

ber this first edition bemg so much in demand that a sum of six

pounds was offered, and not accepted, for a copy a little pre-

vious to the appearance of the second edition. This, again,

although the augmentation of species was very considerable, and

very valuable aid was given by Mr. Brown, has not yet, in thirty

years time, experienced such a sale as to call for a new impres-

sion ; and the Synopsis of the work met with a still less favourable

reception. This arose from no want of merit in the book, but

from the vast accession, durmg late years, of species to our

gardens ; so that the impression is scarcely in circulation when

it is found inadequate to the expectations and wants of the pub-

lic, who look more for descriptions and remarks upon recently

introduced species than those already known in our gardens. The

increasing desire also to possess figures of the plants in cultiva-

tion, and the number of them that have now appeared, tend in

no small degree to lessen the value of such a work as a Garden

Flora; so that it is more than probable a new edition will never

be called for. It is quite evident, however, that works of plates,

laborious and expensive as they are, can never keep pace with the

multitudes of plants that are almost of daily introduction, not

even with the aid of the valuable monthly chronicle of miscella-

neous matter published by Dr. Lindley in the “Botanical Register.”

Our miscellaneous pages give us an excellent opportunity for

noticing, from time to time, many plants, more or less deserving

of general cultivation, which have, since the publication of the

last edition of the ‘ Hortus Kewensis,’ been received into the

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Royal Gardens. We shall thus, we trust, render some service to

our readers, and also have the pleasure of recording the names of

numerous contributors to the valuable collection possessed in this

splendid establishment, together with the date of introduction

of new plants, so far as can be ascertained.

1. PLatyceriumM BirorME, £7.

Epiphytum, frondibus amplis sterilibus sessilibus distiche patentibus sub-

orbicularibus superne lobatis subtus radicantibus basi incrassatis, fertilibus

petiolatis liberis longissime dichotomis pendulis basin versus in lamimam

latissimam reniformem fructificantibus.

Platycerium biforme, B/. F/. Jav. Fil. p. 44. tab. 18. Hook. Gen. Fil.

t.9. B. Platycerium grande, J. Sm. Gen. Fil. Acrostichum grande, AU.

Cunn. MSS. A. fuciforme, Wal/. Cat. n. 20. A. biforme, Sw.

Haz. Malay Islands and tropical parts of the East Indies and New

Holland. Introduced 1842, by J. Bidwill, Esq.

The first subject we here record, among the many additions to

the ‘ Hortus Kewensis,’ is not the least remarkable, being the

noblest of all eprphytal Ferzs, and at the same time one of the most

curious. Blume says of it, “ Filix omnium facile maxima mon-

struosa, fronde vasta, dispari. rons primordialis sessilis, alte-

ram circumvallans, ad nidi ingentis instar caudici vetusto drenge

saccharifere, ubi versus coronam squamis densis reticulatis vesti-

tur, affixa, frondibus pluribus, tanquam in orbem dispositis, con-

formata, inferne e centro radicans.’’ Blume’s own figure is taken

from a small and apparently a dried specimen. That of Capt.

Wilks, in the ‘ Voyage of the United States Exploring Expedition,’

vol. il. p. 181, represents it as cultivated on the branch of a tree

im the garden of our venerable friend, Alexander McLeay, Esq.,

Elizabeth Bay, Sidney, and is very characteristic. Two very fine

specimens (but yet inferior to the size which they attam im

their native country), were brought by Mr. Bidwill from Moreton

Bay, with many other rarities, in 1842. One of them is flourish-

ing in the noble palm-stove at Syon House; the other was libe-

rally presented to the Royal Gardens; where, placed on the per-

pendicular surface of a broad deal board, and held in that position

for some time by means of pack-thread, it soon adhered to the

board by the numerous fibrous roots sent out from the lower

surface of the primordial fronds, and has grown vigourously in

the Orchideous House, though it has not yet produced its fertile

fronds, while that at Syon has already exhibited its singular

patches of fructification. The sterile fronds may be likened to the

two spread flaps of a saddle, (other dead and withered ones lying

beneath these); from the smus between these two, a new frond

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breaks out, and with a very rapid growth (six weeks or two

months) it extends and reaches beyond one of the above-mentioned

flaps: when that has attained its full size, another breaks out

from the same point and covers the other flap, and so on. From

the same point the fertile fronds, more or less petiolated, burst

forth and project forward three to four feet and more in length,

cut into a number of deep segments or lobes, and bearing near

the base, between the segments, a great cordate or reniform spot

of fructification, six to eight inches in diameter. There is some-

thing peculiarly delicate in the texture and colour of the fronds,

which are beautifully veined and so well adapted in form for an

ornamental bracket, that artists have been occupied in making

drawings of the plant at the Royal Gardens with such an object

in view.

Although the New Holland plant has generally borne the name

of Platycerium or Acrostichum grande, yet there cannot, I think,

exist a doubt of its being the same with the other supposed species

adduced in the above synonymes, and I have consequently here,

and in the ‘ Genera Filicum,’ retained the oldest name. Both the

sterile and fertile fronds are very variable, so that no two are ex-

actly alike ; especially variable is the base of the fertile frond, more

or less cuneate where it unites with the petiole, sometimes quite

abrupt, and variable in the absence or presence of sterile lobes to

the margins of the reniform soriferous portion. Blume speaks of

it as growing in Java always on a peculiar Palm. Dr. Wallich

describes it as an epiphyte in Singapore. At Moreton Bay, Mr.

Allan Cunningham observed it on various timber trees; and at

Brisbane river in the forests of Araucaria Cunninghame.

2. Piatycerium Stemmaria, Pal. de Beauv.

Epiphytum, frondibus sterilibus sessilibus imbricatis distichis suborbi-

culari-reniformibus membranaceis integerrimis rarissime lobatis pubescenti-

bus demum glabris nitidis, fertilibus liberis 2 (rarius 3 vel 4) cuneato-ligu-

latis nervosis basi in petiolum attenuatis bis dichotomis supra viridibus

subtus albido-stellatim tomentosis, laciniis ultimis acuminatis divaricatis,

macula fructificante (albido-stellatim tomentosa) bifida in axillam furcature.

Acrostichum Stemmaria, Pal. Beauv. Fl. D’ Ow. et de Benin, p.2. t. 2.

Has. Tropical Western Africa, on trees. Introduced from Sierra Leone

about 1839, and presented by Mr. Loddiges to Kew.

This has, by many botanists, been considered identical with the

Platycerium aleicorne ; but no one can see them growing without

feeling satisfied of their distinctive characters. It is cultivated with

us on a piece of board in a moist stove, but is far more difficult

to preserve than either of the other species.

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3. Manertra unrriora, /7. B. XK.

Hispido-pilosa, caule volubili, ramis teretibus, foliis ovatis acuminatis

breviuscule petiolatis, pedunculis diphyllis unifloris, calyce 8-lobo lobis ob-

longo-ovatis reflexis, corolle hirsute (intense roses) tubo subcylindraceo

supra basin paululum contracto, limbo 4-lobo patente, fauce villosa, stami-

num filamentis supra basin insertis villosis inclusis, stylo exserto glabro.—

f. B. K. Nov. Gen, Am. vol. iti. p. 387.

Has. New Andalusia; Huméoldt. Santa Martha; introduced, in 1844,

by Mr. W. Purdie.

This pretty climber was received at the Royal Gardens of Kew

from our collector, Mr. Purdie. It is extremely different from

any species of Manettia hitherto in cultivation, and appears to be

identical with the J. uniflora of H.B.K. The whole plant is

hirsute, almost hispid, even the corolla, on the outside. It flowers

copiously from September to Christmas, at which season it seems

‘to be in perfection and will probably contimue so for some time ;

the corollas, of rather a deep red rose-colour at first, become very

pale before falling off.

4. PassirLtora pirrormis, /7. B.K.

Volubilis, foliis peltatis bilobis (vel trilobis lobo medio brevissimo obso-

leto) lobis divaricatissimis ovato-acuminatis glabris integerrimis binerviis

subtus remote parce ocellatis, petiolo infra medium biglanduloso peduncu-

lis 1—-3-floris, flore parvo ebracteato, calyce (viridi) 5-lobo, corona duplici,

int. e filamentis pluri-serialibus brevibus erectis atro-fuscis, ext. e filamentis

simplici serie patentibus subclavatis, parte inferiori fusco-brunnea reliqua

viridii—H. B. K. Nov. Gen. Am. vol. iii. p. 136.

Has. New Grenada, Quindiu; Humboldt. Santa Martha ; introduced,

in 1844, by Mr. W. Purdie.

A very distinctly marked and singular species of Passion-flower,

with small, green and black flowers, and leaves of two (scarcely

three) horizontally divergent acuminated lobes; very near, as

Humboldt and Kunth remark, to P. coriacea (Juss. in Ann. Mus.

t. 6. p. 108. t. 34. £. 2.), and probably only a variety. It is easily

cultivated in the stove, trained to a balloon-trellice, and flowers

during the autumn and winter months. From the shape of the

riba this might not unaptly be called the Baf’s-wing Passion-

ower. ;

5. Pistta Stratiotes, L.

Pistia occidentalis, B/7. Kunth.

Has. Tropical and subtropical countries, throughout the world appa-

rently. Introduced from Jamaica to Kew, by Mr. W. Purdie, in 1843.

_ We have spoken of the Platycerium biforme as among the most

remarkable of epiphytal plants, and with equal justice the present

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may be reckoned among the most remarkable of aquatic plants.

As is well known to botanists, it belongs to a group of Aroidee,

among which its nearest affinity is with the Lemna, or Duckweeds

of our ponds and ditches, and like them it lives in floating masses

upon the surface of water, and without any attachment to soil,

in tropical countries; but, instead of being, as our species of

Lemna, almost microscopic objects, each plant is a span or more

across, and Roxburgh likens the general appearance toa Lettuce ;

the leaves, however, are of a handsome form and far more

beautiful texture, strongly marked with nearly parallel nerves,

prominent on the under side. Kunth (following other authors),

has enumerated no less than seven species of Stratiotes; but, I

fear, without sufficient grounds of distinction, further than what

may be afforded by difference of country. Assuredly our plant

from the West Indies (P. occidentalis, Bl. and Kunth), affords

no distinguishing marks from the East Indian species (P. Strati-

otes, L.), figured by Dr. Roxburgh ; but on this subject we shall

have an opportunity of enlargmg when we come to figure our

plant ; for it has already produced its curious flowers and a

drawing of it is taken. We shall merely further observe here

that no stove aquarium ought to be without this plant. It is

indeed in a dormant state, small and shrivelled in the winter;

but, as spring advances, it grows rapidly and soon occupies a

great space of surface with its elegant floating masses of foliage.

6. ARTEMISIA LACTIFLORA, Wall.

Caule erecto herbaceo angulato-sulcato, foliis stipulatis mferioribus am-

plis (spithameeis et ultra) pinnatis, lobis rhombeo-ovatis remotis incisis, ter-

minali magno 8—5-lobo lobis obovato-cuneatis tequaliter inciso-lobatis,

superioribus 3—5-lobatis (vix pinnatis), capitulis in ramos elongatos

ciles basi foliosos interrupte spicatis, involucris scariosis nitidis— Wall. Cat.

Compos. n. 414. De Cand. Prodr. vol. vi. p. 115.

Has. China; whence it was introduced by Mr. Reeves to the Botanic

Garden, Calcutta ; and by Dr. Wallich to the Kew Gardens in 1828.

A very distinct species of Wormwood; with little beauty to

recommend its general cultivation. It proves hardy in an open

border in front of a stove, sending up its herbaceous and purple

stems, about two feet in height durmg summer, flowering in the

autumn, and dying down in the winter. The stem-leaves, below

the flowering branches, are truly pinnated (though not so described

by Dr. Wallich), the lobes broad, and very distant.

7. Potyconum (He.xrinet, Br.) cOoMPLEXUM.

Caule flexuoso anguloso fruticoso siccitate subangulato, ramis divarica-

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tis intricatis, foliis suborbiculari-reniformibus subcarnosis marginatis inte-

gerrimis petiolo subsequilongis, ochreis parvis cylindraceis truncatis, ra-

cemis axillaribus ochreato-bracteatis, floribus polygamis, perianthiis urceolatis

pedicellisque pellucidis, tubo carne pulposo farcto, laciniis ellipticis demum

submembranaceis basi intus tuberculosis.—A//. Cun. Fl. Nov. Zel. in Ann.

Nat. Hist. vol. i. p. 455. 7. Dec.

Has. Northern Island of New Zealand, forming dense bushes about the

Bay of Islands; 4/7. Cunningham. Introduced, in 1842, by the Rev. W.

Colenso.

This species is well named P. complezum by Mr. Cunningham.

That zealous botanist, however, does not notice the singularly

fleshy, waxy and pellucid nature of the pedicel and perianth ; of

the latter, the lower half or the tubular portion is filled with wa-

tery pulp, which forms the receptacle upon which the stamens and

age are, as it were, raised and brought to the mouth of the flower.

n the few blossoms that have yet appeared, the stamens, six in

number, appear to be imperfect : the ovary or nearly ripe fruit is

narrow-ovate, triangular, crowned with three small club-shaped

styles.—This, with some other allied species from various countries,

constitutes the genus Muhlenbeckia of Meisner (Thysanella of Asa

Gray): but as far as my observations have gone, the character

scarcely holds good; and if separated from Polygonum, surely

Mr. Brown’s name of ‘Helzine’ given to the section ought to be

preserved. It seems almost to unite Coccoloba with Polygonum.

8. TerRaNTHERA Japonica, Spr.

Laciniis perianthii petaloideis ovato-lanceolatis, foliis oblongis marginatis

supra glabris subtus incano-tomentosis crasse venosis, umbellulis axillaribus

aggregatis brevipedunculatis. Nees von Esenb. Syst. Laurin. p. 524.

Litseea Japonica, Juss. Tomex Japonica, Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 190.

Has. Japan, Zhunberg, Siebold. Introduced, we believe, by Sieber, into

Holland, and thence (through Mr. Makoy of Liége) to the Royal Gardens of

Kew, in 1843.—/7. Dec.

A very desirable low greenhouse shrub, having copious, hand-

some, coriaceous foliage, bright deep glossy green above, very

downy and ferrugineous beneath, with prominent veins. ‘The in-

volucres and flowers are clothed with shining silky hairs, those

of the outer scales rusty-coloured.

AN ENUMERATION OF FERNS CULTIVATED IN THE ROYAL

GARDENS AT KEW, IN DECEMBER 1845; WITH CHARAC-

TERS AND OBSERVATIONS ON SOME OF THE GENERA AND

SPECIES; BY W. J. SMITH, CURATOR.

RRA ARE AAA

Division I. POLYPODIACEA, R. Br.

Tribe I. POLYPODIEA, J. Sm.*

Section 1. OrrHopHiesies, J. Sm.

1. Gramuitis, Linn.; J. Sm.

1. G. australis, 2. Br.

Has. New Holland. Introduced 1833, by 2. Cunningham.

2. Potypoprum, Linn.; J. Sm.

* Fronds in vernation lateral, articulated on the creeping rhizoma.

1. P. aspleniifolium, Linn. ; Hort. Kew.

2. P. pectinatum, Linn.; Hort. Kew.

3. P. Paradisee, Lang. et Fisch. Ic. Fil. t. 11.

Has. Brazil. Received in 1841, from the Royal Botanic Garden of

Berlin.

4. P. vulgare, Linn.; Hort. Kew.

8, Cambricum, Linn.; Hort. Kew.

5. P. subpetiolatum, Hook. Ic. Plant. tab. 391.

Has. Mexico. Received in 1845, from Mr. D. Cameron.

** Fronds in vernation lateral, adherent to the creeping rhizoma.

6. P. Phegopteris, Linn. ; Hort. Kew.

7. P. Dryopteris, Linn.; Hort. Kew.

8. P. calcareum, Sm.; Hort. Kew.

*** Fronds in vernation terminal, adherent, forming a cxspitose or short

creeping rhizoma.

9. P. divergens, Willd. P. multifidum, Jacq. Ic. Rar, t. 643.

Has. West Indies and warm parts of South America. Received in 1841

from the Royal Botanic Garden of Berlin.

* J. Smith on the Genera of Ferns, in Hook. Journ. Bot. vol. 4. p. 38.

10. P. effusuam, Sm.; Hort. Kew.

11. P. alpestre, Spreng. . Aspidium? alpestre, Hoppe. Schk. Crypt. t. 60,

_p..58. (excluding syn. Jann. and Sm.)

Has, Switzerland. tivated at Kew since 1823.

Oss. Polypodium Rheticum of Linnzus is cited by Schkuhr

as synonymous with this species, but this is an error, for, on ex-

amining the Linnzan specimen, I find it to be, as already stated

by Sir James Smith, only a fragment of:an imperfect or young

state of Asplenium filix-feemina; consequently Polypodium Rhe-

ticum can no longer be retained as a species.

**** Fronds in vernation terminal, adherent, forming an erect,

caudiciform rhizoma. \

12. P. lachnopodium, xov. spec.; fronds deltoid bi-tripimnatifid, rachis

and midrib paleaceous, pinnules lanceolato-acuminate, segments ob-

long-linear obtuse villous, the lower ones distant and pinnatifid, the

superior ones dentate and becoming entire towards the apex, veins

_ pinnately forked, sori medial uniserial.

Has. Jamaica. Introduced by Mr. William Purdie, in 1843. Stipes

densely furnished at the base with long, criniform, brown palee. Fronds,

including the stipes, three feet or more in length, pinne one foot ; pmnules

two to four inches, petiolate, the upper ones sessile.

3. Hyroneris, Bernh.; J. Sm.

1. Ba Tula J. Sm. Polypodium rugulosum,; Ladil/. Nov. Foll. vol. ii.

t. 241.

‘Haz. Van Diemen’s Land. Introduced in 1844, by R. Gunn, Esq.

2. H. repens, Pres/. Lonchites repens, Linn.; Plum. Fil. t.12. Cheil-

anthes repens, Kau//. :

Has. West Indies. Raised in 1828. __

3. H. aculeata, J. Sm. Cheilanthes aculeata,. Kau/f.

Has. Jamaica and other West India Islands.. Received in 1841 from

the Royal Botanic Garden of Berl, i

Oss. ‘This genus has hitherto been placed in the tribe Pferi-

dee, but the habit of the species on which the genus is founded,

so much at yariance with the whole.of Pteride@, has induced me

to reconsider the affinities. I have already (Gen. Fil.) noticed

the similarity in habit to some large, decompound-fronded_spe-

cies of Polypodium, differing from them only in the soriferous

crenules bemg altered and reflexed, forming a lateral indusium

with the sporangia in its axis.» It now appears to me that the

reflexed crenule cannot be considered ‘otherwise than analo-

gous to the reflexed and changed margin of Sfruthiopteris and

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Allosorus ; and, as I possess specimens, which I have hitherto kept

as species of Polypodium, but which I find difficult to characterize

as different from Hypolepis repens, except in the sori not being

quite at the margin, and therefore the crenules not so evidently

indusiiform, I do not hesitate in removing Hypolepis from Pte-

ridee, and placing it in Polypodiee, the species differing from

Polypodium chiefly by the peculiar elongated rhizoma and (in

most cases) by the evident reflexed crenules.

4. Srrutuiopreris, Willd.

1. S. Germanica, Wii/d. Onoclea Struthiopteris, Hort. Kew.

2. 8. Pennsylvanica, Willd.

Has. North America. Cultivated in 1823.

5. Atrosorus, Bernh.

1. A. crispus, Bernh. Pteris crispa, L.; Hort. Kew. Cryptogramma, R. Br.

6. Nornotana, A. Br.

1. N. tenera, Gil/.; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3055.

Has. Chili. Received from Mr. D. Cameron in 1842.

2. N. nivea, Desv. Pteris nivea, Sw. Syn. fil. t.1. £.2. N.incana, Presi,

Relig. Haenck. t.1. f. 2.

Has. Chili, Mexico, and Peru. Received in 1844 from J. Riley, Esq.

3. N. trichomanoides, &.Br. Pteris trichomanoides, Linn. ; Schk. Crypt. t.99.

Has. Jamaica. Received from the Royal Botanic Garden of Berlin in

1844.

4. N. :

His Meio, and other parts of South America. Received in 1841

from the Royal Botanic Garden of Berlin.

5. N. lanuginosa, Desv. Acrostichum velleum, Hort. Kew.

6. N. vestita, J. Sm. Cheilanthes vestita, Sm. ; Schk. Grypt. t. 124.

Has. North America. Received in 1841 from the Royal Botanic Garden

of Berlin.

" os, we feeive in 1841 from the Royal Botanic Garden of

Berlin.

8. N. si : ichum sinuatum, Sm.

ie Mee “~; nade 1841 from the Messrs. Loddiges.

9. N. Marante, R. Br. Acrostichum Marante, Schh. Crypt. t.4.

Has. South of Europe and Madeira. Received in 1843 from Dr. Welwitsch.

10. N. Eckloniana, Kunze in Linnea, vol. x. p. 501. Link. En. Fil. Hort.

Berol. p. 146.

Has. Cap: dé Good Hope. Received in 1843 from Mr. D. Cameron.

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1l. N., distans, 2. Br.

Has. New Holland. Raised in 1836.

12. N. lendigera, J. Sm. Cheilanthes lendigera, Sm.

Has. Mexico and other parts of S. America. Cultivated in 1823.

7. GywnocramMa, Desr.

1. G. rufa, Desv. Hemionitis rufa, Sm.; Hort. Kew.

2. G. tomentosa, Desv. Hemionitis tomentosa, Radd. Fil. Bras. t.19.

Has. West Indies, Brazil. Received from the Messrs. Loddiges in 1841.

8. G. calomelanos, Kaw/f. Acrostichum calomelanos, Linn.; Hort. Kew.

4. G. tartarea, Desv.

Has. Warm parts of America. Raised in 1828.

5. G. Peruviana, Desv.

Has. Peru. Raised in 1830.

6. G. chrysophylla, Kau/f. ; Plum, fil. t. 44.

Has. West Indies and South America. Raised in 1836.

7. G. sulphurea, Desv.; Schhk. Crypt. t. 4.

Has. Jamaica. Received from Mr. D. Cameron in 1841.

8. G. leptophylla, Desv.; Hook. et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 25.

Has. South of Europe, Madeira. Raised in 1838.

9. G. cherophylla, Desv.; Hook. et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 45. sis

Has. West Indies and warm parts of South America. Raised in 1836.

Oss. The various forms presented by the Ceropferis group

of Gymnogramma, render it very difficult to determime them as

distinct species. They are very generally distributed over the

warm parts of America, and almost every locality presents forms

somewhat different, such as the pinnules being more or less

entire or divided, and in the teeth or serratures being more or

less obtuse or acute, so also the farina, which characterizes this

group, has different shades of colour even in forms that may be

considered as belonging to one species. It has been stated that

in cultivation hybrids have been raised, but of this I have no

proof, and as I possess native specimens of forms said to be

hybrids, I cannot be persuaded that: such have been produced

in gardens. |

1, L. villosa, J. Sm. Gymnogramma villose, Link. os

ee ‘Received from the Royal Botanic Garden of Berlin in

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Section Il. Sympropntesrem, J. Sm

9... Meniscrum, Schred.

1. M. reticulatum, Willd.; Hort. Kew.

2. M. palustre, Radd. Fil. Bras. t. 20.

Has. Brazil. Received from the Messrs. Loddiges in 1887.

10. Gontoprerts, Pres/.; J. Sm.

1. G, fraxinifolia, Pres/.; Jacgu. Polypodium proliferum, Kauif, P. vivipa-

rum, Madd. Fil. Bras. t. 32.

Has. Brazil. Received in 1841 from Wr. D. Cameron.

2. G. asplenioides, Presi.; Sw.; Sloan. Jam. Hist. vol.i. t. 43. £. 2.

Has. Jamaica. Received from the Messrs. Loddiges in 1841.

3. G. crenata, Presi.; Sw.; Plum. Fil. t.111.

Has. West Indies. Raised in 1835.

4. G. megalodes, J. Sm.; Schk. Orypt. t.19. b.

Has. West Indies. Introduced in 1848 by Ur. IV. Purdie!

5. G. tetragona, Pres/.; Sw.; Schk. Crypt. t. 18. 6.

Has. West Indies. Received from the Royal Botanic Garden of Berlin

in 184].

6. G. pennigera, Pres/.; Forst.

Has. New Zealand. Raised in 1835.

ll. GontoPHtEBrom, Presl.; J. Sm.

(Polypodii sp. Auct.)

1. G. vacciniifolium, J. Sm.; Lang. et Fisch. Ic. Fil, t. 7.

Has. Brazil. Received from Mr. D. Cameron in 1841.

2. G. piloselloides, J. Sm.; Linn.; Sw.; Hort. Kew.; Hook. et Het sie

Mil. t. 51, Kees

3. G.incanum, J. Sm.; Schk. Crypt. t.11. 3.

Has. West Indies and many parts of America. Reoelved f from Mer

Loddiges in 1841,

4, G. sepultum, J. Sm.; Kaulf. Polypodium hidotasetlatioy Radd. Fil.

Bras. t.26. Acrostichum lepidopteris, Lang. e¢ Fisch. Ic. Fil. t.2.

Has. Brazil and other parts of America. | ispitalepiclaaaiee ender,

in 1841.

5. G. argutum, J. Sm.; Wail.

Has. Nepaul. Received from the Messrs. Loddiges in. 1845.

6. G. Catharine, J. Sm.; Lang. et Fisch. Ie. Fil, t. 9.

Has. Brazil. Received from the sat be Soares Garden of Berlin i in

1841. |

7. G. harpeodes, J. Sm.; Link. En. Fil, Hort. Bios:

Has, Brazil, Received in 1841 from the Royal Botanic Garden of

Berlin,

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8. G. latipes, J. Sm.; Lang. et Fisch. Ic. Fil. t..10.

Has. Brasil. Received from the Messrs. Loddiges m 1841.

9. G. menisciifolium, J. Sm.; Lang. et Fisch. Ic. Fil.t.15. P. longifolium,

Presl.

Has. Brazil. Received in 1841 from Mr. H. Shepherd.

10. G. albopunctatum, J. Sm.; Radd. Fil. Bras. t. 30.

Has. Brazil. Received in 1842 from Mr. Henderson.

12. Nupenosotus, Kaul.

(Polypodii sp. Sm.)

1. N. rupestris, Spreng.; Hook. et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 93.

Has. New Holland. Introduced by Mr. A. Cunningham in 1823.

2. N. pertusus, Spreng.; Hook. Ex. Fl. t. 162.

Has. East Indies. Cultivated in 1823.

3. N. Lingua, Spreng.; Sm.; Thunb. Fl. Jap. t. 33. N.Chinensis, Link.

N. albicans, Blume?

Has. Japan and China. Received in 1830 from Messrs. Loddiges.

4, N. varius, Kau/f.

Has. Malayan Islands. Received from Mr. H. Lowe in 1845.

5. N. costatus, Pres/.; Wail.

Has. Ceylon and other parts of the East Indies. Introduced by Mr.

Moon in 1824.

13. Cyrropniesium, 2. Br.

(Polypodii sp. Auct. Campyloneurum, Pres/.)

1. C. angustifolium, J. Sm.; Sw. Polypodium dimorphum, Link.

one Jamaica. Received in 1841 from the Royal Botanic Garden of

2. C. Phyllitidis, J.Sm.; Hort. Kew.

3. C. repens, J.Sm.; Sw.; Plum. Fit. t. 134.

Beet Jamaica. Received in 1841 from the Royal Botanic Garden of

4. C. nitidum, J. Sm.; Kaulf.

Has. West Indies. Introduced by Mr. W. Morrison in 1828.

5. C. decurrens, J. Sm.; Radd. Fil. Bras. t. 33.

Has. Brazil. Received in 1841 from the Royal Botanic Garden of

14. Putzsopium, 2. Br.; J. Sm.

(Polypodii sp. Auct. Pleopeltis, Pres/.)

Anapeltis, J. Sim.

1. P. lycopodioides, J. Sm.; Linn. ea fig. Plum. t.119; Hort. Kew. ex fig-

Schk. Crypt. Polypodium glabellum, Hew. in Mag. Nat. Hist.

Has. Jamaica. _ Received from Mr. D. Cameron in 1821.

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2. P. squamulosum, J. Si. 3 Kaulf. —

Has. Brazil. Received from J. Riley, Fsq., in 1843, -

3. P. nitidum, x. sp.; fronds’ (sterile 34° inches long) oblong-elliptical,

the apex obtuse and rounded, acute at the base, forming a short stipes

which is articulated ‘to’ the creeping paleaceots rhizoma, venation

obscure, sori

Has. Honduras. Introduced in.1844 by Mrs. Col. Macdonald.

Oss. This is apparently an undescribed species, closely allied

to P. squamulosum, Kaulf,, but differing in the larger size, obscure

venation, and absence of scales on the mid-rib. T have not seen

the sori and possess no native specimen in my herbarium.

** Pleopeltis, J. Sm.

4. P. percussum, J. Sm.; Cav. Pleopeltis percussa, Presl.; Hook. et Grev.

Le. Fil. t. 67. | .

Has. Brazil, Peru, and other parts of America. Received in 1842 from

Mr. Henderson. .

5. P. elongatum, J. Sm. Grammitis elongata, Sw. Grammitis lanceolata,

Schk. Crypt. t. 7.

Has. Jamaica and other West India islands. Introduced by Ur. Nath.

Wilson in 1843.

*** Phiebodia vera.

6. P. aureum, 2. Br.; Linn.; Hort. Kew.

7. P. pulvinatum, J. Sm.; Link.

Has. Brazil. Received in 1841 from the Royal Botanic Garden of

of Berlin.

8. P. sporodocarpum, J. Sm.; Willd.; Link. Polypodium glaucum, Hort.

Has. Mexico. Received in 1843 from Mr. D. Cameron.

Oss. Although under cultivation these three preceding species

maintain pretty distinct appearances, yet I have doubts whether

they, and Polypodium areolatum, Willd., should not be considered

rather varieties of P. avreum, differing chiefly in the fronds being

more or less glaucous: a character depending greatly on, the

place of growth. biter

9. P. decumanum, J. Sm.; Willd. ch feo YEAH

Has. Brazil, Jamaica, and other places of South America. Received in

1841 from Mr. D. Cameron... sok lism sda

15. Drynaria, Bory; R. Br.; J. Sm.

(Polypodii sp. Awet.. Phymatodes, Pres/.)

* Lepisorus, J. Sm.

Fronds simple, smooth ; venation immersed ; sori round, transversely

uniserial, each furnished with numerous special peltate scales. |

1. D. sesquipedalis, J. Su.; Wall.. Pleopeltis nuda, Hook. Br. Flora. t. 63.

Hook. et Bauer, Gen. Fil. t.18. ee

Has. Nepal. Introduced by Dr. Wallich in 1828.

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** Phymatodes, J. Sm.

Fronds simple, pinnatifid or pinnate ; venation immersed. Sori round,

sometimes oblong, or (hy confluence) linear, often immersed and forming

tubercles on the superior side of the frond, transversely wniserval or

rarely irregularly biserial, destitute of scales.

2. D. iteophylla, J. Sm.; Link.

Has. Brazil. Received in 1841 from the Royal Botanic Garden of

Berlin.

3. D. vulgaris, J. Sm. Polypodium phymatodes, Linn.; Sw.; Schk. Crypt.

t.8 d.t.9. Jacq. Ic. Rar. t. 637.

Has. Mauritius, East Indian and Malayan Islands. Received from the

Royal Botanic Garden of Berlin in 1835.

4. D. longipes, J. Sm.; Link.

Has. East Indies. Cultivated in 1823.

Oxs. The lengthened stipes and large sori distinguish this:

species from the preceding, and although it maintains its character

under cultivation, still it may be considered as one of the many

forms assumed by D. vulgaris.

5. D. Billardieri, J. Sm.; R. Br. Polypodium scandens, Lalill. Nov. Holl.

t. 240.

Has. New Holland, Van Diemen’s Land and New Zealand. Introduced

in 1824 by Mr. A. Cunningham.

Oss. Difficult to be described by words as distinct from D.

vulgare, but in cultivation having its own peculiar aspect.

6. D. pustulata, J. Sm.; Forst.; Schk. Crypt. t.10. Polypodium scandens,

Forst.; Schk. Crypt. t. 8. Polypodium cespitosum, Link. ex Hort.

Loddiges.’

Has. New Zealand. Introduced by Mr. A. Cunningham in 1826.

Oss. In cultivation this species has hitherto been observed to

produce a dense, caspitose mass of simple, slightly undulated,

sterile fronds only, and it was not till lately that I observed it

producing pinnatifid fronds, which, on viewing both forms, I

at once recognized to be the same as my specimen of Polypo-

dium pustulatum from New Zealand. ;

7. D. leiorhiza, J. Sm.; Wall. P. cuspidatum, D. Don, HV. Nep.

Has. Nepal. Received in 1844 from John Christie, Esq.

8. D. capitellata, J. Sm.; Wall. P.juglandifolium, D. Don, FU. Nep.

Has. East Indies. Introduced in 1843 by Dr. Wallich.

*** Phyllitidis, J. Sm.

Fronds simple, entire, Uinear-lanceolate or rarely sinuate or cordate, vena-

tion elevated, rarely immersed. Sori rownd, oblong, or (by confluence)

linear, superficial, obliquely uniserial or biserial, rarely numerous and

irregular.

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9. D. crassifolia, J. Sm.; Linn.; Sw.; Plum. Fil: t.123. Anaxetum crassi-

folium, Schott. Gen. Fil. t. 1.

Has. West Indies, Brazil, and Peru. Cultivated in 1823.

10. D. hemionitidea, J. Sm.; Wall. P.membranaceum, D. Don, Fl. Nep.

Hemionitis plantaginea, D. Don, Fl. Nep.

‘ ae East Indies. Received in 1844 from Mrs. Lawrence of Ealing

ark,

1]. D. irioides, J. Sm.; R. Br.; Hook. et Grev. Ic. Fil. t.125. P. polyce-

phalum, Wall. Microsorum irregulare, Link.

Has. Mauritius, East Indies, and New Holland. Introduced by I/r.

A. Cunningham in 1824.

**** Drynarie vere, Bory.

Fronds rigid, of two forms, the sterile oblong-cordate, sinuose or laciniated,

sessile, the vascular structure rigid and permanent, fertile fronds

2-3 feet or more in length, sessile or stipitate, pinnatifid or pinnate,

the segments articulated with the rachis. Sori round, obliquely uni-

serial or biserial, or transversely uniserial.

12. D. quercifolia, Bory; Linn.; Schk. Crypt. t. 13.

Has. Tropics of the eastern hemisphere. Introduced in 1840 by Dr.

Wallich.

Oss. Like D. vulgare, the different localities of this species

have their own peculiar forms, such as difference in texture, more

or less deeply laciniated fronds, some being sessile, others with a

long stipes, the margin being entire or in some slightly dentate ;

but, although some are strikingly different, still I hesitate in

pronouncing them distinct species.

Notwithstanding the species comprehended under this last sec-

tion of Drynaria are all characterized under one head, in having

compound anastomose venation with compital sori, yet I am of

opinion that if the various forms of the venation, together with

some other peculiarities of structure, could be distinctly expressed

in words, it would be desirable to consider each section as a

separate genus. I am led to this conclusion by observing the

well-marked differences in habit and general appearance of the

species of each section, and, in a general revision of the characters

of the genera of Ferns, I would be induced to pay more attention

to the differences in the general habits than I have hitherto

done; for instance, the formation of the rhizoma and manner of

attachment or venation of the fronds, present some important

characters which would much assist in determining the limits

and affinities of groups.

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16. Drcorymta. J. Sin.

(Polypodii sp., 2. Br. Dictyopteridis sp., Pres/.; J. Sm.)

Fenation uniform, internal, reticulated. Sporangia comptal. Receptacle

immersed. Sori oblong, large, transversely uniserial.—Rhizoma creep-

ing. Vernation of the fronds lateral, articulated. Fronds linear-

lanceolate, smooth, coriaceous.

1. D. attenuata, J. Sm.; R. Br.

Has. New Holland. Introduced in 1828 by Mr. 4. Cunningham.

Oss. The very great differenee in habit of this and another

species (from New Zealand) from the other species of Dictyopteris

of Presl., has induced me to separate them; the three known

species which I retain under Dictyopteris differ from Dictymia in

having large compound bipinnate or tripinnatifid fronds, with

the sori numerous and irregularly torent and although I have

not had the opportunity of examining their rhizoma, yet, judging

from analogy and the structure of the stipes, I have every reason

to believe that the vernation of the fronds is not articulated with

the rhizoma as in Dictymia.

17. Drymoetossum, Pres/.; J. Sm.

(Pteridis sp., Linn.; Sw.)

LD tlowclinieas Presl.; Sw. Syn. Fil. t.2. f. 2.

Has. East Indies and Malayan Islands. Introduced in 1828 by Dr.

Wallich.

2. D. lanceolatum, J. Sm.; Linn.; Plum. Fil. t. 182.

Han. Jamaica. Introduced in 1843 by Mr. Wm. Purdie.

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18. Taniopsis, J. Sin.

(Vittarize sp., Auth.)

1. T. lineata, J. Sm.; Sw. ; Hort. Kew.

19. Anrropayom, Kaulf.

1. A. lanceolatum, Kau/f., Hemionitis, Linn.; Hort. Kew.

20. Crnatortenis, Brong.

(Pteridis sp Sie.)

1. C. thalictroides, Brong.; Hook. et Bauer, Gen. Fil. t. 12. Blloboearpus

oleraceus, Kaulf.

Has. Tp a ies, Raised in 1834.

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2. C. Parkeri, J. Sm. Parkeria ptericides, Hook. et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 97.

Hook. et Bauer, Gen. Fil. t. 50.

Has. Demerara. Received from Mr. H. Shepherd.

Tribe IT. ACROSTICHEA, J. Sm.

Section IT. Orruopuiusies, J. Sin.

21. Exapnoetossum, Schott.

(Acrostichi sp., Auct.)

1. E. simplex, Schott; Sw.; Hort. Kew.

2. E. conforme, Schott; Sw.; Blume Fl. Jav. t. 5.

Has. Cape of Good Hope. Received from Mr. D. Cameron in 1841.

3. E. callefolium, J. Sm.; Blume Fl. Fav. t. 4.

Has. Java. Received from the Royal Botanic Garden of Berlin in

1841.

4. E. longifolium, J. Sm.; Sw.; Plum. Fil. t. 134.

Has. West Indies. Received in 1841 from Mr. D. Cameron.

5. KE. scolopendrifolium, J. Sm.; Radd. Bras. Fil. t. 16.

Has. Brazil. Received from the Messrs. Loddiges in 1841.

6. E.villosum, J. Sm.; Sw.; Hook. et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 95.

Has. Jamaica. Introduced in 1843 by Mr. Nath. Wilson.

22. SrenocuiaEna, J. Sm.

(Acrostichi sp., Linn.; Sw.)

1. S. scandens, J. Sm.; Linn.; Sw.; Schk. Crypt. t. 106, 107.

Has. East Indian and Malayan Islands. Received in 1841 from the

Royal Botanic Garden of Berlin.

23. Potyzotrya, Humb.

1. P. cylindrica, Kauéf.

Has. Jamaica. Introduced in 1843 by Mr. Nath. Wilson.

Section IT. SympropHiesiea, J. Sm.

24. Otrersta, Radd.

1. O. cervina, Presi. Polybotrya cervina, Hook. et Grev: Ic. Fil, t. 81.

Has. West Indies. Received in 1841 from the Messrs. Loddiges.

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25. Aretium, Splifgerder.

(Acrostichi § Aretium, Kunze.)

Venation uniform, reticulated, areoles elongated, trapezoid or heaagonal.

Sporangia few, irregularly disposed over the under side of the frond,

often collected in small groups or lines.—Rhizoma creeping, elongated,

jibrose, and furnished with lanceolate reticulated shining scales.

Fronds in vernation lateral, articulated with the rhizoma, distant,

uniform, oblong-elliptical, 6-10 inches long, smooth.

1. A. citrifolium, Splitgerber, Enum. Fil. Surinam, p.7. Acrostichum

citrifolium, Linn.; J. Sm. Gen. Fil.

Has. West Indies, Introduced by Mr. W. Purdie.

Oss. In my remarks on the genus Acrostichum, in the 4th

volume of the ‘Journal of Botany’, I have noticed the pecu-

harity of this fern. At that time I hesitated as to the propriety

of separating it from the species with which I associated it ;

since then I have had an opportunity of examining it in a living

state and I have also become possessed of more perfect specimens,

the examination of which has led me to follow Splitgerber in

abopting Kunze’s sectional name “ Aretivm” for a separate

genus. Having so done, I am further induced to consider

Acrostichum crinitum as the type of another genus, leaving Acros-

tichum aureum as the representative of the true Acrosticha. The

most obvious distinction between the two latter is the habit,

and this is also the case with Aretivm, which is further distin-

guished by its few and scattered sporangia, a character not com-

mon to any other of the Acrostichee that I am acquainted with.

In aspect and venation Aretium approaches Antrophyum, but is

readily distinguished by its creeping elongated rhizoma; that of

- Antrophyum being cespitose.

26. Dicryociossum, J. Sm.

(Acrostichi sp., Sw.; J. Sm. Gen. Fil.)

Venation uniform, reticulated, internal, areoles large, elongated, trapezoid

hexagonal. Sporangia densely occupying the whole under side of the

fertile frond, which is contracted.—Rhizoma caspitose, decumbent,

densely furnished with criniform palea. Fronds in vernation ter-

minal, adherent, oval-elliptical, one foot or more in length, criniferous,

Jertile fronds shorter than the sterile, and somewhat contracted.

— 1. D. enmitum, J. Sm. Acrostichum crinitum, Sw.; Hort. Kew.; Hook.

et Grev. Ic. Fil. t..1.

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27. Acrosticuum, L. (in part.)

Venation uniform, reticulated, areoles small, elongated, usually tetragonat

and parallel. Sporangia densely oecupying the terminal segments of

the frond. Rhizoma erect, caudiciform. Fronds pinnate, 3-8 Seet high:

pinnee eatire, linear-lanceolate, smooth, the terminal ones JSertile.

1. A. aureum, Linn.; Plum. Fil. t. 104.

Has. West Indies, Tropical America, East Indian and Polynesian

Islands. Raised in 1838.

28. PLatyceRIuM, Desv.

(Acrostichi sp., Sw.)

1. P. alcicorne, Desv.; Sw.; Hort. Kew.

2. P. Stemaria, Desv.; Sw.; Hort. Kew.

3. P. grande, J. Sm. Acrostichum grande, A. Cunn.

Has. New Holland and Malayan Islands. Introduced by — Bidwill,

Lisq., 1842.

29. Cyrrocontum, J. Sm.

(Acrostichi sp., Awct.)

1. C. flagelliferum, J. Sm.; Wall.; Hook. et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 28.

Has. Kast Indies. Introduced in 1828 by Dr. Wallich.

30. Gymnopreris, Bernh.; J. Sm.

(Acrostichi sp., Auct.)

1. G. nicotianzefolia, Pres?; Sw. Acrostichum acuminatum, Wil/d.?

Plum. Fil. t. 115. :

Has. West Indies. Introduced by Mr. Nath. Wilson in 1843.

Tribe III. PTERIDER, J. Sm.

Section I. Cutrosorgs, J. Sy.

31. CxerantHss, Sw.; J. Sm.

* Micromere. Fronds pinnate or bi-tripinnate, segments small, usually

concave.

1. ©. micropteris, Sw.; Syn. Fil. p. 126 and 324. t. 3, £.5.

Has. Quito. Received from M. H. Lowe in 1843.

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2. C. viscosa, Link.

Has. Mexico. Received from the Royal Botanic Garden of Berlin in

1841.

3. C. fragrans, Sw.; Hort. Kew.

4.=C."spectabilis, Kau/f. C. Brasiliensis, Radd. Bras. Fil. t. 75.

Has. Brazil. Received from the Royal Botanic Garden of Berlin in

1841.

5. C. micromera, Zink.

Has. Mexico. Received from Mr. Henderson in 1844.

6. C. microphylla, Sw.; Plum. Fil. t..58. :

Has. West Indies. Received from the Royal Botanic Garden of Berl

in 1841,

7. C. tenuifolia, Sw.; Schk. Crypt. t.125.

Has._ East Indies. New Holland. Raised in 1824.

8. C. profusa, Link.

Has. Cape of Good Hope. Received from Mr. D. Cameron in 1841.

** Actinopteris. Fronds digitately radiate, rays pinnate.

8. C, radiata, J. Sm. Adiantum radiatum, J.; Sw.; Plum. Fit. t. 100.

Has. West Indies and tropical America. Cultivated in 1827.

Oss. The aspect of this species is that of Adiantum, but the

fructification agrees with Cheilanthes.

CasseBrEra, Kau/f’; J. Sm.

1. C. farinosa, J. Sm. Pteris farinosa, Sw. Cheilanthes farinosa, Hook.

et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 134.

Has. East Indies. Received from J. Riley, Esq. in 1840.

2. C. pedata, J. Sm. Pteris pedata, Sw.; Schk. Crypt. t.100. Bot. Mag.

t. 3247.

Has. East and West Indies, and Islands of the Pacific Ocean. Raised

in 1838.

8. C. auriculata, J. Sm.; Pteris auriculata, Sw.; Hook. et Grev. Ic. Fil.

Lis.

Has. Cape of Good Hope. Raised in 1838.

4. C. pterioides, Pres/. Cheilanthes pterioides, Sw.; Hort. Kew.

5. C. hastata, J. Sm. Pteris hastata, Linn.

Has. Cape of Good Hope. | Cultivated before 1822.

6. C. inframarginalis, J. Sm. Pteris inframarginalis, Kaw//. a

Has. Mexico. Received from the Royal Botanic Garden of Berlin in

1841.

7. C. cuneata, J. Sm. Cheilanthes cuneata, Zink.

Has. Mexico. Received from Mr. D. Cameron in 1845.

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33. Prarytoma, J. Sm.

(Pteridis sp., Auct.)

1. P. falcata, J. Sm.; BR. Br.

Has. New Holland. Introduced in 1823 by A. Cunningham, Esq.

2. P. rotundifolia, J. Sm.; Forst.; Schk. Crypt. t. 99.

Has. New Zealand. Introduced by Mr. John Edgerley in 1841.

3. P. atropurpurea, J. Sm.; Linn.; Hort. Kew.

4. P. calomelanos, J. Sm. ; e

Has. Cape of Good Hope. Received from Mr. Henderson in 1843.

5. P. cordata, J. Sm.; Cav.; Sw.

Has. Mexico. Raised in 1842.

6. P. flexuosa, J. Sm.; Kaulf.; Hook. Ic. Plant. vol.ii. t. 119.

Has. Peru and Columbia. Raised in 1838.

7. P. ternifolia, J. Sm.; Cav.; Hook. et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 126.

Has. Mexico. Received from Mr. D. Cameron in 1841.

34. Aprantum, Jinn.

1. A. reniforme, Linn.; Hort. Kew.

2. A. macrophyllum, Sw.; Hort. Kew.

3. A. lucidum, Sw. A. sidiquaee Wiild.; Hook. et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 190.

Has. Jamaica. Introduced by Ur. Wm. Purdie in 1844.

4. A. villosum, Linn.; Hort. Kew.

5. A. faleatum, Sw. :

Has. Jamaica. ‘Introduced by Mr. W. Purdie in 1844,

6. A. fovearum, Radd. Bras. Fil. t. 77. A.

Has. Brazil. Received from the Messrs. Loddiges in 1840.

7. A. Brasiliense, Radd. Bras. Fil. t. 76.

Has. Brazil. Received from the Royal Botanic Garden of Berlin ; in

1844.

8. A. pulverulentum, Linn.; Hort. Kew.

9. A. trapeziforme, Linn.; Hort. Kew.

10. A. cristatum, Lina.; Plum. Fil. t. 54.

Has. Jamaica, Introduced by Mr. N. Wilson in 1844.

11. A. tenerum, Sw.; Hort. seus:

12. A. formosum, 2. Br.

Has. New Holland. Tnttodabed by A. Cossiaphei Esq. in 1823.

13. A. hispidulum, 2. Br.? “

Has. New Zealand ; New Holland. Lotegihated by 4. Cunningham, Bag,

in 1824, |

14, A. pubescens, Schk. Crypt. t.116. Adiantum eres Host

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15. A. setulosum, n.sp. Fronds bipinnate, the lower pinne bipartite, pin-

nules dimidiate, curved, oblong, obtuse, setiferous on the upper side,

the superior margin obtusely crenate and seriferous ; sori punctiform ;

indusium reniform.

Has. Norfolk Island. Introduced in 1845 by Dr. Mc’ William. Fronds

one foot or more in height. Stipes next the base paleaceous, rachis

glabrous.

Oss. This species has much the appearance of 4. pubescens,

but it differs in being smooth, and m the curved form of the

pinnules, as also in being furnished with twelve or more black

bristle-like hairs, which are produced between the veins on the

upper surface, towards the lower margin and apex of the pinnules,

with a few on the under side.

16. A. pedatum, Linn.; Hort. Kew.

17. A. curvatum, Kaulf.

— Brazil. Received from the Royal Botanic Garden of Berlin in

18. A. capillus-Veneris, Linn.; Hort. Kew.

19. A. assimile, Sw. Syn. Fil. t.3. f. 4.

Has. New South Wales. Introduced by A. Cunningham, Esq., in 1823.

20. A. a Lang. et Fisch. Ice. Fil. t. 26. Hook. et Grev. Ic. Fil.

t.3

ea Brazil. Received from the Royal Botanic Garden of Berlin, in

21. A, concinnum, Willd.

tan Veneznela, Received from the Royal Botanic Garden of Berlin

in

35. Doryopreris, J. Sm.

(Pteridis sp. Auct.)

1. D, sagittifolia, J. Sm.; Radd. Bras. Fil. t. 63. f.1 and 2.

Han. Brazil. Introduced by George Gardner, Esq., m1 1841.

2. D. palmata, J..Sm.; Willd.; Radd. Bras. Fil.t.65.£.2 and 8. t. 66, 66 dis.

Has, Brazil. Received from the Messrs. Loddiges in 1840.

36. Lrroprocuta, Presl.; J. Sm.

(Pteridis sp. Auct.)

1. L. grandifolia, J. Sm.; Linn.; Hort. Kew.

2. L. denticulata, Pres/.; Sw.; Hook. et Grev. Ie. Fil. t. 28. Preris Pin

siliensis, Rada. , Fil, t. 86 dis.

suet Risail: Received from the Royal Botanic Garden of Berlin in

3. L. leptophylla, J. Sim.; Sw. Pteris spinulosa, Radd. Bras. Pit. t. - -

Has. Brazil. Raised in 1834.

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4. L. polita, J Sm.; Link. :

Bi Brazil. Received from the Royal Botanic Garden of Berlin in

5. L. aculeata, Pres/.; Sw.; Hort. Kew.

6. L. podophylla, J. Sm.; Sw.; Hort. Kew.

7. L. vespertilionis, J. Sm.; Labill. Nov. Holl. vol. ii. t. 245.

Has. New Holland; New Zealand. Raised in 1838.

Oss. Representatives of this species are found very generally

throughout the tropics and extra-tropical regions of both hemi-

spheres ; and, as they present some peculiarities both in habit and

venation different from the genuine species of Litodrochia, I

think they may, with some degree of propriety, be constituted

into a separate group, under the title of Agardh’s sectional name

Listiopteris.

37. Camprertia, Pres.

(Pteridis sp. Auct.)

1. C, biaurita, J. Sm. Pteris biaurita, Zinn. (fide specim. in herb. Linn.

Soc.). Plum. Fil. t. 15. (2) se

Has. West Indies. Introduced from Jamaica by Mr. W. Purdie in

1842.

Oss. There appears to me to be an interminable confusion of

synonymes as regards this species, which I find impossible to quote

with any degree of satisfaction ; it is sufficient to know that the

specimens now before me are identical with the specimens in the

Linnean Herbarium. Plumier, fig. Tab. 15, is quoted for this

species, but in my opinion that figure as correctly represents

another West Indian species which is only known from the

present by the difference in venation, the present having (agree-

able to the generic character) the lower pairs of venules anasto-

mosing, whereas, in the other species alluded to, the veins are all

free, and, as Plumier’s figure does not represent the venation

satisfactorily, it is difficult to say to which it ought to be referred.

2. C. nemoralis, J. Sm. Pteris nemoralis, Willd. : 2

Has. East Indies. Received from the Royal Botanic Garden of Berlin

in 1841.

Oss. In my ‘ Enumeration and Characters of the Genera of

Ferns’, I did not consider Campteria of Presl, to be sufficiently

distinct to merit a separate genus, but I now admit it solely on

the grounds that it may be considered to form the transition

from the free venation of true Péeris, to the reticulated form that

characterizes Litobrochia.

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38. Prxris, Zina. (in part.)

1. P. longifolia, Linn.; Hort. Kew.

2. P. Cretica, Linn; Schk. Crypt. t. 90.

Has. South of Europe; East and West Indies. Cultivated in 1820.

3. P. umbrosa, 2. Br.

Has. New Holland. Introduced by A. Cunningham, Fsq., in 1824.

4. P. serrulata, Linn.; Hort. Kew. 7

5. P crenata, Sw.; Burm. Zeyl.t.87. Pteris Chinensis,Hort. Angl.

Has. East Indies. Cultivated in 1822.

6. P. heterophylla, Linn.; Plum. Fil. t. 37.

Has. Jamaica. Introduced by Mr. W. Purdie in 1844.

7. P. felosma, nov. spec. Fronds pinnate, pinne sessile, lanceolate, deeply

pinnatifid, the apex caudate and entire, the lower pair bipartite, coste

inulose on the upper side, lacinie linear-lanceolate, obtuse, entire,

slightly faleate ; vems forked close to the costula, free, the lower pair

terminating in the sinus of the laciniz.

_ Has. Jamaica. Cultivated in 1822. Fronds two to three feet high,

rising from an erect rhizoma. Pinne six to eight inches long, terminated by

an entire, lanceolate cauda. The whole plant, on bruising it when fresh,

emits a peculiar smell.

Oss. This is an old inhabitant of our hot-house, propagating

itself freely by its sporules. It has been long known by the

names of P. Plumierii and P.nemoralis, but the latter is given

under Campteria, and as Plumier’s figure, t. 15, is also quoted

for Campteria biaurita, which can only be known as distinct

from the present species by the anastomosing of the lower veins,

and which characterizes Campteria from true Péeris, I therefore

view this as an undescribed species; and as my attention has

often been called to it by its peculiar smell, I have chosen to

designate it by the above name. I possess native specimens

of the same from Jamaica. |

8. P. sulcata, Hort. Berol.

_ Oss. My first knowledge of this species was on receiving, in

1836, from Mr. Otto of Berlin, a dried specimen bearing the

above name, and in 1841 we received a living plant from the

same source. I do not find it noticed in Link’s ‘ Enumeration

of the Ferns of the Berlin Garden’. It is so much like the pre-

ceding that I hesitated whether it was truly distinct; its chief

difference is in the smaller size, and in being quite destitute of

the smell that so readily distinguishes P. felosma, and as the

differences are constant under cultivation, I am, induced to look

upon them as two distinct species. os

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9. P.arguta, Vahl; Willd. ; Hort. Kew. P. palustris, Poir.; Willd. Mon-

gonia palustris, Presl, Pterid.

Has. Madeira (Hort. Kew, 1778). Portugal, Dr. Welwitch, 1845.

10. P. Kingiana, Endlich. Fl. Norfolk Island.

Has. Norfolk Island. Introduced by 4. Cunningham, Esq., in 1831,

ll. P. lata, Zink.

Has. Brazil. Received from the Royal Botanic Garden of Berlin in

1841.

12. P. tremula, 2. Br.; Pteris chrysocarpa, Link. (non Hook. et Grev.).

Has. New Holland and New Zealand. Introduced by 4. Cunningham,

Esq., m 1827.

13. P. caudata, Linn.; Hort. Kew.

14. P. aquilina, Linn.; Hort. Kew.

39. Onycntum, Kaulf.

1. O. lucidum, Spreng. Leptostegia lucida, D. Don, Fl. Nep.

Has. East Indies. Nepal, Wallich. Received from Mr. H. Lowe in

1844. 14

40. Lomaria, Willd.

Stegania, 2, Br.

1. L. Patersoni, Spreng.; R. Br.

Has. Van Diemen’s Land. Raised in 1830.

2. L. lanceolata, Spreng.; R. Br.; Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 429.

Has. Van Diemen’s Land. |New Zealand. Raised in 1833.

3. L.al Br. J. Antarctica, Carm.

ye 5 ine Ms Land: New Zealand. Cape Horn. Falkland

Islands. Introduced by Dr. Jos. Hooker., nm 1843.

4. L. Spicant, Desv. Blechnum boreale, Sw.; Hon. Kev.

5. L. nuda, Willd. Onoclea nuda, Labill. Mai Holl. t. 246. aan

Has. Van Diemen’s Land: Introduced by &. Guan, Lsq., in 1845.

6. L. onocleoides, Spreng

Has. West Iie, Ie Introduced from Jamaica by Mr. W. Purdie. iw 1843.

7. L. attenuata, Widld.

Has. Mauritius. Received from the Royal Botanic Garden of Berlin i in

1841.

8. L. procera, R. Br; Hook. Ic. Fil. t.427.

Has. New eae Van. Pies | s Land and New Zealand. ‘Raised

in 1833. :

9. L. Gilliesii, Hook. et Grev. we Fil. t. 207.

Has. Chili. Received from’ the’ Royal Botanic Garden of Berlin in

1841.

10. L. Magellanica, Desv. a siiiien Gorm. ‘da’ setigera, Gaud. L.

intial Gard. MSS. (specimen n. 5936). LL. obtusifolia, Pres/.

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Has. Tierra del Fuego, Falklands and other Islands of the Southern

Ocean. Introduced by Dr. Jos. Hooker in 1843.

Oss. On comparing specimens of this fern from different

localities, we find that it is a native of Chili and the island of

Juan Fernandez, also of Rio Grande and the Organ Mountains

in Brazil ; and that it grows even as far north as British Guiana,

and at the small island of Tristan d’Acunha, to the east. On the

Organ Mountains it produces a thick caudex, four feet high,

which with the fronds on the top have much resemblance to

some species of Zamia.

11. L. Fraseri, 4. Cunn.; Hook. Ic. Fil. t. 185.

Has. New Zealand. Introduced by W. Colenso, Esq., in 1843.

41. Biecunum, Juan.

1. B. glandulosum, Kawlf; Kunze in Schk. Crypt. t.58. £2.

Has. Brazil. Raised in 1833.

2. B. Brasiliense, Desv.; Kaulf. En. Fit.

Has. Brazil. Raised in 1834.

3. B. Corcovadense, Radd. Bras. Fil. t. 60. ~

Has. Brazil. Raised in 1834.

Ozs. This, and another form raised by J. Riley, Esq., are

probably not distinct as species from B. Brasiliense.

4. B. triangulare, Link.

oe Mexico. Received from the Royal Botanic Garden of Berlin

in 1841.

5. B. australe, Linu.; Hort. Kew.

6. B.hastatum, Kau/f. B. trilobum, Pres’; Hook. et Grev. Ic. Fil.

t. 192. ~ a ,

led Chili. Received from the Royal Botanic Garden of Berlin in

7. B. gracile, Kaul.

Has. Brazil. Raised in 1834. .

8. B. Lanceola, Sw.; Radd. Bras. Fil. t. 60. £. 3. Hook. in Bot. Mag.

t. 3240. Kunze in Schk. Crypt. t. 57. £.1. E

rag Brazil. Received from the Royal Botanic Garden of Berlin in

9. B. trifoliatum, Kaui/. ey

ian Brazil. Received from the Royal Botanic Garden of Berlin in

10. B. intermedium, Link.; Kunze in Schk. Crypt. t. 57. £2. ok

ae Brazil. Received from the Royal Botanic Garden of Berlin in

Oxs. Although I have enumerated the three above as dis-

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tinct species, still I am inclined to think that they are only

different forms of one. B. Lanceola is the only one of which I

possess native specimens, which are quite simple ; but, cultivated,

it often assumes the trifoliate character.

11. B. longifolium. Humb.; Hook. in Bot. Sit 6 t. 2818.

Has. Trinidad. ‘Raised in 1833.

12. B. occidentale, Linn.; Hort. Kew.

13. B. striatum, R. Br. ;

Has. New Holland. Raised in 1833.

14. B. serrulatum, Rich.; Schk. Crypt. t. 108 (non Willd.). Buangusti-

folium, Willd. B. stagninum, ftadd. Bras. Fil. t. 64. B. calophyllum,

Langs. et Fisch. Ic. Fil. t. 23.

Has. Brazil. Guiana. Received from Mr. D. bn i in 1841.

42. Doopia, R. Br.

1. D. aspera, 2. Br.; Hort. Kew.

2. D. caudata, R. Br. D.rupestris, Kaui; Link.

Has. New Holland. Raised i in 1830. :

3. D. lunulata, R. Br.

Has. New Zealand. Raised in 1834.

4. D. blechnoides, 4. Cunn. D. maxima, J. Sm. in Loud. Hort. Brit. and

Gen. Fil.

Has. New Holland. Raised in 1835.

43. Woopwarpia, Sm.

1. W. onocleoides, Willd. W.floridana, Schs. Crypt. Fil. t. 111.

Has. North America, Received from the Messrs. aie in 1830.

2. W.radicans, Sw.; Hort. Kew.

3. W. Virginica, Sw.

Has. North America. Cultivated in 1834.

Ozs. The venation of this species is more of the vigiaieth o of

Doodia, but in habit it agrees best with Woodwardia. ;

Tribe IV. ASPLENIEA,

Section 1. OrrHoPHLEBIEs.

44. | Scondvenbnrua, Sin:

1. S. officinarum, Sm.; Hort. Kew. , a

Var. 1, crispa. Var. 2, multifida:' Var. 3, undulata. Var. 4, ramosa.

w

'o 8)

45. Dretazium, Sw.; J. Sm.

1. D. plantagmeum, Sw.; Sch. Crypt. Fil. +. 85.

‘Has. Brazil. West Indies: Received from the Royal Botanic Garden

of Berlin mn 1841.

2. D. grandifolium, Sw.; Hort. Kew.

3. D. Shepherdi, Pres/; Schk. Crypt. Fil. t. 76, fig. only.

Has. Jamaica, and other of the West Indian Islands; also Brazil.

Cultivated in 1822.

4, D. coarctatum, Link.

Has. Brazil. Received from the Royal Botanic Garden of Berlin in

1841. .

5. D. decussatum, J. Sm. Asplenium decussatum, Wadd.

Has. Nepal. Raised in 1840.

6. D. striatum, Pres/. Asplenium striatum, Linn.; Hort. Kew.

7. D. arborescens, Sv. - ‘

Has. St. Helena. Received from the Messrs. Loddiges in 1838.

8. D. thelypteroides, Pres/. Asplenium thelypteroides, Mich.

Has. North America.

46, AspLentum, Jina.

* Asplenia vera.

1. A. serratum, Linn.; Hort. Kew.

2. A. crenulatum, Pres/. Asplenium Nidus, Radd. Bras. Fil. t.53. A. Bra-

siliense, Hort. (non Sw.) :

Has. Brazil and other parts of South America. Received from the

Messrs, Loddiges in 1836. , .

Os. It is a question with me whether this is really distinct

from 4. serratum. Yn a state of cultivation I have not observed

it to have the sharp serratures which are characteristic of native

specimens of 4.serratum, but which I find are not always constant.

3 A. palmatum, Lam.; Schk. Crypt. Fil. t.66.; Hort. Kew (sub. Asple-

nium Hemionitis). ei

4. A. oligophyllum, Kaudf.

Has. Brazil. Introduced by G, Gardner, Hsq., in 1841.

5. A. angustifolium, Mich.; Hort. Kew.

6. A. lucidum, Forst.; Schhk. Crypt. Fil. t. 72.

Has. New Zealand. Introduced by Mr. John Edgerley m 1843.

7. A. compressum, Sw. WA. Pek

Has. St. Helena. Introduced by Mr. Thos. Fraser in 1825.

8. A. obtusatum, Forst.; Schk. Crypt. Fil. t. 68.

Has. Van Diemen’s Land. Received from the Messrs. Osborn in 1843.

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9. A. obtusifolium, Linn.; Hook. et Grev. Ic. Fil. t.239. Plum. Fil. t. 67.

Has. Jamaica. Introduced by Mr. Nath. Wilson in 1844.

10. A. salicifolium, Linn.; Plum. Fil. t. 60.

Has. Jamaica. Received from Mr. D. Cameron in 1841.

11. A. Otites, Link.

pare Brazil. Received from the Royal Botanic Garden of Berlin in

12. A letum, Sw.; Schk. Crypt. Fil. t. 70.

Has. West Indies.

13. A. marmum, Jinn.; Hort. Kew.

14. A. flabellifolium, 2. Br.

Has. New Holland. Introduced by 4. Cunningham, Esq., in 1828.

** Trichomanee.

15. A. Trichomanes, Linn.; Hort. Kew.

16. A. ebenum, Ait.; Hort. Kew.

17. A. monanthemum, Linn.; Willd.; Hort. Kew.

18. A. formosum, Widi/d.

Has. Caraccas. Received from the Royal Botanic Garden of Berlin in

1841.

19. A. viride, Huds.; Hort. Kew.

20. A. Pretrarche, Dec.; Hook. et Grev. Ic. Fil, t. 152.

Has. South of France. Received from Mr. J. Henderson.

x*X* Darer.

21. A. flaccidum, Forst.; Schk. Crypt. Fil. t. 82. i

Has. New Zealand. - Introduced by Mr. John Edgerley in 1843.

22. A. bulbiferum, Yorst.

Has. New Zealand. Introduced by Mr. John Edgerley in 1843.

23. A. diversifolium, 4. Cunn. :

Has. Norfolk Island. Introduced by 4. Cunningham, Esq., m 1831.

24, A. rhizophorum, Willd.; Hort. Kew.

25. A. Cicutaria, Sw.; Plum. Fil. t. 48. 2

Has. Jamaica. Introduced by Mr. W. Purdie in 1843.

26. A. viviparum, Pres/. Darea, Willd. Ccenopteris vivipara, Berg.

Har. Mauritius. Received from the Messrs. Rollinsons in 1844.

¥*e*% Acropterez.

27. A. septentrionale, Lian.; Hort. Kew.

28. A. alternifolium, Sw. A. germanicum, Wilid.; Hort. Kew.

29. A. premorsum, Sw.; Hort. Kew.

30. A. Canariense, Wid/d. -

Has. Teneriffe. Cultivated in 1822.

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31. A. faleatum, Sw.

Has. East and West Indies; St. Helena; New Holland, &c. Intro-

duced by Mr. W. Purdie in 1843.

» $2. A. polyodon, Forst.

Has. New Zealand. Introduced by Mr. John Edgertey in 1843.

33. A. Serra, Lang. et Fisch. Ic. Fil. t. 19.

Has. Brazil. Received from the Messrs. Loddiges in 1844.

**xx* = Ruta-murariz.

34. A. Ruta-muraria, Zinn.; Hort. Kew.

35. A. lanceolatum, Huds.; Hort. Kew.

36. A. Adiantum-nigrum, Linn.; Hort. Kew.

37. A. fragrans, Sw.; Hort. Kew.

38. A.acutum, Willd.

Has. Teneriffe. Cultivated mm 1822.

39. A. planicaule, Wall.

_ Has. Hast Indies. Received from Mr. D. Cameron in 1841.

Ltt

eR Athyrien.

40. A.fontanum, Smw.; Hook. Aspidium fontanum, Sw.; Hort, Kew.

Athyrium fontanum, Roth.; Presl. Pterid.

41. A. Felix-fomina, Bernh.; Hook. Aspidium, Hort. Kew.

42. : umbrosum, J. Sm. Allantodia umbrosa, #. Br, Aspidium, Hort.

ew.

43. A. axillare, J. Sm. Aspidium axillare, Hort. Kew.

44, A. Brownii, J. Sm. Gen. Fil. Allantodia australis, 2. Br.

Has. New Holland, Introduced by 4. Cunningham, Hsq., in 1824.

Section IT. SympLopHLEBIEs.

47, Cxreracu, Willd.; J. Sm.

A C. officinarum, Willd. Grammitis Ceterach, Sw.; Hort. Kew.

48. Nerorroprerts, J. Sim.

1, N. vulgaris, J. Sm. Gen. Fil. Asplenium Nidus, Liun.; Hook. Bot.

Mag. t 8101. —

Has. Many parts of the eastern hemisphere and New Holland. Intro-

_ duced by 4. Cunningham, Hsq., in 1825.

; 49. AnriaramMa, Presl.; J. Si.

1. A. rhizophylla, J. Sw. Asplenium rhizophyllum, Linn.; Hort. Kew.

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50. Carxiprerts, Bory; J. 8m.

1. C. Malabarica, J. Sm. Diplazium malabarieum, Spreng. Diplazium

Seramporense, Spreng. Diplazium pubescens, Link. Asplenium ambi-

guum, Sw.; Schk. Crypt. Fil. t. 75 6. (non 75. a). Amisogonium

Seramporense, Presi. Digrammaria ambigua, Pres/. iH

Has. Many parts of the East Indies. Cultivated in 1822.

Tribe V. ASPIDIER, J. Sm.

Section I. SymMPLoPpHLeBiE#, J. Sm.

RR er

51. Asprprum, Sw.; Schott.; J. Sm.

1. A. trifoliatum, Sw.; Hort. Kew. Polypodium trifoliatum, Linn. Sp.

Plant. and Herb. in Linn. Soe. Lond. (exclusive t.148. Plumier’s Fil.).

Aspidium heracleifolium, Widld.; Plum. Fil, t. 147.

2. A.macrophyllum, Sw.; Plum. Fil. t. 145.

Has. West Indies and tropical parts of South America. Received frdiit

the Messrs. Loddiges in 1836.

52. Sacenza, Pres.

1. 8. coadunata, J. Sm. Gen, Fil.. Aspidium coadunatum, Wadl.; Hook. et

Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 202.

Has. East Indies; Ceylon. Introduced by G. Gardner, Esq., m 1845.

53. Onocrea, Linn.

1. O. sensibilis, Linn.; Hort. Kew.

54. Cyrromium, Prest.

1. C.falcatum, Pres’. Aspidium falcatum, Sw.; Thunb. Fl. Jap. t. 35.

Has. Japan. Raised in 1838.

55. Fapyenta, Hook.

1. F. prolifera, Hook. e¢ Bauer, Gen. Fil. t.53 B. Aspidium prolifera,

Hook. et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 96. :

Has. Jamaica. Introduced by Mr. W. Purdie m 1843.

56. Neenropium, Schott.

1. N. molle, 2. Br.; Schott. Gen. Fil. t.22; Schk. Crypt. Fil, t. 34 a.

Has. Tropics of both hemispheres. Cultivated i in 1820.

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2. N. unitum, 2. Br. Aspidium, Hort. Kew.

3. N.terminans, J. Sm. Aspidium terminans, Wa//. N. Cumingii, J. Sm.

En. Fil. Philipp. n. 186.

Has. East Indies; Philippine Islands; Ceylon. Introduced by G.

Gardner, Esq.

4, N. augescens, J. Sm. Aspedinum augescens, Link.

- Has. Cuba. Received from the Royal Botanic Garden of Berlin in

1841.

Section I]. Orrnopnienize, J. Sn.

57. Woonsia, R. Br.

1. W. Ilvensis, R. Br. Polypodium Ilvensis, Hort. Kew.

2. W. hyperborea, 2. Br. Polypodium hyperboreum, Hort. Kew.

8. W. obtusa, Hook. Polypodium obtusum, Sw.; Schk. Crypt. Fil. t. 21.

Woodsia Perriniana, Hook. et Grev. Ie. Fil. t. 68.

Has. North America. Cultivated in 1836.

4, W. mollis, J. Sm. Physematium molle, Kau/f.; Kunze, Analeet.

0. + Plertd. t27.

43 Has. Mexico. Received from the Royal Botanic Garden of Berlin in

1841.

58. Cystopreris, Beruh.

‘1. C. tenuis, Schott. Aspidium, Sw.; Schk. Orypt. Fil. t.53 6. Aspidium

atomaria, Willd.

Tas. North America. Cultivated in 1822.

2. C. bulbifera, Bernk. Aspidium bulbiferum, Sw.; Hort. Kew.

3. C. fragilis, Bernh. Aspidium fragile, Sw.; Hort. Kew.

4, C. regia, Presi. Aspidium regium, Sw.; Hort. Kew.

5. C.dentata, Hook. Aspidium dentatum, Sw.; Hort. Kew.

Oss. I have enumerated the above as species merely because

they are given as such by the authors of the ‘ Hortus Kewensis ;

for, from the examination of numerous specimens from many

different countries, we find it quite impossible to point out any

character whereby to distinguish them. Exclusive of C. bulbvfera,

the whole appear to be merely different forms of C. fragilis.

59. Lasrrea, Pres/.; J. Sm.

(Aspidii sp. Sw.; Nephrodii sp. Auth.

1. L. decurrens, J. Sm.; spec. nov. Fronds lanceolate, pinnate, pinnee alter-

nate, sessile, pinnatifid, decurrent and lobed, forming a sinuose winged

rachis ; laciniee obtuse ; veins pinnate; sori medial; indusium small,

becoming soon obsolete; sporangia aculeate; rhizoma c#espitose-

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decumbent. Fronds 1 to 1} feet high, rachis strigose, paleaceous, the

lower pinne small, entire. It is Pol/ypodium decursive-pinnatum, Hort. Ang.

Has. China. Received from Mr. D. Cameron in 1841. |

Oss. My first knowledge of this fern was from a specimen

presented to me in 1834, by the late A. B. Lambert, Esq., who

had received it amongst a collection of dried plants from China.

In 1841 I observed it in a living state in the Birmingham

Botanic Garden, but have not learned by whom it was introduced

into this country.

On referring to my observations under the tribe Aspidiee,

and also under the genera Zastrea and Nephrodium, in the 4th

vol. of the ‘Journal of Botany’, it will be seen that I have

noticed the difficulty that sometimes occurs in determining

whether certain species belong to <Aspidiee or to Polypodiee,

the presence or absence of an indusium being the technical

distinction; but, on account of the small size and fugacious

nature of that organ, its absence is not always a proper test to

rely upon. ‘This is peculiarly the case with the present species ;

for, on examining specimens in herbaria, it will, without hesi-

tation, be referred to the tribe Polypodiee; yet, on carefully

viewing it in its nascent state, a small ciliate indusium is

observable, which is soon concealed by the enlargement of the

sporangia.

2. L. Thelypteris, Pres?; Sw.; Hort. Kew.

8. L. noviboracensis, Pres? ; Sw.; Hort. Kew.;

4. L. Oreopteris, Pres! ; Sw.; Hort. Kew.

5. L. chrysoloba, Pres?. Aspidium chrysolobum, Link,

Has. Brazil. Received from the JJessrs. Loddiges in 1841.

6. L. vestita, J. Sm. Polypodium vestitum, Radd. Bras. Fil. t.36. 00

Has. Brazil. Received from the Messrs. Loddiges m 1845. 00

7. L. contermina, Pres/. Aspidium conterminum, Wié/d. Bit)

Has. West Indies and many parts of tropical America. Raised in 1835.

8. L. invisa, Presi; Sw. Miia

Has. Jamaica. Cultivated in 1830.

9. L. patens, Presi; Sw.; Hort. Kew.

10. L. Filix-mas, Pres/; Sw.; Hort. Kew.

11. L. marginalis, Pres/? Sw.; Hort. Kew.

12. L. elongata, Presi; Sw.; Hort. Kew.

18. L. cristata, Pres? ; Sw.; Hort. Kew.

14, L. intermedia, Presl ; Willd.

Has. North America. Cultivated in 1838.

15. L. spinulosa, Pres’; Sw.; Hort. Kew.

16. L. dilatata, Pres?; Sw.; Hort. Kew.

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17. L. reeurva, Newm.

Has. Britain.

Oss. By some botanists this is considered only as a variety of

L. dilatata.* n cultivation it appears to maintam a more dwarf

and rigid habit than the usual form of L. di/atata.

18. L. eburnea, J. Sm. Aspidium eburneum, Wa/7. Polypodium oxyphyllum,

oO Dall.

Has. Nepal. Received from J. Riley, Esq., in 1842.

- Oss. In some states this may be taken for a Polypodium, but

I have observed a slight indusium when examined in a young

state.

19. L. villosa, Pres? ; Sw.

Has. Jamaica. Introduced by Mr. Nath. Wilson in 1844.

20. L. as a a J.Sm. Nephrodium decompositum, R. Br.

Has. New Holland. Introduced by A. Cunningham, Esg., in 1825.

21. L. pubescens, Pres]; Sw.; Hort. Kew.; Hook. et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 162.

- Oss. The genus Zastrea, as at present constituted, contains a

considerable number of species, varying much im size and cir-

cumscription of their fronds, the position of the sori and nature

of the rhizoma, which on a revision of the genus may afford

sufficient characters for grouping the species. Although there

are very distinct and well-marked characters, between what may

be considered the genuine species of Zastrea and Polystichum ;

yet of other species it is difficult to say to which of these two

genera they really belong, and the last enumerated species may

be cited as an instance.

60. Porysticuum, Roth (in part); J. Sm.

(Aspidium sp. Si.)

1. P. rhizophyllum, Pres? ; Sw.; Hook. et Grev. Ic. Fil. t.59.

Has. Jamaica. Introduced by Mr. W. Purdie in 1848.

2. P. acrostichoides, Schott; Sw.; Schk. Crypt. t. 30.

Has. North America. Cultivated in 1820.

3. P. falcinellum, Pres?; Sw.

- Has. Madeira. Cultivated in 1820.

4. P. mucronatum, Presi; Sw.; Schk. Crypt. t. 29 b.

Has. Jamaica. Cultivated in 1838.

* There can be no doubt of this being the same with Nephrodium Fenesecti,

of the Rev. Mr. Lowe’s ‘ Flora of Madeira,’ published in 1834.—Ep.

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5. P. Lonchitis, Roth; Schott. Gen. Fil. t.9; Sw.; Hort. Kew.

6. P. auriculatum, Pres/; Sw.; Hort. Kew.

7. P.aculeatum, Roth; Sw.; Hort. Kew.

8. P. lobatum, Pres/; Sw.; Hort. Kew.

Oss. Writers on British ferns differ much in opinion as to the

specific distinctions between what is called Polystichum aculeatum

and P. /obatum; but a much wider field is open for this kind of

controversy if they would but take a general view of the whole

series of ferns constituting this group of Aspidiee, representatives

of which are found widely dispersed over the earth, being found

in elevated regions within the tropics, and extending into the

higher latitudes of both hemispheres. As might be expected,

these different localities produce forms more or less differing

from each other, the extremes presenting characters sufficiently

well marked, to be considered as of specific value; but on

taking a comprehensive view of the whole group, a transition of

form is readily traced, beginning with the least compound

(P. Lonchitis) and passing through P. /obatum and P. aculeatum

into forms more highly compound, constituting such a series

that it becomes most difficult to say what is a species, and

what may be only a variety dependent on the nature of the

locality ; and, although in many instances, we see something

in the habit and aspect sensibly different from another form, yet

words fail to convey to our minds the distinction. |

9. P. pungens, Pres/; J. Sm.; Kaulf- iy 3

Has. Cape of Good Hope. Introduced by Mr. James Bowie in 1823. —

10. P. proliferum, J. Sm.; R. Br.

Has. Van Diemen’s Land. Received from the Messrs. Osborne in

1843.

11. P. vestitum, Pres?; Schk. Crypt. t. 43.

Has. New Zealand. Introduced by J. Hdgerley in 1842.

12. P. Capense, J. Sm.; Willd. a

Has. Cape of Good Hope. Introduced by Mr. J. Bowie in 1823. —

13. P. drepanum, Pres?; Schk. Crypt. t. 43 6.

Has. Madeira. Cultivated in 1822.

14. P. emulum, Pres’; Sw.; Hort. Kew. |

15. P. hispidum, J. Sm.; Sw.; Schk. Crypt. t. 42.

Has. New Zealand. Introduced by W. Colenso, Hsq., in 1845.

16. P.aristatum, Presl; Sw.; Schk. Crypt. t.42._ :

Has. Norfolk Island. Introduced by A. Cunningham, Esq.

17. P. coniifolium, Pres?; Wall.

Has. East Indies; Ceylon; Philippine Islands. Introduced by G.

Gardner, Esq.

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62. DimymocniaEna, Desv.

1. D. truncatula, J. Sm. Aspidium truncatulum, Sw. Didymochlaena

sinuosa, Desr.

Has. Tropics of South America, and Malayan Islands. Received from

the Messrs. Loddiges in 1838.

63. Cycropettis, J. Sm.

(Aspidii sp. Sw. Lastrese sp. Pres/.)

Veins thrice dichotomously branched. Venules free direct, the lower ante-

rior and exterior ones fertile. Sporangia medial or terminal. Sort

round, furnished with an orbicular peltate indusium and disposed in

two transverse rows. Rhizoma cespitose. Fronds pinnate, from one

to three feet high, pinne falcate-lanceolate, smooth, four to five inches

long, sessile, irregularly cordate or auriculated at the base and arti-

culate with the rachis.

1. C. semicordata, J. Sm. Aspidium semicordatum, Sw.; Plum. Fil. t.113.

Has. Jamaica and other of the West Indian Islands. Introduced by

Mr. N. Wilson in 1844,

Oss. It has often occurred to me, that the Aspidiwm semicor-

datum of Swartz, did not well associate with any of the numerous

species of Zastrea, under which genus it has been placed by

Presl, as well as by myself in my ‘Genera Filicum’; and it was

not till recently that I had the opportunity of examining a living

plant, which led me to separate it from Zastrea. I find that it

belongs to that peculiar group of ferns which have the pinne

distinctly articulated with the rachis; and, on viewing its whole

_ character, I have no hesitation in placing it in affinity with

Nephrolepis, differing from that genus in the ceespitose character °

_ of its rhizoma, and in having a double series of sori on both sides

of the mid-rib. It also, in habit and venation, forms another

affinity with Poloma and Leptopleura in the tribe Dicksonia.

Besides the above cited species, there is another from the

island of Luzon, which is so similar in appearance that Presl

considered it the same as Swartz’s species from the West Indies ;

_ but, on comparing the two, it will be seen that they differ in the

position of the sori: the Luzon plant having ¢erminal fructifi-

cations, and the West Indian plant /atera/. In my ‘ Enumeration

_ of the Philippine Island Ferns’, in the 3rd vol. of the ‘Journal

_ of Botany’, I named the Luzon plant Lastrea Presliana; but,

by some inadvertency in wording the passage relating to the

position of the sori, it is made to appear the reverse of what is

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now given: and although the position of the sori constitutes a

very distinguishing character, yet, on account of the similarity in

every other point, I cannot view the difference in position other-

wise than of specific value.

64. Nepnroiepis, Schott; J. Sm.

1. N. pectinata, J. Sm.; Wild. Aspidium trapeziforme, Schk. Crypt. t. 29

(non Sw.).

Han. West Indies. Received from the Royal Botanic Gardens of Berlin

in 1841.

2. N. undulata, J. Sm.; Sw. —

Has. Sierre Leone. Introduced by the Right Hon. The Earl of Derby,

in 1844.

8. N. tuberosa, Pres/. ;

Has. East Indies. Received from the Royal Botanic Garden of Berlin

in 1841.

4. N. exaltata, Schott; Sw.; Hort. Kew.

Tribe VI. DICKSONIEA.

Section I. Linps#2#.

a

65. Lrvpsaa, Dry.; J. Sm.

1. L. Guianensis, Dry.

Has. Guiana. Introduced by H. Cadogan Rothery, Esq., in 1845.

Section Il. Davatitma, J. Sa.

66. Davariia, Sw.; J. Sm.

1. D. pyxidata, 2. Br.; Hort. Kew.

2. D. Canariensis, Willd.; Hort. Kew.

3. D.

solida, Sw.; Schk. Crypt. t. 126.

Has. East Indies and islands of the Pacific Ocean. Received from Mr.

H. Lowe in 1844.

4. D. gibberosa, Si.; Sch. Crypt t. 188.

es: Telit of the Pacific Ocean.

5. D. elegans, Sw. D. bidentata, Sehk. Crypt. t. 127.

Has. East Indies and eae Islands. Received in 1844 from

‘Mr. D. Cameron.

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Section ITI. TrichoManes, 3 Sm.

67. Trichomanes, Linn.

1. T. radicans, Sw. T. brevisetum, R. Br.; Hort. Kew.

2. T. quercifolia, Hook. et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 115.

Has. Jamaica. Introduced by Mr. W. Purdie in 1844.

3. T. spicatum, R. Hedw. T. elegans, Rudge (in part) Hook. Ex. Fl. t. 52.

Has. Jamaica and other West India is ands. Introduced by Mr. W.

Purdie in 1844.

68. HymMenopHyiiumM, Sm.

1. H. Tonbridgense, Sm.; Hort. Kew.

2. H. Wilsoni, Hook. Engl. Bot. Supp. t. 2686.

Has. Britain and many other parts of the world.

Section IV. Dicxsonra, J. Sm.

69. Srrotoprum, Desv.; J. Sm.

Dicksoniz sp. Sw.; Hook.

‘1. S. punctilobum, J. Sm. Nephrodium punctilobum, Mich. Dicksonia

pubescens, Schk. Crypt. t. 131.

Has. North America. Cultivated in 1822.

2. S. adiantoides, J. Sm.; Plum. Fil. t. 30.

a West Indies. Brazil and other parts of South America. Raised

in

3. S. davallioides, J. Sm.; R. Br.

Has. New Holland. ‘Rained 3 in 1833.

a S. rubiginosum, J. Sm.; Kaulf.

Has. Brazil. Raised in 1841.

70. Batantium, Kaulf; J. Sm.

1, B. Culeita, Kauif; J. Sm.; Hort. Kew.

71. Drcxsonta, L’ Herit.

1. D. arborescens, D’ Herit.; Hort. Kew.

2. D. Antarctica, Ladill. FU. Nov. Holl. t. 249.

Has. New Holland. Introduced by A. Cunningham, Esq., in 1824.

3. D. squarrosa, Sw.; Schk. Crypt t. 130.

ey New Zealand. Introduced by Mr. J. Bagerly, in 1842,

4. D. dissecta, Sw.; Hort. Kew.

72. Crsorrom, Kaulf.; J. Sm,

1. C. Barometz, J. Sm. Aspidium Barometz, Hort. Ang/. Cibotium glau-

cescens, Kunze in Schk. Crypt. Suppl. t. 31.

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Has. China. Introduced by J. Reeves, Esq. Received from the Messrs.

Loddiges in 1834.

2. C.Schiedei, Schlecht. in Linnea; Hook. Sp. Fil. t. 80. A.

Has. Mexico. Introduced by Mr. Hartweg in 1846. Received from

the Horticultural Society.

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Tribe VII. CYATHEA, J. Sm.

73. Hemrretia, 2. Br.; J. Sm.

1. H. horrida, R. Br.; Hook. Sp. Fil. t. 15.

Has. Jamaica and others of the West Indian Islands. Introduced by

Messrs. Wilson and Purdie in 1843.

74. Cyatnea, Sw.; J. Sm.

1. C. arborea, Sw.; Hort. Kew.

Has. Jamaica. Introduced by Mr. N. Wilson in 1843.

2. C. elegans, Hew.

Has. Jamaica. Introduced by Mr. V. Wilson in 1843.

75. Atsopnina, R. Br.; J. Sin.

1, A. Capensis, J. Sm. Hemitelia Capensis, 2. Br.

Has. Cape of Good Hope. Introduced by Mr. Zeyher in 1845.

2. A. Hostmanni, J. Sm.; Hemitelia Hostmanni, Hook. Sp. Fil. Ic. Plant.

t. 646.

Has. Guiana. Introduced by H. Cadogan Rothery, Esq., im 1845.

3. A. aspera, R. Br.; Hook. et Bauer Gen. Fil. t. 22. —

Has. Jamaica. Raised in 1834.

4. A. ferox, Presi. :

Has. Guiana. Introduced by H. Cadogan Rothery, Esq., in 1845.

5. A. pruinata, Kau/f. Polypodium pruinatum, Sw.; Hort. Kew.

Division II. GLEICHENIACEA, 2&. Br.

76. Gu EIcHENIA, Sv.

1. G. microphylla, 2. Br.

Has. New Holland and Van Diemen’s Land. Introduced by*R. Gunn, —

sq., in 1845.

77. Merrensta, Willd.

1. M. flabellata, J. Sm. Gleichenia flabellata, R. Br.

Has. New Holland and Van Diemen’s Land, Introduced by 2. Guan,

Eoq., in 1845.

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Division IIT. SCHIZASACEM, Mart.

78. Lycoprum, Sw.

1. L. palmatum, Sw.

Has. North America. Introduced by Dr. Asa Grey in 1845.

2. L. scandens, Sw.; Hort. Kew.

3. L. flexuosum, Sw. L. dichotomum, Sv4; Hook. e¢ Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 55.

Has. East Indies. Cultivated in 1834.

4. L. venustum, Sw. Hydroglossum hirsutum, Wild.

Has. Tropics of South America. Introduced in 1845 by H. Cadogan

Rothery, Esq.

5. L. Japonicum, Sw.

Has. Japan. Cultivated in 1830.

6. L. articulatum, 4. Cunn.

Has. New Zealand. Introduced by W. Colenso, Esq., in 1844.

79. Anemia, Sw.

1. A. hirsuta, 8w.;-Plam, Fils t.162.. Hort. Kew.

2. A. hirta, Sw.; Plum. Fil. t.157. A. collina, Radd. Bras. Fil. t..12.

Has. Brazil and other tropical parts of South America. Raised in 1840.

8. A. Raddiana, Link. A. flexuosa, Radd. Bras. Fil. t.18 (non Sw. ?)

Has. Brazil. Raised in 1844.

4, A. tenella, Sw. ; Schk. Crypt. t.141.

Has. West Indies and Tropics of South America. Introduced by Mr.

W. Purdie in 1843.

5. A. adiantifolia, Sw.; Hort. Kew.

Oss. This species is peculiarly distinct from the rest of the

genus, by its having a true creeping rhizoma.

80. Awnemrpictyon, J. Sm.

(Anemiz sp., Sv.)

1. A. phyllitidis, J. Sm.; Sw.; Plum. Fil. t. 156.

B. longifolia. A. longifolia, Radd. Bras, Fil. t. 8.

y. fraxinifolia, A. fraxinifolia, Radd. Bras. Fil. t.8 bis.

Has. West Indies and tropics of South America. Raised in 1829.

81. Mouria, Sw.

1, M. thurifraga, Sw.; Schk. Crypt. t. 143.

Has. Cape of Good Hope. Received from the Royal Botanic Garden

of Berlin in 1841. =

Division IV. OSMUNDACEA, Mart.

82. Osmunna, Linn.

1. O. cinnamomea, Linn.; Hort. Kew.

2. O. Claytoniana, Linn.; Hort. Kew.

3. O. regalis, Linn.; Hort. Kew.

4, O. spectabilis, Wid/d.

Has. North America. Introduced before 1820.

83. Tonga, Willd.

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. T. Africana, Willd.; Hort. Kew.

. T. rivularis, Sed. T. australasica, A. Cunn.

Has. New Holland. Introduced by 4. Cunningham in 1825.

3. T. pellucida, Carm. in Hook. Ic. Fil. 1. t. 8.

Has. New Zealond. Introduced by Mr. J. Edgerley in 1842.

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Division V. MARATTIACEA, Kaulf.

82. Maratua, Sm.

a.

. M. alata, Sm., Hort. Kew.

2. M. cicutefolia, Kaulf-

Has. Brazil. Received from the Messrs. Doitigts in 1843.

3. M. elegans, Fudlich.

Has. Norfolk Island and New Zealand. 4. Cunningham. Received ae

the Messrs, Loddiges 1 1843.

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JOURNAL OF A BOTANICAL MISSION TO THE

WEST INDIES AND NEW GRENADA;

BY WILLIAM PURDIE,

Collector for the Royal Gardens of Kew; im letters addressed to the Editor.

(Continued from ‘Zondon Journal of Botany,’ vol.iv. p. 27.)

The mission of Mr. Purdie bemg mainly connected with Horticulture and

the introduction of new and rare plants to our Gardens, it has been thought

advisable to insert the information concerning it, in the ‘Companion to the

Botanical Magazine’, rather than continue it in the ‘London Journal of

Botany.’ The Mission has now terminated by Mr. Purdie having been ap-

pointed, by the Secretary to the Colonies, to the Curatorship of the Botanic

Garden of Trinidad, vacant through the death of Mr. Lockhart. I here gladly

record my testimony to the excellent conduct of Mr. Purdie during the whole

of his arduous undertaking of more than three years duration, to the number of

new and rare and beautiful plants he has been the means of introducing into

our Gardens, and I offer my warmest thanks to the many individuals, whose

names will be here recorded, who have rendered him important services, in

furthering the object of his journey.

Royal Gardens, Kew, Nov. Ist, 1846.

Kingston, Jamaica, April 22nd. 1844.

Since I last wrote, I have visited the Lace Bark District, in

order to procure perfect specimens of the tree, accompanied by

your friend Dr. Bromfield, F.L.S., but am sorry to say my success

has been very small; for, to my surprise, I found the trees in

precisely the same state as they were five months previously.

There was no appearance of recent growth; but several gentle-

men, residing in different parts of the island, have promised to

procure flowering specimens and ‘to send them to Dr. Macfadyen,

so that I hope the season will not pass without their being ob-

tained. The season of inflorescence is the end of May, and it

continues not later than June. The first time I saw these trees

was in September, when I discovered a dry raceme, but neither

blossom nor fruit, beyond a few capsules, which I detected by

searching among the fallen leaves on the ground, and which I

now send home. A single capsule, still growing on the tree,

enabled me to indentify those which I picked up; else, in the

dense woods of Jamaica, I might easily have made a mistake

among the numerous seeds, of various kinds, which strew the

soil, under, perhaps, one and the same tree. .

In my journey through St. Ann’s, I gathered some seeds and

plants which were new to me, and which are ready to go home by

next Packet. Two small boxes are now despatched, their contents

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as follows: no. 1, Seeds of a beautiful and remarkable Palm, allied

to the Cocoa-nut (Cocos nucifera), and resembling it in general

appearance. Its noble pinnated leaves are, however, presented

edge-wise to the stem, which is robust, 24 feet in diameter, and

about ninety feet high, bearing large clusters of fruit in compact

bunches, not unlike grapes. ‘The kernels are eaten as Cocoa-

nuts, being sweet and wholesome, but difficult to break. The

spadix and spatha are pendulous on long footstalks, and the

inflorescence is moncecious, male and female flowers growing on

distinct spadices. The stem being very rough, I could not induce

my people to climb the tree, though they unhesitatingly ascend

the Cocoa-nut Palm; but I secured the best specimens that

could be procured, from which you may form some conception

of this stately tree. I shall be glad if the nuts vegetate, and

will feel obliged by your informing me if the mode of packing,

now adopted, proves successful. As you were pleased with

a little Burmanniaceous’ plant, which I formerly transmitted,

I now send some growing tufts of it, enclosed in a Bamboo ;

when transplanted, I expect they will readily vegetate. I think

to have formerly mentioned that it affects spots where there has

been fire, at some*distant period, and where it grows covered

with moss and Lichens. In my subsequent journeys, this fact

was confirmed; for, in Manchester and Clarendon Districts,

I since gathered this mteresting little species in several widely

distant localities, but always where the vegetation had been

burnt ; often on the mountains at an elevation of 2,500 feet.

Dr. Bromfield is much pleased with Jamaica. Perhaps you

are aware of the dexterity with which this gentleman catches

snakes. When walking with him m St. Ann’s, I pointed out a

fine Black Snake, lying under a stone wall, which he insisted on

capturing alive, with his unprotected hand, in the belief that the

reptile was innocuous, like the common ringed serpent of En-

gland ; but it proved otherwise, the seizure was strictly mutual ;

the Black Snake fastened on his hand as he laid hold of it, and

bit him severely. The wound swelled for some days, though

with little pain, and no dangerous: consequences ensued...

I think some of the Orchidee from Westmoreland are not

known in England. The species of Broughtonia grows on. the

coast here, and will require much heat. ‘The specimens of the

“ Scarlet Seed ”, mentioned in Brown’s ‘Jamaica’, are interesting ;

he supposed the plant to be a Sloanea, misled, probably, by not

finding the corolla, which is singularly fugacious, dropping off

directly after the blossom has’ expanded, when it is quickly

devoured by insects, which seem to be attracted by. the red

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farmaceous powder that surrounds the seeds. There are also

specimens of a Sloanea, of which I previously sent seeds. This

noble tree. appears to be imperfectly described. Its seeds

are partially enveloped in a fleshy arillus of a yellowish (not

scarlet) colour. I consider it highly improbable that any bird

can break or pierce the capsules to obtain the seeds, both on

account of their extreme hardness, and because the natural instinct

of birds prevents them from attacking any unripe fruit. As soon

as they become mature, the capsules of the S/oanea burst open

and expose the delicately flavoured seeds. I have never seen

the capsules perforated, though the tree is of common occurrence

in Manchester, St. Ann’s, and Hanover parishes, and they appear

of a peculiarly indestructible nature, the ground being often

strown with the capsules of many previous years.

Within the last few days, I have visited the Lagoon, near the

ferry, in search of Nelumbium Jamaicense; but without success.

Nymphea Lotus is common, and is the only individual of that

tribe which I have seen. Sagiftaria lancifolia is a showy aquatic.

I hope the seeds of the curious I/imosa-like water-plant have

germinated. I lately obtained a quantity of seeds of Lisianthus

glaucifolius, from the coast of St. Ann’s: they should be raised

in sandy peat.

Tf all is well, it is my intention to leave this Island for

Santa Martha early next month. It will be necessary to furnish

myself with fire-arms, Dr. Linden assuring me that it is unsafe

to travel there without them. Dr. L. is just gone to Cuba, after

a stay of nine weeks here; he considers Jamaica a poor country

for botany; but I think without sufficient reason. I shall be

anxious till I can hear that the Lace-Bark trees arrived safe and

in good condition. My health happily continues good. The

weather is dry and warm at Kingston, but rain has fallen in

great abundance among the mountains.

(To be continued.)